Chapter 336: Continue
When the elephant used stratagem to cut off the enemy's support, break the enemy's fighting spirit, and provoke the enemy's internal strife began to work, the final victory seemed to be in no suspense, and there was only a degree of brilliant victory.
The traitor army is in the big tent, and Spartacus the little is gathering the few remaining credible generals to discuss the war, and now the talk is not about victory, but about how to get out.
Looking at his generals frowning, Frey, the commander of the rest cavalry, looked indifferent, and he shouted loudly: "Little Mr. Spartacus, there is nothing to worry about, those fragile fragments who are far from the embrace of the god of light are just gone, and those who are left are staunch believers, and with the light of the holy fire, we will win."
After hearing this, the fanatical cultists below all raised their arms and shouted, and they were quite imposing for a while.
Little Spartacus smiled helplessly, he was not a believer, and he would not dedicate himself to a foreign country for the so-called faith.
At this time, Paris, the leader of the Cultists of Great Xia, a tall Greek Bactrian stepped forward and said: "What General Frey said is extremely true, there are 9,000 people left in our army, but everyone is loyal to the cause, but it is more refined, and the top priority should not be delayed any longer, I suggest that we attack the enemy quickly and with all our might, and take advantage of the surprise attack when they think our army is in civil strife, if the elephant's men are defeated, those wall grasses are not worth mentioning, and my 800 elites of Great Xia are willing to be the vanguard."
Malis and Agros glanced at each other, and they also stepped forward to salute together: "Young master, Commander Paris is reasonable, it can't be delayed, you must make a decision immediately, otherwise the enemy is ready, and the people around you are troublesome enough, give orders, young master."
Huida, one of the three leaders of the Huiji Sect, has been secretly rebelled by Denan. Seeing this, he also stepped forward and said, "Yes." Your Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief. The heart must let the heretics taste the flame steel sword of my holy cult, and I will fight to the death to defend the holy flame. ”
Little Spartacus finally made up his mind, and said in a deep voice: "In this case, the whole army is rested and fed during the day, and in the middle of the night, the second watch day is led by Frey to lead the headquarters of five hundred other commanders and one thousand cavalry of Cao Ming's department as the vanguard, and our own soldiers are three hundred plus eight hundred in Xia, mixed with Shule. The 3,000 Tocharian light infantry of the Huiji State were the Chinese army, the rest of the soldiers of the countries were the two wings of the guard, and the headquarters of the Huida commander was the rear guard, ready to surprise the elephants. Ladies and gentlemen, if we succeed in this battle, we will win..."
All the generals under the seat shouted in unison, and their fighting spirit was high.
In the middle of the night, the cold wind in the wasteland was biting, whistling and blowing, except for the occasional lone wolf wail. Everything is calm.
Little Spartacus showed tenderness during the day and feasted on all the departments. sent a large number of cattle, sheep, wine and food to those two-hearted people, and now those vulgar barbarians are all drunk and unconscious.
The camp of Little Spartacus was in the dark, and a group of troops ready to attack the elephants were silent, and the horses were covered with hooves and mouths, and they marched in a hurry.
The elephant's men on duty tonight are Lou Yanwu, and 25 people from the local army in Khotan, in a group of five people separated by two or three miles apart from each other to patrol back and forth, in this cold winter day when dawn is approaching, the night is thinking of cold, the people and horses are freezing and hungry unbearable, Lou Yan sympathizes with his subordinates, this time he did not go out to the vicinity of the enemy camp as usual, because the weather is too cold, and there is no secret post to lurk.
The first five members of the Khotanese scouts were patrolling in a two-person group, with the two groups separated by a distance of 50 zhang, and Wu Chang was 30 zhang behind.
The two people in the left group of the most right-wing scouts in the front are brothers, and the elder brother Agu is twenty-five years old, who was originally a scout in the Khotanese army, and has been in the army for seven years and has rich experience.
Blowing the cold wind and shivering, he rode on the horse and took out the leather bag, took a sip of spirits, wiped his lips and smiled at his younger brother Ada who was looking around nervously: "Brother, don't be nervous, this kind of sky, you are useless with your eyes, you have to listen with your ears, feel with your heart, such a cold day, the enemy army can only sneak attack if you want to sweep away the scouts, we have to survive, it's useless to be careful, sometimes luck matters, listen to my brother, drink wine to warm up."
Listening to Agu's words, Ada also shivered and took out the wine bag from his waist, pulled out the stopper, and was about to raise his head to drink.
Brother Agu suddenly felt a cold light flashing ten steps away in the dim moonlight, and immediately knew that something was wrong, and shouted: "Get down, hurry..."
It's a pity that it's too late, Ada's posture froze, snorted, and then fell off the horse violently.
Seeing this, Agu knew that it was dangerous at this time, and he should have fled quickly to report the news, but his brother's blood was deep, which made him lose his mind, and shouted in his mouth: Brother!"
Fiercely clamped the horse's belly and approached Ada, like a mad tiger, tears streaming down his face.
When he arrived at the place where Ada fell off his horse, Agu flew down and hurriedly looked at his brother's injury, only to see a short arrow stuck in Ada's throat, and the blood that flowed was condensed because of the cold, and his expression was still in the moment before drinking.
Agu was filled with grief and indignation, and shouted in his mouth: "I'm going to kill you, kill you..."
He pulled out the scimitar at his waist and looked around, his face hideous.
There was a deathly silence all around, and only a few low screams could be heard in the distance, and Agu thought that the other scouts had also been plotted by the enemy.
Under the dim starlight, I saw several vague figures surrounded by them, and the blades in their hands glowed with a little cold light.
Agu knew that the opportunity was gone, and he would not be spared today, so he only wanted to avenge his brother and kill a few enemy soldiers.
Fearless at the moment, he rushed forward with a knife shouting, and the scimitar in his hand was held high, putting life and death out of the way.
The four enemy soldiers who had been waiting for a long time did not make a sound, and quickly surrounded them, and soon the sound of weapons colliding with each other was endless.
As soon as he fought, Agu had been injured in two places, and the blood flowed, especially the injury to his right leg, which affected his pace, and he gritted his teeth and endured the pain.
An enemy soldier saw that there was an opportunity, and stepped forward with a sword to stab, but Agu did not dodge, so he was stunned, and in an instant, the sword had pierced into Agu's abdomen, looking at the strange smile on the corner of Agu's bloody mouth, he was immediately shocked, and he knew that it was not good.
It was too late, it was too fast, Agu grabbed the enemy's sword wrist with his left hand, pulled it suddenly, and the long sword that had entered the abdomen pierced his back, and he screamed violently, piercing and piercing, and the scimitar in his right hand had been slashed at the enemy's head, and in an instant, the knife entered the brain, red and white splashed, and he died in pain.
Only then did the other three enemy soldiers react, and all three long swords stabbed into Agu's body, stabbing him to death.
The bloody episodes of the outpost battle can't change the ending, and the front is fierce. The screams heralded the revelation of the traitorous enemy attack.
Frey made a quick decision. Command the trumpet to be sounded. Wielding a huge scimitar, he rode his horse straight to the enemy camp on the high ground five miles away.
At this time, Lou Yan was in the back position, and when he heard the miserable screams coming from the front in the dark, he knew that it must be the precursor of the enemy's attack, so he immediately bent his bow and arrows, and shot a chirp into the sky, and in an instant, the poignant and sharp whistling sound of breaking the air resounded through the night sky.
The elephant woke up from the couch with a screeching sound. At this time, the personal soldier Ituji hurriedly entered and shouted: "My lord, it's not good, the enemy is attacking at night."
With the help of Itu, the elephant was neatly draped, and at the same time, he quickly let Gao Ming, and the mountain sent an order to beat the drum and warn, and the whole team prepared for battle.
After Lou Yan gave a warning, he rushed towards the camp with the only five remaining big scouts, and behind him was the Frey cavalry who were galloping on horseback, and thousands of iron hooves stomped on the ground. Let the elephant battalion inside and outside feel it.
At this time, the quality of the soldiers was reflected, and the five hundred of the elephant headquarters had already completed the whole team. Under the command of Wang Lei, waiting for the military order, the trained Shanshan ** Ma and Wei, and the elite soldiers were also lined up after a while.
In just half an hour, the cavalry of the enemy brigade has arrived in front of the camp, poor Lou Yan and other scouts can not enter the camp, the enemy is too close, if the camp gate is opened, the enemy will follow and rush in, the danger is too great.
Looking at the enemy cavalry that was getting closer and closer, Lou Yan shouted to several scout brothers around him: "Brothers, the camp gate can't be opened, our scouts have been derelict in this enemy attack, and they are dead left and right, it is better to fight with the enemy soldiers for a while, and find a place to come, follow me to the battle."
Li Yue and the others on the camp wall also heard the words of Lou Yan's decisive death in the dark, and they all shouted and cried bitterly, knowing that Lou Yan would definitely die this time.
Seeing that Lou Yan glanced back affectionately, he resolutely slammed the horse's belly and shouted: "Thieves, your grandfather Lou is here, kill!"
Behind him were several brothers of life and death who had been together for months of life and death, and several of them shouted and rode their horses like moths to a fire to rush towards the traitorous enemy army that was surging in the dark night like a torrent of death.
In an instant, there were several shouts and shouts, and then they fell silent again.
Before everyone could wake up from their grief, the earth-shattering shouts of killing were already approaching, and countless objects were thrown under the camp, and in the blink of an eye, they had been piled up into two inclined ladders against the wall.
Li Yue shouted: "It's not good, the enemy army uses earthen bags to build ladders, and if you want the cavalry to break in, release the arrows quickly, release the arrows."
It was only then that the thousand archers, who had hurried to the camp wall, began to cast their arrows.
However, when it was too late, the enemy cavalry had already roared, and jumped up on the earthen ladder, although the dense bows and arrows shot many cavalry, but Frey, who had been prepared, actually let the soldiers wear double iron armor, and after falling off the horse, they were not affected, and immediately climbed down, forming a formation to defend the breakthrough.
More than a dozen warriors rushed into the ranks of archers, slashing and slashing the archers who had little defense, causing chaos and greatly affecting the suppression of internal and external enemies.
The camp was littered with corpses and rivers of blood, mostly archers under elephant hands who had been killed by the ironclad warriors.
The 300 infantry troops of the elephant headquarters who got the news arrived first, and under the command of Wang Lei, the spears were all stabbed, but the enemy did not avoid it, and the tip of the spear could not hurt the enemy at all when it touched the iron armor double layer, but was slashed by the enemy in front of him with a scimitar, killing and injuring more than a dozen soldiers.
Wang Lei, who led the troops, was furious, and personally stepped forward to assassinate with a spear, and his strength sank, and a spear went down, penetrating the double layer of iron armor, but the spear was also caught in the crack of the armor and could not be pulled out.
Seeing that the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to the elephant's hand, the fierce ironclad warrior is advancing step by step, and has occupied a large area to break through, the situation is very bad, and if it goes on like this, the enemy army will pour in, and the elephant's men will collapse.
At this time, dozens of light horsemen jumped down from the camp wall, discarded the fire oil canisters in all directions, and fired rockets, and suddenly the camp was on fire.
Seeing the oil canister, Li Yue was in a hurry, and hurriedly ordered to discard the oil canister to the ironclad warriors, release rockets, attack with fire, and burn these perverted ironclad beasts.
Although these rest warriors were brave, they were impaired with heavy armor and could not move, and they were drenched in fire oil and immediately surrounded by sparks, and they could not take off their armor to escape, and screams were everywhere, and the hot iron armor after burning was stained on their bodies, like iron plate fried meat, exuding a strange disgusting burnt fragrance.
In the midst of the fire, there were also some crazy warriors, roaring and rushing towards the elephants, intending to die with the enemy.
The unprepared elephant soldiers were also killed or clung to death by the ironclad warriors who were blazing and howling, but the source of the greatest threat was finally solved.
Under the offensive defense of the follow-up elephants, foot soldiers, spears, bows and arrows, the brief chaos caused by the initial surprise attack has passed, and the battle situation is temporarily deadlocked on the front line of the camp wall.
The elephant stood on the high platform in the camp and looked at the battlefield, only to see nearly 10,000 soldiers on both sides fighting to the death in the camp wall of less than a mile, blood, constantly splashing, life passing quickly, screaming, howling, shouting, composing a cruel picture.
Several sections of the camp wall had collapsed, and countless traitor soldiers rushed in with shouts, forced back by a rain of arrows and spears, and then rushed forward, and then repulsed, the two sides repeatedly tuged and saw, and the arrows fired from outside the camp wall also took the lives of countless elephant soldiers, and both sides gritted their teeth and endured.
The front was tight several times, Wang Lei, Wang Shi could barely hold on, Li Yue, Li Shi's bowed fingers were strangled with blood, and they couldn't pull the strings anymore.
There are only more than 1,000 people left in the Shule army who are struggling to support.
But the Khotanese army of Asir's army was about to collapse, and he had asked the elephants for help countless times.
The elephant still has the elite of the original team of three hundred left, and he has not been involved in the fight, only waiting for the last blow.
It was almost dawn, and little Spartacus finally couldn't help it, and prepared to send the last of the Great Xia hoplites and the Huiji Tocharian infantry with a total of 2,000 people.
He gave a loud order, ordering the Tocharian infantry to immediately enter the battlefield, and the 800 hoplites of Great Xia followed up to support, leaving only 300 guards on his side.
Unexpectedly, when the Tocharian infantry entered the battlefield, suppressed the elephant's men, and was breaking through from the Asir army in Khotan, the elephant's men had no strength to support, and the elephant finally filled his last three hundred guards into the bloody battlefield, and was about to be strung with the last trace of strength, and even he himself went into battle with a sword, even Chen Xia and Dana were armored and ready to fight.
An unexpected situation appeared, and no one expected that the Eight Hundred Great Xia hoplites moved and launched a fierce offensive, but the enemy they attacked was... (To be continued......)