Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 839 The Battle of Life and Death ([-])

Almost all Xiangfu soldiers fought in a state of numbness, relying entirely on the body's instinctive reaction developed by countless trainings in daily life to repeatedly assassinate.

With the assistance of the melee soldier, Wei Ziqi had already occupied the position of taking a step forward. His spear controlled the gap between the opponent's two men, preventing the opponent's back row from making up. Wei Ziqi made another assassination to the right, killing a Liao army spearman on the right, Wei Ziqi immediately took a step back and returned to the queue.

The Liao soldier in front of him rushed forward, shouting and stabbing at Wei Ziqi with his long spear. The tip of the spear expanded rapidly in front of his eyes. Aiming at the Liao soldier's chest, Wei Ziqi closed his eyes in despair, a force came from his hand, and then his face turned cold. When Wei Ziqi opened his eyes, he saw that the armored soldier on the opposite side couldn't slow down. , bumped into the tip of his gun, pushed hard with his hand, and the armored soldier fell on his back.

The spear blade on the opposite side cut a gash in Wei Ziqi's face, and the blood flowed down his cheek, but he didn't feel it at all. The rapid secretion of adrenaline greatly increased his strength and endurance, and the high tension left him with no time to care about the enemy. anything.

After the first batch of casualties occurred, the two sides fought more and more frantically, and there was no more careful temptation. Rulin's long spears huffed and puffed in clusters, quickly harvesting lives, and someone fell every breath in the middle, and often even two people stabbed at the same time. On the other side, corpses almost covered the front line, and the two armies still did not retreat, showing the strongest combat power of this era.

Wei Ziqi had already changed people on both sides, and the second one on the right. His own face was covered with blood, and another spearman from the opposite side rushed forward again. He leaned just in time to avoid the sharp stabs of the Liao soldiers in front, and then he lost his balance and fell to the ground.

A long spear quickly took over his position and stabbed towards the opposite side with the whistling sound of the wind. A pair of shoes stepped on Wei Ziqi's body several times. Wei Ziqi half stood up in panic. The wriggling wounded, the strong smell of blood filled the air, surrounded by countless swaying dense human legs.

Amid the sky-shattering shouts and hoarse screams, Wei Ziqi took a few breaths. He finally saw what stabbed his calf. It was the Liao army soldier he killed just now. He lay on his back and did not die. , a hole was pierced in his chest by the spear blade, and blood was gurgling, he raised his upper body with difficulty, holding a long spear tremblingly in his hand, and wanted to stab another Xiangfu army.

Wei Ziqi pulled out the dagger from his waist, resisted the sharp pain coming from his calf, and rushed towards him with all his strength, and pressed the spear shaft under his body with a slap. Back on the ground, Wei Ziqi's calf was getting more and more painful, and the blood from the wound on his face dripped down his jaw, and Wei Ziqi spat out what had flowed into his mouth.

He immediately crawled along the barrel of the gun and pressed down on the Liao soldier. The ground was soaked in blood and felt sticky to the touch. He quickly crawled to the Liao soldier who was exhausted and raised his hand weakly to Wei Ziqi. When his head was knocked, Wei Ziqi couldn't help but stab the dagger into his neck, and stirred it desperately a few times, the wound made a spitting sound of blood, the Liao soldier opened his mouth wide, and turned his head to one side.

Just as Wei Ziqi drew out his dagger, another Liao soldier fell down on it. The blood from the wound sprayed on Wei Ziqi's head. Countless human legs, still with dangling spear shafts, and he has nowhere to go.

He hurriedly repaired a dagger for the Liao soldier who had just fallen, and then grabbed a waist knife beside him, which was left by the melee soldier next to him at the beginning. A shadow was approaching seven or eight paces away.

Wei Ziqi turned his head immediately. A broad-shouldered Liao soldier was holding a ladder knife in his hand. His face was stained with blood and his eyes were fierce. Coloring without the slightest fear.

Wei Ziqi quickly got up and adjusted his posture to fight, but before Wei Ziqi could adjust, the man had already rushed over, stabbing Wei Ziqi's neck with the Ladder Knife in his hand, Wei Ziqi eagerly swung his left iron arm, and the Ladder Knife made an unpleasant sound The Liao soldiers were blocked by the sound of rubbing, and the Liao soldiers rushed towards them with undiminished momentum. The two rolled on the ground several times and wrestled together. The fierce fighting caused blood to splash on the ground.

The two desperately wanted to hold each other down. Wei Ziqi dropped his waist knife and grabbed his opponent's right hand tightly. The Liao soldiers also grabbed Wei Ziqi's right hand holding the dagger. Grabbing the back of his right hand, he was like a mad tiger, kicking desperately with his feet, Wei Ziqi was repeatedly kicked in the calf wound, his face turned pale from the pain, and the blood loss from several wounds made him feel very tired. The exhaustion was very serious. However, although the Liao soldier was stronger than Wei Ziqi, the tactics of Tianxiang Fuguo's tired soldiers obviously worked. After a burst of force, the Liao soldier felt that the strength in his body was rapidly draining, and he had the upper hand , and had turned over to overturn Wei Ziqi, but he had no strength to persist. Wei Ziqi lifted his upper body violently, and slammed his forehead against Liao Bing's face. Liao Bing's nasal bone was almost broken, and the intense pain stimulated As far as his eyes were concerned, his eyes were blurred, and he wanted to press Wei Ziqi hard, but these days of hunger and cold, and a serious lack of sleep and rest, he simply had more energy than he wanted.

Wei Ziqi swung the dagger violently, Liao Bing's neck tilted and he screamed, Lao Gao's blood sprayed from the back of his neck.The screams around were mixed with countless screams of panic.The lack of stamina like this Liao soldier happened to almost all Liao soldiers.

Wei Ziqi closed the ghost gate and walked around, turned his head excitedly to look around, the spear formation of Xiangfu Kingdom was advancing in front of him, the infantry of the Liao army fled behind, and a group of Xiangfu cavalry from the west rushed diagonally, and began to chase and kill those deserters .The Xiangfu infantry with iron spears and crossbows rushed out from the two wings and the gaps, and ran to pursue them. When they met a small group of Liao soldiers who resisted, they stood in line and shot with fast crossbows, and then began to assassinate at close quarters, defeating them. A unit of stubborn Liao soldiers.

The results of the decisive battle of the infantry phalanx soon affected the cavalry in the melee. Where the infantry phalanx passed, it was easy to stab the Liao cavalry to death. Soon, more than 1 cavalry from the Liao state also joined. In the ranks of the rout, ran to the depths of the valley.There were also those who climbed up the hillsides on both sides in a panic, trying to escape over the mountains, but they didn't know that there were special brigades behind the mountains on both sides and deep in the valley.

"The phalanx maintain the front line, march forward quickly, drive the Liao soldiers into the valley, and don't let any one escape." General Yang Jiye's familiar voice sounded from behind.

Hearing the familiar tone, Wei Ziqi opened his mouth and let out two short hahas, and then burst out laughing.

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Xiao Dage looked at the collapsing army with a pale face. They ran away in panic, and even scattered the soldiers around him who were still standing on their posts. They had completely become bereaved dogs. As a result, even the people who supervised the battle were instantly overwhelmed and had to follow and flee.

Nearly 3000 infantrymen dismounted from their horses and lost more than 600 people before the battle. The losses after approaching were even greater, especially the fast crossbowmen on the hillsides on the two wings of the Xiangfu Army were very dense, with two companies of nearly [-] soldiers and four companies The fast crossbow continued to shoot from beginning to end, and the two wings of the Liao army could not bear that kind of loss, so they had to fight with bows and arrows at a long distance, so that the two wings not only failed to form a breakthrough, but also suffered great losses.

The spearmen of the Liao army in the middle also did not gain an advantage in the confrontation, but were quickly defeated by the opponent in battle. Xiao Dage knew just by looking at the formation. The dense army of Xiangfu Kingdom has gradually lost their fighting spirit.

Xiao Dage was tongue-tied. Although he knew that this was a life-for-life fight, he even thought about the worst plan of losing two of his soldiers in exchange for one of his opponents because of the poor physical strength and condition of the soldiers on his side.But he never thought that he would lose miserably when the number of people was two or three times that of the opponent, and he lost so quickly that even most of the people behind had no time to invest.

The commander of the soldiers next to him said in a trembling voice: "My lord, if you run to the depths of the valley, you will die sooner or later. I will lead someone to protect my lord and escape from the north over the mountain. I saw that many brothers have already fled over the mountain. At that time, my lord will gather together." Part of the army, we fled back to Wuzhou."

"Run?" Xiao Dage said desperately, "The entrance of the valley is blocked, and the mountains on these three sides are not very high. You think the other party will be unprepared behind the mountains. A rebel army will capture or kill us, and how many of us can escape."

The commander of the personal soldiers didn't know what to say, he simply knelt down and said, "I swear to follow the prince to the death."

The so-called defeat like a mountain is the scene in front of you. Whether it is Xiao Dage, Shi Fat, or some generals, it is difficult to stop or regroup people to counterattack, unless the army of the Xiangfu Kingdom stops chasing and killing, but how is that possible? .

The Liao army, who had completely lost their fighting spirit, panicked and howled and ran wildly on the battlefield. Their weapons, armor and helmets were scattered all over the ground. They had only one idea left, which was to go to the rear to grab a horse and escape before others .But they forgot that even if they snatched the horse, they were out of the valley.On the contrary, there is no horse that can climb the mountain and escape from this valley with bare hands.

(End of this chapter)