Chapter Ninety-Seven: Low-Intensity War
The problem is that the horse thieves outside didn't think that they thought that if they opened the village gate, the Zhuang Ding inside the village would collapse, but after two consecutive shocks, none of the eight horse thieves came back.
The horse ridden is a good horse, and the use of good weapons is also good, and when the spoils are divided, they also take more than others, and they pass through the village on weekdays, and meet which Zhuang Ding Nursing Courtyard, these horse thieves rush side by side, and basically break up. I didn't expect to meet such a piercing enemy in this summer village.
The third wave of horse thieves who were about to follow into the village did not dare to move, and directly turned their horses and retreated outside, and collided with their companions, causing chaos and abnormality.
For Li Meng and Ma Gang, this is really a great luck, the other party actually left himself the time of the whole team, and confronted the horse thieves in the village of Xiazhuang, although the horses could not maneuver in a wide range, but they were also stuffed in this street, and the other party collided hard.
The dead salt and horse thieves were just lying on the street, blood was flowing all over the ground, and the bloody gas gradually spread, many of them had just been trained, but they had not seen life and death, and their faces were pale, and they couldn't bear to vomit out, at this time, the hard and rigorous training played a role, although everyone was uncomfortable, but they still maintained a posture of raising their spears horizontally or diagonally, paying attention to their position in the queue.
Li Meng took a deep breath, looked at the wolf at the scene, and knew that this was a life-and-death situation, and if he was a little careless, this Yanding team was afraid that it was going to collapse, so everything he did in this era would probably disappear.
Looking at the formation, it is almost organized. Li Meng raised his voice and shouted the order:
"Advance in formation, go out of the village, and line up before the deep ditch!"
Ma Gang walked silently next to Li Mengdi with a spear in his hand, the two of them are now in the second row of the team, the soldiers in the first row are simply aligned, someone whispers one, two, three steps, and the team begins to walk towards the outside of the Zhuang Gate.
The horse thieves outside are also hesitating, and Xiazhuang is also a very wealthy place around Gaomi County. After opening this Zhuangzi, the gold and silver population, and even the horses will be greatly replenished, who would have thought that the village here would be so difficult, and several of the most ruthless and fierce brothers would die in it. Such a piece of fat is in the mouth, and it has already opened the door of the village, it is a pity not to beat it down.
Just as he was hesitating, he heard the sound of neat footsteps, and a group of people whispered the trumpet and walked outside from the suspension bridge.
The horse thieves are horse thieves after all, and their first reaction was not to rush up and hit Yanding by surprise, but a group of people hurriedly retreated and pushed out nearly a hundred steps. This is considered to be stable, and there is a confused view of the salt Ding lined up.
The clothes of the salt lads are coarse cloth and short plackets, holding a spear in their hands, and each of them is also a peasant child from a village family and a military family, and they look very simple, and they look like Zhuang Ding Minzhuang. The observation and hesitation of these horse thieves allowed four hundred of Li Meng's salters to complete the formation outside the deep ditch of the wall. Li Meng and Ma Gang stood on the left and right of the first row.
The horse thief's side is indeed a little uncertain, looking at the posture of these Zhuang Ding in front of him, it is very different from what he has encountered before, where is the difference. He couldn't understand it, but a few cronies on the side waited until the Yanding team was finished, but they came with confidence, and they all said with a smile there:
"The big boss, these buns are hard to chew in the Zhuangzi. Fight with us in this flat land. A few shocks will collapse, this time we have to eat fat. After opening this Zhuangzi, let's go back to Cao County. ”
Compared with the silence of the salt dings, the horse thieves became more and more confident, and they didn't know who led the way, and they shouted loudly, and the group of people screamed and became more and more excited.
A few ringleaders of the horse thieves even drove their men forward, and they followed behind......
All the actions of the horse thieves can basically be observed, from the quiet at the beginning of the confusion, to the slow rise of emotions, the louder and louder noise, the voice is almost shouting at the highest point, most of the horse thieves over there are driving the horses, rushing towards this side.
Twenty times twenty phalanx, in which every soldier feels much more stable in his heart, the thick phalanx, surrounded by partners, although the first row of salt Ding has to face the enemy directly, but their left and right are the leader, the leader is standing at the front line, what else can the people below say.
The horse thieves were so far away, and the horse thieves didn't pay attention to any horses, and at the beginning, they were desperately rushing forward, and when they rushed into the salt array for about fifty paces, the horse's sprint had slowed down slightly.
Forty steps, about thirty steps, Ma Gang standing on the right stretched his bow and arrows, made a full posture, "hum" a soft sound, the bow and arrows flew out, and a piece of horse thieves on the opposite side of the black pressure, even did not have to look for the target, only heard a miserable scream, someone had already planted from the horse.
But the horse thieves have already rushed up, even if someone falls to the ground, they can't restrain the horse, the momentum has not weakened at all, and Ma Gang over there has already caught the second arrow.
Twenty steps, there was a loud "bang", and a short fire gun held by Li Meng in his hand shot loudly, this is the one he seized on the Jinyi Wei Wang Baihu, this kind of self-defense weapon, naturally brought on his body. At a distance of twenty paces, the short gun is also powerful enough.
A horse thief screamed and fell to the ground, and the loud sound of the fire gun frightened the horses, and it was obvious that some of the horses were about to run to the side, but they were forcibly controlled.
After Ma Gang's second arrow was shot, the horse thief was still about to come to him, and at this time, he would have time to pick up the spear, two arrows and one shot, such weak long-range firepower, but they were dealing with horse thieves, and they could obviously feel that the horse thieves were rushing forward more slowly, and they avoided the direction of Li Meng and Ma Gang.
The slower horse thieves lost their impact, and each of their horses and knights faced more than four spears, and the first four rows of the salt team stood unusually close to each other, in order to make the spears pierce as far as possible.
I saw where the spears in the first few rows stretched out and contracted, and between each movement, there were horse thieves and horses screaming and falling to the ground, and the killing of the battle was always carried out quickly, and after the last wave of horse thieves who couldn't stop the horses put their bodies on the spears, more than forty corpses of horse thieves had fallen in front of the array of salt ding.
And the salt Ding did not suffer casualties, although the battle just now was tense, but the morale of the salt Ding was also beaten, and the original pale face and was replaced by a firm gaze.
After this wave of attacks, under the command of the leaders at all levels, the queue was quickly aligned, and the horse thieves had already killed and wounded more than 30% of their men, and they were scattered far away with fear.
Li Meng raised the spear in his hand with one arm, swung it forward with a large amplitude, and shouted loudly:
"Forward, keep striding and stopping!"
The salt Ding of the salt ding team all agreed violently, and it is probably not an exaggeration to describe it as a rainbow at this time, although there are corpses and horses everywhere in front of him, but he still strides forward according to the pace of daily exercises.
The uniform movements of the four hundred people here, in the eyes of the horse thieves on the opposite side, the mountain-like momentum is simply rushing towards the face, some horses can't control and flee to the back, running alone, the rabble of the horse thieves can no longer restrain the horse thieves, the whole exploded, and the horse thieves who came violently scattered in all directions.
At this time, I can finally breathe a sigh of relief......
When the sun was about to set, the villagers who had been dispersed by the horse thieves during the daytime had not yet fully returned, and the Xia Zhuang was full of crying, and there were really not too many dead people, less than twenty people, although everyone knew that if the horse thieves rushed into the Xia Village, I am afraid it would not be a matter of killing these few people.
Li Meng has been staying outside, watching his soldiers clean up the battlefield, the harvest is really a lot, the interception of these horse thieves is obviously carried with them, the dead and injured people actually have a small five hundred taels of gold and silver, just look at these gold and silver There are old blood stains on them, and some gold and silver nuggets are directly flattened by some ornaments, which shows what is the source of these gold and silver.
There are also nine horses to ride, which is also a rare trophy, the salt Ding carefully searched on the battlefield, and the loot they searched was piled up in front of Li Meng, and no one hid it, because everyone knew that the salt Ding team would not tolerate private embezzlement of spoils, but in the distribution of the spoils, they were also extremely generous.
Li Meng sat on the body of a dead horse, he was also a little tired, this time he was invited to suppress the bandits, from tight to loose, and then from loose to tight, and began to treat it cautiously, halfway through knowing that the other party gave credit for nothing, who thought that in the end, it was a real fierce horse thief rushed over.
If it weren't for the fact that he had been preparing according to the routine of the upcoming regular battle, and every detail was unrelenting, I am afraid that he would have become a ghost under the knife of a horse thief.
But looking at the salt ding walking in front of him, Li Meng also felt quite happy in his heart, he could see the transformation of these young people who had undergone blood and fire tempering, and everyone was a little less young and more calm.
While looking at it, Ma Gang walked up to him and reported:
"There are still more than a dozen horse thieves who are seriously injured and not dead, what do you think of it?"
"What else can I do, just cut off my head."