Chapter 285: Vulnerable and Victorious
The front army of Duli Town's reinforcements was intercepted outside the valley, and in a panic, Li Jing personally led the black bear, green wolf, iron spear, flying eagle and the cavalry of the town general's mansion in Shamen Town, a total of five capitals and 1,000 cavalry to kill directly, such as a hurricane rush.
It seemed that a red sun suddenly popped up on the horizon, emitting a dazzling red light. The dazzling red light shines like a mirror, like a morning glow covering the eastern sky.
At the same time, there was a burst of thunder in the distance, and the earth trembled inexplicably.
The red clouds floated elegantly, rippling with light.
The rumbling of thunder approached, not hurried, but heavy.
It's getting closer!
The faces of the cavalrymen in Duli Town instantly turned very ugly, as a cavalryman, of course they knew what the voice of the Dao Dao represented. It was the sound of cavalry galloping, and just by listening to the sound, they could basically tell that it was at least a thousand horsemen or more. Only when so many cavalry galloped could there be such a muffled thunderous sound.
It is impossible for the Qingnipu army to ambush them, they have been completely annihilated, so there is only one possibility, it is the Shamen Town Army. It's just that the Shamen Town Army has always been famous for its good warfare at sea, how can it still train an elite cavalry on that island, even in thousands, how is this possible?
Those cavalry were still hesitating, but Li Jing had already led the cavalry to break forward.
From afar, I can already see it clearly.
All the vigorous war horses, people are like tigers and horses, like dragons. Immediately, the knights were dressed in red lacquered leather armor, covered with equally flaming red robes and backs, and wore a gorgeous long silk cloak on their shoulders, with the red tassels on the iron helmets, this cavalry was so shiny and dazzling. Even their horses were draped in dazzling red vests and burqas. The whole cavalry flew like a morning glow.
See this cavalry. The cavalry of Duli Town immediately remembered the crane control cavalry that had been crisscrossing Liaodong for more than ten years.
The knight let out a low cry. The heavy breath of the war horse, and the sonorous rolling of the armor! Chilling Iron Rider! A real Iron Rider! An invincible hurricane that sweeps everything!
The Crane Cavalry also had such a might, but although the Crane Cavalry was strong, compared to the gorgeously equipped cavalry in front of them, the Crane Crane Army was like a horse thief, in fact, the Crane Crane Army was indeed a horse thief, they were at first, and later followed Li Lingfu into Qingni City. He has also been trading horse thieves, plundering the goods villages and towns of Duli Town and Beisha City.
And the cavalry army in front of them, they are more ornate and well-equipped, but they do not control the crane army at all, which makes the cavalry of Duli Town, who have lost contact with the middle and rear army, panic. There are 3,000 cavalry in Duli Town, but these 3,000 cavalry have fought with the Crane Control Army more than 100 times in the past ten years, but none of them have won a victory. This made them all have a phobia, and the fact that they were now seeing a cavalry that seemed to be more powerful than the Crane Control Army appeared, made them afraid before they could fight.
The iron hooves of the flying horses trampled on the wet and muddy ground, bringing up a cloud of mud and shooting out. The cavalry of Duli Town, which had lost their command, had just woken up from their shock. While they were still in a hurry to form a formation, the cavalry of Shamen Town had already shot out the crossbow arrows with their arms stretched in their hands. The cavalry of Salmon Town was fully equipped with horned bows. And in addition to the horned bow, all the cavalry was equipped with a crossbow with one arm in hand. The range of the crossbow was 230 paces (345 m), which was much longer than the 160 paces (240 m) single-bow shots issued by the infantry.
The price of crossbows is very high, a good crossbow is even equivalent to two bows, and the arm-open crossbows of the cavalry in Shamen Town are worth ten yuan each, which is equivalent to the cost of three ordinary longbows produced and sold in the armory. Even the crossbow arrows equipped by these cavalrymen are all triangular pyramid crossbow nails, which are more powerful and valuable than ordinary armor-piercing arrows. An ordinary arrow is seventy cents, a crossbow nail is eighty cents, and the crossbow nails equipped by the cavalry of Shamen Town are worth a hundred cents each. Each cavalryman carried thirty arrows and thirty crossbows on his horse at a time, and these sixty arrows alone cost six pounds.
But all this luxury is worth it, and now the cavalry of Shamen Town are desperately shooting these sharp crossbow arrows at the cavalry of Duli Town.
A burst of dense crossbow arrows directly knocked over the dozens of cavalry companies in front of them with horses, and more than a thousand cavalrymen who lost their command also had several formations below. Now that they have lost their higher command, the Riders will begin to fight on their own. Some of the cavalry generals gave the order to charge forward, others ordered to attack from the left and right flanks, and even two of them were ordered to flee.
The whining horn sounded rapidly, and the cavalry of Duli Town, who had received the order, noticeably increased a little faster, and they began to surround the enemy cavalry in a crescent moon shape.
Ironclad cavalry and impermeable crossbow arrows drove the scattered cavalry of Duli like sheep, surrounding them in the center from all sides. The cavalry of Duli Town is indeed useless, and has been pressed and beaten by Qingnipu for a hundred years, which makes Duli Town not very satisfied with this cavalry army, so that the cavalry soldiers are not good, the weapons and armor are not fine, and there are not many outstanding generals. In the past, they were more often placed in the city as a model, acting as a support team. Most of the soldiers are the sons and nephews of some families and officials in the town, and joining them is just a layer of gold, put it down and experience it.
Such a cavalry has long lost the significance of its initial formation, and when faced with the attack of the Shamen Town cavalry led by Li Jing, especially after losing its command, they are like a flock of sheep. According to the results of their usual training, the Shamen town army only charged in waves, relying only on the rain of crossbow arrows, plus a round of cavalry to kill, and then a round of sabre chopping at the end, they completely scattered and fled.
While the cavalry of Shamen Town divided into groups and drove them from all directions, they were surrounded by the outnumbered Shamen army, which was much smaller than them.
"Whew!"
Li Jing shot a cavalryman from Duli Town who tried to escape on horseback with an arrow, looking at the cavalry's outfit and gorgeous armor, he must be a son of a wealthy family. This sharp arrow frightened many people who had the same mind. The cavalry of Shamen Town tightened the encirclement a little more, and the cavalry of Duli Town, which was obviously slightly curved, could not open their eyes.
"Dangchang!"
A riding spear was thrown to the ground, and a pale knight jumped off his horse, dressed in a precious mountain armor. There is also a gorgeous long cape. is another son of a wealthy family. With the first one. Immediately there was a second, and the sound of the third bell rang out continuously, and one after another rode spears and horizontal knives were thrown on the ground, and one by one the knights dismounted and surrendered.
"Tie them up and tie them to the saddle!" After defeating the cavalry of the former army in Duli Town, Li Jing did not have much excitement. Although this was the first time that the cavalry of Shamen Town participated in the battle in the real sense. But what he dealt with was nothing more than a group of squishy people who had already lost their combat effectiveness, and they were invincible.
It took a moment to tie up all the captives and collect their weapons and horses. More than 1,200 captives were captured. Only a little more than 100 people died in the battle. However, after losing a horse in the battle, the cavalry surrendered directly, which shows its incompetence. Fortunately, each cavalryman had five cowhide ropes for the prisoners, otherwise it would have been really difficult to do.
After leaving one of the capitals to guard the wounded soldiers and prisoners, Li Jing directly led the other four cavalry to the mouth of the valley and removed the gravel and trees blocking the road. By the time the passage was opened, the fighting in the valley was over.
In the valley, there are the Iron Wall Battalion and the Second Flying Eagle Battalion, with a total of 2,000 men and horses. The ambush was commanded by Li Wei and Xuan Cheng together. Li Wei and Xuan Cheng were the first general and deputy generals of the reconnaissance capital, and now one is the tenth general of the Flying Eagle Battalion and the other is the deputy ten generals of the Tiebi Battalion. They are all veterans.
Outside the valley, Li Jing deployed cavalry, 1,000 cavalry against more than 1,000 Tuli town cavalry. In the valley were 2,000 infantry against nearly 1,700 cavalry. Although they were mounted on foot, the terrain in the valley made it difficult for the cavalry to deploy at all, and they were not as suitable for combat as the infantry. The reconnaissance battalion divided the cavalry in the entire valley into seven or eight sections, and then the Tiebi battalion divided into small phalanxes and annihilated them one by one.
The cavalry of Duli Town had no will to resist at all, and often once they were divided and surrounded, they all gave up the battle and surrendered after a few blows. 2,000 infantry against 1,700 cavalry, although it was an ambush, the terrain was also extremely advantageous to the infantry. But the fight was so easy, and it only took an hour before and after to completely defeat the cavalry in the valley and capture them. Levi still couldn't help but sigh, things were really unexpectedly smooth, I thought it would be a bloody battle, who would have expected it to be so easy.
"It's 1,700 pigs, put them in the valley for us to catch, and we have to catch them for a day. What's more, this is still 1,700 cavalry on horseback, and these cavalry in the town of Tuli are really all pigs. Even Monk Xuancheng couldn't help laughing and scolding.
Li Jing entered the valley and couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw some results. This plan is just to ambush and beat the cavalry of Duli Town, and it would be good to beat them up. Unexpectedly, it turned out that almost all of them were captured without any damage.
Immediately returned victoriously, and did not go far, just when Li Xu and Megan led the second battalion of Zhenhai Nutao, as well as the Li Juyi brothers with the Crane Control Army and Whitebeard, they came with hundreds of subordinates. Previously, they were worried that Li Jing's 3,000 men and horses would ambush the reinforcements in Duli Town, and they were afraid that he would suffer a loss, so as soon as the battle ended, they immediately left some men and horses to clean up the battlefield, so they rushed to help. Unexpectedly, Li Jing's side had already ended the battle.
As soon as he saw Li Jing, Li Juyi dismounted first and hurried, rushed to Li Jing and knelt down, and said with tears in his eyes: "Thank you uncle for helping me when I was in danger, otherwise my little nephew and more than 1,000 remnants of my Qingnipu will die." Poor father, but he has already died in the town of Duli, his nephew and brother are incompetent, and he has not even been able to snatch out his father's bones, please uncle avenge our brother! ”
Li Jing wiped his eyes and sighed: "I am a brother with your father, and now that he has unfortunately died, I will raise troops to avenge him, you can rest assured." However, for now, we must go back to Qingnipu first, but in the long run. ”
As soon as they comforted Li Juyi's brothers, Whitebeard and Yellowbeard walked to Li Jingma and knelt down directly to plead guilty: "We waited for the general's military order and sent troops without authorization, resulting in the death of many brothers in the Nutao Battalion, and also involved many children of the Nutao Battalion to die. Whether it is beheaded or killed, my brother and others will never complain. ”
Li Jing stepped forward to help up the blind white beard and the yellow beard with a broken arm, and said in a gentle tone: "The two generals don't blame themselves, you are not in this defeat, if it is a few days later, I may have suffered this defeat together." The two of them were also seriously injured, so it is better to recuperate with peace of mind. What about the other two generals, are they okay? ”
Seeing that Li Jing had a good attitude and didn't blame them, Whitebeard became more and more uneasy in his heart, and hurriedly said: "The third child was hit by eight arrows, fortunately, the inner armor sent by Yanai saved his life, and the fourth child was stabbed in the abdomen, but fortunately, there was a first-aid kit for timely treatment, and there was nothing wrong for the time being, and now he is staying behind." I wanted to come and ask the general in person, but I couldn't come in person. ”
"It's good that people don't have a big deal." Li Jing comforted the two of them: "I have let Megan and Julie take over temporarily in the Angry Wave Camp, and several of you have been seriously injured this time, after I see it, I will calm down on Salmon Island to recuperate, and I don't have to worry about the rest." The pension allowance for the wounded and injured brothers, as well as their old people's wives and children, these will be done by Li Jing as promised, so you can recuperate from your injuries with peace of mind. ”
Whitebeard and Yellowbeard both understood the meaning of Li Jing's words, and when they met Megan and Julie before, they had already heard them talk about the fact that they were under house arrest by the captains of the Zhenhai camp because they had to forcibly send troops. Later, although Li Jing did not punish them for not sending troops with military orders, he did not punish those lieutenants for their following offenses, and neither was punished. But he transferred Megan Julie to the Angry Waves Battalion, and promoted several captains, among which the leader was promoted to ten generals.
Now Li Jing said that he let Megan lead the Nutao Battalion, but Whitebeard and Yellowbeard understood that they did not get a military order this time and sent troops to the Nutao Battalion, so that the Nutao Battalion had this battle, and Li Jing did not punish them on the surface, which was already to see their face. Now saying that they can go back to recuperate with peace of mind in the future and don't have to worry about the affairs of the Nutao Camp is actually tantamount to telling them that there will be no place for them in the Nutao Camp in the future, and they will have to retire if they are disabled.
It's okay to retreat, if they don't retreat, Meghan and they won't have a place. And they did do something wrong this time, and the result is already good. Besides, they are all seriously injured and disabled, and even if they are well recuperated, they are not as good as before.
Tiebi, Feiying and a thousand cavalry joined the two battalions of Zhenhai Nutao, and returned to Qingnipu with nearly 3,000 prisoners of Duli Town. On the way, Li Juli saw that Li Jing had captured a large number of soldiers from Duli Town, including Wang Pu's younger brother, and he couldn't help but be furious and wanted to kill all the prisoners.
Previously, Li Jing had heard that Brother Li Juyi had killed all the more than 4,000 soldiers and horses in Beisha City, and there was no one left, so he frowned a little. Seeing that he wanted to kill these prisoners of Duli Town again, he couldn't help but shout: "Wait, these people can't be killed!" (To be continued......)