Chapter 115: The Eagle Folds Its Wings (7)
"Squeak" is the soft sound of steel rubbing against each other, and as the engraving on the trebuchet is constantly lowered, the angle of inclination of the shot becomes larger and the distance is farther and farther. The shooter who straddled the middle was in control of this qiē, adjusting minute by minute, not daring to be negligent in the slightest.
The engraved watch was made in the shape of a steel ruler, which could be adjusted up and down by turning the circular knob on the side. Naturally, the shooter did not understand the specific meaning of the strange symbol marked on it, so when he turned the round button and suddenly did not move, as if it was stuck, he did not know that the scale on it had been hit to the end, and the short marking line on the steel ruler was an Arabic numeral "0".
In desperation, the shooter had to report the situation to Liu Yu, which was the limit? He walked quickly down the high platform, came to the trebuchet, and when he looked at the scale on it, he understood, and after a while, the other trebuchets followed suit, and after confirming it, he immediately ordered all the personnel to rest on the spot and wait for the next order.
On the one hand, these people were indeed a little tired after fighting for so long, and on the other hand, the routed troops were forced to the vicinity of the dock, and then retreated to the river, which required the pursuers to drive them upstream. Liu Yu, who returned to the high platform, looked at the sand table and pushed a horse riding figure of different colors forward, and that place was already very close to the Tartar camp.
On the right side of the west side of the city, after walking out of the foot of Shishou Mountain, there was not much to hide, but fortunately, attracted by the artillery fire fired in the city, the more than 1,000 cavalry led by Jiang Cai did not encounter any trouble, and after quietly killing a few scattered scout horses, they followed the path marked on the sand table to the vicinity of the river.
At this moment, these cavalry soldiers all dismounted, and everyone led their horses in a long line in the field, and Jiang Cai, who was the main general, was no exception, but he had a binocular monocular night vision device hanging on his chest, which looked a little funny. With this thing, he can always dominate the enemy in the dark night, and he can come here silently, thanks to most of it.
The roar of the explosion was endless, and the war horse beside him was faintly noisy, and he raised his wrapped hooves uneasily, and Jiang Cai, who felt the abnormality, reached out and stroked the mane of the horse's head, but his eyes were still wandering in the direction of the river, but he raised his wrist from time to time to take a look.
After waiting for a while, there was a sudden chaotic footsteps on the main road along the river, it seemed that a large group of people and horses were marching, Jiang Cai raised the night vision goggles, and the things he saw in the lens were all green, which made him very uncomfortable, so he would only put it in front of him when he needed to.
What appeared in his eyes was a scene not far ahead, a group of enemy troops fleeing in panic towards the docks, but there were no pursuers behind. Jiang Cai moved the camera behind them, only to notice something strange on the river in the distance. It was the direction of the Tatar Naval Army, there seemed to be smoke burning in the lens, he simply put down the night vision device, and saw the fire in the distance reflecting the night sky.
Li Dashuai moved! With this move, he achieved the momentum of a local flanking attack that Taishou said when he was in battle, and his cavalry will become a sharp blade to puncture the enemy's illusions, making them completely collapse and taste the fate of Ding Jiazhou being driven and slaughtered that day. Thinking of this, Jiang Cai spit out the title in his mouth and threw the night vision device on his chest behind his back with his backhand.
"Listen to so-and-so, the order of silence ends here, all of them get on their horses and charge with so-and-so. The tartar is like a trapped beast, and the man's contribution is at this moment, and there is only one goal for us to wait, Boyan! The rest are insignificant. Jiang Cai took off the big gun hanging next to the saddle, turned over on his horse, and shouted as he ran along the queue.
"This Rausch wanted to vomit a long time ago!" The general Shi Zhong and the cavalry threw away the title together, laughed and scolded the war horses on their crotches one by one, holding their breath for so long, and after listening to Jiang Cai's words, they raised their swords and guns in their hands and echoed.
When his own soldiers unfurled his general flag, and the cavalry in front of him had completed the whole team, Jiang turned his horse's head and galloped to the avenue along the river first, and the cavalry followed him and chased the enemy sailors who fled to the dock from behind.
Due to the increasingly fierce attack of the Song people and sailors in the harbor, Boyan had no choice but to take his own soldiers down from the boat to the dock, where there were more than 20,000 foot soldiers under the command of Ashu, as well as the return artillery arranged along the river.
It was reassuring to know that before he arrived, Ah Shu had already gathered his own foot soldiers and sealed the entire dock. And his pole was also rescued from the camp and re-erected behind the military formation, and the golden wolf head on the top of the flag still shone seductively in the dark night.
Standing under his own big sword, Bo Yan was a little calm, the surroundings were illuminated by countless torches, and the neat military formation was blocked in front of him like a mountain, he wanted to see what the Song people were capable of, and they could still break him on this land. The navy is gone, those warships were captured to the Song people, and under the city of Ezhou, he burned more than 3,000 at one time, and he can't take it from the Song people next time.
I don't know when, the sound of the explosion that had been ringing all night stopped, and it didn't appear again for a long time, Boyan finally saw the rout scene ahead, the Han army that should have been as solemn and upright as the formation had completely lost their appearance, disgraced, discarded armor, panicked like a lost dog, how similar to those Song people before.
Heizhang Ashu, who was in command in front of the formation, coldly drove these people in the direction of the upper reaches to prevent them from attacking, and after killing hundreds of routers who did not find the right direction, the rest of the people turned and fled to another place. The large puff of smoke and dust raised by tens of thousands of people when they ran obscured the front of the military formation, and when the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, Ah Shu was surprised to find that the Song infantry behind him actually rushed straight up.
"Boyan suffers death!" The shouts resounded throughout the port, and thousands of Song army foot soldiers fearlessly rushed towards the army formation that was several times larger, at this moment Boyan suddenly had a ridiculous idea, the defeat of Ding Jiazhou may have been deliberately done by them, in order to lure themselves to this fortified city, and then gather and annihilate it, otherwise how to explain these Nanren who suddenly became unbeatable?
The angry shouting did not stop, Liu Shiyong's bending knife had already slashed the shoulder of a foot soldier in front of him, and he pulled it, the man snorted in pain and threw away the weapon in his hand, Liu Shiyong kicked him down, the bending knife spun out a half circle, the knife light dispersed, blood splashed on his armor, and the tip of the spear stretched out out out of nowhere was blocked by the big shield on the other hand, he let out a low roar again, and the bending knife stabbed straight into the chest of an enemy.
A slender Song soldier dodged the stabbing of two spears, but there was a heavy knife in the back, he turned around and cut off the head of the sneak attacker, and then there was a pain in his leg, a spear pierced on it, he struggled to swing the big shield in his hand, and the spear bearer was beaten to a stumbling position, and before he could take his life, the flashing gun shadow in front of him had reached his chest.
In front of the entire army array, thousands of Song army foot soldiers were entangled with enemy troops far outnumbered by themselves, everyone was fighting for their lives, the crossbowmen lost their targets, and the neat large array began to loosen. Seeing this scene, Ah Shu waved his hand, and the four cavalry teams of 1,000 people behind him broke out of the formation and outflanked the Song army in front of him from both flanks.
"Divide up to meet the enemy, don't let the Tartar cavalry rush up!" Hearing Li Shiyi's report, Jin Ming, who was not far behind, immediately divided the team into two parts, each with about 500 heavy armored foot soldiers with more than 2,000 forbidden troops and turned to both sides, blocking the Tartar cavalry that had not yet increased speed from the battlefield.
At the same time, on the river, Li Tingzhi's Huai soldiers, who had wanted to rush into the wharf, ran into a little trouble, there were too many ships parked in the harbor, and the battleships in front did not clear a single waterway for entry and exit for half a day.
Haozhou regiment training envoy, Zhizhen Prefecture Miao Zaicheng with the department to the upstream search, soon found a shoal, after a simple test, nearly 10,000 Huai soldiers under his leadership dripped the river water that did not pass the calf to the shore, just stepped on the shore, heard the shouts not far away.
"That's a good thing, so is we, two Huai athletes, kill the enemy with a certain one! Don't lose to them. Miao Zaicheng laughed loudly, pulled out the treasure knife on his waist, and rushed forward first, the surrounding Huai soldiers held their spears and strode behind him, the enemy formation was already in sight, the sound of flying arrows breaking through the air roared, and people kept falling down with arrows, but the rest of the people were unconscious, roaring and flying forward.
"Boyan suffers death!" With two Huai accents shouted from behind the enemy formation, and the enemy troops who hurriedly assembled and recoiled back gradually approached, the expression on the face of the enemy foot soldiers has clearly appeared in their eyes, the Huai soldiers put down their spears, and they met them flatly, and after a while, there was a sound of "sneering and snorting" of the tip of the spear into the flesh.
Under such a powerful charge, no matter whether he was wearing leather armor or iron armor, he could not stop the piercing of the spear. In the blink of an eye, Miao Zaicheng flashed a spear, and the treasure knife in his hand was raised horizontally, without any force, he had already cut the heads of the enemy foot soldiers who had passed by by mistake, and the headless corpse ran forward several steps before falling to the ground.
The slogan that sounded in the sky finally frightened Bo Yan, under the enemy's back, although the army formation was still supporting, but if there were no reinforcements, it was only a matter of time before it was dispersed, he looked up at the sky in the distance, a trace of fish-belly-white light loomed, and the dawn had come.
It was the darkest hour before dawn, and just as his mind was racing, the battle on the docks changed again, and suddenly there was another rout on the left side of the formation, although the number was only a few thousand, but before he could be prepared, these people had already collided head-on, and the left flank became chaotic.
"Damn, I actually let those foot soldiers take the lead, brothers, if you hurry up, you won't have anything to eat when it's late." Jiang Cai's legs slammed the horse's belly, the hind hooves of the war horse under his crotch kicked the ground, the front hooves were in the air, and the speed increased at once, and the spear in his hand waved, slashing the rout in front of the horse to the ground, and the fallen front hooves stepped on it heavily.
"Boyan suffers death!" The earth-shattering slogan shouted angrily from the mouths of more than a thousand cavalrymen, and the thunderous explosion sounded in Boyan's ears.
"Go and tell Sù Ashu, let him stop the Song people no matter what, and after dawn, reinforcements will come." Boyan pushed away his own soldiers and commanded intermittently.