Chapter 219

With Qiu Wenhui's order, the troops in the camp began to think about the movement of the East and West gates of the camp. When ye Zhiqiu saw this scene, standing on the watchtower of the mound, his eyes flashed with a smile of satisfaction.

"Order the scouting camp and the Fengqi camp to speed up, and after bypassing the East and West gates, they will rush southward to return to Chai Yuanjian and his battalions." Ye Zhiqiu gives an order to the flag officer around him. With Ye Zhiqiu's order, the Fengqi camp led by Meng Cang and the scouting camp led by Li Chang are slightly modified in the direction of riding. They go around the East and West gates of the Chinese army camp and run directly to the south.

Ye Zhiqiu saw the two battalions turning, hands together, and nodded excitedly. From the beginning, he never thought of attacking the camp with cavalry. Although both the Fengqi camp and the scouting camp are elite, they are light cavalry after all. They don't have the impact of heavy riding like thunder. To let the cavalry attack the camp and attack the city with cavalry is just like laughing with the lives of soldiers. Ye Zhiqiu would never do such a thing.

From the beginning, ye Zhiqiu set his goal on Chai Yuanjian. The reason why he asked Princess Tianxiang to cross the river at this time was to attract Chai Yuanjian's attention. Chai Yuanjian's deployment of troops to support the river bank was also his expectation. When he led his troops to half way, he let the Fengqi camp and the scouting camp out again. In order to keep the camp intact, Chai Yuanjian would certainly come back, Because once the camp is not protected, it will be meaningless to stick to the riverbank, because the loss of camp means the loss of supplies. Even if Chen Guangliang's talent is outstanding, he can't stick to the riverbank with a taxi.

Ye Zhiqiu knows this, and Chai Yuanjian knows it. Therefore, between Shuiying and Zhongjun Dazhai, Chai Yuanjian will definitely choose Zhongjun Dazhai. However, shortly after leaving the camp, there was a surprise attack of Daqian cavalry. Whether it was running back and forth, or the two battalions of Fengqi and Scouts under the banner of Changqing army, the morale of Tianxing army would be greatly damaged. At this time, it was the time for Fengqi and scouts to make contributions. For field operations, ye Zhiqiu has full confidence even if the two battalions of Fengqi and scouts are not dominant in number.

These two battalions are among the elite of the twelve main armies of Daqian. How can Chai Yuanjian's army, with 70% of the recruits, be their opponents.

And for the 30000 garrison in Dazhai on the North Bank of Guangji, Chai Yuanjian is their backbone. Once Chai Yuanjian is defeated, it will be a devastating blow to both the garrison on the river bank and the garrison in the camp. At that time, there are only two choices waiting for them: to die in battle and to surrender. This is Ye Zhiqiu's plan.

"Stay where you are, spearmen in front, sword and shield behind, ready to meet the enemy." Chai Yuanjian, who was in a hurry to come back to the camp, looked slightly at the five thousand cavalry soldiers who had been killed by him from the northeast and northwest. Years of experience made him realize that the two cavalry soldiers were not aimed at the camp from the beginning, but at him and his army. He cried out.

With Chai Yuanjian's order, the battalions on the March stopped one after another, and began to set up defenses in place under the organization of officers at all levels. The only cavalry battalion in the 10th battalion of Shuizhai, under the command of Qiu Wenhui, was left in the Chinese Army stronghold. Two battalions were sent to Linhe muqiang, and now Chai Yuanjian is leading five battalions of light infantry with swords, spears, swords and shields, It's obviously fatal to let these people fight against the fierce Dagan cavalry. The best way is to stay in place and delay the speed of each other's cavalry until Qiu Wenhui in the stronghold leads the cavalry to help.

"Cavalry, let's rush through." Because of the terrain, the speed of the screw horned horse is faster than that of the gale beast. Looking at the formation organized by the other side in the confusion, Li Chang immediately realized the fighter plane, looked behind him and yelled. The reason why Li Chang did this was that among all the Qingqi, the screw horned horse had the strongest impact, and the sharp angle on the head of the screw horned horse was the best weapon to break the array.

"The whole battalion raised its bow and launched three shots to open the way for the scouts." Meng Cang also heard Li Chang's cry. After many years of acquaintance, he immediately realized that Li Chang was going to use the speed of cavalry and the impact of the screw horned horse to forcibly attack the irregular army array on the opposite side. He quickly put away the axe, took off the strong bow of cavalry from behind and gave orders loudly.

"Hum ~ hum ~ hum ~"

Meng Cang's order had not reached the time of three breath. The sound of bow string shaking sounded from the galloping wind beast. At this time, Chai Yuanjian's five battalions of 15000 people were all packed together. The soldiers of Fengqi didn't have to aim at them at all. They just had to estimate the speed of the beast and the distance between the two armies and shoot arrows into the sky.

Two thousand and nine hundred people shot three rounds of arrows into the sky with extremely fast speed. After flying in the air for a period of time, nearly nine thousand feather arrows plunged into the sky star array like rain.

"Riding and shooting? Can you still ride and shoot at the speed of the gale Chai Yuanjian's face turned pale when he saw this scene. It's not that he's never seen an elite cavalry before, but the wind beast is almost the fastest to mount. This kind of galloping speed can still have such accuracy, which shows that this cavalry is absolutely the first-class elite of Daqian.

There was the sound of feather arrows penetrating the armor defense and inserting into the body. The sound of wailing reverberated in the battlefield. Not only did the newly organized military array show a gap in an instant, but also the morale of the star soldiers who were not hit was greatly reduced, and they looked flustered.

"I didn't expect that ye Zhiqiu used such a method. He gave up the difficulty of the stronghold, sought the benefit of the field battle, avoided the real situation and attacked the snake seven inches. He could command the army at such an age. He is worthy of being called a famous commander. It's really awesome for the younger generation." With Xiao Juntian's eyesight, he could clearly see the fighting behind the wooden wall on the river bank. When he saw the two battalions turning south, he already understood Ye Zhiqiu's plan and said with a sigh.

After handing over the command to Nie Pingjing, Yu Tianxiang, Xiao Juntian and Lin Mingxuan went to the top of the battleship and watched the whole battlefield. When they saw the Fengqi camp and the scouting camp bypassing the Dazhai and attacking Chai Yuanjian's middle army, Yu Tianxiang couldn't help smiling. Now it's up to Chen Guangliang, who is stationed on the river bank, to choose whether to continue to stick to it or give up the river bank defense line to help the Chinese army. If he continues to stick to it, he can only watch Chai Yuanjian's five battalions being defeated by cavalry. But if he chooses to help back, her Fengxiang army's left battalions can land on the north bank bloodlessly.

"Ye Zhiqiu really deserves to be a genius in the poor family. With only 5400 cavalry, the situation of the whole battlefield was tilted, and Qiu Xu's defense line, which had been arranged for more than two months, was on the verge of collapse. As long as Chai Yuanjian's army was cut through, the battle of Guangji river would fall into my hands." Lin Mingxuan nodded approvingly. Although he never had the experience of leading the army, he came from a family like the Lin family and had a basic vision.

"Tianxing can't be my opponent. If it wasn't for Lu Shuai's disappearance, Tianxing would have disappeared 20 years ago." Yu Tianxiang's eyes looked at the scouting camp which was like a sharp arrow into the Star Army, and said slowly.

"Hold the gun and sprint. Don't slow down. Rush through." Li Chang's silver spear in his hand is shining, constantly harvesting the lives of the Tianxing soldiers. But he suddenly feels that the speed of the whole team seems to be one point slower and shouts out.

"Kill." The soldiers of the scouting battalion immediately realized that their task now was to chisel through the army array in front of them, and quickly knocked on the Spurs to increase the speed of the thread wildebeest again.

Different from when Lu que led the army, the battles of Danshui and hexingyuan were both launched at night. At that time, both the swift riding and the Yulin scouting camp created chaos. It was the wolves of the white wolf king who really decided the direction of the battlefield. At that time, the scouting camp had only 300 people, and they were more responsible for protecting Lu Que and Gu Qingcheng.

But now the scouting battalion really gives full play to their fighting power. Among all Daqian's light cavalry, the scouting battalion is the most special one. The reason why they are special is not only that they come from the badminton Legion stationed in the imperial capital, but also that not every soldier is the elite after careful selection and strict training, but because they ride the screw horned horse, Only the screw horned horse has not less than the speed of the light cavalry, but also has not less than the impact of the ordinary heavy riding.

With the screw horned horse speeding up again, the star soldiers who were in front of them were either smashed, or the sharp angle on the screw horned horse's head penetrated their bodies and threw them aside. When the scouts rushed past, the Fengqi camp behind them ploughed the Tianxing army once again.

"No ~ no ~ no ~" Chai Yuanjian looked at the scene in despair. His eyes were full of despair. The two sides were not the same army at all. Seven of his troops were peasants who had laid down their hoes for less than two months, while the other side was the most elite cavalry of Daqian. You know, it's a thread horned horse. Even in the Daqian army, it's the army with the least number of people, but its combat power is not inferior to that of other ten thousand people.

"I'm Chai Yuanjian, the general of Shuizhai. He has the ability to come to me." Looking at the cavalry galloping by from a distance, Chai Yuanjian, who was guarded by him, cried out a little. However, his cry did not slow down the speed of the cavalry. Several cavalry heard his cry. For example, he looked at the flag here and beside him, and still galloped south along the road opened up by his colleagues.

Chai Yuanjian's face turned pale when he saw this. He could even see the mockery in the eyes of the cavalry. Obviously, the purpose of these two battalions of light cavalry is to pierce his troops and horses, so as to create chaos. As for the head of general Tianxing, it is not very important to these big cavalry.

At the same time, there were bursts of mechanical noises on the surface of the river, and giant crossbows and arrows with a length of more than 10 meters and a thickness of bowl mouth were released from the Tiangong crossbow placed in the bow of the battleship. The giant crossbow flying in the sky is like an iron drill spinning constantly, making a buzzing sound like a bee. When the crossbow hit the wooden wall on the river bank, a crackling sound sounded, and the wooden wall erected with logs broke one after another under the attack of the crossbow.

Tiangong crossbow is a large strong crossbow designed by Daqian Ordnance Department on the basis of bed crossbow. It can reach 1200 steps, but its weight is much lighter than the previous bed crossbow. This makes Yu Yuangao, the king of Heyang, who is good at sea warfare, realize the application of this new crossbow in water warfare and sea warfare at the first time, so the first batch of Tiangong crossbows are assembled on large warships at the first time. This is also the reason why Yu Yuangao always wants to fight with Tianxing Navy. With such a large heavy crossbow, it is a disaster for any wooden warship.

At this time, the Tiangong crossbow, which was first applied to the battlefield, finally showed its ferocity as a killing weapon. As more and more logs were damaged in the outer layer of the water stronghold, the whole water stronghold seemed to be crumbling, even giving people the feeling that as long as a large warship hit it, the wooden wall could be broken.

Chen Guangliang, who is standing on the wooden wall, looks at the crumbling wooden wall and his mouth twitches constantly. This is the gap between Tianxing and Daqian in national strength. Whenever the huge black arrow shoots on the wooden wall, it splashes a large amount of sawdust. The huge power even makes people unstable. Such war weapons can not be resisted by flesh and blood.

"General Chen, what shall we do?" Fan Zhen and pan Juchuan, who were standing beside Chen Guangliang and had just arrived here, said at the same time that they didn't know how many such crossbows were on Daqian's warship. Every time the sound of the crossbow hitting the wooden wall sounded, they could feel their heart pounded by a heavy hammer. They were the generals who led the troops, and those ordinary soldiers were two battles, There was no blood on his face.

"I don't know." Chen Guangliang shook his head. Even though he has been in the army for many years and has experienced many wars, he has never seen such power. The purpose of the river crossing fleet is to use these huge crossbows to attack their momentum, but he has no way to do it. When the other side shoots an arrow two miles away, the range of the catapult they made in advance can not reach such a long distance.

"General, Chai - Chai's army has been broken through." At this time, Chen Guangliang's deputy general ran over anxiously.

Chen Guangliang felt a twinkling of pain in his eyes. He had never fought such a tough battle in his life. Now there are three roads in front of him. The first is to stick to Chai Yuanjian's military orders. However, in the face of this seemingly endless arrow, he has no chance of winning. Just look at the bloodless soldiers around him, Under the attack of the battleship in the river, the morale of his army will collapse in a short time.

The second way is to rescue Chai Yuanjian, and then stick to the stronghold of the Chinese army, but then the fleet in the river will land. You should know that those warships are loaded with Fengxiang army, and they are the most elite left Army soldiers in Fengxiang army. Once these people land, they can't hold on for much time only depending on the stronghold of the Chinese army, because the other side doesn't even need to attack, As long as the village is surrounded for half a month, they will break up without food. If Fengxiang army attacked hard, they would not be able to defend for seven days. Just look at the tragic situation of Qingyang empire in those years, we can see how strong Fengxiang army was.

As for the third way, the whole army retreated to Heyan county and reorganized the defense line before the Fengxiang army landed. But in this way, Qiu Xu, who was at the entrance of Guangji River in the East, would be completely exposed to the front of Da Qian's troops. No matter how he was chosen, it seemed to be a dead end.

"General Chen, since there is no way to stop Fengxiang's Army crossing the river, there is no sense of existence for either the wooden wall near the river or the Chinese army camp. Now we should go and rescue general Chai, and then retreat north." Fan Zhen said suddenly.

"No, if we all leave, Fengxiang army will take this place for the first time. Fengxiang cloud is riding on the boat in the river. Even if we want to go, we can't go far." Chen Guangliang shook his head and said.

"I'm willing to lead the army to break up. Our camp is full of bows and crossbows, which can stop them for a period of time." Fan Zhen said again.

"General fan, once we're all gone, you'd better delay for two hours at most with 3000 people under your command?" Chen Guangliang looks at fan Zhen solemnly and says that he didn't say a word, but he and fan Zhen, even pan Juchuan, are very clear in their hearts that those who are left behind will surely die.

"When the country is in danger, there is always the blood of the most important officials. I have lived long enough." Fan zhenlang chuckled, then pushed Chen Guangliang and pan Juchuan down the wooden wall and said, "you go quickly. I'll leave it to you. If I die after this battle, please remember to prepare some good wine for me on the first and the fifteenth day of every month. My favorite wine is the blood TiZhen brew of Shahai Mutuo country. It's bright red, and it's like drinking blood. It's magnificent, ha ha, it's fast." With that, fan Zhen looked at the river again, and his three thousand crossbows all tied up their waists, and then took out their wooden bows from behind to face the advancing warships.

"General Chen ~" was suddenly pushed down from the wooden wall, pan Juchuan looked at Chen Guangliang expectantly and said. Now he doesn't care about the survival of the water stronghold or the north bank defense. He just wants to save his brother-in-law Chai Yuanjian from the Daqian cavalry. As for what will happen in the future, that's not what he has to consider.

Hearing this, Chen Guangliang took a deep look at Pan Juchuan. Then he straightened his armor and saluted fan Zhen and the three thousand archers on the wooden wall. Then he said to pan Juchuan, "let's go to save general Chai."

"The troops behind the wooden wall began to move. Chen Guangliang really chose to save Chai Yuanjian." Nie Pingjing, who took over the command of Yu Tianxiang, found the strange situation behind the wooden wall for the first time. He was very happy to see that except for thousands of bows and crossbows on the wooden wall, the rest of the soldiers began to move northward.

"Order the ships to speed up immediately. We need to go ashore as soon as possible to relieve the pressure of Scouting camp and Fengqi camp." Nie Pingjing saw that most of the troops behind the wooden wall were going north one after another, and there was a glimmer of intersection in his eyes. He knew very well that ye Zhiqiu, Meng Cang and Li Chang had only 5500 men under their command.

"Wu ~ Wu ~"

Along with Nie Pingjing's order, a dull bugle sounded on the flagship battleship.