Chapter 90: The Desperate War
Song Qingji said that in the end, he didn't dare to look at the soldiers anymore, and he was also empty-hearted.
Li Mo's defection was completely unexpected, which undoubtedly made their already precarious army even worse.
Song Qingji looked into the distance, and couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart.
After Song Qingji appeased the soldiers, the riot was slowly quelled.
Cao Yan returned to the army and looked at the soldiers worried, and he also began to despair.
Half an hour later, the enemy sounded the horn of attack, and the battleships began to quietly dock while they were negotiating.
Half an hour after coming ashore one after another, Cao Yan and the others could only watch from afar when they saw the enemy coming ashore, and there was nothing they could do.
Then the horn sounded, and the enemy was flanked from both sides.
There was a huge slope between the upper shore of the Biluo River and the position of Cao Yan's army, and at the front of the slope there was a forest, which was not suitable for battle at all.
Therefore, the first troops of the enemy to be dispatched are on land, because the difference in height between the enemy and their position on land is not very large.
Although the terrain is not very flat, it is still very easy to charge.
A square of the enemy advanced quickly and neatly, and Cao Yan divided the 30,000 troops into two routes.
Cao Yan and Zhu Viceshu led 10,000 men to guard the slope and attacked the enemy with the stones that had been prepared.
The other 20,000 men were led by Song Qingji and the two generals Hainan and Fu Honghou to defend the front 40,000 men, and their fortifications were very rudimentary.
Only a few trenches are not the worst, and what makes it even more desperate is that their ranged attacks can only rely on stones, while the enemy has heavy crossbow arrows and a large number of bows and arrows.
Song Qingji watched the enemy's squad advance in an orderly manner.
At this moment, his expression was solemn, his eyes were deep, and he motioned to the soldiers not to act rashly, and said:
"We are in a high place, it is not easy for them to come up, and when they enter our range, they will smash me with stones, smash them hard, and kill them!"
The soldiers laughed, they didn't expect that this usually one-eyed General Song Qingji would actually joke.
Song Qingji can think of things, will the enemy not think of it?
The enemy naturally knew that Song Qingji was in a high geographical location, and if they rushed up, they would definitely eat a wave of stone rain from the enemy.
So they calculated their position, and the team came to a stop five hundred paces away from us.
Then 40,000 people shouted in unison, and a battle-hardened momentum instantly spread.
The surging sand waves are exhausted, and countless heroes have turned their bodies.
If you ask the hero to bury the bones, there is neither a body nor a head.
Once the success is achieved, the bones are dry, and life on the battlefield is like ants, in addition to magnificence, it is also tragic.
One by one, the soldiers in the trenches stood in line, startled by the roar of the enemy.
More than ninety percent of them are newcomers who have not experienced the battlefield.
I haven't experienced a fight, and I don't know how much courage it takes to move forward with such an indomitable momentum.
But they have no choice at the moment, although they have just experienced the defection of the general, but now their situation is either you die or I live.
Therefore, the soldiers were not in the mood to take care of other people and things at all, and they could only choose to fight to the end.
Song Qingji saw that the enemy's team stopped, and then estimated the distance of the enemy, and his face changed in an instant.
"Not good! The enemy is going to attack us with giant arrows, so take cover! ”
Song Qingji did guess the enemy's attack method, but he didn't guess why the enemy advanced in a square formation.
I saw that a cloth was suddenly lifted in the middle of each of the enemy's squares.
Song Qingji was shocked when he saw this scene.
"What! There was no one in the team! I actually drew the appearance of a human on the cloth, and I used the cloth to disguise myself! ”
When the cloth was lifted, there was a trebuchet inside!
Song Qingji, Hainan and Fu Honghou were instantly stunned when they saw the trebuchet, how could this be possible!
This is not a siege war, why would the enemy use large siege machines!
Song Qingji's face was full of despair, Hainan and Fu Honghou also lowered their heads, how can this battle be fought!
Isn't this the barbarian fighting a heavily armed army? They are not steel and iron bones, how can they withstand the damage of trebuchets.
The soldiers looked at the enemy's trebuchet, and many did not react to what it was.
Suddenly, some soldiers shouted.
"The enemy has trebuchets! Finished! We're done now! ”
His voice was heartbreaking, and a shrill roar echoed throughout the battlefield, and everyone fell silent.
It was as if they heard the roar of the beast, and they were too frightened to move.
Moments later, the enemy's trebuchet was raised high, and huge rocks drew perfect parabolas in the air.
Huge rocks flew over Song Qingji's head, and Song Qingji yelled, "Lie down!" ”
Knock knock! Bang bang bang!
Huge rocks fell from the sky, and a huge explosion was heard, and both the soldiers on the ground and the soldiers in the trenches let out terrifying screams.
Many people were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood in an instant, and the sound of bones bursting resounded everywhere on the battlefield.
The entire trench was dusty, and in just a few breaths, Song Qingji's position became dusty, and they couldn't see people.
Cao Yan was frightened by the monstrous momentum behind him, he turned his head to look at the location of Song Qingji behind him, he was stunned by the devastating scene in front of him.
Cao Yan didn't say anything for a long time.
"Ahh
At this moment, the soldiers around Cao Yan also saw this scene, and they let out frightened screams one by one, and one after another screams reached Cao Yan's ears.
Cao Yan turned around in a daze and found that all the soldiers had begun to flee frantically.
Cao Yan woke up in an instant and shouted:
"Don't mess around! Don't mess around! We're all going to die like this, you guys stop me! ”
Everyone is equal in the face of life and death, and Cao Yan forgot that they were just newcomers.
At this moment, they were completely confused, they didn't care what Cao Yan was talking about, they only cared about their lives, and they only cared about fleeing wildly.
After the first wave of stone throwing ended, soon the second wave followed, and the second wave was exactly the same as just now, the difference was that the number of people on the battlefield had been reduced by nearly half.
Screams rang out, and countless people died under the rocks.
At this moment, no one chose to flee under the attack of this fierce storm, because they knew that if they escaped, they might be more likely to be hit by stones, and they might be lucky to survive if they stayed where they were.
The soldiers on Cao Yan's side watched the second wave of rock attacks one by one, and they were even more frightened.
They scramble to escape, they are completely occupied by the fear in their hearts, it's terrible! Is this the battlefield? No! Why am I here?
Death is just around the corner, and they can't help but fight hard.
After the stone-throwing was over, the enemies on both sides began to advance, and their squares began to gather.
Then they began to push forward, and when they had reached three hundred paces, they stopped again, and stood in a row in front of them, each with a bow and arrow in his hand facing the sky, and the rain of arrows was overwhelming.
A large number of people fell in the rain of arrows, which lasted for half an hour before stopping.
At this moment, the hill was already filled with countless bows and arrows, and the number of them was densely packed.
Song Qingji remembered that all their previous defensive and operational plans had vanished under the enemy's dense firepower.
This is not the difference in the number of the two sides, but the absolute suppression of the equipment of both sides.
This is an impossible war to win, and it is a one-sided slaughter.