Chapter Ninety-Five: Bloody Battle
Wei Qionglou announced loudly:
"All the soldiers are ready, everyone breaks through!
The Marquis of Wei led the cavalry to open the way, and the others followed me in formation. β
When the soldiers of the Jihu battalion heard this, they readily agreed, and the knights who had just rushed in bandaged their wounds with the help of their companions, tidied up the messy armor on their bodies, and threw them on their horses;
The besieged infantry led by Wei Qionglou finally recovered some of their spirits after drinking the rain, driven by a strong desire to survive, the hunger, thirst and exhaustion of the siege in the past two days were left behind, and the failure of this battle can only be explained here.
Lan Ziyi rode a horse and stood in the middle of the cavalry array, in front of him was the peach chasing tiger who led the team to rush to the front, and beside him was the peach chasing deer and the peach chasing rabbit.
Tao Zhutu was hit by an arrow in his right arm, and he couldn't lift it, so he changed to a knife in his left hand.
Tao Zhulu sat on the horse, and the wound on the back of the buttocks began to ooze blood again.
Peach Zhuhu was wounded, and all the clothes under the armor were dyed red.
Lan Ziyi whispered to Tao Zhuhu:
"Don't rush to the first row anymore, it's too dangerous."
Tao Zhuhu replied:
"There will be a heart of death, and there will be no greed for life. If all the soldiers who lead the troops are greedy for life and afraid of death, what qualifications do they have to let their soldiers go out and work hard? β
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"Then let me rush to the front, you're too badly injured."
ζ‘ζ·θ says:
"Wei Hou, you are not the material to charge into battle, if you really want to rush to the first row, it will be the same as before, and you have to drag us to protect you, it's too troublesome."
Lan Ziyi smiled when he heard this, knowing that at this time, Tao Zhuhu wanted to protect himself.
Tao Zhuhu then instructed his two brothers:
"Be sure to protect the young master!"
Peach and Peach nodded vigorously.
Lan Ziyi turned around and saw that the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion on foot had already lined up in formation,
Wei Qionglou stood in front of the formation, took a sip of the rainwater handed over by the soldiers next to him, then put the lance horizontally and nodded towards Lan Ziyi.
Lan Ziyi looked at Wei Qionglou, nodded as well, then pulled out his saber and shouted:
"The army has always been a thousand miles to kill generals! Brethren, let's rush out! β
The soldiers shouted in response, grabbed the belly of their horses, and rushed out of the woods.
At this time, the thieves have regathered the stragglers,
The sound of conch blowing was first heard in the thief formation, and then several other thieves and thieves beat the war drums, and immediately shouted in all directions.
The thieves were led by pikemen, and the two phalanxes in the northeast and southeast were also mixed with spearmen holding long logs.
The phalanx to the south of the thieves also beat the drums of war, and the pikemen leaned together, barely maintaining a straight line and began to advance,
Behind the pikemen are archers and crossbowmen, who are pulling their bows and preparing to release their arrows.
The thieves had been fighting for two days, although they ambushed the officers and cavalry who had been marching for days, killed many of them, shot all their horses to death, and surrounded all the remaining officers and soldiers.
But just such a little person is still too hard to bite,
The thieves had been besieging for two days in a row, and each charge was blocked by the commanders of the officers and soldiers, and there were many casualties. It is unbelievable that the spears equipped by the thieves and infantry are not as long as the lances of the cavalry.
The range of the bow and crossbow was long enough, but half of it was blocked by the woods, and the rest had difficulty penetrating the armor of the officers.
Today, there are reinforcements from the officers and soldiers, and the situation is really bad.
Fortunately, the day before yesterday, when the official army broke through, the thief commander had already made corresponding arrangements, digging traps, sharpening spears, although there are many official cavalry today, but they have suffered a big loss, presumably it will not pose much threat, this attack can kill this group of demons, and become immortals.
Just as the thieves had just begun to attack, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves in the forest, and then the bloodied cavalry of the Tiger Battalion came out of the forest like evil spirits in hell.
Seeing this, the spearmen who were at the forefront hurriedly stopped advancing, and the line was so chaotic that they couldn't even line up.
The crossbowmen behind them were even more panicked, and before they could give the order to fire a volley, they released their arrows indiscriminately.
Of course, this could not stop the charge of the cavalry of the Jihu Battalion, and the soldiers roared from their chests with all their might, and rushed into the phalanx of thieves who had not yet fully established themselves with the impact of the horses running at high speed, and then the swords of cold light descended on the heads of the thieves like lightning.
Most of the pikemen in the first row of cavalry were trampled by their horses, and although the crossbowmen in the back row wanted to disperse, the infantry formation was too dense, and the people in the back row were still advancing, so they couldn't dodge at all, so they could only block the sabers of the knights with their own heads.
The soldiers raised their swords and fell, blood splashed in the thief array, and they screamed endlessly,
It's just that compared to the previous charge, the horsepower of this time is obviously insufficient, and the soldiers' slashing movements are also weak.
It's not that the soldiers are passive and don't want to cut and kill, it's just that they are fighting continuously, the people are sleepy and the horses are tired, and the soldiers are wounded, and they hurt all over their hands. It's really more than enough to have more than enough power.
Lan Ziyi commanded the soldiers to keep rushing forward at high speed, like wolves rushing into the flock, and no one was able to stop them for a while.
The pikemen who were not rushed to the front of the thief formation saw that someone was charging, and did not continue to advance, but relied on the favorable situation of their wide front to follow Lan Ziyi, and the cavalry they charged took advantage of the situation to seal the open gap, wanting to surround the cavalry soldiers.
It's just that this left their ass to the infantry soldiers of the Jihu Battalion who came one after another.
Wei Qionglou led this group of broken through the foot cavalry and rushed out of the woods with a long lance shouting,
The thieves were caught off guard by such a beating, and they did not know whether they should meet the infantry of the officers and soldiers or pursue the cavalry advancing in front.
Such a short period of chaos was enough to kill them, Wei Qionglou led a group of soldiers of the Jihu Battalion to poke hard with a long lance, and the thieves who lined up in a dense formation were hit one after another, and two or even three people were pierced by the long lance, but the thieves didn't have time to react,
Then the soldiers drew their sabers and slashed all the way into Lan Ziyi's path of charge.
In the center of the thief array, the leader who commanded the battle stamped his feet angrily and shouted:
"Don't close, keep going! Don't disrupt the formation! β
However, the thieves are an untrained rabble in the end, and they can't cooperate effectively at all, and they can't be commanded by the cavalry.
When the leader of the thieves shouted like this, he revealed his position, Lan Ziyi rode on his horse and waved his sword to point there, shouting:
"Over there!"
Tao Zhuhu had already understood what Lan Ziyi meant, turned the horse's head slightly, and rushed over there with the whole team of soldiers.
The leader of the thieves here is obviously not as well protected as the commander of the thieves, and the only people in charge of guarding on the side are the sword players and pikemen.
It's just that where will the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion give the thieves this opportunity, and the soldiers in the front row charged and scattered the thieves.
Seeing this, the leader of the thieves was raised to prepare to parry, and the peach chased the tiger and galloped past, and after a flash of light, the leader's right arm was cut off.
The leader of the thieves was stunned to see his flesh and blood splashed, and he couldn't believe that his arm had been cut off, and before he could shout, or even feel the pain, the cavalry of the Jihu battalion who followed up in the back row lowered his saber and cut off the head of the leader of the bandits.
The blood of the headless corpse gushed out, and the soldiers who passed by were stained with blood red.
The corpse stood for a moment, then fell to its knees limp.
The knights saw that the thief commander had been killed, shouted loudly, morale was high, and after fighting all the way, they broke through the enemy formation, and as far as the eye could see, the valley mouth in the southwest had appeared in front of them, and the thief colony that had driven down the mountain from the downwind did not block the valley mouth, and now they saw Lan Ziyi and their cavalry so quickly killed out of the encirclement, this gang of thieves hurriedly marched, the formation was scattered, and now they are trying to rush again, the thieves are very likely to break up, and Lan Ziyi They broke through quickly, the thieves were unexpected, and the thieves of the other phalanxes did not keep up in time, for Lan Ziyi, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Lan Ziyi raised his sword and shouted:
"Brothers, grit your teeth and rush again, and we will win if we break through the thief formation in front of us!"
The Tao family brothers next to him laughed happily when they heard this, and Tao Zhuhu in front of him also laughed:
"Come on, come on, fight hard!"
It's just that at this time, the Jihu Battalion soldier next to him said to Lan Ziyi:
"Wei Hou, the general has not withdrawn!"
Lan Ziyi hurriedly looked back,
Sure enough, Wei Qionglou and the soldiers on foot were surrounded in the middle of the thief array, and they were engaged in close combat with the thieves, and the fight was extremely fierce.
The plan to break out is good, Lan Ziyi led the front to open the way, and Wei Qionglou followed up.
But the problems with this plan are also obvious,
First of all, the cavalry was fast, the infantry was slow, and the thieves were numerous, and although the road ahead was rushed, the infantry behind them could not keep up.
Secondly, these soldiers led by Wei Qionglou have been trapped for a long time, hungry and thirsty, and their physical strength is seriously overdrawn, although they can muster up a moment of combat strength in order to survive, but this is just a breath, once they can't break through with one blow, they fall into a protracted battle, and their physical strength can't support them at all, plus the soldiers are wearing heavy armor, and the protective effect is of course excellent, but they are too heavy and too physically demanding, and it naturally doesn't matter when there are horses, but now it is a foot battle, and the activity will not last long.
Again, the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion are cavalry, and they usually train cavalry to fight, and they do not train infantry at all.
In the end, just now, Lan Ziyi and the others killed the leader of the thief formation with lightning speed, but the thieves did not collapse, even if there was no one to command and their morale was low, they still fought to the death around Wei Qionglou. That's not a good thing.
Lan Ziyi looked back at Wei Qionglou and sighed.
Wei Qionglou, who was besieged, saw Lan Ziyi and shouted:
"Wei Hou go quickly, you don't need to die in this kind of place."
The cavalry of the Jihu Battalion, who rushed out with Lan Ziyi, all looked at Lan Ziyi when they heard Wei Qionglou's words, and it could be seen that their eyes were also very hesitant.
Tao Zhulu also looked at Lan Ziyi, and Tao Zhutu said:
"Young master, we really can't leave if we go back to save people."
Lan Ziyi looked up at the sky, letting the rain wash his face,
Turn back to save people or break through?
Why are you here?
And why fight?
Then Lan Ziyi turned his head sharply and shouted:
"I used to fight the siege to save my brothers, but now how can I abandon them?
Sergeants, turn the horse's head and kill back! β
Peach Zhulu let out a sigh of relief when he heard this, and Peach Zhuhu looked up to the sky and laughed, turned around and was the first to rush back to the thief formation.