Updated: 2013-06-02

Chapter 178 Chu Feng (Part 2)

The dust and smoke rising behind the military formation and the faint sound of killing made Li Xiaozong's heart tighten. From the beginning of Mandu Wolf coming towards him with two thousand Mandu Flag cavalry, Li Xiaozong began to feel uneasy. He had been an opponent of Mandu Wolf for three years, and he knew what the other party was, so after he found out that it was inappropriate, the first thing he did was to order Pan Mei to quickly retreat and defend Qingxia with a Zhe Chong camp, but... it was still too late.

A qualified general can roughly determine the number of enemies from the smoke and dust raised from behind. Li Xiaozong could guess without sending a scout to inquire about the news that Pan Mei, the Zhe Chong Camp's troops, were probably trapped in the siege at this time. In addition, Pan Mei's arrogant personality may not be able to maintain the formation when retreating. When suddenly attacked, it is really worrying whether the Zhe Chong Camp can still be kept.

"Zhao Sen, take a Zhe Chong battalion and immediately go back to support Pan Mei. You can use tactics to determine the situation. If Pan Mei is rescued, you must save him. If Pan Mei is deeply in a difficult situation, you can immediately bring people to tear the hole and ensure that the canyon is unblocked no matter what!"

"General!"

Zhao Sen said anxiously: "If I take another Zhechong camp away, you will only have two Zhechong camp troops left. Two thousand four hundred infantry... Mandu Lang has two thousand elite cavalry, I'm afraid..."

"You don't have time to worry about me."

Li Xiaozong said coldly: "I said that since I am your chief general today, you can only obey this choice for any order I have. And you should understand that compared to opening the channel for the subsequent team of troops, I am insignificant."

"Here!"

Looking at Li Xiaozong's firm and determined face, Zhao Sen knew that he could not shake the young general's determination. Although Li Xiaozong was cautious enough to lead troops out of the canyon, he still made the mistake of underestimating the enemy and advancing. According to the twelve military orders issued by His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, if someone had ulterior motives to hold on, it would be a death sentence.

He didn't know this young general very well, he only knew that he was from the Li family in Longyou and the nephew of General Li Yuanshan. When he was in the Martial Arts Academy, President Zhou even praised him more than once. Of course, he also knew that Li Xiaozong was reused before the war, and almost cut off his future and life.

Originally, Zhao Sen had no respect for such a young and famous general. But today, the determination on Li Xiaozong's face made him sincerely admire him.

"Precaution, General!"

Zhao Sen clasped his fists and turned around and left.

"Wait!"

Li Xiaozong called him and ordered: "Blow the horns and gather the 200 cavalry that scattered out. If Pan Mei cannot rescue her, you use these 200 cavalry to tear a hole and fight out."

"We only have these 200 cavalrymen, so it's better to keep the support of the general!"

Zhao Sen said loudly.

"yes……"

Li Xiaozong sighed: "We only have 200 cavalry, which is awesome. But this is the battlefield. Because the two hundred cavalry are precious, it must be used in the most suitable place. Go... No matter what the situation of the battle here, you are not allowed to support me. Even if I die here, you don't need to collect the body. Qingxia... is your position."

"Here!"

Zhao Sen shouted loudly, rubbed his sore nose and left with great strides. After taking away a Zhe Chong camp, the people in Li Xiaozong's hands became thinner. The Mandu wolf on the opposite side seemed not in a hurry to attack, but watched Li Xiaozong divide his troops again with interest.

"Tale!"

After seeing a group of troops from the Sui army's back team split, Mandulang smiled and ordered: "Give you three hundred teams, do you dare to tear the Sui army from the middle!"

The person named Tale is a very burly grassland man with a typical beard of grassland people, thick eyebrows and angrily, and his voice is like a bell ringing.

"Why don't you dare? If the general is willing to reward me as a beauty from the Northern Liao area, I dare to take three hundred cavalry to Fan Gu!"

"Ha ha!"

Mandu Wolf laughed and said, "If you capture Li Xiaozong alive, I will reward you two beauties from Northern Liao, and add a cold cavalry from Northern Liao!"

"Thank you, General!"

Tale smiled and did not take the more than 2,000 Sui elite soldiers on the opposite side seriously.

"Boys, go kill with me!"

He roared, took off the mace tied on his back and rushed out. The Sanbai Mandu flag cavalry followed him, screaming and rushed forward. It looked like three hundred hungry wolves who saw their prey. The Mongolian cavalry was extremely fast, and everyone was a good horseman. They could even easily control wild horses without saddles and feet, just as natural as the southerners drove a boat.

The three hundred cavalrymen used Tale as arrows to form a very sharp conical formation that rushed towards the Great Sui army formation.

This is the first time that the Mongols and the Sui people have confronted each other head-on in more than a hundred years. Although the scale of this confrontation is not large, it is of far-reaching significance. Whether it is Mandu Wolf or Li Xiaozong, they all know the significance of this first battle. Whoever wins will take the lead.

If the Mongols and Yuan people slaughtered all the five thousand Sui troops that passed through the canyon, then the pride of the Great Sui soldiers would be smashed into a gap.

"Undefeated in a hundred battles?"

Mandu Wolf looked at the fluttering red Great Sui Battle Banner opposite, and a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "What I am destroying today is your undefeated reputation!"

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"Zhang Zhen, Cui Min comes."

Li Xiaozong ordered loudly: "You two protect the wings. You are not allowed to move without my military order. Even if the cavalry of the Mongolian Yuan rushed into the central army, you would not be allowed to rescue you if you didn't hear the sound of the horn!"

"Here!"

The other two teeth generals Zhang Zhen and Cui Minlai responded at the same time, and turned back to the two wings to preside over the battle formation.

"Arrowman!"

Li Xiaozong urged the horse to move forward and went to the front of the battle formation to command himself.

"Shoot the arrow!"

Following the order of Li Xiaozong, the archers standing in the front pulled out a special feather arrow from the quiver. The whole body was painted bright red, thicker than ordinary feather arrows. After the order, the archers in the first row immediately placed this special feather arrow on the bowstring, and more than a hundred people shot the arrows in a uniform manner. The elevation angle of their arrows was very high, and the feather arrows shot were the limit of the range of the hard bows in their hands.

More than a hundred red feather arrows shot out in a volley, drew a beautiful arc in the air and landed one after another. About 230 steps away, a red line appeared on the ground. This feather arrow is called a marker. Its function is to let the archers know clearly when the enemy enters the range.

When the horse hooves of the three hundred cavalrymen of Talena jumped over the red line composed of arrows, Li Xiaozong suddenly raised the flag.

"First round, shooting, shooting arrows!"

More than three hundred archers immediately raised their hard bows and replaced them with expensive armor-breaking cones. This feather arrow can easily tear off the thin iron armor. Unless the enemy is wearing several layers of thick leather armor or wearing expensive chain armor, it cannot stop the shooting of the armor-breaking cones.

The first round of feather arrows drew an arc in the air, and more than 300 feather arrows smashed into the array of Mandu flag cavalry like hail falling in the air. The first round of ejection was a cover strike and had no accuracy. However, because of the large coverage of this kind of blow, and the feather arrows fell from mid-air, it was difficult to defend. For the group charge of infantry, the archers who defended one side had great lethality. However, for the light cavalry that was moving forward at a fast speed, the lethality of the ejection was greatly reduced.

The feather arrows hit the crowd of the Mandu flag cavalry, and immediately twenty or thirty cavalry were shot and dropped. Tale waved the mace and smashed two feather arrows one after another, and the wildness in his eyes became stronger and stronger. It was obviously not suitable to smash the feather arrows with heavy weapons like a mace, but his arms were extremely powerful, and the mace that ordinary people could not dance was as light as a bamboo pole in his hand.

"kill!"

Tale roared, and the Mandu flag cavalry behind him roared neatly.

"Huha!"

Huha is the slogan of the charge of the Mongol Yuan cavalry. It is almost the same as the shouting forward when the Great Sui army charged.

"The second round, flat shot, release!"

Li Xiaozong issued another order, and more than 300 archers put down some of the hard bows, raised them slightly, and the feather arrows shot out in an instant. The second order was finished, and Li Xiaozong immediately waved the order flag and said, "The third round, shoot, release!"

The archers stared at the cavalry in front of the enemy. In the third round, more than 300 feather arrows shot out very densely. The feather arrows shot were like a huge fist, hitting hard at the oncoming Mandu flag cavalry. Tale danced the mace in front of him and pushed away three or four feather arrows in succession, but in the end it still showed some void. A feather arrow tore open his leather armor and drilled into his shoulders.

The pain made the burly grassland man even more violent. He ignored the feather arrow trembling on his shoulders and urged the war horse to crash straight into the Sui army formation.

"Arrow retreat!"

Li Xiaozong ordered loudly: "The giant shield hand moves forward, and the long spear hand is arranged in an array!"

About one hundred soldiers holding high giant shields quickly succeeded the archer and rushed to the front. With the command of the commander, one hundred giant shields poked heavily on the ground, just like a wall suddenly popping out of the land. The long spear hand behind the giant shield rushed behind, erected the long spear on the giant shield, and raised the spear's edge.

The well-trained Great Sui Right Guards completed the formation change in a very short time. In an instant, the army formation turned into a hedgehog that shrank into a ball.

A bang!

The cavalry of Mandu flag hit the giant shield hard. The soldiers who were half-squatting on the ground carrying the giant shield on their shoulders were knocked over and were stepped on by the war horses that followed. The wailing sounded immediately. However, the cavalry of Mandu flag who had stepped on them was also stabbed to death by the long spear raised on the opposite side. After the twenty cavalry who rushed in the front broke a hole in the shield formation, they completed their mission and sacrificed their lives.

"Kill the army of the Sui people and cut down their general flag!"

Half of his body was already blistered by blood, Tale smashed the head of a Great Sui soldier with a stick. The skin helmet was smashed to pieces, and the bright red blood and white brain mass burst out, mixed with many broken bones. The Great Sui soldier fell softly before he could make a shout, and then his ribs were broken by Tale's war horse.

Tale brought about 200 remaining cavalrymen tore open the shield formation of the Sui Dynasty like a knife, but was deeply trapped in the spear formation and could not extricate himself. The dense long spear, which was as dense as a forest, made the cavalry like falling into a quagmire, and could not use the speed advantage of the light cavalry at all.

Tale fought with the Sui people for the first time in his life, but not the first time he killed people. He led his troops to massacre other tribes on the grassland several times. Those small tribes who did not respect the orders of the Mandu Banner's banner owners had to die. He was extremely powerful and was a famous warrior in the Mandu Banner.

But today, the warrior found that his strength could not be used at all.

Those hateful Sui people, their spear formations were like the natural nemesis of cavalry! Once the cavalry, who came and went like the wind, fell into it, the knights sitting high on the horse's back became targets for those long spear hands.

Tale kept waving his mace and smashed the four Sui people's long spearmen to death one after another. But his war horse only took one step forward.

Just as he swept away the Sui army soldiers in front of him, two long spears stabbed from the left, and with a puff, he dug his war horse's belly hard. When the spear tip was pulled out, the internal organs of the war horse mixed with sticky and smelly blood suddenly fell out.

The war horse slowly fell down after wailing, and Tale's unstable body fell down.

Before he could stand up, a long spear stabbed hard at his chest. He rolled violently and let out the spear tip, but a sharp pain came from his calf.

Tale screamed, and when he looked down, he found that his left leg had been pierced and nailed to the ground by a long spear. He wanted to dance the mace to break the damn long spear. As soon as his arm was raised, he was poked by the second spear. The next second, the third spear penetrated into his lower abdomen, and the next second, the fourth spear penetrated into his heart.

Five or six large Sui long spearmen surrounded the tall grassland man who fell to the ground, constantly lifting the long spears, and then poked them down fiercely.

After a moment... how can you see the man's appearance?
Chapter completed!