Horse on the World

Chapter 315 Chasing and Killing
Li Shanbin was panicked like a bereaved dog, anxious like a fish slipping through the net, only led more than a hundred of his own soldiers, took the road away, abandoned Qixia pass, and went to Nantou. Behind him, there were thousands of defenders in the pass, lost Commanding, there was a mess, some cheered up and threw themselves into the defensive battle, some abandoned their knives and guns, took off their military uniforms, and stood against the wall, and some even took the opportunity to make trouble, rushing into the homes of the people in the city, burning and killing them. Looting and doing evil wantonly happened. At this time, personnel from the Statistics and Investigation Department's Foreign Intelligence Agency also set fires everywhere in the city, causing chaos.

After entering the city, Li Feng had no time to care about this. After leading the cavalry into the city, he immediately divided up the troops according to the strategy drawn up in advance, controlled the key points in the city, took over the city defense, occupied the yamen, warehouses, and controlled the main roads. The main force went straight to the barracks in the city, and directly blocked a large number of soldiers in the barracks. Although the barracks gate was closed, the Qixiaguan soldiers without a leader watched in horror as more and more cavalry gathered outside the barracks, not knowing what to do.Several leading lieutenants gathered together and temporarily formed a command organization to discuss how to face the immediate crisis. In fact, there are only two paths, surrender or die in battle.It is more hopeful to count on the thin camp gate and wooden fence to block the wolf-like Dingzhou cavalry than to count on the sow to climb the tree.

At present, Li Feng has about 2000 mobile troops available, half of which are used to control the city defense and various important institutions, and hundreds of cavalry followed Wang Qi from the Statistics and Investigation Department to chase the escaped Li Shanbin. In the barracks opposite him, there were still more than [-] Qixiaguan defenders. If these soldiers were brave enough to fight, Li Feng would not be sure to take them down for a while.

In fact, this is because Li Feng overestimated the defenders of Qixia Pass, and also underestimated the combat power of his cavalry in Yizhou Battalion. One of the main reasons for this is that Li Feng has seen a lot in Dingzhou and how the Dingzhou infantry are so easy to handle. Use the rest to deal with the barbarian iron cavalry. There are not many ways for the cavalry to deal with the densely formed infantry, especially when the infantry is well equipped. In the battle just now, Li Feng found that the Qixia Pass infantry The first stomach is really not bad.Even if the Qixiaguan garrison was a bit weaker than the Dingzhou army, their own cavalry were not as fierce as the barbarians!

From this incident, we can also see the difference in personality between Li Feng and Li Qing. Although Li Feng, who grew up in a greenhouse, has made great progress in the past few years, he always thinks more about difficulties when encountering problems. Waiting for the objective situation, while Li Qing, who has been through a lot of weather, is more concerned about how much benefit he can get. If the benefit is large enough, then it is worth paying a certain sacrifice.

Li Feng didn't think about it for long, and the matter was resolved unexpectedly, because the guards of Qixia Pass decided to surrender.A Zhenwu Xiaowei named Yueqing came to see Li Feng on behalf of the soldiers in the battalion and expressed their intentions.

"General Li!" Yueqing already knew that the Dingzhou cavalry general in front of him was actually the younger brother of Li Qing, the commander in chief of Dingzhou. "General Li, it was my General Li's idea to detain Dingzhou's food and grass. We didn't know about it. Besides, Dingzhou and I have always been in the same state. I have always admired you, but the matter has come to this point, it is useless to say more, we and the state army do not want to fight with you, so we decided to stop the resistance to avoid unnecessary bloodshed on both sides. In order to show our sincerity, we are willing to lay down our arms and Obey the supervision of your army until the high-level officials of Dingzhou and Bingzhou make a decision on this matter. We only have one request, and that is to ask your army to ensure the safety of our soldiers, respect the dignity of our soldiers, and not plunder our soldiers the property of."

Yueqing's words were extremely beautiful, although it was a surrender, but when he said it, it was extremely grandiose, and the righteousness was extremely awe-inspiring, and he seemed to be selfless and caring for both families.

Li Feng wanted to laugh a little, thinking that Yueqing could be regarded as a character, but it would be nice if the matter could be resolved in this way. The task of the Yizhou Battalion was only to capture Qixia Pass, not to kill how many soldiers at Qixia Pass. Weapons are the best. As for the follow-up matters, they are beyond his control. In a few days, Feng Guo will lead the Panshi Battalion to take over Qixia Pass, and he will take care of these troublesome matters.

Dismounting from his horse, Li Feng clasped his fists and said, "Lieutenant Yue understands righteousness deeply, and Li Feng is inexplicable in his admiration. Li Shanbin inexplicably seized our supplies in Dingzhou, with the intention of causing our army to be defeated by barbarians on the grassland. This person must be a barbarian spy. Our army attacked Qixia Pass is also a helpless move. The army cannot be without food for a day. Presumably Le Xiaowei also knows that now Li Shanbin has deducted hundreds of thousands of catties of food from our army for no reason. My commander is furious. This move has greatly affected The war between our army against the barbarians, so we had to act like a thunderbolt. Our army has no malicious intentions towards your army. I, Li Feng, will bear all the things Le Xiaowei said. But there is one thing that is still in Qixia Your soldiers who resist our army are not included in the guarantee."

Yue Qing bowed deeply, "Thank you, General Li. I will return to the camp to convey General Li's kindness to the soldiers, and then I can invite General Li to enter the camp to take over."

"Please Captain Yue!" Li Feng smiled and held out his hand.

Half an hour later, the defenders in the barracks put down their weapons and stood in rows, watching the Dingzhou cavalry enter the camp.

After Qixia Pass was breached, Li Shanbin fled in a hurry. Li Feng didn't care to chase him, but there was one person who was following him. This person was Wang Qi from the Operations Department of the Statistics and Investigation Department. More than a hundred members of Qi's special service team were killed by Li Shanbin and dozens of his own soldiers. Every death of a team member made Wang Qi feel distressed. With strong support, only two hundred people have been trained in the past few years, and most of this battle has been lost. How can Wang Qi not be frustrated? Why is Qi willing?Seeing that Li Shanbin had slipped away, Wang Qi hurriedly begged Li Feng for a wing of five hundred hussars, and then went straight after Li Shanbin. Anyway, the overall situation of Qixia Pass has been settled, and he has nothing to do.

Li Feng knew that Wang Qi was one of the people in charge of this operation, and seeing that he was so eager to count cavalry on him, he thought that Wang Qi still had some important mission, so he didn't think about it, and immediately sent [-] cavalry to him.It wasn't until I saw Zhong Jing that I realized what was going on, and I couldn't help but stumble. This is not Dingzhou, but Bingzhou. If the army from other places in Bingzhou hears the news and comes to help, my five hundred cavalry will beat dogs with meat buns .But Wang Qi was already far away, and Li Feng had nothing to do, so he could only secretly pray to the gods and Buddhas to bless Wang Qi to quickly catch up with Li Shanbin and bring him back.

Li Shanbin didn't escape very far. The horses under his and his soldiers' crotches really couldn't compare with the horses assigned by Yizhou Camp in Dingzhou. These horses came from the good horses that Li Qing plundered after defeating the grassland tribes. It was extremely long, Li Shanbin only escaped for less than an hour, and the pursuers behind him caught up.

Wang Qi hated Li Shanbin very much, as soon as he entered the range of a first-grade bow, he immediately drew his bow and shot arrows, and the cavalrymen of the Yizhou Battalion behind him also drew their arrows and shot. One is to turn around and shoot at the horse, and the other is to shoot arrows at the same time. Under the ebb and flow of each other, judgments are made, all the way to flee, all the way to shoot each other, the Yizhou battalion lost Liao Liao, and Li Shanbin's soldiers followed one by one. The ground turned over and fell off the horse, and the number of people became smaller and smaller.What made Li Shanbin even more uncomfortable was that after Qixia Pass, there was nowhere to hide.

After another hour, Li Shanbin and his soldiers were already foaming at the mouth, and they couldn't see it. Wang Qi chased him closer, and finally surrounded Li Shanbin.

Li Shanbin's face was ashen, he didn't expect to die here today, as soon as the horse stopped under his crotch, he immediately died, his legs gave way, and he fell to the ground, if it wasn't for his strong back, he would have been thrown off the horse.

With spears in hand, Li Shanbin and his soldiers formed a circle, back to back, but they had no intention of surrendering. Li Shanbin knew his own family affairs, and he withheld Dingzhou's grain. He offended Li Qing to death, so he surrendered , There is no good end, it is better to die in battle, to be honored as a soldier.Fortunately, his wife and children have gone to the south with Zhong Ziqi. Over the years, the family property he has accumulated is enough for them to live comfortably. Thinking of a pair of lovely children and a delicate wife, Li Shanbin's nose sores and he almost shed tears.

"General, what should we do?" A bodyguard trembled nervously. There were only dozens of them left, while the opponent had hundreds, and they were all cavalry. There was no suspense in this battle. As long as the opponent charged, he These people are all done.

"You can surrender!" Li Shanbin said: "But I will never be humiliated. I can only die in battle. Those who are willing to leave put down their swords and guns and leave on their own. I think the other party will not embarrass you who put down their swords and guns."

The soldiers were silent for a while, but no one left the circle. Li Shanbin's eyes showed relief, "Brothers, thank you very much, I am the one who harmed you."

"Wish to live and die with the general!" the soldiers shouted loudly.

Seeing these soldiers on the verge of extinction, the cavalrymen of the Yizhou Battalion showed admiration in their eyes, knowing that they must die and not afraid of death, these enemies are also worthy of respect.

With a whoosh, Wang Qi shot out an arrow, and the sharp arrow pierced Li Shanbin's front and feet, "Li Pif, if I had known today, I would regret it. You killed so many good brothers of mine, now think about how grandpa would kill you, right? "

Li Shanbin was furious, "If you want to fight, you can fight, why bother to insult others, Li is a manly man, how can you insult him like this!"

"Damn!" Wang Qi spit angrily, "You son of a bitch, you're still a manly man, I beat you to death on the prairie, and blood flowed with barbarians, and you stumbled behind your back Sister, stabbing a knife, are you still a mother from Dachu? People like you are also called a man, and a man will be ashamed to death that day."

Li Shanbin couldn't help but waved his spear, "Why talk too much, come on, Mr. Li is waiting for you!"

Wang Qi sneered, raised the bow and arrow in his hand, and ordered loudly, "Brothers, draw your bow and arrow, shoot these dogs in the face of the hedgehog, and avenge our dead brothers."

Hundreds of longbows were raised at the same time, and sharp arrows were strung up, aiming at the circle of soldiers in the center.

Li Shanbin smiled miserably, "Brothers, I am ashamed of you, I will be brothers with you in the next life!"

(End of this chapter)