Chapter 38: Stone Ball
In fact, the outcome of the battle was foregone from the start.
Although there are many bandits, they are an untrained rabble, and they only know how to rush upwards in a swarm of wars, and they will flee for their lives at the slightest setback
Although the number of Sanshui security teams is small, they have a car formation as a basis, and forty or fifty four-zhang long bamboo spears and large carts connected from end to end cooperate, effectively blocking the hand-to-hand combat of the thieves. As a result, thieves are rarely able to break through the rook formation and attack within the rook array. And when the thieves tried to retreat and regroup, they were met with three rounds of flying spears from behind, and the thieves who died in the archers' feathers and arrows fought in a short period of an hour, and the number of thieves killed and wounded reached as many as fifty or sixty.
Looking at his defeated subordinates, Du Liu was very angry, and when he yelled for his subordinates to attack again, many thieves hesitated and refused to move forward.
The huge casualties have brought the morale of the thieves to the verge of collapse.
At this time, if Du Liuken took the lead in the charge, it was not that he could not fight anymore. However, Du Liu himself was a little timid, he was afraid of following in the footsteps of his younger brother Du Qi. The leader refused to rush forward, and the other thieves could be imagined.
At this moment, the caravan opened the road at some point, and saw the caravan escort swarming out of the caravan.
"They came out of the turtle shell, don't be afraid, there are many more of us than them!" Du Liu shouted hoarsely, boosting the morale of his subordinates.
However, at this moment, another flutter of feathered arrows flew in, and seven or eight thieves were shot down on the spot.
With a "bang", the thieves collapsed, turned around and ran away, and no one paid attention to Du Liu's order.
"That's it? My big axe is still hungry and thirsty! Deng Tu looked at the fleeing thief in surprise and said dissatisfied.
According to Xu Shu's explanation in advance, Deng Tu was a general who charged into battle, and he was going to take the lead in killing the thieves in a while, but before the battle, the thieves fled, which made Deng Tu very unhappy.
"Stay in formation, follow and kill!" Xu Shu's face was pale, and he lightly issued an order to pursue.
After more than a month of training, it is difficult to say in other aspects, in terms of formation and obedience, the Sanshui security team has done a very good job. From the very beginning, Xu Shu and Zhang Miao instilled in them the order of obedience, and no one was allowed to act without the order of the commander.
In the face of the rout of the thieves, although many people were eager to try, no one dared to leave the array without receiving the order to pursue.
With the issuance of Xu Shu's order, more than 80 villagers suddenly rolled forward and pursued the defeated thieves.
"Kill the thief!" Deng Tu rushed to the front with a double axe, and soon broke away from the queue and chased among the fleeing thieves, a pair of big axes slashed left and right, slashing several thieves one after another, like a fierce god.
was killed by Deng Tu's rush, and the other thieves ran faster, and many thieves even threw down their weapons and ran forward without dying.
Among them, Du Liu, who was riding a horse, ran the fastest, after all, the speed of four legs was far better than that of two legs. The battlefield here is only five or six miles away from Gegang, and if you escape quickly, it won't take long to escape back to your lair.
At this time, Du Liu wanted to escape back to his lair. As long as you can escape back and hold the mountain road, no matter how vicious this caravan guard is, you can't help yourself. As long as the nest is there, the lost troops will be able to make up for it sooner or later. As for avenging his brother Du Qi, Du Liu didn't want to think about it anymore at the moment.
After running forward for a while, the terrain gradually undulated, and a hill appeared in front of him, which was Du Liu's old nest Gegang.
Gegang is no more than 300 meters high, but it is surrounded by cliffs, and there is only a relatively gentle mountain road to climb. On this mountain road, Du Liu set up three checkpoints, as long as he held any of them, the enemy would not want to go up the mountain.
Du Liuze's horse rushed up the mountain road, but after a while, he arrived in front of the first level.
"Little ones, get out of the way." Du Liu yelled at the top.
However, no one responded.
"These bastards, Lao Tzu left his post without permission as soon as he left, see what Lao Tzu does with you!" Du Liu scolded and scolded, and ordered a few subordinates who fled back to carry a few horses that were blocking the road. These subordinates all had war horses, so they fled the fastest.
Several thieves got off their horses in response, and quickly moved the rejected horses away, and Du Liuce immediately went to the checkpoint, and sure enough, there was no one on it.
"Big boss, it seems that something is not good." As he continued to walk up, one of his subordinates suddenly spoke.
"What's wrong?" Du Liu said impatiently.
"It's too quiet, it shouldn't be. When we left, we left behind more than 20 brothers to guard the mountain, and these brothers should not all be absent from their posts. The subordinate said with a rather intelligent analysis.
Du Liu stopped all of a sudden when he heard this, and sure enough, it was very quiet in the four places, and there was no such thing as a group of thieves shouting and screaming on weekdays.
"Dog, go up and have a look." Du Liu ordered to the clever subordinate.
The thief who called the dog was very helpless, but he didn't dare to disobey Du Liu's order, so he could only get off his horse and move up slowly.
At this moment, the sound of "boom" sounded, and several stone balls were seen rolling down the mountain road.
"Be careful!" The dog reminded loudly and hurriedly stuck his body against the mountain wall.
The huge stone ball rolled down from top to bottom, making a great rumbling sound, with a great momentum, and the expressions of the terrified thieves changed greatly.
This stone ball is a defensive weapon in the second level, but I didn't expect it to be used on myself now.
"Holy shit!" Du Liu scolded angrily, and hurriedly pulled the reins to let the war horse avoid it. However, the mountain road is so narrow, how can the huge body of the war horse be avoided? In the face of the stone ball rolling down from above, the war horse was obviously more panicked, and the neighing person stood up, and suddenly overturned the caught off guard Du Liu on the mountain road, and then saw the stone ball rolling down from Du Liu's body, and knocked away the war horse that was trying to escape.
Four or five huge stone balls rolled down from the second level, with monstrous momentum, and the stone chips flew and dusty everywhere they passed, until the first level, when the energy was exhausted and stopped in the impact.
And on the mountain road above, the flesh is already blurred and bloodstained, and only the corpses of people and horses are left that are not shaped. Seven or eight horseback thieves who fled back with Du Liu, even men and horses, were smashed to pieces by the stone balls that rolled down from the heights.
The thief who called the dog stuck to the mountain wall, staring blankly at the mountain road that was ravaged by the stone balls, looking at the broken corpses of his boss and his accomplices, his legs trembling like chaff, and the liquid dripping down his trouser legs, flowing on the mountain road, mixed with the blood, and could no longer be distinguished.
There was a commotion, and the dog looked down the mountain, and saw hundreds of horseless thieves running wildly and had fled to the bottom of the mountain.