Chapter 3 The Red Sea
Seeing that the situation was decided, Xu Haifeng gave the order to withdraw his troops, and a man beside him held a black chess piece high and kept waving it on the highest wall in the inner city. When Qin Yong and the others saw this scene, they didn't say a word, and immediately recovered the team and rushed back.
Diametrically opposed to Xu Haifeng's order, the commander of the Red Sea gave the order for the whole army to pursue. All the well-trained cavalry of the Red Sea were divided into a hundred squads, ranging from twenty to thirty men each, who abandoned their guns, drew their sabers, and chased the defeated Caesars, who took a life with a wave of their sabers.
The Caesars spontaneously organized several small counterattacks, but because the number was too small to stop the strong onslaught of the cavalry, a red wave hit and disappeared immediately, leaving only a few corpses lying on the ground. From time to time, Caesar discarded his weapons and fell to his knees in surrender, but the cavalry of the Red Sea turned a blind eye and beckoned directly with their sabers.
Looking at the brave performance of Tongze, Xu Haifeng admired the five-body throw. Splitting the entire team into squads of dozens of people is a joke in a large-scale melee, but it is used to pursue the enemy army at this moment, and it achieves the maximum killing effect. The great name of the Red Ocean is obviously not obtained from empty words.
The chase did not last long, and in less than half an hour, the warriors of the Red Sea stopped their pursuit, gathered from all directions, cleared the battlefield a little and began to enter the city.
At this time, the sound of galloping horses' hooves came again from a distance, Xu Haifeng naturally saw far away because of the high standing, and he immediately judged that it was the cavalry troops of the Caesar people, obviously they got the news and rushed to reinforcements. Unfortunately, they were still a step late, and if they had arrived half an hour earlier, or if the Caesar infantry commander had not fled, but had organized his army to resist, the victory or defeat would have been unpredictable.
Although the team of the Red Sea saw the cavalry of the other side, they still maintained their original speed and entered the city gate one after another. As soon as all the people entered the city gates, the thick gates were immediately hidden. Although this city wall has suffered the greatest catastrophe in history in the past twenty years, and most places are dilapidated, the good mold is still there, and with it as a support, it is a great advantage compared to the flat ground to meet the attack.
Caesar's cavalry soon arrived on the battlefield, and they were few in number, but they also had more than 5,000 horsemen. Xu Haifeng gasped, he now finally understood why the commander of the Red Ocean had only pursued for most of the hour under such a good situation just now, and had also carried out the strategy of leaving no prisoners. It seems that he had known that Caesar's reinforcements were nearby, and had calculated the time when the other side would arrive, and everything was in order, and all the actions were in order.
Xu Haifeng secretly compared him in his heart, but found that he was far inferior, if there was anything that could compete with them, maybe those soldiers who drank blood wine still had a slight advantage in personal quality.
However, he didn't know that the other party also estimated him high in his heart, in fact, with the performance of Qin Yong and others, no one would look down on him anymore, how many dead people who are so fearless of death can there be in the world.
Caesar's cavalry did not attack the city, but circled around the city wall within an arrow distance, and then half of them dismounted and began to clean up the battlefield, while the other half were engrossed in guarding the Han army in the city. Looking at this posture, the two sides can't fight.
After the initial excitement, Xu Haifeng returned to the weak state of excessive blood loss at the beginning, unable to stand on his feet, and relied on the support of the people around him to avoid falling. He was very strange that he had the strength to run from the foot of the city to the head of the city in one go. However, after seeing the soldiers of the Red Sea begin to enter the city, he immediately ordered the inner city gates to be opened and went out to greet them.
The warriors of the Red Sea suddenly split up, and an officer in a big red robe walked out, escorted by several people. I saw a row of fierce men standing at the gate of the inner city, covered in blood, and at the front was a young man sitting on a wicker chair, and next to this young man was standing the man who was like a demon god-the fierce general Qin Yong. Just looking at this posture, the idiot knows who is the real head of the family.
"This officer is the former general of the Red Ocean Legion, Xiang Ming, may I ask who your officer is......"
Xu Haifeng fixed his eyes, this is a young officer in his thirties, with a rectangular face, sword eyebrows, a tiger's back and a wolf's waist, a bright red robe inlaid with an eagle with wings ready to fly, and a lion and tiger jade belt around his waist. The guards around him are not simple, all of them are tall and mighty, although they are heavily armoured, they still move freely, and they are all good men in the army.
"Xia Guan is Xu Haifeng, the fourth squad leader of the Seventh Squadron under the Second Brigade of the Fifth Column of the Western Front Battalion, and he has met the commander." Xu Haifeng sat on the rattan chair, clasped his fists weakly and saluted, struggling to stand up, but he was obviously a little powerless.
Xiang Ming was slightly stunned, obviously he didn't expect the other party's official position to be so low, but when he saw Xu Haifeng's actions, he hurriedly took a step, gently pressed Xu Haifeng's shoulder, and said, "Brother is injured, don't be polite." He looked at the people outside the city gate and asked, "How many people are there in the city?" ”
"It's gone...... Xu Haifeng smiled miserably, couldn't help but feel sad from his heart, and cried loudly: "More than 5,000 brothers, there are only a few, 124 people are all here, and the rest of the brothers are martyred." ”
Counting Xu Haifeng, there were originally one hundred and ninety-two people, but the battle was too fierce, and the positional battle was different from defending the city after all, and sixty-eight people were lost at once, so now there are only so many people.
"Brother, please be relieved, we will definitely keep this revenge in our hearts, and sooner or later we will seek justice from Caesar." Xiang Ming also felt the same way and comforted.
"Yes......" Xu Haifeng choked up and was speechless for a while. Qin Yong behind him also had red circles in his eyes, but he just held back and didn't shed tears. Xu Haifeng's blood wine is magically abnormal, people who drink blood wine will be stimulated vitality, their physical condition will be greatly improved, and they will subconsciously obey Xu Haifeng's orders, but it has a great impact on the mind of the eater himself, and he has almost lost his self-consciousness. But for some reason, Qin Yong was an exception, so when he thought of his deceased comrades-in-arms, he was also inexplicably sad and angry.
Xiang Ming knew that he would not be able to persuade him for a while, so he changed the topic and said: "This official was ordered to come this time to support your army, but fortunately, your army is brave, and we are not late." ”
"Thank you for your hard work, long-distance assistance, and your majesty's blessing, this city can be preserved, and now the subordinate officials will be ordered to hand over the responsibility of city defense to your army." Xu Haifeng hurriedly straightened his chest and shouted loudly.
"Okay, from this moment on, our army will take over the defense of this city." Xiang Ming paused for a moment, and said with a slight smile: "Before this official came here, Marshal Gu Dao asked me to say a word to everyone in your army. ”
"Marshal Gu Dao?" Xu Haifeng couldn't help but be stunned, this Marshal Gu Dao was the commander of the Aquila Legion, one of the five major legions stationed in the West, since the outbreak of the war with the Caesars, he was appointed by His Majesty the Emperor as the presidential leader of the Western Front battalion, that is, the commander-in-chief of the Caesar people, at this moment all the soldiers under his command are as high as more than 300,000 people, how can such a big man worry about this small military camp.
Xiang Ming shook the military uniform on his body, respectfully Xu Haifeng shook it deeply, and said solemnly: "Yes, Marshal Gu Dao asked me to say to you, you are the pride of the emperor's [***] people, here, please allow me to pay the highest tribute to all the surviving and glorious martyrs in your army on behalf of the marshal, on behalf of the 300,000 soldiers of the Western Front battalion, and on behalf of the 100,000 soldiers of our Red Ocean Legion." ”
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