Chapter 753
The Shatuo generals on duty at night were one named Xue Atan and the other named An Xiuxiu. Both were Li Siyuan's command of the capital and both were incompetent. Both were in their early twenties and had a very similar background. Both were in their late teenage generals, and they both joined the army in their teenage years. When Li Keyong first rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, they had just joined the army. At that time, they were just new recruits. A few years later, they had become a fierce general among the young generation of Shatuo.
During the Battle of Daibei, the two protected the Liu family and broke through the siege. Later, they volunteered to join Li Siyuan's suicide squad and resolutely returned to Daibei. At the beginning, Li Siyuan and Li Sizhao's brothers returned to Daibei to find Li Keyong. In the end, only eighteen cavalry returned to Li Keyong, Xue Atan and An Xiuxiu were one of them. Since then, both of them have become Li Siyuan's confidant guards and gradually promoted to command the army as an officer. Now, they have been through dozens of battles and have become commanders of the Hengshen Capital.
In addition, there is another one, Du Yuhou, who is in charge of military discipline this time. It is Shi Jingsi, a white-robed general who was born in a personal guard by Li Keyong.
After Guo Chongtao led 10,000 troops into the pass, there were only 5,000 soldiers left in the military capital, of which 3,000 were Li Siyuan's rushing capital, the remaining more than a thousand were wounded soldiers, and one thousand were Shi Jingsi's personal soldiers of Yu Hou.
Tonight, Li Siyuan went to bed very early.
Xue Atan and An Xiuxiu were drinking and barbecue under the night, chatting about women and fine wine. Shi Jingsi had just taken off her clothes and was jumping into the big water tank to take a shower when he suddenly heard the sound of an alarm bell coming from the closed door.
At that moment, he didn't even have time to put on his clothes. He ran out of the yard with his upper body naked. His personal soldiers had already led the war horse. He jumped on the horse naked, picked up the horn bow, and rushed directly to the east gate. His hundred personal guards immediately got on the horse and rushed over. As he rushed over, more soldiers were coming behind him.
At this time, Dongguanmen was already in chaos.
The Marquis of Handan, Fu Cun, the leader of the cavalry, took the five hundred elite troops he had selected, and mixed in sheep's clothing and successfully approached the city wall, entered the city gate, and raided and controlled the door.
Amid the explosion of the thunder, Han Jiahou, the leader of the Flying Cavalry Army, Yang Shihou, immediately led the 5,000 Flying Cavalry Light Cavalry and the remaining part of the brigade cavalry to rush towards Jundu Pass. At the beginning, the Shatuo soldiers guarding the city wanted to regain the closing gate. Unfortunately, Fu Cun was prepared. Although only five hundred soldiers were guarding the closing gate at the beginning, the crossbow they carried was extremely sharp, with one crossbow and seven arrows. Although this newly developed crossbow of the Ordnance Division had various shortcomings, he also had one biggest advantage, that is, he could shoot seven arrows in a row without stopping to load, which made Fu Cun's five hundred people instantly equivalent to a long-range attack of three thousand people.
Moreover, after shooting these seven arrows, they did not need to take time to fill them up. They also brought thunder fire. Each of them carried twenty thunder fires, which were much shorter than crossbow arrows. Although the range was much shorter, the attack distance was only more than ten feet, but the power was even more amazing. Fu Cun grabbed the gate, guarded the gate hole, cut off the iron cable of the suspension bridge, and then quickly piled up several bunkers with the corpses of Shatuo soldiers and sheep, hiding behind and throwing the thunder fires wildly. The bombarded Shatuo soldiers cried and shouted to their mother, completely stunned.
The defenders who were closing the door rushed for a few waves, but instead left corpses all over the ground. They suddenly felt timid. The Shatu soldiers were scattered, chanting the Heavenly Heaven and the God of Heaven, and even chanting the names of the gods and Buddhas in the sky, such as the Three Pure Gods, God Haotian, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Tathagata Buddha, etc., praying that this nightmare would wake up early.
Several officers on duty wanted to retreat and stay away from this hell, but in a flash, they saw that General Shi Jingsi, the Marquis of Duyu, led the crowd to greet him naked. Then, after a moment, the commanders Xue Atan and An Xiuxiu also led their cavalry to rush forward.
Suddenly, the officers did not dare to abandon their robes, so they had to bite the bullet and turn around and run back.
Fu Cun led a few troops, but it was more than enough to guard a gate. He occupied a special terrain and relied on a sufficient amount of firearms and crossbows, forming a crossbow and crossbow covering different firepowers. The area of about ten feet inside the city gate completely became a death zone. Whether it was infantry, cavalry, or shields, or rushing directly, no one could cross this distance.
Shi Jingsi watched the enemy troops raiding guard the gate but did not enter the city, so he judged that the number of enemies was not large. But he immediately estimated that this might be just a vanguard special forces, with a large force behind it. In any case, the gate must be recaptured, otherwise, when the enemy troops arrived, the army would never be able to defend.
He roared with a fire in his eyes, "Run over, rush over, break them, and take back the door!"
Shi Jingsi reacted quickly, but he was in a hurry and led less than 200 cavalry, and there were no time to set up a formation. Even many of his subordinates, like him, were still crossing their upper bodies, and even had no time to put on armor. The more than 100 fierce Yuhou Guards laid a few arrows at the enemy in disorder, and then rushed to within fifty steps.
Shi Jingsi has always served as Li Keyong's personal guard general. He usually wears silver armor and is covered with a white robe. He is tall, handsome and powerful. Over time, the army calls him the white robe Shi Jingsi, an unparalleled general. When it comes to commanding the war, he may not be as good as Li Siyuan, but if he is simply compared to his horse's fighting skills, Li Siyuan is slightly inferior to him. At this time, he roared, took off a silver iron spear, held a gun in one hand, and rushed towards the enemy formation at the city gate. He stabbed a brigade cavalry soldier in the left arm of a brigade cavalry soldier who had time to react and took the corpse bunker and landed under his horse.
Xue Atan and An Xiuxiu also yelled. One snatched a Xuanhua axe, the other took a long-handled golden gourd, and rode a horse into the formation of the brigade cavalry like the wind. One by one, he smashed the two Qin soldiers who were holding their swords to their heads and burst into pieces.
Fu Cun, who was behind the corpse pile, saw that these Shatuo generals were fast, rushed into the formation in a blink of an eye, and they were extremely brave, and instantly killed several subordinates. He immediately became angry, raised his hands and jumped out and chopped off Shi Jingsi's horse hooves.
Shi Jingsi reacted quickly, raised his gun and blocked it, and the sword and spear burst out. A burst of sparks. Both of them were shocked and felt the huge force of each other.
Shi Jingsi and the other two took the lead, and more and more Shatuo cavalry charged forward with their horses and started fighting with them. The two armies formed a group, and the thunder fire could not be carried out for a while. The two sides fought fiercely, and the Qin army was in an attack against the cavalry, and they could not help but fall into a disadvantage.
Amid the rumbling earth shaking, an iron cavalry outside the pass rushed towards him, like a storm.
Fu Cun finally smiled on his face. The large army had arrived. There was no suspense in this battle, and they won.
Hundreds of elite cavalrymen made way, and Yang Shihou took the lead and rushed to the scene with a horse spear.
The elite flying cavalry that rushed towards him like a flood suddenly hit the Shatuo cavalry who was exposed in front of them because the elite brigade cavalry suddenly made way out.
After a fierce collision that made people sore teeth, tinnitus, dizziness, hundreds of Shatu cavalry were destroyed, and they were broken like paper-paste windows.
Yang Shihou had already rushed past. He didn't even turn his head back, but led the cavalry to continue moving forward, rushing forward, and rushing into the pass.
Two Qin generals targeted An Xiuxiu, and one shot several arrows at him. He finally avoided it with his superb horsemanship, and even had to go out of the iron bridge and hide in the pedal. But as soon as he shot those arrows, two more Qin officers had already slapped the horse and stabbed him in front of him. One of them stabbed the horse's head. The beloved war horse immediately jumped gently to avoid the stabbing shot. But the other person was already dancing a thirteen-section bamboo steel whip, which hit him in the face with the sound of the wind.
An Xiuxiu was shocked and sweated coldly. In the flash of lightning, he instinctively pulled out his sword and went up. He felt that the tiger's mouth was shocked. The young officer who seemed to be just a small school actually smashed his sword away.
There were Qin cavalry rushing into the city everywhere. These people were extremely brave, not inferior to Shatuo cavalry. An Xiuxiu looked at his fallen subordinates around him and dared not fight. He hurriedly lowered his body, kicked the horse's belly, and galloped. Several of his personal guards rushed up to block the Qin army officer who was using the whip. Another person who was using the bow seemed to have recognized him as the general of Shatuo, and got rid of his personal guards, but he just kept clenching.
An Xiuxiu was a little scared and even panicked. This was something that had never happened before. But the Qin cavalry behind him were so fierce. On them, he actually saw a fierce look like a tiger and wolf.
He pulled the bow and arrow, turned his head and shot an arrow at the chasing Qin army officer. The arrow shot, but the officer was fine. With the feather arrow inserted into his shoulder, he shook it. Judging from his appearance, the arrow did not hurt him at all.
At that moment, I couldn't help but feel even more anxious. In my busy schedule, I found that Shi Jingsi and Xue Atan were also in a tough battle. The white-robed Shi Jingsi's upper body was covered in blood, and he couldn't tell whether it was the enemy or his own. At this time, he was surrounded by seven or eight Qin troops and attacked fiercely. Xue Atan was not optimistic. He seemed to be shot on his left shoulder, his movements were a little slow, but his momentum did not diminish. On the entire battlefield, he could hear his roar while fighting.
He complained secretly that he and Xue Atan were a little relaxed tonight. After exposing the nighttime incident to the lower house, the two of them drank while barbecuing and drank a lot of wine. At this time, the alcoholic power was a little bit sluggish, and they were much slower and were not in the state at all. What's more, there were more and more Qin troops, and the small pass was soon filled with the Qin army. Shatuo soldiers were caught off guard and retreated step by step, struggling to support them. However, the sound of the Qin army's thunder fire explosions sounded from time to time, which made the morale of Shatuo's army close to collapse.
Li Siyuan was in charge of the army and had very strict military laws. Although the current situation was that the Qin army was prepared and had many soldiers, Li Siyuan did not order to retreat. The soldiers were still fighting hard, and he fled alone. However, there were more and more Qin troops, and no matter how he ran, he could not escape the pursuit of the Qin army. He wanted to turn back to fight, but after drinking, his strength broke out, and his body became increasingly unbearable, so he did not dare to look back at all.
However, his unbearable performance of avoiding war tonight did not affect his subordinates. Hengchongdu was the army commanded by Li Siyuan himself. This was the elite of the elite of Shatuo Army, and together with the Yier Army, the Tielin Army and the Black Crow Army, he was known as the four elites of Shatuo. His flag-holding officer failed to follow him and was already following his deputy commander. The black flag of Hengchongdu Zuo Camp has been flying on the battlefield, gathering to command the Shatuo Army to fight.
Soon, the flag fell down, and the deputy flag took over the battle flag.
The deputy commander was also killed by the Qin army, but he also had a position on the top of the Yuhou.
The deputy holding the flag was dead, but the flag bearer who protected the flag took over the flag!
The rushing army was quite brave and tenacious, and always desperately protecting the flag. Even Yang Shihou and Fu Cun, who were fighting in the distance, saw this situation and couldn't help but admire him. As expected, they were indeed the elite of the Shatuo Army. If it were ordinary vassal troops, even the Shence Army, they might have already collapsed in such a battle. How could it be that the flag bearer and commander had changed several times, and they still kept the flags unstoppable and the command was not in chaos.
The Shatuo army was tenacious and the Qin army was brave.
The Shatuo Army wanted to keep the flag, while the Qin army continued to launch fierce attacks on the flag, trying to kill the generals and seize the flag!
The two armies killed the sky and the earth. Although the Shatuo army was tenacious, it was outnumbered after all. It was captured and closed down and entered the city. The morale was also lower and lower. On the contrary, the Qin army became more and more brave and had been constantly oppressing the Shatuo army to Guanxi City.
At this time, Li Siyuan finally gathered the remaining troops to fight, and An Xiuxiu was able to escape. Li Siyuan saved An Xiuxiu, who was in a mess, and was about to pick up Shi Jingsi and Xue Atan, but unexpectedly, at this moment, suddenly there was a violent shaking under his feet, followed by a whistling sound above his head, followed by a violent explosion, and then a buzzing sound in his ears, and he could not hear anything.
Li Siyuan turned his head and looked into the formation behind him, but he saw that the team that had just assembled behind him was already full of people and horses, and was full of wickedness. Countless limbs and broken arms, broken swords and guns, and even the bodies of war horses and fragments of armor were flying in the air...
The team that had just assembled completely collapsed!
Fu Cun put down his hands covering his ears, shook his buzzing head, and looked at the volley of twenty flying thunder cannons with satisfaction. The team that Shatuo Army had just barely gathered collapsed, with a strong smile on the corner of his mouth, and shouted loudly to his subordinates who were stunned by the side: "Why are you still stunned? Wait for the reward in front of the formation, and you can't rush with me!"
Chapter completed!