Chapter 10 (5)

"Whew-" An autumn wind blew from the direction of the Yellow River, and in an instant, the chill was sent into the hearts of everyone around Wang Jun!

Not three thousand, but thirty thousand!

More than 50,000 forbidden troops against 30,000 may be the "rebels" trained by Zheng Ziming himself, even if they still have an advantage in terms of strength, the chances of victory have become extremely slim in an instant!

"Doot dot dot toot toot toot toot ......"

"Doot dot dot toot toot toot toot ......"

The sound of suona is getting higher and higher-pitched, the sound is urgent, and the sound is urging people to get old.

With the high-pitched sound of suona, the "rebels" continued to advance. The speed is not fast, but the march is strict and orderly. The left flank, the left center, the center army, the right center, and the right flank, except for the rangers who served as guards on the periphery of the battlefield, the size and formation of each of the other troops and horses were clearly discerning.

"Bang bang!" Wang Jian's war horse under his crotch snorted uneasily. Fan Aineng's face turned pale, and the green tendons on the back of his hands were messy. Li Gang, Wang Gu, He Zheng and others kept swallowing and spitting, looking left and right.

Such a neat team, they had only seen it once when they had a drill on the north bank of the Yellow River. That time, Zheng Ziming and the thousands of Cangzhou troops under his command shocked everyone present. Years have passed, and the shock has gradually been forgotten. Everyone thought that the size of that team would be around 10,000 at best. It can't be replicated, and it can't become bigger. Cangzhou, which is just a mere prefecture, cannot provide more high-quality soldiers, nor can it afford to raise more tigers and wolves! Today, however, the facts tell them that they are all wishful thinking.

At this moment, the only one who is still calm as usual is the privy envoy Wang Jun. Seeing him, he suddenly pulled out the saber at his waist and raised it high above his head, "Scout perimeter guard, others, listen to my orders, and prepare for battle!"

"Obey!" Wang Jian and the others mustered up all their strength and shouted, turning their horses and galloping towards their respective subordinates.

By now, it's too late to regret it. If you want to survive, you can only fight to the death! With a bit of tragedy and grandeur, the generals will slowly swing their formations away with their respective teams. Scouts spread out to the periphery, keeping a close eye on what was going on. The cavalry retreated to both flanks, preparing to launch a counteroffensive when the enemy's strength was exhausted. The Chinese army strode forward, using spears and shields to form several solid defensive lines. The left army and the right army each fell a few feet behind the central army, responding to the commander's order at any time to provide continuous and powerful support for the Chinese army!

In order to avoid being caught off guard by the "rebels", Wang Jian. , He Zheng and others almost doubled their ordinary skills. Even after beating and urging, it only took a quarter of an hour or so to stop the arrangement of the three talent arrays.

I thought that what would happen next would definitely be a vicious battle. Unexpectedly, the rebels took the initiative to stop the team 400 paces away. It still maintains the five distinct blocks, yellow, green, red, blue, ochre, and the five-color flag is hunted by the autumn wind.

Under the yellow and ochre banners, there were cavalrymen, each in their early three thousands. God knows what means the Chai family children used, and they were able to keep them in line with the advancing speed of the infantry before. Under the green and blue battle flags, there were 4,000 foot soldiers each, mainly spearmen and sword and shield soldiers, with a small number of archers in between. Under the red battle flag in the center, it is Chai Rong's own army. There were about six thousand men, half cavalry, half infantry. The armor on his body and the iron helmet on his head were dazzling and cold by the late autumn sun!

"Goodong!" Li Gang, the deputy commander of the Right Army of the Shenwu Praetorian Guard, swallowed hard, and the expression on his face couldn't tell whether it was envy or panic.

Silver wire chain mail and iron helmets! No wonder the Chai family is so fearless! How much money has this guy spent in the past three years to arm his cronies to such a defeatist, and almost everyone has a complete set? On the other hand, the Praetorian Guard, which claims to be the most well-equipped in the whole world, needs to be mixed with the commander and above before he can barely put on iron clothes. And there is only half of the body, and the leg guards of the lower body are still sewn from cowhide!

On the battlefield, those with armor have three times as many hopes of surviving as those without armor. The chances of survival of those in iron armor are seventy percent higher than those in leather armor. Such a simple common sense, every veteran soldier knows it in his heart. Such a stark contrast made almost everyone in the forbidden army feel cold!

"Beat the drum!" Feeling that the morale of his team was plummeting, Wang Jun decisively gave the order.

"Knock knock...... The thunderous drum sounded, suppressing the panic in the hearts of the soldiers of the forbidden army. Wang Jun, the privy envoy of the Great Zhou, turned his head to look around, took a deep breath, and raised the sword above his head again, "He Zheng, the commander of the third wing of the left army, will lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to attack and find out the reality of the enemy army!"

"Ah-" Li Gang, the deputy commander of the right army of the Shenwu Praetorian Guard, shivered, put aside the distracting thoughts in his heart, and turned his head to look at He Zheng, the commander of the third wing of the left army not far from him, and sympathy arose.

When two armies engage each other, they usually start with a small number of troops each launching a tentative attack to get to the bottom of their opponents. But in the first battle of today's opening, it was the tiger's teeth that were touched! Even if the strength of the opponent can be discovered, I am afraid that the third compartment of the left army under He Zheng will have to take more than half of it!

"Knock knock ......knock

"Woo woo, woo woo, woo woo ......" The sound of the horn continued one after another, like a curse, urging He Zheng to put Wang Jun's order into practice as soon as possible.

He Zheng, the commander of the third wing of the left army, did not have the courage to disobey the order, so he could only lead his headquarters of 5,000 soldiers and horses to slowly move forward. In order to minimize his own losses, he did not have the recklessness to attack Chai Rong's home formation. Instead, he decisively chose the team under the green banner on the left side of the "rebels", and divided enough troops to guard against the cavalry attack on the left flank of the rebels.

"Dot tut, dot toot, toot toot ......" Seeing that the forbidden army launched a tentative attack first, Chai Rong also decisively ordered someone to blow the suona to meet the battle. Under the green battle flag, Tao Dachun led four thousand river workers and immediately moved forward. Spears, shields, and steel knives were layered on top of each other, and the cold light that glowed like waves of the sea.

Before the distance between the two armies could be narrowed to within a hundred paces, He Zheng's team shot feathered arrows first. The black carved feather made the sunlight dim in an instant. The soldiers under the green banner put their spears up and swung them from side to side. The shield is raised high and obliquely upwards to protect the chest and the top of the head. Wearing high-waisted combat boots, his feet continued to move forward, striking the ground like a hammer, "boom, boom, boom", and with each step, the earth was up and down.

The feathered arrows fell, some of them were knocked away by the barrel of the spear, and some of them were blocked by the shield. Others, on the other hand, hit the target. In the first three rows, "rebels" fell to the ground one after another, and were quickly pushed out of the team by their own people. The soldiers in the back row decisively stepped forward to fill in their positions, turning a blind eye to the casualties that were close at hand!

They were carefully selected from among the millions of displaced people, underwent more than two years of arduous training, and used the bandits and grass bandits on both sides of the Yellow River and even the entire Hebei Province as whetstones, and repeatedly and earnestly polished them. At present, any person in this team has been polished into a fake elite. Without hearing the commander's order, no matter how dense the rain of arrows is, it is impossible for them to slow down their pace even a bit!

"Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock...... "Knock knock, knock knock" urges the war drums wave after wave, endlessly.

The second, third, and fourth rounds of feathered arrows of "whoosh...... "whoosh...... "whoosh...... "whoosh" fell from the heads of the "rebels" one after another. The third soldier of the Left Guard pulled the horned bow with his sore arm and put the fifth feather arrow on the bowstring.

They were hoping to stop their opponents with their continuous fire, or disrupt the rebels' formations, or even slow down the pace of the enemy forces under the Green Banner. However, the reality frightened them immensely. After five consecutive rounds of arrow rain, the team under the green battle flag continued to make great strides forward as before. It's not tight, it's not slow, every step falls, and the earth shakes!

The distance between the two sides was already less than fifty paces, and if he shot down, before the two armies officially came into contact, nearly half of the soldiers under He Zheng's command would be so weak that they would not have the strength to raise their knives!

"Kill!" the pikemen lowered their spears, the sword and shield men raised their steel swords high, and the archers dropped their horned bows, drew their swords, and followed closely behind the sword and shield men. Five thousand soldiers of the Left Army of the Praetorian Guard, shouting loudly, pounced on the opponent. Like a tidal wave that breaks through a dam!

Forty steps, the opponent did not release the arrow. Thirty steps, the opponent is still silently pushing forward. Twenty steps, the opponent is still unhurried. Ten steps, five steps, three steps, "Boom!"

Blood splattered, and countless figures fell to the ground alternately. The shouts, the sound of gold and iron, the screams, the cries for help before dying, all converged in an instant, like a desolate elegy.

In the sound of elegy, He Zheng's recognition of the flag suddenly stopped, swayed from side to side, struggled to support, and then quickly retreated. In the next moment, the sound of footsteps landing on the ground became the main theme of the battlefield again, and everything else was noisy and trampled to pieces.

"Boom, boom!" "Boom, boom!" The green battle flag continued to move forward, not slow. The team of the third wing of the Praetorian Left Army was like a wave that hit a reef, and it rolled back in a blink of an eye, shattering. Blood and flesh splattered in midair!

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......" Under the green battle flag, a feathered arrow finally rose into the air, chasing the soldiers of the forbidden army who turned around and fled for their lives from behind, and put them down in pieces. The sharp spears kept spitting, and the frightened remnants of the defeated soldiers were overthrown one by one. The steel knife fell against the shield, ending the pain of the writhing struggling in a pool of blood.

In total, less than ten breaths, from the formal contact between the two sides to the time when the distance was widened again! The 5,000 soldiers of the third wing of the Praetorian Left Army were killed by more than 1,500 and collapsed on the spot. The casualties of the 4,000 river workers who collided head-on with it were less than half of them!

"Change the formation, change the formation, the left army and the right army will move closer to the middle army, and change the company phalanx to prepare for battle! Li Gang, Fan Aineng, you two step forward to stop the enemy army, and do whatever it takes, in case you rush over by victory!" Wang Jun, the privy envoy of the Great Zhou Dynasty, saw that his eyes were cracking, brandished his sword, and kept shouting loudly.

According to his previous combat experience, the enemy army has such a great advantage that he will definitely take the opportunity to launch a strong attack. If it succeeds in biting the tail of He Zheng's rout, forming an inverted bead curtain, even if there are more soldiers and horses on the forbidden army's side, they will be completely powerless to return to the sky.

The only solution is to cut the meat and feed the tiger!

Push out Li Gang and Fan Aineng and their men, and let the rout and the enemy attack. The rest of the soldiers took the opportunity to shrink the Sancai formation into a defense-oriented company phalanx, first striving to be undefeated, and then trying to win through counterattacks!

Wang Jun's coping strategy is also not accurate, and the handling is not decisive. However, what made him and all his minions unbelievable was that without waiting for Li Gang, Fan Aineng and the others led their soldiers and horses to die, and the team under the green battle flag suddenly stopped chasing and killing He Zhengbu.

"Doot dot dot toot toot toot toot ......"

"Doot dot dot toot toot toot toot ......"

"Doot dot dot toot toot toot toot ......"

The sound of suona is overwhelming, proud and loud.

With the sound of suona, the team under the green battle flag, with a little disdain, slowly turned around. Under the protection of his own cavalry on the left flank, he picked up the robe that had been injured by the feather arrow, and retreated to the main formation without hurrying.

"Shaft, how dare you, dare to insult the old man like this! Deceive people too much, deceive people too much!" was ruthlessly humiliated twice in a row, Wang Jun was so angry that his eyes turned black for a while. However, the order has been conveyed, the forbidden army is changing formations in a hurry, and even if the flame in his heart reaches a foot high, he can only choose to wait for the time being.

Wait for your own team to complete the formation, wait for He Zheng to lead the remnants to return to their own formation, wait for the soldiers under his command to recover from the shock, and then promise a heavy reward to regain morale......

After waiting for half an hour, the formation change was finally completed. He Zheng, Fan Aineng, and Li Gang finally led their respective subordinates back into the team. In the bleak autumn wind, more than 48,000 soldiers of the Shenwu Praetorian Guard looked at the battlefield where the corpses were pillowed, and everyone's face was full of panic!

"If the order goes on, this battle achievement will be tripled. Behead the first-level reward of twenty times, and the book of honors will be turned four times!" Taking a deep breath, Wang Jun's throat opened and let out an angry roar. I'm afraid that the reward is not high enough, and my voice can't be conveyed clearly by the heralds around me!

"Triple the work. Behead the first-level reward for twenty times, and the book of honors will be turned four times!" The next moment, the heralds shouted in unison. Every word is spit out exactly the same.

However, the expected cheers did not come!

Wang Jun turned his head angrily, but saw that the cronies and generals around him all twisted their heads to the east, and their faces were as white as earth.

The two yellow earth dragons, who didn't know when they came from the east, quickly approached the battlefield.

"Reinforcements, reinforcements for the rebels!" The two scouts with arrows behind them swayed on horseback, approaching the handsome banner of the forbidden army, blood dripping, staining the stirrups and clothes red, "Gao Xingzhou and Fu Yanqing, Gao Xingzhou and Fu Yanqing are here, they, they are in cahoots with Chai Rong!"