Chapter 488: The Man Who Filled the Pit
Although the casualties were heavy, the fifth round thought that it had seen the dawn of victory.
However, just as he was organizing his men again, boosting morale, and fooling the rebels into preparing to send off their heads, a fire suddenly broke out to the west of the camp, and soon, the fire soared into the sky, lighting up almost half of the night sky.
At this moment, whether it was the rebels, or the Tang army, whether it was the fifth round, or Lin Yu, almost everyone's eyes were attracted by this sudden firelight.
The moment he saw the fire, the fifth round knew that his rear was being attacked.
He has been in the army for decades, and he has seen too much in the fifth round, he has attacked others and has been attacked by the enemy more than once.
Being attacked doesn't mean it's going down.
Because most of the time, a sneak attack is just a gesture, and the essence of a sneak attack is to harass.
The purpose is not to destroy the enemy, kill as many as they want, or behead them in a sneak attack, but to affect the morale, morale, and will to fight of the side being attacked through this action.
Of course, it is also excellent if in a sneak attack, there is a chance to inflict greater losses on the attacked side.
At present, although the rear has suffered a sneak attack, the front line itself still occupies the absolute initiative by virtue of the absolute numerical superiority of its troops, and theoretically, it completely ignores the rear and continues to move forward, and can even launch a surprise attack with the help of the defensive loopholes caused by the opponent's lack of concentration.
But looking at the rebel soldiers around them who were either dazed, frightened, or at a loss, the fifth round knew that the army's morale had been completely chaotic.
However, by this time, the fifth round was still trying to restore morale, regain form, and prepare for the rebels to focus on the offensive.
The moment I looked up, I saw a group of soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding heavy soldiers, which had already appeared on several narrow passages reserved by the Tang Army.
Thanks to the sky-high firelight, even the third line of defense of the Tang Army was illuminated before, so the teams of Tang Army companies were equipped to the body, and then to the march, which was clearly displayed in front of the eyes of the fifth round.
When he saw this wave of heavy infantry of the Tang Army, the hope in the heart of the fifth round was completely extinguished.
The speed of the Tang army was too fast, obviously all of them were in heavy armor, but the speed of action followed the trend.
In just a few breaths, more than a dozen heavily armed Tang troops had already rushed out of the direction, crossed the narrow passage, and lined up in front of the trench.
At this speed, at this moment, the fifth round was lost.
He felt that his heart was pierced through the cold, as if he was directly pierced by the horse lance of the Tang cavalry.
"Therefore it is as swift as the wind, as swift as a forest, as swift as a forest, as a fire as a storm, as immobile as a mountain, as unknowable as a cloud, and as moving as a thunderstorm. Hey, after a whole night of fierce fighting, until now, I can still have such a style and style, I didn't expect there to be such an elite ......."
If Lin Yu or Wang Zheng were here, I am afraid that they would laugh out of their big teeth when they heard such a sigh from the fifth round, however, the fifth round still did not understand the composition of the forbidden army, especially the cooking soldiers who were famous in the forbidden army and no one dared to mess with them.
After a soft sigh, the fifth round, who thought that he had no hope at all, looked around again, and then called the guards who had been with him for many years.
After a few simple words, the fifth round quietly disappeared into the midst of the rebels.
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Compared with the fifth round, when all thoughts were lost, the moment he saw the firelight ignited, Lin Yu's heart was full of joy.
He knew he had won.
Subsequently, Lin Yu quickly adjusted his state, and after spending a lot of time calming down his excitement, Lin Yu began to reorganize the soldiers behind him.
The heavy infantry, which was the main force of the night battle, had suffered little loss in the previous battle, but their physical strength and energy had been exhausted to the limit in the previous fierce battle.
After withdrawing to the third line of defense, most of the heavy infantry took off the iron stomach and put the long soldiers beside them, eating and drinking while resting.
As the fire burned, the heavy infantry, who had been resting for nearly an hour, picked up the heavy soldiers around them, put on their iron stomachs, re-entered the state of imminent battle, and prepared for the attack.
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The archers were depleted in the first wave of defense, then changed their outfits, put on armor, and armed with swords, becoming the actual auxiliaries of the hoplites.
After the first retreat, the archers gradually regained their arm strength and picked up their bows and arrows again, becoming part of the long-range suppression force.
With the success of Wang Zheng's sneak attack, the archers put down their bows and arrows, put on their half-body armor again, and copied their horizontal swords.
Compared to the tension of the first line of defense, at this moment, the archers are much more relaxed, put down their bows and arrows, but start to put on armor again, they will become the third echelon of foot soldiers.
Compared with the heavy infantry in a state of imminent battle, the archers who were in a state of readiness for battle, the cooking soldiers who had been in a state of readiness for war had already been in a state of blood rush.
As for the auxiliary soldiers other than the cooking soldiers, with the easing of the battle situation, they have already been pushed back by Lin Yu, and the cooking soldiers, Lin Yu is really powerless.
The moment they heard Lin Yu's order, these cooks, who were wearing at least three layers of heavy armor, holding all kinds of heavy soldiers in their hands, their eyes were on fire, their bodies were hot, and they wanted to be crazy with their eyes, and they had already taken a team as a unit and attacked along the reserved narrow passages.
As commanders, it is those veterans of the Shence Army or other forbidden armies who have accumulated enough combat merits on the front line, and after training and assessment, they have been transferred from soldiers to auxiliaries.
These veterans are experienced enough, but their physical condition is no longer comparable to that of their peak, so they don't put on heavy armor like those young cooks.
Instead, he put on a light but sturdy chain mail, took a horizontal knife, picked up a crossbow, and followed behind the brave cooks, commanding and filling in the position.
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The fire ignited in the rear, and the rebels were already in a state of confusion, and at this moment, the cooking soldiers wearing several layers of heavy armor and holding heavy soldiers directly entered from the rear.
If the fifth round is still there, the rebels may still be able to form a certain organization and have a certain counterattack force.
The cooks were indeed very reckless and reckless, but the number was too small after all.
A few hundred improvised arrowheads from the cooks may be able to inflict some damage, but they are not enough to collapse the tens of thousands of rebels, especially if there are a few cronies left behind in the fifth round.
However, the fifth round has already passed, and the rebel army of tens of thousands of people has in fact been completely leaderless.
It is already the limit that a few cronies can barely maintain that it will not collapse in the first place, and it is pure wishful thinking and daydream to organize a defensive line or a large-scale attack.
In the face of the cooking soldiers who suddenly killed from the rear, the scattered stragglers scattered around the periphery were directly cut down by the cooking soldiers.
A line of defense barely organized by several cronies in the fifth round was directly pierced like a film in front of the five big and three thick, heavily armed cooks.
Several cronies left behind in the fifth round who were desperately carrying on the front line were also cut into two pieces by the heavy axes in the hands of the cooks during the attack.
With the death of several people, the rebels' command system was completely completed, and the last trace of the rebels' rebellion was completely annihilated.
Hundreds of cooking soldiers drawn from Zuo Weiwei, Haiphong, and Shuofang cavalry were like tigers entering a flock of sheep, and no one could resist at all, and they began to kill wildly, practicing their ideal that fat people who didn't want to cut people were not good cooks.
Looking at the heavy soldiers in their hands who were able to kill the rebels, and then looked at the genuine heavy infantry who were attacking in order around him, and the archers who followed at the end, the corners of Lin Yu's mouth on the third line of defense also twitched.
"These gods~"
It's just that although he was speechless to these part-time hammers, the situation on the battlefield was still very satisfying to Lin Yu.
Hundreds of cooks divided into dozens of squads, frantically charging in the rebels, decent heavy infantry, redressed archers, and light infantry of the left guard followed up.
Under the onslaught of thousands of foot soldiers, the rebels, who were several times their number, began to break up continuously.
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In the other direction, after Wang Zheng led more than 2,000 cavalry out of the camp, first to the east, then to the south, then to the west, and finally to the east, it took two full hours, bypassing all the possible rebel posts and defenses, and smoothly rounding the rear of the fifth round of the camp.
With the fierce battle ahead, the fifth round kept mobilizing manpower and soldiers from the rear.
With fewer men and deeper nights, the rebels' already thin defenses were completely useless.
[In view of the general environment,
At midnight, when the fifth round began to send people to fill the pit with corpses on their backs, more than 2,000 cavalrymen had already followed Wang Zheng into a forest less than five miles northwest of the rebel camp.
The scouts who followed Wang Zheng to attack in advance had also quietly touched the edge of the rebels' main camp, and along the way, they cleared more than a dozen secret sentries of the rebels along the way.
When the time passed, with the cooperation of more than a dozen scouts, the sleepy soldiers in front of the camp gate were killed by a wave.
Subsequently, the scouts lit a bonfire in front of the camp gate and gave the signal.
After receiving the signal, Wang Zheng quickly led the cavalry to set off, and when they arrived at the camp gate, the rebel camp gate, which had already been controlled by the scouts, was opened in time.
Unimpeded, 2,700 cavalry entered the camp stationary, wielding long soldiers to kill and torches to set fire.
Soon, the corpses in the main camp of the fifth round of rebels were strewn all over the place, and the fire intensified.
And when the firelight lit up half of the sky, the main forces of the rebels were already in disarray.
It's just that Wang Zheng didn't pay attention to the actions of the rebels, nor did he consider the changes in the main force of the rebels, let alone continue to kill people in the main camp of the rebels.
After setting fire to almost half of the military camp, the army continued to divide the troops in a step-by-step manner, and continued to attack the four camps of 10,000 people scattered next to the main camp of the rebels.
In fact, seeing the situation of the main camp, the rebels in the four small villages were already frightened, and in the face of the murderous Tang cavalry, the number of people left behind was not much, and they did not hesitate to open the camp gate and kneel to beg for mercy.
Soon, one large battalion, four small battalions were already in flames.
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Ahead, there were waves of extremely brave Forbidden Army foot soldiers, and with every step these guys took, they took at least one life or a head.
Behind is the camp that has been completely caught in the fire, even if you don't know the real situation in the camp, you only see the camp that has been completely covered by the fire, and you know that going back is only a dead end.
For normal people, darkness will always bring the unknown and fear, but for the rebels thirty miles west of Xiangping City in Liaodong, darkness has become their only way to survive.
As a result, the tens of thousands of rebels who were still alive instinctively began to desperately rush in the north and south directions in the darkness.
It's just that what they don't know is that on the north and south sides, tens of thousands of foot soldiers used the time that Lin Yu and Wang Zheng fought for to build two trenches with a depth of one foot and a height of two feet, and laid a large number of wooden sticks, bamboo sticks and other traps in the middle of the trenches.
At first, under the leadership of the energetic cooks, the rebels kept killing, but there was a limit to human physical strength, not to mention that most of the cooks wore at least two layers of heavy armor.
As the cooking soldiers gradually withdrew due to physical strength, Lin Yu regained 100% control of the battlefield.
Under Lin Yu's remote control, the foot soldiers no longer focused on chasing and killing, but began to take the initiative to drive them, slowly driving them to the north and south.
In desperation, some of the rebels began to run wild with their heavy weapons, while others raised their blades and swung their swords at the robes that stood in front of them.
Under this breath of death, all the living rebels are running desperately.
If it was in normal times, the distance of four miles was not too far, but at this moment, under the rush for their lives, the four miles of road had exhausted all their physical strength.
After running wildly, the rebels at the front thought that they had finally escaped the crisis for the time being, but before they could be happy, they were plunged head-on into a deep ravine more than a foot deep.
In the next moment, their bodies had been pierced by wooden stakes and bamboo sticks that were buried deep in the bottom of the ditch one after another, and more than six inches high.
For a moment, the sounds of wailing, screaming, and desolation filled the dark wilderness and night.
It's not that no rebels heard the voice, but in this dark night where they can't see their fingers, they can't see anything at all, and more importantly, there are rebels behind them who are constantly driving away.
As a result, wave after wave of rebels fell into the pit, either actively or passively.
Soon, nearly 10,000 rebels used their corpses to prove what the fifth round had hoped to achieve, and the pit could be filled.
It's just that the fifth round has disappeared without a trace at this time.
The trench was finally filled with the remains of thousands of people, and under the constant drive of the Tang army, the rebels could only honestly continue to advance.
Then, less than a mile after the first, a second trench was still waiting for them.