Chapter 251: Bitter Battle at the Docks
The road to the dock is also a big road, but it will become a different scene if more than 2,000 cavalry are crowded on the wide road.
As soon as Lan Ziyi and the others approached the edge of the canal, they saw that the thieves connected the boats with iron locks, and paved a flat road with wooden planks between the boats, so that the thieves on the boats behind them could land in the city and dock.
Lan Ziyi's attack was very effective, not only because Lan Ziyi had rushed along the east and west directions of the intersection three times just now, but also because the thieves who came down from the dock were in a hurry to find other ways to participate in the siege, and the defense on the road was naturally lax.
Lan Ziyi's more than 2,000 Tiger Battalion soldiers completely filled the road, and the width of the street was all occupied by Lan Ziyi.
Since the thieves did not organize a defensive line, they could only flee when they were impacted by the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion who were charging in.
The thieves who were lucky enough to stand on the side of the street seemed lucky to be able to hide in the houses on both sides of the street or climb on the roofs to escape, but the doors of the houses were closed, and the soldiers of the Jihu battalion rushed in a hurry, even the time to open the door seemed too long, and a large number of thieves blocked the door and couldn't move, and the saber behind them was like a school of fish flowing in the river, and the saber that passed quickly like a school of fish in the river harvested the lives of these thieves one by one.
The thieves standing in the middle of the street had no choice but to retreat, but they were still people when they retreated to the back, how could they avoid the iron horses rolling in front of them,
Lan Ziyi sat in the Chinese army, and at the moment when the soldiers bumped into the thieves, Lan Ziyi felt like a polo stick hitting the stone polo solidly, and the impact of the cavalry soldiers was completely transmitted to the thieves, and the thieves were lined up one after another to transmit the power to the people behind.
Iron hooves are clanging, stepping through the mountains and rivers, these thieves in front of them can't even be called bumpy, the soldiers still didn't slow down at all, the enemies who stood in the way were all trampled under their feet and trampled on the city's flesh, and the remaining thieves were either collided or driven away, the crowd accumulated more and more, and finally when Lan Ziyi and they rushed to the dock, a large group of thieves was pressed out of the street by the heavy cavalry, and then the dock collapsed, falling into the water along the river.
The thieves who were still on the boat were taken aback, when they entered the city, they were really like bamboos, killing Qi Rongxun's defenders to a mess, and they entered the city in half a day like a fish in water, no one could stop them, why did there be cavalry rushing to the dock now? It's all to blame for the group of wastes hidden in the city, and they are also known as the elite of a thousand, but the result still alarmed the demon in the city, and was discovered in advance, or wait until the army of thieves and thieves enter the city and fight with the demon in an all-round way, these people will jump out, at that time, the demon will be attacked on both sides, and he will definitely die, and now these guys are fighting chaotically, there is no rule at all, and they also alarmed the demon in advance, which is really troublesome.
However, after experiencing the shock of seeing the cavalry of the Jihu Battalion for a while, the thieves soon found that there was no place for the narrow streets to give them the opportunity to use their fists and kicks, and the dense formation of the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion was forced to arrange no space for the soldiers to draw bows and shoot arrows, and the messy stacking of materials on the dock restricted the further advance of the cavalry, and the army of thieves was on the ship, so they were not afraid that the cavalry of the Jihu Battalion might fly to the ship.
The thieves who reacted shouted and hurried to work on the boat, the archers climbed the top of the boat to shoot arrows at the soldiers on the dock, and the other infantry took the spears and sickles they had just taken from the back cabin in their hands, and stood on the side of the boat and stabbed at the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion on the shore.
There is only one section of the canal dug into the city from the river, and there is no pier on the east side of the river, only a stone bank on the west side, which is used as a pier around the river.
Lan Ziyi led his soldiers to come out of the stone bank not far away, and there were several thief boats on the canal on the right side parked on the river, and the passage in front of them was blocked by debris on the shore.
After the thieves on the boat began to fight back, the thieves who pushed to the other end of the dock also reacted from the panic, they did not flee to the boat in a panic or jump into the river to escape, but regrouped and moved closer to Lan Ziyi.
The soldiers of the Jihu Battalion have completely stopped, and once they stop, their dense formation turns them into live targets.
The thieves on the boat were firing arrows, and their outstretched spears and hooks and sickles stabbed the horses near the shore and pulled them down the river. The thieves who had returned from the docks also joined the siege.
The soldiers of the Jihu battalion were also fighting back, but their bows and arrows were sparse, and the soldiers in the front row were again caught in hand-to-hand combat with the thieves.
The sergeant next to Lan Ziyi said to Lan Ziyi:
"Weihou, we can't stay here any longer, it's a dead end."
Lan Ziyi didn't care what the sergeant said, he stood up and looked around in the rain of arrows, and then asked:
"Are there any thieves from behind?"
The questions were passed to the back row by row, and the sergeants in the back wore the answers back row by row.
"Back to Weihou, there is no movement."
When asked just now, the sergeant said:
"Weihou, we really can't stay here, stopping here is suicide......"
Before he could say anything, a shot fell from the sky and pierced the sergeant's neck,
The sergeant spurted blood from his mouth after being struck by an arrow, and slid down on his horse.
Lan Ziyi hugged him, watching the sergeant choking on blood, his eyes gradually drifting.
Lan Ziyi gave the sergeant his last ride, and then put him on horseback.
At this time, another sergeant proposed to retreat quickly, and Lan Ziyi asked:
"Are there any thieves who have disembarked and gone to the warehouse?"
The sergeant replied:
"Nope! The dock is blocked by us, and the thieves can't leave. ”
Hearing this, Lan Ziyi gritted his teeth and said:
"Then we can't withdraw! We're going to seal up the thieves here. “
One of the sergeants said:
"But if we seal up the thieves, we're dead."
Lan Ziyi commanded loudly:
"Hold on! Hold on a little longer. ”
Saying that, Lan Ziyi's face was burned by something, and then when he turned around, he saw that the north city of the street that had been lit just now was already full of smoke, and the fire was hung all the way to this side by the wind.
The flames were still separated by a river, but the thieves' ships were connected, and if a fire was introduced into the boats, they would be wiped out.
Lan Ziyi finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Huoqi, and immediately ordered:
"Anyone in the front row who can throw torches on the boat will throw torches at me, and the back row will cover the front row, hurry up."
When the soldiers heard Lan Ziyi's order, they quickly took out their torches and lit them.
The soldiers who could be thrown into the thieves' boat were also close to the river, and the others were either busy blocking the thieves or couldn't reach them, so everyone lit the torches and passed them to the people in front of them one by one, and the people in front of them threw them the thieves' boats when they received the torches.
The thieves leaned against the dock on the deck of the ship and didn't have much to ignite, but if the torches were thrown and left unattended, they would still cause a fire. In addition, the fire broke out in the southeast, and the thieves were also frightened, so that the thieves on the boat close to the Jihu camp did not attack, and they were all busy preventing fires.
The thieves were upset by the fire, and Lan Ziyi himself was no better.
He now regrets very much that he led the entire Jihu Battalion to charge just now, in fact, it is enough to charge a few hundred people to attack the thieves, and there are three entrances at the intersection that have been controlled by Lan Ziyi, and Lan Ziyi can completely separate the team and place them at various intersections before the charge.
But if they really did that, would the main force of the thieves who landed on the shore not dare to come because of the ambush?
These things are now impossible to verify, and the current things are more important to Lan Ziyi.
The flames have gradually burned, and if you continue to stay here, the streets will be burned to death by the fire, if not hacked to death by the thieves.
So Lan Ziyi ordered the soldiers who could not participate in the battle in the back to retreat first, and the front row followed to catch up.
But as soon as the sergeant in the back turned around, the sound of horses' hooves came from the side of the crossroads, and the hundreds of people who had just been separated by Lan Ziyi to impact the intersection quickly ran across the intersection to the east, and then someone came and said:
"Wei Hou, the thieves have gathered a group of men and horses to besiege us, we have to retreat quickly!"
Lan Ziyi was surprised and delighted when he heard this, he was glad that the thief finally came over, and he was so surprised that now he couldn't move like this, and he was embarrassed to meet the thief, and he didn't know how many thieves came, and whether it could play a role in luring the enemy.
Whether he was surprised or delighted, Lan Ziyi had to move, and he hurriedly urged the rear team to set off as soon as possible, and rush out part of it before the thieves sealed the intersection.
Looking at the dock again, the fire attack launched by Lan Ziyi had some effect, and countless torches ignited part of the hull, although it was not enough to burn the company camp, but it was enough for the thieves to drink a pot,
So Lan Ziyi ordered all the soldiers to retreat, and the front row was the back line to defend against the attack of thieves.
There were too many people crowded into the narrow streets, and the soldiers had a lot of trouble trying to turn around, and finally let people fall over, the fire had already burned, and the neat pace of the infantry advancing also reached Lan Ziyi's ears,
As soon as the Jihu battalion in the back was about to start, the voice of the thieves came into everyone's sight, this time the thieves did not make the previous mistakes again, they didn't only care about Lan Ziyi's side, or the Jihu battalion soldiers who were separated from the east team, the thieves formed a phalanx this time, the periphery of the phalanx is the sword and shield hands, the second layer is the pikemen, and the back is the bow and crossbowmen,
The whole phalanx is facing the enemy on all sides, although the formation will be slightly loose during the march, but on the whole there are no flaws.
After occupying the intersection, the bandit phalanx strengthened the defense in the east and south directions, and then the north began to move forward on Lan Ziyi's side, and the thieves behind continued to rush along the west street.
The soldiers were very frightened when they saw this, and one of the sergeants asked:
"Weihou, what should we do?"
Lan Ziyi gritted his teeth and sneered:
"This time it's really profitable, there are a lot of thieves, and our goal has been achieved."
The sergeant asked:
"But with so many thieves, how are we going to get out?"
Lan Ziyi didn't answer this question, and then looked back at the dock behind him and the thieves on the dock, Lan Ziyi was even more speechless.
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