Chapter 404: Seven Waters Dispatched
Sometimes, habitual thinking is really scary, especially in war. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info乐-文-
When the rebels continued to attack Pingwang Village with the same mentality of capturing those villages before, and ran towards the city wall with catapults and archers calmly, they suddenly noticed a strange scene in the sky, and the stones and arrows that had fallen into the opponent's city actually returned the same way and flew back.
He Man, who was sitting on a horse at the rear of the army, was the first to react and shouted: "Not good! ”
Before he could give the order, the slings and arrows that flew from the city had already landed in the camp of the rebels, and the rebels were in the middle of the camp with a wail.
Liao Hua stood at the head of the city, looking at the rebel soldiers under the city with a blank and expressionless face. The rebels reacted just as he expected, and the reason why he did not order catapults and archers to move at the ordinary soldiers under the city was because he had calculated the enemy's reaction. He felt that instead of killing and injuring ordinary soldiers, it would be better to take advantage of the enemy's carelessness and eliminate the opponent's ranged forces as much as possible, which would also reduce the pressure on the town.
The surprise attack inflicted great damage on the rebels' ranged troops, and the unprotected archers fell in pieces, in which no command could match the human instinct for survival. The archers scrambled to flee backwards, and countless archers died in the process of escaping because of the stampede.
The rout of the archers caused a series of chain reactions, and the ordinary soldiers of the rebel army, who did not know whether to advance or retreat, saw this, and where did they still have the heart to attack the city, and followed the pace of the archers to retreat to the rear. He Man was so angry that he almost spit out a mouthful of blood, obviously his own side had an absolute advantage, even if the other party also had long-range attack methods, it would not be a big deal! Could it be that there are so many tailwind battles that you have forgotten what the siege should have been like?
But what made him even more frightened was that just as he was trying to stop the soldiers from dispersing, a sound of iron hooves roaring came from the north, and He Man knew as soon as he heard it that the cavalry from Taoyuan Town had arrived!
It was no secret that there were cavalry in Taoyuan Town, and he had been mentally prepared for this. This time, there was a cavalry of 5,000 people in the army he brought out, in order to guard against the cavalry of Taoyuan Town. But all the way down, there was no trace of the cavalry, and he thought that Taoyuan Town would not dare to send the cavalry. But I didn't expect it to appear at this juncture, and I suddenly thought about whether this would be a trap. However, as a senior commander, he did not panic when he encountered such a situation, and immediately ordered the cavalry that had been waiting for a long time to attack and meet the battle.
Ye Feiwu, as always, rushed to the front line of the cavalry ranks. He had already noticed the cavalry contingent that came out of the rear of the rebels, and the number was definitely not below them, but Rao was so, he did not have the slightest fear, completely ignored the existence of the other party, and directly led his men to rush into the rebels who were in chaos, without considering the consequences of being pursued by the opponent's cavalry.
The cavalry has an absolute advantage over the upper infantry, and under normal circumstances, the infantry can protect itself by forming a formation, and resist the onslaught of cavalry as much as possible to a certain extent. Even if he can't be spared, at least he can slow down the speed of the cavalry and buy time for his comrades behind him to survive and counterattack.
However, the rebel soldiers in the chaos still wanted to form a formation at this time, and they all ran around like headless flies. Ye Feiwu and his men rushed into the enemy formation as if they were in a no-man's land, and they didn't use weapons at all, as long as they drove their war horses all the way over, it was enough to bring huge damage to the rebels.
If it weren't for the fact that the enemy army still had such a large number of cavalry, Liao Hua couldn't help but lead his troops out of the city to expand the results, but he knew that these rabble under his hands. I don't know if I can do it when I hide behind the city wall and defend it, and if I want to rush and kill, it is no different from sending him to death.
Therefore, Liao Hua could only watch Ye Feiwu's lone army rush and kill in all directions in the enemy's army like a vast ocean, and the enemy's cavalry had already caught up. Constantly harvesting their own cavalry, those brave warriors faithfully carried out Ye Feiwu's orders, and until the moment they died in battle, they kept rushing to kill the enemy in front of them, without caring about their own safety at all.
Liao Hua was full of blood boiling, and he wanted to go down to the city to pick up Ye Feiwu several times. In the end, they all endured it.
No matter how brave Ye Feiwu is, he will always be exhausted, not to mention, as the masters in the rebel army gradually gather, where will he be the opponent of those enemies.
In this battle, the rebels suffered heavy casualties, since entering Taoyuan Town, several battles have not suffered such a big loss, so many people have died, first throwing stones and arrows, then stampede in the chaos, and then the cavalry collision, the most depressing thing for He Man is that his own cavalry did not know how many of his own people were killed in the process of pursuing the opponent's cavalry, and the damage caused was really to be said, it was by no means less than the damage caused by the opponent's cavalry, it was simply a disaster!
After the furious He Man gathered the rebellious army, he ordered to attack again after a slight adjustment!
The prepared rebels launched the most fierce attack on Pingwang Village, throwing stones and bows and arrows frantically towards the city, and at once suppressed the long-range firepower in the city, which was actually not very strong.
When Wang Hao received the news that Pingwang Village had fallen and Ye Feiwu and Liao Hua had died one after another, his whole heart seemed to be grabbed by someone, and he was speechless in pain. Although Li Jiayi did not tell him the specific scene of the battle, he could fully imagine how tragic the battle was at that time! At this moment, he really can't wait to fly back to the town, take it with him personally, and kill it to Pingwang Village to fight those damn guys to the death! However, reality told him how unrealistic it was!
Not to mention whether he can fly back or not, even if he can go back now, with those men and horses in his hands, how can he defeat so many well-trained rebels. At this moment, Wang Hao really doesn't have any confidence that he will be able to get through this difficulty, unless a miracle happens.
The miracle that Wang Hao was looking forward to really happened, just a little later when the rebels captured Pingwang Village, another piece of news came from Li Jiayi, fortunately, this time it was good news.
The Seven Water Army, which has not made any movement, has finally been dispatched!
At the same time, Mu Bo sent news that he would rush from the waterway to try to intercept the convoy of the official army and help Taoyuan Town solve the threat on this side.
Hearing the news, the Taoyuan Town side suddenly thundered with joy, and even Wang Hao, who was very depressed, was slightly relieved when he heard the news. (To be continued.) )
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