Chapter 114: Xu Shiji makes a move
Feng Deyi looked at the battle situation in front of him with a gloomy face, and couldn't help shaking his head and said, "That's not right! Our army is going too well! It's going to be a little weird! Have you noticed that the Wei army fired all the big stones, it is said that when we just crossed the force, it should be small stones, mainly gravel, to kill and injure our soldiers who crossed the bridge, but they sent these big stones, it seems that the momentum is not small, but there are not many kills and injuries, and they did not smash our bridge, I always feel that something is wrong. ”
Dugu Sheng, the chief general of the Xiaoguo Army and the general of the Right Tun Guard, who was also watching the battle from the sidelines, also noticed that something was wrong, but he said as if comforting himself: "Probably Xu Shiji is afraid that if he sends small stones now, it will increase the probability of accidental injury, and many small stones will collide in the air, which will hit more soldiers on his side." You see, if you send a big stone now, there will be only seven or eight stones that fall on your side in one round, but if you send a small stone, you don't know how many of your own people will be hit. Xu Shiji's subordinates were originally homeless, and their fighting will and combat quality had yet to be tested, perhaps he was motivated by this consideration! ”
While the two were talking, they heard a loud noise, and a big stone weighing five or six pounds whistled through the air. It smashed heavily on the left pontoon bridge about the eighth section, and five or six wooden boats tied together were smashed into the air and fell into the water with more than thirty sergeants on the bridge. The entire pontoon bridge was interrupted, and the more than 20 soldiers behind couldn't hold their feet, and all of them rushed into the river in front of them at once, and the water surface was suddenly covered with Xiaoguo soldiers who kept fluttering, and the transmission through this pontoon bridge was also interrupted.
Mai Mengcai, who was in command on the front line, saw this, his face changed, he kept beckoning, and ordered sharply: "Order, all the sergeants on the bridge on the left have jumped into the water, and they have to swim over for me. ”
And Zhi Chonglang, who was leading the troops to watch the battle from a distance, wiped his face with annoyance, shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid of such a thing!" ”
Feng Deyi's expression on the handsome platform was still very serious, he was not surprised, and said calmly: "The bridge can be repaired if it is broken, and there are two more if one is broken, this is not the most worrying, what I am worried about is... ”
Before Feng Deyi's words fell, a red flag suddenly rose on the platform of the Wei army on the opposite side, which was as bright as a flame, and shook it three times in the air, his face changed, and he lost his voice: "Not good!" ”
The archers of the Wei army suddenly stood up at the same time from the very beginning of the bowing movement, and more than 30,000 archers suddenly changed from the crouching state just now to a standing posture, and more than 30,000 bows and arrows were suddenly raised diagonally upwards at a 45-degree angle, posing in the most standard hanging and shooting posture!
In order not to interfere with the command and give Laihu'er enough free space to play, Yang Guang deliberately found a small hill in the distance to watch the battle. From the very beginning, Yang Guang's eyes were staring at the battlefield on the front line, and he was staring at the front more carefully than the ball ball of the beauty, and seeing this situation, Yang Guang couldn't help but roar anxiously: "Shield!" Vertical shield! ”
But Yang Guang's words could not have been roared to the bank of the river a few miles away, the first batch of soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army to cross the river were still in a hurry, and people kept being hit by big stones, and the companions behind would immediately plug the gap as long as they didn't roll the stones, and the shields on the first line had been erected, but the thousands of people behind still didn't have any protection above their heads.
Hundreds of Wei troops were giving the order to "shoot" almost at the same time, and more than 30,000 feather arrows suddenly soared, and the black pressure pressed a large area, covering almost the entire sky, and the soldiers on the bank of the Sui army only felt that the sky was suddenly dark, and when they looked up, they only found that the three-edged arrows on the shafts of tens of thousands of arrows, like the eyes of the god of death, flashed with cold cold light, and smashed down overwhelmingly.
Hundreds of fast-moving Xiaoguo soldiers hurriedly raised the shields in their hands above their heads, but the rest of the people were not so lucky, the iron helmet and bronze armor were not omnipotent, and they still couldn't prevent these arrows from falling from the air with huge potential energy, with the screams one after another, the soldiers of the Sui army were like wheat fields that were blown down by the wind, and hundreds of people fell to the ground immediately, and many sergeants who were hit by arrows in non-critical parts struggled to get up and take up the shield, but were shot in the head or chest by the follow-up arrows that followed. Before he could even hum, he fell to the ground as a cold corpse.
Lai Hu'er's eyes were red, and in his position, he could see clearly that the archers of the Wei army were extremely well-trained, and the speed of firing arrows was extremely fast, which was not inferior to the speed of archers of the Sui army. There were even some individual Wei archers who held a handful of arrows in their hands, more than a dozen of them, and as soon as a certain finger moved, an arrow was quickly shot out when it was wound, and even the step of reaching out to the quiver to get the arrow was dispensed.
Feng Deyi let out a long sigh and said, "I have long heard that there is a young general Xu Shiji in the Wagang Army who is both civil and military, and when I saw it today, it really deserves its reputation!" To be able to train a group of homeless people to such an extent in just a few months, it is impossible to do it without a famous general! ”
Dugu Sheng said with a solemn face: "Fortunately, our army still has two pontoon bridges, and we can continue to send troops to the other side." Now it depends on how Xu Shiji ordered the attack on our army, as long as we hold it, then the victory must belong to the Great Sui! ”
The people on the platform can still talk normally, and Mai Mengcai, who is in the front line command, is the most anxious, he keeps tearing his throat and yelling, ordering his subordinates to charge in waves, at this moment he can only keep adding troops to the opposite bank to prevent the very likely infantry formation on the opposite side, or even the cavalry charge. Therefore, when he saw that some people were embarrassed in the face of the sharp blows of the Wei army, Mai Meng shouted sharply: "Qian Jie, you personally lead the team, and when you go ashore, you will have to take the shield, and the dead brothers will leave it alone, kick all into the river, and quickly clear a landing field!" ”
"No~!"
Guo Yilang responded to Qian Jie's promise loudly, turned over and dismounted, raised his steel fork, led more than 1,000 ironclad elites, raised a puff of smoke and dust, and rushed towards the opposite bank.
However, the performance of personal bravery on the battlefield is very limited, especially when the Xiaoguo army does not occupy any of the favorable time and place, as the deputy general, Qian Jie personally led the team to charge forward, which can only boost the morale of the Xiaoguo army.
Qian Jie led more than 1,000 ironclad troops, each with a large iron shield, quickly passed through the two remaining pontoon bridges on the Yongji Canal, supported to the opposite bank, and brought a "umbrella" to his subordinates who were struggling to support in the rain of bows and arrows, and better consolidated the defense line on the river stall.