Turbulent Times Chapter 1208: You must keep those who die hard

Wang Junlin looked at the looming Taiyuan City filled with thick smoke with a little emotion, and reached out to touch the handle of the dragon bird knife at his waist. "Shua" the knife flashed, and he raised the knife high and straight into the sky, hissing Shouted loudly: "Kill!"

"Kill!" Nearly 50,000 cavalry shouted in unison.

Nearly 50,000 cavalry from the Whirlwind Battalion attack! After the shouts of killing, no one yelled anymore. The soldiers rode their horses and let their hooves fly on the ground silently. Like a sea of ​​people, like a tide of horses, a torrent of mud and rocks composed of steel and hot blood rushed obliquely. Going forward, swarming towards the south city of Taiyuan City, which was turned into ruins.

"Rumbling..." The sound of countless horseshoes with the same rhythm gradually joined together, forming a continuous burst of thunder, which was extremely shocking.

In less than ten breaths, Wang Junlin brought nearly 50,000 people from the Whirlwind Battalion to the ruined South City Gate.

Then, the slightly decelerated horse jumped onto the mound of rubble.

A lot of Li Jiajun's corpses have been crushed under the ruins. Beside the ruins, there are many Li Jiajun soldiers screaming with blood all over their bodies. Some Li Jiajun soldiers who were lucky enough not to be killed by the bombing looked crazy with extreme fear fled far away.

The blood-maned horse walked on the ruins as if walking on the ground. Wang Junlin rode his horse to the top of the highest part of the mound of bricks and stones.

You can faintly see flames and turmoil in the city. On the other side of the west gate, there seems to be a Suocheng gate. Wang Junlin knows that it is from the Wang family. Now that they are the first to break through the south gate, the Wang family is probably very depressed, because Their contribution has become less, which can be seen from the complicated and regretful expression of the counselor Wang Shiqing behind Wang Junlin.

As for the Li family army in the city, they were stunned at this moment. This miraculous explosion happened, and they felt a catastrophe was imminent. At this time, the prince Li Jiancheng has never shown up, and some people in the city have already started shouting that the prince has fled ahead of time, which completely shakes the morale of the Li family army.

In this case, if there is still a general who can organize some troops to resist, it is enough to demonstrate his excellent ability to command and control soldiers.

"Rush in, and kill all those who dare to resist. Those who surrender will not be killed." Wang Junlin ordered loudly. Then he rode his horse and rushed down the **** of the ruins.

In order not to block the gap, the cavalry of the Whirlwind Battalion rushed in in front, and in order to let the Far Eastern Army's troops project to the city as much as possible, they went directly to the north and penetrated deep into the city.

Of course, the Far Eastern Army did not rush randomly. They were divided into five groups with ten thousand people as the unit. According to the plan, they began to raid the Li Family Army camp in the city, the Li Mansion where Li Jiancheng lived, the two city gates to the north and east, and the city.

With Wang Junlin's status, he really has no interest in this kind of killing, nor does he have the perverted desire to kill like Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba.

So, after he entered the city, he stopped by the ruins and watched the five groups of people rushing to their respective places. Luo Shixin led 10,000 cavalry to personally sweep the routs in the city.

"Crack, click, click..." Suddenly, a large group of infantry appeared on the wide main street in front of Luo Shixin. From the sound of their footsteps, it could be heard that they were not routed, and they were intercepting Luo Shixin. Come.

Just feeling a little disappointed, Luo Shixin, who had no one to kill and no battle to fight, was overjoyed when he heard the voice, and he didn't even go to intercept it, just watching a large number of infantry in Li's army's column rushing towards them Come on, looking around, a piece of iron helmets shaking, there are actually 10,000 to 20,000 people.

Wang Junlin also found this undefeated army of the Li family. He took a look through the binoculars and recognized that the leader was the general named Xia Houduan.

The reason why Wang Junlin remembers Xiahouduan is not only because Xiahouduan was a little famous in the original history, but also because Li Shentong led 100,000 troops to besiege Wang Junlin in Shuozhou a few days ago. When he was stationed in the big camp, the general Xiahouduan often led the army to charge and kill, showing his superb ability to command troops to fight.

Facts have proved that this Xia Houduan is really extraordinary. Under such circumstances, he was able to organize an army of more than 10,000 in a short period of time, and instead of running away, he came here in a delusion to intercept the Far Eastern Army in front of the gap in the ruins. Whether it is the ability to lead troops and command troops, or the willpower is very good!

Of course, this is stupid in Wang Junlin's view, because Xia Houduan can't judge the situation clearly. The army withdrew before blocking the north and east gates to preserve its strength for follow-up.

"Kill them all." Luo Shixin rushed into the city just now, and when he saw the chaos in the city, he thought that there was no need to charge and kill the enemy today. He enjoyed killing.

Xia Houduan, who was riding on a horse in the opposite army, had obviously spotted the Far Eastern Army that was about to charge, and was shouting hoarsely with weapons in hand, and seized the time to line up.

But Luo Shixin didn't have any nonsense, and rushed forward directly with the people.

At a distance of seventy steps, Luo Shixin shouted: "Shoot!"

Buzz...

Almost at the same time as Luo Shixin's voice sounded, thousands of soldiers of the Far East Army who were already prepared within a hundred paces ahead, controlled their horses with one hand, and simultaneously raised their crossbows with the other.

There was a sound of piercing through the air, and thousands of crossbow arrows shot out, falling on the Li family army who had hastily set up the army formation, and the Li family army fell down screaming, and several large gaps and gaps were left in the infantry battle formation. , Thousands of people were shot dead on the spot.

Xia Houduan also commanded the soldiers of the Li family army to throw arrows at the Far Eastern Army. Arrows were also raining down, but because of the panic of the soldiers and the abnormal armor defense of the Far Eastern Army, only a dozen of the Far Eastern Army fell.

"Kill!" With such a quick charge, the 10,000 cavalry led by Luo Shixin only had time to charge for this round.

"Kill!" The 10,000 Whirlwind Battalion cavalry shouted in unison, with a murderous aura.

At the same time, Luo Shixin had already taken the lead, and rushed into the Li family army's formation through the gap.

Behind Luo Shixin, the steel torrent of the Far East Army pushed over.

The Li family's army came in a hurry, and the formation was caught off guard. Just now, a round of arrows from the Far Eastern Army shot out a lot of vacancies and gaps. Wood can only be pushed along by the torrent.

Luo Shixin rushed in first, and the horse was flattened on the right side. Without any movement at all, the gun head was directly inserted into the chest of a soldier of the Li family with the sprint of the horse.

With a scream of "ah", the soldier hugged the gun with both hands.

Luo Shixin's horse did not stop, and with a clever shake in his hand, the soldier of the Li family who was on the horse was blown away, seriously injuring a soldier of the Li family behind him. Being smashed into the air, the whole movement was done in one go.

Luo Shixin's "knife tip" pierced deeply into the somewhat chaotic battle formation of the Li family army, and the soldiers of the Whirlwind Battalion followed closely behind as "knife blades", and began to massacre the enemy.

The cavalry used lances against the cavalry, and the cavalry naturally used machetes against the infantry.

The 10,000 cavalrymen of the Whirlwind Battalion took advantage of the speed at which they charged and slashed crazily. No matter whether they killed the enemy or not, they would not make a second strike on the spot, and continued to charge forward.

Because, this will make the cavalry lose the advantage of charging, but because of the larger size of the horse, it will become the target of the enemy.

Blood splashed in the air, shouts and screams were everywhere, morale was lost, and the morale of the army had already been shaken. Opened the charge space.

Otherwise, with such a small space, if the Li family army has hundreds of dead soldiers desperately blocking there, the charge speed led by Luo Shixin can be slowed down immediately, thus losing the advantage of the cavalry, and the casualties will inevitably increase.

Unfortunately, when most of an army is filled with fear and only think about escaping, even the most heroic fighters will be affected by the whole atmosphere at this time, and their hearts will be occupied by fear .

The so-called drifting with the tide is like this.

So, even if Xia Houduan shouted hoarsely there, hoarse his voice, and killed more than a dozen fleeing soldiers with his own soldiers, it still couldn't prevent the collapse of the Li family army's infantry battle formation.

Of course, it is impossible for the Far Eastern Army to have no casualties. After all, there are still a small number of people who dare to die in the Li family army.

At this time, a cavalryman from the Whirlwind Battalion who was on the sidelines was thrown in front of the horse by a soldier of the Li family. A hiss.

Below the horse's hoof, there was another soldier from the Li family army who was injured and lying on the ground after being stabbed by the cavalry of the Whirlwind Battalion in front. The soldier looked at the iron hoof in the air and shouted: "Don't! Don't!"

With a dull stomp, the horse's two front hooves stomped heavily on the Li family soldier's chest. Amidst the sound of bones breaking, screams resounded through the entire street.

However, the ending of the Whirlwind Battalion cavalry was already doomed after being forced to stop.

There were more than a dozen infantrymen of the Li family army on both sides and in front, with spears in their hands, roaring and stabbing towards them.

The cavalrymen of the Whirlwind Battalion roared and swung their knives to block five spears, but the enemy's spears were too many. "Ah!" With a cry of pain, a spear on the left stabbed into his waist Two other spears pierced the horse's belly.

The war horse staggered and fell to the ground amidst the mournful neighing.

The steel plate armor on this Whirlwind Battalion cavalryman's defense is astonishing. Even if a spear pierced his side, he was only injured, not fatal.

The other cavalrymen of the Whirlwind Battalion who were nearby saw this scene. According to the regulations, they would not stop to rescue, but they could sideways fire crossbows to support them.

So, after a rain of arrows, most of the Li family soldiers who besieged the whirlwind battalion cavalry died, but the whirlwind battalion cavalry's face was distorted, his whole body was trembling, and he staggered and couldn't stand up.

Because, four more spears pierced into his body, blood gushed out of his body like a buffalo, and was scattered everywhere by the spear swinging.

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There are actually quite a few troops in the Li family's army, and the width of the main street is limited, so the thickness is four to five hundred meters.

However, the cavalry of the Whirlwind Battalion also paid the price of more than 200 casualties, and the casualties of the Li Family Army were as many as 4,000.

After piercing through, the infantry of the Li family army began to flee. Luo Shixin led his men to chase after them.

This was already a scene of wolves hunting sheep, but Luo Shixin still yelled loudly to prevent the cavalry from spreading too far, let alone chasing them into the alleys with unclear lights.

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Rear, Wang Junlin rides blood

The maned horse, surrounded by nearly a thousand special forces experts, rode directly on the wide city wall that was not blown up.

He overlooked the entire Taiyuan City, and found that apart from the smoke from the gap, the city was also full of flames and smoke billowing deep into the sky.

In all directions, there are crowds of horses and horses from the Far Eastern Army. The whole city is like a flood embankment collapsed. Chasing and fleeing scatteredly.

Especially when some generals of the Wang family and the Pei family directly led their subordinates to rebel, the Li family army quickly and completely lost control of Taiyuan City. They escaped, and those who ran slowly were blocked and killed by the other three troops from the Whirlwind Camp, or they knelt down and surrendered directly.

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Looking at the top of the city for a while, Wang Junlin came down from the top of the city and walked towards Li's Mansion in the center of the city, because he knew that members of the Wang family, the Pei family, and the Hundred Swords League were all waiting for him to appear, so My heart is completely at ease.

Walking on the street, the fighting ahead is still going on. Soldiers of the Far Eastern Army, in groups of a hundred, are still walking through the streets to kill the enemy, or are advancing along the **** road.

Wang Junlin felt that the blood-maned horse's hooves were a little slippery, and when he looked down, his face was calm and indifferent.

The horseshoe slipped naturally because there was too much blood on the street, and even flowed on the stone-paved street, as if it had just rained blood.

There are quite a few large cities with stone paving on the streets these days, but the stone slabs are irregularly mosaiced. , The horse's hoof will really slip accidentally when stepping on it.

In the dark night, with the light of the fire and the pale sky in the east, Wang Junlin found that the blood had gathered in the gaps between the stone slabs, and the color became darker, revealing terrifying lines... just like cracks in the earth.

If there is blood, there will be corpses, and if there is a lot of blood, there will be many corpses.

Wang Junlin came all the way, and there were piles of corpses, and some corpses were even stacked together, blocking the road!

In short, the smell of blood on the street is disgusting, like a slaughterhouse, it is shocking to the extreme.

Wang Junlin was naturally not shocked by these things. He was just analyzing rationally. The reason why these corpses piled up was because of the difference between street fighting and field fighting.

Intensive conflicts occurred in this street, but the space is limited, so the corpses are very concentrated, which looks very scary.

Listening to the screams and begging for mercy from far and near, Wang Junlin couldn't help feeling in his heart: "So, this troubled world must end as soon as possible, otherwise human life will always be worthless."

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Because of Li Jiancheng's disappearance, Xia Houduan gathered more than 10,000 people to counterattack and failed. Except for some who escaped at the opportunity, the tens of thousands of troops in Taiyuan City who had not escaped had no way to retreat and surrendered to the Far East Army one after another.

With the cooperation of the Military Intelligence Office, the Taiyuan Wang family and the Pei family, the Far East soldiers and horses quickly took control of the government offices, warehouses and other important facilities in Taiyuan City.

By the time the sky brightened, the situation in Taiyuan City was basically under control. Those who should have fled had already fled, those who should be damned were already dead, and those who should have surrendered had already surrendered.

But why do we say basic control, because there is still the stubborn resistance of the last group of Li Jiajun.

Xia Houduan led more than a thousand soldiers and was surrounded by Luo Shixin's men. Under such circumstances, Xia Houduan did not surrender, but his more than a thousand subordinates did not surrender.

Luo Shixin was naturally happy to be resisted, so he personally led people to surround and kill them, trampled on them with iron hooves, hacked with spears and bayonets, the scene was very tragic, and the killing was very comfortable.

Wang Junlin was a little bit emotional about this, this Xia Houduan was just a small role among the heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and he didn't want to be so loyal to the Li family, but also so supported by the soldiers.

Of course, Xia Houduan is not well-known in history, maybe because he died too early, he didn't run away when it was time to escape, knowing that he would die, he couldn't change the ending, so he insisted on staying dead.

This is no longer loyalty, but foolish loyalty.

Obviously you can escape, save your strength, and start over again.

Didn’t the ancients say that if you keep the green hills, you’re not afraid of running out of firewood!

However, having said that, it is very appropriate for such a person to leave behind.

So, Wang Junlin said something to the soldiers, and some of the soldiers ran over and told Luo Shixin his order.

Luo Shixin shouted with regret: "Xia Houduan, the prince has an order, you put down your weapons and surrender on your knees! You can save yourself from death!"

"The lord has an order, you wait to lay down your weapons and surrender on your knees! You will not die!" The soldiers of the Far East Army surrounding the last thousand or so Li family soldiers shouted loudly.

More than a thousand soldiers of the Li family army looked at Xiahouduan eagerly, hoping that Xiahouduan would surrender, so that they could survive.

But Xia Houduan shouted, "I would rather die in battle! Repay the favor of the king of Tang!"

The disappointment in the eyes of more than a thousand soldiers suddenly reached the extreme, but they were obviously very disappointed, but at this time they all said in unison: "Ning Zhan died, and I will repay the favor of General Xiahou!"

The roar of more than a thousand soldiers of the Li family army resounded throughout the city, which contained despair, but it was also a bit shocking, and even many soldiers of the Far East Army couldn't help admiring these enemies.

"Do you know what kindness Li Yuan has for Xia Houduan?" Wang Junlin asked with a little emotion.