Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Guo Thief Army is Annihilated
Without waiting for Guo Daxian, who had just turned around, more than 100 cavalry soldiers in his own formation beat their horses and ran, and the central 100 cavalry led by Cheng Qi had already killed rapidly. Although most of the soldiers of Taiyuan County are foot soldiers, the people of Bingzhou are no strangers to fighting on horseback, as long as they hold the spear and spear tightly and look at the thief stabbing obliquely.
With a "boom", the hundred horsemen of Taiyuan County crashed headlong into the thief's escort, and the spear in his hand pierced the body of the thief in front of him, stabbing the current thief off the horse in one fell swoop. Without waiting for the undead thieves to fight back angrily, the second and third columns of cavalry slammed into the bodies of the surviving thieves one after another.
"Ah, woo, uh......" The terrible wails of more than 100 cavalry thieves continued to sound one after another, and in just a few tens of seconds, the cavalry assault was swept away by the Taiyuan soldiers. At this time, the only thieves who can ride on horseback are a few thieves with superb martial arts who fight against the official army, including the thief commander Guo Daxian.
However, Guo Daxian couldn't help but tear his eyes at this time, his heart was like a knife, almost all of the most loyal guards of more than 100 cavalry were lost, all the elite cavalry of 1,000 cavalry were betrayed, and there were still hundreds of elite soldiers in armor on the left and right who were all killed under the assault of the chaotic cavalry. What's going on with this disaster? Guo Daxian didn't understand, but he wanted to understand it very much at this time.
"Guo Da, why did you betray me? Guo Da, where are you......" Guo Daxian waved his spear fiercely and killed the Taiyuan soldiers who rushed to surround him. Killed four or five people in a row, each time he killed one person, the pain in his heart deepened, after all, these warriors were the elite under their own command, but ......
"Woo ......" A long-handled ring knife suddenly slashed from behind, and its momentum was as fast as lightning. Guo Daxian only felt a chill behind him, but he couldn't avoid it. had to flash diagonally to the right, and the ring knife suddenly slashed Guo Daxian's left shoulder, and the iron armor blades flew everywhere. Even a piece of the meat on the shoulder was cut off.
Guo Daxian clenched his teeth, slapped his horse to dodge the second slash of the ring knife, and rushed forward for more than ten steps, only then did he turn around and stare at the enemy general who was sneaking up on him. I saw that it was a bearded indifferent person, and although not everyone knew the more than 1,000 horsemen under his command, he was at least familiar with him. But the person he killed just now had no acquaintance with this fierce general at this time. Guo Daxian asked in surprise, "Who are you?" Where is Guo Da? ”
Cheng Qi sneered: "What is Guo Da? Lao Tzu is the military marquis of Taiyuan County, and Yuyang Chengqi is also. ”
Guo Daxian looked at Cheng Qi in astonishment, Taiyuan soldiers? Not the Guo Da Rebellion? How could this Taiyuan county soldier appear in Changshan Guodu Township? How can you silently leap across hundreds of miles of Taihang Mountain? What enmity do you have with the soldiers of Taiyuan County? Where is Guo Da at this time? This huge problem made Guo Daxian almost crash for a while.
I saw Cheng Qi slapping his horse and raising his knife to rush again, and shouted: "Thief general, take your life." ”
A trace of thought appeared like a flash of lightning, Guo Daxian immediately reacted, the robbery of the retainer of the Taiyuan Governor who was in a uproar a month ago, and the order of revenge across states and counties allowed by the court also appeared in front of him one by one at this time.
"Damn, it's a soldier from Taiyuan County." Guo Daxian finally figured it out, it wasn't Guo Da, the deputy commander of the elite cavalry, who betrayed him. It turned out that the soldiers of Taiyuan County braved the snow to climb the mountains and mountains for hundreds of miles, just to take revenge and raided their own territory. Thinking of this, Guo Daxian couldn't help but feel a lot better.
So last night's grain was destroyed by the Taiyuan County soldiers? It was not done by Qiu and Yin Er's people. hated himself, but because he didn't know the opportunity, he couldn't take a closer look, and he was deceived by the Taiyuan soldiers, so he was defeated today. Guo Da and the other thousand elite horsemen are afraid that they were also wiped out by him last night, right? This war is the result of unequal intelligence, and it is not a crime of war.
Guo Daxian and Cheng Qi fought several times, but due to a shoulder injury, they lost to Cheng Qi. and saw the slaughtered foot soldiers under his command, but he was afraid that the defeat would be irreparable. I had to make a false stab move, turned around and patted Ma Wangnan and left. Cheng Qi saw that this thief was strong in martial arts, and there was no doubt that it must be the thief handsome Guo Daxian. So he also chased after him and never let go.
The first wave of assault crushed Guo Daxian's own formation, and even the 1,000 armored thieves were killed by Li Ping and Hou Cheng's left and right assaults. Except for more than 200 people who crossed the stone bridge, most of the thieves were driven down the riverbed.
Then, Li Ping ordered his corporal to dismount and shoot the thief in the riverbed with a rifle bow, and the thief screamed in despair in the dry riverbed and the icy river. In just three or five minutes, the thief who was originally imposing turned into a lamb to the slaughter. This sharp reversal is unresponsive. It should not be called every day, and the earth is not spiritual, so you can only hold your head and kneel on the ground and keep crying and begging for mercy.
Hou Cheng led the cavalry to continue to assault the remnants of the enemy on the bridge, and the auxiliary thieves north of the bridge. Wherever the cavalry passed, they all fled, completely demonstrating the strongest strength of the assault cavalry tactics. Even the Qiu clan, who had been fighting hard for a long time, also stood on the fortress wall, staring at the chaos in front of them in a daze, completely forgetting to send troops out of the fort to attack the fleeing thieves.
Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, He Bai immediately ordered Li Ping to summon the thieves, and ordered Hou Cheng to continue to attack the thieves near Yin's fort, striving to completely eliminate the forces of Guo Daxian's thieves in the capital in a battle.
Of course, the most important thing, and He Bai has not forgotten, is to find Guo Daxian's whereabouts. When he learned that the person pursued and killed by Cheng Qi was Guo Daxian, He Bai personally led fifty horsemen to chase away.
Guo Daxian panicked all the way, originally wanted to escape back to the capital city, there were still 200 guards in the city, there were also 1,000 armor-clad soldiers in the southbound Tang, and there were more than 1,000 auxiliary soldiers at the turn of the two counties. As long as the other Black Mountain thieves come to their senses, He Bai's Taiyuan soldiers will have to retreat if they don't retreat, otherwise the whole army will be wiped out. However, Guo Daxian was in a panic, found the wrong path, and fled looking at the Taihang Mountain in the west.
Ma Xue'er, who was recuperating in a quiet place, heard the news from the escort team, and two fast horses rushed towards this direction, perhaps He Bai's good news came back. Ma Xue'er was overjoyed when she heard the news, and her tired body seemed to be completely cured, so she immediately jumped up, flew on her horse, and led the troops towards the fast horse.
Within half a mile, he heard Cheng Qi shouting from afar: "Lady Xue, pay attention, that person is Guo Daxian's thief, don't let him go." ”
When Ma Xue'er heard this, her willow eyebrows immediately stood up, and she was furious, took out the crescent moon eyebrow knife hanging on the saddle, and slapped the horse dance knife directly to Guo Daxian. Guo Daxian saw from afar that it was Ma Xue'er coming, and he didn't know what the situation was, so he immediately understood everything. couldn't help but sigh, and stabbed at Ma Xue'er with a spear.
It's just that when Ma Xue'er didn't care about the knife, the spear in Guo Daxian's hand suddenly fell to the ground and stretched out his head to meet Ma Xue'er's fast knife. I saw a flash of the knife, and the head suddenly fell to the ground.
Ma Xue'er, who had taken revenge, looked at Guo Dajian, also known as Guo Jian's head, on the ground in a daze, and didn't know what it was like in her heart. Neither is joy nor sorrow, anyway, there are mixed tastes in my heart, and it is difficult to explain clearly.
When He Bai hurriedly chased after her, Ma Xue'er plunged into He Bai's arms and cried loudly, crying so much that she was not sad. He Bai had no choice but to be relieved with kind words, and waited until Ma Xue'er was tired of crying and fell asleep again before giving up.
He Bai ordered the guards to carry Ma Xue'er on a stretcher, all the way to the dock fort of Qiu and Yin Er. I saw that most of the thieves had been surrendered, and the patriarchs of the Qiu and Yin clans, under the leadership of Li Ping, came to meet He Bai.
"The old decay Qiu Tong and Yin Yuan visited Lord Duwei, Lord Duwei used his soldiers like a god, jumped the beam and Guo thief to extinguish with a drum, and saved me Qiu and Yin Er's family in fire and water, and the old man and the two were grateful. I also hope that Lord Du Wei can move to the dock and drink a bottle of thin wine to express the gratitude of my Qiu and Yin Er. ”
If he had come to ask for help from these two clans yesterday, he might not have been so grateful at this time, and maybe he would have blamed He Bai for attracting Guo Daxian's siege thief army. Now that's just right. He Bai didn't support it either, got off the horse and stepped forward to help the two patriarchs, and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, take the hot iron, and the Guo thief will be destroyed, and when you seize the capital and go south, the two cities of the Tang Dynasty will return to the rule of the court." He Bai will not drink this wine, but take the city. ”
The patriarchs of the Qiu and Yin clans nodded again and again and praised: "What Lord Duwei said is very true, the old man and the two immediately went to gather the strong men of the clan and accompanied Lord Duwei to take the capital city together. ”
In the previous dock battle, Qiu killed and injured nearly 100 people, but Yin did not have a single injury. So in addition to the people who guarded the fort, the Qiu family sent out 150 people, and the Yin family sent out 250 people, led by the children of the clan, and followed He Bai to capture the capital.
There were few soldiers in the capital, and when he saw Guo Daxian's head hanging on a long pole, he was in chaos. Just when the thieves in the city were hesitating, Qiu Hui, a disciple of the Qiu family, and Yin Li, a disciple of the Yin family, both stepped out, and the flying horses galloped to eighty steps away from the city, and shot towards the head of the city with their bows. Every arrow must hit one person, and after shooting three or four people in a row, the thief is so frightened that no one dares to raise his head. Seeing that there were many officers and soldiers, the persecution was great, and no one in the city dared to come forward, so in desperation, he had to open the city gate and surrender on the ground.
He Bai led the army into the city, first sent troops to collect the weapons of the thieves, and then occupied the key points in the city, and then sat down in the county government with peace of mind. Qiu Hui and Yin Li immediately bowed in front of He Bai's case, and shouted: "The villains Qiu Hui and Yin Li know a little about martial arts, and are a little good at bowing horses. ”
Seeing the two of them showing off their archery skills in front of the army, He Bai knew that these two had the intention of surrendering. Sure enough, not long after entering the city, these two worshipped in front of He Bai. Although the famous generals are good, they are hard to get. And the middle and lower-level officers in the army, for He Bai, the more the better, and those who come will not refuse.
He Bai immediately happily helped the two of them, appointed the two of them as the tent officials temporarily, and obeyed them on the left and right, and then arranged the duties after clarifying the abilities of the two.