Chapter 3: The Struggle for Glory (5 Up)
Meteors slid across the inky night sky and spread out above the company camp, as gorgeous as a goddess scattering flowers. Most of the "petals" hit the ground, jumped, and went out in an instant. A small number of orange-red "petals" were unfortunately splashed on the curtains made of kudzu or linen, which quickly caused a blaze.
"Enemy attack, brethren, rise up and meet the battle!" Guo Fangzhen shouted loudly. It wasn't some meteor or a celestial maiden, but someone using rockets to attack his camp. "This damn military advisor is still a master of Pushan Gongmen, bullshit!" The moment he realized that he had been attacked, Guo Fangzhen began to regret it. The operation that swept through Beihai County was planned by the military advisors, and it is said that it was fully assisted by Li Mi, the Duke of Pushan. It's just that from the time everyone started to act, Li Mi, who was famous all over the world and once fooled Yang Xuangan to death, has never shown his face.
Second, third, and fourth meteors followed, accompanied by oppressive thunder, bringing the flames of death into the barracks. Someone in the tent closest to the outside of the barracks was awakened and jumped out of the tent with a suit on. They didn't know what was going on, and instinctively let out a scream when they saw that they were actually sleeping in the firelight. Soon, these mournful screams intertwined and merged into a lament from the eight layers of hell.
I don't know what kind of monster came in the dark night, and the low thunder was like a horse's hooves hitting the ground, but it was muffled, thin, and short than the sound of a horse's hooves hitting the ground. They swept away in the wind outside the company camp, shooting countless rockets into the tents where the rogues were resting. The flames spread through the barracks at an unimaginable rate, and the fear in people's hearts spread faster than the flames. More and more minions rushed out of the camp, unarmed and unclothed. Out of human instinct, they fled deeper into the camp. The men resting in the depths of the camp were awakened from their sleep by the noise of footsteps around them, and without much thought, they joined the fleeing process, and ran deeper into the camp with the crumbling men. At the same time, it also spread the panic deeper into the company camp.
"Stop, there are few enemies, don't run away, work together to kill them!" Guo Fang was in a hurry and shouted at the top of his voice. The number of enemy troops cannot be too large, otherwise the fine work of the military division placed in Qi County will not fail to detect the signs of the assembly of the county soldiers. Moreover, on the way from Licheng to Beihai, the two big cities of Yidu and Haichang were controlled by their own people, and if a large army of officers and troops passed under the city, even if the brothers did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle, at least they could send the alarm in time.
But the officers and soldiers rushed in front of them unconsciously, which can only show that there are not many of them coming, and they definitely can't exceed the number of 5,000. And at this moment, under the command of him Guo Fangzhen and another big boss, Qin Junhong, there are 30,000 minions, and nearly 70,000 people are forcibly conscripted into the army. "Don't run, pass my orders, prepare to fight back, and kill those who flee!" Guo Fangyu kicked away the minions who had escaped from his side, and then grabbed the neck of another escapee. He shouted hoarsely, but no one listened to him. Including the little minion who was grabbed by his neck by the collar, he struggled hard, leaving the only coat to the big boss, and then joined the fleeing ranks naked without looking back.
"Stop, I'm your boss! Kill back, the enemy army is less than 5,000! Kill them, and I'll give you meat tomorrow!" If you run again, you will not be spared! Guo Fang, who was extremely angry, took out his saber and swung it vigorously in front of him. In the past, when he tried to kill people, he could always scare his minions into standing in place, trembling. But today, he found that his method was not working, and when he and the guards around him cut down the first person, the other escapees exploded like flies. The blood did not stir up their courage, and the only effect was to make them try not to get too close to Guo Fangxuan. While fleeing, some people shouted to Guo Fangqian and others in the Beihai dialect, "Cubs, let's run together." Qin Shubao is here, the sword doesn't have long eyes! "The donkey kicked you in the head, and it's too late if you don't run!"
There was not much malice in these words, and there was even a faint concern. Guo Fang took a look at it and examined it carefully, only to find that he was only wearing a kudzu robe that was only knee-length, and the cupola crown that was usually used to show his identity, but the golden armor was all thrown in the camp tent at the moment. He was dressed like most of the escapees, and it was no wonder that the other party didn't think of him as a big boss.
"The hero is sad to pass the beauty pass, Lao Tzu can lead the team to fight back!" He comforted himself in his heart, gave up his hindrance to the rout, and turned to his bedchamber. He had just taken a few steps forward, but he felt that the escapees around him were dressed too strangely. On closer inspection, he found that nine out of ten escapees were unarmed!
Oh, my God! Guo Fang felt a pain in his heart, and something hot and sweet immediately surged into his throat and eyes. He knew why the brothers had no power to resist, and the problem lay with him, the big boss. In order to prevent the forcibly recruited people from escaping at night, when camping, he and Qin Junhong ordered the recruits and veterans to live together, and each minion was responsible for supervising the three newcomers to sleep. And those new rookies have no weapons at all, and they have not experienced any major battles. Let them move stones and anti-cloud ladders can be used, and when they are suddenly attacked, they will not make any other choice but to flee for their lives.
Swallowing the blood that surged to his throat into his stomach, Guo Fangzhen lowered his head and rushed into his camp, he wanted to quickly pack up some soft and drag the little lady in the tent to flee for his life. The battle had been completely lost, although he had not seen even a shadow of the enemy until now. When more than two-thirds of the brothers began to flee for their lives, Guo Fangzhen had no illusions about gathering the remaining one-third of his men to turn defeat into victory.
If there are people who have fled for their lives at this time and have the courage to turn back, they will find that the truth is as Guo Fang expected. There were very few enemy troops, even less than the five thousand that Guo Fangzhen had said. At the nearest place to Guo Fangzhen's sleeping tent, only more than 50 war horses jumped over the wooden fence on the outside of the camp one after another.
But no one stepped forward to stop them, and the minions and the people who were forcibly conscripted into the army were not Guo Fangpre, and they did not have the sober mind of Guo Da. Before the officers and soldiers could enter the camp, they had been shot down by the rockets that came one after another.
Some were armed with bows and arrows, others with torches and swords. The soldiers from Qi County assembled inside the wooden fence, and the burning tents illuminated the armor on their bodies. They did not immediately rush deeper into the enemy camp, but in pairs. "Woo-woo-woo!" The captain who led the team blew the horn, and the bearers immediately lit the arrows in their hands on the torches of their neighboring companions, and then, they quickly released the bowstrings, sending countless flaming "firebirds" into the night sky, and when those firebirds pounced from the sky, it was the beginning of a new round of disaster.
The tents closest to the outside of the company camp were almost all in flames, either set ablaze by rockets from the sneak attackers or ignited by sparks swept in the wind. The wind fuels the fire, and the fire borrows the power of the wind, and in an instant half of the sky is red. On the side of the strange and terrible flames, the rogues and the people who had just been encircled by the gang scattered and fled. And between the burning tents, small groups of light cavalry from Qi County slowly advanced forward.
The advance of the various teams was slow, and it could even be said that they were accommodating the speed of the fugitives. If they found themselves too close, the commander of the group blew the horn and ordered the brothers to stop and use rockets to greet the unlit tents around them. When they found that their opponents were fleeing in a hurry, they chased after them without hurrying.
The rogues, who had just woken up from their slumber, could not organize an effective resistance, and occasionally brave men rushed to the horses of the county soldiers, or were shot by random arrows, or hacked to death with horizontal knives. The archery skills of the county soldiers were not exquisite, and the strength of the horn bows in their hands only reached about one stone. But the feather arrows flying in all directions happened to be the nemesis of the rogues, Guo Fangpre and Qin Junhong's teams were rapidly expanding in a short period of time, and the minions did not have qualified armor at all, and the feather arrows that did not pose a threat to the regular army were mortal injuries when they hit them.
A dozen minions emerged from the scarlet flames with large bags on their backs, the braver of the rogues, remembering where the looted property was stored by the big bosses. Whether Guo Jiajun will still exist in the future has little to do with them, as long as they keep the package on their bodies, they will not worry about their livelihood for the rest of their lives.
A light cavalry swooped down from the flanks and scattered the money-hungry minions. The rider on horseback swung his knife and slashed, splitting the fugitive and the package on their backs. Blood glowed in the light of the flames, and even more believing than the blood light was the gold and silver jewels rolling on the ground. Someone writhed and crawled, trying to crush the scattered gold and silver jewels under him. The horse's hooves trampled mercilessly over them, and the wounded let out their last breath and died, but with a satisfied smile on their faces.
"The world, the world is too bullying!" A man who looked very much like a butcher rushed to the county soldiers who were setting fire to it with more than 500 minions. This person was Guo Fangxuan's bodyguard, and he happened to be ordered to gather men to patrol before the county soldiers stole the camp. At the moment, he almost has the only team in his hands that is still fully organized. Seeing the arrogant performance of the county soldiers, he did not hesitate to launch a counterattack.
"Woo-woo!" Zhang Jiang, the captain who led the team, blew the horn. More than fifty county soldiers quickly turned and ran away, widening the distance between them and the counterattackers. The four-legged horse always outpaced the two-legged man, and the butcher's guards pounced on the air, and had to sigh in the dust.
"Realm, what is the realm called!" Before his words fell, dozens of feathered arrows flew down from the night sky, shooting more than a dozen minions around him. The opponent came back in his pocket, and he released arrows as he rode his horse. "Resist, resist! They don't have much silver. The butcher raised his knife in one hand and his shield in the other, and shouted. Under his angry gaze, the unreasonable cavalrymen turned their horses around and ran a hundred paces away again.
"Woo-woo-woo!" Captain Zhang Jiang blew the horn and rushed over with the cavalry for the second time. The butcher guards organized a counterattack, but they couldn't touch the other party's cold hair at all. Soon, another group of minions fell under the flying feathered arrows, and the survivors shivered, looked around, and kept making requests for their lives.
"Leader Zheng, withdraw. The brethren are gone! ”
"Leader Zheng, withdraw, we can't beat them, and it's not a problem to be beaten all the time!" The minions persuaded them in a gossipy manner, which made the butcher's guards angry. "Withdraw, withdraw, let's escape, who are these soft and cheap!" He retorted with a curse, raised his shield, and led the charge at the cavalry opposite.
If the enemy does not dare to fight, he may keep them far away. Although the rebels will definitely lose tonight's battle, with this batch of jewels, they are not afraid that they will not be able to recruit brothers. After a while, everyone will take some jewels and take advantage of the chaos to flee away, and it won't be long before there will be an extra big boss named Zheng En on the list of heroes in Henan counties. Thinking like this, the butcher's guards became more and more courageous, although they knew that there were not many robes behind them, they still kept fighting back.
Suddenly, he noticed that no more arrows were shooting at him. Raising his head, the butcher's guard named Zheng En saw the cavalry not far away scattered. Beside him, the remaining 200 or so hardcore brothers trembled with their legs, and the sound of their upper and lower teeth colliding could be heard clearly.
"Realm, what is Realm?" The butcher's guard widened his eyes in surprise. He saw more than twenty tall monsters appear on the side of the group of lightly armored cavalry, each covered with a thick layer of armor, and in front of them only showed two dark red eyes except for hooves. On the back of the monster is a strange man wrapped in iron armor, with a green face and fangs, and red hair with huge teeth. Holding the lance, they did not move fast, but they were like a moving mountain, and they could not be stopped by human beings at all.
"Cluck, cluck, cluck!" The butcher guard heard his teeth rattle clearly. He felt his courage slipping away from his body, and it was quickly gone. The monster on the opposite side began to attack, and its footsteps were like thunder on the ground. They are not fast, and if people run with their legs outstretched, they may not be able to escape.
"Run!" I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and the brothers around the butcher's guard turned their heads one after another, rushing towards the depths of the camp at the maximum speed they could achieve in their lives. Their actions alerted the butcher's guards, who dropped his heavy shield and joined the fleeing party.
"Chase!" Captain Zhang Jiang only said one word, and rode his horse to chase the scattered rogues. The light cavalry caught up from behind as fast as they could, knocking the fugitives to the ground one by one. No one dared to turn back, and the grimace of the armored cavalry became a permanent nightmare in the minions' minds. It wasn't until a few years later that the surviving rogates of the battle still spoke in a trembling voice.
"Boundary, boundary, grandpa was unlucky that day, and ran into Qin Shubao's armored horse!" After a few years, Jung Eun, who finally figured out what kind of monster his opponent was, said to his grandson. It was the last battle he had ever fought in his life, and after escaping the battlefield, he found a remote village to live in, and no matter who invited him, he never left the mountain again. He admitted that he was frightened, and it was precisely because of this that he actually saved his life in that long troubled world. And most of his friends and most of his opponents later died on the battlefield, for different purposes and ideals.
Concentrate! : armored cavalry, heavy cavalry of the Sui Dynasty, in addition to saddles and stirrups, war horses are also equipped with: face curtains; chicken neck; When the chest; horse body armor; After the ride; Parasitism. People wear iron armor, and most of them use long lances as weapons. The attack and defense of this class are very strong, but because the cost is too high, the mobility is poor.
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