Chapter 611: Take their heads
This battle against the Northern Di was the first time that Li Suining had a close encounter with a Northern Di general.
She was the crown prince and most of the time was required to command the battle in the central army.
And Ashide Yuanli's way of fighting is worth further study -
As early as when Li Suining just arrived in the northern border, Cui Jing told her that the biggest difficulty in this battle, apart from the powerful cavalry of the Northern Di, was Ashide Yuanli.
Unlike the Northern Di cavalry who were accustomed to guerrilla warfare, Ashide Yuanli was good at deploying troops and commanding large armies. He had obviously learned the Han people's formations and improved them according to the characteristics of the Northern Di troops.
Li Suining initially thought that the best strategy for dealing with the Northern Di cavalry was to defeat them one by one, but Ashide Yuanli hardly gave the Sheng army such an opportunity. He integrated a large number of troops to attack the pass, forcing the Sheng army to fight them head-on.
The reason why Ashide Yuanli could not capture the city for a long time was not because there was something wrong with his strategy, but because his opponent was unexpectedly tenacious and strong.
Ashide Yuanli was very clear about this, so he tried to change his tactics, but Nenu and others could not understand. In their opinion, Ashide Yuanli was an incompetent general.
If the army is strong, attack its general; if the general is wise, attack his emotions.
However, Ashide Yuanli's "feelings of being attacked" are not here, so he cannot be attacked for the time being.
If the soldiers are strong and the general is wise, but there is no way to defeat the general, then the only thing to do is to separate the soldiers and the general, and then attack the soldiers who are separated from the general.
Those who chose to leave the team, such as Nienu, were called "soldiers who left the general".
They are still ferocious wild animals, but today they must all be chopped off by the butcher's knife!
Li Suining had never intended to let go of this opportunity that she had finally waited for, not to mention that her heart was filled with sorrow and hatred at this moment.
When facing an enemy, you must do your best! There was a cold killing intent in her eyes, and her eyes were like the surface of a frozen lake. Wherever her eyes passed, everything froze into ice.
Being stared at by those extremely cold and calm eyes, as if looking at a dead object, Nienu was instantly enraged. How dare a small Han Chinese woman, who was at most half his size, look at him like that! He had dismembered the princess of Sheng State with his own hands, and today he might as well dismember the crown prince of Sheng State!
Nenu waved the copper whip in his hand, bringing out a whistling whip wind. The whip was heavy and sharp, and anyone who was touched would have their skin and bones scratched.
While Li Suining was dodging flexibly, Nienu whipped the long whip towards the spear in Li Suining's hand, trying to knock her weapon off first, but saw the spear body spinning quickly, breaking his whip path in the opposite direction, and then saw the spear head turn, and as she rode her horse to meet him, the spear head was heading straight for his face in an instant!
She shortened the distance between them, and the advantage of the long whip was curbed. Nenu quickly leaned back and swung his knife to block. He was extremely strong, and although the situation was dangerous, he still easily blocked the sharp spear tip.
When Li Suining put away her spear, Nienu swung her knife at her. She leaned back to avoid it and thrust the spear into the sand with her right hand. Then, using the spear as support, she quickly raised her lower body, used the inertia of the spear shaft to move forward, and kicked Nienu's jaw with her leg swept sideways.
Her movements were incredibly fast and her moves were unexpected. Under normal circumstances, a person on horseback would most likely become dizzy and fall off the horse if they were kicked with such force, but Nenu simply turned her head, and her body swayed before she steadied herself.
He gritted his teeth, spat out a mouthful of blood, and grasped the dislocated or fractured jaw with both hands, forcibly twisting it back into place.
During this gap, Li Suining, who had just landed, swung his spear again.
Nenu swung his sword to cut off the spear tip, his face grim and mocking: "You dare to dismount in battle against my Khanate's cavalry... you fool are looking for death!"
In a cavalry battle, horses are the most important weapons and armor. Those who leave their horses will only end up being trampled into a pulp! As early as when Li Suining left his horse with his spear, Guiqi had been blocked and forced back by Nienu's subordinates with spears and swords. Kang Zhi led his men to protect Guiqi with their spears and wanted to lead Guiqi to charge forward, but was blocked by the enemy soldiers.
Guiqi neighed anxiously, and the iron hoof of the horse under Nienu was raised high, stepping towards Li Suining who was surrounded by swords and spears on three sides! When the swords and spears stabbed and the horse's hoof was about to fall, Li Suining suddenly rushed forward, saw the right opportunity, and rolled under the horse's belly with his head in his arms.
The Northern Di war horses were particularly strong and tall. Amid the chaos of swords and spears, Nienu, who was sitting on the horse, could not see where Li Suining was for a moment. Before he could look for him, he suddenly felt the left stirrup fall down -
A hand suddenly reached out and climbed onto his stirrup, and a figure as light as a swallow leaped onto the horse's back behind him. Just as Nienu was about to react, an extremely sharp dagger had already circled around his neck, and the next moment, blood gushed out.
That was the short knife that Li Suining pulled out from his boots when he rolled to his feet. It was the one given by Cui Jing, and it could cut iron like mud.
Nenu smelled warm blood. He often faced such bloody smell, but this time was different. This time it came from himself, and it was the first time he smelled the horrible breath of death from it.
His eyes widened, his weapons fell off his hands, and he tightly covered his almost broken neck.
When he was dying, he suddenly remembered something inexplicably... He remembered who she looked like! Like the princess of Sheng State, Chong Yue, who had killed their Khanate commander by unknown means before the battle and should have been torn into pieces, and indeed was torn into pieces by his own hands! At this moment, the voice seemed to overlap strangely even after more than ten years: "Do you know why I have to get off the horse now?"
His body quickly turned cold, and Nenu trembled, surrounded by endless fear.
His men were also terrified.
Everything happened almost in the blink of an eye. No one even saw how the woman who should have been crushed by the cavalry suddenly got on the horse and fought back.
They still couldn't see clearly at this moment, her figure was completely blocked by the huge body of their leader. They could only see her protruding dagger, silver wrist guard, and slender arms wrapped in black robes - compared with their leader's arms as thick as trees, that arm was so thin that it could not be broken.
The next moment, the slender arm holding the knife pushed back and knocked their tall and brave leader off his horse.
The Northern Di people finally shouted in shock: "She killed the leader of the Nenu!"
"Kill her!"
They looked at her as if she were a monster, and frantically tried to surround and kill her, but they had no chance to get close to her.
Amid the sounds of fighting, Li Suining sat on Nienu's horse and said to Kang Zhi who came forward, "Take his head and hang it above the pass to comfort the heroic spirits of our army."
Then he said: "Also, give the order to block their retreat."
Kang Zhi: "Subordinate! As ordered!"
The fighting continued, and the news of Nenu's death quickly spread among the Northern Di army.
Inside the gate, General Zhong, who had just bandaged the wound on his arm, wanted to mount his horse again, but just as he stepped on the stirrup, he fell off.
A soldier came running over and helped him up: "Old General! You can't fight anymore!"
This ambush was destined to be dangerous. In addition to Chang Sui'an, He Wuhu, Yuan Xiang and others, there was also an experienced veteran of the Xuan Ce Army who was in charge of the battle.
"Don't let Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess engage them in close combat..." General Zhong held on and shouted, "Help me get on the horse!"
He knew that Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess had become famous for her military exploits and had repeatedly performed remarkable feats and captured bandit leaders, but this was the Northern Di, a foreign cavalry, and they could not be generalized!
The soldier dared not disobey, and was about to force the old general onto his horse when he heard a message. He looked up and saw Kang Zhi riding back with the head of Nenu in her hand, shouting, "Your Highness the Princess personally killed the Northern Di bandit leader!"
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