This time when he came to patrol Baishi Pass, Yan Liqiang didn't even bring his own weapons. Whether it was his dragon-back steel spear or the hundred-stone bow, Yan Liqiang left them at home and didn't bring them with him. But even so, after knowing what was happening in Fengbian Village, Yan Liqiang made up his mind without any hesitation, and did it!
There were about 1,300 cavalrymen at Baishi Pass, and Yan Liqiang brought 500 guards. Among these 500 guards, about 400 carried war bows, and the remaining 100 also carried powerful crossbows. The total number of troops on both sides was about 1,800, which was exactly the same as the troops of Sanqu, and they were all cavalrymen.
The iron spear in his hand was light, weighing only about thirty pounds. In Yan Liqiang's hand, it was like a straw. Although it was not handy, it was better than nothing.
The rhino horse was galloping, and the scenery in front of them became wider and wider along with the mountains on both sides. As soon as they rushed out of the narrow pass of Baishishan Pass, the scenery in front of them suddenly became clear. The Gulan grassland with undulating grass like waves appeared in front of Yan Liqiang. The sky was high and the clouds were low, which made people feel suddenly broad-minded and full of heroic spirit.
The sound of hooves behind him was like thunder. Yan Liqiang, riding on a rhinoceros horse, led his troops to the Gulang grassland for the first time. An indescribable emotion was surging in his chest like thunder. At this moment, he seemed to have returned to the feeling when he first fought against the Black Wind Bandits on the way to escort Sun Bingchen back to the Imperial Capital City - his adrenaline soared, and everything in front of him entered into a rhythm that made him intoxicated and excited. Even the strong wind blowing in his face brought a breath of iron and blood that made him burn.
A real man should be like this!
Yan Liqiang likes this feeling, likes this atmosphere. At this moment, he knows that he will be inseparable from this feeling for the rest of his life.
"Brothers, today is the first time that the men of our Han Empire have set foot on the Gulang grassland in military uniforms and on war horses since the seven Shatu tribes occupied the Gulang grassland. The governor is leading us to fight the Shatu people. Brothers, don't be scared and don't embarrass us men of the northwest. Let's chop off more Shatu heads today and go back to drink in the evening!" Wang Naiwu shouted in the team with the long sword in his hand, which stimulated the cavalrymen to scream and everyone was ignited.
Yan Liqiang had also met Wang Naiwu once, when the Governor's Office was opened. Yan Liqiang's initial impression of this Pingxi County camp commander was that he was a bit slick, but when he met him today, Yan Liqiang realized that Wang Naiwu was also a man of temperament. In addition to being slick, he also had a brave and fearless side.
A group of people were running along the undulating ridges where the Qiyun Mountain and the Gulang Grassland meet. The distance of dozens of miles was not far for these cavalrymen riding on the Rhino Dragon Horses. On the way, everyone even controlled the horsepower and did not let the Rhino Dragon Horses run at full speed. This is also a skill in cavalry combat. The real horsepower must wait until the enemy can be seen before it can be released at full speed.
Just after turning a ridge, Yan Liqiang's eyesight allowed him to be the first to see the Shatu people and the burning Fengbian Village more than a thousand meters ahead.
Nearly two thousand Shatu cavalrymen gathered at the entrance of a valley. Most of them just stood around, waving swords in their hands, laughing and swearing as they watched two teams of cavalrymen with bows and arrows shooting lit rockets towards the gate of the distant village. They didn't feel too nervous.
The gate, corner tower, and some houses in the village were all on fire. The people in the village were in a panic, many of them were trying to put out the fire, and some Han people were shooting arrows from behind the fence of the village. There were casualties on both sides, but because the Shatu people were more numerous and powerful, it seemed that the Shatu people had the advantage and were in an absolute attacker position. At this time, the only thing those people in the village could rely on was the tall and thick village wall they had nailed up with wooden stakes. Once the village wall was broken, the Shatu people would charge in, and the consequences were self-evident...
In addition to the Shatu people who were shooting rockets, there were two other teams of Shatu people riding on armored rhinoceros horses running back and forth outside the village. Their horses were tied with ropes to huge stone mills, which were tied with ropes and rolled rapidly on the ground driven by the rhinoceros horses. When they rushed to the wooden fence outside the village, the speed of the stone mill reached its maximum, and the Shatu people on horseback cut the ropes on their horses and rode away to both sides. The huge stone mill rolled with a rumbling sound and rushed over, hitting the thick wall of the village, knocking the wooden stakes nailed into the ground into wood chips and breaking them, revealing the gaps behind them...
The entire Fengbian Village wall was already shaky and damaged at this time.
The most eye-opening thing was the Shatu cavalry who were dragging large stone mills with ropes to hit the village wall. The Shatu people rode on their horses and put the Han people in the village, whose hands and feet were tied and mouths were stuffed, in front of their saddles. They used those people as shields, making the archers in the village afraid to shoot at them. When they rushed forward, the stone mills they drove hit and shook the already shaky village wall again and again.
An elderly Han man was pinned down on a horse by the Shatu people and used as a human shield. He looked at the burning wall of Fengbian Village with tears in his eyes. The old man wanted to shout and ask the people in the village to shoot arrows, but his mouth was blocked by the Shatu people, so he couldn't shout. Finally, when the Shatu people dragging the big stone mill rushed towards the village wall again, the old man used all his strength to bang his head back, hitting the nose of the Shatu man behind him, and both of them fell off their rhinoceros horses.
The Shatu man who fell off his horse was furious, screaming and crying. Without thinking, he drew his knife and slashed the old man's neck. The old man fell down amidst the splatter of blood.
A heart-wrenching cry was heard from the Fengbian Village in the distance, "Grandpa..."
"Swoosh..."
An arrow shot from Fengbian Village. The Shatu cavalryman who had chopped down the old Han man had just retracted his sword when the arrow pierced his throat and he was shot to the ground.
The death and injury of the two people here did not affect or disrupt the attack rhythm of the Shatu people. The burning arrows continued to shoot into the village, and the huge stone mills continued to rumble and crash into the village wall...
Taking over Fengbian Village is just around the corner.
Until an arrow flew from a distance and shot down a Shatu cavalryman who was besieging the village. The Shatu cavalrymen looked at the arrow nailed to their companions' backs. Many of them turned their heads and found that a group of Han people had turned around from the bottom of the ridge in the distance and had approached within a thousand meters of their team and were rushing towards them aggressively. The Shatu people who were besieging Fengbian Village suddenly panicked...
(End of this chapter)