Chapter 36: The Defeat
"Brother Isco, people! people! all people!" Just as Isco arrived at his guard position, a mercenary who had been arranged by himself to the south ran in front of him, panting and reporting. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Hearing the mercenary's report, this made Isco's heart have a little ominous premonition: "You tell me, who are they, how many are there, and where are they located?"
And the mercenary took a deep breath after listening to Isco's words, and forced himself to calm down: "I don't know who they are, they are all wearing red samurai uniforms, and each of them is holding a spear, just like a regular army, just like the garrison troops in the city of Paraven, there are probably dozens of people, they are only 1 mile away from us when I see them, and now they are estimated to have reached the warning position!"
Isco learned a lot from the mercenaries, wearing the same costume, and the size of dozens of people, and most importantly, they seemed to use the same standard equipment, so it was very likely that it was a regular army, but where did these regular troops come from? What are they doing here?
Just when Isco still had a stomach full of doubts, these troops appeared in his field of vision, after all, their warning range was only one mile away from the camp, once someone entered this distance, and it was such a large group of people, it was easy to see these people in the guard position in other directions, which is also the reason why this guard position was set up in the first place, and it can be seen from this aspect that Isco does have some real skills.
Even if others say more, it is not as good as what they really see, Isco This is the first time that he has seen an army so intuitively, an army beyond his usual cognition, he boasts that he has worked hard in the Northern Army for many years, and has seen many elites, and even their northern soldiers are elites, but such a troop that walks at the same frequency has completely exceeded his imagination.
Originally, Isco also planned to go forward to ask about the origin of these armies, after all, they are also registered official mercenary groups, and they have not done anything illegal and undisciplined, since they are the army, they should have other tasks, after asking clearly, they can also see if there is anything that can help and cooperate, after all, he was also from the imperial army.
But the development of events was indeed beyond his expectations, and he saw seven donkeys rush out from behind the red queue that was ready to go, and on these asses sat a soldier in a red samurai uniform, some of them holding swords, some of them holding broadswords, some of them holding spears, and behind them were a dozen sword and shield bearers with wooden round shields.
Although Isco looked down on this kind of donkey cavalry, because he had seen the more elite Imperial Knights in the Northern Army, as well as the steppe cavalry of Darius, the donkey cavalry at this time was no different from ants in front of them, but at this moment, Isco was just a mercenary with no armor and only a long sword!
Even if Isco was confident that he would survive these low-end donkey cavalry, they were followed by a dozen sword and shield men, and so on! Now more than 20 pikemen had appeared from the red queue and rushed towards them, Isco was not sure that one person could deal with dozens of people.
Originally, Isco still imagined in his heart that the arrival of these soldiers was just a misunderstanding, and as long as he could explain it, it would be fine, but soon Isco fell into despair, because he heard the shouts of those donkey cavalry, and they seemed to be shouting to kill the enemy.
This reminded Isco of the murderous behavior of some rogue armies he had heard before, and he had not believed in such a thing before, but now he saw such a well-trained army doing such a thing, which made him lose hope in the rule of the kingdom again.
"Run! Split up! Don't run to the camp, we will be used as cannon fodder by the regiment commander when we run to the camp! There are these troops in the south, and the camp in the north, I will go east, you go west, go around and then run north!" Isco quickly instructed the mercenaries beside him and ran to the east without looking back.
And just as Isco and the others were scattering and fleeing for their lives, little Hillman was reporting the latest situation to Zhang Xiao: "Captain, the mercenaries in the cave camp in front have discovered us, they seem to be sorting out their equipment and entering the battle preparations, the mercenaries in charge of vigilance just now are very cunning, they fled to the east and west respectively, and the brothers in front are waiting for your instructions." ā
"I already have arrangements for those people, and I can't run away. Zhang Xiao looked up at the sun above his head, don't you say, he was really sleepy by the late autumn sun, blinked Zhang Xiao muttered to himself: "I don't know if Alonso has arrived at the designated place." ā
"Let the pursuing brothers quickly return to their positions, the whole army will obey the order, advance in a linear phalanx, and the donkey cavalry will press behind!" Zhang Xiao waved his hand and commanded Little Hillman.
Although it was almost noon at this time, and the soldiers in Zhang Xiao's formation had not eaten breakfast, but at this time, the battle was about to break out, and no one thought about whether they were hungry at all, what they had in their hearts was only the nervousness of the first battle, and after getting Zhang Xiao's military order, these militiamen of the village protection team also quickly began to change formations according to the content of their daily training.
Although some soldiers made mistakes due to nervousness in the process of changing formations, they were still able to make up for it quickly, but in a few minutes, the original marching army column turned into a three-person thick linear phalanx, and behind them were a dozen sword and shield men and seven donkey cavalry.
Looking at the mercenaries who were still sorting out their weapons in a panic not far away, Zhang Xiao couldn't help but feel that the simplicity of this battle was comparable to sending points, his troops were so slow to change formations, and in the absence of a proper blocking plan, these mercenaries didn't know how to grasp these fighters, so they could only wait to be captured!
Zhang Xiao waved the big knife in his hand forward, and said in a proud voice: "Forward!"
With Zhang Xiao's order, this three-person thick linear phalanx began to advance slowly, each of them was armed with a spear, and the troops were divided into three layers, the first layer was raised horizontally, the second layer was raised obliquely, and the third layer was erected, ready to fill the gap at any time, I have to say that such a gun formation is fragile, because Zhang Xiao has not had time to instill real gun formation exercises for them in training, this is all due to lack of time!
On the other hand, those mercenaries, looking at the slowly advancing gun array in front of them, a feeling of irresistibility sprouted in their hearts, this is the army! This is the army!
"Don't stunned Lao Tzu! Rush! Take your big knife and hack these guys to death!" The burly man brandished his big knife in his hand and threatened every mercenary around him: "If any of you don't obey the order, go back to the town, Lao Tzu will let your family be ruined!"
Hearing the threat of the burly man, these mercenaries seemed to think of those lovely relatives in their own family, and remembered the usual evil deeds of this regiment commander, because of the usual obscenity of this regiment commander, the mercenaries who had already retreated could only tremble and pick up their weapons, looking at the army in front of them in fear, they seemed to be able to feel the distance of death.
A hundred steps, the gun array in front of them is only a hundred steps away from them!
Eighty paces, these mercenaries could even see the faces of those red soldiers, they saw a lot of expressions, some were scared, some were excited, some were indifferent, but what could not be concealed was that there was some nervousness in everyone's expressions.
Fifty paces, the mercenaries did not hesitate to strangle them mercilessly, and behind them was the regimental commander who was usually a powerful man and did all the evil in the town, and he had been urging them to rush forward, threatening them with all the threats he could.
Thirty steps, those mercenaries couldn't help but have a feeling of "Are we going to die?", they didn't want to die, they all couldn't help but tighten the weapons in their hands, they were going to fight to the death.
But just as they were about to fight to the death, they saw a handsome man with a big knife behind the linear phalanx who was confidently issuing the horn of death: "The whole army charges!"
After the handsome man gave the order, the soldiers in front of them quickened their pace, and quickly turned into a state of running, and what made them even more frightened was that these soldiers still maintained the basic phalanx formation during the run, and the distance between them and these soldiers was rapidly shrinking.
The desperate heart that had just been born was completely strangled in the bud, and when the dozens of people in front of them shouted "kill" to them in unison, the first thing they could think of was to escape.
Not surprisingly, when the phalanx was only 10 paces away from these mercenaries, all the mercenaries threw down their weapons in unison, some fled in all directions, some knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and behind them, there was no longer the commander who was a powerful leader.
Looking at the defeated mercenary group in front of him, Zhang Xiao couldn't help but smile sneeringly, defeating an armed organization that didn't even know about the charge, there was really nothing to praise, but this can't be blamed on these mercenaries, if these mercenaries know how to counter-charge, it would be strange.
"The whole army obeyed the order, 20 men were stationed in the grotto camp to guard the prisoners, 10 men pursued to the east, 10 people to the west, and 30 men to the north to join Alonso's team! The donkey cavalry moved freely 'hunting', and the sword and shield men guarded the camp all around, all remembered! I want to live, all of them must live!"