The green-robed leader of the Hu village was also tough. He had just cut down a knight when he saw nearly a hundred strong men rushing out from the opposite side, especially those in front, waving spears, knives, axes and clubs in their hands, and charging towards them howling. .
Seeing that more than half of the casualties on his side were already over, he felt truly frightened now. He had been so confident just now. His cavalry team of nearly 80 cavalry could not defeat the 40 cavalry on the opposite side?
However, the facts told him how vulnerable the cavalry team he was proud of would be against a truly elite cavalry team.
In the previous battle, more than half of his cavalry suffered casualties, while the opponent's cavalry suffered only three casualties.
He felt that the cavalry on the opposite side were simply inhuman. Many of their people were shot off their horses, and even five horses were killed and injured. However, the knights on the opposite side reacted quickly. Not only could they get up quickly to fight, but also Take the opportunity to seize the horse and fight again.
Two horse bandits wearing armor ran over and shouted: "Master, these are the elites of the border army, run away..."
"Damn it, my team is all destroyed, where can we escape?" Green-robed Hu Village Leader howled loudly.
A horse bandit tried to persuade him again: "Keep the green hills here, so you don't have to worry about not having enough wood to burn. If you don't escape, it will be too late..."
After saying that, he and another horse bandit urged their horses to run down the official road and left.
Seeing that the situation was over, the leader of Hu Village knew that he would be dead if he did not escape. He quickly turned his horse's head, loudly greeted the remaining ten horse bandits, and rushed down the official road roaring.
At this time, Sun Dashan led his team back, and He Shihui shouted to him: "Pursuit, don't let the green thief escape."
Sun Dashan shouted and led more than 20 horsemen to chase after him.
He Shihui turned his horse's head and shouted to Bai Shanzi: "Go to the north, intercept the bandits and kill them!"
After saying that, he was the first to leap on his horse and rush down the official road, rushing towards the wilderness to the north. Bai Shanzi hurriedly called on the remaining ten riders to chase after him.
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Liu Quan had been sitting on the cart, staring at the four hundred or so infantry bandits in the wilderness to the north. He didn't really care about it, because he saw that the elite old bandits among the infantry bandits were all being summoned to the official road. went.
At this moment, he was worried that He Shihui's side would be difficult to deal with. Although they were just a group of bandits, after all, they had a large number of people, especially the horse bandits with nearly 80 riders, so they should not be underestimated.
Liu Quan first found someone to help Du Chun and other four people who were not seriously injured. They could not go out to fight or shoot arrows, but they had no problem shooting bird muskets. With Liu Quan, they could hit the enemy with five bird muskets from a distance. .
Then he called Shizhu again and said loudly to him: "Shitou, take twenty people and guard the back. If that coward retreats in fear of the enemy, chop him down."
When the surrounding Minyong and Qingzhuang heard this, they were secretly shocked. At this moment, He Shihui's words came out, and they listened to every word. They could not give their lives to the mountain bandits, nor could they give their grain to the mountain bandits. bandit.
They were the same as those over there, all of them looked angry and roared loudly: "...Kill all the bandits...Fight to the death and never retreat..."
Sure enough, within a moment, nearly ten horsemen were seen galloping from the official road, roaring and gesticulating behind a group of foot bandits. Under the encouragement and intimidation of the horse bandits, the foot bandits began to speed up their pace. Rush towards the official road.
The bandit leader who organized the charge of the foot bandits in the wilderness north of the official road was Zhao Shihu from Muzhajian. He was a very cunning man, with a mentality of not seeking profit but seeking self-preservation first.
After riding his horse to the northern wilderness, he immediately called the bandit leaders here and asked them to form a team to attack the car formation on the official road. At the same time, he warned the horse bandits who came with him: "Be smart in your moves. We see that this situation is a bit strange and something is wrong, so don’t rush into it.”
With him as the center, the horse bandits slowly dispersed. Several of them were holding bows and arrows, constantly urging the foot bandits in front to speed up their pace. However, they followed fifty steps behind with no intention of moving forward.
There are only a few bandit leaders left here, who can be called tough bandits. The rest are people who have recently been kidnapped, or some gangsters who have come with them just to fill in the numbers.
One by one, the bandits walked forward numbly under the constant shouts and curses of the leaders. Their steps were not fast, but they kept shouting and howling, as if they were intimidating the refugees on the official road, more like It's to encourage themselves.
Liu Quan saw the bandits shouting at the foot of the official road, slowly came towards him, and shouted loudly: "Everyone, listen up, there is no way to advance or retreat in this battle, retreat means death, we have defeated all the Tatars, what else can we do?" Afraid of some bandits, we followed the instructions we had practiced for days, and when we shouted to kill, we thrust out the spears and sticks in our hands according to the practiced movements."
On his side, there were originally sixty civilian warriors lined up in two rows led by Shizhu, guarding the middle. There were two young and strong centurions on each side of the wing. There were 460 people guarding the place. In terms of number, they were slightly higher than those under Guandao. The bandits are coming.
But these are ordinary people who have not been in battle. Although they have been trained in the past few days, the time is still short. They only practiced simple formations and only one thrust. According to Liu Quan's standards, they It's not the right time to fight now.
Even the civilian warriors led by Shi Zhuzi and Ma Huijun only had slightly better weapons and did not have much more training than the young men. Fortunately, there were not many old thieves among the bandits on the opposite side. Look at the weapons in their hands. The various weapons were not as good as here, so Liu Quan relaxed a little.
The bandits were fifty steps closer when suddenly there was a loud noise of people flipping over from the official road, followed by the sound of "bang bang bang" guns and cannons. Liu Quan knew without looking that He Shihui's cavalry had already attacked.
"put!"
"Bang...bang...bang..."
Liu Quan also fired the musket in his hand. Five muskets were fired together, and a thick cloud of white smoke rose.
The three charging bandits fell to the ground. They howled and screamed, and were shot with bloody arrows. Their behavior was extremely terrifying.
The surrounding bandits were frightened and stopped for a moment. "Whoosh!" an arrow flew from behind. One of the bandits fell to the ground, struggling feebly and wailing.
"Bitch, charge forward, or you'll die if you don't!"
Zhao Shihu roared angrily, intimidating the bandits to continue charging, "Whoosh...whoosh..." Two more arrows flew, and the two still hesitating bandits howled and fell to the ground, rolling and howling.
The frightened bandits rushed forward like crazy, waving clubs, daggers, hatchets, iron rulers, and even spades, picks, nails and rakes in their hands, and everyone let out heart-rending howls.
"Everyone, please pay attention, kill... kill... kill..."
Liu Quan had already put down the blunderbuss, holding a knife-clamping stick in his hand, stabbing forward one after another. Under his orders, the Minyong beside him basically followed his orders, one after another. Stab, withdraw, stab again.
But the young men on both wings obviously couldn't keep up with this rhythm. The first time they were very neat, but from the second time they became chaotic.
To the west of Liu Quan, a bandit leader armed with a shield and a knife rushed up suddenly. The shield protected his head and face. The steel knife swept across the gap where the young men had stabbed him. There was blood on the chests and arms of the two young men. Surge out, they howled, dropped the sticks in their hands, turned around and ran away.
