Chapter 258 Epilogue (1)

Outside Jiangling City, dry bones are everywhere, the first line of Fengzhou is covered with blood and yellow sand, and the front line of Fengzhou, where Fan Zigai and others will be stationed, faces the soldiers of Xin Wei and Yuwenshu, Fengzhou, Xunxian, and Wudang...... It has become a meat grinding ground for the two armies, fighting endlessly.

Xin Wei and Yuwen Shu are burdened with the death order under the protection of Otsuka Jae Yuwen, and they must open up the road to Xiangyang and chop off the claws stretched out by Qi Guo!

As soon as Xiangyang is lost, the naturally superior geostrategic location of the Zhou State for the Qi State will be lost by half! The Zhou State is convenient, the east can attack Luoyang, Jinyang, the north can take Pingyang, retreat can defend Hedong, Guanzhong, almost invincible.

Once the Qi people manage it properly, they will attack the Zhou State in an all-round way, and go north from Xiangyang to attack the attack, which will make the Zhou State unable to take care of each other, more importantly...... Bashu! The location of the granary of the Zhou State is directly exposed to the soldiers, and if this battle really fails, the Zhou State will almost collapse by half!

Xin Wei supervised the formation, Yu Wenshu led the main force to attack day and night, in a vain attempt to tear apart the defense line of the Qi people, the Qi army from top to bottom, attrition of nearly thirty percent, casualties were extremely heavy, the military report for help flew to Gao Changgong like snowflakes, Gao Changgong made a resolution after consideration: "...... There are more than 1,000 casualties on the Western Front, and the signs of defeat are already here, and we can't wait here. ”

"What about Xiangyang...... Some generals looked embarrassed. Gao Changgong glanced at him lightly and said, "Xin Weiyu's writings are not idle people, as for Xiangyang...... This military feat is not bad, Wang Lin is coming, I have to leave him some soup to drink...... So be it......

"Leaving the two battalions of soldiers and horses of Wurui and Buji, the army withdrew to Dengxian and Nanyang, and ordered the lieutenant to gather his troops and send troops and horses to Fengzhou nearby...... Our army headquarters selected three thousand Xiaorui to rush to Fengzhou immediately! ”

Gao Changgong is good at fighting and is famous all over the world, this Yuwenshu is not a weak hand, he is the son of Yu Wensheng, the general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, he is familiar with the bow and horse, careful and rigorous, and now his reputation is not obvious, but he is also famous in the history, destroying Nan Chen, destroying Tuguhun, and suppressing Yang Xuangan's rebellion, all of which have made great achievements, and his son Yu Culture and, he is a figure who stirs up the situation for a while.

In the battle of Fenzhou, Yu Wensheng was successively broken by Gao Changgong and Gao Yanzong brothers, and he resigned in shame after returning to the court.

The color of blood began to diffuse.

"Formation, formation, the sword and shield hands stepped forward, and the pikemen followed behind the sword and shield hands. Four rows of horizontal formations, cavalry, separated from the rear and sides! ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Formation, tighten the formation, not a trace of wind can be revealed, give me a resist! ”

As the defender, the Qi army was shorter than the Zhou army in terms of strength and support, and Fan Zigai was in charge of two heavy armored battalions. At this moment, he pressed all the forces under his command, and the archers on the opposite side were densely entrenched.

"Whoosh β€”β€”!" No sooner had the heavy armoured battalion stabilized its position than the feathered arrows came like flying locusts, raining down on the shields. After three rounds of arrow rain, the cavalry on the opposite side moved, and the hooves of thousands of war horses stepped on the ground, rumbling.

"Thirty steps before the heavy armor battalion, whether it is friend or foe, anyone who enters, will be killed!"

The complexion of the generals of the Qi army has not changed, these Hebei men have experienced more than a dozen bloody battles, and they have long looked down on life and death. On the battlefield, there was no room for indecision, he swung his steel knife fiercely and shouted loudly:

"Thirty steps before the heavy armor battalion, anyone who enters, will be killed!"

"Crossbowman, bow draw, fifty steps ahead, ready-release!" Feathered arrows were fired, and a row of feathered arrows was inserted not far in front of the front, which was the standard, and the next moment, the crossbowman continued to draw his bow and arrows from the quiver and drew the bow to the fullest.

In an instant, a large area was vacated in front of the phalanx of the heavy armor battalion.

The feathered arrow splits the land in two, and those who cross it die. The cavalry of the Zhou army, which was in hot pursuit, rumbled and crashed into the range of the crossbowmen, "...... Control! - Hair! ”

A single salvo of five hundred archers was enough to shoot a forbidden place of death ten zhang long and half a zhang wide from a distance of forty paces. Anyone who steps into this trap, regardless of their martial arts, will surely be swept away by the indiscriminate arrows and die a miserable death.

The moment the feather arrows rose into the air, the phalanx of the heavy armor battalion also shouted, "Raise the shield!" Flatten the gun! ”

The four rows of heavy party formations shouted in unison, blocking the big shield in front of them, and everyone bowed their bodies, leaning forward, and their spears pressed against the shield, as if countless thorns had grown from it, which was daunting.

"Stay in formation and speed up in the back row.

"The injured person runs forward quickly, leaning to the sides as much as possible, looking for an opportunity to get out on his own!"

"Stay in formation! ……”

The veterans of the ranks, with the recruits, repeated the orders constantly.

Under the fire of feathered arrows, the cavalry of the Zhou army fell like harvesting wheat, and their horses' hooves did not stop. They still have a chance, beyond the dense coverage of the Qi army's bows and arrows, and they can be slaughtered by them!

They don't believe that after the other party has experienced a series of defeats, they can still be as rumored to be afraid of death!

Although they had crossed the range of their bows and arrows, the archers had not given up shooting, and in order to avoid shooting their own people, the dense queues of bows and crossbows spread out on both sides, and collective shooting became free play, as long as they could kill and wound the enemy, it was a victory, and they kept pouring down on the cavalry phalanx.

In mid-air, the falling arrows were like flying locusts, endless, non-stop. A war horse was running, and suddenly there was a scream and it fell down. Immediately, there was one, two, three...... Every instant, several cavalrymen were shot and fell with a bang.

Finally, the phalanx of spears rushed out of the rain of arrows and collided head-on with the roadblockers! Guns were broken, shields were shattered, people flew, horses fell, the whole corpse and broken stumps rolled up and down, and the heavily armored infantry soldiers who blocked the way were torn apart!

Several horses that had lost their owners rushed left and right in the broken phalanx of foot soldiers.

The front two rows had collapsed, and the pikemen in the back stepped forward in unison, the crowd piled together, spears like a forest, stabbing towards the slowed down cavalry.

Both sides smashed their bodies and bones in this fancy-free head-on collision, and the people and horses were drenched in blood.

"What do you think of this Fan Zigai?" In the middle army, Gao Changgong's eyes shot out two rays of interest, and pointed to the chaotic and orderly heavy armored battalion of the front army.

"Fan Zigai has made many military exploits and is a talent that can be created." After Yang Su fought in Xiangyang, he was immediately transferred to the front line of Fengzhou, and at this time, in the face of Gao Changgong's inquiry, he answered like this. His eyes glanced at the chaotic battle in the distance, and secretly estimated in his heart that if he came to attack Fan Zigai's big array, he would have a few percent chance of winning.

"Yes, he is quite eye-opening for me today, with a small number of people, thousands of enemy troops, chaotic but not scattered, defeated but not defeated, under the impact of cavalry, he can still organize combat power to effectively kill the enemy, there is indeed a ......hand" Gao Changgong nodded, and said: "Yuwenshu made such a big formation, he wanted to defeat me in one go, and he was going to disappoint him." ”

Then he said, "...... Fan Zigai is bold, it's a pity to die like this, so you can help him. ”

"Yes!"

"β€”Stay in formation and keep killing the thief!"

Fan Zigai smashed an attacking cavalry company with a horse to the ground, lifted a heavy axe and a large shield, straightened his waist and looked left and right, and shouted loudly. At the moment of the previous collision with the enemy, his own soldier on the left side was seriously injured and died, and the personal soldier on the right was poked out of a hole in his shoulder, and he was lying on the ground and dying. However, he himself was unscathed under the full protection of his own soldiers.

Rush left and right, brave and invincible, and whoever encounters the way in the way, will be cut down to the ground with an axe, "kill the enemyβ€”β€”! "Killβ€”β€”! "Killβ€”β€”! The brethren, who had been completely enveloped by the frenzy of the battlefield, opened their throats and repeated it aloud. didn't realize at all that the robe around him was less than two-thirds of the original! Generally speaking, under the situation of equal strength between the two sides, the loss of 30% will inevitably collapse, not to mention the huge disparity now.

But...... In a hearty battle like today, even if most of the brothers fall, the rest of the people will still fight hard and die without heeling!

"Kill Kill Kill β€”β€”!" They shouted loudly, stabbing over all the enemies they encountered along the way. One by one, they all became brave and champions. At this moment, the tall cavalry is no longer in their eyes, they are fierce and heroic Hebei men, and they are the most elite forbidden army in Daqi! They raised the blades in their hands and rushed towards the Zhou army, teaching them to understand that none of these people standing in front of them were bad seeds!

When the front line completely collapsed, Fan Zigai quickly sent generals to gather the routed troops, "Reorganize the queue and retreat back in batches!" ”

In the midst of the chaos, people neighed and horses, and countless people fled left and right, and it was really not easy to establish the collapsed order again. Many of the generals were killed in the chaotic battle, and Fan Zigai had to travel to several places to make the trip.

Indispensable with open guns and hidden arrows, after Fan Zigai slashed several attacking cavalry to the ground, he was already a little exhausted, and at this time, a long lance swept towards his head!

It's too late to dodge!

"Phew!" When Fan Zigai opened his eyes and waited for death, another horse lance swept over, swinging away the attacking lance, and in his field of vision, a tall general galloped over. With the help of great inertia, the sharp blade tore open the breastplate of the attacker like a piece of paper. The lance made of ash was squeezed by the recoil force from the lance, and it was instantly bent into a giant bow. Immediately after, the opponent's corpse was raised high, and the "giant bow" quickly flicked away, shooting the corpse like a hammer pill above the head of the fleeing man.

Several chasing Zhou cavalry were smashed down on the spot, and several others were staggered. Before the fallen man could get up and reopen his legs, the cavalry of the Qi army had already caught up from behind. Several riding spears roared by, picking up these unlucky guys one after another, throwing them out, and turning them into corpses!

"Yang Su, the general of Yunlu under the command of the general, is ordered by the general to help General Fan first!" He rode on his war horse and said condescendingly, and before Fan Zigai could say anything, this arrogant guy quickly rushed towards the enemy.

In the Chinese army, the handsome flag fell forward, and the black crowd rushed to this side......

The scales of war began to tilt.