Chapter 141: Turning the Tide!
(The fourth is sent down, ask for a monthly pass!) )
Seeing that a tragic battle was about to begin, according to the situation in front of him, the pirates were so fierce and had a strong crossbow to help, Li Jing estimated that he would not be able to resist for long. While swinging his sword to block the flying arrows, Li Jing frequently looked to the west outside the city, looking forward to the arrival of Lin Wei and other reinforcements. Lin Wei can't do it, he really doesn't want to recruit Liu Shouqian and Wang Chengzong out now. Calling them out now won't work as it should, so it's better to continue gritting your teeth and holding on for a while.
"Stabilize the formation!" The formation in the middle is okay, it is all a war team here, and there are more than 100 square iron shields of the strange soldiers, and no matter how strong the pirates' crossbow arrows are, they can't break through the large square shields that are more than half a person high. However, the situation on the two wings is not optimistic, the two wings were originally composed of logistics soldiers, and the spears were invincible just now, and they did fight very well when they were rolling all the way. But now, dozens of paces away, being pressed and beaten by the pirates' crossbow arrows, one after another the soldiers fell, but they had no power to fight back. And they have to stick to Li Jing's orders and stay put, and the test for these people will be too great.
Especially next to the logistics soldiers, when there is still a group of teenagers and old people who have just been issued weapons, this result is even worse. Facing their companions who suddenly fell beside them, those teenagers couldn't stand it. A few timid people even cried in fear, some leaned over and vomited, and some turned their heads back, and the scene was extremely chaotic, causing the logistics soldiers to also begin to waver.
"Dare to take half a step back!" Li Xigou, the head of the gendarmerie who supervised the battle, had a black face, and kicked down four or five teenagers who wanted to escape in a row with a horizontal knife, his face was bruised, and he roared angrily. If Li Jing hadn't told him about the duties of the gendarmerie several times, he would have wanted to rush to the front with a knife and fight the pirates at this time, instead of staying behind to deal with these cowards.
Li Jing is also anxious, if he goes on like this, he will have to break up without beating his own people.
Something had to be done to boost morale, otherwise we couldn't wait for Lin Wei to come back. Li Jing stepped forward with his sword. shouted: "Spearmen, raise the spear!" ”
All the spearmen replied loudly: "Kill!" ”
"Spearmen, forward!"
"Kill, kill, kill!" There was no hesitation, no confusion, no fear, the movements engraved in the hearts of the spearmen. I reflexively did it. Forward, bayonet!
Hundreds of neat loud roars sounded, and the morale of the original sluggish panic was immediately raised.
"Forward, kill!" Li Jing took the lead, first carried a spear and rushed forward, passive defense is not good, then only a counterattack to boost morale. The spearmen stabbed forward, but this time, they were not in the same situation. This time, the pirates opened the passage. The remaining more than 700 pirates rushed up, and their strength was completely superior to the town's soldiers. Moreover, they have so much combat experience that they also formed a battle group to rush over at this time. "Throw guns!" Seeing that the two armies were about to collide together, a loud roar suddenly came from the pirate formation. Then the pirates in the middle of the charge suddenly joined together, and the next moment they saw the pirates taking off a javelin on their backs. With a flick of his arm, hundreds of javelins roared over.
Li Jing was shocked, he didn't expect that the pirates would have this hand at all. "Raise your shield!"
One or two hundred shields were hurriedly raised in the array, but in the face of this whistling javelin cloud. The effect is not much. The advancing spearmen kept screaming, and one after another the spearmen were pierced by three-foot-long javelins, and some were even nailed to the ground. Not dead for a while, screaming again and again. Li Jing's heart was dripping blood, but he could only continue to shout and rush forward, if he retreated at this time, it would really be a rout, and it could not be recovered.
The two armies finally approached, spears, horizontal knives, battle axes, clubs, and all kinds of weapons intertwined. The phalanx of spearmen also showed their lack of training, and the formation was quickly approached by the pirates who held shields and formed small war groups, and were forced into a melee.
As soon as the battle began, the situation was completely unfavorable to the town soldiers. The shortcomings of the Shamen Town's soldiers were insufficiently trained and their equipment was not well equipped. In particular, the training time of those logistics soldiers is too short, and they can only use the trick of spear phalanx, once this trick is broken, they will be completely out of order when they fall into the melee, and under the siege of fierce pirates, they will lose and fall continuously.
Defeated, defeated, Li Jing stabbed through the two pirates with a spear and strung them together, and then pulled out his long sword and cut off the head of a pirate who came up with a sword. In a hurry, he looked left and right, and found that the formation that had been completely broken through was now being divided by pirates. He could see that it would not be long before the poorly trained spearmen would be the first to be defeated, and then his odd soldiers and sword and shield men would be left alone.
What about Lin Wei, why hasn't he shown up yet?
couldn't wait, after Li Jing found that the spearmen on the left had been completely crossed, Zhilu Dao couldn't wait any longer. At the moment, the only one who can save the decline is Lin Wei, but he is not seen yet. Only by using Liu Shouqian and them in advance, and now they can't take care of the plan to encircle them on three sides, all Li Jing can think about is to rescue them first and not to rout.
Li Jing shouted to the two family members who were following him: "Hurry up and release the rocket, send a signal!" ”
The three rockets suddenly shot into the pitch-black sky, which was so eye-catching. This is a special signal to make an appointment with Liu Shouqian, if Li Jing's side can't resist and sends three rockets into the air, Liu Shouqian must immediately lead four hundred auxiliaries and two teams of family members to kill.
Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong had already seen the situation on the battlefield, but without Li Jing's order, no matter how anxious they were, they didn't dare to kill without permission. Seeing that the waiting flowers were about to thank the signal finally appeared, Liu Shouqian jumped up violently, waved the copper wedge in his hand vigorously, and roared: "Kill!" ”
The five hundred men and horses who were ambushed on the right flank of the pirates immediately jumped up one after another, rushing towards the pirates like tigers and wolves.
"Smash those crossbow machines first!" Zhang Chengzong had already seen the power of these crossbow arrows, and reminded loudly at this time. Five hundred people were killed, and more than 100 of them were the elite Li Jing Jiading Second Team. The pirates are trying their best to kill Li Jing, and only Zheng Balang has more than a hundred people left around him outside the city, as well as dozens of pirates operating Fu Yuan's crossbow. They didn't expect that at this time, Li Jing actually arranged a team of soldiers and horses to lurk next to them all the time.
"Block them!" Zheng Balang shouted, and the one-eyed one was even more hideous. With just a few hundred miscellaneous soldiers, do you really think that you can save the destruction of Shamen Town?
At this moment, only a rumbling sound was heard, and the ground shook slightly, Zheng Balang suddenly thought of something, and his face was full of incredulity. He turned his head sharply to look west, and suddenly in the darkness, a group of men and horses was galloping towards him.
It's a cavalry!
Zheng Balang suddenly felt that his head was a little insufficient, when the hell did Salmon Island still have a cavalry, what are you kidding?
And if there really was such a cavalry on Salmon Island, they didn't show up for anything, but only appeared at this time. Also, they came from the west for what they wanted, and there was Shimen Wharf. Not good, they came from the west, what about their own fleet?
Zheng Balang suddenly changed color, and at this moment, the cavalry was already rapidly approaching, and from a distance, he saw that the knight in front of him was holding a horse lance in his hand, and was galloping towards him.
"Shoot the crossbow bolts at the cavalry immediately!" Zheng Balang didn't have the heart to think about how these cavalry came to be, all he could think about was his fleet.
"Kill!" Another burst of shouts sounded, and behind the galloping cavalry, countless figures were moving, and Zheng Balang could see at a glance that this was more than five hundred people.
What's going on, how can this be. When he saw these soldiers and horses, he already knew that the hundreds of sailors and the eighteen boats he had left on the dock must be finished. Li Jing was so ruthless, he had already known that he was going to attack Shamen Town, not only set a trap in the fort, but also divided a group of troops to ambush at the dock early. As soon as he got ashore and left, he counterattacked his own fleet. And now, they're back in the slaughter.
Fooled, fooled, damn this is a trap at all, a big trap. Li Jing had already had a plan to eat himself, and he was so careless because of himself. If it weren't for the fact that Wang Fu and the Wang family's two hundred guards had died in the city, Zheng Balang would have thought that this was a trap dug by Wang Jin and Li Jing together.
Unwillingly, give him another half an hour, no, only a quarter of an hour, he can completely defeat Li Jing and take the fort. At that time, even if this ambush army from outside came to kill, he could calmly defeat them again.
"Blow the trumpet, retreat, assemble!" Zheng Balang rubbed the one-eyed eye and gave the order with difficulty.
"Big boss, give us another half an hour, and promise to take the fort city and capture Li Jing alive. If you retreat now, you will lose all your efforts. A pirate leader said with reluctance.
"Do you want us all to die here?" Zheng Balang is now thinking about his fleet, and now he is not thinking about whether to take the fort or not, but about how they have to leave Salmon Island. Once the fleet is really lost, it will be difficult for them to leave.
"Woo, woo!" The horn of the pirates' retreat has finally sounded.
Looking at the pirates who turned around and left, Li Jing, who was covered in blood, felt a burst of strength and almost stood unsteadily. The two pro-soldiers supported Li Jing, and they couldn't bother to wipe the blood stains on their faces, and shouted excitedly: "Deputy General Lin and General Lin Wu are back, and the pirates have retreated!" ”
Li Jing muttered, "The reinforcements are finally here, and the pirates have retreated." After reading a few words, his face regained its brilliance, and he pushed away the two pro-soldiers, stabbed the ground with his sword, and said loudly: "This is an opportunity to destroy all the pirates, and we can't let them escape." Pass my orders, all those who can still move, all take up arms, go with me, and kill all the thieves! ”
"Kill all the thieves!" The remnants of the remnants of the city who survived the catastrophe all roared in unison, quickly gathered towards Li Jing, and then pursued the retreating pirates all the way. (To be continued.) )