The thief general surnamed Xu, who was in the thief camp, surrounded by nearly 100 thieves, kept hitting the stock with his hand, spit out white mist, and sighed: "Alas, careless, careless." This is the elite of the Taiyuan County soldiers who broke Li Le's department. ”

Looking back at the left and right sides of the formation and the back formation, although there are still more than 400 people on the side, a small half of them are already frightened. When the rest of the people saw the dead bodies killed on the battlefield, they were all desolate, their morale was depressed, and they had no intention of fighting. It seems that today's army has been completely defeated.

The thief surnamed Xu laughed and said: "That's it, that's it, today's small defeat is due to my Xu Gongming's carelessness, but fortunately, most of my department has not yet come out." After I re-pack the hearts of the army tonight, I will fight to the death with the soldiers of Taiyuan County tomorrow morning. ”

The flag guard officer on the side hurriedly shouted: "The general is wise, early tomorrow morning, our army will definitely wipe out the hateful Taiyuan County soldiers in front of us." ”

The thief surnamed Xu snorted coldly and said: "Hugh is nonsense, it is fortunate that I can defeat this strong army tomorrow, and I dare to kill them all." The order was given, the Chinese army changed to the rearguard, and slowly retreated, and I met them with the rear army two miles away. The order was given to the 500 cavalry troops left behind in the camp to come and meet us. ”

When the thief general surnamed Xu was about to retreat, Li Ping pointed to the thief army and shouted: "Most of the thieves in this department are wearing armor, they must be the elite of this thief, and they can't be let go." Command the left, center, and right three tuns to come out together, surround them, and be sure to wipe them out. ”

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves behind him sounded, and many horsemen and horses rolled from behind. Li Ping turned his head to look, and it was the forward light cavalry of the army who came. Li Ping was overjoyed and shouted: "Order, order the light cavalry general to quickly lead the troops to delay the retreat speed of the thieves' main formation, and this army will completely defeat this thief in one battle." ”

After the light cavalry general received the order, he immediately beckoned his light cavalry to scatter in all directions, spread out in twos and threes, and surrounded the thief soldiers and the rear army. Under the surprised gaze of the thief surnamed Xu, more than 50 officers and soldiers actually wrapped the thief legion ten times their size, and kept wandering 60 to 80 paces away, throwing arrows in their hands. The arrow seemed to have eyes, and it was shot from a crowded place, but with a few arrows, more than 60 thieves were shot.

The thief surnamed Xu will use a big axe to open an attacking arrow, and his heart is cold, and he secretly said: It's not the Han army's sudden cavalry, it's actually the Hun archer, no, it's the Han army's archery that imitates the Huns. Hmph, Taiyuan County soldiers want to completely defeat me Xu Gongming? If you want to die quickly, I will obey your will.

"The order, the soldiers in the battalion will go out of the village, the Chinese army will defend on the spot, the rear army and the main formation will defend on the spot, and I will have a big battle with the soldiers of Taiyuan County today."

The two thieves who were three hundred paces away immediately formed a circle formation with large wooden shields to protect the Ge hand spearmen, and also imitated the Taiyuan soldiers to form a hedgehog formation. At this time, the left, center and right soldiers of the officers and soldiers had already surrounded them, and it was not easy to start in the face of the thieves' hedgehog array.

Li Ping saw that the thieves were trapped by the group, and although several people fled for their lives, he might as well make a big deal, and he was only afraid that the whole army of the thief battalion would be dispatched. So he asked: "Guards, quickly go and calculate the number of casualties of our army." ”

"Report ...... Junhou, our army did not suffer any casualties, only a dozen or so people were slightly wounded, and they were still able to fight. ”

"Oh? How good is it? Li Ping was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Since this is the case, it is indispensable for our army to fight with the thieves." Hmph, what's so difficult about the hedgehog array, the trapped array is easier to break. The order was given, and the rear army quickly scattered to collect the smoke and smoke, and I want to smoke this hedgehog array. ”

At this time, it is the time of winter, and you can find dead branches and leaves everywhere, and when the snow is sprinkled, a thick smoke will be ignited. In a short time, more than 100 guards found a large amount of cigarettes and picked them up and went to the place where the thieves were trapped. Standing in the limelight, it burned in the frightened eyes of the thief.

The leader of the thieves was unwilling to sit still, staring at his blood-red eyes, and shouted: "Guarding is also death, rushing is also death, since the court doesn't want us to wait for life, I will fight to the death." ”

At the same time, the thieves also showed a tragic color, and shouted loudly: "Break through, survive, survive, break through...... Killing officials and thieves ......"

Under the idea of survival, the thieves let out the most powerful roar in their lives, and rushed towards the Taiyuan soldiers with their spears like crazy. Even though the Taiyuan soldiers were in a dense formation and well-armed, they couldn't stop the thieves who were bent on survival for a while.

I saw that the thieves sacrificed their lives and wanted to die one by one, gritted their teeth and pounced on the spears of the officers and soldiers, and used their own bodies to pave the way for the latecomers. The successor also fearlessly raised his spear, and when he looked at the officers and soldiers, he raised his spear and stabbed it. For a while, the battle situation was chaotic, and the Taiyuan soldiers also began to suffer casualties.

However, the Taiyuan county soldiers are the elite soldiers trained by He Bai's hard work, and they are not ordinary county soldiers. Eat and practice every two or three days, and meat is served. All of them are burly and muscular, and they are stronger than ordinary strong men, not to mention these thieves who have not eaten for a long time.

Moreover, He Bai still has the grace of mercy, the virtue of reward, the teaching of thought, and the binding of military discipline to them, so that the soldiers of Taiyuan County are also fearless to fight to the death with thieves. The thief fights only the courage of a horseman, the blood of a moment.

In less than ten minutes, the thieves were in the Taiyuan county soldiers pushing everything sideways, breaking all the obstacles under the momentum, without the initial blood and bravery, cowardice and cowardice hit their hearts again.

"Spare your life, spare your life......" The thief's belief in breaking through collapsed, and he left his spear and knelt on the ground and kept begging for mercy. The Taiyuan soldiers on the opposite side couldn't hold back, and still stabbed out and stabbed it to the ground. However, this Ge did not prevent the confidence of the thieves from continuing to collapse, and those who abandoned their spears and guns continued, all of them were full of ashes, and only pinned the possibility of survival and grace on the heads of the Taiyuan soldiers.

The generals, who were distressed by the casualties of the soldiers and soldiers, immediately shouted loudly when they saw the opportunity: "Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will live, and those who resist will not be killed." ”

The soldiers of Taiyuan County also shouted loudly at the right time: "Descend, surrender, surrender ......"

Under the repeated shouts of the Taiyuan county soldiers, most of the thieves all abandoned their weapons and knelt down to surrender, and the five bodies fell to the ground, not daring to look up at the Taiyuan county soldiers. Only a few thieves rushed to the battle formation of the officers and soldiers in grief and indignation, in order to make a final charge, but they were stabbed into meat skewers by countless spears.

The thieves' Chinese army was surrounded and annihilated by the Taiyuan County soldiers, which made Li Ping breathe a sigh of relief. Li Ping raised his eyes again and looked at the thieves' main formation and rear army, but felt that something was wrong. I saw that in addition to the initial casualties of the thieves' rear army, after the thieves formed a hedgehog shield array, the light cavalry could not help them. had to besiege the thieves and wait for the encirclement and suppression of the foot soldiers to succeed.

However, in the thief's hedgehog shield array, there was a marksman, who was personally copying his bow at this time, aiming at a light cavalry who was carelessly slowing down, and shot an arrow. The arrow whistled as fast as lightning, and the light rider fell. The rest of the light horsemen were taken aback, and hurriedly beat their horses and ran.

But the marksman was so clever that he shot three arrows in a row, and each arrow would hit one person. The light horsemen panicked and immediately opened the distance from the thieves, retreated a hundred paces away and stopped. Without waiting for the light cavalry to breathe a sigh of relief, they inquired whether the comrades in the arrow were dead or alive, and three more arrows were shot out suddenly in the thief array, and three more people were hit by arrows and fell off their horses when the light cavalry was neutral. Again frightened, the light horsemen fled far away, and did not stop until they were one hundred and fifty paces.

The thief surnamed Xu abandoned the bow and scolded: "Dare to compare archery with me Xu Huang, you are more tender." Order, move closer to the Chinese army. ”

The thief general Xu Huang's words did not fall, but he heard the flag officer say without half joy: "General, the Chinese army has been defeated, and most of the officers and soldiers have been surrendered......

The thief took Xu Huang aback and looked up hurriedly, but it was only a cup of tea, and the four hundred elites of the Chinese army were defeated? That's too fast, isn't it? When he saw that there were still nearly 300 thieves in the Chinese army who were captured by the officers and soldiers, the thief general Xu Huang suddenly broke his nose and couldn't help but scold: "What a stupid thief who can't be helped." If it weren't for ......" thought of something for a while, I had to stop talking.

Li Ping slapped his horse forward and shouted, "Do the armies still have the strength to destroy the thieves again?" ”

The general of the Chinese army laughed and said: "Junhou, I can't wait for just warm-up, naturally I have strength." ”

In two battles, which were not too long, they broke through the battle formation of a thousand thieves, killed more than 500, captured 300, lost less than 10 of themselves, and wounded less than 40, which can be described as a great victory. The morale of the soldiers is blazing, who would say tired.

Li Pingwang saw that the soldiers under his command were available, and he was about to fight for the thieves' main formation in one go, but he saw that there was a slight ripple in the small puddle of water turned by the snow on the ground. Li Ping, who was old enough for the accident, suddenly jumped up, stood on horseback and looked into the distance, only to see a large black shadow surging in the direction of the thief village, and its speed was very fast.

Li Ping's heart suddenly appeared, as if a large army of horses was coming, and after a while, he faintly heard the sound of hurried horses' hooves, and a horse sentry rushed back and shouted: "Report ...... The army marquis and thieves all went out, including 500 cavalry soldiers and at least 1,000 foot soldiers. ”

Li Ping thought in his heart, it was almost noon at this time, the soldiers were empty, and they fought two battles in a row, although the morale was strong, but the strength was weak, and they could not be forced to fight with the thieves. Moreover, the thieves had 500 cavalry, and although they did not know what their combat strength was, they far exceeded the number of their own troops, so they still temporarily retreated.

Li Ping shouted: "Order each tun to recover their casualties, and after the light cavalry tun and the rear guard tun are broken, the whole army will escort the prisoners and thieves, and slowly retreat." ”

Soon after the order, the Santun men and horses who had packed up their stops retreated towards Zishi City with the prisoners. After the two tun men and horses were ordered, the rear guard Tun stood on the road to block the thieves, and the light cavalry abandoned the thieves' main formation and rear army, and fearlessly met the oncoming five hundred thief cavalry.