Volume 1, War and Chaos, Section 33, Bloody City Gate
The valley is beautiful and so is the small lake.
After Li Xiuning saw the sounding arrow rising into the sky, he led more than 3,000 women's soldiers to this picturesque valley.
The flowers here are colorful, and the butterflies are flying and the bees are dancing. They are surrounded by mountain peaks of different heights. The entrance is a path about three feet wide and twenty feet long. In the middle is a small lake with clear and bright water and lively fish.
Golden light shines in the setting sun.
Yang Man happily walked around the lake. When she was tired, she came to Li Xiuning and said with a smile: "General, this was discovered by the medicine slave at my subordinate's house last year. I brought him down here twice later."
Li Xiuning always felt that Yang Man had ulterior motives for coming to the Detachment of Women, but when she thought about Yang Guang going south to Yangzhou and abandoning her in Kaifeng, and not being able to return home to Chang'an, she felt a little pity for her.
When she put down her princess pretense and begged him to give her a place to stay, she recalled the time they spent practicing martial arts and studying together when they were children. Who could be so cruel as to refuse her a thousand miles away?
Li Xiuning said: "Thank you for recommending this good place, which allows the sisters to wash up. I'm giving the order that except for three groups of six people who will go to the mouth of the valley to set up a light and dark post, the rest will camp here to make a meal and camp here tonight."
Everyone listened to the order, took off their cloaks, took off their baggage, and got busy.
Li Xiuning also ordered people to dig a number of deep pits as big as bathtubs at the lakeside, put linen pads underneath, and introduced the lake water. After waiting for the water to settle and become clear, the sisters could bathe. Those who were good swimmers went to the lake to wash themselves. Female soldiers
It’s also women, and they can’t change their cleanliness habits.
After washing away the sweat and dust from a day of running in the scorching heat, I felt comfortable all over my body. After checking the post in the middle of the night, I was speechless all night and slept soundly.
Early on the next morning, Li Xiuning finished reorganizing his army and came out of the valley. When he was thinking about how to realize the march route he had planned last night, the sound of horse hooves came from the dense forest to the north. The sound was not large in number, but it was very urgent.
Li Xiuning hurriedly ordered to hide on the spot. It was not advisable to ride the horse so quickly in the dense forest unless it was urgent, because the overgrown branches and unruly trees would trip up the knight and the horse at any time, and the gain would outweigh the loss.
The sound of arrows breaking through the air and the "dong-dong" sound of being nailed to the tree trunks rang in my ears. The first two riders in red armor, with black tasseled helmets tilted to one side, had the small blue triangular flag commonly used by Sui army scouts on their backs, and they drove away.
Bushes three to four feet high rushed towards the hiding place of the Detachment of Women.
Before I could react, more than a dozen tall Mobei horses rushed out from behind. The knights on the horses were dressed in strange clothes. It looked like they were not from China. They were riding horses and could draw their bows with both hands. If it were not blocked by the dense forest, these two horses would be unstoppable.
The Sui army scout might have been shot off his horse long ago.
Li Xiuning waited no longer, and with one move of his spear, the women's army hiding in the darkness vigorously threw their spears in the direction of the foreign knight. In an instant, more than a hundred red-tasseled spears suddenly fell down with a cold light, killing more than a dozen of them.
Foreign knights surrounded him.
Suddenly encountering a huge change, those foreign knights were also extraordinary. They abandoned their bows and hugged the saddle, slid down the horse's belly, and hid their bodies under the horse's belly.
But in such a dense formation of spears, there was no protection at all. Shrinking into the horse's belly was just their subconscious evasive action.
The spear rushed forward with the wind, and with the force of the forward charge of the war horses, in just a blink of an eye, all the war horses and the knights under the horses' bellies were pinned to the ground. The horses neighed in pain and the knights screamed in pain, and in an instant, blood flowed
It became a river, and after a while, it became silent and silent.
The smell of blood drifted in the wind, which was nauseating. Li Xiuning came to check the results of the battle and waved his hand to the rear team to intercept the two Sui army scouts. In this short moment, they had already ran twenty feet away.
In fact, Li Xiuning didn't need to signal, the rear team had already pulled up the stumbling ropes. After the two war horses "Xijinjin" neighed, they all fell to the ground. The two scouts rolled and fell off their horses. One of them was hit by an arrow in the back and was killed after tumbling.
The arrow pierced his chest and he was dead.
The other one, who was better, fell to the grass nearby, rolled a few times and fainted. The horse also rolled over on the ground, stood up, and galloped away uncontrollably.
Li Xiuning hurriedly ran over to see the fainted knight, and saw that his face was earth-colored and his teeth were clenched. He quickly opened his bloody teeth with a knife and gave him water.
The knight couldn't drink anymore. He slowly opened his eyes and saw that all the beautiful women in white armor were in front of him. They were so heroic. However, he had no time to appreciate it at the moment. He slowly raised his hand to reach into his arms to get something. He was as angry as a gossamer.
:"letter……"
Before he could say another word, he spat out a mouthful of black blood, exhaled his last breath, his eyes turned white, and he died.
Although these women have been training for more than ten days, they have never seen such a bloody scene. Several women in the front row who could see the foreign cavalry were so frightened that their hands with spears were shaking slightly, and some had closed their eyes.
He opened his eyes and didn't dare to look again.
But the strong smell of blood floated in the wind, and those who couldn't smell it had already restrained themselves and vomited out all the breakfast they had just eaten. Some of them probably also vomited out their bile, leaving their mouths full of bitterness.
Li Xiuning reached out and took out the letter from the knight's arms. Seeing that they were so uncomfortable, he didn't care to read the letter. He hurriedly ordered the captains of each team to gather their team members, retreat south, and leave here first.
Yang Man and Qiu'er led a few brave female soldiers to dig two pits under a big tree. After burying the two knights, they picked a few bouquets of wild flowers and placed them on the grave to commemorate the heroic souls.
Already.
As for the aliens who were nailed to the ground, who cares about them? After taking out the spears, they scattered all over the ground. They may be eaten clean by animals in a day or two. I am afraid that no one will know except the surrounding trees and weeds.
These people must have died here.
When they were about to go south, they saw Li Xiuning leading a team to catch up. He seemed to be in a hurry. He didn't answer when he saw them, waved them into the square formation, and continued marching north at full speed.
Li Xiuning regretted asking them to stop the scouts. Maybe they couldn't hear the shouts from their side at that time, but after running forward for a while, they would know that there were no more pursuers and their speed would slow down. Maybe they wouldn't have to die.
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There is no regret medicine. Under the circumstances, the method of the team members was correct. They may have been seriously injured long ago, and falling off the horse only caused their early death.
Seeing the team members who were vomiting all over the floor again, she knew that simple field training could only improve their fighting ability, but it could not improve their courage to face the enemy. Only a dozen horses and a dozen people had done this, and they were really on the battlefield.
, then how can we get it?
Watching them retreat south, Li Xiuning opened the bloody letter. It turned out to be a letter from Changshan Luo Yi asking for help. The Tu-Mongolian coalition suddenly went south, joining forces with Liu Heitai and Song Jingang's troops to surround Changshan. He was encircling Changshan.
Previously, many scouts were sent south and west to request reinforcements.
I don’t know how long it took these two cavalry to arrive here, and they were chased all the way by the Tu-Mongolian coalition. Didn’t they encounter the Sui army along the way? Yangquan Mansion is under the jurisdiction of Taiyuan, and my father should have sent troops to garrison there. Could it be that they have also been stationed there?
Besieged or occupied? Why haven't you received any news?
There was no time to think too much. After stopping the southward retreat, he called two team members and asked them to quickly go south. He informed the Changzhi left-behind special force about the Detachment of Women's Army going north for rescue, and asked the special force to notify Luo Yu, who was far away in Jincheng, to lead his troops to the north for support.
Before taking action, Li Xiuning looked at the more than 3,000 subordinates in front of him who were beautiful women more than a dozen days ago and said loudly: "I will not make the decision for you. This time we go north to Changshan for rescue, there is no military order, it is purely voluntary. Can anyone withdraw?"
No one moved, and Li Xiuning continued: "The battlefield is a special domain for men, but I, Li Xiuning, don't believe in this evil. Why can they gallop on the battlefield? Why should we stay at home and wait for news of their victory or defeat?
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No one could answer her. Looking at the increasingly determined eyes of the sisters, she raised her voice again: "As descendants of Yan and Huang, we can also contribute to the fire of China. Instead of worrying at home, it is better to grasp the victory or defeat on the battlefield.
Now that foreigners have invaded my Chinese land, what do you think should be done?"
When Luo Yu, who was rushing to Changzhi at full speed, received the news that Li Xiuning was leading troops north to Changshan to rescue Luo Yi, it was already Chenshi on the second day. Without caring about anything else, he exchanged a few words with Xu Shiji, who was traveling with him, and brought more than a dozen people with him.
A member of the first generation team and a few fifteen disguised soldiers who were picked up on the road ran wildly, trying to catch up with the women's army on foot as soon as possible.
Luo Yu didn't know why he brought along people from the disguised lineage. He just felt in his heart that their existence would play an important role in this war, so he followed his inner feelings and brought them along.
Luo Yu was worried. The Tumon Allied Forces were all elite cavalry. How long had Li Xiuning's women's army been training for? Even a well-trained men's army would not fight cavalry as infantry, not to mention that the opponent was a tall and powerful prairie war horse.
I know what she thinks.
The only hope now is that they can take advantage of the terrain so that the cavalry cannot take advantage of their speed and defend against danger, waiting for their own rescue.
A team member was sent north to Taiyuan to deliver a message to Li Yuan, hoping that he could send troops to the east to contain the enemy. I don't know what happened to Yangquan. No team members were sent there, so no information was sent back.
He had done everything he could do, hoping it was not too late. Suddenly, his mind flashed. The Weize Pass in the time and space he was in was changed to Niangzi Pass because Li Xiuning was stationed here. Could it also happen in this time and space?
Weize Pass is located about a hundred miles northeast of Pingding County, Yangquan Prefecture. It is a famous pass on the Great Wall and one of the dividing points between Shanxi and Hebei. The pass is located on a cliff, overlooking the Weize River from the southwest.
To the northeast, galloping around Guancheng, the mountains and ravines are deep and the situation is dangerous. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.
This is also known as the ninth pass of the Great Wall. Luo Yu had not seen the Great Wall since he came here, and now he can finally see this wonder of the world with his own eyes.
No longer caring about Li Xiuning's marching route, it was a bit difficult for dozens of people to find a team of more than 3,000 people on this vast land. Although more than a dozen of them were galloping on horseback, who knew whether they could find the war horses.
?I can only take a gamble and hope that Li Xiuning will choose Weizeguan to go north to Changshan.
The group of people galloped along the winding official road until the horses were foaming at the mouth and could not go any further, then they abandoned the horses and continued walking. Three days later, they arrived outside Heshun City and could not go any further because the Mongolian Mongolia was here.
The coalition forces are encircling Heshun County.
It seems that Yangquan has been lost, otherwise they would not have marched straight in to Heshun City.
What Luo Yu was worried about finally happened. Now Changshan has become an isolated city, with Dou Jiande in the south, Liu Heitai and Song Jingang in the west, and the Tu-Mongolian coalition in the north. Originally, Li Yuan's Yangquan garrison could rely on it in the west, but now it can't
lost.
This rescue seems to be meaningless. The Sui Dynasty has no troops to mobilize, and Changshan can only be eaten away a little bit and fall into the hands of the enemy. The only remaining variable is that Dou Jiande in the south does not want to recruit troops to help the Tu-Mongolian coalition for the sake of small profits in front of him.
Li Xiuning led the Women's Army up the mountain day and night, passing by Luo Yu on the official road. Because they were out for training, they did not bring much food, so they had to hunt pheasants, hares, and pick wild fruits to satisfy their hunger along the way.
As a result, the entire Detachment of Women has developed the temperament of a special force. They have almost mastered field combat skills such as climbing mountains and crossing ditches, swimming and diving, eating raw rabbit meat when necessary, and so on. The tenacity of women is fully reflected in this Detachment of Women.
I don’t know if Luo Yu and the others found out if he left a mark on the way. He left two days earlier than them and took a shortcut through the mountains and forests. He should have arrived at Weize Pass earlier than them, and then waited for them to meet up at Weize Pass before sending out troops to rescue them.
Chang Shan, but can Chang Shan hold on for that long? Forget it, we’ll see what happens when the time comes.
Arriving outside Xiyang City on this day, Li Xiuning originally wanted to go into the city to replenish some necessities such as salt, but looking around, he saw Tumon cavalry galloping wantonly outside the city. The city gate was opened, and many people were driven aside.
Crowded together in a mess.
There have been years of war between Shanxi and Hebei, and martial arts are at their peak. The Eastern Expeditionary Army has retreated and many soldiers have retreated. If it weren't for the fact that the captain who was guarding the city was afraid of death and opened the door to dedicate the city, how could the Tu-Mongolian coalition forces break the city so easily?
In just one stick of incense and with the advantage of powerful cavalry, the Tu-Mongolian coalition occupied Xiyang City. In order to protect their wives, children, and children, the young men in the city did not dare to act rashly, so all the two thousand people in the city were driven out of the city.
After the nomads in the north became stronger, they would give priority to unifying the small tribes in various places, and then send troops south to attack the fertile Central Plains. The Chinese nation has been facing this kind of pressure for thousands of years.
The Western Zhou Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty all suffered greatly from it. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the five barbarians from the north took advantage of the chaos and went south, taking turns to bring disaster to the Central Plains. Women were used as military rations, and those who could not finish the food were directly driven into the river and drowned.
Men were chained to their lute bones and used as slaves, and suffered all kinds of humiliation. Of course, this was partly due to the weaklings of the Han people.
After an old man was shot in the neck by a cavalry squad leader and fell to the ground while fighting for the rights of women and children to go to the toilet, the young men in the crowd at Qiangmen could no longer bear it any longer and fought back under the leadership of soldiers from the Eastern Expeditionary Army returning to the city.
For a time, chaos arose.
The Tumon cavalry didn't care whether the person in front of them was old or young, and rode directly over. Screams came one after another, mixed with unintelligible slang and laughter. This small area at the city gate became a hell on earth.
Li Xiuning didn't want to waste time here, but she couldn't ignore the situation now. She winked at Yang Man and Qiu'er, and rushed down with her spear first, killing the nearest cavalryman.
The cavalryman didn't seem to expect that there was an enemy behind him. He was stabbed under the horse by Li Xiuning when he was stunned. He didn't even see who killed him until he died.
Li Xiuning pulled the reins, jumped on the horse, knocked the horse's belly violently and rushed forward. When he met anyone who stood in the way, he aimed at the vital points, and in the blink of an eye, he had taken away more than ten riders.
Yang Man has practiced martial arts since she was a child, and Qiu'er is Li Xiuning's escort girl. Her skills are not weak, and with these days of hard training, she has become much stronger. When they saw that Li Xiuning had entered the enemy's formation, they no longer waited, and swung their spears.
The first ones rushed to kill, and the women's soldiers behind them shouted "kill" and rushed towards the appropriate formation.
Seizing the horses and raising their guns, the Tu-Mongolian coalition forces did not react at once and suffered heavy casualties. More and more horses were left without owners. They were seized by the women's army who were catching up and joined the ranks of the charge.
When the people at the city gate were desperate, they saw a spear army with white armor and red cloak descending from the sky. It looked like they were all female babies. They suddenly saw the hope of giving birth and pushed the children and women into the middle of the crowd to take care of them.
, Qingzhuang, under the command of the Fu soldiers, fought for the weapons of the dead cavalry, and attacked the somewhat confused Tu-Mongolian coalition from behind.
The marching drums in the city sounded, and a cavalry squad full of leather armor rushed out from the city gate. There were about two hundred people in number. They were all muscular, tall and powerful, with fierce eyes. They were holding maces that were ten feet long.
In reply, he didn't form a formation. He rode a flying horse and rushed towards Li Xiuning who was fighting.
There seemed to be soldiers and horses charging over from the north of the city. Hearing the sound of hoofbeats, there were no less than two thousand horsemen. Li Xiuning knew that if he continued to fight like this, he would die without a burial ground. He hurriedly said to a soldier who rushed over: "We are here to hold them back. You take the people with you."
Evacuate to the mountains, and then follow the mountains southward. Someone will pick you up when you get to Changzhi!"
When the soldier was about to speak, the enemy general holding a mace had already killed him head-on. Seeing that his weapon was so heavy, Li Xiuning did not dare to take it hard. He lowered his body to avoid it and shouted: "Quickly go!"
The enemy missed the blow, grabbed the handle with both hands and swept over again. Li Xiuning had no way to avoid it, so he had to hold the gun with both hands to meet him. A strong force came from the gun body. The horse seemed to be unable to withstand the force and stepped back a few times.
step.
The hasty block was already at a disadvantage, but with such a strong push, his hands were split open, his arms were numb, his throat was sweet, he spit out a large mouthful of blood, he could no longer hold the spear, and fell off his horse.
However, the force of the mace weakened slightly and was swept back. Now Li Xiuning no longer had the weapon to block. He glanced in the direction of the people and saw that they were retreating in an orderly manner, so he closed his eyes and waited for the mace to strike.
When he arrived, he felt infinitely sad: "Luo Yu, I can't accompany you anymore..."
Exactly:
Thousands of troops and horses are unable to escape, so I dare to trade the world with a woman.
But I hope that there will be no regrets for the Chinese soul, and I will not be afraid of the bloodshed of foreigners.