Sun Bo was wearing heavy armor and holding a big ax, and was firmly protected in the middle by a group of servants.
Even so, Sun Bo was already panting from exhaustion, and there was an arrow stuck in his shoulder.
If the armor were not strong and the arrow could not penetrate the protection, this arrow alone would be enough to make Sun Bo lose his combat effectiveness.
Even if Sun Bo was like this, the rest of the soldiers were even closer to exhaustion. If they weren't elites, fully armored and full of force, they would have collapsed long ago.
"General! The rebels are attacking fiercely, and we can no longer survive."
"General! Our army has suffered heavy losses."
"General, I am afraid that our army has less than 3,000 men. The soldiers of each battalion have been divided and surrounded by the rebels and are fighting on their own."
Bad news spread frequently, and Sun Bo's head hurt.
Not to mention other soldiers, even he himself had only a few hundred soldiers left.
Facing the siege of enemies several times their own, they could only hold on and had no strength to counterattack.
The only hope right now is pinned on Beixi Qingqi.
Under the cover of the servant army, Sun Bo raised his ax above his head and directly chopped down the enemy who was also wearing heavy armor in front of him with one blow.
Even though he is fifty years old, Sun Bo is still as brave as before.
It's a pity that no matter how brave he is, he can't save the situation.
"Where is Beixi Qingqi!"
"Where is Beixi Qingqi!"
"Why haven't we seen reinforcements yet? Beixi Qingqi, how dare you abandon me?!"
Sun Bo's hysterical roars continued to echo on the battlefield, but unfortunately, he could not get any response.
The more he screamed, the more desperate he became.
Because Sun Bo knew that even if Beixi Qingqi came, it might not be able to turn the tide of the battle, but at least this was his only remaining hope.
At this moment, shouts of killing came from all directions.
Sun Bo could hear this sound clearly, which meant that the number gap between the enemy and ourselves was already very large.
"kill!"
Sun Bo roared, and he led the fifty heavily armored soldiers and two hundred servants beside him to launch a brazen attack on the densely packed enemy army.
Relying on the solid heavy armor, the only 250 soldiers around Sun Bo collided with the enemy again and again.
Although the rebel light infantry was quickly defeated, not long after, a scene that made Sun Bo desperate happened.
Thousands of heavily armored infantry appeared in front of him.
In the blink of an eye, the situation was reversed, and Sun Bo was once again besieged and could only struggle to hold on.
He knew that he would die, but he could not give up. Once he gave up resistance, he would be slaughtered by the rebels like melons and vegetables.
When the two sides faced each other, there were not many casualties. Only when one side collapsed and began to retreat or flee, did the real massacre begin.
Seeing the soldiers around him fall one after another.
Fifty-year-old Sun Bo was almost exhausted. Under the protection of the servant army, he was holding a big ax and breathing heavily.
The ax that used to be so powerful was now as heavy as a thousand pounds, and every time it was lifted it required all one's strength.
Even so, he could not change weapons, because he was also facing heavy armored infantry combat, and could only rely on long weapons to maintain a safe distance while performing effective armor-piercing damage.
"Could it be that all of our vanguard army is going to be handed over here after all?"
"Qin Feng! You bastard, when will you come to collect my body?"
Just when Sun Bo was using his last strength to confront the rebels, Beixi Qingqi was already on the periphery, fighting with the rebels.
Three thousand Beixi light cavalry were divided into two groups.
Among them, two thousand light cavalry were constantly shuttling between Gusu City and the battlefield, trying to block the rebels as much as possible.
Another thousand light cavalry were on the periphery of the battlefield, constantly roaming and harassing.
Zhao Zhenhai, with his 800 cavalry, had already charged and killed several times on the outside of the battlefield. He took the lead and continued to use arrows to consume the enemy.
pity……
After all, they are light cavalry, and their mission is to harass the logistics and rob the backup.
Encountering this kind of frontal battlefield where the war is extremely anxious, the value that can be exerted is extremely limited.
After several attacks, only 600 Beixi Qingqi soldiers under Zhao Zhenhai were left.
They did not dare to get too close to the rebel infantry. After all, the opponent's infantry bow was not inferior to their horse bow in terms of range and penetration ability.
There is no advantage at all in exchanging arrows with the infantry in formation.
Moreover, the light cavalry cannot charge into the formation. Rushing forward rashly is tantamount to hitting an egg against a rock, and they will be killed by the enemy's spearmen in a blink of an eye.
The only thing Zhao Zhenhai can do is to share the pressure for Sun Bo as much as possible.
However, the war was coming to an end, and the situation was extremely unfavorable to Sun Bo. If the decline could not be restored, then Zhao Zhenhai had no choice but to retreat.
"General Zhao, I can't bear it anymore!"
"Our soldiers have suffered heavy losses and must retreat. Otherwise, the rebel cavalry will surround us. We are afraid that we will have to explain everything here."
Hearing the deputy general's shout, Zhao Zhenhai frowned and shot an arrow at the rebels in the distance.
As a result, the arrow was directly blocked by the opponent's shield.
Facing the dense infantry phalanx, Zhao Zhenhai was at his wits' end.
Just when he was about to give up on Sun Bo, the messenger appeared next to Zhao Zhenhai again.
"General Zhao, reinforcements have arrived!"
Zhao Zhenhai's eyes lit up and he quickly asked: "Where are the reinforcements?"
"But my northern army has arrived?"
The messenger quickly explained: "The black cavalry who have been stationed in the rear have arrived."
Black knight? !
As far as Zhao Zhenhai knew, although Zhao Yulong had withdrawn from the front line and had been following Qin Feng, not all the black cavalry had been transferred.
There are still a thousand black cavalry stationed about fifty miles away from the rear of Sun Bo's army.
Their mission is to prevent Sun Bo's army from being encircled and suppressed by the rebels in the south.
"Pass my order, all Beixi light cavalry must retreat, quickly join up with the black cavalry, and protect the black cavalry!"
Zhao Zhenhai did not hesitate, and immediately led his Qingqi, and also transferred all the two thousand Qingqi who were blocking the enemy in front, and went straight towards the black cavalry.
The black cavalry is a heavily armored cavalry, and its greatest advantage is that it is used to break formations.
Correspondingly, the black cavalry also has many weaknesses. Because it cannot run fast, it is very easy to be attacked by the enemy's light cavalry and light infantry.
Light infantry are simply lightly armored, and the weapons they carry are not light at all.
Whether it's a spear or a powerful crossbow, it's enough for a black knight to drink a pot.
As the Beixi Qingqi withdrew, the remaining nearly 6,000 rebels on the scene all gathered towards Sun Bo's vanguard army.
At this time, there were only more than a hundred people left around Sun Bo. Although there were still more than two thousand people in the entire vanguard, they had all been scattered and were fighting independently, unable to join forces at all.
As soon as Beixi Qingqi withdrew, Sun Bo's pressure increased suddenly. Even the servants and soldiers around him, all equipped with heavy armor, could no longer bear it.
