Horse on the World

Chapter 231 Surprise
The rain has been pattering non-stop, between Zhenyuan and Zhenglanqi Camp, the trampled bare ground is covered with yellow mud, and occasionally a shocking red color appears in the muddy water, hidden deep in the ground The earthworms crawled out in a hurry, and crawled happily in the muddy water, leaving eye-catching marks, but they were submerged in the muddy water soon after.

Sushun was half lying comfortably in the big tent, holding a wine glass in his hand, and was slowly tasting the wine. Two slender women were kneeling in front of him, slowly beating his thighs for him.

Zhenyuan's Dingzhou Army is Wei Xin, a veteran of the original Dingzhou Department. This is a veteran who has defended the city for a long time. He is fifty years old. Having spent time in the city, he has his unique experience in defending the city. Sushun knew that he had encountered a hard nut to crack after only one attack. Sushun would never do the job of picking chestnuts for Bayar. Yes, the prairie people have never been good at attacking strong cities. This time they besieged the three fortresses. Why didn't they let the Long Xiao army attack them? All ministries come to attack?Sushun snorted and sneered in his heart, Bayar wanted to take this opportunity to wear down the strength of other ministries, and do the trick of killing two birds with one stone, but other people are not all fools, look at Fusen, it is the same as holding him Thoughts?

According to Sushun's idea, what kind of city to fight, bypass Jiancheng according to the old routine, and go directly to the hinterland of Dingzhou. Li Qing only stationed 10 to [-] soldiers in Shahe Town, how could it be him? An opponent of [-] people rushing forward? Logistics?A joke, what kind of logistics do grassland people have to go through when they fight, and they will plunder where they fight. Everyone can understand that small-mindedness.

"Patriarch!" A general from the Red Ministry broke into the tent, causing Sushun to frown, snorted, and raised his hand, signaling the two beauties to retreat.

"What's the matter, flustered?"

"Patriarch, the mobilization of troops in Zhenyuan City is abnormal. Just now, Wei Xin actually opened the city gate, and about [-] troops left the city. They actually wanted to fight us!" the general said loudly.

"What?" Sushun's first reaction was that the general was talking nonsense, "You read that right, Wei Xin's thousand-year-old tortoise is willing to poke its head out to fight me?"

"How could you be wrong, patriarch, those 3000 people are now forming an array in the city, listen, the drums are beating, they are inviting battle!"

With a few strides, Sushun rushed out of the big tent and climbed up to the high platform. Sure enough, in the continuous drizzle, led by chariots, Dingzhou soldiers lined up in a neat big square, standing next to the city, one by one. A young general stood tall on a command vehicle, and the drummers on his left and right were beating the battle drum vigorously.

"Damn it, what medicine did old man Wei take wrongly?" Sushun was furious and scolded endlessly. He jumped off the high platform and walked towards the big tent. "He formed a formation around the city, and set up a tortoise shell formation. Those damned crossbows are the soul-hooking knives of Lord Hades. I will not be fooled by this. Ignore him and let him knock them away."

"Patriarch!" The general took a step forward and said in a low voice: "We won't attack the fortified city, but now that the opponent is out of the city to fight in the field, if we don't want to fight, if this matter gets to His Majesty the Emperor, it will be bad for you. With the laws promulgated now, His Majesty can deprive you of commanding the army at any time! Besides, if the other party invites you to fight, if we cannot avoid it, it will also be a great blow to morale!"

Sushun paused, thought for a while, and said, "Don't you think it's a little strange? Wei Xin is a tortoise, why did he suddenly go out of the city to invite a battle? Is there anything weird about it? He only has five Thousands of soldiers and horses, three thousand out of the city, so what if you win a big battle, kill one thousand enemies, and lose eight hundred, how will you defend the city next? No!"

"Send the scouts in the direction of Dingzhou, farther away." Sushun said to himself, "Will Li Qing not target me?"

After a pause, he said again: "Anyway, since the opponent has put up a fight, we always have to fight. How about this, you lead the infantry to knock on Wei Xin with heavy shields."

The general took the order to leave, Sushun shook his head, he still felt very strange, the country is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change, the thousand-year-old tortoise suddenly changed its nature, it is definitely not a good thing.

"The whole army is ready for war!" Sushun ordered loudly.

Hong Haifeng is a group of new generals who have emerged from the Dingzhou Army, and they are also from Li Qing's personal guard battalion. He has been defending the city defenses these days, but he was suffocated. Today he finally went out to fight in the city, which made him excited. And today is not a small fight, but a big fight. I am just an introduction here. I saw the sound of drums in the camp of the Zhenglan Banner, and groups of infantry poured out of the city. I couldn't help but frowned slightly. Heavy shields lined up, although the formation was not very orderly, but the rows of heavy shields covered the pawns tightly, which offset the power of the Dingzhou Baifa crossbow to the greatest extent.

Waving the command flag in his hand, the eight-ox crossbow and the trebuchet on the city began to fire. Backed by the strong city, he could get strong support from the city. Hong Haifeng was confident that he could withstand the impact of the opponent's several times the force.

"A first-grade bow, shoot on your back, shoot five times in a row!" Hong Haifeng ordered the flag to wave.

With a muffled sound, a rain of arrows shot out from the Dingzhou Army and rushed to the sky. At the same time, the catapult and the eight-ox crossbow also tore through the defense of the heavy shield. At this moment, the rain of arrows fell from the sky. The cooperation between the two sides was appropriate, and the pawns on the opposite side immediately fell down.

After the heavy shield was flustered for a while, it quickly reunited and moved forward with firm steps. At the same time, the crossbow and trebuchet from Zhenglanqi's side also started to fire.

"Hundred crossbows, shoot!" Hong Haifeng ordered loudly.

There was a buzzing sound, and the distinctive sound of the Baifa crossbow sounded immediately, and the arrows shot out like locusts, hitting the heavy shield so forcefully that the barbarian who was holding the heavy shield couldn't bear it a little bit. When the heavy shield was tilted slightly, the crossbow arrows, which were as dense as migratory locusts, took advantage of the gap, nailing the people down row by row, but the barbarian infantry kept moving forward, and the hundreds of crossbows were thrown by the opponent's catapult. Under the intensive care, damage also began to appear.

"Hundred crossbows, retreat, infantry, raise your guns, and take three steps forward!"

There was a sound of clatter, the bright spears were raised, and the orderly formation of infantry took three steps forward, opened a certain gap, stopped for a while, and after a while, amidst the sharp whistles of the whistle chiefs, a row of soldiers rushed to the front of the army. stride forward.

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

When the two sides engaged in battle, the spears stabbed out and hit the heavy shield heavily. At this time, several rows of spearmen of the Dingzhou soldiers had opened a distance of several meters, and the first row stabbed the spears in their hands without hesitation. However, after blocking the first round, the Zhenglan Banner soldiers immediately abandoned their shields, held steel knives in their hands, sneaked into the formation of Dingzhou soldiers, hacked with knives and axes, and knocked the Dingzhou soldiers to the ground.

The Dingzhou soldiers in the first row didn't pay attention to the barbarians who came in. Instead, they quickened their pace and moved forward quickly. The barbarians who just got in were immediately stabbed by the second row of spearmen. No one could block such a uniform assassination , Immediately he was stabbed and fell to the ground.At this time, the spearmen in the first row had shrunk inward, and the gaps between the felled soldiers were immediately filled, and the two short sections were quickly filled by the soldiers in the second row.

In the camp, Sushun shook his head as he watched the battlefield. No one could compare with Dingzhou soldiers in terms of infantry skills. Fortunately, these infantry on our side were not his lifeblood, so he didn't care about losses at all.It would be nice to be able to consume some Dingzhou elites in field battles,
Just as Sushun was staring at the battlefield, thinking about when to withdraw his troops, a scout flew over with a nervous expression on his face. He ran straight in front of Sushun, got off his horse, and said loudly, "Patriarch, we have found Dingzhou!" A large number of cavalry is coming."

Su shuffled his hands, and jumped to his feet, "Fuck it, you know something is wrong, how many people, how many soldiers and horses are there?"

The scout said: "Patriarch, the other side swept away most of our brothers, and only a few of us ran back. Judging by the size of the cavalry, it is probably between [-] and [-]."

"2 or [-] people?" Sushun jumped up, "Li Qing is coming out in full force, Ming Jin, withdraw troops, the whole army is ready to retreat, ask for help from the Long Xiao Army, let them come to support us, [-] to [-] cavalry, It’s almost on par with my Zhenglanqi.”

Sushun shouted, fortunately he had prepared earlier, otherwise he would retreat hastily now and it would definitely cause chaos.

The sound of the gong sounded, and the soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner began to retreat. Teams of soldiers alternately covered and retreated to the camp. At this time, the main force of the Zhenglan Banner in the camp had already begun to move out.

"Forward!" Hong Haifeng waved the command flag, "Stop them!"

At this time, Wei Xin on the top of the city had already seen the smoke and dust rising from far away, and knew that the large-scale cavalry in Dingzhou had begun to appear. He told Hong Haifeng to stick to the opponent through the semaphore. The infantry who are fighting with Dingzhou soldiers can stay.

Sushun no longer cared about the infantry who were still fighting desperately on the battlefield, and the [-] Zhenglan Banner cavalry began to move out one by one. Sushun didn't want to fight with the Dingzhou soldiers here, but he wanted to fight, at least After reuniting with the Long Xiao army, he will have an absolute advantage in strength so that he will not lose money. Now that he is required to fight against the Dingzhou soldiers independently, he will not do it.How can I live the rest of my life after I have spent all my money?
As for those soldiers, forget it, don't care about them.

The Dingzhou cavalry swept in, but it was a pity that Shang Haibo, who wanted to fight indiscriminately, found that the main force of the Zhenglan Banner had left the battlefield, and the only ones left on the battlefield were some infantry who had no fighting spirit. Driven by his own cavalry to run around the mountains and plains.

"Sushun is so cunning, he slipped so fast!" Shang Haibo shook his head regretfully, "Order the whole army, pretend to chase after him, scare Sushun into running a little further, and hook Long Xiaojun to this side, Then the whole army immediately turned around and headed straight for Dingyuan."

At this time, the [-] infantry commanded by Hong Haifeng were already sweeping the battlefield, and the elated soldiers cheered loudly, paying attention to the galloping cavalry.

(End of this chapter)