Although they have now broken out of the siege of the prairie barbarians, Tu Xiong knew that they would never give up. Especially when he saw several scars on the horses, he knew that some of them were destined not to return to Tianshan Pass.
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As Tu Xiong ran back, he looked back and saw that the two cavalry armies on the grassland had merged into one, with a total of more than two hundred cavalry following them.
Just now it seemed that Tu Xiong and the others had the upper hand, but except for Tu Xiong who killed more than ten people, the others could only protect themselves but were unable to kill the enemy. Moreover, in order to break out, they collided in the first military formation.
By that time, more than twenty bodies had been left behind.
This is because those prairie barbarians were not determined to stop them. If those prairie barbarians were willing to sacrifice twenty more lives just now, then none of Tu Xiong and the others would be able to escape.
Because the prairie barbarians knew that as long as their horses were injured, none of these people would be able to escape, so from the beginning the prairie barbarians did not think about paying too much to keep them.
Anyway, for them, Tu Xiong and others have already had the meat in their mouths. There is no difference between entering the mouth earlier or entering the mouth later. But he doesn't know that Da Chu also has a saying that even cooked ducks are cooked.
Fly away! They never imagined that someone would actually be willing to stay and wait to die!
Tu Xiong carefully observed all the horses in front of him. When they saw that the most intact horse had three holes, he knew that a strong man must be determined to cut off his wrist today!
"The whole village listens to the order! Those who are under the age of 20 and those who have no brothers or sisters in the family continue to move forward. They must return to Tianshan Pass alive! The rest of the people, stop their horses after ten breaths!"
In fact, Tu Xiong knew very well that those people in front of him met such conditions. After so many years, he already knew their information very well. For example, recruits must not be over twenty years old when entering the camp. For example, in Dahu's family, there is a sixty-year-old
’s old lady.
"Captain, I am willing to stay and fight alongside you!"
"Fuck your grandma, you are the only one in your family, and your mother is waiting for you to come home for the New Year!"
"Captain, I'm not afraid, my mother..."
Tu Xiong interrupted He Dahu's words and yelled at him.
"He Dahu listened to the order. I will let you go back now. After arriving at Tianshan Pass, you will be the new commander. Now you have to obey my order! You said you would kill a hundred prairie barbarians to avenge me. Now
If you stay, can you kill a hundred barbarians? I won't give you an advantage!"
He Dahu's voice trembled. The village chief who had always treated him like a brother still left him a chance of survival at such a life-or-death moment!
He Dahu's nose became sour again and his voice was trembling.
"He Dahu...take the order!"
Ten breaths of time passed in an instant. About fifteen of the thirty or so riders reined in their horses and stayed where they were, while the rest ran towards Tianshan Pass without any delay.
Looking at the familiar faces who stayed behind, Tu Xiong planned to say goodbye to them. Although he didn't have enough time to say a few words, Tu Xiong still wanted to say something.
He had brought them out of Tianshan Pass today, but now he wanted them to die here. It was impossible to say that Tu Xiong didn't feel uncomfortable.
"Brothers, I brought you out today but couldn't bring you back. I'd like to say I'm sorry. If you have any complaints in your heart, Zeng Zeng still has a chance. You can hit me or scold me twice.
"
As soon as Tu Xiong finished speaking, one of the fifteen people who stayed spoke up.
"Complain! Why don't you complain! I have been thinking about the jar of fine wine you have hidden for a long time, but you just won't take it out to drink. It's okay now. I won't be able to drink it if I want to in this life."
Hearing the complaints of the boy from Jinzhou, everyone who stayed behind laughed heartily, even Tu Xiong. It turned out that this boy had been thinking about his jar of wine!
"Don't be afraid, we still have several old brothers who have gone back! With them here, are you still worried that you will have no meat to eat or wine to drink down there? It's just a change of place, we old brothers went down there to have a good time
drink!"
"good!"
Everyone shouted together, as if they were not going to die this time but to go home and enjoy happiness!
Tu Xiong held the reins and clasped his fists with both hands.
"Then let us stay here and fight a way out for the brothers who are going back!"
At this time, no one spoke anymore. Everyone was holding knives and looking at Tu Xiong solemnly! The latter suddenly raised his voice and shouted loudly.
"Array up!"
The movement of turning the horse's head was extremely neat, and the hand holding the knife was a little white due to excessive exertion. There was no generosity in everyone's eyes, but only a kind of calm! Calmly looking at the two hundred riders fifty meters away!
They are not afraid of death, but they dare to die! In recent years, they have been like them on the border
There are not many people who died in general!
"charge!"
Following Tu Xiong's order, they kicked the horse's belly with both feet and then rushed out silently. At this time, they were even better than the most elite black-armored Xuanqi! Because this time they charged with their lives.
!
"boom!"
More than ten cavalry fought against two hundred cavalry. No matter how courageous they were, they could not complete the counterattack. Therefore, when the two sides collided, four people on Tu Xiong's side were directly thrown away, and Tu Xiong was also captured.
Seizing the opportunity, he chopped off the head of a prairie barbarian!
The kid from Jinzhou who spoke before could not withstand the three attacks. He was stabbed into the stomach by a prairie barbarian, and then his intestines flowed all over the floor when he had diarrhea! But before he died, he held the scimitar of the prairie barbarian.
Let him pull it out, and then wipe the neck of that prairie barbarian with a knife!
Tu Xiong also didn't know what was going on with the others. He knew that he could no longer see any old brothers around him. He was surrounded by prairie barbarians, and they all wanted his life!
When Tu Xiong beheaded the person in front again, three scimitars from behind stabbed his back. At the critical moment, he turned over and leaned on the horse's belly to avoid the fatal blow!
But it would be difficult for him to get on a horse again, but he didn't plan to ride a horse anymore. Before entering Manchong camp, Tu Xiong was originally a border infantry, so he naturally knew how to fight cavalry on foot!
With a roll, Tu Xiong went from the belly of one horse to the belly of another. He inserted the scimitar in his hand into the horse's belly and pulled hard. The fine thoroughbred draft horse bent its legs forward and knelt on the ground.
superior.
Tu Xiong seized the opportunity to draw back his machete and stabbed the unlucky boy who fell off the horse to the ground!
He used his corpse to block the oncoming scimitars, then threw the corpse away and Tu Xiong wanted to repeat the same trick. However, the cavalry on the grassland were not fools, and Tu Xiong didn't know that he was targeting someone this time.
Hard idea!
Before Tu Xiong could get under his horse's belly, the man had already pulled up the reins, and the horse's front hooves immediately flew up, exposing Tu Xiong hidden underneath.
The horse's hooves were pointing upward, but the man was bending down to use the sword. It seemed that in his haste, Tu Xiong only had time to put away his sword to resist, but that man was also a good at fighting. He kept pulling the scimitar down, and thrust it into Tu Xiong's belly.
A cut was made on it, and red blood immediately flowed out.
Tu Xiong was in pain, but he still endured the severe pain and turned over again to find a hiding place. However, Tu Xiong's movements had slowed down after being injured, and the man behind him was chasing after him with a knife.
Tu Xiong finally failed and fell to the ground.
The moment he landed, there were seven or eight scimitars. Tu Xiong blocked four of them with his own knife, but the rest were all inserted into his body without exception.
Although Tu Xiong knows some martial arts and has rich battlefield experience, he is not a first-class master after all. It is remarkable that he can delay so much time under the siege of these cavalry.
Tu Xiong felt the passage of his life force. At this moment, his senses were extremely clear. He could feel every drop of blood flowing out of his body!
However, he felt no pain, let alone fear of death. Before he closed his eyes completely, Tu Xiong only knew that those boys who had delayed it for so long should be able to go back safely!
…
"General, this plan to lure the enemy was very successful. Only fifteen of the fifty enemies escaped, and we also killed a good soldier. Judging from his humble position, that person should be at least a hundred in Da Chu.
Will!"
A few hundred meters away from the battlefield, a prairie barbarian with a bloody face was reporting the situation to a young man wearing a mink fur, and this bloody man was the one who gave Tu Xiong the fatal blow!
However, he couldn't tolerate the man's happiness, so the young man in mink fur slapped him directly, and then a cold voice came into the ears of the person being slapped.
"With two hundred cavalry chasing down fifty cavalry, not counting the death of nearly twenty of them, but also allowing fifteen of the enemy troops to escape, do you call this a success?"
"This... Master Xianyu"
"Call me General!"
"Yes, General!"
He seemed to think of his young master's temper, and then immediately changed his tune. Otherwise, even if he was a centurion, he would have to accept another slap!
"The general is right, our mission this time is indeed not a success, but I can guarantee that I will not let anyone escape from my hands next time!"
The young man from Xianyu's family looked in the direction of Tianshan Pass and touched his chin.
"Next time I'll do it by myself. I've already guessed that even if someone bites the hook this time, it's just a loach, so I'll give it to you as a training exercise. Next time will be the chance to really catch a big fish. If you give me
Let the fish run away, you calculate what you have
How many heads can be chopped off!"
The centurion sneered and didn't answer. How many more heads could this man have? Aren't they just one on each shoulder? If you chop it off, I won't be able to explain it to you!
Ignoring the centurion's embarrassment, the unknown young master Xianyu waved his hand behind him. Immediately, a man in iron armor came forward, who looked much more powerful than the centurion.
"Our troops are all hidden!"
"Reporting back to the general, everything is ready, just waiting for the fish to enter the net."
The young master of the Xianyu family kept looking in the direction of Tianshan Pass without looking back. He said something incoherently, and then nodded to himself. He didn't know whether he was talking to himself or to whom.
"This time, no matter how bad the bait is, we should be able to catch a general, right? It should be possible!"
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On the left and right sides of Tianshan Pass are towering and steep peaks. Strictly speaking, this place is no longer a grassland terrain. From a distance, Tianshan Pass looks like an iron castle built in a valley, so it is necessary to
From here, the only way to enter the pass is to attack head-on!
However, Tianshan Pass was built based on the natural dangers. If we attack from here, without leaving the corpses of ten thousand riders on the vast plain outside Tianshan Pass, I am afraid that those prairie barbarians will not be able to reach the gate of Tianshan Pass.
However, the grassland has gradually become more and more popular in recent years. If the various ministries did not have other small ideas, I am afraid that Xiao Shanyu, the king of Liaodong who sits on the two major passes of Hulao in Tianshan Mountain, would also have trouble sleeping at night.
And even with the steepness of Tianshan Pass, it would still be in danger under the pressure of hundreds of thousands of troops on the grassland.
But it was obviously not the time to think so much at this moment, because suddenly in the sight of the guards at Tianshan Pass, a dozen cavalrymen riding Da Chu appeared. Looking at them, they looked very embarrassed.
"Open the city gate quickly. Our troops are attacked by prairie barbarians, numbering two hundred. Tu Xiong, the commander of the village, is leading troops to resist in the rear. Please send cavalry troops quickly to reinforce!"
When He Dahu and others rushed into the city gate, a group of hundreds of cavalry roared out of the city, but it was obviously too late to rush there at this time. When they rushed to the battlefield, the prairie barbarians had already left, leaving only
There were corpses all over the ground.
Looking at the corpses on the ground, the hundred riders who came were silent for a long time, especially when they saw some familiar faces they had seen in the city in the morning, they became even more silent.
They carefully restrained their bodies, and then they took them home! After death, the bones could be found and taken back. This kind of ending is already a very good result for a person who has been on the battlefield for a long time.
!
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"You mean, you only found twelve riders at first, and only after chasing after them did you realize that there were two hundred riders?"
In the wartime command hall of Liaodong King Xiao Shanyu at Tianshan Pass, He Dahu was brought here, and the person who asked questions in front of him was none other than Liaodong King Xiao Shanyu, who was wearing battle armor.
After returning from Kyoto, his gray hair has grown a little more, but his energy is still as full as before.
Doesn't it seem a bit fussy to ask him to personally deal with such a trivial matter?
Actually not at all! This is not the first time this has happened in the past two years, and every time the enemy uses different methods to lure them deeper!
This made Xiao Shanyu think about it day and night for a long time. Did the other side of the grassland follow suit and learn the art of war? You must know that there are two different concepts between a grassland barbarian who only knows how to charge in a formation and a grassland barbarian who knows the art of war and strategies!
"Reporting to the King of Liaodong, it is indeed the case."
Xiao Shanyu next chose to avoid this question. He touched his gray beard and said.
"I heard that before your death, the commander of the village left a last wish for you to become the commander of the village?"
He Dahu's eyes turned red when he mentioned this, but he did not dare to show it in front of Xiao Shanyu, but said it with a trembling voice.
"Reporting to the King of Liaodong, it is indeed true!"
Xiao Shanyu nodded.
"I've seen your merit list. It stands to reason that you have to kill ten barbarians before you can become the commander of the village. But since this is your last word as the commander of the village, I will make an exception and promote you to the position of commander! I owe you the ten
Add it to the back of the head!"
He Dahu didn't expect Xiao Shanyu to take the initiative to mention this, so he said it with some excitement.
"Write about the King of Liaodong."
Xiao Shanyu waved his hand, and He Dahu retreated in frustration. After he left, he said to the person behind him.
"False and false, true and false, I don't know what the specific situation of the prairie barbarians is."
A voice came from behind Xiao Shanyu.
"Isn't this simple? As the saying goes, repay others with their own methods, let's follow the plan of those prairie barbarians to find out their details!"