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Chapter 673: Combined Forces

Lao He bared his teeth at the two wind soldiers and said, "I am the battalion captain of the third battalion of the Fifth Corps, He Chi." As he spoke, he took out his military badge from his armor and handed it to the wind soldiers.www.biquge.info

A wind soldier took his military card, looked down carefully, and then leaned in front of Lao He to carefully check his facial features.

Due to the darkness, his face was almost on Lao He's face, and after identifying it for a while, he confirmed that Lao He was indeed the appearance of a wind man.

He took a long breath, handed the military badge to Lao He in a proper manner, intervened in the salute, and said: "Lord Battalion Captain, you are dressed too much like the Besa Army, and it almost caused a misunderstanding!"

Lao He smiled bitterly, if he could be seen at a glance that he was a fake Besa army, then what was the point of disguise? He turned around and shouted: "Brothers, get up, they are all your own people!"

As he shouted, the wind-soldier turned around and blew two long and one short whistles to the rear. After the whistle sounded, looking ahead, there was a black wind army standing in the grass, and in the nearby woods, there were also many wind troops.

Shangguan Xiu roughly looked around, which was at least the strength of three battalions. Really. When several battalion lieutenants came forward and signed up with Lao He and the others, it became clear that they were three battalions of the Ninth Corps.

"We came here from the village of Jerio, and were about to rest in this woods for a while, when we heard that a Besa army suddenly came from the rear, so we set up an ambush here, but fortunately your command was shouted in time, otherwise we would have really become a nest between the two sides. A battalion lieutenant of the Ninth Corps said with trepidation. heiyaпge

"How's the battle going over there?" Zhang Hong asked casually.

"The Besa army I met along the way was a small group, and the fight was relatively easy, what about you?"

"The brothers of the third battalion of the fifth corps fought very badly, and there were only about 200 men left, but the results were also brilliant, taking a village, a stronghold, and a fortress. "Zhang Hong is a person who talks a lot, he doesn't need Lao He to speak, he first helps introduce the situation of the third battalion.

"Only one battalion has taken down so many places, and it has also laid down a fortress?" The three battalion lieutenants of the Ninth Corps were taken aback when they heard this, and looked at Lao He in disbelief.

Lao He smiled helplessly, it was not his intention to lay down so many places and experience so many vicious battles.

Although the battle record is brilliant, after all, there are so many brothers who have been killed and wounded, and the three battalion captains can understand his current mood. Another battalion lieutenant changed his words and asked, "Where do you plan to infiltrate disguised as the Besa Army?"

"A nearby fortress in the southwest corner of Vaasa. Lao He said.

The three battalion lieutenants of the Ninth Corps took out the map, unfolded it, and looked at it carefully. Under Lao He's guidance, they found the target that Lao He and the others were going to attack.

After seeing it, the three of them immediately frowned, looked at each other with solemn expressions, and one of them shook his head and said: "Not long ago, the brothers of the first battalion of our corps had already hit the vicinity of this fortress, and they originally wanted to take this fortress by the way, but in the process of attacking, almost all the troops were wiped out, and even the battalion captain Zhao Laoqi was killed. The enemy army in this fortress, no less than two corps, and all of them are regular local troops, well-equipped and with sufficient ammunition, you only have two and a half battalions, and it is almost impossible to take this fortress. ”

"It was precisely because we predicted that this fortress would not be easy to fight, so we disguised ourselves as the Besa army and planned to blend into the fortress first. Shangguan Xiu suddenly interjected.

Chen Chong, the captain of the sixth battalion of the Ninth Army Corps, glanced at him, and was about to speak, when his body shook and said in surprise: "You...... Are you from Besa?"

"I'm just disguised as a Besa!"

Lao He answered: "My little brother is a pure-blooded man. ”

Chen Chong looked at Shangguan Xiu in surprise again, and was amazed in his heart, he didn't ask any more questions, and said: "Don't say that it is not easy for you to blend into the enemy fortress, even if you really get in, with your kind of people, entering is equivalent to being caught by the enemy's urn, closing the door and beating the dog." ”

"If the three of you battalions can cooperate with our attack, then it would be the best!" Shangguan Xiu Zhengse said.

Chen Chong, Sun San, and Guo Yong looked at each other and asked in unison, "How do you plan to cooperate with us?"

Shangguan Xiu's eyes rolled and said: "We pretend to be Besa's deserters, and you pretend to be the wind army that pursues us, so that we can blend into the fortress and get twice the result with half the effort, and then, we will come and fight the Besa army inside the fortress inside and outside!"

"This ......" None of the three battalion lieutenants of the Ninth Corps immediately answered, falling into deep thought.

They all have their own tasks and offensive goals, if they go to help Shangguan Xiu and them attack the fortress, it is better to say that it is a great achievement if they win, and if they lose, the responsibility for losing troops and losing generals will all have to be borne by themselves.

"The brothers of the same legion should be inseparable from each other, in this battle, we are all willing to fight for our lives, are you greedy for life and afraid of death?" Lao He looked at the three of them and asked dissatisfiedly.

Provoked by his words, Chen Chong couldn't stand it anymore, stomped his feet fiercely, and said, "Cheng! I, Lao Chen, will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman and help you!" As he spoke, he looked at the two colleagues beside him and asked, "The third child, Ah Yong, what about the two of you?"

"Of course we did it with you! Before the war, we said that we would live and die together, advance and retreat together!" Kong San and Sun Yong said in unison.

"Okay!" Lao He stroked his palms and smiled, took out a sweat towel from his armor, shook it to everyone, and said: "After we infiltrate the fortress, we will use the letter cannon as the number, and when we fight, we will have the sweat towel of our Zhenjun army wrapped around our arms, you can distinguish between the enemy and me!"

"That's great!"

Originally, it was only the third battalion of the Fifth Corps, but it went all the way deep into the Vasa City Defense Area, and successively attracted two battalions of the Sixth Corps and three battalions of the Ninth Corps, and the combined strength of the troops was more than 5,000 people, equivalent to half a corps.

Shangguan Xiu and others, disguised as the Besa Army, ran in front, and the three battalions of the Ninth Corps chased behind, and the soldiers fired into the air from time to time, pretending to be pretend. To make a long story short, Shangguan Xiu and the others ran to the fortress in the near city in one go.

This fortress is only more than a mile away from Vasa City, and if you set up artillery in the fortress, you can directly hit the walls of Vasa City. This can be regarded as a real hinterland of urban defense, and it is also one of the core points of Vaasa's urban defense system.

The fortress was surrounded by earthen walls, not too high, only about four meters, but very strong, more than two meters thick, and it was full of Bessa's army standing in battle, and there were several artillery pieces.

In the distance, I heard the neighing of horses and shouts from people outside the fortress, and the gunfire continued, and the Besa troops on the earthen wall stretched their necks and looked outside. But it's late at night, and it's dark outside, so I can't see anything clearly.

After a while, a Besa spy ran to the fortress in a panic and shouted to the Besa soldiers above: "There is a group of our defeated army running over, and there are many wind troops chasing and killing behind, I can't see how many wind troops are attacking them!"

Hearing the words of the spies, the Besa soldiers on the earthen wall immediately sounded the alarm. With the rapid ringing of the bell, all the Besa troops of the two corps were awakened in the fortress, and the commander of the fortress, Viscount Frank, escorted by a large group of personal guards, climbed the earthen wall and asked the surrounding Besa troops: "What's the matter, why are the alarm bells ringing?"

"My lord, the wind army is attacking again!" a Besa general walked up to Frank, clenched his fists in his chest, and bowed.

"How many enemy troops are there?" asked Frank with a cold face.

"Because it's too dark, the scouts can't see the number of the Wind Army, but the Wind Army is chasing our deserters here!"

Frank didn't ask any more, he picked up his monoculars and looked out of the fortress. You can't see the situation outside the fortress clearly with the naked eye, and with the telescope, you can't see it clearly.

Not long after, another spy from the Besa Army ran to the fortress and said loudly: "Our deserters are less than 100 meters away from the fortress!"

Frank put down his binoculars and asked loudly, "How many deserters are there on our side?"

"No less than two thousand!"

"That's a lot!" the Besa general was taken aback, turned to look at Frank, and said, "My lord, there are quite a few deserters, aren't they...... Put them in the fortress first?"

Frank grimaced and said, "Wait until they get to the fort." ”

With the sound of rumbling and chaotic footsteps, a large group of Besa troops appeared in people's field of vision. When they ran to within ten meters of the fortress, people finally saw clearly that this group of deserters, under the banner of Besa, was also wearing Besa's armor and military uniform, but they were all embarrassed, covered with dust and blood, and when they looked at their faces, they were black, red, and white, all with big flower faces.

Finally, when they ran to the front of the fortress, Frank leaned in his hand on the arrows of the earthen wall, poked out, and asked loudly, "Which regiment are you from?"

The sound of questioning came from the top of their heads, Lao He, Zhang Hong, Lang Tu and others all understood or not, and they didn't know what the other party was talking about. They hung their heads weakly, their nerves were tense to the extreme, and they didn't dare to breathe.

Shangguan Xiuke was far more calm than them, he raised his head, looked at the people of the Besa army on the earthen wall, and said in a trembling voice panting: "We...... We are from Bell Fortress, Bell Fortress has now been captured by the Wind Army, we were chased by the Wind Army all the way, and escaped with nine deaths, please let us in and hide!"

In the past few months since he entered Besa, his Besa language has become more proficient, and when he speaks, his words are correct and round, and no one can hear the problem, and his current appearance is a Besa face, and anyone who sees him will not be able to think that he will be a wind man.

The news that the Bell Fortress was captured by the Wind Army, Frank has already heard about it, and it can be said that this battle is a great shame for the city defense army of Vasa City, the main general of the fortress, died inexplicably, and the fortress corps, the defeat is even more inexplicable, it is said that he did not even resist, but when he heard that the Wind Army was coming, he was so frightened that he fled without a fight.