When Xu Youchang saw Xie Bao suddenly making a sudden attack and attacking fiercely, he knew that if he raised his gun to fight hard, his strength would suffer, and he would probably end up with a tragic ending of killing someone with the gun.
At the critical juncture, he suddenly came to his senses and suddenly exerted force on his legs, secretly urging the war horse to take a big step forward. With this slight change in body position, he not only just avoided Xie Bao's attack, but also shot with a backhand. , piercing the opponent's front door.
Xie Bao didn't expect Xu Youchang to be so flexible, so he had no choice but to change his moves in the air, block the spear with a hammer, and land heavily on the ground.
Unexpectedly, as soon as his feet touched the ground, Xu Youchang had already rushed towards him on horseback. Taking advantage of his superior position, he stabbed more than ten times in a row, covering him like lightning.
Xie Bao raised his hammer to resist, shocked and angry. He originally thought that even if he couldn't hurt Xu Youchang, he would force him off his horse, but he failed to do so. In the end, he was at a disadvantage and was beaten passively.
However, after all, Xie Bao had been on the battlefield for a long time and had rich combat experience. He saw an opportunity and leaped up again, hitting Xu Youchang's shoulder with his right hammer. Xu Youchang reacted quickly and swung his gun back, firmly blocking the hammer blow. But who would have known that this was just a false move by Xie Baozhi. His real target was actually the war horse!
The moment the right hammer was pushed away by the spear, the left hammer was already smashed down, hitting the head of Xu Youchang's war horse. There was a bang, the horse's skull was shattered and its brains were flying everywhere.
This sudden change immediately shocked Xu Youchang. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and jumped out of the saddle in time, otherwise the horse would have fallen to the ground beneath him, unable to move.
However, despite this, he still fell heavily to the ground, and the iron spear was released and flew to the side.
Xie Bao was overjoyed when he saw this, and while screaming strangely, he waved his hammers and came closer. Xu Youchang gritted his teeth to resist the weight of the armor, stood up with all his strength, drew out the saber tied to his waist like lightning, and fought bravely.
Without the advantage of the iron gun in terms of distance and weight, Xu Youchang, who was holding a saber, was quickly suppressed by Xie Bao's copper hammer. He struggled to withstand the opponent's fierce attack and couldn't help but retreat, which was extremely dangerous.
Xie Bao became more and more courageous as he fought, desperate to move forward, never leaving the vital points of Xu Youchang's head and chest.
Seeing that if he continued to be so passive, he might be injured and defeated on the spot in less than twenty or thirty moves. Xu Youchang quickly took two steps back, then raised his hand and threw the saber at Xie Bao.
Xie Bao swung the copper hammer with disdain and knocked the knife away in a blink of an eye. Unexpectedly, with such a delay, Xu Youchang picked up a shield on the ground and slashed Xie Bao's arm.
Although the edge of the shield is not sharp, under the internal strength of a master like Xu Youchang, it can still have the power to crack mountains and crack rocks. Xie Bao did not dare to neglect, and quickly bent his elbow and retracted his arm. This was exactly what Xu Youchang wanted.
He took advantage of the opponent's opportunity to react, and the shield flew out again.
The spinning shield instantly shortened the distance between him and Xie Bao. Xie Bao knew he couldn't dodge, so he had no choice but to change his move, instead of retracting his arms to extending his arms, and used a copper hammer to block the flying shield. Xu Youchang secretly cheered, then stepped forward and kicked Xie Bao's left wrist.
There was a muffled clang and the copper hammer fell to the ground.
Like a nimble ape, Xu Youchang rolled on the spot and grabbed the copper hammer in his hand.
When Xie Bao saw him like this, he was almost so angry that he roared and swung another sledgehammer to hit Xu Youchang.
With the weapon in hand, Xu Youchang immediately regained his confidence, stood up in a blink of an eye, and used the copper hammer against the copper hammer, instantly deflecting Xie Bao's offensive.
Xie Bao cursed secretly in his mind, and at the same time bullied the other party for not being good at using his own unique weapon, the eight-edged bronze hammer, so he pressed forward step by step, vowing to smash Xu Youchang's brains to pieces.
However, what he never expected was that Xu Youchang was born in a family of generals. He had practiced martial arts hard since he was a child and was proficient in eighteen kinds of weapons. In addition, he was a powerful and powerful general in martial arts. Therefore, Copper The hammer came into his hands, and he actually played better than Xie Bao himself.
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen rounds later, Xu Youchang not only was not suppressed by Xie Bao, but instead danced with the bronze hammer in a dazzling manner, forcing Xie Bao to retreat continuously.
In order to make the other party angry, Xu Youchang kept his hands and mouth: "I said General Xie, what did you do? Your housekeeping skills are not as good as Xu's, are you really just showing up?"
The dang-dang sledgehammers struck each other, which already made Xie Bao's arms numb and upset. Now after hearing Xu Youchang's words, he almost vomited blood on the spot.
He roared angrily: "Give me the weapon back quickly!"
Xu Youchang was almost amused by Xie Bao's silly look: "Return it to you? Is it possible to return the weapon on the battlefield? You want to, right? Then give me a hammer!"
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As Xu Youchang led 3,000 cavalry to block Xie Bao's assault, the Fish Scale Formation stabilized the situation again. The infantry of Zhenjiang Second Army surrounded them from all directions, blocking the 20,000 cavalry in a bloody battle.
From Ba Mao Mountain to Lianhua Mountain, the fierce fighting continued to reach a climax. The hundreds of thousands of troops advanced and retreated, retreated and advanced, and the fight was inextricable.
At the same time, another battle was taking place on the river not far away.
The rebel naval fleet stationed in Jinling received news that the Zhenjiang Army on the other side had made a large-scale landing overnight and had successfully broken through the river bank defense line and was engaged in a large-scale fierce battle with the defenders. They quickly dispatched more than 300 warships and came from the downstream direction to intercept them.
Everyone knew very well that as long as they could block the follow-up troops and food and supplies of the Zhenjiang Army, the troops and horses that had landed would sooner or later be surrounded and annihilated.
As a result, the Jinling fleet rushed westward desperately, and soon met Kunpeng's Tenth Army on a narrow road.
Nie Xianzang and Luo Yuan led the main fleet and have been waiting here for a long time. As soon as he saw the enemy's sails appearing in the field of vision, the Kunpeng warship did not hesitate and immediately launched an attack and attacked the enemy ship.
In an instant, arrows were flying across the river, killing sounds were heard, and ships were violently colliding with each other. Countless Zhenjiang sailors jumped out of the ship's side, jumped onto the opponent's deck, and fought the enemy in darkness.
Luo Yuan was once again possessed by the evil spirit. His warships rushed left and right, focusing on chasing the rebel flagship, obviously intending to kill the general and capture the flag. The commander of the rebel navy was also a stupid young man. Upon seeing this, he quickly ordered the flagship to rush towards Luo Yuan and fight fiercely.
The next moment, the two men roared with swords and killed each other directly.
Luo Yuan successfully entangled the rebel flagship, immediately causing the opponent's entire fleet to lose unified command. Nie Xianzang seized the opportunity and divided his troops into several groups to completely separate and block the rebels, and then concentrated local superior forces to annihilate them one by one.
In two hours, more than a hundred rebel warships were burned or sunk. The river was full of heaving heads, struggling to swim to the south bank to escape.
The naval officers fought bravely and sniped at enemy soldiers in order to protect the transport fleet and buy time. Hundreds of ships, large and small, were sailing and waving their oars, carrying batch after batch of fresh troops. They left the dock one after another and headed towards the south bank of the river at high speed.
Li Jiangyao stood on the tall observation deck, calmly observing the battlefield situation, and constantly reminded Sima, who was joining the army behind him, to carefully record the movement of ships in and out of the water village wharf, so as to leave lessons for future larger-scale actual battles.
Jigriz strode up to the observation deck and said loudly: "The Great Protector, I am also preparing to board the ship and set off. Do you have anything to say to Xu Shuai?"
Li Jiangyao was silent for a moment and then ordered: "Tell your friend, the enemy's army is obviously well prepared, and ask him to be careful and take care of himself. If the time is not good, cancel the plan to attack Xuancheng and retreat to the north bank quickly!"
Jigriz agreed, gave a military salute to Li Jiangyao, and left quickly.
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"Damn it! If Xie Bao hadn't escaped quickly just now, I would have hammered him to death!"
Xu Youchang complained and asked the guards to help remove the broken shoulder armor.
Just now, he and Xie Bao had a life-and-death battle. In the final stage of the fight, the two hit each other at the same time. Xie Bao hit Xu Youchang on the left shoulder with a hammer, and Xu Youchang hit Xie Bao hard on the chest with a copper hammer.
This time, Xu Youchang's left arm was seriously injured, and Xie Bao was even worse. He vomited blood and lost his combat power on the spot.
At the critical moment, the surrounding Xuanjia troops tried their best to protect Xie Bao from the battlefield safely, and Xu Youchang also left the battle under the protection of his own soldiers. Tens of thousands of Xuanjia troops temporarily retreated their troops and retreated to three miles away to take up positions. Du Jian and the heavy infantry also returned to the defense line one after another and stood ready.
Looking at his bloody shoulder, Du Jian said with concern: "Xu Shuai, why don't you take a boat back to the other side first? I think I've injured my bones and I need to be treated quickly!"
"It's okay, I can't die!" Xu Youchang gritted his teeth, struggled to lift his injured left arm, and said with a forced smile: "See? You can still move!"
"Why move? Move!" Du Jian quickly stepped forward to hold his arm and complained: "It's not the right way to fight desperately. You go back, I am here. Wait until the First Army and the Sixth Army come over Now, I promise to capture Xuancheng to vent your anger!"
Xu Youchang shook his head: "There is really no need to go back. Firstly, there is armor between us, and secondly, I also deliberately used my internal strength to protect myself. It hurt a little, but it did not hurt my muscles and bones. Lao Du, this battle is no small matter, I Can’t leave.”
Du Jian knew that he was stubborn and couldn't be persuaded at all, so he stopped nagging, turned to look to the south, and coldly snorted: "The Xuanjia Army is really tough, it is indeed interesting."
Xu Youchang smiled bitterly and said: "Brother, you have to know that among our Xinjiang Army, many people are from the vanguard camp of the Xuanjia Army, including me. You should know in your mind whether Xuanjia fights hard or not."
Du Jian nodded, sat down next to Xu Youchang, and then sighed: "What a good army, but it's a pity that it went the wrong way. When the Xuanjia Army came to Western Xinjiang to help us fight the Turks, that guy, beat him The blood wolf clan is all over the place looking for teeth. Oh, what a pity."
Xu Youchang smiled and said: "I remember, your boy later had a fight with the Xuanjia Army, right? Because of what? Oh yes, to grab the spoils of war!"
Speaking of this, Xu Youchang suddenly remembered that it was at that time that he met that girl, the girl who would never leave him deep in his heart.
