world festival

Wang Qinian looked at the dark shadows down the slope, vaguely under the dim moonlight, as if they were moving something. The enemy kept harassing them all night, shooting cold arrows, slingers, beating gongs and so on.And keep moving the large row forward, and now the front row is only about 100 steps away from the car camp in the outer circle.Fortunately, the soldiers under him are all veterans. Except for a few sentries on duty, they can rest well, but almost none of the coachmen and handymen fell asleep. All of them tried their best to open their eyes and hold on to the handle of the spear. After tossing and tossing for four hours, they were all sleepy, and there was nothing they could do. Those people had never seen such a battle.

"It's already four o'clock. It's estimated that this gang of thieves will come up at dawn. What's Erlang's plan?" It was Gao Chong who asked from behind. Wang Qinian looked back and saw that his eyes were bloodshot and his lips were chapped. , as if he was ten years older, and he didn't have the usual suave appearance in Jiedushi's mansion.I just felt sore in my heart, and I suppressed a smile and said, "Where is there any clever plan? At this time, two mice are fighting in the bed, and the brave wins. As long as we stand up today, the morale and food of these gangsters will not be enough. It's just hard work." It's you, I didn't expect this escort to be so dangerous, you civil servant, why did you come to do this work of adding blades."

"That's right, but the shouting thief who was captured yesterday confessed that the newcomers were from Qijiazhuang, and the other three were Li She'er, Xu Dayan. The men and horses fighting the Vermilion Bird Banner seem quite tricky." Gao Chong said while stroking his long beard, the two of them were thinking hard, but they were relatively speechless.It was dawn in a blink of an eye, and the camps on both sides of the slope were agitated, puffs of cooking smoke rose, and the soldiers on both sides were having a full meal, preparing for the last fight.

Holding a thorn stick in his hand, Lu Fang walked through the ranks, tapping the shoulders of familiar soldiers with the thorn stick from time to time, telling some nasty jokes to ease his nervousness.The soldiers of Qijiazhuang are far better equipped with equipment than the refugees from the other three families. Although not everyone wears armor like Heiyundu, they all wear large shields, two short 8-foot-long spears, With a short sword, this shield is large enough to cover a person from head to toe behind, and the middle is recessed from the sides, like two flattened mud balls stacked on top of each other, slung around the person by a strap. shoulders.The soldiers in the first three rows were still wearing simple leather armor, and the soldiers were all young and strong.These soldiers form three 3x10 squares.

In front of these three phalanxes are the previous archers on the slope. The bows in their hands are quite strange. If you look carefully, they are long wooden strips with thick middle and thin ends, and thin bamboo sticks on the outside of the wooden strips. piece.The two ends of the horn-studded or bone bow bows are slightly bent outwards, and the length is as high as a person, which is a full 6 feet long. When the bow is strung, it looks like a long "c". Tie a worn linen cloth on the cloth, and then scoop out black sticky substance from the earthen pots on several nearby fires and smear it on the linen cloth. The refugees in the distance behind watched the actions of the archers curiously, whispering Guess what it is.

Lu Fang finished patrolling the queue, returned to the front of the queue, picked up the shield, and began to rhythmically tap the shield with the side of the waist knife, and the soldiers behind also tapped their shields with spear handles, and kept saying "Balaba!" The roars, the loud shield knocking and the deep roar gradually merged into one. Following Lu Fang's gesture, the archers advanced to the back of the big row, and put the arrows soaked in black sticky substance on the torches behind the big row. Light it on the ground, and then shoot towards the camp on the half slope with half up.

"Whoosh!" A rocket landed and stuck at Chen Wu's feet. He curled up his body and tried to hide under the shield as much as possible. The rest would depend on the protection of his ancestors.

"Fortunately, the one who came this time was Captain Wang, the adopted son of General Wang. He has experienced many battles. The grass and trees on the ground have been cleaned up long ago. The cart carrying the silk cloth is also inside, and even the cart is paved. Let’s see what your rockets are burning, huh? Why does it smell so weird, cough cough!” Chen Wu coughed in pain, with tears all over his face.

There was chaos in the car camp. The soldiers covered their mouths and noses with tears and snot running down their noses.Those rockets didn't hurt anyone, and didn't burn anything, but the black smoke emitted by those burning rockets made it very painful for the soldiers to breathe, and the horses were restless, and the cavalry nearby couldn't control them at all. , the corporals tried to keep the soldiers quiet, but apparently their efforts were ineffective.

"The bandits are coming up," a sharp-eyed guy yelled.

"Rather than being choked to death here, it's better to rush out and kill. Could it be that those rioters who don't even have a bamboo spear are still enemies of a certain Heiyundu." Another voice replied.

Immediately, shouts of good were heard endlessly, and the corporal leaders could no longer control the soldiers, and even they themselves were coerced out. The soldiers lined up, and the center and right flanks were mixed with selected coachmen and handymen. Panting for the air outside, he was stunned by the situation below.

Those infantrymen, holding their shields sideways, joined together, and the cold light of the spear tips appeared in the gaps between the shields.They acted in unison, like one person, exactly like an invincible battering ram, rushing up from the bottom of the slope, stepping on the dangerous place where the corpses lay, disappeared in the smoke, and then crossed the smoke to appear in front of them, always dense, mutual Close together, back and forth, the noisy battlefield became quiet at this moment, you can hear their orderly footsteps, looking down from a distance, it seems like a huge centipede climbing up the hillside.This large group of people seems to have become a monster, and there is only one heart, each team is winding and contracting with the terrain, like coelenterate links, seeing them through the gaps in the smoke, countless spear points, shields, The helmet, the suppressed breathing sound, the momentum is fierce and orderly, revealing the layers of shields on top.This scene seemed to appear in a dream. Similar images were heard in the strange stories of the old people in the village when I was a child. Those giant snakes, golden crows, and those giant beasts on the ancient battlefield were invincible and majestic.The soldiers raised their long spears one after another, tensed their muscles, and prepared to hit each other head-on.

The two sides were only twenty paces away, and the drum beat became more urgent. The attacker threw out the short spear in his hand, and then held the spare short spear that was originally clamped on the shield's handshake.Pounced on.

The raindrops of short spears hit many soldiers, but the soldiers of Heiyundu deserved to have survived hundreds of battles. Their formation did not collapse. The soldiers of Jiazhuang also put their shoulders on the shields, trying to get close to the opponent so that they could use the short spears and short swords in their hands.Pierce the opponent's body from the gap of the shield, or simply use the shield to squeeze the opponent to the ground, and trample to death with his feet.The soldiers on both sides did not waste their energy shouting to kill. The only sounds on the battlefield were the clash of weapons, the muffled sound of spears piercing into the chest, and the groans of dying people.

At the beginning, Qijiazhuang's left wing was almost immediately crushed. Che Yingfang's right wing was almost all veterans of Heiyundu. Knocked down, some even pierced the shield, directly pinning the opponent to the ground.The soldiers who were not defeated retreated into the sparse second and third rows one after another. They had to retreat side by side more densely, standing side by side, and better protect themselves and their companions with shields, like a wall.

The long spears of the soldiers on the right wing were as dense as a frightened porcupine, constantly forcing the enemy in front to retreat, but their victory destroyed themselves instead.The soldiers in the middle and left wing of the caravan failed to advance with the victory of the right wing, but were pressed by their opponents and had to retreat.Many of them were just coachmen and handymen before this, and they hesitated to move forward in the face of the blades and spears in front of them. As a result, there was a break at the connection between the center of the car battalion and the right-wing front, and a big gap appeared.

Wang Qinian and Lu Fang saw all this almost at the same time, but Wang Qinian no longer had a reserve team in his hands. The cavalry had picked up their long spears and joined the battle because their horses were frightened. Lu Fang, who was more numerous, quickly asked his archers to drop their long bows , picked up the waist knife of the bodyguard and rushed in through the gap, surrounded from the side, the battle quickly turned into a one-sided massacre, those soldiers who desperately used the twelve-foot long spears in their hands to attack the frontal opponent found that their rear There were also enemies stabbing their ribs with short knives at the side and the side, and the ranks were so dense that even turning around and facing the opponent was a luxury. The soldiers screamed and fell down, covering their ribs with their hands in vain. Put the leaked internal organs back into your own body.More and more people threw down their weapons and fled. Only the soldiers of Heiyundu came in twos and threes and fought with their horizontal knives. Constantly stabbing out from the gaps in the shields, many people were hit by front and rear pincers.

The Heiyundu soldiers on the right wing had to get close to each other. The hedgehogs formed a group and formed a circular formation. They retreated to the front of the chariot camp and stubbornly resisted the opponent's siege. , like a wounded wild boar surrounded by hunters in a cave, people dare not approach, until the defeated soldiers who escaped into the car camp in shock picked up their crossbows, climbed onto the roof of the car, forcing the pursuers to retreat, They slowly returned to the camp.

Chen Wu held the horizontal knife tightly in his left hand and leaned on the ground, otherwise he doubted whether he could stand upright by himself.Among the more than 40 people left in Heiyundu, his injuries are not many, but they are all serious. His left rib was stabbed by a short spear, and his internal organs may have been injured. The right hand covering the wound is missing a finger Yes, it was due to an opponent's short sword when he snatched the tooth flag with the enemy just now.As for that opponent, he fell to the ground with his brain cracked, and at the same time he lost the fingers of his right hand, the handle of the knife in his left hand also touched his head.Every breath is like a knife stirring in the lungs.I don't know if I will vomit blood in the next moment.

The battle that lasted from the morning to the present seemed to be a nightmare. The first wave of attack consumed almost all of the counterattack force of one's own side, and it was found that the entrance of the car camp was narrow, and it was impossible to take advantage of the number of people.The thieves with the Suzaku flag retreated, and then never appeared again.Then came the continuous onslaught of refugees.Fierce battles are like an oil press, squeezing out every ounce of energy on your body, and being the enemy