Chapter 8 Elk (Three)

"Dang!" "Dangang!" "Dangang!" Some weapons fell from the minions one after another on the ice, splashing pieces of broken jade.

In the face of the sudden fierce battle, the first reaction of the vast majority of the soldiers of the "Tianyi Army" was not to go ashore to fight, but stood on the ice, their eyes were straight, and their mouths grew so big that they could directly stuff an egg into them.

Cavalry! It's all cavalry! It's overwhelming! Even when the "Tianyi Army" was in its heyday, the total number of cavalry might not reach 30% of the time, and there's no way to talk about training. The formation of this cavalry was as neat as a knife cut tofu. Its elite level, even compared with the Khitans' Peach Army, is probably not much inferior to that of the Khitans! (Note 1)

"Don't panic, don't panic, get ashore, get ashore!" On the empty river beach, the voice of Shi Hongjie, the "Governor of the Heavenly Rebel Army of the Great Liao Dynasty", seemed particularly lonely.

The enemy was prepared and fell into the trap! Someone among his subordinates must have already set up a line with the other party! Otherwise, the enemy would not know where they crossed the road thousands of miles away. It would be even more impossible that they would be blocked on their way to the risk of being frozen to death by the cold wind!

However, now is not the time to explore who informed the enemy. Escaped too hastily on the other side of the mountain, and the "Tianyi Army" didn't care about bringing too much food and grass. At this moment, he turned around and returned to the mountain, and he would definitely starve to death. Besides, 90% of the brothers under his command were infantrymen, and his legs could not run away with four legs no matter what!

"Arrange the array, go ashore. After taking so many lives, he was captured by the government army, no one can survive!"

"Arrange, array, everyone goes side by side. If they don't give us men a way to survive, we men will fight for a way to survive by themselves!"

At the critical moment, the other heads of the "Tian Yi Army" also tried their best. They waved their steel knives and ran around the ice, constantly forcing the scared minions to the shore. Anyone who dared to continue standing in place and stare blankly would be a knife in the head as long as they saw it.

"ah--!"

"Ah——!Rare..."

"Mom--!"

The screams rang out quickly, suppressing the noise of the horse's hooves. With the reminder of the steel knife and blood, the minions finally barely recovered their minds, pushed each other, and moved closer to Shi Hongjie's handsome flag step by step.

No one was willing to go too fast. As long as the urging sounds behind him were a little farther away, a minion immediately tried to stand still. The enemy's appearance was so terrifying, even more terrifying than the Gao family army that had just beaten them to run away last month. When the Gao family army came over, it made a series of harsh noises. The enemy army in the distance did not make any noise except the sound of horse hooves.

They were like a piece of ice that had been frozen for tens of thousands of years, pressing down along the river bank, pressing over, pressing over, pressing over, and shaking the earth and the fish in the river, constantly rushing out of the water. The minions fought with each other, their legs and feet became weak, and their bodies trembled like sorghum in the autumn wind.

"Those who dare to escape, kill! Those who dare to disobey orders, kill! Those who dare to delay, kill!" The scalp was suddenly hit by the sound of horse hooves getting closer and closer. Shi Hongjie suddenly had his eyes red, roared and rushed to the ice surface, slashing and chopping around.

"Come array, go ashore. If anyone doesn't obey the orders, I will kill him first!" Seeing that the boss went to the river to supervise the battle, all the leaders who could wear brocade robes were red. After following Shi Hongjie's butt, he rushed into the crowd and started killing towards the slow-moving minions.

More blood splattered, and more minions fell on the ice screaming. Under the almost crazy slaughter, the minions were forced out of their last courage. Before the enemy arrived, they rushed to the river beach. The Jiedushi, who surrounded Shi Hongjie's Jiedushi, was like a group of ants in a torrent.

"Fourth, Lao Wu, you two are leading the guards, each picking a thousand spearmen and setting up a lineup for me. Unless all of them are dead, no one is allowed to take a step back!" Seeing that his team could barely fight, Shi Hongjie gritted his teeth and began to adjust the deployment.

"Lao Liu, Lao Qi, retreat, and stand behind Lao Si, Lao Wu and the others with all the archers. Start shooting arrows a hundred steps away from the enemy. Don't save money, shoot all the feather arrows out and shoot at the enemy's head!"

"Old Jiu, the youngest, you two bring 200 people each and take twenty steps back to supervise the battle. Whoever dares to escape, regardless of the size of the official position will be killed directly by me!"

"The other brothers, following their hundred generals, stand under my command. The government army will not let us live. Today, I will take you to fight for a way out!"

After all, he was a man who had been dealing with the government army for many years. He had never eaten pork and had seen pigs run. A series of orders were sent out from Shi Hongjie's mouth, and before the two armies formally contacted, he barely formed a battle formation.

The spearmen started from the river surface and lined up in five secret rows more than ten steps ahead of the "Tianyi Jiedushi" who recognized the flag. The uneven guns pierced obliquely on the ground, and the rusty gun tip pointed at a person and a half high in front of them. Under the barrel of the forest were deformed faces.

Immediately after the spearmen, the archers trembled and pulled the horn bow, put the feather arrow on the bow arm, and raised it diagonally upwards. The gun formation can deter the war horses. Before the spearmen in front died, the bows and arrows will kill and injure the enemy as much as possible. This is an effective tactic that has been proven in actual combat. With this, the Tianyi Army successfully killed several fellow gangs on the other side of the Taihang Mountains.

The most numerous minions stood by Shi Hongjie. They either held a steel knife or raised a spear, and acted as if they were home. They were the last killing move of the "Tian Yi Army". At the critical moment, they suddenly launched a counterattack, often caught the other party off guard.

"Blow the horns and strengthen my power!" Finally, Shi Hongjie raised his steel knife and slashed hard. The enemy's momentum was huge and he had to withstand their first round of shock before he could find an opportunity to escape from Shengtian. When escaping, the fewer people are always easier, and the more chaotic the situation is, the easier it is. As long as you seize the opportunity to take off your brocade robe, in a strange place and a strange opponent, who can recognize that he is the leader of Shi?

"Woooo, woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo--" The desolate horn sounded slowly beside him, and several brave men among the bandits bulged their cheeks and spread the desperate rhythm throughout the river beach.

"If you die, you will die, your head will have a scar that is as big as a bowl of mouth!"

"Kill one is enough, kill two and earn one!"

"They don't let us live, and we don't let them feel better!"

"Kill, kill, kill..."

The desperate bandits were stimulated by the sound of trumpets. They opened their voices and roared. They were also robbed, so why did some people have to sit in high positions, and some people have to be different from their bodies and heads? They were also betrayed their ancestors, so why should some people be emperors, prime ministers, and generals, and some people should be chased without a place to live? This is unfair and absolutely unfair. I will not accept it, and I will not accept it even if I die!

"If you want to be an official, you will be recruited to kill someone and set fire!"

"Killing one person is a thief, killing a hundred people is a general, killing eight million is a hero!"

"My husband was born to carry a knife, cut off his head and exchange for merit. He ran three thousand miles of the Central Plains and wore a purple robe across the horse. Don't you see that there is a Huang King, who can't be rampant in the world. He killed corrupt officials, a cruel official, changed his reign to the king and swear not to surrender, and eclipsed three thousand officials and soldiers..." (Note 2)

The shouts were getting louder and louder, and they became more and more crazy. The red-eyed bandits raised their weapons, straightened their bodies, and prepared to make their last try.

Suddenly, the sky darkened, and the shouts stopped abruptly. Hundreds of feathered arrows flew into the sky, flying above the heads of the cavalry. Blood flowers quickly splashed in the cavalry's gun array, and the war horses made a low cry. Someone fell from the mount and disappeared in an instant. The speed of the entire team did not stop at all, and continued to move forward quickly along the river bank, moving forward, and was unstoppable.

The second wave of feather arrows flew into the sky again, and then the third wave. In the cavalry's gun array, some people were shot in one after another, but few people fell from the horse's back. Anyone who did not lose consciousness directly tried their best to hold the horse's neck tightly with his last strength. The brothers on both sides tried their best to clamp his horse with the horse to ensure that he would never leave the team.

At the front of the entire team, it was still neatly cut with a knife tofu. The surface of the shield fixed on the saddle was densely filled with carved feathers. Just like the ears of wheat in the field in autumn, it swayed up and down as the war horses advanced.

"Shoot again, shoot again, shoot me constantly!" The seventh leader Chu Lianbi waved the flag, his face pale, and his voice seemed to be pounding the gong. The enemy's performance was so strange. He had never seen the same thing in his life. He did not disperse the formation during charge, and did not fight back if he was caught. He just faced the rain of arrows, and kept moving forward, forward, forward.

"Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, you bastards!" Fang Wen, the sixth leader, was knocked out by the sound of horse hooves, and jumped around in his own team like a rabbit. He usually fired three arrows in the battle, but the enemy cavalry in front of him was far lower than other cavalry he had contacted in the past. Before the opponent contacted his spearmen, he might be able to shoot two more rounds. After two rounds, whether to die or live, he would probably have to leave his fate!

More feather arrows flew into the sky, and then fell into the cavalry like hail. One wave after another, endless. Some people fell off their mounts one after another and were trampled into meat mud by the horses behind. The entire square formation smashed the hail-like feather arrows and kept rushing red smoke, but the speed never slowed down.

"Ah--!" The minion with a gun was frightened by the sound of horse hooves and the gun forest pressing towards him. He screamed and jumped out of the team, running back and running. The fifth leader Peng Lianfeng immediately raised his knife and cut the man in half. Then he raised his head full of blood and roared loudly: "Cut the gun tightly, hold it tightly, and the gun tip is forward, and forward! The horse dares not be strong on its own. I believe that the horse dares not hit the gun tip by itself!"

"Don't run, you can't run away!" Xue Baoyi, the fourth leader, also killed the minions who were trying to escape, while constantly encouraging his brothers. Chengbu Chengdu took this opportunity and sacrificed his life, and perhaps he could see a miracle.

Both of them tried their best, and their confidants also took everything to help stabilize the team. However, in front of the rumbling horse hooves, there were still minions who kept running away. They would rather get a knife in the back than stand in place and be stepped into a meat paste.

"Don't run, you can't run away! Your head falls, but the big scar on the bowl! I'm in front of me, I'm the first to die!" Xue Baoyi killed seven minions one after another, and finally lost the courage to continue swinging the swords on his brother's head. He suddenly turned around, cut the steel knife, picked up a spear from the pool of blood, and strode towards the enemy.

The feather arrows were still flying in the air, and the enemy continued to move forward in blood. Twenty steps, nineteen steps, eighteen steps, seventeen steps, and sixteen steps. Suddenly, Xue Baoyi saw the cavalry rushing towards him, raised a hand from behind the shield, "Woo——" A piece of metallic luster with the sound of wind rushed straight down from the air.

"Ah--!" "Mom---!" "My hand, my hand-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Despicable-!" Xue Baoyi shouted, staggering. Three axes hit him at the same time, and three huge holes were made at his sternum, ribs and the base of his left leg. The spear in his hand could no longer hold it, and the scene in his vision was blurred.

The next moment, countless horse legs galloped past his standing. A faint red smoke jumped up suddenly and disappeared without a trace in an instant. His body also disappeared in an instant, like dew falling into the sand, and no trace was found.

The cavalry did not stop at all. With the speed of the war horses, they raised their left hand high from behind the shield again, "Woo--!" Another violent metal whirlwind, hundreds of short axes flashed with dazzling cold light, hitting the heads of the remaining roadblockers.

"Ah--!" Another heart-wrenching scream, the minions who had not recovered from the first wave of attacks were smashed to pieces, and their corpses were buried.

The Han cavalry, who were galloping towards the shrill screams, turned aside, put down their left arm, and held the rifle tightly with both hands. The shoulders were close to the shoulders, and the stirrups were next to the stirrups. The tip of the gun still blocked the chests of the roadblocks.

"Mom--!" Before the cavalry's war horses collided with the spear blocking the road, the minions of the "Bao Yi Army" had completely collapsed. They screamed and threw away their weapons, turned their bodies, and fled to the road.

Note 1: Pishi Army, the confidant elite of the Khitan monarch. It was created by Yelu Abaoji, and Yelu Deguang was promoted. Pishi, which means "Valamus" in the Khitan word.
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