Chapter 41: The Eye of Loyalty
"Enemy attack! The camp was robbed and suffered heavy casualties, heavy casualties!" Lin Xing kept repeating this sentence in despair, and Mingyue Zixia looked at each other and didn't understand what was going on. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"There's nothing wrong!" Mingyue calculated that the business camp was still intact, but the main general was not there, and the sergeant was inevitably a little casual, which was also harmless.
"Stinky boy, wake up!" Zixia slapped Lin Xing's back, but this palm contained immortal yuan, although it was only a little, it could stimulate Lin Xing's nerves.
"Wow!" Lin Xing's mind cleared up, but he couldn't help but spurt out a mouthful of blood again, this time not injured, but angry.
"Senior sister!" Seeing the situation in front of him clearly, Lin Xing weakly raised his finger and pointed in the direction of Xiangyi City: "The camp was robbed, the casualties were heavy, the grain and grass were burned, and the defeat was ...... Defeat is a certainty!"
After speaking, he smashed his fist on the bed fiercely, and his heart was extremely unwilling.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zixia touched Lin Xing's head: "I don't have a fever! Just now, I and Senior Sister Mingyue have calculated that the military camp is safe and sound, and besides, where did this come from to rob the camp in broad daylight?"
"But I just saw the scene of the enemy army robbing the camp just now?" Lin Xing looked at his hand: "Huh, where is my magic weapon?"
"It was still there just now!" The second daughter hurriedly helped Lin Xing find it, but the treasure had long been hidden in Lin Xing's body, where could it be found.
"Don't look for it anymore!" Lin Xing suddenly thought of a possibility, it was described in the list of gods in later generations that Wen Zhong did have a third eye, which could distinguish loyalty and treachery, predict good luck and evil, and be called the eye of loyalty. I guess this chance refers to this magical power, right?
What I saw just now should be something that will happen in the future, the eye of loyalty can predict good luck and evil, through it Lin Xing saw the robbery of the merchant army camp in advance, thinking that things will not be too far apart, and the greatest possibility is tonight.
"Without further ado!" Knowing that the army was about to be in danger, Lin Xing didn't dare to delay any longer, and hurriedly urged the second daughter to return to the camp. As soon as he stood up, he shook twice and almost fell.
Zixia couldn't help but feel distressed when she saw Lin Xing's shaky appearance, and walked to him without saying a word.
Mingyue shook her head and sighed in her heart, she was still too reserved after all, and she was not as open-minded as Zixia in terms of emotional expression.
The three of them rushed to the outside of Xiangyi City, and it was already sunset, and when they saw that the camp was safe and sound, Lin Xing's heart was relieved.
"Ben Shuai has calculated that the enemy will steal the camp tonight, you must not make a noise, and still keep it as it is, loose on the outside and tight on the inside. Fight for the total annihilation of the invading enemy tonight!" Lin Xing returned to the camp and did not make a noise, but quietly gathered the generals. Arrange the troops, and wait for the turtle to be caught in the urn at night.
At the second watch in the night, the north gate of Xiangyi City quietly opened, and a team of people and horses came out from the city, with grass and horse rings, and the horses' hooves were wrapped in linen, although there were tens of thousands of them, but there was no sound.
Lin Xing, who was paying attention to the movements of Xiangyi City from afar, couldn't help but secretly give a thumbs up, no wonder Meng Fang was so arrogant, the quality of this army was really not comparable to the imperial army.
If it weren't for the fact that the Eye of Loyalty was alerted, the merchant army would definitely suffer a big loss tonight, even if he and his two senior sisters were present, I am afraid that they would not be able to return to the sky.
In the distance, there was silence in the commercial camp, and the soldiers had long since fallen asleep, and the occasional patrol team passed by was lazy and lackluster.
It seems that what the national teacher said is right, the merchant army is lazy, and the commander is not in the army, and even the scoutposts patrolling around are derelict in their duties. If it weren't for the scheming of the people leading the troops, how could such an army defeat the 20,000 elite soldiers of the Meng side?
Thinking of this, the leader of the Bangladesh army waved his hand lightly, signaled the sergeant behind him to follow, and quietly approached the merchant army camp with a large group of men.
"Name!" Seeing that all the Meng troops had entered the encirclement, Lin Xing ordered to blow the horn in person.
In an instant, the surrounding torches lit up and illuminated the surroundings as bright as day, and the men and horses of the Meng side had rushed into the camp and found that the camp was empty.
"Break through!" the leader of the Meng side gave an order, and the sergeants followed the leader in unison and rushed forward. This is also the way to use troops, if you turn around and break through in the direction of the city wall, the formation will definitely be chaotic and give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.
In the end, even if you risk death to break through the siege, and there are pursuers behind you, will the city gate be opened or not? If it is not opened, and there is a city blocking the road in front and there are pursuers attacking after it, it must be a dead end.
If the door is opened, the enemy army will take the opportunity to cover up and kill, and there may be a danger of breaking the city, so he ordered to break through the siege forward, even if he cannot return to the city, fighting guerrilla warfare on the periphery can also bring a lot of trouble to the merchant army.
Meng Fangjun's abacus was very good, but he underestimated Lin Xing's obscenity. The merchant army did not engage the Meng army in close combat, but only greeted them with bows and arrows from a distance. There are many tripping ropes, horse rejection piles, and many traps on the way forward. The cavalry could not form a shock at all, and the slow speed could only be called a target for the enemy.
In just a short time, there were nearly 10,000 casualties, accounting for almost one-third of the raid's troops.
The rain of arrows gradually thinned out, and the Meng army gradually approached the Shang army's formation, but it was even more desperate: the black pressure in front of it was impossible to see how many troops there were, and the front row was a shield soldier with a short sword. The shield was used to defend against enemy arrows, and the short knife was mainly used to cut the legs of cavalry horses.
Behind the shield soldiers were dense spears, the bright tips of which were a little dazzling in the light of the fire.
Do you want to be so ruthless? Don't you leave a way to live? I don't know if you can see each other in the future if you leave a line for being a man? This is forcing people to die?
The leader of the Meng army gritted his teeth and raised the big knife in his hand fiercely and shouted: "I am willing to surrender!"
Lin Xing was stunned for a moment: Isn't it that the Meng army swore to the death and not surrender? Isn't it very dignified? It doesn't seem to be all hard bones!
Although the leader of the enemy army shouted to surrender, Lin Xing did not believe it, and asked his relatives to shout and order the surrendering army to lay down their weapons first and then line up to walk out.
For the 20,000 surrendered troops, Lin Xing was reluctant to kill them again, but just collected weapons and armor, and sent a group of men and horses to escort them to a nearby city to guard and educate.
As for the low-level mistake of co-opting them now, Lin Xing would not make it, especially when besieging their own national city, who knows if they will turn back at any time?
The battle of Makino decades later is a very painful column, hehe, and Lin Xing has the qualifications to learn a lesson from the battle examples decades later.
The Battle of Makino claimed to have 200,000 merchant troops, but nearly half of them were Southern Barbarian surrenderers. The Western Zhou coalition army numbered less than 100,000, and when the two armies intersected, the Southern Barbarian army suddenly defected, and by the way, it also rebelled against half of the Shang army headquarters. The momentum of the enemy and us was reversed in an instant, the merchant army was defeated, and the king of Xuan had no choice but to set himself on fire in Lutai.
At the same time as escorting the surrendered army to the prisoner camp, Lin Xing also sent his henchmen and young soldiers over. They have little effect in besieging the city, and no matter how vicious the Mengfang defenders are insulted in the future, they will not send troops to fight again. It is better to make the best use of everything, let them do ideological work for this group of prisoners of war, and by the way see if there are any materials that can be made and absorbed into the youth army.
This battle consumed half of the men and horses of the Meng side, and the rest of the defenders really couldn't shrink back, no matter how the merchant army scolded, they didn't respond! They didn't even bother to shoot arrows from the city wall, and Lin Xing lost one less income: he didn't even let him pick up the rags, what a pick!
The Bangladesh army could not hold out, and Lin Xing was helpless. Even if the same army fought on the plains, he was not sure of victory, let alone defending the city.
However, this goods were not idle, and they ordered the merchant army to dig ditches and build platforms outside Xiangyi City all day long, as if they were going to fight a protracted war. He himself and Mingyue Zixia visited famous mountains and rivers, and they were also busy looking for immortals and visiting friends.