Chapter 122: Breaking the Formation and Killing the Enemy
A sergeant shouted:
"The thieves sent out men to fire arrows at us,
Wei Hou, what should I do? β
Lan Ziyi hurriedly shouted:
"Stop rushing into the thief formation, retreat north first!"
All the troops hurriedly tightened the reins in their hands and turned north.
Everyone crouched on horseback to avoid the thieves' arrows, and from time to time they found an opportunity to turn around and shoot arrows to counterattack.
After running out of the range of the thieves, Lan Ziyi led more than 200 soldiers of the Jihu Battalion to find a high point to observe the battlefield.
Lan Ziyi stepped on the stirrup and stretched his neck to look at the battlefield,
The terrain here is not enough to overlook the whole situation, and you can only see the vast number of thieves here in the north, running desperately to try to seal the gap in the encirclement.
Once the thieves are encircled, the form will be grim for Lan Ziyi and them.
But as long as the besieged people and horses can escape, Lan Ziyi is confident that all the thieves will fold here.
This moment is the turning point of today's battle, and if the thieves hold on, the officers and soldiers will suffer heavy losses.
If the officers and troops held on, they could encircle and annihilate half of the bandits, and for the first time after the thieves started the incident, they took the initiative.
Lan Ziyi shook his left arm and shook off his sleeve, grabbed the cuff with his left fingers, straightened his sleeve and wiped the blood on the sword.
Then he looked at the formation of the thieves who had not yet stood firm, pointed his sword at the enemy, and said:
"The thief's foothold is not stable, I will kill the general now and kill the thief in the array."
On the side, the peach chased the rabbit and said:
"Weihou, the horse is already running out, how can you charge?"
The soldiers on the side also said:
"Kill thieves all the way, the quiver has bottomed out, how can you rush at this time?"
Lan Ziyi looked down at the garrison war horses, they were indeed sweating profusely and panting,
Although the soldiers lost little, but after continuous pursuit, many of them have been hung with colors, many soldiers were just hit by arrows, at this time they were enduring the pain and broke the arrows, everyone was tired and panting,
Looking at the tired and timid eyes of the soldiers, Lan Ziyi understood the mood of the soldiers at this time,
But Lan Ziyi knew better that the soldiers were just temporarily demoralized, and everyone was just tired after a night of fighting.
Looking back at the brothers who were surrounded, Lan Ziyi turned his head and looked at his soldiers again, his eyes became extremely firm, and the spirit in his eyes poured out like a flood peak,
Lan Ziyi first asked:
"Are you tired? Are you sleepy? Are you scared?
Then let me ask you, are the soldiers trapped there tired, sleepy, and afraid? β
After seeing that the soldiers began to think, Lan Ziyi paused for a moment and then said:
"Today's besieged are all our brothers from the Jihu Battalion, the day before yesterday when the friendly army of Yang was trapped, all of you were on fire, although I do not approve of your impulse not to obey orders, but I respect your brotherhood with your own robes.
What's going on now? What about your brotherhood? Just because I'm tired of running, so I have to coax? Or are most of you new recruits, so you don't have a brotherhood? β
After Lan Ziyi finished speaking, he glanced at the audience, the tiredness in the eyes of the soldiers was still there, but the cowardice had subsided, replaced by the fighting spirit aroused by Lan Ziyi.
Lan Ziyi saw that his encouragement was effective, so he struck while the iron was hot, and then made a generous statement
"Now the horses are sleepy, but they still have the strength to fight; Although there is a shortage of arrows, you still have sharp blades and swords,
Today's battle is different from the sun, and now we have reinforcements in the city, and the help from the city is only in the morning and evening.
There are nearly 100,000 horses in the besieged army, as long as they can move and rush out, the formation of thieves will be chaotic.
The thieves are unable to fight again, our army has already controlled the situation in the city, and has the advantage of troops, so the enemy will be annihilated here, only tonight.
Everyone has seen the first battle in Jingzhou, only Lei Youde is the only one among the thieves, and now all the elite soldiers brought out by Lei Youde are all the elite soldiers of a hundred battles, as long as the more than 50,000 thieves are wiped out here tonight, it is equivalent to destroying all the thieves here, and the remaining thieves stationed in the west of the city are in our pockets.
The victory or defeat is only at this moment, the brave wins when they meet on the narrow road, and they do not seek a fierce battle tonight, but only rush to open a gap for the besieged soldiers. β
Lan Ziyi saw that the morale of the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion had been stimulated, and they were about to ignite it at the end, so he opened his mouth and scolded:
"I don't have to lose my courage!
If you don't rush at me, Lan Ziyi will rush into the thief formation alone, as the commander-in-chief, you can't defeat the enemy, what's the use of living? β
After saying that, Lan Ziyi went to take care of his soldiers again, raised his sword, slammed the horse's belly and rushed towards the northern formation of the thief.
Lan Ziyi knew in his heart what these soldiers under his command would do, and after taking it for so long, he could already rest assured that he would hand over his back to these brothers.
Sure enough, before Lan Ziyi could run out of a position, the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion behind him followed with a scream.
Peach Chase Rabbit accelerated to protect Lan Ziyi's side, and said:
"Wei Hou, don't rush to the front again, you haven't practiced."
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"There will be a heart of death, and there will be no greed for life. This battle is the key to payment, how can I not take the lead?
Greet your brethren, line up your formation, and shoot all the arrows before hand-to-hand combat. β
Tao Zhutu hurriedly ordered to go down, and more than 200 soldiers of the Tiger Battalion lined up in a triangle during the run, and Lan Ziyi and Tao Zhutu were protected in the middle.
The thieves had just run to the north of the besieged horses, and had not yet formed a formation.
For some reason, the besieged officers and soldiers have not moved much, and it can be seen that they are also trying to break through the gap in the north, but the horses do not run.
However, Lan Ziyi can't manage so much, first take advantage of the chaos to see if he can kill the thief boss, if he can directly defeat the thief, he can directly come out of the inside.
More than 200 soldiers of the Tiger Battalion gradually accelerated, and the strings in their hands did not stop, and the arrows rained down, falling straight into the thief array.
The thief has no armor, and an arrow means being injured or killed.
Many thieves were struck by the arrows of the Jihu camp in the darkness, and fell to the ground screaming.
The crossbowmen and shieldmen and spearmen in the thief's formation all tried to rush to the north flank, lined up to defend against the charge of the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion.
But the thieves are not professional soldiers after all, and the rapid march just now has made them a mess, and it is not easy to reorganize at this time.
Before the thief crossbowman could play a long-range fire, Lan Ziyi and the others had already lit up their sabers and rushed into the thief formation.
The light of the torch entwined the dried blood on the blade, creating a burst of red mist that made one smell the blood in the mouth just by looking at it.
The next moment he saw the blood light, the saber fell from the top,
The muscles were stripped of their bones by the blade, and the tendons were broken by the brute force swing,
The blood vessels were cut off in unison, and the thick plasma added another layer of vermilion to the already coagulated blade,
The shouts sounded along the route of the cavalry charge of the Jihu battalion, and the horses fought with their last strength to transport the killing and descend on the bandits.
The thieves were really unprepared, the formation was not tight, and the various arms were mixed together indiscriminately, and there was no way to organize effective resistance.
But the morale of the thieves is really not covered by the cavalry, and the heads of the people are harvested like melons and vegetables without frightening them.
These thieves are still chanting "mantras" and resisting desperately,
They are also used to seeing these Lan Ziyi, but this is not good news.
Now the fighting thieves are the elite of the thieves, if they let them slow down the speed of the cavalry of more than 200 people, Lan Ziyi and they will not be saved.
Be sure to kill the thief commander before the thieves' infantry can exert their strength, in that case there will be a fight.
Peach Rabbit asked loudly:
"Where's the thief?"
Lan Ziyi glared at the thief coldly, and then said:
"It's best to rush the bandit organization there, the thief commander must be there!" (The thief is brave and brave, with a long-handled axe, Lan Ziyi's men rushed to the side and did not shoot, but fortunately, Wei Qionglou and they arrived in time to kill the thief.) β
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