Chapter 85: The End of the Road (Part II)

As other reinforcements in the north got coming, the battle situation became clear, the second wave of reinforcements led by Brother Su and others and the left governor Gao Guoxingde's guards formed a flanking attack on the sea bandits, because Teng Cheng Yilang died in the battle of the sea bandits, the sea army was disheartened and could not resist the two-sided attack and began to gradually retreat, and Gao Guoxing did not intend to let go of these sea bandits, and specially sent a team of people to block the enemy's retreat route

Brother Su galloped over on a war horse: Brother, these Haikou will be handed over to us, you hurry up and take people to support Taizhou City

Li Yang clenched his fists: Okay, Brother Su, then you should be more careful

Brother Su: You are the same

Sanada Kenshin and Jiang Yu fought darkly, and for a while, he couldn't tell the difference, and with a low sound of horns, a few of us led the men and horses to quickly leave the battlefield to support Taizhou City

The archers of the city wall kept firing arrows at the defenders on the wall to cover the siege troops, and the defenders who were killed by the arrows fell from the wall or leaned on the wall, and the sea pirates in charge of the siege set up a ladder to climb the city wall under the cover of the archers, and the defending troops threw stones at the sea pirates on the ladder and used their spears to prevent them from climbing the city wall, and the stones flew down from the city wall and the smashed sea pirates splashed their brains and fell from the ladder

Although the defenders stubbornly resisted but still could not resist the attack of the pirates, more and more pirates landed on the city wall and fought with the defenders, and several city towers have been raised the flag of the pirates, the officers and soldiers who defended the city saw that the battle was not good and began to gradually retreat towards the city to prepare for street fighting, the pirates were so excited on the city wall that they waved their swords and cheered loudly to celebrate

At this moment, a group of cavalry rushed towards the pirates under the city walls, and killed: "Woo! "The galloping horses knocked the pirates out and trampled under the horses' hooves, they wielded steel swords and held on to the pirates, and when they passed by, they cut off the heads, and the cavalry kept attacking the pirates along the periphery, and the pirates immediately counterattacked the rampaging cavalry with their cross spears, and they stabbed the cross spears at the cavalry in groups to block the way, and then they swarmed and pulled the cavalry off their horses and hacked them to death

After the first wave of cavalry assault, the archers and crossbowmen quickly formed a horizontal formation and aimed their arrows and crossbows at the pirates who were climbing the city wall

Gao Yuan and Yuan Kui saw the opportunity to lead the brothers of the trap camp and the fire trap camp to fight with the Haikou under the city wall, and the Taizhou guard general Yuan Bin saw that the reinforcements had hit the city, so he immediately ordered "order the general Yuan Ji to lead people to recapture the lost city wall, and if there is a deserter, he will be decided" After the general Yuan Ji got the order, he led a team of 100 people to the north city wall to fight with the sea bandits

Yuan Ji took the lead, he clenched the steel knife with both hands, and continued to slash left and right, the blade was splashed everywhere the blade went, and it was hard to kill a bloody path on the city wall, during the fight, one of the pirates cut a hole in the defender's chest, and another pirate pierced his stomach with a knife, the defender's face was red in pain, his eyes glared angrily, and he shouted: "Ah! He hugged the two pirates and used his last strength to push him to the side of the city wall and jumped down together, more and more defenders pounced on the pirates and jumped off the wall with them, and the archers and crossbowmen kept releasing arrows under the city wall to prevent the pirates from climbing the wall, and after a hard battle, the defenders finally cleared the pirates on the city wall

The sea pirates under the city wall were attacked by the defenders and reinforcements inside and out, and the ferocious sea pirates relied on the city wall to resist desperately with superb martial arts, and the soldiers besieging the sea pirates fell into a bitter battle, and the casualties also increased with the war, and even if they won the battle, the price paid would be extremely heavy

In the melee, Li Yang rushed to the side of the plateau: the plateau continued to fight like this, and the brothers suffered too many casualties, so it was better to release an opening in the encirclement so that the Haikou could escape

Gao Yuan quickly glanced at the battlefield and shouted "Alas" towards the distance, raised his hands and swayed crossed, the soldiers saw the gesture and gradually released a gap in the encirclement, and the Haikou who was going to fight to the death saw that there was a gap in the encirclement, even a fool can think of what to wait for, hurry up and withdraw to save his life, if his life is gone, even if the plunder is more money, there is a fart, after the Haikou withdrew from the siege, the soldiers laid a horizontal formation under the city wall to prevent the enemy from counterattacking

The townsmen and crossbowmen ran under the city wall and climbed along the ladder towards the city wall, more and more townsmen and crossbowmen landed on the city wall, and Yuan Kui hurriedly led some soldiers and crossbowmen to reinforce the seats where the battle was most intense

At this time, a carriage came out of the hillside, and it rushed towards our location, and there were more than a dozen cavalrymen of the state capital armed with spears around the carriage, Li Yang took a closer look at it, and this was not the carriage that Lord Sun was riding, so he hurriedly shouted at the city wall: Lord Sun is back, hurry up and open the city gate

The defenders on the city wall also took a closer look at the carriage when they heard it, and when they saw that it was indeed Lord Sun's carriage, they shouted to the city: Quickly open the city gate, and the two city gates slowly opened with a heavy "squeak", and the carriage passed me quickly and drove into the city without stopping for half a moment, I thought that Lord Sun would stop the car and ask about the battle situation and comfort the brothers

Seeing the carriage entering the city after the plateau: or I will take my brothers to continue to advance along the city wall and kill some pirates

Li Yang: Our people can't take advantage of the melee battle with the Haikou at all, and if all of our people go to the city wall, the casualties will be much smaller

Gao Yuan: Okay, I'll let the brothers go to the city wall

Taizhou City Governor Sun Yuanwu returned to the city immediately after the organization of the people in the city to the city wall support, the soldiers who defended the city learned that the adults had returned to get the news of the morale of the morale, after a bloody battle, the Haikou on the city wall was all killed, the officers and soldiers of the city guard picked up the corpse of the Haikou from the ground and threw it down from the city wall one by one

Honda Mano saw in the camp that the troops attacking the city wall had been defeated, and the field troops were attacked from both sides by the guards and the northern reinforcements, and more than half of the casualties were lost, and the entire battle situation fell into disadvantage, and it was impossible to capture Taizhou City, and if he continued to fight like this, he would only lose more lives in vain, so he suggested to the big leader Ito Yuzane: The current situation of the big leader is very unfavorable to us, and I am afraid that there will be no chance if we do not withdraw the siege troops and field troops

So many people died in the battle, how could Ito Yuzhen, as the commander of the first army, be willing to retreat like this: withdraw the siege troops to support the field troops to surround this reinforcement, don't be in a hurry to eat them, lure the defenders of Taizhou City out of the city, and when the enemy comes out of the city to rescue, it will be the time for us to fight to the death with the enemy

Honda Mano: If the enemy doesn't go out of the castle to reinforce him, let the enemy watch the reinforcements be wiped out by us

A smug smile leaked from Ito's face: The enemy's reinforcements are coming from the north, and if they don't come out, we will wave our troops north until the reinforcements in front of us are destroyed

Honda Mano: We paid a heavy price for this attack on Taizhou, and we want to let the people of Zhejiang feel the anger of the Japanese samurai

"Woo-woo" With the sound of a horn, the Haikou who attacked Taizhou City began to retreat in an orderly manner after hearing this, and the Haikou who were about 400 steps east of Taizhou City gathered their troops from the new one, and the Haikou's move made the defenders mistakenly think that the Haikou was repulsed, and the officers and soldiers on the city wall and the villagers cheered "Oh-Haikou withdraw, Haikou withdraws"

From the newly assembled Haikou with a sword in his hand towards the northern battlefield marched quickly, the guard general Yuan Bin on the city wall to see that the Haikou is going to the northern battlefield reinforcements, this will be the guard and the northern reinforcements into a joint encirclement and attack, you have to send troops to support them quickly, otherwise the guards and the northern reinforcements will be eaten by the pirates, thinking of this, he glanced around, the soldiers after a hard battle, tired leaning against the wall battlements to rest for a while, the wounded officers and soldiers lying on the ground wailing need to be treated quickly, Once you lead the troops out of the city to rescue, without the city wall as a backing, you can't win at all with the current situation, but if you don't lead the troops out of the city to rescue, you can only watch the guards and northern reinforcements being eaten by the pirates

As soon as Sun Yuanwu returned to the city, he immediately came to the city wall, he saw the wounded and the corpses of the soldiers defending the city everywhere on the city wall, and immediately ordered the officials to go to the city to invite all the Langzhong to treat the wounded, and mobilized the people in the city to help collect the bodies of the fallen soldiers

Yuan Bin hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him: Your Excellency, as a general with troops, your duties are not polite, Your Excellency, you are here, and Xiaguan has something I want you to decide

Sun Yuanwu "Oh what's the matter"

Yuan Bin gave Sun Yuanwu a careful analysis of the current situation, whether to send troops out of the city to rescue or stick to the city, which made Sun Yuanwu also embarrassed, at this time there was a noise from the city that attracted his attention, it turned out that Li Yang and Gao Yuan were fighting for a sword, how could I forget him, then let you take someone with you

So Sun Yuanwu poked his head out and shouted softly to the city: Hongting, hurry up and bring people to support the guards

After Li Yang heard this, he looked around and wondered who Lord Sun was greeting, but seeing that Li Yang didn't react, he shouted again: Hongting, you hurry up and bring someone to support the guards

Li Yang frowned, Lord Sun, who are you calling, at this time, Gao Yuan stabbed me with his hand on the side: Lord Sun greeted you

When Li Yang heard it, he was blindsided: Greet me

Gao Yuan: Your surname is Li Mingyang, and this Hongting is your nickname

Removing the wounded and some people who take care of the wounded can beat more than 1,000 people left, a few of us quickly gathered the team to chase up, the Guards - the northern reinforcements and the Haikou siege troops and field troops a total of more than 10,000 people engaged in fierce battles, the advantage of the strong bow and crossbow long-range strike is gone, the people on both sides fight together, and the large-scale launch of crossbow arrows will injure their own people by mistake, but if you rush up and fight with the Haikou at close range, you can't take advantage of it at all, the art of war has a cloud on the battlefield and the second is the bottom of the siege to kill the enemy 1,000 and lose 800, How to fight casualties in this battle can make Li Yang worry at the least

The Trap Mountain Camp and the Fire Trap Camp took the lead in opening the way in front of the Iron Wall Piercing Wall, and the archers and iron crossbowmen followed closely in two rows, and after fighting with the Haikou, Gao Yuan and Yuan Kui advanced forward in a step-by-step manner, always keeping the Trap Mountain Camp and the Fire Trap Camp in the Iron Wall Piercing Wall

The current situation on the battlefield is that more than 1,000 people of the guard army and more than 3,000 people of the Haikou field troops are fighting together, and the 1,500 reinforcements from the north led by Brother Su and Brother Zhao are flanking the Haikou from the flank, and the more than 3,000 people of the Haikou siege force who have withdrawn from the south to the north are advancing from the south to the north to form an encirclement of the northern reinforcements, and more than 1,000 people from the trapping mountain battalion and the fire trapping battalion led by Li Yang followed closely behind to form a flanking attack on the Haikou bandits

Under the large-scale model melee, the cavalry can't charge at all, and once they rush into the melee, they will be surrounded and killed by the swarming pirates, which shouldn't be the old saying that you can't do it in a hurry, Jiang Yu and Sanada Kenshin's fight still hasn't been decided, Sanada Kenshin has several obvious wounds on his arms and legs that are still bloody, and he should have been injured by Jiang Yu's long sword

And Jiang Yu's shoulders and arms also have several obvious wounds, Sanada Kenshin crossed the gun stuck Jiang Yu's long sword and stabbed him in the chest with all his might, Jiang Yu pushed the long sword with all his strength to resist the spurt of the cross spear, Sanada Kenshin saw that Jiang Yu's martial arts were on par with his own and played a trick

He shouted at the pirates around him: "Let's all go up and kill him."

After hearing this, several Haikou officers rushed towards Jiang Yu with their swords held high, Li Yang saw it from a distance, and immediately took the bow and arrow from the soldier's hand, aimed at the Haikou and pulled the bow with all his strength, put the arrow on the bowstring with a "whoosh" sound, the arrow shot out so fast that the skull of a Haikou fell into a pool of blood, and then a step shot an arrow at Sanada Kenshin with all his strength, seeing that the arrow was shooting quickly towards his head, and before he could think about it, his body couldn't help but swing the cross gun out and hit the arrow to the ground

At this time, a cold light flashed on Sanada Kenshin's face, he only felt a cool breeze drifting over his head, and his head fell from his body, and when his head landed, he blinked his eyes, the corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and said "So fast", and then the headless body holding the cross gun fell to the ground

After the surrounding pirates saw Sanada Kenshin's body in a different place, they all rushed up to Jiang Yu like crazy, and even though Jiang Yu was strong and strong, he killed more than 20 pirates in one go, but he couldn't parry the wheel battle of hundreds of pirates, and after a long time, he also began to lose his physical strength, and his movements gradually became slow, and even ordinary pirates could hurt him with knives

Li Yang shouted not far away: Jiang Yu is here

After Jiang Yu heard this, Mimi dragged his tired body with his eyes, kept waving his long sword and stumbled towards us, and in a hurry, Li Yang rushed out with a steel knife, at this time he had only one idea in his mind, that is, to kill Jiang Yu as soon as possible, so he used a move to sweep the leaves with all his strength, rotated his body and constantly waved the steel knife, and forced himself to kill a bloody road to Jiang Yu's side with his own strength in the encirclement of the sea bandits

Jiang Yu looked at me and smiled slightly: Your kung fu has grown

Li Yang looked at him with disdain: Jiang Yu, don't die in the hands of Haikou

Jiang Yu: You are the same

Gao Yuan was shocked when he followed: he had killed more than 30 pirates in one go

Yuankui: It's not the time to bring your brothers over to help

The brothers of the trap camp and the fire trap camp followed closely behind and launched a fierce attack on the pirates, and the brothers of the plateau and other columns wielded steel knives and constantly slashed left and right in the pirates, and the knives fell and killed people like cutting vegetables

In the distance, there was a sound of war drums on the sea, which changed from slow to urgent: "Knock-knock... "20 three-sail warships lined up on the sea surface to fire crossbow arrows at the Haikou fleet, after several rounds of firing in unison, the 8 Japanese warships were sunk most of the crossbow arrows were shot into the sea, Long Chuan saw that this was too slow, so he ordered people to raise the full sails and row with all their might, and the 20 three-sail warships that were advancing at full speed directly rushed towards the Haikou warships, because the Haikou only left a small number of people to guard the warships could not organize an effective counterattack, and could only watch one after another warships being knocked and sunk

In the melee, Honda Mano looked at the sea and shouted: There is still a sailor in Taizhou, big leader, let's withdraw quickly, and if we don't leave, it's too late

The sudden appearance of the coastal defense battalion disrupted Ito Yong's strategic deployment, and the destruction of the warship greatly reduced the morale of the Haikou and had no intention of fighting at all, although he was unwilling but helpless, Ito Yongzhen could only order a retreat, and finally the remaining Haikou escaped in more than 30 small boats

After the battle, Gao Yuan and Yuan Kui hurriedly led the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, for fear that the war power would be snatched away by the northern reinforcements and guards, while Da Niu and Li Long led the villagers to collect and treat the wounded and check the number of casualties, Li Yang came to the city with more than 10 guards to return to Sun Yuanwu

As soon as he entered the city, he happened to meet Lord Sun who was about to leave the city, and he hurriedly stepped forward to salute: My lord

Sun Yuanwu was very satisfied and raised his hand and patted me lightly on the shoulder: Hongting, you have made a great contribution this time, and you will ask for credit for you at this government meeting, so you will wait to receive the reward

Li Yang: Your Excellency, you have said that it is all up to your Excellency that you can defeat Haikou this time, and you have only done your duty

Sun Yuanwu took me to the guards to look for Gao Guoxing, the governor of the left capital, and as soon as the two met, they said polite words: this time, thanks to the governor of Gao Du and the generals of the guards, Taizhou was spared, and the lower officials thanked the governor here for the people in Taizhou City

Gao Guoxing: Yuan Wu couldn't have imagined that you and I would be in such a situation when we met for a few years

Sun Yuanwu smiled slightly: Yes, I didn't expect that when it came to the governor, your heroic posture was still the same as back then, and the governor led the guards and soldiers to kill the enemy bravely Yuanwu saw it on the city wall

Gao Guoxing raised his head and smiled, "Haha" Over the years, I have lived in the country for a long time, and my body and bones are not as good as before, and this time I just took this opportunity to move my muscles and bones

Sun Yuanwu: The governor has arranged a place for you and the guards in the city, please bring the guards to the city to rest, and the governor will ask the governor to prepare food and drinks

Gao Guoxing: If you enter the city, you don't have to, we just set up camp outside the city

Sun Yuanwu: Then the lower official will send someone to bring you wine and food to comfort the soldiers

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to me

Sun Yuanwu gave me a look: Hongting, this is Gao Guoxing, the governor of Zuodu, don't you hurry up and salute

Li Yang bowed: The last general will meet the Governor

Sun Yuanwu: The governor is a subordinate of the lower official, Li Yang, who is guarding the northern part of Taizhou

Gao Guoxing: "Haha" Yuanwu didn't expect that there were many fierce generals among your subordinates who could lead troops to fight, and I had seen him before in the northern garrison

Sun Yuanwu was blindsided when he heard this, so Li Yang hurriedly stepped forward and whispered about his temporary joining of the guard army to aid Taizhou City