Chapter 168: The Water is Boundless, and the Way to Return is Long (4)
Wan Haoruo and three enemy generals grappling with a number of times, the heart is quite impatient, look at one of the enemy generals flawed, avoid the spear handed by his people, back to the horse turned around, the two horses are wrong, a coquettish sound, the "seventh knife vain slash" in the seven slashes, according to the head and neck of the thousand commanders backhand swing knife, will "lean on the door to look back, but the green plum sniff" in the "back", "sniff", "look", "split" and other actions in one go, a knife cut, the head and neck of the thousand commanders cut off.
Wan Haoruo had no less momentum in the lancet in his hand, and at the next drop of the knife, he slashed the chest of an enemy general who was driving forward on the left, only to hear two pops, and then "ahhhh Two screams of pain, only to see three enemy generals, one of the head and neck broken, crashed under the horse, an enemy general's chest armor was cut by the blade, revealing a one-foot-long bloody mouth, the flesh rolled up, blood dripping, Wu waved a long knife in his hand, about to swing the slash, the blade stopped in mid-air, and then unable to split, the arm was weak, the body shook on the horse, the expression was committed, fell off the horse, and fell to the ground.
The remaining commander saw that although the opponent was a little-known cardamom girl, the knife technique in his hand was extremely sharp, he couldn't help but be surprised, looked at Fanxiang and Su Xinyan who were watching the battle, shouted, waved his spear on the lancet in Wan Haoruo's hand, turned the horse's head, and wanted to escape.
Wan Hao Ruo saw it, Wang Fanxiang looked at it, stuck out his tongue mischievously, grinned, two shallow pear vortices on the side of his mouth appeared, and shouted to the fleeing enemy general: "Look where you look, leave your life, I still have to remember military merits, hehe...... "In the voice of speaking, he got up, got off the horse, moved his body in mid-air and rotated, looking at the direction of the enemy general fleeing into the air, like flying into the sky, with a delicate sound, and the action was as fast as the wind. The lancet in his hand swung out to the back of the head of the enemy general who ran forward, only to see a flash of blue knife light, which was extremely light, setting off a wave of attack qi, rolling straight behind the enemy general, like lightning and stone fire, with a soft sound of "snort", the blade passed over, and the enemy general split the head with a helmet, and took a few steps forward on the horse, and planted under the horse with a "poof".
"Wan'er, good knife skills!" Su Xinyan gave Wan Haoruo a thumbs up and praised loudly.
Fan Xiang watched the battle from the sidelines, smiling, and approving.
Wan Haoruo jumped back, got on the horse again, smiled at Fan Xiang and Su Xinyan, and said, "Big brother, sister Xiao Yan, let's go kill him!"
"Brother Fanxiang, let's go too!"
"Good. Su Xinyan followed closely behind, and Fan Xiang marched together with Fan Xiang, and no one could stop him from passing, and in a moment, the enemy soldiers in front of the Guards were all slaughtered, shouting, and leading this team of more than 300 people to kill the scattered and fleeing enemy army.
The two led the three hundred guards to fight all the way. Fan Xiang looked around, his eyes were full of scattered encirclement and suppression army rout and the elite beggar army bravely pursued and killed, and saw that the battle situation at the north gate had been decided, so he waved his troops to the east gate.
Murong Ling, under the escort of the guards, galloped into the camp of the garrison at the east gate, Zhan Liu hurriedly led the army into the camp of the Chinese army, and when he turned around, he saw that there were elite rebels on all sides, and the camp was surrounded on all sides, and the military horses in the camp were chaotic. The elite rebels hid behind the strong shield and fired arrows outside the camp, killing many encirclement and suppression soldiers.
Zhan Liu saw that the situation was already very critical, so he said to Murong Ling: "Most of the sergeants are wounded, and there is no way out, and I hope that Major General Murong will leave quickly. ”
Murong Ling looked at the scattered hearts of the soldiers in the camp, frowned, and said: "How can I abandon you and wait, needless to say, you go to reorganize the army quickly, our army still has tens of thousands, how can it be defeated in a battle, Fanxiang Xiaoer, who will kill the deer, it is not yet decided." After that, he smiled and looked quite calm.
Zhan Liu straightened up and said loudly: "I am favored by the old general Murong, I should repay me with death, and I will obey the order of the young general, and I will wait for everyone to fight to the death here!"
At this time, the sky was faint, the sound of killing around the sky was shocking, and many camps in the camp had been attacked and occupied by the elite rebels.
Murong Ling sat in the position of the chief general in the tent, looked at Zhan Liu and his generals, and said: "Generals, today I will fight to the death with all the generals, live and die together, and hope that the generals will cherish themselves." ”
"Obey the orders of the commander and fight to the death with the enemy!" Zhan Liu and the generals under his command responded in unison.
Zhan Liu and his generals turned around and ran out of the big tent, leading a group of sergeants to fight against the enemy, and all the sergeants under his command saw the commander of the general Murong Ling sitting in the army, all of them were greatly boosted, and the elite righteous army fought bravely from the light of the Ming to the sun.
Fanxiang urged a rapid attack from all sides, and arrows rained down on the camp.
Zhan Liu was also brave and said loudly to the soldiers: "I have heard loyal and brave people say, 'Brave generals do not die cowardly to avoid death, and strong men do not destroy festivals and survive'. Today is our day of death. Everyone worked hard to fight to the death to achieve the prestige we have today. "Order the generals to lead the sergeants to engage the rebels in short combat.
The encirclement and suppression troops in the camp were also brave at this time, and they moved forward according to the order, shooting several arrows, and many people were killed immediately. Zhan Liu led several men to fight and killed hundreds of elite rebels who broke into the Chinese military camp. The commanders of the two armies will take the gate of the Chinese army's camp as the boundary, attack and kill each other, and they will not be able to hold each other for a long time.
The Zhanliu barracks were divided into six barracks, except for the large camp of the Chinese army, the rest of the barracks were surrounded by four sides, and the troops were stationed on five higher mounds and high ground outside the east of the city.
In this battle, the elite rebel army first attacked the outer camps, and the encirclement and suppression army fought for a day around the battle for this, the second, third, fourth, and fifth highland mounds.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, the elite beggar army captured and defended the fourth and fifth two heights, and the encirclement and suppression army occupied the first, second, and third three high grounds, and later the beggar army took the second and third two high grounds. The Zhanliu army was not reconciled, and mobilized elites to counterattack the second and third highlands.
Fierce hand-to-hand combat took place on the second and third high grounds.
At 12 o'clock at noon, the Zhanliu Encirclement and Suppression Army bombarded thousands of rounds of pottery and gunpowder shells on the positions of the begging army, and then dispatched two elite troops of 10,000 troops to attack the second and third positions of the begging army. The offensive of the encirclement army came very suddenly, and there were only two thousand troops in these two positions of the beggar army. The soldiers of all levels stationed in these two mounds and heights of the beggar army were undaunted and bravely responded to the battle.
The occupying forces in position No. 3 faced the swarming encirclement and suppression army, and the defenders attacked fiercely and repelled many attacks by the encirclement and suppression army. But the encirclement and suppression army was also iron-hearted, and regardless of the cost, a wave of attacks was repulsed, and immediately another wave of attacks were carried out under the leadership of several commanders. The two sides fought fiercely for more than half an hour, the beggar army was exhausted, the grenade arrows had been exhausted, and more than half of the dead and wounded.
All the soldiers guarding the garrison are armed with long knives and iron guns, waiting for the enemy to fight closely!
The first wave of encirclement and suppression army rushed in, the soldiers were stabbed and slashed head-on, killing blood and rain, many encirclement and suppression army fell in a pool of blood and struggled, but the encirclement and suppression army still rushed up desperately, more than 900 soldiers of the begging army finally died bravely, the third position was lost, and the encirclement and suppression army was also killed by the begging army more than 4,000 people, and the body was piled up on the mound, a mess.
The same fierce battles were fought at position two.
By 13 p.m., there were only about 400 soldiers left in the battle, and the rest had already been sacrificed, and the arrows and grenades had been used up. Changsha Zhanyuan, a thousand soldiers of the beggar army, killed a thousand commanders leading the encirclement and suppression army in the struggle, jumped into the enemy army, fought hard, and killed dozens of enemy soldiers. In the heat of battle, he was attacked from behind by a besieged army with a bow and arrow. Sha Zhanyuan, who was hit by an arrow in his back, turned around, his eyes widened angrily, ignoring the arrow behind his back, and hugged the devil army, and then jumped and fell down the mound with the devil soldier, strangled the enemy soldier to death, and died together.
At half-past thirteen p.m., Position 2 was also lost!
On the No. 1 position, there were only more than 700 soldiers left in the whole team to defend with wounds.
When Fan Xiang saw this, he immediately divided the wall-breaking army that was attacking the camp of the Chinese army in Zhanliu into two teams, and sent a team of more than 300 people, led by Yu Wuxian, the deputy captain of the wall-breaking army, to rush to help. Yu Wushu led the wall-breaking army to the No. 1 position, only to know how tragic the battle situation was. They immediately consolidated their positions and at the same time prepared to regain the second and third heights. With the support of this wall-breaking army, Fan Kun led more than 2,000 beggars and more than 3,000 troops from the south gate to attack the second and third positions fiercely, and then more than 300 wall-breaking troops quickly attacked, waving Mo knives in their hands, advancing like a wall, and recaptured the position at 14 o'clock in the afternoon.
After the beggar army went up, the battlefield scene presented was extremely tragic and tragic, and the soldiers of the beggar army who died all maintained the last fighting posture before their lives, some of them stabbed their long knives into the enemy's chest, some strangled the enemy's neck, and some rolled down the mound with the enemy's .......
In the camp of the Chinese army of the encirclement and suppression army, Zhan Liu opened seven stacked formations according to the direction of the Big Dipper, and firmly guarded the Chinese army's tent in the middle. The so-called stacking array is to put the horses in the outermost layer, and then arrange the pikemen, and then cooperate with the crossbowmen. In addition to protecting the crossbowmen, the pikemen also had to protect the rejecting horses (the enemy soldiers directly attacked the repulsion of the horses, and ordered the gunners of the armoured army, Miyi to resist the horses, and use the guns to pluck them). Each standard stacked array is about 3,200 people (including 200 people who carry and reject horses). Among them, the main infantry formation had 502 armored pikemen, 302 crossbowmen, 202 archers, 281 crossbowmen on the left and right wings, and 261 cavalry on the left and right. The distribution of troops is extremely strict, attacking and defending each other, and the combat effectiveness is very strong.
Fan Xiang saw that the beggar army was unable to attack the camp of the middle army of the army, so he ordered the beggar army to dismount and fight on foot first, and if the infantry did not show any results, he would use the wall-breaking army to drive away the enemy cavalry, and then ordered Yelujing to lead the headquarters of the ironclad army to break through the encirclement and suppression army to resist the horses, and then use a strong bow to expand the results of the battle. Jumping, odd soldiers, and horse armies immediately move forward to meet the enemy, and the infantry retreats to rectify, ready to reinforce and fight again.
According to the "Chronicles of the Elite War in the Western Regions," there is a record of this war: 3,000 begging soldiers from Fanxiang in the Elite City of Elite City, all of whom marched with guns, called the Ironclad Hard Army. The men and horses are all fully armoured, and an eight-sided club hangs from their waists, or a knife. The gun is one foot and two feet long, and the knife is like a butcher knife in the Central Plains. From this text, it can be known that the elite begging ironclad hard soldiers are generally equipped with cavalry spears that are two zhang long, and their length is about 4 meters, which has an obvious length advantage over the long-handled broadsword with a length of about one zhang used by the encirclement and suppression army led by Zhan Liu.
The battle array set by Fan Xiang is a three-dimensional, multi-arms organic combat whole, in which the role of the wall-breaking army using the Mo knife can not be underestimated, hundreds of warriors holding long-handled Mo knives form a battle formation, such as a barrier, such as a frenzy, whether it is to meet the enemy or pursue, it is enough to make the enemy fearful.
Ye Lujing led the ironclad army to engage with Zhanliu in a short battle. Zhan Liu personally supervised the battle in the array, and the enemy soldiers in the stacked array were also not afraid of death, with the help of rejecting horses, and the attacking ironclad army insisted on fierce battles, only listening to the sound of killing in the military formation, flesh and blood flying everywhere, the attackers were fearless, and the refusers were not afraid, all of them fought with their lives.
Yelujing saw that Zhan Liu was shouting and supervising the battle in the enemy formation, and he couldn't attack for a long time, so he raised his hand and pointed to the enemy general Zhan Liu in the array, and shouted to Ling Xiao, the captain of the wall-breaking army who helped in the battle: "General Ling help me, break the middle road for me, and I will go to the enemy army to kill the main general." ”
"Okay, General Yelu, I will kill with you, kill the generals, capture the flag, and make meritorious deeds together. Ling Xiao responded loudly not far away, and rushed over with his subordinates to break the wall.