Chapter 22: The Burning of the Shrine (3)
Just as Liao Hua feared, if the Yellow Turbans had sent out scouts, they would now find a well-equipped Han cavalry ambushing in a col only five miles from their camp.
The number of cavalry is about 1,000 people, all of whom are grass and horses, silently, like a group of mountain ghosts.
"My lord, a signal has been sent from the city, everything is ready." , Suddenly, a black shadow jumped into the mouth after seeing the torches lit at the head of the Changshe City, and said to the white-robed young general in silver armor.
These cavalry in the col are the soldiers of the Yue cavalry battalion who are preparing to raid the enemy, and the white-robed generals are of course Jiang Qi and Jiang Boxiao, the leaders of the whole army, who have been waiting here in the dark for most of the hour, just waiting for the time to come.
After listening to the information, Jiang Qi unconsciously looked up at Da Xu, who was still unmoving, and then said, "Okay! Pass the order down and let the brothers prepare. β
"No"
The military order was handed down, and the soldiers of the whole battalion began to check the weapons and armor for the last time, and the soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, who had already been on the battlefield, no longer had the initial nervousness. After sorting out their weapons, many soldiers chose to close their eyes and rest. They all knew that the battle was going to be fierce, and all they had to do now was to recharge their batteries.
It wasn't until the sky was completely dark and the moon was buried in the clouds that a sudden 'poof' sound reached Jiang Qi's ears.
Then the originally stationary Daxu suddenly moved, and the surrounding flags began to fly in the wind. Seeing this, Jiang Qi, who was originally nervous, smiled, how much pressure was on leading Jiang Qi for the first time, it was conceivable, fortunately, everything was as he expected.
Don't miss the opportunity and don't come again, when you see Jiang Qi's squatting body standing up suddenly, then I heard him shout: "Get on the horse!" β
"Whew, Whew, Whew"
With Jiang Qi's order, the soldiers, who were still a little lazy, suddenly seemed to have changed into a person, and quickly got up from the ground and turned over to the horse, and their movements could be described as uniform. The whole action only makes the sound of weapons rubbing against armor.
Jiang Qi paced his horse and the army to make the last encouragement: "Brothers, the long-awaited opportunity has come, and our army must succeed in a battle today." The brothers took out the courage of the Han sergeant and set off γγγγγγ"
After speaking, Jiang Qi pulled out the spear inserted in the ground and ran out first, and as the wind blew, his white cloak led everyone to the battlefield like a battle flag.
"The wind is up, the wind is up!!"
On the upper floor of the Changshe City, Huangfu Song, who was standing with his sword and closing his eyes to recuperate, suddenly had a bright light in his eyes when he heard the excited shouts of his own soldiers. Immediately, the heart that was still a little nervous suddenly settled.
Looking at the flying Han battle flag, Huangfu Song couldn't help but laugh out loud, he knew that he had won the battle, and he would be famous for a hundred years. Of course, while sighing, he also shouted Jiang Qi three times in his heart, 'Dacai'.
As the wind rose, the soldiers who had been lying in ambush on the city tower immediately heard a loud thunderous sound, coming from far and near. Then the earth began to tremble, and before the soldiers in the city could react, the sentry on the watchtower shouted excitedly: "Cavalry, cavalry, my Han cavalry γγγγγγ"
"Why did Yuan Jian come back, there's nothing to do outside!" When Liao Hua, who had finished patrolling the camp, returned to the camp, a man who was also wearing leather armor and an older man handed over a bowl of cold water and asked.
"It's not anything, but I think it's still a little wrong, how is Brother Du Yuan's camp?" Liao Hua took the water handed over by his friend and asked casually.
"Nothing happened, except for the same stuffy heat, but luckily the wind started to pick up." Du Yuan replied as he looked at the dust hanging from the tent.
"Well, yes! It's better than it was just now. Liao Hua looked back at the flag that was blown up by the wind and echoed. After saying that, he raised the bowl in his hand and prepared to drink it all, but more and more ripples in the bowl caught his attention, and then the earth began to tremble, and thunder followed in the trembling.
"What's the matter, it's thundering!" Du Yuan, who also heard the sound, stood up and asked suspiciously.
"No, no, no, yes!! It's cavalry, cavalry, fast, fast enemy attack γγγγγ", listening to the rumbling sound, Liao Hua felt that something was wrong, and when he ran to the tent and looked at a fire dragon, his face became even paler when he was running towards the camp.
Looking at the murderous war horse, Liao Hua sighed secretly, he had always felt that something was going to happen, and now it was really here.
"The whole army obeys the order and beats the drums!!" At the head of the city, the excited Huangfu Song pushed away his own soldiers, directly grabbed the drumstick in the drummer's hand and ordered loudly.
"Knock, knock, knock"
Soon, the cowhide war drums that had been prepared for a long time were beating brightly in the sky above the long shrine. Drumming and marching, the soldiers surrounding the city tower lit torches at the same time, shouting in unison: "The great Han is mightyγγγγγγ"
The shouts of killing began, and the city of Changshe was filled with a murderous atmosphere for a while. With the order of Huangfu Song, the four gates of the Changshe were opened, and groups of soldiers who had been besieged for a long time rushed out of the city, and they wanted to vent their grievances after being besieged for a long time.
"Divide the γγγγγ", the Yue Cavalry Battalion had just run past Changshe City, Jiang Qi raised his gun and shouted.
"Woo~~~ Woo", hearing Jiang Qi's order, he kept following the herald beside him to take out the horn on his waist and blow his head high.
The horn sounded, and the large array that was originally in the shape of an arrow was divided into three parallel small formations, and after approaching the enemy camp for a thousand paces, the left and right formations were diagonally inserted into both sides of the enemy camp, leaving only the middle one to continue to rush towards the enemy's gate.
"Circle Formation!!" When he reached the end of one hundred and fifty steps, Jiang Qi raised his spear again and ordered.
"Woo~~Woo~~", commanded the desolate horn to blow again, reaching the ears of every soldier.
By the time the fast-running cavalry formed again, it was only a hundred paces away from the enemy camp. Seeing that it was already within range, Jiang Qi hung up his spear and took off the overlord bow, and drew out the rocket that had been prepared long ago. On the arrow button, when the arrow was ignited by the fire fold, Jiang Qi gave the order to attack: "Ten arrows are scattered γγγγγγ"
With the rotation of the circular array, Jiang Qi shot the first arrow when he reached the direction of the enemy camp.
Finger-thick arrows flew into the air with flames wrapped in arrowheads, and rockets slashed in a wonderful arc and plunged into a pile of debris. The spark can ignite the prairie and then see the chaotic and dry debris rumble black smoke and then turn into flames.
Driven by Jiang Qi, the rockets in the sky soon flew into the enemy camp like a meteor shower.
The scattered flames fell into the enemy camp and ignited the chaos in the camp, and the wind borrowed the fire, and the fire borrowed the power of the wind, and as the wind grew stronger, the fire ignited.
The fire grew bigger and bigger, first the tents, the grain and grass, and finally the trees covered with green leaves.
Seeing this, the Yellow Turban Army, who were originally preparing to fight the fire, was quickly extinguished by the fire, and the people covered in flames also became mobile torches, scurrying around. Countless people were burned to death at one time, and the sound of wailing resounded throughout the earth.
Of those who died, only a few were helped to end their painful lives by a rain of arrows or a kind companion. When the wind blows again, billowing smoke covers the heavens and the earth, swallowing everything.
"What a sound!!" When he heard the sound of war drums from outside the camp, he was holding the two women up and down with his hands, and Bocai, who was already slightly drunk, pushed the beauty away and drew his sword out of the big tent.
However, no one needed to answer his question, Bo Cai came to the outside of the big tent, and the few people in Han army robes and the rockets flying in the sky in front of him had already explained everything.
Looking at the corpses lying in the tent door, Bo Cai gasped. Just as he lost his mind, a cold light flashed, and the smell of blood came to his face.
"Bell," the sound of weapons rang out, waking Bo Cai from his nightmare. When he looked at the spear in front of him holding the blood-stained sword, he was covered in cold sweat and his clothes were clear.
Liao Hua, who was already wounded, forced back a Han soldier who was about to assassinate Bo Cai with one shot, and shouted: "Assemble the army quickly, and humility is here to block γγγγγ"
"Liaohua, good job, Ben Shuai remembered!!" was saved, Bo Cai looked at the young man who was not very welcome, and sighed for a while.
But at this moment, Bocai's reward Liao Hua went to thank him unintentionally, in the face of the current crisis, he didn't know if he could see the sun tomorrow, and then laughed miserably and looked at the besieged, some familiar Han army, and said loudly: "Brothers, protect the handsome and leave!" β
Just now, when he discovered the enemy's attack for the first time, Liao Hua thought of protecting Bocai. Even if he didn't turn things around, but fortunately he came in time, a few soldiers from the Sword Battalion who infiltrated the assassination had just cleared the guards outside the big tent, and if it was half a moment late, it would only be for Bo to collect the body.
Looking at the Yellow Turban Army, the six sword guards who had been injured were unwilling to fight and retreat under the leadership of Jiang Yiming. However, they are not ashamed, plus the assassination, each of them has at least ten lives in their hands at the moment.
"Retreat, retreat a stone's throw away!!"
The Han army's offensive continued, and after the ten rockets were released, Jiang Qi hurriedly ordered his soldiers to blow the horn. Thousands of rockets are like thousands of torches, turning an otherwise dry forest into a fire.
Coupled with the fact that the fire took advantage of the wind, the fire had already spread to every corner of the camp at this moment. rushed too close, Jiang Qi was accidentally choked by the smoke just now, and he almost didn't fall off the horse. Seeing this, he couldn't help but hurriedly order a retreat.
In the face of the catastrophe, the Yellow Turban Army, which was still resisting at the beginning, had no fighting spirit under the light of the sea of fire, and threw away their weapons and armor one after another and fled for their lives.
At this time, the Yellow Turban Army in the sea of fire only hated the old mother for giving birth to two legs. Hundreds of thousands of people crowded together, and the army exploded in one fell swoop. The consequences of the bombing of the camp can be imagined, mutual pushing, carrying and wrapping are the most deadly, not only did a large number of trampling to death occur for a time, but even those teams who wanted to gather resistance were also dispersed in an instant.
In order to flee for their lives, some murderous people have begun to draw their swords against each other, killing everything in front of them that stands in their way, even the brothers who lived and died together in the past.
After seeing how effective it was for someone to open the way in this way, more and more people imitated it. After the battle, the Yellow Turban Army was trampled on or killed by his companions, which was more than three times as many as the Han Army.
"It's over, it's over! Yuan Jian, what should we do, let's run away! Du Yuan extinguished the burning robe, grabbed Liao Hua, whose arm was still bleeding, and said in a panic.
"Defeated, our army is completely defeated, God really bless me!" Liao Hua, whose face was smoked and black, and who was weak to return to the sky, could only lead the sky to roar and vent his dissatisfaction in his heart.
"Alright, alright! Now is not the time to sigh, now how! Look at the handsome Daxu rising, gather quickly! Looking at the big dragon that was raised high, Du Yuan, who was originally six gods and no owner, seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw and woke up Liao Huadao.
"Brother Du can trust me!" For Du Yuan's excitement, Liao Hua, who reacted, suddenly grabbed his brother who was about to gather soldiers and horses and said.
"Of course, we came out of our hometown together, and the two of us are brothers in life and death," Du Yuan replied solemnly in a panic when he heard Liao Hua's question.
"In that case, listen to my brother, don't follow the handsome!" Liao Hua said solemnly.
"Why, following the big marshal may still have the strength to fight." Du Yuandao.
"Once defeated in this battle, the marshal has no power to return to the sky, so fortunately he escaped. But even so, I'm afraid that the big handsome who will become the target of the public will not be able to support it for long. Liao Hua said.
"Then if we don't follow Dashuai, how will we be!" Du Yuandao.
"If the eldest brother believes in the younger brother, we will go the opposite way and go north to join General Tiangong!" Liao Hua said.
"Go northγγγ but that's the upwind, and the fire is raging!" Du Yuan said in surprise.
"Because of this, the Han army is bound to be weak, and now there is a handsome Daxu to attract the Han army, maybe it can easily break through!"
"That'γγγγ well, I'll give my brother's life to you!" After thinking about it, Du Yuan gritted his teeth and agreed.