"It seems that this is the only way we can use it tonight!"
Zhu Xu shouted behind him: "Get ready!"
The captain under Zhu Xu's tent bowed and saluted, and then left with the order.
After a while, the Qin soldiers attacked fiercely and began to break through the first line of defense established by Xiangyang soldiers using Juma and Luzhai, and the situation became increasingly tense.
"Change the formation!" Zhu Xu did not distract his attention. As soon as he gave the order, the captain who arrived in the wind and snow immediately drew out his sharp sword.
Everyone in the Xiangyang soldiers held their breath and concentrated, and then they saw the shield array suddenly split into two, and a passage was opened in the middle. The Qin soldiers with good eyesight immediately rushed up to kill them, and the Qin soldiers in the rear followed closely. A large group of Qin soldiers pressed forward...
The Xiangyang soldiers wearing black armor secretly began to change their formations. The Qin army thought that victory was within reach when they broke into the shield formation. Their morale was high, and everyone rushed in with steel swords!
The shield soldiers of the Xiangyang soldiers and the crossbowmen backed each other to cover each other. At first, the Qin soldiers relied on their large size to really injure many Xiangyang soldiers. However, after the shield formation conversion was completed, the Qin soldiers had not had time to step into the shield formation. The army was instantly isolated, and the five or six hundred Qin soldiers who entered the shield formation were surrounded in the middle. Due to the narrow passage, they were unable to move and could not move at all.
Xu Zongwen also saw the hidden danger of Qin soldiers being unable to move easily and taking action slowly! Sure enough, Zhu Xu gave an order, and the sword and axemen who had been lying in wait for a long time suddenly rushed out from the middle of the shield, aiming at the Qin soldiers in three directions and slashing them with all their might!
Finally, it was difficult for two fists to defeat four hands. The squeezed Qin soldiers could not withstand the sneak attack of the Xiangyang soldiers, and soon fell into a disadvantage. In less than a quarter of an hour, the crossbowmen's attacks were already decreasing at a speed visible to the eye!
The Xiangyang soldiers were full of strength and struck fiercely. After paying the price of less than fifty men, they finally wiped out all the Qin soldiers who rushed into the shield formation.
"Change the formation and defend the enemy head-on."
"Your Majesty, the crossbows have arrived!"
Zhu Xu shouted: "Very good, stay with me and don't let any Qin soldiers come near. Return to Jiangdong and I will ask for your reward from His Majesty the Emperor and Prime Minister Xie!"
While Zhu Xu was commanding in the rain of arrows, Xu Zongwen led Shen Yu and Zheng Lue to bypass the outpost and came to the rear of the Xiangyang soldiers. By this time, the shield formation had been transformed.
Hearing the captain running over to give the order, the guarding soldiers immediately understood. The shield formation at the front immediately withdrew. The swordsmen packed up their weapons and went straight to the front. The two types of troops alternately covered to complete the formation change. The shieldmen covered the swordsmen. Pushing down the burned Luzhai and Juma filled with arrows, and then suddenly pushing out the burning baggage cart, Zhu Xu commanded the Xiangyang soldiers to take the initiative to attack!
The Qin soldiers never expected that the Xiangyang soldiers could launch a counterattack when they were outnumbered. The Qin soldiers who were knocked down by the baggage cart were immediately stained with flames. The Qin soldiers who were on fire began to yell and howl like ghosts and wolves!
The fleeing Qin soldiers ran towards the formation in an unorganized manner, splitting the Qin soldiers' own queue into pieces. The Xiangyang soldiers' spearmen and crossbowmen quickly launched a counterattack, taking advantage of the Qin soldiers' formation before they could assemble. Qin soldiers.
"Return to the main formation and set up the formation!" Zhu Xu knew the principle of not pursuing the enemy when the enemy was weak. It didn't take long for General Qin Bing to lead several captains to stabilize the formation, and once again launched an attack on the shield formation of Xiangyang soldiers, intending to take advantage of the large number of people. With so much power, we have to surround and kill Xiangyang soldiers even if we use human lives to make up for it!
The retreating soldiers returned to the shield formation. Most of them were already very familiar with the formation. The crossbowmen set up their crossbows and strong bows in the direction of the Qin soldiers' attack, and shot at the Qin soldiers who were charging forward outside. stand up!
Xiangyang is located at the junction of the border between Qin and Jin. As an important town in the north, Xiangyang has the best ordnance manufacturing. For example, this crossbow machine was produced by the Shaofu of the Jiangzuo imperial court. The Liannu was imitated and carefully developed over several years.
Although the crossbow machine provided by the Shaofu does not have the power of Zhuge Liannu's ten-shot crossbow, it can still produce three shots per crossbow, and is lighter and more flexible. The speed of changing crossbow arrows is also increased several times, which is very conducive to surprise operations, and its arrows are more precise. It is made of steel, and the steel is mined from the rare minerals in the country.
In addition to strong bows, crossbows and knives, the Xiangyang soldiers and even their horses, spears and other ordnance were better supplied than the Jingzhou soldiers. Today's Beifu soldiers are only treated like this!
The front troops of the Qin soldiers who were madly invading were attacked by the Xiangyang soldiers, and dozens of corpses fell in the blink of an eye. When the Qin soldiers arrived in front of the formation and the two sides began to fight hand-to-hand, the Qin soldiers dropped hundreds of corpses in the blink of an eye, and the losses were huge. Small.
"Have all the long knives been brought up?" Zhu Xu asked anxiously when he saw the captain returning.
The captain's face was anxious, and he ran around in the formation several times, his face red and his heart beating, and he was breathing hot air from his mouth and nose. He raised his hand and replied: "They are all here, five hundred handles, not a lot of them!"
"Okay!" Zhu Xufang nodded with satisfaction when he saw two soldiers from the Shenji Battalion filing out of the box.
Xu Zongwen didn't know what the soldiers were carrying. It seemed to be very heavy.
At that time, the Xiangyang soldiers were as motionless as a mountain, as if they were prepared to deliberately watch the Qin soldiers come forward, and let the Qin soldiers advance one by one.
"Boom, boom!" A deafening drum sound was suddenly heard from behind the shield formation, and their bodies were shaking slightly. Looking carefully at their feet, the ground was actually shaking slowly! Then the ground in front of the shield formation collapsed unexpectedly!
The wind and snow were blowing, and the sight of the soldiers of the Qin army was blocked. After several "Puch-chi" sounds, the hundreds of soldiers who were charging in front of the Qin army all lost their feet and fell into the collapsed ground. This was Zhu Xu's Xiangyang soldiers in case he was exposed. They will be massacred, and horse pits and traps have been dug in advance near the military camp.
The pit was filled with extremely lethal devices such as sharp bamboo spears, hanging wooden forks, and hook barbs that had been prepared in advance. The Qin soldiers who unfortunately fell into the pit could not be saved even with their corpses. You can hear indirect cries and cries for help coming from it, filling most of the battlefield!
As time went by, the Qin soldiers gradually became exhausted. At this time, the Xiangyang soldiers who had been watching the theater for a long time heard the Qin soldiers' cries as if they were on stimulants. Zhu Xu led these brave Xiangyang soldiers to pick up and prepare. The long sword was full of energy and immediately launched an active attack!
Soon, the Xiangyang soldiers, led by Zhu Xu, broke into the Qin army's formation and divided the Qin soldiers who could not react in time into small pieces of different sizes, cutting off the connection between the Qin soldiers and the general, and the Qin soldiers began to retreat completely.
"Brothers, the mountains and rivers have been lost for a long time, and we Han people have never thought about regaining the old country. Let the souls of our comrades who died at the hands of the barbarians be with us tonight, and kill all these barbarians!"
Xu Zongwen was inspired by the bravery of the Xiangyang soldiers. He hurriedly raised his sword, waved it towards the retreating Qin soldiers in front, and loudly encouraged the Xiangyang soldiers.
"Drive out the barbarians, restore China, establish principles and discipline, and save the people!" Xu Zongwen remembered this majestic oath from later generations, and shouted at the top of his voice in the rebellious army. Shen Yu and Zheng Lue also imitated Xu Zongwen and shouted loudly, The remaining hundreds of surviving Xiangyang soldiers also began to shout. The Xiangyang soldiers shouted in the wind and snow to retreat, the red cherry blossoms fluttered, and the fleeing Qin soldiers on the opposite side also looked slightly sideways!
Xu Zongwen originally wanted to boost morale, but in the end, he was inspired to fight by the Xiangyang soldiers. With firm eyes, he shouted: "Okay! Tonight, let us avenge Yixue's shame!"
"Revenge! Revenge!" Xiangyang soldiers shouted in unison, with the word "revenge" in their mouths. For a moment, the echoes rippled back and forth on both sides of the Feishui River, causing the Bagong Mountain in the distance to stand up, and making the birds in the forest startle!
A battle between two armies depends not only on the command of the generals, but also on morale. The courage of the general is the head of the army, and Qi is the soul of the army. Once an army loses its command and morale, it will be defeated like a mountain. , and the defeated army is like a hole that breaks the embankment, you can't stop it even if you want to!
Now, the Qin soldiers were at the point where the embankment collapsed, and the Xiangyang soldiers were overwhelming, chasing the panicked Qin soldiers. The three thousand Qin soldiers lost seven to eight hundred people in the shield formation, and no less than five hundred people were killed by crossbows. , and then there were 400 people who fell into horse pits and traps and were shattered to pieces. The two armies fought for less than an hour and the Qin soldiers lost more than half. Although the Xiangyang soldiers only had more than 400 people left, they suffered heavy casualties. However, in terms of morale, the Qin soldiers The army and the Xiangyang army are not the same at all!
The Qin army's camp was originally a group of broken troops, and the one or two thousand more troops were not so conspicuous. The Beifu soldiers also arrived in time to join the Xiangyang soldiers. By the time Xu Zongwen found Zhu Xu again, it was already bright and clear under the sky. , the heavy snow also stopped for a long time.
Xu Zongwen sat on the ground exhausted. At this time, his bones were sore and his muscles were swollen. Speaking of which, the physical strength consumed by fighting on a real battlefield was not comparable to how many kilometers the army ran with heavy loads. The two armies fought. It’s not just physical strength, but more importantly, mental pressure!
Regarding this point, the people who survived the war are the most sympathetic. Xu Zongwen took the water bag handed by Shen Yu and poured it into his mouth indiscriminately. While chewing the cold dry food, he felt the sensation through the tip of his tongue. Only with the faint sweetness can Xu Zongwen feel that he is alive.
"The rest of your life after a disaster is nothing more than this, right?"
