"Crunch! Crunch!" The sound of warriors hesitating in the snow could be heard all around.
After walking for a long time, everyone found a place leeward and began to rest.
The snow has stopped, the wind is strong, and the sun is hanging in the sky, which makes people feel even colder.
The hard wheat cake was broken in half and chewed hard with snow water, as if chewing dry hard wood.
The other half of the wheat cake was carefully put away, even the remnants, to be eaten later.
Li Cunxiao looked at the appearance of the sergeants and felt ashamed.
They are all warriors who have been with me for many years. Life has been so hard, but they have not left me. Although men can't be too pretentious, can they really have no guilt in their hearts?
Li Cunxiao let out a long sigh.
I have been reflecting on it in the past few years. When I was young, I thought that as long as I was brave and brave, I could conquer the world and everyone would treat me like a guest. But as I got older, I began to feel that this idea was too naive.
Wasn't Shan Keji the brave champion of the three armies back then? Li Cunxiao thought to himself that if he faced him face to face, he might not be sure of victory.
What was the fate of Shan Keli? He was surrounded by people, and thousands of arrows were fired. The warrior, who was said to be brave enough to be worthy of ten thousand men, died.
Guizhou is poor and sparsely populated. Although the people are brave and the warriors are good at fighting, as long as the enemy is not defeated at the first touch, dares to compete with you, and dares to fight for your life, what is the use of being stronger than them? If you can't steal other people's wealth, you will become more and more in the end.
The more you fight, the poorer you become, the more you fight, the weaker you become, and in the end you can only perish.
After realizing this, Li Cunxiao felt that he had entered a new realm and looked at people and things differently.
The surrender to the imperial court may have been due to greed for wealth, but seeing Hedong's embarrassment and lack of hope was also a major factor.
It is a pity that there are still a large number of stubborn people in Hedong who continue to work for Jinyang. It is a pity.
After Li Cunxiao finished eating a whole piece of cake, he took two sips of strong wine and felt that his whole body was on fire.
Xia Jun's messenger stood beside him, but stopped talking.
Li Cunxiao pushed him away, faced the soldiers, and asked, "Have you finished eating? Do you have the strength to fight?"
The soldiers were shivering from the cold. However, their momentum did not drop at all, and they all said, "Now we can go and behead the thieves."
The messenger chased after him and wanted to say something else. Li Cunxiao looked back and glared. He put his hand on the handle of the knife and said: "How can a kid know how to fight? What's the use of going to Youzhou now? To strengthen his reputation? Huh, if his father orders it, I will
I will still obey one or two. We are already at this place, and it is too late to say anything."
The messenger was speechless.
He is still young and has never seen such a domineering warrior. This kind of unruly temperament has only been seen in his deceased father and those old brothers. In the past ten or twenty years, new recruits born in Kansai have also
I've never seen anything so brutal.
"Let's go when we're full." Li Cunxiao waved his hand and ordered.
The sergeants stood up one after another. They did not mount their horses, put on their armor, or raise their flags, but they led their horses and walked.
Thousands of people walked like this in the snow. After walking for more than an hour, their physical strength did not show signs of weakening, until they were discovered by an enemy scout.
"Mount the horses!" Li Cunxiao shouted, and more than 3,000 people mounted their horses in batches and spread out on the snowy field.
Li Cunxiao took one last look at everyone.
This move south can be said to be a desperate move. All the people who could fight in Guizhou City were brought out, leaving a group of old and weak soldiers to guard the city and bluff people.
Not all of the more than 3,000 people were cavalry. But they still brought all the horses and even mules they had collected. Anyway, they would be slaughtered if they stayed in Guizhou, and there was no extra hay or grain to feed them.
If the fight in Youzhou goes badly, they won't even have enough food to go back.
There is no way back.
"Kill the thief!" Li Cunxiao clamped his horse's belly and took the lead.
"Kill the thief!" the Guizhou warriors shouted in unison and rushed down.
The hillside is covered with snow.
The Jin army's scouts seized the road ahead and fled, while the Guizhou soldiers pursued them and advanced bravely.
People kept falling off their horses, but they quickly got up, caught up with the horses, and jumped on.
Those who couldn't catch up with the horses even walked down the mountain, yelling and looking crazy.
They were dressed in tattered coats and armor that had been repaired many times. They were of different heights, fat and thin, and had a variety of equipment. Their faces were red from the cold. They poured down from the mountains like a torrent and plunged directly into the ranks of the marching enemy.
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Li Cunxiao was dressed in a big black robe, and the black horse under his crotch was unusual. After rushing into the enemy's formation, he ran straight towards one person.
"Anyuan!" Li Cunxiaoxin drew out an iron rod and shouted.
Anyuan was hurriedly dealing with the sudden attack of the Guizhou soldiers. He was fighting and retreating when he suddenly heard someone calling his name. He was angry at first and then shocked. This voice was too familiar!
He stabbed one person to death, turned his horse and retreated to the rear. He looked back in a hurry and was so frightened that his body almost became stiff.
"Death!" The black horse was as fast as lightning, and the snowflakes raised by its four hooves were flying. Li Cunxiao dodged the spears piercing him from the front, back, left and right, and ran to Anyuan, headlong.
Anyuan screamed and fell on his back.
Li Cunxiao passed by on the wrong horse and casually killed two of An Yuan's riders. Then he turned his horse around and saw An Yuan lying motionless on the ground, with the blood oozing from his head staining the snow. He laughed loudly.
"Thieves are what they are today! Wasn't it fun when you were arranging me with that shepherd slave? Now I'm dead like a wild dog, haha." Li Cunxiao rushed into the enemy formation on horseback, dancing like an airtight iron lao.
Anyuan's soldiers were filled with grief and anger, and rushed over one after another, wanting to exchange their lives for their lives.
Li Cunxiao slashed left and blocked right, as if his whole body was covered with eyes. He blocked every time just in time to avoid the enemy's attack, and then counterattacked with ease. Taking advantage of the enemy's inconvenience of being close with long weapons, he killed several people in an instant, showing his unstoppable courage.
The soldiers from Guizhou also rushed over to help their beloved regiment trainer share the pressure.
The Jin army was small in number, probably around 3,000, and was suddenly attacked. It was already in chaos. At this time, the general An Yuan was killed, and he lost his command. His morale was severely damaged, and he was completely defeated. He was quickly defeated by Gui
Zhou Wufu killed everyone in pieces.
After Li Cunxiao killed the last person with his swipe, he turned around and came to Anyuan's body, where he stared at it for a long time.
"Cut off the head and make it into a wine vessel. I want to appreciate it every day." Li Cunxiao ordered.
"As ordered." The soldier said nothing, took out the horizontal sword, put it down, and put it into the saddle bag.
It was not uncommon for warriors at this time to cut off the heads of their hated enemies and store them at home, to play with them and appreciate them from time to time. It was not a perversion, either, because there were quite a few people who did this.
At least, Li Cunxiao did not collect the enemy's heads and then cut off the flesh on his face to eat. He did not gouge out the double breasts of women, or use an iron brush to brush off the meat and fry it, which was a standard behavior of various rebels in the late years of a certain dynasty.
, is already a very "normal" martial artist, really.
In troubled times, this is really nothing.
"You cowards, are you going to follow me?" Li Cunxiao walked up to the prisoners again, kicked one over and asked.
There are about a hundred or ten prisoners in front of them, and this is the first batch. They are still gathering behind them, and there are probably more than a thousand prisoners.
Prisoners, look at me and I look at you.
Finally, someone had the courage to ask: "Will General An return to Yuzhou?"
Li Cunxiao was startled and laughed at himself: "Has Jinyang called me An Jingsi?"
The prisoners did not dare to answer.
"If you surrender, surrender, or if you don't surrender, I'll stab you. Is it so difficult?" Li Cunxiao kicked another person over and said angrily: "A warrior who sacrifices his life to make peace with me - has Li Cunxiao insulted you?"
"That's alright." After a long time, a prisoner sighed and said: "Every year when we go to war, my mother-in-law steals a man and gives birth to an evil child. She also said that she got pregnant in a dream, bah! So she followed General Li to kill him and went to Youzhou to rob him.
As a bride, take her back to your hometown and then kill that bitch."
"General Li surrendered to the Xia Dynasty, so he should be able to get paid, right?" Someone else said. Seeing Li Cunxiao's unkind expression, he immediately said, "It's okay if you can't be paid. Brothers will take it for themselves."
"If it were anyone else, to be honest, even if we surrender, I would find a way to escape. But if General Li surrenders, I won't leave. Surrender!"
"You can sell your life only if you have a leader. I won't surrender Shao Thief, but I will surrender Li Tuanlian."
Li Cunxiao's face brightened slightly after hearing this, he laughed and helped him up, saying: "Since you have followed me, you are one of your own family, how can you let your brothers suffer? I didn't say that I went to Yizhou. I have money, silk, and women.
Don't worry."
Prisoners are still being sent from afar.
Officers at all levels of the Qingyi Army were divided into points, and the surrendered soldiers were organized into units and issued with equipment.
They were not too worried, and even talked and laughed. After all, a year ago, they were still in the same system, and some of them even knew each other. They did not have the strong insecurity of joining forces with foreign forces.
And the place they are located is indeed on the boundary of Yizhou, within Wuhui County to be precise.
There is an "Old City Road" between Yizhou and Guizhou, which starts from Yizhou City and goes northwest to the northern boundary of Wuhui County. This road was opened during the Kaiyuan period, and Louting County was established, and was later merged into Wuhui County.
After crossing the Juma River in the northwest, you can go north along the river and enter the Zhuoshui River Valley to Guizhou, a total distance of four hundred miles.
Shao Siwu sent three groups of envoys to Guizhou to recruit Li Cunxiao to go south. Li Cunxiao was not sure whether the envoys were intercepted halfway, but even if not, he believed that Li Cunzhang would not be without any defenses, at least it would be difficult to cross Juyong Pass.
Rather than taking the risk of attacking Juyongguan, it is better to find another way and go south from Guizhou to attack the neglected Yizhou, which may have miraculous results. Even if the city of Yizhou cannot be captured, the east-west communication line between Wei and Yi can be cut off, and the Zhuozhou battlefield can be supported from the side.
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Shao Siwu is too young, and he doesn't take the Guizhou warriors seriously at all. They come and go at a moment's notice, right? Look at how I defeated the enemy and accomplished meritorious deeds. Let's learn from it.
On November 25, the third year of Jianji, Li Cunxiao led more than 4,000 Qingyi troops to suddenly appear at the gate of Yizhou City.
Wang Yu, the governor of Yizhou, was shocked. He organized his troops and went out to fight, but was defeated by Guo Xia. The defeated soldiers poured into the city to defend the city.
Seeing that there was no opportunity to take advantage of, Li Cunxiao immediately marched eastward and attacked Laishui at night. The Yiwu army panicked and resisted desperately, but they could barely withstand it. Li Cunxiao plundered the countryside and became more powerful.
Their appearance also greatly shocked the Jin army and the Yiwu army who were fighting and stalemate on the Zhuozhou front line.
The Yiwu army directly withdrew to Laishui. An Fuqian was unprepared and became the scapegoat, losing more than 2,000 soldiers again.
Ge Congzhou took advantage of the situation to attack Zhuozhou.
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