19 Defend against the enemy
It turned out that these bandits armed with crossbow arrows were hiding in the desert, covering their bodies with sand, and only after the 100 soldiers led by Master Zhou and General Wang walked past in front of them, did they appear to attack the people in the middle of the team.
To say that the thief used such a trick, he couldn't hide Xian Jingyue's eyes, even if he didn't find it for a while, he could detect the murderous aura revealed under the sand. It's a pity that Xian Jingyue stayed behind the team all the way to press the formation, and at this moment he was attracted by the horse team running from the northwest, and he only wanted to stop this horse team, where did he notice that there were bandits in ambush under the desert sand more than ten zhang away in front of him?
Seeing the bandits emerge from under the sand and shoot straight at the people in the middle of the team, the hundred soldiers behind hurriedly aimed their bows and arrows at the bandits on both sides of the official road, and shot at them in the air, while stepping forward to protect the people. Li Liu, who was in the people's pile, also showed a jade flute to block the crossbow arrows fired by the people, covering everyone to hide behind the accompanying cart.
Xian Jingyue read a lot of books, and many of them were military books for marching and fighting, and seeing the other party's offensive like this at this moment, he already knew the layout of these bandits. In the final analysis, it is just to set up ambushes and surprise attacks on both sides of the official road, disrupt your own position, and then flank the entire team back and forth. At present, the horse team running from the northwest direction is naturally pursuing the rear of the team, and on the official road in front, most of them are intercepted by bandits, so as to block the way of the team.
Thinking of this, he raised his eyes and looked at the front of the team, and sure enough, the hundred sergeants led by Master Zhou and General Wang had already stopped, but they did not turn back to protect the people in the middle, but fortified on the spot, obviously there were bandits on the official road ahead, which showed that Xian Jingyue's guess was not bad at all.
Remembering that the bandits had already sent a team to "step on the plate" last night, they should have figured out their own strength, and now that they dare to attack like this, they must be sure that they are nine out of ten. If you gather the 100 sergeants in the front and rear, and form a circle with the sergeants in the rear to protect the people in it, and resist the bandits who attack before and after, the end will only be more auspicious. It is better to take advantage of the fact that the other party's encirclement has not yet formed, take the lead in breaking through the interception set by the bandits in front, and just withdraw in the direction of Jiayu Pass, as long as they go twenty or thirty miles to the east and enter the vicinity of Jiayu Pass within a dozen miles, even if these bandits in the Western Regions have great courage, they will never dare to continue to entangle.
Looking at the dozens of bandits who came out of the sand on both sides of the official road, there were only thirty or forty people in the end, and at this time, under the fire of the hundred sergeants in the rear, there were already many dead and wounded, and Li Liu and the sergeants also rushed forward one after another, fought with the bandits in close combat, and killed many bandits. Seeing that the bandits on both sides were no longer in the climate, Xian Jingyue immediately ordered the 100 sergeants in the rear to escort the people forward, and joined the 100 sergeants of Master Zhou and General Wang, and worked together to break through the interception of the bandits in front, but they only evacuated in the direction of Jiayuguan. And he himself untied the glaive knife behind his back, and rushed straight towards the horse team that was running in the northwest direction alone.
The horse team chasing from the rear is coming at a rapid pace, and now there is still a mile or two away from the rear of the team. However, in the time of a stick of incense, he could already see clearly that the horse team in the dust was a group of more than 200 lustful people and bandits, most of them armed with sabers, and their appearance was very fierce. Seeing Xian Jingyue rushing over alone, the bandits in front of the horse team were all stunned and laughed, and then many bandits set up crossbow arrows on the horse and shot arrows at Xian Jingyue in the air.
Xian Jingyue swung his knife to block the arrows in mid-air, and the pace under his feet did not stop at all, and the bandits' horse team naturally did not slow down, and the two sides sprinted, and in an instant, Xian Jingyue's whole person had rushed into the bandits' horse team. He immediately had a murderous intent, and the murderous aura spread, and the thieves and bandits only felt a chill in their hearts, and it was nothing for a while, but the galloping horse under the crotch was shocked by the murderous aura of Xian Jingyue, and they all neighed to the side to avoid it, and then collided with the galloping horse that rushed up behind, and the scene was suddenly chaotic.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the bandits beside him, Xian Jingyue had already seen a bald man in his forties in the horse team by the moonlight. He immediately flew up and pounced on the bald man from mid-air, and the glaive knife in his hand was raised, putting on his posture of "splitting Huashan alone".
The bald man naturally also saw the flying Xian Jingyue, but this polite Han young man had such courage to dare to rush into the horse team alone to fight, and immediately showed a golden-backed saber from the horse, and from the bottom to the top to the first Jingyue in mid-air, to catch up with his half-cut glaive knife to split the Han youth into two pieces. Seeing that the other party's golden-backed saber was coming first, Xian Jingyue stretched out his left hand in mid-air, pinched the knife edge with his thumb and index finger, and made a clever effort along with the opponent's strength, and immediately snatched the golden-backed saber and threw it aside;
Xian Jingyue killed the enemy with a knife, and the surrounding horse thieves woke up, hurriedly strangled the horse under his crotch, and surrounded Xian Jingyue with a mouth full of foreign words. Xian Jingyue didn't love to fight, and when he saw that the thieves stopped the horse, he immediately turned around and left. Along the way, he once again showed his murderous aura, frightened the bandits' horses back, rushed out of the horse team in one go, and then began to work lightly and ran towards his own team.
It turned out that although Xian Jingyue's martial arts were high, he was not sure that he would be wiped out in the face of more than two hundred horse bandits alone, not to mention that there were soldiers and civilians in front of him who needed to be taken care of. So this time, he broke into the bandits' horse team to kill people, aiming to intimidate the other party, and as soon as he succeeded, he immediately retreated. It's just that I don't know if the bald man I killed is the leader of this group of bandits, if I happen to kill the leader of the bandits this time, it will be an unexpected joy.
Seeing Xian Jingyue fleeing, the bandits came to their senses one after another, and hurriedly shot at him with crossbow arrows, and at the same time drove the galloping horse under their crotch to chase Xian Jingyue with all their might. Xian Jingyue's martial arts are purely spiritual, so although the internal force has been lost, he can still use his mind to mobilize the explosive power of his body, so as to perform light skills in a short period of time and do some moves and dodges, but he is powerless to travel long distances. At present, he can escape because of the bandits who were caught off guard for a while, and when the bandits chase after him, it will only take a moment to catch up with Xian Jingyue.
Xian Jingyue was not flustered, listening to the wind and identifying the position while running, and successively dodged the crossbow arrows shot by the bandits behind him. Seeing that more than a dozen bandits were approaching, he stopped abruptly, turned around and made a move to "split Huashan alone", splitting the bandit who rushed to the front from his horse. With the fall of the glaive, the murderous aura was already stirring, and the dozen or so horses nearby were startled by the murderous aura, and immediately neighed loudly, and raised their bodies on the spot, almost knocking the bandits above down. Taking advantage of this air attack, Xian Jingyue once again launched light skills and continued to run forward.
Seeing this young man in white so presumptuous, the bandits were already furious, but they didn't dare to get too close, so they suppressed their horses and shot with crossbow arrows one after another. Xian Jingyue brandished the Glaive Knife to block the arrows, and at the same time struggled forward, and when the bandits were close, he waited for the opportunity to kill with a knife. Although these thieves in the desert are not weak in equestrianism, they stop and walk like this, and the speed is naturally not fast, and the horse under the crotch is afraid of the murderous aura emitted by Xian Jingyue, and it has become extremely difficult to control, and in the end, it is equivalent to being entangled by Xian Jingyue with one person and one knife.