Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty Six: A Fiasco
Once the army was launched, its efficiency was naturally extremely high. Half a day and a thousand soldiers in Hou Fangyu cut down a large number of trees as thick as bowls and dragged them back to the camp. The iron grabbed the trees together and then wrapped them tightly with hemp ropes. The rafts were completed. Li De's cavalry was not idle either. Half of them patrol the surroundings, and the other half also cut down the trees, and then dragged the trees back with horses. Within a few miles of the Wuwei military camp, the trees were almost cut off.
When the day was bright, Liu Chenglin's troops had breakfast and were ready to launch their first attack. When they were about to launch their first attack, the sound of drums in Shijiawu in the distance was also rumbling, resounding throughout the world.
After a moment, the whistle riding back.
The news they brought back made Liu Chenglin extremely surprised, but at the same time they were extremely happy. The commanders of Shijiawu seemed to have water in their minds, and they actually went out of the dock to take the initiative to find the Wuwei Army to fight.
"Let's explore again!" Liu Chenglin said. What he was most worried about was that the enemy was huddled in the fort and did not come out. As long as the enemy was willing to go out to fight, for him, he was based on his own strengths and his weaknesses against the enemy. Of course, the enemy on the opposite side was not too weak.
At least, those two thousand Lu Long elites are definitely not weak.
Hou Fangyu's troops worked hard all night yesterday, and today they were guarding the camp as left-behind troops. Liu Chenglin led Yuan Gang, Liu Changfeng and his own central army troops to attack Shijiawu, while Li De's cavalry went on both sides.
The enemy of Shijiawu has indeed left the fort.
They formed a strange formation. Two thousand Lu Long Army directly crossed the stone bridge connecting the two sides and lined up against the stone bridge. On the two wings of the stone bridge on the other side, there were about a thousand Shijiawu Township soldiers guarding the river bank.
This formation has a shape that stands in shape, but because of the river in the middle, it seems inconsistent.
Seeing this formation, Liu Chenglin hesitated a little.
If something goes wrong, there will be a demon. If the enemy takes such a pose, is it just to put on a pair of turtle shells and be beaten?
The Lu Long Army, which was lined up by the stone bridge, formed the classic Chrono Formation with chariots, with clear layers, but such a formation can only be defended, not attacked. Not to mention the Shijiawu Township soldiers on the opposite bank, if the Wuwei Army did not cross the river to fight, they would just be decorations. The only ones that could provide support for the Chrono Formation here were those stone cannons, powerful crossbows, and the large catapults on the fort walls.
While Liu Chenglin was hesitating, a veteran general rode his horse out of the array in the opposite direction, standing in front of the formation, looking at Liu Chenglin in the distance and laughed: "Liu Chenglin, even he dares to be a famous general in the north. When I was straddling the Khitans, you were still picking up milk in your arms! Today, I give you a chance, just stand here and see if you, the so-called famous general in the north, can do anything to me? If I take a step back, even if I lose. If I don't dare to attack, go back to find your mother as soon as possible, don't be embarrassed here."
Listening to the other party's arrogant clamor, Liu Chenglin's face suddenly sank, and the entire Wuwei army even screamed and scolded.
"General!" Liu Changfeng strode, "These Lu Long people are so arrogant, today let them know what a strong army in the world is. Liu Changfeng, please ask for the main attack."
Liu Chenglin sneered: "He has stolen my life. Liu Changfeng and Yuan Gang."
"Here!" the two generals responded at the same time.
"According to the original plan, you two will lead the headquarters to cross the river from the upper and lower reaches to fight at the same time, and defeat the enemy soldiers on the other side." Liu Chenglin said.
"No!" The two of them bowed at the same time, then turned around and left.
Liu Chenglin mentioned his famous Red Cherry Spear, looking at the veteran Lu Long opposite him, "Deng Lun's old man, today I'll convince you."
The red cherry spear was raised high, and the war drums were beating at once. The horns sounded, and large shields stood up one by one and began to slowly move forward. The shield soldiers raised their swords, and behind them were spears like forests, slowly advancing forward.
The Li De cavalry on both wings, several of which shouted, rushed through the middle of the battlefield between the two armies. When they were only a few dozen steps away from the Lulong Army, they all set their bows and arrows on the Lulong Army in the chariot formation.
The riding bow is soft and it is difficult to cause much damage to these soldiers wearing armor. Li De's move is just to attract the attention of Lu Longjun in the Yue Formation. Of course, it is also to attract the opponent's long-range weapons to reduce the pressure on the main force of the Liu Chenglin infantry who is moving forward.
Sure enough, when the cavalry swept past the Queyue Formation at high speed, the crossbow arrows and feather arrows in the formation immediately began to fight back. The sound of linoleum crossbow arrows and the buzzing feather arrows resounded throughout the audience.
The war horses flew over at high speed, and several cavalry fell off the horse. There were also waves of riots in the opponent's formation, and both sides were injured. The two teams of cavalry crossed and passed by, and the other two teams rushed over at high speed from left to left.
Under the harassment of the cavalry, Liu Chenglin's troops also began to speed up their pace. When Li De's cavalry crossed for the third time and paid the price of dozens of cavalry falling in front of the two armies, Liu Chenglin's troops had already rushed forward.
When the big shield stood on the ground, the crossbow chariot with cold light showed signs from behind the shield. Under the command of the officer's hoarseness, dozens of crossbow arrows on the crossbow chariots rushed towards the shield formation in front, and more feather arrows flew into the sky.
A roar of the Chronogram was raised, and large shields were raised. The crossbow arrows on the crossbow chariot hit the shields heavily, and the powerful force hit the shields crooked and shattered. Although the shield formation took the attack, it also paid a considerable price. When the crossbow chariot began to fire, the spearmen had already jumped out of the gap of the shields and rushed to the Chronogram, which was only more than a hundred steps away from them.
While the two main forces of the central army were engaged in battle, on the left and right wings, one thousand men and one thousand men were each commanded by Liu Changfeng and Yuan Gang, carrying rafts, shouting and rushing towards the river bank, rushing down the river bank, throwing the rafts into the river, and soldiers climbed onto the rafts, waved the paddles, and rowed towards the opposite bank.
On the opposite river bank, drums and thunder sounds were heard, and feather arrows fell to the river like rain. Above the fort, accompanied by waves of rumbling sounds, countless stone bombs fell from the sky and hit the rafts in the river.
A raft was hit by a stone bullet and suddenly scattered into scattered logs. The soldiers on the raft naturally turned over and fell into the water. Once the soldiers wearing armor and stomach fell into the water, they basically sank to the bottom of the water. It is not realistic to want to swim in the water wearing dozens of kilograms of armor, but some people held the logs one by one, and swam along the water to the other side.
There seemed to be not many trenchers on the dock, and the interval between each launch was quite long. The width of the river surface was only more than ten feet long, which was really difficult to be an obstacle for the crossers. Just by being bombarded by the trenchers, the first raft leaned on the opposite bank. The soldiers on the raft carried shields in one hand and horizontal swords in the other, and immediately launched an attack on the village soldiers on the river bank.
The village soldiers in Shijiawu are indeed very brave than ordinary village soldiers. At least when facing the Wuwei armored soldiers, they did not take a step back, but their courage could not make up for their strength. The first wave of soldiers who came ashore did almost all fall on the river bank, but these fallen people also opened a gap on the river bank.
The subsequent soldiers climbed up the river embankment continuously. When about 500 soldiers came ashore on the river embankment on the other side, the soldiers could no longer resist and were killed by the soldiers who gathered into the formation and retreated step by step.
This is true for both upstream and downstream attack lineups.
After Liu Chenglin watched the two attacks on the left and right, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Until now, he no longer thought the enemy had any conspiracy. It seemed that this was just the arrogance of Feng Lun, the veteran Lu Long on the opposite side.
He rushed forward with the war horses in the area. He wanted to cut off the head of this old man Feng Lun and make him pay the price he should have for his arrogance.
Li De's cavalry became a plunderer at this time. He rode the river bank and looked at the village soldiers who were killed and retreated step by step, Li De felt a little uneasy in his heart.
If this continues, it will not take long before Liu Changfeng and Yuan Gang can block the stone bridge from left to right, isolate Feng Lun's troops from the other side, and attack each other. He does not believe that Feng Lun can escape from heaven, but even in such a situation, Feng Lun, who is fighting fiercely with Liu Chenglin's troops, seems to have not seen it.
Li De couldn't help but look at the central army.
Liu Chenglin rushed to the Queyue Formation, which was directly opposite. Feather arrows flew like locusts, and he just waved his gun and shot the feather arrows that shot at the war horses. He was too lazy to pay attention to those flying towards him. Those feather arrows were shot on him jingling, and they could not cause any damage to him wearing heavy armor.
The Pegasus stepped forward, spear poked out and inserted it into the bottom of a chariot. With a loud bang, the entire chariot was picked up by him, flew high, and smashed into the Queyue Formation with a loud bang.
Lu Long's army screamed in surprise, but Liu's army cheered, and even the cavalry behind Li De applauded loudly. Li De was so heartbroken that Liu Chenglin was beyond his reach.
With the loud shouts, Liu Chenglin picked up several chariots in a row, and actually opened a gap in the Queyue Formation with his own strength. Liu's troops rushed in along the gap.
Liu Chenglin was not in a hurry to break inward, but focused on destroying these chariots. When his horse was finally cut down by the counterattacking Lu Long's army, he jumped off the chariot, but he was even more powerful as a mad tiger. The red cherry gun was swung like a windmill. Not to mention the enemy, even his own people were far away from him. Not to mention the enemy, he could see a chariot being raised high by him and smashed towards another chariot.
Li De shook his head repeatedly when he saw it, but in the moon formation, Lu Long's veteran Feng Lun was also frightened.
Under Liu Chenglin's crazy attack, the Lu Long Army finally stopped becoming a formation. It was attacked by the Liu army in many places, and both sides were sneered and killed each other.
Li De's uneasiness became stronger and stronger, because Feng Lun had no intention of retreating at all.
This is not normal.
Li De once fought with cavalry and guerrilla warfare in Texas for nearly a year. He faced the encirclement and suppression of the Henghai Army many times, and had an instinctive sense of danger.
But at this moment, on the three battlefields, the Wuwei army had an absolute advantage, and he really couldn't find out where the danger came from.
Just as his eyelids were pounding, there was a shocking explosion suddenly broke out on the other side, where Liu Changfeng's troops and Yuan Gang's troops fought.
At this moment, the sky seemed to suddenly turn dark. The war horse under Li De neighed and turned around and ran away. The cavalry behind him also exclaimed repeatedly. The war horse under his crotch was shocked by the thunderous sound and ran everywhere.
Li De could not control his war horse, so he could only let the war horse lead him to run wildly. On the horse, he turned his head hard and watched the large balls of flames flying in the sky. The flames fell into the river, but they did not extinguish and were still burning.
"What is this, what is this!" Li De roared immediately, strangling the reins hard, trying to control his war horse.
There were no enemies on the left and right side of Liu Chenglin. At this moment, he was holding a spear, but his whole body was in a dull state. In fact, it was not just him, but his subordinates, even his enemies, including Feng Lun, who were also turning their heads to look at the other side.
Chapter completed!