Xu Huai stood in front of the battle with a sword, one foot on the head of a dead rebel leader. The armor was stained with too much blood of the enemy soldiers, flowing straight down and dripping on the stone pavement.
On the stone ground, the tiger's eyes were fixed on the slain enemy soldiers in front of him who were trembling with fear. He shouted to invite battle, his face was ferocious and terrifying.
"Who else?"
Xu Huai's roaring roar echoed in the Qingquan Valley Village, shaking people's hearts and lungs. On the one hand, it made the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain even more excited. On the other hand, it made the Han army in Lanzhou tremble with fear and dare not look directly into Xu Huai's fierce eyes.
, I was already timid.
Cao Shili saw that the veins on Cao Cheng's forehead were twitching violently, and his eyes were about to burst. The veins on the back of the hand holding the gun were also twitching. He might lose control and go into battle at any time. He stretched out his right hand like a tiger's claw and clamped down on Cao Cheng's body like an iron plier.
Hold your shoulders tightly.
However, Cao Shili's tiger eyes were also full of resentment, and his body could not help but tremble slightly, but he knew that he must not lose his sense of proportion at this moment.
He didn't expect that nearly 400 personal guards who had been following him for many years were filled in, and in such a narrow alley, they couldn't even sustain a stick of incense.
The time may be shorter.
The fight in the alleyway was extremely brutal from beginning to end. He restrained himself from going into battle, but his heart seemed to be held hard by an invisible hand, as if it was about to be caught and exploded, and he could not feel the passage of time.
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These are the four hundred elites who have followed him for many years.
When he led his elite bodyguards to break out from Datong, he, together with Ge Huaicong and others, were chased and intercepted by Wu Shang, a direct descendant of Xiao Linshi, and his elite troops. In the end, it was these more than 400 elite troops who successfully escorted him back to Shuozhou.
He thought that as long as these hundreds of elites were by his side, as long as these hundreds of elites were still loyal to the Cao family, even if the other soldiers and horses were scattered and defeated, the Cao family could make a comeback.
And right before his eyes, half of the 400 elite personal guards he had brought with him were chopped down by Tongbai soldiers like melons and vegetables. The remaining troops were forced to retreat from the alley, and they couldn't help but tremble as they were killed.
I have fought so many tough battles in my life, but I have never encountered such a fierce enemy!
Under Xu Huai's angry sword and Wang Ju's heavy spear, the big shield covered with iron was like paper.
Seeing Xu Huai, Wang Ju and the two men broke through more than 40 heavy shields in succession without exhaustion, who wouldn't be frightened and whose heart wouldn't tremble?
Such an invincible brave general would make any large army laugh like crazy if they get one of them. There are two such brave generals among the three to four hundred Tongbai Mountain soldiers. More importantly, Xu Huai has five or six people around him.
Their strength is higher than that of ordinary generals. These people surround Xu Huai and Wang Ju and form a sharp and unparalleled blade. How can they resist it in a hurry?
However, the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain could not stop there. The opponent seemed to have a small number of people, but from Xu Huai, Wang Ju pushed forward unswervingly, but with the momentum of a flood that destroyed everything, hundreds of people roared and struck with knives.
He held up his shield and stabbed the stone ground with the barrel of his gun, making a terrifying sound like a pack of tigers running around, trying to devour them all.
Yes, Cao Shili had gathered another five or six hundred soldiers around him, but more than half of the elite guards were lost, and the survivors were also killed to the point of trembling with fear, with fear in their eyes, and no fighting spirit at all.
Can it withstand a wave of attacks by three to four hundred Tongbai Mountain soldiers?
"Dad, if the shield chariot comes, we can stop these bastards!" Cao Cheng shouted.
Cao Shili looked to the north, feeling even more bitter in his heart.
Shield carriage, also known as side carriage shield carriage, is simply put on the front, side and fixed sides of a common carriage frame.
The shield should be tall, wide and thick. The simpler ones can be nailed directly to thick wooden boards. The more elaborate ones can be wrapped with cooked ox armor or iron armor. The armored shield cart can be made shorter and slimmer, making it easier to attack quickly. The front shield is also fixed.
With iron spikes on it, it is the famous iron pulley. It is not very difficult to build such a war weapon in the current era. The size is also relatively random and can be adjusted according to the actual situation.
The six side-carriage shield cars that were pushed in at this time were urgently built and deployed inside the Beizhai Gate.
In order to block the rain of arrows and throw spears to a greater extent, the shield on the front side of the shield cart is more than one foot high and more than eight feet wide. The entire vehicle weighs more than 600 kilograms.
If the enemy attacks, the gate of the village cannot be closed in time, and six shield carts push forward to block the attack, and two by two are stuck in front of the gate. Together with the horses, antlers and other obstacles, they can resist for a while and a half.
However, because of its heavy weight, it requires many people to push it, or it needs to be harnessed to an ox-horse to pull it.
This is also the reason why Cao Shili judged from the attack that the main attack direction of Tongbai Mountain soldiers was behind the earthen wall of the west wall, but it took him a full stick of incense to pull the shield cart over.
And these fools, while they were in a hurry, even put some heavy and heavy horses on the shield cart, which slowed down the speed even more.
Now the soldiers of Mount Tongbai have been fighting their way out of the narrow alley. On the side of the west gable of the ancestral hall is a vegetable garden of four to five acres.
Four or five acres of land may not sound big, but it is fifty or sixty steps wide in front, back, left, and right.
Thirty or forty sidecars might be able to form a formation and delay the attack of Tongbai Mountain Soldiers, but six eight-foot-wide sidecars, which are linked together and are less than five feet wide, can really block Tongbai Mountain Soldiers.
attack?
At this time, the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain were divided into two teams and formed two conical formations. They made it clear that they would launch penetration tactics from the north and south sides at the same time. The defense surface of six shield vehicles was already too narrow. Do they need to be split into two places?
And with the bravery of Xu Huai and Wang Ju, if a single shield chariot is not linked to other shield chariots, aren't they afraid that they will overturn it with an iron spear?
Cao Shili was able to overturn several shield carts weighing six to seven hundred kilograms with six or seven soldiers behind them. No matter how high he thought of himself, he had to admit that Xu Huai and Wang Ju were even better than him.
Cao Shili knew very well that there were no generals on their side to fight in the battle, and the six shield chariots were far from enough to contain the Tongbai Mountain Soldiers' attack. If the Tongbai Mountain Soldiers' offensive could not be delayed, the Tongbai Mountain Soldiers could be asked to form a north-south tunnel.
In a pincer attack, five or six hundred of them were surrounded and strangled by the smaller Tongbai Mountain soldiers.
Cao Shili looked back at the thick masonry wall of the ancestral hall behind him, and his heart trembled, knowing that once the Tongbai Mountain soldiers were asked to dig through the wall from the north and south, they would not even have a way out.
It seemed that they still had six or seven thousand troops in the stronghold, but Cao Shili knew very well that once he and his elite guards were surrounded by soldiers from Tongbai Mountain on the west side of the ancestral hall, he should not expect that the six or seven thousand prisoners and wounded soldiers could be organized in time.
Get up and surround the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain from the outside.
Looking at the mountains and forests outside the village, there are multiple groups of people coming out. Xu Huai, a bastard, is obviously confident that he will kill Qingquangou Village completely, and he will not hesitate to move all the hidden back-up chess pieces into the camp to participate in the fight.
After all, he was too careless.
Thousands of generals were too tired to attack Gongxian County, and the casualties were too heavy. The newly recruited prisoners surrendered, but they had to prevent them from escaping, so they did not rush to deploy some defensive measures in the camp. Xu never expected
With this wild tiger in mind, he would be bold enough to lead this small number of men around the mountain road to attack the camp.
He deployed too few overt and covert sentries in the valley to the south, thinking that Xu Huai had already stolen the power by helping King Zhao Tuan of Jing to defend Gong County.
If he achieves great success, he will be satisfied. He thinks that Xu Huai defends Gong County and the casualties of his troops will not be too light, so he should not take risks with that few manpower.
However, all his self-righteousness was slapped on his face at this moment.
Why, why, Xu Huai is targeting the Cao family?
Even the rabbit can’t bear to be masturbated like this!
Cao Shili wanted to cry bitterly.
"Dad, let's fight these bastards!" A new round of fighting was about to break out. Cao Cheng saw Cao Shili closing his eyes at this moment and shouted in excitement.
Cao Shili suddenly opened his eyes, and his right hand suddenly turned into a claw and turned into a knife, slashing towards Cao Cheng's neck:
You son of a bitch, didn’t you see that Xu Huai had several groups of back-up troops hiding outside the stronghold? He no longer hid them at this moment and were heading towards the stronghold together? These bastards clearly have the confidence to rush the reinforcements on both sides.
Kill them thoroughly before!
"Dad, you?" Cao Cheng was swaying on his horse, looking in disbelief as Cao Shili actually attacked him.
"Cao Fang, tie Cao Cheng to the saddle, protect Cao Cheng, and follow me not to leave an inch!" Cao Shili put his long spear under his arm and shouted at a general beside him.
"Yes!" Na Jianrui abandoned his mount and rode on Cao Cheng's horse. He quickly put Cao Cheng, who had been knocked unconscious by the knife, across the saddle and tied him up with a rope. He also took an extra piece of leather armor to tie him up.
Cao Cheng blocked his head and face so that his arrow could flow, and then he turned his horse's head and followed Cao Shili and the dozen or so soldiers around him who were still riding on horseback to set up the formation. They rode behind them and rushed straight to the north...
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"What does this grandson want to do?"
Wang Ju asked in astonishment when he saw Cao Shili leading a dozen armored cavalry towards the north.
Since the subsequent enemy soldiers were mainly reinforced from the direction of Beizhai Gate, and were accompanied by obstacles such as shield chariots and horses, Wu Chihai and Yuan Lei led more than 100 soldiers to attack from the north side at a slower pace than from the south.
Many, the front line has not yet penetrated the enemy's position.
At this time, seeing Cao Shili personally leading a dozen armored cavalry to attack Wu Chihai and Yuan Lei, they could only slow down their attack at this moment, move more large shields to the front to form a shield formation, and occasionally use spears and spears to attack.
To withstand the sudden attack of the enemy cavalry.
Since the Lanzhou Han army's armored soldiers gathered on the west side of the ancestral hall had once again surpassed them, Wang Ju thought that Cao Shili would form a formation to fight them on the spot, but he did not expect that Cao Shili would personally lead a small number of cavalry to the north.
This is not a normal way to charge in a confrontation.
Cao Shili personally led a dozen elite cavalry to fight on the north side, and there were shield chariots and other war equipment there, which might slow down or even stop the penetration of the Tongbai Mountain soldiers on the north side, but the Han army array in Lanzhou
The south side will become even weaker.
Further east, there is the thick west wall of the Qingquangou Village Ancestral Hall. There is no way out for the Lanzhou Han Army on the east and west sides. Once the south side is defeated, they will rush north in chaos, overwhelming their own array and some of the troops in the village.
Open spaces, such as small squares and vegetable gardens, may seem large, but they are not big enough for cavalry to gallop, and the collapse of the array on either side will have wide implications.
Cao Shili should not make such a stupid mistake!
At this time, Wang Ju saw that Xu Huai did not rush directly to the northern wing to fight Cao Shili, but instead yelled for the guards behind him to come up with short spears. He immediately understood: Cao Shili should flee on horseback, they would be better off.
Even if they rush over in one step, they cannot be faster than Cao Shili and the others. At this time, they can only use short spears to kill a few more people!
