Chapter 62: Who Will Take the Great Head (5)
The rear camp of the new army was also in chaos at the moment.
The unrest in the North Shore camp, although it lasted for some time, was not enough for the new troops in the South Bank Rear Camp to organize themselves against the night attack. What's more, the ranger swordsman under Liu Xuan is the best at such a melee.
Right now. Killing is no longer the point, but only a last resort to clear resistance. The focus of Liu Xuan and the rangers is arson.
As long as a large enough fire can be burned and spread to the entire barracks, then whether it is a blow to morale or a killing of soldiers, it will be far stronger than the sword in hand.
However, the camp of the 100,000-strong army was so big that no matter how hard Liu Jiu and the rangers tried, they could only maintain the riot in a small area. After all, their number is only a little more than a hundred.
And as the Forces nouvelles recovered from the chaos, so did the resistance they faced. More and more of the new soldiers began to form formations as they came to their senses, relying on the protection of more shields and the longer length of their spears to keep the rangers' swords out.
Liu Xuan was running around. He had done everything in his power to clear all resistance that could become greater. Everywhere the New Army soldiers gathered more crowds, they were always scattered again by his long knife.
However, the resistance is still growing little by little.
"Liu Ji! See? Here's the fire! ”
Liu Xuan cut off the head of a New Army soldier with a knife, and then stabbed another New Army soldier in the chest with his backhand, wiped the blood from his face with his left hand, and kept calling anxiously in his chest.
If there is no follow-up, when the chaos in the barracks is completely restored, he and the more than 100 rangers will all die here.
The sound of breaking the air sounded mournfully. Liu Xuan's heart jumped suddenly, and instead of dodging backwards, he stepped forward, rushed to the New Army soldier in front, and after stabbing a person in the chest, he reached out and grabbed his body and blocked his body.
Just when Liu Xuan shrank his body under the new army soldier who was not completely dead, a dense rain of arrows had already been shot. A fierce impact made the whole body of the new army soldier tremble, and on the ground around him, there were more short and thick crossbow arrows in an instant.
Is...... That troop!
Liu Xuan's heart sank, and he looked up, and sure enough, in the distance ahead, a neat row of shield walls was slowly advancing forward, and the gap between them was airtight. Behind the shield wall, there are rows of soldiers armed with strong crossbows, who are constantly winding, crossing the shield wall and firing crossbow arrows in a high-pitched curve.
In Wancheng, he had already witnessed the strength and elite of this army. In the battle of Taishoufu, if it weren't for the sudden hailstorm, whether it was five hundred cavalry, or him, Liu Xiu, Liu Ji and others, they would all be shot and killed by this group of soldiers without any suspense.
And at the city gate, it was also because they didn't expect to be attacked from behind, so they didn't have time to change their formation for a while and were broken through. Even so, they quickly regrouped and joined the battle once again with the reinforcements that arrived later.
The frontal attack and defense can be called invincible, and the will to fight and morale are also completely invulnerable. Although the flaws behind them are huge, in the vast majority of opportunities, they will not encounter the opportunity to be raided in the back at all.
Now in this narrow camp, Liu Xuan's subordinates only have more than a hundred rangers, so naturally there is no chance to break through this army called the Iron Blood Battalion.
"Stand back!"
Liu Xuan turned over, took advantage of the short gap in the Iron Blood Camp on the wind, flashed behind a camp, and then roared loudly at the two rangers behind him.
Now, we can only delay as much time as possible and wait for the arrival of Liu Ji and others!
Liu Xuan and the rangers, from the original scattered to the center, and relied on the camp tent to retreat towards the river bank. However, while this move temporarily brought them to safety, it gave the surrounding New Army soldiers a chance to recover from the chaos.
And the outer encirclement is getting smaller and smaller.
The Iron Battalion didn't rush forward, they just moved forward slowly and steadily, at their own fixed pace, stopping every five steps, followed by a rain of arrows—whether it was an enemy in front of them, an open field, or their own soldiers running around blindly in confusion.
They just have to move forward, regardless of the consequences!
The rangers, who had been exposed due to the loss of concealment, gradually began to suffer casualties under the rain of arrows. And as the encirclement slowly narrowed, the casualties also increased little by little.
There are also some rangers who hide in tents, waiting for the Iron Blood Battalion to advance a short distance nearby, and then suddenly rush out and launch a suicidal attack. However, it was only a small splash in the sea, and it could do nothing but slow down the advance of some enemies slightly.
Liu Xuan and the others had gradually retreated to the bottom of the camp, with the river bank behind them.
There is no turning back!
There are only two choices left to choose between being killed by a crossbow arrow, or jumping into Huang Chun's water and drowning to death.