Chapter 425: Fierce Battle in the City
In just a few breaths, Xu Shijun's 10,000 Tongzhou troops successfully entered the county town of Montenegro, with 5,000 iron armor as the vanguard, 4,000 spearmen as cover, and 2,000 archers as the support to start the encirclement and suppression of the 50,000 Blood Lotus Sect soldiers.
The first thing this Wantong Prefecture army encountered was the 10,000 Blood Lotus Sect soldiers who rushed to the rescue of the city wall. On one side are veterans of a hundred battles equipped with hard iron armor, and on the other side are a rabble who have just laid down their hoes for a short time, and the result is obvious. With a single charge, 5,000 ironclad soldiers killed 10,000 men, followed by 4,000 spearmen, harvesting the lives of the enemy in a swift and orderly manner.
"If there were a thousand cavalry, it would have been a little faster." Xu Shijun stood on the city wall and watched the battle below, and whispered to himself.
As soon as they entered the city, the first thing the Akagi Army did was to take over the city walls, and now it is also the command center of the Akagi Army.
"Crossbowmen, clean up the light one by one!" Xu Shijun commanded the two thousand archers and a dozen bed crossbows behind him and ordered loudly.
The Akagi Army was much less than the Blood Lotus Sect soldiers, and the number of torches was much sparser, so it was definitely not wrong to shoot arrows at places where the torches were dense and very bright.
The archers were given the order and quickly rained down on the brightest places, dimming them in just a few rounds.
"Feng Shi's reinforcements are here!" Qin Forget pointed to several fire dragons in the direction of Nancheng and said loudly.
"Pass the order, and the whole army will stick to the place!" Xu Shijun gave an order that made Qin Forget a little strange for a while.
Now that the morale is booming, it is the time to kill in Nancheng in one go, and he doesn't understand why Xu Shijun wants to hold on. But after a little groaning, he was relieved.
The battle of breaking the city is the most feared street battle, every alley, every room is the most fierce, once it becomes such a bad battle, the advantage of the Akagi army's ironclad equipment will be gone, but it will become a disadvantage of physical loss. If you stick to Feng Shi to attack now, you will maximize your advantage, and with the support of archers on a large scale, the chances of victory are greater.
"The archers keep shooting, don't stop without my orders!" 10,000 against 50,000, it was the first time he commanded a battle in front of Qin Wang, Xu Shijun was under a lot of pressure, and he ordered with a tense face.
At this time, the archers had just shot out six rounds of feather arrows, and most of them did not feel tired, and when they heard Xu Shijun's order, the commander of the archers ordered to shoot faster, and the archers shot faster.
At the same time, Nancheng Feng Shi was in the army.
"Kang Yuanjie, take your people and drive them out for me!" Feng Shi looked at the 10,000 subordinates killed in front of him, and ordered to his first general like thunder.
This Kang Yuanjie is a strong man full of explosive muscles, and his triangular eyes, which are not big, appear smaller because of the shrugging eyelids, and a trace of fierce light flashes in them from time to time. This man has well-developed limbs and a simple mind, and he is the most loyal to Feng Shi. With a fifty-pound cooked copper stick in his hand, he wielded it as if nothing was in his natural power. After receiving Feng Shi's order, he hurriedly rushed forward with his ten thousand men.
"Blood Lotus Descends into the World, Peace and Eternal Life!" He took the lead and took the lead in killing the ironclad army of the Tongzhou army.
What kind of generals bring out what kind of soldiers
, he is a brainless stunned and stunned goods, his soldiers are exactly the same as him, he doesn't talk about any formation, he doesn't talk about any strategy, he just rushes forward and kills with one mind. Relying on enthusiasm and fearlessness of death, this army has few opponents. In the entire Blood Lotus Sect Army, they are also the number one in the platoon, they call themselves the "Wild Wolf Army", but they are nicknamed the "Mad Dog Army".
"Is that okay?" Qin Forget was a little dumbfounded when he looked at the soldiers of the Blood Lotus Army who were rushing towards the Iron Armor Army, he didn't expect that Wang Gan had occupied Yingzhou for so long, and the army under his command was still like this.
"Bow and arrow cover!" The order flag in Xu Shijun's hand pointed at the Mad Dog Army and roared loudly.
As soon as the words fell, two thousand feathered arrows stabbed into the head of the mad dog army that was rushing forward, killing and wounding hundreds of people on the spot, leaving a large area empty in the middle of the mad dog army's charging formation.
Worthy of being called the Mad Dog Army, such casualties obviously did not stop them from charging, but stimulated their blood, one by one red eyes, and the charge accelerated even faster.
"Pull them up, cut them down!" Kang Yuanjie's small triangular eyes were full of madness, and he spread his big feet and rushed forward even harder.
Seeing the blood and getting the order, these Blood Lotus Sect soldiers became even more crazy, screaming and sprinting, and their speed suddenly increased by several percent.
"Shoot!"
"Shoot!"
"Shoot!"
Xu Shijun's command flag was quickly lowered, and three orders to shoot were issued in succession.
The well-trained archers did not disappoint him either, as fast as his orders were given, the archers shot as fast as they were, and all six thousand feathered arrows fell on the heads of the Blood Lotus Sect soldiers, once again taking the lives of nearly a thousand Blood Lotus Sect soldiers.
With a muffled sound of "boom", the two sides finally met each other in short quarters. Thousands of Blood Lotus Sect soldiers collided with the Tongzhou ironclad soldiers, and for a while, flesh and blood flew sideways, and ghosts cried wolves.
The traditional infantry formation adopted by the Tongzhou ironclad soldiers, with four rows of ironclad soldiers in front of them as shields, and several rows of pikemen behind them, constantly stabbing spears more than a foot long from their sides.
With just one face, hundreds of Blood Lotus Sect soldiers were stabbed down by a hedgehog-like array of spears.
However, there were still experienced Blood Lotus Sect soldiers who broke through the spear formation, deceived themselves in front of the ironclad soldiers, and engaged the ironclad soldiers in close combat. Kang Yuanjie took the lead, deftly used the cooked copper stick in his hand to remove the two spears that were stabbing at him, and a few more twisted bodies came to the ironclad soldiers. I saw him raise a cooked copper stick high and smash it at an ironclad soldier.
The ironclad soldier was not slow to react, and in a hurry, he raised the improved horizontal knife in his hand to block it above his head, hoping that the horizontal knife could save his life.
Although the improved horizontal knife is sharp, is it no match for a heavy weapon such as a cooked copper stick?
"Click!" With a crisp sound, the knife was broken and broken, and the head of the ironclad soldier with the helmet was smashed by Kang Yuanjie like a watermelon, and blood splashed everywhere mixed with brains and broken bones.
"Huh!" With a successful blow, Kang Yuanjie did not hesitate, and with a strong sweep of the cooked copper stick, it hit the chest and abdomen of the three ironclad soldiers again, causing them to fall softly.
In the blink of an eye, Kang Yuanjie killed four people in a row, opening up a lot of space in the ironclad army formation, and the mad dog army behind him was one after another
Howling to keep up, continue to expand the gains.
"Cut them off!" As the chief general of the ironclad soldiers, Cheng Dangdang obviously noticed this fierce and abnormal mad dog army. As soon as the command flag in his hand flickered, the two battalions of a total of 1,000 people immediately changed formations, one left and one right, and killed the indomitable mad dog army from the side.
Sophisticated equipment and rigorous training make the combat effectiveness of the Ironclad Army more than one notch stronger than these mad dog troops. Although there were only two battalions, they were like a sharp pair of scissors that easily cut through the Mad Dog Army's charging team.
There were so many mad dogs that the ironclad soldiers hardly had to look for opponents, as long as the extremely sharp horizontal knife in their hands was swung, one of them would be killed or wounded.
The rhythm of the mad dog army's rush forward was suddenly interrupted, and they were a little helpless in the face of the enemies who were killing from both sides. Some people still charge forward regardless of it, some people subconsciously retreat, and more people turn around in a hurry. For a time, the formation was chaotic, and it was killed by the ironclad army.
"Block the back road!" Seeing that the team of the Mad Dog Army was easily cut off, Cheng Dangdang glanced coldly in Kang Yuanjie's direction. His most important task now is to resist the onslaught of the Mad Dog Army, and as for that reckless man, it is good to be trapped for the time being and then slowly clean up.
got his order, and there were two ironclad mutiny formations in the city, participating in the interception and killing of the mad dog army behind Kang Yuanjie, and in less than a cup of tea, Kang Yuanjie's back road was completely blocked.
The two armies have been glued together, and the role of the chief general is not so obvious at this time, and the rest depends on the middle and low-level officers who are participating in the war.
"This wolf army still has some ability, especially their main general, who is a fierce general!" Seeing Kang Yuanjie rushing left and suddenly in the ironclad army, Xu Shijun didn't look very worried.
"General Xu doesn't seem to be worried?" Qin Forget was different, seeing that Kang Yuanjie killed a few more ironclad soldiers, and the results of the battle were expanding little by little, he was very distressed, and when he saw Xu Shijun's attitude, he asked slightly angrily.
Xu Shijun smiled slightly, pretending not to hear Qin Wang's dissatisfaction, the boss on the battlefield was the biggest, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with his attitude towards Qin Wang, the lord, "War is never a one-man fight, if that Kang Yuanjie is under me, he can only be a small soldier forever, and it is really a joke that Wang Gan can actually be the commander of the first army." General, look at the situation on the entire battlefield. ”
Hearing Xu Shijun's reminder, Qin Forget no longer only paid attention to Kang Yuanjie, but observed the entire battlefield attentively.
Now the two armies have made full contact, saying that it is a decisive battle of 20,000 people, but the direct contact is only 2,000 or 3,000 people. Montenegro County is not very small, but it is not big, and the battlefield of 20,000 people will definitely not be able to be used. The real battle is often the confrontation between the two leading teams, and the people behind can't do anything.
Although Kang Yuanjie led hundreds of people bravely and opened a gap for the Blood Lotus Sect soldiers behind, those people were powerless to follow up. Most of them were stabbed to death by pikemen, and a few of them would be wiped out cleanly by the ironclads even if they broke through the spear formation.
They came up and died in waves, but the kung fu of one pillar of incense had already lost about 3,000 people, and on the side of the ironclad soldiers, there were only 500 dead and wounded.