Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 335 The dead friend is not dead

The sound of rumbling horseshoes dispelled the dense fog in the early morning. On the north bank of the Weihe River, in a small village called Mapaoquan.

It is only twenty miles away from the Xiwei Bridge. The residents of the village either hid in the mountains or were dragged away by the rebels. The women were used as sexual objects and reserve food, while the men died in the ravine.

Sun Xiaoguo plunged into Mapaoquan Village in a panic. The thatch, branches, door panels and other things that covered the houses in the village had long been looted.

But the earthen walls of the half-toppled houses made Sun Xiaoguo feel more at ease. The advantage of the fast horses of those Hexi cavalrymen could not be exploited at least.

The cavalry under Sun Xiaoguo's command rushed into the village almost like hungry dogs eating shit. Everyone was ashamed, and even Sun Xiaoguo's town general recognition flag was torn, and the flags and drums of each capital and general were basically lost.

The terrain of Mapaoquan Village is higher than its surroundings, and there is a spring in the village that is not considered sweet.

During the Tang Dynasty, the nobles of Chang'an City liked to race horses or ride horses around Mapaoquan Village, or it got its name from this.

After Sun Xiaoguo calmed down a little, he climbed up to the tallest earthen building in the village and began to observe.

Around Mapaoquan Village, the fierce cavalry chase was still happening, but it was much less than a few days ago, and the results of the battle began to show a one-sided trend.

The horses of the Hexi people are fast and armored, and their riding skills are even better than these rebels. During the more than [-] miles from Xingping County to Mapaoquan Village, they fought with each other, and they made the rebel cavalry suffer a lot.

Fortunately, after Sun Xiaoguo set off, he deliberately ordered a large number of horn bow equipment, so that he was not directly defeated.

As the standard equipment used by the Tang army specially for cavalry, the hornbow crossbow is powerful, has a long range, and has an excellent armor-piercing effect.

When Zhang Zhao was in the Western Regions in the past, he used it for the infantry. Relying on the sharpness of the horned bow and crossbow, these rebels barely blocked the continuous onslaught of the Guiyi army's cavalry.

And they began to lose their support gradually, also because the crossbow strings made of horn bow tendon horns began to loosen and the arrows were exhausted.

The entanglement of small units of cavalry is called a dog fight, which is a very vivid metaphor.

In this kind of chasing battle with a scale of more than ten or twenty riders, the two sides are like two fighting mastiffs, with their mouths wide open, sometimes you pounce on me, sometimes I pounce on you, sometimes wrestle together, Until one party was defeated and fled in desperation.

Li Cunhui is riding on a yellow horse, holding a sword in his left hand and a pecking hammer in his right.

The so-called pecking hammer is also the standard weapon of the cavalry after the middle Tang Dynasty. One end is a hammer and the other end is a beak tip. The end is a good weapon against heavy armor.

At this moment, Li Cunhui led a dozen or so cavalry under his command, and entangled more than twenty rebel cavalry. The rebel cavalry lowered their bodies on their horses, took out their bows, and kept firing arrows obliquely backwards.

The arrows shot out, with a soft whizzing sound, flew over Li Cunhui's head continuously, and some of them hit Li Cunhui's pocket and shoulder armor, but Li Cunhui didn't care at all.

Because there is no horn bow and crossbow, it is still not easy for an ordinary horse bow to break through the cotton armor on his body.

Moreover, there is a small round shield on his right arm. Li Cunhui raised his right hand slightly, and the round shield can also play a certain protective role.

As the sound of the arrows piercing through the air became more and more intense, Li Cunhui, who was lying on the horseback, took the risk to raise his body a little.

The distance is getting closer and closer. He needs to attract firepower for the horse. He has been approved for armor, but the horse only has a piece of iron to protect the forehead and a small piece of armor hanging down to protect the chest. It can make the horse suffer a lot.

As it got closer, the cavalry behind Li Cunhui also took out their bows and arrows and shot at the rebel cavalry.

An unlucky little rebel cavalryman had at least a dozen arrows stuck in his back, causing him to scream in pain, but he was probably wearing ring armor inside, so he didn't suffer any serious injuries.

But he couldn't run anymore, because the rebel cavalry horse had several arrows stuck in its buttocks, and the blood soaked the entire horse's buttocks, and the horse's running posture began to twist and turn.

Li Cunhui rode fast, and soon rushed to the cavalry's side. Seeing that the 'hedgehog' cavalry could not run away, he could only turn his head and look at Li Cunhui with desperate and fearful eyes.

However, Li Cunhui, who has experienced the tragedies in Jingzhou and Binzhou, will not soften his heart towards these beasts.

But just when these thoughts flashed through his mind, suddenly, the 'hedgehog' cavalry smiled coldly, his despairing eyes were instantly replaced by complacency, and he took out a loaded horned crossbow from his arms.

"Hey! Thieves dare!" Li Cunhui roared sharply, like a thunderbolt exploding in the ears of the 'hedgehog' cavalry.

While roaring, the long sword in Li Cunhui's hand flashed across like lightning.

The 'Hedgehog' cavalryman was also very nervous, because he only had this arrow in the horned crossbow in his hand, and if he couldn't hit Li Cunhui, he would die.

Facing the tense moment between life and death, the 'hedgehog' cavalry was frightened by Li Cunhui's roar, and their hands tightened habitually.

Done!

Before he even had time to regret it, the sharp pain came from his hand.

It turned out that almost at the same time, Li Cunhui's long sword had already been drawn. This epee weighing five or six catties was polished very sharply. It cut the horned crossbow of the 'hedgehog' cavalry, together with his fingers, into pieces like cucumbers. one slice.

"My hand! Ah! My hand!" The 'hedgehog' cavalry screamed loudly with his left hand covering his bloody right hand, but it stopped abruptly.

Because Li Cunhui twisted his body beautifully on the horse's back, pecked at the tip of the hammer's beak, and slammed into the 'hedgehog' cavalry's pocket, directly gouging out a bloody hole in his forehead.

With the fall of the 'hedgehog' cavalry, Li Cunhui and a dozen others caught up with the rebels' twenty or so cavalry.

They galloped side by side, and at the same time used the weapons in their hands to fiercely kill each other.

Li Cunhui swiveled his left and right hands like flying, he used the heavy sword to deal with the light armored ones, and the pecking hammer to the thick armored ones, knocking three or four enemy horses off their horses in an instant.

On the other side, Murong Xinchang led Zhang Xibao and others, and also drove out the rebel cavalry who hadn't entered the village in time.

The most important thing about cavalry is nothing more than equipment, war horses and riding skills. When the rebel cavalry lost the power of their bows and crossbows, they were completely in a passive situation of being beaten.

Sun Xiaoguo saw it clearly in Mapaoquan Village, and his face was miserable.

[-] cavalry left the city, and they were cautious all the way, but in less than two days, there were only more than [-] cavalry left, and they were still driven into the village.

The cavalry lost its mobility, and death was not far away.

"Boom! Boom!" There was a violent explosion, followed by brilliant fireworks at the east end of the village.

Not long after, an officer with half of his hair burned and several blisters on his dark face ran up to Su Xiaoguo, and he fell headfirst into the dust.

"Town general! There is a bandit cavalry in the east of the village. Their spears can breathe fire. At the end, all the soldiers occupying high places were burned down by their fire-breathing spears. The exit at the east end, the last Will not be able to hold on!"

"This is to surround us, use us as bait, and draw out the army of Xiwei Bridge!"

Sun Xiaoguo let out a long sigh. Since the rebels from Hexi had surrounded them, they would come to take the entrance and exit of the east of the village.

Moreover, they are not in a hurry to attack after winning. Obviously, they want to block them and prevent them from running away.

"Lei Bao'er! I will give you 50 people and [-] good horses. Later today, you will desperately rush out to report to Xiwei Bridge!" Sun Xiaoguo pointed to Lei Bao'er who had been burnt and his face was covered with flowers.

"I want to tell He Junshi, don't be fooled?" Lei Bao'er said hesitantly.

"Your mother? Did the dog slave get beaten up by the Hexi people?" Sun Xiaoguo laughed angrily.

"I didn't want to come out. It was He Chuan's thief who thought he was smart and insisted on some trick to lure the enemy. I swore an oath to him, and I will share the joys and sorrows. Now that I am surrounded, if he doesn't come, who will come? Forget it, you bastard." It doesn't matter if people don't go!"

As he said that, Sun Xiaoguo pulled over the guards beside him. They were members of his clan, and they were far more reliable than people like Lei Baoer.

"Jiulang, when you go this time, tell He Chuan that there are [-] Hexi soldiers around Mapaoquan, including [-] cavalry and [-] infantry. Come quickly and fight in the field. If you kill them, no one will dare to come again." Conquer us."

A dead fellow is not a poor Taoist, Sun Xiaoguo thought for a moment, if He Chuan does not come, he will die ten times, if He Chuan comes, it will be a decisive battle with an army of tens of thousands.

His subordinates are full of cavalry, if they can fight, they will stay, if they can't, they can leave. The probability of survival is at least much higher than it is now.

　I am writing now, I am no one else, I have two bags on my back when I go out, and only my clothes are left when I come back. I have been in the car for a whole day today, so I can only go to sleep later tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)