Chapter 146: Hold on
Perhaps it is ironic that when the smell of blood approaches, the weather is unusually bright, and a little golden sunlight jumps lightly between the trees with new green teeth, bringing a sense of leisure and warmth.
Meng Zhi's sword stood at the forefront of the forbidden army's defense line, motionless as a mountain. Born on the battlefield, he knows that when the enemy more than ten times his own black pressure swarms up, the sense of oppression is amazing, once the soldiers can't bear it, there is a sense of timidity, and the situation of a thousand miles will appear at any time, so he must be the first to arouse everyone's blood and bravery, and he can't lose the contact at the very beginning.
Because the mountains are high and the forests are dense, the roads are narrow and curved, and the forbidden army is well-equipped, with excellent armor and shields, and the Jianqing Li army can neither use cavalry nor arrows and crossbows to open the way, so it is the infantry with spears in their hands that rush to the front, the tips of the guns are bright, and the forests are like forests, and they rush straight up in the shouts of killing in the sky. When I rushed closer, I could hear an officer shouting: "Rush! A head will be rewarded with three taels of gold! ”
The forbidden army on the mountain only had 3,900 taels of gold, so they wanted to pull out this barrier, and King Yu was very good at trading. But for the soldiers, this is not the case, many people have only used copper coins in their lives, and they have never even taken silver, and they can buy two acres of thin fields when they can send this reward home, as for whether they are rebelling and rebelling now, no one will think much about it, anyway, when the peak gives an order, there is a heavy reward in front, how can there be a reason not to die and rush forward.
In the face of the attack like a huge wave, the forbidden army was as stable as a reef by the sea. The front row was covered by thick shields, and the strong crossbowmen in the second row had just rushed into range, and the sound of feathered arrows "swished", not dense, but extremely accurate. In an instant, a piece of the back rushed forward, and some people turned over and fell to the ground. The momentum of the attackers was suddenly folded by several points.
"Rush! Rush up and attack in close quarters! A man dressed as a staff member hissed. The commander is right, as long as he is not afraid of death, he can fight a contact battle and wave the advantage of troops and ground as long as he is not afraid of death, but after he shouted this sentence, he will no longer have the opportunity to command. Because a dark gray figure immediately swept up, like a winged roc rushed down, stepping straight over the heads of the rebels, straight to this person, just a simple chopping and closing action, the human head has flown up, blood gushing out at the same time, the gray figure has jumped back to its original place, the horizontal sword is in the chest, standing proudly upright.
The momentum of the first master of the beam instantly calmed the audience. In the thunderous sound of the forbidden army, the Qingli army's position was somewhat loosened and failed to push forward again.
But only for a moment. A new commander has been replaced, and this time he is standing farther away. In the rear efforts to drive the soldiers. Keep increasing the prizes. At the same time, the heavily armored men were replaced. In this way, this move to deal with the rain of arrows is really effective, and there are not many archers who can shoot the gap in the iron armor, after all, there are not many archers who can shoot the gap in the iron armor, almost no one fell in the first half, and only 66 in the second half, and a small part of them continued to fall, but most of the earthlings still rushed to the front of the shield array. At this time, the shield bearer suddenly withdrew his shield and retreated, and a row of swordsmen appeared on the side of the crossbowman, these are the excellent combat power of the martial arts group, light armor, strong armor, thin swords like ice, dealing with bulky ironclad soldiers is like chopping melons and vegetables, attacking at the joints of people's unwrapped ground, and occasionally encountering counterattacks are slow and half a beat can be easily dodged. All the way
Caught in a state of slaughter, the metro armor soldiers were followed by the lighter infantry, which was originally prepared to break up the arrow array and use it as the main force of the attack. Although the bloody slaughter ahead was terrifying, the arrow array had been collected after all, and they began to rush forward violently. Who knew that at this moment, the sound of the bowstring of the god of death sounded again, it turned out that Meng Zhi actually arranged crossbowmen on the surrounding trees to hide, and after this round of rapid shooting, the casualties of the Qingli army were even more heavy than the wave just now.
Just as the rebels began to panic and retreat, someone shouted: "Don't be afraid! Come on! They don't have many arrows! ”
Meng Zhi frowned, looked around, and after the man finished shouting, he retreated back into the crowd, and there was a dense forest to cover him, and he was nowhere to be found. At this time, the ironclad soldiers, except for those who retreated backwards, had basically been solved, and the forbidden army retreated a few zhang and re-laid the arrow array.
This tug-of-war lasted for two hours, and the commander of the Qingli army finally decided to stop the attack and wait for nightfall, when the arrow array could not be wielded. The forbidden army also took the opportunity to take a small break to eat, and the two sides were deadlocked.
When the view is blocked by the black wings, the killing sound resumes. The defense line of the forbidden army was really not as strong as during the day, and the battle and retreat of the Qing army was almost overwhelmingly defeated, and later, except for Meng Zhi and a few fierce generals who were still fighting hard in the back, the rest of the people were almost on the run. For the rebels, what they are chasing is the gold that can walk, how can they let go of it, biting those shadows tightly behind, seeing the people who are chasing after the front over the ridge, suddenly feel that their feet are empty, and before they can react, they have fallen into the deep trench, and they hurriedly want to stop, and they are rushed and pulled one after another, and the screams are continuous. When he finally stabilized, he saw that the front was pitch black, and he had just lit a torch and wanted to take a look, but the light only got up and became a live target for the archers who were lying in ambush around him, so he had to retreat the whole team in the same way and stop moving.
As soon as the sky was bright, the commander of the Qingli army couldn't help but be angry, only to see that although the deep trench was not narrow, it was definitely not wide, and ordinary sturdy men could jump over it with the help of a little run, and the real mountain road had a sharp bend here, but the road was full of branches and weeds, and no one showed up at night, so they turned this way.
So the fierce battle of the day began to repeat itself. The Qingli army was mobilized this time, with an overwhelming advantage in 30,000 troops, and could be thrown into the battlefield in batches, while the forbidden army had to fight continuously and fatigued, sometimes without even time to drink and eat, even if it was brave, it had to retreat one by one, relying on pre-arranged traps and changeable tactics to maintain resistance.
Early in the morning of the third day, the Praetorian Army had almost withdrawn from the edge of the dense forest. However, at this moment, they were exhausted and suddenly counterattacked, and the Qingli army hurriedly retracted its forces and temporarily retreated, who knew that as soon as this side retreated, that side retreated very quickly, and after a short time, they withdrew from the dense forest cleanly, and a team of crossbowmen shot rockets and ignited the ignition that had been arranged in various places in the forest. The mountain wind was fierce and burned into a line of fire after a short time, and gradually spread quickly.
Beyond the jungle. It is a mountain stream about five zhang wide. The water is abundant and natural, and a fire wall is not afraid of the fire being led to the hunting palace higher in the sky.
Mei Changsu stood on the high platform outside the Hunting Palace, staring at the rising smoke and the increasingly fierce fire in the direction of the dense forest, but his plain white face was calm. There was not the slightest expression.
"Mr. Su," Lie Zhanying ran over panting, his face full of black ashes, "The forbidden army still has a total of 1,300 people, plus the guards of various prefectures and places, you can gather 2,000 people, and the commander suggested that all of them retreat into the hunting palace, and call me to ask what Mr. means." ”
Mei Changsu nodded: "That's right." The hunting palace is surrounded by open grassy slopes, and there is no danger to defend and no need to fortify. It is the best choice to retreat directly to the hunting palace. "Yes." Lie Zhanying replied while stretching his neck to look at the firelight in the distance. Laughed. "Even though it's spring, you can see the fire. As long as it doesn't rain, it can burn for a day or two nights, but unfortunately this is a royal garden, the ground is clean, there are no leaves, and the whole forest cannot be set on fire, only enough to burn off those places that are easy to walk. However, even if the group of rebel cubs were withdrawn quickly, they would not be burned to black coal, and there would be no ready-made road. There are steep slopes in the north and south, and two pieces of wood can be stoned to death, and the east side is connected to the main mountain, and they can only wait for the fire to be smaller, or climb around from this side, and it is estimated that when they climb to the stream, they will have to tomorrow night. ”
"I'm afraid that His Royal Highness won't come back tomorrow......," Mei Changsu said lightly, "The forbidden army is already too tired, and the Qingli army has at least 10,000 combat strength, and it is impossible to continue the dense forest war. ”
"The Grand Commander is already arranging a change of leave," Lie Zhanying said, and suddenly remembered something, "By the way, when I came over just now, I saw Concubine Jing's maid carrying the medicinal soup that was adjusted and replenished, saying that it was to replenish qi, and sent it to Mr.'s room." ”
Mei Changsu hummed softly, wrapped his cloak tightly, and turned around and got off the high platform. At this time, basically all the people had moved into the hunting palace, and it was very crowded for a while, but in this case, no one had the leisure to complain about the bad conditions, and everyone's face was tense and yellow.
Concubine Jing showed her composure and organization at this time. There has been no chaos in the hunting palace so far, and it is all up to her arrangement and mediation. The prince and the prince were summoned into the emperor's dormitory to accompany the chauffeur, firstly, to make room for other clans and accompanying ministers, and secondly, these people talked to Emperor Liang, which was also beneficial to the old emperor's emotional stability. Since King Jing was not in King Jing's mansion, everyone else was in the battle team, Concubine Jing also summoned Mei Changsu after asking Emperor Liang for a decree, and he was accompanied by the Buddha's tooth, and Feiliu had been sent to Meng Zhi.
After a quiet, almost suffocating day and night, the rebels reappeared in the sight of the defenders of the hunting palace in the evening of the fourth day. The fierce battle at this time was even more different from the previous days, because it was so close that the big people in the palace could almost smell the blood. Under the wave of rebel attacks, the forbidden army, which had run out of arrows, tightened its battle line and began to guard door by door, step by step. Because this is the most elite part of the elite team trained by the first master of the Great Liang, and because of the bloody courage of the last battle, the rebels have only entered the outermost side of the pavilion.
"Haven't the reinforcements from the imperial capital arrived yet?" Listening to the shouts and killings outside, Emperor Liang in the dormitory muttered, I don't know if he was talking to himself or to himself.
In fact, at this time, he already understood that although it was his most trusted personal guard who sent troops to the imperial capital, and although he had received a reply from the guard's carrier pigeon that he had successfully sneaked out of the encirclement, the expected reinforcements would still not come from the west.
"Your Majesty, please rest assured, Jing Yan will come back in time." Concubine Jing softly comforted and held the emperor's trembling hand. For fear of becoming a target, there were only a few dim lights in the room, and the dim light made the people in the hall look like earth. King Huai, who was the most timid by nature, couldn't help but curl up in a trembling voice and said, "If they attack us, they really dare to ...... Hands-on? ”
"Shut up!" Emperor Liang shouted angrily, trying his best to maintain his imperial demeanor, not wanting to show cowardice in front of others: "How can this group of rebels attack? I can trust Meng Zhi and Jing Yan! ”
With this angry rebuke, there was silence in the room, making the shouting and killing sound from outside even more harsh and bloody.
The Buddha's tooth suddenly raised his head, and a long howl of "whoa" startled everyone in the hall who were already nervous.
"What kind of brute is this? How did you get in? Emperor Liang shouted angrily.
Mei Changsu gently stroked the back of the Buddha's tooth to soothe its wildness stirred up by blood, while Concubine Jing smiled and said, "Your Majesty, rest easy." This is Jing Yan's wolf warrior, although others don't stay here, this wolf can be regarded as protecting His Majesty on his behalf. ”
"Oh?" Emperor Liang immediately turned his anger into joy: "This wolf can kill the enemy?" ”
"Yes, it is guarding in front of His Majesty, who can take a step closer to His Majesty?" Concubine Jing's faint smile eased the tension in the hall at the right time. The Buddha's tooth gradually regained its calm under Mei Changsu's caressing, but its ears were still standing alertly.
However, the night has become less and less quiet. Although the pace of the forbidden army's retreat was slow, after all, it was retreating step by step, and everyone in the palace felt it.
"Haven't the reinforcements arrived yet?" This time, it was King Ji who couldn't help but speak: "The Hunting Palace is already the last line of defense!" ”
"Of course not," Mei Changsu's calm voice sounded like ice at this time, "Break through the palace gate, and this palace gate, break through the palace gate, and our own bodies." As long as there is a breath left, it is not lost. ”
His statement was so cold that King Ji was frightened, and Emperor Liang's eyes couldn't help jumping anxiously.
Mei Changsu turned around and faced the monarch sitting in the middle directly: "Your Majesty also has a sword by his side, doesn't he?" ”
Emperor Liang was aroused by his heavy gaze, and the feelings of his youth were aroused, and his fingers clenched and grabbed the sword next to the throne, but after staring at it for a long time, he could not draw the sword out of its sheath. Concubine Jing got up slowly, stretched out her hand, and the blade of the sword had already flashed across her eyebrows, and a chill reflected the autumn water.
"Please give this sword to your concubines, and your concubines are willing to be Your Majesty's last line of defense."
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