Chapter 54: The Battle of Longzhou
Kang Yan did not intervene in me because I was young and unqualified, and gave me full autonomy. (
After returning to the camp, He Ruitian and five thousand households were called, and after studying the terrain and tactics in detail, everyone left one after another. Today and tomorrow, I will not train in platoons again, so that everyone can rest well and recharge their energy for tomorrow's battle.
After everyone left, he pulled Luo Rou and said some thoughtful words, and everything went all the way to the second night.
After the whole army had dinner, Kang Yan sent me, Luo Rou, Wu Ruilin, and Duan Yonggang to the Shuai camp.
Don't talk nonsense, go directly: "I just received a report from the scout, the enemy situation has not changed, the enemy army has been assembled, I am afraid that this hour has already set off, you go down and prepare, ready to go at any time." ”
"Yes!"
"I know you've been through a lot of battles, but I still want you to understand that pride will fail."
"Yes, I'll understand!"
"Let's go down and prepare!" Kang Yan knew that everyone was ringing drums, and he didn't need to use a heavy hammer, just beat it lightly, and he didn't talk about any big truths.
After returning to the camp, I visited the officers and men in the battalion and found that everyone's morale was like a rainbow, and they just waited for an order.
An hour later, Kang Yan sent troops to report: "The general ordered, the enemy army has crossed the border, immediately lead the army to attack!" ”
After receiving the order, He Ruitian was ordered to gather officers and soldiers and directly drove out of the camp.
Outside the camp, after waving goodbye to Duan Yonggang, the two armies parted ways.
Luo Rou and I led the team in front, He Ruitian pressed the formation at the end of the team, and a fire dragon rushed towards Longzhou.
Behind the cavalry was the second echelon led by Wu Ruilin, their speed was much slower than ours, and after a while, we could only see the faint fire dragon behind the team.
The fire shone on Luo Rou's face, and I suddenly felt a little distressed, I actually let my beloved woman throw herself into the battlefield that belonged to men, was it my incompetence or something else? I really want to pull her into my arms and take pity on her, but I just think that there are thousands of people behind me, so I can only keep this idea in my heart.
All the way, I only heard the hooves of horses, the night wind hunting, but I didn't hear the sound of people. In the quiet of the night, the sound of horses' hooves can be heard for several hours.
An hour later, we arrived at a small hill ten miles east of Longzhou.
I turned around and said, "Give the order to go down, extinguish the torches, slow down the whole army, and quietly approach Longzhou City." ”
The order was quickly turned down, and the huge fire dragon disappeared in an instant, and the vision was surrounded by darkness. After a while, the eyes became accustomed to the night, and by the faint light of the last quarter moon, they could barely discern the way.
The whole army quietly crossed the small hillside, and Longzhou City appeared in the distance. At this time, Longzhou City has been covered by a sea of fire and deafening shouts of killing, although it is not clear to see the battle situation, but listening to the sound also knows that the battle is very tragic. The defenders of Longzhou were originally only 5,000, and after strengthening 3,000, the strength reached 8,000, but they were facing an enemy army that was several times larger.
I didn't need to say anything, and I was the first to urge the horse to Longzhou City.
Thousands of people behind me followed me without saying a word.
Half an hour later, we finally touched the back of the enemy, and the fierce eyes of the enemy soldiers in the firelight fell into our eyes. Tens of thousands of enemy troops launched wave after wave of non-stop attacks around Longzhou, the land of projectiles.
On the city wall, bed crossbows, tiger squat cannons, bird guns, bows and crossbows flew together with stones, and for those who climbed the city wall, they had their own swords, and wave after wave of enemy attacks were disintegrated.
Looking at the thousands of people behind me, I said loudly: "Everyone, I don't have anything else to say, you watch, I rush first, if I stop or run away, you can immediately retreat, or even give me a knife in the back!" ”
Everyone replied in a low voice.
"Rush!" After saying this, I took off the iron bow and feather arrows, and was the first to rush towards the most dense place of the enemy army, behind me was Luo Rou, then He Ruitian who came from the rear team, and then behind were the officers and soldiers of the whole battalion.
The loud sound of horses' hooves immediately made the enemy troops who were attacking the city with all their strength understand, but there was no time to react, and my bow and arrow had already knocked down four enemy soldiers.
Behind him, the sound of bows and arrows was endless, and hundreds of people were soon shot down.
The speed of the cavalry was really fast, and they galloped down with all their might, and in a moment they were in the middle of the enemy formation. He put down his iron bow, removed the iron spear from the victory hook at his waist, and stabbed an enemy soldier to death with his spear.
The others also lowered their iron bows, took off their long-handled eyebrow knives, and slashed them in the midst of the enemy.
Strange shouts rang out, and the enemy's formation was slightly disorganized, and we rushed down and lost thousands of them. The enemy generals ordered it to be passed down one by one, and the slightly chaotic Chen Shi slowly stabilized. After a brief moment of astonishment, the enemy came to their senses and fought with us.
The iron spear in his hand was stabbed, and more than ten people died under the gun in an instant. I saw an enemy general with a bow aimed at He Ruitian, at this time He Ruitian was being flanked by two enemy soldiers, unable to dodge, and I was a few feet away from him, and there were many soldiers on both sides of the enemy in the middle, and it was impossible to rush over and take this arrow. Raising his spear and stabbing into the chest of one of the enemy soldiers who rushed to him, the spear did not stop, piercing his body and stabbing another enemy to death, and the two men vomited blood for a while but did not fall. Take the bow and set up the arrow, see the way of the enemy to shoot the feather arrow, "whoosh", the feather arrow comes first after the wind and knocks down the enemy arrow. It's so dangerous, half a night shoot, I'm afraid that my right-hand man will be over.
He Ruitian also saw this situation, and after seeing that I rescued him, he actually went crazy, and the long-handled eyebrow knife in his hand slashed and slashed, killing the two enemy soldiers besieging him.
And after I knocked down the enemy's arrow, another arrow was fired. The enemy general who attacked He Ruitian was surprised by my divine archery skills, and he didn't notice anything else at all, and the feather arrow shot directly into his throat, and he screamed and spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fell to the ground.
Lowering his bow and pulling out the iron spear from the corpse, the two corpses lost their support and fell to the ground with a bang.
Luo Rou is also like a female tiger out of the gate, the spear almost misses, and the gun kills.
Sun Jingwei saw that the reinforcements had arrived, and immediately according to the agreement, he personally led the elite soldiers to open the city gate and lower the drawbridge.
Under the two attacks, the enemy's formation was chaotic and retreated one after another.
The two armies joined forces all the way to cover the past.
After the enemy withdrew from Erlidi, they gained a foothold on a small mound.
After two impacts, he was shot back with a strong bow and a crossbow.
Kang Yan is right, with our little people, it seems a little thin.
After giving the order to take a break, I, Luo Rou, He Ruitian, and Sun Jingwei gathered together to discuss countermeasures.
Sun Jingwei was the first time he saw it, and it looked like there were more than 50 people, and he was not tall.
Sun Jingwei said: "Why are the enemy troops staying here? Can't they see that we have been prepared to serve them in a pot? ”
I said: "He knows, but he does not dare to retreat now, now the enemy army has no desire to fight, and the enemy generals can only restrain the whole army as long as they hold the line to the death. So the enemy generals have to do this, and now they have repelled two of our attacks, and if our army loses two more times, the enemy will surely take advantage of this to boost morale, and then retreat. ”
Sun Jingwei said again: "But he doesn't know, when the heavy artillery arrives after dawn, don't they want to survive when the cannon sounds?" ”
I said, "It's not far from the border, and if they don't return, there will definitely be troops coming across the border." As long as they hold on to that hill, they may be taken back. ”
"Not bad! Shogun Takami. Sun Jingwei said to me very convincingly: "Originally, the general was young, and I was still a little contemptuous, I didn't want the general to be proficient in the art of war, and I, a guy who had fought for half a lifetime, couldn't shoot it!" ”
I said modestly, "Soon Lord Wu's troops should be about to fall, we will send a small force from time to time to contain the enemy army, and then launch a general attack as soon as the reinforcements arrive." ”
"Yes!" Sun Jingwei and He Ruitian said in unison.
He Ruitian thanked me for saving his life, respected me more and more, and after asking me, he personally organized troops to feint on the enemy's position.
Half an hour later, Wu Ruilin's vanguard troops arrived, and soon, the follow-up troops also arrived.
The enemy on the hillside also saw the arrival of our reinforcements, and many of them looked terrified.
After Wu Ruilin's men rested, they immediately launched a fierce attack.
The ten tiger squat cannons equipped in Longzhou City have been pushed out of the city, and they are now placed one mile in front of the enemy formation. The tiger squat cannon bombarded again and again, and those who were hit burst out of a blood mist and shattered to the ground.
The fear of the enemy was even more severe, and many were already looking behind them, as if they were thinking about which way to escape.
After bombarding seven or eight times, I ordered the whole battalion to mount and attack from the center. Wu Ruilin's troops attacked the left flank, and He Ruitian's troops attacked the right flank.
The shouts of killing immediately resounded in the sky.
Arrows rained down on the hillside, but most of the enemy was already frightened, and many of them fell into the air.
After entering the range, there were several rounds of bow and arrow fire, followed by the clash of guns and knives.
After stabbing an enemy soldier to death with a spear, the spear swept through thousands of troops with a single move, forcing away the four enemy soldiers who came up, turning the head of the gun and stabbing an enemy soldier on the left to death, he suddenly felt the wind behind him, and knew that there was an enemy sneak attack, so he didn't have time to return his gun to parry, and a short body lay on the back of a horse, and the halberd swept over his back.
The iron spear was thrown back, and with a bang, the tail of the gun knocked an enemy soldier into the mouth and spit blood, and swept the red tassel in his hand.
The enemy who had just been forced out of the way shouted and attacked again, carrying his strength to his arm, throwing the spear as a hidden weapon, and the next person was stabbed to death in the chest, holding the barrel of the gun with both hands, and it could be a move to swing the tail of the oolong, and the tip of the spear hit both necks. The two fell to the ground with their necks crooked and died.
The enemy army only held on to one pillar of incense, and then they were in great confusion and fled in defeat.
After chasing and killing for several miles, he led the army back to the city.