A total of more than 5,000 Red Husband cavalry were chasing and defeating them on the battlefield on the west flank.
In order to annihilate as many of the Yan troops as possible, a part of the Red Husband cavalry quickly circled to Shuozhou City, between Ningwu and Yangkou Village, intercepting the defeated soldiers and escaping to Shuozhou and Lanzhou; a part of the Red Husband cavalry galloped across the south bank of the Huihe River. , to prevent the defeated soldiers from escaping to Changshan (Xingling) in the south.
They only deployed a dozen teams of more than a hundred red cavalry on the north bank of Huihe River to intersperse among the broken troops. At the same time, they also deliberately avoided Jincheng and Huairen to guard against any changes in Xiao Linshi's troops.
However, Xu Huai did not think that they were fighting out of Jingong Mountain. After attracting the attention of the main force of the Red Husband Cavalry, the Red Husbands gathered thousands of elite cavalry to encircle and suppress them. They also needed to worry about Xiao Linshi and his troops in Jincheng and Huairen. The garrison here - Xiao Linshi's troops in Jincheng and Huairen's garrison are struggling between withdrawing and not withdrawing at this time. They will not surrender to the Red Husbands, but it is obviously impossible to take the initiative to provoke the Red Husbands' cavalry. Main force.
Therefore, Xu Huai did not want to provoke the main cavalry of the Chi Hu people until it was absolutely necessary. Until then, Xu Huai and his three hundred cavalry were still lurking deep in the valley, quietly waiting for the arrival of the fighter plane.
However, no matter how cautious a hunter is, there will be times when he becomes careless.
More and more defeated soldiers saw that the south and west were full of enemy cavalry galloping and killing, and were forced to flee to Jingong Mountain in the north.
At this time, the red cavalry on the north bank saw that the defenders of Huairen, Jincheng, and Shuozhou had closed their city gates tightly. There was no movement for such a long time, and they also concluded that the defenders of these three cities did not dare to come out. They were also obviously not willing to leave these mobile military exploits to be harvested by the troops assembled later.
In order to increase their killing efficiency, they not only moved in more frequently to look for fighters, but also dispersed into smaller cavalry groups to hunt down lone soldiers or those with only a dozen people or those with incomplete shields and armor.
This is Xu Huai's fighter plane.
If the Red Husbands were a cavalry of hundreds of people, and they attacked rashly, they would be unable to encircle and annihilate them in a short period of time, which would only attract more Red Husbands cavalry to surround and annihilate them.
"coming!"
Lying in the snow-covered ravine, Yuan Lei shouted excitedly, suppressing his voice.
More than a hundred feet away, a dozen defeated soldiers abandoned their armor, as well as the bows and quivers with all their arrows shot, and holding their last-ditch swords, spears and shields, they fled in a hurry towards this side - this is where Jin Gong entered The shortest distance to a mountain.
More than 20 captives followed leisurely behind. The terrain here is relatively flat and broad, and it is still several miles away from the steep hills and mountains at the southern edge of Jingong Mountain.
They were not anxious, and wanted to further squeeze out the strength of the defeated soldiers, and then charge casually to collect the heads of the defeated soldiers before they fled into Jingong Mountain.
These enemy cavalry did not notice that Xu Huai and the others had come out of the valley.
Since there were few cavalry in the rout, Xu Huai and the others also left most of their horses deep in the valley, and scattered out of Jinsangong with only a small number of horses, using natural ravines, dry or frozen streams, low slopes and An ambush in the woods.
A dozen broken soldiers first discovered a group of Tongbai Mountain soldiers lying in ambush in the snow. They were so frightened that they could not tell the difference between ourselves and the enemy. Without even looking at Xu Xin's and others' gestures, they fled to the east in a hurry.
The pursuing soldiers suddenly became vigilant. The battlefield on the west flank was full of prey, and they did not mind letting go of dozens of defeated soldiers.
They immediately gave up fighting and turned their horses to retreat to the more open valley to the south.
Xu Xin'an, who was in charge of leading the ambush on the inside, saw this situation and immediately blew the wooden police whistle and led three small teams to surround the team of captives in a "pin" formation. They rushed out from behind the woods and mounds, "Whoosh whoosh!"
"Whoosh!" Twenty or thirty feathered arrows were shot at the soldiers behind the horses accurately and fiercely.
This group of soldiers rides on the saddle, and their reactions are extremely flexible. They can almost cover their vital points with a small leather shield. After the horse is hit by an arrow, as long as it is not a vital point, it will not fall to the ground immediately; well-trained horses
Instead of panicking and running around, all the energy in the body will be stimulated, and the soldiers will rush towards the gap with their hunched soldiers.
This group of captives was able to break out of the encirclement by leaping over a ravine, but it happened to be where Xu Huai was hiding.
Xu Huai watched three fast horses leaping over his head. He, Wang Ju, and Wang Xianqiu struck at the right moment at the same time. The three swords gleamed like a full moon in the sky and cut the horses' hoofs with incomparable precision.
The three war horses were immediately cut by their hooves, and they neighed in pain in mid-air. The three soldiers on the horses were caught off guard, and they were thrown out violently. There was a soldier who looked like a leader, but he was extremely skilled.
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Realizing that there was an ambush in the ravine, when the horse was injured and fell forward, the man's body suddenly fell to the side, and then with the help of the horse's back, he jumped up from the saddle, and he was in mid-air.
In the middle, the long bow that had been held in his hand was instantly drawn, and a sharp arrow was shot towards Xu Huai's face in the ditch.
Even though Xu Huai and the others knew that this inconspicuous member of the cavalry team, Chi Huren, had such superb royal skills, agility and archery skills, it was enough to impress people.
Shocking.
Of course, the sword in Xu Huai's hand was not old enough. He slashed in an arc at a turning point and hit the arrow cluster with incomparable precision. He knocked down the arrow that the captive soldier thought he would hit. Then he didn't care about anything else and just waited for this man who could no longer do anything.
The captive soldiers who took advantage of the force fell from mid-air into the ravine.
Niu Er seemed to lack confidence in precise martial arts. When a war horse couldn't hold back its momentum, it jumped up from his head in the air, and he suddenly raised the long-handled iron axe.
The tip of the raised ax blade was extremely sharp, and it was pulled open from the breastbone of the war horse to the crotch of the hind legs. Not much horse blood was seen, but the intestines were splashed down.
Most of the captives were frightened and stopped their horses. They immediately figured out how many soldiers and horses were ambushed in the ravine. They suddenly pulled the reins and reined their horses to stop in front of the ravine. "Whoops??" the horses roared - Yuan Lei was ambushing him.
Beside Niu Er, he didn't get the chance to take action immediately, but a stream of hot liquid poured down on his head. Yuan Lei stretched out his hand and wiped it, but there was no blood, but it was full of disgusting smell. He was so angry that he yelled at Niu Er:
"You son of a bitch, you can't be more delicate in your work. With one strike of your ax, you will split the horse's urine and sprinkle it on your grandfather's head."
"Hey!" Niu Er stuck out his tongue and licked the droplets of liquid hanging on the corner of his mouth. It was really bitter and tangy.
At this time, the red guard who jumped up from his horse fell from the mid-air. Facing Xu Huai's fierce sword power, he had already abandoned his bow and replaced it with a sword. Although he had no way to use his strength in mid-air, he
The sudden slash made Xu Huai feel as if he had great power.
This horizontal slash is similar to the python entanglement force in the Fu Python Sword. During the fight, the body will inevitably have moments of imbalance. It uses the center of gravity of the body to attach to the opponent. On the one hand, it suppresses the opponent's offensive, and on the other hand, it adjusts itself very quickly.
The postures are all subtle points in martial arts that may seem basic, but are the most test of kung fu.
With Wang Ju, Wang Xian, Niu Er, Yuan Lei and others behind him, Xu Huai didn't have to think about the soldiers behind him at all. He jumped out like a rabbit, slashing and wiping with his sword, and attacked the leader of the soldiers.
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I don't know how many fights are waiting for him in the future. Xu Huai will not use too subtle martial arts to fight against the enemy to avoid excessive consumption of strength, but his airtight sword is both fast and cruel, powerful and cruel.
The sword light that bloomed instantly enveloped the leader of the soldiers, forcing the opponent to kill him quickly purely with a warrior's intuition.
After all, the leader of the captive soldiers was a bit worse than Xu Huai. He could not lift it up after dozens of blows. He slowed down his hand for a moment and saw an arc-shaped sword light wiping towards his neck. The next moment, he felt his neck.
Suddenly, all the strength in his body was suddenly exhausted at this moment, and he fell back helplessly. The clear blue sky was the last scene he could see in this life.
At this time, the other two soldiers were thrown off their horses. Their bones were shattered by the fall. They struggled to get up from the snow, but they were each met with a merciless slash from Xu Huai.
Xu Huai saw that there were no enemy cavalry approaching from the left, right or south. He turned around to look at the enemy cavalry on the north side of the ravine and gathered them together again to charge forward.
Wang Ju, Wang Xian, Yuan Lei, Niu and others had already jumped out of the ravine. Wang Xian, Yuan Lei and a dozen Tongbai Mountain soldiers carefully propped up their big shields. Wang Ju picked up a spear and pierced it from the side at this moment.
The sternum of a war horse was then seen swaying like water waves. When the gun shaft broke, a huge force was stabbed, but the momentum of the war horse was still there. It was deflected diagonally and collided with the cavalry on the side.
together.
These war horses were almost immediately shot by the ambushes on the flanks, but the area of the arrow wounds was generally not large, the blood loss would not be too much, and they would not even feel any special pain. The stimulated war horses could run away and die, but among them
After a slight pause, the war horse will feel pain, and no matter how well-trained it is, it will become difficult to control.
After a short period of stagnation, Xu Xin'an led three small teams to ambush from the flanks, shooting sharp arrows one after another. In the end, only six or seven captives broke through before the complete encirclement.
"Whose command do you belong to?" Xu Huai called a dozen frightened soldiers not far away to his eyes and said, "You are scattered in a mess and fleeing everywhere. Don't think that you will not attract the attention of the enemy's main force at this time, but when you arrive,
In the end, I am afraid that no one will be able to escape and ascend to heaven. Pick up the crossbows, swords and shields of these people. Whenever you meet your colleagues, tell them that they can only gather in the valleys and ravines to the north, and then retreat towards Shuozhou City after nightfall.
, there is a glimmer of hope. In addition, the defenders in Huairen and Jincheng are at odds with the Chihu people, so if they have no choice, they can go to these two cities to avoid the enemy cavalry!"
After all, there were still a lot of broken troops on the left and right, and the Red Husbands had few cavalry chasing them. When many of the broken soldiers saw this scene, they spontaneously gathered here.
"Marquis Xu Jun is here to save us!" Among the broken soldiers who gathered here, two military officers recognized Xu Huai.
Xu Huaida was about to give them some more instructions. At this time, Yan Xiaoyi rushed over from a distance and reported breathlessly: "There are more than a hundred broken troops outside the southwest forest and are hurriedly escaping to the west. However, there are two groups of hundreds of red soldiers."
The cavalry is not leaving, maybe Xuanwu, the important figures of the Xiaosheng Army have been targeted by the Red Husbands..."
