Xie Ming

Chapter 13: A ray of light, a great victory!
Xiao Jingchuan was determined to kill the horses that blocked the road. Not only did Sun Peizhong, who had been in the army for a long time, find this method difficult to accept, but even Qiu Zhizhong, who was listening in front of him, could not bear it, so he spoke out.

"Old Xiao, is there really no other way?"

"If we kill the horse, it will be more than a thousand miles to Nanjing. How are we going to march from now on?" Qiu Zhizhong said.

"Alas, I had to take emergency measures. Do you think I have the heart to do that?" Xiao Jingchuan frowned.

"But this is our first battle since we came out. It is of great significance from any perspective. We can only win, not lose!"

"Right now, if we fail to block the way with an ambush, this battle will not end peacefully!"

"Peizhong, Feiyu, I wonder if you have ever thought about this!"

"Also, before I started, I chose Xizhimen as the place to break out because I had already thought of the route to march."

"Look!" Xiao Jingchuan said as he took out a map.

"We are currently in Xiangshan's narrow strip of sky. Going southwest, we will pass through Hujialing, reach Sanjiadian, cross the Hunhe River, and enter the Sanpo Mountain area."

"There are mountains crisscrossed there, with a depth of five hundred miles. If we can reach there, it will be like a dragon returning to the sea and a tiger returning to the mountains! No matter how many bandits he has, it will be difficult for him to encircle and suppress us!"

"Do you understand?!"

"The next strategic direction of our unit is to go into the mountains and fight guerrilla warfare!"

"So, in this battle, even if I don't kill the horses, it will be difficult for our troops to bring horses with them after crossing the mountains and hills. We will have to abandon them if we don't kill them!"

"Pei Zhong! Get up!" After Xiao Jingchuan revealed the subsequent advance plan, his face suddenly became stern.

"General!" Sun Peizhong also spoke bitterly, feeling extremely distressed.

"Sun Peizhong, do you want to disobey my military orders?!" Xiao Jingchuan said solemnly.

"I"

"This humble general, this humble general obeys your orders!"

Sun Peizhong was still distressed at this moment, but he also knew in his heart that his general was right!
So he stopped pestering, gritted his teeth, clasped his fists, and left as ordered.

0:15 at midnight.

Li Huchen's troops followed the plan and led the enemy troops deep into the territory. The front cavalry had already reached the narrow mouth of Yitiantian.

Liu Heita, who was chasing closely from behind, rushed forward to a hundred steps in front of the narrow mouth. He saw the steep cliffs on both sides and the narrow passage, so he couldn't help but feel nervous.

"Report!"

"General Liu, the Ming dog cavalry has retreated into the narrow pass. Should we chase them or not?"

The vanguard of Liu Heita's headquarters reined in their horses and stopped, also afraid of the terrain, so they stopped their momentum and turned back to ask.

"Chase, why not chase?!"

"The governor has issued a death order. If I fail to capture Prince Ming, I will be beheaded!"

"If I can't save my life, none of you will be able to survive!"

"Go! Get in there! If the prince runs away, I'll skin you alive first!"

"Yes!"

Liu Heita was furious and threw punches at his men in frustration.

The two vanguards were helpless when seeing their commander's behavior. They could only obey the order and continue to charge forward with all their might!

After a while, the enemy's vanguard had completely entered the narrow ambush circle.

"Old Xiao, here I come, here I come!" Qiu Zhizhong hid his body and lay in wait on the side of the ambush point on the steep wall with Xiao Jingchuan.

"No rush, tell the vanguard troops to move forward!" Xiao Jingchuan said calmly.

After a while, just as three to five hundred enemy soldiers rushed into the ambush area, Xiao Jingchuan became excited. Knowing that the time had come, he suddenly stood up, revealed his figure, and shouted orders loudly!
"Kill the horses and block the road!"

"Hit me!"

Following Xiao Jingchuan's order, the Shenji Camp and its servants, totaling 500 people, who were lying in ambush on the steep cliffs on both sides of the Yixiantian Sky, wielding various weapons, began to ambush!

For a moment, the sound of gunfire, arrows, rocks, roars, and wails shook the valley! A little ahead, the sharp neighing of the slaughtered horses and the sound of the horses' bones breaking as they fell down the narrow mouth also deeply penetrated the ears of everyone in this desperate situation, both the enemy and us, and it was terrifying and horrifying!

"Soldiers, the time has come, follow me and fight back!"

"charge!"

Li Huchen, who had completed the mission of luring the enemy, heard the ambush behind him begin, and immediately stopped running away, turned his horse around, rubbed his hands, and took the lead in charging back to block the enemy cavalry of Liu Heita's unit that was trapped in the ambush and wanted to escape forward.

The shouts of killing were loud!
Li Huchen was brave and fierce. He charged into the enemy camp with a big knife in his hand. When the two armies were fighting in close combat, he shouted loudly, which frightened the bandits in front of him so much that countless enemy soldiers were pissing and shitting, and turned around and ran into the ambush circle again.

As the saying goes, with a roar at the Dangyang Bridge, he drove back millions of Cao's soldiers. He was truly a brave and reckless general!
His soldiers, led by Qi Dayong, were able to fight ten of their own, especially the fat man Qi Dayong. After he had used up all the bullets from his pistol, he stretched out his hands and pulled out two copper hammers from his waist, and rode his chestnut horse and kicked forward, swinging the hammers left and right, having a lot of fun!
Xiao Jingchuan, who was standing on a steep cliff, saw this scene and praised the bravery of his troops!
After fighting for about half a quarter of an hour, Xiao Jingchuan's side had the upper hand, and the battle was about to end, like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

At the narrow pass not far away, horse carcasses were piled up like a mountain, completely blocking Liu Heita's rear reinforcements. The passage was narrow, and even if he had a large number of people, it would be impossible to clear the blocked road in a short period of time!

"Changting, send some people to guard the narrow passage above the steep wall!"

"Yes!" Gu Changting replied.

"Chuanwu, take some soldiers down to finish it off!"

"Anti-arm the remaining enemies, clean up the battlefield, and seize their weapons and equipment, as well as their personal food! Hurry!" Xiao Jingchuan ordered again.

"Yes Yes!"

After arranging the follow-up matters, Xiao Jingchuan's frown finally relaxed.

"Fei Yu (Qiu Zhizhong), come on, let's go down and take a look!"

After saying this, the two of them looked at each other, laughed loudly, and found their way to the battlefield below.

At the same time, on the other side of the pile of war horse corpses, Liu Heita was furious. He sat on his horse, spinning in circles and cursing.

His soldiers were still trying in vain to clean up the dead horses.

"Fuck it, quick! Pull these dead horses away!"

"Why did I keep a bunch of useless things like you!"

While cursing, Liu Heita waved the horsewhip in his hand and whipped the soldiers to vent his anger.

"General!"

"General!"

"Don't clean it anymore. There are too many horse carcasses. If we continue to clean them up this way, it will take us a whole day!"

"Damn it, this is too cruel, there must be hundreds of war horses!"

Liu Heita's close confidant, a captain named Han, saw that the situation was hopeless, so he rode his horse forward to alert his general.

"Ugh!"

Liu Heita had a painful expression on his face and threw the whip away. In fact, he knew this truth very well, but he just couldn't bear it.

"Six sons!"

"I'm here!" Han was the sixth child in the family, so Liu Heita always called him the sixth son.

"We have come out to hunt down the Ming dogs this time, and we must succeed, not fail. We were caught off guard and lost a battle, but it's okay!"

"You are always smart and quick-witted. Later, you will take your own thousand cavalry and find other ways to search the mountains nearby!"

"I will lead the remaining troops to retreat back down the mountain along the same route, and inform the counties and cities near Xiangshan to join forces to clear out the enemy!"

"I'll surround this entire broken mountain!"

"Damn it! I just don't believe that I can't find these hundreds of bedbugs!"

"Yes, I will obey your command!" Liuzi replied.

After the two sides finished talking, Liu Heita kicked his horse's belly angrily, and led his team to retreat down the mountain in a depressed and resentful manner!

(End of this chapter)