Chapter 779: Forced to Fight
The first strategist Tang guest, the weeping and disorderly words, like a sharp knife, are piercing Sha Dingzhou's heart fiercely.
There is no heart to drink, no water to drink, such a dead end, I am afraid that Zhuge will be resurrected, and Sun Wu will be reborn, and there is nothing to be done.
Into his mother, I really didn't expect that Tang Jun was so vicious!
Sha Dingzhou looked numb and walked to the edge of the mountain with difficulty, from here, he could see the various flags of the Tang army swaggering at the foot of the mountain in the distance, and the Tang soldiers and soldiers wriggling back and forth like ants under the banners.
"Guest, in your opinion, is there only one way left for our army to surrender to the Tang army." Sha Dingzhou stared at it for a long time before he spit out this sentence from his mouth with difficulty.
The Tang guest raised his head, his lips pursed like a mouse, he hesitated, and arched his hand tremblingly, but he pounced again and fell to the ground.
"In such a predicament, there is really no way to think about it. There is a way that the army will be chaotic if there is no water, and it will collapse after a long time. I also hope that the leader of Sha can judge the situation and ......"
He swallowed the rest of the words alive and didn't say it. A thin and pointed face was pressed against the ground, and it was hard to see any expression.
A cold mountain wind blew, which made Sha Dingzhou shiver.
He suddenly felt that since the beginning of the army, all his ambitions and dreams had quietly disappeared at this moment, and there was nothing left behind.
This feeling of cone, how can I put it into words.
"Big boss, now that our army has become a dead end, please break it when it is decided, go down the mountain and surrender to the Tang army......" Next to him, his wife Wan's voice trembled.
Surrender to the Don Army?
Can you really only surrender to the Tang Army?
Sha Dingzhou thought of this, but a ruthless color flashed on his face.
No!
The Don Army must not be surrendered!
If the Tang army surrendered to the Tang army in such a gloomy manner, the Tang army would definitely despise itself and put forward extremely reluctant demands for surrender. In addition, he will completely dissipate his own forces, so that he has become a bare-bones commander who has no value at all.
Even, all the land under his rule will definitely be occupied by the Tang army, and the rest of the Tusi will take the opportunity to get a piece of the pie like a hyena that eats the corpse. In this way, what is the point of living in this world without soldiers and land!
What's even more sad is that in such a situation, in Yunnan, a situation where wolves are fed, I am afraid that I will die inexplicably.
Thinking of this, Sha Dingzhou couldn't help but let out a long sigh. He turned around slowly, and whispered these words from his heart to Wan Shi and Tang Guest.
As soon as he finished speaking, the Tang guest's face turned pale, and he immediately admonished: "King, it is human nature for you to think like this. It's just that our army is already in danger now, how can we think about soldiers and territory again?! If the king does not make a quick decision, when the soldiers mutini or they go down the mountain to surrender to the Tang army, what can we do about it? I'm afraid that at that time, we will not talk about the future, even if we want to save a remnant of life now, we will not be able to recover it! ”
"You're right, it's precisely because of this that this leader wants to take advantage of the fact that the mutiny has not yet started and the military spirit is still available, and then fight the last one!" Sha Dingzhou's face was hideous, and he said sharply: "Pass my order, with the garrisons on all the hills, they will rush down the mountain together, and then gather at the foot of the Gelong Mountain to fight a head-on battle with the Tang army, and if they win, they will immediately break through and leave." If you can't win ......"
Speaking of this, Sha Dingzhou subconsciously stopped, and then said: "If you don't win, Sha will die here!" In this land handed down by our ancestors, the last drop of blood is enough to be blind! ”
After Sha Dingzhou finished speaking, Wan Shi and Tang guest subconsciously glanced at each other, and each saw an extremely complicated look in each other's eyes.
Sha Dingzhou had made up his mind and immediately began to make emergency arrangements.
He ordered the guests to urgently go to the top of the mountain where the poisoned general Iron Tiger was, take over his troops, and rush down the mountain first.
Then, the rest of the soldiers and horses on the hill also rushed down the mountain, and came to the foot of the Leglong Mountain together, and joined their own soldiers and horses. Then, the whole army gathered at the foot of the mountain to form a battle formation, assaulted outward, and fought a decisive battle with the Tang army.
Of course, before the troops rushed down the mountain and fought a decisive battle with the Tang army, Sha Dingzhou also asked them to burn all the money, grain, cloth and other materials stored on the mountain, so as to show that they would be ruined and fight to the death, and there would be no more concern.
It should be said that Sha Dingzhou's decision was made in a very timely manner.
The soldiers on the hill gradually recovered from the chaos and began to prepare their weapons and armor to prepare for the battle down the mountain.
At the same time, the generals who guarded the hill immediately carried out his order, and fire rose into the air on all the hills, burning all the accumulated grain, grass and materials placed on the hilltop.
"Mayor, look, the enemy is starting to rush down the mountain! Can our army immediately send troops to intercept it? ”
Huang Degong, who was in the distance, personally accompanied the soldiers, saw the fire on the mountain, and saw the Shadingzhou Department roaring and rushing down the mountain, and hurriedly reported to Huang Degong loudly.
Huang Degong held the clairvoyant mirror and watched it carefully for a long time, a sneer flashed at the corner of his mouth.
"No need, let them go down the mountain, let them assemble at the foot of the Legion Dragon Mountain. Our army has been waiting for this battle for too long! Huang Degong said in a deep voice: "Instead of dividing the troops to fight again and letting the remnants of the thieves take the opportunity to escape, it is better to let them gather everywhere, have a complete battle, and give them a complete catch!" ”
Speaking of this, Huang Degong ordered loudly: "Pass the military order of this town, and the entire Tang army will meet the enemy head-on, with the assistance of all Tusi soldiers and horses, and attack in coordination, and at the same time cut off the enemy's escape route, and be sure to gather and annihilate this Shadingzhou Department at the foot of the Gelong Mountain!" ”
"Order!"
The soldiers and horses of Shadingzhou, with the deliberate connivance of the Tang army, were able to smoothly rush down the mountain, and then the whole army gathered in the open field at the foot of the Gelong Mountain, and formed a battle formation with a bow in front and a backward step, and confronted the Tang army in front of the spear and shield battle formation that came on foot.
When the Tang army was approaching, the rest of the Tusi soldiers and horses also approached from all roads in a semicircle.
It's just that their soldiers, both in terms of momentum and equipment, are far from being comparable to the Tang Army. Therefore, these people consciously slowed down their speed and let the Tang army, which was attacking head-on, rush to the forefront.
Seeing the soldiers and horses of the Tang Army getting closer and closer, pressing towards him so neatly, Sha Dingzhou's brother-in-law Tang obviously felt that something was wrong.
He frowned and thought for a while, then hurriedly rode to the side of Sha Dingzhou, and said in a low voice: "Sha Chief, I see that the Tang Army's army is well organized, its momentum is majestic, and its equipment is far superior to ours, and its combat power must be very impressive. Such a strong team, Encore is fighting head-on. In my opinion, wouldn't it be better to avoid its edge and turn to defeat the rest of the Tusi soldiers and horses first, in order to break through? ”
Sha Dingzhou let out a long sigh and shook his head slowly.
"No, our army can only fight this battle with one blow in order to win a quick victory, and then divide the troops to fight with the enemy elsewhere." Sha Dingzhou's face was very complicated: "If we can't defeat the Tang army on the opposite side and force it to retreat, even if our army defeats the rest of the Tusi soldiers and horses, it will definitely be surrounded and intercepted by the Tang army, which is like a yellow bird, and it will be difficult to escape." ”
Sha Dingzhou took a deep breath, and a fierce look flashed on his face: "Therefore, only by defeating the Tang army in front can we really deter the other Tusi soldiers and horses, so that they dare not come forward to besiege." In this way, we will be able to open a breakthrough and finally allow our army to break through and escape smoothly. This is a risky plan, but it is the only feasible solution right now. ”
Guest Tang's face was ugly, and he didn't say anything, just arched his hand towards Sha Dingzhou, and then returned to his own formation.
As soon as he left, Sha Dingzhou immediately ordered: "The whole army is ready to meet the Tang army on the opposite side, and when the Tang army enters the range of bows and arrows, all the archers will step forward together and shoot the Tang army with poisoned arrows!" ”
"Order!"
Sha Dingzhou's abacus played very well, his own archers, than the Ming army archers of the Mu clan's soldiers and horses, both in power and range, are much stronger, especially the arrow is stained with blood and throat toxin, as long as it is shot by the arrow, the poison is immediate, and there is no cure.
Such a poison arrow archer is Sha Dingzhou's proudest place, and it is also his biggest secret weapon.
He had absolute confidence that as long as the Tang army advanced a distance of about eighty paces, the archers of his own family would come forward and fire a volley, which would definitely inflict a huge damage on the Tang army.
If you are lucky, it is also very possible to defeat the Tang army with a few salvos.
Soon, the Tang army, which was advancing in a strict formation, approached about 150 steps away from Shadingzhou, and stopped in unison.
The Tang army suddenly stopped, and the rest of the advancing Tusi soldiers and horses, as if they had received orders from all walks of life, immediately stopped encircling forward.
"Hey, why didn't the Tang army attack it? What are they doing? Sha Dingzhou's wife, Wan, also has the same thoughts as her husband in her heart. When she saw Tang Jun stop suddenly, she couldn't help but muttered something in a low voice on the side.
Sha Dingzhou also frowned, puzzled by the sudden halt of the Tang army.
After all, this was his first confrontation with the Tang Army, and he was not familiar with the Tang Army's combat methods at all, so although Sha Dingzhou looked confused, he didn't know how to deal with it next.
Sha Dingzhou suddenly saw that, as if by magic, on the big shield at the front of the Tang Army's battle array, above each side of the big shield covered with iron, and next to each spearman who was ready to attack, a firecracker holding a flintlock and a flint gun suddenly appeared.
They quickly prepared, and the black spearmen in everyone's hands immediately aimed at the Shadingzhou archers who were on the opposite side with a bewildered expression.
As many as 5,000 firecrackers, after they were ready together, the order flag in Huang Degong's hand was raised high and waved down violently.
"Ready, fire!"
With the angry shout of the chief of the firecracker, more than 5,000 firecrackers fired in unison, and a total of more than 4,500 shots were fired.
"Bang bang bang! ……”
Rows of bright red embers flew together, like a long bright red ribbon, as beautiful as hellfire, with a unique beauty like a death ritual. A large cloud of choking white gunpowder smoke poured up, and more than 4,500 small three-coin heavy lead bullets, like a swarm of death bees flying away in unison, let out a slight and cheerful chirp, and swooped down on the Shadingzhou soldiers opposite.
The flintlock rifle used by the Tang army has a maximum accurate range of 150 paces, and the current distance is just at the edge of the maximum accurate range, so that the intensive shooting that can be accurately aimed can of course create a terrible killing effect.
The roaring swarm of death bees, chirping and smiling, quickly burrowed into the body of the soldiers of the Shadingzhou Department on the opposite side.
The tiny lead bullets weighing three coins burrowed into the human body, breaking bones, tearing muscles, and the surging bullets churned the internal organs into a pulp, forming a terrible cavity effect.
The soldiers of the Shadingzhou Department in the front row, many of them immediately bloomed with blood flowers like a trick, and the people who were hit fell on their backs as if they had been slammed with a heavy hammer.
The impact of this lead bullet was so great that those Sha Dingzhou soldiers who happened to block the lead bullet with rattan shields could not withstand this huge impact, and they staggered backwards one after another, and the scene was a mess.
The first round of shooting caused at least more than 600 Shadingzhou soldiers to be killed and injured on the spot, causing a sudden chaos in the formation of Shadingzhou troops.
"Spread out, spread out! Don't stand together and get beaten! Sha Dingzhou was furious, and yelled at his subordinates who were in chaos.
A group of generals and guards also hurriedly stepped forward to maintain the formation, so that the entire formation was arranged in a relatively sparse scattered formation, and finally restored normal order.
After the soldiers of the Sha Dingzhou Department had just returned to normal, the second round of fire salvos began again.
"Bang bang bang! ……”
The gunfire was loud, the embers were flying, and more than 4,500 firebolts were fired, and more than 4,500 lead bullets whistled out, because the soldiers of the Shadingzhou Department began to evacuate the formation, and this shooting caused a total of more than three casualties of the soldiers of the Shadingzhou Division.
In front of the sand formation, chaos suddenly began to appear again.
The original fanatical and bloodthirsty expressions on the faces of those Shadingzhou soldiers who were at the forefront of the battle formation began to fade, and many of them showed extremely frightened expressions, because they didn't know when such bad luck would befall them.
And Sha Dingzhou, who was monitoring behind the battle, saw that his own soldiers were like a good target for others to kill in the dense shooting of the Tang army, and he had no ability to resist and fight back, so he couldn't help but be angry again.
Damn it! Two rounds of salvo fire disrupted their own formation, and if they continued to fight like this, even if they scattered the formation, they were only afraid of the final result, that the morale of the Tang army would be destroyed alive, and the whole army would be completely defeated, and it would be out of control.
The idea of shooting Tang Jun with a poisoned bow was just an extremely sad joke.
What to do?
What the hell is going to do now?!
Sha Dingzhou's heart was manic, and a trace of hideousness flashed on his hot and sweaty face.
Instead of sitting and waiting to die, it is better to survive in death!
"Rush! Give it all to Lao Tzu! If anyone doesn't rush, they will be killed! Sha Dingzhou shouted angrily: "The dog entered! The Tang Army's two volleys disrupted you, what's the use of Lao Tzu raising you such a waste! The more afraid you are, the faster you die, all for Lao Tzu! Rush to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Tang army, as long as you can fight with the Tang dog, it is a victory! ”