Anyone with a discerning eye can see that these unidentified enemies in front of them are indeed elite and brave, but there are not many people, and the reason why they can block the surging Huaixi army is more by virtue of the advantages of terrain and geographical advantages, so that Huaixi, which has an absolute advantage in numbers, in the military camp, cannot be deployed.

In this case, Wu Shaoxiong led hundreds of fresh troops to break through from the rear, and in the case of being attacked by the enemy on the back of the abdomen, the collapse of the other party can only be said to be a sure thing.

Theoretically, Wu Shaoxiong's idea is correct.

However, the Changying Army is far from an army that Wu Shaoxiong can understand.

The elite of the Changying Army is not only reflected in the fact that they can make full use of the advantages of terrain and geographical advantages, and give full play to their tactics and achievements.

Ultra-high-intensity training, adequate food and nutrition ensure that they have sufficient physical strength and strong physique, as well as continuous combat ability far beyond their contemporaries.

The two bloody battles in Xingqing Palace and Jingyuan with a loss rate of more than ninety percent have created the military soul of this Changying army that is almost impossible to collapse.

Every squad leader/sergeant-level officer and non-commissioned officer of the Changying Army is a veteran of a bloody battle.

The vast majority of people have achieved basic literacy skills under the guidance of their own instructors/instructors/political commissars, and the improvement in knowledge and comprehension brought about by literacy is immeasurable, after all, making a purely illiterate person read the Art of War is equivalent to playing the harp to a cow.

What's more, just evaluating a few hundred people can block the enemy army several times their own to the death, how can such a team and the commander of such a team not be guarded against the enemy who appears behind him or in other directions.

In fact, as early as when he first entered Caizhou City, Lu Xiaobing, the commander who was ordered to lead this commando team, had already gone to the direction of attack, location and potential danger according to the guidance of the scouts.

The first target in the entire Caizhou City is the military camp There is no doubt that when attacking the military camp to contain the enemy army, the direction of the mansion is the most dangerous direction, and there is no one.

Therefore, from the beginning of the battle, after repelling the first wave of assault of the Huaixi Army in the barracks, Lu Xiaobing replaced the Modao soldiers in front with other lancemen and spearmen, and at the same time ordered the archers to stop shooting, and the crossbowmen chose the opportunity to shoot, in short, the main attention was put in the back, ready to defend against attacks from behind.

When Wu Shaoxiong led the new force belonging to the Huaixi Army to arrive, one hundred and twenty archers, one hundred crossbowmen, and fifty Mo swordsmen were holding knives, holding crossbows, and stretching bows standing quietly beside them.

As Wu Shaoxiong and the others approached, the sound of hurried footsteps, the rustling sound of stepping on the ground, and the figures swaying in the moonlight......

In the noisy and quiet night sky, in the crowded and wide streets, the archers spread their strong bows, the crossbowmen aimed their crossbows forward, and the swordsmen lined up in two tight lines to watch the direction from which the sound came.

The next moment.

"Shoot the arrows!"

A loud command was shouted, breaking the peculiar atmosphere.

It's just that the same sound has a completely different meaning in the ears of different people.

In the ears of the archers and crossbowmen of the Long Tassel Army, who had long been ready, these two words were merely a command.

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However, when these two words were heard, Wu Shaoxiong and the family members, guards, and Huaixi Army foot soldiers who followed him were like life talismans.

Compared to the two salvos of the first wave, the archers and crossbowmen who had been hidden by Lu Xiaobing since the beginning of the battle were in full force this time.

Countless crossbow arrows and flying arrows fell from the sky like pieces of stars and fell into the Huaixi army in the middle of the charge.

As countless arrows flew in the sky, a high-pitched voice roared out of the army of the Long Silk Army.

"Follow me!"

With Lu Xiaobing's order, the tall and mighty Lin Yu and the entire fifty Mo swordsmen behind him lined up in a tight formation, and rushed directly towards the Huaixi army covered by the rain of arrows in the direction in which the arrows flew.

And the Mo Knife Soldiers

After they rushed out, behind them, a full hundred and twenty big-shouldered archers completed ten volleys in less than twenty breaths.

Immediately afterwards, these archers threw away the bows and arrows in their hands, picked up the horizontal knives, big axes, and short spears in their hands, and rushed forward following the footsteps of the Mo sword soldiers.

Our soldiers have been ready to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty from the beginning, but this does not mean that we need to let them die for the Tang Dynasty, on the contrary, it is more reasonable to let our soldiers fight, and it is a truly responsible attitude to reduce casualties as much as possible.

This is the concept that Guo Rong instilled in the middle-level and above officers of the Changying Army for a long time, of course, along with this concept, there is also a sentence that is even more widely circulated in the Changying Army and loved by everyone from officers to non-commissioned officers.

The artillery bombarded the infantry and rushed, and the infantry rushed the artillery bombardment!

"It's just a pity that the time is too tight now, and I didn't bring sappers, otherwise it would be perfect to assemble a few eight-ox crossbows and put a few gun carriages/catapults!"

Although he said regret in his mouth, Lu Xiaobing knew that on today's battlefield, just the crossbow soldiers were enough.

Seeing that Lin Yu took fifty Mo swordsmen and one hundred and two archers who had begun melee combat into the enemy's reinforcements' military formation and began to slaughter in all directions, Lu Xiaobing nodded with satisfaction and turned his gaze back to the center of the battlefield.

Also being transferred were the 100-meter crossbow archers, who had maintained their output since the beginning of the battle.

As Lu Xiaobing's follow-up order was issued, the crossbowmen turned around and aimed their direction at the Huaixi Army camp.

Because there was no suppression of arrows, just relying on foot soldiers to defend to the death, the Huaixi Army that was blocked in the camp already had some directions.

Then, in the form of free fire, the crossbow bolt was directly thrown into the camp of the Huaixi army, and in an instant, a wave of blood rain was set off again in the Huaixi army, and the Huaixi army, which had just risen, was immediately suppressed.

What happened in front of him and behind him, Lu Xiaobing's face brought a satisfied smile, and by now, the situation in front of him had been completely suppressed.

According to the information provided by Wang Linzhi, there are only about 4,000 people in the entire Caizhou City, at least 2,000 people are blocked in the camp, about seven or eight hundred people are guarding the city wall, and finally about three or four hundred reinforcements from the Jiedu Envoy's mansion.

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If there's anything to worry about, it's the city gates.

He deliberately lit a fire at the barracks in the hope of attracting the attention of all enemy troops to his side.

As a result, the people guarding the city wall did not come, but the reinforcements from the Jiedu envoy arrived, and the enemy guarding the city wall was definitely not a fool, that is, the other party chose to block the door first!

Although there were two platoons there, they were mainly light infantry, plus two squads of lancemen and two squads of spearmen......

However, in just an instant, Lu Xiaobing no longer thought about the city gate, and it was too late to think about it, he believed that his comrades-in-arms could resist.

Of course, if you can't bear it, it's a big deal that your 400 people will resist the 4,000 Huaixi Army.

Looking behind him, under the leadership of Lin Yu, the Mo sword soldiers and archers had basically ended the battle, and then a thought rose in their hearts:

Isn't it just the 4,000 Huaixi Army, it's terrifying?

There are already 400 people in the back and 200 in the front, so it's a big deal to kill more than 2,000 people in the camp, even if the city gate is lost, what can you do?

What's more, it would be a huge blow to anyone to kill their reinforcements directly under the watchful eye of the Huaixi army in the battalion, and it would be a waste not to take advantage of this psychological gap.

With this idea in mind, Lu Xiaobing ordered all the crossbowmen to stop firing freely, and began to shoot intensively towards the targets in the barracks under unified command.

At the same time, the Modao soldiers and archers who had cut down the reinforcements of the Huaixi Army began to return to the core of the battlefield under the leadership of Lin Yu.

With the Mo knife hand slightly

Recovering his arm strength and completing the formation, the other heavy infantry at the front fought and retreated, and gradually gave up a large open space at the camp gate to the Huaixi Army with its last breath.

Until a certain moment.

"Retreat!"

The order to retreat suddenly came from the rear of the Changying army's battle array, and the Changying army, which had resisted to the death a moment ago, turned around in an instant and began to run wildly to the rear, so fast that the Huaixi army had no time to chase and kill.

Some people chose to stay where they were, while more Huaixi troops, although they didn't know what was happening, subconsciously and habitually rushed forward.

However, after the infantry of the Changying army retreated, they were greeted first by a dense rain of arrows brought by several rounds of bows and crossbow arrows, and after the rain of arrows was a battle line composed of a full fifty Mo sword soldiers.

On another battlefield, the battle at the city gate was extremely fierce from the outset, and was not optimistic, compared to the main force that was large enough to form a complete battle formation.

It is true that the soldiers of the Changying army were all the elite of the Tang army, but they were not against the Tubo, Uighur or Liaodong, but the real Tang army.

Although the Huaixi Army is a feudal soldier, these people are also genuine Tang Army, and they have received training inherited by the Tang Army for nearly two hundred years, and in a sense, they can be regarded as the elite of the Tang Army.

Moreover, compared with the Changying Army, which is dominated by light infantry, many of these guys are heavily armored and heavily armoured, and some of the light infantry are equipped with heavy soldiers such as pickaxes, armor-piercing hammers, and mountain axes, but the number of people is already at an absolute disadvantage, and they can't take much advantage even if they form a formation.

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With the opponent's will to fight stubbornly, the situation of this part of the Changying army is not optimistic.

In just one shot, the remaining soldiers repelled the first wave of the Huaixi army's attack, but at the cost of nearly twenty dead men.

In total, there were less than 100 people left, and although they killed at least three times as many enemies in one wave, twenty people still made the remaining Changying army unbearable, and if it continued like this, it would not take long for two more attacks to be wiped out.

Faced with the scorching battle situation, the officer led by the leader had no choice but to retreat into the city gate cave and began to defend it by virtue of the terrain of the city gate hole.

However, as the main gate of Caizhou City, the narrowness of the city gate hole is only relative.

In fact, the width of the west gate of Caizhou City is about four zhang, and the only remaining Changying army is only fifty or sixty people, and the defense of the Huaixi army is still extremely difficult in the face of the crazy attack of death.

In order to dilute the advantage of the opponent's forces as much as possible, offset the opponent's advantage in equipment, and give full play to the advantage that the Changying army is better at night fighting, in order to delay the arrival of Guo Rong as much as possible, the remaining Changying army fought and retreated, dragging the battle directly into the dark city gate hole.

However, the length of the entire city gate was only a dozen zhang, and when the city gate hole was interrupted, the remaining dozens of people stopped retreating and began to hold the last few zhang of defense.

The line of defense was stabilized, but at the cost of dwindling in numbers, and almost every few or a dozen breaths a long tasseled sergeant would fall in a pool of blood.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the entire battle line still did not move for half a minute in the middle of the city gate hole.

In order to break through the defensive line, the Huaixi army killed at least 100 people, and under the light of the only few torches, the entire city gate cave has been covered with the corpses of the Huaixi army.

However, to do this, the Changying Army is not without any price, the original fifty or sixty Changying Army has been sharply reduced by half, and only less than thirty people are still barely supporting.

In fact, at this time, the hearts of these soldiers of the Changying Army were extremely desperate.

In order not to expose the target in advance, the brigade of soldiers and horses led by Guo Rong stayed five miles outside the city gate, and it was a full ten miles back and forth.

It had only been two quarters of an hour since the guards opened the gates, and if the original plan had been followed, the reinforcements would not have been able to arrive anyway.

The remaining soldiers were not afraid of death, but they were afraid that they would not be able to complete the task of guarding the city gates.

Rao is so, these brave, loyal long-tasseled army

The soldiers did not panic, did not give up, and were not discouraged, and their choice was to fight calmly while holding the dog tag in their mouths and fighting until the last moment.

The change in the situation, the sharp decrease in the number of the Changying army, and the crumbling defense line, the more the Huaixi army fought, the more brave it became, it seemed that victory would arrive in the next second.

However, at this critical moment, the two sides who were fighting in the city gate cave felt the earth tremble and tremble slightly, and then the sound of rapid horses' hooves and the neighing of war horses came into the ears of both sides.

The main force of the Changying Army led by Guo Rong arrived ahead of schedule!

The arrival of the 7,000-strong army made the battle near the city gate no longer have any suspense.

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Belief and willpower are never absolute, they tend to change with different situations, and not every team has a real will of steel and infinite fighting spirit.

In fact, the battle at the city gate did not even last until the follow-up main attack led by Guo Rong, only the sound of horses' hooves and the arrival of reinforcements from the Changying army.

The Huaixi Army, which was full of hope for victory a moment ago, and frantically attacked the remnants of the Changying Army, collapsed directly in an instant.

Some people are still attacking by inertia, but at this time the attack has pale and weak, some of them have become sluggish, and their movements have completely stopped, and some people have chosen to throw down their weapons and run backwards, rushing out of the city gate in the eyes of everyone, and completely disappearing into the vast night.

If he had continued to advance on foot according to the original plan, Guo Rong would not have been able to arrive so quickly anyway.

It's just that after hearing the content of the report, the enemy army did not change the guard, Guo Rong decisively abandoned the previous plan, did not hide his traces anymore, and no longer cared about whether it was exposed, and directly led everyone to advance immediately.

It is precisely because of Guo Rong's decision that the sacrifices of these Changying Army warriors were not wasted.

The west gate of Caizhou City was directly taken over, and then a full 7,000 Changying troops entered the city, and at this moment, Guo Rong knew that Caizhou had settled down.

However, at this moment, Guo Rong did not relax, after all, hundreds of Huaixi Army had fled into Caizhou City, and hundreds of Lu Xiaobing's troops were still fighting with thousands of enemy troops.

Speaking of Lu Xiaobing, Guo Rong was also speechless for a while.

This lord is the only one in the entire Changying Army and even the entire Forbidden Army.

Ability, experience, loyalty are impeccable.

Others are hollowed out for promotion and title, and they can't wait to be promoted to three levels in a row.

But this master, there is more than one battalion commander at the level of Lang General brought out, and in the entire forbidden army "Four Armies and Twelve Guards" system, there are at least ten school officers he brought out.

As far as he is concerned, if he wants to, the colonel commander of the first infantry regiment of the Changying Army is reserved for him, if he doesn't want to stay in the other three armies of the Changying Army as a deputy, or go to the Twelve Guards to lead the first army alone, there is no problem.

But this master, just ready to die of old age in the position of the commander of the first regiment, battalion, and company of the Changying Army, he just didn't move, and even the emperor was alarmed, but he still couldn't change his determination.

Although Guo Rong had confidence in Lu Xiaobing and the two companies he led, this was after all in the heart of the Huaixi Army.

After a simple arrangement, leaving enough soldiers and horses to guard the city gates, and sending several teams of soldiers and horses to the other city gates, Guo Rong led 3,000 cavalry to rush towards the only place in Caizhou City where the fire was in the sky.

Guo Rong knew that if he guessed correctly, where was the core point of the battle in the city now - the military camp.

It's just that Guo Rong judged the beginning correctly, but did not judge the result.

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