Chapter 13 The New Edition of the Last Stand

As mentioned last time, the vulture sent people to ask Liu Hou to retreat 10 miles so that they could cross the river for a decisive battle. Liu Houzheng did not know how to induce the enemy to cross the river, and seeing that there was such a good and cheap delivery to the door, he naturally had no reason to let it go, so he gladly agreed to the envoy of the vulture bones, and immediately organized the troops to retreat, making enough space for the Tengjia army to land.

The vultures were overjoyed, and they did not notify Meng Huo, who was in the rear, and brazenly ordered his rattan armor army to cross the river. In fact, it is also the case that the vulture and Meng Shu do not belong to each other, and everyone is the king and hegemon in the two lands, and he brought the troops here this time purely to provoke righteous indignation, or to talk about the righteousness of his buddies, so he doesn't have to obey Meng Huo's orders at all, and he won't take into account his feelings.

Some time ago, Meng was dead and refused to let him cross the river to find a decisive battle with the Shu army, he had already held his breath, and now that he has the opportunity, how could he let it go. He is now looking forward to how to cross the river and kill the Shu army without leaving a single piece of armor.

To say that this rattan armor army crossed the river is really simple, they took off the rattan armor, carried weapons, food, and equipment on their backs, and then threw the rattan armor into the water, and the people directly fell on their stomachs. This set of rattan armor is like a miniature raft, carrying the rattan armor soldiers half-floating and half-sinking in the water, and then the soldiers pedal the water with their feet or hands on the water, and then go straight to the opposite bank.

Liu Hou sent people on the other side to observe the crossing of the vine armor soldiers, and he also sighed after listening to the scout's detailed description of the situation. To say that this rattan armor is indeed a good thing, even crossing the river can be used as a life jacket, if it is not afraid of fire, it is simply perfect.

Seeing that the Shu army really gave up a large piece of territory and did not make any half-crossing attacks, he couldn't help but be very happy, and praised the prince Liu Chan for being a trustworthy person when he drank that night, and he was not as treacherous and despicable as Meng Huo said.

Not only that, but this crown prince Liu Chan even sent someone over to ask if he wanted to let his vine armor army rest for a few days, and wait for them to recover and be in the best condition before fighting a decisive battle.

This can be regarded as a completely brainless act in military terms, needless to say, the general with a little common sense doesn't like to attack before people have set up camp and have a stable foothold? On the contrary, good generals will also pay special attention to the defensive work at this time.

However, this vulture admired the brainless behavior of the Shu army, thinking that they were all upright heroes, and said to the messenger sent by Liu Hou very arrogantly that there was no need to rest, his sons were all top heroes, and they would meet the Shu army for a decisive battle tomorrow. After speaking, he poured a bottle of wine before letting the envoy go back, which made it difficult for Liu Hou to know the meaning of the vulture bone from the mouth of the messenger with a big tongue.

The next day, the two sides set up a position on the peach blossom water, preparing for a showdown. On behalf of the Shu army, it was still Gao Ding, an unlucky bastard, who led the old and weak soldiers under his command during this time to make a "great contribution".

The reason for the quotation marks is because, first, these so-called credits have been exchanged for a large number of casualties; Second, those so-called "merits" are not any merits, at most they are just hard work, first, they did not defeat the enemy and kill the enemy, and second, they did not attack the city and occupy the enemy's place.

To say meritorious, or only because they walked in front, attracted the first wave of blows from the barbarian army, reducing the number of casualties of the regular troops behind.

Facing the barbarian vine armor army in front of them, which was densely packed with no end in sight, Gao Ding and his subordinates had already been frightened, and their faces turned pale. In their eyes, these brutes are all blue-faced fangs (actually because of the paint on their faces), copper-headed iron arms (vine armor with a golden sheen and angular edges), and they all look like hell gods.

The only thing that made them feel at ease was the battle today, and the usual overseers who stood behind them with fierce looks, horizontal knives in their hands, and cold faces were nowhere to be seen. Does that mean that even if you want to run away, you won't be punished on the spot by the Supervising Clan?

In fact, they guessed correctly, before leaving, Liu Hou also repeatedly explained to Gao Ding that this battle was not allowed to be defeated, and it was necessary to control the rhythm of the battle, neither to defeat too easily, so that the barbarians could see the flaws, nor to fight with them for too long, causing a large number of casualties.

That is to say, on the premise of doing good deeds and achieving the goal of luring the enemy, we should minimize casualties. Of course, this is a secret military order, and only Gao Ding knows about it in the whole army, and the other generals don't know about it, so as not to leak secrets.

Gao Ding was very distressed by the prince's order, how can he see that these miscellaneous fish are not controlled by himself, not to mention whether he can grasp this degree, even if he can issue the order correctly, can he be correctly executed in the chaos of the army? It's almost a brain-free thing to think about.

Compared with Gao Ding's thoughts, the vulture bone seems to be full of confidence and high morale. After the two armies were arrayed, he stepped forward to the front of the formation, brandished a huge mace and began to curse:

"Wu Na Han dog, dare to come to my Ugo country to spread wild, dare to fight with my grandfather and me?"

Shu Jun was frightened when he saw the non-mainstream appearance of the vulture bone, especially the height of his second zhang, which was about the same as Yao Ming, standing in the short Nanban crowd, the effect of standing out from the crowd was very obvious, such a giant, who would dare to go up and challenge? Who wants to go up and challenge.

Gao Ding barely stabilized his mind, and he didn't dare to go again after driving the first two steps, he forcibly raised his breath and said: "This general is Gao Ding, the head of the forward regiment of the Han Hong Army (the stingy Liu Hou ignored the identity of Gao Dingyi and only sealed him the position of head of the regiment), dare to ask Your Excellency is the general of the vulture bone. ”

"I, what a vulture general, I'm the lord of the vulture country."

"......, then the lord of the Vulture Bone Country, I would have heard for a long time that Your Excellency is a hero with unparalleled loyalty and martial arts, why did you follow Meng Huo, an anti-thief, to make trouble today?" Gao Ding was speechless for a while, thought about it, and said again.

"Hehe, Gao Ding, you also think I'm a hero, haha, I think back then, when the Baiyue Alliance Conference, you seemed to look down on me. Now I finally know I'm a hero. I miss you Gaoding, also known as the self-proclaimed King of Yi, why are you so columsy today, willing to be an eagle dog of Han dogs? ”

The vulture seems to be more serious about others evaluating him as a hero. And Gao Ding heard the words of the vulture bone, and there was a moment of trance, yes, he is a king of Yi anyway, and on his own one-acre and three-point land, he used to be a decisive and talker.

Now he has become a blunt knife driven by the prince, leading 20,000 or 30,000 old and weak soldiers to cut through thorns and thorns for the prince's army, test the enemy's situation, and specialize in carrying out those tasks with a high casualty rate.

However, after thinking about it, I couldn't help but shudder when I thought of the terrifying combat power of the Shu army's firearms troops. Who in the world can compete with such a force? Sooner or later, the world belongs to the prince, and those who oppose him are destined to be crushed into powder, and he has personally experienced the sense of powerlessness and fear under the blows of the firearms unit, and he can't even give birth to any thoughts of rebellion in his heart.

"Vulture bones, why are you still stubborn, the whole world is not the king's land, the shore of the land is not the king's minister, this world is the world of the Han Emperor, I am waiting for the Han minister, what is wrong with crusading against the minister under the command of His Royal Highness the Prince? It's better for you to surrender too, I will definitely protect you in front of His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is also a character who knows heroes and heroes, and will definitely reuse you. ”

Gao Ding was just in a trance for a while, and instantly regained his clarity, but persuaded the vulture bone to come.

"Hugh is talking nonsense, my vulture bone is a man who stands up to the sky, he will only die in battle, how can he surrender to a helpless Han child."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is wise and powerful, and he is by no means a powerless person......

"If you want to fight, you will fight, and talk less nonsense." The conversation always came to an abrupt end as one side lost patience, and the sentence that interrupted Gao Ding was a sign that the war was about to begin.

Gao Ding bowed, turned the horse's head, and returned to his own formation. Both sides sent their own troops and prepared for war. Not long after, the big war began, with one side on the offensive and the other on the defensive. The attacking side was the Tengjia army, but I saw that they did not charge, but advanced towards the Shu army in a big stride.

The reason why they are said to advance in a messy manner is because they did not line up in a neat queue like the Han army, but rushed towards the Shu army in a chaotic manner. In fact, they didn't have a queue, when they were still just now, they were still in a queue, although it was far from neat, but it was still a queue.

However, when the team started moving, the queue was chaotic, as the advance distance became farther and farther, the queue became more and more messy, and there was no queue at all, everyone was walking together in chaos, anyway, it was a crowd tactic, they didn't pay attention to the queue, they didn't cooperate, they just rushed up and slashed and killed indiscriminately, which was not much different from Hongxing's group fight.

The Shu army put up a defensive formation, stood still in place, and first the archers came out and shot a few rounds of bows and arrows. Even though the distance between the two sides was already very close, these old and sick people did not have much strength, and the arrows they shot were soft and had neither strength nor accuracy, and they were bounced off the rattan armor one after another, except for a few unlucky eggs who were shot at the feet that the vine armor could not protect, almost no casualties were caused to the vine armor army.

When the distance of the vine armor army was only 20 paces, the Shu army archers quickly ran from the gap between the soldiers behind to the back of the large formation, and then, three rows of pikemen stepped forward, put their guns flat, and prepared to assassinate. They were followed by sword and shield soldiers, ready to answer at any moment.

Although Gao Ding is a king of Yi, he is a small prince, and he still has some military attainments, and during this time, he has learned a lot of knowledge of battle formations under Zhao Yun's ear and face, and now looking at the formation he put out, it is still very desirable.

Liu Hou won battles again and again during this period of time, and captured a large number of weapons and equipment, he was very generous with the equipment of these cold weapons, and he always responded to the equipment requirements put forward by Gao Ding, so now the equipment of Gao Ding's department is much better than the troops he originally commanded, if it weren't for the soldiers under his command are old, weak, sick and disabled, his troops will definitely be able to fight head-on with the front-line troops of the major princes without falling behind.

The vine armor army arrived in a blink of an eye, and the Shu army saw the hideous face and strange shape of the vine armor soldier, and the two trembles even more, and they couldn't wait to immediately throw down the weapon in their hands and run away. The two armies finally came into contact, and the Shu army stabbed out spears one after another, but the spear head could not be pierced into the rattan armor, but was bounced away by the elastic rattan.

Originally, according to the training routine formulated by Zhao Yun for them during this time, the pikemen should be under the command of the battalion officer, and the three platoons should take turns to stab the enemy's upper, middle and lower three roads, so that the enemy has no escape, no way to escape, and is destined to be killed on the spot.

However, the training time of these high-level departments was extremely short, and their personal qualities were also extremely poor, and now that they were about to fight, they were facing such a terrible enemy, and they were all in chaos, and no one listened to the command of the battalion commander at all, and they were all poking indiscriminately with guns. Its chaotic scene has a fight with the Fuji Armor Army.

ps. I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival, family reunion, good health, smooth work, and financial resources! Wishing you prosperity, bring the red envelope.