Chapter 55: Retreat

"Thief Bird!" Yang Datou was very dissatisfied with the performance of his archers in the back. But he didn't care about the archers who escaped back, good archers are hard to find, and they also cherish long-range strike weapons.

"Drums! Let them keep attacking! Pork Cai also ordered viciously.

With the escape of the archers behind, the troops in front also showed signs of wanting to escape, so Pork Cai gave the order to continue the attack. If they were still fifty paces away from the enemy and then they were scattered, they would be laughed at by the others, and there were rivers and lakes in their rebel army.

A few of Li Yan's troops were wounded, but they were all skin wounds, and the arrows did not penetrate deep into the flesh. Taking advantage of the gap between the thieves slowly advancing forward, Zhao Datong asked the uninjured soldiers to pull out the arrows for the injured ones, and first wrapped strips of cloth to stop the bleeding.

Li Yan watched the thieves continue to approach to the sound of drums, and when he was more than thirty paces away from the army, he began to shoot arrows again, this time he shot the legs and feet of those shield soldiers. The thief's shield soldier covered their upper body tightly, and only peeked through the V-shaped gap in the shield to see the way forward, so he could only shoot his legs.

Two arrows were swished, and with two screams, the two rogue's shield soldiers threw away their shields and fell to the ground wailing with their calves wounded.

Li Mou also made the same choice almost at the same time, and also shot down a thief's shield soldier.

Li Yan quickly shot two more arrows, knocking down a rogue who was about to pick up the shield, and another adjacent shield soldier. In this way, there was a gap of one zhang wide in the line to the left of the thief.

"Huang Desheng!" Li Yan shouted loudly.

Huang Desheng, who commanded the crossbowmen, immediately ordered: "Left gap, one row, volley!" ”

The sound of "boom" and "boom" sounded, and almost at the same time, the crossbow bolts flew towards the gap of the thieves, shooting down seven or eight unprotected thieves.

The screams of the thieves on the left side were one after another, and as soon as the injured person fell, there was another "Second platoon, salvo!" from the opposite side. The sound of the command. The sound of crossbow arrows piercing the drums behind them, followed by a terrifying scream.

At this time, Li Yan's crossbowmen, the first row had already run out of crossbow arrows, and they squatted in place, waiting for Huang Desheng's order.

"A row, up, shoot!" Huang Desheng continued to give instructions briefly and clearly. The crossbowmen in the second row began to bend over and wind, then crouched in place, waiting for orders.

"Boom" "Boom", another volley was issued.

"Ah~", the thief on the left finally couldn't stand this blow, and regardless of the urging of the war drums, he began to run reflexively.

And Huang Desheng did not let them go, and took advantage of the chaos formed by their retreat, and fired two more volleys at them, killing and wounding more than a dozen of them.

The thief formation on the right side, although Li Mu also opened a gap, but he did it a little slower than Li Yan, so Huang Desheng didn't care about this side. Since you want to hit a little, then completely defeat this point. Huang Desheng only after the thieves on the left had fled fifty paces, and the symbolic command of the crossbowmen fired a volley at the team of thieves on the right, but only five or six successes were achieved.

Seeing the team of thieves retreat back in a panic, Li Yan stopped. Instead of continuing to shoot arrows, he wanted to rest his arm. In this short period of time, he had already shot nearly twenty arrows, so rest was necessary. And shooting two more thieves is of no use for the whole battle, there is no need to waste physical strength.

"Let's go! Go back and take a break. Li Yan ordered.

"Spear, up!" Zhao Datong ordered.

"Turn back! Let's go! With Huang Desheng's order, all the soldiers except the shield bearer turned back neatly and walked towards the wall in unison.

"Shield, retreat!" Huang Desheng continued to order, and the shield bearers slowly withdrew into the wall with their shields in hand. Then the gate of the fence slowly closed.

Yang Datou wanted to cry without tears, and his team was hit hard, and almost all the crossbow arrows were fired at his team. At this point, his team was reduced by more than thirty people, and several wounded were wailing in place.

Pork Cai was holding his pig-killing knife, waved it twice unconsciously, and said in a daze: "What is it?" Much more powerful than the official army! ”

'Time Shift' has also been watching the battle in the back. When he saw that the team of the two had retreated, he immediately went up and said, "Two brothers, rush again, now rush straight ahead, don't care about the crossbow arrows." While they were retreating, they rushed up quickly, and they could enter through the gate. By that time, their crossbow arrows would be of no use. ”

Yang Datou said viciously: "'Time Shift' brother! You didn't say that the people in this village are so powerful! Look! My people have half the time for a cup of tea! ”

"I said they have bows and crossbows, could it be that Brother Yang didn't hear clearly?" 'Time shifts' justified.

Yang Datou roared loudly: "You said that there are only five or six crossbow arrows at most, you see that there are only five or six?!" How dare you lie to us?! ”

Pork Cai also said dissatisfiedly: "That's it!" What the hell are you trying to do with you?! If you want what's inside, you go and hit it yourself! Using our brothers as stepping stones, you're too unrighteous, aren't you?! ”

'Shi Qian' immediately shouted: "Two brothers, I didn't know they were so powerful." When I came here more than a month ago, he really only had three or four crossbow arrows, two or three hard bows, and even a few spears, all of them with long sticks! ”

"Humph!" Yang Datou snorted coldly and said, "My people have been killed and injured so much, we can't fight anymore!" I'll give you a sweep of the 'Time Migration' brother in the back. But if it were to be defeated, I would have to divide some of the contents and make amends for my dead and wounded brothers! ”

Before 'Shi Qian' could speak, Pork Cai also immediately said: "My team has also suffered a lot of losses, I will go to the north to rest to prevent the people of this village from escaping." The rest of the matter will be handled by the 'Shi Qian' brothers! ”

"Two brothers, my people will get the long ladder right away." 'Shi Qian' immediately saved: "When the time comes, we will attack from all directions at the same time, and they will not have a few people to defend, and the stockade will be easily breached." Those crossbows, those grains, those little ladies, they are all ours. ”

Yang Datou and Pork Cai ignored it and turned around and left directly. But Yang Datou took two steps and came back, and said to 'Shi Qian': "There are still a few injured brothers in front, please help me get it back, my brother is grateful!" ”

'Time Migration' was stunned there. After a while, he had to give up his hand and say, "Okay, brother will do his best!" ”