Chen Zhi was patrolling the camp when Ding Haijun's soldiers and horses suddenly appeared.
He was a fellow disciple who practiced martial arts with Li Quan back then, and he has always been the most trusted. Therefore, Li Quan led the attack, with Chen Zhi leading the headquarters, and Zheng Yande assisting him in staying behind.
This task is not simple.
There are probably more than 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the Anding Town camp at this time; in addition, there are as many as 7,000 to 8,000 civilians and military family members trapped in the army. In addition, the ministries under Li Quan's command retreated all the way from Weizhou and other places, carrying jars, jars, and various belongings with them. In order to preserve these possessions, Chen Zhi urgently signed up two to three thousand troops in Laoxiao Camp, where he was responsible for the defense and security of the camp. He also dug multiple trenches and built several front and rear fences nearly ten miles long.
The remaining leaders, under Chen Zhi's coercion, recruited their families to join the Chinese army and take care of them. The troops were dispersed and reorganized, and all entered a state of combat readiness.
This whole set of operations took three days. At the beginning, Li Quan sent false news to the Jin Army in Hebei, showing that the Tiansi Division was in rebellion and needed to be suppressed. Therefore, subsequent successive transfers did not arouse the Jin Army's vigilance.
Wanyan, the general of the Jin army who led an army of 3,500 and formed a formation between the towns of Anding and Qinghe, was completely deceived by Chen Zhi.
And Chen Zhi even explored the road in the swampy woodland between the two towns that could accommodate the army. As long as Li Quan succeeds in Tieling, Chen Zhi will lead his troops to break into the Hebei military camp and seize the troops. From then on, he will not only stand up, but also become more powerful, and he will be able to conquer everywhere in the world!
The day before Guo Ning and Pu San Anzhen were going to meet, Li Quan took out the fine wine from his collection and drank it with his close friends. Everyone was drunk and laughed. They all said, "You are born in such a bad day." In the world, he can act arbitrarily and use his bow and sword to obtain glory and wealth, which is really satisfying.
One day later, Chen Zhi couldn't laugh anymore.
He hurried from the west side of the camp to the east side, and saw only a large number of soldiers and horses in armor, and the flags flying high almost blocked the sky.
This spectacular and unusual scene almost made many generals present suffocate.
"Mother, mother, this is Ding Haijun! What do they mean? How did they come from the east? Isn't the east Yin Chang's territory?"
Chen Zhi kept asking questions, but he didn't know what he was asking, let alone who could answer.
Once Ding Hai appears, he will continue to press forward. Several teams of light cavalry wandering at the front of the army easily defeated several groups of sentry cavalry arranged by Chen Zhi in that direction.
Chen Zhi suddenly pushed away a soldier who was blocking his way, and ran to the far west of the camp in one breath, staring at the increasingly clear and huge formation of Ding Haijun.
Because he stared for a long time and was stunned, tears fell from the corners of Chen Zhi's eyes. He rubbed his face vigorously, not caring that his eyes were blood red, and looked carefully again.
The number of this army is about ten thousand, but its power is so powerful that it is almost unshakable.
Chen Zhi followed Li Quan and experienced battles involving dozens of people, fierce battles involving hundreds and thousands of people, and even scenes of tens of thousands of people galloping horizontally. He had seen it many times.
In terms of battlefield experience, he is a well-deserved veteran under Li Quan, second only to Liu Qingfu who was trapped in Yidu City. But the more than 10,000 people in front of him gave Chen Zhi a pressure he had never seen before.
This kind of pressure was invisible and insubstantial, but it actually hit Chen Zhi's face, making his eyelids start to twitch wildly, as if they were being poked by steel needles.
Pusan Anzhen's subordinates couldn't handle this kind of pressure, Yang An'er's Tiewagang Army couldn't handle it, and Wan Yan Sala's damn Shandong Army couldn't handle it! I am afraid that only the momentum of the ferocious Mongolian army when they raided for hundreds of miles that day can be vaguely compared to it.
But the Ding Navy and the Mongolian Army are completely different.
The Mongolian army is like a group of ferocious beasts. They gather together with bloodthirsty instincts. They don't know what life and death are, they only know massacre. The pressure they brought was fierce and brutal, with an inhuman atmosphere.
It depends on the navy...
Their team is so neat.
Their troops spread out across a front two or three miles wide, over high slopes and across depressions. Sometimes, the frontal line was divided into two, three or even more teams by Mizusawa. After crossing the swamp, the horizontal team did not even need to stop to reorganize, and directly reconnected without leaving any trace. Countless armors swayed with their footsteps, like rivers of metal flowing.
An army of more than 10,000 people seems to be one whole body. How terrifying is that?
To an outsider, it would only be a visual impact, but a veteran like Chen Zhi knows what kind of hard training and what kind of strong cohesion there is behind it.
More than 10,000 people are getting closer.
There was the roar of footsteps, the roar of armor, the roar of war horses' hooves, and the roar of hundreds of flying military flags, but there was no sound of human voices. So many infantry, cavalry, and heavily armored generals were advancing quietly, accompanied by the beating of small drums with a bright rhythm.
Chen Zhi stared at the soldiers at the front carefully, trying to see tension and fear on their faces.
But he couldn't see it, because almost all the soldiers wore hemispherical iron leaf helmets, and their eyes were hidden under the shadow of the helmet brim.
"Don't worry about the Hebei Army. All the troops are transferred back, filled in every barracks, and defended by the trenches."
Chen Zhi shouted sharply.
Someone answered in confusion: "But the marshal has ordered us to be ready at any time..."
Chen Zhi kicked him down: "The situation has changed! There are so many family members of the soldiers on Marshal and Tian Si's side in our camp! Once our camp is lost, there will be big trouble on Marshal's side!"
He pulled out his long sword and waved it: "To the south is the Beiqing River, and to the north is the lake and swamp mud. Don't worry about it. Just hold the east side! All armies take action immediately! Quick! Quick! Quick!"
Compared with ordinary red-coated army generals, Li Quan was particularly rigorous in running the army, and he also had strong control over the grassroots soldiers.
Therefore, following Chen Zhi's order, a large number of soldiers and horses swarmed forward. Although they were inevitably scattered and chaotic, they tried their best to fill in the defense to the east of the camp as solidly as possible.
There were seven or eight trenches in front and behind, four or five staggered fences, and countless barracks composed of horses, and soon they were filled with soldiers holding swords, guns, swords and halberds.
The generals of each team also quickly rushed back to their own teams. Being in the dense crowd gave them a sense of security and allowed them to dissipate the pressure a little. They shouted loudly to encourage their subordinates and themselves.
"Don't panic, don't panic!"
Chen Zhi continued to direct. He personally stood at the front of the camp, and asked Zheng Yande to continue spreading out the rear with thicker troops, and immediately dismantled the redundant tents to leave a way for retreat.
This is a method of defending a camp that is considered weak. On the one hand, it relies closely on the defense facilities, and at the same time, it is prepared to retreat one by one.
He hoped to hold on as long as possible to wear down the spirit of the navy and buy time for Li Quan to go to Tieling.
As long as the Tieling direction can win, Ding Haijun will have the upper hand for a while, but in the end he will have no choice but to surrender.
Even if Tieling fails to win, as long as we withstand Ding Haijun's fierce attack and Li Quan turns back, we will always have a chance to come back.
Even if Shandong and Hebei can't accommodate each other, it doesn't matter, you can still go and join the Mongols!
The Dinghai Navy can always achieve temporary victory, but can it still confront the Great Mongolia for a long time? Sooner or later, the Mongolian army will go south again. They will defeat all enemies, and Li Quan, Chen Zhi and others will become allies standing beside the winner, and they will share endless benefits with the winner!
Directly opposite Chen Zhi, Wang Shixian and Guo Zhongyuan rode side by side.
Surrounding them were towering iron spears, shining armor, long bows that undulated with their arms as they marched, and military flags of various colors.
At the center of such a large-scale army, there should have been a red banner representing Guo Ning, the military governor of Dinghai. But at this moment, Guo Ning was not commanding the army. The red flag was in the place of the general's flag embroidered with the words "Wang" and "Guo".
Wang Shixian likes this feeling very much.
Wang Shixian's personal force was insignificant in the Dinghai Navy with so many brave generals, so in the early days, he was often responsible for trivial matters such as logistics in the Dinghai Navy.
But after fighting the Mongols in Haicang Town, Wang Shixian felt that he had changed a lot.
He felt more and more that he was born to live in the army. However, the army he likes is not the common Yi army on the border of the Kingdom of Jin, but a truly well-trained elite army that can win battles.
He likes the feeling of being in the army, he likes to make rude jokes with his rude subordinates, and he even likes the way that everyone in the navy is consistent and orderly, and everyone follows an order without heeding it!
"This guy named Chen is heard to be Li Quan's junior fellow student. He doesn't look stupid at all."
Looking at the camp in front that was obviously temporary but quite tight, and the guards lined up in groups between the camps, Guo Zhongyuan beside him shouted something. Then he covered his mouth and nose with his military robe to block the smoke and dust.
Because the sound of armor vibrating and the dull sound of horses walking merged together, Wang Shixian failed to hear Guo Zhongyuan's words clearly. He turned sideways with a questioning look.
Guo Zhongyuan raised his voice and asked: "Should we move the crossbow forward and shoot him two or three rounds first? Half a moment is enough."
Wang Shixian looked up at the situation ahead, and then at the high slope across the Beiqing River five or six miles away.
Both he and Guo Zhongyuan knew that Guo Ning was on a high slope at the moment.
Guo Ning is watching the command of the two of them, waiting for Ding Haijun to achieve a crisp and crushing victory to show his majesty!
Wang Shixian said: "Pass an order, one step at a time."
The rhythm of the rumbling drums suddenly accelerated, and the drum beats were rapid and sonorous, urging the soldiers to move forward.
He said: "After fifty paces, the archers fired a volley."
Fifty steps later, arrows shot out from the military formation like locusts, violently sweeping across the enemy camp. Arrows were also fired from the direction of the enemy camp. Hundreds of arrows landed in Ding Haijun's formation, creating many small gaps that were immediately filled by subsequent soldiers.
As they got closer, the army continued to attack the enemy camp.
The spear held by the soldier at the front began to collide with the enemy's spear sticking out from behind the horse, making a dense crackling sound.
The soldiers standing in front of the trench began to throw the soil bags they were carrying into the trench.
The drums rumbled, the rhythm remained unchanged, and the whole army continued to press forward!
Wang Shixian pulled out the long knife in his hand and raised it forward: "Kill!"
Guo Zhongyuan then drew his sword: "Kill!"
At the front of the queue, Zhang Hui, known as a fierce general, danced his spear wildly and shouted: "Kill!"
No additional commands are needed. Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people shouted in unison to kill. The army roared like a wave, destroying the withered and decaying, and crossed the dike in a mighty manner.
"How can there be such a fighting style? How can there be such urgency and fierceness?"
Chen Zhi screamed, barely able to hide the panic on his face.
Ding Haijun was so brave that they completely ignored the heavy defenses set up by Chen Zhi. They didn't cover and suppress with arrows, they didn't spread their wings to outflank, there were no tentative small groups of harassment, nothing!
They just used all their brute force and stormed into their camp without any reason!
Damn it... no army can fight like this! How could any soldier obey orders like this?
This is a ferocious style of play that does not consider one's own losses, but only seeks to kill the enemy and break the formation as quickly as possible! It's a complete head-to-head confrontation!
The problem is, the moment the two armies collided, Chen Zhi knew that his own army was not as tough as Ding Haijun! Not even close!
"Hold it! Hold it forward! Kill the one who retreats!"
Chen Zhi roared loudly, his eyes widened and blood almost dripped from the corners of his eyes.
(End of chapter)
