Chapter 34: On the Real Battlefield

"Okay, brave and resourceful!"

"Well, a lot of guts!"

"Okay, brother admires!"

"Brother Yi, good job!"

Hearing that Yi Haojie went to the front line to find out the enemy's clues and successfully brought back such important information, the four commanders all gave Yi Haojie a thumbs up with admiration on their faces at this time, and they all admired it.

Looking at the convincing eyes of the four of them at this time, Yi Haojie secretly rejoiced in his heart, with this military exploit, then he would have more help when he was promoted to captain in the future, although he was proud in his heart, he was humble without leaving a trace on the surface: "This is what a brother should do." ”

"Fortunately, Haojie is in danger alone, otherwise we have to plant a big heel, good, good, Haojie, you did a good job of sharpening the knife this time." After praising Yi Haojie, Xiang Kunlun re-expanded the map:

"Now that we have the true information of the bandits, the previous plan will not work, let's rearrange the plan to suppress the bandits. This narrow road is arranged with two hundred-man teams to lurk, and once someone absconds from inside, take it on the spot.

This main road in and out of the cottage, send two thousand people to attack head-on, shield archers guard the wings, to prevent the bandits from releasing cold arrows to attack, I don't think that there are also cavalry in Shajiamen, hum----- since this is the case, then let's prepare tripping horses and broken horse stakes......"

Half an hour later, the trumpeters blew the horn of the assembly, and when the team regrouped, it was clear that the team was divided into four groups, and two hundred soldiers armed with spears were responsible for intercepting the fleeing bandits on the narrow road.

Six hundred soldiers stood in two columns, they carried two-meter-high shields, four hundred archers stood on the outside, and one thousand soldiers in charge of the main attack were guarded in the middle, in addition to two thousand soldiers carrying huge broken horse stakes and lassos made of iron chains, they were responsible for encircling and suppressing the cavalry.

But wherever there is a cavalry to open the way, the infantry will charge outward, so Xiang Kunlun specially arranged two thousand troops to intercept it, and as for the remaining 800 soldiers, they are distributed around the woods to prevent anyone from escaping from the woods.

I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, the hundred-person team led by Nangong Yue was assigned to the main attack team by Yi Haojie, in this way, Ling Xia's ten-person team was naturally responsible for the charge, and when the team was lined up, Ling Xia had a bad premonition.

Because the team that led the charge paid attention to the overall battle, so Ling Xia and they could not attack on horseback, but could only follow the team to charge on foot, when he led a shield made of rattan wood, holding a white ash and red tassel spear, mixed in the middle of the team, he had a feeling of being as small as an ant.

"Pull out the camp!"

"Uh......h Woo......"

With Xiang Kunlun's order, the team of 5,000 people set off in full gear and ran all the way to the woods outside Shajiamen, and the soldiers quickly rushed to the designated position under the leadership of their respective commanders and centurions according to the previous division of labor.

Ling Xia is the vanguard responsible for attacking the bandits, they are protected by the shield soldiers on both sides, charging along the road in and out of the cottage, Ling Xia was caught in the middle of the crowd and staggered forward, he shouted as he entered: "Slow down, buddy, be careful that there are traps on the ground, don't squeeze, brother, you guard your side......"

"Oops......"

"Poof...... Puff ......"

"Be careful, there's a trap on the ground!"

Ling Xia just said to be careful of the trap, the soldiers who were at the front really fell into the trap, shouting hysterically one by one, and after the soldiers behind dragged those people up from the trap pit, they gasped one by one.

I saw that the ground was dug by the bandits all over a two-meter-deep pit, and there were sharp iron thorns inserted in the pits, and the iron thorns were all with barbs.

Even if some soldiers were lucky enough not to be stabbed in the vital parts, when they were dragged out of the pit, their flesh and bones and veins were cut off by the barbs, and many of the iron barbs still had shredded flesh hanging from them.

"Damn, I haven't seen the main owner yet, so I planted a big heel, it looks like there are dozens of injured people." Seeing that the pioneers in front of him were all planted in the trap, Ling Xia couldn't help but complain secretly.

Not long after he complained, Ling Xia suddenly smelled a burst of blood, and then, the feeling that made him sore, weak and dizzy, it turned out that he had just accidentally seen the blood on the body of a wounded soldier, and he was actually induced to faint.

"Oh my God, I can't faint at this time, this is a war, if I faint at this time, I guess no one will care about me, if that's the case, I have to die here in the end." Thinking of this, Ling Xia hurriedly bit the tip of his tongue.

After feeling a little sober, Ling Xia pulled off a cloth towel from his clothes, covered his eyes with a cloth towel, and after tying it, Ling Xia felt much better, he could vaguely discern the direction through the cloth towel, but he couldn't see the blood on those soldiers, and the side effects of motion sickness disappeared.

"Brother, what are you doing with a strip of cloth on your eyes?" Seeing Ling Xia's strange behavior, the surrounding soldiers couldn't help but ask curiously.

"For the sake of an indomitable charge, of course." After finishing speaking, Ling Xia raised the spear in his hand and pretended to shout loudly: "Rush, brothers, go up, charge, kill those turtle grandchildren......"

Hearing Ling Xia's shout, Lao Cui and Yang Lucai also raised their spears to echo the shout, and when they heard their shouts, the unknown soldiers around them thought that the officer ordered the charge, and the team that had been slowed down because of the trap immediately moved again.

For a while, under the loud shouts of Ling Xia and others, thousands of soldiers used spears to check the traps on the ground, and after piercing the camouflage on the surface of the traps, all the soldiers charged towards the base camp of Shajiamen, and the soldiers did not find that although Ling Xia shouted positively, but when it was time to charge, he deliberately slowed down, and grinded from the fourth row in front to the last row.

The reason why he did this was that Ling Xia had an extra mind, he could see that the more the team in front, the easier it was to suffer, except that the trap was used as a meat shield, it was safer to be behind, and when the people behind rushed over, the soldiers in front had already blocked everything that should be blocked.

Not to mention, there are people in front of him who keep falling into traps, and with those people opening the way, Ling Xia is much safer from behind, at least he doesn't have to be afraid of falling into the deep pit of the trap, because those traps have been drained by the soldiers in front.

Just when Ling Xia and the others crossed the trap area and were about to charge in front of the Shajiamen base camp, there was a sudden sound of "Boom" breaking the air in the air, and the soldiers looked up at the sky and saw a rain of arrows flying out of thin air in the woods on both sides of the road.

The arrow fell into the soldier's camp, instantly taking the lives of a group of soldiers, the two strong men beside Ling Xia were just alive, but the next moment they were shot in the chest and throat by the arrow, and they struggled in pain a few times, and the two were killed immediately.

In addition to these two people, there were many soldiers who were shot by the flying arrows, although they did not hurt their lives, but they left piercing scars, hearing the wailing and painful sounds around them, Ling Xia took off his blindfold and looked around blankly.

Looking at the pained expressions of the soldiers, feeling the cold breath of the dead, and looking at the horror of the surrounding soldiers when they dodged the rain of arrows, Ling Xia subconsciously muttered: "This ------ is war?" ”

The bloody red in front of him, Ling Xia was a little distracted for a while, he suddenly had an awakening, if he wants to survive in the war, he must control the initiative in the war, if he is not qualified to lead the war, then he can only be a pawn in someone else's war in the future.

"Captain, be careful."

An anxious cry woke up Ling Xia, it turned out that in the gap where he was just stunned, an arrow flew straight towards Ling Xia's chest, and happened to be seen by Qu Qinshi beside her, and after hitting the arrow with the rattan shield in her hand, she couldn't help but shout.

"Thank you, Qu Qinshi, you saved my life just now, and I will definitely repay you in the future." Ling Xia finally felt the cruelty of war at this time, he didn't dare to think about it anymore, he raised the shield in his hand, and shouted loudly in his mouth: "There are arrows, the enemy has released arrows." ”

"Enemy archers are dispatched, shield soldiers are deployed." At this moment, a commander leading the team shouted loudly, and after hearing his order, the shield soldiers on both wings of the team immediately raised the huge shield in their hands and placed the shield more than two meters long on the top of the soldiers' heads.

In an instant, a horizontal wall composed of iron shields appeared above the team's heads, and all the arrows that fell from the sky hit the iron shield, and the shield sounded with a "clanging" sound, and the giant shield blocked all the arrows of the bandits.

"Archers, aim at the left and right sides, shoot ten arrows from the back, and counterattack the opponent."

After blocking the rain of arrows from the bandits, another commander who led the team also issued a military order, and with this order, more than 400 soldiers took their bows and arrows from their backs, and after squatting down on both sides, everyone aimed at the direction where the arrow rain was flying, and shot arrows back with their bows and arrows back.

"Whoosh ......"

The archers, according to the order, fired ten arrows in a row in the direction of the bandits' arrows, only to see a rain of arrows like a rainstorm of pear blossoms, with a whistling sound rising from the ranks of the soldiers, and the branches and leaves of the shot shook violently, so frightened that the birds spread their wings and startled.

After ten consecutive waves of arrow rain, the sides of the forest were much brighter, except for the branches and birds that were shot off by the arrows, the corpses of the bandits also fell from the trees, and even some of the corpses were nailed to the trees by the arrows.

The bandits had all been hidden in the trees before, and although it was very convenient for them to attack the soldiers, on the other hand, there was nothing to block the arrows except the leaves above the branches, and when the arrows counterattacked, the bandits on the trees had no power to stop them.

Because of the obvious stealth position of the bandits, and because they had nothing to hide, they became live targets for the archers, and after ten waves of arrows, almost all the bandits lying in the trees on both sides of the woods were shot dead.

Even if some of the bandits who were fatal were not shot dead, they were all seriously wounded, and they all fell down one by one, and at first glance, there were almost 800 bandits who were shot dead, and the remaining bandits who were not shot dead but were seriously injured were also 1,200 people.

It is said that the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, this statement is indeed true, between this battle of attack and return, more than 100 people were killed and wounded on the soldier's side, and the bandit side was completely annihilated by a thousand-person team, looking at the corpse full of arrows on the side of the road, Ling Xia shuddered, these were all living lives before.

After not killing the captives and sending people to take care of them, the team continued to move forward, and when they rushed into the camp of Shajiamen, they found that it was empty, and when they found the captives and asked, everyone knew that just before they attacked from this side, the master of Shajiamen led the other bandits to charge from the widest road on war horses to counter the encirclement and suppression.

As soon as the captives arrived here, they heard the neighing of horses in the distance, and then, from the other direction, the sound of killing, the two commanders immediately ordered to go to the reinforcements.

"This battle is in a mess, nothing has been done, and this side is over." After Ling Xia survived, he just wanted to take a rest, but he heard the order to go to support, and seeing that the team had already begun to march, he didn't care about stopping and hurriedly followed.