Chapter 290: Death or Live

Immediately after, the sound of huge war drums sounded.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The topless guard Dulux wielded the gavel in his hand and vigorously shook the huge drum surface, causing the drum to make a roar like thunder in his ears.

Wang Rong held the "10,000 enemies" horizontally and shouted, "Out of battle!"

Countless Tang soldiers wearing iron hats surged out in the sound of earth-shattering war drums!

"Victory !!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Outside Bolingdu, the officers and men of the Seventh Division of the Tang Army, armed with spears, halberds, ring-headed knives, shields, bows and crossbows, chanting ten thousand victories in their mouths, and holding high the banner of the word "Tang" have flocked to them. Those brave Tang sergeants rushed straight into the enemy formation under the guidance of the command banner.

At this time, most of the Japanese army had already gathered in Bolingdu, with the family pattern by the flag as an instruction, gathered into a military formation, on the surface it was quite neat, but if you look closely, you will find that each military formation is a mess.

However, no matter how chaotic it was, the Japanese army's archers and samurai maintained their vigilance and composure, and behind them were bows and arrows wearing armor and hats.

A warrior of medium stature stared at the Tang army that was approaching from a distance, and when the Tang army entered two hundred steps, he raised his arm.

Suddenly, he felt his vision darken for a moment, and he looked up in confusion to see a large field of crossbow bolts obscuring the sun like dark clouds.

"Dodge!"

In the shouting, he tried to run to avoid the flying bolts, but it was all in vain. He had just run a few steps, but his legs suddenly became weak, and he fell to the ground.

He lowered his head and looked at his legs, and it turned out that there were two crossbow arrows, one piercing his thigh and the other piercing his calf. At this time, the pain had already hit, and he was about to shout loudly, but a crossbow bolt flew in front of him, penetrating through his mouth, revealing the three-edged blade of the crossbow bolt through the back of his head.

This was still a samurai wearing large armor, and the Japanese army Ashigaru who wore only rudimentary armor suffered more damage. The heavy, sharp bolts slashed through the hats they were wearing, and stabbed them in the heads, necks, and chests unabated.

Hamada Uemon saw that his soldiers could only be beaten passively, and he hated itchy, so he hurriedly waved the military equipment in his hand and let his soldiers rush forward.

As the distance approached, at the time of a hundred paces, the archers of the Don Army also joined the sequence of long-range strikes. They frantically poured their arrows at the Japanese army, and they no longer cared about what to shoot in rotation and what to save physical strength.

"How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son!"

"How can you say that you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. Work with the Son!"

"How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Walk with your son!"

Outside Bolingdu, the loud military song swept towards the military formation of the Han army like a violent wind, and the towering "Tang" flag covered the sky and the earth.

Song Wen was very generous, and in the first wave of the Tang Army's offensive, he gathered more than 60 Tang Army formations and more than 9,000 officers and soldiers of the Seventh Division!

The cavalry of the Japanese army that crossed the river first was very ordinary, and it can be said that it was much more backward than the cavalry of the 7th Division. In addition to the high-headed horses snatched from the Ji army, the equipment of the war horses is only a saddle, and some war horses do not even have horseshoes.

The cavalry had no weapons except a cross spear like a dung fork and a sword and rib guard for self-defense in close combat. The Japanese bows equipped by the Japanese army are huge, and the range of firing on horses is less than 30 meters, and they may not be missed, so most of them are used for foot shooting.

With such rudimentary equipment, the Japanese cavalry could not intercept the Tang army's infantry in formation, and they could only report back the information of the attack, and then wander on the flank of the Tang army, so that they did not dare to completely let go of their hands and feet. However, the Japanese cavalry was soon forced back by the cavalry of the 7th Division.

The Japanese army, having suffered huge losses, finally rushed to the range of the Japanese bow, fifty paces. The Tang soldiers finally saw what it was like to be able to defeat the enemy of the Ji army, and saw that the Japanese army bow and arrow warriors and ashigaru opened their bows and arrows one after another, and the huge Japanese bow of more than two meters was pulled away and heavy

The arrows shoot straight out with the elastic force of the bowstring.

The soldiers in the front row of the Tang Army's formation raised their one-man tall formation shields one after another, and then they felt the huge impact. Heavy bows and arrows "Do! Chemical element! Doo!" The ground struck the shield. The powerful arrows actually pierced the planks that formed the shield of the array.

Soon, however, the Japanese army's archers and samurai were taken care of by the Tang army's crossbowmen, and pieces of arrows fell on them, causing them huge casualties.

The army formation of the Japanese army was already in chaos, and the army formation they formed was broken through several formations one after another under the stormy attack of the Tang army, and retreated again and again, all the way to Bolingdu.

If it weren't for the leader of the Japanese army who sent reinforcements, the entire Japanese army might have been driven down Hengshui. With the advantage of a large number of people, as well as a steady stream of reinforcements from the east bank, as well as the topography of Bolingdu, it barely held out under the offensive of the Tang army.

In front of Bolingdu, there are corpses of dead soldiers everywhere, the infantry of the seventh division continues to advance to Bolingdu in front of the formation, and behind them are a large number of auxiliary soldiers of the craftsman's yard, they take the team as a unit, holding a ring-headed knife, and when they see the wounded Tang soldiers, they will carry them away on a stretcher, and when they see the wounded and not dead our soldiers, they will send them on their last journey.

On this brutal battlefield, the lives of the soldiers were as humble as the wheat straw that was cut to the ground and gathered into a pile during the autumn harvest.

In the deafening shouts of killing, one by one the fresh lives turned into cold corpses in an instant, and all the blood was sprinkled on the grass of Bolingdu, from hot to cold, from bright red to dark red.

In the Tang army formation outside Bolingdu, Wang Rong, who rode on the red cloud and stood on the high slope, his face did not fluctuate, and he calmly issued military orders.

But no one noticed that his hands, hidden in the sleeves of his robe, were clenched into fists, and his arms were trembling slightly because of the exertion.

In just a few moments, the soldiers of the Seventh Division had already suffered more than 400 casualties.

More than 400 people, in the eyes of many other generals, are just emotionless numbers on the fluttering paper, but in Wang Rong's eyes, there are more than 400 fresh lives, but for his great cause, they have now all returned to the Nine Heavens.

"Onward! Onward!"

A hundred generals of the Tang Army shouted loudly, holding a halberd and walking on the left front side of the military formation with several personal guards.

"For the sake of the Tang Dynasty! Kill!"

A Tang soldier was waiting to ride a war horse, with his personal cavalry, galloping between the gaps of the various formations, and he shouted loudly, so that the soldiers from all directions could hear his shouts as much as possible.

"For the sake of the Tang Dynasty! Kill!"

"For the sake of the Tang Dynasty! Kill!"

"For the sake of the Tang Dynasty! Kill!"

The heavily armored Tang soldiers also shouted loudly, they raised the blades in their hands, quickened the pace of their feet, and strode towards Bolingdu, which was full of death.

"How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son!"

In front of the Tang Army's formation, the soldiers in dark painted iron armor shouted hoarsely, roared, and rushed forward frantically!

The armor of the Tang Army, after the continuous improvement of the craftsman's workshop, gradually has a tendency to develop to European-style plate armor. However, it is limited to the cuirass and dorsal armor, and the arms are ring-arm iron armor, and there are no iron gloves in European-style armor on the hands.

The spear of the Japanese army was pierced on the body of the Tang soldier, except for a spark, only a white mark was left on it.

The spear in the hand of the Tang sergeant stabbed out fiercely, penetrating the thin armor on the body of the Japanese army Ashigaru, even if it occupied the Bohai Sea and occupied a large area of the coastal area of the Central Plains, the Japanese army still had no way to equip all the ashigaru with excellent armor.

The land that the ashigaru fought so hard to win was all the spoils of the samurai lords in the end, they got the land, they got the wealth and population of the land, and then like a beggar, they rewarded the living Ashigaru with some money, and the dead Ashigaru, what is that? Pension? How do you write these two words?

Even if the samurai lords were so harsh, the Japanese soldiers still maintained a strong desire to fight, because the spoils plundered on the battlefield were all personal property, and the samurai were old

The master generally can't look down on it. And this is what the ashigaru people are pursuing, and it is also the source of motivation for them to continue fighting.

It's just that the current situation seems to be a little bad, relying on single clothes to survive the cold winter in the north, and the ashigaru has not yet experienced the beauty of spring, so it is possible to die in this Bolingdu, which relied on single clothes to fight thousands of miles in the spring cold.

Wang Rong sat silently on his horse, Chiyun's ears trembling, as if he wanted to isolate the rousing drums.

"Report! ——」

A scout of the Seventh Division ran ten paces in front of Wang Rong, turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee, and said loudly, "Commander! Our army has captured an enemy general, who should be dressed as a senior officer."

It was the first time that the Tang Army had fought with the Japanese army, and the internal situation of the Japanese army was all based on the information transmitted back by the Department of Investigation. However, because of the "scorched earth policy" carried out by the Japanese army in Bohai County, the system of the Detective Department of Bohai County was greatly damaged, and the news transmitted back was incomplete.

Wang Rong nodded to the scout and said, "Bring him here."

The scout waved his hand not far away, and after a while, several soldiers of the Seventh Division walked over with a general of our army wearing large armor.

Wang Mao stepped forward with a team of guards to take over the general of our army. This man was very arrogant, and when he saw Wang Rong standing on a horse, he did not kneel, but arrogantly chattered a long part of the Japanese language.

Wang Rong looked at him coldly, and replied with a sneer, "You want a fair competition? It's a joke, it seems that you have only learned the surface of my Central Plains culture for so many years. Nagase Mototsuna, this marshal will ask you, do you want to die or live!"

Nagase Mototsuna obviously didn't expect Wang Rong to actually know the language of their country, and when he was stunned, he felt a chill on his neck, and the sharp blade had a hint of coolness, which made him have goosebumps on his neck.

Wang Mo held the ring head knife and put it on Nagase's shoulder, and at the same time kicked Nagase Mototsuna's calf, causing him to kneel on the ground.