Chapter 2 Tiger Cub (Seven Strikes) There are two ways to avoid arrows in melee combat taught by the coppersmith master. The first is to fall to the ground and roll back, and use the potholes on the ground to protect vital points. The second is to hide behind the nearest person.
Behind him, no matter whether the opponent is an enemy or a friend, if it was before the Battle of Liaodong last year, Li Xu must have fallen at this moment. But today, he did not hesitate to grab a Goguryeo soldier and block it in his chest.
forward
The popping sound of the arrow entering the body and the screams of the injured stimulated his ears. At that moment, Xuzi even clearly felt that the life in the other person's body was passing away bit by bit. He was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether he had ever
When did he become so cruel? But in the next moment, the blood of his companions burned his eyes red again.
Use feather arrows to kill your own defeated troops to prevent them from attacking the formation. This is the military doctrine that was clearly recorded in Yang Fuzi's notebook. From Yang Fuzi's notes to Xu Dayan's words and then to Mai Tie
With the guidance of Zang, Liu Hongji and others, almost everyone has explained this truth to Xuzi. In the Xiongwu Xiaoguo camp controlled by Xuzi, there is also a special supervising team. However, he saw the Goguryeo archers killing both the enemy and us.
The soldiers were shot and killed under the low wall at the same time, which still made him feel filled with righteous indignation.
The armor on the Xiaoguo people is very strong, but it does not mean that they can withstand the arrows at such a close distance. In the first round of shooting, more than seventy Xiaoguo people rushing at the front fell down. The Goguryeo archers quickly bent their bows.
The second round of indiscriminate shooting began. The heroes were pressed back by the arrows. The defeated Goguryeo remnants recovered from the sudden blow and fled in all directions.
"Bend the bow--" the Goguryeo captain shouted loudly that the blocking effect was good, and General Eulji promised to give him a heavy reward after completing the mission. Just when he was proud of his unparalleled military exploits, he saw a corpse full of arrows.
rush towards myself
"Fire, fast, fast!" the captain ordered loudly, and countless arrows were shot at the moving corpse. The corpse continued to rush forward, close to the low wall, suddenly rose into the air, and hit the archers on the head.
Xuzi threw the body out and jumped into the archer team like a leopard. The archers who came in a hurry were shocked. They didn't expect that someone could survive such a dense rain of arrows and rush into their ranks.
In an instant, Li Xu used his long knife to open a bloody hole in the team of archers, and the Goguryeo people's shooting immediately stopped.
Li Xu roared angrily and pushed his knee into the lower abdomen of an archer. Using the wounded man as a shield, he blocked the fatal blow from the left side. Then, the black knife swung out a black light and cut off another one.
Arm Holding a Knife The techniques taught by the master, a coppersmith, had no routines and were completely adapted to the opponent's weapons. After being taught by General Qian Shixiong back then, and after more than a year of training on the battlefield, Xuzi has fully understood what his master taught.
Essence
That's not martial arts at all, it's just a killing technique on the battlefield. No matter whether the opponent's weapon is long or short, light or heavy, the outcome must be decided between one or two encounters. You can exchange light injuries for heavy blows, and use your own uniqueness.
Vital parts are exchanged for the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy. No one would do this in a normal martial arts contest. But on the battlefield, this is the difference between life and death.
With such a murderous god descending from the sky, the archers did not have the courage to continue to block the Sui army's path forward. They had to hit the energy first to deal with this murderous god. If they delayed until the next moment, they did not know how many bow-holding arms would be cut off by him.
The heavy armored infantry swarming forward also gathered around them. They couldn't allow a thorn to pierce their backs, but the terrain was too narrow. The archers couldn't get out of the way, and the heavy armored infantry tried to squeeze in towards Asahi but couldn't.
Not long ago, time passed slowly in the crowd. The archers approaching Xuzi had to use wooden bows as weapons to resist his long knife. However, the long knife in his hand was extremely sharp, and he often destroyed the wood with just one blow.
The owner of the bow and the wooden bow were cut into two pieces at the same time
Asahi swung his sword, splashing out round after round of waterfalls of blood. He had feather arrows on his body, but he felt no pain. The blood splashed all over his face, but he couldn't smell the fishy smell. The armor was no longer heavy, and his thighs were no longer sore.
He had no feeling, no thinking, no self. The people around him gradually turned into puppets in his eyes, and time suddenly stopped. The world froze, freezing everyone. There was only a long black knife.
Dance gently in the crowd, dance, harvest life to your heart's content
The two archers fell, and the heavy armored infantry who were blocked behind them finally squeezed over. The man held a knife in one hand and a shield in the other. He used the shield to block the fatal blow of the black knife, and stabbed Xuzi with the sharp blade in his hand like a poisonous snake.
Asahi's waist was tilted before being stabbed by the sharp blade, allowing Nobuko to get past the poisonous snake. Then, the black knife spun around as if it was alive, and swept the blade owner's head into the air.
"Poof!" Blood spurted out from the headless neck like a fountain, dyeing the whole sky red. People around him tried to get out of the way. Xuzi chased after him with a long knife, and chopped down every living thing standing next to him.
He broke a bow and his master, chopped up a spear and its master, grabbed a shield and used it to block a horizontal knife, then he smashed the bridge of his opponent's nose with the shield, and cut the other side with the black knife.
one's throat
The surrounding weapons suddenly dispersed, and they dispersed into the distance. Xuzi stepped forward to chase, but his legs were tightly hugged by a wounded person. He swung his knife to deal with the wounded person. When he looked up again, there were no opponents around him. Several familiar figures were there.
The armor appeared in front of him, and the shouts of his companions made him put away the sword in time. It was the Xiaoguo of the Sui Dynasty. The brothers came up and drove the enemy's archers, heavy armored soldiers, and light armored soldiers into a rout like herding sheep.
team
"The general is injured!" A school captain exclaimed and rushed forward to help Li Xu, but Xu Zi used a bloody scimitar to keep him five steps away. "Young Luosuo, bring someone to stick to you.
Don't give them time to breathe!" He ordered loudly and the captain looked frightened. He immediately turned around and ran forward. As he ran, he shouted loudly: "The general has an order, stick to them, stick to them!"
Li Xu's personal soldiers also rushed over and surrounded the general. Seeing the concern in everyone's eyes, Xu Zi smiled and cut off the arrow shafts outside the armor with his sword. The armor given by Duke Tang was a bit heavier.
But the protective effect is very good. Several cold arrows were blocked by the armor for most of their strength, and the remaining parts are no longer fatal.
"Brothers, go ahead, don't let the general take all the credit!" Li Mengchang led the second attack echelon and ran past Xu Zi while shouting. The valley in front was getting wider and wider.
The first echelon led by Xu Zi suffered heavy losses from the enemy's fire just now. In the subsequent attack, Li Mengchang and his subordinates became the main force without hesitation.
Li Xu continued to advance with the remaining more than 300 warriors, and after breaking through another enemy camp, the two attack echelons formed a pair of parallel arrows in the relatively wide valley. The Goguryeo people also mobilized more soldiers to rush forward.
Coming up, the two sides began to fight for the battlefield inch by inch. For those who fled to their own formation, the supervising team decisively implemented the military law. Those who lost their courage did not dare to attack their own camps anymore and turned around and fled to the shallow water of the Wugu River. It is a good place to take refuge.
The supervising team had no time to shoot them, and the Sui army had no time to spare and came to the river to hunt down the prisoners.
The poisonous smoke has completely dissipated, and the setting sun shines its last ray of light through the valley, dyeing the river red with human blood, dyeing the beach red, and dyeing the rocks, large and small, red. There are people around every rock.
The desperate battle has reached this point. The Xiaoguos have completely forgotten their fear and retreated to their current position. The Goguryeo people can no longer retreat.
If we retreat any further, we have to exit Wugu Valley and intercept the 300,000 troops who want to go home on the open ground. These Goguryeo soldiers and horses are simply not enough to provide a stepping stone for them!
"Attack up, attack up, those who retreat will be killed without mercy!" Eulji Wenxing yelled hoarsely. There are not many enemy troops rushing through most of the valley. After pushing them back, our side may be able to take back half of the valley.
There was no time to waste, and the longer we delayed, the more enemy troops came to kill. Those big Sui Xiaoguo were all killing each other like crazy. They didn’t care about the disparity in numbers between the two sides, nor about their personal life or death. If they all killed the eastern section of the valley, Eulji Wenxing wouldn’t dare
Make sure you are still sure of winning
Li Mengchang beheaded a Qu commander who was from an unknown ethnic group. He did not cut off the opponent's head, but rushed straight to the next opponent. His soldiers no longer cared about killing the enemy for the general, holding their shields and risking their lives to protect him.
One of the spearmen on his sides was cut in half by him, and another half of his body was cut off by him. The soldiers of the second echelon used him as the tip of their swords and stabbed inch by inch into the depths of the enemy's formation.
He was dragged from the grain protection army to Xiaoguo Camp by Xu Zi. It was not his original intention to serve as a captain under Xu Zi. At that time, General Liu Hongji personally came to him and asked him to protect Li Xu and provide him with the goods at the appropriate time.
He had no choice but to come here to express Tang Gong's goodwill. After arriving at Xiaoguo Camp, he gradually began to appreciate this general who was younger than himself. Now, was it a bit of a loss to send his life to this hellish place? Li Mengchang had already
He no longer thinks about how to complete the tasks on his shoulders, and it is no longer a worry. He only remembers the tasks assigned by Li Xu, rush forward, rush forward, without giving the enemy a chance to breathe, crush them, crush them, until they capture the entire
valley
The enemies around him were killing more and more, and Li Mengchang felt a little tired. During the battle, he turned around and took a quick glance, and saw that not far away from him, Li Xu's handsome flag was still advancing. "Brothers, kill."
Ah!" He roared loudly. He picked up the broken sword again and saw the throat of a Goguryeo brigade.
Eulji Wenxing's wolf pack tactics have achieved some results. The number of the two Sui soldiers and horses rushing at the front has gradually decreased, and the attack power has become weaker and weaker. Goguryeo, Mohe hunters, Khitan warriors, countless people living in Liaodong
, the tribal warriors who fought for money and homeland alternately surrounded them, tearing off pieces of flesh and blood from the Sui army's periphery. Every time, countless lives among them fell under the setting sun, and they could never survive.
"Tell the Khitan people of the Blackwater tribe that if they cut down that big flag, I will give him 80,000 shi of grain. Tell the Mohe people of the Baiyan tribe that if they kill that man, I will give him fifty, no, five hundred sheep!" Eulji Wenxing
Angrily, he pointed at Li Xu's battle flag and shouted that he didn't think the person under the commander's flag must be the commander-in-chief of the Sui army. This was not in line with the rules of combat. The leader of an army would never act as a vanguard. If he was killed, he would be a threat to the entire army.
The soldiers and horses are irresponsible, but no matter who that person is, his head will be determined by himself. Since he saw the battle flag, this person has led more than a hundred brothers behind him to advance straight forward for four rounds.
For each of the more than ten steps, they had to sacrifice the lives of more than a dozen Goguryeo warriors.
Under the red battle flag, the tall man in black armor and holding a black sword suddenly raised his head and glanced in his direction. Eulji Wenxing felt a chill in his heart for no reason, and he immediately closed his mouth.
The man in black armor was not a human being. The look in his eyes clearly came from a wounded beast. The next moment, Eulji Wenxing touched his dizzy head and raised the command flag again.
He mobilized the last elite force around him, which were his private soldiers. They would not be thrown into the battlefield easily, but the black-armored man in the distance gave him such a terrifying feeling that Eulji Bunheung had to kill this man as soon as possible.
On the war zone
Two groups of tribal warriors and a group of heavy armored infantry attacked Xuzi from three directions, leaving them little time. The Sui army's third attack echelon had already rushed up, and there were more soldiers deep in the valley.
The horses are pouring out. If these people are allowed to gather under the banner of the black-armored warrior, with the fighting power displayed by the Sui army tonight, the outcome of this battle will be unpredictable.
Li Xu glanced at Eulji Bunheung's position again. He was already sure that the man standing in the distance waving the command flag was the enemy's commander. Almost all the soldiers and horses on the opposite side were moving around this man's movements. If
If you can kill him, the Goguryeo people's defense will immediately collapse.
Xuzi chopped down the Goguryeo warrior in front of him, reached behind him and stretched out his archer halfway, then suddenly remembered that he was fighting on foot today and did not bring the enemy-killing magic weapon given to him by his uncle. He pointed the black sword in the direction of Eulji Bunheung.
He pointed and made an attack movement. The soldiers behind him immediately waved the battle flag and pointed the flag tip at the enemy general.
"Kill the guy under the banner!" Li Mengchang reacted immediately and led his subordinates to rush towards the Goguryeo army.
Li Xu waved his black knife and once again cut a bloody path among the enemy troops.
The Khitan people hired by the Goguryeo people rushed forward, and the Mohe warriors bribed by Eulji Wenxing surrounded them. Hundreds of Goguryeo elites wearing heavy armor formed a square formation and faced Li Xu.
The people on both sides of the enemy fell like rice, one by one, waving the black knife, Li Mengchang waved the "saw", inch by inch, inch by inch, struggled to get closer to Ulji Munheung's position, closer
Eulji Wenxing stared at Xuzi. He pulled out his gem-encrusted waist knife. His hands were shaking, and he slowly pressed the waist knife back. Then, he pulled the knife out again, and then slowly pressed it back.
The Khitan people did not stop the black tiger, and neither did the Mohe people. The servants under their command were well-trained and well-equipped, but they were forced back by the tiger and Xiaoguo who had not received much formal training around him.
Have they really not been trained? Eulji Wenxing doubted his intelligence and asked whether Husizheng was playing a trick? He suddenly thought in shock, and cold sweat dripped down his helmet.
Suddenly, he heard shouts in the distance and had to turn his head, only to find that thousands of Sui troops were rushing over from the water.
How is this possible? Eulji Wenxing wiped his eyes blurred by sweat, and finally saw clearly the enemy's strength. What they stepped on was not the water, but huge rafts. In the afternoon, those poisonous ones were on fire.
The wooden valve flowed down the river, destroying most of the wooden piles and fishing nets in the river. Now, the almost unobstructed river just became a shortcut for the Sui army to attack.
"Brothers, kill, don't let General Li take all the credit!" Cui Qian from Boling and Xue Wenju from Xianyang each led a sentry and jumped onto the river bank and rushed into the flanks of the Goguryeo people. Most of the Goguryeo people guarding the flanks were
The wounded soldiers who had been poisoned in the afternoon had not fully recovered their physical strength. They were suddenly hit and a large part of the team collapsed immediately.
"Coax!" The remnant soldiers who took refuge by the river and the wounded soldiers who had been poisoned fled in all directions, smashing their formation into pieces.
"Supervise the battle team, supervise the battle team!" Eulji Wenxing was furious. He was beaten by a group of inexperienced rookies and looked like this. This greatly hurt his self-esteem. No matter what, he had to drive the enemy back. He still had the supervising team.
, and the personal guards. Even if he goes upstream with his personal soldiers and supervisory team, he will still cut off the arrogant head not far away.
The general in charge of supervising the battle did not respond, but there was a louder noise behind him. Eulji Wenxing had to turn around. He saw smoke and dust billowing from the direction outside the valley. He did not know how many soldiers and horses came from behind, tearing him apart one after another.
line of defense
"The Great Sui Eastern Expeditionary Army is back!" Eulji Wenxing's body swayed, and he was a little unsteady. In his blurry eyes, he saw his brothers gave up resistance and scattered sheep.
