Chapter 71
Qiu Laoliu was gray-haired. He watched as groups of people were driven up by the Meerbo cavalry to die. His face became whiter and whiter, his legs were weaker, and his heart was beating violently. The more afraid things came, the faster they came. A ferocious barbarian quickly rode his horse in front of him and waved his scimitar. Although he could not speak, these people also understood that it was time to go up and die. The Meerbo cavalry had only more than a thousand cavalry, but drove away more than ten thousand people. In front of the Yingyan Village, four or five thousand people had already died. The people were so scared that no one dared to escape under the threat of the Meerbo cavalry.
"Hurry up, wait for the front--" Wang Zhong shouted arrogantly, "Difficult, be careful of the whip." The two of them were selected to follow the Meerbo cavalry to the south because of some of the Monkey King speeches all night long. Although the situation of the two in the past was similar to those of the people in the Huanzhou, they are now superior. If any people are slow to act, they will be furious. For the people, they are much more fierce than the Meerbo people.
Qiu Laoliu walked tremblingly. His face was ashamed. He suddenly fell to the ground and cried loudly, "Sir, please spare me."
"Want to die?" Song Quan frowned, and the whip crackled down. Qiu Laoliu hugged his head and did not dare to avoid it, but begged for mercy, "Sir, please spare your life. If the adults want to enter the Song realm, the villain will be familiar with the big and big roads, and will definitely be able to bypass Yingyan Village." The centurion Mengdan also looked over. Song Quan and Wang Zhong did not dare to be negligent, so he hurriedly passed Qiu Laoliu's words, and then according to Lord Meerbo's order, he asked sternly: "If you are not lies, you will report to the adults clearly, if you are not a lie, you will report to the adults clearly. If there is a saying that is not the truth, you will kill immediately."
Qiu Laoliu hurriedly said, "I'm not to hide it from the adults. When a villain was young, he always sold some private goods to the south for many years. In the Yanmen Pass area, the Song Kingdom had thirteen large and small camps, all of which were built on the dangerous side, easy to defend and difficult to attack. There were 44 wide and narrow roads in various valleys, wide and accessible vehicles and narrow only passing people." While he said, Song Quan passed these words to Mengdan. Mengdan's eyes were bright and stared at Qiu Laoliu, and he muttered for a while. Song Quan shouted: "Then you lead the way for the army, avoid the Song army, and go around behind Yingyan Village." Seeing that Mengdan valued Qiu Laoliu, he didn't speak so harshly.
Qiu Laoliu hurriedly said, "The villain is willing to serve the army. However, the Song army guarding the border knows all the forty-four roads, all of which are known to the Song army guarding the border." As soon as he finished speaking, Song Quan's face darkened and cursed, "You old man are impatient and dare to spend the fun of the uncle." Before he could convey the message to the Barbarians, Qiu Laoliu said, "In addition to these forty-four roads, there are three small paths leading to the front. Because there are not many people walking, the border troops in the south do not know." The three small paths he mentioned are mountain paths that the Song army guarding the border sometimes was extremely loud, and the Song army guarding the border no longer turned a blind eye, and the smuggling caravans would detour.
Mengdan was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately reported to the commander of the thousand-man Huo Tuo. While Huo Tuo sent someone to report to the commander of the ten thousand-man Tiemu, Huo Tuo personally took the fifty cavalry with Qiu Laoliu as a guide to investigate the hidden path leading to the Southern Dynasty. Although Qiu Laoliu had not walked for more than ten years, his memory was excellent. Although this road was rugged, after cutting off the weeds and branches, he could allow one person to lead a horse slowly. The fifty cavalry took two days to circle around Longling and Yanmen Mountains, and finally turned out of the vast mountains and looked at the foot of the mountain.
Looking at the endless and flat wilderness, Huo Tuo couldn't help but sigh, "This place is not as vast as the grassland. If this old man hadn't led the way, just wandering around the mountain, even if people were not starved to death, the horse would be exhausted." He led thirty cavalry to guard the place where he came out of the mountain. Yan ordered his subordinates not to go out to mow grass and hunt, nor to make fire, and only ate the jerky cheese and meat he carried with him, so as not to alarm the Song people. In addition, he sent a centurion Mengdan to take twenty people to the north of the mountain with Qiu Laoliu, and to meet more Meerbo cavalry to the south.
There were thousands of Meerbo cavalry gathered in the north of Yingyan Village. The ten thousand men who rushed to the scene after hearing the news not only did not relax, but instead drove the people to attack Yingyan Village for days. The Song army guarding the village consumed a lot of arrows, and the supplies and supplies he had been looking forward to every day arrived quickly. On this day, more than two thousand Meerbo cavalry suddenly appeared in the south of Yingyan Village, which immediately caused the guarding army to fall into great panic.
"Yang Dutou, we were taken away by the Liao people!"
Yang Yuanlong looked at the Liao cavalry who were showing off his might in the south of the camp, swallowed a saliva, and whispered: "Calendar each, how many arrows are left?" He paused and said in a deep voice, "To save money, as long as you guard the camp firmly, Mr. Zhe Da will definitely send troops to rescue us." He looked at the group of Hu cavalry who bypassed Yingyan Village and punched his fist on the hard stone. The Mr. Zhe Da who said that Mr. Zhe Da was the head of the Zhe family, who was the deputy envoy of the Hedong Road Strategic Affairs Bureau. The two families of Zhe Yang were deeply rooted in Hedong and have been connected for generations. After Yang Yanqing led his troops to seize Yunzhou, the troops left behind were all under the control of the Zhe Keqiu, who was stationed in Shiling Pass.
The Liao army's attack on Yingyan Village became even more fierce. It was originally just driving the people to attack the camp. Now many Meerbo cavalry dismounted and wrapped among the people, and fired cold arrows at the Song army guarding the camp. The Song army had fewer arrows and more casualties. When the Liao cavalry in the south also carried a large number of Hedong people as signing troops to attack the camp, the reinforcements had not arrived yet, and the Xiang army guarding Yingyan Village was completely desperate. The archers of the Xiang army were all locals, and many relatives and family members were among the Hedong people who were swept by the Liao army. Many people were crying and firing arrows. The relatives were slaughtering each other, and the village was crying and shouting at the mother-in-law. The situation was a hundred times more desolate than before. The Song army had fewer arrows and stones, and finally reached a point of almost exhaustion.
"Damn it," Yang Yuanlong said hoarsely, "I don't want to be a coward, prepare to fight for the knife!" A few blood blisters appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he bit them again, his eyes covered with blood. There were less than two arrows left by each person. Yang Yuanlong used his callous hand to sharpen the steel knife, making it "crack" sound. The other soldiers also wiped the knife.
The Liao army cavalry drove away the people from beginning to end to consume the arrows of the Song army, but hid behind the people and fired cold arrows from afar. The five hundred winged troops guarding the camp now had only more than 300 people left. The people's bodies were piled up like mountains, but not many of the Meerbo people were actually killed. The enemy seemed to realize that the Song army's arrows were about to be exhausted, and there were more and more real Liao troops in the attack, and they were still hiding behind the people. Whenever a few geese-ling arrows were shot out, the Meerbo army stopped for a while. Seeing that there was no movement in the camp, the Meerbo army slowly attacked upwards and approached the village wall. Yingyan Village guarded the road, and the village gate deliberately built it very narrowly, allowing only one cavalry to pass. However, the outside of the village wall was filled with corpses and firewood, and the Meerbo soldiers could rush up the village wall directly.
"Kill--" Yang Yunlong shouted violently, and the steel knife slashed down at the face of a Meerbo man. He was as powerful as a mad tiger. The people around him were so scared that they avoided them. The Hu Er screamed and fell down. At the beginning, the Song army had an advantage. The Meerbo men slaughtered the people outside Yingyan Village and abused the prisoners many times. The Song soldiers guarded the village for dozens of days, and realized that they had no physiology. They gritted their teeth and fought hard. In the narrow Yingyan Village, there were scenes of swords and flesh flying everywhere. The Hedong soldiers were always extremely fierce, and the Meerbo soldiers were not good at fighting. Often two or three people surrounded a Song army before they could get rid of it. However, as the Meerbo soldiers continued to pour into the camp, more and more Song soldiers fell into a hard struggle.
The Song soldiers were alone and the more they fought, even Yang Yuanlong was injured. He had been guarding the village for so many days and killed countless people, but Yang Yuanlong had never killed so happily. He strode forward, and chopped a Hu man over and stepped on his chest. The shield blocked the scimitar that was chopping from the side. Yang Yuanlong slashed a Liao soldier in front of him with one knife. However, the knife was stuck on his shoulder blade and could not be taken out for a while. At this time, the few Melbo soldiers behind him looked at the opportunity and stabbed him at the short spear. Yang Yuanlong only felt the strong wind behind him, shouted loudly, abandoned the sword and shield and turned around, clamped several spears firmly with his arms, and was about to bully him forward and seized the spears of the Liao army. The back was slashed heavily by the Liao army, which made him slightly relaxed, and he was slightly slow to move, and was stabbed by several spears of the Liao army.
Several Liao soldiers then pulled the spear out of his armpits, and regardless of life or death, they tried their best to stab him. Yang Yuanlong's eyes widened: "Dad, brother, Yuanlong did not insult his ancestors." But nothing was seen in front of him. Several spears supported the body and did not fall for a long time. In this bloody battle, the five hundred Song soldiers guarding Yingyan Village were wiped out, and more than a dozen injured would rather die than surrender, and were tortured by the Liao army. The Meerbo people themselves suffered as many as six or seven hundred casualties.
The signing soldiers were busy transporting the bodies, and the road to Hedong was cleared out. The weather was hot, and the Meerbo people wanted to be buried, while the Song army's bodies were moved outside to burn. Some Song soldiers were still hugged with the enemy at the last moment, and they couldn't even break their fingers, so they just cut them off with a knife.
Chapter completed!