Chapter 32 Horse Battle
Xue Yan's Hejian Army was originally a border army of Hejian Prefecture. He had fought several small battles with the Liao people. In the north, it was a very combat-effective team. However, five years ago, King Pu Zhao Wu of King Pu mobilized the army to move south from Hejian and stationed in Xiangzhou. After a long time, he had long since disappeared.
At this time, Liang Yuanchui led 3,000 cavalry from the Dragon Guard to go up from the south, crossed the Yellow River, and walked on the east and west roads of Beijing and directly into the boundary of Xiangzhou. At this time, a day had passed before departure, and the sun had long been hanging in the sky. As for the concealment, Liang Yuanchui had never considered it. He was a dignified army, who came here to challenge the rebellion and could he hide it?
At that moment, regardless of the persuasion of the other three commanders, he led the entire army to charge forward and rushed over. When he arrived at Xiangzhou City thirty miles away, he faintly saw the city block. Under their eyes, a number of thousands of troops were separated by each other.
"Hey, how dare Xue Yan go out of the city to fight?" Liang Yuanchui then asked on the back of the horse, "How do the three generals defeat the enemy now?"
The three cavalry commanders of the Long Guard Army were named Guo Lu, Jiang Yu and Zhao Dahai. The three were originally from the older generation of the Imperial Guards, but Zhao Wu removed him from his military power and went home to farm. Now he was re-transferred by the little emperor. Naturally, he was grateful. Jiang Yu rode a horse and observed the enemy's formation for a while and came back to report: "Then Xue Yan wanted to wait for his work, and our army was tired from afar, so I'm afraid we can't fight today."
The other two commanders nodded. Fighting tired soldiers was a taboo in military strategists and they should not be done by nature. Liang Yuanchui had read one or two military books and knew this. However, after he had just avenged the Liang family, he naturally wanted to repay this kindness, so he said: "Since you can't move today, then wait for Yuanchui to fight Xue Yan to get the limelight."
After saying that, he swung his cloak and carried his gun on his horse, ran out of the formation, drove the horse to the middle of the two armies, pointed the gun at the man who looked burly and majestic opposite, and shouted: "Xue Yan, you traitor, now the imperial guards have arrived, why not take off your horse and surrender."
"surrender?"
Xue Yan, who is burly, is already forty-three this year. At its peak, he has a leopard eye on his forehead and a wisp of beard as hard as steel thorns, making him look fierce and evil.
He was not afraid, and rushed to the center with a knife, and walked a hundred steps away from Liang Yuan, saying, "I was personally appointed as the official position of His Highness Pu. He was transferred from Hejian Prefecture to stay here for many years. No one dared to question this general. Besides, who are you and what position is your official position?"
Liang Yuanchui stretched out his hand and held a bronze talisman, shouting loudly at the soldiers behind him, "I am the son of Liang Xiang. Yesterday, King Pu was suspected of usurping the throne and beheaded and sacrificed the flag! This is the tiger talisman found in the Pu Palace. Using this as evidence, the army put down its weapons, and we led our army to come, just for Xue Yan."
The Hejian army soldiers opposite were suddenly in an uproar. Seeing this, Xue Yan shouted: "Don't be shaken by this man's morale. This man could not say that he was a rebel party. He wanted to fool us down his weapons in the name of King Pu and His Majesty, but they would slaughter us!"
As soon as he said this, the Hejian Army formation suddenly became quiet. The eyes of the imperial guards opposite were different. Suddenly, the atmosphere on both sides of the battlefield was mysterious and he was ready to start a war.
"Xue Yangou Thief! Your Majesty's car frame is probably crossing the Yellow River. At most, you will come here tomorrow. At that time, who is right and who is wrong will be clear at a glance. If you don't surrender at this time, you will die tomorrow without a place to bury!"
Xue Yan gritted his teeth and raised his eyebrows, but at this moment he was extremely surprised, "Did King Pu really fail the plot? He was killed by the little emperor's men? What should I do? The road to attack Kaifeng Prefecture will definitely not work. If I cannot break the city in two or three days, I will become a turtle in the jar. It seems that I will encourage the soldiers to go north to join Liao."
After making up his mind, Xue Yan felt a little calmer, held the sharp eyebrows and shouted angrily: "You are the ones who are conspiring to rebel. Today, Xue will kill you first, and then lead troops to break through Kaifeng and kill the person behind the scenes."
After saying that, Xue Yan was also a general at the border, and he used to use a thirty or forty pounds of eyebrows. The knife was heavy and concise and sharp.
"Good here, I'm just about to fight you!"
Liang Yuanchui shouted angrily, clamped the horse's belly, and danced the gun flower to meet him. The moment the two sides were in a quarrel, the knife blade suddenly raised upwards. Liang Yuanchui, who had been alert, was not panicked at all. He pulled the reins to the left with one hand, adjusted the horse's head, and poked the right arm of the gun with force. With a loud bang, the two immediately moved apart, ran for more than ten steps and turned the horse's head, and collided again.
"Kill you..."
Xue Yan shouted angrily, but realized in his heart that the young man's marksmanship was extremely steady and he had no impetuousness that young man should have. He was definitely trained by famous masters. He didn't dare to be careless immediately. The blade occasionally greeted the other person's lower limbs and the horse's neck. As long as he chopped the other person's horse, he had never heard of an infantry defeating the cavalry when he arrived on the ground.
For a moment, the two of them went back and forth for four or five rounds, and suddenly they fought. The moment they were staggered, there were a series of sounds of metal and iron collisions. You can imagine how fast they took action.
“…Come!”
Liang Yuan lowered his eyes sharply and fiercely. When he was staggering again, he stabbed the other party's back a few times. Xue Yan crossed his arm and slashed his sword, leaned back, pressed it on the horse's back, avoided the tip of the gun, and slashed the eyebrow knife in his hand horizontally towards the other party's back.
After avoiding the attack, Liang Yuancheng saw the blade slashing silently. He subconsciously put the gun on his back and blocked it. He immediately heard a click, and the white wax gun rod was cut into two pieces. The blade still came. It happened that the two horses were staggered at a distance, and the tip of the knife only wiped the back and cut a hole in the leather armor.
Liang Yuan looked back and threw half of the gun in his hand, shouted loudly, and rushed over again. His hair was disheveled like a desperate madman. He looked like a desperate madman, and he was really short, kicking his belly and kicking his whole body a little faster than the sharp-eyed knife. His figure instantly touched him, grabbed Xue Yan's armour and sat down hard. The two of them fell off the horse together and rolled into a ball.
"I'll kill..." Liang Yuanchui raised half of the gun and was about to stab him. Xue Yan raised his feet and kicked him in the abdomen, kicking him backwards.
After rolling a few meters, the madman-like man climbed up again and rushed over with half of the gun. Xue Yan wiped the sweat and was a little tired, but he still pushed his eyebrows and knife. How could he retreat after his lifetime of blood bravery? So he took several steps to meet the madman who was rushing towards him.
The blade slashed down directly, but it cut a hole. He immediately crossed the blade, pulled the copper rod back, pulled the shaft back, and slashed the opponent's spear head with a loud bang. Liang Yuan flew out vertically and hit the ground. His arms trembled, his wrists were aching faintly, and he still gritted his teeth and supported it up, picked up half of the gun on the ground and shouted: "Die together!"
Then, without looking at the blade passing by, he inserted the half of the gun body in his hand into the other party's chest. Xue Yan was shocked, and quickly stopped the knife, pushed his knee forward, knocking the crazy man's wrist holding the gun, trying to knock down the spear that was about to reach his chest.
Unexpectedly, Liang Yuanchui suddenly relaxed his hand holding the gun, threw the handle of the gun out of his hand, caught it with his left hand, and stabbed it straight. After a moment, an angry shout sounded, and the injured Xue Yan kicked the madman away with one kick, and retreated repeatedly with the handle of the knife. His legs were clearly inserted with the tip of the gun.
As soon as the commander was injured, dozens of cavalry were sent out from the Hejian Army to steal people, and some people came from the imperial guards. The two sides held each other and slowly opened a safe distance.
"You will help the evil and your Majesty come in person tomorrow to know the authenticity!" Liang Yuanchui was helped on the back of the horse, and he did not forget to remind the soldiers of the Hejian Army loudly, "Your relatives and friends are all Han people, who would like to live with the hat of treason and rebellion? Those who surrender will not blame you."
Then, under Xue Yan's hatred gaze, he proudly rode back to the formation.
Chapter completed!