Chapter 34: In a desperate situation
Musha walked up to me, but turned around again, facing the soldiers, and shouted: "In this battle, the coach is with everyone!"
Her graceful back covered my face, and suddenly it looked so tall. In the shadow, I could only hear the roaring shouts of soldiers around me, "People handsome, pamper handsome!"
Pampered handsome, when did the soldiers start to use this word to call me? Amid the shouts, I clearly heard trust, expectation and infinite loyalty.
Musa turned around, held my hand tightly, and whispered: "People handsome, give orders, don't let the soldiers down!"
Although Musa's voice was light, it was like a pot of initiation. Yes, as the commander of the first army, I was carrying the safety of thousands of soldiers. At this moment of the enemy, I was still hesitating.
Since there is no way out, I have to fight again. From Qu'a to Yuzhang to Jingnan, I have been through this all the time. Now it is just another life-and-death choice!
As a good man, I must have the courage to face the crisis and my heart will be more and more stable.
I reached out and gently smoothed out the dead scout's eyes that were wide open and unwilling to close. Then I stood up and shouted: "Brother, your mission has been completed. Leave the rest to us!"
At this moment, my words were so firm, without a trace of hesitation. The soldiers looked at me, and the expression on their faces gradually calmed down. A trace of blindness and ignorance appeared in their eyes. They were the kind of blind obedience to the commander's ability.
The attack of a strong enemy can arouse my endless fighting spirit. I walked up to the horse and captured the enemy in my hand. Since I killed and poked the Youxian County, I have not been addicted to it for a long time. Today, I will drink all the enemy's blood again in my hand!
Glory is with me!
Dreams are in my hands!
Wait for me to start.
I looked fearless and shouted: "All the whole army gathers, listen to my order!"
The horses are flat, and the sun is rising, and the swords and guns are shining with cold light under the sunlight, reflecting every face that longs for battle. This is the endless flow of life and blood.
"Musha, Li Tong obeys the order. You and the Old General Huang will lead the soldiers of our troops westward and retreat along Wuling Road to Wuling. This section of the road is high and steep, and it is difficult for the enemy cavalry to pursue him. After joining forces with Gan Ning, lead the troops to retreat to You County!" I said.
"Then why don't you walk with us?" Musa asked urgently.
"Zhou Bing, immediately gather your personal guards and retreat to Zhanghu Camp to set up defenses. We are there waiting for Wenpeng's cavalry!" Ignoring Musha's questioning, I turned to Zhou Bing and said loudly.
If Wenpin's cavalry were not held here, Musa and the others would soon be caught up by the enemy. On the flat field, there was only one situation where infantry fought against the cavalry, and the entire army was wiped out.
Faced with danger, since it is impossible to escape without any loss, I can only hope to gain the greatest benefit at the smallest price. Zhang Hu's camp was built on a low hill on the shore of Dongting Lake, with its back against the lake. Although it is a Jedi who fights back and forth, it can at least avoid the dilemma of being attacked from both sides.
Musa burst into tears, threw herself into my arms and shouted, "No, I won't leave, let me stay and fight with you!"
At this moment, Musa was no longer a heroic female general, but a delicate and passionate woman.
"Yes, Pamper, we still have 6,000 athletes, and the enemies are at best only 5,000. We will win this battle. Let's fight under your command!" Li Tong said loudly.
I gently caressed Musha's hair like a strand of hair and said, "Musha, from the day I met you, I knew you were a strange woman who knew the general. Be obedient and lead your tribe members away!"
Musa wrapped her hands tightly around my waist and cried, "I won't!"
I pushed Musha away, turned over the horse, and shouted: "Li Tong, go and notify General Huang quickly, remember that this is a death order, and you must not be beaten, and those who violate it will be killed!"
After saying that, I urged the horse to fight and rushed down the mountain and headed towards Zhanghu's camp.
The wind whistled in my ears, like the arrow of the wind, and my heart was like this sharp weapon that flew without a trace, with a momentum of never looking back without hesitation.
In fact, I had thought about Li Tong's advice, but unfortunately I would not give it to me. Since Wenpin sent troops to aid, he must have seen the importance of the Jizhoukou. These five thousand cavalry will not be the whole of reinforcements. If I was not wrong, more reinforcements would come behind the cavalry.
With the exhausted soldiers of our army, even with the courage of the soldiers, how can I respond to the enemy's cavalry, facing the continuous reinforcement of Wenpin's army? It is not necessarily unfaithful to be a husband. At this moment of life and death, as the commander of the army, all I can do now is to do my best to cover the main force's safe retreat.
And all previous dreams of success and failure, success and fame, profit and fortune will be the future. I am in the battlefield and there is no time to think about it more.
After a night of fighting, Zhang Hu's camp was in a mess. The battlefield where there was no time to clean was covered with corpses, blocking the road. I frowned. Zhang Hu deserved it. There were no smallest antlers around the fence of the camp, and the defense in the camp was even more messy. The central army's tent was so far away from the camp gate. It was located nearest to the lake. Could it be that he wanted to escape at any time?
His omission is okay, but it will make me suffer.
There was no time to dig the deer antlers in the pit, so I had to ask Zhou Feng to move the dead bodies, grain bags, and supplies to the main entrance of the camp to block the advance of the enemy cavalry. Fortunately, there were still a large number of bows, crossbows and arrows in Zhang Hu's camp, which was the sharpest weapon for infantry to kill and injure cavalry.
"Sthorn horses, hurry!" Zhou Feng shouted loudly. The veterans who followed me through several fierce battles in Guze, Fanyang, and Youxian quickly showed that they were more efficient than the new soldiers. They quickly cut off the branches, cut them into sting horses and then lay down the tree on the ground, and put down the horse ropes between the trees. All this was completed in an instant. When Wenpin's cavalry began to see their eyes, they had already entered a death trap about a few meters wide in front of them.
"Rise the flag!" I said in a deep voice.
"Pampered coach, the enemy is fierce, is it..." Zhou Feng whispered.
"Hurry up, no delay in raising the main flag of our army!" I ordered sternly.
On a flat terrain, using a weakly solid spear to deal with Wenpin's cavalry is not a good strategy. Once the enemy generals will react after seeing the battle flag, I also expected that when facing a desperate situation of life and death, I knew clearly what I should do and what I should not do.
Under the north wind blowing over the river, the embroidered battle flags danced like a flying dragon. I calmly commanded the soldiers to set up obstacles, set up defenses, aim, and look calm.
Seeing that I was so calm, my heart gradually calmed down and they all held up their weapons and prepared to fight the enemy.
Raising the flag will attract the enemy to rush forward. Facing enemy soldiers who are several times more powerful, our pressure is conceivable. However, now, Musha and the others have not yet gone too far. If the enemy soldiers discover the movement of our main force moving westward, the tragedy of the entire army being wiped out may occur. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, I decided to take a risk to drag the enemy here.
Sure enough, the enemy cavalry did not slow down. After slightly rectifying the formation, they waved their swords and made a harsh scream. The light cavalry launched an attack on an impact line, a bright and dazzling orange color, which was the unified color of Liu Biao's military uniforms. The orange and yellow continued to spread in their vision and soon rushed to the front of the formation.
The first spear horse was set up to prevent the enemy at all. Wenpin's light cavalry was like performing, after crossing a beautiful arc, and the well-trained techniques of the regular army were undoubtedly revealed.
However, before they could show a smug expression, the crossbowmen who were ambushing behind the bunker had already hit an arrow, drew bright lines, and penetrated into the body of the enemy who jumped high and crossed the horse's sting. The superb riding skills and beautiful postures all became sacrifices for death. The war horse that had lost its impact hit the big shield and made a dull sound. The injured knight on the horse's back was thrown out under the huge impact force. In an instant, there was a whine in his ears.
On the ground, the surviving enemy soldiers were still struggling to take a few steps forward, then plunged to the ground, and the bodies soon became paving for the cavalry behind them, trampling into the battlefield covered with branches and grass.
Despite the heavy casualties, relying on the large number of people and the enemy's offensive was like a tide, and it was fiercer and fiercer. "Kill!" The first cavalry who broke through the obstacle waved the sword in his hand, and looked down like a sickle of the god of death. The sharp edge of the people approached, and the few people who were close to dodge and blocked. After splashing out countless blood flowers, they all fell to the ground and turned into scattered blood fragments.
To capture the enemy, I went up and jumped up from the horse near the enemy. The enemy flew past the throat of an enemy who was twisted by the killing. I felt the slight vibration in my hand, landed, and then rolled, rushed into the melee in front of me, and again stabbed the sharp enemy into the stomach of an enemy soldier.
"Banditman, gather shooting!" I shouted.
With my voice, dense rain of arrows covered the battlefield at the gap, and the enemy soldiers who were trying to enter immediately became hedgehogs with arrows.
After making a scream like a pig slaughter, he turned his horse's head and fled.
"Quick, block the gap!" My voice became a little hoarse because of the fight.
Although it defeated the enemy's first round of offensive, my intuition told me that the battle had just begun...
After a while, the enemy cavalry returned, and there were more numbers than before. You could vaguely see the flag of the enemy general who was in charge of the rear-level battle flag - the enemy battle flag with the character "Han".
"Woo..." Perhaps the arrival of the chief general aroused the fighting spirit of the enemy soldiers, or perhaps the swords and guns of the supervising war played a role in coercion. After shouting, the enemy cavalry rushed up like crazy, all over the mountains and the shouts of killing were even more harsh.
The melee lasted for three hours, and the grass was covered with corpses. The smell of blood covered the original freshness, and the sound of heavy breathing and the crisp sound of swords intersecting filled my ears.
Nearly afternoon, after repeated entrenchments and consumption, our soldiers who were not as physically as the enemy after the repeated battles gradually showed fatigue. After all, their high fighting spirit and beliefs could only be temporarily and could not last long. The defense line built in a hurry seemed so simple after experiencing blood rain. Our army's defensive formation finally broke through under the enemy's full attack, and there were shouts of enemy cavalry everywhere. Under the overwhelming superior force, the tactical methods I used before were really pale and powerless.
I rode my horse back and forth, calling my soldiers to fight to the death, trying to save the holes that were about to be broken through with my own efforts. However, my personal strength is limited after all.
Fortunately, under my inspiration, the soldiers' spirits have not yet collapsed, and they have never given up until the last moment of fighting.
"Hold close and don't disperse, cut off the enemy's feet!" I ordered loudly.
Zhou Feng was covered in blood. Not far away from me, in front of him, the war horses and human corpses could no longer be distinguished. It was Zhou Feng who was protecting me from the left and right sides that I could be so calm on the battlefield. As the commander of the personal guards, Zhou Feng lived up to my ability to promote.
At this time, the soldiers who heard the order gathered together and formed small circular formations with shields. After blocking the swords roaring from all sides, they stretched out weapons from the gap in the shield and quickly cut over the horse's legs. Before the enemy's weapons could be called, the soldiers had already shrank back. A few rounds and backs, they heard the whine of war horses everywhere. Before the enemy soldiers who had fallen off the horse could wake up from the dizziness, the opponent's sharp weapon roared past, and blood splattered.
"That's Gao Chong, kill him!" Just like the fishy smell of the bloodthirsty giant crocodile, the enemy quickly valued my existence. Under the command of the generals, dozens of cavalry howled from all directions, and the raised weapons emitted a cold light.
After shaking his eyes for a moment, the two horses rushed to the front, and the enemy guns flashed and almost stabbed in front of me. My horses dodged and then jumped up, swung in the air, and swung out like a shocking foe, leaving fatal scars on the backs of the two enemy soldiers. The body shook on the horse's back for a long time before landing. After a wailing cry, the ownerless war horse disappeared into the slanting thorn.
However, before I could recover, three more enemy soldiers who were dismounting and hiking were approaching.
The war horse was wailing and sang to the ground. I rolled around and avoided two sharp blades. After careful look, it turned out that the hind hooves of the war horse had been cut off by the enemy soldiers. He would use his own way to treat the body. I could kill the horse's legs. How could I know that the enemy would not?
Everyone around me is facing enemies that are several times more than I have.
What awaits us is the endless killing poke!
Unless you die, you cannot be liberated.
At this moment, a quiet and peaceful feeling suddenly appeared in my heart. I raised my long scepter in my hand and shouted to the soldiers: "What are you afraid of death!"
No one responded to me, because everyone chose to fight, and in their hands, as long as there are swords and guns, they would be inserted into the enemy's chest...
"Be careful!" Suddenly, Zhou Feng shouted at me.
At the same time, he rushed over with a quick step and threw me to the ground.
Chapter completed!