Chapter 500: Capture the Flag

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The west is full of red clouds, and the blood is sprinkled on the city of Yucheng!

Hearing that the Zhenguo Army actually killed again, Wang Xianzhi smiled coldly: "I don't think the Zhenguo Army has three heads and six arms, isn't it that our Shang brothers rushed to kill and ran away?" Now they dare to come, I see that not only do they not have three heads and six arms, but they also lack tendons in their heads! ”

"How many officers and soldiers are coming?" Shang Jun's brows furrowed, the official army had just been defeated, and it came again in a blink of an eye, this thing was a little abnormal.

"About five thousand!" Tanma reports.

"Things are not quite right, the Zhenguo army should not be so indiscriminate, and Li Jing is even less likely to commit such a refueling tactic. Big brother, I think this might be a trap! Shang Junchang, whose brows had been furrowed into a Sichuan character, whispered to Wang Xianzhi.

Wang Xianzhi shook his head, "What kind of trap can there be, let's know how to save Lao Cai, then there are still six disciples of Li Jing in Yucheng, he will definitely come to the rescue." ”

"But the Zhenguo army obviously has 20,000 horses, but it sends thousands of them up at a time, which is obviously not right."

"Li Jing has 20,000 horses, but he still has to guard Songzhou." Wang Xianzhi didn't want to listen to Shang Junchang's words, so he waved his hand directly and said: "No matter how much he is, anyway, now that the brothers are here, even if Li Jing really kills him, we are still afraid that he will not succeed." The soldiers are coming, the water is flooding, killing one is enough, killing two and we will earn one. ”

"People are dying, anyway, Lao Tzu is happy." Several camp owners also shouted.

The victory just now made these grass army leaders treat the Zhenguo Army as the Tianping Army and the Taining Army. Since you can defeat them once. You can defeat them a second time or a third time.

It was the first time Wang Xianzhi had seen his brothers work so together. It's been a long time since I've seen this. I couldn't help but laugh dumbly. Full of great relief, Da Lu smiled and said: "Okay, since the brothers want to do something with the Zhenguo Army, then let's fight with him, no one will retreat, I will personally lead everyone to fight in the front!" ”

"Share the blessings, share the difficulties, and make up for the average!" A group of grass army leaders, big and small, raised their weapons one after another. Shout loudly.

To the west of Yucheng, billowing smoke and dust rise, and before dusk and sunset, reinforcements from the Zhenguo Army arrived, this time there were more soldiers and horses, a full 5,000 men and horses.

The evening breeze blew, rolling up the banner of the Zhenguo Army and hunting, and under the banner, the five thousand soldiers in red robes rolled forward. Zhou Dewei was dressed in ordinary sergeant infantry leather armor and held a flag gun. Seriously looked at the black sea of people in the distance.

"Commander, the enemy has at least 20,000 soldiers and horses. In addition, there are at least 50,000 auxiliary soldiers! Just looking at the smoke and dust, you can accurately judge the number of enemy troops, this is a unique skill that Zhou Dewei has, and he has never missed it.

"What about their arrangement?" Li Jing, who was dressed as a team leader, also held a flag gun and asked.

"A total of 17,000 infantry, but they are surrounded on all sides of Yucheng and are not concentrated. Moreover, among the infantry of some grass troops, there are also a large number of auxiliary troops. Li Wei smiled slyly as he spoke, letting Li Jing know that the situation was in their favor. The grass army had no method of attacking the city at all, but relying on the large number of people to surround and attack in all directions, and there were no basic equipment, neither catapults nor ballistas, and the archers were also limited, only simple ladders and battering rams, and now they surrounded the four city walls, but they did not even fill in the ditch. With so many soldiers and horses surrounding Yucheng in a chaotic manner, this is their only method, and it will also be their fatal flaw. They also had about 3,000 cavalry, Wang Xianzhi, Shang Junchang and Shang Rang each had 1,000 cavalry. ”

"Not counting the auxiliary army, the grass thieves have four times as many soldiers and horses as ours." Zhou Congwei said.

"Wrong." Li Jing smiled, "There are still three thousand of us in Yucheng, and they are less than three times as many as us. Moreover, the grass thieves have now been paralyzed by us, and are now being careless against us. You see, they didn't mobilize many people to meet the battle at all. ”

This time, the 5,000 soldiers and horses were led by Li Jing himself, of which 2,000 Songzhou soldiers were on the periphery, but the middle was the real Zhenguo Army, and it was also the elite of the Zhenguo Army.

In the previous battle, Li Jing deliberately transferred the weakest combat effectiveness of the Songzhou United Army to the field, and then he wore the armor of the Zhenguo Army and waved the banner of the Zhenguo Army. To Li Jing's surprise, they returned defeated. As soon as the Songzhou soldiers were defeated, Li Jing immediately set off with the soldiers and horses that were ready, leaving 2,000 Zhenguo troops to assist Zhang Rui in defending Songzhou, and Li Jing personally led the troops to battle. But this time, Li Jing did not play his own banner.

Not only that, the golden armor of the Jinjia Shengjie Army, the silver armor and silver spear of the Silver Spear Jie Army were also replaced with ordinary Zhenguo Army equipment, Li Jing did not even bring a battalion of cavalry, all the infantry, did not bring heavy crossbows, etc., all the way.

At the moment, as Li Jing expected, the grass army, which had fought two battles with the auxiliary army and the Songzhou soldiers, already thought that the Zhenguo army was nothing more than that, and they didn't even have much vigilance for the arrival of another reinforcement, but they just transferred eight phalanxes out of the queue and barely lined up in a formation, while more soldiers and horses were still attacking the city in a chaotic manner.

The opportunity has come!

Li Jing turned over on the war horse, Zhou Dewei rode side by his side, and Li Wei personally held the team flag for Li Jing.

Put on his helmet, put down his visor, covered the familiar face, and transformed himself into a tall and handsome young officer, sitting on a black horse.

"Approach them first, and when they are surrounded by light enemies, we will suddenly attack and take the banner of the grass thief's Chinese army." Li Jing looked at the banner of the grass army that was constantly moving forward, and there was a contemptuous look in the corner of his eyes, Wang Xianzhi was just like this, he would be frightened and abandon the city overnight and flee. But when he saw that there was a bargain to pick up, he rushed forward in person regardless of his safety. really responded to that sentence, do big things and spare yourself, see small profits and forget your life, since he wants to take advantage of a small advantage, let him take advantage of it this time, as for the result, then it depends on his true colors.

"The best result is that we can capture Wang Xianzhi alive, so that the grass thieves will be chaotic. If you can't get the thief, then capturing the flag will also be very important. The grass thief fell down. We'll take advantage of the situation and kill those auxiliaries directly. Drive them to flee in all directions. You can stir the entire rebellious army under Yucheng into a pot of porridge. After the last, remember not to leave Yucheng, do not fall in love with the battle, and enter Yucheng immediately after dispersing the besieging enemy. In this battle, Ji Lu did not plan to rely on 5,000 soldiers to annihilate the grass thieves. ”

Woooooooo

The horn sounded in the Zhenguo army, and the grass thief on the opposite side also sounded the horn of whining.

On the endless plains, the grass army took the lead in the charge. Nearly five thousand infantry poured out of the front like a collapsing flood. Rushing to come. The Zhenguo army was still slowly advancing, and in the process of advancing, with the sound of war drums, the originally somewhat scattered formation began to gradually become neat.

At the same time, the 3,000 cavalry of the grass army had already galloped from both flanks, and they were ready to attack the flanks of the Zhenguo army, preparing to defeat the Zhenguo army as they did last time.

It's getting closer, and the grass army is getting closer and closer.

Seeing that the two sides were about to meet, Li Jing in the army waved his hand fiercely. Twelve standard-bearers, twelve drummers, and twelve trumpeters followed behind him gave orders at the same time. Drums, horns, and iron whistles kept ringing. One after another.

In the midst of the noise, the infantry and cavalry of the grass army collided with the outer array of the Zizhen National Army almost at the same time. The Songzhou soldiers arranged on the periphery were almost collapsed by this slam attack, but fortunately, there were elite Zhenguo troops in the core of the phalanx, which added countless confidence to them.

The two armies are mixed together!

Li Jing sneered, at this time, the grass army was no longer able to change formations.

He waved his hand again, and the elite of the 3,000 Zhen National Army of the Chinese army lifted their cloaks one after another, and took out a handful of crossbow machines from under the cloak. Powerful crossbow arrows shot out in unison, and suddenly, the wails of men and horses continued to sound in front of them. The 3,000 soldiers of the Zhenguo Army were divided into a group of fifty and divided into sixty ranks. Each of them wielded a crossbow, and there were fifteen teams on each side of the four directions. It was divided into three batches, five teams fired crossbows at a time in each direction, and after shooting, the crossbows were loaded, and the second row continued to fire, then the second row loaded the crossbows, the third row began to fire, and when the third row loaded the crossbows, the first row was fine again. And so on and so forth.

The entire array maintained that there were always a thousand crossbows firing, and two hundred and fifty crossbows firing on each side of the phalanx.

The crossbow is more powerful than the arrow, and although the continuous fire speed is not as fast as the arrow, this three-stage shot has reduced this weakness a lot. Those arrogant and underestimated grass troops had already rushed into the Songzhou army, and the two armies were completely mixed together. Faced with the rain of 3,000 crossbowmen suddenly displayed by the Zhenguo army, they couldn't rush up if they wanted to, and they couldn't retreat. You can't do it with a joint array defense!

"Datang! Datang! Datang! ”

The voice of the mountain calling Datang sounded one after another in the Zhenguo military array, and after the continuous shooting, after each person fired sixty crossbows, the eight thousand grass troops who came up were almost like being swept by a hurricane, and they were already in a wolf, and they were in the rain of arrows in the sky, and they couldn't avoid it.

When the sixty arrows were fired, the entire Zhenguo army was already full of crossbow arrows within a hundred paces in front of the army, and white feathers were inserted into the battlefield, as if suddenly heavy snow covered the plain. Beneath the snowy field paved with 180,000 crossbow arrows, more than 1,000 grass army foot riders were buried.

The arrows had been shot, and the soldiers of the Zhenguo Army held their eight-foot stabbing spears one after another, revealing extremely sharp and cruel thorns, shouting loudly, and launching a thunderous impact forward.

The elite soldiers and horses of the Zhenguo Army, a battalion of five people and a hundred people are a large array, a hundred people are a medium array, fifty people are a small array, nine people are a squadron, and three people are a team, just like layers of fish scales, a piece of fish scales finally formed a huge fish scale array, and then began to charge, they bloomed from the center and killed in all directions. Like blood under the remnant sun, blood flows like a river, and corpses accumulate like a mountain.

The battlefield was full of the sound of fighting, the sound of spears breaking, the sound of swords intersecting, the sound of swords entering flesh, and long live the Tang Dynasty! The cry of the day to make up the average.

And the railroad trampling, the leather boots splashing with blood, the horizontal knife slashing the cowhide and wooden shield, the iron armor clashing with the clanging, the bow and arrow roaring, the war drums thundering, and the trumpets were miserable

Li Jing rode on a horse, holding a shield in one hand and a flag gun in the other, shouting loudly: "Follow me, kill the general, capture the flag!" ”

The only dozens of horsemen were like an incomparably sharp sword, violently tearing apart the ranks of the grass thieves, rushing wildly, and killing directly towards the huge banner of the Heavenly Supplement. Wang Xianzhi was already frightened at this time, he never thought that this was actually a conspiracy and a trap. He just wanted to get out of here and out of this place of nightmares at this time. However, a cavalry team of the Zhenguo Army in the back was in hot pursuit, and there were men and horses everywhere in front of him, and he could not advance even if he was crowded.

Seeing that the cavalry was getting closer and closer, the soldiers and horses around them regarded them as dodging like a plague, and no one dared to step forward to meet them. He wanted to find Shang Rang, and wanted to call out to Bi Shiduo, Cao Shixiong, Liu Hanhong and others, but none of them were there.

"Capture the flag, capture the flag!"

The shouts got closer and closer, and Wang Xianzhi's face became more and more ugly, but he already knew that his handsome flag was now the guiding flag of the officers and soldiers. Gritting his teeth, Wang Xianzhi ordered the banner soldiers to lead a group of people in the other direction, and he pulled a shabby cloak of his own soldiers to gain the upper hand, and fled on horseback with his body low.

He had not gone far when he turned his head and looked back, only to see that the cavalry had caught up with his standard-bearer.

After a shout that shook the sky, the high flying banner of the heavenly supplement average Hulala fell, and then he saw an official knight draped the banner on his body, galloping wildly, and laughing.

The sounds of the battlefield faded until they died down, except for the crows and wild dogs. The red glow of the western sky faded, and night finally fell.

In addition to the dead bodies and wailing wounded soldiers everywhere, all that remained were flocks of crows and red-eyed wild dogs.

The gates of Yucheng opened again, and they had just converged under the city, swept away those auxiliary servants, and drove Li Jing's reinforcements and Liu Xun's defenders who trampled on each other everywhere. Li Jing was bloody, his flag horse had already been broken and replaced with a horse lance captured on the battlefield, and the shield was even cut to pieces. Even that armor had several tears, but fortunately, Li Jing was wearing double armor today, and he was safe. Li Jing's cloak didn't know where it went, but what was tied to his shoulders at this time was the banner of the grass thief Tianmu Average that was taken from the enemy army!

Gao Siji, Fu Cunxian, and Yang Shihou, who stayed in the city, went to the city gate to greet them, and the remaining auxiliary troops in the city also came to greet them. Looking at the bloody handsome, they were shocked, and they didn't dare to believe that the handsome man actually took the risk to come to the rescue in person.

Li Jing took off the big flag that served as a cloak on his body and threw it in front of him: "The banner of the grass army was taken down, but unfortunately Wang Xianzhi escaped again, did the food in the city be prepared, drove a road, and fought for a long time, and the brothers were also hungry." ”

Gao Siji and the others were moved, and said excitedly: "Everything is ready, please enter the city." ”

Li Jing nodded and waved his hand: "Enter the city!" (To be continued......)