But when they were about to catch up with one of the more obvious groups of civilians, suddenly, the warhorse stumbled, flipped over, and knelt down in a small trench that had been dug... The reason why this group of civilians could stay together when they fled was because someone called and led them to hide behind this newly dug trench.
That was not all. After the warhorse staggered, it did not throw the knight out at all because the horse was not going very fast. It just made the knight feel stuffy in the chest and dizzy, and his feet were trapped in the stirrups, causing him to lose control for a while.
The knight knew it was a life-and-death situation. Despite not having the strength to open his eyes, he squeezed the horse's belly with all his strength and pulled the reins at the same time, trying to pull the horse up.
And this majestic warhorse did not disappoint its owner. Its strong vitality and obedience acquired through years of training allowed it to raise one of its front hooves with all its strength, ready to rescue its owner.
But at this moment, an axe that was obviously not standard equipment but looked more like an axe used for logging suddenly appeared and chopped almost flatly at the warhorse's raised front hoof. The axe was stuck under the warhorse's knee, and blood gushed out. The warhorse was completely unable to support itself, and let out another whine and knelt down again.
"Grab his hammer!"
The Jin army knight was in great pain, but he could still hear someone shouting and gasping beside him. After hearing this, he quickly swung the cavalry hammer in his hand, trying to stop the other party.
However, he would have been fine if he didn't swing it, but when he swung it with all his strength, the hammer slipped out of his hand.
The laborer who had chopped off the horse's hooves before, Zhou Bin, was now in a state of disarray, his eyes red. He instinctively tried to pick up the hammer, and at the same time shouted to his fellow laborers:
"Pull him down! Pin him down! I'm going to finish him off!"
The civilians were not fools. When they saw that reinforcements were about to arrive, the Jin army cavalryman could not move. They rushed forward. Seven or eight of them pulled his arms and grabbed his helmet. They successfully dragged him off the horse and held down his limbs.
Poor Jurchen Puliyan, he was an old soldier who had experienced hundreds of battles. Now he lost his footing and was surrounded. How could he resist even if he struggled hard?
In a moment, he was pressed into the trench by these civilians, in the red mud stained with horse blood.
"Xiao Yi, come and lift his mask, don't let him bite you!" Zhou Bin picked up the cavalry hammer, walked to the side of the other's head, clenched his hands, and yelled orders to a slightly younger civilian beside him.
Xiao Yi, trembling with fear and in a hurry, quickly rode onto the cavalryman, then tried to remove the mask. He first tried to pull it down, and when that failed, he quickly pushed it upwards. Sure enough, the mask was pushed open, revealing a face that was about forty years old, with a rough appearance, but there was no essential difference between it and the surrounding civilians.
The face was staring at the person riding on him, with an obvious look of panic and pleading, but Xiao Yi was just at a loss.
Zhou Bin, who was squatting beside the knight, was slightly stunned when he saw this expression, but it was just a moment. The next moment, Captain Zhou, who had experienced too many things, did not hesitate. He raised the fist-thick cavalry hammer in his hand high up, and smashed it hard at the area under the opponent's eyes!
After one blow, everything was a mess of blood and flesh!
After two blows of hammer, the civilians around noticed that the cavalryman had lost all his strength and his whole body became loose!
After three blows, the face of this Jurchen knight from Guantao was no longer just red, but black, white, red, and yellow, all mixed together.
After killing this man, Zhou Bin did not stop at all. He just stood up and took the cavalry hammer in his hand and quickly made another assignment: "Lao Zhang, you go and lead them to continue repairing the trench. Dabao, Erbao, you two brothers quickly strip off his armor and hand it over to the officers of the Imperial Camp. Xiaoyi, you come with me to report the achievement to this garrison!"
The seven or eight Song soldiers who were preparing to surround and kill the Jin knight had actually already arrived dozens of steps away. However, seeing that the captain lured the enemy first and killed them later, and after three hammer strikes, he did not stop for a moment and distributed the weapons so calmly, they were already shocked. How could they still have the slightest intention of stealing the credit?
In the end, he was actually led by the village chief in a daze to go to the nearest flag to find the officer to report his achievement.
The nearest flag was just two hundred steps away. The general under his command was a commander named Zhang Kui. He was a veteran of the Red Heart Team. After accumulating merit at Yaoshan, he was transferred out of the Imperial Guard and served in the Right Army of the Imperial Camp. He quickly became the commander, but he had not fought in a battle for a long time and had no military achievements in leading troops in an organized manner, so he had never been able to cross the biggest step.
Without further ado, Zhang Kui had actually noticed the commotion caused by the gap further west a long time ago. He watched the scene coldly, and then listened attentively to the slightly nervous report of merit by the military scholar and the garrison commander. After everything was settled, he mounted his horse and headed eastward from here.
On the east side, there were thousands of Song soldiers lined up in neat rows. Although they were not a group of soldiers armed with long axes and heavy infantry, they had long spears and large crossbows, and were equipped with swords, shields, bows and arrows.
Zhang Kui walked straight to the largest flag in the row of troops, bowed, and made a suggestion.
"Leave a small gap along the river in the west, and your troops will set up a net in the rear to wait for them." Tian Shizhong, who had just returned from the front line, frowned slightly when he heard this. "Is it because the area along the river in the west can no longer hold out?"
“No, it’s just that I saw the tense situation at the front line with heavy casualties, while we were lined up in the rear and couldn’t go forward to help, and I couldn’t bear it.” Zhang Kui bowed in response.
"You are also worried that you won't get any credit, and you won't even be able to become a commander after the Northern Expedition is over, right?" Tian Shizhong said coldly. "Zhang Kui, do you think this is still a peaceful time, and this place is still the place where Jingdong is stationed? Do you think that without a leader of the Red Heart Team, Commander Liu will lose the ten secret letter boxes of the Right Army of the Imperial Camp?"
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