Chapter 13 Task 4: Contact Zhang Xianzhong (II)

Long 13 didn't have time to see Zhang Xianzhong, and he didn't know what the battle situation was on the other side of the lamp, so after a short rest, he asked Bai San to wait for Zhang Xianzhong here with a few people and wounded soldiers, and he left quickly with fifty people.

The situation is worse than in the Dragon Thirteen phenomenon.

He expected the weakness of the lantern battalion, but he didn't expect it to be so weak, in the face of Gou Fuwei, the general of the partial pass, the defeat of his troops was instantaneous!

At the beginning, it was Qi Yizheng, the fifth master of the "flying leopard", who was leading a thousand baiters to face Gou Fuwei's five hundred cavalry, needless to say, the thousand baiters were like encountering the ravine of Aiwannian's cavalry on the west bank, when Gou Fuwei rushed over with the cavalry, they either knelt down and surrendered, or scattered and fled.

But Qi Yizheng bravely greeted him.

It's a pity that only thirty of his 100 horsemen can really be called cavalry, and the rest are just horseback infantry soldiers who can shoot arrows.

And the Gou Fuwei family is a family of military generals in the Daming Shizhen, and the strength in their hands is considerable.

There is only one border wall between the Biguan and the Tumut tribe, and there is only one Yellow River separated from the Yuan'er Dusi tribe.

In recent years, the great drought and cold caused by the Xiaoice River period not only affected Daming, but also strongly affected the Mongolian tribes and Liaodong.

In recent years, there have been countless herdsmen, cattle, sheep and horses starving to death and freezing to death on the grasslands, and after the herdsmen lack food, they began to hunt a large number of marmots, which caused a tragic epidemic.

This made a large number of herdsmen next to the border pour into the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty obviously would not agree, but there were still a large number of young and strong herdsmen who successfully sneaked to the border and became the cavalry of the generals of the border armies.

Compared with the cavalry of the thieves, these herdsmen were obviously more cavalry, at least they could ride and shoot, so a large number of Mongolian cavalry appeared in the border armies such as Datong Town, Yansui Town, and Ningxia Town.

Gou Fuwei of the family of the general of the Biguan army is naturally no exception, according to the provisions that can be provided to him by such a barren place as Biguan, it is obvious that he can't support five hundred cavalry, but with the arrival of a large number of Mongols who only need to eat, he really pulled up five hundred cavalry!

Or an extremely elite five hundred horsemen!

But after Gou Fuwei swept away with five hundred horsemen like a violent wind, except for a few of the hundred horsemen of the Flying Leopard who escaped, all the cavalry, including himself, were killed!

According to Long Thirteen's suggestion, the cavalry of Zhao Jiu and Hui Dengxiang were also unable to resist Gou Fuwei's elite cavalry, and after a fierce battle, Zhao Jiu was killed, and Hui Dengxiang was only spared!

As a result, Zhao Sheng, Li Zhanchun, who was newly appointed as the fourth leader, and all their families were surrounded on a high platform!

Such high platforms abound on the Loess Plateau, but this one is obviously much larger than the one occupied by Long Thirteen before, otherwise it would not be able to carry the entire Lao Ying family!

This is the situation that Dragon Thirteen faced when he returned.

Gou Fuwei led the cavalry around the high platform, he was not in a hurry, he was waiting for his infantry to arrive, and now they were taking prisoners in the back—those bait men who had just been formed in the county town of Wubao.

At this moment, the simulator box in front of Long Thirteen's eyes automatically opened.

"Long Thirteen, you don't have much time left, once Ai Wannian, who has occupied Wubao County on the other side, knows the truth about the lamp, he will definitely cross the river to get a piece of the pie, in that case, whether Zhang Xianzhong arrives or not, you will definitely lose."

"Therefore, if you want to complete the task of letting the lantern contact Zhang Xianzhong, you must rush before dark."

"Before dark?"

At this time, the sky was gray, and the exact time was not clear at all, but it was clearly displayed on the simulator.

"17:10:50, fifty minutes until dark!"

Long Thirteen suddenly had 10,000 grass and mud horses galloping past in his heart.

"Damn, if it's a real game, it's definitely hellish difficulty!"

Gou Fuwei's cavalry, he definitely didn't dare to provoke, it was a ferry on the bank of the Yellow River, not a narrow mountain road, and it was impossible to deal with Gou Fuwei like Zhang Dechang.

So, there is only one possibility.

Take advantage of the fact that Gou Fuwei's infantry is capturing prisoners, let your fifty infantry troops occupy a certain key road as soon as possible, and then attract the infantry to attack!

He quickly found such a place, which was part of a post road leading to the city of Yongningzhou, with mountains on both sides, except for a narrow road about a hundred meters long, with a ferry at one end and an open mountain col at the other, where Gou Fuwei's infantry was taking prisoners!

But even this stretch of the road is not without a single person, but is full of bait bundled up!

Dragon Thirteen has no other choice, he must occupy this path!

With a spear in his own hand, the last ten archers in the back, the archers were divided into three rows, and then the remaining pikemen pounced viciously at the baitmen who were lying or standing!

Naturally, there were also Ming army infantry guards there, but in the face of the dozens of people who were Long Thirteen, they obviously didn't want to fight directly, so they ran away after a glance!

"Six masters!"

"Go aside!"

The baitists thought that Dragon Thirteen had come to save them, so they all stood up and rushed towards them, and in an instant, the road was crowded!

Long Thirteen scolded loudly and told him to hide aside, but these people still surrounded them when they saw that a savior was coming, and they still surrounded him.

"Close!"

Long Thirteen drank loudly, and then stabbed it with the tactic of stabbing on foot!

"Ah......h

As the screams came out, the baits were frightened and retreated, and in a short time they retreated to the col!

After completely occupying this road, Long Thirteen thought about it, gritted his teeth again, and decided to let Yuan Zongdi hold this end, and he returned to the front, ready to meet the storm of Gou Fuwei's cavalry!

He and three other pikemen knelt on one knee and stuck their spears on the left side of their bodies, the head of their spears pointing into the air at an angle of about 40 degrees to the ground, while in the second row they stepped forward with their right feet, bent over, leaning forward, and the spears on the left side of their bodies were pointing forward at an angle of about 60 degrees to the ground.

The third row holds the spear in its hand, the tip of the spear pointing at the sky at an 80-degree angle, and holds the right shoulder against the second row of teammates.

From the third row, there are three rows of archers.

When Long Thirteen withdrew, more than ten sets of iron armor had been captured, and now all of them were worn by the first two rows of pikemen, and Long Thirteen and the other four people also wore a wide-brimmed iron helmet, which was the best iron helmet of the Ming Dynasty, once they encountered the enemy's bow and arrow throwing, they could also lower their heads and resist.

Under normal circumstances, a bow and arrow will not cause much damage to such an iron helmet.

As for the back, with Yuan Zongdi's presence, coupled with the cooperation of armor and archers, and the experience of dealing with the infantry of the Tiger Dawei Army, he believes that he can still support it for a period of time.

Now it's up to you to see if you can withstand the attack of the Gou Fuwei cavalry.

By the way, in order to prevent the ordinary spear in their hands from breaking immediately after stabbing the enemy's war horse, the spears in each of the front dragon thirteen and the three pikemen in their hands were not one, but two!

Two spears tied together!

So, although they are all ordinary materials, it is not easy to break two spears tied together at once!

Long Thirteen now naturally wants not to defeat Gou Fuwei, but to support the arrival of most of Zhang Xianzhong, according to the Ming army's temperament, Gou Fuwei is not a famous general, when he sees the arrival of thieves and a large group of reinforcements, there is a chance that he will retreat!

As a result, the victory condition of "letting the lantern touch Zhang Xianzhong" actually became "stay up to the designated round".

Gou Fuwei really came, and when he learned that a small group of rogue infantry soldiers had killed between his cavalry and the non-infantry army, he was naturally angry!

Of course, Gou Fuwei didn't take action personally, but just let his family come over with a hundred Mongolian cavalry!

"Rumble ......"

The muddy road, which had melted the snow early due to the trampling of a large number of people and horses, resounded with the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, along with the horses' hooves, as well as splashes of muddy water and snowflakes covered in mud!

The little hedgehog formation of Dragon Thirteen frightened the Mongol cavalry, they were not fools, they would not drive their horses straight towards the spear, and the horses would automatically dodge or stop moving forward when they saw sharp objects.

However, since they are Mongolian cavalry, they are all masters of cavalry archery!

But the problem came again, although there are ferries on both sides of the Yellow River, most of them are only small flat land at the foot of the mountain, and although the flat land under the high platform where they are lit is larger than where Long Thirteen is now, it is also limited, and if you ride a horse, you can have at most four horses.

But Dragon Thirteen and they only have fifty people, and if they are in a row of four, they will not be able to occupy this narrow road of nearly 100 meters, and when Dragon Thirteen came in, while dispersing the baiters, he did not forget where to set up the best formation.

In the end, he chose one of them.

This section occupies about forty meters in length, and there are still about ten meters in front of it from the col where Gou Fuwei's infantry is located, and about fifty meters from the ferry!

That's where Dragon Thirteen comes in.

At this time, the Mongolian cavalry used soft bows with less than five bucket strength, and the range was not far, if they stood in the wide area of the ferry and shot, they would not be able to catch it, even if they shot in the form of projectiles, the lethality caused by reaching the small formation of Long Thirteen was not great.

If you break into the road, you can only drive two war horses side by side at most where you can line up four people, and these two war horses can't gallop yet, but can only walk slowly!

Therefore, if Gou Fuwei's Mongol cavalry wanted to break in, even if they could shoot with a cavalry bow, according to the maximum estimate of the two horses, each horse should occupy a distance of at least three meters in front and back, and in order to avoid being shot by the opponent's rifle bow, they would not get too close.

As a result, what can pose a threat to Dragon Thirteen and them is a maximum of five rows and more than ten horses!

With such a scale, it is about the same as the density of your own infantry bows, and because your own infantry bows are all next to each other, you can also form a dense shot within a certain range!

At this time, there was already a shout of killing from the front, and Yuan Zongdi had obviously exchanged hands with Gou Fuwei's infantry army, but the cavalry in front of Long Thirteen was still hesitating.

I don't know how long it took, it seemed that he was under the strict order of Gou Fuwei, and I saw the Mongolian cavalry in front rushing over with courage!

They rushed over in a row of two, and when they looked closely, there was no one on the two war horses in front, but they were blindfolded with black cloth!

In this section, Long Thirteen didn't expect that without the cavalry above, these two horses were rushing towards them at a very fast speed under the whip of the cavalry behind!

Thirty meters!

At this time, the archers of Dragon Thirteen began to throw, which instantly caused a riot in the ranks of the cavalry.

But the war horse continues to move on!

Dragon Thirteen ordered the angle of the spear to be raised.

Ten meters!

One meter!

"Pounce!" "Pounce!" ”

Both spears are inserted into the chests of both horses!

"Hiss......"

Similar to what Dragon Thirteen expected, the two spears tied together resisted the impact of the two war horses, and the spears did not break!

At the same time, Long Thirteen and the others took the spears handed over by the second row!

The Mongolian cavalry was holding a scimitar in his hand, the kind of scimitar that was less than a meter long, because there were two fallen war horses in front of him, he naturally couldn't reach Long Thirteen and them, but Long Thirteen could!

"Hoo ......."

Long Thirteen stabbed, right in the waist of the cavalry, as a cavalryman who had just defected to Gou Fuwei, a herdsman from a family, Gou Fuwei was reluctant to equip them with armor, and now they only had a fat jacket on them!

The cavalryman fell off his horse after screaming miserably, and at the same time, the cavalry next to Long Thirteen also stabbed the war horse!

The war horse fell to his knees with a wail!

At this time, there were three horses between Long Thirteen and the cavalry, a distance of about five or six meters!

Dragon Thirteen took out his bow and arrows as well.

An arrow flew out and hit the second cavalryman!

After the two cavalrymen fell one after the other, and the fire of the infantry bow, the distance became larger and larger, and in the end, the Mongol cavalry of Gou Fuwei could not get it even if they wanted to come and attack again.

They can also shoot arrows, though!

Now they can't go back, so they just shoot sideways!

As mentioned earlier, the fifty people of Dragon Thirteen wore iron armor and iron helmets in each row in front and back, and the middle one was uncovered.

The battle was extremely fierce.

Long Thirteen gradually distanced the cavalry from them with the bows and arrows in their hands, but their small phalanx became thinner and thinner under the blows of the cavalry's bows and arrows!

I don't know how long it took, there was only one person left around Long Thirteen, and the infantry army in the middle was even more sparse, but at this time, the fifty meters in front of him were crowded with the corpses of war horses, that is, at least for a short time, Gou Fuwei's cavalry would not come!

But they can also get off their horses and fight!

Yuan Zongdi's side is slightly better, the infantry army in the partial pass is obviously not elite, after a few stabs cause visible damage to the naked eye, the infantry army over there will have to weigh it again, not to mention, there are no archers in Gou Fuwei's infantry army!

The Mongol cavalry dismounted with a shield in one hand and a scimitar in the other!

Dragon Thirteen sighed.

"Now that I'm about to fail, when the mission restarts, should I start all over again, or do I continue to complete this ......battle?"

Just as he was thinking, the enemy suddenly trembled, and Gou Fuwei's cavalry was also a little panicked.

Zhang Xianzhong has arrived!