Chapter 12: Turning the Tide
Li Ce was thinking hard about countermeasures, and at this time he found a great weakness of the Song army, that is, there was no unified command when the archers shot arrows. The Liao soldiers often used the Song soldiers to shoot this wave of arrows, and began to speed up the offensive in the gap between the next round and the start, so that after a few rounds, the Liao soldiers gradually approached.
After Li Ce discovered this big loophole, he hurriedly shouted to the Song soldiers and a few Orions beside him: Everyone listen to my command later, more than ten of us are divided into three groups, a group of four or five people, standing in three rows, so that one row, two rows, three rows, take turns to shoot arrows, one row quickly retreats after setting up, ready for the next round, the second row quickly steps forward to continue shooting, and then three rows, and so on.
As soon as Li Ce finished speaking, Song Bing immediately objected, and a burly black-faced general yelled and scolded: "Where did the poor acid come from? Little brat, you know what to fight, everyone can't cope with it when they go into battle together, so it's divided into three, isn't it nonsense?! As he spoke, he raised his hand and saw that the posture was about to fan over.
Li Ce hurriedly made a parry posture, and shouted loudly: "Useful, useful, just try it!" Saying that, the Orions were organized to be divided into two rows, and all the Orions had always been led by Li Ce to trust Li Ce, and Li Ce told everyone to listen to his orders to release arrows.
Seeing that the Liao soldiers had arrived at the city and began to climb up, everyone was in a hurry, but Li Ce just didn't give the order to release the arrows, and the black-faced general finally couldn't help but scold: "Boy, foolish!" After speaking, he was about to beckon the soldiers to step forward and release arrows to resist, when Li Ce waved his hand and shouted: "Release!" ”
The four hunters in the first row immediately let go of their arrows, and there were only four arrows, and the Liao soldiers' offensive was still fierce.
Then Li Ce asked the few people who had just finished shooting the arrows to quickly retreat to prepare for the next time, followed by the second row of people coming forward to shoot arrows to block, and then the first row, and the eight people cooperated in this cycle. The Liao soldiers may have seen that the pressure had suddenly decreased at this time, and the offensive had become more and more violent, and they were about to climb up.
The battle situation was very critical, the black-faced general scolded again, and was even about to come up and kick Li Ce, Li Ce waved his hand to signal him to look down, the black-faced general looked at it for a while, and finally saw that the offensive of the Liao soldiers gradually eased up, and after a few rounds, it was able to withstand the offensive of the Liao soldiers under the city, and the Liao soldiers were about to climb the city wall at a distance of half a zhang, but this half zhang seemed to be an insurmountable gap, and the Liao soldiers stopped their footsteps.
The Liao soldiers suddenly found that the defensive strength of the Song soldiers here was weakened, so they desperately disregarded the casualties and wanted to break through the defense here, but they didn't expect to toss for a long time and still didn't succeed.
The black-faced general's face gradually improved, and when he saw such a miraculous effect, he couldn't help but be surprised and happy, and he no longer hesitated at the moment, he quickly organized the Song soldiers around him, and handed them over to Li Ce for dispatch.
Soon, Li Ce's array method borrowed from later war films played a great role, coupled with the supplement of more than a dozen Song troops, such a simple and orderly shooting has caused countless casualties of the Liao army under the city here, and the offensive of the Liao army is no longer as fierce as before, and after a few rounds, the offensive of the Liao soldiers has basically been suppressed.
The miraculous transformation on Li Ce's side was quickly noticed by the generals in the middle command, and he had quietly come here at some point, standing behind Li Ce.
After seeing what was going on, the general in command stretched out his hand and patted Li Ce and said, "Young man." ”
Li Ce noticed that someone was calling him, and turned around.
"It's you?!"
"It's you?!"
The two said in unison.
"Haha, I didn't expect it to be you kid, well, yes, it's really a hero out of a teenager." The general who commanded just now laughed.
Li Ce was also surprised the moment he turned around, isn't this the uncle who fishes by the river, it turns out that he is a general, and it seems that the official is not small.
"What's your name?"
"Oh, it's you, I, my name is Li Ce." Li Ce smiled.
"Good! Attaboy! The general suddenly turned to the generals around him and ordered: "Go, you guys listen to Li Ce's dispatch, quickly convey this method to every place, go quickly!" ”
"Yes!" The four or five generals behind the middle-aged general took the order and left.
Immediately, the middle-aged general said to Li Ce: "Okay, Li Ce, you will lead these generals to set up the formation, and after this battle, this official will give you a table to ask for credit!" ”
Li Ce didn't think about any meritorious service, but seeing that this middle-aged general trusted him so much, coupled with the previous contact and the scene of watching him command just now, Li Ce judged that this person should be a good general, so he happily accepted the order.
Sure enough, after Li Ce led the generals to arrange this array, the casualties of the Song army on the city wall were greatly reduced, and the offensive of the Liao soldiers gradually slowed down, and basically few Liao soldiers could attack the city wall.
At this time, the sky had begun to faintly glow, and Li Ce roughly estimated that it was about five watches, and the sky was about to dawn.
This time the Liao army, the main commander who led the troops to come was Yelu Wuqi, he was extremely puzzled at this time, seeing that Zhending City was about to be breached, why was it suddenly blocked? Seeing that the sky is about to dawn, it has been some time since the Song army's wolf smoke warning, and if you stay any longer, I am afraid that if the Song army's reinforcements arrive, I will be outflanked, and when the Song soldiers are attacked inside and out, I will be in danger!
However, their own side has already paid such a large number of casualties, and they have obtained information in advance, the main force of the Song army of Zhending Mansion is not in the city, so it is unexpected, and it has not yet taken this city, so it is really unwilling to leave like this!
After much deliberation, Yelu Wuqi finally decided to order the withdrawal of his troops, and he did not dare to take this risk.
The Song army in the city saw that the Liao army finally withdrew, a cheer, everyone had already prepared to die in the city, at this time to see the Liao army retreat, can not help but be extremely happy, there is a feeling of the rest of the life.
When Li Ce saw that the Liao army had withdrawn, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, found a place to sit down, and wanted to rest, only to find that his two arms were already tired as if they were prostration. The battle situation was so tense just now, he had been bending his bow and shooting arrows and running and coordinating, and when he rested, he realized that his strength had been exhausted, and he felt tired even if he was sitting.
He simply lay down on his back, Li Ce looked at the gray sky, breathed in the morning air, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth......
Lying on the ground, Li Ce lamented that his body was still too weak, everything in this place had to rely on physical strength, without the help of various means of transportation and machines developed in later generations, if he wanted to survive in sudden danger, he had to exercise his physique! Only when the body is strong, can you increase your chances of survival, a great man once said: "The body is the capital of the revolution, this is really good, it seems that you have to continue to exercise your body when you go back." The fatigue of his body came in bursts, and in a daze, Li Ce actually fell asleep lying down......
Later, he was awakened by the cold, and this agitated spirit woke up to find that it was already dawn, the sky was already bright, and there were Song soldiers cleaning the battlefield everywhere inside and outside the city wall.
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