Chapter 678: Sorrow that gets carried away
Twenty giant crossbows were pushed to the front of the formation by the golden soldiers at the first time, and the shield bearers defended in front, and the giant crossbows were raised by ten strong golden soldiers, and the sound of the tight bowstrings was extremely harsh, and the gurgling sound made people get goosebumps.
After the giant crossbow was wound, it began to aim at the slowly rising hot air balloon, and Chengzuo was immediately anxious when he saw this. The hot air balloon has only just risen into the air at the moment, and the height is far from enough, and if it is shot by a giant crossbow, it will inevitably be easily shot down.
Cheng Zuo couldn't sit still, he gave an order, let the fire commander suppress it in front, and the sword and shield hand waited for the opportunity to attack in the back. In this way, under his command, 20,000 troops rushed forward under the rain of arrows from the golden soldiers, in a vain attempt to disrupt the enemy's battle plan.
Chengzuo's side was terrified, and Chen Jisheng's side was not having a good time, and the one-on-one confrontation with Huang Taiji made him feel that Huang Taiji's power was not as straw as he thought. The two of you have been fighting for no less than ten rounds, and no one can help anyone between them.
Chen Jisheng was in a hurry to kill the enemy to end the war, but he was never able to rest assured and compete with Huang Taiji. In the case of distraction, Chen Jisheng suffered some losses more or less. On the other hand, Huang Taiji, the more he fights, the happier he becomes, and Chen Jisheng's impetuousness is also completely clear to him, and now he intends to drag on with Chen Jisheng.
"Ding!" The two knives collided again, and then staggered past each other.
Chen Jisheng obviously realized that he could no longer be entangled with Huang Taiji like this, he took advantage of the opportunity to pass by by by and did not turn back to fight Huang Taiji again, but rushed back to the position of the Dongjiang Army, and then began to launch a general attack with the advantage of cavalry.
Huang Taiji was very surprised, obviously he didn't expect Chen Jisheng to suddenly come to such a hand. I can't help myself alone, and I brazenly use a group beating! He just wanted to open his mouth to scold, but he was instantly surrounded by the menacing cavalry of the Dongjiang Army.
More than a dozen soldiers of the Dongjiang Army beat Huang Taiji, even if Huang Taiji was an elephant, he could not withstand the siege of a dozen people, and after a period of chaos, he fled away in embarrassment under the escort of his personal guards.
How could Chen Jisheng let Huang Taiji escape easily, he immediately led the army to chase after him and rampage through the Jin soldiers' position. Thanks to the fact that the Jin soldiers at this moment did not have war horses, Chen Jisheng's cavalry battalion was able to come and go so freely in the Jin soldiers' position.
It's a pity that the cavalry battalion only has about 10,000 people, and in the melee of nearly 200,000 troops, it failed to exert the greatest effect. Chen Jisheng didn't chase for long before he lost Huang Taiji's figure, and this busy work only killed more than 30 guards around Huang Taiji, which made Chen Jisheng very dissatisfied.
Chen Jisheng immediately became angry, raised his saber and launched a charge against the Jin soldiers, causing the entire Jin soldiers' position to jump for a while, completely out of order.
No matter how Chen Jisheng killed the ordinary Jin soldiers, Huang Taiji never came up again, at this moment he had already come to the position of the giant crossbow, and sent troops to meet the army of Cheng Zuo who was ready to destroy the giant crossbow.
The sound of 'squeak' was still ringing rapidly, and more than a dozen strong men worked hard to adjust the height of the giant crossbow, and the crossbow arrows at this moment were already aimed at the hot air balloon.
"Put!" A command flag waved down fiercely, accompanied by a loud roar, and the sound of bowstring bouncing sounded one after another.
"Whoosh......"
The whistling balloons headed straight for the hot air balloons, each of which was aimed at two balloons, and the balloons had no defense against the whizzing balloons.
The only thing the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army who operate the hot air balloon can do is to try to get the hot air balloon into the air or dodge. However, the speed of the giant ballista was beyond imagination, almost in the blink of an eye, and the three hot air balloons did not have time to react, and immediately shot the wine glasses.
It hovered in the air for a while, and then fell directly from mid-air, the ball was destroyed, the burning flames engulfed the entire broken hot air balloon, and then detonated the gunpowder bag on it, and the hot air balloon was directly dismembered in the booming explosion.
Cheng Zuo's eyes bulged out, these hot air balloons are very troublesome to make, and they have been used since three years ago. So far, three years have passed, and the entire Dongjiang Army is equipped with only more than 300 hot air balloons. Now that he has lost three in the blink of an eye, can he not make Chengzuo feel heartache?
"Kill, destroy those giant crossbows!" Chengzuo, who was so anxious that he was about to go crazy, had already begun to rise desperately. He didn't have the heart to care about any casualties, he had only one goal, to destroy those giant crossbows and create liftoff and protection for the hot air balloons.
Huang Taiji showed a rare smile on his face at this moment, the hot air balloon that he couldn't deal with before would be easily knocked down by three. Sure that his army was no longer a mortal threat, Huang Taiji became more comfortable.
"Hahaha...... Sons, the Dongjiang Army has no threat to us, kill me! Huang Taiji laughed wildly and led the army to resist Chengzuo's attack.
It is said that people can't get carried away, no, Huang Taiji laughed wildly but attracted the attention of Chen Jisheng not far away. Finding the traces of Huang Taiji again, he was ecstatic, and he directly took the cavalry battalion to kill him. Jin Bing only cared about defending the front, and he didn't expect that the rear would suddenly kill Chen Jisheng in trouble. Those unprotected archers were miserable in an instant.
The cavalry battalion of the Dongjiang Army was not polite, and the archers who had almost no power to fight back were not soft at all, like chopping melons and vegetables, and rushed to the side of the giant crossbow position after a while.
Through the giant crossbow position, Chen Jisheng could already clearly see how fierce the battle situation was ahead. And those giant ballots are winding up, and they're already starting to aim at the slowly rising hot air balloons. Seeing this, Chen Jisheng didn't understand anything, so without saying a word, he rushed over and destroyed those giant crossbows.
The arrival of 10,000 cavalry can be said to have solved Chengzuo's urgent need, and at the same time destroyed Huang Taiji's illusions and made him nervous again.
The collapse of the giant crossbow meant that Huang Taiji and they had to face a hot air balloon that they couldn't hit and couldn't fight back, which was already doomed to failure.
"Woo woo woo ......" The horn of the Jin soldiers' retreat immediately sounded.
Huang Taiji didn't dare to fight at all, and he didn't sacrifice his subordinates' preparations in vain, so he immediately withdrew his troops and fled.
Under the leadership of Cheng Zuo and Chen Jisheng, the Dongjiang Army only pursued for less than two miles, and then also withdrew its troops. The battlefield was littered with corpses, and a rough estimate of the total casualties on both sides was around 20,000.
Clean up the battlefield, bandage the wounded soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, and cut down all the Jin soldiers who were not dead. There is no need to keep prisoners at all, that would only add to the burden on the Dongjiang army.