Chapter 672: Ambush
"Ambush!" Fu Cheng screamed miserably, the whole group fell to the ground, and shrunk the whole person into a ball and rolled under the wall of a house on one side, Rao is he reacted so quickly, he was still hit by several crossbow arrows, the crossbow arrows broke the armor, and a burst of pain came, making his eyes a little black. The screams in my ears were as continuous as the whistling of crossbow arrows.
But he didn't have time to think about anything else, for as soon as he looked up, he saw the black windows and doors of the house opposite, and the heads of men moving on the ridges of the roof, and the arrows of crossbow arrows that glittered in the light of the fire.
With all the strength of his body, he continued to roll to one side, and before his body left the place just now, a crossbow arrow grabbed the ground and nailed it squarely to the wall.
Fu Cheng was so tired that he could only writhe ground and dodge the soul-chasing crossbow arrows, and it was only when he rolled all the way to the back of a carriage that he took a breath and leaned on one of the wheels, panting heavily. On his thigh, there was a crossbow arrow stuck on each shoulder armor, which was left over from the first round of attacks, but fortunately his armor was good enough, although the arrow broke through the armor, it did not penetrate deep into the flesh.
Reaching out and grabbing the tail of the arrow, he gritted his teeth, and pulled out the crossbow arrow on his thigh with a groan, and he screamed in pain. Trembling for a moment, he pulled out the crossbow bolt from his shoulder armor with his backhand.
Grabbing his sword, he leaned half out of the carriage and looked out at the battlefield ahead.
The front and back people, except for a very small number of people at this moment, are all exposed to the blows of the other party.
He was a general, and just by looking at it, he was a little sad.
The place here is too cramped.
The traps set by the enemy in advance were too insidious, and in addition to using these houses, some other ambush points were set up in some other places that could not be taken into account. So that the opponent who falls into the ambush does not even have a reliable place to hide.
Obviously, the other party knew that they were coming, so they set this trap.
This puzzled him. The other party is not an immortal, how did he know about their existence, how did he know that they were not far from here, and how did he feel that they were coming today.
If you want to break the current situation, you must occupy at least one of the houses.
Holding back the pain, he took a deep breath, reached out and pulled off a plank on top of the carriage, and then Huo Di stood up and yelled, "Follow me!" ”
With the plank in front of him, he lunged towards the nearest house.
The six godless soldiers near him, seeing the Lord moving forward, rushed towards the house with him.
On the roof, Ren Xiaonian sighed with some regret, and threw the crossbow in his hand to a young man on the side. On his side, there were several young men, just now Ren Xiaonian was aiming at Fu Cheng and shooting, and the young man next to him was responsible for handing him the crossbow and winding it.
It's a pity that this guy who is obviously the leader is so alert that he can't imagine it.
"Shoot well, shoot those bitches." Throwing the crossbow in his hand to those young men, Ren Xiaonian lifted his horizontal knife and slipped down a pole.
Most of those who entered the ambush circle with crossbow shots were young and strong, and Ren Xiaonian deliberately left the most elite team of men and horses as a mobile force.
A big hole was opened in the roof, and Ren Xiaonian, who slipped down, looked at the dozens of people standing with shields and knives in the house.
"Kill the thief with me!" He said with a smile on his knife.
Dozens of fighters rushed out with Ren Xiaonian.
The sound of Niujia Village shouting and killing shook the sky, and Liu Santong's heart in the distance suddenly tightened, this was not the result of a normal sneak attack, Fu Cheng obviously encountered a powerful attack. Although he was a little nervous, he was not worried, after all, in terms of troops, Fu Cheng had an absolute advantage.
But then, Liu Santong's face changed suddenly.
For an arrow shot into the sky, and the sound of the arrow with a terrible whistle lingered in the air. It was an arrow used by the Pinglu army to warn of urgency, and it was only used when the situation was critical. Fu Cheng is now using this arrow, and it is obvious that it is not the enemy who is in danger in Niujia Village now, but his subordinates.
"Attack!" Destroying the horses, Liu Santong rushed forward. Two hundred riders behind him, with a roar, followed closely.
The mud on the ground was very deep, and it was extremely difficult for the war horse to run forward, but at this moment, Liu Santong didn't care about this, jerked the horse stock, and galloped forward.
One of the war horses stepped on the air and fell to the ground, Liu Santong quickly turned over and dismounted, and a cavalryman beside him stretched out his hand, grabbed Liu Santong's hand, and pulled him onto his war horse.
From time to time, some horsemen broke their hooves and fell, and some cavalrymen were able to turn over their horses and once again catch the horses of their comrades, while others were unlucky and were crushed by the fallen horses, and they could no longer move.
Two hundred horses, when they rushed to the outside of Niujia Village, had already lost forty or fifty horses, but they finally rushed up.
Lid's rangers were still advancing slowly, scattering more and more scouts, searching for possible traces. As time passed, Li De became more and more anxious.
In the distance, the sound of horses' hooves was heard, and a scout hurried back.
"General, general, found it, Niujia Village, Niujia Village!"
Li De took a long breath, didn't speak, took the reins of the horse, and shouted: "Lead the way." ”
Thousands of rangers no longer avoided anything, rekindled their torches, and hurried in the direction of Niujia Village.
Ren Xiaonian fell into a crisis.
The people that Liu Santong was able to bring out of Linzi were all brave men, although he occupied the geographical advantage and succeeded in luring the enemy into his trap. At the beginning of the battle, he inflicted great damage on the enemy, but compared to his soldiers, the enemy was still a little too much.
And the bravery shown by the enemy caught in the encirclement also greatly surprised Ren Xiaonian. In addition to the heavy casualties, these Pinglu soldiers immediately used the corpses of their dead comrades, they approached several houses with the corpses on their heads, and then burst into the houses and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Tang troops in the houses.
Just like Fu Ping's idea of wanting to occupy a house even if he was not lightly injured, as long as one side of this encirclement is broken, then there will be a huge flaw in the encirclement, at least, it is no longer a killing of them without dead ends.
The Pinglu army needs to breathe a sigh of relief.
Ren Xiaonian blocked Fu Cheng's way, but the other Pinglu soldiers who risked their lives to attack still managed to break through a house. Once you enter the close-quarters fight, those youthful deficiencies are immediately magnified without limit. Even with the soldiers of the 6th Battalion desperately blocking it, they still couldn't stop the Pinlu soldiers from conquering the outermost house.
One house was occupied, and many of the Pinglu soldiers, who were unable to lift their heads under the crossbow arrows around them, immediately gasped, and after a moment's pause, they began to storm the other houses from the dead ends where the crossbow arrows could not reach.
But until this time, the Tang army was still in the upper hand. The advantage is getting smaller, but it's enough for them to continue to kill their opponents effectively.
Until Ren Xiaonian heard the sound of horses' hooves.
Ren Xiaonian didn't kill Fu Cheng after all.
Fu Zhan, who fought bloodily, took a few more stabs from Ren Xiaonian, but he still dragged Ren Xiaonian and did not let Ren Xiaonian launch an effective counteroffensive to reoccupy the lost house.
When Liu Santong's hoarse shouting came from his ears, Fu Cheng's spirit was greatly boosted, and he miraculously blocked Ren Xiaonian's series of three slashes.
The three knives forced Fu Cheng back, and Ren Xiaonian dragged the knife away.
"Retreat, hold on to the granary."
The remaining soldiers did not hesitate to retreat with Ren Xiaonian, and as they left, they also set fire to the houses they had once occupied.
These are all arranged in advance, and if they can't be done, they can't be used as enemy strongholds.
Except for the one that served as the granary, the other houses were on fire.
The last stronghold is the temporary granary.
Ren Xiaonian was panting, and Fu Cheng, who was drenched in blood, was also panting with a knife, and the blood all over his body fell to the ground, staining the yellow mud red.
Liu Santong stopped in front of Fu Cheng.
"It's the sixth battalion, Ren Xiaonian." Fu Cheng wiped a handful of blood from his face, looked at Liu Santong, and had palpitations.
In the Yellow River defense line, it was the sixth battalion, as the vanguard battalion, that broke through their attack position in one fell swoop.
"Yay!" Liu Santong looked at the ground that filled his subordinates under the reflection of the flames, and the muscles on his face twitched, "I finally have the opportunity to annihilate them all here, to avenge the dead brothers in the Yellow River defense line, and to avenge the Hou Xiao brothers." ”
"General Liu, it's not easy to fight." Fu Cheng swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva, and said: "Just now I looked at their last position, it was extremely solidly arranged, if we want to break through, we will die a lot." ”
"What else is there to fight?" Liu Santong said with a smile: "Doesn't he like to set fires?" I also gave him a taste of being burned, and told his brothers to prepare rockets and draw off the planks and beams of the burning houses and throw them at their positions. Either they will rush out and fight us to the death, or they will stay there and be burned alive by us. ”
"Then, there will be no food." Fu Cheng was a little reluctant.
"If I knew that so many people would die for this bit of food, I would never have fought this battle, I miscalculated, I knew it was so, while they were on the march, Lao Tzu attacked openly, and there would be no such a big loss!" Liu Santong said remorsefully.
In the temporary granary, Ren Xiaonian looked at Liu Santong's actions on the other side and couldn't help but sigh. The enemy doesn't care about it, they just want to kill them, then they have no other way to go.
"Tell everyone, prepare to attack with me." He threw away the knife in his hand, replaced it, held it in his hand, and said loudly.