Late Tang

"Is the knife sharpened?"

"Are your spears still sharp?"

"Is your bowstring ready?"

Chishan Valley, a small valley, has steep mountain walls on three sides, and only one side can be accessed.At this time, in the small valley, there were more than a thousand remnant soldiers who refused to guard it, and outside the valley were five thousand Beisha soldiers and horses.

Those who fell into the valley were Qingni City soldiers who had fled all the way back from Duli Town, mainly the crane-controlling cavalry, plus several hundred soldiers from the Raging Wave Camp in Shamen Town.Except for the hundreds of soldiers in the Raging Wave Battalion in Shamen Town, the other allies in this battle either secretly betrayed, defected, or directly surrendered to Duli Town after losing the battle. Only the soldiers and horses led by the four yellow beards did not have any weaklings.

Although he was in a desperate situation, fortunately the valley was very small, so Li Shouyi and others defended the entrance of the valley and cut down trees to block the entrance. Although the Beisha soldiers outside attacked several times, they did not enter.After defeating Beisha soldiers' attacks nine times in a row, the thousand-odd soldiers who were already very difficult had suffered many deaths and injuries.Seeing that it was about to dawn, but the brothers who desperately broke out to deliver the letter hadn't brought back the reinforcements. Li Shouyi almost understood that there might be no reinforcements.

The Beisha soldiers who had already retreated suddenly ambushed here, which has already shown that Beisha City will definitely not let the empty Qingni City go.

Li Shouyi seemed to have matured ten years old all of a sudden, but one day and one night seemed to be as long as ten years.Qingnipu was defeated, and their father died in the battle. Now they are also trapped here, without food and water, and they can only last for two or three days at most.He didn't rest for a whole day and night, fighting from Duli Town to Chishan Valley.His face was extremely tired, with sunken eye sockets and pale complexion.But even at this time, he still refused to give up. Even if he died in battle, he would have to pull a few more backs.

His excellent war horse had been handed over to the messenger brother to ride out the siege, and now he was walking in front of the 800 brothers of the Crane Cavalry Army who had rested for a while.Qingnipu's army and coalition forces are almost dead, and the most elite [-] crane-controlling cavalry troops are also operating seriously, but in the end they still showed their toughness. Up to now, there are still [-] troops here, basically the [-] The cavalry were already all the Qingni city soldiers who broke out from the siege.

Glancing at this elite army, even though they were facing a difficult situation, no one panicked and feared, and everyone was even more excited to fight.This is the Crane Controlling Cavalry Army, a strong soldier built by his father.

"Our knives are quick enough to cut down a hundred thieves in the city of Bishah, our spears can stab the assholes of a hundred shameless Bishahs, and our bows and arrows are enough to shoot a hundred thieves in the backs of their mouths." Dog eyes." The crane-controlling cavalry roared in unison, fighting with high spirits, and they broke through the siege desperately along the way, and finally rushed out of Duli Town with more than [-] people.After leaving the city, they were at the back of the back hall again. Unfortunately, seeing that they were about to return to Qingnipu at that time, everyone could not help but relax their vigilance. As a result, the people in front directly broke into the ambush circle of the Beisha army. When the Crane Control Army arrived, they were probably all over.

"Major General, we are all ready to fight the Beisha dogs!"

"Young master, there are only a few thousand Beisha dogs. When we encountered us in the past, these Beisha dogs had no time to hide. Every brother in the Crane Army can beat ten of them one at a time. Even if we are in trouble now, it is still the same It’s still there, how can we let these wild dogs come and take advantage of it.”

"Major General, let's order. Even if we die, we have to drag these dogs along with us!"

Li Juyi watched with satisfaction that the soldiers of the Crane Control Army were not affected by the defeat at all, and he was very happy to feel the fighting spirit.He waved his hand and said loudly: "Okay, let's beat these wild dogs hard. Even if my brothers in Qingni City die, they will die on the way forward!"

In the wind under the night, the screams and roars of Beisha soldiers were faintly heard again. This was their tenth attack.

Li Juyi rode on a warhorse of the crane-controlling cavalry who had lost its owner, and the remaining [-] crane-controlling troops slowly marched towards Taniguchi.At the mouth of the valley, it was the turn of the [-] remaining soldiers and horses from the Nutao Camp in Shamen Township to be on duty. The four leaders of Zhendonghai were all seriously injured at this time. The eyeballs were pulled out at the same time, and now the left eye is bandaged, but still refuses to back down, holding the large horizontal knife in his hand, and wants to kill a few more enough.

Yellow Beard's left hand was stabbed, the entire elbow was gone, and he became a one-armed swordsman.The red beard was not much better, he was hit by eight arrows, and he survived, all the outer leather armor pierced through, relying on the inner armor that Li Jing gave him, even though the eight arrows had all penetrated into the flesh, he was seriously injured. Not light, but at least he saved his life. He was lying at the mouth of the valley with a single crossbow in his hand and two on the ground. He said that if the valley broke, he would kill two more backs, and finally Keep a crossbow arrow for yourself, and you will not be a prisoner if you die.

Blackbeard's situation was not good either. When he broke through to cover Whitebeard, he was stabbed in the lower abdomen, and his intestines flowed out at that time, but he beheaded the Duli town soldier who stabbed him first, and then used The hand stuffed the intestines back.Now there is a thick band of gauze around their waists. Fortunately, the soldiers of Raging Waves Camp are also equipped with battlefield first aid kits. They wash the wounds with alcohol, stop the bleeding with hemostatic medicine, and then sew up the wounds with needles and threads.Although he is now lying next to the red beard and can't do anything, at least his life is still alive.

The other 500 old pirate brothers who followed into Duli Town suffered heavy casualties, and now there are only 800 left.There were originally more than [-] people who broke out, but they were ambushed by Beisha City, leaving only [-] people, all of whom were injured.

The one-eyed white beard was giving a lecture to his brothers. In his words, even if he died here, it would be no big deal. After losing his head and a big scar on his wrist, he would be a good man again 18 years later.Anyway, when they were pirates, they had already prepared for this kind of mentality, but now they are still officials even if they die.Their wives, children, parents, and Li Jing helped them take care of them, so there was nothing to worry about.

As Baibeard was talking, he couldn't help being surprised when he suddenly saw Brother Li Juyi, who was resting, coming with the Crane Control Army on horseback.

"Nephew, what are you going to do?"

"Bai Shibo, Qingnipu may have fallen into the hands of thieves, and we won't have any reinforcements. Beisha dogs have besieged us here and are constantly attacking. I guess at most dawn, there will be pursuers from Duli Town. Then There is no escape from death. In this case, even if it is death, we are not willing to hide here. Even if it is death, the people of my Qingni City will die on the way of charging forward. Bai Shibo, open the valley, I will lead the brothers and the humble The sand dog fights to the death, if we are lucky enough to win, then we will go together. If I am unlucky to lose, Bai Shibo can also take advantage of the opportunity to retreat." Li Juyi said flatly, as if he was not going to die, but just attending a night banquet .

Whitebeard grinned: "Good boy, if you have the same temper as your father, I like you. Well said, anyway, there probably won't be any reinforcements for a while, so why don't you go out and kill yourself."

There was a burst of shouting outside the valley, which is the tradition of horse thieves. The ghost screaming before the attack is actually to boost morale.The commander of this Beisha army will be Zhang Dewu, the younger brother of Beisha City who advocates virtue. He personally leads [-] soldiers and horses to ambush, all [-] infantry, but although they are numbered [-], they are actually the real elite There were only two thousand, and the remaining three thousand belonged to the children of the soldiers in Beisha City.In this battle, a large number of children came with the army, not only for the strength of the army, but also for the rest to participate in the looting.If these children participate in the battle, they can get half of the rewards, and half of their seized and looted proceeds will be handed over to the City Lord's Mansion, and the rest will be theirs.Although there were a lot of handovers, they were all robbed anyway, so there were still many people who came.

An ambush yesterday successfully killed more than 1000 heads of Qingni City. Zhang Dewu was very excited. He thought he would be able to annihilate the remaining 500 people in one fell swoop.Unexpectedly, after these green mud soldiers retreated into the small valley, they resisted extremely fiercely. He has attacked nine times in a row, but every time he didn't even rush in to the valley entrance, he fought back and forth, instead Lost [-] troops, the anger can be imagined.

After an hour of adjustments, he readjusted his position, this time he had already issued a death order and must be taken down.Everyone is only allowed to enter, not to retreat, and those who violate the order will be beheaded directly to show the public.He has already thought about it, even if it means killing him, he must be taken down.

"Warriors, prepare to attack!" Zhang De's fighting blood boiled rapidly, "Wash your swords with the blood of the Qingmu dogs!"

Qingnipu and Duli Town are feuds, and the relationship between Beisha City and Qingni City is not much better.Both Qingni City and Beisha City started from horse thieves, Qingnipu also has a port, Beisha City is purely a mountain city, and the strongest armed forces of the two are cavalry, and they are close together, so there is constant friction.However, Beisha City has never defeated Qingni City, because Qingni City has a famous crane control army. The last time Beisha City attacked Qingni City, three thousand cavalry were ambushed directly, three thousand against three Thousands, cavalry against cavalry, as a result, the cavalry in Beisha City was defeated, leaving less than a thousand people to escape.However, the crane control army won a big victory, and the damage was extremely slight.

Duli Town has been suppressing Qingni City, and Qingni City often sneaks into Xiaduli Town to rob them.However, Qingni City suppressed Beisha City, but it made them unable to lift their heads at all, and they were a little frightened when they heard their names.This time, after finally turning over, Zhang Dewei wished to kill everyone in Qingni City.

What responded to him was the wild cries of thousands of soldiers and disciples of Beisha City. The remnant soldiers in the valley withstood their nine attacks. It is believed that they have reached their limit. This time, they will definitely break through the valley and kill all the enemy soldiers.

Zhang Dewu drew out his golden scimitar, pointed in the direction of the valley, and said loudly, "Blow the horn!"

The dull horn of Beisha City sounded, and thousands of troops were divided into several echelons and began to slowly press down on the mouth of the valley.

In the twilight of the morning light before dawn, at the corner of the valley behind the Beisha Army, a flag raised high and fluttering in the wind suddenly appeared, with huge whales embroidered on it, followed by another flag Appeared, but it was embroidered with a ferocious shark.Then two more flags appeared, with Zhenhai written on one side and Raging Waves written on the other.

Then more and more figures appeared, with iron helmets and leather armor, long spears like a forest, horizontal knives out of their sheaths like snow, with countless red flag guns sandwiched in between, and triangular red flags fluttered under the gun heads.

More and more soldiers and horses appeared, entered the rear of the Beisha army, and began to adjust the array on the spot without delay.

The whale flag is on the left and the shark flag is on the right.On the left is the Zhenhai Camp, and on the right is the Nutao Camp.The formation of the two sailor battalions on the land battlefield is very simple. In front is a row of shield walls, then a row of spearmen, then on both sides are sword platooners, and then there are all crossbowmen.

The soldiers and horses did not conceal their arrival at all, they just appeared suddenly, and then slowly pressed forward.

Zhang Dewu looked at the army that suddenly appeared in surprise, and the soldiers beside him whispered: "Zhenhai, Nutao, Shark Banner and Whale Banner, these seem to be the Zhenhai and Nutao fleets of Li Jing in Shamen Township, Dengzhou. No, Li Jing sent troops to help."

Zhang Dewu's complexion changed slightly, he hesitated for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth: "But there are only 2000 people, so why worry. Since they are rushing to die, then I will fulfill him and send an order to stop attacking the valley. Let’s kill the stinky fish and rotten shrimp first, and then go back and clean up the remnant soldiers in the valley, the defeated dogs and the lost dogs.”

In the morning light, Beisha soldiers faced the enemy and changed their formation. Suddenly, the front formation became the rear formation, and the rear formation became the front formation.The formation of thousands of people suddenly became chaotic.While changing formation, the Beisha army has already rushed towards the Shamen army.

Nutao Zhenhai left and right, they are all very calm, without any panic.

Megan looked at the chaotic enemy army with a cold face and did not pursue recklessly. The enemy army was more than twice their size, and they fought slowly.But seeing that the valley was not breached, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. "Send the order, hold your ground, hold your ground, and prepare your crossbow to meet the enemy." After speaking, he turned his head softly to Julie and said, "Sister, quickly take a small group of brothers into the valley and tell them that reinforcements have arrived. There are brothers who can fight, let them prepare and attack from behind the enemy at the right time. Also, let’s see how the father and uncle are doing.”

Julie nodded, "Don't worry, Father, Uncle, and the others have been through so many storms, what is the small storm right now, and nothing will happen, don't worry about it. I'll take a few brothers to watch the time later Machine, just go."

The Beisha army rushed over in a hurry, as if they wanted to swallow the mere two thousand reinforcements in one gulp.

The Salmonella town army did not panic, and prepared to face the battle step by step.When the Beisha army entered the shooting range, the archers fired their arrows together, and the dozens of Beisha soldiers who rushed to the front were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.

(To be continued)