Chapter 216: Defeat is like a mountain
Zuo Shaoyang could only get up, holding a shield and torch and continuing to search in the woods and grass.
At this moment, I suddenly heard the war drums on the side of the city tower behind me, and the sound of killing shook the sky. Zuo Shaoyang and the three of them were taken aback, and turned back sharply, only to see the city gate in the distance wide open, and a team of soldiers rushed out of the city gate hole, holding torches and various blades, shouting and rushing towards the hill.
It should be the reserve of officers and soldiers who have gone into battle!
When the officers and soldiers who were fighting on several small hillsides and official roads saw reinforcements coming, they were all shocked and rushed to kill them frantically.
Zuo Shaoyang's heart sank, he knew that if the reserves were all put into battle, it meant that the battle had reached a very severe level! And the situation on your side is likely to be dire!
Zuo Shaoyang climbed a rock with a shield in his hand, raised his eyes to look down the hill, and under the illumination of countless torches, he saw that the enemy army was fighting and retreating, and he was even more frightened, because he saw that the enemy army was not panicking when retreating, mainly the cavalry was covering alternately, and the infantry retreated quickly and in an orderly manner. Could it be that he is luring the enemy?
Zuo Shaoyang doesn't understand military affairs, let alone ancient tactics, but he just doesn't look right. However, there is nothing he can do but do his job.
Since the enemy army retreated, of course, it was the best opportunity to treat the wounded, and maybe when the enemy army came back, it would be troublesome.
At this time, the reserve team that rushed out of the city had already pursued forward, and the battle between the two sides quickly advanced, and the shouts of killing gradually drifted away.
The few small hills where the two sides were fighting desperately just now and the official road below were full of wounded soldiers who were injured and shouting for help, both enemy and us, and there were obviously many more wounded officers and soldiers who did not wear red ribbons.
This hill is overgrown with trees and shrubs, full of rocks, dimly lit, it is not easy to find the wounded, and there is also the possibility of being ambushed by the enemy, now the official road is full of wounded soldiers, where it is easier to find and treat, battlefield first aid is first near and then far, that is, first to save the most easy to treat and urgently need to treat the wounded. to ensure that more wounded are treated.
Zuo Shaoyang jumped off the rock and shouted, "Go!" Save the official road first! ”
The three of them ran down the hill, and the wounded were everywhere on the official road, because it was the place where the battle had just begun, not as good as the place on the hill that had passed before, and the wounded there had waited for a while, and many of them had died of blood loss, but the wounded here could hold on for a while.
Many of the soldiers in the city have come out, and there are already many of them here to treat the wounded. The Minzhuang stretcher team also followed, and sent the wounded back to the city after Langzhong's first aid at any time.
Zuo Shaoyang's speed of treatment was very fast, first to judge the injury, first to save the serious urgent, they went all the way forward for treatment, and there were always a few people behind him carrying stretchers and door panels to follow.
The wounded soldiers treated along the way were severe or light, and most of them were traumatized by gold wounds. Curiously, most of the wounded soldiers were wounded hands and feet, or severed hands and feet. There are also some wounded soldiers, which are gold trauma plus sternum, ribs and other fractures, and some internal injuries such as internal organ rupture caused by blunt instrument blows, which must be sutured in the abdomen, such complex trauma is difficult to deal with under ancient conditions, although Zuo Shaoyang knows how to treat it, but this is the time to save the emergency, and he can't give up so many wounded because of treating a wounded. The wounded on the battlefield can only be treated urgently, and then go back to treat the wounded soldiers who the ancient healers could not treat. Of course, the premise is that people have to let themselves govern.
I don't know how long I've been busy, and I don't know how many wounded soldiers I've rescued, Zuo Shaoyang's hands have long been stained with blood, blown by the cold wind, frozen in the ice and snow, and when he can't move, he just sandwiches his armpits to warm up before he can continue to treat.
The hemostatic bandages in his first aid kit were also used up, and Minzhuang sent them back later. The hemostatic bandage sent to him was far less effective than the one he made himself, but it was better than nothing. And there was not much left of the ginseng four reverse pills in that porcelain bottle, and he was not the most serious, so he gritted his teeth and didn't use it, because he didn't know if there were any more needy wounded in the back.
At this time, Zuo Shaoyang was kneeling on the ground, bandaging and fixing the broken leg of a wounded man whose leg bones had been cut and his leg bones were shattered and fractured, and suddenly, he felt that his knees on the ground were trembling, not that he was too tired, but that the ground was trembling!
Immediately afterwards, I heard a rumbling sound coming from afar, like the tide of a rising tide, and the sound became clearer and clearer, but it was the sound of countless horses' hooves, trampling on the ground, like rolling thunder in the sky falling to the ground, deafening.
Then, I heard the cries of my father and my mother, and the sound of killing. Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly stood up and looked into the dark night in the distance.
At this time, some of the people behind him were familiar with this sound, and they were immediately frightened and threw down the stretcher and ran back, and some of the soldiers began to run backwards. A Lang Zhong ran past Zuo Shaoyang and shouted with a blank face: "Hurry up and run!" The enemy cavalry is coming! Run to the city! ”
Miao Peilan said urgently: "Brother Zuo! Run! As soon as he pulled him, he rushed forward. Bai Zhihan followed. The wounded soldier hissed, "Help! Help me! ”
Zuo Shaoyang said urgently: "Wait, there is still that wounded soldier!" ”
"It's too late!"
"We're at least a few miles away from the city, and it's too late to run back to the city at this time, we can't outrun the war horses!" Zuo Shaoyang said urgently, "You can't put him on the road, he will be trampled to death by a war horse!" Drag him off the official road, and then let's hide! ”
When the second daughter heard this, she hurriedly turned around and came back, and helped him carry the wounded man down the official road, put him behind a big stone, and chose a shield to cover him.
Zuo Shaoyang turned his head to look at a small hillside next to him, which was a small pine forest, and said urgently: "Run up the mountain!" Drill into the woods! ”
The woods were the best natural barrier against cavalry. The second daughter followed him into the grove on the hillside.
As soon as they ran halfway up the hill, countless soldiers had already poured over on the official road, and there were no red ribbons around their necks, obviously they were all officers and soldiers, and those who ran to the front were the cavalry among the officers and soldiers, and the infantry in the back, but it turned out that the whole army of officers and soldiers was defeated!
The officers and men threw off their armor and fled in embarrassment, and sharp arrows in the sky flew in an arc from behind, and from time to time some of the officers and men who fled like a tide were hit by arrows and fell down screaming. The people behind him ignored stepping on it and continued to run forward.
Zuo Shaoyang saw for the first time what it means to be "defeated like a mountain", in this case, no matter how brave the general is, there is no way to stop this tide of defeat and fleeing.
The three of them stood on the edge of the woods, watching in horror at the rout of the officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain. At this moment, I suddenly heard the sound of tearing branches and shrubs on the other side of the hill, and the sound of wild shouting and crying.
Zuo Shaoyang and the three of them looked up at the top of the hill, and saw that countless figures also appeared on the top of the mountain, and they couldn't see clearly in the dark, but judging from the whole situation, it was obvious that the officers and soldiers were also defeated.
Zuo Shaoyang was about to turn around and run out along the mountainside, when he saw a crowd of people in the distance, already full of soldiers fleeing. At this moment, I only heard the war drums in the direction of Hezhou City, and countless soldiers sprung up on the hills on both sides, holding torches, waving flags and shouting, and flying arrows shot at the defeated officers and soldiers like rain!
It's over, and you're surrounded by enemy troops on all sides!
Behind are the pursuing rebels. There were shouts of killing everywhere in the darkness, and I didn't know where to be safe.
Miao Peilan said urgently: "Brother Zuo, what should I do?" ”
"Hide in the woods!"
The three of them went into the small pine forest. After only running far, the officers and soldiers who had fled from the top of the mountain had already rushed into the small pine forest like a tide!
Listening to the many people rushing into the grove, this chaotic scene is too dangerous, Zuo Shaoyang pointed to a big pine tree with a thick hug, and said, "Go up the tree!" Hurry up the tree! ”
Bai Zhi said hurriedly: "I can't climb trees!" ”
Miao Peilan said: "I'll go up first, and then pull you up!" ”
"Good! Hurry up! Zuo Shaoyang said urgently.
Miao Peilan threw away the shield and single knife in her hand, climbed to the tree in three or two strokes, grabbed a branch with one hand, turned around and stretched out her hand and said, "Give me your hand!" ”
Zuo Shaoyang took off the first aid kit on his back, threw it under this pine tree, and stepped forward to grab Bai Zhihan's slender waist with both hands: "You go first!" With his luck moving up, Bai Zhihan took advantage of the momentum to lean up and grabbed Miao Peilan's hand.
Miao Peilan pulled her up with one arm and put her on a branch!
At this moment, the officers and soldiers who rushed in had already rushed under the tree, crowded people, and the screams and swords were endless.
Miao Peilan said urgently: "Brother Zuo, give me your hand quickly!" ”
Zuo Shaoyang jumped up and was about to catch Miao Peilan, when a deserter rushed over in the dark, panicked, and hit his jumping body, and with a bang, knocked him out.
"Brother Zuo!" Miao Peilan hissed, kicked her feet, like a female leopard protecting a calf, jumped into the air, hugged Zuo Shaoyang at the moment he was about to land, twisted her waist in the air, and turned Zuo Shaoyang to her body, and then, her back hit the slope full of rocks, and the two of them rolled down the hillside with their arms. Finally, plop and fall into a pit.
The pit was covered with snow, and the corpses of several soldiers were lying there, and the flesh was blurry and it was impossible to tell which side it was. There are several blades and shields scattered around.
Zuo Shaoyang fell dizzy, his internal organs were out of place, his limbs were in severe pain, and he couldn't get up at all.
Miao Peilan protected Zuo Shaoyang and hit the rocks when he landed, and he choked enough, so he couldn't get up for a while, and listened to the scattered footsteps of the officers and soldiers who fled down the mountain like crazy cows. There was no choice but to turn over and press Zuo Shaoyang under him, and grab a shield scattered next to him to block his back.
Immediately, listening to the sound of knocking, Zuo Shaoyang, who was lying below, felt that someone kept stepping on them, Miao Peilan hugged Zuo Shaoyang tightly, and endured the trampling when the chaotic soldiers fled and passed. Fortunately, there is a long shield on their backs, otherwise they would have been trampled to death by the tide of people!
At first, the sound of screaming and panting and crowding each other to flee quickly became the sound of shouting and killing, and the sound of command outflanking and interception.
(To be continued)