Chapter 17: The Last Stand
There was a loud bang on the side of the Surabaya Bridge, and the soldiers who had just fled to the bridge heard this loud noise, and they all looked at the command platform with angry faces, Tao Ying pointed to the Surabaya Bridge, and his expression instantly froze, is this the legendary house leak that happened to be rainy and unlucky?
The bridge was broken, and I thought that there were driftwood by the river, which were used to cross the river, and the driftwood could build a bridge on the water for everyone to cross the river. But when the soldiers by the river heard the loud sound of the bridge collapsing, the soldiers on the shore also hurriedly loosened the driftwood, and so many driftwood flowed down the rolling Surabaya in no knowing where to go.
Standing on the command platform, Tao Ying held the sword in his hand, the Surabaya River was sparkling in the distance under the sun, Tao Ying really wanted to cry without tears, did these teammates really want to die in the Surabaya River?
It seems that that sentence is still ringing in the ears, the Surabaya River does not flow, the Surabaya River does not flow!
Just when Tao Ying patted his head and wanted to cry, he didn't want Chen Deng to suddenly wave the flag, and after a few simple words of the flag, the soldiers actually rushed towards the cavalry who killed people without blinking!
The soldiers shouted and raised their swords, the cavalry rushed, they used their bodies to block the horses, and the other jumped up and spurted at the horses when they collided with their teammates.
The soldier on the horse held a knife and slashed it, and a human head rolled to the ground with a grunt, and another person pounced, and the cavalryman's knife stabbed into his body with a pop, and the cavalryman just wanted to pull out the knife, but the soldier held the knife and didn't let go, and the pikeman next to him stabbed the cavalry on the horse to death with a shot!
Four or five people desperately went to kill a cavalryman, and everyone roared and shouted: "Die in battle as a river god, die in battle as a river god!" "Morale suddenly skyrocketed, Tao Ying couldn't believe it!
Turning his head to look at Chen Deng, Chen Deng also had a serious face and the strong man sighed after the tragedy after his death, Tao Ying didn't know the meaning of Chen Deng's banner words, Chen Deng just told everyone: "The lord has an order, the Surabaya Bridge has been broken, there is no way back, the lord is willing to live and die with the soldiers!" ”
Maybe everyone didn't believe it before, but they saw with their own eyes that as soon as Tao Ying waved his hand, the Surabaya Bridge was cut off, and the driftwood was also thrown into Surabaya, and at such a critical moment of escape, Tao Ying was still standing on the command platform and glaring at Cao Bing!
It was a blessing in life for soldiers to die on the battlefield, not to mention that they died well, even the son of the assassin who was usually so arrogant was willing to fight to the death, how could they not die generously?
The one-sided situation on the battlefield stopped, and he couldn't run away anyway, Tao Ying simply became a big husband, looked at the cavalry everywhere and shouted: "Scattered is easy to be broken by the enemy, I seem to remember that there is a book that records that if you want to break the cavalry, you need five or six soldiers to work together, and quickly order the soldiers to be in a group of ten, ten groups are a concentric circle, and ten concentric circles form a larger concentric circle!" ”
Chen Deng didn't know why he did this, but he seemed to believe that everything had its own providence, so he hurriedly asked people to wave flags and reorganize the formation.
The soldiers didn't seem to be able to adapt for a while, more and more soldiers were killed by Cao Chun's cavalry, Tao Ying couldn't fight, he wanted to go into battle to kill the enemy in person, but it was a burden to think that he would run to kill the enemy, not to mention that if he died, the main general was dead, and the soldiers were in no mood to fight, and when he turned his head to see a drum behind him, Tao Ying suddenly picked up the drum hammer and beat the drum desperately!
The drums resounded throughout the battlefield, and when the Lord personally beat the drums, all the war drums also followed, and the drums inspired the hearts of every soldier, so that everyone overcame the timidity in their hearts and was determined to kill the enemy and defend their hometown!
Cao Chun rushed halfway, and saw that these Xuzhou soldiers seemed to be a little different from the soldiers and horses he had encountered before, Cao Chun hesitated and hurriedly reined in his horse, and the nearly two hundred cavalry behind him also stopped in a hurry.
The person next to Cao Chun who seemed to be a military advisor persuaded him: "General, I don't think the situation is right, I always feel that something is wrong?" ”
Cao Chun looked at Surabaya not far ahead, and suddenly patted his head and said: "It's me who underestimated him, he fought against the water, Han Xin won more with less in the backwater battle, and now they are fighting with the water, and they are already ...... more."
The military advisor next to him frowned, it didn't seem to be all this, and suddenly he pointed to the cavalry hiding in the woods not far away and shouted: "Not good, general, we have been fooled!" This thief of the Tao family is so treacherous, he uses infantry to consume us, but hides the cavalry on the flanks, and when our army is consumed more than half, his cavalry suddenly kills, how can our army be an enemy? ”
Cao Chun also seems to be quite sophisticated, looking at the woods not far away, sure enough, there is a general in front of the woods, the general's face is red, his hand smashes the saddle hard, he wants to attack, but he can't get the order to attack, seeing the fellows fall under the enemy's iron hooves one by one, Xu Sheng doesn't want to mention how entangled he is!
Cao Chun knew that he was careless this time, in order not to wipe out the whole army, Cao Chun waved his hand, and suddenly a horn sounded, and the cavalry on the front line hurriedly turned their heads and retreated.
"Cao Gou has been defeated, Cao Gou elite cavalry has been defeated!"
Seeing the cavalry disperse, the soldiers who escaped death shouted and hugged each other and cried, even Tao Ying, who had been beating the drums, heard the shouts of the soldiers, and tears couldn't help but burst out of his eyes, such a difficult victory, he seemed to be hovering between life and death every minute, this kind of inner torment made him look old in an instant.
The enemy cavalry retreated, Chen Deng waved the flag again for everyone to take advantage of the victory to pursue, and in an instant, thousands of warriors ran quickly to chase after the defeated Cao thief cavalry.
Xu Sheng seemed to hold back for a long time, and when he saw that the army began to attack, he took the lead and chased after the retreating cavalry like an arrow.
Cao Chun seems to be quite familiar with the way of leading the troops, those cavalry are defeated and retreat is also very neat, when Tao Ying's infantry just caught up, they turned their heads and killed for a while before leaving, and fled in a very orderly manner, I don't know if they are deliberately luring the enemy deeper!
However, after nearly a night of going back and forth and this big battle, even people like iron will feel tired, not to mention that Cao Bing is also flesh and blood!
After resting for a day and a night, the five hundred cavalry of Xuzhou seemed to be more like a fierce tiger, and the fierce soldiers were stronger, and they were bears, and after Xu Sheng rushed into Cao Chun's cavalry, he seemed to be like a killing god, cutting down the exhausted Cao Chun cavalry from his horse!
Five hundred cavalry chased Cao Chun's soldiers and horses for nearly 20 miles, and Cao Chun's cavalry, who had been killed, only fled for their lives, until they reached a village where the forbidden department was stationed, and Xu Sheng returned!
After the battle, the battlefield was full of wolf smoke, blood stained the earth, weapons were discarded everywhere, many battle flags were broken, half-planted on the ground, and ownerless war horses were wandering around in the morning light.
Tao Ying raised his head, the living soldiers were celebrating, and the dead soldiers were bidding farewell to the world forever, as well as to their fathers and fellow villagers at home. Chen Deng led the people to clean up the battlefield, and at some point, the blood merged into a small river and flowed all the way to Surabaya, staining patches of river water.
In this battle, Tao Ying lost nearly 1,000 infantry, but Cao Chun was not much better, and Tao Ying captured nearly 100 horses on the battlefield alone.
There were also many horses captured by Xu Sheng coming from afar one after another, and there were no less than 50 war horse corpses lying on the ground. In other words, in this battle, Cao Chun's more than 2,000 cavalry lost at least nearly 300!
Especially when they retreated, Xu Sheng led the cavalry to pursue them, and the losses brought to them were particularly large, and there were not many cavalrymen who died in the battle with the infantry, and they basically died in Xu Sheng's pursuit!
Bury the soldiers one by one, and clean up the battlefield In order to celebrate this rare victory, Tao Ying even ordered that all the more than fifty war horses that were killed be killed and eaten meat! Then, Tao Ying also let the grain and grass brought by the firehead soldiers use half of it, so that every soldier can eat it!
Xu Sheng gathered the war horse and came to Tao Ying to report the battle situation, and Tao Ying asked Chen Deng to make a great contribution for him. Even Chen Deng looked at Xu Sheng, who was covered in blood, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, maybe Tao Ying is really a celestial, and Xu Sheng is really the first general rewarded by the gods to Xuzhou!