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In just a cup of tea, nearly a thousand of the ten thousand Kazakh soldiers fell under the Qin army's rifles, and the rest were all pale and frightened.
In the blink of an eye, a thousand people were gone!
No one, including Mu Yisuifeng, had ever encountered such a tragic scene. No matter how he encouraged his frightened soldiers, they were unwilling to go back to the shore with him to stop the enemy.
Mu Yisuifeng knew very well that if he abandoned the west bank like this, Yang Jier would not let him go when he returned. He gritted his teeth, drew his sword and killed several generals who disobeyed his orders. Their heads rolled to the ground and their scarlet blood dyed the dust red.
"Whoever dares to disobey orders and retreat, I will chop off his head first." Mu Yisuifeng roared like a wounded lion, and the dripping Damascus sword was chilling.
Under his intimidation, nearly ten thousand soldiers had no choice but to obey his orders.
At this time, Doji and his first group of people were about to cross the Talas River.
Mu Yi stood in front of the army and shouted, "Marsa, you will lead the team this time. Hold your shield and protect yourself. Charge forward and annihilate the Qin army in the river. If anyone dares to retreat, I will never spare his life."
This time, Deputy General Marsa led two thousand cavalrymen, prepared shields and bows and arrows, and then galloped away on horseback. From this point of view, the Kazakh cavalry was still very brave. They were able to regroup and fight back in such a short time, which is definitely not something an ordinary army can do.
Even Li Sheng and his men on the east bank were greatly surprised, looking at the cavalry sweeping towards the west bank, rolling up the yellow dust, and shouting. Li Sheng couldn't help but yelled: "Damn it, they really won't cry until they see the coffin, then let them see what a hail of bullets is, get ready!"
This time, as soon as the enemy advanced 200 steps, Li Sheng immediately shouted, "Shoot!"
Bang bang bang!
Bang bang bang!
Bang bang bang!
There were bursts of gunfire again, and not only that, but rockets flew into the air, crossed the twenty-foot-wide river, and fiercely smashed into the enemy's cavalry formation, with dazzling tail flames like meteors shooting into the atmosphere.
Bullets rained down on the galloping horses, followed by rockets that slammed down from the sky. Boom! Boom! Boom! A series of fierce explosions, balls of fire rose up from the ground, and the galloping horses were hit by the raging shrapnel and fell to the ground one after another. They were rolled over and over by the huge inertia;
Smoke and dust, fire and blood, screams and wails, intertwined into an extremely tragic scene.
The Qin army's bullets seemed to have no pause, dense as rain, the Kazakh cavalry used iron shields to block their bodies, but they could not stop the horses under their crotch, and fell down in rows, the flames from the explosions of rockets made the horses scream in fear, and some were directly blown into the air, torn into several pieces by the explosion, with blood and flesh flying everywhere.
As more and more horses fell to the ground, they formed an obstacle in front, and the cavalrymen who rushed from behind were also tripped one after another. The scene could be described as hell on earth.
Only a very small number of people could actually rush to the river bank and shoot arrows into the river.
"Hurry, hurry to the shore!" Li Tianfang, a guerrilla who crossed the river with everyone else, was the first to rush to the west bank, shouting continuously. As soon as Duoji and his men touched the ground, they also struggled to get ashore.
Puff! With a strange sound, A Luo beside him was shot in the throat by a stray arrow and immediately fell to the ground.
"A Luo!" Doji shouted. A Luo was a soldier in his tribe and he had always been like a brother to him. Just now, on the other side of the river, he was showing off to Doji that he had saved six taels of silver and planned to send it back home to his parents when he had the chance.
Doji turned around and picked up A Luo. Seeing blood oozing out of A Luo's throat and his body beginning to spasm, Doji could not help but shout, "A Luo! You can't die, A Luo, you..."
"You bastard! He's dead!" Doji felt a pain on his shoulder and turned around to see that it was Li Tianfang whipping him with a whip. "You're just a squad leader, don't you know that people will die in war? You'll only kill more people like this, hurry up!"
Under Li Tianfang's roar, Doji had to let go of A Luo and turned to rush to the shore.
He did not hate Li Tianfang for being ruthless. He knew that what Li Tianfang said was the truth. In battles, life and death were left to fate. Especially at such a critical moment, one should not let emotions get the better of them.
"Quick! Get on the horse and kill!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
It was hasty and chaotic, but no matter what, Doji and his men jumped onto their familiar horses and, under the leadership of Li Tianfang, charged towards the enemy cavalry that were routed by bullets.
The sheepskin bag in the river was immediately pulled back by the soldiers on the other side with ropes, and then the second group of people rushed into the river... .
Mu Yisuifeng, who was three miles away, rode his horse and raised his sword, shouting to the remaining thousands of soldiers and horses: "Don't be afraid, the enemy is coming, and there will be no more gunfire on the other side. Follow me and kill them back, kill them back, and annihilate the enemy who has crossed the river..."
Mu Yisuifeng took the lead and charged back with several thousand troops. The two thousand troops of Marsa in front had been blown to pieces and were being chased and hacked by the first batch of Qin troops who had crossed the river. Their army was completely defeated.
Mu Yisuifeng divided the men and horses into two and attacked from both sides. The fierce sound of horse hooves shook the earth and the yellow dust raised filled the air, making it almost impossible to distinguish between friend and foe.
The two sides were getting closer and closer. Doji could only feel arrows whizzing around him. His comrades were shot and fell off their horses. He tried to lower his body and slashed the horse's buttocks with his saber. The horse, in pain, flew up and caught up with a fleeing soldier in front. Puff! Doji swung his saber without hesitation and chopped the enemy off his horse.
"Charge in, charge in, and try to engage with the enemy." Mu Yisuifeng kept shouting. The reason why he became Yang Jier's trusted and beloved general was because of his bravery and fighting skills.
After the two armies crossed each other, Li Tianfang no longer cared about the fleeing soldiers in front, and immediately led hundreds of Qin troops to draw an arc to the left and rushed back to the bank of the river where they had just crossed.
Mu Yi Suifeng obviously knew his intention and led his army to bite closely behind him. Not to mention Li Tianfang, even Su Jin, the commander of the army, did not expect that this enemy army was so brave and tenacious, and could come back so quickly despite such heavy casualties.
"Let Li Sheng prepare all the rockets. As soon as Li Tianfang and his men rush over, immediately give the enemy a head-on blow." Su Jin gave orders to the messenger beside him while looking at the battle situation on the west bank.
Originally, considering the difficulty of supply, Su Jin had always been sparing with firearms. But in the current situation, if he was really blocked by the enemy on the other side, the morale of both sides would rise and fall, and the enemy would become more stubborn and more difficult to deal with.
Li Tianfang, with several hundred of his men, rushed back to the shore a few dozen steps away, then turned around and swept across the river bank.
Mu Yisuifeng knew that he couldn't stop, but the previous casualties were too heavy, so he was still reluctant to rush into hell.
He also immediately turned sideways, and thousands of cavalrymen behind him followed his battle flag and formed a parallel charge with the Qin army in front.
The dust raised by the war horses was too thick, making it impossible for Li Sheng and his men on the east bank to see the situation on the west bank clearly. Moreover, Mu Yisuifeng and Li Tianfang were running westward in parallel at this time. Li Tianfang and his men, who were closer to the river, blocked the shooting angle of the Qin army on the east bank, and their rifles could not be used for the time being.
Mu Yisuifeng was indeed a general who was good at judging the situation. When he saw the opportunity, he immediately pressed towards Li Tianfang and his men.
There was one thing that Li Tianfang and his men forgot to take into account, and that was that Mu Yisuifeng's party were riding tall Arabian war horses.
Although this type of warhorse does not have the endurance of the Mongolian horse, it is faster in short-distance sprints and can therefore approach the enemy much closer in a short time.
When Li Tianfang saw this, he knew that if he continued to run, the enemy would plow up from behind, and the result would be even more tragic, so he immediately ordered a left turn and collided violently with thousands of enemy cavalry.
At that moment, the two armies met, the flashes of swords and blood intertwined like a curtain, countless shouts collided with each other, like thunder and lightning, and rolling yellow dust filled the sky.
Doji's eyes were wide open, he roared like thunder, and he chopped off the head of an enemy soldier who was rushing over from the opposite side, causing blood to spurt out like a fountain. Then a long spear swept over, and Doji hurriedly swung his saber to block it. "Bang!" Doji's wrist shook, and the saber almost flew out of his hand;
There were too many enemies, flying in like a swarm of carp crossing the river, making it hard to keep up.
Just as he parried the spear, a huge mace came at him with the sound of thundering hooves. Doji had no choice but to roll over and hide on the side of the warhorse, narrowly avoiding the huge mace.
After climbing back onto the horse, he drew his sword in a rage, "Kill!" The sword flashed diagonally, chopping off the right shoulder of an enemy who had crossed the line, exposing his bones and screaming miserably...
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.(To be continued..)
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