No matter how powerful a practitioner is, he cannot change a war by himself. Zhuo Buyi's cultivation was strong enough, and Shen Qingfan's sword energy was strong enough, but on the north bank of the Yellow Niu River, a rebel Zhechong camp with poor combat effectiveness was enough to pile up practitioners like them to death.
On the battlefield, Zhuo Buyi's ability was far inferior to those ten elite soldiers.
From the beginning to the present, more than 300 rebel soldiers fell under Da Mo's sword. One to thirty, this kind of combat power is enough to shock people. Even if the rebels who besieged them at the beginning were really not qualified soldiers, the numbers were there after all.
Don't let the rebels lose forty or fifty of Li Hao's cavalry, his eyes have already started to turn red.
Seeing the dense crowd of troops behind Gao Po, and seeing the dark green battle flag embroidered with Yin characters, Li Hao knew that if he couldn't take down the mere dozen or so enemies, he would have no face to continue doing it. down. With 500 cavalry, they besieged a dozen infantry, and were killed by a single counter-charge. Such a thing is not honorable anyway.
He didn't know about Shiying, so naturally he didn't know what the bright light armor and the Damo knife represented.
"what to do?"
Zhuo Buyi wiped the sweat from his forehead and asked Fang Jie.
The cavalry of the rebel army is already regrouping, and it seems that they are going to do their best this time. On the high slope, a rebel team of at least 10,000 people had already laid out, and although the left front guard behind him was still struggling to build a pontoon bridge, his speed was obviously not as fast as the rebel cavalry.
Although Feather Arrow has no effect on the fine armor of Gishiying, people will be tired after all. Wearing such a body full of iron lumps, coupled with the heavy Damo knife in his hand, no one knows how long Chungu and the others can last. Now they are fighting with blood. Once despair arises in their hearts, the Mingguang Armor and Damo Dao will no longer be powerful.
Fang Jie turned his head to look at the soldiers of the Sui army in the river, and said in silence for a while, "If there is no miracle, it seems that we are doomed."
Zhuo Buyi suddenly smiled: "I never thought that I would die on the battlefield. After so many years in prison, I finally abandoned my old master and assisted the emperor. It is estimated that there are hundreds of ghosts in Jiangdu Qiu's family. I have been looking at me coldly in the underworld. I thought I would die badly and lose my reputation... Who would have thought that in the end, there would be a glorious death in the end."
He smiled very relieved, but Fang Jie could hear the sadness and desolation in his tone.
At the beginning of the Great Sui Emperor's ascension to the throne, he slaughtered Jiangdu Qiu's family. This matter has always been a knot in Zhuo Buyi's heart. He was originally a guest of the Qiu family, although the Qiu family did not treat him with great kindness, but Zhuo Buyi has always been grateful to him. The emperor thought that he was a rare talent, and Luo Weiran and him were old friends many years ago pleading for mercy, so he was just locked up.
Now that he was in death, he actually regarded it as a kind of relief.
"Since we are all going to die, do you think we should die more gloriously?"
Fang Jie suddenly smiled and asked.
"how?"
Zhuo Buyi asked.
"See that cavalry general?"
Fang Jie pointed to Li Hao who was commanding the rebel cavalry to rush over from a distance: "That guy is at least a rebel general. Although the color of the livery inside has changed, the leather armor is still of the Sui Dynasty. Killing a rebel general is considered a complete merit, right?"
"What are you going to do?"
Fang Jie looked at the cavalry getting closer, smiled and said, "Let's see who is luckier?"
After he finished speaking, he picked up a throwing spear from the ground and took a little aim, then raised his arms and threw it forward. The throwing spear flew straight forward like lightning. Fang Jie's muscular strength was more than a thousand catties, he threw a spear and drew an afterimage, and quickly stabbed towards Li Hao.
Zhuo Buyi laughed loudly: "I've always been lucky."
After saying this, he also picked up the throwing gun from the ground and threw it towards Li Hao. Before the rebels attacked with spears, at least a hundred of them were dropped from the plum blossoms in the camp. At this time, the rebel cavalry was about 50 steps away from Fang Xie and the others, and it would only take a few breaths to reach them according to the speed of the horses. It is precisely because the horses are too fast that the spears are thrown faster and travel relatively, so the flying distance of the spears becomes shorter and more swift and difficult to defend.
Seeing that Fang Jie and Zhuo Buyi picked up throwing guns and threw them over, Chun Gu thrust the Damo Dao into the ground, picked up one, rounded her arms, and threw it forward violently. The people in the camp followed suit one after another, together with Big Dog and Mu Xiaoyao, more than a dozen spears shot towards the cavalry one after another.
Li Hao's personal soldiers saw that the spears were coming quickly, and immediately accelerated to protect Li Hao behind them. The two cavalrymen on the left and right raised the cavalry shields hanging on their arms to protect Li Hao's upper body. Fang Jie threw the spear too fast, and the two guards arrived just after raising their shield spears. The cavalry shield is much smaller than the infantry shield, and its diameter is only about one and a half feet in diameter. No matter how big it is, it will affect the action of killing the enemy.
The shot came in an instant, and with a snap, a hole was pierced through the cavalry shield on the soldier's arm. The shot continued unabated and pierced through the soldier's arm and stabbed into his chest. The force of this shot was actually unstoppable and domineering. Break through the shield, penetrate the forearm, and finally knock the soldier off the horse. When the soldier fell off the horse, he fell on Li Hao's horse, and the horse neighed in shock and jumped up.
Zhuo Buyi's throwing spear just flew there, directly piercing the horse's neck.
The tip of the spear passed through the horse's neck, Li Hao was shocked, and cut off the spear with a single knife to restrain the horse from falling down, but he managed to hold on, and more than ten spears came one after another, with a series of muffled popping sounds After that, Li Hao's body was penetrated by six or seven spears, and the horse was also shot several times.
The man and the horse uttered a howl at the same time and then fell to the ground. The cavalry behind had no time to dodge, and stepped up one after another. A horseshoe ruthlessly stepped on Li Hao's eye socket. The bloody eyeballs squeezed out of the eye sockets, and the bridge of the nose and half of the face were crushed and collapsed. Viscous brains flowed out along the cracks, looking like crushed tofu brains. The war horse couldn't keep its balance and fell forward. After the horse's neck hit the ground, it pouted upwards and turned over.
The second horse stepped on Li Hao's chest, and with a click, his chest was like a layer of window paper that had been pierced, and the blood inside immediately flowed out. At least four cavalrymen tripped over the horse and Li Hao's body, howled and fell. By the time the people behind reined in their horses, Li Hao's body had already been trampled into meatloaf.
The slimy internal organs were trampled by horseshoes and mixed with the soil, turning gray-black in color. It looked exactly like the mud that was stepped on by countless people after the rain, except that there were a lot of red bubbles.
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Li Hao was killed, and the cavalry behind them reined in their horses in fear. The shock formation that had just been formed immediately became chaotic. The cavalry looked at each other, wondering if they should continue to charge.
At this moment, there was a whining horn sound from Gaopo's side. The cavalry heard the horn subconsciously reunite, and looked towards the position of the dark green flag.
Yin Poshan immediately stood on the high slope, put down the clairvoyance in his hand, and couldn't help but let out a cold snort.
His face was cold, and his eyes were full of dissatisfaction.
He already knew the situation of the previous battle, a Zhechong battalion, plus 500 cavalry, there were no more than a dozen Sui troops. Even if the soldiers of the Zhechong Battalion were low in combat power, they were still a team of 1,200 people. More than a hundred times as many as the enemy, even after losing more than two hundred people, he didn't even kill a single person from the opponent.
Not to mention the cavalry, the number of people lost has exceeded 70 or 80, and the leader of the army was shot to death.
So he ordered the trumpets to be blown and the cavalry regrouped.
"Go, tell those cavalrymen that if you don't take down those few people today, everyone will be punished as collaborators. Hundreds of people have already died, and I don't care about hundreds more. I don't need to keep any of my wine bags and rice bags."
"Here!"
The messenger responded and rushed over on his horse.
"Who is the leader of the army?"
The orderly asked the rebel cavalry loudly.
One of Li Hao's soldiers hesitated for a moment, and replied with an ugly face: "The general is dead."
"The general is dead, but is the personal army still alive?"
"I am here."
Li Hao's personal troops were raising their horses forward, with apologetic and fearful expressions on their faces.
"The general has an order. Now you are in command. The lord general will be buried with the soldiers who died in battle. If you don't take down those enemies today, not only the soldiers, but everyone will be dealt with by military law!"
"Here..."
Li Hao's personal soldiers were clasping their fists, a trace of fear flashed in their eyes. Yin Poshan is vicious and cruel, and no one who annoyed him can survive. In this army, there are no so-called hard-and-fast military rules. Some are just the absolute obedience that Yin Poshan demands, and if you don't obey, you will die.
The team knew that the Sui soldiers on the opposite side were not easy to mess with. Although there were only a dozen of them, all of them were gods of death who came out of hell. Now at this meeting, he can only bite the bullet and rush up.
"Tread the enemy!"
He yelled loudly, and then he took the lead in urging the horse to rush out.
Fang Jie looked back at the river. The pontoon bridge was at least a hundred meters away from the shore. The rebel soldiers had already lined up by the river, and the archers were lined up densely. Just waiting for an order, all arrows would be fired. . The left avant-garde auxiliary soldier on the pontoon bridge only had a thin cotton armor, which couldn't stop the arrows at all.
While splicing and fixing piles into the river, the auxiliary soldiers were already sweating profusely. They also know that as long as the rebel archers on the opposite side let go of their bowstrings, their lives will come to an end.
The general commanding the archers of the rebel army was about to give the order to release arrows when he saw a group of cavalry suddenly appearing in the formation of the left front guard on the south bank, surrounded by a general in golden armor. He guessed the identity of the person who came, after all, among the sixteen guards of the Sui Dynasty, only Luo Yao had the imperial bestowed gold armor.
Luo Yao stopped his war horse by the river, looked at the situation on the other side with clairvoyance, and his face became more and more gloomy.
"Liu Kuo."
He stretched out his finger and pointed to Fang Jie's location: "If the rescue is not effective, what should I do?"
Liu Kuo's face turned pale, and he leaned over and said, "Behead!"
"I'll give you three hundred Jingbu Battalion. If you can't save him, you won't be able to come back. You don't have to come back."
The corner of Liu Kuo's mouth trembled, and then he said loudly, "Your subordinate obeys!"
Luo Yao stretched out his hand and pointed forward: "The ballista, I smashed the arrow array on the opposite side."
At least forty crossbow carts that had been mobilized were lined up on the bank. With an order, forty huge crossbow arrows roared and smashed past, and they reached the opposite bank in a moment. The archer was torn apart violently, and the sound of mourning floated from the opposite side clearly.
There are also ballistas being brought up from the left forward to join the bombardment array. The equipment of the rebel army was far less sophisticated than that of the left avant-garde, and this place was far away from their camp. Without the ballista to fight back, the arrow array on the shore was immediately smashed to pieces.
"Follow me!"
Liu Kuo yelled loudly, and then rushed out to the opposite bank in a dozen small boats that he had found with great difficulty, with the soldiers of the 300 Jingbu Battalion. Huangyangdao's county soldiers withdrew to the extreme, and out of anger, almost all the fishing boats were cut through. These dozen or so small boats were found from nearby villages, barely able to carry three or four people across the river.
Seeing Luo Yao's banner appearing on the opposite bank, Yin Poshan frowned more and more.
His eyes were full of anger, and he didn't know why he was so angry when he looked at Luo Yao.
No one thought, including Fang Jie himself, that this supposedly easy crossing of the river would lead to the first confrontation between the Left Front Guard and the rebels. And this confrontation was not even in Luo Yao's or Yin Poshan's plan. A balance was inadvertently broken by Fang Jie.