Chapter 20: U-turn and shot
The Jiangdong soldiers under Zhou Tai are all elite, fully equipped, everyone wears armor, and dozens of catties of armor hang on their bodies and fall into the water, which shows what the situation is.
These soldiers fell into the water and flapped vigorously, although they all knew the nature of water, but the equipment was too heavy, and after a few flutters, they lost their strength and sank straight down.
Zhou Tai and the officers commanded the other soldiers to save people, one by one yelling and yelling, and the other soldiers were afraid that the ice would break again and even fall themselves, and they all cowered when they rescued people, unable to let go of their hands and feet, and their movements were slow.
There are more and more soldiers who sink under the water, and Zhou Tai is becoming more and more anxious, these are all elites who have experienced a hundred battles, and the loss of one of them makes him feel so painful.
"Hurry up, move faster, get out of the way, let me come!" Zhou Tai roared, pulled a soldier away, grabbed the rope in his hand, and threw it at the soldier who fell into the water.
The temperature on the water surface is too low, and the longer the delay, the more dangerous the overboard soldiers become, although Zhou Tai and others are doing their best to organize the rescue, but more and more overboard soldiers sink and never get up again.
However, misfortune did not go alone, and at this moment, there was a slight shaking sound from the ground.
The Jiangdong Army on the ice was rescuing their comrades who had fallen into the water, and no one noticed that the danger was approaching.
Qin Feng, who was riding on horseback, came back with all the men and horses with a false shot.
When the army arrived on the bank of the river, he raised a three-pointed two-edged knife and pointed at the Jiangdong army on the ice, and shouted: "Archers prepare - release arrows - "
At the sound of an order, nearly a thousand archers shot out the arrows in their hands one after another, although these people have not been trained in unity, have not formed a tacit understanding, and the arrows are not competitive when they are fired, but they can't stand the many arrows that are shot.
At this time, the Jiangdong army on the river found the bandits who were close at hand, and Zhou Tai couldn't care about saving people, and shouted: "Defense, formation defense!" ”
"Ahh
"Ahh
More Jiangdong soldiers fell from arrows and died silently.
Under Qin Feng's command, nearly a thousand archers fired five rounds of arrows, causing a lot of casualties to the Jiangdong Army.
After firing five rounds of arrows, the arms of many soldiers were numb, and Qin Feng waved his hand and ordered the archers to retreat, and let the shield Pu Dao soldiers go up and the spearmen in front.
"The swordsmen and spearmen stepped forward and charged—"
"Kill—"
Nearly 1,000 Pak knife soldiers and spearmen, every four people carried a raft to rush forward, to the river ice, they put the raft on the ice, stand on it, two people in front of them held shield knives and spears, and the two people in the back desperately used knives to support the ice to push the raft forward.
More and more bandits stood on the rafts and rushed towards the Jiangdong army, and the front ends of these rafts were all cut into spikes, and if they were stabbed on people's bodies, the consequences could be imagined.
"Kill—"
"Push hard, push hard—" roared the bandits at the front of the raft, shields in one hand, knives in the other, spears in the other, ready to kill at any moment.
Zhou Tai was still yelling here: "Form a formation, quickly form a formation······"
It was found that when Qin Feng came back with the bandits, the distance between the two armies was less than three hundred meters, and the time was too short, and the Jiangdong Army simply did not have enough time to gather all the men and horses to meet the enemy.
Many Jiangdong soldiers kept falling and slipping on the ice, making a mess, and before they could complete the arrangement of the military formation, they first suffered several rounds of bow and arrow blows, which further disrupted their formation, and then the bandits rushed closer and closer, which made the Jiangdong army even more panicked.
"Ahh
On the ice, the speed of the raft rushing over was too fast, even if some Jiangdong soldiers had lined up to block it with shields, but the speed of the raft was too fast, and there were bandits on it, and the kinetic energy was too great, and the military formation of three rows of Jiangdong soldiers was broken through, and the soldiers were either knocked down and knocked away, or stabbed to death by wooden thorns, and many people were killed by the bandits on the raft.
Qin Feng saw that the small army formation that the Jiangdong Army had just assembled was crushed by the raft array organized by himself in an instant, and the Jiangdong Army suffered heavy losses, he laughed, jumped off his horse and held a three-pointed two-edged knife and shouted: "Sons, rush over with me, kill all these Jiangdong soldiers, kill——"
"Kill-" The remaining hundreds of infantry roared with their weapons and followed Qin Feng to rush to the ice, at this time the cavalry did not work, and the war horses could not run on the ice at all, so they could only stay on the shore and sweep the formation.
The Jiangdong Army's momentum had been discharged, its morale was low, and it couldn't resist it, so they turned around and ran away.
"General, hurry up, if you don't leave, it's too late!" The commander of the army, Shi, hurriedly pulled Zhou Tai and shouted.
Zhou Tai was furious, he was originally chasing and killing bandits, but he didn't expect to be killed by bandits instead, how could he swallow this breath?
"the fart, the soldiers will resist me!" Zhou Tai roared, wielding a knife and slashing several bandits to death one after another.
He looked up and saw a tall young military general rushing over with a large number of bandits, and concluded that the person was Qin Feng, so he immediately pulled out his legs and rushed towards Qin Feng.
The soldiers were in a hurry, "General! ”
couldn't scream, and the pro-soldiers could only grit their teeth and chase after them.
"Qin Feng, the head of the thief, suffer death!" Zhou Tai raised his big knife and yelled at it.
"Good time!" Qin Feng looked at this person's momentum and guessed that it might be Zhou Tai, but he couldn't be timid at this time, once he was timid, it would be over.
"When, when, when" three weapons resounded.
Qin Feng's body flew back, cracks kept appearing on the ice, he used the tail of the knife shaft to support the ice to prevent his body from continuing to retreat, and couldn't help but open his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Poof—"
Qin Feng is injured!
Zhou Tai really deserves to be one of the top few fierce generals in Jiangdong, his strength is infinite, his sword skills are unfathomable, and Qin Feng was completely defeated after just three convergences.
"Come on!" Zhou Tai raised his knife and rushed towards Qin Feng, and more cracks continued to appear on the ice under his feet during the stride and sprint.
At this time, a large number of bandits rushed over from the rear and blocked in front of Qin Feng to meet Zhou Tai.
Qin Feng stretched out his hand and touched the corner of his mouth, holding his weapon and shouting: "This is Zhou Tai, the general of Jiangdong, all the brothers listen to the order, the one who cuts off his head will be rewarded with a thousand gold, and the one who captures him alive will be rewarded with ten thousand gold!" ”
"Roar-" The bandits immediately turned red-eyed, and one by one they screamed and pounced on Zhou Tai.
Zhou Tai was surrounded on all sides, and the bandits kept rushing over to sneak attack, but they were killed one by one, and there were more and more corpses on the ice, but the number of bandits was also increasing.
Zhou Tai's pro-soldiers finally chased after him, and they tore a hole and rushed in to meet Zhou Tai
Commander Shi immediately commanded his soldiers: "Stop Captain Zhou, drag him away, and leave!" ”
"General go quickly, the morale of our army is not there, and if we continue to fight, I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out!" The soldiers surrounded Zhou Tai and persuaded each other bitterly.
"Hey-" Zhou Tai saw that many of the soldiers under his command had died, and the others had already turned around and ran, and the soldiers slipped and fell from time to time when they fled, and on the other hand, the bandits were walking like flying on the ice, and only his own soldiers were still by his side, and it was impossible to turn the tables with such a small number of people.
Zhou Tai was escorted by his own troops and escaped from a passage torn apart by the encirclement of the bandits, who thought of a rich reward and pursued desperately behind.
Chasing to the bank of the river, Qin Feng raised his three-pointed two-edged knife and shouted: "Stop, poor Kou Mo is chasing, return to clean up the battlefield!" ”
When cleaning the battlefield, the bandits caught more than thirty wounded soldiers of the Jiangdong Army, and these wounded soldiers were escorted to Qin Feng.
He was injured when he fought with Zhou Tai just now, and Qin Feng felt a faint effect in his chest at this time, probably because he had injured his lungs or stomach, otherwise he would not vomit blood.
"What's the matter, why didn't that kind of knife light come out when I fought with Zhou Tai?"
Qin Feng was very puzzled, he didn't have the heart to think about this at this time, he looked at the more than thirty Jiangdong Army prisoners in front of him, and asked, "Who has practiced martial arts, raise your hand!" ”
Only three people raised their hands.
Qin Feng stabbed over, a familiar stream of heat poured into his body, he stabbed the other two to death one after another, and both of them were inhaled into the body, but this heat flow energy did not seem to have a recovery effect on the injury, and there was still a faint pain in his chest.
"Internal injuries are not easy to heal, if they are not treated, even if they can be delayed until they are healed, I am afraid that they will leave dark wounds, and there will be endless troubles!" There was a hidden worry on Qin Feng's face.
Juniper came to report: "Captain, the casualties have been calculated, our army has lost one hundred and thirteen killed and eighty-nine wounded; Killed 294 Jiangdong troops, captured 38 people, and the prisoners were all wounded! In addition, the prisoner confessed that the ice collapsed at that time, and it is estimated that nearly 200 Jiangdong soldiers fell into the water, and less than 100 were rescued! ”
After listening to the report, Qin Feng said: "In this way, there are at least five or six hundred people under Zhou Tai!" This time, we were able to take advantage of their confusion and defenselessness to succeed in the sneak attack, and if we fought head-on, we were afraid that the three thousand rabble would not be able to kill them, so I could not go west for the time being, so I gave the order to go down and continue along the original route! ”
"No!"
After this victory, Qin Feng's prestige in the army has increased a lot, and his control over this team has been strengthened.
Matters related to their own lives, the soldiers are particularly concerned, no soldier is willing to fight with an incompetent general like a wine bag and rice bag, that is, he is afraid that he will not die fast enough.
Qin Feng led the group to fight the elite Jiangdong Army, which made the defeated soldiers who joined in have a great change in their views on him, and the original bandits are more obedient to his command.
Whether it is the original bandits, or the captives rescued from the captives of Anhui City, or the routs collected on the way to escape, these people are not real mountain bandits, they were all soldiers in the past, only someone can integrate them, they are a real army.
While resting on the march, a maid serving Xiao Qiao hurriedly came over under the leadership of a soldier and reported to Qin Feng: "Captain, Miss Qiao is sick, her forehead is very hot, and she is still talking nonsense!" ”
"What? Take me to see it! After hearing this, Qin Feng hurriedly walked towards the carriage where Xiao Qiao was.