"We should have three benefits and three strengths in this battle"
The brave general of Hangzhou, who was in charge of fouling the enemy and plundering the formation, and Li Cifei, a general of Wukang Town, one of the five affiliated towns of Lin'an, must also bravely ride a horse and raise a spear in front of the formation, shouting encouragement.
"Our army is an up-and-coming division who has come all the way to seek out thieves for unsuccessful achievements, while Taiping thieves are the elders and weary people who are surrounded by the city... this is one of them."
"Our army is mostly driven by the children of the hometown. It has both the familiarity of the place and the potential of the people and the potential... And the thieves are from the outsiders, and the gentry thinks it is useful, and it has been lost. The hearts of the people are not the hope of the countryside... and they are second."
"Our army also has the Zhenhai elite soldiers in Dantu City as echoes, and the thief army also suffers from the enemy... This is the third..."
Having said that, he shouted again.
"Since there is such a great opportunity, don't hesitate to follow me to kill the thieves and repay the results, and the family, the glory and wealth, everyone has a share..."
"Kill the thief and get the result"
"Kill the thief and get the result"
A roar of arms shaking like a forest resounded for a moment, and then turned into a huge array of murderous auras. And in the front, the first Taiping Army green flag that came to meet it also appeared on the horizon.
After a while, the town general Li Cifei, who had already steadily approached the enemy formation, couldn't help but laughed out loud.
"The chariot formation is actually a chariot formation. These ridge thieves want to use the chariot formation to fight against each other. Don't you know that this field water network is mostly soft soil and wet mud land, which is the most unfavorable for chariots and horses... What are they doing? I just moved to this place, and the water is lush and adjacent to the road. Isn’t this a situation of self-trapping to death..."
"Let the Bazu team prepare in advance, we should win this battle first..."
Hangzhou Badu was originally in the Wangying Rebellion. Each of the eight counties in Hangzhou served as the capital of 1,000 soldiers, led by the noble chiefs of each county, and was known as the standing army of the children of Badu. It is naturally impossible for the evolution to be limited to the original Badu Yaqian children;
In addition to the expansion of each, and the establishment and annexation of many other subordinate imperial courts, since then it has been known as the basic board of the Badu Thirteen Towns.
And this Wukang town soldier, composed of Xu Ji, all subordinate to the salt official, and mostly composed of the children of the sturdy salt households, is one of the few leaders. With the encouragement and support of local leaders, they even dared to get rid of the imperial tax customs and subordinates, enter the court and set up private checkpoints to collect taxes, and use salt to purchase weapons and equipment.
It is also the one who hates and steadfastly strikes at the thieves who are ravaging the two Zhejiang provinces. Since he came out of battle, he has repeatedly defeated many thieves who have been several times his own with few strikes.
Suddenly, the sky dimmed slightly, and it was already a rain of arrows that covered the sky and the earth galloped in; the room was still amidst fierce shouts and anger, one after another, pouring and nailing to the head of the Hangzhou army. Those five-color group cards and guards that are jagged, competing to raise.
Then, in the sound like a shower, a lot of them leaked into the gaps that were not covered. Suddenly, blood and light splashed out one after another screams and screams; then these flashes and disappeared. The gap and confusion of the team were filled and obscured by the accelerated lineup.
Behind the re-distributed licensed guards, Li Cifei held a narrow-headed arrow with a slender bamboo pole with a slightly different color and said:
"This Taiping thief has some meaning, can their bows and crossbows shoot so far..."
There is no need for him to urge anymore. The soldiers who are moving forward can't help changing from sprinting to trotting, speeding up the distance from the enemy line; however, it didn't take long for most people's senses; the second round of Arrow rain suddenly fell on their heads in an unexpectedly cramped distance.
This time, even the group cards and hand blocks that were raised up in the slow slowdown may not be able to cover them carefully. With the swift and heavy inertia, the arrows of the cone-head of the wooden pole were thrown down. Suddenly, they croaked through the skin of the wooden plaques, and then pierced bloody from the arms and the backs of the palms. , Even stabbed to the face and shoulders facing him without being castrated.
Suddenly amid a more rapid and fierce scream, the townsmen who lost their hands in pain fell into many gaps in the army, and were stepped on by the running footsteps of the rear team; the sprint lineup also changed. It gets looser and messy.
"A good thief, he actually understands this kind of strength and weakness method of suppressing and then raising... I want to see how many times this thief can do..."
And once again dropped a lacquer painting group card with several clusters of arrows inserted, Li Cifei's expression also became solemn and solemn.
However, it seemed that reality would always break his expectations; the thief army fired its arrows again within the short distance that the soldiers were about to approach. This time it was launched from the tailless short arrow in the continuous crossbow quiver; compared with those who used to shoot arrows hidden behind the car formation, this time they took the initiative to show up in two rows or stand or squat to hold the crossbow. ；
At least in terms of visual effects, the box-mounted short arrows, which have weaker penetration and ray throw, are undoubtedly more gentle and drizzle than the previous long-range and mid-penetration strong bows; it’s like a sky full of sky. There are fluttering catkins and poplar flowers on the sky, slowly falling among the scattered soldiers.
However, the damage and threat brought by it are not reduced by half and even more. The dense clusters of locusts continued to rush the soldiers in the forefront, giving them the appearance of potatoes rolled by a sharp knife, and like boiling water poured on frozen ice. A large layer was stripped off one after another on the spot.
"Where is the archer of the rear team, don't hesitate to strike a thief with me..."
And Li Cifei's last bit of ease and calmness disappeared, turning into a certain indignation and resolutely shouting Ling left and right to wave the flag.
After a few breaths, they were behind the attacking soldiers, and they suddenly rose up in a burst of rather scattered and rapid arrows, spreading in the opposite direction among the rowing thieves, although there were very few who fell in the middle. But the opponent who succeeded in forcing the opponent quickly retreated to the front of the car array.
Without these ten steps of approaching suppression and killing, the remaining town soldiers who were frustrated in their momentum were also revived by the sound of one after another, and they gathered together into an unstructured front, and rushed to the front of the car formation. , Biting the knife and struggling the cards with hands and feet, and raced to climb up.
Only when their shouts of excitement and roars against enemies did not last long, they were quickly pierced and flew up by the spear shafts and other sharp blades that were competing to raise them in the car formation; they were also miserable. Breathing out the splashing and scattered blood with a large canopy, they fell back to the ground in a slumping manner.
There are flashes of blades emerging from the car array, but it is the thieves hiding in the thick carriage wall, and they are cut on the bottom plate of the town soldiers who climbed on the roof to cover and cover, and all kinds of feet are broken. He couldn't stand on his cracked leg, and was pushed down by the spear he was holding.
Then, there were repeated crossbows fired from within, and the town soldiers who climbed up one after another fell over their heads and faces like hedgehogs and arrows. In just a few encounters, a stretch of corpses and wounded were already piled up in front of the car formation.
Someone wanted to split the panel of the driving array with a knife and axe, but found that it had been additionally reinforced, and it only split a few minutes after struggling. And the fork handle pierced the thigh and lower abdomen.
Someone desperately blocked the jabs and spears, trying to work together to support the driving gap, but found that they had been connected with a thick iron rope; often they could not cut a few times; they were shot from the top down. The hammer head thrown out of the club (flail), the head splitting or the death of a slumped neck was on the spot.
Suddenly, behind and on the left side of the thief army’s car formation, there were also fierce shouts of killing and sharp and stern cries, and then curls of fireworks rose again.
"It's the Babu team that has caught up, and has already entered the enemy's formation from the side..."
Wukang Town deputy Li Ju, who was shot through his elbow and shoulder, couldn't help but be surprised.
"These peaceful thieves really have sharp bows and crossbows and are shorter than melee combat. After being close by these mountain barbarians, I am afraid they will be in a mess..."
Another school lieutenant of Yanguandu is also a slightly glamorous Fenghedao.
"All the soldiers will join me in the battle, and the two will work together to kill the thief..."
Listening to the shouts and roars that seemed to be getting closer and closer, Li Cifei couldn't help but shocked and stretched out his arms and shouted.
It can be said that this troop is a vassal force formed by the native barbarians between Hangzhou and Vietnam-the Shanha tribe; it is best at active in the muddy water and the ground as if walking on the ground; let the salt officials who were in confrontation and conflict with it at the beginning are all , Suffered a lot of suffering and undue losses.
In the end, four blockades were launched, and the import of salt, iron, food and cloth in these dozens of Shanha villages was cut off, so that they were able to give in and hand over the young and strong children to be formed as a troop to help the army; It's a pity that they still have too few people, and this time the troop from Zhengyanguandu is no more than four to five hundred people in the first battalion.
Immediately, Li Cifei, who took a group of subordinates stepped on the corpse again as a footstep, boarded the upper edge of the car formation, but saw that there was still inside, another smaller car formation; and those who attacked barefoot fur clothing first. Shan Haman, but was blocked under this inner circle, had fallen down a lot of corpses but couldn't make an inch of it for a while.
The other mountain barbarians simply spread out and began looting their various objects on the spot. This was also one of the original agreements. The mountain barbarians only provided rations from the requisition and everything relied on their own looting. However, I don't know what these wild mountain barbarians accidentally touched and aroused, and suddenly many large clouds of smoke exploded between them.
And one of them was very close to Li Cifei, who was leading the team. He only felt that his eyes were dark for a while, and his face was tingling and he was blown down by a rush of hot wind and fell down; he suddenly fell into a mess. Su's fainted. By the time he woke up, he was already out of the car array.
After that, he made several more efforts. When the sun gradually drifted westward, his intense and short full-strength rush was in vain, and after the last bit of momentum and vitality were exhausted, and general fatigue and fatigue, Li Cifei also had to order a strike. Ring the golden drum of the receiving team;
And just in the fierce battle in front of Fang, the Wukang town soldiers of his battalion had already suffered damage to more than 500 members. Even he was under the cover of his own placard, and in the process of leading the pawns assaulting the car formation, there were a few short arrows that had not been thorough, and he was thrown back by the momentum and inertia, and his achievements fell short.
The damage of the thief army is still unknown, so he can only lead his troops to retreat beyond the farthest range of the thief army, and Quan Zuo stops and confronts him for follow-up.
"It's better to blow the trumpet for help. When there is enough cover from the shooting team, we will rush him again..."
Then he was a little unwilling and unwilling to give such orders.
. . . . . .
"Report, the Taiping thief has changed..."
In this shocking news, Zhenhai Jidu made Zhou Bao eager to come to the head of the city, and saw the obvious move in the besieged camp, and the original flags and smoke became much thinner.
"Be handsome, don't miss the opportunity..."
"Linggong, break it when it breaks..."
In the loud persuasion of the generals, his expression also fell into a kind of erratic state. (End of this chapter)