Some of the Liangzhou soldiers surrendered, and some launched a final charge against the Xiliang cavalry. The rest just waited and watched. They had breakfast and had not eaten lunch yet. It was already night.
Cold, hunger, and despair tortured them. The resisting soldiers were quickly cleared away, and the snow turned bright red.
"Succumb!" Yang Yuan got off his horse: "If you continue, you will just let them die in vain!"
The deputy general's face was ashen, and more and more people chose to surrender...
After dispatching most of the army in Heishui County, Prime Minister Li only had 500 personal guards, Shenji Battalion and 20,000 Xiliang headquarters troops left in his hands.
In terms of the number of troops, there are more troops in Heishui County than he does, but he divided the army into four camps. The most important one in Dongcheng is where Li Xiang is, and the number of troops is 10,500.
, five thousand Xiliang headquarters soldiers, five thousand Shenji battalion soldiers, five hundred personal guards, and five thousand people from each of the other four directions.
The purpose of distributing the army in various camps is to make the other side feel that Xiliang side has enough troops and horses, so that the troops in the city dare not come out.
In the darkness, the scout returned to Ma Zhenyu: "General, the main force of the Xiliang army is camped outside the east city gate. There are a lot of traps around the camp."
"Can I contact the two generals Zhenxing and Zhenhua?" Ma Zhenyu asked.
The commander of the scouts from behind came forward and said: "Back to the general, we have contacted him. General Zhenhua told him about Xiliang at the North City Gate and the West City Gate. He will force the enemies in these two camps to stay!"
"General Zhenhua said that he will send some troops to block the enemies in the southern camp. He can probably draw out 3,000 troops to provide a feint attack for our army!"
"Very good!" Ma Zhenyu laughed: "Check the weapons and launch the attack in half an hour!"
"Go to Tong Zhenhua right now. I want him to attack earlier than me and draw firepower for me!"
"Yes!" The scout commander immediately dispatched after receiving the order.
Ma Zhenyu looked at the brightly lit Xiliang Camp in the distance, where was his target, the Xiliang Camp, among which Li Xiang, the prefect of Jiuyuan, was among them.
Li Xiang's personal fighting power is very strong. It is expected that their current strength cannot kill Li Xiang, but what they need to kill is not Li Xiang, but Li Xiang's army.
As long as those ordinary soldiers are killed, no matter how powerful Li Xiang is, can he support a large army?
He did not believe that when the time came, an army of 30,000 to 40,000 men besieged Prime Minister Li, but they would not be able to grind Prime Minister Li to death.
It's not like they Liangzhou generals don't know how to use military formations.
If they repel Li Xiang, they will become famous. What can be faster than stepping on a famous person to rise to the top?
As long as he is famous, he can compete for the position of the head of the Ma family. Speaking of which, he has to thank Prime Minister Li. Without Prime Minister Li, the three of them would have been suppressed by Ma Jin.
Li Xiang killed Ma Jin and took away Ma Jinshang's fame!
However, this time it's their turn.
Xiliang headquarters is very strong, but he doesn't believe it. Several of them have joined forces and have 30,000 elite troops in their hands. When the war starts, the army in the city will also come out. If this can't repel Li Xiang
If so, even if the position of head of the family was given to them, they wouldn't have the nerve to sit on it.
Thinking that Ma Zhenyu had checked his weapons and equipment, they were sure that the whereabouts of the army had not been discovered by Xiliang. For this attack, they took a very remote road and saw no one along the way.
As long as there are traces of human habitation in a house, they will choose to go around it.
Only then did the three armies feel outside Heishui County.
Li Xiang, who was in the tent, was wearing a bright red armor. In a state of war, Xiliang soldiers, like him, never left their armor or soldiers. Even when sleeping, their weapons should be placed where they can be reached when they wake up.
Most of the soldiers in the city fell asleep, leaving only the soldiers guarding the camp and patrolling. Because the camp was large and the number of people was small, Prime Minister Li gathered the army in one place. However, in places where no one lived, Xiliang soldiers also had to patrol at night.
, you have to do it all when you are performing. As long as those people don’t come in, they won’t find that there is no one in the tent!
Just when Li Xiang was thinking about how to start tomorrow's war, a system prompt suddenly came to his ears.
"Your soldiers died!"
There are all these prompts, but usually Li Xiang will block them. Too many soldiers died on the battlefield. At that time, at night, he would turn on this message prompt.
In this way, if something happens at night, he can discover it immediately. When he opens the mini map and sees a large number of red dots next to the sentry post, the first word that comes to Li Xiang's mind is night attack.
"Enemy attack!"
Without even thinking about it, Li Xiang immediately shouted loudly to wake up the Xiliang soldiers who were sleeping.
"Lord, what happened!" The guards guarding Prime Minister Li outside immediately ran to the tent. Prime Minister Li immediately ordered: "Gather the army immediately, the enemy is in the northeast!"
"嘡嘡嘡!"
The piercing sound of the gong sounded. The Xiliang soldiers did not panic, but walked neatly to their team positions with weapons in hand. The patrol soldiers of the Northeast Army were already fighting with the enemy with weapons in hand.
The soldiers who lived close to this place, led by their captain, turned around and killed them.
Li Xiang sent 3,000 men to the Northeastern Army, leaving the remaining 2,000 men to protect the Shenji Battalion soldiers who were gathering.
The troops at the front did not fight randomly, but formed small formations to block the enemy and prevent them from entering the depths of the camp.
boom!
Rockets flying from nowhere were inserted into the Xiliang tent. The tent immediately burned, and soon the front line was red!
Ma Zhenhua saw that he was leading the army to the south and looked inside the east camp. As soon as the army reached the city gate and killed two night watch soldiers, it was discovered by the Xiliang army, and then a large number of Xiliang troops came over.
If he hadn't seen the other party's hurried look, he would have felt that Xiliang had already been prepared, otherwise he wouldn't have blocked the army so quickly.
A raging fire broke out in the camp in the east, and soldiers in several other camps woke up immediately.
Ma Zhenyu did not ride a horse. They walked through most places and the horses could not walk. For this reason, he could only throw the horses to Zhangye County.
He was at the front of the army, holding a long sword: "Follow me and kill!"
"kill!"
The soldier behind Ma Zhenyu ran, took off the long bow on his back, attached a rocket, and collided the arrow with the big weapon, and the arrow ignited fire.
After a round of ejection, the sky was lit up by rockets. When the soldiers in Heishui County saw those rockets, they knew it was their turn to dispatch.
Wang Zixiu stood on the city wall and shouted in the loudest voice: "Kill out, drive away the Xiliang army, and then go home and eat meat!"
"Kill!" It took a lot of effort to open the city gate. There were stones everywhere outside, and the war horses could not pass at all. Half of the troops in the city killed the east camp.
The remaining half was attracted by the other three camps.
Li Xiang was riding on Xing Liao, the cold wind was howling, and more and more tents in the camp were burning. It won't be long before the entire camp will turn into a sea of fire.
But now there is no extra time to deal with the fire problem. No, this fire can help them.
"Giant tree!" Li Xiang shouted, Cheng Jushu quickly ran to Li Xiang: "Lord!"
"Immediately take five hundred infantry to the grain and grass side and burn the grain and grass for me!" These grains and grass were sent from Xiliang from the Zhiqiang Fortress. Most of them were grain and grass from Liangzhou, and a small part were from Liangzhou.
Xiliang's ferocious beast wine: "That wine was poured on the tent over there and burned everything for me!"
Li Xiang saw that the number of enemies coming from the east was greater than the number of enemies from the Northeast Army!
They were now surrounded by a large enemy army, and he needed some time to arrange their troops.
"Yes!" Cheng Jushu responded loudly, turned around and ran with five hundred people to the grain field not far from the Chinese army's tent.
Li Xiang said to the soldiers next to him: "Order, the Shenji Battalion brings all war weapons to the trebuchet. Today we are going to fight a positional battle with these people at the place where the trebuchet is!"
"yes!"
The soldiers immediately ran to where the Shenji Battalion was, and at this time the battle in the northeast became intense.
After fighting with Xiliang soldiers, those elite soldiers from Liangzhou knew why the three-ethnic coalition was defeated.
These Xiliang soldiers are not only tall, but also very agile. They cannot defeat them in single combat, and they are no match for them in large-scale battles.
Under the fierce counterattack of the Xiliang army, these three thousand soldiers left corpses everywhere and had no choice but to retreat outside the camp. Then the Xiliang soldiers heard the war drums coming from behind.
Li Xiang felt that it was too slow to send people to inform one by one, so he immediately beat the war drums, and the Xiliang army in the camp gathered around the trebuchet.
The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion arranged mountains of war weapons into the military formation one by one. The soldiers on the outermost side were holding large shields. Each shield was more than one and a half meters high, followed by sharp spears.
The army slowly formed a huge circular formation.
In the middle of the formation is the psychic cannon. Below the psychic cannon is the carriage, which must be elevated.
The infantry troops formed the outermost defense, and the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion were responsible for long-range attacks. On the other side, more than 3,000 people retreated back. The formation was gradually improved, and the catapults were surrounded. At this time, the camp was surrounded by flames.
When Ma Zhenyu and his army were about to reach the Chinese army, they saw that the front of them had turned into a raging fire. You could see the food scattered on the ground. The Xiliang army burned the food to stop them.
"General, there are none in these big tents. There are basically no people in this camp!" An officer with sweat on his head ran to Ma Zhenyu and said.
"Everyone should be at the front!" Ma Zhenyu said to the soldiers on the other side: "Send my order and the whole army will attack!"
Fierce battles also occurred in several other camps, but after hearing the sound of war drums from the east, the Xiliang army formed a formation to fight the enemy.
Each of the Xiliang soldiers had at least five days of food on them, so it was not a big deal for the Xiliang soldiers to have their food and grass burned.
Li Xiang rode his horse in the middle of the formation, running east and west from time to time, organizing the soldiers to arrange the circular formation.
There are also small formations in the big formation. For example, if the pressure is too great, some enemies can be put in, and the soldiers inside are responsible for killing the enemies who come in.
Archers, crossbowmen, etc. stood behind the infantry, placing their weapons on the soldiers on the ground in front, looking at the red soldier camp.
The flames illuminate this side.
As soon as the fighting broke out on this side, the Xiliang scouts around Heishui County immediately divided into two parts. One part went to Heishui County and drove away the Xiliang army blocked by enemy reinforcements.
Others rushed towards Yuanye Town.
Because a large number of Xiliang scout troops were separated from the front line and Yuanye Town, the number of Xiliang scouts around Heishui County was only a hundred.
These one hundred scouts sound like a lot, but there are very few of them distributed around Heishui County, and many places are not taken care of at all. This is one of the reasons why the three armies were able to reach the surrounding areas of the army camp without being discovered.
Hoo ho ho!
The wind blowing the snowflakes seemed to resent that the fire was too small, and blew it to the east, making the Liangzhou soldiers feel very uncomfortable. If they were not careful, they would be burned by the fire.
It took more than ten minutes, Ma Zhenyu led the army to finally reach the former army camp where Li Xiang was located. The tents in the former army camp had been dismantled and placed on the snow for the Xiliang soldiers to step on, so that they could squat on the ground.
The soldiers felt better.
When Ma Zhenyu saw the large formation set up by the Xiliang army, he felt like vomiting blood. Why did Xiliang move so fast? Those shields, those spears, and the crossbows pointed at them.
"shoot!"
Li Xiang gave the order, and the long-range troops launched an attack. Forty psychic cannons were aimed at the soldiers running from the city. I called you to come out during the day. You will not come out alive. Now come out at night. Then don't leave!
Boom boom boom!
The defenders of Heishui County who were rushing forward fell in pieces at the sound. A round of psychic cannon attacks knocked down more than a hundred defenders, and the impulsive steps of many soldiers slowed down.
Didn’t we agree that they were here to pick up the leaks?
The sound of crossbows and archers firing arrows was obscured by the sound of psychic cannons.
The people who gathered around the formation fell down in response. The burning tents gave the Xiliang archers and crossbowmen a view, and also made the Liangzhou soldiers ignore them. The Xiliang soldiers faced the flames, while the Liangzhou soldiers had their backs turned.
flame!
The enemies on the side who were repulsed by the Xiliang army were killed again to the side of the army.
"Master, everything is burned!" Cheng Jushu's face was covered with sweat, dripping down his chin onto the snow.
Li Xiang looked up at the dim sky: "Take a rest and be ready to attack!"
He is not a person who waits to be killed. The number of enemies far exceeds theirs. Fortunately, it is night time. No matter how large the enemy army is, it is of no use. The enemies who attack them may not have night blindness, but the troops in the city are different!
Now we need to use the military formation to let the Shenji Battalion exert their powerful long-range strike power.
The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion in the army arranged the explosive fire crossbows that had been prepared for half an hour. The explosive fire crossbows will explode when they encounter the enemy after being sent out.
