Chapter 125: The Book of War
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The commander did not give the order, and the cavalry did not dare to retreat, let alone attack the spear formation, so they had to linger around the formation, hoping that the opponent would collapse in confusion or receive an order to retreat.
Yang Yuji had no experience in fighting cavalry, but the instinct of a hunter allowed him to capture the fighter - the cavalry without speed had an advantage against the spear infantry. He ordered: "Get up and march, stab the horse!" ”
Hearing the order, the team members subconsciously stood up, moved forward, and stabbed towards the war horses that were close at hand. The cavalry did not expect that the opponent would dare to take the initiative to attack, and they could not react in time, and they were stabbed off their horses one after another. Someone swung a waist knife to chop, but the length of the weapon was not as long as the opponent, and it could not cut the opponent, but was stabbed into a hornet's nest.
In the blink of an eye, there were only a dozen of the more than thirty cavalrymen left, and they looked frightened, and without waiting for the commander's order, they turned their horses and ran back.
Wang Liangdong covered his eyes in pain, the infantry was beaten when they went up, they couldn't reach the other party, and the cavalry was beaten when they went up, how could they break?
After Yang Youji repelled the cavalry, he ordered the mountain artillery to be pulled up the hillside again and continued to bombard the marching ranks of officers and soldiers. With the advantage in height, the area covered by the shelling was greater, and most of the officers and men were within range.
The soldiers, who thought they could safely leave the battlefield with the cover of cavalry, were mercilessly shelled. Although the solid bullets fired horizontally have limited lethality against the teams marching in the Long Snake Formation, they can always knock over a few people with a single shot.
The main business of these guards and military households on weekdays is just farming, and their military literacy is very limited, and there is no way to talk about drills. As for the temporary patchwork of Xiang Yong, it is even more unbearable, many people actually turned around and ran in the direction of Fucheng, it seems that they want to run home directly.
Wang Liangdong was furious, these groups of people are like a piece of kraft candy, they can't be shaken off if they stick to it, and if the cannon bombards like this, not many people die, and the team will disperse.
He didn't care about repeating the mistakes of the past, he slashed down a villager who was running back, waved his knife and pointed to the hillside, and shouted: "All are not allowed to run around, rush up that hillside, kill all the barbarians, and those who retreat die!" ”
The soldiers cut down a few villagers who were running around, slowly gathered the team, and advanced up the hillside. Yang Youji's choice, like Huang Hansheng, dismantled the cannon and met the attack of the officers and soldiers with a salvo to cover the retreat of the gunners.
With each volley, a row of people had to fall, and some people were scared and wanted to run, but their heads were cut off by the soldiers who supervised the battle, and the rest had to tremble and continue to advance. After enduring three volleys, he finally survived until the other party took the initiative to retreat.
Wang Liangdong, who was furious, was about to give the order to pursue, when someone grabbed his arm.
"My lord, the poor don't chase, thousands of people chase a hundred people, and when the enemy doesn't catch up, the team is scattered, and there is no way to collect it."
Wang Liangdong didn't need to look, he knew it was Wei Lianheng when he heard the voice. This time he didn't blame the other party, the repeated blows made him very frustrated, and he didn't have the energy to put himself on the official's shelf. After calming down, he gave the order to abandon the pursuit, gather the team that was about to break up, and after rectifying, continue the march.
The casualties caused by these two attacks were actually not large, only one or two hundred, which was less than a fraction of the total number of the army, but the blow to morale was huge. Not to mention the miscellaneous troops composed of the Weisuo Army and the Xiangyong, which are the elite border troops of the imperial court, in the face of such an opponent, they can only be beaten but unable to hit each other, and endure casualties and pursuits are like eating chicken ribs, and morale will also drop to the bottom.
The nightmare did not end, and Huang Hansheng came again on the morning of the second day, still firing a few cannons and then firing a salvo, and then ran away again when the officers and soldiers were in pursuit.
In the afternoon, it was Yang Youji's turn to draw a scoop according to the gourd. came down three times and twice, which completely annoyed Wang Liangdong.
Wang Liangdong launched a ruthless attack, determined to risk the risk of the army to break up and pursue, eat this group of enemies, but Qiongzhou is full of dense forests, a team of 100 people, into the dense forest is like a few drops of water falling into the sea, there is no trace, chasing for a long time is still a bamboo basket to hit the water, but dozens of people on their own side fell behind in the pursuit process, and no one can be found again.
It is only a day's journey to Chengmai County, and it is only two days' journey to enter Lingao County, but this short distance seems to be longer than the road of Tang Sanzang's Western Heaven to learn scriptures, and it is always endless.
Wang Liangdong felt that most of the tasks of "suppressing Li" this time could not be completed, and he thought about returning to Fucheng. But if you go back like this, not only will you be punished, but you will also be afraid that your hereditary thousand households will not be protected. In a dilemma, Wang Daqianhu is about to despair.
After paying the price of hundreds of people, the army finally approached the county seat of Chengmai, Wang Liangdong breathed a sigh of relief, this time he was fighting to be artillery, and he had to enter the county seat. Once in the city, you won't be subjected to endless harassment, and you can finally take a breath.
Xia Nan obviously didn't want to give him an easy choice, Huang Hansheng and Yang Youji's team met and waited for him outside Chengmai County.
Seeing that the other party was blocking the way to enter the county, Wang Liangdong's eyes were red, and he made up his mind to rush into the county no matter what. In a head-to-head duel, he didn't believe that 200 people could stop thousands of people - he was really scared, and he only thought about rushing through the opponent's block to enter the county seat, completely forgetting that his mission was to exterminate the other party.
Yang Youji single-handedly came to the army two hundred paces away, fired an arrow, and then returned to his main formation. The soldier in front picked up the arrow and looked at it, there was a rolled-up letterhead tied to it, and quickly handed it to Wang Qianhu.
Wang Liangdong is a thousand households, although he is a martial artist, he can also read the text roughly, read the letter, the content is actually to invite him to fight a decisive battle, this is a war letter!
"If you have the guts, you will fight to the death in Lingao County, unless you wait to stay in Chengmai County, otherwise you will have a life to come, and you will not have a life to return!"
Simple and straightforward words, naked provocation.
There are only two choices in front of Wang Liangdong, one is to hide in Chengmai County, and the other is to choose a decisive battle. Hiding in the county seat can certainly avoid harassment, but as a guest army to suppress Li, it is impossible to hide in the county seat forever. If you return to Fucheng regardless of everything, not to mention whether the court will punish the crime, the other party will continue to harass and attack along the way, with the current morale, I am afraid that if you do not return to Fucheng, the army will collapse, and as a commander of the army, even if you do not die in the hands of the other party, you will be beheaded by the court.
In this way, there is no choice but to fight face-to-face with the other party. Wang Liangdong looked at the county seat of Chengmai, which was close at hand, and looked up to the sky and sighed.
If this "Suppression of Li" is compared to a chess game, then the opponent has undoubtedly mastered the overall initiative, and he can only passively respond to the battle, knowing that the opponent has set a trap, and he has to jump down with his eyes closed.