Chapter 31: Lu Gang (Part 3)
Lugang, only a few miles away from Wuhu County, Liu Yu stood on a dirt slope, looking at the county city wall in the distance, full of resentment. Can't you set up this place where the army gathers food and straw, but now it's good, a plain, and there is no danger to defend at all.
Just now, he had already informed the commanders of the various armies of the latest enemy situation, and concealing it would only bring even greater panic when the truth came. Most people don't say anything, which means that they have taken this section into account.
Liu Shiyong and another commander named Su Liuyi proposed to prevent the rout from attacking the dock area, and under their construction, each army sent out hundreds of men to set up obstacles upstream on the river bank of the wharf.
Liu Yu served as the overseer here, and thousands of people moved out the original fences, horses and other things in the camp and placed them along the line. Looking at this rudimentary line of defense that could fall with a single kick, Liu Yu, a military layman, shook his head.
On the other side of the wharf, there were loud rebukes and urging voices from several commanders in the distance, and the anxious state of mind was already overflowing. Everything that could be moved had been moved, and all that was left of the camp was food and whole timber, as well as huge rocks.
Liu Yu was not very worried about the attack of the Yuan people, this place is almost two hundred miles away from Dingjiazhou, after a day and a night of pursuit, even the iron man can't stand it, the army of the Yuan people can't attack here so quickly, at most it's just a light horse carrying many horses.
"Brother of the body, the rout is coming, there are many dangers here, you follow the next batch of grain ships." Liu Yu suddenly remembered that Hu Sanxing was still here, in case of a battle and some damage, wouldn't it be another harm.
"Ziqing's heart has been understood, since he decided to share this matter with you, Hu has put life and death out of the way, and he is also the director of this camp, if he leaves, how will Ziqing face the sergeant who is still struggling to carry it?" Hu Sanxing shook his head, not that he didn't want to go, but that he couldn't go, Liu Yu was not in the army.
A group of sergeants shouted the trumpet and brought a huge wooden frame, Liu Yu turned his head to look, not only stunned, he knew this thing, and there were pictures of it on the Internet. This thing that resembles a wooden frame bed is called a "bed crossbow", which is generally fixed on the city wall for the purpose of defending the city, and Liu Yu can't figure out why he brought it to the army.
"This thing was originally installed on Master Jia's boat, there are a total of twelve, but unfortunately Master Jia was too much of an eyesore, so he dismantled eight and put them in the camp." Hu Sanxing explained on the side, but Liu Yu didn't feel a pity, it was really a pity to be loaded on that ship, and not a single crossbow arrow would be sent out.
Behind that obstacle, the sergeants brought a total of five bed crossbows, the crossbow arrows as long as iron spears were placed on top of the three bows, and the arrows made of fine iron flashed with cold light, looking at this legendary militaristic weapon that can shoot three hundred steps away, Liu Yu's heart was surging, this is a real thing.
Not far away, the hills where supplies were piled up have disappeared more than half, and the sergeants who left with the boat are almost half, and Liu Yu doesn't care much about the rest of the food and other things. If you can't do it, you can just burn it down, and now it's just a matter of moving as much as you can.
Just when Liu Yu's mood relaxed, he heard a thunderous sound in the distance. He turned his head to look, and the sergeants in front of the obstacle also stopped their movements and looked in the direction where the voice came.
In the upstream direction, it is bounded by the river shoreline, with land on the left and a large river on the right. At this moment, where the sky intersects, a black line faintly emerges, and as the sound gets closer and closer, the black line gradually pushes closer to Lugang.
Liu Yu took out an eight-fold binoculars made in Russia from his bosom, and slowly adjusted the focus with one hand while looking through the lens. The scene in the lens became clear, and what appeared in Liu Yu's eyes was a group of disheveled people who looked like refugees, desperately running forward like a tide. There was a look of horror in his eyes, which reminded him of the classic scene of a disaster blockbuster in the future.
"Queue, queue! According to their own formation, the crossbowmen stepped forward, and the rest were on guard. Liu Shiyong's roar came out of the loudspeaker, and the thousands of people in front of the formation quickly formed a long array, the crossbowmen in the front row drew their feather arrows and put them on the bows, staring ahead, the sergeants in the back row raised their swords and guns at the same time, and several wrestlers stood in front of the snare drum with sledgehammers, waiting for the commander's order.
Although they did not come from the First Army, the long-term training still allowed everyone to develop a good habit of ordering and prohibiting. There is no need to run in at all, and under the banners of the generals under their respective controls, they naturally form battle columns. After the five bed crossbows, more than a dozen people squatted on each, ready to operate this war plane at any time.
"It's quite amazing to keep this thing, I don't know how to do it." Although his tone was relaxed, Liu Yu still heard a trace of nervousness, and it was no wonder that these sergeants all had their own subordinates, and although they were obedient and really engaged in the battle at the moment, it was difficult to say how they looked.
"Command." He put the telescope in front of Liu Shiyong's eyes, and unexpectedly heard an exclamation of "ah". The golden pheasant slave on the side showed disdain, forgetting her own appearance when she saw this thing on the ship.
The black line in front of the formation has become a piece, and the naked eye can already see the tragic situation of the rout, almost all of them are bare-handed, most of them have lost their armor, and Liao Liao's few flags have also been dragged to the ground. From the side, Liu Yu saw that the faces of the soldiers in his army began to turn white.
"The enemy has arrived, the crossbowmen are ready." Liu Shiyong put down the binoculars, raised the megaphone in his hand, and gave an order to the military array. Liu Yu's eyes flickered, and the golden pheasant slave grabbed in front of him, the big bow on his body had been untied and held in his hand, and he held an arrow in his other hand, and he was biting a branch in his mouth.
"Command, enemy, where is the enemy?" One of the Commanders stammered.
"Who is attacking this formation, who is the enemy, do you want to say so-and-so?" Liu Shiyong glanced at him and stared at the black line that was getting closer and closer. His lips were pursed tightly, and his expression gradually became solemn.
"Listen to the people in front, quickly detour, and those who approach this formation will be killed!" Suddenly, Liu Shiyong yelled hard, and the sound was amplified from the megaphone, which shook Liu Yu's eardrum on the side.
"Quickly detour, violators will be killed!" The voices of thousands of people rang out one after another, all colleagues, and no one wanted to kill each other. Hearing a loud warning sound, the crowd in front of him paused, slowed down, but was still approaching under the drive of inertia.
Liu Shiyong and thousands of people shouted one after another, and finally had some effect, and countless routs began to rush to the side, and the flow of people close to the front of the army formation also slowly stopped, and the two sides looked at each other silently.
Watching the huge flow of people bypassing the camp, Liu Yu couldn't figure out why these people didn't stop when they arrived at their camp. After running for a day and a night, aren't they hungry or tired?
"These people have broken their courage, like frightened birds, and they can only be at ease if they keep running." Hu Sanxing's voice sounded on the side, and Liu Yu's heart trembled, what kind of encounter would lead him to this? Is it the end of the world?
A little behind the whole crowd, Suddenly Misty Thorn felt very boring riding on the horse, originally thought that this was the enemy's elite, but unexpectedly, as soon as the battle was engaged, the opponent collapsed directly. After chasing and killing like a duck for a day and a night, he had long lost count of how many people had been hacked to death.
Kumithorn is a Mongolian Ulu Wubu people, this Tanma Red Army under his command was established by the great Genghis Khan himself, and now he has become a thousand households, he can be regarded as a battle, the battle of the Song Dynasty, earlier in Ezhou, the opponent's resistance is still tenacious, but yesterday, is it called a war.
His entire thousand-man squad had already lost its form, and several hundred-man teams were fighting on their own, and he even saw that not far away, a cavalry squad forced a group of Song troops into the river and drowned them alive. It's boring, that's not what a Mongol warrior should do.
The order given to him by the marshal was to go straight to Lu Port, which is said to be the station of the entire Song army, with countless supplies, just look at the scene in front of you, and run there to receive it directly. Although he didn't care about the lone depth of his thousand-man team, he also didn't like the chaos that was out of control.
"Find out where Haru has gone, and let them assemble to Dayan." Suddenly, the misty thorn turned around and ordered his personal guards, and the Shuangri Da Min behind him was the Ulu Ubu Khan Banner, which was once a formidable place on the grassland.
Haru and his team of 100 men were vigorously chasing the Song army, and he was addicted to this killing game, enjoying the pleasure of the enemy kneeling and begging for mercy. Of course, he had never spared a person, and the moment when the scimitar in his hand was waved and brought out a splash of blood was his most exciting moment.
Unconsciously, Haru and his subordinates walked faster and faster, leaving their thousands of households behind, suddenly, the front of the troops was loosened, and the group of routs disappeared, and the few troops in front ran too fast to restrain their horses, so they rushed over directly, crashing into the rejection horse and screaming.
Haru was taken aback, looked up, and in front of him was a densely knotted military formation, when did the Song people stop forming a formation? Looking at the rows of arrows flashing with cold light in front of him, Haru reined in his horse and shouted, "Stop, go back." ”
"Kill him." Liu Yu had already seen this murderous hundred-eyed hundred-family from the telescope, which reminded him of the scene he was most unwilling to face, and the sound of almost gritting his teeth came out of his mouth with hatred and reached the ears of the golden pheasant slave in front of him.
A black feathered arrow flew out with a "whoosh", followed by another soft sound, and another flew out almost simultaneously. With a sound of breaking through the air, both arrows tore through the thin leather armor that Haru was wearing, and nailed him fiercely, interrupting what he was about to shout.
Haru, who was known as the most powerful warrior in the Ulugus, snorted, and fell from his horse, his eyes wide in disbelief, and he could never go back.