Late Tang

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The heavy fog finally cleared, a red sun was in the sky, and thousands of golden lights shone down!

By the nameless river, Zhu Wen was directing his men to dig a hole on his own position by the river.There are small pits one after another, each pit is only one foot long on a side and about one foot deep.

"Dig the hole and insert a sharpened wooden stick into it. Remember to straighten it!" Zhu Wen shouted loudly while digging the hole hard.Although Li Cunxiao gave him 250 brothers in five teams, Zhu Wen still had no confidence.Although these two hundred or so people are all equipped with full equipment, they are just newly recruited brave fighters after all. Who knows if they will be scattered under the impact of grass thieves.

For his own life, for his own future, Zhu Wen tried his best, and finally remembered the trap of dealing with wild beasts when hunting, and discussed with Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun, both of them thought this method was good.Anyway, on this point, their task is to stick to this river beach.That being the case, digging a trap is perfect.But to deal with the enemy, it’s too late to dig a big hole now, so just dig a small hole. First, this small hole is best against the cavalry of the grass thief. Coming up is still a huge threat.

Digging a horse pit and planting small pickets can not only prevent horses from rushing into the formation, but also prevent infantry from rushing over for a while.

The [-] or so recruits on the left wing were also full of tension at this time, and they also knew that digging a hole would relieve some pressure. Everyone did not complain and dug the hole desperately.

Li Cunxiao had inspected the left-wing position on horseback, and he was very satisfied with Zhu Wen's active defense arrangement.Smiling and cursing at Zhu Wen: "Since you know how to dig a horse pit and plant a pile of village piles, why don't you plant antlers by the way, and trees to resist horses? Now that the enemy soldiers haven't arrived, you can still dig a ditches and pile them up." Build a dirt wall!"

Zhu and Wen are all newcomers to the army. They didn't know about war before, so digging a hole depends on hunter's experience.And Li Cunxiao has been with Li Jing for so long, and he is very familiar with many combat fortifications and so on. Among the evening school subjects in the town [***], defensive civil engineering is a must.

After Li Cunxiao pulled it out, Zhu Wen couldn't help but see a bright light. It turns out that fighting is not just about you cutting and killing.

"If you want to do it, you have to hurry up, or it will be too late when the grass thief comes." Li Cunxiao smiled, then turned to an officer next to him and said, "Go, bring a thousand of our barbed wire to Zhu. temperature."

Caltrops are four-legged nails. If you throw them on the ground at will, one of the legs will definitely end up.This is the last weapon against infantry, especially in positional warfare, if you throw it in front of the formation, if the enemy infantry rushes up directly, you will have to pay huge damage.This time Li Jing specially selected a group of auxiliary troops, Li Cunxiao himself only had [-], and now he gave Zhu Wen [-].

When it was close to noon, Zhu Wen and his two hundred men had dug a half-person-high moat on the tens of feet of defense line, and then used the excavated soil to pile behind the moat to build A wall of earth about five feet high was erected.Zhu Wen and the others stood behind the earth wall, which was protected from bows and arrows, and the earth wall plus Haogou was equivalent to a [-]-foot city wall. It would be difficult for the grass thieves to break through their position directly.

In front of the earth wall and Haogou, there are densely packed horse traps about sixty steps wide, and sharpened wooden stakes are planted in the horse traps.In addition, there are many antlers planted on this land.The so-called antlers are sharpened wooden stakes about two or three feet high, planted in disorder in front of the position, effectively preventing the enemy infantry from charging.In addition to the antlers, there are also horses, which are also made of sharpened wood, but instead of being planted on the ground, several sharpened wooden stakes are tied together, and several rows are framed in front of the formation, forming a section of tree. The horse-repelling wall forces the enemy to slow down when charging, and the biggest function is to prevent the cavalry from charging.

The richest one thousand caltrops have all been scattered on the open ground within sixty paces.

After doing all this, more than 200 recruits were all tired and lying on the ground like dogs.In the weather of May, their skirts were already drenched with sweat.However, Zhu Wen and the others were amazed at the completely changed position that they had tormented.

This land has really become a death trap, if anyone rushes up, it will never be good.Everyone's originally tense and worried mood became a little more relaxed.

Countless crows flew by in the sky, croaking and circling overhead.Recently, grass thieves have burned, killed and looted around here, and exposed corpses are everywhere in the wilderness, attracting countless crows, so that these crows can't wait to enjoy a feast when they see so many people gathered together. It's a feast for crows!

"Wait to feed the crows!" Zhu Zhen cursed in a low voice, looking up at the crows who were not afraid of the soldiers, and then at the fortifications they had just worked so hard to build.Although Zhu Wen didn't speak, he couldn't help but nodded in agreement.However, although there are such fortifications, there are still too few of them.Only 250 people have to guard the defense line of tens of feet. What's more important is that most of these soldiers are recruits.Although the quality is good, there are not many archers.

"All those who know how to bow and arrow come here, and everyone else only keeps ten arrows, and give them the rest." Zhu Wen thought for a while, and finally decided to gather those who know how to bow and arrow among the more than 200 people to use.

There were not many archers, about 30 of them. Most of these people were hunters in the past. Zhu Wen tested it himself and found that all of them were good at archery.Zhu Wen organized these 30 people into a team, and he directly commanded them, and then subdivided the rest. The 50 people with strong martial arts skills, tall and brave, were organized into a team. shield hand.There were 170 other people. Among these people, Zhu Wen divided 120 of them into four teams of 30 people, and the remaining 50 people were made by Zhu Wenchong as a reserve team, ready to support at any time.

Zhu Zhen, Zhu Cun, and the other four team leaders had no objections. The 250 people were divided into seven teams. Each team leader commands a team of spearmen.

Just after the arrangement, suddenly a cavalry squad came galloping, and Zhu Wen recognized that it was Li Cunxiao's personal cavalry.

Soon a messenger came and conveyed the latest news to him, "Commander Fu, Commander Yang, Commander Gao, and Commander Wang have all entered Yucheng, and are now fighting bloody battles with the enemies in the city. Commander Liu sent an order, and the scouts have found out that there is a large group of grasshoppers coming from the southeast, so they must hold their ground before capturing Yucheng, and prevent the enemy reinforcements from reaching the city of Yucheng."

"How many thieves are here?" There was a tremor in Zhu Wen's voice.

"About three thousand!" The orderly left after saying this, turned around and left.

Can a thousand soldiers and horses hold their positions against three thousand rebels?

He didn't have time to think about it carefully. The sound of war drums came from Li Cunxiao's central army position. The sound of the drums became louder and louder. The rhythm of the drums caused his heart to beat faster and faster. trembling.

Zhu Cun held up the red pennant gun, and in an instant, the bandit army had appeared in front, and they emerged from the plain along the small river, everywhere.The thieves in front held high flags, shields and spears formed a strong barrier, and they were constantly moving forward.

"Damn it!" Zhu Wen couldn't help but scolded, how many people are there in the bastard.At a glance, the other side definitely has more than 3000 troops, but when you think about it carefully, the 3000 people should be bandit soldiers, and the ones behind in the wild should not be bandit soldiers, but ordinary people who were coerced.

The leaders of the bandit army rode on horses and marched forward surrounded by bandit soldiers.

He saw many flags, but these flags were very weird. They were made of cloth of various colors, in different sizes and colors, and they didn't even have ligatures on them, but they were just painted with patterns like ghost symbols.Some painted fierce tigers, some painted wolves, and some painted swords, spears, and battle axes.The flag fluttered in the wind and flew over the long pole.

Amidst the rumbling drums, horns sounded, woo woo woo! ~~Low and long, like the north wind that has just passed, it makes people chill.Zhu Wen felt sick to his stomach, as if the wine he drank last night was only now feeling uncomfortable. There was a spasm in his stomach, a surge of nausea, and he felt dizzy to vomit.

Amidst the sound of the trumpets, the two armies were already close to fighting.

Li Cunxiao of the Chinese army was the first to give the order to shoot arrows, while the rebel army began to send their hundreds of cavalry to charge directly.The bandit army's cavalry began to speed up, roaring as they ran. For a long time, when they fought with the official army, they always rushed forward and defeated the official army.Today, they are going to continue to do so, directly using human sea tactics to overwhelm the officers and soldiers.

The archers of the auxiliary army in the middle held their bows one after another. At this time, they just released their arrows regardless of their archery skills.Those who had never held a bow were commanded by Li Cunxiao to load five-foot javelins one by one with a spear-thrower, and then twisted their waists and raised their arms under a command, and threw the javelins with all their might.

In the sparse rain of arrows, countless javelins flew by, and hundreds of spears whizzed past, falling fiercely towards the arrogant bandit cavalry.

Archery requires precise archery skills, but javelins do not require much skill, especially after equipped with a simple but practical spear thrower, any recruit can throw the gun fifty steps away, some talents are very good The best fighters can even throw javelins 120 paces away.

In an instant, as many as five or six hundred javelins whizzed down from the sky, dealing a fatal blow to those arrogant bandit cavalry.Many horses and knights were shot and fell to the ground, and the arrogant shouts turned into miserable wailings.

And at this time, the second wave of attacks arrived again.

Woohoo, the horn sounded again, this time it was from the side of the auxiliary army.Li Cunxiao waved the iron lance and pointed forward, hundreds of people's voices immediately responded like a mountain.Standing on the left wing, Zhu Wen watched the scene with blood rushing up, and the discomfort in his heart just now had all gone to the back of his mind.

Li Cunxiao rode out on his horse, leaped on the horse with a lance, and led his army to kill the grass thief.Zhu Wen also immediately jumped up with a gun, and was about to follow. At this time, Yiqi arrived, "The commander has an order, the left wing sticks to the position and must not leave the battle!" (To be continued.)