Chapter 121: Wei Cavalry Dispatches!
Xu Shiji was originally very confident in the charge of this fireboat, but since he saw the smoke rising, his face always had an expression of victory, and the hand that was originally holding the hilt of the sword at his waist was unnaturally loosened.
But after seeing that Laiji adjusted the formation of the sailors, Xu Shiji's face gradually became a little ugly, and when he saw that Laicheng used a big boat to open a long formation, completely blocking the outside of the fireboat formation, Xu Shiji's face became more and more ugly, making the originally handsome face become a little distorted.
Seeing this, Shen Luoyan asked in a slightly mocking tone: "General Xu, it seems that this fireship charge that you have high hopes for has failed!" Now, the Sui army is still increasing troops on the other side, what are you going to do!? ”
Xu Shiji snorted and said: "Order, let Xu Yuanlang, who is downstream, lead the sailors of his department to attack!" ”
Hearing the order, Deputy General Zhang Liang hooked his mouth and said: "General, this Xu Yuanlang is not our descendant, the team is his own, once he comes forward to see that the situation is unfavorable, he is likely to turn around and run, but you can't pin your hopes on him!" ”
Xu Shiji gritted his teeth and said: "But now only by relying on his sailors to step forward and fight hard, disrupt the rhythm of the Sui army's sailors, so that the Sui army on the other side cannot quickly increase its troops, can our army concentrate its forces and eliminate these Sui troops who are constantly pouring ashore!" ”
Shen Luoyan knew that this was not the time to be rash, so he immediately said: "I'll personally give Xu Yuanlang an order, with me watching him by the side, he won't dare to escape!" ”
Xu Shiji glanced at Shen Luoyan gratefully, and said, "That's it, please!" ”
Shen Luoyan stopped slightly and said, "It's nothing, it's all about doing things for King Wei!" With that, Shen Luoyan drove his horse and ran downstream.
After Shen Luoyan left, Zhang Liang asked, "General, what should our army do now!?" ”
Hearing this, Xu Shiji looked at Mai Mengcai's department, who had already been in close contact with Guo Xiaoke's department, gritted his teeth and said: "Pass the order, let Qiu Xiaogang lead the troops to attack!" ”
"Order!" Finally waiting for Xu Shiji's order, Zhang Liang personally took over the order flag of the herald and raised the flag.
Directly ahead, Mai Mengcai had already led his troops to start a confrontation with the Wei army, and the soldiers on both sides began the first wave of fierce battles around the fence of the camp.
Meng Fan commanded the heavily armored lance soldiers to be at the front, constantly attacking the Wei army in front with the lance, while the jumping soldiers and auxiliary soldiers gradually cleared the obstacles outside the camp fence and destroyed the fence through hook locks, sickles and other tools, while the shield bearers interspersed with them, constantly resisting the arrows flying in the sky.
The 30,000 Wei archers who had just finished hanging and shooting had already been withdrawn to rest behind Guo Xiaoke's headquarters, and the prolonged drawing of the bow would cause muscle soreness, so they had to rest. And Guo Xiaoke's department is almost all heavy lance infantry, under the command of Guo Xiaoke, lined up in a dense array to resist the attack of the Xiaoguo army.
The heavy armor worn by Guo Xiaoke's troops of the Wei army is still in the inventory of Liyang Cang, about 30,000 sets, in addition to the guards of the generals of the army, the remaining 30,000 pairs are given to these 30,000 long lance soldiers, and they are trained by Xu Shiji.
Although the Xiaoguo army is far superior to this group of heavily armed lance soldiers who are essentially outcasts in terms of training and combat capabilities, the Xiaoguo army does not have any advantage in terms of equipment alone, and the Wei army is large in number and is the defender, and the Xiaoguo army is temporarily small in numbers and is the attacker, so there is no advantage at all.
Under the command of Guo Xiaoke, the Wei army's long lance soldiers faced the attack of the Xiaoguo army in a dense array, the front row died in the back row, the back row died, and the next back row was up, although the Sui army's dense lance and team cooperation could open up the advantage in the local area, but they would soon have to face a new opponent, and so on, so that the corpses of the two sides in front of the camp fence were half a person high, but the Sui army still did not cross this fence.
However, the number of the Sui army was indeed slowly increasing, there were sailors and soldiers who were transported from the boats, there were soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army who came from the pontoon bridge, and there were those who swam from the water with only a knife. Mai Mengcai sat in the Chinese army, and was assigned to different posts according to the slack and equipment of the incoming personnel, and the number of Sui troops on the opposite bank further increased, and the array formed became thicker and thicker.
And at this moment, the fence of the right camp of the Wei army in the distance suddenly fell down in pieces, and the obstacles behind the fence were quickly cleared and separated to both sides, forming a mouth about three hundred steps wide, from this opening, the cavalry of the Wei army rushed out like a surging tide, wrapped in iron horseshoe horseshoe, and smashed the ground of the river bank covered with pebbles, like nine days of thunder, mixed with the deafening shouts of the knights on the horse, shaking the heavens and the earth!
Seeing this, Mai Mengcai's face changed, and he shouted: "Old Qian, right!" ”
Qian Jie, who heard the order, ordered loudly: "Leave a thousand people on the left, and the rest follow me to the right side!" ”
At this time, the number of Sui troops on the shore had exceeded 10,000, in addition to the 5,000 people in front who were responsible for attacking the Wei army camp gate, there were 1,000 lancers left on the left side of the array, 3,000 lancers were concentrated on the right side, and there were more than 3,000 jumping soldiers around the Chinese army.
Qian Jie commanded methodically on the right side: "The Wei cavalry is rushing over!" Don't panic, froze! Formation! ”
The officers at all levels also conveyed Qian Jie's instructions in turn, commanding the long lance soldiers to line up, everyone rubbed their shoulders against their shoulders, their toes touched their heels, the front row half-squatted, and raised the long lance diagonally upwards 45 degrees to the front, and the soldiers in the back row raised the lance to the shoulders of their comrades in the front row, forming an extremely dense "front forest" of long lance soldiers.
One of the team's arm armors had already fallen somewhere, and his two arms were exposed, and there were crystal droplets of water hanging on the arm muscles that looked like blocks, and he didn't know whether it was river water or sweat, and he shouted: "Brothers, steady, steady!" Hold the line! ”
Before the words fell, there was a terrible whistling sound of feather arrows breaking through the air in the air, and the team's face changed, and before he could close his mouth, he saw a long-roded wolf-tooth feather arrow, flying towards his mouth, and between the lightning and flint, this feather arrow drilled into his mouth fiercely, passing between the upper and lower rows of teeth, penetrating his hind osprey, burrowing into his brain, and then easily breaking his back skull, with red blood and white brains, arrows drilled out of the back of his head.
And the last sight that the team saw on his face full of horror and his round eyes was Qiu Xiaogang, a fierce general of the Wagang Army who was wearing a Shura face fifty paces away, a member of the leading cavalry, holding a big sandalwood bow and wearing a Shura face!