Liu Shan shouted, "Stop!"
The large group of people immediately stopped.
Yang Zaixing knew something was wrong. He had sensed Liu Shan's killing intent long ago, so he didn't stop and ran forward quickly, his body sideways, pressed against the horse.
Upon seeing Yang Zaixing flee, Liu Shan flew into a rage: "Fire arrows! Fire arrows!"
Yang Zaixing was fast, and since it was flat ground, he quickly widened the distance between them.
But Liu Shan relentlessly pursued him. Now that he had a rare opportunity to kill Yang Zaixing here, he could say it was the Mongols who did it. How could he let that go?
Just as Liu Shan was chasing after them with great enthusiasm, a black line suddenly appeared in the distance ahead.
The black line quickly revealed its outline, revealing itself to be a massive, dark army!
They were charging rapidly toward this side, heading toward the flank of Liu Shan's cavalry.
Fortunately, there were only a hundred people, so turning around was easy.
Liu Shan was shocked and remained stunned for a long while before he reacted and immediately ordered the plane to turn around.
But it was clearly too late; the cavalry force of unknown origin charged forward swiftly.
Arrows rained down like a storm, and every Song cavalryman hit by one fell from his horse and died.
Some arrows hit the horses, causing them to fall to the ground in pain, and the cavalrymen would fall as well. If they were lucky, they would break a few bones, but if they were unlucky, they would deform their necks and die a gruesome death.
Liu Shan regretted not listening to Yang Zaixing.
It was too late to escape now. He roared, "My men, we soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty, fight to the death with me!"
"Boss! You go first, the brothers will cover you!"
Liu Shan said, "Old Cai, the brothers will cover you. You must immediately return to Heyuan Village and report to Commander Wang!"
"Boss! You should go back!"
"I'm too ashamed to go back!" Liu Shan cried, his voice hoarse, his face streaked with tears. "Go back! This is a military order!"
Old Cai dared not hesitate any longer and continued running forward.
Liu Shan's face flushed red, tears streaming down his face, and he roared, "It's all my fault! If we're going to die, let's die together! Let's all go to the Martyrs' Shrine! The Emperor can still provide for our families!"
He stirred everyone's passion, and their blood began to boil.
The entire army shouted: "Fight to the death! Long live the Emperor! Long live the Great Song Dynasty!"
These dozens of cavalrymen quickly turned around and charged towards the enemy behind them.
However, their numbers were relatively small, making it a futile effort.
Liu Shan charged at the forefront, veins bulging on his forehead, eyes bloodshot, his mind blank, filled only with killing intent.
He had already been hit by two arrows, but he still charged forward. With a swing of his axe, he saw that the head of the enemy in front had been cleaved open, and his brains were splattering out.
Due to the massive impact and recoil, Liu Shan was sent flying, with an axe pointing directly at his face.
At that moment, his entire life flashed through his mind, frozen at the entrance of Liujia Village in Jingzhao Prefecture.
He saw his parents working in the sunset, saw the smile of the person he secretly loved at the village entrance, and seemed to hear someone calling his name.
Then, his face was split in two by an axe.
The image in my mind froze, and then everything went black.
In the twelfth month of the sixth year of the Jingkang era, ninety li northeast of Heishui City in the northwest, a group of Mongol people suddenly appeared and quickly swallowed up an elite Song border cavalry, staining the snow there red with their blood.
The war began here, burning with the blood of soldiers.
The cold blade and the fury begin to reap lives.
This entire Song army was wiped out. Just half an hour earlier, they were sitting in the fortress drinking, chatting, and boasting.
Some of them even talked about a marriage arranged by a matchmaker a few years ago. The girl was very beautiful, but they had to enlist in the army and couldn't marry her. They said they would ask for leave to go home next year after the snow melts.
Under the new military system of the Song Dynasty, there were special leave options for soldiers, such as bereavement leave and wedding leave.
Some people talked about their sons who had just started walking again, saying that when their sons grew up, they would make sure they studied a lot, either to become officials, or to learn science or business.
Of course, some people also talked about their elderly mothers and always wore clothes that their mothers had knitted by hand.
...
But half an hour later, everyone's heads were chopped off, and the corpses were piled up.
They can never go back.
Old Cai ran forward desperately, but he still couldn't escape. A crossbow bolt pierced his back, and he fell off his horse.
Immediately, a group of Mongols rushed forward to seize his head, because taking the head back would be a way to claim credit.
Yang Zaixing continued running forward because he was some distance away from Liu Shan and the others, and he was focused on moving forward, unaware of what was happening behind him.
When he returned to the village, he found the corpses of Mongols on the ground nearby. Yang Zaixing used his telescope to look around the village and saw that there were quite a few Mongols there.
He didn't dare go over, but kept a distance.
He believed that Yue Fei and others had already evacuated.
Without lingering any longer, he turned his horse around, intending to go directly to Blackwater City to deliver the message.
Since Wang Zhong doesn't trust him, going back to Heyuan Village is pointless. Now, he can only go to Heishui City to deliver the message.
The number of Mongols is increasing, which is clearly premeditated.
Based on Yang Zaixing's military career, he immediately realized that this was undoubtedly a war!
When he passed the place where he had parted ways with Liu Shan and the others, he was shocked to find the pile of headless corpses.
He deduced from the underwear of these headless corpses that they were Song people, and from their physiques, he determined they were soldiers.
They are Liu Shan's subordinates!
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