Chapter 242: Chasing and Killing the Fleeing Enemy (Fourth Watch)
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Mai Tiecane, who had been fidgeting behind Wang Huaqiang's horse, laughed, dragging his iron crescent cane with his right hand, holding an iron horn in his left hand, and ran to the front at once, and soon, his loud voice spread throughout the entire front: "Kuli Gada Tianwu Zhou Shi Ju Ha, Kuli Gada Tianwu Zhou Shi Ju Ha!" โ
The shouting of the wheat iron staff, the loud voice and the amplification effect of the iron horn, along with the strong east wind of the past two days, let everyone on the battlefield hear clearly, the barbarians in the back row could not see the battle situation in front, but they could see the companions in the front row scrambling to flee for their lives, and most of them believed it at once, and they also began to turn around on the spot and run backwards.
Seven or eight thousand people raced together, and those who ran slowly were squeezed down by the people in front of them, and were trampled to death by dozens of pairs of thighs before they could get up.
Wang Huaqiang saw that the enemy army was already defeated, and quickly ordered: "The reserve team is on horseback and pursued, outflanked from the left flank, and the enemy army is not allowed to flee to the east.
As soon as Wang Huaqiang gave the order, the soldiers who had already been suffocating their faces were all like clockwork machines, and they rushed out like clockwork, and three hundred pack horses carrying six teams of infantry directly outflanked the left, while the left flank had already moved forward, and now they turned to the right front in unison, forcing the barbarians who tried to flee to the left to turn around and run to the right.
The crossbowmen had already thrown down their longbows and crossbows, replaced them with broadswords and battle axes, and chased the barbarians who fell behind with a fierce slash. And the original spear soldier who was at the front. Because the lance and chain mail are too heavy. It was not as light as the others, but now it fell behind, and I could only reluctantly continue to march in formation, while watching the crossbowmen and axe men rush to slash and slash the fleeing enemy.
These elite soldiers of the Southern Dynasty are all masters of killing, and when they come out of the knife, they all greet the fatal place, because Wang Huaqiang has given an order today, this battle does not count the number of heads, and the whole army shares the merits. Therefore, no one stopped to harvest the head, slashed the enemy in front of him in the back, cut him to the ground, and then continued to pursue forward, leaving the seriously wounded enemy soldiers to stab to death by the long lance hand behind, which is almost the killing routine of all knife and axe hands.
Wang Huaqiang nodded again and again in the back, the Wu soldiers were light, and the Hunan army was fierce, in fact, the Nanchen army was very strong, although the discipline was hard. But in this kind of chase and kill battle, the efficiency is much higher than that of the northern elite with long lance and heavy armor. In the blink of an eye, more than 1,000 sword and axe men killed more than 3,000 barbarians, and the remaining barbarians were driven to the city of Donghengzhou like sheep.
Most of the barbarians who fled to the east were blocked back by the left-wing troops, and one or two hundred people finally rushed out of Shengtian and ran lifelessly in the direction of Siheung in the east, but unfortunately the two-legged people could not outrun the four-legged horses, and the pack horse cavalry who came quickly caught up with these fugitives, and slashed them one by one under the horses, and in less than half a pillar of incense, these two hundred barbarians were killed by the pursuers one by one, and not even one escaped.
There are also some barbarians fleeing to the west, they are really panicked, but the west side of the battlefield is a large swamp, four or five hundred people ran into it and fell into it, in less than half a minute, even people with knives fell into the mud, not even a bubble left, and the terrible wail of the trapper before death, frightened the other barbarians who were still trying to flee to the west turned around and fled, the north is the terrible Sui army formation, in contrast, the south can also get temporary peace under the city wall.
So there was a strange scene on the battlefield, the barbarians who had nowhere to escape actually began to climb the wall along those sandbags, this time it was not a siege, but these fleeing barbarians burst out with greater enthusiasm than when they attacked the city a while ago, although Li Feng kept organizing the defenders to shoot at it with crossbow arrows at the head of the city, but forty or fifty crossbow arrows could not stop the barbarians who rushed up like a tide, these fleeing barbarians rushed up first, and the people behind stepped on the shoulders of the people in front, and soon some people were about to reach the city.
Li Feng turned back to the defenders at the head of the city and shouted: "Quick, pour hot water and boiling oil down, pour tung oil, and throw torches!" With his words, the boiling water, boiling oil, tung oil, and golden soup that had not been used up when defending the city just now poured down the city.
There was a ghost crying wolf howl again from the city, and the barbarians who climbed the wall were so hot that they let go, covering their faces and screaming, as dozens of torches were thrown out of the city, the sandbags were also burning with flames, although the fire could not be compared with the skyrocketing fire under the city during the last siege, but it was enough to burn back the barbarians who tried to step on sandbags to go up to the city.
Li Feng let out a sigh of relief, this wave of ferocious climbing of the barbarian soldiers is the most thrilling one since the defense of the city, and it is even more dangerous than the time when hundreds of people went to the city, because that time at least they can set fire to the partition under the city, and the barbarians also have to climb the ladder to come up, and this time they directly stepped on sandbags and people, and the city wall can be climbed everywhere, if the fire was half a beat slower just now, I am afraid that there will be no chance to pour oil.
Wang Huaqiang, who was in the distance, also obviously noticed the battle under the opposite city wall, he frowned, and said to the heralds behind him: "Mingjin, stop the pursuit, line up in place, the crossbowmen pick up their weapons, surround the enemy army, quickly!"
Liu Quan stabbed to death a fleeing enemy leader, this is the seventeenth person he killed today, last time in Suzhou did not kill so cool as today, he laughed, wiped off the blood splashed on his face, stretched out his tongue and licked the red and white things on his lips, salty, this bloody taste is like a drug, making his blood run high, and he is full of desire to kill on the battlefield.
Liu Quan wiped the blood stains on his face with his hands, and was about to continue to rush to kill, when he suddenly heard a gong sound behind him, which was a signal to collect the troops, he was stunned for a moment, and then, several heralds on horseback shouted while running on the battlefield: "General Wang has an order, stop the pursuit, and line up on the spot!" The lanceman is in front, and the crossbowman is on standby in the back!"
The military order is like a mountain, Liu Quan looked at the enemy army who ran away more than ten steps in front, spat on the ground fiercely, put away the big knife unwillingly, and shouted: "All obey the order, line up in a defensive formation on the spot, quickly!"
Many of the swordsmen, axes, and crossbowmen of the Xiangzhou army were chasing and killing happily, and they were stunned on the spot like Liu Quan after hearing the sound of the gong, but everyone knew that Wang Huaqiang's order was like a mountain, and the seventeen bans and fifty-four beheadings were announced in public before the troops, and no one dared to joke with their heads, so they could only go back to the formation to get weapons under the command of the governors in their respective teams.
After a brief lull on the battlefield, Wang Huaqiang quickly swept the entire battlefield and made the most direct assessment: in this great battle, the barbarian army had killed more than 6,000 people in the center and east, hundreds burned under the city walls, and four or five hundred people drowned in the swamps, and in this counterattack alone, more than 7,000 enemy troops had been killed. Combined with the 2,000 killed in the first round of crossbow attacks, the team has killed more than 9,000 enemies after joining the battle today.
On the battlefield now, the corpses of the barbarians are all over the field, there are naked and tattooed barbarians everywhere, and there are almost no corpses of the Sui army wearing armor, and it is roughly judged that there are only a dozen casualties on the side, which is likely to be in single digits.
Now there are only four or five thousand barbarians left on the battlefield, and they are completely compressed by their own side in a narrow area of less than five hundred steps below the city, crowded with people, shoulder to shoulder, as dense as sardine cans, although everyone still has knives in their hands, but at this moment, they no longer have any fighting spirit and fighting spirit, just a group of lambs to be slaughtered.
The crossbowmen in the back ran back to the place where they set off, and along the way, they easily eliminated all the barbarian wounded soldiers who were still panting one by one, and then took the bows and arrows and ran back to the array, Wang Huaqiang waved his hand, and formed a standard attack formation, and the crossbowmen and archers in the two rows raised their bows and crossbows again, aiming at the barbarians in the distance.
Half of the feathers on his head had fallen off, the leather armor had disappeared, and his body was blue and purple, and the wolf bรจi was unbearable, and Zhou Shiju limped out, threw his long knife to the ground, knelt on both knees, and shouted in Chinese: "I am waiting for the surrender!" (To be continued......)