Chapter 342: The Battle of the Thieves (Part II)
The fireworks rising in the distance curled into the air, melodious and graceful, if there was no war, would the smoke be recognized as cooking smoke? It's also the time for the farmers to get up in the morning to cook.
But Lan Ziyi understood that such a large column of smoke could never be the smoke of the farmhouse, it was the smoke that towered into the sky after the old village was lit, and it was only a little far away that it became poetic.
Maybe things in the world are like this, as long as you can see beauty at a certain distance, or you can only produce beauty by leaving a certain distance.
The pillar of smoke rolling into the clouds showed everyone on the battlefield that the demon thief had entered the battlefield, and the officers and soldiers who had already lined up on the battlefield all held their breath and stared at the other side of the battlefield.
At the beginning, there were only raised mountains and trees and buildings on the surface in the distance, and a point slowly appeared on the horizon, and the point slowly extended into a short line, Lan Ziyi, who had seen the demon thief besieging the city in Xiangcheng, knew that it was the army line advanced by the demon thief, but the demon thief line seen this time was far less than the overwhelming momentum that Lan Ziyi encountered when he was in Xiangcheng.
Zhang Yanwu, who was beside Lan Ziyi, opened his mouth and said:
"The thieves are limited by the terrain, and their forces cannot be deployed."
Lan Ziyi nodded in agreement, and the Tai Lieutenant chose this place as the battlefield yesterday with such an arrangement.
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"It's just that we can't deploy our forces for the time being, and it won't be like this after the demon thieves pass through the throat terrain."
Zhang Yanwu shook his head and said:
"No, my grandfather has calculated the number of people that can be accommodated in this place around it, this place is a trumpet-shaped opening from west to east, and the east side is already the widest place, and our more than 40,000 people have already occupied most of the trumpet mouth, and there are so many demon thieves in the west that there is no place for them to spread out. My grandfather had already figured it out. β
Hearing this, Lan Ziyi turned his head to observe the surrounding terrain, and it was true that as Zhang Yanwu said, the official army had blocked most of the horn mouth, but there was a river embankment in the north, but the opening was withdrawn in the south, but it was impossible to plug the gap over there with the existing strength of the official army, and as for what the battle situation in the south would develop, we could only wait and see.
As the figures in the distance gradually became clear, the sound of the drums in the demon thief army also came across the battlefield, and the sound in the air was not so amazing because of the distance, but the drums that came along the earth and mixed in the trembling footsteps of the demon thieves shook every soldier's heartbeat, Lan Ziyi's eardrums were not alarmed by the sound in the air, but trembled by the sound transmitted from the heart.
Lan Ziyi could hear the sound of swallowing and spitting from behind the iron armor of the surrounding soldiers, and then looked at the infantry led by Zhang Wang, although the military formation was intact, but the officers and men in the army had all kinds of small movements, knowing that the commotion in the army was suppressed after Zhang Wangchuan ordered the whole army to stand firmly in formation.
Seeing so many enemy troops, the ground was trampled and shaken by the enemy, and anyone who saw this situation would be afraid. Lan Ziyi will not think that the sergeants are cowards because of their fearful emotions, nor will he worry that the army will be disheartened, the army is in a complete formation, and the soldiers will strictly obey the orders of the commander, and they will not collapse at the touch of a thief.
Lan Ziyi was not a recruit who had just entered the battlefield, and the violent vibration from the earth would not intimidate him, on the contrary, the familiar pre-war excitement entered Lan Ziyi's heart as the demon thief approached, and all kinds of distracting thoughts from the insomnia last night were expelled from his heart. Lan Ziyi slowly regained his energy, he listened to the footsteps of the demon thieves coming from the soles of his feet, and found that although the enemy on the opposite side had a drum, only some of them were walking on the drums, and there were quite a few people with messy footsteps.
The demon thief has experienced many bloody battles, and there are surrendered officers and soldiers to guide the tactics, and those veterans under Lei Youde will definitely not run into the battlefield randomly, so the messy footsteps can only be stepped on by the homeless people who have recently surrendered to the demon thief.
Lan Ziyi closed his eyes and frowned without carefully discerning the sound of the soles of his feet, he wanted to discern what the troop arrangement of the demon thieves was, and whether Lei Youde was arranging the homeless people as cannon fodder at the front. But after all, his experience is still shallow, and after listening to it for a long time, he can't clearly distinguish who is walking in front, and the people who come are all in a mess, and he can't see clearly whether the people who come are in a strict formation.
So Lan Ziyi opened his mouth and asked Tao Zhuhu at the front:
"Big brother! Who's ahead of the curve? β
Tao Zhuhu immediately replied:
"Young master, the newly attached demon thief is walking ahead. Mr. Xiaozhi is right. β
Lan Ziyi opened his eyes when he heard this, let out a sigh, he smiled and clenched his fist, slapped Zhang Yanwu next to him with his forearm, and said:
"Zhang joined the army, some of them fought today!"
Zhang Wang seemed to be distracted, and after Lan Ziyi spoke, he turned his head to look at Lan Ziyi and asked:
"Huh? What did Wei Hou say? β
Zhang Yanwu's iron helmet was still in his arms, and Lan Ziyi was quite frightened when he saw Zhang Yanwu's face with a wooden expression. Lan Ziyi knew that this was the first time Zhang Yanwu had faced a dignified battle, and he was cowardly. Lan Ziyi didn't intend to be Zhang Yanwu because of this matter, hundreds of thousands of people opposite, it was human nature to be afraid, Lan Ziyi still had insomnia last night. So Lan Ziyi smiled and patted Zhang Yanwu's shoulder and said:
"It's nothing, I'll get used to it when I fight."
As soon as he finished speaking, Lan Ziyi heard the sound of horses' hooves on the left and right, and Tao Zhulu and Tao Zhutu each led half of the soldiers of the Xiji Tiger Battalion to run towards the demon thief with bows and arrows in hand.
Lan Ziyi stretched his neck and stood on tiptoe to look at the side of the formation, and sure enough, someone in the formation waved the colorful flag to give orders.
The soldiers of the Tiger Battalion divided into two strands, like two meteor hammers, and smashed from the wings towards the demon thief line. The rolling forward but chaotic demon thief forward troops were still spreading along the fan-shaped entrance at this time, and after seeing the official cavalry approaching, the leaders at all levels in the demon thief front shouted orders the team to stop advancing, it can be seen that the backbone of these demon thief formations reacted quickly and was determined, they should have been selected by Lei Youde from his veteran team to specifically coordinate and command these new vagrants in front.
The chaotic bandof demon thieves reluctantly stopped under the repeated reprimands of the leaders, and then the spearmen in these wandering formations began to slowly and leisurely line up, preparing to resist the onslaught of the official cavalry.
Lan Ziyi squinted his eyes at the peach and peach rabbit who led the team to attack the thief formation in front. On the right flank, half of the cavalry of the Tiger Battalion led by Tao Zhulu slowed down early, forming a circle in front of the demon thief formation and taking turns to release arrows into the demon thief formation. On the other hand, Tao Zhutu was much braver, and Lan Ziyi saw Tao Zhutu urging the horse to rush into the demon thief army without looking back. Slowly, the demon thieves who had not yet lined up the gun formation saw the rolling iron stream coming to the ground in front of them, and they were all frightened to the point that they were not possessed, if it weren't for the leader in the formation to carry a knife to supervise the battle, this group of new homeless people would definitely turn around and run away.
The half-frightened thieves are scrambling to organize themselves to defend the front, but the more they are scrambling, the more difficult it is to achieve their goals. The demon thief saw that he was about to turn into a meat mud under the iron hooves of the Tiger Battalion soldiers behind him, but the Peach Rabbit suddenly turned around, and the entire cavalry team attacked the demon thief line diagonally from the south, and this time it turned around like a stone piece in the water and swept in front of the demon thief formation. Tao Zhutu took advantage of the kung fu of the sweeping array to draw the bow and aim at the leader of the demon thief array, only to see the peach rabbit cat squatting on the back of the horse with a stirrup, his eyes were like an eagle harrier locked on the demon thieves who were shouting at the throat of the armor soldiers, and then even the beads bowed out, and more than a dozen arrows were released in a short time.
The demon thieves were oppressed by the attack of the peach and rabbit, and although the number of demon thieves was large, the leaders seemed to be standing in the clearing. The arrows whizzed out, and the leaders of the thieves who were targeted by Peach Chase Rabbit fell to the ground almost at the same time. Before the other thieves could surprise that the leader was dead, the warriors of the Tiger Battalion who followed behind the Peach Rabbit left the thieves in a rain of arrows.
Looking at the wings of the demon thief who was suppressed by the Jihu Battalion, Zhang Yanwu seemed to have regained some feelings, Zhang Yanwu smiled at Lan Ziyi and said:
"Your two brothers are doing a good job. Especially your third brother, he rushed first and then shot, scared the thief and took the head, and gave a good dismount. β
Lan Ziyi looked at the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion who were flying in front of the demon thief array, and the arrows and locusts were gathered, and pouted and said:
"My third brother's momentum just now should really want to attack the thief formation."
Zhang Yanwu glanced at Lan Ziyi and asked:
"Then why didn't he rush again?"
There were all soldiers of the same height as Lan Ziyi, Lan Ziyi stretched his neck and looked uncomfortable, but he still saw the black and oppressive team of demon thieves behind him. ε °εδΉ says:
"My third brother should have seen the reinforcements behind the demon thief, and he rushed in and was afraid that he wouldn't be able to get out."
When Zhang Yanwu heard this, he also followed Lan Ziyi to carefully observe the enemy formation on the opposite side, and when he saw the demon thief team following the forward, Zhang Yanwu couldn't help but nod in agreement with Lan Ziyi's words.
The demon thief and Lan Ziyi have been fighting for a long time, and they have long been familiar with the attack of the official cavalry, and the arrangement of the demon thief's forward is also a staggered long and short soldier, and the crossbowmen are on standby in the back row, waiting for the official army to come to defend and counterattack. However, the battle like the scumbags of the outcasts made them unable to maintain a complete formation under the rain of arrows from the cavalry, and the bows and arrows damaged by the heavy rain could not be replenished in time, which made the demon thieves unable to hold and fight back in front of the sweep of the cavalry of the Jihu Battalion, and they still had many horses blocked behind the team.
Lan Ziyi touched his chin and watched the battle situation in front of him, the archers in the demon thief array were not organized at all, their counterattacks were sparse and negligible, and the other demon thieves could not gather together to support each other and resist the rain of arrows. The Jihu battalion is like archery at the shooting range, and the archery is very enjoyable.
Zhang Yanwu looked at the offensive of the Tiger Battalion in front of him, and said excitedly:
"The combat effectiveness of the demon thief is so low, I think as long as the arrows brought by the Jihu battalion are enough, the demon thief will not need too much time to be shot back."
Lan Ziyi looked at the peach chasing rabbit who was riding back and forth in front of the demon thief array on the opposite side, and then looked at the peach chasing deer who were forming a formation and releasing arrows on the other side, shook his head and said:
"If there is a mediocre person on the other side, he is defeated now, but Lei Youde is on the other side, and it is still difficult to shoot back the demon thief with the five thousand tiger battalion."
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