Chapter 67 Defending against danger
The thief general Xu Huang couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning. In the cold winter, he felt colder all over. Although the martial arts of the flag-holding officer was far inferior to his, he was also a brave general in the army, otherwise he would not have been attracted by him. However, in the past, there were brave men who had won every battle. Today, when facing Yishi's officers and soldiers, they were killed without even the strength to fight back. What a joke.
But this happened before my eyes, and I had to believe it even if I didn't believe it.
Xu Huang thought about it and just now, the soldiers of the Taiyuan County were responding quickly and responding properly, and they cooperated closely with the attacks from far and near. Ten people were like one person, and it was not difficult to kill a general. Even if they rushed to the battlefield himself, they were afraid they could only protect themselves and were unable to kill the enemy.
People often say that if a hundred people are enemies, ten thousand people are enemies, they know that their martial arts are very powerful. Only in the chaos, can the bravery of a hundred people and ten thousand people be revealed. In the face of close cooperation elites, it is very difficult to be a ten person. Fortunately, they did not rush to the battle themselves, otherwise they would be in danger of being injured.
Just when Xu Huang was thinking, the thirty cavalry guards were defeated and returned. When he left, he had thirty cavalry, but less than ten cavalry were returned, but no Taiyuan County soldiers were injured or killed. This result was something Xu Huang did not expect at first, but it was taken for granted.
When he saw the Taiyuan County soldiers guards stationed in front of several huge rocks and quickly deployed more than a hundred people at a dazzled speed, Xu Huang couldn't help but laughed in surprise. It turned out that the initial chaos of the Taiyuan County soldiers was actually a show for him to watch. The battle formation of these 100 people could be deployed in a short time. He thought they were just ordinary elites, but he didn't expect that this Taiyuan County soldiers were actually an elite army with only a few elite troops in the world.
Xu Huang became more and more curious about this county soldier, and admired the chief general of this county soldier. If he could become such an elite soldier, this chief general must be an amazing famous general, but he had not yet made a name known at this time.
Through today's battle, Xu Huang knew that his command of the army was far inferior to that of this person. "This general is surnamed Li, right? I wonder if there is any opportunity to talk about military affairs with him?"
This thought came to an end and could not stop at once. At this time, the cavalry's right-prepared cavalry had arrived in front of the formation and obeyed the order. Xu Huang threw the flag at will, and a soldier came forward to catch it. Xu Huang pointed to the leader of the thief in the rear army and said, "If you can stop this team of officers and soldiers, you will not blame me for not being able to stop it. I want to go to the brigade of the chasing army, and you can chase with the infantry in the rear army." After that, he led the hundreds of cavalry and hurriedly chased towards the northeast.
Li Ping led the army for only a moment. According to the speed of the infantry, he still held up three hundred prisoners with no morale, and could only travel four or five miles at most. Xu Huang was chasing him at this time and could chase him from seven miles away.
However, Xu Huang led a hundred cavalry away in a hurry. Only three miles away, he saw the officers and soldiers led by Li Ping guarding the dangerous situation. The road was covered with large trees and dead branches. It turned out that Li Ping's temporary retreat was just to avoid the open space and come to a narrow place to replenish his strength and fight with the thieves. This could reduce the advantages brought by the large number of thieves and large number of cavalrymen.
Xu Huang was overjoyed and came out to shout, "I am Xu Huang, the chief general of this Baibo army, Xu Gongming. I would like to ask you, the chief general of Taiyuan County, to come and talk."
Li Ping hesitated for a while, then led the twenty cavalry guards out and shouted, "I am Li Ping, the military marquis of Qu County soldiers. Your light cavalry came to surrender."
"No, no." Xu Huang asked with a smile: "Your soldiers are rare in the world, and they are commanded by your arm. They are all satisfied with each other. Their elite level is unparalleled. I wonder if it was trained by Li Junhou himself."
Li Ping felt a little strange. No enemy would like to praise the opponent's military elite in front of the formation. However, the youth of this thief general still surprised Li Ping. Instead of fighting against him, he felt that he was extraordinary and the thief leader. With time, the thief would become a giant thief.
However, what I asked was no big deal, but He Baiyangming would be given to him. So Li Ping honestly replied: "It's not what I practice, but what I trained by his lord, Taiyuan Duwei, He Duwei."
Xu Huang sighed: "It turned out to be He Tianming, the commander of Taiyuan. When Xu Huang was in Hedong, he had heard that he had defeated Baibo general Li Le on the Fen River, but he didn't know that he had such a talent. I wonder if the Marquis of Li Jun asked He Duwei to come to Zishi to tell me?"
Li Ping didn't know what Xu Huang was thinking, and saw that Xu Huang was getting too far, so he couldn't help but say angrily: "It's easy for you to see my lord, just get off the horse and surrender quickly. Otherwise, I'll capture you personally and escort him to Jinyang City to meet his lord."
Xu Huang shook his head and said without comment: "If you want Xu Huang to surrender, this is simple. You and I will fight one-on-one in front of this battle. If you defeat, Xu Huang will surrender immediately. If I defeat, you only need to ask He Tianming, the commander of Taiyuan, to come for a while."
Li Ping was furious. Even the stupid thief could not defeat himself, but he still thought of seeing his son-in-law and lord. This was really outrageous. When Li Ping was young, he was also a brave man. He wanted to ride forward alone to capture Xu Huang's thief. But he thought that he was now the chief general of the army to suppress the thief. More than 500 people under his command obeyed the orders, but he should not be fooled.
So he shouted, "It's not difficult for you to see my lord. Just defeat my lord, and my lord will come to fight you."
After hearing this, Xu Huang nodded repeatedly and replied: "Yes, Yiji. Guardians, go and see if the infantrymen in the back team are here?"
A guard left after his order. Soon, he heard a marching sound in the rear. He turned around and looked at it. However, the Taiyuan County soldiers' rear guard retreated, and Xu Huang's rear army could not restrain them.
The guards saw Xu Huang's hundred cavalry in front of him, so they carefully retreated along the narrow edge. Xu Huang did not lead the troops to stop him. He watched the guards retreat into the lodged Damu Bastion and return to the team. Not long after, most of the rear troops of the bandit army rushed over, densely packed with 1,700 people.
Li Ping couldn't help but gasp when he saw this. This bandit army was different from the previous bandit army. He saw that this bandit army was all wearing armor, with excellent weapons, rigorous appearance and meticulous appearance. His eyes were cold and fierce, and his momentum was silent and depressing, just like a group of warriors who were ready to die, rather than ordinary thieves. Could it be that the elite thieves before they were still retained? Li Ping became increasingly afraid of this thief.
The bandit general Xu Huang ran back to the army, re-established the Xu banner of the central army's main formation, and shouted: "Where is the vanguard of the vanguard army?"
A tough thief in heavy armor came forward and responded: "I'm here."
Xu Huang said, "I ordered you to lead 400 troops to defeat the Taiyuan County troops from the front."
Xu Biao bowed and said, "I got the order." After that, the thief general Xu Biao returned to the formation to summon the soldiers. Soon, four hundred elite soldiers wearing leather armor, carrying ring knives on the left, long bows on the right, and holding spears on the right.
Because the place chosen by Li Ping had mountains, rocks and dense forests on the left and steep rivers on the right, and there were only a flat road of more than twenty feet in the middle, so dozens of people could only advance in unison. So the thief general Xu Biao ordered his soldiers to be divided into eight rows, each with fifty people. The first two rows each carried a wooden shield, and the second three rows advanced with a bow, but the last three rows were holding a spear in the right hand and holding a knife in the left hand. Xu Biao was in the first row.
Li Ping's troops ordered a left wing to guard the danger, the right wing was supporting, the central army was reserved, and the rear guard was nervously eating and replenishing strength. Just as the thief general Xu Biao began to launch an attack, the central army was hurriedly reporting:
"Military Marquis, I asked clearly that this thief Xu Huang was a minor official from Hedong. Later, he was possessed by Baibo thieves and had no choice but to surrender to the Baibo thief commander Yang Feng. Because he was brave and good at fighting, he was appointed as the marquis under his command, and commanded 300 troops. Later, he repeatedly broke the court army and was confidant by Yang Fengyi, so he was appointed as the rank of the army Sima. This time, he led 2,000 troops to Taiyuan County with another army, Yang Ge, and Yang Feng intended to invade a large-scale invasion, so he sent two generals to explore Taiyuan's defense. The thieves we had fought with before were just the thieves he summoned, not the elites of his headquarters. These were the elites of his headquarters."
Li Ping took a breath and said heavily: "I didn't expect that the Baibo thief would develop so strongly in Hedong."
The general of the Central Army nodded and responded, "Yes, it is said that the court sent troops many times, but could not control the thieves, but was destroyed by the thieves. The weapons, armor and weapons were mostly obtained by the thieves, so the thieves were equipped with more and more powerful equipment. He heard that the court was about to summon the Xiliang army to Hedong to suppress the thieves. The Xiliang army was stronger than the world, and Yang Feng was worried, so he sent Xu Huang and Yang Ge to Taiyuan to explore the way out to seek a retreat."
Li Ping slapped hard and said, "Since Baibo and Yang Feng are afraid of the Xiliang soldiers, our army will make him afraid today. When he thinks of the Taiyuan County soldiers, he will feel cold and dare not take half a step into Taiyuan easily. He sent an order that he must call the Baibo thieves well this time."
The sound of war drums of the bandit army sounded, and 250 bandits walked towards the Taiyuan County soldiers with shields and bows. Li Ping couldn't help but feel a little worried when he saw the thief coming in a rush. Although the Taiyuan County soldiers looked so skillful, they were actually just training new soldiers for less than two months. Although they had several months of bloody battles with the Southern Xiongnu, they were ruled by others, not by my son-in-law. Therefore, my son-in-law didn't understand the tactics of the war, and even the generals and soldiers of each village were not very understanding.
Using his unfamiliar fighting technique to fight fierce thieves, he was afraid that his army would not be able to win. When Li Pingsi arrived here, he hurriedly ordered the cavalry to send a message to He Bai again to inform him of the current situation of the Zi family and his worries. However, the thief was right in front of him, and no matter how worried he was, he could do nothing. He had to calm down and watch the battle seriously and command the battle.
The soldiers of Taiyuan County only had half a year of joining the army, and there were only one or two types of weapons to practice. Therefore, there were still many soldiers, spears and pistols in Yitun, but there were not many archers who were difficult to train. Seeing the thieves coming, twenty-seven archers on the left wing kept shooting arrows in their hands, but they were of no use to the thieves.
Li Ping had no choice but to order the archers from Situn to gather together and shoot arrows at the thieves. The arrow density of hundreds of archers finally caused a lot of damage to the thieves. However, the thieves' three rows of 150 archers immediately launched a counterattack in the gap.
Like a sharp arrow falling on the heads of Taiyuan County soldiers, the Taiyuan County soldiers finally tasted the feelings of the thieves before. They set up shields, or hid under a big tree. The sharp arrows falling like rain fell, hitting the shield's hands and arms numb, and the large wood chips hiding flying.
Chapter completed!