Northern Prefecture Rivers and Mountains

Chapter 163 Heroic
In the rain, a cavalry of 600 people was marching towards Pingyang City.

The war horses wailed in the rain due to exhaustion. One of the horses slipped and threw the cavalryman out, who fell into the mud. His leg bones made a crisp breaking sound and he struggled several times but couldn't stand up.

The cavalryman's ring-handled knife stabbed into the heart of the warhorse, blood splattered, and the warhorse didn't even have time to make a whine, and it just stared with its eyes wide open and stopped moving.

The cavalry closed its eyes.

"Haven't you found out any news about Agui yet?" Liu Yu was a little anxious now.

Scout Ding Yu bowed and said, "The rain is so heavy that it's hard to tell the direction, but we can be sure it's southwest of Pingyang!"

The Yan army's blockade was too tight, with hundreds of scouts and cavalry scattered on both sides of the four rivers, and their own scouts could not penetrate at all.

Moreover, all kinds of false information were flying around, sometimes it was in the south of Daye Lake, sometimes in Rencheng, and sometimes in Taishan County...

Liu Yu sent Mao Dezu's cavalry to help several times, but they were either blocked by the Yan army or were too late, as Liu Daogui had already left the area...

It was not until the plum rains of the past few days that the scouts got the confirmed news.

Both armies of the Yan army were marching towards the southwest of Pingyang City.

With his keen intuition, Liu Yu rushed towards Pingyang City with the war horses seized from Lu City.

The battlefield area is so large that the entire source of information depends on scouts, and it is difficult for any general to get a full picture.

Liu Yu raided Lucheng. His soldiers were already exhausted and the force was still small. He also had to suppress the Hu people in the city. Now he could only mobilize 600 cavalrymen to attack.

Taking Lucheng does not mean taking the entire Lu County. There are still many Yan troops stationed in other cities.

If the Northern Army makes any movement, the defenders of other cities will come to attack.

Fortunately, Liu Yu took the initiative to marry into the Zhang family, a prominent family in Lu County, and took their daughter Zhang Que as his concubine, which stabilized the situation. Otherwise, he would not have been able to control the situation with only the thousand or so troops at his disposal.

When Xie Xuan was on the Northern Expedition, Zhang Yuan, the leader of the refugees from Taishan County and Lu County, betrayed the Jin Dynasty and joined forces with Zhai Liao, putting the Northern Expedition into an unfavorable situation. In addition, Liu Laozhi was defeated by Murong Chui, so Xie Xuan had to retreat to Pengcheng.

Lu County had long become a place where the Hu and Xia peoples blended together, and it had no loyalty to either Jin or Yan. It had joined Zhai Wei in the beginning just to establish its own territory. Later, after Murong Chui defeated Zhang Yuan, Wen Xiang and other refugee leaders in the Jishui River basin, the county settled down a little.

"March at full speed, don't be too picky about your horses!" Liu Yu shouted and galloped towards Pingyang.

"Hurry west!" Mao Dezuo galloped his horse, rushing to the front...

South of Pingyang City, the rain stopped.

The water vapor did not dissipate, and the enemy's figures gradually appeared.

It was like a group of hungry wolves staring at a flock of sheep.

"Form a formation!" Liu Heipi led the crowd to hold the slope, looking down from above.

More than a hundred people formed a battle array, with long spears facing forward and bows and crossbows behind.

Suddenly, a black shadow flew across the sky, and it was not heavy rain, but a rain of arrows.

The soldiers raised their shields and fought with crackling sounds.

"Hold on!" Liu Heibin stood in front of the formation carrying a round shield. The shield was full of arrows and he was hit by two or three arrows, but he stood motionless like a giant tree.

Boom, boom, boom...

The clanging of enemy armor came from afar, and more than 300 soldiers carrying shields advanced forward.

Judging from the aura of these people, they are undoubtedly elite.

The shields in their hands and the iron armor on their bodies could render the long spears and crossbows of the Jin army on the slopes of the mountain useless.

The Heike clan was a powerful family in Hebei and was best at this kind of siege warfare. The three brothers Heike and You led their troops to capture cities and territories for Murong Chui, and captured many cities.

This kind of scene is already commonplace to them.

The fact that the Jin army could provide 300 soldiers was a great honor.

"Charge!" Liu Heibin did not passively defend himself. He jumped up from the slope with his shield and crashed into the enemy soldiers like a meteorite.

He swung the short axe in his hand, bringing a flash of blood and instantly beheading three people. His proactive attack obviously caught the Yan army by surprise.

Meng Ganzhi, Gou Zhong and Hu Jianfu followed closely behind, jumped into the enemy army, and stabbed with the short spears and lances in their hands, easily tearing through the enemy's armor.

More than thirty other long-axe warriors took advantage of the situation and rushed into the gap.

The sound of metal clashing was accompanied by screams. More than 300 Yan soldiers were unable to maneuver in this narrow terrain and were wantonly hacked to death by more than 30 people. They fell like wheat.

"Hahaha, what a relief!" Liu Heibin stood up among the corpses. His left arm was covered in blood and flesh, with only half of it left, but he seemed to feel no pain.

However, this Yan army was obviously elite, and they did not retreat after forty or fifty of them were killed.

Instead, they formed an array at the bottom of the slope and pushed it up again.

"Kill!" Hu Jianfu imitated Liu Heibin and jumped up, rushing towards the enemy.

But while the man was still in mid-air, he was pierced through the body by six or seven long spears.

Blood was all over the ground and he died on the spot.

This trick obviously didn't work. Ping You was also a veteran general, so he immediately made adjustments, with shields in front and lances and archers in the back, slowly advancing forward.

"Brother, go first!" Liu Heibin wiped the blood off his face and stood in front of the formation.

The enemy army approached, and both sides faced each other with long spears and bows and arrows, and although there were only about 400 of them, the fighting was extremely fierce.

The Jin army did not retreat a single step, and the Yan army also fought hard and advanced.

"Kill!" Both sides fell into madness.

In fact, both sides were from the northern Jin Dynasty, and this fight was even more brutal and bloody than the bloody battle with the Hu people.

The small earthen slope turned into a grinding wheel of flesh and blood. Streams of blood flowed slowly down the slope and were soon trampled by the fighting soldiers, leaving behind a trail of bloody footprints.

Half an hour later, the Yan army was pushed back again.

Forty or fifty bodies were left behind.

But the Jin army was not in much better shape, with less than one-third of its men still standing.

The corpses piled up the slope high. Liu Heibin stood on the pile of corpses. His armor had been scattered and there was a shocking wound on his abdomen. Blood and internal organs were slowly flowing out.

"Come on, let's kill some ass today!"

Every time he spoke a word, a cloud of blood foam spurted out of his mouth, and he looked as ferocious as a demon.

The Yan army was so frightened that they dared not attack for a moment.

"Hahaha, if you rat are cowardly, you can just run for your life!" Liu Heibi supported a lance with one hand, swaying in the wind, but never fell down.

After a few breaths of silence, a man walked out from the Yan army, wearing a bright armor inside and a green robe outside. He raised the long sword in his hand, and a Yan army from the east came up again.

Liu Heipi glanced back at Meng Ganzhi behind him and said, "Brother, I'll go first!"

After saying that, he used up the last bit of his strength, jumped up from the pile of corpses, and smashed into the enemy.

"kill--!"

The roar stopped abruptly, and then a cloud of blood mist burst out, and seven or eight long spears pierced the body.

This old soldier from the Northern Palace died...

But his death inspired the Jin army behind him, "Kill!"

Many soldiers who had been injured and fallen to the ground stood up again, picked up their spears, and continued to fight. Even those who could not stand up would rush towards the enemy and chop their legs and feet with swords and axes.

The fighting became more brutal...

(End of this chapter)