Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 879
The light of the knife is like a rainbow, and it is as fast as lightning, and it strikes straight!

Although Lu Xiangsheng's martial arts were superb, Zu Kuan was not an idler. He was a first-class general in the Guanning army and never feared being a slave.Moreover, he also disguised well enough, and his attack was extremely sudden. One moment he was overjoyed to reunite with Lu Xiangsheng, and the next second he drew his sword and killed someone.What's more terrible is that before he made a move, Lu Xiangsheng's heart was shocked by the bad news that the army was ambushed and besieged. He was in a trance, and his reaction naturally became slow. Hit, it can be said to be sure!

Wang Ruobin and other Ming army generals exclaimed in horror as if struck by lightning!Wang Ruobin rushed forward desperately, trying to block the knife on Lu Xiangsheng's behalf!But it's too late to do anything now, who would have thought that Zu Kuan would turn his back on him when he said he would turn his back on him, and someone who was joking one moment before would be murdered the next second! ?
The general Guan Ning holding the brocade box had a sinister smile on his face.

Then this sinister smile froze on his face.

When the saber hit the top of Lu Xiangsheng's head, it turned suddenly, and swept across the general's neck, cutting off his neck like cutting sugarcane, and his head flew out with a sly smile that had succeeded in trickery. A column of blood sprayed straight up from Lao Gao's neck, and the headless corpse was still kneeling upright, like Qin Hui's bowed kneeling statue.Faced with such a magical turning point, all the people could do was to be in a daze, but Zu Kuan seemed to be insane. The officer's head fell to the ground.Now the officer of the Guan Ning Army who came with him finally came to his senses, rolled back on the spot, drew his knife and jumped up, one of them swung his sword hard, blocked Zu Kuan's knife with a bang, and sternly shouted: "Zu Kuan, are you crazy!? Do you still want your wife and children? Do you still want the life of your parents? Are you not afraid that Zu Shuai will be angry and destroy your family!?"

Zu Kuan's eyes cracked, and he screamed, "I'm afraid! But I'm even more afraid that if I die, I won't be able to enter the ancestral grave!" With a twist of his wrist, the saber took the officer's saber and turned in a circular arc, and then exerted force suddenly, swishing Whisking the saber away, with a slash and a hiss, a deep and long gash stretched from the officer's right shoulder to his left rib, and he died immediately.An officer of the Guan Ning Army rolled on the spot to avoid Zu Kuan's knife, picked up the brocade box on the ground and opened it, making a gesture to throw it at Lu Xiangsheng. Two soldiers of the Tianxiong Army rushed over and took him and the brocade box together with their bodies. Press down.The next moment, there was a flash of flames, and only a loud "boom" was heard, and a fiery wave of air rushed up. The officer of the Guanning Army was blown to pieces, and the two Tianxiong soldiers who were pressing on him One of the soldiers was blown in half, and the other was pierced by dozens of shrapnel, and his limbs were severed.There were bloodshot eyes in Lu Xiangsheng's eyes, and he saw an assassin bullying him with a knife, he shouted loudly, turned aside to pass the blue short knife, which was poisonous at a glance, and slapped his head Slapping it, it hit the sky cap with a bang, knocking half of the assassin's head back to the neck.There were also the last three assassins, one of whom was entangled with Zu Kuan, and the other two, one on the left and the other on the right, rushed towards Lu Xiangsheng, only attacking but not defending, stabbing directly at the vital point. It was a completely dead-end strategy!
Wang Ruobin was already standing in front of Lu Xiangsheng, with two flintlock pistols in hand, he pulled the trigger on these two unreasonable assassins, bang bang bang bang bang!Amidst the dense gunfire, the two assassins sprayed clouds of blood mist.Sure enough, all martial arts in the world can be broken, but they can't be broken quickly. Although the two assassins are strong in martial arts and extremely fast, they can't beat the bullets that come through the air. If the bullets of the two pistols are exhausted, they will become a sieve. The body with several holes was staggering, trying to stabilize the body before attacking with the sword pillar, more than ten generals and officers of the Ming army had already rushed forward, and the swords came out, chopping them into meat paste.At the same time, Zu Kuan hit the last assassin on the chest with his elbow, causing him to retreat a few steps, the long sword fell to the ground, and blood was sprayed from the mouth.Two Mongolian guards beside Lu Xiangsheng rushed forward to throw him down, using the lock technique in grassland wrestling, each locked the assassin's arm, making him unable to move.All of this happened in a blink of an eye. From Zu Kuan's violent attack to the capture of the last assassin, it took less than a minute before everyone's minds turned around, and everything was over.

Zu Kuan panted slightly and walked over, punching the assassin on the cheek, knocking out all his teeth.The assassin twisted his body like a poisonous snake entangled in a net, his eyes spitting fire, he glared at Zu Kuan with a malicious expression, and roared: "You traitor, traitor——"

Zu Kuan smiled wryly: "Being a traitor is better than not being able to enter the ancestral grave."

Lu Xiangsheng flicked off a piece of meat stuck to his shoulder, and asked in a deep voice, "General Zu, what's going on?" There was a bit of anger in his voice.That's right, anyone who has been plotted against by one of his own people will not feel much better.

Zu Kuan pointed at the assassin who was still struggling, and said, "Master Hou, you should ask him!"

Lu Xiangsheng's sharp gaze fell on the assassin: "Who is your Excellency? Why do you want to assassinate Lu?"

The assassin sneered and said nothing.

Wang Ruobin was furious, he pulled out his dagger and stabbed him on the thigh, shouting angrily: "Say it! If you don't tell me, I will goug out your thigh piece by piece, or strip your clothes and hang them on the flagpole. You can't survive, you can't save death!"

The assassin twitched in pain, but he didn't even groan, he just sneered and said: "You just have to show off your prestige, hurry up, because your time is running out, and you will soon become dead! "

Lu Xiangsheng asked: "What do you mean?"

The assassin sneered coldly: "Marquis Su Yi, you probably don't know yet? You have fallen into our trap from the very beginning of this Northern Expedition! You, and your army, will soon be buried by the wind and snow, Even that emperor who is as stupid as a pig is the same!"

The hearts of the generals were shocked, and Lu Xiangsheng's face changed drastically. He lifted the assassin up with one hand, and shouted sharply: "What did you say? Say it again!?"

The assassin laughed wildly: "I say you have all been fooled! You have been led by others from the beginning. You obeyed the instructions honestly and came to the cutting board that was prepared for you long ago. You stretched your neck! Don't leave the Liaohe Plain alive, don't even think about it! After destroying you, the entire Northern Zhili will have no more capable troops. By then, the Qing army will enter the Pass in large numbers and sweep across the entire Northern Zhili. It will be easy! Our Guanning Army will follow them into Off, at least it can—”

call out----

A hair-raising scream passed over the head, a huge shell fell from the sky and landed on the glacier, a mass of black and red flames expanded, the ice shook violently, like a fountain of crushed ice The spray was 30 meters high, and this power made everyone's faces change.

Lu Xiangsheng turned his head to look at the big hole and the rapidly spreading crack centered on the hole. He could no longer suppress the anger in his heart, and let out a roar: "Guan Ning Army!!!"

Shhhhhhh———

A series of three shells fell, each of which would blow up a large hole more than ten meters in diameter on the ice surface of the Liaohe River. The Ming army civilian husbands and auxiliary soldiers who were orderly withdrawing from the ice surface to the west bank were thrown high by the explosion shock wave. Suddenly, the original snow-white ice surface was blood-red, and the contrast between red and white was extraordinarily terrifying and ferocious.Seeing the cannonballs flying over and seeing the Qing army's iron cavalry Bulie approaching slowly like a wall, everyone's heart sank.This is the famous 160mm long barrel mortar, the standard equipment of the Tianxiong Army. During the expedition, eight of them were also allocated to the Guanning Army to strengthen the attack power of the Guanning Army. I never expected that the Tianxiong Army these days The cannons that were kindly sent out are now used against them!The intention of the Qing army is obvious. They just want to use mortars to blast the ice surface and isolate Lu Xiangsheng from the troops on the west bank!Now there are only seven thousand people around him. Once he is separated from the west bank, there will be Manchurian cavalry running like thunder in front of him, and the icy glaciers and torn apart ice in the back. It's only because of being overwhelmed by the billowing cavalry!
The four 120mm Thunderbolt Cannons under Wang Ruobin's command fought back fiercely. Rows of shells smashed into the middle of the cavalry of the Qing army, overturning both men and horses. Blank areas were blown out of the surging sea of ​​cavalry, but immediately returned. was filled.The Ming army on the east bank looked miserable. They knew that they were doomed. If they continued to confront Jiannu and let Jiannu blast the ice, they would all die here if they didn’t fight any of them!And if they ran away quickly before the ice was blown away, the Qing army's iron cavalry rushed in, and they still had to die!From the moment the Guanning Army's mortar guns were aimed at them, their fate was already doomed.

Everyone turned their attention to Lu Xiangsheng, the god of war in their hearts.

Lu Xiangsheng threw the assassin to the guards beside him, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and he ordered sharply: "The Lancers come out!"

All the Lancers went out immediately, lined up like a wall.

Lu Xiangsheng pointed to the white air blast coming from the muzzle not far away, and said, "Come with me, pierce through Jiannu's array, attack behind them, and destroy those cannons!"

Just 200 people——no, after the bloody battle just now, there are less than 200 people, and you want to break through the formation of tens of thousands of Manchurian cavalry, go straight to the rear, and destroy the cannon? This is tantamount to moths to the flame.But no one from the top to the bottom of the Lancers raised any objections. They just held the horse's lance tightly and stroked the panicked horse, making it ready to sprint and respond to the commander's order.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at the more than 1000 soldiers who were also silent behind him, and there was a flash of pain in his eyes, and his voice was a little trembling: "You all come out, use the corpses to build fortifications, block the slave cavalry, and cover all the civilians Cross the river with your allies!"

This means that including him, the 1000 elite infantry and cavalry of the Tianxiong Army will sleep forever on the east bank. He is determined to sacrifice these more than [-] soldiers in exchange for the lives of tens of thousands of Ming soldiers and civilian husbands on both sides of the strait.As for whether it was worth it, he didn't think about it, and he didn't bother to think about it.

The infantrymen of the Tianxiong Army lifted up the corpses on the ground in groups of two and piled them up one by one. The enemy's and friendly's were treated equally, and a breast wall made of flesh and blood was formed at an astonishing speed.Amidst the howling shells and the pressure of the iron cavalry, they were still so calm and calm. No one raised any objection to the commander's ruthless order. Once the military order was issued, it was executed immediately, like a cold war machine, calm and calm. The silence was frightening.

Another row of shells fell, and the ice surface was broken even more.Lu Xiangsheng said to the generals of the non-Tianxiong army: "Hurry up and take your troops and retreat there, and organize defenses on the other side. We won't last long." Taking a horse from the soldiers, he shouted: "Guns! Cavalry, come with me!"

A lieutenant general of the Changping Army rushed out suddenly, strangled Yin Shanxue's horse rein tightly, burst into tears, and shouted: "Master Hou, quickly take your troops back, we will stop these Jian slaves for you, hurry up!" ah!"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled wryly: "Since he abandoned his pen and joined the army, Lu has fought more than two hundred battles, big and small, and has never had the habit of abandoning his allies and fleeing!"

The lieutenant fell to his knees and cried out in a crying voice: "You are different from us! Our lives are dead. Even if we can escape the west bank of the Liao River, we will still be wiped out by Jiannu like a dog in the water. An army like ours , Daming wants as much as you want! And you, and your army are the mainstay of Daming, as long as you don’t die, Jiannu will never have to worry about it! The sky is about to fall now, if even you die here, there are still Who can turn the tide! Go! If you don't go, it will be too late!"

A group of generals who were not from the Tianxiong Army system knelt down one after another, almost begging, "Master Hou, we will block these slaves for you, go away!"

Thousands of soldiers shouted in unison: "Go! Go!"

Wang Ruobin stepped forward and said: "Master Hou, the last general and the entire brigade will stay behind, and you should hurry up and withdraw with the cavalry!"

Several generals yelled at him: "Get out of here! We don't need your help!"

Zu Kuan stepped forward and said: "Master Hou, the entire Guanning army is rebelling now. Our army is cut off. There are slaves and ambushes everywhere. The situation is extremely chaotic. I really can't delay here any longer. Let's go, one hundred thousand soldiers I need you, the emperor needs you!"

Tears welled up in Lu Xiangsheng's eyes, he closed his eyes in pain, and let out a silent growl in his throat.

The Qing army was less than two miles away from them and began to accelerate.Thousands of soldiers shouted even more urgently: "Go quickly! Go quickly!"

Lu Xiangsheng's chest rose and fell sharply, and when he opened his eyes, the tears in the corners of his eyes had disappeared.He cupped his hands at all the soldiers and said: "Soldiers, you go ahead, Lu will come later!" He turned his horse's head and let out a painful roar: "Let's go!"

The Tianxiong army quickly retreated to the rear, and this super miscellaneous army took their place, laying dead bodies desperately.The deputy general of the Changping Army shouted at Lu Xiangsheng's back: "Master Hou, the last general's name is Li Cunzhong, please don't come to us! Tomorrow Qingming burn some paper money to the young general, and the latter will be very grateful!"

Lu Xiangsheng didn't turn his head back, his voice trembled violently: "Okay..."

Another general shouted: "The last general of the Shandong Linqing Army, Wang Baoquan, don't forget the last general's share in next year's Qingming Festival!"

"The last general, Kaifeng Guonan, Henan!"

"Shanxi Cui Jian!"

"Hebei Liu Yiming!"

"Shaanxi Chen Ping!"

Countless generals and officers reported their names and hometowns in a hurry, hoping that Lu Xiangsheng would remember them.There is no need, Lu Xiangsheng and the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army will never forget them, they will never forget this group of ordinary men who are almost useless, but they burst out with dazzling light at this critical moment.The Qing army, who was approaching quickly, was surprised to see that the Ming army's phalanx was noisy, but it was as stable as a rock. The shells fell behind and blasted the glacier away, blocking their retreat, and even fell directly among them, blowing them to pieces. Flying horizontally, staying still.Could it be that these Ming soldiers took the wrong medicine?
Li Cunzhong also wondered if he had taken the wrong medicine. Seeing Lu Xiangsheng and Tianxiong Army crossing the river safely, he laughed loudly, took off the wine pot on his waist and took a few gulps, threw the wine pot to Cui Jian, and yelled repeatedly: "Happy!" , Delighted! After living most of my life, this is the first time that I have discovered that I am so kind!"

Cui Jian also took a few sips, and said with a smile: "I'm so good now, even if I enter the ancestral grave, I can look at people with my nostrils!"

The generals of the Ming army laughed, heroic in their solemnity. In this icy and snowy world, in the biting cold wind, under the pressure of iron cavalry, the bravery and heroism of the Han and Tang Dynasties crossed the Great Wall and killed all the barbarians. The Chinese ethnic group has overcome obstacles for thousands of years. The martial arts of Jiang Tuotu revived in their blood.Isn't it just death? We are all flesh and blood. The Tianxiong Army can calmly face death and leave the hope of survival to the friendly army, so can they!
The commander-in-chief of the Qing army was inexplicably uneasy, and shouted: "Come on! Kill these bright dogs!"

The rolling iron cavalry accelerated suddenly, pouring like a stormy wave, crashing into the low parapet temporarily erected by the corpses of the Ming army. Before it hit the ground, one of them left the string again. It was as dense as a torrential rain, washing away the Ming army's phalanx.There was a loud cry in the Ming army phalanx.Relying on the breast wall made of flesh and blood, the crossbowmen of the Ming army held crossbow salvos, and the cavalry of the Qing army who rushed forward also fell in pieces.The iron cavalry of the Qing army rushed towards them with powerful kinetic energy, and what greeted them was a forest of long spears. The scene where the infantry beat the cavalry just now was repeated again. The muffled sound resounded through the east bank of the Liao River, and the battle has been intensified from the very beginning!
On the west bank, Lu Xiangsheng, who was galloping on his horse, suddenly turned around.Even though the cannons roared and the killing sound shook the sky, he still heard it. He didn't know who took the lead. The soldiers of the Ming army who had not yet joined the fight chanted in unison:
Fuck Wu Gexi was picked up by Rhinoceros, the car was in the wrong hub.

Jing obscures the sun and the enemy is like a cloud, and the arrows are falling, and the scholars are vying for the first place.

Ling Yuzhen lingered for the rest of the line, left and right edge wounds.

Two rounds of smog, four horses, and drums for aid.

When the sky fell, the spirit and anger were falling, and the wilderness was severely killed and abandoned.

……

The Great Ming God of War, known for his perseverance and calmness, burst into tears.

(End of this chapter)