Chapter 265: The Battle of the Blackwater Camp (1)
After learning that some Huns had entered the territory of Qin on the border between Yancheng and Heishui, Meng Li led his team back to the barracks and led a team of men to patrol the border.
Rock City is one hundred and twenty miles away from the military camp between the two cities, and if you want to completely protect this distance with manpower, you need too many men and horses, and it is simply unrealistic, so you can only rely on a few more patrols a day to ensure the safety of the border.
"Look, General, it seems that the wolf smoke of the Blackwater Camp is burning!" said the adjutant beside Meng Li suddenly pointed to a puff of black smoke rising in the distance ahead.
, Meng Li looked into the distance, yes, the color of the smoke is the unique color of the wolf smoke used to transmit military information on the border after it is lit. "It seems that the Huns have come, the whole army is attacking, let's go to support the Heishui battalion. ”
As the saying goes, Wangchuan runs a dead horse. Although the Blackwater Camp was very close to seeing the wolf smoke rising, to rush to the Blackwater Camp, Meng Li galloped for nearly half an hour along the way.
Seeing that the Blackwater Camp was close in front of him, and the sound of fighting on the battlefield was already faintly ringing in his ears. Meng Li didn't know how many enemies the Blackwater Battalion had encountered, so he didn't dare to divide his troops, and it would only be a waste of time to go to detect the number of enemies at this time. Therefore, Meng Li decided to gather the two thousand people he had brought with him, and directly rushed to the enemy directly in front of him, and first joined his own people in the Blackwater camp.
"The archers dismount and go to the periphery of the battlefield to snipe the enemy. Remember, I'm not asking you to shoot randomly, you just need to make sure that you shoot an enemy with one arrow, so that the enemy is distracted and pay attention behind them. The rest of the men will rush with me, and all the enemies who stand in the way will be killed!" Meng Li gave the order.
Out of the 2,000 men, there were less than 500 archers, and the rest handed over their crossbows and arrows on their bodies and horses, and then took their spears and rushed to the Blackwater camp with Mengli.
In the Heishui camp, Zhang Kui, the commander of the Heishui camp, slashed to death the thirtieth Huns who attacked him, wiped a handful of blood splashed on his face, and looked up in the four directions of the barracks. The gates of the barracks in all four directions have been breached by the Huns, and the only good thing is that the walls around the barracks are very strong and have not fallen in the attack of the Huns. In this way, the battle between the Qin army and the Xiongnu was gathered around the four camp gates.
The gate of the barracks was not very wide, and could only accommodate five people to enter side by side at the same time, so when the Huns first broke through the camp gate, Zhang Kui ordered his soldiers to use spears to block behind the camp gate. Most of the Huns' weapons were scimitars, which were no more than the length of an adult's arm, and they could not play a role at all on the battlefield against the spears and Changge unique to the Qin State, so the first wave of the Huns' offensive was blocked by Zhang Kui and his soldiers.
The Huns did not rely on the large number of people to fill in, they saw that the four battalions could not be attacked for a long time, and the size of their weapons was far less than that of the Qin people, so they also changed their strategy. The Huns mobilized their archers, and these archers did a great job in the confrontation with the Qin archers standing on the walls of the barracks, and all the archers in the Heishui camp were killed, which allowed the Huns to break through the four gates of the barracks so quickly.
The Hun archers arrived at the door, and under the command of a Huns, the Huns, who were still rushing to the camp gate, suddenly all bent down at the moment when they were about to fight the Qin army. The soldiers of the Qin army, who were preparing to meet the attack of the Huns, did not understand why these Huns ran in front of them and suddenly bent down, and in the next moment, they knew, because the archers of the Huns were shooting arrows at them outside the camp gate.
The soldiers of the Qin army holding Changge at the gate of the camp couldn't react at all, and the Huns' arrows stuck in their chests and slowly fell to the ground.
Seeing that the Qin people in front of him were shot to the ground by their own people, the Huns, who had re-raised their waists, were overjoyed, brandished the scimitar in their hands and screamed, stepping on the corpse of the Qin army and rushing towards the barracks.
Zhang Kui's eyes were cracking, these dead were all veterans who had spent many years with him, he had drunk with them, but he didn't expect to watch them die in front of him today.
The Huns had already entered the barracks, and half of the Qin army, which numbered less than 3,000 people, had been killed, and almost all of the remaining people were wounded, and then used the terrain in the barracks to make the final resistance to the Huns.
The wolf smoke had been extinguished by the Huns, and during the years of the Qin army's war, they knew what the Qin army was using to light the smoke produced by wolf feces on the steppe. Therefore, the first thing the Huns did when they entered the barracks was to extinguish the wolf smoke used to transmit military information and prevent the reinforcements of the Qin army from arriving here quickly.
Zhang Kui and hundreds of Qin troops guarding his side fought hard with the Huns, and almost no one of the Huns standing in front of Zhang Kui was his enemy, and every Hun who died in his hands was either chopped to death with a knife, or slapped on the head and neck by the back of the knife, and then died.
Although Zhang Kui fought bravely, and the veterans of the Qin army who followed him were also very powerful, they still played a small role in the face of the siege and killing of tens of thousands of Huns. The Qin army in other parts of the barracks had been eaten away by the Huns little by little, and more and more Huns approached the barracks and surrounded Zhang Kui and his remaining men.
With the hand-to-hand combat with the Huns surrounding them, the Qin army's original long weapons were no longer useful, and everyone brandished the long swords in their hands to fight the Huns to the death. Although many Huns were killed, the number of Huns was too much, as if they could not be killed, and there were already Qin troops in despair, the long sword in their hands slowed down for a while, and then a Hun man swung his knife and cut off his head.
Zhang Kui is also desperate, the Huns who died in his hands are not a hundred but eighty, Zhang Kui has a lot of confidence in his own strength, if he can kill a hundred Huns by himself in normal times, but today he is surrounded by so many Huns, he has a feeling of powerlessness. The copper-ring machete in his hand became heavier and heavier, and his arms were about to disobey him, Zhang Kui was panting like an old ox plowing the ground, and he felt that he must be here today.
Suddenly a horn sounded outside the barracks, this was the horn of the Qin army. The loud sound of a trumpet entered the barracks with a little dull horn, which lifted the spirits of Zhang Kui and his subordinates, who were about to die in battle, finally had reinforcements coming?
Meng Li set up the battle mission, and he rode a fast horse to take the lead in the camp of the Huns, who were still outside the barracks. A Hun who had not had time to dodge in front of him was hit on the back by a galloping war horse, and the whole person flew forward, and then smashed on one of his companions, both of whom spat blood, except that one was hit and the other was smashed.
I don't know the specific situation in the barracks, Meng Li didn't have time to think, and rode a war horse to the Huns outside the south gate of the military camp The formation was in chaos, and when the Huns had not yet reacted, Meng Li had already entered the barracks on horseback.
The arrival of Meng Li gave Zhang Kui and his subordinates a booster, and everyone saw the arrival of reinforcements wearing the armor of the Qin army, and their spirits were lifted, and the arm that was about to lose strength seemed to have strength all of a sudden, and continued to wave and fight with the Huns in front of them.
Meng Tian rode into the barracks, only to see that almost all of the barracks were Huns, and in the middle of the barracks, there was an encirclement of the Huns. And in the middle of the encirclement, there were still many Qin soldiers struggling to fight the Huns.
There were many obstacles in the barracks, and it was no longer possible to fight the Huns on horseback, so Meng Li directly dismounted and fought the Huns on the ground.
There were nearly 800 people who rushed in with Meng Li, and these 800 and 10,000 Huns, as well as the few Qin troops who were surrounded, made the entire originally spacious military camp almost full of people.
Seeing that Qin reinforcements had come in at the west gate, the Huns south of the encirclement began to turn around and attack the enemy behind them. As soon as they fought, they felt that something was wrong, these newly arrived Qin army reinforcements were certainly above those of them who had been fighting for a long time, but when they fought, it was far from the case.
Because these Qin troops who came to support were too strong, they were in groups of three, but each group was closely connected, and these people also held a shield in their hands, plus the sharp blades they held in their hands, the Huns in front of them felt that they were the opponents of these people at all. And they are all united against the enemy, no matter you slash at any of them, there will be two long swords to kill yourself at the same time, and the killing method is very neat, without dragging the mud and water, directly attacking your fatal vital point.
This is the soldiers of the Mengjia Army carefully trained by Mengli, not so much soldiers as these people are trained killers. From the moment they were selected by Meng Li, every day was training, fighting the enemy, assassinating, and the only requirement that Meng Tian gave them was to be fast, accurate, and ruthless. Fast means to kill people quickly, not to give the enemy a chance to resist, accurately, is to hit the enemy's vital point with one move, and strive to be lethal with one move, ruthless, that is, they must not have the slightest mercy for the enemy.
In this way, such a group of Grim Reapers, who were trained to be responsible for killing, went to the battlefield, and there was only one way for the enemy who stood in front of them, and that was death. Swift Reading.com
The Huns in the barracks began to retreat, and the battle so far was not as many as the deaths in such a small time in the face of these people. Far south of the encirclement, the Huns were not long left.
Meng Li led his subordinates to kill the gods and Zhang Kui, who was surrounded in the middle, finally came together, and with a gesture from Meng Li, the soldiers of the Meng family army automatically separated into two teams and killed the Huns in the adjacent two directions.
"You are General Zhang Kui, right?" Meng Li asked, looking at the burly man in front of him, who was already a "bloody man".
Zhang Kui's hand fell to the ground with a "clang", and then Zhang Kui also staggered to his knees. "The last general, Zhang Kui, the garrison general of the Heishui Battalion, met with the general. ”
Meng Li helped Zhang Kui up and said, "General Zhang, please get up, General Ben is late, I'm sorry." ”
Zhang Kui shook his head, and he said with some slurred words: "What is the general talking about, you can rush here to rescue us, we are too late to be happy." If the general hadn't arrived in time with his troops, I'm afraid that by this time I would have died with these surviving brothers. ”
Meng Li nodded, and he motioned to Zhang Kui and the soldiers behind Zhang Kui who survived the bloody battle to rest quickly.
Zhang Kui sat on the ground and looked at the Huns, who were invincible just now, in front of the reinforcements, as if they were a helpless child in front of an adult, and they were wantonly slaughtered without the power to fight back. Zhang Kui looked at the reinforcement general who was looking at the situation on the battlefield and said, "Dare to ask the general if he is General Meng Tianmeng?"
Meng Li shook his head, "I'm not a great general, I'm the deputy marshal of a great general, my name is Meng Li." ”
Meng Li, the second person in the Mengjia army second only to Meng Tian, Zhang Kui has been yearning for a long time. Meng Tian is now in the million-strong army of Great Qin, almost a banner, the battle spirit of Great Qin, but it is also because Meng Tian's status is unattainable, so in the hearts of Zhang Kui and the lowest-level Qin soldiers, Meng Tian's distance is too far. And Mengli is different, although Mengli is Mengtian's deputy marshal, but if you want to ask who is the best at leading troops in the Mengjia army, it is definitely Mengli, because the soldiers under Mengli are almost the existence of killing gods on the battlefield, and it can be said that a large part of the credit for the prestige of the Mengjia army comes from Mengli.
Zhang Kui got up from the ground and knelt on the ground, "Zhang Kui pays a visit to General Mengli." ”
Meng Li saw that this burly general actually lay on the ground excitedly when he heard his name, and shook his head helplessly. "General Zhang, this time the general did not bring many men and horses, and now the number of Huns is still very large, and we do not have an advantage in fighting against them, so I decided to arrange for you to evacuate from the south gate with me, and then we will find a way to recapture the military camp. ”
Zhang Kui nodded, Meng Li was right, although the soldiers of the Mengjia army killed the enemy bravely, but the Huns were too dominant in numbers, and they couldn't stop them for a long time.
Meng Li stood on the battlefield and shouted: "Alternate cover, retreat from the original way." ”
After Meng Li issued the order, the Mengjia army killing gods who were still killing the enemy still gradually retreated, and every time a companion fell, a person would immediately step forward to take his place, and slowly retreated while fighting the Huns.
After Mengli's "get on the horse", the soldiers of the Mengjia army, Zhang Kui and his soldiers climbed on horseback and escaped from the south gate of the barracks.
Out of the West Gate, the Huns outside the West Gate had blocked their retreat, compared to the one-sided slaughter in the barracks, outside the barracks was different.
After Meng Li led people to rush into the barracks, the Huns outside the West Gate knew that the Qin army in the barracks had come to reinforce them, and some of them had already rushed into the barracks, so there were Huns from the south gate and the north to the West Gate, so there were more and more Huns outside the West Gate. Even though the soldiers of the Mengjia army can be ten or even more than one, but there are too many enemies, almost all the soldiers of the Mengjia army who stayed outside the west gate to answer are already dead.
Fortunately, Mengli also left archers outside, relying on these archers, the Huns were careful behind their backs, while fighting with the Qin army in front of them, and for the time being, the remaining Mengjia soldiers were all annihilated.
The south gate of the barracks and the north gate of the battlefield are connected, on a raised hill, where hundreds of tall horses stop here, and the knights on horseback are all fierce. In the middle of these people stood a large banner with a bright red paint drawing of an animal whose name it did not know.
Under the flag, a middle-aged man in a tiger skin coat rides on a horse. The man's hair was fluffy, casually draped behind him, his face had a beard, and his two eyes stared coldly at the Qin army that came to the rescue on the battlefield, as if he had seen his favorite prey.
"Great Chief, it seems that this is the Qin army that killed the second-hand leader. If it were to rely on the Qin army in this military camp, I am afraid that even if there were five or six thousand, it would be impossible to kill all the second-hand leaders and horses, leaving no one alive. ”
The person who is called the big leader is the big leader of the Kazakun tribe of the Huns, the brother of the Tarim Toji who died at the hands of Meng Tian, and the Tarim Sangkun who became the "immortal eagle" by the people of the grassland.
Tarim Sangkun's face was expressionless, and he said: "I don't care which Qin army team killed my dearest brother, I want them to pay the price of blood. No one of my Tarim clan has ever died outside the grassland, and I will repay this shame with the blood of the Qin people. ”
"What the big leader said is that the second leader died in the territory of Qin yesterday, and when we find the second leader today, only half of his body has been pecked by vultures. Such a death is also extremely unfavorable in the grassland. At Tarim Sangkun's side, a man who was a little thin compared to him said.
Tarim Sangkun heard the words of his subordinates, snorted angrily, did not speak, he paid attention to the situation on the battlefield. The Qin army that came to support was indeed a bit powerful, and Tarim Sangkun felt in his heart that if he had such an army, then he would have been able to dominate the grassland desert a long time ago.
"Hmph, no matter how powerful you are, my men can't beat you, but I'm going to use crowd tactics to consume you. Tarim Sangkun said in his heart. "Tunaji, I order you to lead your men to destroy this Qin soldier who came to support me before dark, and not let go of a single living mouth. ”
Behind Tarim Sangkun, a burly man with a body size equal to Zhang Kui rode forward, this big man named Tunaji rode on horseback, put one hand on his chest, bowed to the big leader and said: "Don't worry, big leader, Tunaji promises not to let go of one person and one horse of the Qin army." ”
Tunaji took a horn made of horns from his waist, and using the horn to convey military orders was not something that only Qin people could do. Tunaji put the horn in his mouth and blew it, different from the loud voice of the Qin army, the unique sound of the horn made of ox horns resounded on the battlefield.
Further north on the hill, a phalanx of tens of thousands of Hun warriors began to advance slowly......
I found something a little out of mind in the first two chapters, and I'll revise it back tomorrow. Everyone is welcome to criticize and correct, Xiaochao is grateful!