Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 226 Some things cannot be hidden!

Qi Ying looked at the moonlight and estimated the wind direction. It was very cold tonight, but the wind was not strong.

There was another sound of horses coming from the front, only one of them, and that was the scout sent out.

Sure enough, the next moment, a scout in Song army uniform appeared and approached rapidly. He stopped and dismounted about ten steps away, exchanged commands, and then continued to approach.

Qi Ying asked, "How is the battle situation ahead?"

The scout said in a sad voice: "It was very tragic. There were corpses everywhere. Except for those who ran back, the rest should be dead."

Qi Ying's head couldn't help but buzz for a moment, and he calmed down after a moment and said, "Is the battle over?"

The scout nodded and said, "My comrades and I have been conducting a quick search. We have indeed found no more fighters in the vicinity, nor have we seen any Xixia cavalry."

Qi Ying nodded and said, "Okay, spread it out and continue to be alert."

The scout responded, "Yes!"

Then he rode away quickly.

Qi Ying thought for a moment and said, "Pass the order down and rush to Shilipu as soon as possible."

The messenger quickly passed the order back and forth, and a battalion of soldiers headed towards Shilipu.

Qi Ying and Wang Shunchen were riding horses in front. The further they went, the more they could see that the battle was getting more intense.

At first, I saw a corpse lying quite far away, but later on, I saw corpses lying everywhere. Some were shot to death with bows and arrows, some were hacked to death with sabers, but without exception, their heads were cut off.

Wang Shunchen and Xu Jin had never served in the border army, so they had never seen such a scene. At first, they felt a chill in their hearts, but after seeing it many times, a huge anger gradually grew in their chests.

There are roughly two types of pacifists.

One type is people who were born in a peaceful and prosperous era and are well protected. They think that as long as they don’t provoke others, others will definitely not bully them. Therefore, those who are ready to fight are all fighting fanatics.

One type is the soldiers who have survived hundreds of battles. They have fought too many wars and know that war is a dangerous matter of life and death. As long as there is a glimmer of possibility of peace, it is best not to fight.

Wang Shunchen and Xu Jin, one was born in an ordinary family and the other in a military family. They had different identities and had served in the military, but they basically lived a peaceful life and had never been so close to war.

In the past, when they were eating and drinking with their comrades in the imperial guards and talking about the Dangxiang people, they also cursed them indignantly, but they were not quite sure what they were angry about. Perhaps they were angry that they could not go to the battlefield and had no way to achieve success, or they were angry that the court had repeatedly disappointed them.

But at this moment they truly realized how insignificant individual power is in the face of war and how cruel war is. The so-called national hatred and family feuds were all concretized at this moment.

——When your comrades were killed and their heads were cut off, only their bodies were left lying in the cold snow, while their heads were cut off by the Tanguts to calculate their merits...

When they put themselves in the other person's shoes for a moment, they felt a chill all over their bodies, and then their hearts began to heat up again.

What is national hatred and family feud? This is national hatred and family feud!

Wang Shunchen, Qi Ying and others continued to search forward. Because the bodies of Song soldiers had no heads, they could only look at the size of the bodies. During this period, they also encountered some very tall bodies, but Wang Shunchen and Xu Jin murmured for a while, then checked behind Qi Ying's back and said, "It's not the imperial guard."

Qi Ying was somewhat curious and asked, "How did you find out? Could it be that Su Qinxia has a birthmark or something?"

"That's not true."

Xu Jin approached Qi Ying and whispered, "There are rumors in the capital that Su Qin has a huge thing in his crotch, and it is extremely scary. So, although these corpses have no heads, we can rule them out by just looking at their crotches."

Qi Ying was somewhat surprised and asked, "How can you believe this information? Who has really seen a naked Qin Xia?"

Xu Jin checked many bodies, but didn't see the big one. He felt a little relieved and felt better. He laughed and said, "I heard about it a long time ago. I didn't believe it at the time, but later I met Su Qinxia and paid a little attention to it.

Hehe, true greatness, like talent, cannot be concealed. When Su Qinxia takes action, the greatness is like a dragon leaping into the abyss, and you can always vaguely see some movement.

Hehe, it is indeed shocking, the first one in the world, the talent is so outstanding that it makes people feel ashamed, so I will not admit my mistake. "

Seeing Xu Jin lower his head slightly, Qi Ying quickly and quietly moved sideways to block Xu Jin's gaze, then urged his horse to gallop forward quickly.

"Huh?" Qi Ying had sharp eyes and saw a corpse that was not wearing Song army uniforms.

Qi Ying quickly jumped off his horse and rushed over. Sure enough, it was a Western Xia cavalryman!
However, the head of this Western Xia cavalry was also missing!

Qi Ying was really frightened at this moment!
What's happening here?
Judging from the current situation, Qi Xingwen's camp was bound to be defeated. In such a defeat, they would not even have time to escape, so how could they possibly reap the heads of the Dangxiang people?

As for the Dangxiang people harvesting the heads of their own comrades and claiming credit for it, this is absolutely impossible. Their hairstyles and teeth are different, so it is impossible for them to impersonate each other.

Wang Shunchen came over a step late. He took a closer look at the neck of the Xixia cavalryman, his eyes lit up, and said, "He was beheaded with a single blow. This was done by Su Qinxia. The head must be nearby."

Wang Shunchen walked around hurriedly, then reached into the snow and pulled out a head. Qi Ying looked up and saw that he was indeed a Dangxiang person from the hairstyle.

Qi Ying was surprised and asked, "You said that the head was chopped off with one blow?"

Wang Shunchen looked at the knife marks on the head in the moonlight, then handed it to Qi Ying and said with a smile, "The marks on the head cut slowly and cut with one knife are different. You are a veteran in the army, so you should be able to see it clearly."

Qi Ying took it and looked at it, his eyes narrowed. Sure enough, the blade was very smooth. If it was cut later, there would definitely be uneven edges and multiple knife marks.

Qi Ying was surprised and said, "He really beheaded him with one sword. Isn't Su Qinxia the top scholar and a scholar? Beheading someone with one sword is not something that ordinary people can do. It can only be done by someone with extraordinary martial arts skills, right?"

Many readers often want to say in certain scripts that a certain hero can chop off someone's head with one sword, but in fact, it is extremely difficult to behead someone with one sword.

In ancient times, there was a punishment of beheading. To carry out this punishment on a criminal, one needed a highly skilled executioner, a carefully designed posture of the criminal, and a specially made beheading knife to achieve the effect of beheading with one blow.

Because human bones are very hard, even the bones in the neck are difficult to cut with ordinary knives.

It is even more difficult to execute a person by beheading him with a single blow during a fight. After all, the prisoner is kneeling motionless, stretching his neck for you to chop off. When fighting with two people in the midst of a dangerous battle, you still have to chop off the other's head with a single precise blow. You can imagine how difficult it is.

Moreover, the opponent is the Western Xia cavalry!
Only cavalry can defeat cavalry, so the one who killed the Xixia Iron Cavalry was naturally another cavalryman. In other words, someone fought with the Xixia Iron Cavalry on horseback and then cut off the head of the Xixia cavalryman with one knife?

Hearing Qi Ying's surprise, Xu Jin said proudly: "Su Qinxia is both civil and military..."

"Wait, there are also bodies of Xixia people there!"

Wang Shunchen suddenly pointed into the distance.

Qi Ying stood up and looked where Wang Shuncheng was pointing, and sure enough, there were still quite a few corpses.

They rushed over and saw many corpses dressed in Song army uniforms, but their heads were still there, and many Western Xia cavalry had fallen around them.

Qi Ying went over and inspected carefully, and found that most of them died from arrows. Suddenly, his eyes narrowed.

At this time, Wang Shunchen was surprised and said, "This is an arrow shot from a heavy bow! It weighs at least eight dou. Commander Qi, look, this arrow went straight through the head. An ordinary bow and arrow would never be able to do that."

Qi Ying hurriedly looked at the corpses of the other Xixia cavalrymen and found that some of them were shot in the face or chest, with most of them being shot in the face. But no matter which one, the arrow would pass through the body and come out on the other side.

Qi Ying swallowed, he knew exactly what this meant.

The arrow hit the face, which shows that the archer's archery skills are so accurate and his confidence is so astonishing.

The arrow penetrated the body, which showed that the archer had powerful bow force.

In other words, the archer can use a heavy bow with extreme accuracy and confidence, which is amazing.

If the Xixia cavalry who was beheaded in the horse battle and followed by the heavy archers was one person, then we can only imagine him as a famous general in ancient times. Anyway, Qi Ying had never seen such a powerful person in all his years in the Northwest Army.

Wang Shunchen looked at the corpses of the Xixia people and praised them, saying, "It seems that the commander is being too modest.

Judging from the number of Western Xia cavalry, it was definitely that Qianxia was outnumbered alone at that time.

The Western Xia cavalry were extremely fast in archery, but Qianxia was able to shoot back at them, and all their opponents were killed. How fast was Qianxia's archery speed?

Yes, if the commander was sixty or seventy steps away, he would start shooting the Dangxiang people.

The bows used by the Dangxiang cavalry were light and posed little threat to the commander at a distance of sixty or seventy steps, so several of them were shot and killed.

But that was all, because the horses were fast, and sixty or seventy steps were only a blink of an eye, so the commander could only fight with the horses, which made sense!"

As Wang Shunchen described it, Qi Ying also imagined it, and the more he thought about it, the more surprised he became.

Qi Ying was naturally very clear about how powerful the Western Xia cavalry was. The Song army was terrified at the mention of the Western Xia cavalry and had long been traumatized by the defeat. When Qi Ying was young, he led his men to fight against the Western Xia cavalry, and since then, he has become a staunch fortress faction.

There is no way. War is like this. If you can’t win, you can’t win. If you can’t win, you will die. This is a very realistic thing.

Ministers in the court can care about their reputation and say that they are not afraid of the Western Xia cavalry, but for their own soldiers who are actually facing the Western Xia cavalry, caring about their reputation will kill them!

When Qi Ying was just getting surprised, Wang Shunchen suddenly pointed to a low mountain in the distance and said, "If the commander is still alive, he will definitely go in that direction!"

Qi Ying's spirits lifted. There was a low mountain over there. Although it was low, if he could set up a position on a high place, he could indeed reduce the threat posed by the cavalry.

Everyone quickly mounted their horses and rushed over there. Sure enough, there were arrows and corpses along the way, and the corpses included those of Song soldiers and Western Xia cavalry.

Qi Ying suddenly felt a little hope in his heart.

This is a battle and retreat strategy. If we retreat to the top of a low hill, we might really find a way to survive!
Qi Ying hurriedly sped up and whipped the whip, but he saw a scout coming anxiously in front of him, followed by several riders.

Qi Ying's eyes narrowed: It's the Western Xia cavalry!
"Prepare for battle!"

Qi Ying held the bow and drew the arrow. His series of movements were as smooth as flowing water and extremely fast. But just as he touched the bowstring, he heard a whoosh sound. Someone shot the arrow first!

So fast?
When Qi Ying turned his head, Wang Shunchen had already shot the second arrow. Then, Wang Shunchen did not stop, pulling the arrow and shooting the arrow. Under the moonlight, Qi Ying could not even see clearly what Wang Shunchen was doing with his hands.

Qi Ying only felt a whoosh sound in a split second, and then the Xixia cavalrymen on the opposite side were hit in the face by arrows and fell to the ground one by one.

Qi Ying looked at Wang Shunchen in amazement.

He had heard what Wang Shunchen said before, and he thought the analysis was reasonable, but he still found it hard to believe, because there were many strong men in the Northwest Army, but he had never seen anyone so powerful.

Moreover, who is this Wang Shunchen? How could he analyze so many things based on just a few corpses?
Therefore, Qi Ying was hopeful, but still not quite sure.

But at this moment, Wang Shunchen's archery skills made Qi Ying suddenly realize that this man really has real skills, so, those things he analyzed... could be true?

Ah, no, the bow he used was... Yishuo's!

A huge heavy bow, and its speed is faster than mine... Damn!

Qi Ying only felt that his experience was being trampled upon over and over again.

A scholar actually beheaded a Western Xia cavalryman in a horse-riding battle, and he used an eight-bucket heavy bow with terrifying accuracy!
And a member of the imperial guards of the capital city, using a huge heavy bow, could shoot faster than the six-dou bow he was using?
Ah, no, a scholar, a soldier from the imperial guards of the capital city that only produces useless people, has archery skills that can crush hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers of the Northwestern Army?

I came out late at night and was trapped by a ghost wall?
But the smell of blood coming from under the nose cannot be faked.

Qi Ying looked at the scout and asked, "What's going on?"

The scout said quickly, "We found the bodies on the road and followed them to the low hill. Then we ran into the scouts of the Dangxiang dogs. A few of us escaped and I was the only one who escaped. I didn't have time to check what was going on ahead."

Qi Ying nodded and said, "Thank you for bringing back the news. It's a great achievement. I will recommend you for the credit when I return!"
Now you find a few people and go back to Suide City to report the situation here."

The scout was overjoyed and rode away quickly.

Qi Ying felt both nervous and excited at the moment.

The Xixia people have not left yet, which means that Su Qinxia may be trapped on the low mountain and not dead yet. This is the reason for excitement.

But what made him nervous was that he knew very well that even with these people he might not be able to shake the Xixia people. The Xixia people were invincible in field battles and they were not someone they could defeat.

Therefore, he was nervous and excited.

However, it is naturally impossible to ask for reinforcements at this moment. Although Su Yun may occupy the high ground, he may not be able to withstand the attack of the Western Xia cavalry.

Never mind being an expert in archery or horse fighting. Even the most formidable person would be no match for an army. If one person faces four or five cavalrymen, he would probably be killed with just a charge.

No matter how skilled your archery skills are, it is hard to say whether you can lift your arms after shooting dozens or hundreds of times. Especially for those who use heavy bows, the intensity is even more terrifying.

Therefore, he knew that he could not wait for reinforcements to arrive before rescuing Su Yun, as that would only miss the best opportunity for rescue.

Just what to do now?
The scout has been discovered by the Xixia scouts, which means that the Xixia people already know that they are coming, and a large group of cavalry may arrive soon.

According to previous combat habits, in this situation, they would have to flee immediately and run into the nearest fortress, otherwise they would be dead if they ran into the Xixia people in the wild.

But Qi Ying knew that it wouldn't work this time.

If he runs away, he will die in the future, and his clan members will be implicated, so he has to go on even if he has to bite the bullet!
Qi Ying gritted his teeth and shouted to the messenger, "Order, everyone follow me and prepare for battle! Also, tell them that if they can survive this time, each of them will receive a reward of ten strings of cash. If they can behead the enemy, in addition to being commended by the court, each head will be rewarded with ten strings of cash, and there is no upper limit!"

(End of this chapter)