Chapter 311 War Drums and Thunder
(The electricity was shut down all day.)
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The battlefield was noisy, with 4,000 commanding infantrymen on the front line reaching more than 100 steps. A crossbowman was placed behind a trench fence on the opposite side, and he was ready for battle.
At this time, the drums were loud, and the two commanders on the right wing were slowly advancing forward. The two rows of sword and shield soldiers in front raised the big round shield and approached forward together. Not long after, arrows came from the air like rain, and several people fell down in the rectangular formation. In front of them were heavy infantry holding big wooden shields. They could not die from arrows at a distance, and the injured people screamed in pain. The opposite side continuously released three-way rain of arrows, and then the arrows shot randomly. The Hu Ben Army had advanced fifty or sixty steps.
There were only more than thirty steps apart. Suddenly, a commander shouted: "Steel Squat down!"
The two rows of people in front immediately squatted down, and the row of archers behind had already picked up their bows and put them on arrows. "Let it go!" Suddenly, more than fifty arrows were shot out at close range, and the archers behind were also shot into the air, "Baopao..." The dense arrows suddenly felt like a heavy rain was caused by the flat ground.
The rebels behind the fortification thought there were trenches blocking them, and the ones that were first laid out were light bows and arrows in front. They suddenly cried and howled, and countless people were shot.
"Let me go!" The two commanders of the Hu Ben Army waved their swords and shouted again, waving their swords.
The light soldiers on the front of the right wing of the rebels were in chaos, with heavy casualties, and the rebels ran away in the back.
At this moment, the sound of trumpets first sounded in the mountains, and then the drums were loud, and the entire line of infantry on the front advanced forward.
Soon, a sword and shield soldier came from Li Chong's army to the back of the barriers, and the spearmen and archers were mixed with each other, and they shot arrows. The right-wing Tiger Ben Army also took advantage of the situation to make adjustments and switched to the front with spearmen. Soon, the small drum sounded, and the tiger flag leaned forward. The general shouted loudly, and the soldiers shouted: "Kill! Kill..."
Suddenly the formation was shaken, and the people in front rushed up one after another. They bypassed the horse and jumped straight into the ditch, and then climbed up. The ditch was dug temporarily and was not deep, so most people could climb up.
A strong man in iron armor placed the spear on it, pressed the ground with both hands and supported his body upwards, but his heavy body suddenly flipped up. He immediately lifted the spear, widened his eyes and poked it at a knife and shield behind the barrier. The spear poked through the lower edge of the round shield and stabbed into the man's abdomen. The screams of hissing and hissing were deafening.
More soldiers climbed up, and the sword and shield soldiers could not reach through the barriers, and the spearmen behind them squeezed up to fight.
"Boom!" Mu Lanshan was squeezed over by countless people, and everyone shouted again for a moment. A large number of soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army rushed in. The enemy camp was in chaos and soon started a melee.
The heavy and neat footsteps behind sounded among the loess, and the infantry on the second line were advancing forward.
Less than a stick of incense to start the war, the enemy was connected in the front line, and thousands of people attacked Li Chongjin's troops on the front. The infantry on both sides had no queues and fought in the middle. Only then could the melee martial arts be reflected, the surroundings were full of chaos, and if they could not be defeated, they would be hacked to death.
A wounded rebel soldier on the ground was shouting with his legs in his arms, but soon he stepped on his upper leg and torso with a few feet. The wounded soldier was trampled, "Ah..." and finally, a soldier next to him couldn't squeeze in front of him. When he heard the scream, he raised his knife and slashed his head.
The restrictions of such narrow and long terrain prevented the troops from spreading. Seeing a large group of people busy, the two armies fought at most 2,000 people on the entire line, the killing efficiency was very limited. The people behind the Hu Ben Army took the head shovel and dug the soil to fill the trenches there. Countless people dug soil on both sides of the trenches, making the smoke and dust even bigger.
Not long after, the infantrymen in front of Li Chongjin collapsed across the board. The proportion of their casualties was not high, but if the soldiers could not beat them in the front, they would run away. As soon as they ran, they would affect the morale situation, and more people would collapse as soon as they ran.
A large number of rioters rushed into the square behind in panic, accelerating the turmoil of the camp that did not participate in the battle; the pursuers who had been in line with the imperial guards rushed to frantically and fought with the rebels behind them. The battle formation was already in chaos at this time, with the dirt roads on the sunny day and dusty dust spreading everywhere, and the generals could no longer figure out what was going on, and they only saw people fighting wildly everywhere.
...Guo Shao rode a horse and took the unmoved infantry and cavalry behind him over the messy fortifications and slowly advanced forward.
At this time, the fight in the narrow river valley had gradually subsided. Li Chongjin's troops were defeated and injured. In addition to surrendering, the rest had already fled from the valley entrance. The Second Army of the Tiger Ben Army and the Third Army were in chaos at this time. Everyone was probably tired and did not chase too far. The generals were struggling to call their respective soldiers to reorganize them.
Guo Shao led his men to the riots and rode his horse to the front of the valley entrance. Li Chongjin deployed his camp there, infantry in front and horse soldiers in back.
The infantry and cavalry behind the imperial guards also advanced in the hazy dust. A group of generals saw the high yellow flags and gathered over one after another. Guo Shao said directly: "The whole army advanced to the Gukou formation, Dong Zunhui attacked the left wing, and Shi Yanchao attacked the right wing; the camp was broken through, and Yang Biao led the infantry to kill and defeat the rebels!"
The generals who were clicked clasped their fists and said, "Get orders!"
A large group of people rushed forward again, and the central army first blew the trumpet and then beat the drum. Suddenly, both sides of horses and soldiers came out together, and Shi Yanchao led the heavy cavalry to rush away. The heavy cavalry rushed forward and the scene was very terrifying.
Dong Zunhui did not charge directly with the heavy cavalry. He led the light cavalry to advance to the local phalanx with a long formation. When the rebels saw the cavalry coming up, they were covered with long spears in front, and the archers in the middle shot and cover.
A large group of light soldiers whizzed past the front of the formation, flew from left to right; Dong Zunhui spread his arms and pulled the bow on the horse like a full moon. In this direction, he just held the bow with his left hand and the string with his right hand, which was very easy to use. With a "bang", a soldier fell to the ground, and the arrows penetrated deep into the armor. The personal soldiers around Dong Zunhui had excellent martial arts skills and shot arrows one after another. The archery skills were very accurate, and the arrows were still firing without any slight moments while running at high speed, and people kept falling down in the square formation.
Arrows in the air also flew over, and most of them were light cavalry behind them. It was okay for people to be shot. The elite ring-lock armor had strong defense against the throwing arrows; but the horses had no armor and were not lucky, from time to time, a horse neighed and knelt on the ground and threw the cavalry on the ground. After being caught, it was not injured. Then it ran through the gap between the enemy camp. The surroundings were full of enemy soldiers, and they were immediately pulled off the horse. Two screams came from inside, and blood was thrown by swords and guns, and a burst of blood fog splashed above the crowd.
Dong Zunhui galloped back and forth, and rushed from the left for the second time. With a "bang", the iron arrows flew straight to the door of a soldier holding a spear. The man didn't have time to hide, and the arrow pierced his cheeks with a "sneer" force. With the force of the bow, the arrow pulled down a piece of skin. The soldier's face was covered in blood, screaming and turning his head to run away. His terrifying face scared the soldiers behind him to fear.
"Babababa..." Dong Zunhui's personal soldiers followed him and shot arrows. The place was very scarred and injured, and immediately there was a large area of chaos and turbulent.
Seeing this, Dong Zunhui shouted, "Kill!" He rushed up, and then shot another arrow to death a soldier who was about to be filled. The personal soldiers screamed and flew over Dong Zunhui's position, lifted their swords and rushed forward, slashing from a high place. More horse soldiers rushed up, slashing wildly, chasing the square soldiers and running around.
"Ah!" A knight screamed, and a cherry spear pierced his skirt armor and penetrated it. He had just taken a few steps and hit the spear that was slanted. The man fell off the horse, and the war horse was still running, and a group of infantry in front dodged one after another.
A group of people surrounded the injured cavalry and stabbed the swords and guns, screaming endlessly. At this time, several cavalry behind rushed up side by side, one cavalry on the side raised his hands and chopped one person over, and the other infantrymen made a move away and squeezed into a ball. A few "swoosh" sounded, and the knight's armor was caught in an arrow, and an arrow passed through the shoulder armor, and blood oozed out of the armor. At this time, the horse's chest was stabbed by a gun, and the war horse knelt down on its front hooves and threw the man straight down from its back.
Shaoqing suddenly saw a heavy cavalry rushing towards him from behind. At the moment, a long spear was descending from a high bang. With a loud bang, the rapid cherry spear pierced the infantry's armor and penetrated into his chest. The infantrymen who were thundering at the iron horse and iron people, turned around and fled.
A large group of cavalry entered the camp, penetrated through the middle road, and slashed around. The camp quickly dispersed, and countless soldiers turned around and ran away. The cavalry kept their backs and covered their kills, and the left-wing soldiers rushed north like a tide.
Dong Zunhui let out a long sigh, pulled out a few arrows from the armor, and when he looked up, he saw that the infantry on the right wing was still fine, but the middle of the camp was broken through. Shi Yanchao's heavy cavalry had already rushed to the valley entrance with light cavalry.
Dong Zunhui looked back and saw that the horse soldiers in front were chasing deserters, and the infantry and cavalry were in chaos. The large number of brigades in the rear of the right wing were following Shi Yanchao's route.
"Roar forward!" Dong Zunhui turned his head and shouted to the personal soldiers beside him.
Everyone slapped the horses and followed the messy crowd to kill. There were some infantrymen who were not running fast in the middle of the horses and were running desperately. Dong Zunhui was not polite, and he rode his horse and shot at the deserters as targets. A group of horse soldiers flew past, and the deserters on both sides became hedgehogs, and they were shot countless arrows.
The cavalry was in front and the infantry chased out of the valley entrance. They saw that there were already chaos on the open ground on the south bank of the Fen River. A large number of rebels rushed eastward. The horse soldiers of Li Chongjin's troops fled first without a single arrow. The road in the distance was blocked by rioters, and countless people rushed to the road, rushing to get over, but the more they were blocked, and many people lost their weapons and climbed up the mountains to the south.
Chapter completed!