Chapter 130: The Corridor of Flesh and Qi
The more than 500 Yunzhou cavalry stretched in the valley, this shape is like the valley at the bottom of the big bowl twice, it is a lofty mountain, this Song-Liao border has many woodcutters who rely on the mountains to survive, they were alarmed by this cavalry, there are more than ten people all gathered together, they are tightly holding axes and blunt knives in their hands, hiding in the mountains and forests.
"Daddy, these people ......"
A woodcutter was startled, and quickly covered the young man's mouth with his hand, and booed, signaling him to shut up. The woodcutters around him were also almost frightened, staring at the young man, and several of the older ones motioned for him to shut up and not make a sound.
Fortunately, the sound on the mountain did not reach the bottom of the canyon, and the black iron armor on these horses and the tall black war horses made these woodcutters tremble.
"The cavalry of Yunzhou. The older woodcutter whispered very carefully, and the woodcutters around him did not dare to lean out of the sheltered trees, but just hid behind and watched from afar.
The three-pole banner was held by the strongest of them, and these men held the banner in both hands and rode on black horses, at the front of the procession.
"How can these Liao people be in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty?" Some people were puzzled, and it could be seen that these iron armors were very tired, and it seemed that they had been fighting for a long time, although they were tall and big, the iron spears in their hands were either left in the belly of the horse, or worn behind their backs.
In front of this long line of Yunzhou cavalry, there were two teams of men and horses one step ahead of the army, and they were in the most advanced position to inquire about the situation.
"It's him!"
Someone was surprised: "Li Queyi, even he is here!"
Several people suddenly looked over, most of the people who survived on the Song-Liao border knew Li Queyi's name, this is one of the generals of the Li family in Yunzhou, with strong martial arts, and when he was a teenager, he was already the most prestigious general among the Li family's generals, brave and strategic, and decisive in killing.
There are really not many people who have seen Li Queyi, but this woodcutter was also a veteran of the Song Army on the Yanmen Gate back then, and now he saw the general in the distance, and he recognized Li Queyi at first sight.
When everyone heard Li Queyi, it was as if they had met an old demon in the mountains, and they didn't dare to be careless, an old woodcutter pressed the head of a man with his head raised a little higher, and glared and said: "Don't die, there are hundreds of pairs of eyes down here, all of them are Yunzhou soldiers with excellent archery skills, if you want to die, don't bother us." β
The man didn't dare to stiffen his mouth, and his lips turned white.
However, five hundred horsemen, marching in the valley, the ground has trembled slightly, many of these horsemen look around, these horsemen are elite, many of them did not let down their vigilance at all, their horses and guns clenched, although the iron armor on their bodies is broken, but it is still a solid armor, and none of them take it off.
The wind of Yunzhou is blowing coldly, and under the iron helmet of the strong man holding the horse, in such a cold weather, there are beads of sweat on his forehead.
The earth shook, suddenly Li Wei'an felt that there was an earthquake on the ground, he raised his head, under the iron helmet, he saw more than ten horsemen riding back from the iron armor, these horsemen had sallow faces, obviously these days are not good, but they are not in the mood to care about these now, the comer turned over and dismounted, half knelt on the ground and said: "Yu Shao Du Hu, general, scout at the foot of the North Lonely Mountain fifteen miles ahead, meet the foot of the Song Kingdom." β
Li Wei's foot soldier of the Song Dynasty was in a hurry, and he glanced at Li Queyi on the side, and hurriedly asked, "How many of them are there?"
"From a distance, there are three thousand, to say the least. The sentinel scout said.
As soon as he said this, even Li Queyi's face changed, three thousand foot soldiers said that it was not much, but it was a lot to say less, these Song army foot soldiers must have been stationed in this northern lonely mountain pass, waiting for work, and the Yunzhou iron cavalry had already been sleepy and lacking horses, from the south of the Yangtze River, and then from the north and south of the Yangtze River, not only lost more than half, but also were wounded.
Now 3,000 people are guarding in front of them, wanting to return to Beiliao, the defense line of this Beigu Mountain Pass is what they want to break through no matter what, if they can't break through, then everyone will be cut off from their lives, and they will all be broken under this big bowl.
In front of the North Lonely Mountain, the soldiers are holding a long broadsword, and the half-human tall iron shield is in front of them, stretching between the mountain roads of the North Lonely Mountain, like an erected iron wall, these foot soldiers are all wrapped in elite iron armor, and they don't know where they come from.
These foot soldiers are less than 3,000, but when Li Queyi came here, he was most afraid of such an elite of the Song army.
The Song army was not all greedy for life and afraid of death, and there were many of them with true blood, and these people were brought together by the emperor to form an elite army with excellent combat power.
Although there were only 3,000 people, none of them were afraid, and they were well-trained and had the discipline of Confucian thinking, which became a tool that Confucianism could use.
A Confucian scholar was wearing an iron armor, he saw Li Wei'an walking in the front from a distance, showed a smile, looked at it coldly, waved the horse sword in his hand in a circle, shouted, and the surrounding foot soldiers shouted loudly one by one: "Emperor!"
"Royal!"
"Royal!"
"Go. β
......
The sound was cascading, and the shield stood in front of him, ready to defend against the arrows.
These 3,000 people are very elite, obviously a proper foot pawn, the front shield pawn holds a large shield, and also holds a long knife in his hand, and behind them, is a swordsman with iron armor holding a sword to chop horses, these 3,000 foot soldiers, stunned that there is no cavalry prepared, they are ordered to completely annihilate this Yunzhou cavalry in the south of this North Lonely Mountain, the archer's longbow has already opened the bowstring, ready to shoot arrows, at any time.
What is ridiculous is not the embarrassed appearance of Li Wei'an and the Yunzhou cavalry at the moment, but the shame of Li Wei'an, who clearly knows that the three thousand foot soldiers led by him have been guarding here, waiting for work, but they still came, with his Yunzhou iron cavalry, and they crashed into the muzzle of the gun.
Could it be that this young man from Ling Tianmen, the young capital of Yunzhou protects Li Wei'an, and he is really confident that he has broken his three thousand steps?
"Li Wei'an, just arrest it, when I bring it back to Bianjing in the future, maybe the official family will not do anything to you. Qian Rushi shouted, he watched these horsemen in front of him shout, and the internal force was controlled in his voice, and it spread out, so that everyone could hear it.
Li Wei'an took a deep breath, and then shouted loudly: "The soldiers of the Song people, when did they dare to boast in front of my Yunzhou Iron Cavalry?
He shouted, and suddenly the five hundred Yunzhou iron horsemen were lined up in five rows, the canyon was not spacious, at most there was only such an arrangement, these Yunzhou horsemen lowered the iron spears in their hands, and each black horse raised its hooves, ready to attack at any time.
These Yunzhou soldiers shouted loudly, the men and horses neighed, and the sound suddenly pressed on the Song army in front of them, and the Song saber slapped on the iron shield, which was also the sound of iron weapons colliding.
On both sides, one side is preparing to resist, and the other side is preparing to charge, Li Wei'an put the iron mask on, Li Queyi can't protect his side, he is the general of Yunzhou, at this moment just before the Chinese army, the tip of the gun is raised, and the more than five hundred cavalry soldiers suddenly raised the heavy iron gun in their hands, and then rushed forward like a torrent.
The longbow in the hands of the Yunzhou soldiers is still there, but the arrows have long been exhausted, and these Yunzhou troops are so strong that most of the arrows shot are broken and can no longer be used.
But on the side of the Song army, with the order of Qian Rushi, those Song soldiers with bows and arrows bent loosened their bowstrings one after another, and the arrows in their hands were like the wind, shooting towards the direction where the iron cavalry was coming.
The dozens of cavalry soldiers who rushed to the front wanted to rely on the heavy iron armor on their bodies to win the incoming bows and arrows, but they didn't expect that the arrows they shot were also extremely sharp, and they directly penetrated into the bodies of these cavalrymen one by one, submerging into the flesh and skin.
These horsemen were hit one after another, but what Qian Rushi didn't expect was that these horsemen seemed to have long been accustomed to such insignificant injuries, even the iron horses under their crotches were also average, wearing small pieces of iron armor, even if they were shot by a rain of arrows, they did not hesitate to continue to run wildly.
The cavalry was about to arrive, and the desperate long spears in their hands were incomparably heavy, but now they needed to raise the tip of their spears and pierce their opponents with a sharp end.
"Royal!"
"Royal!"
......
The foot soldiers raised their iron shields one after another, and the archers behind them had hung their longbows on their bodies, drew their long knives from their waists, and then crossed over to the soldiers in front of them with swords, and pressed them behind those who held iron shields.
"They're coming!"
These people shouted, to take this blow hard, like the fury of thunder, the furious iron horses carried the cavalry on their bodies, the iron spear they held was really as fast as lightning, and the violent sparks continued to splash in the crowd, the momentum of these horses was fierce, and half of the iron shield hand was knocked over, Li Queyi took many cavalry like a sharp blade, riding the cavalry to crash into the huge breach in the formation, leading the men and horses to rush in, slamming left and right, dancing a long iron spear, and a Song soldier holding a horse chopping sword on the ground who had not yet gotten up penetrated into his chest, snorted, connected the whole person, and pushed the person up with the tip of the spear and fell to the groundγ
In a mess, although the formation of the Song soldiers was in chaos, these foot soldiers with tall iron shields could not stop the Yunzhou cavalry that was like a bamboo, and they could only rush to the battle, but those Yunzhou cavalry were also surrounded and killed by the Song infantry of many people, often three or four Song soldiers dealt with a Yunzhou soldier on horseback, and those of the Song people who held the sword of cutting horses, the sword had a terrible power, and someone under a sword, even the crotch of a horse horse, even the head was cut off.
The horse chopping sword is a sharp weapon to deal with the northern cavalry, especially when these Yunzhou cavalry are tired, these horse chopping swords can come in handy.
The battlefield soon turned into a slaughter field, where horses were slaughtered, and swords were wielded to cut people in two.
In the slaughter field, blood and qi splashed, countless swords collided together, some people hummed and endured the pain, and some Yunzhou soldiers smashed their big fists on the heads of the Song people, killing people.
These Song soldiers can already be called the elite of the elite, 3,000 people are wearing full armor, carrying long bows, and there are sharp swords and long knives in their hands, and there are soldiers wielding slashing swords, these Yunzhou soldiers are only more than 500 people, and they are forced to deal with the three thousand Song troops, watching from a distance, and they are not left behind.
Li Wei'an was furious and saw that a Yunzhou soldier he knew well had his entire arm cut off with a horse sword, and was then killed by the Song soldiers who followed him.
Li Weixin had a fire burning, he jumped in front of those Song soldiers, holding his iron spear, he was the little overlord here, a silver spear, thrown in front of these three or five Song soldiers, the blades in their hands only had time to hear a crisp sound, and they were broken in two, and they were shocked out by the remaining strength.
He is so young, no one can expect that there is such a great strength in his wrist, a Song army was stared at by him, and he hurriedly engaged in the battle when he was killed, and the sharp blade in his hand wanted to touch him, this person held a horse sword with fine iron training, and a sword was slashed at Li Wei'an's gun, and before he had time to exert his strength, he was pushed by Li Wei'an with one arm, and the person was pushed out with an iron sword, and the whole person fell to the ground, Li Wei'an did not leave him, strode forward, and the tip of the gun pierced the person through the heart.
"Kill!"
Someone in the crowd roared, these people were red-eyed, but more than 500 Yunzhou soldiers, half of them had been pulled off their horses at this moment, fighting with people on foot, wrapped in armor on both sides, this battle was obviously a contest between armor and blades, these soldiers were elite, and the elite of the Song army was also good, and they could be indistinguishable from Li Wei'an's Yunzhou iron cavalry.
However, this is also done by these Song soldiers as a means of waiting for work, not to mention that these Yunzhou iron armor has been transferred to fight thousands of miles before they have arrived, and now that they meet, this Confucian Qian Rushi did not expect that this Yunzhou cavalry has such combat power.
Qian Rushi frowned, he never expected that the combat power of these cavalry pawns was so strong, and this Yunzhou soldier also belonged to the Wujing soldiers of the Liao people, it stands to reason that they were far less fierce than the Liao soldiers, and these Great Song Dynasty infantry soldiers were all elites built by the emperor with a lot of money, and there were not many, and now in a war, I am afraid that thousands of people will be lost!
Those behind him, in addition to the forbidden army, there were also a few fellow Confucian disciples, and several Confucian disciples discussed, and finally said to Qian Rushi: "This Li Wei'an's Yunzhou soldiers are so strong, I am afraid that if the battle continues for a long time, there will be too many dead and wounded, and the official family will be to blame." β
Qian Rushi nodded, he knew very well in his heart that such a big casualty, even he, I am afraid that he could no longer maintain that posture in front of the officials.
The emperor appointed so many Confucian disciples to serve in the court, one is that before the death of the sword Zun Kong Daofu, he did leave a great foundation to Confucianism, the Confucian family has been inherited for thousands of years, the tree has deep roots, how many literati and ink writers are secretly disciples of Confucianism, how many imperial powers, grew up under the protection of Confucianism, and I don't know how many emperors, while appointing Confucianism, they are also afraid of the power of Confucianism.
"Confucianism, isn't it just a holy gate for poor scholars?"
The emperor used Confucianism to consolidate the foundation of imperial power and grasp the customs of the world, and similarly, Confucianism also attached itself to the imperial power, and pulled in countless outstanding talents in the years to win the hearts of the people in the world.
This matter can't be messed up, Qian Rushi knows in his heart that if he continues to fight, even if the Confucian cavalry and Li Wei'an in front of him will be destroyed and killed, but if the official family knows that his army has suffered such heavy casualties, he will definitely have a much worse attitude towards himself, and then in the future, his official career, the name of Confucianism, in the eyes of the official, will inevitably drop his status.
"Come on, everyone, don't delay any longer, I'm afraid there will be an accident. Qian Rushi sighed, and the Confucian disciples beside him nodded one after another, they didn't have to make a move, they just waved their hands, and the dozens of sword attendants who followed them rushed down and joined the battle.
They held swords, different moves, all have martial arts, these ordinary people's Yunzhou armor in a hurry, was caught off guard by these dozens of swordsmen who entered the situation, just for a short while, there were more than 20 Yunzhou armor lying on the ground.
Li Wei'an saw it, he danced the iron gun in his hand wildly, grabbed a horse sword from the hand of a dead corpse, held a gun in one hand, and danced a sword in the other, rampage into the battle, these sword squire's martial arts are far inferior to Li Wei'an and Li Queyi, the two of them fought to the death, and the dead bodies of more than a dozen swordsmen soon lay on the ground.
"Yunzhou Iron Cavalry!" Li Wei'an shouted in his mouth, fighting bloodily, and the Yunzhou soldiers who heard the shouting around him also shouted, and followed Li Wei'an to fight out of a bloody corridor.
"Damn!" Qian Rushi's face was pale, his three thousand iron armor couldn't resist, these iron armor was rushed out of the bloody road by the young man alone, and he kept up with the Yunzhou soldiers, they were going to escape!
After Li Queyi and more than ten Yunzhou soldiers were broken, there were swords and swords all around, Li Queyi was injured again, and he was stabbed several times, but he still held on, and followed Li Wei'an's footsteps with the Yunzhou soldiers who were still alive.
"Shoot the arrows!" There are Confucian scholars shouted, several scholars also took longbows, mounted arrows, these Confucian students who have practiced martial arts are not bad, arrows are like streamers, falling among the fleeing Yunzhou soldiers, obviously hit, but no one has fallen at all, they are still fleeing, Li Wei'an is furious, but helpless, that person is far away in the sky, close in front of those Song soldiers who surrounded and killed, the Song general saw that they were about to escape, although he did not dare to go on in person, but he commanded the box soldiers to intercept and kill Li Wei'an, Li Wei'an found a bow from the ground, put on the arrow feathers, adjusted the position slightly, an arrow shot, flying in the air like a bird, which penetrated into the neck of the Song general very quickly, the general covered his neck, his face was painful, and then he fell off the horse, lifeless.
Fortunately, this scene was not seen by those Song soldiers, otherwise the Lord would die, and the rest of the Song soldiers would be scattered and turned into a pot of porridge.
Fortunately, these people didn't see it now, and they were still blocking Li Wei'an's footsteps.
"Shaodu Hu! Ride a horse!" Li Queyi shouted, he himself had already got on the horse, and reminded Li Wei'an.
Li Wei'an nodded and continued to fight.
I don't know how long I want to fight, these Yunzhou soldiers are too tired, but those Song soldiers are indeed frightened, this young man is too crazy, he is dancing with a sword and an iron gun in his hand, protecting Fang Zhou, not to mention, and also causing the Song soldiers who killed around him to give their lives in vain.
People are not afraid of death, they are afraid that death is useless, this Li Wei'an's ferocity made the people around him dare not stop it, only a few people shouted, they wanted to be rich and dangerous, but they didn't have that kind of strength and luck, and they were easily killed by Li Wei'an.
"I can't catch up. Qian Ru was demoralized, after such a long fight, Li Wei'an and his Yunzhou cavalry finally crossed the border.
"I didn't expect it to be like this. β
The Song general died, and the Song army was almost half broken at the moment, and the remaining half was on the ground, but even Li Wei'an couldn't stay.
Only the corpses of more than 300 Yunzhou soldiers were left, and as for their purpose of leaving Li Wei'an, I am afraid there is no chance.
Once he returned to the Northern Liao Kingdom, he didn't know how many masters there were in the Li Mansion, of course, who was sure to enter Jingyunzhou in the Western Liaoning of Northern Liao and assassinate Li Wei'an.
"Official. Qian Ru only sighed, it was considered to be admitted, but he had no choice but to admit it, there was no way, after all, the emperor explained to him, and he did break his promise.
3,000 people fought 500 people, and finally killed nearly 1,000 Song troops, but only more than 300 Yunzhou cavalry soldiers were left.
Within thirty miles of this North Lonely Mountain, there is no village and market of Song Liao, let alone a city wall barracks, this is just a forest, Li Wei'an took the only remaining Yunzhou cavalry, walked in the forest for a whole day, most of the horsemen were seriously injured, Li Wei'an led the horse, and Li Queyi sat on the horseback.
Yunzhou's Yunzi banner didn't know where it went, and Li Wei'an didn't care anymore, he was just worried about Li Queyi's current appearance, and he was really afraid that he would die without knowing when, but fortunately, Li Queyi's forehead burned all day, and finally got better, able to speak, and sat with his eyes blank.
"It's almost there. Li Wei'an sighed, not only him, but also the Yunzhou soldiers who fled for their lives, and every one of them is now dejected.
It's not a defeat, but it's more unacceptable than a defeat.
They came to the Great Song Dynasty to protect Shaodu and protect Li Wei'an, although it was to find out the whereabouts of the Qin family in Jiangnan, but in fact, Li Chen was already looking for a way back for his son at that time.
One person with two horses, more than 1,000 horsemen, that is, more than 2,000 good Yunzhou iron horses, but now there are only twenty or thirty horses left, and the remaining horses are almost all killed by the Song soldiers in the chaos.
The scout in front rode back on his horse to give a farewell.
"Shaodu Hu, there are still fifty miles ahead, and you can get to Yunzhou. β
"Hmm. Li Wei'an nodded, and then glanced at Li Queyi, who was sick on horseback, and didn't know if his father would be furious when he saw Li Queyi's current appearance.
Come to think of it, Li Chen has been a good general since he was a child, and he went out to explore the rivers and lakes with himself, and came back a few years later, for his son, he is now such a sick look, and he will be furious if he is replaced by a general.
Yunzhou City, now the Xijing of the Great Liao, has two-thirds of the sixteen states of Yanyun, and there are horse farms, cattle and sheep outside the city, and more farmland, but the most is still yellow sand.
On top of this big city, there are countless tall Yunzhou armors, in addition to the Lilong banner hanging high, there is also a cloud flag.
Li Wei'an had tears in his eyes, he led the horse, Li Queyi on the horse was drowsy, the blood on his waist and back couldn't stop flowing, hundreds of Yunzhou soldiers were all average, they cried happily, they couldn't hold back, some laughed wildly, and some cried with great sorrow.
They came back, and finally returned to Yunzhou City, Li Wei'an spread his hands and picked Li Queyi off the horse, the horses were also tired, the tall black horse lost a lot of weight, panting, Li Wei'an helped Li Queyi, and whispered: "Yunzhou, I'm back." β