When the sky was shining again, Meng Kai, who was able to break out of the darkness by night, found that there were only less than forty people left beside him; and several new bloody wounds were added to his body.
However, there were more and more officers and troops encountered in the battlefield, and fewer and fewer rebels were able to converge. Obviously, due to the difference in numbers between the two sides, the situation became more and more unfavorable for the rebels. When he was once again entangled and surrounded by an official army, he suddenly saw the lineup in the northwest corner behind the official army escaping in chaos.
He immediately rushed to the northwest corner with a man and a horse, and then saw a man and horse slay, but his brother Meng Juehai took the lead. A pair of big swords flashed white in the smoke and flying dust at dusk, and they were invincible.
Then, I saw that the officers and soldiers in the southeast corner were also killed in a gap. There were about three hundred cavalrymen. The leader was Yuan Rarely, another named army general. I saw that he was holding an iron whip in his hand, and the officers and soldiers near the bones and the flesh were letting go.
Later, in the distance that Meng Wei saw, there were still many Baotou figures rushing in vaguely.
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In front of Zhang Lin, the grass thieves who were struggling under the city have shrunk by more than half. The original ochre big bun and the yellow-headed handsome flag have disappeared, and the remaining grass thieves are especially self-conscious. Persevering hard under the banner of the word,
At this moment, Zhang Lin became more calm and unhurried. He ate the truth of many trapped beasts, but he definitely wouldn't be at the last moment when he was about to succeed, because he was too eager to give the other party more opportunities to take advantage of. Machine.
It can be seen at a glance that the campers directly led by Zhang Lin are indeed well-trained and well-equipped. On the relatively open and flat ground below the city, these men and horses have been steadily advancing in a semi-encircled situation. The cavalry is placed on the two wings, the infantry is walking in the middle, and there are armored jumpers walking in front of the infantry, with bows and crossbows. In the end, he kept shooting.
I saw flags fluttering, war turbulent, arrows flying all over the sky, guns, swords and halberds shining coldly in the afterglow of the morning light. These methodical and patient officers and soldiers are passing through battles again and again, to a little bit of time. And weaken the remaining forces of this grass thief's main formation.
However, these grass thieves who fought hard all night are not to be outdone. Most of them hold bows and draw their bows with a few large carts and dry trenches as cover and positions. They fought slowly and retreated in batches, relying on the city walls to throw stones and release. Arrow's support lined up, and even if the first hand of the official army attacked a few feet away from the wall, it was pushed out with full flexibility.
But Zhang Lin believes that as long as he arranges for the people in the city to be killed on the wall, under the condescending attack, the remaining four to five thousand thieves who are incompletely armored will never be lucky. But the positive offensive and pressure still have to be maintained.
So after a short pause, starting with the left wing in the encircling circle, the drums and the killing sound started together, and the cavalry and infantry of the Huainan camp rushed across the city from here.
However, this dry moat was only two or three feet deep, and some four or five feet deep, even as deep as one person. In some places, the slope was trembling, and some places were steep. When the officers and troops crossed halfway, the crowds were chaotic and crowded, and only those who did not come over maintained a tight lineup.
The thief army on the opposite side seemed to be waiting for this rare fighter opportunity, and saw one of the members of the grass thief general who was wearing a five-pink horse riding a sword swung out and rushed out. The grass thief’s battle drum suddenly sounded, and at the same time the city went up and down the city. Shot a row of arrows at the officer and shouted! Four or five hundred armored pawns rushed into the city with him. I saw the horses' hoof stepping, the swords flashing randomly, and the officers and soldiers who had poured into the city trenches were unable to resist being slaughtered and turned into a world of flesh and blood.
Even Guo Rang, the Huainan battalion soldier who led the rush into the trenches, couldn’t help but panic on the spot, especially when the grass thief general rushed in front of him and surrounded him with a few soldiers and generals and attacked the core. , A thought of "I'm destined to die" flashed through his mind.
But then, the rain of arrows splashed indiscriminately in the melee between the grass thief and the official army, once again turned the situation around; compared to the well-protected and uniform armor, even if the official army was mostly alive after the arrow was hit; the ragged ones The grass thief was going to be much more miserable. It was almost like a cut of rice and wheat, pour one piece after another in a pool of blood, and then it was trampled over by the coming officers and soldiers.
Coupled with the fact that the soldiers and horses led Guo Rang to fight to the left and right, and the people behind swarmed across the road to rescue the front team, he quickly established a position on the edge of the city and repelled the counterattack of the grass thieves. momentum. In the end, only a hundred people from the grass thief general were able to return to the battlefield.
"This is the hero of the grass thief, Shangrang who pretended to be the deputy chief..."
Zhang Lin is a very interesting way.
However, the ongoing melee was unprecedentedly tragic. Although these grass thieves have fewer and fewer people, there is no shortage of counterattacks. Especially the deputy director Shang Rang used a small number of pawns to move quickly, and cooperated with the infantry and archers. They split and merged, sometimes rushing toward the infantry in the center line, sometimes suddenly taking the Chinese army directly, and even once they had already won the vanguard battle flag of the official army, and was taken back by the official army in a blink of an eye.
However, in the melee, his "Shang" flag was also taken away by a member of Zhang Lin's generals. However, the grass thief desperately robbed it, and the two sides were killed and injured around the banner, and they could not get back. The grass thief disappeared and the "Shang" flag was immediately shaken, and the officers and soldiers cheered and thundered that they had already won. They shouted everywhere: "The grass thief is defeated, and the grass thief is defeated."
However, Zhang Lin frowned at this moment, and the lightness after the arrogant victory was also one of the problems he brought out of these camp soldiers.
Then I saw that at this critical moment, Shang Rang and a dozen grass thief generals rushed in like lightning. For a time, the official and military blockers were invincible and rushed to the right to be scattered. The word "Shang" was big. The flag returned to the hands of the peasant army. The remaining grass thieves suffered heavy casualties, but once again saw the muddy "Shang" flag held high, a majestic cheers and shouts erupted, which shocked the officers and soldiers in the fighting.
When asked instantly, Shang Rang and his dozen or so brave generals had once again rushed in front of Guo Rang, the most prominent soldier and horseman of the army; Guo Rang drove away when he saw him coming fiercely. He only heard a few shouts behind him, "Kill your mother!", but the fellow banner officer was smashed to death by Shangren, and he reached out his hand and grabbed his banner. All of the officers and soldiers were attentive. Shaken, the grass thieves who had followed up were chopped over from the edge of the city and drove them down.
"Come on, fly on the fireball and thistles..."
Zhang Lin, who saw this scene, settled down and ordered it instead.
Afterwards, a paper ball wrapped with sulfur and arsenic on a large arrow mounted on a crossbow, and a round wooden ball with countless spikes coated with grease and ignited, were pushed through the formation in an instant, and then fell on the remnants one after another. The grass thieves are in battle.
Under the ensuing flames and poisonous smoke, the grass thieves who fought in battle could no longer hold on, and they scattered one after another. At this time, there was an alarm from afar.
"Is there another grass thief coming to help? It's a pity that it's too late..."
Zhang Lin said without turning his head.
"It is routine to order the personnel on standby in the periphery to intercept and ambush them nearby..."
After a while, the alarm sounded again but it was closer.
"Is it really unusable? Take the interception from the original formation one step at a time..."
At this time, Zhang Lin frowned and continued to give orders.
"Headquarters fully encircle and wipe out the enemy in front of you, and don't let the head of the grass thief get away..."
Then he thought for a while and added
"Then all the troops who are on guard south and west will quickly move closer to the original formation and prepare to support the battle to clear out the enemy in the city..."
Then after a while, the sirens sounded closer, followed by the silhouettes of the partial teachers who had returned from defeat.
"It's not good, Zhang Duke... It was the yellow thief who led the crowd to kill... There are so many thieves all over the mountains..."
Then a bloody minister was paid in front of him.
"The yellow thief, where's the yellow thief, didn't Huang Ni have already been defeated and fled? Isn't the remnant formation right in front of us..."
Zhang Lin was a little astonished suddenly, then turned into some kind of ugly astonishment, and shouted.
"Where is Chang Xianfeng..."
"Isn't Chang Xianfeng no longer in the formation..."
Someone immediately responded.
"broken..."
In an instant, Zhang Lin's heart throbbed and the warning signs rang wildly. .
"Quickly issue an order to summon the whole army to the main formation, and then retreat into Shinshu City to join the Liang Defense Department. We are afraid that we will fight another big battle under this city..."
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