The rain line connected the low sky and the muddy ground, and the lightning became more and more eerie. The battle was filled with chaos and brutality, with soldiers on both sides unable to see the enemy's face clearly, and the exchange of swords, guns, and shields on both sides produced a crisp and dull reverberation. At this moment all the command systems have lost their original meaning, any orders and commands have become superfluous, and the warriors only know how to mechanically swing the sword in their hands, and there are only three results: miss, crash into the enemy's shield, or stab the enemy.

When Shen Chen led fifty men to rush down from the western slope, the soldiers of the Counting Tent Party under the city wall had just carried the bodies of the wounded and the dead back to the team across the trench, and the Tuoba family brigade had completely withdrawn from the battlefield, and hundreds of cavalry marched towards the large camp more than 20 miles to the north. At this moment, in addition to the regular soldiers who had just withdrawn from the root of the city, there were also ten cavalry who were responsible for receiving them and undertaking the task of breaking off.

Tuoba Guangyuan has been paying attention to the movement in the direction of the city gate, if the enemy army in the city chooses to go out of the city to pursue at this time, he will lead this warrior of more than 100 people to fight back the pursuers in the city first, and then slowly retreat.

But there was no movement in the direction of the city gate, and the retreating soldiers told that the process of their withdrawal was very smooth, and they were not hindered in any way, and the crossbow machine that had been so fierce was not fired again, and the enemy troops in the pass had no intention of pursuing it.

It's such a dark night. With such a heavy rain, it is normal for the enemy not to pursue, and Tuoba Guangyuan knows very well in his heart that the trenches dug by the enemy outside the city are not only an obstacle to the besieging party, but also an obstacle to the defenders who intend to pursue. In the current situation. As long as the enemy does not pursue you while you retreat and disengage, the enemy will never be able to catch up with you......

Therefore, he immediately ordered the retreating soldiers to help the wounded onto their horses, and to mount their horses himself, and the corpses of those who had fallen into battle were all put on horseback, and the bodies of those who had gone up to the city could not be retrieved, and Tuoba Guang was far from prepared to leave any warriors under the city, whether alive or dead.

When Shen Chen led ten soldiers to rush down the hillside in two long platoons, Tuoba Guangyuan had just given the order to march in formation......

More than 100 people were marched in two columns. The horse's head rushed north, the northernmost forward had already taken a dozen steps, and the rear guard had not yet taken a step, and at this time, the sound of dense and chaotic footsteps finally overshadowed the sound of pouring rain, which attracted the attention of the party soldiers.

A bolt of lightning swept through at this moment, turning the sky and the earth white, and turning their faces to look at the party officers on the left saw a flash of metal through the hazy rain and fog—the light of the enemy's weapons under the intertwined action of lightning and rain.

Shen Chen didn't give any orders, because there was no need at all. The two armies collided almost one side at a time, and the side of the party soldiers was facing the front of the Yanzhou army. The five lieutenants in the front row only gave a simple order to their four soldiers before the charge was launched—the tip of the gun was stabbed diagonally upward. Whoever rides a horse is an enemy. The five commanders in the back row gave their soldiers the exact opposite order - the tip of the gun stabbed downward, and anyone who lay on the ground and rolled was the enemy.

Before rushing down the hill, the entire officer and soldier were already told, no matter how badly wounded you were. As long as you don't die, you must not fall.

The neighing of the war horse resounded in front of him, and the party members were hurriedly manipulating the war horse to turn around.

The soldiers clenched their wooden guns and slowly approached the noisy enemy formation.

The soldiers who had already experienced a field field could not bother to wipe the rain from their faces at this moment, and their eyes searched tirelessly in the darkness ahead.

I know that I can't see anything, but everyone still can't help but desperately want to see something.

Shen Chen walked on the northernmost side of the front row, and there was a gang to the north of him, and he was the only one in the team who held a sword and a shield in his hand. Shen Chen believes that as a commander, he should be able to grasp the battlefield situation relatively effectively in this position. However, in fact, he knew very well in his heart that in the current situation, even if his commander could judge the battlefield situation in time, he was afraid that it would be difficult to give any orders to the whole team in time. It is extremely dangerous to raise your arms and shout and give orders when there may be a large number of party harriers around, for those who are strong in archery to the point of perversion, it is too easy to shoot a person who shouts loudly in the dark, although he is wearing bright light armor, and the iron arrow may not be able to kill him with one arrow, but he does not want to use his life to verify the actual combat defense of this famous armor.

There is another reason why he wants to be in this position. Soldiers who knew that their commander was in the position where they were least likely to escape would be much less likely to escape.

Shen Chen did not know the current situation of the enemy army, in his estimation that the enemy army should have at least two or three hundred people left in place, although his own side was in a strategic advantageous position on the flank, but the enemy army was four to six times his own, Shen Chen knew that as long as the enemy command was dexterous, the opposing commander could easily surround and annihilate his fifty infantry.

He had to take advantage of the heavy rain and the dark environment. The reason why he insisted on attacking in a hurry was that he had just heard the sound of horses' hooves, and it seemed that some of the enemy troops had left their original positions

Direction unknown; Another reason is that he doesn't know when this time will stop, if the rain has stopped when he attacks, he will miss the best time to attack.

It is impossible to completely annihilate the enemy, but as long as the enemy's formation is successfully disrupted and its formation command is dispersed, then the chaos, darkness and pouring rain will double the enemy's losses, and as long as it can cause the enemy to trample and kill each other, then even if the team of fifty people is exhausted, it is worth it. Shen Chen thought about this quite clearly. Behind his own ground, there is also a team led by Ling Pu, and there are three teams of reserve troops in the city pass, as long as the casualties continue, the enemy must be the first to be unable to support in the end.

The bowstrings of the cavalry were already wet with rain, and it was not easy for even the harriers to shoot their arrows easily.

The party cavalry had just turned their horses' heads. More than two dozen wooden spears had already pierced unevenly.

Nothing could be seen in the darkness, and the soldiers of the front battalion could only judge whether they had stabbed the enemy by the dullness of the wooden spear in their hands, and the knights of the party could only judge whether they had blocked the enemy's attack by the sound and feeling of the horse lance hitting the wooden barrel. Those deputies armed with scimitars suffered a big loss at the moment, originally preparing to march, the round shield has been put away, it is too late to take it temporarily, although the scimitar in the hand can cut off the enemy's wooden gun shaft, but after the horse's head is turned, the length of the scimitar can not protect the horse. And when on the side, only a knife in the left hand can slash and block, and left-handers are very few in the army after all.

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With the terrible neighing of the horses, the horses that had been shot retreated or turned around.

The instincts of the creatures drove the animals to dodge in dangerous directions, and the knights on horseback were involuntarily turned away, exposing their flanks to the enemy once again.

As the infantry of the front battalion stabbed again and again, the entire line of the queue had been smashed, the knights fell from their horses one after another, and the wounded horses rampaged through the ranks, completely stirring up the marching column.

In this situation, the cavalry simply could not form an effective counterattack against the enemy's attack.

The attacking infantry, on the other hand, swung their wooden spears in front of them in small steps, maintaining their basic line by feeling the presence of their comrades around them. Only the fallen horses and the enemies rolling on the ground can pose a certain threat to them. It's too late to turn the spear around and stab underneath. Their instinctive reaction was to raise their legs and step down, trampling the enemy soldiers who were rolling in the muddy water trying to get up until they vomited blood.

The first platoon of infantry ploughed the entire cavalry column from west to east in the blink of an eye.

Just as the enemy soldiers who had landed were groaning and trying to get up, the Yanzhou army in the second row came up.

Every time the twenty or so spears fell, there would be a few screams, and almost every wooden spear would not miss, and the owners of the wooden spears could not tell whether they were stabbing a living person or a dead person.

Those Yanzhou soldiers who were unfortunate enough to fall to the ground after being attacked by the enemy just now now were desperately rolling and crawling towards the east as long as they still had some strength. They knew that only then would they not die at the hands of their own guns.

Another lightning bolt pierced the sky......

Tuoba Guangyuan's face turned pale and stared at the direction of the rear team that had become a mess.

He couldn't see the fighting in the rear, he could only hear one terrible howl after another, and the neighing of the war horses that had not been broken from the beginning to the present. Some of the horses that were running wildly rushed towards the front line, almost scattering the entire marching column. Listening to the surrounding cavalry shouting and controlling the horses, Tuoba Guangyuan quickly calculated in his heart.

The most effective countermeasure at this moment was to order the cavalry to spread out in formation, but that was the logic of the usual situation.

At this moment, the biggest enemy of the party is not the Yanzhou soldiers who don't know how many people, but the damn night and the cursed weather. In the current situation, neither your own nor the enemy army can raise fire, so it is impossible to accurately judge the number and location of the enemy army. Theoretically, judging by the sound alone, the enemy should now be attacking his rear team with all his might. However, as for the strength of the enemy's troops, it is not known at all. Tuoba Guangyuan was not too worried about the attacking enemy army, he believed that as long as the front army put on a battle formation and pressed back, even if he still couldn't see anything. The outcome is still between two sides.

But what he worries about is whether the enemy retains reserves somewhere on the battlefield?

The most difficult thing in a melee is that the commander is completely unable to see the battlefield situation clearly, and therefore has no way to judge the enemy's situation, and this situation is like two opponents with high martial arts skills fighting each other with simple and clumsy moves like a child fighting, and there is no strategy or tactics to speak of, and it is basically impossible to play a famous general in this kind of battle.

Ling Pu was on the hillside, and the situation he faced was similar to that of Tuoba Guangyuan.

He wanted to throw his troops into battle, but he didn't know which direction to throw them.

He could only hold his troops on the hillside. Wait for the next moment of lightning striking.

He believed that he was in a good position, and the next time the lightning struck, he should be able to get a rough idea of the enemy situation in front of him.

"Stop—all—stop......"

Shen Chen's voice sounded on the battlefield, and the soldiers in the front battalion subconsciously stopped their movements, and they couldn't see anyone in the middle of the night, and they couldn't hear the sound. But accustomed to hearing the words "all have", everyone subconsciously chooses when they hear these four words

- No matter how smart the party members are, I'm afraid no one knows what the meaning of "all four words" is.

Shen Chen gritted his teeth, listened quietly while wheezing, and listened for a long time, except for the wheezing sound around him and the sound of the war horse snorting and snorting on the ground in the distance, there was no other sound.

Shen Chen had a knife hanging on his leg, and he was bleeding at the moment. In the darkness, the commander joined the army and did not know how many kinds of injuries he had. But this is undoubtedly not what worries him at this time.

There was the sound of horses in the distance, but there was no sound of countless horses' hooves hitting the ground in rapid succession, and the enemy should not have fled, and the most urgent issue at the moment was to straighten out their own structure. His own soldiers stopped moving for so long, and there was no movement on the battlefield, which means that there are no living enemies around at this moment......

"Pass it on, wait for the next flash, and the captains will gather their ranks......" he whispered to the soldiers around him.

A buzz of speech rang out, and the soldiers began to speak to the people around them.

The battlefield was quiet again......

The rain continued to pour in torrents. All the people are waiting......

Wait for the next lightning bolt across the sky......

Suddenly, a strange noise came from the south......

In the distance, a little light came out from the direction of Chengguan......

The position of the light was very low, and through the misty rain and fog, Tuoba Guangyuan and Shen Chen came to a judgment at the same time - the light came from the direction of the city gate.

Both of them were shocked at the same time.

Shen Chen knew in his heart that there was a scuffle just now. At best, there are only a few dozen enemies that you have destroyed, that is, the main force of the enemy is still there.

Tuoba Guangyuan is well aware of his own strength, since these Yanzhou soldiers dare to fight with themselves in the dark, then even if their combat strength is far weaker than their own, it is impossible to defeat them in a short time, once they are pressed by the enemy army that occupies the advantage of troops in the city pass, it will be a big trouble.

A bolt of lightning streaked. Tuoba Guangyuan finally saw the enemy's position - directly south of him, the shadow should have the appearance of dozens of people.

Ling Pu could also see the position of the party cavalry, and the figures on horseback were much more conspicuous than ordinary targets even in the heavy rain and mist.

Fifty infantry began to dive down the hillside in formation.

The sound of dense footsteps from the southwest made Tuoba Guangyuan even more frightened - how many men and horses had this surnamed Li ambushed nearby......

"Can't wait any longer—"

He finally made up his mind: "Pass the order, don't fight." Full speed north - let's go back to camp -"

……

This confused and inexplicable battle finally ended, and several soldiers carried the injured Shen Chen back to the city pass on a stretcher, and the rain was too heavy to clean up the battlefield for the time being. Thin-sealed Minda, who had only been lightly wounded, rode on horseback and led the soldiers of the scout team to keep watch around, while Wei Xun commanded the soldiers to search the battlefield for the bodies of their own war dead and their wounded comrades.

Li Wenge took off his armor and went to see Shen Chen.

The knife that slashed on Shen Chen's thigh was quite heavy, and it happened to cut at the junction of the two pieces of armor on the skirt armor, so it was not shallow in the flesh, and it could almost be called a deep visible bone. Fortunately, the surrounding tendons were not damaged, and although there was a lot of blood loss, it was just a flesh wound after all. After the doctor examined it, Li Wenge was relieved and instructed Li Hu to go to the warehouse to take out the stock of dates to cook porridge for Shen Chen.

"My lord, these Tuoba soldiers are really brave, even if they are seriously wounded, they have to struggle to the death, a dying blow often works, they are well-trained, and their weapons are used exclusively to take the parts of our soldiers that are not protected by armor, and after a scuffle, how many enemies our army has killed is not known, but less than half of the fifty people around them are still standing, and this is still in the case of the enemy army is completely defenseless to withstand the flank attack of our army in a marching column...... When we meet in the future, these soldiers are really fierce enemies......"

Shen Chen stroked his bandaged thighs like zongzi while snorting coldly.

Li Wenge nodded, and was about to comfort him, but saw Li Hu, who had gone out to get dates, turned back again, holding a wet letter in his hand.

Li Wenge glanced at him in surprise, and Li Hu handed him the letter and said, "Just now a messenger brought it from the old camp of Fenglin Mountain, it is a handwritten letter from the master......

Li Wenge was stunned for a moment, and he didn't know what was important for Li Bin to send him a letter overnight in such a hurry.

He took out the letter and unfolded it, and looked at the faint light of tung oil***, and looked at it, his brows furrowed.

When he finished reading it, he folded the letter with a thoughtful look on his face.

"My lord, is there anything wrong with Yanzhou?"

It was Wei Xun who was questioned, and Li Wenge lost his mind and didn't even notice when he came in.

He looked at Shen Chen's concerned gaze lying on the couch, and shook his head gently: "The state city is very good, and the old camp of Fenglin Mountain is fine......

He paused, seemed to hesitate, but finally said: "Li Guan's letter said that Zhizhizhong has arrived in Yanzhou, and he will come to Luziguan to inspect and inspect ...... soon."