Peng Ning separated his soldiers and walked out from the crowd. He stood by the trench and first looked inside. Then he looked up at Liu Xiu opposite, raised the corner of his mouth and said, "Liu Xiu, you are indeed here."
here!"
Liu Xiu stood in front of the Chinese army's tent, stood with his hands behind his hands, nodded, and said, "I have always been here."
Peng Ning chuckled at first, but soon turned into a big laugh, and asked: "Liu Xiu, do you think you can stop thousands of our soldiers with just this trench?"
The trench is not wide, only two meters in total. As long as an adult man in good health can cross it easily.
Liu Xiu shrugged and said, "It's enough to stop you!"
When Peng Ning heard this, he became furious and his face darkened.
He raised the sword in his hand, pointed at Liu Xiu opposite him, and said harshly: "Today, I will personally take off your head!" As he spoke, he shouted to the left and right: "Come over and kill Liu Xiu.
Get it for me!"
Following his order, the surrounding officers and soldiers of Wang Lang's army retreated one after another to leave room for a run-up, and then sprinted forward at full speed. When they reached the trench, they all jumped up, intending to jump directly over the trench.
But at this moment, two hundred crossbowmen suddenly poured out from behind the central military tent and nearby tents.
Zhongshan County is not a large county, with a small population and not many county troops, but Liu Jun does manage Zhongshan County well. At least the county government is very rich and has accumulated a large amount of crossbows, armor and other materials, which gives Liu Xiu
It brings great convenience.
Two hundred county troops were divided into two rows, and the front row soldiers fired crossbow arrows. Those soldiers of Wang Lang's army who jumped into the ditch and were still in the air were unable to dodge or block the arrows flying towards them.
In his ears, he heard the sound of a series of arrows piercing armor, and then he saw the soldiers jumping in the air, falling from mid-air one after another, into the trench, and were immediately penetrated by sharpened wooden stakes.
After the crossbowmen in the first row finished shooting the crossbow arrows, they immediately squatted down and reloaded the crossbow arrows into the crossbow machine. The crossbowmen in the second row continued to fire arrows. The sound of the crossbow machine ejecting was heard continuously.
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After the crossbowmen in the second row finished shooting, the crossbowmen in the first row just reloaded their arrows and continued to fire arrows towards the opposite side.
Two rows of crossbowmen fired arrows across each other. Although only a hundred people shot arrows each time, the scale was not large, but it was continuous, wave after wave, continuous.
Many of the soldiers of Wang Lang's army who jumped over the ditch did not even jump over and were shot down in mid-air. The soldiers who were lucky enough to jump over the ditch were shot into hedgehogs by the oncoming crossbow arrows within a few steps.
As Peng Ning retreated into the crowd, he shouted loudly: "Charge! There are only two hundred enemy soldiers. Charge over and kill all the enemy soldiers!"
Wang Lang's army was indeed disrupted by the sudden appearance of the county army at first, but seeing that the number of county troops on the opposite side was indeed small, people's panic gradually calmed down.
Group after group of Wang Lang's troops jumped into the trenches while shooting arrows. Although some of them were shot into the trenches, many people still jumped over the trenches and formed a shield formation to resist the arrows from the county army.
Move forward step by step.
When they were less than twenty steps away from the county army's crossbowmen, another hundred county soldiers shot out from both sides of the central military tent.
The leader was none other than Zhu You. Holding a big sword, Zhu You jumped over his own crossbowmen, took three steps into two steps, rushed to the shield formation of Wang Lang's army, and slashed down with his sword.
Bang!
The broadsword struck the shield, causing a loud noise. The soldier behind the shield was struck by the force of the shock. He leaned back and sat down on the ground. Before he could get up, Zhu You's knife fell again and hit him in the chest. brain.
At the same time that Zhu You slashed an enemy with his sword, the hundred county soldiers behind him also rushed up to kill him. These county soldiers were all holding iron hammers. When they got close to Wang Lang's army, they stabbed the iron hammers into the crowd. .
The iron spear evolved from the spear, with the front half like a sword and the back half like a spear.
In the north, weapons such as iron spears are mostly used by cavalry. The horses charge too fast. If the cavalry uses a spear, it can often pierce one or two enemies with one spear.
But it would not be easy to pull the spear out of the enemy's body later.
The biggest difference between the iron spear and the spear is that it is equipped with a tantalum. In battle, the tantalum can be used to block the enemy's weapons, and it can also effectively control the iron spear to prevent it from piercing the human body too deeply.
Generally speaking, the iron spear is more flexible than the halberd and easier to control than the spear. It was a very advanced weapon at the time and was also a powerful weapon for the Han people to deal with the Huns.
The hundred county troops led by Zhu You, all of whom were strong men, came into contact with Wang Lang's army, and the shield soldiers in front were killed by them.
After killing the opponent's shield soldiers in the front row, Zhu You didn't want to fight anymore. He waved his sword and shouted: "Retreat!"
These hundred county troops came out quickly and retreated even faster.
Wang Lang's army wanted to pursue them, but they were greeted by an overwhelming barrage of crossbow arrows. Puff, puff, puff! Without shields to block, the crossbow arrows directly hit people's bodies, with the sound of armor breaking and flesh piercing coming one after another.
Only 300 county troops, combined with the not-so-wide trench, were able to hold back more than 3,000 Wang Lang troops.
Just when Peng Ning was anxious, angry, and furious, suddenly, there was a chaos in the rear of Wang Lang's army.
Peng Ning didn't know what was going on behind him. Just when he was confused, a soldier stumbled over from behind and screamed: "General... General, it's not good, there is an enemy ambush behind you. Suddenly a lot of enemy troops came out, and the brothers suffered heavy casualties!"
Hearing this, Penning's head buzzed. There were ambushes behind him? Isn't this an empty camp? Where did these ambush soldiers come from?
Liu Xiu, who was standing in front of the Chinese army tent, laughed loudly and shouted: "Peng Ning, do you really think that all our soldiers are in Lunu? You are a rat, you have no other skills, but you are the best at listening to slander." Two! Today, your troops are deeply surrounded by our army, and it is difficult to fly. If you are sensible, you may have to put down your weapons and surrender. There may be a way to survive. If not, not a single one of your troops will be left behind!"
"Ah——" Peng Ning realized that she had been deceived, and her face was livid with anger, and her hair and beard were all growing.
Sun Cang, who was right next to him, swallowed, cautiously came forward, and said in a trembling voice: "General, you must not listen to Liu Xiu's lies. The Zhongshan County Army is obviously in Lunu, and here... this is just a small town. The enemy of stocks..."
Before he could finish his words, his words suddenly stopped. It turned out that Peng Ning's sword had penetrated deeply into his chest. Sun Cang opened his mouth wide in disbelief and murmured: "Peng... General Peng, you... you …”
Peng Ning now hates Sun Cang so much that he wants to eat his flesh and break his bones.
He fiercely pulled out the sword inserted into Sun Cang's chest, and then struck out with the sword again. There was a sharp click, and Sun Cang's neck was cut off, and his head rolled off his shoulders. At the same time, a
Blood arrows shot into the air.
He picked up Sun Cang's severed head with the tip of his sword. Peng Ning grabbed the severed hair and threw it towards Liu Xiu with all his strength. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Liu Xiu, I, Peng Ning, and
You are irreconcilable!"
Liu Xiu was so far away from him, so Sun Cang's severed head naturally couldn't hit Liu Xiu.
Soon, a soldier from the county army picked up the severed head thrown by Peng Ning, looked at it carefully, then came to Liu Xiu with the severed head, bowed and said: "Sir, this is the head of Sun Cang.
"
Liu Xiu only glanced at it, nodded, and said, "I understand."
Wei Bao died in Lunu, and Sun Cang died in the county army camp on the south bank of the Qishui River. The two men who defected from Geng Yan and took refuge with Wang Lang did not end well, and both died unexpectedly.
Interestingly, neither of these two were killed by anyone from Liu Xiu's side.
Sun Cang was right about one thing, Liu Xiu did stay in the army camp, but he was wrong about one thing. Deng Yu did not bring all the two thousand army soldiers to Lunu, but took away one
Thousands of people, leave a thousand people behind.
The county army ambushing Wang Lang's army now is the thousand soldiers who stayed in the camp.
There were only 300 people on Liu Xiu and Zhu You's side, and the other 700 people were led by Yao Qi and Feng Yi. Feng Yibu took Wang Lang's army and killed him, while Yao Qibu attacked Wang Lang.
The two wings of the army.
Although the county army did not have many troops, only a thousand soldiers in total, but because they fought separately, they appeared to be large in number, as if Wang Lang's tribe had been surrounded by them.
Trapped in a tight siege, Wang Lang no longer cared about what was behind him, and now he only wanted to put Liu Xiu to death.
He shouted to the soldiers around him: "Everyone, follow me! As long as Liu Xiu is killed, the enemy army will be defeated!" As he spoke, he picked up his sword and ran forward.
The surrounding soldiers roared loudly and followed Peng Ning to rush forward to kill him.
Seeing Wang Langjun on the opposite side rushing over with all his strength to protect Long Yuan who was beside Liu Xiu, Xuying and others said one after another: "My lord, Peng Ning has committed suicide himself, lord, you should avoid it first!"
Liu Xiu glanced around at the people around him, raised his hand to hold the hilt of his sword, and while slowly pulling out the Chixiao sword, he said quietly: "I have avoided many places and for a long enough time! From Wancheng to Luoyang,
I fled from Luoyang to Hebei, from Hebei to Youzhou, and from Youzhou back to Zhongshan County. I will not avoid this battle again!"
He is a human being, not a god, and he has human emotions and desires. These days, he has been living too frustrated. Now Liu Xiu also needs to vent, to vent all the frustration, dissatisfaction, anger and other emotions in his heart.
After Long Yuan and others heard what he said, without saying anything more, they each drew their swords and guarded Liu Xiu. Seeing that a large number of enemy troops had crossed the trench and came straight towards them, Liu Xiu gave a shout and faced them with swords.
Go up.
Before Liu Xiu could draw his sword, several soldiers of Wang Lang's army who came towards him were killed by Long Yuan and others and fell to the ground.
Liu Xiu stepped over the corpse on the ground and ran straight into the crowd of enemy soldiers. At the same time, he stabbed out with a sword and inserted it into the chest of an enemy soldier.
Poof! As the enemy army fell to the ground, Liu Xiu drew out the Chixiao Sword, swung it, and slashed the enemies around him. Blood arrows spurted out from all around him. In the blink of an eye, the soldiers who fell under his sword were already there.
More than a dozen people.
At this moment, a roar came from the crowd: "Liu Xiu, take your life!" Following the words, a burly figure slammed towards Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu raised the Chixiao Sword in his hand, and there was a gun in his ear.
Hear a loud bang.
Liu Xiu staggered and took a step back. The person who attacked him with a sword was none other than Peng Ning. Peng Ning was unyielding and picked up the sword in his hand, slashing at Liu Xiu's head again.
