Chapter 231 Massacre
After Sun Jie set a fire at the exit of Chupi Gorge, he did not return to the camp, but led his troops to attack Wusa Mansion.
In this battle, Sun's tribe was almost unscathed. The defensive losses were completely one-sided, with only one dead and five injured, while the non-combat casualties caused by slipping or construction accidents amounted to about 20 people. A lot of caltrops were scattered in front of the trench, followed by several artillery batteries left by Liu Tieniu. After several rounds of bombardment, Weixinzhai, who charged desperately, filled the trench to the point where there were only a few living people left. Seeing that only a dozen of the 600 tribesmen were still standing, Zubao was already determined to die, so he led them in a last futile suicide attack. After using up all the ammunition and annihilating the Weixin Village group, each artillery crew dragged their copper cannon heads back to the main camp behind them without looking back.
The men and horses from Bai Shou and Wuxiang Village who rushed up on the bodies of Weixin Village were intercepted by a hail of arrows. Sun Jie divided the 600 archers into three groups and lined up fifty steps behind the last fence to shoot. Under the command of their respective team officers, two hundred migratory locusts rained down on each salvo, and a continuous rain of arrows hit their faces with a shrill sound of breaking through the air. Of course, the standard infantry bow was crushing against the unarmored, but fortunately it was not a rocket. The warriors of Wuxiang Village had to hold up their shields to cover their vitals... However, they still fell down one after another with screams - with a long sound With the sound of bull horns, more than a thousand native soldiers from the Zhenxiong villages suddenly appeared from the highlands and treetops on both sides, shooting freely with hunting bows from a high position. Of course, the lethality of the bamboo bow is not as good as that of the walking bow, but these shooters with excellent accuracy are aiming at the unprotected legs of the charger!
Some of the Miao soldiers in Wuxiang Village also took their bows and tried in vain to fight back, but the effect was almost zero. These are usually mountain people who assemble for battle at the command of the leader. What they lack is the bravery of individuals. What they lack is the strict training of the regular army: when the archers stood still to fight back, the others still shouted and rushed forward. No one knew how to do it. Provide them with close protection! Wave after wave of arrows rained down on their heads, knocking down most of them in the blink of an eye. The others immediately received the focus of the Mangbu archers, and they were all shot into pieces in less than half a cup of tea. hedgehog.
Rushing to Juma, there were only a hundred people left in Wuxiang Village. The Juma was shoulder-high and covered with barbs, making it impossible for it to climb over with bare hands under the constant attack of arrows. "Pull it away!" The leader Bai Shou roared out the last three words of his life in a hoarse voice, and then a feather arrow penetrated his skull, nailing him to the bloody earth.
None of the hundreds of warriors flinched, and they quickly formed several small square formations. The people on the outer circle on both sides used shields to cover themselves up and down. The people in the front dropped the shields and weapons in their hands, and took down the shields from their shoulders. Use the rope to catch the horse blocking the road and drag it together!
It's a pity that Sun Jie's horse is not just placed on the road, but has four legs extended and buried in the ground. Moreover, it is buried too deep...
Seeing that more than ten people could not drag him, someone in the protective circle of the phalanx threw down their shields and joined the dragging team.
Amidst the trumpeting, one of the horses got loose and began to shake!
People in the dragging team kept falling down after being hit by arrows.
More defenders threw down their shields to drag the loose horses as if they were dead.
With a "boom", a group of horses were finally dragged down. Under the action of inertia, not only did the draggers fall on their backs, they also knocked down the people around them.
Those who fell to the ground without protection were hit by arrows one after another. The remaining ones got up and rushed towards their nearby companions, continuing to drag down the next horse...
Shen Gang, who was watching the battlefield side by side with Sun Jie on the earthen base behind the formation, shook his head: "This is to die!"
Sun Jie did not answer and continued to look coldly at the slaughterhouse not far away. Several more resisting horses were dragged down one after another, and only two were left, and the attacking warrior was down to the last one. This was a man in his thirties, standing alone among the corpses. He looked around blankly, and after a moment of daze, he fixed his gaze on Second General Sun Chen on the earthen rampart. He did not lean down to pick up the weapon, but ignored the fence in front of him, burst out a long and shrill howl from his mouth, and rushed forward waving his bare hands!
The officers of the three groups of archers were silent and did not issue any orders. Dozens of bamboo arrows shot through the air, and the warrior fell down, struggling to use the last bit of strength to stretch an arm straight forward... All of this only happened in a moment of one or two breaths, but this moment was so... It's a long time, and the picture is deeply engraved in everyone's mind and will be unforgettable until death.
The death of a warrior is an eternity.
"As long as an army is willing to bleed, it will eventually move forward." Sun Jie softly spat out these words. I don't know whether it was his sincere emotion or an answer to Shen Gang.
Of course, Sun Jie didn't know that the people from Luojiao Village led by Adege were the ones rushing up in the third wave, but he knew that the lives of these people would end in front of his own defense line. Like all warriors, Sun Jie loves and values heroes, but he knows better that such a powerful opponent who is willing to die will bring a huge threat to the court he is loyal to - therefore, he must be completely and completely eliminated!
The people from Luojiao Village walked around the only two remaining horses on the roadside, shouting and charging forward. Sun Jie noticed that they all deliberately avoided the corpses lying on the road and tried not to trample on the comrades who had opened the way for themselves with their lives.
The attackers were stopped before a solid wooden fence. These bowl-shaped trees were also sparse and buried nearly four feet deep into the ground, and two or three wooden beams were nailed across them. With a whistle, the spearmen of Panshi Camp all shouted "Kill", stepped forward, put their five-foot-long spears on the wooden beams, and only poked out the foot-long spearhead and red tassel. The rows of shining gun blades are like the sharp teeth in the mouth of a monster, waiting to devour and tear the flesh that is about to fall into the mouth, waiting to sharpen themselves with fresh life, waiting to use blood to kill them again. Dye yourself red.
The dull sound of spears piercing flesh was accompanied by shrill howls. The attackers in Luojiao Village faced a more brutal face-to-face massacre than the previous two groups of tribesmen. Except for the sharpened bamboo spears, they did not have any long soldiers. Miao Dao could only wave in vain to block the spears that were constantly thrusting at them. The biggest effect was only to cut off a few spear heads. Even if the bamboo spear can barely penetrate the fence, it poses no threat. The Panshi Camp gunmen wearing iron armor will only lower their heads slightly when the bamboo spear attacks the face and use their iron helmets to bounce it away, and those who stab the chest will be attacked. He turned a blind eye to the sharp bamboo in his abdomen, and the biggest damage was just being pushed by the momentum. Then he cursed fiercely, stepped forward again, and stabbed back the spear in his hand... Then, you can often hear a sound Screaming.
In front of each row of wooden fences, depending on the number of gun beams, some of the gunmen were arranged in two rows, and some were in three rows. The gunmen in the back row put their spears on the lower beams in the gap between the people and tried to look around. What were those people two rows apart? What can't be seen is the mechanical reciprocating thrust, which provides enough protection for the front row colleagues, allowing them to concentrate on thrusting the spear in their hands farther forward and more accurately.
At this time, the archers in the back row had changed to half-open bow firing under the command of the team officer. Although it was an interfering shooting, dozens of Miao soldiers from Luojiao Village were shot down by arrows falling from the sky.
Sun Jie looked up at the sun hanging above his head and nodded to Shen Gang: "Retract the troops. We still have to hurry. Panshi Camp will be the rear team to recover our strength."
Shen Gang turned around and waved to the Golden Drum Team, and the crisp golden sound sounded. The Panshi Battalion was the first to withdraw, followed by the archers who made the last suppressive shot. The troops filed past in front of the earthen fort one by one. Sun Jie extended his thumb to his men in approval and praised loudly: "Well done!" The soldiers proudly raised their heads and shouted in unison, "Kill the thieves." !" As a response to the handsome man they thought was as handsome as a god.
Following three consecutive horn blasts, the shooters from Mangbu also jumped down from the stone walls and treetops. In order to prevent them from running around and scattering his team, Shen Gang gave orders to An Yun'er several times in advance and set aside a large gathering area for them. However, the guys who were so excited under the influence of adrenaline at this moment still caused trouble. A moderate chaos. Under the scoldings of the officers of the army, the soldiers finally remembered the assembly point and ran away. Sun Jie laughed and waved his hands to comfort An Yun'ao who looked very embarrassed - in fact, the latter was not just a simple person. Sorry, I witnessed with my own eyes that Sun Jie's troops only dispatched an artillery team, a few hundred archers and a battalion of 200 spearmen, and he slaughtered the warriors of two and a half villages with almost no losses. An Yun'ao It was more about fear. Fortunately, sister chose the right side, otherwise... An Yun'ao wouldn't even dare to think about what would happen next.
At the same time, under Su Yinghui's order, dozens of auxiliary groups rushed forward to meet the withdrawing team. When they arrived at the firewood pile at their respective targets, they carried sulfur, rosin, black powder and other items in the sacks. Sprinkle - In order to prevent unnecessary chaos caused by fire in the chaos of the battle, Sun Jie requested that these fire starters be dropped during the retreat - and then followed the soldiers back to the auxiliary barracks to return to the team.
Adage, whose eyes were burning with anxiety, didn't know why the Han dogs suddenly withdrew their troops. The wooden fence defense line in front is simply impenetrable: let alone dragging it down with a rope, you can't get close at all, how can you trap it? Wave after wave of arrows rained down from the top of the head, shooting down the tribesmen around them. Should they be burned with fire? Where to find lots of sticks and firewood in such a hurry? Even if each person holds a bundle of firewood, how can he pile it up in front of the fence? Use an ax to chop? Again, how can you come forward!
While he was beating his chest and was at a loss to do anything, the Han dogs in front of him left as a team! Adage didn't even bother to think about the reason. With a wave of his Miao knife, all the Miao people in Luojiao Village rushed forward, chopping with axes, chopping with Miao knives, and digging with hoes. They worked together to clear away the fence blocking the road, and then red His eyes rushed forward along the passage between the firewood piles... Then, a swarm of flaming locusts attacked, and the warriors in the entire village screamed and fell into the flames.
After She Chongming failed in his attack on Chengdu, Mainan, who was covering for Fan Long at Longquanyi, broke a leg. Fortunately, he found a wild beehive, and at the cost of being stung all over his head, he dug out honey and smeared it on the wounds to avoid a life-threatening infection. After struggling, he finally crawled back to find King She. This time She Chongming and She Yin went out to aid Wusa. Mainan, who was lame, led more than a thousand old and weak men to guard Chishui City and take care of the wounded soldiers. Although the king said before leaving that Luo's traitorous dog would definitely not come, Mainan was still uneasy in the past few days and sent four groups of reconnaissance cavalry in the direction of Yongning. Every time the scouts reported that there was no movement at Luo Beigou's place, and the three hidden stakes in the forest beside the road also returned the same news every day, this gave Mainan some peace of mind.
That afternoon I received a report that a group of thirty or forty people had arrived from the south, from the direction of Alomitsu. Mainan guessed that it was probably a messenger from Bijie, so he limped up to the south wall to take a look. The visitor crossed the pontoon bridge and went to the city to shout. Mainan was relieved: it was Shu Lu Bu, the leader of Dizhai Division, who had met Elder An before.
Shulub brought bad news: he had indeed come from Bijie, but he was originally going to take a short boat from Chishui back to Shuixi. A few days ago, King She went to help Usa. Because he needed to communicate with the army at any time, Bijie also sent military envoys to follow him. Just as he was leaving, the military envoy came back with the bad news that King She had been ambushed by an army in Hezhang, killing nearly half of them, and was on his way back.
It was a bolt from the blue! Mainan was completely stunned. In a war, of course there are losses and losses, but he couldn't understand why the Yongning Army's back was almost broken after just one battle! In his impression, except for Sun Jie, the Han dog who set up an ambush in Longquanyi and lost one of his legs, no other official or army could have this kind of ability. But... hasn't Sun Jie already gone to Guizhou?
Shulupu couldn't say anything else. After all, he also listened to the report from Bijie's military envoy. Anyway, the king would be back soon. He planned to stay in Chishui for one night and set off back to Shuixi the next day.
When Shu Lubu and others left in the morning of the next day, the Miao soldiers at the south gate saw about a thousand people coming from the other side. I thought it was the vanguard of the King's retreat, but as the line approached, Mai Nan felt an ominous premonition in his heart. Something was wrong with this group of people: among so many people, there was no familiar face. Moreover, most of them had their hands resting on the handle of the knife at their waists intentionally or unintentionally—how could anyone go home and be on guard to draw the knife at any time!
Mainan shouted and ordered the soldiers guarding the bridge to cut off the pontoon. Unexpectedly, Shulubu's men moved faster. Dozens of people flew up and rushed to the pontoon... and then the bridge guards fell into a pool of blood!
Mainan turned his head and looked at Shulu Bu in shock. At the same time, he felt a chill in his ribs, and Shulu Bu's Miao knife sank into its handle.
Luo Qianxiang, who was mixed in the team, shouted loudly, and more than a thousand soldiers from Shuinao Village shouted and rushed across the pontoon bridge and rushed into the open south gate of Chishui.
Another two to three thousand people emerged from the forest to the south and rushed toward the city.
Chishui Guard was broken.
Even until his death, Mainan didn't know that Dizhaisi was the first tribe in Shuixi to respond to Zhu Xieyuan's order. Shu Lu Bu has now been officially awarded the position of recruiting envoy. Together with Luo Qianxiang, he went in a large circle from the Prestige Department of Zhenxiong Mansion. The two of them separated at noon the day before yesterday. Shu Lu Bu entered the city first. At this moment, there was a sudden explosion. , clearing the way for Luo Qianxiang's surprise attack.
On the same day, Sun Jie and An Yun'ao met up with the coalition forces of Zhanyi and Wumeng at the gate of Usa City. The Usa city gate collapsed with the continuous roar of several artillery pieces. Shu Bai, Longshi, and An Yun'ao led their respective men. People swarmed in, and after more than half an hour, the flaming red military flags of the Ming Dynasty were raised on each wall.
