Chapter 364: The Night Raid Continues (Part II)
With an explosion, the southern camp soon became chaotic.
People can stand up and continue to shrink when they are shelled, but grain and grass can't.
Without food and grass, Da Yao didn't have to attack, and this army would have to starve to death on the way.
This Great Xia army immediately reacted in the same way, and the soldiers surrounding the periphery were also prepared, they all knew that the attack of the Gu Clan was coming.
The first thing they greeted was not the charge of the flying cavalry, but another round of artillery shells from Ren 8,000, a series of more than a dozen shells, spreading from the thickest position of the troops to the side, more than half of which hit the position of the thickest troops, and a few shells also disrupted the position of the flying cavalry ready to attack.
Then, close to the river, a thousand flying horsemen emerged from the darkness. With the flashes of sword light, a fence fell directly, and the flying horses formed a cone-shaped formation and rushed towards the opponent.
Like a knife cutting butter, the Great Xia army, which had not yet recovered from the chaos, was directly sliced open, first inserted with the tip, and then the flying cavalry behind widened the crack.
Every time the front section is blocked, a few people jump out from the back to the front as the tip of the knife and continue to thrust deeply, killing from the edge to the middle in just five minutes.
The flying horses on the periphery spread directly outward, like flowers blooming, or from a fist to a palm, and the soldiers in the middle of the Great Xia army formation fell in rows.
At the same time, some people set fire to the grain and grass trucks to the burned position, so that the fire burned bigger and bigger, and more grain and grass were destroyed.
Li Qianqiu jumped up and down and then jumped up and down in the dark, in order to observe the movements of the Great Xia Army, and saw that the radius of two meters under his feet was half a meter shorter than other places. Attracted Ren 8000 to turn his eyes to him.
Under the command of Li Qianqiu, the flying cavalry was directly killed from the weakest place in the north before it was completely wrapped into dumplings by Great Xia, kicked down the fence and fled from the small clearing between it and the northern camp, and quickly disappeared into the night.
If the previous Nanying Daxia Army could also reduce losses by separating the grain and grass and beating the fire with quilts, the raging fire at this time made them directly break this thought.
At least half of the grain and grass has been turned into flames.
In the middle of the Great Xia military array, the previous middle-aged general looked at the huge flame in front of him and his face turned pale, and the light of the flame shone on this face to form a strange red.
"Fetch water, put out the fire!" he struggled to squeeze two words out between his teeth.
"My lord, I'm afraid they're waiting outside. The riot in the north camp was that their grain and grass were also burned, but the barbarians did not attack the north camp. "Someone reported it immediately.
"The sword and shield men prepare, the gunners prepare, the archers scatter three rounds outward, and the crossbow battalion prepares. The Great Xia general ordered.
With the movement of military orders, a full 20,000 men formed a military formation on the side near the river, with sword and shield soldiers at the front, the crossbow battalion at the back, two rows of pikemen at the back, and three rows of archers at the back.
As they moved, two men went up and down in the darkness outside the camp......
"Isn't there any other way?" Ren Baqian sighed as he descended in the air, jumping on and off as if he was jumping on a spring bed, and the whole person was not good.
"The first time I found out, you turned out to be a genius!" Ren Baqian sighed as he rose in the air, reaching the highest point and falling again.
Damn, if you die in the future, you will definitely be stupid to death.
Also, why are you holding a tent?
......
"My lord, half of the grain and grass have been snatched back, and the other ones are too late...... Do you still need to fetch water?" said one of the generals, pointing to the huge fires in front of him, which could not be salvaged even by watering.
Because the business of setting fire when the flying horse came in was too good, Ren Baqian still wanted to attract them to come over to get water to put out the fire, but they gave up directly now.
The Nanying Lord's face was full of murderous anger, and he said: "Make it look like you want to fetch water, send some people out to test, and if the Gu clan is outside, immediately release arrows." ”
Following his order, the formation had been set up in the direction of the river, and when it was still twenty feet from the fence, it stopped, and the archers first scattered three rounds outward.
Under the command of Ren Baqian, the soldiers of the ancient clan who intercepted and killed outside were lying outside the fence, and this position just happened to be unable to shoot.
The arrows fell into the river with a breaking sound in the night.
Then hundreds of Great Xia soldiers with buckets of water rushed out directly, and then there was a scream.
"Release!" The Great Xia Army in the camp didn't say a word, but there were three rounds of arrow rain, and this time there were many sounds of arrows shooting into the human body.
When Da Yao fought against Da Xia, the biggest casualties were this kind of covering shot outside a certain range, if the two sides entered hand-to-hand combat, the casualties would be much less, and the other side's casualties would skyrocket.
Ren Baqian and Li Qianqiu watched from a distance as Daxia released a rain of arrows in that round, slightly puzzled. "Something doesn't seem right. ”
When he was puzzled, the other party sent out hundreds of death squads to rush outside, and when the sound of fighting sounded, there were immediately several rounds of arrow rain inside the camp.
"Damn, they're not trying to put out fires at all, they're fishing!" Ren Baqian looked at the military formation standing motionless in place, and immediately reacted.
Originally, according to what he thought, if the other party wanted to put out the fire, he would definitely push the army formation to the river, and at that time it was already out of the range of the camp, and the distance between it and the Great Xia army in the middle of the camp was relatively far, and his own army killed it and swallowed these 20,000 people.
You must know that the camp of 80,000 people is at least tens of miles wide, like this southern camp is four miles wide and seven or eight miles wide.
It was only two miles from the middle of the camp to the gate that looked toward the river.
But now, the tail end of this army formation was only a mile away from the middle of the camp, and the other Great Xia troops were only a few minutes away from supporting. The other party stood here and did not move, and did not move forward after being killed, but sent hundreds of people out twice in a row, and when the shouts of killing sounded, they immediately covered the shooting, and even their own people did not care.
"MD, this is different from what I thought before. Ren Baqian scolded.
Now the distance between this army and the other Great Xia troops in the middle of the camp is much shorter than Ren Baqian had expected, if he rushes over now, it is absolutely impossible to evacuate before the other party comes to the rescue, and then it will become a frontal toughness, contrary to the idea of less damage he wanted at the beginning.
However, the other party is not a marionette, how can he act according to his expectations.
"Can't you go up?" Li Qianqiu asked, according to his thoughts, now directly kill the army, and when the other party's reinforcements come, they will kill together, I'm afraid of an egg! 6,000 strong troops plus 1,000 flying cavalry, facing 80,000 Great Xia troops, it can be said that there is a sufficient chance of victory.
The only problem is that the losses will be a little bigger.
"Yes, if there are conditions, if there are no conditions, the overlord will be forced to bow hard!" Ren Baqian spat at the mouth, and then continued: "The others are ready to withdraw, the flying cavalry is in place, I will first bombard a round of artillery fire, the flying cavalry will assault in, and kill two back and forth and retreat." ”
After Ren Baqian was ruthless, he still felt that there was no need to fight hard, there were still seven days, and it would be long along the way.
Keep the troops, and you have to go to Yunguo to grab a gun when you turn back!
However, thanks to the empress's flying horse, this elite, whether it is facing an army of 100,000 to charge, or to fight quickly at this time, or to harass at night, and to run long distances, there is nothing that cannot be done.
It's a pity that he went to Great Xia first, and then this war, and now the flying cavalry has changed from 1,000 to 1,000 people, and even Ren 8,000 began to feel pain.