Chapter 320: Forge ahead
"Victory!"
"Victory!"
"Victory!"
The Ji soldiers finally stepped forward again, shouting hoarsely, as if trying to drive out the fear in their hearts. The red ant tide slammed into the inky rocks.
The front of the Tang army's shield array was crowded with Ji soldiers, the spears they held in their hands, the spear blades pierced out of the gaps, and the ring-headed knives in their hands, smashed the blades fiercely at the Tang army's array shields, and even more, climbed from the front of the Tang army's soldiers to the top of the shield array.
The Tang army soldiers withstood the wave of crazy Ji soldiers, and they stretched out their spears from behind the formation shields, and each time the sharp spear blades stretched out, they would take the lives of one or even several Ji soldiers.
Blood spread on the ground, converging into a puddle of blood in the low-lying places, and the wails and screams were mixed together, and they came one after another, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was the screams of the soldiers of the Tang Army or the wails of the soldiers of the Ji Army.
The soldiers who lost their limbs fell to the ground and screamed, and the soldiers who had been cut through their stomachs groaned in despair, and more ordinary soldiers who fought desperately in the pool of blood.
A Tang sergeant with a shield in his hand took a step forward with the robe beside him, but he didn't notice that the corpse that fell at his feet stumbled, and several spears stabbed him in the abdomen along the gap.
The Tang Army armor behind him immediately held a formation shield to fill the vacant position, but before he could step forward, a strong man with a beard on his face in the Ji army formation had already rushed in, he was a captain of the Ji army's halberd soldiers.
The halberd that slashed out instantly cut through the leather armor of the three Tang Army armorers who had not had time to put down the shield, and Bai Huahua's intestines and broken organs flowed out of the pierced abdominal cavity. The halberds behind the captain of the Ji army also took the opportunity to come out of the gap and kill in.
"Kill !!"
The gap in the Tang army's formation was opened, and the swarming Ji army's halberd soldiers gradually increased the Tang army's casualties.
But soon, the well-trained Tang army armor soldiers reformed a shield formation to block the attack of the Ji army's halberd soldiers, and the battle situation fell into anxiety again.
Although the halberd soldiers of the Ji army were brave, the long halberd striking on the shield of the Tang army armor could only make the Tang army armor retreat a little, and could not cause any substantial damage.
Just when the Ji army halberd soldiers were looking for an opportunity to break through the military formation, a group of Tang army soldiers suddenly appeared in the Tang army formation, and as soon as this group of Tang army soldiers came out of the battle, hundreds of Ji army halberd soldiers fell under their spears, and the spears stabbed at the Ji army halberd soldiers like dragons and lightning bolts.
The sharp soldiers of the Tang Army who suddenly crossed the crowd were the traps and pioneers who were drawn from the middle of the front. The halberds of the Ji army were suddenly attacked, and they hurriedly waved their halberds and blocked each other with the spears of the Tang army's sharp soldiers.
The first wave of Ji army halberd soldiers who went into battle were soon all killed, and the unrestrained Ji soldiers and soldiers retreated like a falling tide, but the sound of thick war drums still echoed in the fields outside Xiabo City, and the second wave of Ji soldiers and soldiers came again like an ant tide.
The Tang sergeants in the front battle held their shields and fired back with their spears. Although several defenses were breached, the Ji soldiers also suffered heavy casualties, the two armies were entangled in vicious battles, and the Tang army's crossbowmen were arranged to shoot in several teams in turns, but even so, most of the crossbowmen in the rear were almost out of strength.
Yuan Tiangang, the main general of the Tang Army, led his own soldiers to be nailed to the front of the battle formation, commanding the soldiers to block the attack of the Ji army. Although Meng Song, Song Mingbu, Song Wenbai and others fought hard to kill the enemy, their personal bravery was close to nothing under the battle of tens of thousands of troops.
The Tang army's large array looked crumbling under the impact of the Ji army. Under the continuous offensive of the Ji army, more and more Tang army formations were broken and defeated. However, the first landing and the trapping still did not retreat, even if the Ji army had several attacks on the flanks of the two divisions, the two army formations were still as stable as a rock.
All kinds of flags waved non-stop, one by one the heralds holding the flags rode horses and galloped back and forth, under the command of Wang Rong, tens of thousands of Tang troops were like fingers. Every time the Tang Army's front line was about to hold on, there was always a new force joining the battlefield to stabilize the military formation.
The sun was setting when the great war had come to an end.
At this time, the two armies had been fighting for three hours, and Wang Rong had put the last reserve around him into the battle
The new force of the army that has not yet been dispatched is only the cavalry on the two wings, and Wang Rong is also waiting for the fighters.
Most of the tens of thousands of troops of the Ji army have already been dispatched, and the only army left in Zhao Luqi's hands that has not attacked is the cavalry of the Ji army. He wanted to use the 60,000 Ji soldiers gathered in Xia Bocheng to exhaust the strength of the Tang army, and then the fresh forces of the two wings joined the battlefield and directly defeated the Tang army led by Wang Rong.
With the mobilization of tens of thousands of troops and the field battles on the plains, perhaps Zhao Luqi could barely maintain the offensive and military formation with the knowledge gained from the war book.
But if it takes a long time, Zhao Luqi will definitely be in a hurry, and the military orders of the Ji army will be chaotic, and at that time, it will be the time for the Tang army cavalry to attack.
The battle sharply consumed the physical strength of the officers and men of the two armies, and the Ji army, which had the advantage in numbers, even began to bury pots in the camp, while the Tang army could only take advantage of the break to stuff dry and hard military food into its mouth.
The interval between the attacks of the Ji army began to lengthen, and the original continuous attacks began to disappear. In the distance, the noise of Zhao Luqi's Ji army formation also began to get louder and louder.
Wang Rong knew that the time had come.
He raised his fist slightly in his right hand and shouted, "Order Wuluo and Chu Luxu to lead their troops to attack and clear the cavalry of the Ji army."
"No!"
The heralds, who had been on standby, received the order and galloped off to both wings. Then next to Wang Rong's ink-colored gold-lettered flag, a tall Xuan-colored banner was erected, and all the sound of trumpets and drums in the Tang army formation came to an abrupt end.
At this time, countless generals and colonels in the Tang army array noticed the Xuanqi where Wang Rong was located, and the wrestlers of the pro-guard battalion beat the war drums again, and the sound of the trumpets and drums around them and the rapid war drums converged for a while.
The military orders were passed down one by one, and for a time the entire Tang Army's Great Array Xuan Banner was flying. In the Tang Army's formation, the ink-colored banner began to move forward slowly.
Everyone's eyes followed the ink-colored big curtain, Wang Rong lightly clamped the horse's belly with his legs, shook the reins, the red cloud under the crotch hissed lowly, shook off the horse's hooves and ran forward, and Wang Rong behind him held the big banner high and followed. Under the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, Wang Rong had already come to the front of the Tang army.
In front of him were the soldiers of the Ji army who were swarming again, and Wang Yi stood alone in front of the Tang army with the reins, with his back to the Ji soldiers who were surging like flying locusts.
The wind was howling, the banner was hunting, and at this time Wang Rong was surrounded by a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and his ears were full of the painful cries and moans of the dying people, and he raised his spear high and struggled forward. Countless Tang Army soldiers went forward one after another, and the front army of the Tang Army and the Chinese Army shouted and shouted together, rushing towards the Ji Army formation that attacked again.
"Assault !! Army"
The generals and colonels at all levels shouted loudly in the military formation, and countless Tang Army soldiers repeated the orders of the generals and shouted loudly.
A mountain-like shield array slowly moved forward, followed closely behind a forest-like spear array.
"In this battle, there is death and no life, there is advance and no retreat, and the Tang army is mighty!"
"The Tang Army is mighty!"
Everyone repeated the military order loudly, without hesitation.
In the sound of rapid war drums, the black-clothed Tang army armor soldiers marched forward bravely.