"Huh!" Du Guoying smiled noncommittally and said, "Toto'er, you go down, it's up to you later!" ”

"Okay!" With a reply, he turned and rode his horse down the riverbank, and soon disappeared below the horizon. Du Guoying looked at the enemy camp on the other side, slashed down with his right arm, and shouted, "Let's start!" “

The drums on the side of the officers and soldiers suddenly became rapid, and the density was almost indistinguishable. With the rapid sound of drums, the banners of each infantry team tilted forward and began to move towards the riverbed below, because the riverbed was mostly alluvial gravel, the speed of the marching team was not fast, hundreds of twelve-foot spears pointed to the sky, like a forest slowly moving forward with the sound of drums.

On the watchtower next to the camp gate, Lao Huihui stared at the officers and soldiers who were slowly approaching, and his throat couldn't help but dry for a while. He is not a rookie who has entered the battle for the first time, and has seen battles with traps, thieves, officers and soldiers, and village warriors, and knows very well that it is not difficult to shout and rush on the battle formation, but the difficult thing is that the ranks are neat, calm and calm, and he compared the various armies he has seen in his heart, and finally concluded that none of them can be compared.

"Brother Ma, there's no movement on the other side!" Ge Liyan on the side was a little anxious, although he was not half blind like the nickname said, but forty meters away was a blur, he could only hear a drum, could not hear the shouts of the enemy, and couldn't help but be a little anxious.

"Come here, it's about seventy steps, it seems that this time it's not ordinary!"

"So close? Hurry up and release the arrows, hurry up and release the arrows! Ge Liyan couldn't help but be taken aback, and hurriedly patted the railing of the watchtower and shouted downward, Lao Hui wanted to stop but it was too late, the thieves behind the earthen fortress had long been impatient, and they all bent their bows and shot at the officers and soldiers.

As the arrows rained down, there was some disorder in the ranks of the team, and from time to time someone fell from the arrow, but the people behind immediately made up for it. Drag the injured person down. The formation is always out of order. Liu Cheng's spearmen basically all have cloth iron armor and iron helmets, unless they are shot in a place where the armor is not covered, it will not cause any damage, and soon the front row of the team has arrived at the small place with flowing water in the center of the riverbed, the rhythm of the drum has slowed down, the flags of each team have resumed their uprightness, and the three teams have stopped, and then the auxiliary soldiers behind will send the long card to the front of the team to stretch out, forming a simple shield.

"Shoot forward!"

With the sound of the order, many sergeants dressed in sleeveless leather armor and fur hats rushed forward from the cracks in the ranks. They put the bird on the long card, and the leader of the shooting team ran to the front of the ranks with a small flag in hand, and saw that his subordinates were ready to stop and wave the small flag downward, and suddenly there was a fire in front of the long card, and white smoke was spewed out from the mouth of the gun, so that people could not see anything clearly.

"Ugh!"

With a muffled sound, the soldier who returned to his side covered his chest and fell from the watchtower, almost at the same time. There was a scream from the earthen fortress, and the thieves who were firing arrows at the officers and soldiers fell to the ground, and a large flag with the word "horse" inserted on the top of the watchtower was broken by a stray bullet and slowly fell from a high place.

"It's amazing. Go down, this watchtower can't be stopped! Ge Liyan grabbed Lao Huihui's arm and pulled it down. Lao Huihui's body was a little stiff, and he was almost stumbled by the other party. He grabbed the railing with his hand and stood still, and he broke away from his arm and shouted, "I can't go down." Otherwise, people's hearts will be in chaos, and you should go down! “

"The official and military birds are so powerful, how can you do without a cover on it?" Gerry said urgently.

"The more this happens, the more I can't go down, otherwise how can the brothers have the courage to fight with the officials and soldiers?"

Seeing that he couldn't convince Lao Huihui, Geli had to sigh: "In this case, I'll go and get a few rattan cards, so as to cover them!" With that, he ran down quickly, and in a short time four or five minions came up with rattan cards, covering the old return tightly, but he didn't know if he could block the bird's shot.

Lao Hui returned to the watchtower, saw the officers and soldiers standing at the water's edge, birds and bows and arrows were released, many minions were shot as soon as they stood on the earthen ramparts, and the arrows they shot back were either blocked by the long card, or they could not penetrate the armor if they were shot, knowing that this group of officers and soldiers was far superior to their own firearms, so they could only be beaten passively if they shot down, I am afraid that it will not be long before they are afraid that the courage will be gone, and then the other party will rush to kill only afraid that it will collapse at the touch of a touch.

Thinking of this, Lao Huihui quickly ran down the watchtower, and said to Ge Liyan: "Brother, you are here to guard the club, I will take the horse team out to rush and kill, disrupt the formation of officers and soldiers, and then you lead the brigade out of the camp to attack!" ”

Ge Liyan grabbed Lao Huihui's arm and said with a smile: "Old brother, let me do this kind of thing, you know, my eyes are not good, if you go outside to rush and kill, how can I command and dispatch a half-blind man in the camp!" “

The old man was still about to say something, but Ge Liyan turned around and shouted loudly: "The camp is very stuffy. The horse team goes out with me to breathe! Then he turned and jumped on his horse, and shouted, "Phew! Sigh! ——, those who have the courage to go out with Lao Tzu to kill! “

On the bank of the river, Du Guoying stared at the enemy camp on the other bank, at this time, the team had already released four or five rounds of firearms and more than a dozen rows of arrows towards the thieves on the earthen fortress, and the corpses of the thieves who were shot and killed were lying on the earthen fortress like a mottled rag. But there was no movement in the camp of the thieves, which made Du Guoying a little anxious. In order to speed up the journey, the few heavy firearms were in Liu Cheng's rear camp, although his own side had the advantage at the moment, but only with bows, arrows, birds and guns could not win, so Du Guoying planned to lure the thieves out of the camp, use the ambushed cavalry to defeat them, and then attack the weakened enemy camp. But what he didn't expect was that the thieves in the camp couldn't hold out, and if the team was allowed to attack directly, although the flowing water in the riverbed was not deep, if they couldn't hold each other in front of the trench, and the thieves counterattacked from the flanks, the formation would be chaotic, and it would be easy to fall into the dilemma of having enemy troops in front and flowing water behind, and maybe they would be defeated.

Just as Du Guoying was hesitating whether to send a signal for an assault, a horn sounded from the camp of the thieves, and then the gate on the south side of the fortress opened, and a cavalry of thieves poured out, bypassing the front of the official army and killing his right flank.

"Great, the thief is in my trap!" Du Guoying waved his fist excitedly, turned to the soldiers behind him and ordered: "You immediately go and inform Mr. Totoqian, and let him lead the cavalry to attack the thieves!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

The officers and soldiers on the riverbed also saw the actions of the thieves, under the command of the banner. The squadron close to the right flank began to rotate clockwise with the center as the core, turning its front in the direction of the cavalry, and the tips of countless sharp spears pointed forward, like angry porcupines.

"Don't rush to rush, cross the river and circle first!" Before he became a thief, he was a very experienced cavalry officer, and he had dealt with the Mongol nomadic cavalry a lot, and he was very familiar with the various tactics of the cavalry against the cavalry. He knew very well that this kind of well-formed spear phalanx was the most difficult to deal with, and if he hit it hard, only his head would break and bleed, and the only way was to wait in circles for the opponent's slackness and exhaustion, and find the weakness to give him a fatal blow. Under the command of Grimeye. The thief's cavalry turned their horses around and went around the tangent of the right flank of the officer, like a huge python surrounding its prey. Many thieves who were good at riding and archery stood up on horseback, bent their bows and threw a rain of arrows at the phalanx of the official army, anyway, they didn't have to worry about missing the target, and the shooting team of the official army also used a burst of bird guns and feather arrows, and many people at the end of the rogue cavalry were hit and fell into the river, and the red blood melted into the river. Downstream.

Grim's cavalry rounded a circle, and at last found a gap behind the left flank, and shouted loudly to direct half of the cavalry to rush over, while he led the remaining half of the cavalry to prepare for it. A fierce white-knuckle battle immediately began. In the gap, the shouts of men and the neighing of horses mingled, spears and machetes, tomahawks and flails collided, broken limbs and mutilated weapons overlapped. People stepped forward and retreated, slashing and assassinating corpses and stones under their feet, and for a moment no one could tell which side had the upper hand.

"Give me the banner!" Gerry panted. Stretching out his hand to the flag guard next to him, he saw that the officer and army had only let the team on the left flank meet him, and the rest of the team was still on guard against his own camp, knowing that unless the main force in the battalion flanked him, the cavalry alone would not be able to defeat the opponent. He was about to send a signal to the old Hui Hui in the battalion, asking him to lead his troops out of the camp to flank these stubborn infantry as agreed. But the flag guard didn't seem to hear Geriyan's order at all, and just stared to the left. Geri scolded in annoyance: "Are you deaf? Give me the banner! ”

"Chief, officer, officer!" The flag guard pointed to the left and shouted, and Gary turned around, but he could only see a blur, and scolded: "Explain it clearly! “

"Cavalry, a lot of cavalry!" The flag guard threw the banner into Geri's arms, turned his head, and ran away. Ge Liyan scolded, grabbed the banner, and shouted: "Brothers, with Lao Tzu on the top of the hard, people die and birds are facing the sky, and they will not die for thousands of years!" “

Gry's desperate counterattack was crushed without suspense, not that the thieves' cavalry was not brave enough, but in the cavalry's hedge, it was the horses, armor and weapons that played a greater role. The spear cavalry of the Mongol nobles, dressed in iron cuirasses and armed with spears and riding tall horses, easily destroyed the enemy, and the Griman himself and the bravest dozen rogue cavalry were almost pierced into blood gourds by the sharp spears, and the thieves who turned around and fled could hardly escape the pursuit of the more powerful light cavalry, and the rain of arrows shot them off their horses and then crushed by the horses' hooves. These light cavalry drove them to the turnaround strat, and between the huge hammers and anvils, they were soon crushed, and only the luckiest few escaped destruction.

"Close the door, close the door! Shoot the arrows, release the arrows! Lao Hui shouted loudly, although at least sixty or seventy people had not had time to come in, but he could not care about so much, now was not the time to be reasonable.

"Damn, who dares to close the door, Brother Lao Tzu is still outside!" A young man rushed to the gate of the camp, brandishing his saber frantically, and several men who wanted to close the door had to retreat, and the old man walked over with a blue face.

"Brother Ma, my brother is still outside, and he hasn't come back yet, so he can't close the door!" The man shouted, before the words fell, Lao Huihui had already slashed at his neck, the sharp blade cut off his carotid artery and trachea, and blood spurted out, splashing Lao Huihui's face.

"Close the door!" Lao Hui shouted back, his iron-blue face was covered with blood, like a demon from hell: "When the official army comes in, everyone has to die, whoever dares to stand in the way, Lao Tzu will let him die first!" ”

Under the deterrence of Lao Huihui, the gate of the fortress was quickly closed, and the cavalry who were blocked out let out a desperate cry, but the official army had already crossed the river, sandwiched them between the trench and the spear, and looked at the sharp spear tips and the black hole of the gun, one by one the thieves dropped their weapons and jumped off their horses to beg for surrender.

By this time the officers and men had already rushed to the front of the trench, and some of them, under the cover of long cards, shot arrows and shot at the thieves on the earthen ramparts, while the rest spread long ladders over the trench and then laid planks on top of them, which formed a simple bridge, from which the jumping party in heavy armor rushed over, followed by the spear team. The thieves in the fortress also became brave, knowing that they would not be able to withstand the attack of such a well-equipped enemy without the cover of the earth ramparts and trenches. Many risked being shot and climbed the earthen ramparts to shoot arrows and throw stones at the officers, but the morale of the officers and soldiers was still strong when victory was on the horizon, and although some were constantly beaten to the head and bleeding. Since the height of the earthen rampart was no more than four feet, the officers and soldiers who rushed through the trench could easily stab the enemy on the earthen ram with their spears, and they quickly drove the thieves above down, and the heavily armored jumping party took the opportunity to rush up the earthen rampart and seize the gate of the fort.

The thieves who had lost the gate of the camp no longer had the courage to continue to resist, at first one or two, and soon groups of people dropped their weapons and knelt down to beg for surrender. Seeing that everything was irretrievable, Lao Hui fled back to the mountain temple that was used as a residence, and when he looked back, he found that seven or eight people had followed, all of them were small leaders in the army, and they were looking at him with bad intentions. Lao Hui looked at them vigilantly and asked sharply, "What are you going to do?" The men didn't say a word, but they got closer and closer with bad intentions. Lao Hui drew his sword and was about to kill himself, but everyone rushed up, snatched the saber, and pressed it to the ground.

"Let me die, let me die!" The old man on the ground struggled to reclaim the saber.

"Horse leader, what should we do if you die? You can do well, give your brothers a way to live! One shouted as he kicked the saber away. (To be continued.) )