Chapter 197: Forcibly crossing Weishui 4
To say that Gong is a fierce general, it is illiterate, the experience of being born in the Yellow Turban and falling into the grass made him develop a bandit style, although he was restrained after taking refuge in Liu Zhang, but the occasional exposure of his true colors was deeply imprinted on the hearts of all the soldiers of the Fourth Division. No, in the face of a strong enemy, everyone was not afraid at all, and shouted excitedly one by one.
"It is worthy of the soldiers brought out by Lao Tzu, they are all gentlemen with handles! Crossbowmen, withdraw here! Gong Du praised the soldiers under his command, and asked the crossbowmen to give up the idea of intercepting the enemy's rear road and return behind everyone. He was very strong, but he was definitely not stupid, and now was no longer the time to think about annihilating the enemy, he had to withdraw his crossbowmen before the enemy arrived, otherwise he would be powerless to fight back once he was forced into hand-to-hand combat.
The archers knew very well their own advantages and disadvantages, and after listening to Gong Du's order, they immediately retreated, and hundreds of crossbowmen formed a formation behind the battlefield to wait for the enemy.
The enemy army, which was originally suppressed by Gong Du and others, had already had the intention of retreating, and seeing the army coming to help, they regained their fighting spirit one by one, and shouted "Reinforcements have arrived" to parry Gong Du's onslaught.
The scattered officers and men of the Fourth Division soon discovered that the division commander was about to face danger, and all those who had their hands free rushed over.
"Archer, throw!" Gong Du fought bloodily while keeping an eye on the movements of the enemy's reinforcements, and when he saw them stepping into the attack range of the crossbowmen, he immediately ordered an attack.
Behind him, a rain of arrows roared over his head and rushed towards the enemy army amid Gong Du's shouts.
"Defensive ......" Li Le shouted, countless shields were immediately raised above his head, and Li Le's personal guards even wrapped Li Le heavily with seven shields.
"When...... When ...... "arrows were mostly blocked by the shield, they fell to the ground weakly, and some of them penetrated the layers of the shield and took the lives of soldiers.
The Fourth Division was not equipped with crossbows, and its strength was greatly inferior to the enemy's, although the crossbowmen tried their best, it was difficult to stop the enemy's advance, and after paying more than 100 casualties, Li Le's reinforcements were put into the battlefield, and Gong Du immediately felt the great pressure......
"Quick, support division commander......" One of the Dubs rushed up with more than a hundred people shouting.
Seeing that the Yizhou army came to relieve the siege, although the number was still a minority, it was difficult to pose much of a threat, but in line with the principle of prudence, Li Le still divided two thousand soldiers to stop the reinforcements of the Yizhou army.
Two thousand people faced 12,000 people, which should have been crushed, but under the leadership of Gong Du, this Yizhou army burst out with all its potential, and for a time it blocked the onslaught of the enemy army several times its size.
Li Le, who was watching the battle not far away, immediately jumped to his feet angrily and said loudly: "Come on, take people around and deal with those hateful archers!" ”
"Yes, General!" A partial general answered loudly before several colleagues responded, and without waiting for everyone's objections, he led more than a thousand people to run to the archers behind Gong Du. Several colleagues who did not rush to fight immediately spat in their hearts and cursed the man, they all knew that the archer was approached, it was no different from the little girl being pressed on the couch, it was simply a battle exploit for nothing, but it was robbed by others!
Gong Du also realized Li Dong's attempt, and shouted: "Brothers, stop this group of little rabbits!" ”
The Yizhou army was stunned, but the number of troops was really small, and it was impossible to separate forces to block the enemy.
The crossbowmen also sensed the danger, but they did not run away, they understood that as soon as they left, they gave the back of their comrades to the enemy, for the name of their comrades, this friendship, they would rather die than retreat, they were warriors, they wanted to fight!
Some leaned down to pick up all kinds of weapons that they were not familiar with, some picked up sticks, and some raised bows and arrows to slow down the enemy's footsteps.
Everyone felt an inexplicable tragedy, the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division once again burst out with unimaginable strength, they roared and pierced the weapons in their hands into the chest of the enemy, only to see a soldier of the Fourth Division was stabbed in the chest several times, and the whole chest was rotten, but he still did not retreat, he used his last strength to hold the two spears that were still in his chest and shouted, "Kill them...... Revenge ......"
A tear fell from the corner of Gong Du's eye, he couldn't remember the last time he cried, it seemed that he watched his parents and sister keep the only food left in the house for themselves, but they all starved to death...... He smashed the heads of the two enemy soldiers who killed the soldier with two furious attacks, and looked at his comrade-in-arms who was smiling and softened, and muttered, "Brother go, I'll avenge you!" There was no time for Gong Du to grieve and glance at the soldier who had died so heroically, his spear once again harvesting the life of an enemy soldier like a poisonous dragon coming out of its den.
In the face of the fierce attack of the Yizhou army and the momentum of sacrificing life and death, the Xiliang army, which had superior troops, was also afraid, and was forced to retreat again and again by the Yizhou army on the weaker side.
"Go and help......" shouted as he led his men to continue to suppress the enemy army.
Without saying a word, the two young generals led about 300 men to abandon the enemy in front of them, rushed to the side of the archers, and built a protective barrier for them with their bodies.
In the distance, more than 2,000 Yizhou troops were rushing towards the siege. The first hundred or so people to arrive had already fought with Li Le's reinforcements, and more than half of them had already suffered casualties, and it was only a matter of time before the entire army was annihilated.
Thousands of enemy troops in front retreated several feet, and finally stabilized the formation, relying on the strength of the Yizhou army to press up again.
The timely support of three hundred melee soldiers separated the enemy troops from the crossbowmen once again, and the crossbowmen looked at their comrades who had sacrificed their lives to stop the enemy, glared at their red eyes, and fired arrows at the enemy as fast as they could.
After all, the number of 300 men was a little smaller, and in the face of several enemy forces on their own, their persistence did not last long. Amid the angry shouts of the two armies, after the impact of cold steel again and again, countless people had to say goodbye to this world that they were unwilling to give up. With the support of the crossbowmen, three enemies often fall, and the Yizhou army will fall one, but in the face of the influx of enemy troops, the ratio of this seemingly gorgeous battle result to battle damage is very deadly, when one after another Yizhou soldiers were replaced by the enemy with a sacrifice far greater than theirs, Gong Du only had about 500 people left, and in his rear, the three hundred soldiers who protected the crossbowmen had been killed and wounded, and the crossbowmen had to pick up the weapons of their comrades and put them into hand-to-hand combat. They are not good at melee combat, and they are also fatally fatal, in the battlefield, crossbowmen generally do not engage in melee combat, they often use sharp arrows to kill and injure enemy troops, support and cover comrades, so crossbowmen are generally not equipped with armor. The crossbowmen of the Yizhou army also faced such a problem, and without armor protection, they burst out with the last tenacity, but with little success......
One of the archers did not pick up his weapon, so he had to throw away his beloved longbow and charge at an enemy soldier with a feathered arrow in one hand. This Xiliang army smiled lightly and contemptuously, and picked up the sword in his hand, the cold light flashed, and the feather arrow in the left hand of the Yizhou soldier was almost cut off by his hand. This Xiliang Jun's sword could have directly abolished or even killed his enemy, but he didn't, it was like a cat and mouse, he enjoyed this feeling of teasing the enemy very much, enjoying the enemy's fear, and letting the other party die in deep fear, the corner of his mouth showed an almost cruel smile, and another sword slashed at the enemy's right hand.
This Yizhou soldier dared to grab two feathered arrows and rush towards the enemy, which was passionate and forced by life and death...... Whatever the reason, there was no doubt that he had been prepared for death when he rushed forward, and when the feather arrow in his left hand was severed, he did not show as much fear as the enemy had hoped, only to see him raise his left hand and throw a small piece of the shaft of the arrow in his hand into the enemy's eyebrows.
Seeing something flying towards his eyes, Xiliang Jun subconsciously closed his eyes, but the sword in his hand did not stop......
"Ah......" Xi Liangjun suddenly felt a heart-splitting pain in his right eye, almost at the same time, if he could still take care of other things, he could find that his sword was sharpened, but it was obvious that it was not the shaft of the arrow, it was something thicker and stronger than the shaft of the arrow......
Xi Liangjun opened his eyes, but found that the position of the thing in front of him became very strange, it seemed that the position had a slight deviation from before, he didn't have the heart to see the world with one eye and the difference between the two eyes "positioning", he really felt the great pain in his right eye, he threw away the sword in his hand, and turned his hands to his right eye, but he didn't know that he pulled out the arrow that was still in his eye, he couldn't bear it anymore, and let out a heart-rending wail......
It was the Yizhou soldier who had cut off the arrow that made the Xiliang army lose one eye, and he threw it at the enemy with a useless small piece of arrow, and at the moment when the enemy closed his eye, he inserted the front arrow in his other hand into the enemy's eye. The arrows were too short to get close to the enemy, so he paid a heavy price and one of his arms was cut off...... Looking at the broken arm with blood gushing out, and then looking at the enemy army with blood wailing on his face, he smiled slightly, one arm for one eye of the enemy, he had no way to calculate whether he suffered a loss in this business, but he was still very satisfied with the result, he knew that if it was not for the arrogance of the enemy, then even if he was cut into several pieces, it would be impossible to cause half damage to the enemy!
No one sympathized, the Xiliang army who lost one eye was stabbed in the chest by the Yizhou army, and fell to the ground with the only eye open in anger, and the Yizhou soldier who lost his arm was also quickly killed by the Xiliang army, but he still had a smile before he died, because that person died in front of him......