476 Desperate struggle
However, there are more strong players in the strong, and the Lynx has miscalculated this time.
At the moment when the lynx army rumbled to the place of two arrows, and the knights bent their bows and arrows, the strange copper drums of the Zhou army roared three times, and two red jungles suddenly stood up in the six shallow trenches three feet wide, and with a neat roaring cry: "Release-" Thousands of red arrow shafts swooped out in a sharp whistle.
Such a wave is just that, but the shooters immediately crouched down on the arrows and crossbows, and the latter one then stood up and shot out, and the two strong crossbows took turns to shoot in a volley, and the arrow rain continued to roar, pouring out for half an hour without interruption. The knight's archery skills are solid, and there must be intermittent even if they shoot continuously, not to mention that each knight's quiver can only carry a maximum of twenty arrows, but how much can it shoot?
There are more than 30,000 cavalry in the Golden Wudu, all of them are concentrated in this ten-mile grassland at this moment, and they suddenly encounter this unheard-of sharp long arrow that is like a storm of continuous slaughter, let your horse head and body be pierced, all of them are puffed and pierced, and even the people and horses are nailed together and fall to the ground in front of them, and the power is really more terrifying than the short spears thrown by the lynx knights with all their might.
In a moment, the centaurs fell one by one, and even if you surged in, you could not rush through the red curtain of arrows. Jin Wudu shouted, "Go back to the horse!" The panicked army of the East Lynx swept back all over the mountains and fields.
At this time, the red cavalry suddenly spread out from both wings, and the sound of killing shook the world and rushed into the lynx cavalry group. Seeing that the situation was not good, the grassland tribes also entered the battle one after another. Jin Wudu looked back and shouted angrily: "Collect the troops——, trap them, starve them to death—"
When the sun set, there was finally silence inside and outside the Great Wall of Earth. The red knights, the blood all over the field, and the fiery red glow melted into boundless flames, and the vast grasslands trembled and burned, and there was no strength to breathe, and there was a deathly silence.
After this battle, although Kui Duoyou suffered heavy losses to Dongyi, there were only more than 20,000 soldiers left, and he was no longer able to break through. The two sides entered a difficult phase of stalemate.
After these two days of life-and-death fighting, Kui Duoyou realized that the real danger had just come.
According to the customary rules of cavalry fighting, each man had to bring enough dry food for three days. The so-called "thousands of miles without transporting grain" is because of the thousands of miles of transporting grain, and the people of this grain transportation team can eat and chew enough to consume the grain and grass transported. It is precisely because of this that Ji Hu, who was far away in Haojing, designated Yanhou Zhaozhong Leopard to be responsible for transporting grain for the expeditionary border army.
But because of Kui Duoyou's hurried pursuit, the grain and grass of Yan Country were not transported, and even if they arrived, it would be useless for the border army iron cavalry that had fallen into a heavy siege.
On the third day, Kui Duoyou ordered the surplus food of the dead robes to be gathered together, barely enough for two or three days. The total strength of the expedition was 50,000, 5,000 people remained in Guzhu to guard the baggage, and Kui Duoyou led 45,000 people to pursue, and nearly 20,000 people were killed in the fierce battle of the two-day breakthrough and the anti-breakthrough. Therefore, there are now nearly 25,000 border troops left in the encirclement.
Fortunately, there is a small river in front of the Great Wall of Earth, scoop a scoop of river water with a helmet, and chew it on dry bread, which can be eaten cold without baking. But on the sixth day, all the military rations that they carried with them were eaten, and the border army was really in a desperate situation.
In the past few days, the Rong army seems to have breathed with each other, and no one is attacking into the encirclement anymore, but is determined to trap the Zhou army alive. Inside and outside the Great Wall, there was a boundless tranquility and panic.
Kui Duoyou was almost thin into a human trunk, with high cheekbones and a knife-striped face, two sunken eye sockets, amber eyes shining green, a tousled beard and long unkempt hair spread out in an orderly manner, and the silver armor that used to be tight-fitting was now empty on his body. Once upon a time, the most handsome and uninhibited flying general was unrecognizable.
Rao is like this, Kui Duoyou is still busy all day long, checking the military situation, caring for the wounded soldiers, distributing military food, and there is no rest for a moment.
On the seventh day, the third watch returned to the account, and Kui Duoyou still couldn't calm down for a long time.
At present, there are two things that teach him the most engraved in his heart and have a big headache: one is to deal with more and more military food disputes, and the other is to collect more and more information about reinforcements.
There is less and less military food, and there are more and more entanglements. The battlefield brothers who were like brothers and sisters in the past are very different. The battalions and teams often fought to the death for a piece of excavated grassroots yam, and even the generals were involved
Cidu Jiao Kui Duoyou was frightened and tried his best, and he was still embarrassed to return to Xingyuan.
But the most worrying thing is that there is no hope for reinforcements. Isn't it frightening that there is no help from mayflies and ants in the direction of defending the country?
Suddenly, Kui Duoyou thought of the worried eyes of Zhao Bohu before the expedition, and thought of the cold and hateful eyes that Wei Houhe looked at him after Mrs. Tai died. Suddenly, he fought a cold war.
"General, you haven't eaten all day." The young soldier stood in front of the desk, and in the shiny copper plate there was only a fist-sized piece of charred dried meat, a piece of roasted taro root, and half a rancid horse.
Kui Duoyou smiled rarely: "Tie Mu'er, you are only fourteen years old, and you are all skinny. You ate it."
"General, how does this work?" The young servant choked up.
"How can I not do it? Come, sit down and eat."
"General......" The young soldier cried and bowed: "You are the commander of the three armies, even if Tie Mu'er is broken to pieces, he can't take the general's mouth!"
"Alright, half of each of us. Otherwise, I won't eat it." Kui Duoyou took the short sword of cutting meat on the side of the case, and halved all the dried meat taro roots: "Come on! Eat too!"
The young soldier was crying and eating, and suddenly jumped up: "Listen, general!"
The night wind howled, the sound of fighting was faintly audible, and the dull screams in the silence of death came one after another, clear and terrifying. Kui Duoyou stared intently, beads of sweat oozed from his face, and Huo Ran jumped up and shouted with a hideous face: "The Chinese army flying cavalry team is on patrol!" Lifting the Tianyue Sword, he strode out.
After a while, Kui Duoyou finally rushed to a tent with a faint glow with a hundred horsemen who could run for a while. A strange smell of fishy flesh penetrated into everyone's nostrils far away with the wind, and suddenly, the centurion's face turned white.
Kui Duoyou flew off his horse and shouted, "Surround the military tent! Open the tent door!"
The knights surrounded the tent in an uproar, and when a row of spears came out, the door was opened. Kui Duoyou strode in with his sword, stunned at a glance.
In the small military tent, two corpses lay bloodily on straw mats, and their limbs have become bloody white skeletons. Coarse dry firewood burned in the small pit, and the iron helmets hanging from the iron frame were dripping with blood and steaming mist. More than a dozen soldiers were burying their heads in gnawing on the bloodshot white flesh, their faces distorted and deformed, and they were extremely hideous.
"They eat the wounded!" Lady Bai pointed at the corpse and screamed.
"Kill them all!" Kui Duoyou screamed, and slashed over a carnivore with a sword. The hundred-man squad rushed in together, roaring and stretching out their spears, and all the carnivorous soldiers were pinned to the ground in an instant.
Kui Duoyou shouted: "Urgent! All the army assembled!"
The horns resounded violently through the barracks, and the chaotic and feeble footsteps converged endlessly under the central golden drum platform. It took half an hour for more than 20,000 troops to gather. Under the dim military lamp, the soldiers were densely packed together, everyone was blue and black, and they were completely out of sight, and there were patches of faint blue light flashing in the dark shadows of the lights. All the horses were gathered on the side, they were also scrawny, and the faint snort was constantly undulating.
Kui Duoyou stood on a chariot, holding the long Tianyue Sword in his hand, and his hoarse voice suddenly exploded: "Soldiers, we are human!" I can't go on anymore.
After a long time, Kui Duoyou raised his head: "Brothers, I have the military song "June" in Da Zhou, can anyone sing it?" In the deathly silence of the audience, Kui Duoyou's hoarse voice floated in the night sky:
"Perched in June, the car is both stubborn. Four oysters, carrying is a regular service. I'm in a hurry. Wang Yu set out on an expedition to Kuang Kingdom. Compare things to four li, the dimension of leisure. But this June, it has become my service. I have served it in thirty miles. Wang Yu went out on an expedition to support the Son of Heaven......"
It is better to say that it is singing, but it is better to cry out with grief and indignation. Thousands of soldiers first sobbed in low voices, then whimpered and began to hum in unison. This is the military song of the Western Sixth Division, but it is also the song of flesh and blood of the military camp that circulates all over the world. Originally, there were many generous and heroic people in the border army, and what was most important was the friendship between the flesh and blood of the military. Singing and singing, shouting and shouting, thousands of soldiers cried loudly......
"Brothers, don't cry." Kui Duoyou Tianyue
The sword was raised: "Our army has been fasting for nearly five days, and we can't wait to die any longer. From now on, kill twenty war horses every day, and cook them all and eat them all. Once the horses are finished, they will open camp and break out!"
Although there is no tsunami-like shouting and roaring from the mountains, the glittering blue light and the dry slimming board that is straight in the wind tell Kui Duoyou: The soldiers have the heart to fight to the death!
Kui Duoyou wiped his face and slammed it: "Each battalion kills horses." Jumped out of the chariot and walked towards the group of horses under the stage.
This is the only 600 war horses left of the most elite thousand-person flying cavalry team of the border army, each of which is domesticated from the Yinshan wild horses carefully selected by the border army. Especially Kui Duoyou's mount Yin Shanyue, one foot tall, snow-white, and four hooves like the wind galloping, has caused many horsemen and knights to sigh and envy. Since the jujube red horse and the yellow horse, this Yin Shanyue has followed him to the grassland for several years.
Do you really want to kill these horses? The hearts of the soldiers of the three armies trembled, and in an instant, they knelt down endlessly, and bowed their heads silently.
"General—you can't kill Yin Shanyue! Can't-" Tie Mu'er screamed and rushed over as if flying, hugging Kui Duoyou's thigh: "General, I've been feeding Yinshan Yue for several years, and Tie Mu'er is willing to die for it!" General......"