Chapter 1564: The Battle of Xuzhou (161)
The morale of the bandits is high, eager to give birth to wings to kill the past, watching their performance, Hou Fang knows that there will be no suspense in this battle, driven by wealth and women, they will mercilessly kill everyone in their way, until they enter the city and get everything they want The excitement will be relieved and disappear.
In fact, they initially inspired the soldiers like this, but they were stopped by the eldest brother Houqian in the later stage, but all the counties they went to were autumn without committing any crimes, which is obviously a blow to morale, after all, everyone is used to robbing, and if they don't get wealth from the people, what else can they rely on, do they produce by themselves?
So Hou Fang has always been unimpressed with the decision of the eldest brother, and in the process of robbery and murder in Changyang County, it can also be said that he acquiesced to his subordinates.
And this way, he also tried his best not to let the troops plunder, not that he was merciful and kind, but really robbed too many goods, it was really inconvenient for the march, as if they were now, with a large amount of food and military funds and looted goods, the big cart and small car seriously affected the speed of the march, it only took three days to get from Qianqian to Dongwu, but they walked for four days, although it only delayed for one day, it didn't seem to have much impact, but if this way to loot, when the time came to Langya, And how long will it take?
But when he met such a bad defender in Tobu County, he would not be polite, to put it bluntly, it was a warning to these counties who dared to resist, and he believed that under this shock, the next road would be much easier.
He patiently waited for the soldiers to gradually subside from the excitement, and as the soldiers quieted down for a moment, he raised the spear in his hand, waved it in the direction of Tobu Castle in front of him, and gave the order to attack: "Attack!" ”
The large army launched an attack on the front of the 2,000-strong troops, with the promise of the rear fang in front, the people in Tobu City were like a flock of fat sheep in their eyes, one by one with teeth and claws frantically advancing, where is there any formation at all, in fact, even if they do not give the order to charge, they do not have any formation, after all, they are all bandits, there is not so much military discipline, and naturally they have not received formal training, and they are on the battlefield with a breath, blindly moving forward, but at the moment when they are getting closer and closer to the national soldiers of Tobu County, Suddenly, a war drum was beaten.
The sudden sound of war drums made the attacking bandits sluggish for a moment, but the next moment they didn't care about moving forward to kill the past, and the bandits who were scattered and killed were just as they approached the national soldiers of Tobu County, and suddenly feathered arrows that covered the sky and the sun roared.
Among the bandits who were rushing towards the national soldiers of Dongwu County, a series of screams sounded in an instant, and the arrows like black clouds were stunned by the rear fang who was commanding the troops to attack in the rear, he had heard the news from the front before, the number of enemy troops was no more than two thousand at most, but the wave of feather arrows just now, at least tens of thousands of people had to have the effect, how could it be two thousand?
Instantly nervous, if this is two thousand people, then he is naturally not afraid that the national soldiers of Dongwu County can turn the sky, but if there are tens of thousands of people, it is not easy to say: "Longevity, longevity!" ”
In a period of confusion, he saw his most trusted henchman Ding Changshou turn back from the front: "General, I don't know what orders to order?" ”
"The enemy's crossbow arrows are too powerful, how can there be tens of thousands of people, is there an error in the information I heard before? Then if we attack like this, won't we fall into the mouth of a tiger? ”
"General, the enemy army is only 2,000 people, it is their crossbow arrows, they can shoot multiple arrows at a time, I heard that they call such crossbow machines repeaters."
"Repeater?" He had heard of this weapon, and it was rumored to be very godly, but he had never had the opportunity to see it, but he didn't expect that the wave of Tobu County soldiers he encountered today had such a weapon, and he glanced at Ding Changshou: "Be sure to approach the enemy as soon as possible, so that their repeater crossbows cannot give full play to their advantages." "Although the crossbow is powerful, it is the same as the bow and arrow, as long as it is close, there is no threat at all, after Hou Fang gave the order, his eyes were full of fierceness and looked at the national soldiers of Tobu County in the distance, and sneered, no wonder the national soldiers of Tobu County have the courage to go out of the city to fight them, but they have a crossbow.
But they didn't want to think about it, only 2,000 people, want to stop them with a crossbow, how is this possible, just when he thought about this, the troops in front had already accelerated their speed to kill the enemy, and as the bandits got closer and closer, in front of the enemy formation, rows of huge shields were erected.
Although Zhang Fei is stationed again, but now it is Zong Kou who is in command of the battle, this battle Zhang Fei handed over to him, is his trust, and he is bound to fight this battle to repay Zhang Fei, and from the current situation, everything is in his calculations, although he left two thousand people here, in the face of the attack of tens of thousands of enemy troops, it is indeed not easy, but with the big shield being erected, Zong Kou believes that even if the enemy army is outnumbered, it will not pass in front of them.
This is not a light enemy, 2,000 against 10,000, but in comparison, the disparity in strength is very large, but don't forget, there are also 8,000 people waiting on their flanks at this moment.
And this is where Zong Kou's real confidence lies, and what they are facing is just a bandit, almost no combat effectiveness, not to mention the same number of people, even if it is really 10,000 against 2,000, they are not afraid of the elite of a hundred battles in battle, and there is even a great possibility of achieving the final victory, of course, even if it wins, I am afraid it will be a disastrous victory.
And all Zong Kou is doing now is to see what Houqian's strength is, because he is the commander of this battle, he must have an understanding of the enemy situation, and it is unlikely that he will rashly send ambush troops, maybe there may be some damage in such an experiment, but this is completely to prepare for the final victory.
Today's battle, in fact, there is no suspense at all, this battle is clear to Zhang Fei who has not spoken or he knows that they occupy an absolute advantage, even if it is a frontal battle, they can completely defeat them, and even hand it over to Zhang Fei to command, it may still be a brilliant victory, but this battle is not what they want, they want to drive Houqian back to Donglai, eliminate too many enemy soldiers, who is good, it is naturally good for the Jizhou army, which is why he wants to make such a deployment.
First of all, don't let Hou Qian know their strength, this is the key, because Hou Qian is here to bring disaster to the east, if he knows about their existence, then it is likely that they will implement their plan earlier, so with the least number of troops possible, to confuse them.
For this reason, they all changed into the clothes and armor of the county soldiers, just to make Hou Qian believe that they were just local county soldiers, and let the queen let them retreat.
As for this kind of deployment, in fact, he and Zhang Fei had something to hide from the generals, they were all waiting to be killed after hearing the sound of drums, but the troops who were really qualified to kill were only 2,000 to 4,000 people.
This is what he and Zhang Fei discussed early on, and this is why Zhang Fei will be a watchman, with his character, at this time, he is obviously going to be on the front line, but now he is a spectator, in addition to his trust in Zong Kou, how can he not have too high recognition, once recognized, no matter how they hide it, it will be useless.
The enemy army is getting closer and closer to their big formation, and even the footsteps of the enemy can be clearly heard rapidly approaching, and the crossbow machine has not stopped, or Ding Changshou did not expect that the county soldiers would shoot them with crossbow machines in this way, although they have also fought with the Donglai County soldiers, Jizhou army and even Tai Shici in Donglai, but the situation like this is still encountered again.
Riding a horse in the infantry, Zong Kou pulled the bowstring with the crossbowmen, but he used a bow and arrow, he followed Liu Lan back then, in addition to observing Liu Lan's command of the battle at close range, he also learned a lot of skills from Liu Lan, and the use of bows and arrows is one of them.
Although his archery skills dare not be compared with archers like Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, he can be regarded as the number one person in the army, and even Zhang Fei said in front of the generals that he is the number one archer under his account, even stronger than Zhen Yan's kid, although Zhang Fei does not know the bow and arrow, but he still has the ability to see the strength and weakness.
And at this moment, although he had been observing the battle situation in boredom, but the moment Zong Kou took off the longbow and slowly pulled the bowstring, his pair of bronze bell-like eyes widened and rounded.
In just an instant, the bowstring was pulled into the shape of a full moon by Zong Kou, looking at his figure, to be honest, Zhang Fei was really a little excited, and even had some impulse to learn archery, although such thoughts would pop up every time over the years, and none of them gave up in the end, but he just couldn't see the majestic figure of the archer when he shot the arrow, it was too chic.
The long arrows in Zong Kou's hands and the crossbowmen's crossbow arrows shot out again, shooting into the enemy army on the move, but this was the last shot, and then, Ding Changshou carried the ring hand knife and killed the bandits, and the pikemen after the shield soldiers continued to provoke and kill them, but the bandits rushed the shield soldiers like crazy, regardless of life and death, and killed like a tide.
This situation is shocking, especially Zhang Fei, for a moment, he seems to have returned to the scene of the crusade against the Yellow Turban Thieves, they are not afraid of life and death, chanting the slogan that the sky is dead, that is the time when he first joined the army, and he has a deep memory of such an enemy, and at this time, the scene in front of him made him return to that time, but just like when they defeated the Yellow Turban Thieves, the bandits at this time have no effect on their defense, as they did back then.
In the face of the Xuzhou army in formation, the bandits had to be forced to retreat after several impacts, the enemy's defense was too terrifying, at this moment not only Ding Changshou, even the rear fang had a headache, the enemy not only had a terrifying crossbow, but also had excellent ordnance, if it wasn't for seeing them wearing the armor of the Qingzhou County soldiers, he really had to suspect that they were the Xuzhou army.
For the regular army of Xuzhou, in fact, he has not seen it, but he has seen Tai Shi Ci's troops, each of them will wear a set of black armor, and the troops in front of him are just the leather armor of the county soldiers, and the officers are only wearing fish scale armor, because they are dressed differently from Tai Shi Ci's troops, so even if they use Xuzhou weapons, he will think that this is because Liu Lan ruled Xuzhou.
Sure enough, I came prepared.
The national soldiers of Dongwu County are indeed different from the wastes they encountered before, but it is unlikely that he will give up and return, the purpose of his special trip here this time is very clear, and it is very simple, that is, to enter Chengyang County with Guan Tong, and now that Guan Tong has pursued him, how can he go back?
And under the advantage of occupying absolute strength, how could it be possible for these two thousand people to win more with less, but he also saw that it was not easy to break through the enemy's defense, so he had to find a way to confuse them, as long as the formation was scattered, then they could drive straight in and defeat them in one fell swoop.
First of all, don't let Hou Qian know their strength, this is the key, because Hou Qian is here to bring disaster to the east, if he knows about their existence, then it is likely that they will implement their plan earlier, so with the least number of troops possible, to confuse them.
For this reason, they all changed into the clothes and armor of the county soldiers, just to make Hou Qian believe that they were just local county soldiers, and let the queen let them retreat.
As for this kind of deployment, in fact, he and Zhang Fei had something to hide from the generals, they were all waiting to be killed after hearing the sound of drums, but the troops who were really qualified to kill were only 2,000 to 4,000 people.
This is what he and Zhang Fei discussed early on, and this is why Zhang Fei will be a watchman, with his character, at this time, he is obviously going to be on the front line, but now he is a spectator, in addition to his trust in Zong Kou, how can he not have too high recognition, once recognized, no matter how they hide it, it will be useless.
The enemy army is getting closer and closer to their big formation, and even the footsteps of the enemy can be clearly heard rapidly approaching, and the crossbow machine has not stopped, or Ding Changshou did not expect that the county soldiers would shoot them with crossbow machines in this way, although they have also fought with the Donglai County soldiers, Jizhou army and even Tai Shici in Donglai, but the situation like this is still encountered again.
Riding a horse in the infantry, Zong Kou pulled the bowstring with the crossbowmen, but he used a bow and arrow, he followed Liu Lan back then, in addition to observing Liu Lan's command of the battle at close range, he also learned a lot of skills from Liu Lan, and the use of bows and arrows is one of them.
Although his archery skills dare not be compared with archers like Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, he can be regarded as the number one person in the army, and even Zhang Fei said in front of the generals that he is the number one archer under his account, even stronger than Zhen Yan's kid, although Zhang Fei does not know the bow and arrow, but he still has the ability to see the strength and weakness.