The arrow that saved lives and killed the enemy at the critical moment shocked Liu Rengui. He no longer cared about the pain in his back. He retracted the spear, held the middle part of the spear body, turned it into a short spear, and used his shield to cover the left side. He was stabbed by the Turks on the right, and the tip of the spear was pointed at the opponent's door.
A shrill scream rang out, and within a split second, the Turkic man's face was covered with blood and flesh. The two large wounds made him lose all combat effectiveness. Liu Rengui then lowered his body, swept across with his spear, and hit the Turkic man on the left in the waist. On the other side, Tang Zu took the opportunity to stab the opponent in the abdomen.
Fierce fighting broke out everywhere on the not-wide front. The Turk soldiers crossed the ditch and rushed towards them like wild beasts. The Tang soldiers who were defending against the low wall thrust forward desperately, sometimes knocking over the enemy soldiers. Sometimes he would miss and even be dragged out of the low wall with a spear by the opponent.
This was the most ferocious attack by the Turks after the first battle on the first day. Liu Rengui's body was already covered with blood and he was no longer on the front line. Instead, he stood vigilantly at a slightly further back as a reserve team. Once there was a crisis somewhere, Just make it up immediately.
A Turk soldier had just jumped onto the low wall when a spear like a poisonous dragon stabbed his private parts cunningly, forcing him to fall on his back. Liu Rengui just breathed a sigh of relief and glanced around, seeing that there were Turks in the periphery. The cavalry galloped back and forth, drawing their bows and firing arrows.
"Set arrows, shoot arrows!" Liu Rengui shouted in agreement. Almost all of these Turkic king's soldiers were sharpshooters. It was not necessary to cover them with arrows to drive them away. It would be difficult for the Tang soldiers to hold on.
As soon as the words were shouted out, Liu Rengui reflexively raised his shield to block it. Sure enough, he heard a dull sound, and more than a dozen feather arrows shot through the air, almost sweeping away Liu Rengui's side.
From the corner of his eye, he saw an arrow stuck in Sun Dalang's shoulder, but he gritted his teeth and refused to let go of the spear in his hand. He even gave himself a forced smile. Liu Rengui's eyes were red and he looked up at the arrow tower above. ...but only saw a half-hanging corpse.
The arrow that saved him just now was shot from above, so it was naturally a soldier from the archery tower. Liu Rengui expected the other party to release an arrow to delay the Turkic attack, but he did not expect that he had already been killed.
The dozen or so Turkic soldiers shouted and rushed towards them. They all could see that General Tang was the commander of this section of the front. As long as they killed him, they could break through the low wall and then attack from the side... …
Liu Rengui, who had no colleagues around him, also became fierce. He threw away his shield, holding a spear in his right hand and a knife in his left hand. He reversed his way out of the low wall and killed two people in a row in a vertical jump.
But no matter how fierce he was, Liu Rengui could not withstand more than a dozen enemy soldiers. In a moment, he suffered two wounds on his body and was kicked hard.
I'm going to die here today... This thought just appeared in Liu Rengui's mind, and there was a crackling sound of strings in his ears. Several Turkic men in front of him fell to the sky as if they had been punched in the face, with their upper bodies and even faces , all hanging with three or four feather arrows.
One hand grabbed Liu Rengui's hair and dragged him back. The other hand held up a shield to block the thrust of a spear. Liu Rengui kicked the corpses of soldiers on both sides on the ground and pushed back desperately. He knew that, Reinforcements have arrived.
Then what appeared in Liu Rengui's sight was a big man in armor, holding a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand. He advanced bravely and killed three people in a moment.
An even denser sound of crackling strings sounded, and black arrows soared into the sky. The Turkic cavalry on the periphery were shot down by dozens because they were too close this time, and they immediately dispersed.
With the addition of fresh troops, the Tang army launched a counterattack on the small battlefield. A dozen Turkic soldiers who broke into the low wall were trapped, and the remaining more than a hundred Turkic soldiers fled. The armored man put down his sword and After taking the bow and arrow handed over by the personal guard, the arrows flew like meteors, each one accurately hitting the Turk's back.
When the armored man turned around, Liu Rengui recognized that this was He Fang, one of the few generals in the army. General Guan Julang was also a personal guard of Wei's successor King Li Huairen. He was a general under Zhang Zhongjian, the commander of the Lingzhou Army.
He Fang no longer paid attention to the fleeing Turks. He turned his head and glanced at the third passage on the left where Zheng Lie was fighting. He quickly asked the soldiers to clean the battlefield, search for the wounded, and asked the soldiers to use long hands to remove the corpses piled up in the trench. Hook it up... If you don't hook it up, the trench will have no meaning. Liu Rengui had no choice before. Now how can he let the civilians in the rear transport the corpse to the rear in vehicles and throw it into the Yellow River.
After everything was dealt with, He Fangcai looked at Liu Rengui, who was leaning on the wooden pillar and paralyzed on the ground, "Do you want to go to the wounded barracks?"
Liu Rengui was too lazy to speak and just shook his head.
He Fang frowned and turned over Liu Rengui to check, his expression gradually softened, "It's luck, they are all minor injuries... I didn't expect that the Wang Zhang soldiers were so good at shooting, so the troops were sent out a little late."
Seeing that Liu Rengui still remained silent, He Fang poked the wound on Liu Rengui's left arm and asked, "Doesn't it hurt?"
"I just have a headache."
He Fang laughed loudly. It was he who just now grabbed Liu Rengui's hair and pulled him back, thus narrowly saving this guy's life.
"You can't die!" He Fang said casually: "Alang told me before that you, Liu Zhengze, became a famous general after training. If you die here, you can't even explain it to Alang."
"Really?" Liu Rengui suddenly became more energetic, "His Royal Highness Wei Siwang really said that?"
"Bullshit!" Sun Dalang, who was having his wound wrapped, grinned in pain and couldn't help but cursed: "He Dalang just said it casually, but you still take it seriously!"
Liu Rengui was not familiar with He Fang, but he was also a colleague who traveled hundreds of miles away to attack Xiaoguan. He knew that this man was usually taciturn, had a serious temperament, and was not a casual joker. This was probably true.
The reputation of Li Huairen, the heir to Wei, for being good at recognizing people was widely spread among the middle and lower levels of the army. After all, examples such as Su Dingfang, Zhang Zhongjian, Hou Hongtao, and Liu Heier were all there.
Liu Rengui felt greatly honored by this compliment.
"Really, Duke Guangling just informed me." He Fang said with a smile, and then asked the soldiers to send the surviving hundreds of exhausted Tang soldiers to the back to rest. Only Liu Rengui insisted on staying.
A corpse suddenly fell from the air. Liu Rengui looked up at the arrow tower, then looked down at the corpse on the ground. A long feather arrow shot into the side of his neck, and the blood stopped flowing.
But He Fang turned his head and looked at the left side that was still fighting. The fighting had stopped here. On the one hand, he led his troops to arrive, and on the other hand, the Turks found a breakthrough in the third passage. Now it is the last At the critical moment, even Zhang Zhongjian had already rushed over.
(End of chapter)
