Chapter 125: Closing the Net (8)
"Hurry up, look at the people, they are all engaged in the battle, you pickles, you are embarrassed to call yourself the pro-army of the Son of Heaven!" Zhang Yan, who was full of official words, scolded and kicked the nearby forbidden army foot soldiers, who would have thought that this veteran soldier was just smiling, still unhurried, making him angry.
In fact, it's no wonder that he is the forbidden army in front of the palace that he took over after Han Zhen's rebellion, but it's only been a few months, and his roots in the army are not deep, and when he has nothing to do, he is also giggling hello, hello. But when he really came to this battlefield, he felt that the command was not effective, not that he violated his military orders, but he was always so procrastinating, so as not to annoy people.
Now that they are all on this battlefield, as long as they are men, few people don't want to make meritorious contributions to their wives and sons, and he Zhang Yan prides himself on not being a person who is afraid of death. It's just that these subordinates are all from good families in Lin'an Mansion, people who are used to staying in the world's first-class prosperous places, even if they are still a little arrogant when they are young, how can they remember after marrying a wife and having children.
After scolding to no avail, Zhang Yan also cooled down, and the order given to them by the coach Zhang Shijie in front was to station at the foot of the mountain, and that area turned around was a deep mountain and dense forest. If you can't attack it, it's still okay to be stationed in place, as far as equipment and equipment are concerned, their forbidden army is much stronger than Zhang Shijie's "flower soldiers", I don't know how much stronger, I usually laugh at others, if it is too bad on this battlefield, it will not only lose my face.
Seeing that the front was already close to the defense zone, he breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the formation was completed, he could be nailed here with a strong bow and crossbow, and the Tartar could not think of rushing over. Just as he was about to call the standard-bearer to erect his banner, there was a sudden change in front of him, and several forbidden soldiers were shot down by arrows flying from nowhere.
"Enemy attack, be on alert!" Zhang Yan drew his saber and shouted at the team, and the team immediately stopped advancing, and all the forbidden troops were short, standing shields, and drawing swords, guns, bows and arrows. After a while, the sound of hooves sounded, and Zhang Yan's heart tightened, this kind of place would actually meet the cavalry of the Tartars!
Lin Heshu and the dishonorable thousand-man squad under his command once again became the vanguard of the whole army, and what made him feel depressed was that he went up to the high slope not far ahead, which was a felled woodland. Although there were no trees to shield them, the stumps that were high above the ground still became an obstacle for the horses, and they could not get up at all.
Not to mention that not far from the side is the Song people's foot soldier array, according to general common sense, this area is easier to defend than that side, and it is impossible for the Song people not to make arrangements. Sure enough, as soon as the hundred-man team that opened the way in the front rushed up, they gave the signal of encountering the enemy, which put him in a dilemma all of a sudden.
While sending people to deliver a message to the ten thousand households who were busy a little behind, he jumped off his horse and personally stepped forward to observe the shape. Who knew that when he walked to the front, the Song army retreated far away, and he had no intention of attacking, but if he got closer, he would attract a burst of arrows.
"Hurry up and tell the ten thousand households, turn into the mountains and forests from that side, be quick, and alarm the Song people to our army." One of his own soldiers was ordered to go, and he led people to shoot a shower of arrows into the sky from time to time, and did not attack forward, so he confronted each other at a distance.
The busy Gu Gu who received the report didn't care, this is the Song people he knew, and after the loud order was sent to speed up, he also let people notify Ah Tinghan behind. The entire team of 10,000 people immediately turned into a long column of two people, and the war horses marched towards the mountains and forests with small steps.
Zhang Shijie's attention on the high slope has been on the new annex army at the bottom of the slope, and most of those people seem to be from the same as his subordinates, all of them are from Jinghu North Road, and they may have fought side by side at the beginning, but unfortunately, they have now become enemies of life and death.
After seeing no movement for a long time, he began to look away, where the view was so wide that he could overlook the battlefield below. The Tartar infantry in the distance was retreating, and the few cavalry were also caught in it, and the retreat had been blocked by themselves, and it was difficult to escape from this victory.
Thinking of the word retreat, Zhang Shijie subconsciously glanced at the left wing, which didn't matter, and immediately made him angry. The Tartar cavalry of the brigade was calmly entering the mountain forest on the side of Guò, but Zhang Yan's soldiers and horses failed to close the gap.
"Order, the Turks will assemble immediately and go with Ben Shuai!" Zhang Shijie roared hatefully, and the cavalry behind the formation immediately began to form a team, and when it was finished, he saw that his commander had already taken his own soldiers and rode away, and hurriedly urged the war horses to catch up, and thousands of people rushed down the high slope diagonally.
Hearing the rumbling sound of hooves, Lin Heshu thought that the cavalry on his side was speeding up, but he didn't expect a dark cloud to pass overhead, and then he realized that the sound came from the wrong direction. Looking back in surprise, he saw that the sunlight on the high slope had been tightly blocked, and the Song cavalry of the brigade was rushing in like a tide, and they hurriedly climbed on horseback.
"Our cavalry is coming, let's rush together!" After Zhang Yan saw it clearly, he got up and shouted, and the forbidden troops all ran forward with him, and when they rushed closer, they found that the number of Tartars was very small, and they had long been overwhelmed by the people brought by Zhang Shijie, and the Tartar brigade had just entered the mountains and forests.
Seeing that the enemy did not enter the forest, Zhang Shijie no longer pursued, and returned to the slope with the people, just now this sprint, the Tartars did not react at all, and there was no resistance, and the people who escaped ran into the mountains with them, but fortunately, the number of people was not large, and the big head was still below.
"Commander Zhang, I know that the brothers have worked hard all the way, but now the friendly army is still desperate there, we have the terrain to block the enemy here, okay, you might as well speak up!" Zhang Shijie pointed into the distance with the head of the person who was still dripping blood, and his words were already quite polite.
Zhang Yan's face was swollen and red, but he couldn't say a word of discrimination, it was really embarrassing, the enemy was only hundreds, so he was so scared that he didn't dare to move forward half a step. After Zhang Shijie finished speaking, he didn't wait for him to answer, shook his head and got on the horse and led the people away, and the cavalry looked at the people below, and the contempt on their faces couldn't be concealed.
"Zhang will die here today, if you don't want to follow, get out of Lao Tzu as soon as possible, otherwise someone will dare to escape, Hugh blames a certain knife for being ruthless, grandma's, even a group of girls are better than you!" When Zhang Shijie's cavalry was far away, Zhang Yan waved his saber and scolded, and the forbidden troops all blushed, and each of them discharged the defensive array in turn, sealing the opening to the mountainous area.
Outside the south gate, Jiang Cai, who was running wildly all the way, only had the whirring wind in his ears, and only the enemy figure under the big flag in his eyes, and the injuries on his body had been treated, although there was still some faint pain, but he couldn't feel it at all. When he looked through a telescope on the wall of the south gate, he saw at a glance that this person must be a great official, so as soon as he opened the city gate, he rushed out first.
After a night of bloody battles, so many brothers were discounted, and he only got a flag, but he escaped from Boyan, which made him still a little unwilling. Now this opportunity, no matter what, can not be missed again, the enemy obviously did not react, except for dozens of pro-soldiers who were gathering to protect, and the infantry of the brigade was actually guarding the other side with their backs to them.
There were less than two hundred cavalry behind him, and the rest were all seriously wounded and entered the Mercy Bureau, and before they could speed up, their own families rushed forward, no matter how desperately they tried to catch up. Behind these cavalry, a group of foot soldiers were going out of the city, and among them, the commander was Yuan Hong, a general judge in military uniform with a bow and arrow.
The two pro-soldiers rode horses and raised their swords to attack left and right, and the rest of the people protected Dong Wenbing and wanted to retreat into the formation of the new annexed army, Jiang Cai saw it, his legs were clamped violently, the horse's hooves rose, and he rushed forward with a "whoosh".
The retreating pro-soldiers once again divided several people to block, Jiang Cai snorted, the big gun swept horizontally in front of him, and the huge elastic force swept the pro-soldiers in front of him directly, and the war horse stepped on it without stopping, stepping on the fallen body and continuing to rush forward. Seeing that the situation was not good, the rest of the soldiers all pounced, desperately trying to block in front of his horse, while Dong Wenbing whipped his mount fiercely in order to distance himself.
Seeing that the target was about to flee away, he couldn't rush over for a while, and in a hurry, he weighed it in his hand, Jiang Cai suddenly leaned back, and then stood up from the saddle suddenly, and the big gun came out of his hand, crossed the head of the soldier who was blocking the way, and went straight to Dong Wenbing's back.
Dong Wenbing, who was struggling to ride the horse, only felt a lightness on his body, and a strong force pushed him forward, and then his throat was sweet, and then he felt a huge pain in his chest. The blood in his mouth slowly flowed, the scene in front of him became blurred, his consciousness gradually passed, his body was planted crookedly, and Dong Wenbing, the deputy marshal of the Southern Army, died in front of the battle.
The soldiers who couldn't rescue were stunned, and they forgot to block it in a daze, and they shouted back in unison, just waiting for them to get closer, and the target they desperately blocked had stopped there, Jiang Cai pulled out his big gun, laughed excitedly, and didn't think he was on the battlefield.
Lu Wenhuan and the others not far away were dumbfounded, they wanted to come to the rescue, but before the army could turn around, Dong Wenbing had already fallen to the ground, no one dared to believe that the boss died like this? Lu Wenhuan looked at the rolling rout brigade, and then looked at the Song army in front and back, and then found that he had fallen into a desperate situation.
"Herald! The whole army, with a certain assault. Zhang Shijie, who witnessed a qiē, gave an order without hesitation, and more than 3,000 cavalry rushed down from the high slope with him, without speeding up as fast as a gallop, and the foot soldiers behind him shouted in unison, following behind with knives and guns.
"Array, forward." Yuan Hong took the remaining forbidden army in the city and all the village soldiers to intercept the east of the city, so that the enemy army was surrounded on all sides and could no longer escape. This result, Liu Yu on the high platform never thought of it, maybe it was the sum of these many accidents, and finally it became inevitable.