Chapter Seventy-One: The Bloody Night

Eagle Yang Lang General Li Chongwei is Yang Sien's right-hand man, located in the sixth row of the Mo Dao Formation, he is also experienced in a hundred battles, has a wealth of combat experience, he immediately realized that they have encountered a heavy armor nemesis, the bed crossbow arrow.

They had tried more than once, and only the iron arrows of the bed crossbow could penetrate their thick armor, and there was only one word to the arrows of the bed crossbow, 'Quick!'.

He raised the Mo knife high and shouted, "Run, rush into the enemy camp!" ”

The second row of heavily armored soldiers rushed to the front row to replenish the gap in the array, and they began to run, rushing towards the gap a hundred paces away.

The biggest weakness of the bed crossbow is the slow winding, the Sui army rushed out more than 20 steps, and the bed crossbow only finished the second round of arrows, Fan Yuan shouted again: "Shoot!"

Once again, three hundred iron arrows were fired intensively at the Sui army's heavy armored infantry group......

Compared to the resistance of the Modao heavy infantry on the northern front, the situation on the southern front was slightly better, and the defensive bed crossbows on the southern front were almost completely damaged by repeated attacks by trebuchets, and they could only block the charge of the heavy cavalry with obstacles and dense bows and arrows.

General Cao Dan is also a veteran, as early as Dou Jiande when he followed the left and right, if Wang Fubao is Dou Jiande's left arm, then he is Dou Jiande's right arm, he is responsible for commanding the Chinese army, and was transferred by Dou Jiande to be responsible for the defense of the southern front.

Cao Dan is also experienced in a hundred battles, he has 15,000 men under his command, is the elite army that has followed him for many years, and in the original confrontation with Yang Yichen, he once successfully resisted Yang Yichen's 10,000 cavalry rushing camp.

Cao Dan did not participate in the battle of Zhuoxian, he was ordered to guard the capital of Leshou, which was also something that Dou Jiande regretted very much afterwards, if Cao Dan was there at that time, they might not have been so defeated.

Cao Dan blocked the gap with more than 500 military vehicles, and mobilized 10,000 crossbowmen to deploy behind the military vehicles, while his: 15,000 elites held spears in their hands and pressed the formation behind the crossbow army.

The military vehicle is a vehicle that transports logistics radiation, mainly wooden, which can effectively hinder the running of war horses, which is actually the traditional combat method of the Central Plains army against cavalry.

But Cao Dan didn't expect that what he was dealing with this time was actually the five thousand heavy armored cavalry built by the Sui Dynasty, and the arrows were like dense flying locusts, overwhelmingly shooting at the heavy armored cavalry, but the dense arrow rain had no effect, and ordinary arrows could not penetrate the strong horse armor and heavy armor.

Five thousand heavily armored cavalry rushed in line against the dense rain of arrows, the speed became faster and faster, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the momentum was like a stormy wave, destroying everything, invincible everything, and rushing towards the densely defended Xia soldiers with an unstoppable ferocity.

10,000 lunges were terrified, they turned around and fled, the passage was narrow, and the chaos was a mess, Cao Dan's face changed greatly, it turned out to be a heavy armored cavalry, they had dealt with this heavy armored cavalry when they faced against the Youzhou army at the beginning of last year, and they had seen the powerful impact of this heavy armored cavalry.

Cao Dan shouted: "The spear is on top!" ”

Thousands of spearmen marched forward in formation, sealing off the narrow escape space of the crossbowmen, and the crossbowmen became even more confused, and some shouted in fear.

As an experienced veteran, Cao Dan knew how to deal with the first wave of heavy cavalry, and 10,000 induction hands were the best meat shield.

The five thousand heavily armored cavalry were only fifty paces away from the enemy, and the fear of the crossbowmen found a catharsis at the last moment, and they pushed away the wagons, rushed out of the gap, and ran desperately into the wilderness.

The thousands of spear soldiers in the back were also terrified by the earth-shaking momentum of the heavily armored iron horsemen, but the soldiers in the front row had nowhere to flee for their lives, and they could not retreat, and were pushed and embraced by the soldiers behind, so they had to raise their spears, close their eyes, and scream in despair.

"Boom!"

Five thousand heavily armored cavalry rushed into the enemy group with a devastating force, the troop vehicles were crushed, dozens of corpses were knocked out sideways, countless people were trampled under the iron hooves of the war horses, and they couldn't even shout screams, and groups of people were cut down like wheat, and the corpses were blurred with blood and flesh, and blood was everywhere.

The huge impact of the heavy cavalry made them kill the enemy group for about 50 steps, but the heavy cavalry did not stop, and the cavalry's horse lance assassinated Feixuan, they were like a bamboo, invincible, and opened a bloody road.

Behind them, Qin Qiong led 30,000 Sui troops to fight into the camp along the bloody road they had split.

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After killing hundreds of people in the northern front, the 6,000 heavy armored infantry finally rushed to the front of the gap, and the soldiers operating the bed crossbow retreated one after another, and the general Fan Yuan led 30,000 people to rush up from all sides and start a flesh-and-blood battle with the Modao infantry.

But this can only become a one-sided slaughter, the sharp Mo knife slashed, the human head rolled to the ground, the body was split, the stump and arm were broken, and the corpses on the ground were piled up layer by layer, like the bloodiest hell, and the heavy infantry advanced step by step like a wall.

In fact, as long as they rushed into the gap, there was almost no suspense in the siege battle behind, Li Jing saw that the Modao army had entered the gap, and immediately ordered Yang Wei: "You can lead three thousand cavalry to tear open another gap, and let my army enter." ”

Yang Wei was sent to garrison Yan'an County in the past few months, and the Hebei campaign has not been his turn, and he has been really depressed.

He couldn't hold back for a long time, and two sledgehammers collided in the air, 'Dangchang! With a crisp sound, he turned around and shouted, "My sons, kill the enemy with the fat grandfather!" ”

He urged the camels and led the 3,000 cavalry of his headquarters to rush towards the board wall, which was two feet high and made of huge wooden stones, which was extremely strong, and at this time there were no defenders on the board wall, and all the defenders were fighting fiercely with the Modao heavy infantry in the gap.

Yang Wei raised his hammer and smashed it violently, only to hear a muffled sound, but the wall did not move, Yang Wei was so angry that he turned the camel and shouted: "Pull it over with a rope!" ”

A fierce rope flew towards the board wall, and thousands of cavalry pulled at the same time, and the board wall began to shake, and in a shout, a board wall about a hundred steps wide collapsed, revealing a new gap.

Yang Wei looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, brandished a sledgehammer to urge the camel to rush in first, Li Jing saw that the gap had been opened, pointed at the sword, and shouted: "Kill in!" ”

Tens of thousands of Sui troops rushed into the camp from the new gap of 100 steps wide, and so far, the Sui army has attacked the Xia army camp from both the north and south.

The camp was already a sea of fire, groups of Sui cavalry and infantry rushed to kill in the barracks, everywhere were fleeing Xia army soldiers, the soldiers could not find the generals, the soldiers could not find the soldiers, the surrendered soldiers fell to their knees in pieces, and the camp was extremely chaotic.

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The news of the breakthrough of the battalion has reached the Chinese army, Dou Jiande has changed into a soldier's attire, wearing a shabby leather armor, holding a rotten spear in his hand, and his face has been smeared with red oil paint to become a red face of Guan Gong, and his appearance has changed greatly.

He rushed out of the big tent with a few soldiers, and from a distance, he only saw Dou Xianniang guarding the other 'Dou Jiande' beside him, maybe it was because of the night, she didn't even distinguish the real from the fake.

Dou Jiande couldn't help but smile bitterly, even his niece didn't see that it was a fake Dou Jiande, and he didn't want to say it for the time being, except for more than a dozen henchmen and guards, no one else knew that he had a stand-in.

Dou Jiande turned over and shouted in a low voice, "Go!" ”

He led more than a dozen of his own soldiers to gallop towards the south gate, and hundreds of his own soldiers escorted the fake Dou Jiande, following them and galloping on horseback.

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One of the greatest advantages of fighting at night is that there will inevitably be a mass flight on the unstable side, and it will be difficult for officers to keep an eye on their soldiers at night.

At this time, there were already three camp gates in the Xia army camp that had been opened, and a large group of soldiers continued to escape from the camp, throwing away their armor and weapons, and desperately fleeing towards the dark field, but there were already groups of Sui soldiers waiting here to intercept them in the field.

This is the 20,000 reinforcement army led by Luo Shixin, whether it is the southern line or the northern line, as long as the battle is unfavorable, they will reinforce it, but as the Sui army on the two lines has attacked the big camp, they have lost the meaning of reinforcement.

Unwilling to be in vain, Cheng Yanjin proposed to go to the periphery to intercept the deserters, maybe they could catch Dou Jiande and make the greatest contribution, Luo Shixin adopted his suggestion.

Dou Jiande led more than a dozen personal soldiers to run out of three miles, and suddenly heard someone around him scolding, "Son of a, didn't you hear Lao Tzu?" ”

As soon as Dou Jiande turned around, he found that a Sui general with a big axe appeared beside him, because he was too dark, wore black armor, and rode a black horse, but he didn't find it in the dark night, so frightened that Dou Jiande's soul was scattered and he almost fell off the horse.

This general is Cheng Yanjin, he has a pair of thief eyes, and at a glance he took a fancy to the horse under Dou Jiande's crotch, which is a good horse for a thousand miles, with pure white fur and extremely strong.

Cheng Yanjin led more than 100 people to stop Dou Jiande, and the dozen or so soldiers behind him were taken aback, and it was too late to rush up, so Cheng Yanjin grabbed Dou Jiande by the back of the neck and lifted him up.

"Damn, why is your face full of blood, bad luck!"

Cheng Yanjin casually threw Gong Jiande to the ground, bent down and grabbed the reins of the war horse, and laughed, "Good horse, Lao Tzu has made a fortune." ”

Seeing that he actually took a fancy to his horse, Dou Jiande suddenly had a glimmer of hope in his heart, and hurriedly begged: "The villain is just a groom, and there is a seventy-year-old lady at home to support, this is Dou Jiande's horse, I am willing to give it to the general, just beg to spare my life." ”

Cheng Yanjin is a very filial person, he saw that this groom looked like an old peasant, his face was covered with blood, his clothes and armor were tattered, and there was an old lady at home, so he nodded, "I won't kill you, you tell me, where is Dou Jiande?" ”

Dou Jiande pointed back, "Behind is the golden helmet and silver armor, protected by hundreds of guards!" ”

As soon as Cheng Yanjin turned around, he saw that there was a large group of cavalry running behind him, there were three or four hundred people, and his heart was suddenly overjoyed, and he turned around and urgently ordered, "Blow the call for troops and intercept Dou Jiande!" ”

He turned the horse's head and left, took a few steps, and took out the silver ingot from his arms, and threw it to Gong Jiande, "Take it to buy some grain and rice, and buy a few clothes for the old lady!" ”

He led the white horse and galloped away, and more than a hundred cavalry followed him, and disappeared into the darkness in a moment.

"Uhhh

The horn sounded, which was the rallying cry of the Sui army calling for the main force.

"Lord Wang!" More than a dozen personal soldiers hurriedly rushed forward to help him up from the ground, Dou Jiande picked up the silver, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, this Sui general is not bad-hearted.

Dou Jiande saw the Sui cavalry rushing in all directions, he turned over on another horse, whipped it violently, and ran into the darkness.