62. The Great War breaks out
Outside the Liudaokou, hundreds of thousands of thieves were densely packed like locusts, rushing towards Li Xiuwen's camp.
Duan Hong looked at the rolling torrent in front of him and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Unexpectedly, he originally planned to use rumors to force Zhao Mengxi's banner regiment to become the target of public criticism, so that the various departments of the official army would riot or even turn against each other, so that he would have the opportunity to break through the front line of the official army in one fell swoop, approach the pass, and then storm Wuliang Town and start a decisive battle with Wei Yi. But I don't want Li Xiuwen, the flag envoy of the division, to use the rumors he spread as soon as he took office to directly correct Zhao Mengxi and control the entire two flag regiments.
Who is Li Xiuwen, others don't know, of course he Duan Hong knows. Li Xiuwen's original name was Li Suwen, a descendant of Li Xian, the "Chasing Wild Goose Army" in Xiliang, he is only 27 years old this year, but his ability to command the army is absolutely extraordinary, and he has led more than 30 large and small battles at the age of 17, and has rarely been defeated, and the total number of rebel thieves and Hu people who died in his hands has not been less than hundreds of thousands. Because of his fame, after being transferred to the Thunder Army, he has been following Wei Yi and is only responsible for some training and supply work, and changing his name to Li Xiuwen is temporarily hiding his edge, on the surface, Wei Yi suppressed him, but in fact, Wei Yi has always regarded him as his hole card and never showed it easily.
"I didn't expect Wei Yi to even send Li Suwen out this time, it seems that the Thunder Army is really going to get rid of my Shunyi Army as the back, but I hate not to treat me now, if it weren't for the robbery of Gaoyang's grain and grass, I wouldn't have started a decisive battle with it at this time." Duan Hong's heart was extremely heavy when he thought of the ordnance, grain and grass he had lost!
Fu Ruhai stood beside Duan Hong, looked at the Shunyi army troops rolling away, and said: "Duan Shuai, don't worry, what if he Li Xiuwen can fight again?" With less than 30,000 officers and soldiers, how can you resist the slaughter of my 500,000 rebels?"
Duan Hong sighed: "I hope, but I don't think Li Xiuwen will let my army pass through that line so easily, now I hope that the two thousand cavalry of Shao Dan on Jingtai's side can arrive as soon as possible, and now take advantage of Li Xiuwen's unstable foothold to destroy him in one go, but it's hard to think about it......"
Ding Jian led his 20,000 volunteers and 800 sharp soldiers mixed among hundreds of thousands of hungry people, and when he stepped into the official defense line, he would deal a fatal blow.
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More than ten miles away, Li Xiuwen stood on the arrow tower and looked indifferently at the spots that were faintly visible in the distance, with his hands behind his back, majestic and majestic.
"Want to take advantage of my unstable footing and make a surprise attack? It's too late, three days ago, I might have had to retreat to the pass to avoid its edge, but it's a pity that now...... Hmph, Duan Hong, I want to see how many means you have, and how many lives are enough for you! ”
"Report! General, the thieves are less than seven miles from the camp. "A soldier below the arrow tower sent a military message.
Li Xiuwen nodded slightly and said, "Order Du Fang and Yan Heng to act, tell them, whoever dares to take a step back, punish the Nine Clans!" ”
"Yes!"
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"No, why is it so quiet?" When the huge camp of displaced people crossed the land of five miles, they found that the officers and troops on the opposite side were unusually quiet, and at this time, someone should come out to intercept them, were they all stupid? Ding Jian couldn't help but shake his head, unable to see through the mystery.
"Kill!" Just when Ding Jian was doubting, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers suddenly appeared in front of him, shouting and trying to approach himself.
"Excellent! It's finally here! Ding Jian's eyes were full of bloodthirsty light, "Rush over!" Kill an officer and soldier and reward a bucket of rice noodles! Two three buckets, five one stone! If you don't want to starve, give it to Lao Tzu! ”
"Whoa~"
Ding Jian's words spread instantly, and the displaced people screamed excitedly, and they rushed even more frantically at the officers and soldiers less than half a mile away.
"Steady!" Yan Heng watched the thieves approaching step by step, and ordered the soldiers of the flag regiment under his command to grab a chain, and when he looked closely, nearly a thousand people were like this, half-bowed and grasping the thick chain.
"Pull!" Seeing that the thieves had rushed to more than ten steps, Yan Heng gave an order, and all the soldiers with chains pulled violently......
Suddenly, a crack hundreds of meters long suddenly exploded in the dry and hard ground like an earthquake, and two rows of thigh-thick sharp wooden horses appeared in front of the charging thieves.
"Puff ......"
The sound of sharp wood entering the flesh continued to sound, and hundreds of thieves were accidentally stabbed to death and pierced through, and the blood and internal organs on the wooden thorns could not stop flowing, and the battle of Wuliang Town officially kicked off......
"Left side! Right! Pull! Seeing that the front of the refuge wood was full of corpses, the thieves immediately changed the marching track and attacked from the left and right sides, but the officers and soldiers who had already been on guard immediately pulled up the more than 100-meter-long refusal horses, and some of the thieves who ran in front of them did not react, so they rushed to step into the Senluo Hall and became a cold corpse.
"Mother is ruthless enough, keep rushing, rush up! Flip over the rejection wood! Kill! Ding Jian couldn't help but shudder when he saw that thousands of people died at once under the spikes of the horses, but then immediately ordered the hungry people to continue to rush to facilitate the attack of his own troops.
"Die!" Several thieves who carefully crossed the first layer of rejecting the wood were stabbed down by the officials and soldiers before they could bypass the second layer of rejecting the wood, and the bloody blade handover soon began before the second rejecting wood, and each knife and each stab must bring out a bloody mark.
"General, we are surrounded!" A soldier saw that Yan Heng's headquarters was surrounded by black and oppressive thieves, crowded in front of Zhu Mu and kept pushing and exchanging casualty ratios with his own soldiers, and reported to Yan Heng when Zhu Mu was about to be filled with corpses.
"Hold on! It's time! Ring the arrow to inform Du Fang! Yan Heng shouted.
"Yes!"
"Huh~"
But hearing a scream breaking through the sky, before the thieves could react, they saw countless arrows from the sky falling among the thieves.
"Bend the bow, aim, shoot!" Far behind the small slope of more than a hundred paces behind, thousands of archers suddenly appeared, and under the roar of their respective commanders, the feathered arrows in their hands shot out, overwhelmingly burrowing into the dense group of thieves. Immediately wailed all over the field, and the thief who was hit by the arrow couldn't stop falling to the ground and shouting, and it was very terrible to hear.
The dense crowd no longer needs to aim, each wave of feather arrows can bring out patches of splashing blood, how can those rogues who don't even have cloth armor resist the invasion of the broken metal? Three or four waves of arrows rained down, and a large number of thieves gathered in front of the four corners of the rejecting wood had already fallen, greatly reducing the pressure on Yan Heng's department.
"Drink!" The heavy special waist knife in Yan Heng's hand resulted in two thieves who had just climbed into the wooden rejection array, and when they saw that the thieves' offensive had decreased slightly, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief, but seeing that there were also hundreds of soldiers killed and wounded on their side, they couldn't help but feel a little heartache.
"Pikemen! Resist the left and right sides, and the sword and shield hands are staring at the two sides directly behind them! Yan Heng's orders kept echoing in the four corners of the wood rejection array, and for a while, the thieves couldn't save it.
"Bring some people to take the officers and soldiers on the hillside! Mother's deaths and injuries are too heavy! Ding Jian saw that the dense archers on the opposite hillside were constantly harvesting the lives of his rebels, and he couldn't help but bared his teeth and cracked his mouth, if he didn't kill those archers again, these hungry people would definitely collapse, and the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Boss, the stabbing distance is too long, it's hard to bypass!" A thief said with a bitter face.
Ding Jian grabbed his collar and said word by word: "If you can't get around, you have to take 10,000 hungry people to cover for you, and you must clear all those officials and soldiers to Lao Tzu!" If you can't do it, you don't have to keep your head! ”
"Yes!" The thief shouted and took his orders.
The thief brought 5,000 thieves and 20,000 hungry people, and with great difficulty, he narrowly bypassed the surrounding trees and swarmed towards the hillside.
"Huh?" Yan Heng in the rejection wood looked at this scene, his eyes couldn't help but light up, very good! It's now, "Shoot the arrow!" ”
"Huh~"
Suddenly, more than a thousand archers appeared at the other end of the hillside, and they were bending their bows and arrows and shooting arrows fiercely into the thieves around the horses, and suddenly a groan resounded through the four fields......
"How is that possible?" Ding Jian's eyes widened, and he almost wanted to erupt fire, "There are still archers!" ”
"Ah~ my eyes!"
"No~No~"
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The screams reached Ding Jian's ears, and he looked intently, only to see that the hungry people who had attacked the hillside earlier had been shot by bows and arrows, and the archers who had originally aimed at the area around the refuge now all shot their arrows into the thieves who were climbing the slope, and there were thousands of casualties.
"Damn! Come back, come back, don't fight! Ding Jian shouted angrily, but the road was too far, and the thieves who attacked the slope could not hear Ding Jian's shouts at all, and could only watch them be shot one by one by the archers on the hillside, and the dense crowd was undoubtedly a moving live target.
"Uh~" A feather arrow pierced the throat of the thief who led the army to attack the slope, he covered his neck, his face was unwillingly falling, and the arrow on the thief around him rolled down the hillside......
"Ding Ding Ding Ding ......" A few hundred steps away from the battlefield behind him, a sound of metal knocking sounded. When he heard this sound, the thief, who was still crazy, suddenly let out a breath of blood, howled and fled in the direction he came.
"Alas~" Ding Jian sighed, and had no choice but to take his headquarters to retreat with the brigade.
Seeing the thieves around him retreating like a tide, Yan Heng shouted: "Okay! Brothers, follow me in the pursuit! ”
"Whoa~"
The soldiers in the stabbing rejection array roared in unison, and slashed out of the formation from the cracked corner of the rejecting wood, cutting down the thieves who had not had time to escape to the ground one by one......
"Idiot!" In the distance, Du Fang secretly cursed, "Aren't you afraid of a thief's counterattack?" Hundreds of thousands of thieves dare to rush? Beware of being forced to rush and break the net for you! ”
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"Kill, kill!" More than 10,000 people in the red-eyed Yan Hengqi group frantically chased forward and slashed down all visible thieves.
"Damn, it's endless, isn't it?" Ding Jian saw that Yan Hengqi's regiment was in hot pursuit, and he couldn't help but feel a cold light in his eyes, "The whole army is left behind, eat these officers and soldiers!" ”
The well-trained 800 sharp soldiers and the remaining 18,000 or so thieves, under the command of Ding Jian, howled and pounced on Yan Heng's subordinates, and soon fought together.
"Ah~"
"Ha~"
"Poof~"
In the face of their respective opponents, Ding Jian and Yan Heng were extremely red-eyed, and blood continued to spill in the hands of the soldiers on both sides.
"Death to Lao Tzu!" What Ding Jian was holding in his hand was a fine iron ghost head knife, and when he turned around, the heads of the three soldiers around him were all slashed away. Seeing this, several officers and soldiers were about to pounce on him and knock him down, but were stopped by several other sharp soldiers......
"Huh?" Yan Heng looked at the more and more thieves who came around, and his mind suddenly cleared up a lot.
"Ding!" A thief slashed at Yan Heng's iron armor with a knife, but the heavy iron armor protected Yan Heng well, and he didn't suffer any damage except for the shock of the armor leaf that made him a little uncomfortable.
"Get out!" The heavy waist knife swept over the sharp soldier's head, and before he could react, the back of the knife smashed his skull alive and flew out.
"Withdraw! Remove! Evacuate! After Yan Heng stabbed the sharp soldier to death, he shouted for the soldier to retreat. After a short while, after a short period of contact, the officers and soldiers and the thieves quickly retreated to the rear with Yan Heng.
"Stop chasing, beware of deception!" Ding Jian saw the officers and soldiers retreating, and drank the thieves who wanted to chase him, and the rain of arrows kept echoing in his mind, but he didn't want to touch this mold again.
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Inside the six passes, Duan Hong looked at the hungry people everywhere, his face was pale.
"This Li Suwen really deserves his reputation, he has a careful formation, and he has trained these officers and soldiers so bravely, this time he was really caught off guard, and he saw it!" Fu Ruhai couldn't help sighing, he deserves to be the descendant of the Chase Goose Army, and there are many soldiers in Shunyi, and there are more brave officers and soldiers, but there is a lack of generals who lead the party.
Duan Hong squinted his eyes and said: "If our army wants to get close to Wuliang Town, Li Suwen must step on this hurdle, what is the trick of the military division?"
Fu Ruhai said: "You can send hungry people to cut down logs in Liudaokou, put them together, put them in front of the car, and break them in one blow before they resist the thorn." ”
Duan Hong pondered for a while and said, "The military advisor's plan is very good, so the commander will send someone to cut wood." ”
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"Pap~Pap~Pap~"
In Li Xiuwen's camp, Yan Heng was lying on a stool on the side of the school field, and two soldiers with sticks behind him were hitting his buttocks with the military stick in their hands at once, and a blur of flesh and blood could be vaguely seen.
Li Xiuwen sat in the tent, deaf to the execution outside the tent, but looked at the military book in his hand without changing his face and did not say a word. The soldiers of the battalions standing below in the tent were a little unbearable, especially the battalion flags in the Yan Hengqi regiment, who were about to step forward to plead for mercy, but were stopped by someone, no one dared to step forward to say a word, and only the sound of Li Xiuwen turning the book was heard.
Suddenly, the curtain was opened, and two soldiers dragged Yan Heng, whose back was covered with blood, into the camp tent, and one of the soldiers clasped his fists and said, "Qiqi Division's flag envoy, a hundred military sticks have been executed!" ”
"Well, put the people down, you guys go down first." Li Xiuwen didn't raise his head, and still looked at the military book with relish.
A battalion flag commander couldn't help it, and stepped forward to help Yan Heng, but unexpectedly, Li Xiuwen said on the account: "Whoever supports the same will receive a hundred military sticks, and he has the courage to help." ”
The man was stunned for a moment, so he had to sigh and look at Yan Heng lying on the ground.
After a long time, Li Xiuwen closed the book, picked up the tea bowl and drank saliva, and said slowly: "General Yan, can you be guilty?"
"The end ...... Weekend...... Guilty ...... "Yan Heng came down with a hundred military sticks, even though he was physically strong on weekdays, he was now weak and couldn't say a complete sentence."
"Your flag regiment has 2,000 casualties, and now this pursuit has lost 1,000 in vain, is what I told you before all the wind in deaf ears?" Li Xiuwen said lightly, but anyone could hear the anger hidden in the secret in this tone.
"General, you can't say that." A battalion flag envoy who usually had a close relationship with Yan Heng couldn't help but speak out for Yan Heng, "Although the regimental flag envoy lost more than expected, he also killed more than 2,000 thieves in the pursuit, even if he had it, it should be worth it, right?" If you treat the regimental flag envoy like this, the general will really not accept it! ”
Li Xiuwen's eyes narrowed, and he smiled disdainfully: "What about killing two thousand thieves?" More than a million thieves, what impact does his killing of these two thousand have on the situation? In addition, I didn't let you speak, and I made a statement to contradict General Ben without authorization, and I went out of my account to get twenty military sticks. ”
"You ......" The battalion flag made it impossible to imagine that he would be beaten with a stick when he said a word, and he was speechless for a while.
Seeing that he didn't move, Li Xiuwen continued: "What? Don't you hear me? Thirty military sticks for myself, do I want someone to drag you out?"
"I ......" As soon as he heard that ten more military sticks were added, the battalion flag envoy was stunned, Yan Heng on the ground and he made a look, so he had to shout "yes" and went out to get the military sticks, and after a while, there was a crackling sound outside the tent.
Li Xiuwen continued to say to Yan Heng: "This time I will be punished with a small punishment, and I will be punished with military law again, understand? If you understand, go back and take some medicine, and come back tomorrow to discuss things. ”
"Hiss......" The soldiers in the tent secretly took a breath, they didn't even want to get out of bed after ten days and a half months when they were injured like this, and they actually led the army after only one day of recuperation? This division flag envoy is really not easy to mess with, and everyone will not have a good life in the future......
"Yes, ...... Will...... Thank you, the master and the banner envoy ......, "Yan Heng got up with the support of everyone, and after a simple salute, he walked out of the tent with a limp.
After Li Xiuwen saw Yan Heng leaving, he said to everyone: "Everyone has come to the day for a long time, you must take it as a warning, you are tired today, go back and rest, the thieves will not come again, I will see you in the tent at the end of tomorrow, if anyone is late...... I really don't want to see it. ”
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