12. Incredible
"Oh no! The commander has made the Lord die! "I don't know who shouted in the fierce battle, and the entire defending front was in chaos! The soldiers, who were still hanging on their breath, suddenly panicked after hearing the news, and the originally strict formation immediately became loose......
As more and more thieves climbed over the earthen wall, I don't know who among the chaotic soldiers took the lead, screamed and ran backwards, his action directly led to the rout of the defenders on the earthen wall!
Sun Cheng and Yang Fan saw that the situation was not good, and they also joined the escape lineup in despair, their hearts were constantly trembling, and they were afraid that they would have to explain here today.
"Run, run, don't look back!" Seeing that the general trend had gone, Zeng Yan hurriedly grabbed Xu Hui and ran towards the rear with the crowd, and the waist knife in Xu Hui's hand didn't know where it was thrown, and he only carried a shield in his left hand to protect him and followed closely behind Zeng Yan.
The army of thieves was in high spirits and rushed into the second line of defense, and the dense movement of human heads made the scalps of the defenders behind the third line of defense tingle. Zong Sheng had already gotten up and was ready to give the order to retreat.
In less than two hours since the battle, the two lines of defense have collapsed, and their own side must have ended the same. Zong Sheng also saw that it was not that the soldiers did not do their best, but that there were too many thieves, and in the face of dozens of times the enemy, and it was such a simple fortification, it was not easy for the two lines of defense in front to withstand it until now......
Zong Sheng thought that the time was almost up, and the Gaoyang City side should have been dealt with, and it was time to leave this ghost place and go to meet Zhu Song. So the small flag on the same side nodded, and the little flag understood, raised the command flag in his hand, and was about to wave it down, when he was suddenly stopped by another soldier......
Zhu Song was furious: "What are you doing? ”
The soldier ran to Zong Sheng's side, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Zhu Song, Zong Sheng took it and opened it, and gasped: "This Zhu Song is ruthless enough!" After speaking, he crumpled the letter into a ball and stuffed it into his arms, and shook his head at Xiaoqi, who saw this and slowly put down the flag in his hand......
Screams continued to sound around the battlefield, countless thieves knocked down the fleeing soldiers one by one, many thieves lay on the corpses of soldiers and snatched weapons and leather armor, and thieves ignored the threat of being trampled into flesh, searching for food on the soldiers, especially those hungry people with green eyes directly pounced on the corpses and frantically bitten.
In the alleyway, Liu Ce and others learned about the scene of the rout outside through the gaps in several door panels, and couldn't help but be afraid for a while...... If he hadn't listened to Liu Ce's words before, and stood behind the earthen wall with the defenders to defend against the enemy, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
Liu Ce also wondered at this time, how long did it take for it to be defeated? It was too fast, he tightened his belt, held his spear and said a few words to the soldiers around him, and then stared intently at the fleeing soldiers......
At this time, Zong Sheng got up and muttered a few words to the guards around him, and the guards quietly walked down the high platform with Zong Sheng, disappearing from everyone's sight...... As the defenders were focused on the front, they did not know that Zong Sheng and his henchmen had left them and fled alone......
"The spear is ready, and the sword and shield hand grip the handle against the door panel." Seeing the thieves and routs rushing towards him, Liu Ce decisively took the lead in poking out the crack of the spear, the tips of the five cold spears were aimed at the front, and the four sword and shield men squatted diagonally, holding the shield in one hand and the door buckle tightly in the other back to back and began to resist the upcoming impact.
A soldier who shouted frantically collided directly with the sharp tip of the gun between the wooden boards, and everyone behind the door panel hesitated for a while, although Liu Ce had said that he would kill on the spot regardless of whether the enemy or the enemy hit the alleyway, but it was really time to implement it, although the relationship between them was cold, but after all, they were also in the same clothes, and it was really unbearable to attack their own people. Liu Ce didn't say a word and stabbed the soldier down with one shot, and another rout came running, and Liu Ce still stabbed down expressionlessly......
"At this time, if you hesitate, you will be surrendering your life here, and if you want to live, you will stab anyone who attacks the front of the formation!" Liu Ce roared angrily, he knew that a soldier who had lost his restraint was more terrible than a thief, and if everyone in the alley was a woman at this time, everything would be over.
Another rout rushed to the door panel in a vain attempt to knock it down, and the spear in Chen Qing's hand poked out of the gap, stabbing him in the chest and splashing a pillar of blood. Liu Ce nodded, he didn't expect Chen Qing's psychological quality to be so strong, and he made the right choice after a while.
At this time, the thief had already rushed to Liu Ce's defense line like crazy, and he bumped into it regardless of it, and the sword and shield hand was almost knocked down, but fortunately, Liu Ce and the others behind him resisted it and stabilized their bodies.
"Raise your gun! Kill! Liu Ce shouted angrily, a shot stabbed out of the gap, and the other four people around him also pierced the spear into the thief's body at the same time, and the splashed blood spurted out of the flesh when the gun was collected, like a blooming flower, delicate and cruel.
"Raise your gun! Kill! ”
"Kill!"
After several stabbing killings, everyone has not yet suffered a single casualty, it can be seen that this strategy is temporarily feasible, and everyone gradually cooperates with each other to tacitly understand, all the extra spears are saved, only need to lift the gun, stab, and collect the gun, which saves a lot of physical strength, and the soldiers who have not yet joined the battle hurriedly work together to resist the push back when the formation is a little retreating.
After two columns of ten pikemen in front of him stabbed 4 shots in a row, they retreated from both sides of the alley to the rear one by one to rest and conserve their strength, and the soldiers behind them immediately stepped forward to fill the gap and continue to assassinate.
And Liu Ce is still standing in the second column, killing the thieves who are pulling the door panel with one shot, others can rest, he can't now, how many of these more than 100 people can survive to escape depends on his own command, once he retreats, I don't know if this temporary patchwork defense line will collapse quickly.
Dense figures filled the entire second earthen wall defense, and the figures of their own soldiers had gradually disappeared into the crowd. Dong Lun held on to his breath to keep himself from falling, and he struggled to squirm his body and retreated backwards with a spear. A rout soldier ran past him, and Dong Lun grabbed him with the strength he didn't know, his eyes were full of pleading, the soldier looked at him and stretched out his hand to shake it off, but he didn't shake it off, and kicked him down in a fit of anger, and he was cut down by two thieves before he ran a few steps.
Looking at a few thieves looking at him with bad intentions, Dong Lun's face was full of fear, his mouth was spitting blood, and his body couldn't help but retreat, his wife and children needed to be taken care of by himself, and he still had great glory and wealth, how could he be willing to die here! Ignoring the pain all over his body, he forcibly turned over and crawled to the open space on the side, as if he could be safe as long as he got there. Just as he had climbed a few steps, he was suddenly grabbed by two legs and fell backwards at a rapid pace.
"No, I can't die, no!" Dong Lun shouted frantically in his heart, his hands kept shaking the ground to try to stop the speed of dragging, but everything was in vain, and when his body stopped, he was kicked over and grinned in pain. I saw that there were countless thieves and hungry people with green eyes, and they just stared at him......
"Don't kill me, please, don't come here......" Dong Lun used all his strength to beg for mercy from these thieves, but the next moment, the thief pounced on his body and frantically searched everything on his body, "No, this is mine, you can't take it, this is for my mother's ......" A thief searched out a bag containing thirty taels of silver from his waist, smiled, but his hand was grabbed by Dong Lun, the thief saw that he couldn't break free, picked up the broken knife on the side and slashed his arm several times like chopping vegetables, and the whole thing was unloaded, Revealing the flesh and bones between the white and red...... Dong Lun fainted in pain, the objects on his body were taken away one by one, and a piece of chain mail was also stripped off, and he didn't know which thief took it, Dong Lun died in fear......
Another shot stabbed a thief in front of the door panel, Liu Ce's arm was numb, the hand holding the gun trembled slightly, and the corpses of the rout soldiers and thieves were already all over the outside of the door panel......
Seeing that the thieves were temporarily retreating, Liu Ce sat on the ground, panting, and the surrounding soldiers also temporarily put down their tense nerves and sat on the ground to recover some physical strength. Due to the first time they cooperated with the formation, there were still twenty people who died in the spears stabbed between the thieves, but this result made the remaining soldiers feel insignificant and looked at Liu Ce with admiration.
"Brother Liu, our battalion should meet the enemy according to your method as soon as possible, and the thieves have already been swept away......" Chen Qing on the side even changed his tone, from the previous "Brother Liu" to "Brother Liu". The army still respects capable people, especially colleagues who can save their lives.
"Less poor mouth, thieves can't be killed, the people in this world can't eat enough for a day, there will be a steady stream of people joining the thieves......" Liu Ce interrupted Chen Qing's sycophant.
"So what's next?" Guo Tao asked in a low voice.
"Rest for a quarter of an hour, and if the situation is stable here, I think I will retreat to the third line of defense. Then, seeing the opportunity, he ran out of Houtu Fort, and as for how everyone settled after that, it was up to him to be able to do it. Liu Ce said slowly.
"Needless to say, Brother Liu, I'll follow you, this broken camp, what a Thunder Army, I don't want to stay anymore." "I also follow Brother Liu, I will follow you wherever you go." Chen Qing and Guo Tao immediately expressed their position, and more than a dozen soldiers also responded in unison, and the rest of the people, including Han Feng, did not say a word, they were convinced of Liu Ce's tactics, but they still felt that only by following the army did they have a future, and it was impossible for them to give up a relatively comfortable environment and follow a soldier younger than themselves to the unknown road, even if there were, they had to weigh how risky it was.
"Follow me?" Liu Ce smiled: "I just said it casually before, so you guys take it seriously?" ”
"I still had doubts before, but now I am determined to do something with Brother Liu." Chen Qing patted his chest and said, Guo Tao also nodded, and then looked at the more than ten soldiers, with the same resolute expression.
"Let's survive first." Liu Ce looked at the figures outside and shook his head helplessly.