Chapter 145 The War Begins
If Sullivan were asked to lead 10,000 cavalry to attack Zhenwucheng or a place like Aquarius City or Tai'an City, he would definitely think that the person who gave the order was crazy.
But hitting Yuan'an City is different.
Compared with the three fortified cities above, Yuan'an City is just an earthen wall.
In the past, Xiao Changche, who was in poverty, pursued offense instead of defense.
If you bite me once, I swear I will bite you three times before I am done.
The mad dog-like Xiao Changche is very scary. You won’t gain much from attacking Yuan’an, but if he takes the opportunity to bite you a few times, the loss will be huge.
So no one wants to mess with her.
This time is different. Xiao Changche has been promoted and became the Protector of Anxi Protectorate. In theory, he is on par with Ling Huye, and Dayuan has too many grievances with him. If he can Capturing Yuan'an and slapping Xiao Changche severely was a big plus in terms of politics.
Moreover, Beiyuan's intelligence system reported back that Xiao Changche was still reorganizing his army outside Aoping City, and his main cavalry was still in Aoping Prefecture to wipe out the remnants of the Yan family.
But what they didn't know was that the general who was roaring back and forth in Aquarius City wearing a devil's mask and being surrounded by people was just a Xibei.
The earth fence is more than ten feet high, and a person with excellent riding skills can even leap directly on his horse.
Xiao Dongwei stood on the city wall, looking at the thick smoke rising in the distance.
Everywhere.
That was when a small group of troops from the Yuan Army began to invade, sweep and explore the surrounding areas. It was a pity that the houses of the surrounding people were only a few adobe thatched houses, but they were still a considerable amount of property for the Yuan'an people. Woolen cloth!
Now it has been completely burned down by the fire of these idiots.
What is even more regrettable is that in order to deceive the opponent, when the surrounding people were evacuated into Yuan'an City, they were forced to take only what one person could take away.
For example, if you can carry a hundred kilograms of grain, you can carry a hundred kilograms and walk. If you have two hundred kilograms at home, I'm sorry, but you can't take the rest with you.
Many Yuanan people left their homes in tears.
What they took away was basically food.
For them, food is everything.
With food, you can survive. As long as you can survive, you can earn back the other bottles and jars that are gone.
All of this is just to create an illusion, that is, the retreat around Yuan'an was panicked and hasty.
In order to convince Sullivan that the attack would achieve results.
A strong woman with a big waist and round shoulders carried a stone weighing hundreds of kilograms up the city wall, threw the stone at the base of the wall, and saw thick smoke burning in the distance. She couldn't help but burst into tears while wiping He looked at Xiao Dongwei and said, "The sows in my pig pen have just given birth to eleven pigs. They have never given birth to so many pigs in the past two years. I thought I could make a profit. Now it's better." It’s all paid for.”
Xiao Dongwei snorted: "Why are you crying? After this battle, I will give you a horse!"
The strong woman immediately stopped crying, looked at Xiao Dongwei and said: "Deputy General Xiao, you can't lie. Man, if you don’t give it then, I will come to make trouble.”
“Why did I lie to you? Yuan Ren came with thousands of horses this time and defeated them. You will be here then. Go pick it up in the wilderness!" Xiao Dongwei said: "If you cry and cry here again and disturb the morale of the army, I will tie you up and show you to the public!"
"Xiao Cheqi said before that all the seizures will be returned to the public and distributed uniformly. Lieutenant General Xiao, you are lying again!" When the strong woman heard that she was going to collect the spoils after the war, she immediately became unhappy.
"It's not a chariot now, it's a hussar!" Xiao Dongwei corrected: "And the rules have also changed. From now on, everything captured belongs to you! Tell your man, if you still stay behind when charging in another battle, Sometimes he cries when he can’t get good things! ”
The strong woman was furious: "General Xiao, please don't slander people's innocence casually. The men in my family are the most ferocious in fighting!" He's reduced to a handful of bones. Did you not give him enough to eat at home?"
A burst of laughter suddenly came from the surroundings, and another person said loudly: "Lieutenant Xiao, it's not that he's not full, it's that he's eaten enough. It’s too full. Look at Mrs. Wei’s body. Can Brother Wei still have enough to eat?” Qian Dao wants to trick my man again, are you itchy?"
The crowd burst into laughter.
"Lieutenant General Xiao, have you really changed the rules? In future wars, everything you get is yours?" said the strong woman.
"Yes, everything you grab is yours, but you won't be given military pay in the future!" Xiao Dongwei said.
The strong woman glanced at him with disdain: "Only those few military pays are not enough for the whole family to drink the northwest wind! This is a good change of the rules!"
Looking at the strong woman carrying When the stick came down from the city, Xia Zhi, who had been watching the excitement, asked Xiao Dongwei with some confusion: "General Xiao, why is that Wei De so thin after eating too much?"
Looking at the man in red. On the day of the summer solstice, Xiao Dongwei looked innocent and curious, and Xiao Dongwei suddenly felt that his blind eye sockets were itchy under the black eye mask. He rubbed it vigorously and said with a smile: "Actually, I don't know much about this matter. You can ask later. General Gu, maybe he knows!”
Xia Zhi nodded: "Elder brother is indeed well-informed. Let's go back and ask. Oops, I can already see the enemy's flag. I'm going out to form a formation!"
"Be careful!" Xiao Dongwei warned. Xia Zhi grinned, picked up the sword that was taller than her, jumped onto the city wall, and floated down from the city like a fiery red flower.
With the beating of war drums, the heavy infantry poured out from the city gate in groups and began to form formations.
On the city wall, archers and crossbowmen began to take up their positions.
Countless flags jumped out from the horizon, followed by countless small black dots rushing forward, and behind these small scattered black dots, a black line slowly advanced.
Sullivan is here.
Because they knew that Xiao Changche's three thousand cavalry were not in Chang'an, the Yuanren cavalry was extremely arrogant, roaring in and coming unscrupulously.
Under the city, a thousand soldiers were divided into three small square formations, three hundred on the left and four hundred in the middle. They were covered with heavy armor and had spears like a forest. In the middle of the team, flying flying weapons were flying. Under the tiger flag, Xia Zhi, dressed in red, stands with a knife.
In a group of black armors, such a gorgeous red flower should be as conspicuous as possible.
Ding Ergou was wearing iron armor, with a steel knife on his waist, and a spear in his hand. He glanced back at Xia Zhi through the gap in his face armor, and felt a little more at ease.
This time when they came to fight in Yuan'an, the Flying Tiger Army recruited all veterans. The main force was Ding Ergou and Huang Dafu, the backbone of the solid period. Although they were small in number, their combat effectiveness was , but it is extremely terrifying.
Ding Ergou is now at the third level of Solid State, and if he goes one step further, he will enter Qi Control.
So even though the body is covered with dozens of kilograms of iron armor, it really doesn't feel like a burden to Ding Ergou.
If there is a large-scale assembly, Ding Ergou's cultivation level can command a hundred people, but now, he can only command ten people.
The leader of their team of 300 people is Lu You, who holds two large Xuanhua axes. Lu You, a fat man of the sixth level of Qi Control, really couldn't find an iron armor that matched his figure, so he just A piece of iron armor was hung on the chest and back, tied to the body with leather ropes.
The Yuanren cavalry roared and galloped around Yuan'an City. Many of the bold ones even approached the infantry phalanx again and again. The horses galloped over and fired a missile at the phalanx from a distance of dozens of steps. The feathered arrows he held were testing the quality of the team in front of him.
Generally speaking, it is difficult for recruits to withstand such a temptation. Arrows fall from the sky. Although they do not pose much of a threat to the heavy infantry, the psychological pressure is still considerable. .
After several waves of testing, the opponents were not moved at all. Apart from seeing them lower their heads, they did not even make any other unnecessary movements. This is a well-trained team. After confirming this, the Yuanren cavalry moved away, and the Yuanren infantry from further away pressed up.
Using cavalry to attack such a heavily guarded heavy infantry group is something only a fool would do.
Magic can only be defeated with magic. The infantry of both sides will enter a direct contest. As long as one's own infantry can break up the opponent's heavy infantry formation, then it will be the cavalry's turn to show off their skills.
Lu You looked back at the flag in the hands of the fiery red general behind him, turned his head, and shouted sternly: "The Chinese army has an order, our troops are the first to attack, advance, advance, advance!"
With three sharp shouts, Lu You strode forward.
“Kill!” Ding Ergou and others leveled their spears and followed Lu You in stride.
Three square formations, the 300 people commanded by Lu You came forward. The second 300 people were commanded by Hu Kan, who was a butcher. Hu Kan, a fifth-level Qi controler, was the same as Lu You. It was a heavy weapon, a large guillotine.
The 400-strong Chinese army under Xia Zhi's personal command were at the end.
The three square formations are not the ordinary eight-character wild goose feather formation or pin-character formation, but a rare trapezoidal layout.
The opponent's infantry rolled in like a tide. At the front were rows of large shield soldiers, and behind the large shield soldiers were spearmen.
The Beiyuan cavalry is famous all over the world, but in fact, their infantry is not bad at all. When they launched the charge, they still maintained their formation, even if the formation was crooked, it was really rare.
Lu You looked at the forest of spears opposite, took a deep breath, and then his huge body jumped up, leaping more than ten feet away, and then smashed straight into the crowd of enemies ahead. .
Countless spears were immediately raised.
Lu You's body spun, and the two big axes spun like windmills with the rotation of his body, and his whole body shrank into a big meat ball.
Then he hit it hard.
Ding Ergou stood in the first row.
He felt his hand sink, and a huge resistance came over him. At the same time, he also felt something hit his breastplate heavily, which was very painful.
He roared, raised his hands forward, and with a bang, the big shield on the opposite side was shattered by him, and the spear pierced the chest of the shield soldier. The shield soldier looked down at the spear in disbelief, and screamed. Zhong held the spearhead with both hands, and Ding Ergou raised it with all his strength while roaring wildly. The body of the Beiyuan soldier was picked up by him, and then he threw it out heavily.
The spear that hit him hard on the chest broke. Ding Ergou lowered his head and glanced at the breastplate. There was a hollow inward, and a small eye was opened in the middle.
I don’t know if the bones are broken!
This thought flashed in Ding Ergou's mind, and then was thrown away. He threw away the spear in his hand and pulled out the steel knife from his waist.
After a round of stabbing each other with spears, the two sides collided with each other.
Yuan Jun never thought that these opposing soldiers lining up to charge were actually solid third-level martial arts masters.
(End of this chapter)