Chapter 248: Final 3
Sure enough, as Zhang Yuanjing and Liu Wenqi said, this Zamuhe is indeed different from the almost reckless fierce general they said. Without hesitation, he handed over his subordinates and wounded to the hands of the Huolin Army, without worrying that the Huolin Army would secretly attack these Beihai sergeants. Subsequently, he unceremoniously lived in the school captain's mansion and tasted tea alone, very leisurely.
From the outside, this Zamuhe is indeed a fierce general, in his early thirties, tall and strong, with wide palms, and he doesn't look like a wise person no matter how you look at it. However, without saying a word, Zhao Xun found that this guy was indeed not what he looked like on the outside.
"Zhao Xun, the commander of the Huolin Army?" Seeing Zhao Xun, he was the first to ask.
"It's Zhao! Knowing that the general surrendered for the sake of 3,000 wounded was precisely with benevolence in his heart. Zhao Xun said lightly.
"It's just a passing reason, since I can save my life from the fighting, and I have just a gesture, there's nothing worth saying about it. It's just that, Commander Zhao, I brought you three thousand troubles, and I don't know what Commander Zhao is going to do with them. ”
"What do you think I'm going to do with them? And how is it handled within your Northern Navy? Zhao Xun chuckled.
Zamuhe said with some sadness: "In the Northern Navy camp, there is no medicine for wounds, and there is no doctor, so you can only simply bandage it and let it heal itself. As for how to deal with Commander Zhao, this is not something that I, a newly descended person, can speak. ”
"Don't you care about them? Aren't you afraid I'll get rid of them in secret? Zhao Xun asked a little strangely.
"They are all rootless duckweed, abandoned by the tribe's robes, and now that the commander saves them, they will get the allegiance of the three light cavalry, why not? I don't think the Commander will do it in the shadows, because I see ambition in the eyes of the Commander, the ambition to rise. Zamuhe looked at Zhao Xun and said.
"Really? With a person as smart as you, why are you pretending to be stupid in the hands of the Red Arts? ”
"A wounded subordinate who was injured by Akushu inadvertently saved his life, so I owe my allegiance to him, knowing that he treats me as an outcast, and we don't owe each other. I admire the ruthlessness of the red arts, but at the same time, I am also cruel to my own people, which I can't agree with. ”
"So you pretended to be difficult to decide in the camp, and then under Zhang Yuanjing's back and forth persuasion, you put down your body and surrendered. You brought 3,000 wounded men, in fact, you want me to see your merits, or your cleverness. Am I right? Zhao Xun knocked on the table and said.
Zamu was stunned, I don't know why Zhao Xun spoke like this, but Zhao Xun also said that his purpose was above, so he nodded lightly.
"Zamuhe, I don't know what you're capable of, but just by convincing the six hundred Northern Navy guards, you can see that you are scheming. If you want to gain the trust of others, you must put yourself in the right position and do what you should do in a down-to-earth manner. I think that the king of the North Sea should see that you are deliberately hiding it, and he doesn't like his subordinates hiding it from him, so he has been suppressing you. Because every superior doesn't want to have an unknown person among his subordinates. Your faithfulness, in his eyes, has an ulterior purpose. ”
Zamuhe was now deep in thought, thinking about his past......
"My lord, how is this Zamuhe?" Out of the door, Zhang Yuanjing asked.
Zhao Xun smiled: "He is indeed a smart person, but sometimes he is really too smart." Yuan Jing, you have made a great contribution this time. Have a good rest, and the battle outside will be handed over to all the soldiers. ”
Zhang Yuanjing was overjoyed in his heart, and he didn't even dare to say it. After Zhao Xun explained some affairs, he hurried to the outside of the city, preparing to strictly prevent the escape of the Northern Navy.
"My lord, according to the following estimates, the main force of the withdrawal of the Northern Navy should be in the east."
"Tell me about it!"
"Although the north is a straight line and is the closest, it is also very likely that our army will defend the place, and the large-scale activities of our army in the north must also make the north navy think that the north is the main interception force of our army. The east is similar to the west, and it takes one or twenty miles to cross it in order to spare the interception of our army. However, there are no tribes of the Northern Navy in the east, which is not conducive to replenishing and resting, and more importantly, the terrain in the northeast is uneven, and under heavy snowfall, it is not conducive to running at high speed. Only the West Road is the most suitable! And their only option. ”
Zhao Xun said with a smile: "What you said is the same as what Zamuhe said, he also thinks that the escape route of the Northern Navy is the west side, in addition to the reason you said, there is another reason, that is, the six hundred guards are most familiar with the terrain in the west." ”
"It seems that Zamuhe is not a simple person. By the way, my lord, are you starting to secretly adjust your defenses? ”
"Let's start, so as not to be caught off guard when you get it, you can leave as much as you can this time, you don't have to be too forceful, when necessary, you can let go of the interception, don't let the soldiers suffer too many casualties."
Zhao Xun personally sat on the west side, and in addition to the three cavalry battalions with a total of 5,000 people, there were also 3,000 foot soldiers. The other two sides together have only 3,000 cavalry and 2,000 foot soldiers. As for the front of the battalion, it was 3,000 foot soldiers. All the cavalry were equipped with throwing spears and bows and arrows, and the foot soldiers were also equipped with bows and arrows in addition to horizontal swords, although only some were archers, but many bows and arrows of the Tassel army had been captured before, and they were now in good use. In addition, on the west side, there were a thousand heavily armored soldiers among the infantry soldiers standing quietly in front of the infantry soldiers, indifferently staring at the vague Northern Navy camp in the distance.
Li Yan was in charge of the capital Shuai Shuaiyin, and with the support of the pro-guard army, he gathered the whole army and prepared to withdraw the army. In this battle, it can be said that the Northern Navy used all its forces, and the Huolin Army also used all its troops.
The snow was still blowing, and the withdrawal of the Northern Navy began. There was almost no prelude, and the two armies directly began to fight.
One wants to withdraw and flee for his life, and he has to break through the obstacles in front of him. One is to block the enemy's breakthrough operation.
Sure enough, as Liu Wenqi expected, the main force of the withdrawal of the Northern Navy was really on the west side. After Li Yan integrated all the departments, nearly 10,000 people of the Northern Navy were placed in the west, and a steady stream of them appeared in front of the Huolin Army.
"Bow and arrow ready! Put! ”
"Woo Woo ......"
The dense bows and arrows suddenly cut off the falling goose feathers and heavy snow, and the arrows were like flying locusts, and the dense rain of arrows suddenly covered the Beihai non-commissioned officers at the front, condensing them in the ice and snow. In addition to the soldiers, there are also war horses. The arrows continued to whizz by, and some of the war horses had at least a hundred arrows stuck up and down their bodies. But he still ran forward by inertia, until he fell down fiercely and slid on the ground, and as a result, all the arrows were pressed deep into his body.
The first round of arrow rain disrupted the neat formation of the Northern Navy cavalry, and also slowed down their speed, coupled with some set trips, completely slowed down the already slow speed of the Northern Navy. This made the second round of arrow rain play a greater effect, more Beihai non-commissioned officers fell to the ground, less than thirty meters in front of the archers, three or four hundred Beihai non-commissioned officers, personnel and the corpses of war horses have fallen, forming a natural line of defense, but under the attack of inertia, this line of defense is constantly moving in the direction of the archers.
The goose feather snow that fell one after another seemed to have been melted by the fierceness of the battlefield, and there was no chance to land at all, and the clouds that were originally pressed overhead also quietly drifted away. The sky was a faint white, but it was even colder. The whistling arrows shattered all the snowflakes and turned them into powder, so that the snow powder floated in the sky, like layers of white mist.
At the same time as the Northern Navy attacked from three sides, the 3,000 foot soldiers of the front battalion also rushed down the Northern Navy battalion. Among the 3,000 soldiers, only 1,000 were veterans of the Qianfu army, and although the remaining 2,000 also participated in the battle to defend the city, they were not regular soldiers. But attacking the empty Northern Navy camp is no problem at all. Because when the Northern Navy withdrew, it didn't even think about going back.
Almost at the same time, on the north and east sides of the North Navy camp, the North Navy also launched an attack, obviously, these two directions lure the enemy, or rather contain the Huolin Army to draw troops to support the east.
"Woo Woo ......"
Arrows rained down, the sky was almost covered by dense arrows, and even the goose feathers and heavy snow were cut off, and the originally gloomy sky looked even more gloomy. In the Huolin army, whether it is the archers or not, they all have only one purpose at this moment, which is to shoot the arrows in their hands and shoot them at the opponent's body.
The Northern Navy was not ambiguous, they agreed that there were archers, and they were all archers, but their logistics were cut off, most of the bowstrings were damaged, and many of them could not exert their normal strength.
Because of the stumbling ropes everywhere and the ubiquitous corpses, the Northern Navy was forced to jump off their horses in desperation, and some cavalry became foot soldiers, because the cavalry not only did not move as fast as the foot soldiers, but also was very dangerous. What's more, from the corners of the Huolin Army's straight-line defense, as long as they escape, the Huolin Army will no longer pay attention. More than a dozen people had already fled, which made the remaining Beihai non-commissioned officers desperately rush to both sides. It's a pity that the overall defense line of the Huolin Army is similar to a circular arc, and coupled with the tripping horses and other things that hinder the war horses arranged in advance, the cavalry cannot run along the line at all. Only facing the direction of the Huolin Army is more conducive to the march of the cavalry. On the way to escape, without a war horse, how can you run back to the tribe along the way? Therefore, most of the soldiers still dismounted under the orders of the generals and rushed towards the Huolin army.
Archers on both sides began to fire, and countless arrows were shot into the air, and then fell diagonally, increasing the range and lethality. They don't need to aim at all, they just need to shoot the arrows out like a stream, and the arrows will naturally hit the crowded target. At this moment, there was no armor on either side, and there was a row of heavily armored soldiers at the front of the Huolin Army, holding large shields, defending against arrows shot in a straight line, but there was nothing they could do about the arrows thrown from above.
As the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, the casualties of the Huolin Army began to gradually increase, and as for the Northern Navy, there was naturally no need to say much. The corpse that fell to the ground continued to be shot by arrows until it was shot like a hedgehog, and its body was densely covered with arrows, and there was no spare place to insert it. Some of those who were shot by arrows, because their cotton clothes were too thick to be fatal, rolled on the ground in pain, and their whole bodies were drowned in the snow, and the screams of pain immediately resounded in the sky, destroying the hearts of more soldiers who were not strong enough.
The drifting snow blocked the view of the soldiers on both sides, and the archers on both sides fired almost blindly. They simply did not see what was ahead, and only judged the distance by the gestures of the commander. Even Zhao Xun can no longer play the effect of the former archer, it can be said that at this moment, he is also a hero who has no place to play, more often, they just mechanically play the role of archers, shooting arrows like water, as for who they shot, there is no time to judge carefully.
The dense rain of arrows completely covered the sky, and even the falling snowflakes were intercepted by them. The sharp arrows kept falling, as if combing the crowd with a comb, and the originally dense crowd was instantly loosened a lot, and the dark red snow was also full of arrows. In the snow, there were also lying corpses on both sides, blood and blood flowers mixed together, and soon rolled into snowballs, but before the blood could flow, they were frozen, and these bloody snowballs were often stepped on by the people who came later, and they were completely splashed.