Chapter Ninety-Seven: A Critical Moment
The training level of the Ansai battalion was vividly demonstrated at this critical juncture, and the more than 2,000 soldiers did not know how many times they had practiced in the queue on weekdays, and at this time the movements were extremely familiar, as if they were conditioned reflexes, and when the soldiers were finished lining up according to the officers' orders, only one or two hundred thieves had climbed over the low wall, and the brigade was still lagging behind. When the thieves completely broke through the last pass, screaming and screaming and rushing towards the position of the Ansai camp, there were already long spears and shields waiting in front of them.
There were many thieves, and the speed of the march was not too fast, and they were chased by the officers and soldiers all the way, and they were forced to drive at night, and they were not allowed to rest. And because there was nothing to plunder in the wilderness along the way, tens of thousands of thieves ate horses and chewed food, and the food was extremely tight, and some camp leaders could not even guarantee one meal a day. At this time, most of the homeless people have not stuck to their teeth for half a day, they are cold and hungry, and they are tired to death, but they can only hear the leaders say that there is a large amount of food in the barracks in front of them, so they give up their lives and fight hard, many of them are already at the end of the crossbow, as long as they lie down, they may not be able to get up again.
And the treatment of the soldiers of the Ansai battalion is comparable to that of heaven. Wu Wei had already fully implemented the system of three meals a day in the Ansai camp, and the army's food was not only full, but also meat could be seen at every meal, and the food was even more abundant when he went out to fight in the field, and the suppliers designated by the logistics department continuously supplied the army with a large number of fresh vegetables and various kinds of canned meat. In the middle of winter, it was already freezing in northern Shaanxi, and the logistics department not only provided felt tents with excellent wind and snow protection effects, but also distributed brand-new warm cotton clothes, cotton pants and leather boots!
You must know that the entire Yansui Town has not been issued with new winter clothes for ten years, and many border soldiers are wearing an old cotton coat handed down from their father's generation, and the distribution of new clothes is a treatment that only the families of senior generals have, even if they have to take their turn once every few years. The most intimate thing is that the logistics department even issued a pair of sheepskin gloves to everyone, so that even if the weather is cold, there is no need to worry about frostbite fingers when holding weapons, which is crucial for the army to maintain combat effectiveness in cold weather.
In this way, when the thieves were starving in the cold wind and marching hard, the soldiers of the Ansai battalion were taking turns to rest and make fires, and even Wang Long and Yang Chengzu, who came a little later, had almost rested for two hours. At this time, the young men were full of energy and had a strong desire to fight, and they were already impatient to wait for the boss.
Seeing the thieves coming, the entire spear formation did not move at all, and it was terrifyingly quiet, but everyone unconsciously clenched the shield and spear in their hands, and when the enemy came, they were going to give him a fatal blow!
When the thieves approached, they saw a row of tall shields on the ground, with a transparent window on it, and a pair of indifferent eyes looking at them behind them. If they could see behind the shields, they would be surprised, because the soldiers of the Ansai battalion all wore riot helmets and transparent protective masks on their faces, and they had a strange appearance, but they also had a strange deterrent power. In addition, the cotton clothes are also wearing stab-proof clothing, lined with high-strength tungsten steel plates, and stab-proof knee pads and elbow pads.
Before the thieves could react, the sound of "tuk tuk" bursting through the air sounded like a torrential rain from the gap between the big shields, and it was Wang Lung's 300 crossbowmen who lined up again and resumed their shooting at the thieves! He had retreated quite wolf before, but at this time Fang stabilized his position, and couldn't help but be a little annoyed, this shot was really like a storm.
The surging tide of thieves was suddenly hit by this sudden blow and couldn't help but be stunned, and the more than 100 thieves who rushed to the front swept away and fell to the ground, and the whole crowd didn't seem to be affected, and immediately stepped on the corpse of the person in front of them and continued to rush forward, slamming into the big shield in the front row of the spear array, and the huge impact pushed the entire array back a few meters, causing a small commotion among the soldiers in the back row, but it was soon restored to normal under the scolding of the officers, and then the most spectacular scene appeared. Hundreds of spears stabbed forward like lightning from the gaps in the big shield at the same time!
The army of thieves squeezed in front of the spear array, this shot stabbed out, it was difficult to really want to stab it, and the miserable cry of crying father and mother was chaotic, and I don't know how many people had more transparent holes in their bodies, and the people who were lucky enough to avoid it saw that they were powerful, and they desperately squeezed back, and the crowds of people, where could they squeeze to move, and they had to see the second shot stabbing at themselves in the sound of the order, and there was nowhere to hide.
Originally, the displaced people in front of them were cannon fodder, and what they held in their hands was nothing more than firewood knives and wooden spears, which were so shoddy that they couldn't even get a white mark on the shield, let alone block crossbow arrows and spears, and at this time, they were powerless in the face of the spear array armed to the teeth, and the situation quickly turned into a unilateral massacre by the Ansai battalion.
At the critical moment, the advantage of the thieves' numbers played a role, and Wang Ziyong ordered his henchmen to carry knives to supervise the formation, and drove the large group of men and horses to attack the array of the Ansai camp, as long as he saw someone turn around and want to escape, it was a knife. Helplessly, the homeless people had to desperately move forward, hoping to hide behind others and struggle for their lives, thank God!
Some people were pushed to the front by the crowd, unwilling to die, but grabbed the body of the spear with their hands, and despite the bloody cut of the head of the spear, they held it so that they could not move, and others were able to take advantage of the opportunity to pour in through the gap. It's just that Luo Rucai and the others have been on guard against this situation for a long time, as soon as someone breaks into the formation, the killer team immediately comes forward to surround and fight, and the standard weapon they are equipped with is a high-manganese steel knife, which is equivalent to a divine weapon compared to the shoddy weapons of the homeless, and they are all invincible.
It's just that the number of thieves is too much, although there are thousands of corpses in a short period of time, but the follow-up people are still endless, going forward and successively, and the hands of the soldiers of the Ansai battalion are also soft. In Wang Ziyong's eyes, in addition to his own cronies and subordinates, other homeless people are just cannon fodder, as long as they can set foot on the camp safely, even if tens of thousands of former troops are filled here, it is not a pity!
As time passed, the defense line of the Ansai battalion was constantly breached, and gradually the left and right were weakened, and casualties began to appear, and more than a dozen people were dragged away by ropes and fell into the hands of thieves. It turned out that although the soldiers of the Ansai battalion were completely protected, it was difficult for ordinary knives and guns to cause damage to them, but among the thieves, there were many herdsmen and horse thieves outside the mouth, and the use of ropes to catch people was their usual trick. In this way, the thieves broke into the spear formation in several places, and the two sides fought in one place, and even the bows and crossbows were useless.
Seeing that there was a flaw in the large array of the Ansai battalion, Wang Ziyong couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately ordered his elite troops to attack on all fronts, but he wanted to break through the position of the Ansai camp in one fell swoop.
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