Late Tang

In the city, on the roof of a private house, Li Jing looked angrily at the pirates rushing into the city.These pirates were so arrogant that they didn't even send a scout to test them out, they just rushed in in such a large group.

Although this group of thieves said that they were numerous and powerful, and they were sneak attacking, but just rushing in like this, they didn't take themselves too seriously.

Li Jing ordered the order to be steady, and the officers passed it on one by one. After the order was passed on, the soldiers' emotions after being shocked were finally stable enough.At this time, the Shamen town army has set up a huge ambush circle in the west city according to the prior arrangement.At the core of the ambush circle is the 120-member servant team led by Li Jing, and there are also 72 special soldiers in six groups of specially drawn soldiers.Among them, the surprise soldiers are at the front with a large square shield, and are also equipped with an eight-foot spear, a bow, and a pot of thirty arrows.

These 72 people will bear the burden of stabilizing the formation and preventing the pirates from breaking through the ambush circle.Behind them, there are two guard teams led by Li Jing with 120 people. These two guard teams can shoot from a distance and fight from close range, playing the role of supporting the Raiders.Behind them, there are six groups of jumping sword and shield soldiers, and then six groups of Mo Dao soldiers, but they are not equipped with Mo Dao at the moment, so they temporarily act as sword shield soldiers and archers, and finally, they are deployed on the roof The six groups of crossbowmen at the same height are equipped with a total of 72 crossbow machines, and each of them is equipped with a bow.

This is the main ambush force. On the left side, there are a total of six teams of 420 sword and shield soldiers, and on the right side are estimated to be [-] spearmen.In addition, there are hundreds of young and strong men with wooden sticks, stones, etc. ready to be on the second line, ready to come up to support at any time.

This formation is used to deal with five hundred pirates, and Li Jing thinks it is enough.But now, he had to use these soldiers to deal with a total of twelve hundred bandits, and he didn't even have time to change the arrangement.

Seeing the pirates pouring into the city like a tide, the soldiers who had just boosted their morale began to feel scared again.This is the first real battle, although they have imagined countless battle scenes before the battle, how to kill and make meritorious deeds, and become famous.But before the real battle, seeing the shining sword light and the rumbling footsteps, the hearts of many soldiers began to beat violently, their faces were flushed, their ears were ringing, their hands and feet were even weak, and their mouths were dry. Dry tongue.

Li Xigou, the leader of the gendarmerie, led a group of black-clothed gendarmerie wearing red armbands and stood in the last row with knives. They received Li Jing's personal order. When fighting, they dared to retreat across the row without order. Those with white lines on the street will be punished as cowardly and deserters, and will be killed without mercy.

Before the war, there was a strict order that those who were executed by the gendarmerie for the crime of desertion would not only receive no compensation, but their families would also be expelled from Shamen Township.

Seeing that the bandits were getting closer and closer, nearly a third of them had rushed into the city.Originally, if there were only five hundred thieves, almost all of them had entered the ambush circle by now.But now, only more than 400 people have entered the ambush circle, and 800 people are still outside the gap.

Can't wait any longer, wait any longer, the forward pirates are about to rush in front of the ambush fighters.

Li Jing shouted: "The archers are ready!"

Immediately, all the soldiers and servants who were equipped with bows and arrows opened their bows and set up arrows. Although the previous assessment showed that among all the soldiers in the town, there were very few qualified archers, and there were not even eleven groups of archers.But at this time, hundreds of soldiers fired their bows at the same time, and the power of the random shots was equally astonishing, completely covering the attack.In such a dark night, archery is also limited by the dim light of the night, it is better to shoot with coverage.

Seeing that the forward pirates had rushed within sixty steps, Li Jing shouted: "Let the arrow!"

The archers were all nervous, and quickly released the arrows. At this time, they didn't care about the accuracy of the head. They just shot upwards at a 45-degree angle, and the arrow branches would naturally fall from the sky, far exceeding the power of a flat shot.Hundreds of arrows flew into the sky for more than ten feet, and then turned into a rain of arrows, rushing down with the sound of howling wind.

Countless screams came, and the first to rush into the city were the pioneers of the pirates. They were not wearing armor, and they really tasted the power of intensive upward shooting at this time.In the first time, twenty or thirty of the dense pirate group fell down.

The pirate was caught off guard and depressed.Before this moment, they had never imagined that the castle that should have been breached by them would suddenly have these sharp attacks.

The leader of the Pirate Vanguard, Huang Yu, was stunned for a moment. Fortunately, his rich combat experience allowed him to instinctively avoid the arrow that shot straight down from his head.Kankan dodged the arrow, and his soul finally recovered.There is an ambush, this is his first reaction.

The next moment, he immediately opened his throat and shouted loudly: "There is an ambush, charge, charge hard, charge to kill them all!" Years of experience told him that there are only two ways to face an ambush, one is to move closer and wait backup.The second is not to retreat but to advance, continue to rush forward.Although the enemy has an ambush, under normal circumstances, as long as they can rush past, there is a way out.It is absolutely impossible to retreat at this time, there are still accomplices coming from behind, and the way back is not smooth at all.At this time, I retreated, but I couldn't retreat. Instead, I exposed my entire back to the enemy.

Huang Yu didn't choose to move closer, but chose to continue charging.

"Don't be afraid, there are not many of them, they are all recruits, rush over, they will be defeated if they rush to their side!" Yellow Fish roared.

The pirates were all desperadoes licking blood on the tip of their knives. Although they were ambushed, after the initial panic, they quickly continued to charge up.The archer has fired three arrows in a row, and dozens of pirates have fallen.But this still can't stop their footsteps, more and more thieves have rushed up.

"Establish the shield, raise the gun!"

"Steady your ground!"

While Li Jing kept firing his bow, he watched the battlefield at any time and switched orders in time.After receiving the order, the 72 soldiers at the front immediately put down their bows, grabbed the square iron shield half a person's height, and smashed it heavily on the ground. The sharp teeth at the bottom of the square shield immediately plunged deeply into the ground.The strange soldier supported the shield with one hand and held the spear in the other. Half kneeling behind the shield, he raised his spear and waited for the battle.

The 72 shields connected together instantly formed a copper wall and iron arm, blocking the entrance of the street.

"Bowmen, crossbowmen are ready!"

The hit rate of the bow and arrow is too low, the closer the pirate rushes, the hit rate actually drops a lot.The archer standing on the roof immediately took a crossbow. The speed of fire of the crossbow is actually not as good as that of the bow and arrow, but the power of the crossbow is not comparable to that of the bow and arrow. Even if the archery is not good, shooting with the crossbow It can increase the hit rate, and even more, the crossbow machine is more powerful within a short distance, and the crossbow machine equipped by Li Jing to the crossbowmen team is a three-shot continuous crossbow.

"shoot!"

"Xuuuuuuuuuuu!" From several directions above several houses on the street, 72 repeated crossbows were fired at the same time. This batch of newly modified repeated crossbows can shoot three crossbow arrows at a time, although the service life after modification is much lower than the original ones. Many are prone to failure, but once they are used intensively, their instantaneous power is incomparable to bows and arrows and ordinary crossbows.

In a short period of time, more than 200 crossbow bolts were shot out, forming a terrifying metal storm among the pirates.In an instant, this storm tore apart dozens of pirates who rushed to the shield wall.One after another, the pirates rushed up with red eyes and armed with swords, stopping forever a few steps in front of the shield wall.The corpses were stacked one on top of the other, unable to move forward any further.

The pirates in the back didn't dare to rush forward anymore, and let the yellow croaker roar from behind, but all the pirates lost their courage at this moment, and hid to both sides one by one.The pirates were heartbroken, they had never seen such a violent attack, and they all turned around and ran away.

Li Jing seized the opportunity, and immediately ordered the Raiders to open several passages, and let the jumping swords and shield soldiers charge out, chasing and killing the fleeing pirates.However, it is required to guard the position of the surprise soldiers, and other archers are not allowed to pursue them.

More than 100 jumping soldiers rushed out, and Li Jing led his two teams of servants followed closely behind and rushed out like wolves.The pirate lost his courage at this moment, and just turned around and fled towards the gap.Although the gap was very wide, no matter how wide it was, it couldn't stop rushing in and rushing out at the same time.The people on both sides blocked the three gaps tightly, stepping on each other, and the chaos was extremely chaotic.Li Jing took the opportunity to kill, and the jumping soldiers held cowhide round shields in one hand and horizontal knives in the other, and just followed behind to chop and kill.

Jumping soldiers were a type of troops that no one wanted to sign up for at the beginning, but since Li Jing raised the salary of jumping soldiers and said that officers should choose more from jumping soldiers in the future, all capable soldiers in the army have Go sign up for the jumping soldiers.This has also led to the fact that the jumping soldiers are the most fierce and elite units in the army today. More than 200 jumping soldiers chased and killed them all, and the ghosts who killed them cried and howled, and blood flowed all over the ground.

However, Li Jing didn't love to fight. This wave of counterattacks caught the enemy off guard, and the pirates outside were blocked and couldn't get in.If you love to fight, once the gap is opened, more pirates will pour in, Li Jing will not be able to bear it.

Li Jing swung the blood-dripping long knife back vigorously, Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian, the two captains of the family, immediately stuffed the iron whistle hanging around their necks into their mouths, and blew desperately.The sharp iron whistle sounded, and all the sword and shield soldiers were shocked, and then quickly moved closer and back.The strange soldiers immediately opened the shield formation, and the sword and shield soldiers retreated smoothly to the shield wall.

The Diaodang soldiers and the Jia Ding team were covered in blood, and even the hand holding the knife was shaking, but this could not conceal the excitement in their hearts at this time.Just now, basically everyone has gained something, and their military achievements are not small.

Zhang Chengzong waved the steel whip with bamboo joints stained with countless red and white things and laughed loudly: "It's cool, it's so cool, this attack is really a joy to kill."

Liu Shouqian held a copper mace in one hand and a horizontal knife in the other, laughing loudly, "Just because of this group of thieves, they actually want to attack us. Today, let them have a taste of what it means to come and go."

Just now, among the first batch of more than 100 pirates who rushed into the city, except for nearly a hundred who died under bows and arrows and crossbows at the beginning, most of the rest were killed by Li Jing's attack just now, beheading more than [-] thieves , there were dozens of others who were injured and had no time to escape from the city. Although they knelt down and begged for mercy, they were ruthlessly ordered to be killed by Li Jing.Of the more than four hundred bandits, only a hundred escaped back in the end, and the rest were buried in the city.

After this ambush, the pirates outside the city stopped their attack temporarily.Li Jing also took advantage of this opportunity to order everyone to rest and replenish their strength. He knew in his heart that although the killing was a joyous one just now and the results were remarkable, the main reason was that the enemy was caught off guard.In the next round, it may be a hard fight.

(To be continued)