Following Liu Xiu's order, the Han army began to attack the forts outside the Fifth Academy Army Camp. Seeing that the front row phalanx had entered the range of the forts, Liu Xiu fiercely urged his horse on his crotch.
Rush straight forward.
Long Yuan, Long Zhun, and Long Bo followed closely behind and charged forward with Liu Xiuyi.
The speed of the war horses was far faster than the advancing speed of the infantry phalanx. Soon, Liu Xiu had surpassed the soldiers in the front row.
When he was still sixty steps away from the camp in front of him, a row of soldiers stood up on top of the camp, and there was a continuous sound of volleys of crossbows.
You must know that the Fifth Academy Army is just a rebel army. Even if the soldiers used crossbows in the past, they were far from being able to have one per person.
Now, even the soldiers defending the outer barracks are equipped with crossbows. From this, it can be seen that Liu Yong's support for the Fifth Academy Army has definitely spent a lot of money.
The crossbow arrows flew over from the front. Liu Xiu squinted his eyes and concentrated. The arrows that were originally flying as fast as lightning gradually slowed down.
He waved the Chixiao Sword in his hand and swung it forward continuously, making a clanging sound. The sword's edge hit the arrows, making a crisp sound. The crossbow arrows were spinning and flying diagonally.
Seeing that a golden-armored general of the Han army could block so many crossbow arrows, the soldiers in the camp seemed to be shocked. The leader of the camp shouted: "Load the arrows! Load the arrows quickly!"
Arrow! Shoot the incoming enemy!"
At the urging of the commander, the soldiers of the fifth school started the second round of volley fire.
This time, Liu Xiu was closer to the camp, and the crossbow arrows were flying faster. Liu Xiu continued to wave the Chixiao Sword in his hand, and the clanging sound was endless.
A crossbow arrow had already flown past his cheek, leaving a red mark on his cheek. Without giving the opponent a chance to fire a third salvo, the war horse sprinted too fast, sixty steps away,
It's here in a blink of an eye.
Liu Xiu urged his horse to rush to the camp. He tightened his legs on the horse's belly and stood up on the horse. When the horse stopped in front of the earthen wall of the camp, Liu Xiu's figure jumped up and jumped from the ground.
The horse jumped directly onto the earth wall.
This sudden change shocked all the five military officers on the earth wall. After Liu Xiu came up, he stabbed forward three times with the Chixiao Sword. With three consecutive muffled sounds of puff, puff, puff, the three
The soldier who was reloading his crossbow fell to the ground.
The soldiers on the other side nearby were so anxious that their hands were trembling as they loaded crossbow arrows into the crossbow box, but they could not put them in after a long time.
Seeing the enemy coming towards him with a long red sword, he suddenly shouted and smashed the crossbow machine in his hand directly towards Liu Xiu.
Liu Xiu swung his sword, and with a click, the flying crossbow was cut into two pieces and fell to the ground with a clatter.
The soldier bent down and picked up the spear, roared and stabbed Liu Xiu's chest with the spear. Liu Xiu's body was on one side, and the sharp edge of the spear passed against the armor on his chest.
Without waiting for the opponent to withdraw his spear, Liu Xiu waved his sword and cut off the opponent's head. The leader of the camp saw Liu Xiu's bravery and roared angrily: "Everyone, come together and kill him!"
When everyone in the camp was preparing to launch a siege against Liu Xiu, Long Yuan, Long Zhun, and Long Bo also jumped on the earthen wall and got into a melee with the troops of the fifth school.
They were fighting lively here, and the forts on the left and right were also fighting. Gu Chong took the lead, having taken the lead in breaking through one of the forts, and began to attack the second row of forts.
While Liu Xiu was fighting with the soldiers around him, he focused his energy on staring at the commander of the fifth school army.
Seeing more and more Han troops attacking the earthen wall, it was difficult for him to resist. The commander realized that he could no longer defend his army, so he quietly ran down the earthen wall and prepared to run out through the camp.
Liu Xiuzheng was staring at him. When he saw the village commander running down the earth wall, he suddenly shouted, swayed, jumped down from the earth wall, and went straight to the village commander.
The village chief heard the commotion and looked up. The sunlight was dazzling and he could vaguely see a figure mixed in the sunlight.
He subconsciously raised his sword, placed it above his head, and parried upward.
Bang! Bang! Liu Xiu's own strength, coupled with the inertia of his body falling from the air, the impact was so great that a mere village commander of his could withstand it?
The sword in the village commander's hand was shortened in response, and half of his head was chopped off by the Chixiao Sword. The body with only half its head left shook twice, knelt on the ground with a thud, and then fell forward.
Under the earthen wall, there were still quite a few troops from the Fifth School. Seeing that their own camp commander was killed, the people turned pale with fright and involuntarily retreated.
Liu Xiu held up the sword and stepped forward. As he walked past, the Red Sky Sword drew streaks of red light, followed by streaks of blood mist.
He charged from the southern earth wall of the camp to the northern earth wall. No fewer than ten soldiers from the Fifth School died under his sword. When he reached the northern earth wall, he looked up and saw a door.
Small wooden city gate.
Liu Xiu quickly came to the city gate, struck down with his sword, and cut off the door bolt. Then he thrust the Chixiao sword into the ground, grabbed the door panel with both hands, and slowly opened the city gate.
He completely relied on his own force to penetrate a small camp garrisoned by dozens of troops from the fifth school. Liu Xiu ignored the sporadic fighting behind him. He left the camp and began to charge towards the second row of camps.
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The defense line of the Fifth School Army is not imperfect, and it is more than enough to deal with ordinary soldiers, but it is indeed not enough to deal with the elite divisions in Luoyang, and the elite divisions commanded by Liu Xiu himself.
Battle reports from the outer defense lines of the camp came one after another to the central military tent of the fifth school army camp. Wang Yan, who was sitting in the central military tent, had an ugly face and a layer of sweat broke out on his forehead.
He paced back and forth in the Chinese army's tent, constantly spreading his hands and saying: "How can the Luoyang army be so powerful? How can our army's camp be so vulnerable that it is attacked by the Luoyang army one after another?"
Before the general present could answer his question, a soldier ran in in a panic and said in a hurry: "Report to the general, the first line of defense outside the North Camp has been completely lost!"
Wang Yan was shaken and stared intently at the soldiers who came to report the news, without saying a word for a long time.
Just when the central military tent fell into a deathly silence, another soldier stumbled in and said sharply: "Report to the general, the first line of defense outside the south camp has been completely lost!"
The fortress defense line that our soldiers had put so much effort and effort into building was just like paper in front of the Luoyang army. This was something Wang Yan never expected.
Wang Yan turned around, walked back to the commander's case, sat down, his eyes were dull, and he said nothing. A general took a step forward, cupped his hands and said: "General, the camp set up by our army is completely incompetent for Liu Xiujun."
It works, instead of being defeated one by one by Liu Xiujun, why not... why not order the soldiers in each camp to retreat to the main camp, and our army will concentrate its forces to defend the camp!"
Another general said anxiously: "General, it's not certain who will win in this battle! Didn't General Feng Lun already lead his troops to sneak attack Liu Xiujun's camp? As long as General Feng Lun succeeds, Liu Xiujun will definitely be in chaos. At that time, Liu Xiujun will be in chaos.
, our officers and soldiers can then fully counterattack the enemy!"
Under the persuasion of the generals, Wang Yan gradually calmed down. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, nodded, and said: "Yes, our army has not lost this battle yet, and our army still has a chance to turn defeat into victory!"
The Feng Lun mentioned by the generals of the Fifth Academy Army was not a member of the Fifth Academy Army, but a subordinate of Liu Yong. Liu Yong sent Feng Lun to Wang Yan not only to assist Wang Yan, but also to facilitate the control of Wang Yan and the Fifth Academy Army.
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On the surface, Feng Lun was Wang Yan's subordinate. In fact, Wang Yan had no control over Feng Lun and his subordinates. Instead, he often had to listen to Feng Lun's opinions.
This time, Feng Lun came up with the idea for the Fifth Academy Army to set up many small camps outside the main camp.
In addition, Feng Lun also thought that when Liu Xiujun launched an attack on his side, Liu Xiujun's camp would be empty, which would be a good opportunity for his side to launch a sneak attack.
Once Liu Xiujun's camp was captured by his own side, how could Liu Xiujun's officers and soldiers fighting in the front not be morally disorganized? Feng Lun was very ambitious. He wanted not only to defeat Liu Xiujun, but also to annihilate Liu Xiujun in one fell swoop.
However, Feng Lun's plan also caused him to take away all his subordinates, making him unable to assist the Fifth School Army in defending the camp.
When Feng Lun thought about it, his own defense line was so tightly laid out, with a large number of fortifications outside to help defend, and there were camp defenses inside. Even if he couldn't resist Liu Xiujun for a long time, he could still block Liu Xiujun in a short time.
However, he still overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Five Schools Army, and also greatly underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Han Army led by Liu Xiu.
Liu Xiu and Yao Qi, one from the south and the other from the north, advanced in the opposite direction with overwhelming momentum. The fortresses built by the five military schools were torn down one after another.
The battle lasted only an hour, that is, just after 5 o'clock in the afternoon, all the fortresses outside the military camp of the fifth school had been captured by the Han army.
Next, Liu Xiujun and Yao Qijun launched a north-south pincer attack on the Fifth Academy Army Camp.
At this time, there were more than 10,000 soldiers in the camp of the Fifth Academy Army. It seemed that the strength of the troops was not much different from that of the Han army, but the morale between the two was hugely different.
The Han army, which was advancing smoothly, was full of momentum and morale. On the other hand, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the five schools was low. People all had faces of fear and panic, as if a disaster was imminent.
Under this situation, although the fifth school army had the support of camp defense and had geographical advantages, it could no longer be reflected on the battlefield where the two sides fought.
Liu Xiu and Zhao Qi commanded the Han army and launched a fierce attack on the camp of the Fifth Academy Army. As they advanced towards the enemy camp, the Han army's arrow arrays were fired one after another. On the other hand, the arrows fired from the camp were
It's sparse.
It stands to reason that the attacking side will suffer heavy casualties during the advance. However, the battlefield at this time showed a strange scene. The casualties of the advancing Han army were far less than those of the soldiers of the fifth school army guarding the camp.
When the Han army advanced towards the camp of the Fifth Academy Army, Liu Xiu did not charge in the front, but stayed in the rear and watched the battle ahead.
He squinted his eyes, slowly frowned, and murmured: "There's something wrong!"
Long Yuan, Long Zhun, and Long Bu who were following Liu Xiu looked at each other, raised their horses and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, what's wrong with the enemy camp?"
"Whether it was the second situation or Feiyan, we all found out that the five-camp army that was causing trouble in Wei County was not simple. There were a large number of Liu Yong's subordinates mixed within it."
Long Yuan, Long Zhun, and Long Bo nodded inexplicably and responded: "Yes, Your Majesty, is there any problem with this?"
"But where are they now?" Liu Xiu said: "It's not surprising that the army of the fifth school is a rabble, but Liu Yong's subordinates are by no means a rabble."
As he spoke, he raised his hand and pointed to the fifth school army camp in front, and asked: "But, where are Liu Yong's men now?"