The sound of hurried horses' hooves broke the quiet early morning in Shanhai County, and two fast horses galloped on the commercial street. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info cavalry came to the Xuanwu Gate and shouted loudly: "Open the city gate quickly, there is an emergency military situation!" ”

The person guarding the Xuanwu Gate was also a soldier of the city defense battalion, and when he saw that the other party was a colleague responsible for guarding the north gate, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the city gate to be opened.

Passing through the Xuanwu Gate, the cavalry split in two. A cavalryman turned left and turned into the barracks. Another cavalryman galloped all the way to the Hou Mansion. Rushed to the Hou Mansion, the cavalry dismounted and slapped the gate of the Hou Mansion: "Open the door, open the door quickly!" ”

The doorman opened the door, "Who's knocking?" ”

"Hurry up and take me to see the prince, there is an urgent military situation!" The cavalry said anxiously. The doorman did not dare to slack off, so he asked the herald to wait in the hall, turned around and ran towards the backyard.

Ouyang Shuo received the report and hurried to the conference hall.

"Qiyu Junhou, there is an early warning signal from the camp in the west of the city." The herald was concise and to the point.

Ouyang Shuo was shocked in his heart, a bad premonition rose in his heart, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he immediately issued an order: "Order all city defense battalions to be in place and return to their respective posts; ordered the northern and eastern camps of the city to assemble their troops and stand by at any time; The first battalion of the North Sea Fleet was ordered to go to the base camp, and the territory was put on second-level alert. ”

"Whoa!" The heralds immediately retreated.

At this time, the guard battalion stationed in Wuyingyuan was also alarmed, and Wang Feng, the battalion leader, was dressed neatly and rushed to the council hall to listen to orders. Ouyang Shuo didn't hesitate, and ordered: "Assemble the team and follow me to the west of the city camp." ”

"Whoa!"

Ouyang Shuo returned to the main courtyard, quickly put on the Mingguang armor, carried the fine iron gun, returned to the front yard, and rushed to the Wuying Courtyard. In the Wuying Courtyard, the pro-guard battalion has been assembled.

When he set off, Ge Hongliang, the director of military affairs, rushed over. Ouyang Shuo rode on the green worm horse and ordered: "Director Ge, you are in the base camp, responsible for dispatching the north camp of the city, the east of the city and the North Sea fleet, ready to reinforce the west camp at any time. "Now that the enemy situation is unknown, Ouyang Shuo does not dare to rashly mobilize the army.

"Whoa!" Ge Hongliang responded.

Ouyang Shuo no longer hesitated, and shouted loudly: "Guard the camp, go!" ”

Daying in the west of the city is 60 kilometers away from Shanhai County. Ouyang Shuo didn't dare to slack off, and ordered the guard battalion to march in a hurry, and the breakfast was solved directly on horseback, striving to rush to the camp in the west of the city in the shortest possible time.

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The camp in the west of the city.

Because of the limited space in the camp, the Killing Army, which had the advantage of troops, was unwilling to fight with the other side in the barracks, and ordered the troops to withdraw from the barracks in an orderly manner while assembling them.

Shi Wansui was also busy gathering the remnants, and the two sides had a tacit understanding to distance themselves and rearrange their formations. By the time all the coalition forces had withdrawn from the barracks, the 1st Brigade had already been assembled.

"Brigade Marshal, what should I do next?" The first battalion is Zheng Shihu asked.

The other four battalions also looked at Shi Wansui together, waiting for his decision.

Shi Wansui was calm and calmly analyzed: "The enemy's strength is twice that of ours, and the enemy is outnumbered, so we can only passively defend and wait for reinforcements to arrive. ”

Zhao Yan, the commander of the fourth battalion, suddenly said: "Brigade commander, the battle has just begun, and the last general has carefully observed, although the enemy is outnumbered, the combat power of the soldiers is not strong, and we are not without the strength to fight." The barracks are sixty kilometers away from the base camp, and the general is worried that the enemy will burn down our camp before reinforcements arrive. It is better to take the initiative to attack and defend with offense. "The soldiers of the First Brigade are not only of high rank, but also have the double bonus of the super-level generals Shi Wansui and Shang Ding, and their combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of the Killing Army.

What Zhao Yan saw, Shi Wansui certainly also noticed, with the strength of the First Brigade, it was not without the strength of a battle, he was just worried that such a tough encounter would cause huge casualties.

"Brigade commander, let's fight! This battle was fought too aggrieved, and they were bullied to the doorstep. Now the morale is high, and the military spirit is available. Sticking to waiting for help will lower morale, and I am afraid it is not a long-term solution. Li Mingming, the head of the third battalion, spoke out in support of Zhao Yan's views and asked to fight.

Shi Wansui was stunned in his heart, and looked at the five battalion leaders one by one, their eyes were already burning with the flames of war, waiting for Shi Wansui's order.

Shi Wansui finally made up his mind: "Okay, then fight with them, you can't extinguish the military prestige of Shanhai County, let the enemy see what the elite division is." ”

"Whoa!" All the soldiers responded in unison.

The soldiers of the 1st Brigade walked out of the camp in a neat queue one after another. Leading the way was the 5th Battalion of Archers, which was responsible for suppressing the enemy's long-range fire; They were followed by the 1st and 2nd Battalions, which were the backbone of the Chinese army; On the left flank was the 3rd Cavalry Battalion, and on the right flank was the 4th Spearmen Battalion.

The battle was on the verge of breaking out, and neither side hesitated to attack the other at the same time.

The 1st Brigade was backed by the barracks and was the first to take a defensive position. After the enemy entered the firing range, the 5th Battalion was the first to strike, raining down waves of arrows on the enemy.

The tactics of the Breaker Army were to break through the defense line of the 1st Brigade with cavalry, followed by the sword and shield soldiers who followed the cavalry, and the archers provided distant fire support in the rear.

In the face of the high-speed charging light cavalry, the 5th Battalion only had time to fire two rounds of arrows before it had to spread out to both sides, vacate the middle position, and then retreat. The 1st and 2nd battalions in the rear immediately plugged in, raised their shields in front of the formation, and prepared to meet the cavalry charge.

It was a battle of spear and shield.

The light cavalry was like a torrent, pressing towards the front of the formation with overwhelming momentum. The mountain barbarian warriors could clearly see the trace of white breath exhaled from the nose of the war horse. The cavalryman's spear had been raised, and the head of the spear flashed with a chilling light, ready to be devoured.

The two battalions of Shi Hu and Shi Leopard were standing at the front of the team, shouting in a deep voice: "Block! ”

"Drink!" The elite mountain barbarian warriors let out a uniform shout, and used the shields in their hands to resist the charging cavalry; At the same time, the Tang knife in his right hand slashed down, flashing a white light in the air, and went straight to the horse's leg with the weakest protection.

The cavalry was like hitting a steel wall, penetrating the first layer, then the second, and the second, and then the third. The hoplites who were struck were like tin cans violently beaten with hammers, shields broken, armor trampled on the chest and dented at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the warriors fell weakly to the sides, trampled into meat sauce by the cavalry that followed. The flesh and blood slowly seeped out along the completely deformed step armor and flowed to the ground beneath his feet. The cold spear, under the action of the huge inertia brought by the high-speed charge, pierced the hard foot armor and ruthlessly harvested one fresh life after another.

By the third layer, the cavalry was no longer able to sustain itself and was no longer able to attack.

The torrent of steel began to complete the encirclement, they stepped on the corpses of their comrades, with vengeful rage, waved the Tang knives in their hands, and one by one the horses were cut off their legs and fell to the ground. Before the knight on the horse could adjust his posture, he was cut in two by the sword and shield soldiers who surrounded him.

Attacking and defending, the unstoppable attacker becomes the target of slaughter in an instant.

The cavalry tried to counterattack with spears, but unfortunately there was no inertia brought by the huge impact force, and the spears pierced only by the cavalry's own strength often returned in vain when they encountered the infantry armor with excellent protection ability.

When the hoplites trapped the enemy's cavalry, Li Mingming, the third battalion battalion, finally began to move, he pulled out his Tang knife, swung it forward, and shouted loudly: "Cavalry battalion, charge!" ”

"Kill!" Countless Tang knives came out of their sheaths, exuding a compelling killing machine.

The cavalry battalion made a detour to the left, suddenly bypassing the opposing sword and shield men and plunging straight into the enemy's rear. In the rear of the coalition forces, the unsuspecting archer troops only had time to shoot a wave of arrows before they were pierced by cavalry riding frog horses. The archers, dressed only in simple leather armor, were simply powerless to stop the onslaught of the cavalry.

The third battalion was wantonly interspersed among the archers, and the Tang knives in the hands of the cavalry let out a bloodthirsty roar, and the sword flashed, often like a human head falling to the ground. The archer position instantly turned into a human purgatory. The enemy often has no time to scream before he is killed by a single sword. The cavalry battalion is like an efficient harvester, mercilessly harvesting the lives of the enemy. The severed heads rolled all over the ground, trampled by the horses, and sunk into the dirt, their brains bursting apart, mixed with the dirt and grass, and they could no longer distinguish one from the other.

The archer troops were attacked, and the commander of the coalition army had no choice but to order the sword and shield troops that were covering the past with the cavalry, and divide a part of their forces and rush to the rear to reinforce them.

If the cavalry of the coalition army is a sharp knife, then the sword and shield soldier that follows it is a kitchen knife, which seems ordinary, but in fact has amazing lethality. They took advantage of the entanglement between the heavy infantry and the cavalry battalion, like a pack of hungry wolves, and secretly covered up, so that the first and second battalions were immediately attacked by the enemy.

Originally, this was an excellent opportunity to attack, and with proper command, it was really possible to wipe out the first and second battalions. Unfortunately, the sudden insertion of the 3rd Battalion forced some of the sword and shield soldiers to retreat to assist the archers in the defense. At the same time, the 4th Battalion, which had been holding its ground, suddenly stepped forward diagonally, broke into the position of the sword and shield soldiers, and used the spears in their hands to buy time for the 1st and 2nd Battalions.

All of a sudden, the battle was at a stalemate, and both sides had committed all their forces. Everyone is in a race against time, and if the coalition forces can surround and kill the first and second battalions, then the victory is decided.

On the contrary, if the coalition forces cannot get rid of the hoplites of the 1st Brigade before the 3rd Battalion destroys the archers, and wait until the 3rd Battalion is inserted from the rear, then what awaits the coalition forces will be the end of the world.

Fierce killing cries resounded over the camp. At the height of the battle, Shi Wansui had to let go of his command and go into the battlefield in person to buy time for the hoplites.

At this moment, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and a flag fluttered in the wind, and the golden dragon on the banner greeted the sun, flashing with golden light. (To be continued.) )