Chapter 248: Tough Battle
Lan Ziyi looked at the flesh mill unfolding a few rows away in front of him, sweating nervously,
Although he has experienced many battles, this is the first time he has been so cruel, it is like watching a living person being bitten by a pack of wolves.
After hearing the sergeant's shout, Lan Ziyi hurriedly stepped on the stirrup and stood up hard, looking to the south of the intersection,
Sure enough, as the sergeant said, although the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion on the street south of the intersection were still fighting with the thieves, the sergeants in the back row had begun to retreat backwards, and the sergeants in the front row were also retreating backwards when they were fighting with the thieves, obviously withdrawing from the battle.
Lan Ziyi just wanted to open his mouth to scold when he saw this, but after taking a closer look, the retreat of the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion who took the lead from that way was not chaotic, but orderly, the sergeant in the back row went first, and after walking a distance, he stopped his horse, turned around and released his arrows, and the sergeant who resisted the thieves in front fought and left, not giving the thieves a chance to counterattack, Lan Ziyi stood on the horse and could still hear the command voice of the Jihu Battalion officer who he arranged to lead the troops.
This is not a rout, there is a planned retreat at this time, perhaps to lure the thieves forward to find an opportunity to attack, or to make room to charge here, although Lan Ziyi doesn't know what the officer he appointed wants to do, but Lan Ziyi knows that the current stalemate situation, the cavalry soldiers on both sides are fighting hand-to-hand with the thieves like this is committing suicide slowly, even if they can break through the thieves' defense line in front of them, they are not capable of fighting with the endless army of thieves, and the wave of soldiers over there has been fighting hard for a long time, The casualties are much more serious than those on Lan Ziyi's side, even if they just go back and repair it, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.
After Lan Ziyi figured it out, he stood on the horse and shouted:
"That's what I arranged for them to retreat and rest, you just have to keep attacking and talk less nonsense!"
Just now the sergeant shouted that the friendly troops retreated, which caused some commotion among the sergeants on Lan Ziyi's side, but now when they heard Lan Ziyi say this, the sergeants stabilized again.
The pressure of the southern attack on the bandits' side gradually weakened as the Jihu battalion retreated.
The thieves who were resisting the attack from the south took advantage of the situation and wanted to advance south along the road, but someone in the crowd of thieves shouted and ordered the sergeants on the south side to stop the pursuit and guard the intersection to reorganize the formation.
Lan Ziyi stood on the horse and saw all this clearly, his heart was itching, if the thieves took advantage of the situation to pursue, maybe they could give Lan Ziyi a chance to attack, after all, the thieves in front of them were just a few rows of people blocking the intersection, and the thieves behind them were busy landing from the dock to besiege Qi Rongxun.
Lan Ziyi looked at the form in front of him worriedly, and the sergeant next to him suddenly shouted:
"Master Hou be careful!"
Lan Ziyi has been born and died several times, of course he knows what he means, so he hurriedly sat down.
Fortunately, Lan Ziyi reacted quickly, his head just sank half of his head, and there was a swishing sound of an arrow breaking through the air in front of him, and an arrow swooped right on the top of Lan Ziyi's helmet, and the sound of "ding" shook Lan Ziyi's head buzzing.
Lan Ziyi fell off the horse, held the horse's neck and broke out in a cold sweat, sighing in his heart that his life was hard, just now the thief's arrow came towards his face, and if he moved a little later, the arrow hit the eyebrows, and he was killed on the spot.
When Lan Ziyi came back to his senses with a sigh of relief, he stretched out his eyes from the crowd to see who was among the thieves who released the arrows,
Lan Ziyi saw that it was the thief leader who had just ordered the southern bandits not to pursue, and the leader of the bandits, who had turned to the defense, ordered the archers next to him to shoot.
The archer who shot Lan Ziyi with arrows carved bows and strong armor, just holding a bow, and did not release arrows easily, at first glance, he was a marksman among thieves.
And the leader of the thieves who ordered the archers to release their arrows saw that Dao failed to kill Lan Ziyi, and beat his chest angrily, calling the sky unfair.
Lan Ziyi looked at the thief officer, his heart was full of anger, he was the only one Lan Ziyi who killed the enemy with a secret arrow, where was he shot half of his life by a cold arrow, out of the arrow of Dangyang Lei Youde, and that arrow was similar to this arrow.
Lan Ziyi shook his head to drive these breaths out of the way, and then yelled at the person next to him:
"Someone! Gave me the thief's name! “
When the sergeant next to him heard this, he immediately stood up, drew arrows, tied strings, drew bows, and aimed, although the movements were skillful, but compared to the three brothers of the Tao family, it seemed stiff, and the sergeant aimed for a long time, and he didn't want to chase the tiger and they pointed where to fight, and he shot when he pulled the bow.
Lan Ziyi saw the gap between this sergeant's archery skills and his three elder brothers, and then looked at the thief officer, he didn't dodge, and the sharpshooter next to him was already drawing the bow in his hand.
Lan Ziyi shouted:
"Not good!"
But it was too late, the sergeant next to him who was ordered to shoot and the opponent's marksman released the arrow at the same time, as a result, the sergeant of the Jihu Battalion here was pierced through the throat by the arrow, and Ying Xian fell off his horse and died, and the arrow he released before dying hit the armor on the chest of the thief officer, and it was bounced to the ground with only one sound.
Lan Ziyi looked at the sergeant who had fallen off the horse beside him, and his upper and lower jaws creaked, but it was the thief who cheered loudly after seeing that the Tiger Battalion was killed, and came to a full house.
Seeing this, some of the sergeants around Lan Ziyi wanted to get up and release arrows, but they were stopped by Lan Ziyi.
Lan Ziyi scolded:
"If your skills are not as good as others, don't stand up and die!"
And Lan Ziyi sighed in his heart that if one of the three brothers was by his side, where would there be the opportunity for the demon thief to be arrogant,
The thief officer was unceremonious, and took advantage of the victory to shout:
"The white running demon over there! Your days are over! It is said that you have the three heroes of the peach family around you, I think it is the three bears! Why can't you? ”
These words caused another roar on the side of the thieves, and the head of the Jihu Battalion was too weak to be ridiculed by this joke, and even the sabers of the front-line soldiers were not so hard.
Lan Ziyi looked at this arrogant thief with fire-breathing eyes, and he had already thought of countless ways to die on him and his shooter.
However, Lan Ziyi is still very sober in his heart, at this time he has no ability to find revenge on the thief.
Lan Ziyi waved the sword in his hand and shouted:
"Brethren! You've killed countless thieves along the way, can you be stopped by these minions now? You're all eggs?
The thief is presumptuous in front of you and wantonly humiliates you, do you want to swallow this breath back?
Follow me! Follow me! But just a few rows of thieves, cut them down! Crush them! “
When the sergeants heard this, they were full of murderous spirit again, they went out of Beijing to fight for so long, that time it wasn't the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion who cut melons and vegetables, but this time they let the thieves ride on their heads?
The soldiers were stimulated by Lan Ziyi's scolding, and once again urged the horses forward, and the soldiers in the front row no longer only cared about cutting down with the thieves, but urged the horses to move forward.
The line of troops that had been facing each other for a long time finally began to advance under the trampling of the horses of the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion, and the thieves in front of them did not dare to continue howling when they saw this, but threw themselves into the melee again.
Lan Ziyi's efforts to urge the sergeants were not to break through the thieves, he wanted to attract the attention of the thieves, so that the other Sergeant of the Tiger Battalion who had just retreated could have the opportunity to attack again.
And Lan Ziyi's attack did work, the congestion and trampling and the impact of death brought greater casualties to the soldiers around Lan Ziyi, but it went deeper into the bandit formation, the thieves and officers were close at hand, and the thieves couldn't retreat, because they had to escort the employees behind them to the city.
The officer had no choice but to beckon the thieves who had been lined up on the south side to move closer to this side, and this was in Lan Ziyi's arms,
Lan Ziyi's long roar spread throughout the battlefield, and the officers of the Jihu Battalion on the road over there also understood the spirit and hurriedly led the team to launch an attack.
This time, the soldiers had distance, horses, and thunder.
Lan Ziyi was happy in his eyes here, and finally had a decent attack,
But at the same time, Lan Ziyi is also thinking about a problem, why didn't the thieves use archers after fighting for so long, the thieves besieged Qi Rongxun and invested a lot of archers, the battle here is so fierce, how can people not come to support.
However, Lan Ziyi soon regretted his crow's mouth, because when the Jihu Battalion was halfway there, a thief's crossbowman appeared on the rooftops of the surrounding streets and alleys.
It's not that the thieves didn't send long-range troops, but the people they sent didn't arrive at the location just now
The soldiers of the Jihu Battalion in the southern section only retreated to the shortest distance enough to charge, and at this time they were about to rush in front of the thieves.
The soldiers in the charge were naturally very shocked when they saw the thieves on the roof, and some people subconsciously reached out to pull the reins.
At this time, the officer of the Jihu Battalion appointed by Lan Ziyi shouted loudly:
"Can't stop! Now that it's stopped, there's no chance to rush again.
Rushing over, no matter how strong the thief's bow and crossbow are, he can only shoot half a round, and after half a round, we will be killed with the thief! “
The soldiers were encouraged by the officer's words, and rushed forward with a shout.
Lan Ziyi applauded in his heart when he heard this officer's order, this is the only way to make the right choice at the moment, Lan Ziyi decided to wait until the end of the thief to play this person to the court and reuse it.
The crossbowmen had just climbed onto the roof, and when they saw that there were officers and soldiers attacking on both sides of the southeast side of the intersection, they were also panicked and didn't know what to do.
Arrows fell from the sky, and the armor on the soldiers allowed them to avoid direct killing, but there were still arrows that hit the horses of the officers and soldiers, and in the rapid impact, these soldiers and horses fell to the ground, and it was difficult to survive from the force of the impact.
Fortunately, these soldiers were all professional cavalrymen, and even if someone in front of them fell to the ground, the people behind would ride their horses to dodge, and the impact was not affected.
The analysis of the Jihu battalion officer was right, the thieves had not finished a round of arrows on the ground, the soldiers had already rushed into the thieves' array, and the thieves who were defending the intersection in front of them were mobilized in Lan Ziyi's attack just now, and now they are moving, unable to defend against the impact of the soldiers.
After a short and fierce neighing of men and horses and the sound of metal clashes, the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion on the south road were deeply inserted into the bandit formation, but unfortunately, the officer who commanded the charge was shot by the thieves on the room when he finally met the enemy, and rolled off his horse.
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