Chapter 1104: Attack at Dawn
The sky was darker than before, and the stars twinkling in the sky were disappearing one after another, and the old sentry's head was raised and he stood up. As he got up, the two thousand men stood up in turn.
The sky before dawn was the darkest, and now set off and rushed to the Xiushui River Bridge, just when the sky was slightly bright, and at that time, it was also the time when the defenders were most tired and thirsty.
Last night, it was the middle of the night again, and the defenders were now so weak that when the enemy retreated, they lay on the ground and didn't even bother to move a finger, right?
"Let's go!" The old sentry took his spear and strode forward.
Along the riverbank, 2,000 people lined up in several long lines and rushed towards the Xiushui River Bridge in the distance. No one made a sound, their feet stepped on the river beach, and there was almost no sound, everyone's mood was extremely heavy, but there was a faint excitement. The battle of the Xiushui River Bridge only lasted for a day and a night, but the Qin army, which had more than 10,000 people, suffered close to 2,000 casualties, and one-fifth of its strength fell on this bridge guarded by only 500 people.
The powerful crossbow machine that has never been seen before, the unheard of overwhelming crossbow machine crossbow arrows, even if it is a face-to-face battle, they do not take advantage of half of it.
If it weren't for the fact that the Ming people were too arrogant and only stationed 500 men here to guard such an important bridge, and if they were stationed on the other side of the river with a force of soldiers and horses, then with these sharp weapons, I am afraid that no matter how many of them there are, they will not be able to cross this river.
The old sentry took a deep breath and suddenly found that he couldn't understand the current war. Before, he never thought that a bridge guarded by 500 people could hold off a strong army of 10,000 people.
After winning the battle against these 500 people, how many Ming troops will be encountered after crossing the river? With only 500 people, there are so many sharp weapons, what if the Ming army has 5,000 people, 50,000? It was a powerful country, a powerful country that accounted for almost half of the Great Qin, not a bandit bandit that could be wiped out.
Is this battle really winnable? The old sentry chief felt a pang of sadness in his heart.
With a bang, a wave hit the reef on the shore, waking the old sentry chief from his thoughts, but he was already in a cold sweat in his vest. How has this ever happened in the past? Secretly raising his eyes and scanning the surroundings, everyone was hurrying away, not noticing his anomaly.
He let out a long breath, he was nothing more than a small person. Whether it is the old sentry commander of the Luoying Mountains in the past, or the current general, it will never be his turn to worry about national affairs, and all he has to do is to try his best to win the battle in front of him.
As for whether you will win the fight in the future? How could you have guessed it? Maybe God will open his eyes and win!
He worked hard to lift his spirits, to make himself appear more magnificent, and to be brave as a soldier, if he showed decadence, how could he fight this battle?
The sky has slightly revealed the white of the fish's belly, and the outline of the Xiushui River Bridge has faintly appeared in everyone's eyes, and the old sentry commander immediately drove all the selfish distractions out of his mind.
"The whole army accelerates!" The old sentinel raised his arms high, but did not fall again, for he heard a neighing of horses.
He turned his head and looked into the distance.
In fact, it is not too far, but there is only a mile of land, a large crimson flag is fluttering slightly in the morning breeze, flames, skeletons, war knives, this banner looks very familiar, similar to the flag of his old opponent Chu State death camp in the Luoying Mountains.
But none of this matters anymore, what matters is the rows of hideous cavalry.
At this moment, the old sentry only felt a buzzing sound in his head, and in an instant it became a blank, and the whole person froze somewhere like a wood carved clay sculpture.
Cavalry.
The crimson banner pointed forward slightly, and the black cavalry began to move forward slowly, and then faster and faster, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded, suppressing the sound of the raging river.
The thunderous sound of hooves woke up the old sentry chief, who turned his head stiffly and looked at the long line of his own drawn out on the bank of the river, without long-range attack weapons, without a tight formation, such an infantry could only lamb on the case of the cavalry who had stormed.
"Li Yihao, attack and stop the enemy!" The old sentry's voice was filled with fear and a hint of weeping.
It's not that the enemy has no rear hand, they have been hiding in the dark, they have been waiting for their people to cross the Xiushui River, what they want is to seize such an opportunity to completely annihilate a part of the elite Qin army.
They've always been there. They've been secretly watching themselves, and now, they've finally found the best time.
Li Yonghao roared and rushed towards the oncoming cavalry with about 300 soldiers, whether it was them who launched the attack or the other people who were panicked behind, they knew very well that they had no chance of survival, and their only role was to buy a little time for the rest of the people to line up.
However, the enemy's cavalry was too close to them.
"Array, array!" The officers roared loudly, and the old sentry shouted with all his strength.
It was the cavalry of the 2,000 Fire Death Battalion led by the horse monkey that launched the attack.
The Xiushui River Bridge is so important, how can the Ming army not arrange a back hand? Zou Zheng, the Baoqing battalion in charge of the defense of this area, hid all the 2,000 cavalry that the emperor had assigned to him behind the Xiushui River.
Five hundred people guarded the Xiushui River Bridge, with the dangerous terrain and fierce weapons, Zou Zheng thought that they could block the enemy for several days, and the enemy saw that they could not capture the bridge head-on, so they would inevitably find another way to force the Xiushui River to cross the Xiushui River, which was their only chance.
Originally, I thought that the opponent would force the crossing during the day, and the Agni Death Battalion was also preparing to attack halfway and defend the only location that was barely suitable for landing, but I never expected that the other party would smuggle in the middle of the night.
Fighting at night is obviously not in line with the characteristics of the Agni Death Battalion, the night will make them unable to give full play to the advantages of the cavalry, and the night will also allow them to add unnecessary casualties. One stone is enough to break a horse's tendon.
So the horse monkey set the time of the battle in the early hours of the morning. He chose a good place and quietly waited for the Qin army to come across the river.
Everything is under control, and when the enemy appears in front of them, there is no trace of defense.
The battle flag pointed forward, the horse's hooves flew, and the two thousand cavalry rushed towards the snake-like Qin army like a black oppressive cloud. The three or four hundred Qin troops led by Li Yonghao did not even make a splash, and disappeared among the charging cavalry. It didn't play a role in blocking it in the slightest.
The fire camp is the emperor's own soldiers, and the fire phoenix, thunder, dragon inlay these royal soldiers are tens of thousands of different, the fire camp is only 5,000 people, carefully selected from all the armies of the Ming Dynasty, these people are innocent of good families, on the horse is the cavalry, off the horse is the foot soldier, the combat power is outstanding, is the benchmark of the entire Ming army. Not to mention these Qin troops, even if the Thunder Army appears in front of them, they will also be crushed by this army if they are equal in number.
The Qin army by the Xiushui River did not have time to form a close battle formation against the cavalry, so it was cut off into several piles by the cavalry, and instantly fell into a situation of fighting on its own.
The cavalry's war horses were vertical and horizontal, and the horses in their hands were devoured, and each pick would stab a Qin army to the ground. Occasionally, a cavalry would be stabbed off their horses, but in an instant, more cavalry would pounce and engulf the area completely.
The old sentry chief looked at the whole battlefield in despair, the battlefield was completely one-sided, the Qin army had completely collapsed, many people were pursued by the cavalry, desperately rushed to the Xiushui River, and then desperately jumped into the river, even if the river was so turbulent, even if it was drowned, it was better than being killed by the Ming army like killing dogs and pigs.
The old sentry sighed, stretched out his hand and stroked the scars on his body, he was lucky, there were only a few left in the ranks with him, and he was still alive and well. But when luck will eventually run out, your limit will finally come.
The hound will eventually die on the mountain, and the general will inevitably die immediately! I had long anticipated this day.
"Raise your gun!" He roared. Dozens of soldiers gathered around him raised their spears in unison.
"Onward!" The old sentry roared again.
Dozens of spears formed a small phalanx, with the old sentry chief as the core, and stepped forward.
The horses in the front of several districts galloped wildly, and the horselance at the flat end of the knight's hand was dripping blood downward, close and close, as if it was shocking, it turned around in front of them, swept at high speed, and all the spears stabbed out by Qi Qi fell in the air, but there was a scream from the side, and the cavalry in front of them was just to attract their attention, and the attack from one side was real.
The small phalanx composed of dozens of people was broken by the cavalry in an instant, and the soldiers were knocked away by the majestic horses, and were provoked by the long horse lances, and the cavalry on the side swept by, taking away more than a dozen lives, and before the remnants came to their senses, the cavalry on the front rushed again.
The old sentry's spear didn't have time to stab out, and the whole person flew up, and he saw the cavalry passing by, and saw the surging Xiushui River, and the ups and downs of the Xiushui River struggling to survive.
You can't win this battle!
It seemed to fly to the highest place, his body began to fall rapidly, the power in his body was passing little by little, and his vision was gradually blurred.
This battle can't be won!
With a thud, the old sentry fell to the ground, and all thoughts came to an abrupt halt at this moment.10