Chapter 45: Mutual pecking

Liu Gao always felt that it was not because the opponent found himself when he was hit by this wave of light arrows. Otherwise, the Xu family army would not dare to set up camp, but should try to surround itself by virtue of its numerical superiority.

But the bandits below have a different opinion from him, everyone knows that the iron arrows of the war bow that can easily fly 50 steps and are lethal are quite expensive, and if the enemy really doesn't find them, they shouldn't just throw light arrows aimlessly at this side.

When the scout team shot the first round, the bandits were only taken aback, after all, the eight sharp-headed light arrows failed to hurt any of them.

But when the reconnaissance team opened their bows and arrows for the second time, the bandits couldn't hold back any longer, and I don't know who shouted, and before Liu Gao could react and give the order, they rushed out of the hidden woods and rushed towards the camp of the Xu family.

Someone took the lead, and the rest of the people naturally followed suit, which left Liu Gao, the real leader, behind.

"You little cubs, who let you rush!" The second master of Fulai Shan shouted angrily: "Come back quickly!" No, get in line! ”

Liu Gao felt that he was all confused by this group of bastards, as a former regular army officer, although he was only a very low-grade Du Yuhou, he could be regarded as having seen what a real war should look like.

He knows very well that no matter how strong an individual is, if he does not line up, he cannot be called an army.

When they saw the enemy shouting, they swarmed up, which was the kind of homeless people or bandits, who could be chased by 500 strong soldiers and cut down by tens of thousands of people.

He had forgotten that his former officers and soldiers were indeed bandits.

After falling into the grass for so many years, he just ate and drank to support these living capitals, but he failed to organize a real training.

After all, these 200-year-old bandits originally came from a completely different organization, and they were also routed.

This group of people had to gather around him, the highest-ranking officer at that time, after the Zhou army was defeated by the Tartars, although Liu Gao was the leader, but he could not really control this chaotic armed group.

What's even worse is that in the past few years, in order to strengthen his authority in this group of routs, Liu Gao has constantly used some insidious means to get rid of the grassroots officers and the ...... of talents with a little authority in the rout.

As a result, the originally planned night raid at close range quickly evolved into what it is now, and it was completely impossible to see that the so-called old bandits in front of them had any military experience beyond ordinary people.

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Xu Shiyang was preparing to open the meal, and in order to show the unity of the officers and soldiers, he deliberately chose the middle position of the meal line to line up.

The militia in front tried to give him their place, but he refused.

Unfortunately, as soon as it was his turn, he heard a strange cry of bandits from outside the camp.

Xu Shiyang was stunned for a second, then put the wooden bowl in his hand down, pulled out the tiger tooth broadsword seized from the tartar, and ran in the direction where the voice came.

The others were a little slower to react than him, but they quickly followed—first Xu Da, Xu Er, and other soldiers who were maintaining discipline in food distribution, then Gongsun Sheng and other pro-soldiers who had no task, and finally, almost all of them ran forward.

Because he had successfully attacked the Tartar Gongzi, Xu Shiyang was quite wary of similar situations, at least he was not careless to the point of planting a branch and setting up camp.

When arranging the camp, he ordered a large number of pointed wooden guns (the only weapon Xu Shiyang currently lacked) to be inserted diagonally into the soil to form an improvised fence around the entire camp.

This kind of simple fortification can't stop any strong opponent, but it can still have a certain hindrance effect against beasts and less determined enemies.

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When the bandits rushed out, the rookie scouts were taken aback, and many of them couldn't help but let go of their tight fingers and shoot the light arrows when they heard the bandits' strange howls.

Someone took the lead, and the rest did not wait for the order and fired directly.

In the case of failing to draw the bow to the fullest, the 8 light arrows still found nothing, which only frightened the bandits.

Only the Xie Zhen and Xie Bao brothers, who reacted, showed their due combat effectiveness, they were silent, and directly drew out heavy arrows to hedge to the bandits in front of them and shoot flat.

Peng, Peng, Peng, in the sound of the bowstring vibrating like playing cotton, two people, two bows, shot 10 arrows in an instant!

Xie Zhen knew that the lethality of the willow leaf-shaped heavy arrow against the unarmored enemy was very terrifying, and there was no need to specifically attack the vital point, so he mainly aimed at the trunk with a larger area.

Xie Bao seemed to show off his skills, shooting directly at the opposite door.

This choice of targets caused a slight gap in the hit rate, with 4 out of 5 arrows and 2 out of 5 arrows in Jiebao.

Six of the old bandits fell softly, 3 of them died on the spot, and the rest lost their combat effectiveness.

This timely counterattack made the bandits hesitate for a moment, and some of them took out their bows and arrows and fired a few arrows back at the militia of Dockfort, but their bows and arrows were not well maintained, and the feathered arrows fired were not powerful, and were easily blocked by the round shield in the scout's hand.

The militia of the 15th Tun began to line up behind the fence according to the plan under the command of the pro-soldiers—the front were melee soldiers armed with axes and sickles, the militia in the middle were armed with wooden spears of about 3 meters, and finally the pro-soldiers who began to reload the medicine.

Liu Gao found that the bows and arrows in his hands did not pose much threat to the enemy, and the militia in front of him actually had a large number of shields, although it looked very simple, but there was no need to think about it, as long as there was such a thing, it could improve the soldier's sense of security.

Moreover, the militia that he imagined should have collapsed quickly, and even bombed the camp, actually began to line up at an extremely fast speed (relatively speaking)!

Liu Gao began to regret a little, maybe he should have insisted that he had to defend the city?

But since you've already arrived, you can't just say "I'm sorry for finding the wrong person" and retreat.

The bandit leader could only hope that the militia's current formation behavior was just a bluff, and once he entered the white-knuckle battle, the former Great Zhou officers and soldiers under his command, and the current old bandits, could quickly defeat the militia, and then drive them away to sweep the remaining Wubao soldiers.

"Rush! Rush over and hack them to death! ”

Liu Gao shouted loudly with red eyes:

"Rush over first to reward a little lady! Falling last, Lao Tzu digs his heart and liver! ”

After all, it is an old bandit who eats food in a good year and eats people in a famine year, and he has a strong and brave force. Stimulated by the promise of a reward and the cruel methods of the leader, several bandits took the lead, and all of them let out an inhuman howl together, and slammed into the fence of the fifteenth tun regardless of it!

The last dozen or so steps were fleeting, and with a shout of "whoop", the surging crowd of bandits crashed through the thin fence and poured into the militia camp!

Some of the bandits couldn't stop their footsteps, and were directly stabbed to death by sharpened wooden guns, and some people accidentally tripped over, and in a hurry, they subconsciously reached out and dragged down their companions around them, and the bandits' menacing posture quickly fell into chaos.