'Boom! Boom! Boom! -, the stirring drum beat again, shocking, echoing at the foot of the mountain, five thousand sword and shield soldiers lined up in twenty rows, holding their shields high and striding up the hill.

A few miles away in the distance, Yang Yuanqing stood and watched the attack of the Sui army, his brows furrowed slightly, the other party actually used crossbow arrows, he remembered that when he attacked Dou Jiande's camp in Zhuo County, the other party did not use crossbow arrows, and now he actually saw crossbow arrows, and there were as many as three thousand.

This shows that Dou Jiande's army is not as weak as he is homesick, so if you see the big from the small, there should be more powerful strength hidden in Dou Jiande's camp, but you can't really be careless.

"Chief, we only sent 10,000 troops to attack the camp, isn't it a bit underestimating the enemy?" Next to him, Li Jing said worriedly.

Yang Yuanqing shook his head, "This kind of attacking the camp from a high place, the number of people on it is about large, the greater the casualties, and the heavy armored infantry is not suitable for this kind of ascending attack, now I am worried that there are too few cavalry in the formation, if the enemy cavalry rushes down from the mountain, I Ran will suffer heavy casualties." ”

He immediately turned back to Pei Xingyan and said: "General Pei, you can have another 5,000 cavalry to press General Luo's formation, and answer him at any time, once the enemy camp is broken, the cavalry can rush up the hill!" ”

"Yes!"

Pei Xingyan rushed down the whistle, and in a moment, a Sui cavalry of 5,000 people rushed out of the camp, like a surging shocking wave, rushing towards the hills several miles away......

In the sound of passionate war drums, the two thousand Sui saber and shield soldiers sped up, broke out with an earth-shattering shout, and rushed towards the top of the mountain like a tide.

The sword slope was not long, only less than a hundred paces away, which could not accommodate too many Sui troops to attack, and the Sui army did not carry out multiple attacks, they chose a place with a gentle slope and rushed to the top of the hillside.

The Sui army that launched the attack were all sword and shield troops, holding high square giant shields, holding horizontal knives in their hands, dozens of people in a row, one step apart from each other, side by side to the top of the mountain, above their heads, the Sui army fired arrows dense like rain, whistling away, shooting on the camp fence and the enemy's shield, suppressing the enemy's counterattack.

Inside the camp fence, Wang Fubao stood in front of a gap in the fence, coldly watching the Sui army's attack, dozens of steps behind him, five thousand archers were ready, five thousand arrows aimed at the top of the camp fence, although the Sui army's crossbow arrows were strong, so that the Xia soldiers on the camp fence could not raise their heads, and one by one the arrows crossed the camp fence and shot into the barracks ** into a clearing.

The archers stood outside the range of the crossbow arrows, and the crossbow arrows of the Sui army did not affect their elevation angle of firing, and they were waiting for the order of the commander.

The Sui army had already advanced within fifty steps, and Wang Fubao resolutely gave the order, "Shoot!" ”

Five thousand archers ran forward, released arrows together, and then quickly retreated, five thousand black arrows rose into the air, like a bird cloud, over the camp fence, whistling towards the Sui army that was approaching the camp fence, a Sui army officer found the arrow cloud appeared, shouted, "Formation!" ”

The soldiers of the Sui army raised their shields at the same time, forming a shield array that covered the sky and the sun, and the arrow rain fell like a torrential rain, all of which were two feet and four inches long soldier arrows, using their own gravity to shoot at the Sui army soldiers, and the raindrop-like arrows were shot on a dense shield, making a jingling sound, and the sound was accompanied by the screams of the soldiers, and many soldiers were shot by arrows, the shields overturned, and the soldiers fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, another bird-black arrow cloud came out of the camp fence, whistling head-on, and the dense arrows pressed the Sui soldiers so that they couldn't raise their heads, and it was extremely difficult to move every step of the indica.

Luo Shixin bit his lip, he rushed to the giant drum, grabbed the drumstick, picked up his arms and slammed it hard.

'Boom! Boom! Boom! , The sound of the drums was shocking, and the Sui soldiers broke out with a shout, and the courage in their hearts was stimulated by the sound of the drums, and they rushed desperately to the top of the mountain.

But Wang Fubao, the main general of the enemy army, smiled coldly, and gave another order, "Throw wood!" ”

The red order flag was raised on the command platform of the Xia army, and the order to throw wood was issued, and 3,000 big men standing under the camp fence picked up the rolling logs more than a foot long and threw them out of the camp fence together.

Three thousand sections of giant trees crossed the camp fence three feet high, like hail falling head-on, most of them only threw more than ten steps away, but the giant trees rolled and smashed towards the Sui soldiers, and the hundreds of Sui soldiers who rushed in front were caught off guard and were smashed by the impact of the giant trees rolling.

The giant shield of the Sui army can withstand the intensive shooting of the arrows, but it cannot block the impact of the rolling power of the giant tree, and the Sui soldiers were knocked over, and the dense arrows were shot, and the Sui soldiers in the chaos could not assemble the shield array, and suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing that the attacking Sui soldiers suffered heavy casualties, Luo Shixin threw the mallet on the ground with hatred, "Mingjin retreats!" ”

"When! While! While! The bell rang, and more than 1,500 Sui soldiers retreated like a tide.

At this time, Pei Xingyan rode up and said with a smile: "General Luo, how about letting me attack?" ”

Luo Shixin looked gloomy and didn't say anything, and said in a sullen voice for a while: "Without the order of the governor, who dares to attack without authorization!" ”

Pei Xingyan raised his head and smiled, "Okay, I'll wait for the manager's replacement order!" ”

He turned his horse's head and ran towards the cavalry team behind, Luo Shixin looked at his back, he was ashamed and annoyed, hated his soldiers for not fighting, and shouted, "The second round of three thousand people!" ”

A general stepped forward and said, "General Luo, I have a plan, maybe I can succeed." ”

"Say! What strategy? ”

"If we are considering that there are more people than fewer people, send twenty brethren up and burn their barracks with fire oil, and as long as the barracks are burned down and covered by crossbow arrows, we can easily attack them!"

This strategy immediately reminded Luo Shixin, yes! You can attack with fire, how could you not think of it?

He immediately called for thirty sturdy soldiers, promised them heavy rewards, carried three sacks of fire oil each, and ran to the top of the hill with shields in hand under the cover of crossbow arrows.

The number of people is indeed not as good as the number of people, and the thirty soldiers running on the open ramp look sparse and insignificant, and it is difficult for them to be hurt by the rain of arrows and giant trees, at this time, Wang Fubao's face became solemn, and he was obviously aware of the intentions of the Sui soldiers.

"Open the door, and a hundred brothers rush out and kill them!"

There is only one gate of the camp, which is not easy to open, but there are more than a dozen small movable gates on the camp fence, three feet square, which are fastened with iron wedges, and can be opened if necessary, and more than 100 soldiers drilled out of the door hole with spears in their hands.

But Luo Shixin had already prepared, and when the door opened, he immediately ordered, "Shoot!" ”

Hundreds of crossbow archers aimed at the door hole and fired together, and the Xia army who had just drilled through the door hole was shot over by the arrows, and the rest of the soldiers were so frightened that they drilled back.

At this time, thirty Sui soldiers had rushed to a few steps outside the camp fence, they covered themselves with shields, took off the fire oil bags on their backs and sprayed the black fire oil on the camp fence, almost at the same time, dozens of rockets rose from the foot of the mountain, shot at the camp fence, and immediately the flames burned, spread rapidly, and thick smoke billowed up.

"Fetch water to put out the fire!"

Wang Fubao shouted, he was obviously helpless against the fire attack, there was not much water on the top of the mountain, the soldiers quickly brought dozens of water for cooking, and poured it on the camp fence, but there was no point in splashing water from inside, some soldiers stood on the wooden platform and splashed water outward, but they were shot by the crossbow arrows of the Sui army.

Many soldiers threw sand outward, but the sand had only a little effect on the fire on the ground, but it could not extinguish the fire on the barracks.

The Sui army under the mountain was jubilant, and Luo Shi was excited in confidence, and immediately ordered: "Go up and go up fifty more soldiers, come on!" ”

Fifty more soldiers rushed up the hill to spray fire oil, which made the fire even more rapid, and a barracket more than 200 paces long was completely separated into a sea of fire.

At this time, Dou Xianniang ran up and shouted: "General Wang, we are not the opponent of the Sui army, we must immediately ask the king for help!" ”

Wang Fubao shook his head slowly, it was too late to ask for help, not to mention that he didn't want to ask the prince for help at all, he said in a deep voice: "Xianniang, you must return to the camp!" ”

"I'm not going back!"

Dou Xianniang stubbornly refused Wang Fubao's kindness, Wang Fubao made a look at the pro-soldiers around him, and dozens of pro-soldiers pounced together, trying to catch Dou Xianniang, Dou Xianniang had already taken precautions, she took three steps back, and the phoenix-tailed knife slashed horizontally, "Who dares to catch me!" ”

Wang Fubao sighed, "Xianniang, I mean well, if something happens to you, I can't explain it to the prince." ”

"I have horses, knives, bows and arrows, if the situation is critical, I will evacuate myself, I don't want you to force it!" Dou Xianniang scolded angrily.

Wang Fubao was anxious, but he was helpless to take her, and at this moment, a personal soldier shouted: "General, the camp fence is about to collapse!" ”

Wang Fubao was startled, turned his head to look, only to see a camp fence more than ten zhang long has been scorched, the bottom has been unable to support, is crumbling, with the soldiers shouted, the camp fence fell down, a series of camp fences followed the example, pulled out a more than 20 zhang wide opening.

Wang Fubao was so anxious that he shouted, "Get out of the way!" ”

Many soldiers did not react, and the dense rain of arrows of the Sui army rushed into the gap, hundreds of soldiers fell to the ground screaming, and the rest of the soldiers scattered in fear.

Wang Fubao knew that a bloody battle was inevitable, and he shouted, "Cavalry preparation!" ”

There were a thousand cavalry in the large battalion, mainly used to assault the enemy's infantry, and the impact was very amazing when killed from the commanding heights, and the thousand cavalry had already prepared, raising their spears one after another, waiting for an order to attack.

At the foot of the mountain, Luo Shixin saw the camp fence, he was overjoyed, turned over his horse, took the trumpet, and blew vigorously in the sky, "Woo......"

The sound of the horn was low and distant, this was the trumpet of the cavalry attack, two thousand cavalry raised their spears together, the spears were like dense forests, and Pei Xingyan, who was not far away, also shouted: "Prepare to attack!" ”

"Kill~!"

Luo Shixin roared angrily, waved the big holmium spear Feng first rushed towards the mountain, and the two thousand cavalry behind him also burst out at the same time, "Kill!" ”

Two thousand cavalry urged the war horse, raised the spear, and followed Luo Shixin to rush to the hillside, Luo Shixin took the lead, and the two thousand cavalry behind him were galloping like wild waves, and the sound of hooves shook the sky, and the momentum was huge.

Wang Fubao also led a thousand cavalry to wait in front of the camp, and he shouted, "Kill the Sui army!" ”

He brandished Fang Tian's halberd and killed Luo Shixin head-on, the two of them collided with each other, and a loud bang broke out, and the two cavalry immediately collided and started a fierce battle on the cloak.

Wang Fubao's martial arts are very strong, the two fought for more than a dozen rounds, regardless of victory or defeat, at this time, Wang Fubao sold a flaw, two horses to Bai wrong, he swept with one arm, the halberd on the crescent moon lightning slashed at Luo Shixin's face door, Luo Shixin did not dodge, he sneered, the spear shook, actually divided seven gun heads, stabbed at Wang Fubao's throat, the gun speed seems to be slow, but the blink of an eye to the eyes, this is Zhang Xutuo's thirteen style of knife in the first style: splitting the mountain.

Luo Shixin turned the essence of power in the knife technique into marksmanship, and practiced his killer gun, he may not be as fast as Yang Yuanqing, but he shook out seven gun heads, which Yang Yuanqing is not as good as.

Wang Fubao was taken aback, it was too late to think about flashing, and the spear was 'poof!' The ground pierced his throat with a thud, the tip of the spear pierced through the back of his neck, and the halberd crescent slashed past Luo Shixin's head, splitting half of his helmet, and Fang Tian's halberd fell to the ground.

Luo Shixin roared, and actually lifted Wang Fubao's corpse high, "The enemy commander has been killed by me!" ”

The Sui army was thunderous, but the Xia army was panicked, had no intention of fighting, was killed and retreated, and saw that the collapse was imminent, at this moment, Luo Shixin suddenly found a cold arrow shooting towards his neck from the side, he was holding Wang Fubao's corpse in his hand, it was inconvenient to dodge, and in a hurry, he tilted his body and shrugged his left shoulder, and the arrow hit his left arm.

There was a sharp pain, his strength was gone, the spear fell to the ground, and he only saw a young female general standing by the camp gate a hundred paces away, with a bow and arrow in her hand, staring at him with murderous eyes.