The squad leader in front of Dou An, holding a yellow card in one hand and a one-handed hook in the other, also pushed towards Cao Jun.? Dou An followed behind the squad leader with an iron rod in his hand, blocking for him the attack coming from the side.
Long knife.
Behind him, two hook-and-scythe spears were thrust out from both sides of Dou An's body, and with a sudden movement, two enemy soldiers were pulled back. Dou An stood up an iron rod and stabbed a Cao soldier in the face with the end of the stick.
Poof, Cao Jun's head was smashed to pieces like a ripe watermelon. Due to the excessive force, the splashed brain gun sprayed Dou An's face.
After killing Cao Jun, Dou An stood there blankly, letting his brain drip down his face and down his chin. His heart seemed to be tightly grasped by something, and his eyes were filled with blood and he could not see anything.
"Stay in the back!"
Someone yelled in Dou An's ear, and then he was pulled behind him and pushed to the wall of the trench.
Dou An's whole body came into close contact with the wall, and the back of his head hit the earth wall through his helmet. The strong pain made him wake up. After a closer look, the person who pulled him turned out to be the history instructor from the Black Earth City Samurai Training Camp.
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Suddenly, a Cao soldier who was lying on the ground rushed to Instructor Shi's feet and hugged his feet tightly. Another Cao soldier jumped down from the top of the trench and stabbed Instructor Shi's chest with a short spear in his hand.
Instructor Shi tripped on his feet and lost his center of gravity. The two axes in his hands did not catch Cao Jun's short spear, and he was stabbed in the chest with a chill.
He shook the ax in his hand, grabbed Cao Jun's arm, and shouted to Dou An: "Why are you still standing there?"
Dou An felt a buzzing sound in his head. All fear and tension disappeared, and a ball of anger arose in his heart. He screamed strangely, shook the iron rod with both hands, and rushed forward. The tip of the rod penetrated the steel rod like lightning.
Cao Jun jumped down and faced the door.
In front of the barracks of the 12th Division of the Second Army Corps, the approximately 600-meter-long trench was full of scenes of life-and-death fighting. Whether it was a newcomer who had just stepped onto the battlefield or a veteran who had been on the battlefield for a long time, if he was not careful at all, he would be killed.
The enemy is killed.
When the first Cao Jun jumped into the trench, the catapults in the barracks began to throw huge rocks and hit the array of Cao Jun's archers. The archers on the arrow towers and camp walls also began to fight back, especially the Cao Jun troops who lost their shield defense beside the trench.
, being named one by one by the archers of Shaodian Kingdom.
The six thousand cavalry led by Teng Yan kept a distance of about two kilometers from Cao's army. They ran away when Cao's cavalry brigade chased them, and they came closer when Cao's cavalry returned. Cao's generals were somewhat concerned about the looming troops on the mountain.
He was worried and did not dare to let his cavalry get too far away, forcing Teng Yan and his cavalry brigade to guard the periphery of the battlefield.
Cao's archers did not dare to form too far apart, which would require more cavalry and infantry for protection, and they could only carry out long-range suppression directly opposite the mountain town and military camp.
The first wave of infantry sent to attack the military camp consisted of 5,000 people, but they were blocked when they reached the trench. When Shaodianguo's long-range troops opened fire, the casualties of this first wave of infantry began to increase.
General Cao Jun saw that the situation was not right, and quickly ordered the retreat bugle to sound. The dense formation in front of the trench suddenly retreated like the ebbing tide of the sea. The soldiers who had jumped into the trench committed suicide at the enemy in front of them.
type of attack.
In the first wave of attacks, more than a thousand people were killed by Cao's army, and hundreds more were injured. This was mainly because the troops who jumped into the ditch were unable to retreat, resulting in twice the number of people killed than injured.
On the other hand, the Shaodian Kingdom also lost seven to eight hundred people in battle, and about five hundred were injured. They had a slight upper hand with the pre-built positions.
Dou An also became one of the wounded soldiers because his left arm was chopped. Compared to the tragic war, he was lucky not to die.
Here in Kaoshan Town, only long-range soldiers fired at each other, which did not cause many casualties. Xun Yue's strategy of concentrating his troops to defend the military camp worked.
This looting Cao army brought some simple siege equipment, but these equipment took time to assemble. General Cao Jun saw that the Shaodian barracks had good defensive capabilities and a direct attack would cause greater casualties, so he ordered the assembly of the siege equipment.
The cavalry troops drove Shaodian's cavalry from the battlefield, the archers built simple defensive positions, and the infantry rested in place to prepare for the next wave of attacks.
This seemingly safe order caused the disastrous consequences of Cao's army's defeat in the Shuanglongcheng battle zone.
When Cao Jun's siege equipment had just been assembled, the Shaodian Corps of four divisions suddenly appeared behind Cao Jun, directly cutting off the retreat to Shuanglong City.
General Cao Jun's reaction was quite satisfactory. He immediately ordered the cavalry to turn their horses and charge towards Shaodian's troops who had cut off their retreat. The infantry and archers abandoned all their baggage and followed the cavalry to charge towards Shuanglong City.
The reinforcements that suddenly appeared in Kaoshan Town were the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Divisions of the Second Army Corps. After receiving the urgent report from Xun Yue, they marched all the way under the personal leadership of the legion commander Long Shun.
Originally, Long Shun was going to participate in the war in the Xijiang Shuizhai War Zone. Because he was worried that Cao State's forbidden magicians would forcibly cast forbidden magic in Shuanglong City, Long Shun, the magician Qu Yi and five tower-opening magicians caught up with the reinforcements from Shuanglong City.
Brigade.
After receiving the military information sent by Xun Yue, Long Shun, the commander of the army, also saw this excellent opportunity and ordered the entire army to rush to Kaoshan Town regardless of physical strength.
The four divisions of the Second Army Corps marched for three hours. When they arrived at the outskirts of the battlefield, they found that Cao Jun had suspended the attack, so they rested on the spot for half an hour, sent a trust eagle to Xun Yue in Kaoshan Town, and then
He rushed into the battlefield unceremoniously and cut off Cao's army's retreat.
Except for special cavalry divisions, the proportion of cavalry in a full division is about 20%, but the proportion of cavalry in the first, middle and second regiments is higher than ordinary, reaching 30%.
Long Shun easily formed a team of cavalry that was larger than Cao's army, and personally led the team to counterattack Cao's army.
This is a tragedy for Cao's cavalry. The number of knights in the Shaodian cavalry is twice as many as theirs. Long Shun of Arrowhead is a late-stage fearless knight, and the bodyguards around him are all shield-breaking knights.
The cavalry of the two armies met. Shaodianguo's cavalry was like a steel knife cutting into butter. The speed of the collision seemed to increase sharply. As a red and dark red spear light and sword light flashed, most of Cao's army's horses
His back was empty.
The gates to the castle in Kaoshan Town and the military camp of the 12th Division had been completely opened. Xun Yue rushed out with all the soldiers who could still run, and rushed towards the rear of Cao's army, which was still sorting out its formation.
Teng Yan, who had been fighting guerrillas with Cao Cao's cavalry, raised his own divisional flag and led the cavalry from the two divisions to block the middle of Cao's army.
When the five magicians flew over Cao Jun, Cao Jun's troops immediately melted and thawed. The soldiers and generals lost all morale and fled in all directions like headless flies.
It is not that the Cao Kingdom did not have any magicians accompanying the army, but they all stayed in the Denglu camp and asked the magicians to follow them to grab food. They could not afford to lose this person.
In this way, an encounter turned into a pursuit.
In fact, the two sides were not far apart in terms of military strength. Shaodian State only had about 10,000 more troops. However, General Cao did not expect that so many enemy troops appeared behind him. When he found out, he was already in a situation of being attacked from both sides.
In addition, there was an obvious gap in the cavalry's combat power, and the magician completely destroyed their fighting spirit, resulting in the final collapse.
Afterwards, some people analyzed that if General Cao's army sent cavalry to break out of the encirclement to the north, and the infantry and archers formed a circular formation, slowly left the battlefield westward, and when they reached the foot of Daozhong Mountain, the entire army retreated up the mountain, and then broke out separately, they should be able to escape more people.
people.
The reality is always cruel. More than 30,000 people from Cao's grain-robbing brigade were captured, and nearly 10,000 people died in the battle. In the end, less than 3,000 people escaped back to Shuanglong City.
Long Shun counted after the war and found that less than 4,000 people died in the battle and more than 3,000 were injured. It can be said that it was a great victory, and almost all five divisions of Cao's army were wiped out.
Shaodian's army was still cleaning the battlefield, and Hu Qin's main division of the 14th Army sent the vanguard to Kaoshan Town, telling Longshun that the 135th and 136th Divisions would arrive here in the evening, and then they could all go to Shuanglong City together.
The six divisions of the Second Army Corps had either gone through fierce battles or long-term forced marches. Most of their physical strength had been exhausted, and they were no longer able to make a sneak attack on Cao Jun's camp thirty kilometers away.
Long Shun ordered to rest on the spot and wait for reinforcements to arrive, while the forbidden mage Qu Yi took five tower-opening mages to take the lead and flew to Shuanglong City to take charge.
During the battle in Kaoshan Town, the navy from the Mao'er Bay Water Village appeared on the river outside the Shuanglong City Water Village. Fifty large warships and one hundred and fifty medium-sized warships formed a square formation on the Tongyuan River.
Upon seeing this, the navy troops of the Cao Kingdom that were besieging the water village stopped their attacks one after another and formed a long snake formation across the river to confront the warships of the Shaodian Kingdom.
In addition to attacking the water stronghold, Cao's warships also had to escort the transport fleet. Facing the Shaodian navy coming from upstream, they did not dare to attack easily.
Mao'er Bay Water Village is located upstream of Shuanglong City, downstream of the Tongyuan River. The speed to reach Shuanglong City is much faster than that of Lianbakou Village. Fang Ba was also very surprised by the arrival of the Mao'er Bay Water Army.
Qi and Cao jointly sent troops. According to common sense, the naval forces of Mao'er Bay should go to support Xijiang Water Village and be restrained by Qi State's navy. Instead of coming to Shuanglong City at this time, Cao Guo expected only the navy of Lian Bakou Village.
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In the evening, even more bad news reached Fang Ba's commander's camp. The remnants of the troops who had gone west to grab food fled back to the camp. He was so angry that he destroyed his commander's case on the spot.