Chapter 213: Capture the Flag
Yi Feng's order sounded in front of the formation: "The crossbowmen of the chariot battalion are ready, and the archers of the infantry battalion are ready!" ”
The Chinese military order flag waved, the horn sounded, and Liu Meng hissed and shouted: "Crossbowman, release the arrow!" ”
Almost at the same time, in front of the chariot formation, one officer after another gave command. Suddenly, the crossbowmen in the two chariot battalions with a total of 200 chariots all fired arrows in unison, five crossbowmen in each chariot released arrows, five were ready, and a thousand crossbowmen shot the first round of arrows at the valley mouth guarded by the Tongluo people sixty paces on the opposite side. Almost simultaneously with them, the arrows were fired in a volley of crossbowmen from the three infantry battalions that fought in conjunction with the chariot battalion. An infantry battalion had 1,000 longbowmen plus 500 crossbowmen, and three infantry battalions of 3,000 longbowmen and 1,500 crossbowmen stood behind the chariot array, lined up in a dense array of arrows, and poured out a rain of arrows with the Tongluo people at the mouth of the valley.
At the same time, the artillery regiment also pushed twenty three-bowed eight-ox bed crossbows and ten stone-throwing carts at this time. The bowstring and the noose made a loud noise almost simultaneously, and the iron spear-like crossbow and several pounds of stone projectiles whizzed across a parabola and smashed towards the Tongluo people at the mouth of the valley. Together with the superposition of the large wooden shield made by the Luo people temporarily, it formed a huge wooden dome, successfully blocking countless arrow rains. However, in the face of the crossbow spear as thick as a child's arm and the stone bullets weighing several catties, they were as fragile as egg shells, and the crossbow guns and stone bullets penetrated and smashed a wooden shield lightly.
The big crossbow spear mercilessly pierced through the wooden shield and continued to penetrate the leather armor of the Tongluo people behind, and even connected several Tongluo cavalry with a crossbow.
The stone projectiles smashed by the catapult are accelerated by long-distance projectiles, and the power is even more powerful. directly smashed the shield and the Tongluo soldiers behind him.
The Tongluo people of Taniguchi are like snails smashed by stones, in fragments of carapace. The snails inside also formed a ball of meat sauce. Like the wind blowing through the wheat waves, hundreds of Tongluo soldiers fell in an instant, countless screams sounded, and suddenly their crossbow guns and stone bullets shattered their shield array, and a greater disaster followed, after the shield array was broken, the Sui army's crossbow array and arrow array were still firing. The rain of arrows that overwhelmed the sky came, and the Tongluo people, who had lost the protection of the shield array, were under the attack at close range of sixty paces. It is like wheat cut down by a farmer's sickle, falling down in rows.
Nilan's mouth was wide open, and his ears were filled with sharp whistling and screams. He watched in horror as his companions fell one after another. I don't know where to hide. At the critical moment, he lay on the ground and grabbed the corpses of two Tongluo people who had died in battle and blocked them.
The shrill whistling was endless, as if the sky was cracking.
I don't know how long it took, but the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air finally stopped, and he pushed away the corpses on his body, which were already full of arrows like hedgehogs. Beside him, there were corpses strewn with arrows stuck everywhere. The corpses were piled up high and blocked all the valley mouths. He stood up. Standing on the pile of corpses, looking at the opposite side, I just saw the dull sound of war drums, from the back of those ironclad cars, a group of ironclad soldiers are holding swords to gather together, forming an ironclad sword array, walking towards the valley with steady steps, behind them, is a steel forest composed of spears, flanked by the sword and shield men of the sword mountain shield array, further back, there are more longbowmen with huge longbows, crossbowmen holding crossbow machines are lined up in a dense array, slowly following the back forward.
A frantic roar sounded, and among the corpses in the valley mouth, hundreds of Tongluo warriors climbed up, covered in blood, and rushed towards the ironclad soldiers with knives and screaming.
Nilan stood on the pile of corpses in a daze, and did not rush over, he just watched in a daze as his comrades rushed towards the ironclad soldiers, and then there was a clang, sparks flew everywhere, and they desperately slashed the ironclad soldiers, but none of the ironclad men fell. Then he only saw a sword light like snow, and the ironclad men waved the big sword in their hands in unison, flashing like a match, and the comrades who rushed forward bravely one after another were split in half.
There are more Tongluo people in the valley who crossed the corpse pile and rushed out of the valley, but these brave cavalry have not ridden their horses to the front of the ironclad people this time, and the crossbowmen behind have stopped, and a sound of machine springs sounded, and then crossbow arrows were like flying locusts, and the charging Tongluo cavalry had already turned on your back!
The shouts of killing were endless, and from time to time the Tongluo people rushed out of the valley, but they were greeted only by slaughter, the giant swords of the ironclad men, the spears of the pikemen, the crossbowmen's crossbows, and the longbows and arrows of the archers
The rumbling footsteps of the ironclad soldiers finally came closer, and Nilan threw the scimitar in his hand, and his knees went limp, and he fell to his knees.
"I surrender, surrender!"
Wei Chigong, who was covered in blood, gasped heavily, and walked forward with heavy steps, the big sword in his hand had already drunk the blood of the Tongluo people, and the Tongluo people who died under his big sword were full of nine, from the first Tongluo person who rushed up to be beheaded by him with a sword, to the Tongluo person who was cut off by him just now, he had killed nine enemies in just half a day. The set of shiny plate armor on his body was also stained red with blood, and there were many traces of swords and slashes.
In front of him was another Tongluo person, and in the iron helmet he was expressionless, and once again raised his sword to cut the horse, aiming at the strength of this young Tongluo person. The helmet of this Tongluo man fell off, and the fragile neck was directly exposed in front of him, and cutting it from here was the most effortless and deadly.
The sword had already been raised, but this Tongluo man threw down the knife in his hand, and suddenly knelt down in front of him, shouting some Chinese words that were not very clear, and he thought about it for a while, and then he understood that it should mean surrender.
The hand holding the sword was stunned for a moment, slashing all the way, and it was the first time he met the Tongluo people who were willing to surrender. These days, the Tongluo people have long become the turtles in the urn, but they have been stubbornly resisting, and he still thinks that the Tongluo people will not surrender at all.
In this stunned effort, the comrades of the hoplite group of the same chariot squad had already formed a sword and slashed over. At the last moment, Wei Chigong didn't know why, he actually handed over the sword and blocked the companion sword that was about to fall on the neck of the Tongluo person.
"He's already surrendered, forget it." Wei Chigong's voice revealed the iron helmet. to the ears of their fellow soldiers.
The companion was stunned, then laughed, "Hmm." Even if he is interested, Lao Tzu doesn't want me to kill such a coward under my big sword. ”
Nilan, who was kneeling on the ground, did not understand the words of the two Han people, but he also heard the mockery in the laughter, and he trembled all over, and several times tried to jump up, like those dead companions, and pick up the knife in his hand. Fight with them. But he trembled and trembled, but his hands and feet did not obey. He kept thinking of Uncle Tyran's words, it is not shameful to kneel down and surrender, as long as you don't forget Jì in the future and try to stand up. Although his uncle's words made him feel a lot better, the tears in the corners of his eyes flowed out involuntarily. He was lying on his knees in the pile of corpses. The victorious Han people were not allowed to see the tears on his face.
The heavy infantry was the vanguard, and the Wuzhou army was invincible, unstoppable, and directly broke through the valley and entered the valley. Although there are still thousands of Tongluo people in the valley, they are already weak at this time. In the face of the invulnerable ironclad soldiers, as well as the extremely sharp strong bows and crossbows, although they want to fight to the death. But the valley was too small for the cavalry to have any advantage. And these Tongluo people are trapped in the Shehe River for half a month, these days are desperately clearing the fortifications under the ice castle, and after being attacked last night, they are desperately fighting all night, at this time they are sleepy and tired, facing the torrent of iron armor, the once fierce Tongluo people are now just doing the last meaningless resistance.
The exhausted, unmotivated and desperate Tongluo people, facing the Huaihuang infantry army that had entered the valley, were making the last struggle, but to no avail.
After entering the valley, the blades of heavy infantry and spearmen divided, surrounded, divided, and surrounded the Tongluo people. Their formations were constantly divided, cutting smaller and smaller, and finally divided into countless small pieces, and they could no longer organize a decent resistance.
At this time, some of the Tongluo people in despair were fighting with trapped beasts and wanted to die together, but many people chose to give up resistance in despair and began to drop their weapons and surrender on their knees.
"Tiger!"
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! ”
Cheng Yanjin and his companion spearmen roared in unison, and the spears in their hands formed a spear formation, stabbing at the more than ten Tongluo people who were surrounded by them from all directions. These Tongluo people are not afraid of death, knowing that they can't do anything, but they still refuse to surrender, but become more and more fierce.
"Tiger!" Cheng Biting Jin shouted again, the spear in his hand was like a dragon going to sea, this is the marksmanship that he learned from his father since he was a child, and the marksmanship he learned after following Yi Feng, although in front of his father Cheng Lou and his master Yi Feng, this is nothing at all. But in this spear array, his spear was quite tricky, and a Tongluo big man who was desperately resisting on the opposite side was caught off guard, and the knife in his hand was slow, and he had been pierced into the ribs by a spear, and fell to the ground with a shot.
As soon as Luo Dahan died, there was a flaw in the small defensive array in an instant, and the pikemen saw the opportunity to shoot, and a burst of anger was followed by continuous screams, and these hard bones were all confessed immediately.
"We're defeated." Under the leopard flag, Udir sighed.
Opposite him, a group of ironclad soldiers had already reached the front.
Wei Chigong looked at the leopard rider behind the group of Tongluo people, and knew that this was the handsome flag of the Tongluo people, and he had met a big fish.
"Surrender or die!" Wei Chigong shouted.
Udir didn't have to think about it to know that the other party must have shouted something like making him surrender, he raised his eyes contemptuously, and raised the long knife in his hand, "Lao Tzu lost this time, but Tongluo people won't lose!" Wait, the Leopard Cavalry will come to you for revenge! ”
"Kill!" Seeing that the other party had no intention of surrendering, Wei Chi Gong immediately shouted, and rushed over with his knife first, capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and he aimed at Udil first.
Udir snorted coldly, and raised his sword to block the big sword that Wei Chi Gong slashed over.
The two swords clashed, making a crisp sound, and a huge force was transmitted like a mountain and a sea, and Udir only felt a tightness in his chest, and a mouthful of blood couldn't help but spit out. At this time, Yu Chigong slashed down with another sword, and Udir desperately blocked it again. Then Yu Chigong's third sword slashed down again, and Udir blocked it again.
The knife shatters, and the person dies.
Yu Chigong's slashing sword shattered Udil's knife, and then split Udil's diagonal shoulder in half. Udir's upper body slid to the ground, his eyes wide open. Wei Chigong stepped forward, knocked off the iron helmet on Udil's head, cut off his head with a knife, and put it on his waist. Just as he was about to cut off the leopard rider, he looked up, but just saw Cheng biting Jin Zheng excitedly tearing the leopard rider off the fallen flagpole and draping it on his body.
The brothers met their eyes, looked at each other and smiled! (To be continued......)