Chapter 275: Heavy casualties
"What the hell do you think they're trying to do? If you can't attack us for a long time, you really can't play this little trick to humiliate us? Immediately tell the soldiers to put on their coats and waterproof, and no one is allowed to take the lead without permission, just take care of the crossbow carts on both sides, as long as they dare to rush in, they will immediately fire thousands of arrows......" After saying this, he seemed to feel a little physically and mentally exhausted, so he squatted on the ground and closed his eyes and took a nap. I don't know how long it took, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of splashing water on the cliff, and after waking up, he actually felt a trace of coolness inexplicably.
When he looked up, he realized that the night sky was already full of stars twinkling. "Why are they still splashing water? Is there standing water on the ground? By the way, what time is it? "General Qiyu, the sun has just set for an hour, and there is not much water on the ground, and there is no upper of the shoes, and the extra water has flowed out of the crossing, and they can't stop it if they want to, because they are a little closer, and the soldiers attack with bows and crossbows......"
"Well, that's fine, but why is it so cold in this path! I didn't see such a low temperature during the day, and the soldiers' warm clothes were not wet! "No big guy wears good fur, not to mention this little cold wind, even if it can be carried in the snow for ten days and a half months, these can be prepared in advance!" But they kept pouring water until they were doing a lot of work, so we couldn't make a fire, and we couldn't even get wet with firewood! The soldiers can only gnaw on some dried meat steamed buns...... ruthlessly hearing the guards complaining about this, they immediately laughed and said, "You are also very lucky, now you can eat dried meat in the war, and complain, when I used to fight with the saints, I didn't even gnaw dry steamed buns!" Some eat and be content, our Datang warriors can't be so delicate, let the soldiers quickly eat well and rest, the weather at night may be colder, this can't raise the fire to keep warm is really troublesome, but it's not a big deal, wait until tomorrow morning to make plans, the defenders must not be lazy, a few of you personally take turns to guard, and the war horses also need to be taken care of......"
After ruthlessly saying this, he personally took the guards to patrol back and forth in the trail, until all corners were surveyed with their own eyes before they returned to a safe place to rest with a little peace of mind, and the enemy troops at the intersection on both sides of the mountain road were also guarding every inch at all times, as if they were afraid that the enemy inside would rush out, so after the two sides formed a confrontational situation, the ruthless side was extremely restrained and endured the torture of constantly splashing water from the heights, until it was in the middle of the night and stayed up for seven or eight hours before ruthlessly waking up again, because he instantly felt a terrible serenity.
"What's going on, why is it suddenly so cold in the mountain road, and what happened to the soldiers? Check it out! "After hearing Ruthless's order, the guards immediately patrolled back and forth in the mountain road very quickly, and when he returned to Ruthless's side to report again, Ruthless's whole person was already shivering from the cold." The general's big thing is not good, the stagnant water in the mountain road suddenly all condensed into ice, even those bows and crossbows are covered with ice edges, and the armor of the soldiers is full of frost......"
"I see, I see, no wonder they have to do such a useless work, it turns out that the temperature drops sharply during the night, so that our box crossbows will be frozen by water, and they shall quickly blow the horn and order the whole army to prepare for battle, and the enemy will soon storm in, etc...... Wait, take out the thunderbolts, take them out, fortunately they are all wrapped in oiled paper and should not be soaked with water...... Come on! As soon as the ruthless words were finished, a fire faintly appeared in the distance outside the upper road, and then without waiting for the ruthless to continue asking, the shouting in front of the team suddenly became loud.
I saw Guo Ziyi's one person and one horse under the cover of hundreds of guards, and suddenly entered the crossing, those soldiers guarding the crossbow could not fire the arrows condensed by the ice water in a hurry, and they could only carry the Mo knife and fight and retreat, and soon more than 1,000 people died tragically under Guo Ziyi's cavalry, if it weren't for the soldiers in the middle desperately holding shields to cover ruthlessly, I was afraid that he would also be slashed by Guo Ziyi under the horse on the spot.
But even so, the ruthless legs were shot by a few crossbow arrows in the darkness and unfortunately fell to the ground, "Don't lie, don't lie, they attacked only a few hundred people, and the spear team gave me the top to surround their horses?" Ah Da ...... It's time for you to make a move...... Come on! Sure enough, after the relentless shouts resounded through the mountain road, the eight hundred black guards who had not been seen at all instantly came out of the crowd with Tang Dao shields and killed, and as soon as they made a move, Guo Ziyi even felt that something was wrong, because these soldiers in heavy armor seemed to be able to clearly find out the existence of the enemy at night and their combat power was even more shocking, so Guo Ziyi even clearly understood that this sneak attack could not achieve the goal, in order to prevent his back road from being blocked, he instantly turned his horse's head and blew the horn signal, Hoping to let the left and right armies flank in at the same time, but after the fierce battle, he Guo Ziyi still forgot the advice to urge Qingfeng, when a large number of people and horses exhausted this narrow mountain road, it was naturally when the inferior grenades exerted their power, I saw that ruthlessly ignoring the pain of his legs instantly organized two dozens of people's death squads, each with a bundle of explosives, a cigarette lit in his mouth, and then rushed into the enemy army groups on the left and right without the slightest hesitation.
Guo Ziyi suddenly remembered what he had told him before he left after seeing this scene in the looming firelight, but at this time, it seemed that it was too late to say anything, and at this moment, in addition to shouting in time to withdraw the army, he could only keep slapping his head with his hands and secretly duty.
The explosion sounded, and the group of thousands of people rushed to kill was disintegrated in an instant, and after Guo Ziyi rode out of the mountain road regardless of the firelight, he saw that there were only forty or fifty people alive who ran out with him, you must know that he had arranged five thousand equal men and horses to kill him in this sneak attack, although his side slashed and killed one or two thousand opponents, but compared to the two, he could not accept such heavy casualties at all.
"You go and tell General Xuan, let him personally lead the army to intercept him, otherwise the general will decide to kill himself, but even so, I'm afraid it won't be able to stop it for three days......" Guo Ziyi said as she tore off the clothes around her waist, and then leaned on her horse and bit her finger and wrote a bloody letter for the messenger to take away.
And after the ruthless party, who also suffered heavy casualties, knocked Guo Ziyi back, everyone was also stunned with a solemn face, and the ruthless general was even more depressed and leaned on the edge of the cliff and wailed in pain. "It's all my fault, I wish I had known about the thief's plot earlier, otherwise there wouldn't have been so many brothers lost...... I damn it! After Ah Da and Ah Si listened to the ruthless complaints, they had been wiping the injuries on their legs for him expressionlessly, and only after bandaging them did Ah Da say a little coldly to the ruthless, "I'm afraid that your legs won't be able to stand up in the future, if there is Qiu Xiang Niangniang now, she may still be able to save her, our medical skills can only control your meridians and prevent the injury from spreading......"
"If you can't walk, you're a fart! Where did you blackguards just die! Is the life of a brother not as valuable as food? "Ruthless, we got the order of the saint to protect the military rations first, and then to help you kill the enemy, it was you who underestimated the enemy before, and this is not to blame us ......"
"Haha...... Ah Da, you're right, I can't blame you, if I want to blame myself, it's too big, my eldest brother used to do things even if I didn't care about the head and tail, I didn't believe it at the time, and I knew that they must have a conspiracy, but I still relaxed, the cold land in the north can condense into ice even in autumn, why didn't Lao Tzu think of this? Damn, if I turn around, Lao Tzu catches the thief and chops him alive, I can't do it, and the revenge of my legs must be avenged......" Ruthlessly roared on the side, and when his subordinates counted the number of people and told him that more than 1,800 people had died and more than 700 were injured, he ruthlessly covered his face with his hands again and cried bitterly in annoyance.
After crying for a long time, he wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and ordered the rest of the people to be defensive, and he only understood the danger of his bait at this moment, but after experiencing this one-sided battle, Ruthless himself has also been qualitatively changed, especially when he covered his face in front of the loyal soldiers and cried bitterly, the spirit and eyes of the whole person were much more determined than before.
After Ah Da and Ah Si had completely bandaged him, he immediately climbed on his war horse again with the help of his personal guards, and patrolled along the blood-paved mountain road again, and the scarred and frightened soldiers also picked up their weapons from the ground and stood up straight after seeing the appearance of the ruthless general.
"Soldiers, tonight's defeat is in the general, Ran Er and others can fight in the predicament without retreating, killing the enemy against the wind, this spirit is worthy of the title of the first army of my Tang Dynasty, and it is worthy of the expectations of the saint for Er, presumably you also understand the danger of this errand in your heart before coming, because you are all brave warriors selected by the saint himself from hundreds of thousands of people, you are the vanguard of this battle, the death squad, and the thirty comrades who died with the enemy are our future examples, and the generals will also learn from them. The soldiers and saints who died in battle will forever engrave their names on the heroic monument in Chang'an City for future generations to pay respect...... Do you understand? ”
"Understand, for the sake of Datang, we are fearless, and we are willing to die for the sake of saints...... Kill ......" "Good! Now, then, let me give them a little bit of power, our brothers cannot die in vain, they are going to give blood for blood...... The whole army was divided into two pairs, and the front and rear rushed to kill at the same time......"
Guo Ziyi had just sorted out his remnants of the army, although he was still holding the exit before and after, but he never thought that the ruthlessness in the mountain road would give himself a counter-charge so quickly in the case of being attacked by a sneak attack, looking at the dense shield array moving towards him step by step, Guo Ziyi almost didn't have time to think about it and immediately made preparations for the battle, but because it was a light horse attack, the number of arrows carried was very limited, he knew that if the enemy army was really so unafraid of death, he rushed head-on, Then the final result will definitely be two defeats and injuries.
So Guo Ziyi was using a strong crossbow to intercept the advance of the local shield army, and his mind was also spinning rapidly, and he knew that with the combat strength of the ruthless gang, as long as they rushed out of that narrow mountain road, then his side would never be able to besiege them again.
Considering these various factors, Guo Ziyi chose to order the cavalry to fight the enemy with flesh and blood when the arrows and crossbows were exhausted, and even blocked all the dead horses into the crossing while charging. "General, you can't rush out, the intersection is completely blocked by corpses, what should I do?" -->