Chapter 311: The War Drums Thunder

(The electricity was out all day.) )

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There was a commotion on the battlefield, and the front line of eight commanding infantry troops of 4,000 people had advanced to within more than 100 steps. On the opposite side of a ditch fence came the crossbowmen and waited for the battle.

At this time, the drums were loud, and the two commanders on the right wing of the mountain slowly moved forward, and the two rows of sword and shield soldiers in front raised the big round shield and approached forward together. In a short time, I saw arrows coming like rain in the air and on the flat ground, and several people fell in the phalanx one after another, all of whom were heavy infantry with large wooden shields in front; You can't die from an arrow at a distance, and the wounded scream inside. On the opposite side, there were three consecutive dense rain of arrows, and then the arrows were fired indiscriminately, and the Tiger Ben army had advanced fifty or sixty paces.

There were only thirty paces away, and suddenly a gong sounded, and a commander shouted: "Sword and shield soldiers squat!" ”

The two rows of men in front immediately crouched down, and the archers in the back rows were already drawing their bows and arrows. "Put!" Suddenly, a row of more than fifty arrows shot out at close range, and the archers behind also threw them into the air, ......and the dense arrows suddenly set off a torrential rain like flat ground.

The rebels behind the fortifications thought that there was a trench to block it, and the first in front were light soldiers with bows and arrows, and suddenly ghosts cried wolves, and countless arrows were hit.

"Put!" The two commanders of the Tiger Ben Army saw the situation and swung their swords again.

The light soldiers on the front of the rebels' right flank were in disarray, suffering heavy casualties, and the rebels fled behind with their heads in their hands.

At this moment, the trumpets sounded in the mountains, and then the drums sounded, and the infantry in front of the whole line advanced.

After a short time, Li Chongjin came up with a group of sword and shield soldiers to reach behind the fence, and the spearmen and archers behind him were mixed and threw arrows one after another. The Tiger Army on the right flank also took advantage of the situation to make adjustments, changing to the front with pikemen; After a while, the small drum sounded, the tiger flag leaned forward, the generals shouted, and the army shouted: "Kill!" Kill ......"

Suddenly the phalanx faltered, and the people in front scrambled to rush up, and they bypassed the rejection of the horses, jumped straight into the ditch, and then climbed up. The ditch was temporarily dug and not so deep that most people could climb it.

A strong man in iron armor put his spear on it, pressed his hands on the ground and propped his body up, but his heavy body turned up vigorously. He immediately lifted his spear, and his eyes slammed into one of the sword and shield hands behind the fence, and the spear pierced through the lower edge of the shield and stabbed into the man's abdomen, and the scream of hissing and lungs was deafening.

More soldiers climbed up, and the sword and shield soldiers couldn't reach through the fence, and the pikemen behind squeezed up to fight.

"Boom!" Mu Yanshan was squeezed down by countless people, and everyone shouted again for a while. A large number of Tiger Ben soldiers took advantage of the situation to rush in, and the enemy camp was in chaos, and soon a scuffle.

Heavy and neat footsteps resounded in the loess, and the infantry of the second line was advancing.

In less than a moment of incense at the start of the battle, the enemy was engaged on all fronts, and thousands of people were attacking Li Chongjin's department head-on. The infantry on both sides were completely devoid of queues and fought in the middle. At this time, the melee martial arts can be reflected, and there are chaotic soldiers all around, and if they can't beat the enemy soldiers, they will be hacked to death.

A wounded rebel soldier on the ground was holding his leg and yelling, but soon several feet were stomped on his upper leg and torso, and the wounded soldier's wound was trampled on, screaming "Ah......hh Finally, a tiger soldier next to him couldn't squeeze in front of him, and when he heard the scream, he raised his knife and slashed him in the head.

The limitations of such a long and narrow terrain made it impossible to deploy the troops, and watching a large group of people lively, the two armies fought on the whole front with a maximum of 2,000 people, and the killing efficiency was very limited. The people behind the Tiger Ben Army went up with shovels and dug soil and filled the ditch, and countless people dug soil on both sides of the ditch, and the smoke and dust were even greater.

Not long after, the infantry of Li Chongjin's division in front collapsed on all fronts. The proportion of casualties among them is not high, but if they can't beat the soldiers head-on, they will run, and as soon as they run, the morale situation will be affected, and more people will collapse as soon as they run.

A large number of rebels squeezed into the phalanx behind in panic, which accelerated the turmoil of the camp that did not participate in the battle; The pursuers of the forbidden army, who had long been in a queue, frantically killed, and fought with the rebels behind. The battle array was already chaotic at this time, the dirt road on a sunny day was full of smoke and dust, and the wind was blowing everywhere, and the generals couldn't figure out what was going on, only to see people fighting frantically everywhere.

…… Guo Shao rode a horse and rode over the messy fortifications with the unmoved footmen behind him, and slowly advanced forward.

At this time, the fighting on the narrow valley had gradually subsided, and except for the defeated soldiers of Li Chongjin's troops who had been killed and wounded and surrendered, the rest had fled from the valley. The second army and the third army of the Tiger Ben Army were in chaos at this time, and everyone was estimated to be tired and did not chase too far. The generals are struggling to call their men in an attempt to reorganize into an army.

Guo Shao led people to sweep through the chaotic soldiers, rode to the front of the valley mouth, and saw Li Chongjin deploy a camp there, with infantry in front and horsemen in the back.

The rear cavalry of the forbidden army also advanced in the hazy dust. A group of generals saw the high yellow flag and gathered one after another. Guo Shao said bluntly: "The whole army advanced to the front of the valley position, Dong Zunzhi hit the left flank, and Shi Yanchao hit the right flank; The belt camp was broken through, and Yang Biao led the infantry to kill and defeat the rebels! ”

The generals who were ordered hugged their fists and said: "Get the order!" ”

A large group of men and horses pressed forward again, and the Chinese army blew the trumpet first and then beat the drum. Suddenly, the horsemen on both sides came out, Shi Yanchao led the heavy cavalry to rush away, and the heavy iron cavalry galloped up, and the scene was very terrifying.

Dong Zunzhi did not charge directly with heavy cavalry, he led the light cavalry to reach the local phalanx in a long formation, and the rebels saw the cavalry coming up, and the front was full of dense spears, and the archers in the middle threw to cover.

A large force of light soldiers roared past the front of the formation, sweeping from left to right; Dong Zunzhi stretched out his arms and pulled the bow on the horse like a full moon, in this direction, he just held the bow in his left hand and pulled the string with his right hand, which was very convenient. With a "snap", a soldier fell to the ground, and the arrow dug deep into the armor. Dong Zunzhi's surrounding soldiers are excellent in martial arts, and they have released arrows, and their archery skills are very accurate, and there are still no arrows in the high-speed running, and people in the phalanx continue to fall.

The arrows in the air also flew, and most of them were light horses behind, and the arrows in the people were generally fine, and the elite ring lock armor had a strong defense against throwing arrows; But the horses had no armor, and when they were unlucky, every now and then a horse neighed and knelt and threw the cavalry to the ground. One of the horses was not hurt by the arrow, and ran through the gap in the middle of the enemy camp with all the enemy soldiers around, and was immediately pulled off his horse, and two screams were heard from inside, and the blood was splashed above the crowd by swords and guns.

Dong Zunzhi galloped back and forth, rushed from the left for the second time, and with a "snap" sound, the iron arrow flew straight to the front door of a soldier with a spear, and the man didn't have time to dodge, the arrow pierced his cheek with a "sneer", and with the fierce force of the full bow, the arrow pulled off a piece of skin. The soldier's face was covered with blood, and he screamed and turned his head to run, and the terrifying face frightened the soldiers behind him.

"Papapa......" Dong Zunzhi's personal soldiers followed his direction and fired arrows one after another, and the casualties in that area were very dense, and there was immediately a large area of chaos and turmoil.

Seeing this, Dong Zunzhi shouted: "Kill!" He rushed up with another arrow, killing one of the soldiers who was about to make up for it. The pro-soldier screamed and swept over Dong Zunzhi's position, raised his knife and pounced, and slashed condescendingly at his side. More horsemen rushed up, slashing and slashing wildly, chasing the phalanx in all directions.

"Ahh One of the knights screamed, and a sakura spear pierced his skirt and armor and pierced into the middle of the thigh, and the horse had just taken a few steps and crashed into the spear on the slope, and the man fell from his horse, and the horse was still running, and the group of infantry in front of him dodged away.

A crowd of people surrounded the wounded cavalryman with knives and guns, and the screams were incessant. At this time, several horsemen rushed up side by side, and one of the side riders raised their hands and slashed over one person, and the other foot soldiers got out of the way and huddled together. "Whoosh" a few strings, the knight's armor was hit by an arrow, an arrow passed through the shoulder armor, and blood seeped out of the armor. At this moment, the horse was stabbed in the chest with a shot, and the horse knelt down on its front hooves and threw the man off his back.

Leaning less, he suddenly saw a heavy cavalry rushing from behind, and the spear in front of him was condescending, and there was a loud "bang", and the rapid cherry spear pierced the armor of the foot soldier and stabbed him in the chest. The indiscriminate infantry saw the iron horse and iron man coming violently, and turned around and fled.

A large force of cavalry penetrated into the camp, penetrated in the middle, and slashed in a roundabout way. The infantry camp soon dispersed, and countless soldiers turned around and ran. The cavalry pressed their backs to cover the killing, and the soldiers and horses on the left flank had poured northward like a tide.

Dong Zunyu took a long breath, pulled out a few arrows on his armor, and when he looked up, he saw that the infantry on the right flank was fine, but the middle of the camp was penetrated, and Shi Yanchao's heavy cavalry and light cavalry had already rushed far away to the valley mouth.

Dong Zunzhi looked around, and the horsemen in front were chasing and killing the deserters, and the cavalry was in a mess. A large number of infantry battalions in the rear of the right flank were following Shi Yanchao's line to kill.

"Rush forward!" Dong Zunzhi turned his head and shouted at the soldiers around him.

Everyone clapped their horses and followed the chaotic crowd to kill. Among the horses, there are still some foot soldiers who can't run fast, throwing away their armor and running desperately, Dong Zunzhi is not polite, the bow is not full of crackling, and he is riding a horse and shooting at the deserters as a target. A stream of horsemen swept by, and the deserters on the left and right became hedgehogs, with countless arrows.

The cavalry was in front, and the infantry was chasing out of the valley, only to see that the open land on the south bank of Fenshui had been chaotic, and a large number of rebels were pouring eastward, and Li Chongjin's cavalry was the first to flee without firing a single shot. The road in the distance has been blocked by rebels, and countless people and horses have rushed to the road, scrambling to get there, but the more they get blocked, many people have lost their weapons and climbed the mountain to the south.

"Kill! Kill the ......" came from behind the earth-shattering shout, and when Dong Zunzhi looked back, he saw that the infantry of the forbidden army had already dispersed in the queue, and groups of people were running over. The entire southeast bank of Fenshui was full of people running in chaos, and from a distance it looked like an ant colony that had been frightened and scattered.