Chapter 4: Changes (7I)
Wang Bodang couldn't change Li Mi's decision, so he had to watch as the big boss sent out all the power in his hands in waves. "It's not the right choice!" He muttered; "There must be a trick in the hands of the surnamed Li!" , he looked at the battlefield with both eyes, anxious.
With the experience of the last two battles, Wang Bodang already has some understanding of Li Xu's military habits. He thought that the other party would never be a Leng Touqing who casually sent all the main forces. This son is deep in the way of truth and reality, although he divided part of the elite of Boling into the army of the county soldiers, but it will never be on the surface. Right now, thousands, skilful light cavalry with skilled archers must be hiding somewhere on the battlefield, waiting to deliver a fatal blow at the right moment.
The dog officer surnamed Li was like a bloodthirsty wolf, staring at someone else's throat with dark green eyes. A scorching thunder sounded in mid-air, and Wang Bodang felt that his scalp was numb, and a row of fine and dense goosebumps instantly bulged out in his throat. He subconsciously covered his neck with his shield, and his round eyes looked into the battlefield. He couldn't find Li Xu's shadow, the sky was too dark, and the thick raindrops and the figures swaying around blocked most of his vision. At such a time, the only thing he could distinguish clearly was the battle flags of the two sides, criss-crossing each other, you coming and going, and it was inextricably entangled.
"Something is wrong!" Wang Bodang told himself secretly. He didn't want to interfere with Li Mi's command anymore, but he couldn't figure out why what was originally a small-scale provocation and counterattack war that had occurred locally had now evolved into a life-and-death duel. Today is not a weather suitable for a large-scale decisive battle, and the terrain under the feet may not be favorable to the Wagang army, as for the people, at present, the morale of the whole army is all supported by the Pushan public camp and the internal guard battalion, and there is no way to talk about people.
Everything that happened today was not in line with Li Mi's style of using troops. Although Wang Bodang knew that Li Mi was not a person who could sink down, this time it was different from the past, after Wang Bodang fled back to the camp a few days ago, he had heard from Li Mi's close aide Fang Yanzao that the main force of the Wagang Army had made a careful plan before the attack. As long as Mi Gong can lead his soldiers and horses to confront the enemy for about half a month, victory will fall from the branches like ripe rotten persimmons.
Half a month is coming soon, why doesn't Master Li wait any longer? If he only wants to vent his evil anger and doesn't care about winning or losing, why should he have to fight for so long?
"Something must have happened! That's why the big boss has to break the kettle today! Wang Bodang drew conclusions from his heart, and then fought hard, trying to find the answer to his question from the battlefield.
With the help of lightning, he saw that Wu Heimin, the general of the internal guard, had rushed into the enemy formation. The soldiers behind this person were all the dead soldiers recruited by Li Mi from the Three Mountains and Five Mountains, and all of them were strong in martial arts. Ordinary county soldiers were obviously not their opponents, and they were overturned in three moves and two styles. The flank of a triangular attack array closest to the Wagang barracks was quickly opened by Wu Heimin, and the dead soldiers in black armor shouted and filled in from the gap. The entire triangular array stopped moving in an instant, and the flags inside fell crookedly. The county soldiers were killed, but the people around Wu Heimin rarely suffered casualties.
The pressure on the breezy brothers in the blue armor was greatly reduced, and under the command of the junior officers, they slowly gathered their formation and gradually began to launch counterattacks against their opponents. There were more and more cracks on the triangular attack array of the officers and troops, and they were immediately in danger of being torn apart. Wang Bodang was nervous and didn't dare to blink, lest he miss any details. He forgot about the enemy's cavalry for a while, and forgot about the killing moves that Li Xu might sacrifice at any time. He only hoped that all his assumptions would be wrong, that the enemy army would be destroyed in an instant, and that all the years of enmity between the brothers would be cleared.
God just didn't give him this opportunity, and Wang Bodang's vision was quickly blocked by the rain curtain. The rain became heavier and heavier, white in the heights, and pink in mid-air. After hitting the human body, it immediately turned bright red, and then fused with the blood on the ground, and it was impossible to distinguish where the blood was and where the rain was. Tens of thousands of people were fighting in pools of blood, and every movement of their footsteps could hit a corpse, perhaps an enemy's, perhaps one's own. Who cares! If you are not careful, you may become one of the corpses, and you will never be able to sleep.
Lightning cracks through the sky and illuminates the battlefield. Wang Bodang wiped the rain from his face and was shocked to see that the enemy formation had been crushed and deformed at some point, and a huge crack appeared in the middle. Wu Heimin led people to the center of the formation and was going back and forth. The brothers of the Pushan Public Camp were still blocked from the outside of the formation, but with the advantage of numbers and physical strength, they pressed the other side to retreat one after another.
More of the Pushan brothers rushed forward and put pressure on the enemy position together with the minions who had attacked earlier. The banners of the soldiers kept retreating, and the sharp tips were gone, replaced by a flat, flat line of defense. Inside the defense line, three flags were missed, and Wu Heimin's flag swayed in the wind and rain.
"That's not right!" He let out a sudden exclamation that startled everyone around him. The enemy position was not crushed, but imperceptibly changed again. The standard-bearers in charge of the formation were obviously veterans from the border army, constantly adjusting the pace of the soldiers around them under the command of the sound of the horn. The triangular attack array of the officers and troops rotated as it continued to shrink, and a horizontal side turned around to meet the front of the Pushan Public Camp lined up in a phalanx. The other two transverse edges are split, one concave inward and one convex outward. Wu Heimin and the others who rushed into the enemy formation happened to be caught in the middle, like a bundle of firewood caught under the guillotine. If it weren't for the unfamiliar cooperation of the county soldiers, Wu Heimin and the internal guards around him would have been smashed into pieces.
"Stop, stop, expand the results on the spot!" Wu Heimin also found out that he had been fooled and shouted loudly. But in the chaos of the battlefield, only a few people could hear him. Everyone hugged together and watched from the spot. But they couldn't stop the other meritorious robes from continuing to pick into the trap. After completing the adjustments, the enemy formation quickly began to exert its might, and hundreds of long lances stabbed from both sides, stabbing the black-armored dead soldiers who were deep in the formation. The soldiers of the Pushan Public Battalion, who were only separated by three or two human walls, could see their robes hiding in the spears of the forest, wailing. They shouted loudly and marched forward, but they could not break through the enemy's blockade.
"Woo-woo-woo!" Li Mi finally discovered the severity of the situation, and ordered his soldiers to blow the horn to instruct the internal guards who had fallen into the enemy formation on how to deal with the danger. His order was only half a beat late, but the mistake was enough to cost hundreds of brothers their lives.
One, two, three, the guards suddenly found that they were surrounded by enemy troops, and everywhere there were deadly lances. Leng Sensen stabbed over with rain, and then brought up a bloodstain. The sharp lance blades were quickly washed away by the cold rain, and stabbed back again with lightning, or blocked by the shields of the Wagang Deadmen, or directly drilled into the ribs of the Dead. The Wagang guards were forced to retreat constantly, and they continued to lose manpower in the process of retreating. Wu Heimin rushed left and right with his personal bravery, and he could save this, but he couldn't save that.......
A tall guard blocked the lance from the left with his shield, then turned around and slashed the hard spear from the right with a steel knife. Single-handedly, no soldier in the enemy formation is his opponent. He could even see the panic on the faces of the soldiers. But this was not a one-man fight, and before the black-armored guard could withdraw the knife, the third and fourth lances stabbed him in the thigh. The man roared like a beast, and his voice was poignant and high-pitched. The soldiers quickly withdrew their spears, and blood gushes out like a fountain of blood from the wounds on the legs of the Wagang guards, staining countless raindrops red. The injured guard stumbled and shook like drunk. Several lances pierced into his chest at the same time, lifting his body up and lifting it high into the air.
Several county soldiers exerted force at the same time and threw out the corpses of the enemy. They combed forward like a comb according to the command of the team in the military formation and the veterans of the Boling army. The enemies caught in the formation were either stabbed to death or turned and fled, leaking their backs to them. The enemy troops outside the formation launched wave after wave of fierce attacks, but they were stubbornly resisted by the outer county soldiers with their bodies and weapons.
The flag-bearers waved their arms vigorously to shake off the flag, which was already too wet to be wet, and threw it out. This is the key to maintaining the command orders, with which the orders of the commanders of both sides can be carried out smoothly. Although those orders were to force them forward to die.
The two sides are exchanging, exchanging lives for lives. The county soldiers who were together with the Pushan public camp were quickly stripped off a layer, and the robes on the inside were immediately put on, refusing to let the two Wagang armies touch each other. The long lance hand in the center of the formation shook his spirit, speeding up the harvest, and with every move, he brought down dozens of opponents.
"Follow me to save someone!" Wang Bodang didn't dare to delay any longer, and without asking Li Mi for instructions, he rushed to the battlefield with more than 100 personal soldiers around him. A few steps later, Wu Heimin and the others will definitely be wiped out! Although he didn't like the other party's sour and smelly strange temper, Wang Bodang still couldn't watch Pao Ze die in battle. As he ran, he took off his great bow from his back, clasped the two feathered arrows between his fingers, and placed them on the bowstring one by one.
"Stretch!" The first arrow came out of the string and shot at the general's flag in the center of the enemy line. The second arrow followed the first and went straight to the flagpole. The two arrows hit the target one after another, and the flag of the general responsible for dispatching the military formation in front of him quickly fell. The flag-bearer only felt a huge force coming down the flagpole, and as soon as his hand was released, the entire flagpole fell to the ground.
"Use a bow and arrows to open the way, don't come close!" Wang Bodang found a flaw in the enemy's formation when he was running, and quickly adjusted his tactics. The more than 100 personal soldiers under his command have followed him for many years, and they cooperate with each other very tacitly. In the last rout, it was with these henchmen that Wang Bodang forced his way out of the siege. At this moment, he wants to repeat the story of the last time, not to run for his own life, but to save others.
They ran from the flank of the Pushan public camp, firing their bows and arrows as they ran. The feathered arrows on everyone's waists bottomed out in an instant, but the formation of the county soldiers was also shot by them A small gap. "Follow me, phalanx!" Wang Bodang ordered loudly, threw away his bow, pulled out a hard spear from the corpse on the ground, stabbed left and right, and knocked the county soldiers who came over to the ground one by one. "Black!" He shouted, "Black Min, rush this way!" ”
Wu Heimin couldn't hear Wang Bodang's shout, but with years of experience, he found that there was a brief confusion in the formation of the county soldiers. With the remaining brethren who had not yet been stabbed into a sieve, he rushed to the enemy's busiest position. Two Boling soldiers armed with Mo knives tried to stop him, but they were stabbed to death by Wu Heimin one by one. "Follow me!" He shouted, ignoring those who had straggled, and rushed forward like a wild boar. The soldiers couldn't stop it and dodged one after another.
Soon, the steel fork in Wu Heimin's hand was no longer sharp. He roared with a loud voice, and used the difference as a stick. Sweeping, smashing vertically, there is no one in the place where it passes. The remnants of the Wagang guards followed him closely, rushing to the left and to the right, like a trapped beast falling into a trap, screaming in despair while struggling for survival.
Suddenly, they found that the enemy was loose. A bright light appeared behind the rain curtain. Wu Heimin took a few steps and broke out, only to find that an enemy general was coming in with a strong lance, and the momentum was fast and urgent. He crossed the steel fork and dialed the long lance. Then stab back and go straight to the other person's throat. The enemy general quickly stepped back, screaming loudly, and smashed a cloud of red mud from a pool of blood with his combat boots and smashed it into his forehead. Wu Heimin's body had to stop, he staggered for a moment, closed his eyes and waited for death. But I didn't feel any pain. When he had the courage to open his eyes again, he saw Wang Bodang in front of his steel fork, his face as white as a dead corpse on the ground.
"Hold this opening, and get out of the living!" Wang Bodang pushed away the steel fork in front of his neck and ordered loudly. The two men stood back to back, their long lances and steel forks raised together, forcing the swarming county soldiers to retreat. The internal guards under Wu Heimin saw the opportunity and retreated one after another along the gap, everyone had many colors hanging on their bodies, and the armor that was still brand new in front of the half-pillar incense was as tattered as the linen jacket on the body of the caller.
The short-term advantage was quickly lost, and the Wagang Army had to temporarily adjust its tactics and get into a bitter struggle with the officers and men. After solving the "nails" in the formation, the attack array of the officers and soldiers became active again. Under the coordination of the sound of horns, they kept changing the rhythm of their attacks, putting pressure on the Wagang army in waves. The Pushan public camp where the whole army was killed fought bloodily, but it could no longer push the officers and troops back half a step.
Wang Bodang and Wu Heimin gasped back to back, they had never been so close since they first met. More than 500 dead guards who escaped from the tiger's mouth besieged the city in a large circle and protected Wang Bodang and Wu Heimin in the center. Some of the other battalions that had been scattered saw the opportunity and moved closer to the side of the circle. In the flow of people, the place where Wang Bodang and Wu Heimin were located became a solid rock, firmly providing support for the friendly army.
"You lead your brothers twenty steps forward and nail them to the crimson banner. Before a person dies, he must not retreat! Wu Heimin patted a brigade leader standing beside him and ordered loudly.
Wang Bodang's body trembled, stiff as wood. If they did not take the initiative to attack the enemy, they would have been able to protect themselves with the brothers around them. Wu Heimin is exchanging his own life for the life of his robe, this scathing guy actually has a warm intestine of the ancient road! He gritted his teeth and clenched the lance in his hand.
Lu Shuo nodded at Wu Heimin and turned around to go out of battle. More than forty internal guards under the command of this person followed quickly, breaking through several crowds of people who were scuffling together, and plugging the gap that had been exposed in the Pushan public camp.
"You take your brothers to plug the gap on the right, don't let the officers and soldiers infiltrate!" Wu Heimin pulled up another subordinate and ordered. The general, dressed in the color of the captain's uniform, hugged his fist at him in a quackren manner, and then walked to his death without hesitation. More than 100 internal guards followed behind him, piercing through the rain curtain without looking back.
The enemy and us are still in a stalemate, and the Wagang Army has lost the initiative. On their side, the Jiyin camp and the Qijun camp gradually couldn't support it. Constantly there were minions fleeing the battlefield, and there were constantly leaders being executed in public by the overseers sent by Li Mi.
In the blink of an eye, Wu Heimin sent out all the people he could send to plug the gap, and the remaining internal guards around him were less than a hundred, and they were all injured. There were only a few dozen soldiers left around Wang Bodang, and it was impossible to block an attack from the enemy. The routs under the command of the two of them began to flee again, and Wu Heimin ordered people to cut down a few, but the effect was very limited, so he had to let it go.
Wang Bodang looked back, expecting to find some unexpected surprises behind him. Li Mi was silent, only the banner of the Wagang Army was cowering alone in the wind and rain, but it would never fall.
"See what?" Wu Heimin felt that Wang Bodang was constantly twisting his body and asked loudly.
"Look at the secret duke's general order, if he withdraws all the people to the camp now, we still have a chance to retreat to the main village to regroup!" Wang Bodang gasped like a bellows and replied wishfully.
"Don't count on it, Mi Gong won't give any more orders to retreat. Anyway, either we die, or the surname Li dies, today must be such a game! Wu Heimin spat blood into the puddle and gasped.
"How so?" Wang Bo was shocked in his heart, turned around, grabbed Wu Heimin's shoulder and asked.
"Mi Gong is forced to be helpless!" Wu Heimin smirked. "We didn't bring much military ration when we went down the mountain, the grain from Xingze City couldn't be transported, and the grain road in the rear was repeatedly harassed by General Li's cavalry. Mi Gong has never dared to tell everyone, but tonight will definitely be out of cooking. So instead of sitting back and waiting, it's better to let it go! ”
"It can't be!" Wang Bodang's face, which had just recovered some blood, instantly became as white as a corpse. He asked himself that he and Li Mi were friends of life and death, how could Li Mi hide such a big thing from him, and even didn't leak a word from beginning to end? But if it wasn't for being forced to the point of exhaustion, how could Li Mi give up the original arrangement? The plan is clearly flawless, as long as the key step is successful, the victory or defeat will be immediately reversed!
"Wake up, my Yuzaburo!" Wu Heimin patted Wang Bodang's shoulder, laughing, and at the same time made a gesture to his subordinates to adjust the formation and turn the circle formation into a sharp arrow formation. He had already lost his strength, but he was not willing to sit still. He will rush to the front and die in the pool of blood of his brothers. "That bureau couldn't have been realized. Mi Gong tried to take Pei Renji down, but Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin were both friends of Li Xiaozi's life and death, and they would never betray him. Our brother's road has come to an end, it's time to rest! ”
With that, he reached out to wipe the blood and rain from his face, and smiled forward.
If he died in the hands of others, he would be unwilling, and he died in the hands of his good friends back then, Wu Heimin thought that he had died a well-deserved death.
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