Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Tapir Army, a Bloody Bridgehead
North bank of Wusha River • Linjiang County.
Since Shen Mai and the others defeated the Tati, because they had very few troops, they only set up a few outposts on the south bank, and concentrated all their forces on the north bank to defend, and did not dare to relax at all.
But after nearly a month, there was no movement on the south bank, and the Ju brothers and sisters thought that the war had subsided, so they prepared to leave Linjiang County and continue to search for the whereabouts of the "Malone Spear".
At dusk that day, the Ju brothers and sisters were packing some clothes and preparing to leave the next day, but they heard a commotion outside the room, and the noise was everywhere.
When the brother and sister heard this, they were taken aback, and hurriedly met with Shen Mai and other heroes, and came to the bridge to watch together, and sure enough, they saw the flag on the south bank floating in the air, and the figure was shaking.
Shen Mai saw it clearly, and said to Ju Gu: "It seems that the two Taoist masters can't go!"
Ju Gu replied: "It seems that this is also the will of heaven to leave the poor road, how can the poor road go again?"
"Okay, good, with the help of two Taoist leaders, we will be much more relieved, let it have thousands of troops, and we will not want to kill the river!" said the servant said happily.
"The servant captain has lifted the poor road, but the poor road is here, and he will never let them cross the river easily. Ju Gu looked resolute.
"It seems that the enemy will not attack today, but tomorrow is uncertain. Fu Yang said.
"Whatever he does! If you come today, you will kill him today! If you come tomorrow, you will kill tomorrow! I have been screaming with thirst for this knife for a long time. Chen Qi fiddled with the big knife, full of confidence.
"Let's have a good rest tonight, and tomorrow we will kill him without leaving a piece of armor!" Shen Mai's two eyes were like lightning, shooting directly at the opposite bank.
"Okay! Kill him without leaving a piece of armor!" Chen Qi was very excited, raised his big knife high, and shouted to the soldiers, "Kill him without leaving a piece of armor!"
"Kill him without leaving a piece of armor!"
"Kill him without leaving ......"
One by one, all the soldiers also raised their weapons and chanted.
The shouts were like bursts of thunder rolling across the sky, blending with the surging waves of the Wusha River, stirring each other and shaking the mountains and rivers.
At this time, the sun was setting, and the shadows of the mountains on the opposite bank quietly covered the turbulent river surface and the passionate and heroic faces of the soldiers.
The sky darkened.
Night--it's coming.
The night is long and short, and in the blink of an eye, the roles were exchanged with the dawn.
Only the Wusha River, as always, is chaotic and unchanged, noisy, rushing, rolling eastward.
On the north bank of the Wusha River, all the soldiers have long been waiting for battle.
Shen Mai held a leopard's tail halberd in his hand, standing at the head of the iron chain bridge; the soldiers of the servant ginseng, shoulder poison, Dicang, Chen Qi, and Fengchi stood on both sides, one by one holding their weapons, and staring at the south bank with fierce eyes; Fu Yang and Chang Yu pressed the formation in front of the stone artillery and crossbow positions, with serious expressions, as if they were facing a great enemy; the Ju brothers and sisters each stood on two bridge pillars, their robes flying, and their swords turned into the wind, ready to launch a fierce sniper attack.
Time seems to freeze, and the sound of the waves is like a forbidden.
Suddenly, the sound of a strong horn shook the heavens and the earth.
Suddenly, the wind is surging, and the river is rushing!
Sure enough, at the dawn of dawn, Qu Yi ordered Nan Mosuke to lead a thousand soldiers and eight tapir beasts to launch an attack on the north bank of the Wusha River!
I saw countless purple-clothed soldiers emerging on the south bank of the chain bridge, holding their big knives in their mouths, and rushing forward on the chain bridge, looking like people for a while, like tigers for a while, using both hands and feet, as fast as lightning.
Not long after, the seven big iron cables are full of soldiers, densely packed, or vertical or jumping, just like the tide of the Qiantang River rolling in, and the front is clearly the eight-headed tapir beast, bowing its head and galloping, its speed is even more amazing.
The soldiers on the north bank of the chain bridge suddenly saw it, and they were all stunned and frightened: where is this enemy army, it is clearly a tiger!
Shen Mai had never seen such a shocking scene, and shouted in panic: "Quick, fire, fire!"
Fu Yang and Chang Yu were awakened by the shouting, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to fire stone bullets and fireballs, long arrows and sharp arrows.
In an instant, stone bullets, fireballs, long arrows and sharp arrows swept across the blue sky one after another, like a swarm of locusts, like a shower, one after another hit the soldiers who rushed to cross the chain bridge, some staggered, some whined and screamed, and some fell into the river, but their offensive did not decrease at all, and they still went forward one after another, like flying and rushing to cross.
The Ju brothers and sisters were also stunned by the scene in front of them, and when they came back to their senses, the eight-headed tapir beast had already rushed to the front.
The two flew down the bridge pillar, drew their swords and intercepted them, only to hear a few loud sounds, and the eight-headed tapir continued to rush forward unscathed, and then the soldiers swarmed in.
The brother and sister were so surprised that they could not think about it, and each waved his sword to intercept the soldiers who came up one after another, but they were caught by the iron rod of the Minami Mosuke Dance that followed, and they fought and killed on the iron rope.
Taking advantage of the air, the soldiers climbed the rope and climbed the chain, rushing towards the north bank, like a flood that bursts the embankment, surging endlessly.
From the launch of the attack to the approach to the north shore, the time used by the cavalry was only in an instant, and the stone artillery and crossbow were useless, and there was no way to stop the lightning fast attack of the cavalry.
Shen Mai urgently ordered the servants of Shenshen, Shoulder Poison, Dicang, Chen Qi, Fengchi and other soldiers to form shields in formation, tied at the mouth of the iron chain bridge, formed a shield wall, and spears waited.
When the tapir soldiers approached, Shen Mai shouted "Kill!", and all the soldiers stabbed their spears one after another, stabbing wildly.
But what was unexpected was that the eight-headed tapir beast in front of it ignored the spear assassination at all, and rushed straight over, and immediately crashed into the shield wall, and the people lost their guns, screaming.
In a hurry to shoulder the poison, he roared loudly, and captured a tapir beast to fight hard, and one of them lost control, and fell into the river with the tapir beast. Seeing this, Dicang and Chen Qi saw it, their eyes were red, and they each hugged a tapir beast, and used all their divine power to reach the bridge, and both fell into the river with the tapir beast and died.
At this time, a large number of soldiers, either vertical or leaping, rained down, raised their swords and slashed, but in a moment they broke through the shield wall and killed the north bank.
In the blink of an eye, the two sides were in close combat and scuffled together.
One by one, the soldiers were extremely vicious and murderous, suddenly resembling human beings, wielding knives and slashing indiscriminately, and suddenly like tigers, dancing and clawing indiscriminately. The five-headed tapir beast is even more ferocious, rampage, invulnerable, biting when it sees people, tearing people when it catches them, as if entering a no-man's land.
The poor soldiers had never seen such a battle! First, they were frightened, weakened their legs and feet, and before they could engage in battle, they were either cut off by the soldiers, and blood spurted out, or their chests and abdomen were ripped open, and blood flowed all over the ground.
In less than half an hour, all the soldiers were killed, the wounded were wounded, and there was not much left, although Shen Mai had recruited hundreds of recruits before, but they all lost their lives in vain, and Feng Chi was also killed in the melee.
Shen Mai was already covered in blood, and under the protection of Fu Yang and Chang Yu, he tried his best to fight, but he was already under siege and in danger.
On the iron cable on the river, Ju Gu Slender had already been poked in the chest by Nan Mosuke, and was seriously injured, and he was already defeated, so he fought hard with Ju Jiao Slender and withdrew to the north bank. In the melee, he met with Shen Mai and others.
Shen Mai saw that Ju Gu was thin and his mouth was full of blood, and his face was like a blank paper, so he asked urgently: "Dao Chief, are you injured?"
"It's okay...... The bridge has been lost, the victory and defeat have been divided, everyone should withdraw quickly. "Ju Gu Thin Road.
Shen Mai raised his eyes to look around, only to see Nan Mosuke leading a dense group of soldiers, rushing to kill, and all the soldiers fell into a pool of blood in batches, and they were already in a general trend. Although he wanted to withdraw his troops, he was unwilling.
Ju Gu was thin and persuaded: "The enemy army is all demons, and it is difficult for our army to win, if we don't evacuate in time, I'm afraid the whole army will be wiped out." ”
"Dutong! Let's evacuate quickly, stay in the green mountains, and don't be afraid of running out of firewood!" Fu Yang also hurriedly persuaded.
"Okay! Let's evacuate quickly!" Shen Mai's eyes were bloody, and he was still unwilling.
"Where to retreat?" Chang Yu shouted.
"The armory! There is a big iron gate in the armory, which can block the attack of these demons!" the servant had also come over and joined the others, so he suggested.
"Okay, everyone, quickly retreat to the armory!" Shen Mai said, roared angrily, shook the leopard's tail halberd, and knocked over a few soldiers one after another, leading everyone to kill a bloody road, and retreated straight to the armory.
This armory is a gathering place for heavy materials in Linjiang County, built underground, not only strong, but also very hidden. At this time, it was Shen Mai's horse guard Duan Siping who guarded the armory.
Shen Mai, Fu Shen and others sacrificed their lives to fight for a long time, and finally got rid of the pursuit of the soldiers, and the blood flowed all over the armory.
Duan Siping caught a glimpse of everyone's panicked expressions from a distance, covered in blood, knowing that the chain bridge was lost, he panicked and ordered the soldiers to open the big iron gate, let everyone in, and then tightly closed the big iron gate.
Everyone entered the armory one after another, and then they breathed a sigh of relief.
Shen Mai counted all the soldiers, more than 1,000 people and horses were left only more than 70 or 80 people, and Chang Yu and Ju Gu were seriously injured, and after Fu Yang was broken, he had died on the way.
Shen Mai looked at the soldiers, the wounded, the disabled, and couldn't help but tearfully say: "If the iron rope had been cut that day, there would have been no fiasco today, this is all my Shen arrogance, which killed everyone!"
"You can't blame the capital, if you want to blame the general. The servant also regretted it very much, because he thought that cutting the chain bridge would cause inconvenience to the people in the future, so he stopped Chang Yu's proposal.
"Alas...... Speaking of poor road, there were some selfish intentions at the time, in fact, it is not difficult to cut off the chain bridge and connect the chain bridge, poor road only needs to do the exercises, but for fear of hurting the vitality, so he did not agree, but who would have thought that the enemy army was a demon. Ju Gu covered his chest and regretted it a little.
"These demons are flying through the air and walking on the ground, I really don't know where they came from? Chang Yu pulled the sleeves of his robe and tightened the knife wound under his ribs, and said with palpitations.
"These demons should be the Monkeys. Ju Gu coughed twice, as if he remembered.
"Huren?" Chang Yu looked dazed.