Chapter 85: The Tiger's Mouth (4)
The Khitan soldiers retreated, and Bola sent troops to reinforce the fortifications, while repairing the damaged fortifications such as the walled walls and arrow towers, and at the same time summoned the officers to discuss countermeasures.
"Ladies and gentlemen...... In the afternoon, the main direction of attack of the Khitans may still be the south gate, and I will deal with it personally, while the west gate will have the chief of the Lao Xie Ra, and the east gate will still be in charge of Bao'en. As for the north gate, Yelu Wolf is sending troops to cut down trees and build equipment, and it is estimated that there will be a big attack tomorrow, and the troops can be reduced accordingly, just send my chief of the guard, Hardy. ”
At this point, Bola looked at Shodel and continued, "Shodel! It is not advisable to be passive on the defensive, and you can find an opportunity to attack in the afternoon, trying to inflict a heavy defeat on Brie, so that he will not be able to attack tomorrow, so that tomorrow we can free up our hands to deal with Jerewolf with all our might. ”
"That's right, and my subordinates also have this intention, so how about riding with five thousand spirits?" Shodell understood as soon as he heard it, and immediately asked.
"As you wish!" Pala nodded in agreement, then turned to Xie Ra and asked, "Xie Ra Patriarch!" Now you have also seen the situation, our weapons are already insufficient, but we can't last long, I don't know when your follow-up 10,000 reinforcements will arrive? ”
"Is this...... It should be there tomorrow afternoon at the latest! Xie Ra replied casually, in fact, when Zhuang Yi arrived, he was not sure, it was just a coaxing.
Blah turned his head to look at Bao En, and when he saw that he nodded, it was not good to ask Xie Ra again, and immediately ordered: "In this case, we will try our best to support it for another day, and when the reinforcements arrive, we will fight to the death with the Khitans." ”
Just after noon, Brie launched a fierce attack from three sides with the whole army, still attacking from east to west, and the main attack from the south gate. Having learned the lesson of the morning's defeat, Brie attacked the door and climbed the fortress at the same time, and at the same time, a team of 300 men with large swords and round shields in their hands, tried to open a gap in the wooden wall of the wall. But this was undoubtedly filled with human lives, and the first team was soon killed by the dense rain of arrows and rolling wood and stones on the wall, and the remaining soldiers scattered and fled, leaving behind a mountain of flesh and bones under the wall.
The first wave of attack was quickly repulsed, Brie was not discouraged, after a short rest, he immediately launched another attack, the battle of climbing the wall continued to strengthen, the gate of Dazhai was obviously blocked, so far it has not been able to break the door, Brie put all the hope of breaking the village in the pile of corpses. It was the weak part of the middle between the gate and the corner, and although the first team had not opened it, it had already opened several logs in half, and there were signs of loosening.
Three hundred soldiers pounced, and at the same time ran back and forth with three hundred rangers, and put arrows on the wall to cover, and half an hour passed, as the first log fell down, the wall was overwhelmed, and in the loud noise, a gap four or five zhang wide collapsed. The smoke and dust smacked from the big wood to the ground, and the soldiers who had built the wall immediately dodged and ran away, cheering loudly.
"Kill!" Brie was overjoyed, shouted loudly, and led his four thousand horsemen, and the whole army galloped to the gap in the wall five hundred paces away.
Blah stood on the south gate and personally commanded the defense, and when he saw this, a grim smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he immediately ordered the herald to blow the horn.
Shodel had already drawn five thousand elite horsemen and was waiting in the camp, and when he heard this, he was overjoyed and rushed to the gap, and the soldiers of Murowei roared angrily and drew their scimitars at their waists, and their horses accelerated to keep up, and suddenly they surged out like an iron stream that broke the embankment.
In terms of the distance between the two sides and the gap, of course, Schaudel is much closer, when Brie adopted the tactic of opening the wall, Bula made this arrangement, and the five thousand iron horsemen waited for this moment, in order to be prepared and unprepared, and took the lead in breaking out of the gap for more than 200 steps, and Brie's army also happened to arrive, seeing this scene, his heart sank, and he was caught off guard when he wanted to react.
The two sides only had time to shoot each other in a rain of arrows before they collided violently, and a life-and-death duel began under the wall. The duel of the cavalry is the speed and courage of the war horse, the horse's hooves are splashed with dust, and the collision of knives and knives is so sonorous and powerful. The shouts of killing boiled and shook the sky, the war horses neighed and rolled, and the stumps and severed arms threw a rain of blood, staining the yellow-brown gravel ground.
After several rounds of rushing back and forth, Brie suffered heavy losses, and finally reluctantly led his troops to retreat, his strength was not superior, and he could not fight at all. But Shodell didn't want to let him go easily, and immediately led the troops to chase and kill, and forced Brie back to his camp. Only then did he turn around and go to the east gate defended by Baoen, and on the way he encountered the retreating Wuda, and it was another bloody battle, annihilating more than half of the Wuda's troops, and then turning back to the camp.
After this battle, the vitality of Brie's division was greatly damaged, and the battle damage was counted that night, and only five or six thousand soldiers were left. Brie was full of remorse, knowing that Yerodud harbored evil intentions, and felt that he could not explain to the Great Khan, so he quietly retreated and camped twenty miles that night, refusing to fight easily.
When Yelu Wolf, thirty miles to the north, learned of this defeat, he laughed and said to his generals mockingly: "Brie, how can you compare with me, after this battle, see what other face he will take over as the commander of the Khan Tent army, someone wants to divide my military power, and I am not dead!" ”
"That's ...... Yi Lijin has been fighting for many years, and Brie is a hairy boy, after all, he is too young, and he doesn't know why the Great Khan wants him to lead the army. A middle-aged general said flatteringly.
"Mulun! There are some things that you will understand when you sit in my seat in the future! Since Brie is defeated, then tomorrow it will be my turn to make a move, the old man wants to take down 80,000 Murowei people in half a day, and tell the Great Khan to see, who is my Khitan general. That's it...... Go and herald that the people will be raised up to the account, and ...... Go and get Brie here, too! ”
"Huh?" Mu Lun was stunned, but he still bowed and saluted, quickly left the Chinese army's tent, and went to give the order.
Jerewolf was calmly discussing with the generals about tomorrow's battle, but Bethah was now frightened, and a gap was opened in the camp, and if Jerewolf took advantage of the situation to attack again, the consequences would be unimaginable, but strangely enough, what he feared did not happen.
In addition to the casualties of these days, plus the 5,000 soldiers who had been relieved, he gathered 20,000 troops, and slaughtered cattle and sheep that night to reward the soldiers, so as to boost their morale and appease the people for tomorrow's battle.
In the middle of the night, after Pla had finished his chores, he asked the interpreter to come to his big tent alone, and after the two of them had finished the ceremony, and the guests and hosts were seated, Blah could not wait to speak: "Chief! When will your reinforcements arrive? ”
"I'm sure I'll be here tomorrow! Why should the patriarch of Pala be anxious, although the current situation is unfavorable and the troops are insufficient, there is a strong camp, and there is no problem at all to keep it for a day. ”
"Really? Nearly half of our young and strong troops have been lost, and the reinforcements will come when they arrive, are they going to collect my corpse? Brapi asked with a smile.