Chapter 172: Battle City West

Lan Ziyi stood on the horse and looked at it from afar,

Even from the city wall, the team of thieves is almost boundless, and now Lan Ziyi is in the midst of the chaos and looks at the thieves from afar, and he feels that he has fallen into the ocean.

With the help of the gunpowder explosion just now, Lan Ziyi and their round of impact broke the thieves in front of them, and the fleeing thieves rushed from the north side of their western formation to the defensive position on the south side of their side, and the defenders there already showed signs of collapse.

In this way, it seems that Tao Zhutu is right, the thieves are about to be rushed by Lan Ziyi, and the thieves besieging the west of Xiangcheng will be trampled to death by their own people immediately, and if they seize this opportunity, they may be able to completely defeat the thieves.

But in Lan Ziyi's opinion, this is just a fantasy, the thieves in front of them are indeed being chased by the iron horsemen and running all over the ground, but looking into the distance, although the depths of the thief formation are a little nervous, there is no chaos,

The three thousand soldiers of the Jihu battalion looked brave and brave, but it was only the thieves in front of them who were scattered, and most of the thieves were not moving at all, and the passage that the Jihu battalion had tried their best to cut out was quickly completed by the thieves who followed behind, and the thieves were not scattered like they encountered in the previous battle.

Now Lan Ziyi and they are like a loach swimming in the muddy field, it seems that they are all around the place, but in fact, they are just struggling with their last breath, and the soil will eventually drown the loaches, and the same is true for the thieves who have no end in sight.

So Lan Ziyi said:

"Not necessarily."

As he spoke, the thieves who fled under the drive of the Jihu camp slowed down.

Lan Ziyi stood up and looked ahead, I don't know when there was an extra row of overseers in the direction of the thieves' retreat, the front row of these overseers were all elite soldiers wearing heavy armor, and there were many giant axe soldiers who cut off the wooden fence on the city when they just landed in the city, and the back row was a crossbowman.

In the back row of the overseer team, a thief general who seemed to be Tiangang or Disha shouted:

"You dedicate yourself to the path of rebirth, and what you seek is to slay down demons and eliminate demons, and to die as martyrs.

But now you are so frightened by the demon that you are holding your head and running away, how can you become an immortal?

Tell you, turn around and kill the demon, you can ascend to the immortal, die under the sword of the warlord, what awaits you is the eighteen layers of hell, and you will never wait for superbirth!

Give me all the time to go back to war! β€œ

As he spoke, the thieves had already killed several rows, and the corpses in front of the thieves were knee-high.

Under this kind of strict military supervision, the retreating thieves finally slowly stopped, and the thieves who stopped were all crowded in front of the Jihu battalion, and the thieves who were dense in the team couldn't raise their hands.

Of course, the sudden change fell into the eyes of the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion,

Tao Zhutu shouted and scolded Lan Ziyi on the side:

"Bastard, why did you stop?

Alas, the group of thieves in front of them wore more armor than the entire army of thieves and robbers before combined, and it was really thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi. β€œ

兰子义 says:

"The thieves will definitely not be overwhelmed by us like this, because there are too many of them; secondly, they were bewitched by the demon law and forgot to die; Thirdly, the thieves have only been attacking the city for two days, and they still have a lot of strength, so they will not collapse so easily; In the end, although I don't want to admit it, I have to say that the thieves are now quite disciplined, and they are no longer the rabble they used to fight. ”

Peach Rabbit asked:

"What then? We can't just rush down like this and hit the wall again. ”

Of course, Lan Ziyi knew that he couldn't rush like this, but he couldn't stop now, the three thousand people who went out of the city were all cavalry, and the cavalry that stopped was not as good as the infantry.

In that case, in which direction?

It is impossible to return to the city, not only is it too far away from the city gate, but also the thieves are too close, and when the time comes, they will be surrounded at the city gate, and the people will not be able to enter the city, so they will all be buried under the thieves' knives;

They can't lean against the city wall, because Lan Ziyi and they have been advancing along the city wall since they left the city, and now after turning around, the entire soil slope in the southern section of the west city wall has not been blown up, which means that the road under the city wall is blocked.

The only way for Lan Ziyi to retreat in front of him was to break through in the opposite direction of the city wall, where there was a sea of thieves and bandits that could not be seen at a glance, but compared to the wall of thieves in front of him, the thieves there were much looser.

So Lan Ziyi shouted:

"Go to the right, the right army will be the front army, rush to the right front, and march to the depths of the thief formation!"

When the sergeants heard this, they immediately reined in their horses and turned around, this time the U-turn was very sharp, and the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion rushed into the other end of the thief formation before the thieves who gathered to block the road turned around, and the soldiers had no inconvenient horse lances in their hands, because the remaining horse lances had been destroyed on the way to the charge just now.

A soldier asked Lan Ziyi:

"Wei Hou, are we breaking through now?"

兰子义 says:

"Breakout? Where to break through? There are thieves on all sides, and we are charging in the other direction! ”

Tao Zhutu, who was beside Lan Ziyi, had just shot an arrow at a thief, and then asked:

"Young Master, didn't you say don't rush into the depths of the thief formation?"

Lan Ziyi was busy observing the weaknesses of the thieves in the direction of the attack back and forth, and said with a smile:

"I told you not to rush, and I didn't ask me not to rush."

The surrounding soldiers laughed loudly when they heard this, and their feet were forceful, urging the horses to plunge into the thief formation.

The thieves obviously did not expect the Jihu Battalion to change the direction of impact, and there was no targeted defensive force at all in the new direction of the Jihu Battalion's impact.

Three thousand soldiers brandished sabers and rushed into the evacuated bandits, this is the middle of the bandits, neither the rear of the thieves in the main formation, nor the front line of the city, the thieves here are moving closer to the city wall, they are ready to go to the city or the archers who go to the city to release arrows, these people are advancing along the large distance between the queues, the vacant space in the middle is reserved for the wounded sent in front, the commanders who give orders, and the people who transport supplies.

After Lan Ziyi's Jihu battalion began to attack, the team on this side had stopped advancing, and there were warlords who stepped forward from the gap behind, and pikemen followed, but the thieves here were not ready to resist the onslaught of the Jihu camp.

The soldiers of the Jihu Battalion in the back row first selected the thief holding the long soldier in front of the thief, and before the battle, he released the arrow and pulled it out at a fixed point.

Then the soldiers in the front row urged the horses to rush into the ranks of the thieves, and the horses marching together formed a wall of cavalry flesh, knocking all the thieves in the way and trampling them into powder under the iron hooves.

Then the sabers of the soldiers fell, and they went straight to the key points of the thieves, or the neck, or the shoulder, or the cheek, and each slash drew a cold light, and each cold light splashed a piece of blood.

The spurt of bright red stained the blades, and the arms of the warriors swept into the air, so that the empty sky turned into silk cloth, and the sabers of the warriors became paintbrushes, and the terrible cries of iron and blood were frozen in the air, and became a diffuse mist and rusty blood, which was imprinted in the minds of all.

The sudden impact completely disrupted the arrangement of the thieves, even if there were thieves shouting behind them, the thieves could not quickly organize effective resistance, and the thieves facing the Jihu camp could only be forced to turn into blood mist and floating shouts in the air.

Those thieves on both flanks of the cavalry charge were much luckier, they dodged to both sides, dodging the charge of the Jihu battalion, although there were arrows released by the soldiers after dodging the charge, but they did not retreat after all, let alone escape, which made the strength of the Jihu battalion disperse little by little, and it was difficult to cause heavier damage to the bandits.

For the cavalry, their power is not reflected in the killing, in fact, the cavalry caused far less damage than the archers and the infantry slashing, the real power of the cavalry is that his high-speed movement ability gives him a strong impact, and the strong impact brings a huge deterrent ability,

The assault launched by the well-trained ironclad cavalry under the right conditions will easily tear apart the enemy's painstakingly constructed line and deal a heavy blow to the enemy's morale, as long as the troops in the rear can coordinate in time and pour in from this gap, then it is only a matter of time before the enemy is annihilated.

Or this charging elite cavalry can inflict a devastating blow on the enemy's morale, and the enemy in front of him will begin to rout after being dispersed, disrupting the entire deployment of the thieves, spreading fear to all enemies, driving the enemy's own soldiers to attack their own lines, and finally trampling each other to death, just like the commotion caused by Lan Ziyi's charge just now.

But now these thieves who are attacking the Jihu camp can find an opportunity to avoid Lan Ziyi's edge, although they will be replenished with an arrow on their backs, but the arrows of the Jihu Battalion soldiers will eventually run out, and the thieves are numerous, as long as they do not break up and cause chaos, they will eventually surround the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion.

There is not much time left for Lan Ziyi, and the horses are about to be exhausted after running for so long, at this time, the soldiers should find an opportunity to turn their horses' heads and kill back to the city to avoid casualties, but Lan Ziyi is still somewhat unwilling to go back like this, so they need to give full play to the last skill of the cavalry.

Under the protection of the soldiers, Lan Ziyi had plenty of time to observe the enemy situation and think about countermeasures, and he took a fancy to the thief general who was commanding behind the battle not far from the right front at a glance.

So Lan Ziyi commanded loudly:

"The enemy formation on the right, the thief who raised the whip."

Then he secretly patted the shoulder of the peach rabbit next to him and said:

"Third brother, I'll kill that demon thief later."

Tao Zhutu had already set his eyes on the thief general, and said with his bow in his hand:

"Don't worry, young master, make sure he doesn't see the moon tonight."

After hearing the order, the soldiers of the Jihu battalion slightly shifted the direction of attack, and thousands of cavalry rushed towards the thief general.

The current thief is no longer the thief that Lan Ziyi saw in Dangyang, this thief will command the movement of the army to delay the movement of the Jihu battalion, and he has already stood in front of several rows of spearmen to step into a gun formation, waiting for the Jihu battalion to rush.

Seeing this, Lan Ziyi immediately commanded:

"Shoot the arrows!"

When the soldiers heard the order, they immediately aimed at the thief, and thousands of arrows flew out in an instant, rushing straight to the thief.

But the thief had already expected this, and the big shield man beside him immediately came to form a shield wall in front of him, and all the arrows were stopped.

Lan Ziyi saw that he was about to rush to the gun array again, and immediately ordered the whole army to turn left to avoid the thieves.

The thief will see Jihu Camp turn around, and laugh on the spot:

"Righteous demon! I think you still have what you can do? ”

Lan Ziyi, who had just turned the horse's head, looked back at the thief general and sneered:

"You're already a dead man."

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