The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 166

The sky was gloomy, and the snowflakes were swaying and drifting under the clouds. At a certain moment, there was a drum sound of "dong", and the shaking snowflakes flew away to other places.

Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Countless footsteps suppressed the sound of war drums from the Chinese army, and walked in neat steps. The two infantry formations pressed their spears, swords and shields and slowly advanced.

The arrows crossed a long trajectory like locusts, covering the Qi army array that was also advancing forward in a black mass.

"Raise the shield—"

Gai Hong shouted at the back of the team on horseback holding a knife. The marching army rolled up their shields one by one to cover their colleagues around them. There was a sound of beating, and some people cried out in pain, rolling on the ground hugging the shoulder and thigh hit by the arrow.

"Withdraw the shield, kill—"

The moment the arrows fell, the voice of the general roared up and down the shield, and the shield that was held high fell down with a 'wow', and the figures that walked forward had no formation, no restraints, like a flood that burst a bank. , The two court soldiers and horses who were furiously advancing towards the opposite side and maintaining their formation swept past.

"kill!!"

Countless roars and shouts shook the wilderness, and the ground trembled under the galloping feet. Seeing each other getting closer, the soldiers on both sides took a deep breath, clenched their teeth, and tightly held the weapons in their hands. , eyes widened.

Then it hit it with a bang!
Countless swords and guns stabbed from the opposite side, splashing blood, and the same countless bodies swooped and swung the swords, and collided with each other with different momentums, people shouted hysterically, and spears shot People's bodies stabbed frantically, wearing corpses, and more Qi soldiers with momentum pounced on them frantically, and their formations were skewed under the hedge.

"Ahhh-"

Here, Wang Chongrong and Zhu Wen kept issuing various orders, and the cavalry who sent the orders ran back and forth, and the infantry stepped on the ground step by step, and kept moving back. The front line squeezed back, the shields collided and rubbed against each other, and the spears and blades stabbed from both sides crazily set off blood in the crowd.

"You have no way out, if you don't fight to the death, when will you wait!"

Countless footsteps galloped, and in the crowd, Gai Hong rode a horse and brandished a knife, shouted loudly, and urged the military law team to go up to hold the formation, and then was pushed back by the crowd, more front lines were forming, and the two soldiers and horses of the imperial court over there also fought. Vicious, after standing firmly in the formation, counterattack with the most violent posture.

Two light cavalry of more than a thousand men rushed out of the two wings of the Chinese army, interspersed on both sides of the battlefield in a roundabout way, but here under the banner of the Chinese army of Qi, Huang Chao raised his hand, Deng Tianwang disappeared, and Meng Juehai led the remaining [-] cavalry into the battlefield. The moment the old man raised his hand, he rode his horse with guns and led more than a thousand cavalry out of the flank of the central army, and went straight to one of the two Tang cavalry that interspersed in the circuitous battlefield.

One thousand against one thousand, they have fought against each other before, and both sides know the details, the Tang cavalry that crossed the battlefield seemed to be waiting for the opponent to come out, changed direction while marching, and went up to meet the opponent.

"Huh? The other party didn't panic. They avoided fighting."

Meng Juehai slowed down in the crowd, watching the subordinates galloping past him, suddenly there was the sound of horseshoes coming from the north.

not good!

He tilted his head almost instinctively, looking in the direction of the thicker sound of hoofbeats, and Huang Chao, who stood tall in the Chinese army, followed him at this time.

Under the hazy sky, the cavalry was advancing and spreading. The cavalry formation of nearly [-] people was densely undulating like a surging tide, and countless falling snowflakes were forced away in an instant—the charge was launched on the flattest terrain.

Rumbling--

The sound of hooves swept across the ground like thunder, and the figure leading the charge rode a scarlet horse galloping like lightning, with a rolled cloak, a beast head and a bronze mirror armor, and dragged a Yuwang lance to the ground, leaving streaks of dust on the ground.

Pieces of snowflakes stuck to his face, flying across his field of vision, as if he was not in the world, the horse galloped, and the violent shaking made his whole body muscles tremble under the armor.

This is not nervousness, but an excitement that he has never had before. When he was a teenager, he had a head-to-head confrontation with his adoptive father's army, killing generals and capturing the flag. Now, it has a different meaning.

In Yong'an Square, he remembered what his elder brother told him: This is your chance to earn credit and become famous all over the world, so don't miss it.

do not miss it
Li Cunxiao looked at the approaching Chinese army ahead, grinned, then widened his eyes angrily, opened his mouth as hard as he could, and roared like a beast.

"Huang Chao. Give me your head—"

The moment the crimson mount approached, Li Cunxiao pulled the reins with a roar, and pulled the horse's head against the stabbing spears, turned away, and swept away the heavy soldiers in his hands, drawing a huge semicircle from right to left, smashing Flipping the shield and throwing it into the sky, the thrusting spears snapped and missed, and the long lance that had crossed half a round suddenly stopped and smashed into a shield step iron helmet, smashing the man and the helmet to pieces. Leaping into the formation, behind him, the cavalrymen under his command rumbled in according to the gap, and crossed with a series of soldiers, and the weapons were waving, full of the sound of collision and breaking, flesh and blood exploding, floating. There is a crisp sound of tearing and splitting the unfolded brocade.

"Yellow Thief, I am Li Cunxiao, Flying Tiger General—"

Like a burning war horse charging at high speed, King Yu's heavy soldiers swung left and right on the road ahead, smashing spears and long knives, causing people's bodies to collapse and burst into blood, and the crushed skulls to burst into blood. The downed war horses screamed frantically behind Li Cunxiao's path.

"—give your head to my brother!"

The roaring words of a tiger resounded through the battle lines, and the arms, shoulders, and faces of the knights going upstream were covered with the blood and flakes of the enemy. The blood-stained skin fluttered like a ghost rushing out of the underworld.

Huang Chao's eyes widened and he saw the figure as if he had entered the land of no one. He yelled at the surrounding generals with numbness. Some of his nephews rode horses and led troops with swords to intercept them. They pushed aside the crowd and shouted: "Enemy general, we So"

The crimson war horse charged over, and before he could finish his words, he was knocked down to the ground with the blood in his mouth, before he could get back up, before he could finish his words, he was caught under countless iron hooves, and a series of skeletons sounded. Crash.

"Ku'er—"

Huang Chao yelled, his eyes were red, and seeing the figure gradually approaching the shock array, he pulled the reins suddenly, turned around and ran towards the rear.

"Kill Huang Chao!"

I don't know when, a sudden resounding voice resounded in the sky, galloping to the rear, the old man suddenly reined in his horse, and at the other end of his field of vision, the remnants of Taikang who had been commanded were fighting with the probation army from the east. At the same time, the general named Shi Pu noticed the old man here, and pointed at him with his sword.

"Huang Chao is over there, kill through here, and capture the yellow thief alive!!"

"go!"

Huang Chao gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence. He took the guards around him and turned to Guyangli in the north of Chenzhou. The Qi soldiers who were still fighting behind him heard the words "Huang Chao fled" and "Huang Chao gave the head" and looked back at the direction of the army. , The banner had long since disappeared, and there were figures fleeing indiscriminately everywhere, and there was a sudden confusion.

Among the panic-running crowd, Gai Hong was shot off his horse by the rushing Wang Yanzhang and nailed to the ground; before Meng Juehai had time to recall Youdou's cavalry, Li Ke used his troops to attack him. Dozens of riders rushed out of the encirclement in panic, and searched in the direction where Huang Chao fled.

The battlefield of fierce fighting, slipped down easily like a cliff collapsed in an instant, which was unexpected, and there were occasional figures running and screaming throughout the battlefield, and then the cavalry who were chased up rushed back and forth several times, and there were no more people. sound up.

The sky gradually shifted to the west, and the drifting snowflakes became much larger as the temperature dropped sharply. The biting cold wind whimpered and blew across the battlefield, and sporadic white marks were spread on the red-dyed ground.

There were no stars and moons in the night, and the thick clouds were full of snowflakes, which hung all over the branches and then fell to the ground.

In the dense forest, there is no fire. A group of people, tens or hundreds, gathered together, rubbing their hands and covering their feet, trembling all over their bodies in the white air they breathed out, and fell into a gloomy and bleak panic.

Not far away, there was a simple tent. The bedding was draped over the old man's body to temporarily drive away the cold. From time to time, people waiting outside asked the soldiers if they had anything to discuss, and only waved them away when they heard them.

"How did you lose?"

The old man looked at the snowflakes drifting into the tent in a daze. At this time a year ago, he stood on the Golden Luan Hall to accept the worship of countless people, and became the great treasure. No one would have thought that in just over a year, he would only have this place A small tent for shelter.

And the reason for everything was that he became greedy for more than 20 women that day, which attracted revenge from a small person in the market who was nothing.

'Nan Ke Yi Meng Xi'

He still remembers the short lines of poems in the letter that day, like a dream, not like in the world.

Outside the quiet tent, among the snowflakes drifting across the branches and falling in the forest, a slender figure slowly got up among the shivering crowd, and walked to the small tent over there out of everyone's sight.

(End of this chapter)