Chapter 498: Trapped Beast
After some of the Demon Cult soldiers rushed up the mountain, the crossbowmen at the foot of the mountain quickly retreated, while the infantry rushed down from the top and were responsible for blocking the Demon Cultists.
On the mountains on both sides, there were 60,000 troops in ambush, some of whom were infantry, so they quickly formed a human wall to block the Demon Sect.
At the foot of the mountain, the Demon Sect and the Ming army fought fiercely. I have to say that the combat effectiveness of the individual soldiers of the Demon Sect is far superior to that of the official army, even if it is Hong Chengchou's troops, every time they kill a Demon Sect soldier, they will have to pay the price of at least three Ming soldiers. Not to mention the Gansu soldiers, the casualty ratio should be at least about five to one.
However, the advantage of the Ming army was that there were many people! As soon as the demon cult soldiers rushed up, the Ming army was able to expel three columns of human walls to block them.
After blocking it, the demon cultists behind couldn't rush up again.
As a result, the archers of the Ming army continued to wreak havoc, hiding behind the human wall, and shooting wildly at the demon cult soldiers in the rear.
And because the bird guns and crossbowmen are more suitable for flat shooting, it is difficult for crossbow arrows and projectiles to cross the human wall, so they all mix in the crowd, desperately looking for gaps, and fire at the Demon Cult soldiers in the front row at every turn, so that the Demon Cult is unable to defend itself.
Under the ambush of the official army with five times the strength of the troops, and under the dense and crazy firepower, the powerful Demon Sect could not stop the decline, and fell one by one, piece by piece, in groups!
However, the archers and bird gunners who came from Lanzhou City quickly ran out of arrows and projectiles because they did not have many reserves. They immediately threw down their bows and birds, drew their waist knives and turned into ordinary infantrymen.
Hong Chengchou's troops came at full capacity, and although each archer brought twenty bows and arrows, they were quickly lost in the frenzied rain of arrows.
The two sides began to enter full hand-to-hand combat.
The Ming army rushed down from the mountains like a tide, and took advantage of the condescending location to frantically attack the front of the Demon Sect.
In addition to arranging the human wall in front to block the Demon Sect, the experienced Hong Chengchou also quickly let the Ming army that could not rush up in the rear spread out to both sides, let them descend the mountain from the flanks, and then outflank the Demon Sect.
The Demon Sect suffered from the enemy on its back, and with the loss of four or five thousand people at the beginning, it was impossible to win and defeat the official army. Jin Gang immediately made a decision and asked his subordinates to break through immediately.
However, the officers and troops are pouring over the mountains and fields, almost everywhere, how can they say that they will break through the siege?
Qin Shuhuai took more than 10,000 officers and soldiers who had not been ambushed before, and went forward with all his might, trying to advance the battle line, narrow the encirclement, and press all the demon sect soldiers into a small space, which was more conducive to the encirclement and suppression of the officials and troops.
The current battle line of the Demon Sect is 2,000 people blocking Qin Shuhuai's 12,300 people in the east, under the mountains in the south, blocking the Ming army of about 15,000 with 3,000 people, and under the mountains in the north, blocking the Ming army with 25,600 troops, and in the west where they are preparing to retreat, they only have 3,000 troops, but they have to face the nearly 30,000 troops of the Ming army!
In the face of absolute strength, any murderous name is false. No matter how terrifying the Demon Cult was described before, at this time, it had no effect at all, except to increase the sense of accomplishment of killing them by the officials and soldiers. In the case that the number of your own troops is superior, and in the case that the Demon Sect soldiers fall a large number as soon as they come up, even the most cowardly man will feel that his strength is enough to crush the other party!
The Demon Sect knows that it is more than lucky, but it does not lose its fierce nature. Several of them formed a formation, helping each other to defend each other, without the slightest panic. In particular, the 1,000 people of Ruijin Banner quickly turned into ten small formations with 100 units, like ten bloodthirsty monsters, rushing into the Ming army formation from time to time to wreak havoc, and then leaving dozens of corpses of the Ming army, and then calmly killing back into their own phalanx.
Qin Shuhuai saw that wherever they appeared, there would be chaos in the Ming army front. If this continues, sooner or later they will be able to break through a gap and break out!
Qin Shuhuai immediately shouted, "Meng Wei, Master Zhiren, follow me!"
Then, he jumped into one of the formations of the Ruijin Banner in the first place, raised the Heavenly Sword and danced rapidly. The majestic sword qi overflowed wildly, and his body suddenly flew sand and stones, and in the dust in the sky, the blue and red Yitian Sword God came out of nowhere, and every time he swiped a place, he would take away a person's head.
Meng Wei and Zhiren also immediately jumped into the formation and formed an iron triangle with Qin Shuhuai.
After paying the price of more than a dozen people, the Ruijin Banner people immediately came back to their senses, and with the order of the standard-bearer, they immediately changed their formation, stopped attacking externally, and focused on dealing with Qin Shuhuai, Meng Wei and Zhiren in the formation.
About ninety Ruijin Banner people quickly divided into three small formations, each with thirty people, standing in a triangular position, each responsible for attacking one person. The first person in the triangle is the highest cultivation, he is responsible for the feint attack first, and immediately retreats as soon as he makes a knife, and when the other party wants to kill him, the three people behind him immediately rush up to attack, and these three people only make one knife, regardless of success or failure, immediately retreat, and then the five people behind immediately rush up, and so on, gushing endlessly.
Qin Shuhuai remembered that this formation seemed to be called Yan Nanfei, and the Flame Banner had been used at the beginning, and it was indeed very difficult. Meng Wei and Zhiren couldn't adapt for a while, and with their cultivation, they could only parry for the time being, and they couldn't find a chance to fight back.
However, in front of Qin Shuhuai, the Demon Sect's formation could only speed up their progress in sending them to death. Without him, because he drew his sword too quickly, and the sword was too sharp and perverted. When a man came, he slashed through with his sword and cut it in half. On the two of them, he still slashed through with a sword, cutting in half! Although this formation could attack the enemy like a tidal wave, it came at the cost of giving up encircling the enemy. If they surrounded Qin Shuhuai, Qin Shuhuai would need to take care of the front and back, and he would not be able to kill so happily. But they all rushed to Qin Shuhuai, and it was completely looking for death.
It didn't take long for Qin Shuhuai to break through the Yannan Gui Great Formation of the Ruijin Banner, and the thirty people who attacked him were killed more than twenty people, and the rest had to quickly integrate into the other two formations when they saw that the situation was not good.
And Meng Wei and Zhiren were still entangled in the formation at this time, and Meng Wei was also stabbed in the arm. Zhiren is okay, with his superb position, not only was he not injured, but he also killed three or four Ruijin Banner people, but it will take a little time to break the opponent's big array.
Seeing this, Qin Shuhuai immediately rushed over, first taking advantage of the other party's unpreparedness, and killed their standard-bearer with a thunderous momentum. As soon as the standard-bearer died, the two formations did not react so quickly. After Qin Shuhuai's sword qi roared, it completely disrupted their deployment. With Qin Shuhuai's joining, Meng Wei and Zhiren suddenly felt lighter, and with their cultivation, it was not much difficult to clean up the rest of the Ruijin Banner people who had already seen a chaotic formation.
The offensive of the official army is constantly strengthening, and the encirclement is shrinking smaller and smaller, and the Demon Sect at this time can only be said to be trapped in the beast fighting.