"The swallow people are here! Run! Run! ”

In an open field, a large group of soldiers dressed in rattan blue armor, either riding tall horses or spreading their feet, as if they had seen some terrible scene, scattered in all directions.

Seeing this scene, Shi Min coldly asked his subordinates to take a few armor soldiers who rushed towards his team.

"Whose people are you? How to flee as if you have suffered a defeat? ”

Shi Min showed his weapon on his mount, the Red Horse Zhulong, a sharp double-edged spear, if these deserters can't say a reason, they will correct it on the spot!

A deserter kowtowed pitifully and said, "We are the subordinates of Fenwei General Zhang Raccoon!" General, we just lost the battle and fled! ”

Before Shi Min could speak, Wang Ping, the general of Jianjie beside him, shouted: "Nonsense! The Yan army was surrounded by us in Thorn City, and they fought day and night for more than ten days and finally could not defeat our Zhao army, so how could the Yan people still have the strength to pursue our army? ”

"It's true!" The deserter said with a panicked expression, "The iron cavalry of the Yan army is too powerful, and the troops in charge of the palace are almost crushed at the touch of a button. Now not only the soldiers of our department are fleeing, but the soldiers of the following departments are already fleeing! ”

"General, please let us evacuate! The cavalry of the Yan Army is almost here! ”

Shi Min asked without changing his face: "Can you see clearly how many soldiers and horses the enemy army has?" ”

"I haven't seen it." The deserter said honestly, "We all saw the smoke and dust in the sky from afar, and there were a large number of soldiers who fled before they ran back!" There is a large area of black pressure, and no one knows how many soldiers and horses there are in the Yan army! ”

Hearing this, Shi Min is a black line at one end, and he can figure it out!

There were not many elite cavalry of the pursuing Yan army, but they were victorious in their swiftness and skillful bow horses. In a hurry, the soldiers and horses of the Zhao army in charge of the palace did not have time to stop the effective defense, so they were driven straight in, and then they snowballed and fled!

The power of the Iron Rider can be seen.

As the saying goes, if a soldier bears, there will be a nest of bears. Once the formation was dispersed by the enemy's cavalry, the main general of the department fled again, and the whole army was not defeated!

Shi Min waved his hand and said, "Let them run for their lives!" ”

"No!" When the foot soldiers who had stopped the deserters heard this, they immediately agreed and let them pass through their ranks and flee in all directions.

Seeing that there were still a large number of soldiers of the Zhao army who were scattered and fled in embarrassment, Wang Ping frowned, stepped forward and asked Shi Min and said: "General Min, the cavalry of the Yan army pursued from Thorn City must all be elite, and now the rear army and the Chinese army of our army have been demoralized by the elite cavalry of the Xianbei people. The general trend is gone, why don't we retreat with the big army? ”

Retreat? It sounds good, but it's actually a great escape!

How can the speed of a person's two legs compare to the speed of a war horse's four legs? Once pursued by the enemy's elite cavalry, you will definitely die.

This is not to say, in this vast and boundless field, it is the world of cavalry, and the foot soldiers face the impact of cavalry in this terrain, and they are simply hitting stones with eggs, and they are not able to measure their strength!

When Shi Min heard this, he didn't answer Wang Ping directly, but glanced at Dong Kuang, the general of the chariot cavalry, and asked, "Second uncle, what do you think?" ”

Shi Min's father, Shi Zhan, had four sworn brothers, the eldest Shi Zhan, the second Dong Kuang, the third Wei Zheng, the fourth Huang Xuan, the fifth Wang Ping, and the fourth Huang Xuan died on the battlefield with Shi Zhan in the Battle of Pusaka ten years ago.

Shi Zhan is fierce and powerful, and he has no advance in the offensive battle, and has successively shot generals and Xihua Marquis.

Shi Zhan had 50,000 Han family sons under his command, and after his death, his subordinates were also inherited by the other three brothers, but the current number of Han troops is only 30,000, and the right to speak in the court of Qian Zhao is not high, which is not as good as before!

On the battlefield, Shi Min still called his father Shi Zhan's three righteous brothers "uncle", but Wang Ping, Dong Kuang and others did not dare to make a mistake, and called Shi Min "General Min" in the army, not Thorn Slave, or Min Er!

It stands to reason that when addressing a person of the same rank or more honorable than oneself, the honorific title should be preceded by his surname. But Wang Ping and Dong Kuang didn't call Shi Min General Shi or General Shi Min, why is this?

Guy Shi Min was not originally surnamed Shi, but his surname was Ran, which was for Han'er!

Shi Min's grandfather is Ran Long, and his father is Ran Zhan. The Book of Jin records, "(Shi) broke Chen Wu in Hanoi, was Zhan, was 12 years old, and ordered Ji Long (Shi Hu) to be a son." ”

Ran Zhan is Shi Hu's adopted son and changed his surname to Shi, but he is an authentic Han Chinese!

Similarly, Shi Min was able to lead the troops as a guerrilla general at such a young age, in addition to his own bravery and a certain ability to lead the army, Shi Min was also the adopted grandson of Shi Hu, the lord of the Later Zhao State, and was favored by Shi Hu.

Of course, there is a more important reason, that is, the Han people are more united, and Shi Hu cannot dilute the Han army in the country, so he needs Shi Min to become a soul figure like his father Shi Zhan, and lead many Han family sons and daughters in the Later Zhao country to continue to serve him!

Dong Kuang heard Shi Min's inquiry, thought to himself for a while, and said with his hands crossed: "General Min, what Wang Ping said is right. Now the mountains are full of routs of our army, and in a hurry, with our troops, we can't stop any effective counterattack! General Min, it's better for you to take the soldiers and horses first, and I will take a thousand people to take charge of the palace. ”

"Second uncle, fifth uncle, I don't think our department can retreat!" Shi Min said loudly.

"Why?" Dong Kuang said in a deep voice, "General Min, don't act recklessly!" Now the situation on the battlefield is already a mountain of defeat for our Zhao army, and there is no way to return to the sky. ”

Wang Ping was also afraid that Shi Min would be stupid and drop the chain at the critical moment, so he hurriedly said on the side: "General Min, the enemy is all Xianbei elite cavalry, and our soldiers and horses here are only 5,000. ”

"It's hard to win, it's not that it's impossible!" Shi Min waved his hand and said, "Second Uncle, Fifth Uncle, these five thousand soldiers and horses are all trained by me, and the weapons and equipment are all of the highest quality. As the so-called raising soldiers for a thousand days, use soldiers for a while! When will it not be for them to fight a tough battle at this time? ”

"Xiao Min, you are confused!" Wang Ping said bitterly, "I don't know how many elite cavalry there are in Xianbei now, in case the enemy's strength is more than ours, and the other party is all cavalry, and then I can't run away if I want to!" ”

Unexpectedly, Shi Min said with a firm gaze: "I have made up my mind, fifth uncle, you don't have to say more." ”

"I heard that in the Warring States Period, Zhao Hao, the famous general of Zhao State, persuaded Zhao Xiaocheng on the eve of his battle of fame and the battle of Yanhe. One of the most classic sentences is 'narrow road encounter, the brave wins'! Although this place is a plain, it is not a narrow road, but for my Zhao Jun, it is a narrow road! ”

Dong Kuang sighed faintly and said, "It's okay." Most of our 5,000 soldiers and horses are foot soldiers, and once the enemy's iron cavalry pursues them, it will inevitably end up in a rout! Let's just give it a go! ”

"Thank you, Second Uncle."

Wang Ping snorted and said, "Xiao Min, I knew that you would be so reckless, and your second uncle and I brought our respective soldiers and horses!" No matter what, even if I die today, I will protect you! ”

If Shi Min said in his heart that he was not moved, it would be impossible. Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them!

Shi Min could have fled with his cavalry, but he didn't do so, in order to make a meritorious contribution and inherit the tens of thousands of Han troops left by his father Shi Zhan!

Death, not necessarily, Shi Min is a traverser!

"Fifth uncle, you immediately run to the king's front army and ask him to send reinforcements!"

Of course, Shi Min couldn't be so reckless. Even if the enemy only has 1,000 iron horsemen, it is tantamount to whimsical to rely on 5,000 soldiers and horses to block it on the plains!

What's more, the 2,000 elite cavalry commanded by Murong Ke were just the vanguard force, wanting to defeat the retreating more than 100,000 Zhao troops at the first time. Behind those two thousand elite horsemen, there were at least tens of thousands of fierce Xianbei people following closely!

Therefore, even if Shi Min can take his 5,000 sharp soldiers to block Murong Ke's 2,000 elite cavalry, he will be besieged and strangled by countless Yan troops later, and whether Shi Min can escape in the end is still a question!

Wang Ping heard Shi Min's command, his mouth pursed, and the boss said unhappily: "No! I'm not going anywhere! Big brother only has a son like you, if we don't take good care of you, how can we be worthy of the spirit of the eldest brother in the sky? ”

As soon as he heard this, Shi Min couldn't refute it at all, and Wang Ping was unwilling to follow his orders, let alone Dong Kuang.

"Li Xin!"

"The last general!" From behind Shi Min, a young general with a tall posture and starry eyebrows stood out, bowing his head and clenching his fists towards Shi Min.

"Go immediately to the king's place and tell him. The army broke and fled, and I Shi Min led 5,000 soldiers and horses to resist the iron cavalry of the Yan army, and died without turning his heels, this is a good opportunity to encircle and annihilate the enemy army in one fell swoop, please send reinforcements immediately! ”

"No!" Li Xin took the order and left.

Looking at the soldiers of the Zhao army who were still scattering and fleeing in front of him, Shi Min raised the double-edged spear in his hand expressionlessly, and under the scorching sun, the spearhead flashed with a cold and bloodthirsty brilliance.

"Array! Meet the enemy! ”

There was only the sound of armor colliding, the sound of rustling, and there was no noise. The five thousand sharp men behind Shi Min quickly formed a well-founded phalanx, and when they looked at it from a high place, they saw a large area of crowds, black pressure, and the density made people's scalps tingle!

Those deserters looked at the soldiers of the Shi Min Department who had formed a phalanx, and they couldn't help but feel terrified, and they didn't dare to act rashly for a long time! They are afraid, afraid!

Often at this time, the most terrible thing is the cold arrow released by your own soldiers!

Open guns are easy to dodge, but hidden arrows are difficult to prevent!

Roommate fighting has always been a very common thing, in this chaotic world, nothing is impossible, and one's own people will not be merciful to their own people's cannibalism!

But after a long time, I saw that the soldiers of the Shi Min Department did not release arrows or anything, but just set up a position there. The deserters breathed a sigh of relief, bypassed their phalanx, and fled south.

Although he is his own soldier, Shi Min doesn't trust these guys. The remnants of the army are just defeated, what combat effectiveness is there?

What's more, the composition of the Zhao army is extremely complex, there are the Qian, Di, and Han, anyway, it is a "coalition army" composed of various ethnic groups!

The composition of this army is too complicated, and the ruling group of Later Zhao is the Qian, but the population and men of the Qianzu are too small, so the men living in Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Youzhou, Xuzhou, Sili and other places are naturally pulled into strong men.

Such an army is very difficult to integrate!