Chapter 62 Eight Thousand Soldiers
The fire was raging.
As far as the eye can see, the undulating mountains in front of you have become a sea of fire at this moment, and the flames are soaring high, making people worry about whether it will burn the sky.
Under the sky, there are thousands of miles of green mountains and green trees, but at this moment in this turquoise ocean, there is a fiery red lake, the picture is shocking, and the timid people just look at it, and their legs will tremble.
Even at a distance of several miles, the surging fire could still shine on Li Congjing's face and armor, he stood in the middle of the road with his hands on his shoulders, almost expressionlessly, his figure gave the people standing behind him, a cold perception, similar to the volcano.
But what Li Congjing feels in his heart at the moment, only he knows.
The fire was set by him, and it was the result of more than ten days of preparation by him that the Military Intelligence Department and the gentleman had prepared. At this moment, the two sharps who set the fire will be evacuated from different places and directions in order to avoid being affected by the fire. But Rao is so, and Li Congjing also knows that this fire will also burn some arsonists to death - that is the price that has to be paid.
This is war.
There was a dark shadow in the firelight.
It was the figure of the mountains, the figure of the grass and trees, and the figure of the enemy soldiers.
There was a sound in the firelight.
It was the sound of burning grass and trees, the sound of sergeants struggling, the sound of screaming and cursing.
Beside Li Congjing, stood the commanders of the Military Intelligence Department and Junzidu - Meng Ping, Tao Yaoyao, Li Rong, and Wu Changjian. In addition, there are cavalry who are ready to fight.
Everyone looked at the volcano and was silent.
It's getting late.
"I need a glass of water." Tao Yaoyao muttered, turned around and walked to the side of the road, and went to toss water to drink.
"All commanders, a thief army has rushed out!" Zhang Xiaowu said loudly.
Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up, and they stared at the road towards the mountain pass.
In the boundless firelight, groups of three or five sergeants rushed out, most of them were charred and black, and they fell to the ground as soon as they came out of the fire ring, or rolled to extinguish the fire on their bodies, or sat on the ground in embarrassment and gasped.
The fire could not kill everyone, this was something that everyone had expected, although Li Congjing had stretched the line of fire very long, trying to put Li Dong's coalition army in the center of the fire.
The more people who were behind the march, the more they had a chance to escape, and the less severe the injuries would be, as can be seen from the complete armor and weapons of this group of sergeants. Nowadays, it seems that there are many such people.
The first to break out of the sea of fire was undoubtedly the rear cavalry of Li Dong's coalition army.
Li Congjing turned his head, turned over on his horse, held the horsewhip and did not move, and a calm voice came out of his mouth, "Li Shaocheng, take a commanding soldier and kill him!" ”
"Order!" Li Shaocheng pulled out the horizontal knife, lightly pinched the horse's belly, and shouted, "The former commander of the horse army, out!" ”
The elite cavalry of the five hundred battle army, stepping on the drum, rushed out leisurely, the heavy hooves of the horses stepped on the avenue, rumbled, and the murderous aura rolled up the dust and went straight to the crater.
The figure of the black-armored and black-robed cavalry was gradually reflected red by the firelight.
The road was dangerous, and the cavalry that rushed out of the rear of Li Dong's coalition army had already had no formation, and the establishment was no longer complete. When I saw the cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army at first glance, why didn't I know that this was the enemy? The reactions were different at the moment, some were angry and burned the army, shouting and beckoning the people around them to rush over to kill, and some were shocked, busy beckoning the people around them to flee to the four fields.
The cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army rushed over, and the first thing they encountered was that they were rushed by anger and rushed up to meet them desperately. When there was still some distance from the opponent, the crossbow of the Hundred Battles Army was raised, and the crossbow arrows were drawn out in unison. At the head of some Li Dong coalition troops, they were shot off their horses.
The brigade galloped past, and the crossbow arrows were shot alternately, and where could the cavalry of the Li Dong coalition army in groups of three or five be able to resist, all of them were hit by sharp arrows and rolled off their horses.
When encountering a large number of cavalry, they fired a volley, collected their crossbows, and all the soldiers of the hundred battle armies drew their horizontal swords in unison. Five hundred horizontal knives were unsheathed one after another, and the melodious sound of metal rubbing was faintly heard, like a piece of music.
The two armies met each other, wielding swords and slashing and slashing, and the cavalry at the head, occasionally someone fell from his horse, and his body fell heavily to the ground. The speed of the horses of the hundred battles continued unabated, and after the gallop of the five hundred people, what was left was a group of horses without knights, either stopped in place neighing, swaying, or running at a loss.
Li Shaocheng waved his sword twice, and divided a part of the five hundred men to chase and kill the fleeing cavalry. The brigade still moved forward and killed the cavalry of Li Dong's coalition army in front. But all the enemy troops who had a face were killed by the army of a hundred battles.
Li Congjing looked at it and heard Li Rong beside him sigh: "General Li Shaocheng, he is really a fierce general!" ”
Li Congjing smiled, these words sounded familiar, and when he thought about it carefully, he remembered that it was Weidao who praised Wu Gou that day, saying that he was a wise general.
Looking at it again, Li Shaocheng and the others had already rushed to the mountain pass, and the team of several hundred people, divided into several teams, shuttled back and forth in front of the mountain pass, like combing their hair with a comb, but if any enemy cavalry rushed out, they would be hacked to death.
Seeing that Li Shaocheng controlled the mountain road, the cavalry came out less, and after a while, a group of foot soldiers ran out of it, these foot soldiers, many of them were armed with spears and longbows, and the cavalry who had not yet died in battle, cooperated with the attack on the cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army, causing some threats, and at the moment the soldiers of the Hundred Battles Army fell off their horses one after another.
Li Congjing's eyes were awe-inspiring, and he turned around and called Meng Ping over, ordering: "Take a command cavalry and make up for it!" ”
Meng Ping received the order, summoned a command of the horse army, and rushed out on horseback.
When he went up to the battlefield, when he was 100 steps away from the infantry of Li Dong's coalition army, Li Congjing saw Meng Ping's horizontal knife swing left and right, and the 500 cavalry behind him separated from the middle and rushed towards the two wings of the enemy's infantry army, forming two arcs. After approaching, keep a distance of about thirty paces from the enemy, take out the short bow and crossbow, aim at the enemy in the encirclement, and fire a volley.
The arrows struck into the enemy's herd, and the outermost sergeant immediately fell down like wheat harvested.
Meng Ping commanded the cavalry to gallop back and forth, not close, just in the most effective killing position of the cavalry's crossbow, he kept firing arrows into the formation of Li Dong's coalition army, and the enemy sergeants fell layer by layer.
There may be brave men in the middle, intending to rush up, but they are only halfway through, and they are shot into hedgehogs.
There are constantly Li Dong coalition troops falling, and people constantly rushing out of the volcano, they thought that they were out of the fire, so they picked up a life, saw the mountain pass formation, frightened legs, dilemma, only to bite the bullet, clamor forward, roaring for their own courage.
In the mountain pass, there have been piles of Li Dong's coalition troops who escaped death.
In order to escape from the fire, most of them abandoned their shields, and had no good means of defense, so where could they withstand the cavalry crossbow fire at this time, and they fell in despair. Occasionally, groups of archers would come out in groups, and it would be useless to face five hundred crossbows. Without waiting for the archers in front, gather the archers in the back, and the army of the hundred battles will shoot them one by one.
After all, there were enemy troops who crawled out with their shields in tow, and they were relegated to the front of the army formation to form a simple line of defense. Armed with their shields, the sergeants immediately lunged forward, intending to get close to the cavalry of the Hundred Battles.
It's just a pity that the Hundred Battles Army that keeps galloping, their striking method is circular, and the arrows are shot down from all angles, and these Liang troops can't resist at all, and they fall down one by one.
If an enemy general is clever, he ordered the sergeant to hold up the corpse and keep it out of the body.
Because the shooting path of the crossbow bolts was straight, in this way, there were many fewer casualties.
Seeing that more and more enemy troops were gathered, although it was a rout, and the later it came out, the greater the injury, but Li Congjing had no intention of underestimating the enemy, and did not intend to let them become powerful, he waved his hand to summon the herald, and ordered: "Let Li Shaocheng shoot the infantry with a corner bow, let Meng Ping properly open the gap, let the enemy flee for their lives, and make sure they don't gather too much!" ”
The herald was ordered to go, galloping into the battlefield, Li Shaocheng's battle against the enemy cavalry was basically over, and he was about to go to support Meng Ping, when he received Li Congjing's order, he greeted left and right, and his command of the soldiers gathered the horned archers, joined the ranks of Meng Ping, and shot with iron arrows. The iron arrow cut an arc through the air and fell into the center of the enemy formation, causing many casualties immediately.
The flag officer beside Meng Ping ordered the flag to wave, and the cavalry surrounding the mountain pass immediately changed their formation and made way for them. Those routs, who were struggling and desperate in the rain of arrows, saw the gap and immediately swarmed up, desperately fleeing. At this point, the formation they had finally had a shape of, and suddenly it lost its shape.
If the thousands of people were neat, against the two commanders of the Hundred Battles Army, they would not have been so passively beaten, but because of the long road of fire, I don't know how many companions died on the way to escape, and they were all scattered, and they were killed by the Hundred Battles Army one by one, so they could not form an effective counterattack force at all.
After all, when the grass and trees are burned, the fire in this mountain decreases, revealing a black mountain with residual smoke.
The fire attack is the most ruthless, when Lu Xun burned Liu Bei, 600,000 Shu troops were burned, Liu Bei died of illness, and the fire attack was fierce, which can be seen.
Comparatively speaking, Li Congjing's fire is not big at all.
Scorched black as ink, in the middle of the dense mountains and forests covered with carbon and ash, a large group of Liang troops rushed out of the avenue, it seems that there are hundreds of people, these people should be the main force of Li Dong's coalition army that survived the fire, what makes Li Congjing amazed is that the first group of people are still riding horses.
In the end, the line of fire stretches for more than ten miles, and there is no shortage of huge stone eaves and big pits, supplemented by the water of the waterwheel, which can save people from death.
The first two, Mingguang Jia is still quite bright.
Li Congjing's eyes narrowed slightly, looking at his battle and position, it should be the two main generals Dong Zhang and Li Jitao.
Raising his hand, Li Congjing gave an order to the remaining nearly 1,000 cavalry, "Everyone wait for the order: attack with this envoy!" ”
The Military Intelligence Department, Junzidu, and all the cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army galloped forward with Li Congjing.
In the final blow, there was no one in the same place.
Dong Zhang and Li Jitao, with hundreds of people behind them, rushed into the cavalry formation of the Hundred Battles Army and fought fiercely. These people have accumulated too much anger, although they are ruined, they are fighting to the death, and they are quite imposing for a while.
Li Congjing immediately killed. Meng Ping commanded the cavalry to get out of the way, allowing Li Congjing and others to enter the battle and attack Dong Zhang and Li Jitao.
The long lance dragon soared and the tiger leaped, and wherever Li Congjing went, his flesh and blood were blurred, and in the blink of an eye, he broke into the rout of Li Dong's coalition army, and there was almost no enemy under his command.
Although the remnants of the soldiers are brave, they only hang in one breath, in the face of real strength, what can they do if they don't want to die?
If you don't want to die, then let you die.
Li Congjing let out a low snort, and the long lance went straight out, penetrating the throat of a Liang army, and with the gallop of the war horse, Li Congjing pulled the long lance out of the back of the Liang army's neck, and blood splashed like mud.
Dong Zhang saw Li Congjing, "Ahhhh You burned my 8,000 soldiers with a fire! ”