Chapter 21 The turtle in the urn?
After a wave of ghosts and wolves howls, the Qi army's formation turned into a sea of fire, and wailing sounds continued one after another. Seeing this, General Xue, who was watching the battle in the distance, spat and ordered the gold to be heard.
When the desperate screamed and ran back, the kind-hearted Qi Bing poured the water from the water bag on them. Unexpectedly, the fire was not only not extinguished, but also showed signs of greater prosperity. At this time, a veteran suddenly realized: "It's vegetable oil, the water cannot be extinguished, roll on the ground."
Those Qi soldiers who had been burned to the point of being insane could not hear it. The veteran who spoke turned his hand and swept it hard, and immediately swept the two. After these two fell to the ground, they churned unconsciously on the ground, and the rest of the Qi soldiers who were burned were also knocked to the ground by their fellow comrades...
The fire on these people was finally extinguished. Qi Bing in front of the formation saw that these people were charred, with large pieces of red meat exposed in some places, emitting a faint fragrance. Looking at the face again, it was beyond recognition and was burned into a wooden stake. Even though these soldiers had been tens of battles and were tough in their minds, they couldn't help but feel frightened when they saw it, and they vomited and did not dare to look again.
The morale was destroyed as soon as he came up. General Xue was extremely annoyed. He said to his personal soldiers, "Kill those wastes and reorganize the attack."
The personal soldiers were slightly stunned, ran to the front line to convey the general's order to the vanguard captain.
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More than a dozen crossbow arrows shot out from the formation and were inserted into the poor people on the ground who were weak and wriggling.
The Qi army was indifferent.
After a long time, two thousand infantrymen held up a three-foot-long shield and reappeared in front of the formation.
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Although the turbulent oil bottle is good, the peasant army lacks everything except people. This time, if the officers had not performed well in front of the hall and were able to make a fortune and be punished, they would not have used it.
The manual distributed by Qin Lei to them clearly states that it is advisable to break dense enemies, and it is not advisable to fight against slow-moving enemies.
Although they are still a destructible enemy at this time, the officers have to restrain their subordinates who are excited, for fear of losing their family.
Some officers shouted and some peasant soldiers rushed to the front with spears in hand.
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After asking Shi Wei, Qin Lei took him and several captains to the lookout building. The peasant army running back and forth all the way respectfully asked them to bow their heads to salute. Qin Lei looked at Shi Wei strangely, and Shi Wei shook his head and said he didn't know.
The peasant army's lookout building is dozens of feet behind the front. I have to say that there is a specialty in skills. Although there is no structure in fighting, building a tower is no problem. I saw that the tower is nearly ten feet high and is made of logs several meters long. The logs are cleverly matched, supporting each other with uniform force, and reinforced with wooden wedge ropes. The bottom wooden piles are buried deep underground, which are extremely solid, giving strong support to the tower.
Qin Lei climbed up the stairs and soon arrived at the observation deck. He saw the vast Zhuluyuan all his eyes wide. He saw tens of thousands of peasant soldiers in front of the camp holding spears, fiercely poking the Qi infantrymen who were throwing sandbags into the trench. Thousands of Qi's large shield soldiers tried their best to lift the shields high, trying to build a barrier for their comrades throwing sandbags. The two sides fought fiercely through the ditch-mass that were 1 meter wide.
Qin Lei despised the command ability of the Qi generals. At this time, he placed a bow battalion on the front line and immediately could not hold up the peasant army that lacked long-range strike ability. He didn't know that archers in this era are hard-won. A skilled archer requires at least one year of rigorous training. This is one of the most common types of troops in the training cycle in the era of cold weapons with huge military power consumption. Another long-range type - crossbow soldiers, is easy to train, but crossbows are not easy to make and are expensive. These two types of troops can usually only meet the needs of major border guards and garrison troops in the capital. These state troops can be divided into scales and claws, and they are all provided like treasures. How can they be sent to the front line to take risks? General Xue only has five hundred bow battalions, and there are fifty personal guard crossbowmen who shot and killed the wounded soldiers in front of the formation just now.
Pulling back the thoughts that were slightly off-line, Qin Lei looked further away. At this time, the east was already white, and there was a golden light brewing at the intersection of heaven and earth, and there seemed to be a thread of smoke and dust...
Yum Army.
It’s really a matter of being exhausted, but I’m afraid of the heavens teasing him. Qin Lei laughed at himself. According to the original plan, his team would leave with the peasant army. When the peasant army entangled both the Qi army and the Yumeng army, he would calmly go west.
Now, because of his own unique thoughts, he dragged himself here, and he seemed to be in a turtle in a jar.
Qin Lei glanced at Ma Kui who was tied up on the side and signaled the guards to loosen his ties. Ma Kui rubbed his sore arms and begged to look at Qin Lei.
Qin Lei stretched out his index finger and said coldly to him: "Ten thousand, I can only take ten thousand."
Ma Kui was ecstatic at first, then a little disappointed. He asked with a hint: "Can you bring more?"
Qin Lei shook his head and said firmly: "The rest of the people must win time for the people who leave, otherwise none of them will leave. Don't say anything more, hurry up and prepare to go."
Ma Kui knelt down to Qin Lei again and kowtowed desperately, "Your Highness, think of a way, bring more brothers! They can treat you as a great savior."
Qin Lei was not a good temper. Seeing Ma Kui being so dragged, he felt angry. He kicked him on the shoulder and kicked him to the ground. He snorted coldly: "Woman's kindness! You must leave at least 20,000 people behind, get out!"
Ma Kui also knew that 15,000 was already a burden, but although he still couldn't bear it, he finally kowtowed: "Your Highness is kind. The sinner will definitely fight to death to cut off the rear for you."
Qin Lei shook his head and said, "You can't break the back, I can't call you those people."
Ma Kui wanted to say something, but seeing that Qin Lei looked bad, he had to hold it back, turn around and go downstairs.
Ma Kui's original plan was to ask His Highness to lead the peasant army to transfer. He simply believed that his army had an advantage in terms of numbers, so his strength disadvantage should not be that great. The reason for his defeat was that he was unable to command his men. It would be fine if his Highness's Chief of Guards Tie Commander. He knew that Tie Ying was one of the famous "Five Tigers" in the army five years ago, and was best at fighting tough battles.
Unexpectedly, Tie Ying was not by Qin Lei's side, his heart suddenly became cold and he lost his fighting spirit for a while. Unexpectedly, the little prince who was originally kind to others in the capital was such a powerful character: he brought a group of subordinates who were like wolves and tigers to control the situation while chatting and laughing.
Maybe this highness can do it too, and he has recovered a little hope. People are most afraid of no hope. Even if there is only one, he will hold on to this life-saving straw.
Ma Kui returned to his military tent, and the people returned to their past peace, reached out to stop the words of concern on their left and right. He whispered to the people around him: "Let everyone behind the tent withdraw, and call all the people who were in the meeting here last night. Come quickly, time doesn't wait for anyone."
The personal soldier asked tentatively: "Including Lord Shi?"
Chapter completed!