Chapter 154: Siege
After seven or eight days of preparation, the Swiss army's cavalry and infantry coordinated combat plan became more and more mature in terms of materials and tactics, in addition to the large-scale weapons of destruction such as flying stone crossbows, hot oil rockets and other fire-igniting things were also added, and many deductions and drills were also carried out on how the infantry coordinated with the cavalry and how the cavalry protected the infantry.
On May 20, 573 in the Rui national calendar, Chen Ruoping, the commander of the Central Army, led 200,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry to attack the Xianbei camp. After attacking for a whole morning, the Swiss army advanced two or three miles simultaneously on the left and right flanks of the Xianbei camp, smashing and burning countless camp tents, but the counterattack from the Long army was also extremely fierce, and the Swiss cavalry was in a dog-tooth battle situation.
The Swiss military originally drew up a battle plan to attack the camp but not enter the camp, but the Xianbei battalion, the way of the eagle spreading its wings, made the Swiss army have to enter the camp without entering the camp, otherwise they could only destroy the tents at the front of the two wings of the enemy camp, and the part that extended inward would not be able to reach the whip. Chen Ruoping adjusted his tactics in time, so that 10,000 Swiss infantry were distributed on the left and right sides, and 30,000 people were kept in the middle to respond at any time. The Swiss cavalry interspersed back and forth to avoid the real and the virtual, dividing the enemy into a scattered state one by one, and coordinated with the Swiss infantry to attack.
The army of the Long Kingdom also quickly adjusted its tactics, and the flying stone vehicles shortened the firing range and adjusted the shooting of Zhu Yuan, and the flying fire and quickstone shot at the infantry of the Rui Kingdom. For a time, both sides had long-range and melee means, and each other was afraid of each other's casualties.
In the afternoon, Chen Ruoping saw that the strong attack could not be attacked, so he retracted his forces in an orderly manner, preparing to wait for the opportunity to fight again. As a result, the other battalions withdrew smoothly, but the Wyvern Battalion, which rushed left and right, became more and more encircled. Chen Ruoping was shocked, ordered the other soldiers and horses to continue and retreated to the city, and led the three battalions of the left guard and the three battalions of the right guard to rescue the Feilong camp.
In the Xianbei camp, tens of thousands of troops of the Long Kingdom besieged the Flying Dragon Battalion and besieged and killed, Mo Cong saw the enemy surging towards him like a tide, and suddenly understood something in his heart. He explained to Mo Min softly, and asked Mo Min to follow the soldiers of the Flying Dragon Battalion to break out, and attract the enemy's encirclement in the opposite direction.
"Second brother, I think they seem to be coming for you, you... Aren't you throwing yourself into a trap like this?" Mo Min said crying.
"It's okay, I just don't want the brothers of the Wyvern Camp to die because of me, although there are many enemies, they help me. As soon as the Wyvern Battalion breaks through, I want to get out and get out right away. Mo Cong said: "Third sister, you take the Flying Dragon Battalion to break out immediately, go out to meet Brother Chen, and let him lead his troops back to the city immediately." As soon as you are safe on that side, you release an arrow, and I will get out of this side at once. ”
"Second brother, let me follow you. Mo Min said.
"No, the Wyvern Battalion needs your archery skills to break through, obedient, go quickly. If you are disobedient, the second brother will never let you stay in the camp again, and will drive you back every day. Mo Cong saw that Mo Min did not listen to persuasion, so he used a killer trick to scare her.
"Okay, then you have to be safe. Mo Min was really scared, wiped his tears and nodded in agreement.
Mo Cong explained a few words to Xiong Bin, the deputy head of the Flying Dragon Battalion, telling him to break out with the brothers of the Flying Dragon Camp no matter what, and he must take care of Mo Min's safety. Xiong Bin was startled when he saw that Mo Cong was going to commit such a suicidal act, and resolutely disagreed, Mo Cong gave a direct order, Xiong Bin sighed, and led the Flying Dragon Battalion to break through in the direction of the Giant Spirit Pass, while Mo Cong picked up a spear and picked up a few enemies in front of him, casually stepped on an empty war horse, and killed the North Korean Beida Battalion with a gun.
There were thunderstorms in the sky, and it was a heavy rain, and under the gray and black clouds, the besieged army of the Long Kingdom was like falling leaves meeting the autumn wind, and people and horses were constantly swept away by Mo Cong's guns along the way. As soon as Mo Cong moved, the gray-brown battle group moved with it, and the surrounding enemies rushed towards Mo Cong like a tide, swords and spears like a forest. Mo Cong didn't pay attention to it, but quickly jumped from one war horse to another, rushing forward to kill, dense feathered arrows interspersed through, but only swished and only shot the afterimage he left in mid-air.
Murong Lie in the distance was paying close attention to the battle situation here, and fifty or sixty heralds came and went like horselights, reporting Mo Cong's location at any time. Knowing that Mo Cong had separated from the Flying Dragon Camp and single-handedly slaughtered the battalion, Murong Lie couldn't help but feel a trace of fear in his heart.
Others didn't know that the opponent was from Lingyun Mountain, but Murong Lie knew very well, he had not only heard of the unfathomable methods of the Lingyun Mountain people but also seen them with his own eyes, he knew that six Demon Sect masters had died here on the first day he came, and the other spirit envoy had not seen anyone dead or dead, and these were exactly what the people of Lingyun Mountain had done. In normal times, Murong Lie would never be an enemy of a terrifying opponent like the Lingyun Mountain people, and he was glad that the Lingyun Mountain people didn't come to him for trouble. But this time, Murong Lie gave a death order, at all costs, although Murong Lie didn't understand why, he could only do it.
For this siege, Murong Lie had been carefully preparing for many days, and when he heard that Mo Cong had broken into the siege by himself, Murong Lie was both surprised and frightened, and he really couldn't figure out how Mo Cong found out his intentions. Murong Lie is a determined person, although he is afraid, his mind is not messed up at all, he quickly speculated about Mo Cong's plan, and while speculating, he quickly issued an order, the Flying Dragon Battalion still has to be surrounded, otherwise he will not be able to kill Mo Cong but many people will die in vain, it is too cost-effective. Mo Cong also wants to continue to besiege and kill, anyway, the intention has been exposed, and there is no compromise at this point, the only thing he can do is to do everything he can to besiege and kill.
As Murong Lie pondered, one order after another was issued, and all kinds of soldiers and horses and traps and ambushes along the way began to be activated.
The Flying Dragon Battalion rushed left and right, but the enemy fought more and more, Mo Min's hand shot out seven or eight pots of arrows without stopping, and the enemy fell down and immediately surrounded another piece. Chen Ruoping continued to use heavy cavalry to break through on the periphery, but the enemy was so dense that he couldn't even know the situation inside. As soon as Mo Min saw that shooting arrows alone was no longer possible, he immediately picked up a saber and rushed to kill him, Xiong Bin was about to stop but didn't stop, and hurriedly led someone to follow behind.
The fierce battle continued, the black clouds in the sky gathered denser and denser, and the shining thunder and lightning continued to cut through the sky. The wind picked up, and the white raindrops fell from the sky, and everyone's vision was a little blank.
In the dense raindrops of Beanda, Mo Cong gradually came to the depth of the Xianbei camp, he jumped up and looked back, but saw that the Feilong camp had not broken through, and he couldn't help but be anxious and angry. Since the enemy is coming at him, he can just come towards him generously, but he didn't expect to have to entangle the Flying Dragon Battalion. Mo Cong breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and flew in the direction of the Chinese army's big tent in the North Korean Beida Battalion, wanting to capture Murong Lie, who was giving orders, and ask him why.
When he flew to the location of Murong Mingyue's camp tent before, Mo Cong couldn't help but glance at the camp tent. At this moment, as soon as the tent of the camp moved, a large area of blue crossbow arrows pierced through the tent cloth and shot out strongly, and some of the surrounding camps also shot this kind of highly poisonous crossbow arrows. The blue crossbow arrows staggered from the air rapidly, sealing all the dodge spaces in front of and behind Mo Cong, Mo Cong's figure accelerated the swing of the spear, dodging one by one and sweeping down another, but there were still seven crossbow arrows poofed into his left shoulder and right leg. Mo Cong's figure froze, and he quickly fell diagonally into the middle of a dense group of enemies.
On the side of the Flying Dragon Battalion, Mo Min's long knife in his left hand and Qiushui in his right hand rushed all the way to kill, and the sound of raindrops sliding and the sound of Qiushui shooting were mixed together, and the enemies along the way fell one after another. Chen Ruoping saw that the enemy's encirclement was torn open, and immediately asked the heavy armored cavalry to rush to kill on both sides, tearing the hole bigger and bigger. The Wyvern Battalion came out in the torrential rain and merged with the soldiers and horses who came to the rescue. Chen Ruoping saw that Mo Min's armor was all wet, dripping and falling into the water, and there was a knife wound on her arm, so he quickly took her over to check the injury.
"What about your second brother?" Chen Ruoping looked at Mo Min and was fine, but he swept around but didn't see Mo Cong.
"My second brother, he... He told you to hurry back to the city with his troops. Mo Min's voice was a little choked, and his fair face was full of water droplets, and he couldn't tell whether it was rain or tears.
"Your second brother... What's wrong with him?" Chen Ruoping looked at Mo Min and listened to Mo Min's words, his heart was tightly grasped by something, and his tears couldn't stop sliding down.
"I don't know how he is now, you hurry back to the city with the soldiers and horses, I will go back to him, and when you get to a safe place, you will send an arrow." Mo Min said as he turned the horse's head and was about to return.
At this moment, a bolt of lightning pierced the sky, and with the rumbling thunder, a huge sound came from the depths of the Xianbei camp, which sounded like the sound of countless flying stones colliding.
Everyone was stunned for a moment.
"Second brother!" Mo Min cried, and an afterimage flew away through the dense rain curtain.
She was in mid-air, and suddenly a faster figure came to meet her and gently hugged her, and the two fell back to the Rui camp together, flying down on two horses.
"Retreat, everyone, the enemy may catch up at any time. Before everyone could react from the loud noise, and they didn't notice how Mo Min went out and came back, they suddenly heard Mo Cong's voice.
Chen Ruoping turned his head to look, only to see Mo Cong riding a horse and standing in the torrential rain, his armor dripping with red droplets, and a few short black crossbow arrows stuck in his shoulders.
"Mo Cong, you... Aren't you dead?" Chen Ruoping was overjoyed after being sad, and the tears on his face were mixed with the rain and fell together.
"Of course you're not dead, can dead people speak?" Mo Cong smiled bitterly.
In the pouring rain, the surrounding crowd also asked about Mo Cong's situation, including people from the Flying Dragon Camp and people from other camps.
"I'm fine, let's evacuate!" Mo Conghuan looked at the Flying Dragon Battalion, and he didn't have time to count the number of people in the chaos, and he didn't know how many people were killed or injured in the breakout.
Chen Ruoping hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops, led the fourth battalion of the left guard and the third battalion of the right guard to retreat in the direction of Juling Pass, the torrential rain poured down, the field of vision was vast, the Xianbei battalion behind him was noisy and chaotic, several chasing soldiers pursued for a while, and were repelled by the Tiger Battalion and the Leopard Battalion, and never chased out.