Chapter 065: Rangers and Light Infantry
Hearing Zeng Nan say this, a strong smell of blood rushed straight to the end of his nose. Frowning around, the eyes were full of dead corpses and severed limbs, and blood flowed in all directions, almost submerging the vamps of shoes. Sensoryly speaking, it's a little bloodier than a slaughterhouse. Needless to say, the situation was critical just now, and it is indeed not too pleasant to continue to stay here now that it is safe and sound.
Sighing, Xie Zuo said gloomily: "No matter what, the will will will be disobeyed. The officer's task is to go to the Storm Pavilion, and although there is no point in going again, he still has to go to pay the order anyway. Let's give the order, let's all set off and go to the Storm Pavilion! ”
Zeng Nan responded and immediately went to gather the team. said that it was closed, and now there are only fifty cavalry left in his 500-person forbidden military camp, and there is really nothing to collect. In a moment, everyone was ready, and they found two of the war horses brought by Li Xie and gave them to Xie Zuo and Wusun Opang. Since the prisoner cart was empty, there was naturally no need to carry it, and the group rode on horses and moved forward slowly. In fact, it was Xie Zuo and Zeng Nan who were in a group of fifty people, and Wusun Ogang was just hanging on the side alone.
After walking for a short time, he came to the place where Zeng Nan said about the cage bridge. Xie Zuo raised his eyes and saw a stream running through it, a stone bridge about four meters wide, with neither decoration nor guardrails, crossing the stream alone, very desolate.
"This is the Broken Soul Bridge?" An extremely simple stone bridge, I really don't see anything special, and the stream under the bridge is not too wide, so I don't feel worthy of the word "broken soul" at all.
Zeng Nan helped Xie Zuo hold the reins of the horse, and when he heard the official's question, he hurriedly bowed on the horse:
"Returning to Lord Xie's words, when Qian Biao, the former king of Wuyue, there was a big battle between the two sides here because of the Xu Xu Rebellion. At that time, nearly 10,000 people on both sides of the warring sides fought for this bridge here, the battle was tragic, the corpses blocked the river, the dead and wounded were not less than thousands, and the folk rumors of later generations had the sound of weeping at night here, so the name broke the soul. This is a false rumor by the people, and it should not be true. Now that the adults are here, they really have a soul, and they will also be taken by the majesty of the adults, and they dare not do anything! ”
Xie Zuo couldn't cry or laugh when he heard this, so he didn't see that this thing was actually a fart! was about to laugh and scold, when he suddenly saw some figures slowly emerging on the opposite bridge.
And ambushes? This was Xie Zuo's first reaction. But when he looked carefully at the figure, the heart he had just raised was relieved again.
There were not many people on the other side of the bridge, only twelve people in all. At a glance, these people were dressed in ordinary people's clothes, and the weapons in their hands were varied, some were holding Mo knives, some were holding square shields, and they looked no different from the rebels earlier. However, something special is that four of the twelve people actually held a crossbow nearly two feet long in their hands, which was exactly the same as the divine arm crossbow in the hands of the previous forbidden army!
In addition, these twelve people looked extremely calm, not like they were about to enter a life-and-death battle, but like an old farmer patrolling his own fields, indescribably calm. They simply stood at the head of the bridge, although the direction they were facing was themselves, but Xie Zuo felt that the focus of these people's eyes was not on his people, as if they were cast into the distance.
It's probably Marshal Yue! Xie Zuo thought in his heart, but he couldn't help but feel a little unbearable. Knowing that he was invincible, he still followed one after another like a moth to a fire, and I have to say that Yue Fei's reputation among the people is indeed incredible. However, from this aspect, it is not Yue Fei's way to die. As the king of a country, how could Zhao Gou tolerate the existence of generals under his command who were more popular than himself? What's more, Yue Fei also popped out the slogan of Emperor Qin of the North from time to time, who would you do if you don't get it?
Just when Xie Zuo was distracted, Zeng Nan couldn't hold it back. In this escort mission, there is not one out of ten soldiers in his battalion. Although it was a mission to lure the enemy in itself, the losses were so heavy that the life of his battalion commander was probably not much better. Now only by pinning our hopes on this time can we have the opportunity to atone for our sins.
But to be honest, although hundreds of heads were cut off before, compared to their own losses, they were still a little insufficient. And the twelve guys who came out in front of him were undoubtedly twelve meritorious deeds in his eyes. What's more, now it's still under the nose of Lord Shi, of course, it's time to behave well.
At the sound of a whistle, five knights slowly walked out of the group, stopping more than thirty paces in front of the bridge. Unlike infantry, cavalry had to allow enough distance to charge, otherwise the standing cavalry was even less flexible than the infantry. The width of the cage bridge is limited, and it is already very crowded to divide five cavalrymen. However, against a mere twelve infantrymen, five cavalry is more than enough.
Immediately after, under Zeng Nan's order, the five war horses began to accelerate and charge, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and it took only a breath to turn from static, and the fierce cavalry had already started the violent charge mode and rushed towards the twelve volunteers at the opposite bridgehead.
At this time, the twelve people put on a strange formation. I saw the first rebel holding a square giant shield take two steps forward, tilting the shield surface of the giant shield upwards at 45 degrees, and he himself curled up behind the shield. The same is true of the other giant shield rebel army behind him, but in the opposite direction of the previous one, the top of the two giant shields collides, forming an isosceles right triangle with the ground. On the left and right, there were two rebels with a round card and a long knife in the other, squatting diagonally behind the side of the giant shield, protecting the six warriors behind them. The whole formation looks like an orchid with the screen open, and the calyx part of the orchid is a giant shield standing diagonally in front.
What is this formation? Xie Zuo was in a daze, and suddenly heard Zeng Nan's trembling voice beside him: "Orchid, Orchid Array!" ”
"What is the Orchid Array?" Xie Zuo turned his face to look and found that Zeng Nan's face was mixed with shock, puzzlement, and even fear, and he couldn't help but ask curiously.
Zeng Nan's face was pale, his eyes stared at the battle that was about to be contacted on the bridge without blinking, and he replied quickly: "The Orchid Array is a tactic invented by Yue Yun, the eldest son of Yue Shuai, to deal with cavalry. ”
Yue Yun! Back to the Army! Xie Zuo was stunned when he heard this. Yue Fei's strongest descendant troops, Xie Zuo was naturally like thunder, but he didn't expect to see it here. Are they really outbackers?
Just when Xie Zuo was puzzled, the teams of the two sides had already collided. The knights of the forbidden army relied on the galloping horses to exert the inertia under the action of acceleration to the extreme, and the warriors at the head of the row were almost completely lying on the back of the horse, which can be described as the unity of man and horse, with an extremely violent attitude, slamming into the giant shield erected at the head!