Chapter 484 Who is the enemy?

Chapter 484 Who is the enemy?

"Die!"

With a loud shout, the scalper pulling the cart was stabbed to death by Xue Guyan. Immediately, Xue Guyan's arm, which was thicker than the average person's calf, slammed the horse's cart onto the carriage with a flying swing. With a loud bang, There was a loud sound, sawdust flew, and the large carriage, which was several inches thick, was shattered by the impact, and even the frame cracked!

The blow of the brave general was so powerful that the soldiers chasing after him on horseback cheered loudly. However, before they cheered a few times, they were suddenly attracted by the scene on the car: "This car is full of silk." Silk! I'm afraid there are hundreds of horses in one car..."

Seeing this scene, all the soldiers under Xue Guyan's command widened their eyes, and the soldiers of the Western Army in front of the vehicle formation also retreated, leaving all the carts at the front in place. And when the other knights followed suit and dismantled the carriages, they saw that these carts were all loaded with silk and silk. There were thousands of horses in sight.

Although these soldiers are very capable and brave, it does not mean that they are indifferent to the world. Especially because they are engaged in high-risk jobs where the tip of a knife licks blood, and their desires are much stronger than ordinary people.

Seeing so many silks scattered in front of them, and the Western Army officers and soldiers huddled in the car formation without any fighting spirit, even some people couldn't help but dismounted and rushed to the car to pick up the silks.

"Leave the queue and do not take any unauthorized actions!"

As a successful general in the country, Xue Guyan could not lose all his sanity with just a few thousand pieces of silk and valuables. He subconsciously thought that this must be a trick of the enemy to lure the enemy. A warning sign suddenly appeared in his heart, and he immediately reined in his horse. He rushed out of here and shouted loudly.

Although some soldiers quickly left the place after receiving the order, most of the soldiers were still full of money and could not bear to part with it. Seeing someone dismounting to pick it up as an example, others also followed suit and rushed forward to grab it, grabbing it with their shoulders and hands. , waist and body, all order was lost for a moment, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

"shoot!"

Suddenly, drums sounded loudly in the Western Army's formation, which was originally huddled in the rear. At the same time, a military order was issued from the boat in the river. Hundreds of rockets covered with grease were fired straight at the place where the silk was looted. Some Eastern Army soldiers were directly killed. On the spot, the others who were not hit by the arrows did not end well. The silk wrapped around their bodies was already flammable, and any sparks that splashed up were immediately engulfed in the blazing flames.

There were two to three hundred people who had just left the group to grab silk. At this moment, almost all of them were engulfed in the flames. The only way to save themselves was of course to rush to the nearby valley.

This time I really used money to throw money at people!

Seeing that the enemy's formation was in chaos, Li Tai naturally wanted to make these thousands of silk flowers worth their money. He immediately led his elite cavalry to rush out from the car formation and went straight to kill the remaining enemy cavalry on the nearby battlefield. go.

Li Tai was deeply impressed by Xue Guyan's bravery in destroying a car. Although these vans were indeed temporarily modified, it was really amazing to be able to do this.

Therefore, after rushing out of the car formation, he took the lead and rushed straight towards the brave general.

Xue Guyan saw hundreds of his soldiers being buried in the sea of ​​fire and rivers in an instant, and he was feeling extremely angry. When he saw Li Tai charging towards him, he straightened up and galloped towards Li Tai. past.

Clang!

After a sharp collision, the two sides passed each other. Li Tai felt that the pole in his hand was constantly trembling between his hands as if it was electrified. He could hardly hold it, and the pain in the tiger's mouth of both hands was as if it was being cut by a knife.

But he had no time to marvel at the moment, because there was another enemy soldier in front of him thrusting at him. He raised up his arms and swiped the remaining strength of his arms, knocking the soldier off his horse, but he was unable to make up for the blow, so he could only Using this remaining momentum, he galloped his horse to rush out of the enemy's formation.

Xue Guyan also felt uncomfortable after the head-on collision with Li Tai. The horse he used was larger and heavier than ordinary ones, so it was even harder to release the force. The force of the blow he just struck went straight along the arm to the waist. The sinking made him feel a surge of negative energy, and then he had a hard fight with Gao Le who was following him. His arms became more sore and swollen, and Ma Shan finally lost his grip and fell.

"The thief will be punished!"

Seeing this scene, the two cavalrymen stabbed Xue Guyan with their swords from left and right. When there was no chance of anything happening, Xue Guyan drew out the saber from his waist, lowered himself in front of the horse, swung the blade left and right, and finally got out of here. He dashed out from under the front and took advantage of the moment when their bodies met to cut an enemy soldier's ribs and kill him under his horse.

But not all the soldiers of the Eastern Army were as skilled in martial arts as he was. After a quick charge, nearly a hundred of the soldiers of the Eastern Army who had lost their energy first were hacked to death.

Not long after the battle with each other, nearly half of the more than a thousand elite soldiers brought by Xue Guyan were lost, and the others who had not been involved in the battle already showed signs of fear and were about to flee.

Although Xue Guyan rushed out of the enemy formation with his sword, he couldn't help but be frightened after seeing this scene. He really couldn't imagine that the enemy general he looked down on at first could kill so many of his troops in such a short period of time. Death.

"Who is the thief general? He is so skillful in using troops, he shouldn't be an unknown person!"

He rode his horse around to the south bank of Gushui and formed a team with his subordinates who had gathered here to support him. Then he circled back to the front of the car array and shouted and asked questions to Li Tai's troops who were also arrayed beside the car array.

Li Tai never liked playing tricks with his enemies, so he ignored Xue Guyan's questions. Instead, he pointed the horse in his hand at the opponent and sneered: "Don't leave, thief! If you don't kill me within ten seconds, I will kill you." Get off your horse and you will be lucky!"

Xue Guyan was even more ashamed and angry after hearing this, and he screamed in anger. However, since the enemy was outnumbered and we were outnumbered, and the morale of the two sides was very different, it was useless to fight again, so he turned his horse and fled eastward after throwing a few insults.

Li Tai was full of confidence at this moment, and planned to add another merit of killing the enemy general in the field, so he led his cavalry to continue to follow and pursue. But after chasing for several miles, when he saw the smoke and dust rising in front, he stopped his horse and turned back.

After Xue Guyan gathered reinforcements on the road, he was still upset about the humiliation he suffered before, and he fought back in accordance with the principle of revenge. What he saw was that the enemy generals and cavalry retreated back to the chariot formation again, and continued to advance slowly, as if treating the chariot formation as a mobile camp.

Because of the previous lesson, Xue Guyan did not dare to rashly attack the enemy's chariot formation. If he threw out cartloads of money and silk again, he might repeat the same mistake.

But the humiliation he suffered before was hard to swallow, and he could not just sit back and wait for the enemy to arrive at the Golden Grain City. So Xue Guyan ordered his soldiers to shout and challenge along the chariot formation, and at the same time ordered his soldiers to dig trenches along the river in front to destroy the road for the chariot camp to move forward, in order to force the cavalry troops in the chariot formation out.

But just as his soldiers started digging at the selected location along the river, boats sailing in the river approached, and a rain of arrows washed the ground, shooting and killing those soldiers, leaving behind nothing except a dozen corpses.

"My lord, the enemy army took the risk of leaving the pass to save Jingu City. Now the chariots, cavalry and boats are in sync with each other, and there is no way to stop and kill them. It is better to attack Jingu City with all our strength first, forcing them to lose their composure and rush to rescue, and then we can kill them on the way and trap them both inside and outside!" Seeing that Xue Guyan was a little worried, a general stepped forward and said. After hearing this plan, Xue Guyan's brows relaxed slightly, but then he frowned again and said angrily: "Is Jingu City, with its clear fortifications, easier to conquer than this simple chariot formation?" This chariot formation is certainly not more solid than Jingu City, but it is more difficult to conquer, which is contrary to the clean and neat siege and attack that Xue Guyan had imagined before. If they are close to Jingu City and can communicate with each other inside and outside, it will be more difficult to fight again. So after thinking it over again and again, Xue Guyan decided to conquer Jingu City first, at least to obtain supplies in the city and let the troops rest and recuperate, so as to fight the enemy in a more energetic state.

So Xue Guyan left hundreds of light cavalry to monitor the movements of this group of people along the way, and he personally led the main force back to the camp outside Jingu City and began to attack Jingu City.

In Jingu City, although trapped here and without news from the outside world, Han Xiong also noticed the abnormal behavior of the enemy today, and announced to his people: "The enemy camp has frequent people and horses coming in and out today, and there is a lot of irritability. It must be that Li Kaifu, the governor of the city, led troops to rescue, and the enemy cannot stop it. Later, they may attack this city to disturb the reinforcements. We must defend the city and wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and kill the strong enemy from both inside and outside!"

The soldiers in the city nodded in response, and under the command of Han Xiong, they carried out a series of preparations for war, such as repairing the city defense. When the outsiders put on armor and launched an attack on the city, the defenders did not panic too much because of Han Xiong's predictions in advance, but organized the defense in an orderly manner.

Due to the setbacks in the battle with Li Tai's troops, and in order to prevent more variables, Xue Guyan invested a lot of troops at the beginning of the siege, and launched a joint attack from the river beach, river bank and other places. He also put on armor and rushed to the river bank to fight with the defenders.

Although various preparations had been made, the fierceness of the enemy's offensive was still beyond Han Xiong's expectations. Not long after the two sides fought, a section of the river bank was lost. The enemy, led by his general, even killed the stone bridge leading directly to the inner city gate.

At this critical moment, Han Xiong personally put on the armor and sword given by Li Tai before, and several elite soldiers under his command defended the stone bridge, and repelled the enemy's attacks several times in a row, and then barely pushed the front line back to the river bank. But judging by the intensity of the enemy's offensive, if the reinforcements don't arrive tomorrow, the city may not be able to be defended.

In the evening, Xue Guyan returned to the camp a little tired and ordered his soldiers: "Cook early in the camp tonight, sleep after eating, and attack again at night. We must recapture Cangcheng as soon as possible!"

After thinking for a while, he looked at his soldiers and said in a deep voice: "Bring a bucket of wine, only one bucket, no more! If you make me drunk and make things difficult, I will kill you!"