Chapter 652: Breaking through the Eighteen City Gates in One Day
Although there were only 500 cavalry, the 500 cavalry charged, but still made a thunderous hoof sound in this dark night, and the earth shook slightlyββ1ββThe black pressure Chen army infantry followed behind the cavalry and quickly cut close to the Wu army, like waves, like a tsunami, the outline of the wings of geese under the moonlight became more and more clear, the black pressure of the formation, holding long knives and guns, and the dust and dead leaves splashed by thousands of horses' hooves, flying all over the sky, that might, as if the whole army was stepping on a cloud, flying on the ground!
"Array, meet the enemy!"
"Hold your ground!"
Seeing that Chen Jun, who suddenly appeared before and after, sandwiched them on the plain in front of Jiang Mountain, Liu Wei's face sank completely. He was ambushed, and the enemy was so numerous that it was two or three times as many as his troops. Just the thousands of cavalry behind him who moved like the wind and the knights were galloping like thunder made him feel a sense of despair. Elite, the Chen Jun behind this is definitely the elite of Bei Chen, that momentum, that impact, like a tide.
And the army in front of them that was getting closer and closer, although it seemed to be a little chaotic, did not have a formation. Their movements were very swift, and the soldiers in animal skins were like hunting in the mountains, running like flying and majestic.
There are elite soldiers of Beichen in the back, and the infantry and cavalry charge together, and the rear formation is tight, and there is a restrained murderous aura.
The soldiers in front of them were like bees, dressed in animal skins, and they knew at a glance that they were Lingnan Baiyue native soldiers. Although they didn't seem to have a formation, their fierce momentum was not something that he, the old and weak, could resist. Not to mention. He also had to face the thousands of elite Chen troops in the rear at the same time.
He didn't want to fight, but he couldn't avoid it. Pulling out his long sword, Liu Wei shouted helplessly, commanding his panicked subordinates to quickly form a dense phalanx. With 5,000 elites in the outermost layer and 5,000 old and weak in the second layer, 20,000 people were completely surrounded in the middle. Countless spears rose obliquely, turning the entire phalanx into a giant hedgehog in an instant. He didn't think about breaking through, and in the case of front and back attacks, he dared to break through, but he might fall into a collapse. What's more, there are still 20,000 people in his array, and they will be all over as soon as they are scattered. Now. There is only one step to block.
"Hold your ground!" The herald gave the order again. The soldiers who obeyed the orders nailed their feet to the ground even more firmly, clenched their spears tightly, and everyone's hearts were pounding. The teeth of the soldiers in the front row involuntarily made a "clucking" sound. Pale face.
A huge shout suddenly burst into the sky, "Long live the broken army!" β
The sky is collapsing, the earth is cracking, and the morale of the Wu army is collapsing. They understood the loud shout. This is exactly the charge order of the Northern Chen army when attacking, I heard that this is only the elite division of the Chen army has a battle number, and ordinary battalions that have not received the emperor's flag do not have this qualification. At present, this army is shouting this slogan, which means that the other side is at least a division of a hundred battles that has been awarded the flag by the emperor.
Thousands of Chen troops were still dozens of steps away from Wu's phalanx. I saw that behind the battle horn, the five hundred cavalry galloping in front suddenly shot out in unison. Under the moonlight, countless fist-sized black iron balls emitted spark-red light, whistling like a dark cloud, flying towards the head of the Wu army's array.
The well-informed Wu Jun recognized that it was the terrifying Chen Jun grenade that flew over. One by one, frightened souls flew out of their bodies.
"Spread out, it's a bomb!"
However, even if Wu Jun shouted out, it was too late, and in order to deal with Chen's charge, Wu Jun's team was so dense that it was impossible to dodge at all.
Rumbling explosions rang out one after another, and several gaps appeared in the dense spear phalanx of the Wu army. Before the soldiers of the Wu army could make up for it, the five hundred cavalry of the Chen army, which was galloping like lightning, took the lead in killing. β¦,
A burst of crossbows was followed by a field of spears and sabers.
One after another, the soldiers of the Wu army were shot and cut to the ground, and in front of the galloping cavalry, they were too brittle. It is undoubtedly a dream to deal with the light cavalry that is galloping and charged, but there are not enough bows and arrows, and to block the cavalry charge with only a few spears.
After a round of charge, dozens of gaps widened on the periphery of Wu's military formation. Chen Jun did not miss this opportunity, and the Chen army infantry that followed followed by rows of crossbow arrows, followed by a row of grenades thrown en masse.
As if cutting wheat, a large gap appeared directly in the neat phalanx, like the moon that had been bitten by a tengu.
The 3,000 soldiers and horses led by Su Dingfang were few but well-made, and they had sufficient advanced equipment, and they only charged to the east of the phalanx. And to the west of the phalanx, those Wu armies were also on the verge of collapse. 20,000 Turkish troops were killed, most of these did not even have a pair of leather armor, but only wore animal skins, and even some barbarians with bare chests and arms on October days, playing barefoot, bare arms, holding scimitars and spears, roaring and screaming along the way, swarming to the front of the Wu army's formation, spears, swords, shields, javelins, throwing axes, chain balls, iron rods, bows and arrows, it is simply eighteen kinds of weapons, all of them.
Some of the native soldiers even charged with wild beasts, some with hideous wolves, some with mountain leopards, poisonous snakes, and occasionally fierce men with tigers.
People cut and beasts tore apart, and within a moment, the Wu army collapsed.
The entire phalanx immediately collapsed, and the soldiers, no longer heeding the order, scrambled to drop their weapons and turned to flee. The scattered soldiers were like the water that opened the floodgates, like the waves of a river, and the crowd was surging, and the team behind them was suddenly crushed.
There was a clamor everywhere: "Run! Run! "It's dead!" The soldiers scattered and fled, trampling, squeezing, rolling, and colliding with each other, and all kinds of weapons were thrown to the ground, and discarded flags were everywhere. In an instant, the entire phalanx vanished and ceased to exist.
The Baiyue native soldiers rushed into the fleeing crowd and cheered to start a massacre. The cheers of thousands of wolf soldiers were as high as the death-threatening screams of thousands of Wu soldiers. After the Wu army's array collapsed and the soldiers on the periphery dispersed, they directly exposed the 20,000 people who came over to bluff and join in the fun.
Liu Wei, the chief general of the Wu army, rode a horse and fled with the soldiers and horses scattered like a tide, his heart full of helplessness and shame. 10,000 soldiers and horses, a dense infantry phalanx, was completely dispersed under the impact of 3,000 Chen troops and 20,000 barbarians.
He quietly watched his tens of thousands of troops rushing across the plain, watching groups of routs running past him, watching the wolf soldiers laughing loudly behind them, and starting to slaughter, seeing the flags all over the ground being trampled.
At this moment, his heart was like ashes. What else is this fighting? Hit what? Jiankang City was besieged, quarrying was breached, and even Jiangling fell into the hands of Chen Jun. How can this be fought?
His personal guards were running away with Liu Ming's desperate escort, and said loudly: "General, our soldiers and horses have collapsed, should we retreat to Jiankang or to Jingkou?" β
"Withdraw? Is there still a place to evacuate? Liu Wei said with a wry smile, stopped the war horse, and said loudly: "Surrender, what's the point of fighting again." Knowing that you can't do it, what good is it to the world and to yourself, except for some more killing? β
"General? Stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood. Her Royal Highness the princess still has more than 300,000 soldiers and horses in her hands, and she can come back at any time. Liu Ming said with some puzzlement.
Liu Wei shook his head, "After all, the Southern Dynasty is exhausted, and as soon as the old head of the Shen family dies, the Shen family will be in civil strife. Now that there is a heroine in charge, will there be another female emperor in the future? This is something that has never happened in the world, Si Chen, this is a sign that the number of qi is exhausted. If you follow the Shen family again, there will be no more. What did we follow King Wu for back then? For the sake of Koto and for our family to avoid war. But now, the more we fight, the more chaotic it becomes, and if we fight again, your and my family will be gone. Forget it, surrender! ββ¦,
Liu Ming was silent for a while, all kinds of thoughts flashed in his heart, and finally he sighed after all, threw the sword soldiers in his hands aside, and shouted loudly at the scattered soldiers and people: "Surrender your weapons, surrender, surrender, general!" β
"It's down, it's down!" When the defeated soldiers saw that Chen Jun did not kill those comrades who had lost their weapons, they immediately shouted in unison one by one, and dropped their weapons one after another.
Su Dingfang also noticed the Wu general who abandoned the sword soldiers and sat on the horse alone, and saw that the people around him were gathering more and more, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said loudly: "The one who abandons the weapon and surrenders will die!" β
"Death to those who abandon their weapons and surrender!"
Countless Chen Jun shouts rang out, this sound was like the most powerful weapon, and where the sound wave passed, Wu Jun rushed to throw down his weapons and squatted on the ground to surrender. The wolf soldiers over there are still killing, desperately slashing heads to earn military merits. They don't care whether they cut off the real Wu army or the people, in their opinion, as long as it is a human head cut on the battlefield, it is a military merit, that is, money and women.
"Blow the trumpet, Mingjin and collect the troops!" Feng Wan had to blow the order to withdraw the troops in advance, and if she didn't stop, it was estimated that all the Wu troops would be cut down.
Woo woo - woo woo -
The horn sounded along with the sound of the gong, and the native soldiers who were chasing Wu had to stop and put away their bloody scimitars. The order to withdraw troops has been sounded, and it will be a violation of the order to kill any more. Although the wolf soldiers of the Turkish army have no military methods, they still need to be ordered to prohibit the drumming of the charge and the ringing of gold to collect the troops.
10,000 Wu troops and 20,000 people, thousands of people died in the first battle, except for hundreds who fled, the rest surrendered. That night, Feng Wan and Su Dingfang returned victoriously. Hu Hai saw that the reinforcements had been wiped out, so he immediately gathered his troops, and when he waited until the fourth watch, he first divided thousands of old and weak troops into 17 teams to feint and attack the outer gate of the ten gates, and then gathered all the main forces to assemble to attack a city gate in the south city. Hu Hai and Feng Wan's 50,000 allied troops stormed one place, and before the defenders in the city could react to reinforcements, Chen's army broke through the city gate with lightning speed and entered the outer city in one fell swoop.
Countless frightened soldiers were hacked to death by sabers, poked to death with spears, shot to death by arrows, trampled to death by their own men, burned to death by fire, and drowned in water...... When the first rays of sunlight shone through, the outer city was littered with corpses, and thousands of defenders had fallen in the outer city. After fighting for it twice, the remaining 10,000 defenders completely abandoned the eighteen gates of the outer city and retreated into the thirteen gates of the inner city.
The eighteen gates of the outer city of Jiankang were guarded for only one day, and then they completely fell! (To be continued......)