Chapter 128: The Weight of the Decisive Battle
Seeing that the Wei army had already pressed forward from outside the camp, Mai Mengcai was suddenly in a hurry, and hurriedly commanded the Sui army commander who had just come over to support the array, and said loudly: "Who dares to lead the team to defend against the enemy!" ”
"A wish!" A leading seven-foot strong man, fully armed, and his eyes were determined to come out loudly.
Mai Mengcai is looking at it, it is the former Tiger Benlang general, and now the Xiaoguo Army general Meng Jing, who is now demoted to the Eagle Yang Lang general!
"Good! Ben will now hand over these 3,000 lance soldiers, 6,000 jumping soldiers, and 1,000 sword and shield bearers to you, as long as you can withstand the attack of the Wei army, after the war, Ben will personally ask for credit to the Holy God for you! Mai Mengcai pointed to the soldiers who had just crossed the river to support, and reassured.
"The holy grace is great, and the last general should repay him with death!" Meng Jing arched his hand in the direction behind him, turned his luck to his strength, and shouted: "Brothers, the time has come to show my great Sui man's temperament!" Follow me to the enemy! ”
After Meng Jing led his troops to the first line and lined up to resist the advance of the Wei army, Meng Fan's troops who had retreated from the defeat retreated to the Chinese army and quickly rearranged the whole team.
"Stop, line up in place, and those who violate the order will be killed!" Meng Fan couldn't help but turn the soldiers who bumped into his arms, patted them on the back, and motioned for the other party to line up in place.
Zhang Liang, who had been waiting for the fighter planes on the sidelines, saw that the Sui army was defeated and retreated, and had always been passively defending against his own bow and arrow attacks, his eyes immediately lit up, and he said loudly: "The Sui army has no archers, the whole army listens to my orders, the first echelon shoots forward fifty steps, and the second echelon shoots forward thirty steps!" ”
The Wei cavalry immediately divided into two groups, the first wave with the help of horse speed, directly ran to a position thirty steps away from the Sui army's shield array, with the help of horse speed to open the bow and shoot directly, and such a close distance and dense arrows, the shield of the Sui army could not defend at all, and many shield players were even directly shot through the shield by sharp arrows, and then shot into hedgehogs by the sharp swords that followed.
The shield array soon had a loophole, and at this time, the second wave of projectile Wei cavalry felt that the whistling feather arrows shot down the gap and knocked the Sui soldiers on their backs, and many people had even been hit by several arrows, but they still didn't dare to leave the thin shield array protection, so they had to grit their teeth and stick to the spot, praying that the damn arrow rain would be enough to stop.
At this moment, the Sui army on the front line fell into an unprecedented predicament, the 10,000 people under Meng Jing's department on the front had to face the attack of tens of thousands of Wei troops, and the Wei cavalry, which had been harassing and containing on the side, seized the opportunity under the leadership of Zhang Liang, and constantly used the tactics of throwing bows and arrows around the formation, and attacking the fixed-point squad, harassing and pinning down thousands of Sui soldiers under Qian Jie's department, making them tired and busy coping, and Meng Fan's department had just retreated and was reorganizing the formation of the Chinese army.
On the platform of the Sui army, Feng Deyi looked at the battle situation in front of him and sighed again and again, and said: "Marshal, now the wind direction has completely changed, after our soldiers and soldiers landed, our catapults are useless, and the other party's catapults are getting farther and farther, which has seriously threatened our army to cross the river!" And just now, another pontoon bridge of our army was broken, and now our three pontoon bridges, only the last one can still pass people, and if this continues, the situation will be extremely unfavorable to our army! ”
Lai Hu'er also frowned, although he knew that although Mai Mengcai's troops were defeated, they still had the strength to fight, but now how to support on a large scale has become the biggest problem.
At this time, the 20,000 water bandits led by Xu Yuanlang appeared on the right flank of the Sui army's naval division in dozens of large and small warships, and Xue Rengui, who had excellent eyesight, saw it at once, he hurriedly pointed to the warships in the distance, and exclaimed: "Dashuai, look!" That's an enemy ship! ”
Hearing this, Feng Deyi followed Xue Rengui's gaze, his body shook, and he was almost shocked to sit on the ground. He muttered, 'This, this is the Sailor Army?' There are still dozens of warships, and the formation is still presentable, it's incredible! ’
Lai Hu'er said with a solemn face: "It should be Xu Yuanlang's department in the west of Langxie and south of Dongping, this is the largest water bandit force on the Grand Canal, I have been following him for a long time, but I didn't expect that he also came to Liyang to help fight!" ”
"Marshal, now that our army can't withdraw, we have to make a desperate bet and let Sima Dejiao's headquarters cross the river quickly to lead the remaining ships to block the attack of the enemy's warships!" Feng Deyi quickly judged the situation on the battlefield and decisively suggested.
Laihu'er also understood the urgency of the situation, and immediately ordered:
"Order, let Sima Dejiao and Meng Bingsuo's department cross the river by boat together!"
"Order, let the whole give up the transportation of the soldiers of the Right Yiwei Water Division, and lead the troops to meet the enemy!"
"Pass the order, let the monk Zhou who stayed in the camp of the sailor lead his troops to copy the back road of the enemy's sailor!"
"Order, all catapults are placed on the bank of the river, ready to be on standby!"
Soon, the general orders of the Sui army were conveyed downward level by level, and the generals of each department either commanded the warship to defend against the enemy, or beckoned their subordinates to ride the horse, or pushed the catapult to move forward slowly, and the efficient operation mechanism of the Sui army made all the departments act quickly according to the instructions of the Laihu'er.
Feng Deyi hooked his lips and said: "Now, the key to our decisive victory is to put on Sima Dejiao and Meng Bing's more than 5,000 armor horses, but this armor and horses weigh hundreds of pounds together, although all the transportation ships are left, but these more than 5,000 iron horses, without one or two hours, can't be transported!" ”
Lai Hu'er nodded, and said: "This is also a helpless thing, our army is the attacker, the Wei army is the defender, the local number is far more than us, and the people who were trained by Xu Shiji are presentable, our army only relies on infantry, Mai Mengcai's experience has told us that it is difficult to work in a short period of time, and if you want to win quickly, you still have to rely on iron cavalry!" ”
Feng Deyi took a deep breath and said, "I'm not worried about the water master, the prestige of the whole has spread throughout Shandong, and that water bandit is by no means his opponent." Now it depends on whether Mai Mengcai on the other side can command the only 20,000 people to withstand the pressure of the Wei army's attack, as long as our army's iron cavalry lands on the shore, the Wei army will have no danger to rely on, and the whole army will definitely collapse! ”
A smile appeared on Laihu'er's face, and said: "This is also the reason why I asked Meng Bing to raise the dust first, Xu Shiji can't see the specific situation of our army, and when our army's iron cavalry lands on the shore, he wants to react, but it's too late!" ”
At this time, even Lai Hu'er and Feng Deyi didn't notice that a heroic general in full uniform, wearing a bright silver helmet, bright light armor on his upper body, brass tight sleeve nails on his wrist, a cloud-swallowing beast in front of his abdomen, a big red cloak, a rhino leather belt, stepping on Moyun gold-winged boots under the shin armor, pressing the green steel sword in his left hand, holding the scorching sun swallowing sky lance in his right hand, only with a boatman and his own Zhulong BMW, driving a small boat, passing through the billowing smoke caused by the fire ship array on the left wing of the sailor.