"In this battle, our department should have three benefits and three longs"

The brave general of the Hangzhou army, who was responsible for provoking the enemy and Li Cifei, the general of Wukang Town, one of the five towns attached to Lin'an, also had to send a horse and raise a spear in front of the battle.

"Our army is a cutting-edge division that has come all the way to the thieves without tasting defeat, and the Taiping thieves are the tired people of the division under the siege of the city. It's one of them."

"Our army is mostly driven by the children of the village, which has both the convenience of being familiar with the location and the potential for people and potential. And the thieves came from outside, and the gentry were brutalized to give it, which was already unpopular and undesirable. And second. ”

"Our army has the Zhenhai elite soldiers in Dantu City to echo, and the thief army also has the enemy's misfortune on their backs. This is the third one. ”

At this point, he shouted again.

"Since you have such a great opportunity, why don't you follow me to kill the thief and repay the service, the family will be honored, and everyone will have a share."

"Reward for Killing Thieves"

"Reward for Killing Thieves"

A roaring roar resounded for a while, and then turned into a vast array wrapped in murderous energy. And in front, the first green flag of the Taiping Army that came to meet also appeared on the horizon.

After half a sound, Li Cifei, the town general who was already steadily approaching the enemy formation, couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"The car formation, it's actually the car formation, these thieves want to use the car formation to fight, don't you know that this field water network is mostly soft soil and wet mud, which is the most unfavorable for the carriage and horses. How did they move to this land, where the water is on the side and the road is next to each other, isn't this a situation of self-trapping? ”

"Let the foot team prepare in advance, and it's time for our department to take this battle first."

Hangzhou Badu was originally in the rebellion of Wang Ying, each of the eight counties of Hangzhou sent out 1,000 soldiers as the capital, with the leaders of each county as the leader, known as the local standing army of the children of the eight capitals. Naturally, it is impossible to be limited to the original eight capitals and eight thousand children;

In addition to the expansion of each capital, it also established and annexed many other subordinate towns under the imperial court, and since then it has been known as the basic plate of the eight capitals and thirteen towns to the outside world.

And this Wukang town soldier, which is subordinate to the name of Xu Ji, the salt official and most of the sons of the salt households, is one of the few leaders. At the instigation and support of the local chiefs, they even dared to expel the tax customs and subordinates of the imperial court, and set up private checkpoints to collect taxes in the court, and used salt profits to purchase weapons and equipment.

It is also the most hated and firmly attacked by the thieves who are ravaging the two Zhejiangs in the current military forces in various places. Since he came out of battle, he has repeatedly defeated many thieves who are several times his size with outnumbered people.

At this time, the sky suddenly darkened slightly, and it was already a rain of arrows that covered the sky and the earth; Suddenly, there was still a fierce shouting and angry shouting, and they were poured and nailed down on the five-color regimental signs and guards that were uneven and competing to be raised at the vanguard of the Hangzhou army.

Then, in the aggressive sound like a shower, many of them leaked into the gaps that could not be covered, and suddenly there were screams and cries of pain one after another; Immediately, these fleeting gaps and confusions were filled and covered by the accelerated lineup.

And behind the licensed guards who dispersed again, Li Cifei was slightly different-colored, holding a slender bamboo pole with a narrow head and a light arrow again:

"This Taiping thief is a little interesting, can their crossbow shoot so far?"

At this time, there was no need for him to urge anymore, and the townsmen who were moving forward involuntarily turned from galloping to trotting, and quickened into the distance between them and the enemy formation; However, it did not take long for most people's senses; The second round of arrows rained down on their heads in an unexpectedly cramped distance.

This time, even the group cards and hand blocks that were raised in unison during the slow deceleration may not be able to cover them thoroughly. With the swift and heavy inertia of the arrows that fell down the wooden pole and the cone, in an instant, it creaked through the leather wooden cards, and then pierced bloodily from the arms and palms of the holding cards, and even stabbed the faces and shoulders of the opposite ones endlessly.

Suddenly, in a more rapid and fierce scream, these town soldiers who had suffered and lost their hands fell into many gaps in the military formation, and were trampled by the footsteps of the rear team; The sprint lineup has also become more loose and messy.

"Good thief, he actually knows how to suppress first and then promote. I'd like to see how many more of these thieves can come. ”

And once again dropped the lacquer painting group card with several arrows inserted into it, Li Cifei's expression became solemn and solemn.

However, it was as if reality always broke his expectations; The thieves fired again within a short distance of the townsmen's approach. This time, it was a tailless short arrow from the repeater's arrow magazine; Unlike those who were hiding behind the car formation and firing arrows before, this time they took the initiative to show their heads and came out in two rows of thieves who stood or squatted and held crossbows;

At least visually, the box-mounted short arrow, which is weaker in penetration and ejection, is undoubtedly much more gentle and drizzly than the previous long-range and penetrating strong bow crossbow; It was like a fluttering catkins and poplar flowers in the sky, slowly falling lightly among these scattered town soldiers.

But the lethality and threat brought by it are not reduced by half in the slightest, but even more so. Dense as a continuous cluster of flying locusts, the momentum of rushing the townsmen to the forefront, like potatoes rolled by a knife, and like boiling water poured on condensed ice. On the spot, a large layer was peeled off one after another.

"Where are the archers in the rear, don't you fight with me yet."

And Li Cifei's last bit of ease and calmness was gone, and it turned into a kind of indignation and resolute shouting, waving the flag left and right.

In a few breaths, in the back of the attacking town soldiers, a rather scattered and rapid rain of arrows suddenly rose, and the reverse spread spread in the middle of those thieves who were shooting horizontally, although there were few people who overturned in the middle, but the other party who succeeded in forcing them hurriedly retreated from the front of the car formation.

Without the approaching suppression and killing within a dozen steps, the remaining frustrated town soldiers also regained their momentum in this rising and falling shouts, and tightly converged into a not very regular front, rushed to the front of the car formation with all their might, and then bit their knives and hands and feet and raced to climb up.

It was only when their cries of joy and the roars of the enemy did not last long that they were soon pierced and flown up by the spear shafts and other sharp blades that were raised in the chariot formation. and screamed miserably with the blood splashed and scattered in the canopy, and fell backwards to the ground in despair.

There were flashes of swords and flashes of light from the formation, but it was the thieves who were hiding in the thick compartment siding, and slashed under the hands of the town soldiers who climbed on the roof of the car to cover and cover up, and all kinds of broken legs and cracked legs could not stand on their feet, and they were once again pushed down by the spear shafts that were erected.

Then, there were crossbows fired from the inside, and the townsmen who climbed up one after another toppled their heads and faces like hedgehogs and arrows. In just a few shots, a stretch of corpses and wounded had been piled up in front of the formation.

Someone tried to use a knife and axe to chop the panels of the array, but found that it had been additionally reinforced, and only split a fraction of the crack under the blow, and the tip of the spear and the fork handle pierced from the gap between the wheels of the buried earth, piercing the thigh and lower abdomen.

Someone desperately blocked the knives and guns that were poked out, trying to work together to support the gap in the formation, but found that they had been connected with thick iron cables; often fail to make a few cuts; was slapped with a hammer head from the top down, and the head of the upside down shot burst or the shoulder was deflated and the neck was broken on the spot.

Suddenly, behind and to the left of the thief army's car formation, there were also fierce shouts and sharp and terrible screams, and then there were curling fireworks.

"It's the Trekkers who have caught up, and they've already entered the enemy line from the flank."

Li Ju, the deputy of Wukang Town, who was pierced with elbows and shoulders, couldn't help but be surprised.

"These Taiping thieves are really sharp and shorter than melee combat, and after being close to these mountain barbarians, I am afraid that they will be out of order."

Another lieutenant of Yanguandu is also a slightly colorful coincidence.

"All the soldiers will go into battle with me, and the two will work together to kill the thief."

Listening to the shouts and roars that seemed to be getting closer and closer, Li Cifei couldn't help but be shocked and stretched out his arms and shouted.

To say that this trekking team is a vassal army composed of the barbarians between Hangzhou and Vietnam, the Shanha tribes; The best at being active in muddy and watery places and walking on flat ground; made the salt officials who had clashed and clashed with them suffer a lot of hardships and losses that they couldn't catch up.

In the end, he launched a four-way blockade, and cut off the import of salt, iron, grain and cloth from these dozens of Shanha villages, so that he could succumb to it and hand over the young and strong children to form a marching team to help the army; It's a pity that there are still too few of them, and this time, the trekking team from the salt collection official capital is only four or five hundred people in a battalion.

Immediately, Li Cifei, who took a group of subordinates to step on the corpse as a stepping foot again, boarded the upper edge of the car formation, but saw another circle of smaller car formations that were still inside; And those Shanhaman, who attacked the barefoot beast clothes first, were blocked under this inner circle, and they had already knocked down many corpses but could not enter for a while.

Other barbarians simply spread out and began to loot their various belongings on the spot, which was also one of the original agreements, and the barbarians only gave rations and everything was obtained by their own plunder. However, I don't know what these mountain barbarians who are running around and turning around have accidentally touched and stimulated, and suddenly many large clouds of smoke exploded between them.

And one of them was very close to Li Cifei, who led the team to rush over, he only felt that his eyes were dark for a while, and his face was tingling and was blown backwards by a hot wind and fell down; Suddenly fell and fainted. By the time he came to his senses, he was already outside the car formation.

After that, he made several more efforts, and when the day gradually turned westward, the fierce and short all-out rush was in vain, and after exhausting the last bit of momentum and blood, and generally showing fatigue and fatigue, Li Cifei also had to give the order to beat the golden drum to close the team;

And in the fierce battle in front of Fang alone, the Wukang soldiers of his battalion had already suffered more than 500 injuries. Even he was under the cover of his personal signs, and in the process of storming the car formation, he was hit by several short arrows that had not been penetrated, and was thrown back by the momentum and inertia, so that his success fell short.

However, the damage of the thief army is still unknown, so he can only lead his troops to retreat beyond the farthest range of the thief army, and stop and confront each other for the follow-up.

"Let's blow the trumpet and ask for help, and when we have enough cover from the shooting team, we can rush him again."

Then he was a little unwilling and resentful, so he commanded left and right.

。。。。。。

"Report, the Taiping thief has moved."

In this shocking news, Zhou Bao, the envoy of Zhenhai Festival, couldn't wait to come to the city, and saw the obvious opening of the besieging camp, and the original flags and cooking smoke became much thinner.

"Jie Shuai, you can't miss the opportunity."

"Ling Gong, when it is broken, it will be broken."

And in the loud persuasion of the generals, his expression also fell into a certain wandering.