Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume VII The Bloody Battle in the Southwest

Chapter 3 Tiger Ben's Bloody War Quells Rebellion

Section 3 Gathering at Nanjin Pass (3)

In the next few days, Liu Yunwei commanded the soldiers of the pacesetter battalion, the trapping camp, and the Huben battalion to attack Nanjin Pass in batches, each time spending a battalion; The timing of the sortie was also not fixed, sometimes it was early in the morning, sometimes it was noon, sometimes it was midnight, and sometimes it was a whole day without attacking, making the rebels nervous all day in vain. And when the attacking army arrived at the city of Nanjin Pass, they did not send soldiers to attack the city, but only used the artillery belonging to each battalion to bombard the city, destroying all the defensive equipment on the city, killing and wounding some rebel troops, and then swaggering back to the camp to rest.

Seeing that Han Weijun actually used such a method, he was so angry that he rolled his eyes and scolded, but there was nothing he could do. If he led the army out of the city to protect the Hanwei army in a field battle, Yu Chongming knew very well that he would be defeated very badly, and the dozens of sharp artillery pieces alone could collapse the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his hands on the spot; But if he continues to defend the city, God knows when his tens of thousands of troops will be tortured and collapsed by the Han Wei army.

Now the 30,000 rebel soldiers in Nanjin Pass are already restless under the offensive of the soldiers of the Hanwei Army, and everyone does not know when the next wave of the Hanwei Army's offensive will begin, and no one knows whether the next wave of the Hanwei Army's offensive will really be a siege battle.

Within a few days, under the constant attack of the Hanwei army battalions, the morale of the rebels had dropped to the bottom, and the slightest disturbance outside the fortress would cause the rebel soldiers to be on high alert. After a long time, all the rebel soldiers did not get rest, and everyone was tense, and later many rebel soldiers began to have an unusually irritable mood, and when they had a slight disagreement with each other, they drew swords against their companions. Within a few days, Yu Chongming had received dozens of reports of his subordinates fighting each other, and hundreds of people had died as a result.

"It can't go on like this!" Extravagant Chongming secretly said in his heart, and began to think of a way to fight back.

At this moment, an alarm sounded again, and the Han Wei army came to bombard the city again!

Gao Chongming looked at the stars in the night sky outside the window, and suddenly thought of an idea.

Therefore, luxury Chongming did not care how the Hanwei army outside the city bombarded the city, directly and secretly mobilized 10,000 troops in the city, and led the army out of the city quietly from the north gate of Nanjin Pass in the fierce artillery fire outside the city, and soon disappeared into the night.

At this time, it was the soldiers of the trapped camp led by Wu Xing who were attacking the city west of Nanjin Pass. After bombarding for a long time, Wu Xingwang saw that the city head of Nanjin Pass had once again turned into a mess, so he led more than 10,000 soldiers in the trapped camp to slowly retreat and drive in the direction of the camp.

A day later, Zhao Kaishan led the soldiers of the Huben battalion to take advantage of the night to drive in the direction of Nanjin Pass, preparing to attack the rebels guarding the pass again.

On the march, the soldiers of the Huben battalion passed through a hilly area, where the terrain was complex and the sides were mostly densely wooded, which was very suitable for hiding troops in the dark night. However, the officers and soldiers of the various battalions of the Hanwei Army have been back and forth here several times in the past few days, and they have always been safe and sound, so they don't care too much.

Just as the army was slowly passing through this hilly area, a dense number of arrows suddenly shot from both sides of the road, and the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion who were marching were caught off guard, and hundreds of soldiers fell immediately.

Seeing this, Zhao Kaishan immediately shouted: "The whole army is in formation!" The Musketeers return fire! The cavalry battalion is massing towards the Chinese army! ”

After the initial confusion, the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion immediately began to form a formation on the spot, with the sword and shield men of Battalion A and Battalion B outside, and the heavy pikemen forming a huge circle formation, while the bird gunmen of Battalion C roamed in groups of three or five, firing back from time to time at the dense forests on both sides. At the same time, the officers and men of the artillery battalion and cavalry battalion under the jurisdiction of the Tiger Battalion have been assembled in the formation and can launch a counterattack against the enemy at any time.

Zhao Kaishan observed the dense forests on both sides by the moonlight, and saw the figures in the forest longing, and the hidden rebel troops should be no less than tens of thousands of horses.

"It seems that the traitor of Yu Chongming can't sit still!"

Zhao Kaishan suddenly felt full of fighting spirit, and shouted loudly: "Light the bonfire!" Light a campfire! Soldiers, the war has begun! ”

"Fire! Put! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

The soldiers of the C Battalion launched a fierce counterattack against the approaching rebel soldiers who were shielded by trees, and the whole circle suddenly resounded with a deafening roar, and the trees on both sides of the road were constantly hit by the fierce lead and sawdust, and many rebel soldiers were hit by the birds, screaming and falling to the ground, curling up and moaning in pain.

At this time, Yu Chongming was supervising the battle in the woods in the distance, and saw that the soldiers of the Huben battalion were able to quickly form a formation without any chaos in the case of a sudden attack, and at the same time launched a fierce counterattack against the tens of thousands of troops under his command, and he was shocked in his heart: "Fortunately, I did not act rashly, and I did not lead the army to start a field duel with the Hanwei army in anger, otherwise, our army would have no chance of winning!" ”

"All the troops! Kill me! ”

Luxury Chongming roared loudly, and kept drinking to order the army under his command to attack the round formation of the Tiger Camp. At present, although the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion have formed a circular formation, due to the limitations of the terrain, the circular formation formed by the soldiers is actually not rigorous, and the entire formation is divided very messy by dense trees and undulating terrain. Under such circumstances, Yu Chongming could lead the army to attack regardless of casualties, and he might be able to severely damage the Hanwei army in front of him by disrupting it.

"Won the first rank of the Hanwei Army, awarded thirty taels of silver, and promoted to one level!"

Extravagant Chongming roared loudly, using his official position and silver to boost the morale of the army under his command. 10,000 rebel soldiers, under the heavy reward, frantically flocked to the soldiers of the Tiger Camp on the road. At this moment, in the eyes of these rebel soldiers, those soldiers of the Tiger Battalion are clearly piles of gold and silver treasures, which are extremely tempting.

But these extremely tempting "gold and silver treasures" are also very deadly!

Under the fierce bombardment of the soldiers of the C Battalion, the 10,000 rebel soldiers besieging the round formation of the Huben Battalion suffered heavy casualties, and where the rebels were relatively dense, the sharp bird guns were concentrated on shooting there, which to a certain extent contained the fierce offensive of the rebels, so that the rebel soldiers could never get close to the circle formation of the soldiers of the Huben Battalion.

Seeing this scene from a distance, Yu Chongming was immediately furious, and immediately mobilized two thousand archers to rush forward, ready to exchange his life for his life, and use these two thousand archers to rush to the front of the circle and shoot at the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion!

After promising a heavy reward, the two thousand archers immediately went crazy, and rushed to the tiger camp circle on the road with a roar, and the two thousand people gathered at the edge of the dense forest fifty paces away from the circle and began to form a formation.

Seeing this, Zhao Kaishan was brave and good at fighting, and his eyelids were beating and his heart was frightened at this time.

"Shoot the rebel archers! Swords and shields, pay attention! ”

Zhao Kaishan immediately roared loudly, and the surrounding birdmen rushed to the edge of the battle formation, aiming at the rebel archers who were already close at hand, and swept down hundreds of people in an instant.

Almost at the same moment, the two thousand rebel archers also launched a fierce counterattack, and the dense rain of arrows covered most of the circle in an instant, and the birds who were fighting and shooting were caught off guard, and more than 100 people were killed by the rebels' arrows, and the rest of the melee soldiers also suffered a lot of casualties. The sword and shield soldiers on the left had no time to protect at all, and even the originally loose circle formation had a gap for a while.

Seeing this, Yu Chongming immediately laughed regardless of his image, and constantly ordered the army to kill along the gap in the circle and engage in a melee with the soldiers of the Tiger Battalion.

"Even if all these 10,000 soldiers and horses are exhausted in this battle, as long as they can inflict heavy damage on the Hanwei Army, they can deal a heavy blow to the morale of the officers and soldiers and greatly increase the momentum of our righteous army. When the time comes, this big battle will be able to turn around! ”

Yu Chongming had a good calculation in his heart, and he was full of confidence in this battle. Who knows, just when thousands of rebels frantically poured into the gap in the circle and were ready to kill in, a scene that stunned everyone happened!

I saw hundreds of soldiers of the Hanwei Army holding heavy spears one after another, raising their spears one after another, and rushing out of the gap in the circle in a neat formation, and hundreds of rebels along the way were strung together by heavy spears several meters long like fresh meat. Immediately afterwards, hundreds of soldiers armed with horse-chopping knives, under the leadership of Zhao Kaishan, followed behind the spear array and rushed to the thousands of rebels to kill in all directions; The hundreds of long swords that were originally used to deal with the Tartar cavalry were extremely sharp, and in an instant they killed thousands of rebels and retreated, and the rebels' positions kept moving backwards, and before long thousands of rebels began to rout.

Zhao Kaishan struggled to cut down the two rebel soldiers in front of him to the ground, and then dragged the Kaishan axe in his hand and rushed forward, the blood on his body had dyed the whole person into a "blood man", and he couldn't see any other colors. Zhao Kaishan roared loudly, the Kaishan axe in his hand waved from time to time, and the rebel soldiers around him continued to kill the surrounding rebel soldiers, causing hundreds of people on both sides of the enemy to look sideways, and many rebel soldiers saw Zhao Kaishan rushing over and immediately threw away their weapons and fled, not daring to meet the battle at all.

Gao Chongming looked at the battlefield in the distance in a daze, and couldn't believe that the scene in front of him was real for a while, his army was still dominant just now, how could it turn into a defeat in the blink of an eye?

"Concentrate your forces on blocking that group of officers and soldiers for me!"

Faced with such a situation, Yu Chongming was still unwilling to lose, and immediately gathered the rebel army that had not lost its formation in the near future, and it didn't take long to reassemble 3,000 people, and then put all these 3,000 people into the front of hundreds of soldiers under Zhao Kaishan, in an attempt to block the counterattack of the soldiers of the Huben battalion.

Zhao Kaishan was already a little short of breath at this time, and the Kaishan axe in his hand was also wielding a little slowly, and the hundreds of soldiers of the Tiger Battalion behind him were also exhausted, after all, the weapons in the hands of all the soldiers were heavy weapons, and they were very physically demanding.

However, after Zhao Kaishan saw the three thousand rebels rushing up in the distance, he immediately burst out laughing, and then shouted loudly: "Soldiers! The battle exploits are sent to the door, follow me to kill! All in one! ”

"The mountains are shaking! Kill! Kill! Kill! ”