Chapter 15: Entering Yu (4)
The generals shouted together.
In an uproar, full of knives, random guns up, no serious knives and guns, dung forks, hoes are also used to fill the number, the strength of the two wings is filled, Yang Kai was entrusted by Gao Ying'en, and took more than 200 people under him to go around in a circle to boost morale:
"The eldest husband is standing in the world, nothing more than dying on the battlefield, shrouded in horse leather, what is more frightening? When the two armies faced each other, although thousands of people charged into battle, everyone who dared to rush into the battle with weapons in hand was lonely, because you were accompanied only by death and fear.
But so what, if you think about the feeling of being in a world of thousands of people and fighting hard, thinking about the scene where there are still brothers on the Huangquan Road, and thinking about the oppressed relatives in your hometown, you will not be afraid of the little 3,000 men and horses who come from the official army.
How can the grudge we have with this Ming Court be repaid by a small 3,000 people? Aren't you no longer willing to be oppressed by it, straighten your back, this is just a small obstacle in front of you, whether you want your life or your ambition is high, lift your sword, and wave it with me at the thief who has no real name, and we will win the battle! ”
In the end, Yang Kai rode into the position of the Chinese army's array, quickly rode to Yang Taisui's side, stopped his horse and rolled up the dust scattered all over the sky, and roared:
If you win, all the armies will carry a record of heroes; If you lose, I will take the lead on the Huangquan Road. The blood is dried, and this battle is endless!
The slanting sun is flying, the swords and guns are flashing, the eyes of the armies follow Yang Kai, circle around the army, and the encouragement of his words is much more effective than Gao Yingen's use of money and thieves as a reward, because he is digging out the only remaining blood in the hearts of this group of peasant soldiers who have been oppressed by their identities since childhood, grown up by class oppression, and dare not raise their heads all their lives.
Yang Taisui listened with a face full of relief, this call was thousands of times more powerful than the words of those women's benevolence. Thief, he had to admit that there were more books and it was still useful.
The dust and smoke were billowing in the distance, the earth shook like thunder, the war drums had sounded before the battle, the banners of the officers and soldiers were displayed on the horizon, swords, guns, swords, halberds, and strong crossbows were facing the sky, and the armies retracted their eyes to look at Yang Kai, and then struck the armor on their chests with knives and guns, their blood boiled, and they shouted in unison: "The blood is dry, this battle is endless!" ”
The noise shook the sky for a while, Yang Kai subconsciously bit his lower lip, he knew very well that he was guiding the direction of a war, and its purpose was to exchange the death of some people for the opportunity for another part of the people to continue to live.
He could feel that his thoughts were gradually being assimilated by this group of peasant troops. Perhaps every individual is good, but when life is threatened, interests are damaged, and reputation and dignity are hit, the flower of evil will bloom in the heart.
All kinds of thoughts flashed in his heart, and he didn't know when it started, he sweated with the spear in his hand, and stared closely at the officers and soldiers in front of him.
Close, close. The officers and soldiers really waited for their reinforcements, and at the forefront of the formation were with their infantry troops, and the cavalry roamed on the left and right, and the Chinese army could not see it, but when they closed their eyes, they could think that it would only be musketeers, archers, and musketeers.
Yang Kai could guess through the enemy's formation, and he could roughly see that the garrison that acted as the vanguard was extremely ugly, but he was destined to find no commander for them. This also validated his idea that this was just a team of officers and soldiers to test them.
After the formation, the flag of Gao Ying'en was heard, and the two armies were only a few miles apart, Han Bin shouted Zhao Hu, Ruo stood up and looked at Yang Kai. The 2,000 people in front of the battle took the lead and shouted and attacked.
The first time the officers and soldiers came up, there were nearly 2,000 people, is this number a little more? But they didn't have time to think too much, and the old management team in front was also a veteran of a hundred battles, not to mention that they had no experience in the battle of the officers and soldiers, and the formation they could put on was really smelly.
The team was divided into a group of 20 people, and the two sides ran into a place of arrows and shot at each other from a distance, the officers and soldiers were lightly armored and shielded, and there were few casualties, and the peasant army did not seem to gather, scattered but not scattered, and screamed again and again.
Bang bang!
Two cannon shots rang out, and the three-eyed cannonballs fell into the peasant formation, exploding a number of casualties.
Finally, the two sides rushed through the rain of arrows shot from the rear, and the vanguard of the two armies roared and collided together. Long spear fights with spear, and short knife intersects with short knife.
In front of them was a troop of shieldmen, and when they got closer, the shieldmen withdrew and the pikemen swarmed out, a new force, and the army of thieves was immediately plunged into a bitter battle. It was only more than ten steps into the official and military array, and there were already many people who fell to the ground.
At this time, the cavalry teams on both wings of the official army suddenly came to reinforce from the left and right, and on the side of the peasant army, the troops on both wings also leaned up. Yang Taisui in the rear can no longer stand steady, and if he continues to fight like this, everyone will be beaten up by this group of stupid geese, and he can't wait to snatch the command over.
After spitting viciously, he called his own soldiers: "Don't wait, if you fight like this bird, they won't be able to retreat, send someone to go, please take charge of the plate order, Yang Taisui will ask for battle!" ”
Yang Kai hurriedly said: "Big brother, something is wrong, if they only want to be tempted, there are too many of them, and the fight is too violent. ”
Yang Taisui frowned lightly: "It's really a little inappropriate, if their cavalry is a thousand people, one person and two horses, there should be thousands of horses not put out, do they want to sneak attack our rear camp?" ”
"Nine times out of ten, that's it." Yang Kai slapped his forehead. "I ignored a detail, they came from afar, they didn't bring enough food, probably didn't expect that we would have so many people, fighting for a long time is not good for them, they want to fight to determine the victory!"
"Uncle, then we still can't move?" Yang Taisui tugged at his beard. "Order, let the palm plate retreat twenty miles, and prepare to attack the Zhulin Pass."
"Brother, what do you want to ......" Han Bin's words were not finished.
Suddenly, a group of officers and horsemen rushed out from the left flank of the battlefield, placing the flag in the center, and Daxu took the lead in waving in the wind, like a beast with teeth and claws, and its hooves roared in the sky for a while.
Yang Taisui snorted twice: "You can't hold your breath so soon?" Han Laosi, Yang Kai, you go to the right wing, Cao Laoer, Cai Guan, you follow me to the left.
As long as the general is slaughtered, don't worry about the rest, all of them will run in the direction of Zhulin Pass, and Lao Tzu will ensure that you can go home safely! ”
The eight hundred men were divided into two and marched forward.
Han Bin rushed ahead of Yang Kai, there were eight hundred of them, and it was a good chance to divide the enemy and break it down, but this was also a test of their impact.
With Cao Mang and Yang Taisui as long knives, it is easy to cut off the ranks of the officers and soldiers, even if there is no Cai Qian's bird goods.
Han Bin knew very well that the eldest brother put him here because he had excellent archery skills, and he expected him to be able to determine the army with one arrow. Then he frustrated the spirit of the officers and soldiers, disrupted their formation, and walked away.
But this is the ideal state, but in fact, it is not as easy as the ideal.
When the officers and soldiers found that they were divided into two wings and penetrated their rear, the leading vanguard quickly rolled back to the sides, trying to stop the thieves near the flag, and then summoned the rear troops to come up and encircle and annihilate them.
Han Bin picked up his bow on his horseback, aimed at the whimsical vanguard of the official army, opened his bow and arrows, and shot in succession, and in an instant, the vanguard and the two personal soldiers around him fell to the ground in a row.
He took up his bow again, drew his long sword, shouted and patted his horse, and scattered into a triangular shape, five people in one, and ten men divided into two formations, echoing before and after, and the teams covered each other, and the arrays were in a chain, and the brave ones were in front, and the thin ones were behind, and they went straight forward.
On the other side, there was no such archery as Han Bin, so Cao Mang took the lead in leading fifty people to rush to the front of the official army, relying on recklessness to rush them for a while, dragging the vanguard to find him for a decisive battle first, Yang Taisui looked at the enemy's general flag, and led the people to collide with the new force they had temporarily formed.
It's just that this collision actually made Yang Taisui feel powerless, Heishuiyu fought and ran for days, but he didn't want to take his life, why did he pant like a cow every time he swung two knives at this time?
Probably because he didn't have a good rest these days, he made an excuse for himself. After this battle, they will be able to sleep soundly, and hold on for a while, he said to himself. In the end, he shouted loudly to the official army: "Your Master Yang is here, why don't you come up to receive death?" The rear team, like the team behind Han Bin on the left wing, poured into it.
The footsteps of the officers and soldiers stopped.
"Zhao Hu, I resist the right flank, and you fold to the left."
Yang Kai shouted, led the men and horses, and suddenly fell into the chaotic soldiers that surged up behind the enemy's general banner, drove straight into more than 20 steps, and suddenly went to the left, directly taking the position of the general, the officers and soldiers saw his intention at a glance, and intercepted it fiercely.
Zhao Hu turned around, wanted to say something, was silent, the left-wing pioneer had already been shot by Han Bin under the horse, and his pressure was naturally much less, he followed the curse, led the team of 100 people behind him, gritted his teeth, changed the direction, and went straight to the left where the flag was located.
Han Bin, who always paid attention to Yang Kai's movements, understood Yang Kai's intentions for the first time, probably because he had shown archery skills before, and now that the vicinity of the general was densely surrounded, he had no chance to move the arrows, and then immediately ordered the left and right, spread out the formation, just to expand the attack surface, and attract the attention of the most officers and soldiers in the shortest possible time, so as to reduce the pressure on Yang Kai's department.
As soon as Yang Kai's pressure was small, his pressure suddenly doubled, and his triangular formation turned into an inverted triangle in an instant, once there were brothers on both sides, and they would all be defeated if they didn't withstand the fierce blows of the officials and soldiers.
However, in a flash of thought, several brothers fell again.
To say that Zhu Youcai was able to command without fear of danger in the face of Yang Taisui's side of the impact, and now he was obviously a little panicked when there were suddenly two more strange soldiers approaching him, although Yang Kai's road was barely blocked, but looking at Zhao Hu's side, he was already brave, and he picked out more than a dozen officers and soldiers in a row, he rushed too fast, and he had become a single horseman, approaching his position of more than ten or twenty steps.
"Who is this thief? Archer, where is the archer, shoot him off his horse! Zhu Youcai sighed loudly on horseback.
"Shoot your mother!" In the midst of the chaos, Yang Kai turned his head sideways to avoid a stump and had no spare time to wipe the blood on his face, he tried his best to shout, picked up his bow and arrows and shot a few times, and the personal soldiers around Zhu Youcai fell to the ground one after another.
He turned around suddenly, but saw a horse rope flying out of thin air, landing firmly on his head, and then his neck tightened, and the whole person flew away from the horse.
Yang Kai was overjoyed when he saw this, and swept away the enemy around him, and it was another arrow, the arrow broke through the air, and the armor pierced into the body of the enemy general.
Zhao Hu didn't care about his life or death, he pulled the horse rope tightly and tied it to the saddle, raised his gun and whirled around the horse, swept the air with a horizontal gun, and the saber was towards people, and he was like no one in the enemy's formation.
Seeing him return, the soldiers who had fallen behind were overjoyed and shouted in unison: "Kill the enemy general!" ”
"Brother Kai'er, get out quickly!" Han Bin was overjoyed when he heard this, and he drank loudly. He turned around and gathered his brother underneath, and finally took the hard bow from his back.
A full bow and an arrow.
In the middle of the enemy, the flagpole suddenly came out of his hand, and the flag flipped to the ground, and in an instant it was swept into the horse's hooves and dirt, and no one would pay attention to it again.
"Hahaha, let's go! Come on! ”
The officers and soldiers were suddenly in chaos, and the flag of the general was shot down, this kind of blow was far from being comparable to the death of a few pioneers, their minds seemed to become empty in an instant, like being on the battlefield, being blindfolded, there were still brave warriors who wanted to rush the horses to snatch back the body, the cowardly beat the horses and fled, and the hasty people did not move, and the chaos did not form an army.
Yang Taisui laughed and welcomed back a few old brothers, and was about to run back on his horse, when a sharp arrow flew through the air, obliquely through the gap in the armor on his chest, and pierced his chest.
He suddenly felt pain, lowered his head, and wanted to say something, blood gushed out of his mouth, he coughed twice, spit out a mouthful of blood, and the little strength he had left, more like a flood of breaking the gates, tilted in an instant, the saber slipped from his hand, and the whole person fell from the horse's back.
Yang Taisui could still hear the sound of Cao Mang roaring loudly in his ears, from far to near, it seemed to be from near to far, leisurely, the surrounding shouting and killing, the sound of horses kicking hooves, all these sounds that he was once extremely familiar with, were disappearing.
At this moment, what he was thinking about was no longer the war, but the parents who picked him up when he was a child and raised him frugally. The two old men worked diligently all their lives with their backs to the loess and their backs, but in exchange for the cold and ruthless sticks of the landlord's family, he has deeply imprinted all this in his mind since he was a child.
So he rarely misses the joy of his youth when he was in the fields with his father or sitting on the back of an ox, because when he grew up, he never ploughed a field again.
Now the mud that was turned up by the horse's hooves stuffed his mouth, Yang Taisui, who threw himself on the ground, could clearly smell the fragrance in the soil, he stubbornly held the ground, turned over, and lay with his back to the loess facing the sky, the arrows stabbed back and forth on his body, and the pain devoured his soul all the time, he still couldn't help but scold: "Thief, your mother's God, this soil still stinks." ”
Two spears pierced mercilessly into his body, and he spurted out another mouthful of blood, which covered the dirt on his mouth, and a mace flew into the air, and the two officers and men flew to the ground before they could take the spears back.
Cao Mang rarely showed a sad look on his face, threw the mace, knelt down in front of Yang Taisui, and forcefully lifted his immobile body up, Yang Taisui barely squeezed out a smile on his face, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he vaguely spit out a few words: "Don't die here." Finally, his eyes slowly closed.
He's dead.