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The moisture is evaporating, slowly lingering upward to form cumulonimbus clouds. They were originally even more insignificant existences than mayflies. They could only rely on countless similar individuals to fuse together, grow stronger little by little, change forms unconsciously, and finally complete an astonishing transformation. It is difficult to detect these things with the naked eye, and it is naturally even more difficult at night. But as long as the next morning, the first sunlight shines into the clouds, and the thick layers of clouds will appear.
In the early morning of this day, the drums of assembly sounded very early. In a moment, five thousand men and horses were fully prepared, and they lined up with their backs to the camp and facing the east.
Everyone clearly understood that there was no danger to defend the camp, and the terrain was flat. If they did not retreat, they would have to fight. Therefore, everyone looked worried and could not feel confident.
"How can five thousand people fight against tens of thousands of people?"
There is a general in the formation, with a golden feather on his collar, wearing a red robe and heavy armor. He has a black face and a curly black beard and hair. He asked while riding a war horse, raising the Yanyue sword in his hand and pointing it to the sky.
"Look, the sky is covered with clouds, and a heavy rain is bound to hit!" He turned to the left, facing the young general and said, "Does General Bai Feng have any countermeasures?"
But seeing Bai Feng wearing a silver helmet and white robe and silver armor walking out of the formation on horseback, he looked around with his head held high and replied: "Stay unchanged to cope with the ever-changing situation, just do what you have arranged in advance." "
"Okay!" Huang Yixiao said, and immediately ordered the flag bearer to raise the flag to signal the entire army to repair on the spot, and then began his speech in front of the station.
"Soldiers! Brothers! Look behind us. That is our camp. What is coming in front is an army of tens of thousands of Rouran people. We have no way to retreat!" Huang Yixiao looked around and took a deep breath. After taking a breath, he continued to say high-spiritedly: "Live on! If we can try our best to survive, victory will definitely belong to us!"
After everyone listened, they all looked solemn and didn't know what to say.
Next to him, Shen Qiongzhi, who was carrying a round shield and wearing lightweight crotch armor, couldn't help but feel excited and trembled after listening to Huang Yixiao's speech.
"Miss Shen, follow me closely later, remember, never put down your weapon!" Huang Yixiao greeted and followed the army for a break.
Sure enough, within a short time, a horse came to report that the enemy was only a short distance away from the main camp. Huang Yixiao immediately ordered the entire army to be on alert. The flag bearer immediately raised the flag and shouted, "Calling the thieves to put an end to the chaos. The banner of "Heavenly Way".
Hundreds and thousands of Rouran soldiers gradually began to gather on the grassy slope in the distance. They occupied the high ground and surrounded the entire east side.
But it was said that a Rouran man who was proficient in Chinese came riding from the enemy's formation. He shouted in this direction: "Whose subordinates are in front of you?"
Huang Yi smiled and said: "We don't belong to anyone, we are rebels! We are the ones who want to drive you out of this land!"
"Hahaha..." The Rouran man laughed and said: "Your Majesty has so few soldiers, how can you resist our tens of thousands of troops? My general is the Crown Prince of Rouran. He has a kind heart. He has always heard that General Huangquan is brave and good at fighting, and Bai Feng The general is both wise and brave, so he is unwilling to kill. As long as you are willing to surrender, the general will definitely reward you generously. Whether it is fiefdom, pasture or women, as long as you want, the general will give you whatever you want!"
After Huang Yixiao heard this, he yelled angrily: "What we want is to get you out of this land! Can your general do it? Could it be that he wants us to help him and chop off his dog head to sacrifice to heaven? Help him return to his hometown? Hahaha..."
After hearing this, all the rebel officers and soldiers also laughed loudly, as if to embolden themselves, but at the same time, they also rejected the Rouran people.
The soldiers who came to persuade him to surrender saw that their attempts to surrender were fruitless, so they immediately went back home to report to Crown Prince Rouran. It is said that this man was in his prime and needed to make great achievements, so even though he knew that the weather was changing, he still decided to lead his troops to charge and prepare to encircle and suppress the rebels.
When Huang Yixiao saw this, he raised the Yanyue sword again and said bluntly: "Raise your weapons and do it as if you are risking your own life!"
"Both the left and right obey orders!" Bai Feng immediately agreed: "Follow me and lead the cavalry troops to attack along the flanks in two groups to harass Rouran's main force."
"The rest of you will form a turtle shell formation on the spot and guard the main entrance of the camp with me!" Huang Yi laughed, and then he and Shen Qiongzhi dismounted and lurked into the turtle shell formation to prepare to resist the Rouran people's attack.
The flag bearer began to change the flag, and about two thousand light cavalry advanced from both wings of the battlefield, aiming to contain the speed of Rouran's advance as much as possible; the remaining three thousand infantry formed a wonderful tortoise shell formation in front of the camp, and they formed a defensive posture. The situation made the Rouran people dare not invade rashly. They thought that the camp guarded by the rebels was really full of baggage or important military information.
The Rouran cavalry, which was the first to arrive on the battlefield, quickly changed its strategy after several rounds of charges but failed. They no longer planned to wipe out the rebels in one go. Instead, they concentrated their infantry on attacking the weak side of the turtle formation, and then let the light cavalry sneak into the camp from the flanks. Finally, they forced the more than 3,000 rebel infantry to stand outside the camp. The backup could not break forward and was completely trapped in a dead situation.
Bai Feng saw that the Rouran people were really as he expected and did not want to fight to the death, so he would only adopt conservative tactics. He then pretended to mobilize troops to return reinforcements, and ordered the two groups of light cavalry to give up all their gains and head straight for the camp.
Although the three thousand rebels were trapped in a tight siege, they did not suffer too much impact, which resulted in an intriguing battlefield scene. Although they clearly had an absolute advantage in strength, the Rouran army, which was said to number tens of thousands, was at odds with the rebels. The confrontation lasted for a long time.
The people who broke into the camp searched everywhere and found that there was no one or anything in the camp. They only saw a lot of hay stored in the camp. After a while, a messenger came from the camp to the Turtle Shell Formation and provoked: "Little Huang Quan, who do you belong to? Why is there nothing in the camp?"
"I am your grandpa! Hahaha..." Huang Yixiao shouted in the gap formed between several shields.
But a moment later, the camp suddenly caught fire! When people took a closer look, they found that the rebel Qingqi were throwing oil cans and torches into the camp. But when Bai Feng gave an order, hundreds of oil cans and hundreds of torches were thrown out along both sides of the camp, and then every exit of the camp was instantly covered with flames.
The entire grassland quickly burned into a prairie fire!
In this lowland, bursts of gray-black smoke are constantly pouring out, exuding the breath of death, howling! Roar! Under this eerie sky, a group of brave warriors are fighting the enemy in the sea of fire. The splashing blood turns into flames, ripples in the air, distorting the sight. Here, the unrestrained ideals are embodied in flesh and blood. Form blooms.
After setting the fire, Bai Feng ordered his Qingqi to continue to maintain a guerrilla fighting posture around the camp, focusing on killing those who wanted to go in to put out the fire and those who wanted to escape for their lives, without immediately returning to aid Huang Yixiao.
The Rouran people finally became anxious, as if some important person had entered the camp. They began to launch a fierce attack on the three thousand infantry led by Huang Yixiao, and at the same time tried their best to divide their troops into the camp to search and rescue their companions.
But if you don't save him, then forget about it. If you go to save him, you will be attacked by the rebels' light cavalry. Seeing the flames soaring into the sky, the horses did not dare to take a step forward, and the people did not dare to rush out. In this way, the Rouran people were unable to divide their forces.
Because the Rouran people were unable to attack the tortoise shell formation and were unable to rush into the fire scene to save people, they gradually began to feel that their morale was weakening, and the pace of the attack slowed down. Even some troops from the opposite sex tribe began to retreat one after another, as if they were preparing to go back for help. With all the helpless choices they made, perhaps they didn't care at all about the prince's life or death.
But the good times didn't last long. A long-anticipated heavy rain suddenly came, and the thick gray-black smoke at the camp was later replaced by white smoke. The fire is out.
"General Huang Quan, what should we do now?" A boy asked Huang Yixiao: "If this continues, our brothers will not be able to hold on!"
Huang Yixiao listened to the pounding rain, but the fire in his heart was still not exhausted. He made a bold promise and said: "General Bai Feng has discussed with me in advance. As soon as the fire stops, we will go straight to the east to break out. We will meet at that time." There are troops from Yuyi Town coming to help!"
"Wait a minute, what about Brother Feng and the others?" Shen Qiongzhi, who was already covered in blood, asked, "Don't you care about them?"
"Believe me, Brother Bai, our first priority is to protect these brothers." After Huang Yixiao reassured him, he immediately ordered: "The whole army listens to the order and breaks out to the east!"
In an instant, the three thousand rebels who were originally on the defensive turned to attack in a massive way. In the pouring rain, the horses were unable to gallop on the muddy and slippery land. The Rouran cavalry could not cope with it. In order to suppress the desperate effort of the rebels, they They immediately turned into comical clowns in the heavy rain: either they fell off their horses and broke their bones, or their horses stopped in the splits and couldn't move.
Without the cavalry, the rebels would not have the biggest threat on their way to breakout. However, in the face of counterattacks by thousands of people, even if the Rouran people only resisted, they could still consume the lives of many rebel soldiers in the process. Huang Yixiao and others People fell into extremely brutal fighting.
The heavy rain mixed with blood turned into bloody water and flowed into every depression, turning into small blood pools, including the blood of Beizhen people and the blood of Rouran people.
Just when they need to boost their military morale the most, a piece of news comes that can revive the morale of all the rebel soldiers!
"The enemy general is beheaded, our army is victorious!"
"The enemy general is beheaded, our army is victorious!"
"The enemy general is beheaded, our army is victorious!"
The news quickly spread throughout the battlefield, and soon after, a young general wearing a silver helmet and silver armor led thousands of soldiers to come back for reinforcements. They suddenly appeared from the thick white smoke pouring out of the camp, and there were some among them. Raising the flag, there is a human head hanging just above the flag that says "Call thieves and put an end to chaos". When you take a closer look, you see that it is the head of Crown Prince Rouran!
The Rouran people were immediately defeated. Those who heard it fled, those who saw it knelt down, and the troops under the tribes of the opposite sex had long since fled. When they saw Bai Feng coming, they thought it was an evil star descending from the sky. It not only brought a storm that was rare in ten years, but also killed the Crown Prince of Rouran, and they suddenly lost their spirits.
Five thousand men defeated tens of thousands. This battle made General Huang Quan and General Bai Feng famous in Beizhen.
There are also storytellers in Yuyi Town who wrote poems about this: "In a last-ditch battle, Ling Yun's ambition is here. Dunjia Qimen leads you into the Wengshao company. Divine rain falls from the sky, and the swordsman Wuyin kills the leader of the thieves. His merits exceed those of the three armies, and he is wise and brave. His strategy is unparalleled in the world.”
