Horse on the World

Chapter 682: Attack and Defense of Xiaoai River

The stone bullets flying from the opposite bank had already turned their firepower in the next moment, and the place where Xiaoaihe bounced the stoneball just now was immediately covered by the overwhelming firepower from the opposite bank, and there was a loud rumbling sound immediately, and the trebuchet that Xiaoaihe had just exposed Immediately, several were destroyed, Zhou Zuxun's heart was bleeding.

The structure of the Dingzhou trebuchet is a secret to outsiders. Unlike other armies on the mainland, this thing will always stand there after it is completed. The trebuchet in Dingzhou is composed of standard components. Not seen, but impromptu assembled on the battlefield.Why he can shoot so far, and how easy it is to adjust the shooting distance, has never been revealed.

It is not that no one has thought of cracking this secret by capturing it on the battlefield, but the Dingzhou Army has rarely lost a battle since it was formed, and even if it lost, it has never been defeated. They have plenty of time to cover up what they want to cover up The secret was completely destroyed.

The gap in war equipment has always been the advantage of the Dingzhou army in the battlefield. Just being beaten without being able to fight back can make any army with high morale depressed.

Xiao Aihe has a lot of long-range weapons such as trebuchets, but Zhou Zuxun dared not take them out at one time in order to prevent the opponent's suppression, and could only invest in batches. This is very pitiful in terms of firepower, and he is not an opponent at all. , but seeing that the trebuchet that was just exposed was cleared by the opponent nine out of ten, although heartbroken, Zhou Zuxun was still glad that his decision was extremely wise. It is very helpless.

The two catapults that survived were completely arranged in the dead corner of the opponent's shooting range, so they survived, but if they want to rely on these two trebuchets to destroy the wooden bridge that the opponent is building, they can only hit their luck.

The long-range firepower was completely suppressed, and the opponent's heavy soldiers immediately became active. The wooden piles quickly extended to the other side, and the wooden boards were nailed onto them, and simple wooden bridges were erected in this way.

"Come on!" Zhou Zuxun shouted.

"The last general is here!" A partial general responded.

"Lead the troops out of the city, line up by the water, and shoot the opponent's heavy soldiers."

The gate of the fortress opened with a bang, and this general led hundreds of soldiers to rush out towards the river bank. When he was tens of steps away from the river bank, he stood still in formation, bent his bow and set his arrows, and the sound of swishing could be heard endlessly, rushing towards the river bank. The supply soldiers who are desperately building the bridge.

The soldiers of Wang Peng Hengdao Battalion advancing along with the extension of the wooden bridge immediately raised their shields and rushed to the end of the bridge. Protecting the heavy soldiers who built the bridge.And these heavy soldiers didn't seem to see the feathered arrows flying in the sky, and danced the hammer with extremely focused expressions, nailed down the wooden stakes, and covered the wooden boards.

Feather arrows shot non-stop. From time to time, soldiers of the Hengdao Battalion were shot and fell down, and the heavy soldiers suffered more casualties, but the speed of the bridge's forward extension did not slow down.

When there were still a few meters away from the shore, the soldiers of the Hengdao Battalion on the bridge jumped into the water one after another. At this time, the water had only reached their thighs.

"Second wing, third wing, support the first wing!" Zhou Zuxun held the handle of the knife tightly, and the hand-to-hand combat was about to begin.

More than [-] Qinzhou soldiers poured out from the defense line, holding the knives and guns tightly in their hands, shouting and pressing towards the river bank.Just when they ran to the river bank, Dingzhou soldiers also rushed up, the two sides yelled, and suddenly bumped into each other.

The Hengdao Battalion who had just crawled out of the water could not form a formation, so they could only rely on their personal courage and nearby partners to collide head-on with each other in twos and threes. As pioneers, they knew that their task was to build a bridgehead on the beach.

The one who can be the vanguard is of course the most valiant and combative character in an army. Although they can't form a formation, the soldiers of the Hengdao Battalion still slammed into the opponent's formation without fear, wielding the shield with one hand and Swinging the knife, he slashed frantically.

Ding Erlan is one of these people. His surname is Ding, and his surname is second. Because he doesn't like to talk, and he does everything except fighting, so he got such a big name. At this moment, He was the first to rush ashore, the first to crash into the opponent's formation.

Ding Erlan was dressed in standard equipment for Dingzhou soldiers, but the shield in his hand was specially processed by him, which was quite different from those of his comrades.The edge of the shield was worn very thin by him, and it was shiny. When he waved it, he blocked the enemy from the front, and if he touched it from the side, he would either die or be injured.For this weapon, he was often criticized by his superiors.Because the Dingzhou army is extremely particular about the formation of the formation, Ding Erlan stood in the formation holding such a shield and waved it. If he was not careful, his teammates standing around him would be easily injured by him. And this kid, It is absolutely unwilling to stand on the edge of the team, because there, the enemies encountered are not enough and not strong enough.In order to avoid hurting his comrades, he had to ask someone for a round cover to cover the sharp edges, but today, he took off the cover excitedly, screamed and slammed into it, smashing the shield with a knife Even with the shield cut, he managed to rush into the queue, and the teammates who followed him were also wiped out, and they got in without much effort.

Turtle son.Every time he cut a knife, Ding Erlan would curse loudly. He who rarely said a word at ordinary times, when he saw blood, he completely changed his appearance, like a madman. He danced the shield like a windmill. In a short while, the edge of the shield was It was bloody.There are several places that have already broken open.This is not like his war knife, the blade is covered with steel.After breaking open a few pairs of iron helmets, the sharpened edge couldn't hold back anymore.

The wind came from the side. Based on his years of combat experience, Ding Erlan knew that it was a spear. He leaned slightly, and the tip of the spear pierced his plate armor. Sparks burst out, leaving a mark on the plate armor. , Ding Erlan smashed down the iron shield in his hand, smashed the spear so that the spear tip fell to the ground, followed the iron shield and swept up, with a sound of cracking, the big head of the Qinzhou soldier holding the spear suddenly flew high. Ding Erlan staggered forward and almost fell to the ground, his throat was sweet. He knew that it was Dingzhou's plate armor that saved his life, otherwise the subsequent knife would have saved his life. It was enough to break through the iron armor and cut into his back.

Turning around abruptly, opening his mouth, a mouthful of blood sprayed out like an arrow, spraying the enemy all over his head and face, his eyes were completely blocked, Ding Erlan grinned grimly and grabbed a knife, from the opponent's chest The man pierced straight into his abdomen, the man let out a long scream, dropped the spear, and held the blade tightly with both hands, Ding Erlan tried to grab it back, but he couldn't pull it out. Hearing the wind behind him, he couldn't help cursing With a sound of throwing away your mother, she discarded the long knife and turned around while dancing with the shield.

Although the pioneers of the Hengdao Battalion who rushed to the shore were brave, they suffered from the fact that they could not form an array to fight. When they climbed to the shore, they were greeted with heavy swords and guns. There were not many lucky ones like Ding Erlan who snatched in. During this time, there were heavy casualties.Fortunately, the backup was slow, and with their fighting to the death, the soldiers behind had already started to line up and advance.

Holding his cooked copper stick, Wang Peng trotted across the wooden bridge. At this time, the bridge was completely connected to the opposite bank.

"Crossbow!" he roared.

The soldiers lined up on the river beach pulled out the repeating crossbows at their waists at the same time.

"General, our vanguard will hurt his brother if he fights with them." A school lieutenant yelled.

"Bastard!" Wang Peng roared angrily: "I'm not blind, do you want to kill more brothers? They, they wish for luck! Shoot!"

The captain gritted his teeth, "Launch!"

The sound of Linlin immediately sounded, and hundreds of Hengdao Battalion vanguards and Qinzhou soldiers who were fighting together fell down one after another.

Ding Erlan heard the familiar sound of linlin coming from behind, my god!With a scream, he fell down straight, covering his body with the shield.The opponent who was fighting to the death saw his opponent suddenly fall down automatically, wondering to himself, then saw the person in front of him fall down like harvesting wheat, and immediately after that, several crossbow arrows were added to his chest, and he fell on his back.

"You son of a bitch, it's lucky that I fell fast!" Ding Er lay on the ground limply, because he fell so fast that he fell down, but he swallowed a mouthful of blood mud and spit out a few mouthfuls.Hearing the sound of five rounds of crossbow arrows, he knew that the shooting was over. A carp stood upright, and it bounced up from the ground. Holding his special shield, he picked up a sword from the ground and slashed to the left and right with a roar. Some survived. enemy.

"Hengdao Battalion, move forward!" Wang Peng raised his cooked copper stick high and strode forward. Around him, the infantrymen of Hengdao Battalion who had already formed formation shouted in unison. stride forward.

At this time, in front of them, the Qinzhou soldiers who did not expect Wang Peng to shoot indiscriminately without distinguishing between the enemy and the enemy were shot dizzy, and the originally neat formation was in disarray.

Zhou Zuxun was in a daze for a while, no wonder the Dingzhou Army was on the battlefield, they were ruthless to the enemy, and they were also ruthless to themselves. Seeing those surviving Dingzhou Army vanguards rushing madly, it seems to be a response to this kind of thing It's become a habit.

"Yao Chang, the cavalry is going out of the city, and the cavalry will break the pace!"

"The last general obeys!" Yao Chang had already brought his cavalry ready to go, and when he heard Zhou Zuxun's order, he put his legs between the horse's belly and took the lead, and rushed out of the city gate.

"Shield!" Wang Peng roared when he saw the opponent's cavalry leaving the city.

There was a rattling sound, and the front row of large shields was immediately smashed into the soil, buckling each other, and the soldiers holding the shields squatted down halfway, with their shoulders against the shields.

"gun!"

The spearmen rushed up immediately, sticking out spears from the large shield, and then another layer, and then another layer. In a moment, the marching Dingzhou soldiers stopped immediately and turned into a steel spear.

"Battering cavalry with steps is the strength of our Dingzhou soldiers!" Wang Peng grinned, "Could it be that you can play with horses better than barbarians on the grassland!"

"Bow!" he ordered again.

At the end of the team, a first-grade bow with a handle was immediately put on an arrow, and with a buzzing sound, a piece of arrow feather flew out from behind the bustling, and shot upwards into the sky. After flying to the highest point, it turned around and returned. rush down.Countless arrows shone coldly under the sun.

When he heard the sound of horseshoes, Ding Erlan put his shield on his body and ran towards the side of the battlefield. He knew what was going to happen next. In his war career, he had experienced too many such scenes. He didn't need to go through his brain, he knew what he was going to do.

When the rain of arrows fell, the cavalry who rushed out of the city immediately screamed and fell off their horses. The knights immediately raised the lances in their hands and stirred them desperately, knocking down the feathered arrows in the sky. At this moment, what they thought of was to rush in, rush into the enemy to break up the enemy's formation.

From the city gate to the Dingzhou army formation, within a distance of only one or two hundred steps, dozens of horsemen fell off their horses.More cavalrymen had some feathered arrows hanging on their bodies. Although these arrows hit, they missed the vital points, and it did not affect their combat.

The most difficult thing for cavalry is to withstand the first wave of impact. As long as the first wave of impact is blocked, the cavalry who have lost their speed will no longer have any advantage. On the grassland, there is a wide space for barbarians After the failure, they can circle the horses and stab the city to run away, and launch a second wave of attacks in a circle. Therefore, when the Dingzhou soldiers fought against the cavalry on the grassland, they were under great pressure, because they had to block the waves of their opponents like a tide attack, but here?Hey hey hey!Wang Peng really wanted to look up to the sky and laugh, but the terrain here, the opponent can only launch one charge, and there is no place for them to bypass.Is this enemy general not good?

It's not that Zhou Zuxun is bad, but Zhou Zuxun has never seen an infantry that can withstand the impact of cavalry since he was in the army. Based on his experience, cavalry can win the battle against infantry, no matter how strong Dingzhou soldiers are , It is also impossible to block the powerful impact of the cavalry.

But in the midst of the fierce battle, he forgot that when Dingzhou soldiers fought against the barbarians, they started their careers on infantry at first, but in the end, they also had tens of thousands of cavalry, and cavalry battles became commonplace. Can't play against the opponent, Dingzhou's cavalry has always been fighting with infantry.

Since Dingzhou soldiers invaded the Central Plains, it was their iron cavalry that changed the faces of the Central Plains armies. The reason why Dingzhou is so powerful is because of their invincible cavalry, on the contrary, the infantry is forgotten.

The Qinzhou cavalry shouted and lowered their bodies, raised their spears, and tapped the horse's belly with both feet, urging the horses to speed up. These horses were all blindfolded. If they saw the gun forest ahead, these horses would Because of instinctive fear, he slowed down and made a detour.

"Kill!" Qinzhou soldiers roared.

There was a loud bang, the horses rushed on the shield wall, and the entire shield array made a loud noise, crumbling, and most of the soldiers carrying the big shield had their shoulder bones shattered, and blood spewed out of their mouths, but at this moment In an instant, countless spears stabbed out, one after another, and the horses and cavalry who rushed up the shield wall were picked off one after another.

Seeing that he did not break through the enemy's army as he imagined, and rushed into the enemy's formation, Zhou Zuxun's face on the city wall changed drastically, "Oops!" He yelled, "Ming Jin, let Yao Chang come back!" !” he yelled.

But it was a bit late at this time. After the first wave of cavalry was charged straight ahead, the Dingzhou officers on the two wings did not need Wang Peng's order at all. They had already dispersed their shields and rushed forward, forming a U with Wang Peng. Zixing surrounded the cavalry and rushed directly into the horse team that lost their speed.

The cavalry without speed basically has no advantage except for being higher than the opponent.Moreover, a war horse of such a large size is a living target, and Hengdao Ying is familiar with it.A group of three or five people cut the horse's legs down and stabbed the enemy's cavalry up, and they were very busy.The horses wailed and fell down one by one. The nimbler Qinzhou soldiers could jump off the horses and fight with the soldiers of the Hengdao Battalion before the horses fell to the ground. , At this time, you don't have to expect the enemy to still want to capture you alive, unless you reach a certain position, capturing alive is more valuable than killing you.

Wang Peng also yelled and rushed forward, and the cooked steel rod swung high and smashed down, hit a horse's head in front of him, smashing the horse's head to pieces, and the knight's body tilted immediately, and Wang Peng's cooked copper rod fell from He swung back up and down, sending him flying high.

"Happy!" Wang Peng laughed loudly, step by step, stick down, and either one or the horse would die.

Ding Erlan, who didn't know where he ran to before, also suddenly appeared on the chaotic battlefield, his body was covered with blood, whether it was his own or the enemy's, he swung his shield and knife, killing with great joy.

Yao Chang led more than a hundred cavalrymen, rushed out of the siege, and fled back to the city. Just as Yao Chang jumped into the city gate, the city gate was closed with a bang, and the Dingzhou soldiers who were tightly behind him were shut out of the city. With the sound of a drum, arrows rained down from the city, shooting down a large area of ​​Dingzhou soldiers who were chasing them.

Seeing that there was no hope of taking advantage of the situation to seize the city gate, the Dingzhou soldiers who rushed forward turned back like an ebbing tide, and only retreated beyond the range of the feathered arrows. Then they turned back and stood still. good.

Wang Peng wiped the blood from his hands on the battle armor, looked up and saw a person, his eyes lit up: "Ding Erlan, you're alive again!"

Ding Erlan, who was holding the knife under his side, was obviously still excited, "I'm alive, lucky, but I can't die!"

Wang Peng laughed, "Okay, okay, Ding Erlan, live well, you are now Captain Yunhui, I will apply to General Guan for your first merit, this time it will be no problem to be promoted to one or two levels gone."

"Thank you, General Wang!" Ding Er smirked.

"How many strikers are left?" Wang Peng asked.

"Not many, it seems there are only a few dozen people!" Ding Erlan shook his head, and walked back with his knife in his hand. There were four or five hundred brothers, and only a few dozen survived. This group of Qinzhou soldiers is really good.Although a little sad, Bian Ding Erlan is used to this kind of scene. The battle did not kill anyone, except for the first time he saw the corpses all over the ground vomiting profusely. Now, he is not surprised, often Sitting on top of the enemy's corpse, he ate a large piece of meat and drank a large bowl of wine.On the battlefield, you can't fucking see yourself as a living person.Anyway, they were buried with several times their own enemy troops, and after death, Dingzhou will give generous pensions to their families. With land that no longer pays taxes, death is worth dying for!

In troubled times, human life is like a dog. How can Dingzhou give the soldiers such generous treatment? How can they not let the soldiers fight hard? It will be better to survive. Even if I die, I will die. Happy family man!

Running down to the beachhead, the Xiaoaihe line of defense stood in front of them.Seeing more wooden bridges being erected and ordnance being pushed across the Xiaoai River, Zhou Zuxun sighed deeply, and lost the first battle just like that.

Fortunately, the enemy has also crossed the river, which means that the other party will not dig the dam to release the water, and he can resist for a few more days, buying a little more time for Zhou Bin to build a defense line at Yaque Ridge.

(End of this chapter)