Will Ming

Chapter 660 Death

Xu Shengnu's ancestral home is Huoyi. His father was originally a general of Huoyi's defenders, and he also served in the Sui army.When the Tang army attacked Huoyi, Song Laosheng sent his father to lure the enemy, but he only gave 1000 troops. After being defeated by Qin Wang Li Shimin, he fled back to Huoyi city. Song Laosheng punished his father with military law, beheaded his father, and sent him to prison.

Prince Li Jiancheng defeated Huoyi, and Liu Hongji killed Song Laosheng.He voted in Liu Hongji's army and always regarded Liu Hongji as a benefactor.

Before dispatching troops, what Liu Hongji said to him touched him deeply.Li Xian, the king of Yan outside the city, was known by almost everyone to be the son of the current emperor, but the emperor refused to recognize him in order to save face.Now that King Yan's troops were approaching the city, the emperor sent soldiers and horses out of the city to ask for help. After all, it was the Li family's business to fight back and forth.It was so many innocent soldiers who died, no matter what, this incident really made people feel a little aggrieved and useless.

As Liu Hongji said, if His Majesty wins this battle, the family members of Paoze who died in the battle may still receive some pensions, but if King Yan wins, how could it be possible to give pensions to the fallen soldiers of the Tang army?The Tang army is defending the city, and the Yanyun army is attacking the city. I don't know how many soldiers of the Yanyun army will die at the hands of the Tang army. If the Tang army is given a pension, isn't the king of Yan afraid of chilling the hearts of the soldiers of the Yanyun army?

So no matter who wins this battle, it will not be a good thing for the soldiers.

So what if the court issues some pensions?

Soldiers died in battle, not fighting foreign enemies, how aggrieved and useless they died?

The struggle between the Li family members involved so many innocent people.

But when Zhang Gongjin told Wei Tianchui, what he said was completely opposite.He told Wei Tianchui that he would rather fight to the death than retreat.His Majesty is in a very bad mood these days, who knows if it will cause thunderous anger?Wei Tianchui was born as a soldier of Zhang Gongjin, and he was also loyal to Zhang Gongjin.He was able to be promoted from a personal soldier to a general of Yingyang Lang, all thanks to Zhang Gongjin's promotion.

Now that Zhang Gong would like to use him, he would naturally serve with his death.

As soon as Zishi arrives, the Mingde Gate in the south of the city and the Tonghua Gate in the east of the city are opened at the same time.The two tiger generals each brought a thousand fine cavalry and rushed out of the city gate. Both Xu Shengnu and Wei Tianchui knew in their hearts that even if they could get out of the Yanyun army's camp this time, there might not be many soldiers left. .Yan Yunjun is a first-class elite army in the world, and he has not lost a single defeat in these years. Fighting against such an opponent, no matter who he is, he will feel uneasy.

Xu Shengnu rushed to the Yanyun army camp first, and when the distance was 120 steps away, the feather arrows came rushing with a piercing wind.Archers can only shoot three arrows before the battle, which refers to cavalry combat.Qingqi's speed was too fast, and the distance of more than 100 steps came in an instant, even the best archer could hardly shoot the fourth arrow.

Xu Shengnu was born as a cavalry soldier, so his archery skills should not be underestimated.Hearing the sound of the bowstring, he lowered his body and hid himself on the side of the horse. Feathered arrows whizzed past his ears, and the cavalry behind him fell from the horse mournfully. These sounds continued to pass into Xu Shengnu's ears.He knew from the moment Yan Yunjun started shooting arrows that this raid might be very difficult to succeed.

Yan Yun's army had been prepared for a long time, Qingqi stepped into the formation, and the opponent's archers were able to gather so quickly and form an array to resist the enemy. The surprise attack could no longer be called a surprise attack, but a hard break.Using a thousand light cavalry to break into the enemy company camp that had been prepared for a long time... This is not a fairy tale, and Yan Yun's army is not a refugee from a bandit, so this battle is destined to be bloody and tragic.

Feather arrows flew towards Xu Shengnu's body, and he was no stranger to the feeling that death was so close.

When he was still thirty or forty steps away from the Yanyun army camp, he sat up straight and leveled the long spear in his hand.

"Kill through the enemy camp!"

He yelled, and Tima leapt over the antlers.

Some of the cavalrymen who were not good at riding directly ran into the horse, and the sharpened wood pierced into the horse's body fiercely. The wood with thick legs left a huge and hideous wound on the horse, and the horse wore it for a while. Still unable to fall, let out a desperate hiss.

The soldiers fell off their horses. If they were lucky, they could stand up and charge forward. If they were unlucky, they were directly knocked down by the horses of Paoze.

The archers of the Yanyun Army began to retreat quickly after three arrows, and retreated to the back of the army along the passage specially left by the spearmen's phalanx behind. The archers retreated, and the spearmen immediately closed the passage.

Following the order of the commanding officer, the spearmen stepped forward four or five steps in order to spread out the formation. The spearmen in the first row squatted down, held the spears tightly with both hands, and raised the spears so that the spears hit the ground superior.

The soldiers in the second row squatted halfway, their spears in their hands were also on the ground, and the spears were raised.Soldiers in the third row fought upright, their spears resting on the shoulders of the soldiers in front, and so did the fourth row, with their spears stretching out row by row, like a huge hedgehog. The same spear exudes a chilling brilliance.

"kill!"

Xu Sheng roared angrily, and pointed forward with his long lance.

But he reined in the horse and slowed down, allowing the cavalry behind him to surpass the past and slam into the spear formation fiercely.

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The high-jumping horse slammed down from the air and crashed into the spear array. The knight on the horse was actually dead before he landed.At least six or seven spears pierced fiercely on the leaping horse.If the knight on horseback is lucky, his legs will be shortened but he will still be alive.Those who were unlucky would be directly poked with dense blood holes by countless spears.

The spear passed through the body of the horse, and the sound when the bones and the spearhead rubbed against each other made one's teeth sore.After the heavy war horse fell down, it was impossible to stand up again, and it was difficult for the spearman of the Yanyun Army who was knocked down to have a chance to stand up again.Light cavalry stepping into the formation, if you want to break through the pikemen who have already formed the formation, there is no other way than relying on the front cavalry to open the way with their lives.

The forest-like spears were too dense, so dense that the soldiers of the Tang army who collided with the least wounds had six or seven places.The war horses died immediately after knocking over a group of spearmen. Their final mission was to use their bodies to clear the way for the cavalry behind them.The formation of the first few rows of spearmen was a little messy, but the casualties of the cavalry of the Tang Army were also huge.

The defense of the light cavalry is extremely low, and the thin leather armor on their bodies can't stop the spears from piercing.As the cavalry and spearmen collided, the wailing of people and the neighing of war horses resounded through the sky.

Xu Shengnu deliberately slowed down a bit, and more than 100 cavalrymen of the Tang Army rushed past him.The long spears of the cavalry are much more lethal than the spears in the hands of the soldiers of the Yanyun Army, and they are also longer. However, the cavalry who rushed to the front had no chance to raise the long spears for the second time, because each of them faced the spear. That's right, more than one spear.

Flesh and blood splattered, murderous aura surged.

None of the more than 100 cavalrymen of the Tang Army in the front survived, and the strongest one was stabbed into a meat paste after rushing in less than ten steps.However, the spear array of the Yan Yun Army was also opened a gap by the cavalry of the Tang Army. Although the gap was not big, it opened a door for the cavalry behind to survive.

"kill!"

Xu Sheng shouted angrily, and rushed into the spear formation.

As the cavalry of the Tang army became fierce, the gap that was knocked open was gradually torn open.The opening is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more cavalry are pouring into the spear formation.

If there were more cavalry of the Tang army, it is very likely that the spear array will be completely torn apart.But Xu Shengnu only had a thousand cavalry, and the spear formation was too thick. If he couldn't get out as soon as possible, all the fine cavalry under his command would be trapped to death by the spear formation as if they were trapped in a quagmire.Once Qingqi loses its advantage in speed and is trapped in the spear formation, the cavalry on horseback will become powerless to fight back, and will be stabbed to death by spearmen in an instant like a straw target.

Xu Shengnu stabbed and slashed and killed four or five soldiers of the Yanyun Army one after another. His killing speed was already extremely fast, but the spear array was too thick, there were at least twenty horizontal rows, and the cavalry who came in suicidally before could only charge away. In the third row, after rushing in, he felt that the four hooves of the war horse seemed to be tripped, and the speed was getting slower and slower.

He pierced the heart of a soldier of the Yanyun Army with one lance, then drew out the lance and swept across the situation, and then cut the throat of another soldier.But just when he was about to stab again, the war horse suddenly wailed and fell to one side.Xu Sheng was shocked in anger, only then did he realize that the soldiers guarding him had been stabbed off the horse by the spear.

A long spear with a wax rod and iron tip pierced into the belly of his mount fiercely. The horse trembled a bit, and as the spear was pulled out, a stream of blood spurted out like a waterfall.This long spear was drawn out, and six or seven spears came immediately, and the sound of puffing was endless, and the horse was immediately poked into a sieve.

Xu Shengnu hastily pulled his feet out of the stirrups, swept the soldiers of the Yanyun army back with a sweeping lance, jumped off the horse's back, rolled on the spot to avoid the two spears, and lanced With a sweep of Feng, three legs were severed.He took the opportunity to stand up and retreat quickly, and the murderous spearmen of the Yanyun Army immediately filled up in front of him.

"General retreat quickly!"

The cavalry of the Tang army were completely trapped as if they had fallen into a quagmire. The formation like a long dragon was gradually cut and divided by the Yan Yun army.

"If you can't rush out, then retreat, and I will naturally speak for you before Your Majesty."

"In this fight, the ones who were killed were not Turkic people, not Goguryeo people, but each other. Even if there are more people killed, what's the point?"

"No matter who wins, it will be a member of the Tian Family after all."

Liu Hongji's words echoed in Xu Shengnu's ears. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and suddenly laughed: "General, please forgive the disrespect of the general! Today's battle is to the death, and the general will be killed if he reports to the general." Father's revenge!"

"kill!"

Xu Sheng shouted angrily,