Chapter 48

() Wright Town, night.

The Atterbury soldiers on the roads of the town were sheltered in makeshift sentry houses by the howling winter winds, and it was a fairy pleasure to be able to sit around the fireplace in the house and drink some wine to warm up. And the soldiers of the squad that used to be the road guard at the entrance of the town are also enjoying such a fairy-like "life".

"On such a cold day, it's really unlucky to ask Lao Tzu to come to the town!"

The squad leader was the first to vent his dissatisfaction with his superiors.

"Captain, forget it, you have a drink, don't worry about it so much. ”

A sergeant shoved the flask in his hand into the captain's hand.

"I think everyone should be careful, in case those leaders come to check the post, we will be miserable!"

A recruit who had just enlisted in the army looked around in fear, as if he was afraid that there would suddenly be an extra boss in the room.

"Xinding, those leaders may be sleeping with the girl in their arms, and the ghosts will come to check the post. Lao Tzu has been a soldier for more than ten years, and I haven't seen an official who doesn't sleep at night and runs out to check the post!"

One of the veterans teased the recruit on the shoulder and burped, causing the others to burst into laughter. The recruit scratched his head in embarrassment and smiled.

"During the training a few days ago, the general said that we should beware of the enemy's sneak attack, I think everyone should pay more attention, and I will go outside. "A soldier was about to stand up when he was pulled by a half-drunk captain.

"This hell weather, even the rabbits are *** hiding in the nest, I don't believe that those Carol people are so thick in skin and not afraid of freezing. ”

Just when everyone was pulling and pulling, you and I were drinking a sip of wine, Lang Zhong and the other 700 cavalry led by Lang Zhong had quietly hidden in the jungle outside the town, and each war horse had a special mask on the mouth to prevent the neighing of the war horse from alarming the enemy.

According to the information provided by Li Qiu, 3,000 Atterbury hoplites and 1,000 light cavalry were stationed in the town of Wright, and the remaining 2,000 hoplites and 1,000 light cavalry were stationed at the mouth of the Tunliang Valley ten miles away from the town.

Lang Zhong looked at the soldiers around him who were fully armoured, and at the same time lifted the "sawtooth knife" in his hand. It was this knife that once beheaded Gomez, the cavalry commander of the Atterbury Army, under his horse. Tonight, it is unclear how many more heads of Atterbury soldiers the knife will take.

"Kill!"

A short but powerful voice kicked off this bloody night.

Lang Zhong took the lead in jumping out of the jungle with his sword in his hand, and rushed to the town of Leyte, followed by seven hundred heavy cavalry of the Black Dragon Knights.

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves shattered the snow and ice on the road, as well as the silence of the night in Wrighttown.

By the time the small group of soldiers guarding the road at the entrance of the town had raised their weapons and rushed out of the hut, the cavalry had already rushed into the town. At the moment when they were stunned by what they saw, countless swords had fallen on them, and when they fell, each of them had more than a dozen wounds, and the death was extremely terrifying.

Lang Zhong, who rushed to the front, ignored the Atterbury infantry coming up from all sides, and his target was the largest hotel in the town of Wright, the Suoko Hotel.

According to intelligence, it was in this inn that the supreme commander of the garrison in the town of Leyte, Galiland, rested. As long as this guy's head is chopped off, the Atterbury Army will become headless flies, unable to organize effective resistance.

Lang Zhongzhong knew very well that with only 700 of his own people, he would have to face more than 4,000 enemy troops, and once the enemy army formed an encirclement of me, he and these men had no choice but to fight to the death. Once the general was beheaded, the chaotic Atterbury army lost its unified command, and he could use the high-speed mobility of the cavalry to charge back and forth, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy, so as to achieve the strategic intention of attracting the enemy troops who guarded Taniguchi to rush to help.

As for Gariland, who was also the commander of the First Army, as his subordinates expected, he was fooling around with prostitutes in bed.

When he heard the shouts of killing in the distance, he crawled out of his bed, hurriedly put on his armor, ran out of the hotel, and shouted at the soldiers running around the street.

Seeing that he couldn't control the situation, he casually cut off the heads of two soldiers, so as to suppress the soldiers who were running wildly nearby.

Garilan, dressed in a wolf bèi costume, was about to reprimand a few words to a soldier who was dressed as a wolf bèi like him, when in the distant street, Lang Zhong waved the war knife in his hand and led his cavalry to rush over. Before Garilan could react, Lang Zhong, who was riding on a horse like a god, had already arrived in front of him.

As soon as he saw Garilan's general's outfit, he waved his hand, his head fell to the ground, and blood poured out from his broken neck.

Lang Zhong didn't care about anything else, and one sideways grabbed the revelation that Gariland fell to the ground and tied it under the horse's neck. As soon as the Atterbury soldiers saw that Lang Zhong was covered in blood, holding his sword high above the top with one arm, they scattered with strange screams, and they did not forget to shout the news of Galilland's death.

When the cavalry following behind Lang Zhong saw that their leader had cut off the head of the enemy's commander, they also roared like thunder for a while, and their morale was at their peak.

Seeing that the morale of the other party was like a rainbow, and his own commander was dead, the shape of the Atbury army was even worse. There are those who throw away their armor, there are those who flee for their lives, and there are those who kneel on the ground and beg for mercy.

Lang Zhong and his 700 cavalry killed from the east to the west of the town, and from the south of the town to the north of the town, and they did not even encounter the resistance of the Atbury army.

The enemy was frightened at the sight of Lang Zhong who was at the front and the head of Garilan hanging from his horse's neck, and there was still an effective resistance to be organized.

The nearly two-quarter hour charge was completely a massacre carried out by Li Yuxuan's cavalry troops against the Atterbury army, and about 1,000 Atterbury troops were beheaded under their horses, and countless people were wounded. The Langzhong side only lost about fifty horsemen.

Finally, the reinforcements stationed at Taniguchi arrived after the battle lasted for almost half an hour, led by the lieutenant general of Galilland, and the two armies met on the narrow road north of the town, and the enemy army was 1,500 hoplites.

As soon as Lang Zhong saw the enemy's formation, he didn't care about the three seven twenty-one, and with a finger of the long knife in his hand, the whole army shook the enemy's infantry phalanx under his leadership, and the two armies immediately fought in one place.

At the beginning of the battle, with the momentum of their own rainbow, Lang Zhong's army temporarily gained the upper hand, and the entire infantry phalanx continued to retreat back to prevent Lang Zhong and his cavalry from breaking through the infantry phalanx. However, as the battle progressed, the Atterbury stragglers, who had been on the run, began to gather and join the fight. Originally, Langzhong's army was inferior in numbers, but now in the face of nearly three or four times the enemy's strength, coupled with the narrow streets in the town, it is not conducive to the cavalry to give full play to the advantage of strong mobility, and the number of casualties is increasing rapidly.

Lang Zhong saw that the predetermined strategic goal had been achieved, and his army was beginning to be in a disadvantageous situation, and it was pointless to fight any further, only to increase casualties. So he began to lead the cavalry to rush to the west flank, where the enemy's forces were weaker, in an attempt to break through. But a light cavalry from nowhere blocked the way of Lang Zhong and his men. After a volley, Lang Zhong's army suffered many casualties, and suddenly fell into the enemy's encirclement.

The Atterbury Army, which had been reinforced from the direction of Taniguchi, consisted of 2,500 troops, 1,500 hoplites from the north of the town and 1,000 light infantry from the west of the town.

As Lang Zhong's army fell into the enemy's encirclement from the new, the 1,000 light cavalry automatically scattered around the encirclement, and once Lang Zhong's army broke through, they shot it off their horses and were dismembered by the numerous Atterbury infantry.

Seeing that the situation is getting worse and worse, if you don't think of any more ways, it is very likely that Lang Zhong and his men will be wiped out here tonight.

Just when Lang Zhong was feeling desperate, the torrential rain poured down with lightning.

"Maybe it's the heavens that won't kill me!"

This is the first thing Lang Zhong said when he met Li Yuxuan after the war.

A bolt of lightning struck down from mid-air, and a wooden house next to the road was instantly engulfed in flames, and the winter weather was relatively dry. In this way, the fire showed no sign of abating in the torrential rain, but grew larger and larger, and the surrounding Atterbury soldiers rushed away, and the whole situation was thrown into chaos, and the original tight encirclement was slightly breached.

Seeing that the opportunity could not be missed, Lang Zhong hurriedly turned his horse's head, and after cutting down more than a dozen Atterbury soldiers, he broke out of the encirclement, and broke through the edge of the burning fire, followed by the other cavalry.

In the face of the raging fire, none of the Atterbury soldiers dared to approach, only a few light cavalry fired arrows in the hope of holding back the enemy cavalry that broke through. But at this time of life and death, Lang Zhong and his men and his horsemen simply ignored the arrows as nothing and galloped away.

According to one of Langzhong's subordinates, only 54 horsemen broke through at that time, and only 18 horsemen finally reached Suger with Langzhong. According to post-war statistics, the casualties of the Atterbury army in this battle were more than 2,000, so you can imagine the tragic process of this battle.

As for the two armies of Xu Zhixin and Li Yuyang, who were hidden outside the valley mouth of the Tunliang Valley, about half an hour after the troops of Atbury galloping to the aid of Wright Town left, they carried out a surprise attack on the camp outside the valley mouth, and in only two quarters of an hour, they completely annihilated the enemy's 500 light cavalry, and then entered the valley and quickly built fortifications in accordance with the method of "diverting water to seal the valley" planned by Xu Ruoyu in advance. When the adjutant general led his men back to the valley the next day, they found that more than 4 million catties of military rations had been exhausted. After several failed assaults, he had no choice but to order his troops to blockade the valley and send scouts to the town of Deno to report the situation to Rimmel.