Chapter 44: Gilgamesh
Early morning.
Zhou Yu got up early to freshen up, of course, he didn't have the privilege of washing his face with water, so he could only wipe the burlap towel with water and wipe it simply. Before the first drumming, he summoned the commanders, deputy commanders, and vanguard officers of the battalions to convey the news that the enemy army would go out of the city to meet the battle today. At present, the battalions are in full swing in allocating, scheduling, and arranging formations, setting up attack formations, and adjusting the order of front and rear. Impenetrable, waiting for the unknown arrival of 10,000 enemy troops.
"Woo-woo-woo!" Three loud trumpets sounded. Standing on the sand slope, the Grand Governor saw from a distance that the gates of the Storm Catcher City were open to the maximum angle, and rows of soldiers came out in unison, first cavalry, then infantry, and finally archers.
However, this cavalry surprised the Metropolitan Governor. These are not cavalry in the traditional sense, but classical-style chariots. The body of the chariot resembles an ordinary wheelbarrow mountain, the area is small and can stand four or five people at most, each ride is pulled by four short-legged animals, and on the chariot stands three people, one of whom holds the reins in front of him to control the direction, and the other two behind him, both holding spears in their hands and bows and arrows behind them.
The distance was a bit far, and it took most of the governors to rub their eyes several times before they could see clearly. After seeing it clearly, he couldn't straighten up with a smile to himself.
So where are the horses? It is clearly a donkey, and these chariots are powered by donkeys. Still, smiling and smiling, his smile froze.
Four thousand donkeys, that is, a thousand classical chariots, were in the middle, and a chariot ten times larger than the others, pulled by a dozen donkeys, slowly drove out of the city gate. There was no chauffeur or spearmen, but a large wide armchair on which sat a man. As for the dress and appearance, it is because the distance is too far to see clearly. But the Metropolitan Governor had a hunch that this person was definitely not reckless. Why? Because this person's kingly aura is not something that can be matched by the aura of a city lord.
In this way, the lineup of 8,000 to 10,000 faced off in the open field in front of the gate of Storm Catcher. The Overseers of the Metropolis were on the sandy slopes and had a slight advantage over the terrain; The army of Storm Catcher City is below, but it also has a favorable strategic factor that can be attacked and defended by its own mansion behind it.
Although these chariots belonged to the same camp as the infantry on the left flank and the archers on the right flank, they felt as if they were not monolithic. The charioteers were all refreshed and ready to fight, and seemed to be in good spirits, while the other two arms were a little depressed and not so energetic. I don't know why.
"Knock knock!" With a sound of drums, the chariot battalion was the first to start, slowly dripping towards the open area between the two armies. Zhou Yu understood that this was going to use the chariot to try the offender's catties first.
"Two battalions to meet the enemy!" With a wave of the fan in his hand, the Metropolitan Governor made another Zhuge brand feather fan.
"Order!" Lai Junchen went down and briefly explained two sentences.
Bai Qi and Tuda each led the Dragon Battalion and the Leopard Battalion to stand out from the central army and advance in the direction of the enemy's advance, with a total of 3,000 men.
Three thousand against three thousand, the Governor neither bullied them, nor handed over all the hole cards. Temptation is the goal of the commanders of both sides. Zhou Yu thought about it, since it was not a horse but a donkey cart, it had no impact at all, at most it had a slight advantage in the fighting position. Moreover, 4,000 horses in this desert will never survive, and there will be no traditional cavalry. Because horses have well-developed sweat glands, this body structure causes them to sweat a lot and need to be hydrated at all times. In this place where birds don't poop, it's a problem for people to drink water, how can you raise so many horses? In addition, the sand is relatively flat and soft, and the horse's hooves will sink when you step on it, making it impossible to run and burning the more fragile ankles.
"Ding Ding Dong!" A rapid drum beat came into my ears. Then, the donkey cart began to accelerate towards the two battalions, at first in a row of ten by one, and then gradually opened up the formation and became a free attack.
Bai Qi and Tuda were well prepared, and calmly ordered all the soldiers to be divided into pieces and quickly form a battle squad of thirty people. The squad was in the shape of a knife, with the soldiers in front of them raising their blue shields, and the team members in the back holding spears to cover the archers in the middle.
The sound of "dang dang" continued, and the donkey carts approached the battle group and turned sharply, turning their heads to one side, and the spearmen above threw their spears four or five meters away and shot them at the shields. But who knew that the blue shield was as hard as a stone, and the spear shot on it did not pose any threat at all, but after it landed, it was quickly grabbed and picked up by the soldiers in the back row. Seeing that the projectile method did not work, the soldier stooped down and picked up his spear again from the chariot, ready to stab at close range.
Where did the battle squad give them so much time to reflect, the squad leader gave an order, and the two rows of soldiers in the front and back quickly bowed their heads, revealing three or five archers in the middle, who were holding a weapon with a strange handle in their hands, short and concise, with three steel needles neatly stacked on it.
"Put!" With an order, the brush archer aimed at the chariot spearmen four or five meters in front of him, and pulled the trigger in his hand. More than a dozen steel needles came out in response, because the distance was too close and the target could attack a large area, instantly penetrating the throat, shoulder armor, head, hands and feet of the spearmen, one by one was immediately beaten into a hornet's nest, and the few escaped because of their bowed heads, but they were miserable to those coachmen, and they were instantly beaten into hedgehogs.
"Good! Not bad, not bad! The Grand Governor stood on a high spot and patted Hugh Jack beside him.
"Governor, this is a pig and dog repeater modified according to your wishes. It seems that this battle is huge! Hugh Jack also wasted no time in taking credit for himself. The disadvantage of the repeater is that the attack distance is short, and it is most effective to kill the enemy within ten meters, and the three-arrow crossbow they are using now is not the most powerful, according to the meaning of the Grand Du, the five-arrow crossbow or the repeating crossbow is the best choice.
"Wonderful, wonderful! I said you can do it, you can do it. In the future, you will be the director of my Association for Science and Technology, Director Hugh! Most of the governors laughed and their noses bubbled.
As soon as the commander of the enemy army saw that the donkey cart was frustrated, he immediately shouted something. The surviving groom hurriedly turned around, changed from front to rear, and accelerated to retreat. The problem with this classical tank is that it can only be forward, not backward, that is, there is no reverse gear. You can't easily turn to the left and right, because there are friendly vehicles next to you, and if you don't turn the body, it's easy to get mixed up, and no one will move and become a mess. Therefore, when attacking, most of them are in small groups, which is not suitable for this kind of large number of attacks.
Want to run? Bai Qi and Tuda allowed them to leave as soon as they said so, and the team immediately changed formation, and the spearmen sacrificed and followed closely behind. However, a chariot is a chariot, and there is an advantage to defend when retreating. The surviving spearmen immediately turned back, put down the spears in their hands, took off their bows and arrows from their backs, aimed at the pursuers, and shot arrows with bows, forcing Bai Qi and Tuda not to get too close, so they could only pretend to chase a few steps, and then stopped. The two sides remained at a safe distance of about 100 metres.
Zhou Yu simply nodded with his hands from top to bottom, there were about 100 donkey carts that were killed by all three people, and a few of his own people were not injured. The other party wants to have a wishful thinking, I'm afraid that it will hit my grandmother's house.
"Ding Ding Dong!" The enemy camp was beating the drum again, and the rhythm changed somewhat. I saw that the donkey cart was withdrawn, and the archers stepped forward. It seems that he feels that he can't take advantage of melee combat, and plans to fight for archery. Listening to an order, thousands of archers shot bows and arrows at the same time, and the black dots covered the sky and the sun, and the black pressure covered one by one. Bai Qi shouted unhurriedly, and the infantry was divided into two formations, and the soldiers with blue shields squatted nearby, holding shields diagonally to form a mushroom shape. Another group of unshielded soldiers went directly under the hundred chariots they had just captured, or under the donkeys.
Beautiful! Zhou Yu was overjoyed in his heart, the sound of da-da-da, all of which were the sound of arrows hitting the blue shield and chariot, and the wailing of whining and wooing was the donkeys that had been shot into peacocks, hitting each other's heads and bodies hard, and the pain was abnormal. Helplessly, his body was firmly tied to the wheel of the chariot, and there was nowhere to escape, but to die tragically under the random arrows.
Dai Taimeng is still too few, and there are more than a thousand shields. In the future, Lao Tzu had to dig Kuzsia three feet into the ground, peel off the skin of this big snake, and arm his soldiers. Zhou Yu gritted his teeth hatefully and thought.
You sang and I took the stage, and the news broadcast was followed by a focus interview. Needless to say? Bai Qi knows this well, and he doesn't need to be deployed by the metropolitan governor. As soon as the enemy's arrow rain landed, he let out a lion's roar, only to see our archers immediately put on an attack formation, and the arrow rain returned to the opponent.
The glittering golden chieftain was not so lucky, their shields were obviously not as strong as the blue shields, and the soldiers could not give up their chariots and donkeys. A few seconds later, Zhou Yu saw in the distance that people were turning over on their donkeys, wailing all over the field, and there was no formation anymore, the golden beard was no longer standing so unruly, and there was still a trace of people on the donkey cart five meters square.
"Kill!" Just as the enemy army accelerated its retreat, locusts swarmed towards the gates of Stormcatcher. The military orders of Tuda and Bai Qi came.
Different from the poor Kou Mo Chasing, this kind of enemy army is not high in the first place, the temptation was slapped in the face, and the homogeneous arrow rain losses are dozens of times more than the opponent's premise, if you don't beat the water dogs, you won't get up in vain, right? The Governor grinned. 10,000 people smaller, squeezed into a ten-meter-wide city gate? Haven't you ever seen a stampede? Do you regret not designing a few more safety exits? Not to mention that you have more than 900 chariots. It hurts, I hurt for you!
Sure enough, the defeated army with both fear and wailing was stuck at the city gate, pushing, trampling and not stopping to turn back was their last action, and Bai Qi and Tuda, who rushed over, raised their knives and fell, slashing and cutting vegetables, stubble after stubble, like cutting leeks. Knock, knock, knock, countless donkey carts on both sides of the city gate, the front servants, the back of the donkey on top of the front body of the car to carry the cart, in an instant piled up into a small mountain. Ignoring the whips of the coachmen, whose eyes were so red that they dripped, the frenzied donkey slammed into the huge stone wall as if trying to break through a hole.
Zhou Yu waved his hand, and the officers and troops of the other three battalions were lined up in order, and they all advanced towards the city gate, firmly enclosing it in a semicircle. Because he still has a few thousand of his own people, the Grand Governor is not afraid that the Wind Catcher City will attack from the city walls.
The battle was soon over. Because, the reckless lord of the city ordered the gate to be closed. Zhou Yu had to agree with his decision, which was a wise decision. Otherwise, his losses could have been even greater, and the day of the break was today. The thousands of surviving enemy soldiers were full of fear in their eyes, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, back to back, constantly looking left and right, not knowing where the enemy would attack.
"Withdraw!" The Metropolitan Governor gave an order, and the officers and soldiers of the five battalions besieging the city quickly retreated back two hundred meters. Jian Reckless was ready to sacrifice these soldiers, so in order to prevent him from firing arrows from the city wall or throwing stone balls, stones, boiling oil, etc., retreating was the best option at present.
The trapped enemy forces defended as they slammed down the gates of the city. For a time, cursing, crying, and howling filled the entire battlefield. The Metropolitan Governor shook his head, alas! This is people's hearts, when people are in danger, they can only take care of themselves, and they can manage so much. Even if you have smashed your fists, it is impossible for you to open the gates of the city.
There are still many smart people in the world, and the five thousand people who are alive have surrendered.
The Metropolitan Governor led the army back two miles, waiting for Bai Qi to report on the battle.
"Report to the Metropolitan Governor, more than 270 of our troops were killed in this battle, and less than 500 were wounded. More than 4,000 enemy troops were annihilated, and nearly 6,000 were taken prisoner, including the commander of the enemy army. Bai Qi patted his thigh and said. Obviously, he is complacent, and he has no chance of winning the battle, but he is forced to win by the enemy's stupid tricks.
"Oh? Not bad! The boss will come up, and I'll see! The Governor patted Sandy on the head and winked at him, and the giant dog obediently followed Ellavera to drink.
"Let's go!" Jay Lang and Bang Shuai walked over with a man in his forties who was tied up with a lot of flowers. The man's face was unruly, his neck was stiff and there was no remorse, he should be a tough guy.
"Untie him!" Zhou Yu is not used to treating prisoners like this, and his position is different! Besides, the battle is over, and there is no need to divide the high and the low.
"This..." Bang Shuai looked embarrassed. Untying the big man in this handsome camp, he couldn't help but muttered a little in his heart.
Seeing that he didn't move, Zhou Yu didn't blame him. Approaching the past, he pulled out the dagger at his waist and brushed it twice, breaking the rope. As soon as he saw this person, he had thick eyebrows and big eyes, heroic hair, a golden hairband on his head, and a golden armor shining brightly.
"Oops, arrested! It's in my hands, isn't it? Zhou Yu asked with a smile behind his back.
"Despicable villain, if you didn't have that blue shield and strange bow and arrow, you would have won me?" The big man is still talking wildly.
"What else?"
"And that coward, if I get out of here alive, I will definitely skin him to sacrifice thousands of soldiers who died tragically!" Dahan spat on the ground and said.
"Okay, okay! After a while, you will give a speech about the defeat, and you will be given the opportunity to speak after the lights are turned off. Now let me ask you, what's your name? The Metropolitan Governor asked curiously as he stared at Dahan.
"Lao Tzu Xing doesn't change his name, he doesn't change his surname, Gilgamesh is also!"
Gilgamesh? Why does this name sound so familiar? The Governor searched through his head. Suddenly, my brain exploded, and I almost leaned back with an unsteadiness under my feet.
Could it be him?