Chapter 116: Stick to the Lonely Camp
The main force of the cadet soldiers was more than 36,000 people, and more than 3,000 were killed and wounded in the battle with Baji, and according to the order of the Chinese army, they were organized into nine battalions, seven cavalry battalions and two heavy infantry battalions.
More than 20,000 horses were captured, all the horses were picked up by the cavalry, and the heavy infantry had four horses per capita, almost indifferent, changing horses on the road, no slower than the cavalry.
Ouyang Xuan suffered sixty military sticks, so he had to condescend to the captain of the heavy infantry, Qin Rufeng was a blessing in disguise, and the others would rather be the commander of the cavalry than the heavy infantry battalion, but the only way to pick and choose was to let him temporarily act as the captain and become Lei Ming's top boss.
"Qin Rufeng, you climb on the car and are proud of yourself, do you know the tactics of heavy infantry formation? Don't tell me, let the brothers wear heavy armor and carry big shields to charge on horseback. ”
Sixty military sticks, Za Langtai grasped the heat quite well, the fight was not light or heavy, and it did not hurt the muscles and bones, but the skin and flesh on the back were all bloomed, and it was difficult to recover from the lack of months of recuperation, Qin Rufeng asked his sister more than once, and when he met on the battlefield, he was stabbed to death with a shot to give him anger.
Among the captured war horses, there were more than a dozen rare good horses, and the captains of each battalion looked at them all red, and as a result, Hua Yue was brutally snatched away, first let Shi Zu Hua Zifei, the head of the standard camp and the Linghu patrol each pick a good horse, and then gave Ouyang Xuan, Qin Rufeng and Lei Ming a horse, and the rest were assigned to Yu Wenjie's guard herald post, which made everyone angry and helpless.
"You take the cavalry with Scarface to help Xiao Yuanzi, let people be sent back halfway, violate military discipline and be promoted, the good things are all taken up, and I still think about this little thing, Za Langtai was forced to be executed, I want to trouble him, wouldn't it seem that Mei Ying is stingy, lie down honestly and recuperate, don't be embarrassed and conspicuous. ”
Hua Yue is like a reprimanding child, thunder is not strange, the surrounding heavy infantry sticks out his tongue, who is Qin Rufeng, the standard commander is the temporary acting captain, and the model of the military department is a model of student soldiers, all of which make Xun shut up and laugh, and Captain Hua's arrogance and domineering are really worthy of his name.
"Gao Yuan, they want to protect the transport team, the strength is only 10,000 people, can they withstand the siege of sixty or seventy thousand tribal cavalry?" "Knowing the tribe's plan from the prisoner's mouth, everyone is worried about the forward, the gap between the forces is too great, the student soldiers and the transport team are dragged down, it is difficult to say whether they can hold on until the main force arrives, the thunderous worry hangs on his face, if Gao Yuan has an accident, the command level of the student soldiers will be chaotic in an instant.
The iron spear in Hua Yue's hand was nine feet long and unpretentious, and the blade of the spear even had rust, Lei Ming was curious to ask for it, but unexpectedly, a shot pierced through the heavy shield, and the tip of the spear did not leave any scratches.
"If he resists, it won't be Gao Yuan, you wait and see, there will be good news for the striker. Hua Yue didn't want to talk more, he rushed to the front with his horse, his mouth was relaxed, and his heart was more anxious than anyone else, if he didn't have to keep his horsepower to guard against the enemy's surprise attack, he couldn't wait to march over day and night, and the team just didn't want to listen to Mei Ying and Yan Ning's chatter, which made Lei Ming feel bad.
In the camp of the convoy, Takagaki was bare-shouldered, picking up a sledgehammer to help the craftsman's head, which had almost become his daily homework, looking for this today, looking for that tomorrow, and the craftsman's head almost knew everything.
The camp was well defended, but there was no atmosphere of war, the students who were not on duty were wandering around, the guards were gambling in groups of three or five for small money, and the patrolling guards found out and reprimanded a few words and walked over, and tens of thousands of people were as relaxed as if they had come to the grassland for vacation. The tribe and the student soldiers are temporarily truce, waiting for Mei Ying to bring the main force of the Chinese army to make a decision, whether the battle is or only what she says counts, everything is the result of the bloody battle a few days ago.
Finding that the enemy had reinforcements, Qiu Biao Chang decisively merged the two battalions in the flanks and rear, concentrated his forces to strengthen the defense of the transport camp, and attacked the tribesmen frantically at any cost for several days, the front and rear of the fence were full of dense arrow shafts, and the trenches filled nearly half of the corpses of men and horses on both sides, and the student guards guarded the camp, and also paid a heavy price, more than 1,000 people died under the bow and arrow, and more than 3,000 people were wounded.
The biggest crisis occurred at night, three Wu Zong infiltrated the camp and assassinated more than a dozen patrol (team) leaders one after another, Wang Biaochang and another standard commander were also unfortunately killed, and when the patrol team noticed that the camp had changed, the Chinese army tent had become a mess, Coach Qiu still discussed tactics with several standard commanders late at night, and everyone worked together to barely block the assassin raid.
Prairie Wuzong was too arrogant, erased the guards and broke into the Zhongjun tent in a grand manner, and only made a move before revealing his identity, so that Coach Qiu, who had reacted, kicked over the table, and the big tent wax torch extinguished a darkness, Wuzong was not familiar with the situation in the tent, and he didn't succeed for a while, but the situation was precarious.
Gao Yuan hurried with the personal guards, the torches of the patrol outside the big tent were bright, the bow and arrow were aimed at the tent but did not dare to move, the black light inside was blind, for fear of accidentally injuring the chief, several sentinels rushed in successively, and there was no sound in a moment, Coach Qiu couldn't bear to send the student soldier to death, shouted not to come in, exposing the hiding position, fortunately he rolled over the ground when he spoke, so he did not lose his body under the knife, and his shoulder still let the short knife pull out a wound.
"Listen to my orders, the crossbow is three feet above the ground, the longbow is five feet above the ground, ready to fire a volley!"
The situation in the tent is unknown, but the assassin dares to come, there is a chance of victory, hearing the noise in the other two places, it seems that there is more than one assassin, Takagaki no longer dares to delay, and gives a low order.
"Gao Yuan-" Li Zihui wanted to remind him that he would accidentally injure the standard commanders, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he interrupted: "If you dare to delay and disobey the order, there will be no forgiveness!" Gao Yuan's words were murderous, the long knife was pointed at Li Zihui with a cold light, and the guards were busy kneeling on the ground, dozens of short crossbows were aimed at the Chinese military tent, and the archers had no choice but to carry out the order under his gaze.
"Listen, I will cry out and lie down, and at once you will fire a volley of arrows, and the guards will fire three arrows in unison, and after shooting the crossbow arrows, they will first throw in the torches and then rush in, and the archers will seal the roof of the tent with the arrows, and let go of the arrows with all their might, regardless of whether there is an enemy, until I give the order to stop. ”
Gao Yuan repeated the order, and when he saw that the guards and archers were nodding, he raised the long knife in his hand and shouted: "Lie down!"
In the tent, Qiu Biaochang and others heard the password, half out of instinct and half helplessly, regardless of the exposure of the hiding position, all climbed down, the grassland Wuzong only hesitated for a moment, the sharp arrow crossbow shot in with a sharp wind, and the right leg was not protected in a hurry, and there was a feeling of soreness and numbness in the pain, realizing that the crossbow arrows were poisonous, and then he couldn't care about chasing and killing the standard commanders, waving a short knife to protect his body, and after opening the long arrow and short crossbow, he saw that the guards threw into the torch and broke into the military tent with a knife, knowing that the assassination failed, and he jumped up and was about to flee from the top of the tent。
If the Prairie Martial Sect breaks through close to the ground like the standard commanders, the students outside really can't stop it, but Gao Yuan guessed his mentality, he can run to assassinate the standard commander, and he still doesn't run away when he is surrounded by the emperor, the strength of the assassin is definitely above the martial artist, how can the high-ranking martial arts sect roll and flee in front of the enemy, worried that the random arrows will not stop, and the only option is to break out from the top of the tent.
The short knife cut through the top of the tent, Wu Zongfang had not had time to ventilate in the air, there were already sharp arrows in front of him, and the standard commanders who escaped from danger in the tent snatched the long knife of the guards as a hidden weapon, and shot with all their might in anger, a martial arts school could not help Wu Zong, and several martial arts schools were not opponents, but dozens of personal guards who reloaded the crossbow arrows were shot indiscriminately, and the grassland martial arts sect was full of long arrows and short arrows, rolling down from the top of the tent, so that Gao Yuan, who was ready to go, cut off his head with a knife.
"Each team is tightly guarded by the camp tent, and no tent is allowed to fight!"
As long as there is no chaos in the camp of the soldiers, no matter how strong the martial arts of the two assassins are, they can't please under the random arrows of hundreds of people, and the personal guards of the dead standard commander are even more crazy, running at the front of the team, and fifty people use human wall meat shields to stop the assassins, one by one fell under the knife, Coach Qiu and others did not stop them, the standard commander died in battle, and the guards were all beheaded, and he died under the assassin's knife or a martyr, it is better than accepting military law.
"Let's go, prepare the crossbow!"
Let Li Zihui and other guards protect Coach Qiu with him, Gao Yuan pulled Zhuo Zhuo, who came later, and the two took the guards to the front of the crossbow convoy.
The cadets heard the commanders' orders, and the officers led them to defend their tents, and the chaos in the camp subsided for a moment, and the Assassin's idea of fishing in troubled waters was frustrated. There was no movement in the Chinese military tent, and the two assassins thought that their companions could not retreat first, so they scattered and broke through without waiting for the archers to close the encirclement, and killed in front of the camp fence, as long as they broke through the fence and crossed the trench, the students did not dare to go out of the camp to pursue, which would give the responding tribal cavalry an excellent impact vacancy.
That night, it was Li Longbow who defended the front camp gate, ignoring the chaos of the camp at all, and ordered the soldiers to ambush in the trench outside the fence, in case the enemy took the opportunity to raid the camp gate, more than 100 people restrained their breath, one by one with bows and arrows, but the arrows were aimed at the direction of the camp, and the infantry on duty in the trench also abandoned their swords and raised their bows when they saw this, until the camp chased the assassin's shouts near the camp gate, Li Longbow shot out long arrows silently, he did not want to let the assassins target him because of the order, and he had already specially instructed his subordinates, which direction he shot Everyone followed the arrows, and did not have to wait for the order to shoot。
Hundreds of aimless sharp arrows blocked the space, so that the assassin who approached the trench was taken aback, and he bent down to avoid the first round, and scolded in a low voice as the wind drifted towards the trench, and the short knife laid a heavy knife curtain beside him, and a few stray arrows let the strength twist into powder before they could get close, and they were about to cross the trench, but they didn't think that Li Longbow was another volley of random arrows, and the reaction speed was not slower than that of the steppe warriors who were good at archery, and the assassin did not dare to be careless, and leaned over to dodge again.
The salvo of bows and arrows of a hundred people was already a strong wind, and the salvo of fifty machine crossbows was amazing, and the crossbow arrows with a thick arm of seven feet were shot diagonally towards the assassin, and when he realized that it was a machine crossbow, it was too late to dodge, and the cold sweat on his forehead came out, and his body was like a fallen leaf that was swept by the wind, and the screams shook the eardrums of the ambush soldiers in the trench buzzing, and the assassin let the crossbow shoot off his legs, and rolled on the edge of the trench in pain, and Wu Zong had no legs to escape and had no hope.
Li Longbow regardless of the severity of the assassin's injury, he just didn't stop the arrows, the assassin's screams became lower and lower, and when Gao Yuan chased after him, Li Longbow ordered to stop shooting, the assassin was long gone, he still didn't go to check, Gao Yuan had no choice but to take people to approach carefully, the assassin broke his legs, and still used a short knife to keep blocking the arrows, Wu Zong's strength is really powerful, but Li Longbow's despicable and shameless is even more invincible, the bow and arrows are pouring non-stop, the assassin's upper body is like an arrow target, the short knife is thrown aside and becomes Gao Yuan's trophy, the mouth has more air and less air intake, and he can't live when he sees it.
"Gao Yuan, do you want to release this captive too?" Li Longbow followed, the tip of the arrow was aimed at the assassin's head, and Gao Yuan handed over the long knife: "Wait for the standard commander to come, who will take the credit?!"
"Master!" Li Longbow was more sensitive than a monkey, threw away the bow and arrow, grabbed the long knife, cut off the assassin's head with a knife and held it in his hand, turned around and ordered: "Run back to the camp quickly, don't be a target for the enemy." ”
Soon after the soldiers climbed over the trench and hid in the fence, the sound of rolling horses' hooves came from afar, and the steppe cavalry who responded to the assassins, not knowing that the three Wuzong had died and fled, attacked the camp from all sides at the agreed time, and the rain of arrows on both sides made the night sky even darker, on the one hand, they felt that the victory was in hand, and the students who lost their command could not resist for long, on the other hand, they fought back with grief and indignation, and the two standard commanders and more than a dozen patrol captains died tragically, and all the anger was poured into the longbow in their hands, and the sound of two hundred machine crossbows did not stop, and the seven-foot crossbow bolts jumped out of the camp like fire snakes, killing and injuring the enemy while also guiding the students to the target。
Takagaki learned a lot of interesting stories from chatting with the craftsmen, one of which was the Rocket Jet, and when he heard about it, he personally helped the craftsmen to produce samples, and after a few tests, he ordered them to be made in batches, which came in handy that night. The steppe cavalry attacked for more than an hour, the commander found that the situation was not right, the counterattack of the students was more fierce than before, it was clear that the assassins did not succeed, and hurriedly ordered a retreat, and the angry standard commanders ignored Gao Yuan's obstruction, and led the cavalry to chase out, the two sides fought at night for half an hour, and the grass was full of corpses of men and horses.
In the morning, Coach Qiu ordered to check the casualties, the student guards were killed and wounded more than 2,000, the grassland cavalry suffered heavier casualties, and there were no less than 5,000 corpses on all sides of the camp.
The heads of the two assassins were hung high in front of the camp gate, and the wounded soldiers left on the grass were not polite, and the battalions sent troops to rush before the tribal reinforcements arrived, cutting off all the heads whether they were dead or alive, and placing them by the trench to pay tribute to the two captains and the soldiers and guards who died in battle. There were victories and defeats in the battlefield battles, and the preferential treatment of prisoners after the war was excusable, and the tribe sent people to assassinate the officers, and the two teams of guards were ashamed and angry and helpless to die, and they did not return to the color of the guards like a stab in the throat.
The tribal reinforcements thought that the soldiers would release the prisoners of war in the same way, and the rescue was late, and when they saw the headless corpses everywhere, the captain who led the team was so angry that he raised his sword and roared, and there was another bloody battle in front of the camp of the students, and the tribe threw down more corpses and retreated, and there were more than a thousand heads on the side of the trench.
Gao Yuan, Coach Qiu and the others nervously adjusted their defense, expecting the tribe to retaliate frantically, this time it was all wrong, the tribe did not attack again, and a few days later sent an envoy to negotiate, Gao Yuan laughed out loud when he saw the comer.
"Righteous bandit Xingxia, I've been waiting for you for a long time, hahaha. (To be continued.) )