Chapter 51 Running General

The fierce battle in the valley was in full swing. The condescending Vietnamese army first threw down a bundle of lit branches and dead grass, burning the Sassanids to make them jump. At the same time, they also lit up the target for the crossbowmen. The soldiers who could not go to fight for the time being picked up large and small stones and threw them down. The raindrop-like stones were accompanied by dense arrows. The Sassans who woke up from their sleep were dizzy.

Cui Qian excitedly pulled away his two-stone hard bow, shot thirteen long arrows in one breath, and overturned seven Sassanians one after another. Then he wiped the sweat on his forehead, shook his sore arm, and exhaled comfortably: "Have a good time, it's a good time."

Ten steps away, Zhuge held a three-stone crossbow and carefully aimed at a commander who was shouting in the crowd that he wanted to gather under his hands. He clasped the crossbow machine with his fingers, and the crossbow arrow roared out, sank into the darkness, and accurately shot behind the commander. The commander was running with a sword held high. Suddenly, he felt that he was pushed behind his back, and the shouting stopped suddenly. He stunted to the ground, twitched twice, and never moved again.

"General Cui, who just said that he fought with General Lu, but nothing else has made progress, and he has made great progress in running kung fu?" Zhuge Zhi handed over the empty crossbow to the guards to fill, turned his hand to take the other crossbow, and smiled. If Cui Qian said this an hour ago when he was out of breath, Cui Qian would probably give him a look, but Cui Qian is in a good mood now and has nothing to do with him.

"Who said that?" Cui Qian pretended to be angry: "Whoever dares to say that to General Lu, I will be anxious."

Zhuge laughed, raised the crossbow and shot down a Sassanid warrior. He shook his head and was not serious with Cui Qian. He dared to laugh, but those guards did not dare to laugh. They endured very hard one by one, and even the arrows shot were a little crooked. Cui Qian was a little ashamed and angry. He shouted loudly and grabbed a crossbow and began to shoot. Unlike Zhuge's hit rate, he gave full play to the triple shooting function of the crossbow. Anyway, the Sassanids below were squeezed together and could shoot without aiming at all.

A messenger ran over and shouted, "General Lu has an order to order General Cui and General Zhuge to separate a hundred steps and echo each other."

"Oh." Cui Qian and Zhuge agreed together, one to the east and the other to the west, spreading about a hundred steps, distributing more soldiers on the edge of the cliff and shooting at the Sassanids under the cliff.

On the cliff of seven or eight miles, there were more than 20,000 Vietnamese and Tianzhu mercenaries. They were divided into two rows, shooting and resting in turn. They poured the arrows and easy-to-handled stones on the heads of the Sas. Under the cliff, there were more than 80,000 chaotic Sassanians. They had just been woken up from their sleep and had not been clear yet. What's the matter with Bai? There are torches and stones everywhere under his feet, and there are more stones and arrows on his head. For a moment, the soldiers can't find the generals, and the generals can't find the soldiers. The whole valley is in a mess. The crossbowmen of the State of Yue specially selected those well-dressed officers to shoot, making the already chaotic Sassanians even more chaotic.

Aldahir was so violent that he only felt black in front of him. He kicked over a scout who had just arrived. The scout just said that Lu Xun was on his way to Gudes. Before he finished his words, Lu Xun's battle flag flew above the cliff. Lu Xun lit dozens of torches beside him and illuminated the battle flag clearly. Aldahir could almost see the smile on Lu Xun's face. How could he still be on his way to Goodes?

The scout was confused, and his foot was wronged, but he also understood that now not only he was fooled by the Yue people, but also the wise king. Now he was trapped by the Yue people in this valley, and he was not sure whether he could escape.

Aldahir was puzzled. When did Lu Xun ambush here? Before entering the valley, he clearly sent scouts to inquire. The scouts did not find the shadow of the ambush at all. Did Lu Xun fly here?

Aldahir was so anxious that he was attacked in the middle of the night. He couldn't figure out how many people there were on the other side and what kind of arrangements he had. The Sassanids are now distributed in the valley for more than ten miles. He doesn't know what the situation of the departments is at all. Even if he has sent messengers to check, it is not safe. The valley is already in chaos. Who knows if the sent messengers can come back safely?

Looking at the camp full of fire, Aldahir circled back and forth like trapped beasts. Ten thousand elites of the guard camp were beside him. All the soldiers raised their round shields in their hands and tightly protected him, but except for hundreds of steps around him, other places were out of control.

The high priest Hankos ran over while wearing a priest's robe. He didn't even have time to wear shoes on his feet. He was grinning by the rocks. He rushed to Aldahir's side and stood there. Just as he was about to speak, he looked up at Aldahir's eyes that were about to breathe fire. He was shocked, and the words in his mouth were so scared to death again. Go back.

"High Priest, what revelation have you received?" Ardahir pressed his anger and looked at Hankos for help.

"In the valley..." Hankos wanted to say that he felt that there was a strange movement in the valley, and there might be an ambush, but when he saw the situation in front of him, he knew that there was no need to say it. He just opened his mouth silently like a dead fish and didn't spit out a word.

Aldahir sighed angrily and did not have any hope for him. At present, there is no extra way to go. There are cliffs on both sides. It is not easy to climb up, and you can't turn back, so you have to break forward. On the way, he had to rush forward with the attack on the left cliff. The loss must be not small. Even if he rushed out, he only had half of his life left.

After all, Ardahir was a man who had experienced countless dangers. Although he knew that the road ahead was not easy to walk, he immediately made a decision to be escorted by the guards. In order to curb the attack on the cliff, he ordered the army in the valley to look up and fight back. This cliff is not too high, and it can barely shoot with a bow. Although the power cannot be compared with the condescending enemy, it is always better than nothing.

Ardahir raised his own battle flag and blew the horn. The melodious horn sound seemed to have innate magic. Although the attack on the cliff was still very fierce, the chaotic Sassanians regained a little calm under the command of the horn. They bravely let go of the valley on the right and lined up in two horizontal lines on the left. The people in front raised their shields to cover the counterattack of the people behind them, attracting The attention on the cliff made way for Ardahir, who was escorted by the Guards.

Because of the lack of troops and limited time, Lu Xun only occupied the cliff on the north side of the valley. There was no one on the south cliff at all. Ardahir tried to lean on the right side. Although he was still within the attack range of the crossbow, it was impossible to throw the stones so far by manpower alone. There were guards of the guards wearing heavy armor. Although Aldahir didn't walk fast, there was no problem with safety.

"It's a pity that if you carry a few crossbow cannons, you will definitely leave this old dog here today." Cui Qian looked at Aldahir, who was fading away, and patted his thighs regretfully. He picked up a crossbow and shot more than a dozen arrows at Aldahir. Although the arrows were shot beside Aldahir, they were blocked by the soldiers of the guard battalion without exception. Even if they shot on their iron armor, it would not help at most. It's just a cluster of Mars.

Lu Xun stood on the cliff with his hands behind his back and watched Aldahir hurried away. He just looked at Aldahir carefully with a thousand-mile eye. It was too dark. Under the torch swaying by the mountain wind, he couldn't see Aldahir's face clearly, but he couldn't guess it. The color definitely doesn't look good.

And what he wanted was this effect. Luo Tong rushed to Goodes with 5,000 people pretending to be an army. He tried his best to discuss it again. Against the opposition of Cui Qian and Zhuge Zhi, he took more than 40,000 troops to run 600 miles in five days, and more than half of the people were left behind. Finally, he intercepted the Sasans here. He finally gambled. I won.

Lu Xun took a look at Cui Qian, who shot Aldahir with a crossbow in the distance, and raised a smile at the corners of his mouth: "Order, don't worry about Aldahir, just want to kill and injure the enemy in large numbers."

The messenger answered, sounded the war drum, and passed the order. From afar, he saw that Cui Qian seemed to look this way, and finally changed the direction of shooting and began to vent the shooting of the Sassan archers who were gradually retreating under the cliff. Most of the Sassan's full-time archers have been folded under the city of Aksum. Now most of these archers are cavalry. They are not used to this kind of back-to-back shooting, and the range of the bow in their hands is limited. Even if they shoot on the cliff, they don't have much lethality. On the contrary, they expose themselves because of the reason of back-to-to-back shooting, resulting A large number of casualties. Now that Aldahir has withdrawn, there is no need for them to stay and die. They retreat to the cliff on the right one by one, and then spread their legs to follow Aldahir and run away.

While the cliff began to rush forward, the cliff also began to run at the same time. Cui Qian and others withdrew from their positions in turn and rushed east along the rugged mountain road to try to catch up ahead to kill more enemies. Soon, after the Sassanites left a corpse on the ground, all the active ones were evacuated. There were no more Sassansanians standing in front of Lu Xun's eyes, and then he followed the army forward.

Before leaving, he took a look at the west side of the valley. He knew that Xia Hourong was waiting 20 miles away, but he didn't know whether Xia Hourong would rush into the valley under unknown circumstances. After all, he didn't have time to send news to Xia Hourong. Xia Hourong might worry that it was a trap and would not come.

The mouth of the valley is calm, and there is no trace of an army approaching. Lu Xun sighed. If Xia Hourong rushed into the valley to chase the Sassanids at this time, he would definitely give a heavy blow to the morale of the Sassanids and make the Sassanids even more panicked. With their trampling when they fled, there may be thousands more casualties.

However, Lu Xun does not blame Xia Hourong. In this case, he would not take the initiative to attack, so as not to be tempted by the enemy.

Along the way, almost all the soldiers smiled admiringly at Lu Xun. Although some Tianzhu soldiers could not speak Chinese, they humbly saluted Lu Xun, and their respectful attitude was very different from half a day ago. Just half an hour ago, the army that had run through the valley and entered the edge of the desert was ordered not to set up a camp, rest for two hours on the spot, and then returned to the valley. Almost all the soldiers hated Lu Xun very much. There was no need to say anything in their hearts, and there were many who cursed, especially those who Mercenaries, they not only despise Lu Xun, but also all the Yue people. When the Yue people hired them to fight, they said very beautifully. They said that Sun Shao was fully prepared to defeat the Sassanids. You can wait to get rich when you come. Only when he arrived here did he know that Sun Shao did not dare to go out of the city to fight with the Sassanids for more than half a year in Axum. Although the Sassanids lost some people, most of them returned to Egypt unharmed. Later, Lu Xun said that he asked the Romans to work hard. They went to Gudes to wait. Unexpectedly, as soon as they left Egypt, Lu Xun ordered them to turn east. In the past five days, they were basically running away, almost killing people, so they all gave Lu Xun a nickname: Running General.

The people of Yue are more obscure. Cui Qian secretly called Lu Xun Lu Miaocai, saying that he liked long-distance and urgent marches like Xia Houyuan, the former general of the State of Wei, as much as he seemed to praise him, but actually hurt him.

But now, no one says that Lu Xun is a running general and Lu Miaocai, because if they don't run like this, their tens of thousands of soldiers want to fight against the Sasans, who are mainly cavalry. Even if 50,000 troops are waiting for work, the loss will be very amazing. Maybe they may be attacked by the Sassanians. It will be a big defeat. Look at the Romans. They are also nearly 50,000, or the infantry phalanx that dominates the world. Didn't they still support for a long time and be defeated by the Sassanians?

After running for five days, I got such an easy way of fighting in front of me. I stood safely on the cliff and shot the arrows down vigorously. Throwing the stones down can kill a large number of Sassanians, and the arrows shot up by the Sassanians can almost be grasped by hand, and even the oil skin will not be hurt. Who has fought this kind of one-sided battle?

What are you afraid of running away? If there is such a battle to fight, you are willing to run for a few more days. While shooting arrows and throwing stones, the soldiers looked at the loot everywhere in the valley with a smile. They beat the Sassanids away and waited to pick them up after dawn.

Lu Xun looked at the smiles on the faces of the soldiers along the way, and his face was still calm, as if nothing had happened. He just looked at the valley from time to time to see the effect of the killing. Generally speaking, the results were satisfactory, and only one-third of them were gone. Judging from the corpses in the valley, the casualties of the Sassanians have been more than 5,000, and the front is more supportive. I think the results will be better.

"General Lu!" Cui Qian interrupted Lu Xun's thinking with a shout of joy. He looked up at Cui Qian and smiled: "General Cui, what's the matter?"

"No... it's okay." Cui Qian shyly put his finger into his helmet and scratched his greasy hair. He turned around and pointed to the shocking valley in front of him and said, "The Sasans in front are crowded together, but Aldahir has heavy armored soldiers. Even within our range, it is difficult for us to hurt him. General, do we send some people? Go to the front to cut off their way back?"

"No." Lu Xun waved his hand without thinking and interrupted Cui Qian's words: "Don't stop returning to the teacher. It is precisely because the Sassans are eager to run for their lives and don't want to fight that we can attack them so easily. If we cut off their way back and force them to fight with us, can we win? After shooting the arrow, after throwing the stones, shall we go down and fight against each other? That kind of casualties will be huge. General Cui, you are a person who has been fighting for a long time. Have you ever seen a general who can organize the army that has lasted for several miles in such a neat way?

Cui Qian looked at the Sassanians who supported him in the valley, but he was not very flustered. He nodded helplessly. In this case, he could still maintain order, which only showed that Aldahir's army was very strict, and his position in the soldiers was also very respected. As long as he was still alive, the Sassanids would be in great danger. It can also stabilize. If you fight hard with such an army, even if you win, you will win miserably.

"The general is right." Cui Qian did not persist abnormally. He arched his hand and rushed forward with his subordinates all the way. Lu Xun smiled and continued to rush forward. Before stepping up, he used to looking back, which made him laugh.

A fire dragon is winding up, and the rumbling sound of horses' hoofs is faintly audible.

Lu Xun looked east at the Sassanids who were running away, and finally couldn't help smiling with relief. With Xia Hourong, ten thousand people chasing after him, the most tragic time for the Sassanians was coming.

Soon, the Sassanids found the pursuers. Aldashir was indignant and inexplicable. He immediately sent someone to cut off, and a thousand-person team rushed out first, lined up in five rows, in a dense formation across the valley in an attempt to block the way of the pursuers. However, they didn't expect that the first one to rush out of the night was the crazy Teutonic people. Four or fifty angry Teutonic warriors rushed into their formation like a group of enraged lions under the leadership of a black-haired warrior. They cut a knife with their hands, cut a mouth in their formation like cutting melons and vegetables. More Teutonic people swarmed in. As they waved their knives in their hands to kill, they roared and killed the Sassanians.

Under the impact of the Teutonic people, the thousand-person array was quickly broken. Thanks to Aldahir's quick reaction, he immediately sent another ten thousand husbands to block the valley and blocked Xia Hourong's way with fresh lives.

The two sides fought fiercely in the narrow valley.

Although the Sassanids are large and powerful, they not only have to fight with the brave and good barbarians, but also be prepared for the attack of the people above their heads. In order to block the pursuers, they had to adopt a dense formation, which undoubtedly facilitated the enemy on the cliff. Lu Xun would not let go of such an opportunity. He concentrated the archers. Get up and shoot at the Sassanians mercilessly. The crossbowmen hardly need to aim, and every arrow can bite the flesh of the Sassanians.

Under the attack on both sides, the Sassanids suffered unspeakably. One by one, thousands of people were broken at an unimaginable speed. The bodies of the Sassanids were soon piled up all over the valley. The wanton blood made the crazy barbarian mercenaries slip under their feet. If they were not careful, they would be tripped by the corpses, which made them even more angry. High-pitant scolding came one after another.

There were ambush soldiers, and then there were pursuers. The will of the Sassanians began to waver, and the continuous horns also lost their due magic. Many people began to retreat and blocked the way of Aldahir's retreat. The guard battalion had no choice but to raise a sword to his companions and kill one. The bloody road protected Ardahir and took the road away.

At the beginning, when they slaughtered their own people, the morale of the Sassanians was even more frustrated. The scratching became more and more obvious, and the noise gradually covered the horn. Aldashir's face was blue and he held his horse's mane tightly to avoid being knocked down from the horse. He did not dare to see the soldiers who died under the guard's knife, nor did he dare to look back to the blocking troops who were attacked on both sides, for fear that he could not help shouting that he could not help shouting for a while. The high priest Hankos had gone, and Aldahir felt as if Ahura had abandoned him. Otherwise, how could he make such a decision to rest 80,000 troops in the valley, so that he was attacked by annihilation.

He didn't dare to stop, so he could only stuff his head and follow the guards forward. He did not dare to look up at the Vietnamese general under his banner. He was afraid that he could not suppress his anger and would stop running away and fight with him to the death.

He knew that he could not stop. Once he stopped, even if he defeated these enemies, he did not have enough strength to return to Taixifeng. He has too many enemies and not enough force, and he will tear them to pieces. His most important task now is to rush out of the valley as quickly as possible and take out as many soldiers as possible to deal with more dangers behind him, instead of having a meaningless battle with Lu Xun and Xia Hourong here.

However, the mountain road of ten miles seems to have become very long, and I can't see the head. The sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air, listening to the screams of the soldiers, listening to the angry roar of the guards and the chaotic sound of horses' hoofs, and the sound of weapon impact mixed in Aldahir's ear, making Aldahir dizzy. Unexpectedly, these voices gradually faded away, but there was a silence in Aldahir's ear. He couldn't hear anything, but there was a faint laughter, laughing very proudly, very arrogantly, and so that he was shocked.

There was a blur in Aldahir's eyes. He subconsciously shook his head to wake himself up, but a face suddenly appeared in front of his eyes. The face was very handsome, with a dark mustache on his lips, and a pair of bright black eyes stared straight at him and saw his heart.

"Aldahir, you're dead." His lips jumped gently and spit out a cold sentence.

"No!" Ardahir suddenly roared, raised and pulled out the sword and split it in the air. A burst of blood burst out, and hot blood sprayed on Ardahir's face, which shocked him. Looking at it, a trusted general opened his eyes wide, looked at the cold sword beside his neck, and slowly spit out a few words: "Your Majesty, we ...It's out of the valley..."

(to be continued)