The devil is coming

Chapter 181
In fact, ever since the Yan army crossed the river, there have been active military figures around here. However, what is surprising is that these cadres do not look like sentry cavalry wandering out. Some of them look like they are in the procession. Some of them can be seen as having good skills and horsemanship skills, but most of them are not actually wearing Ganjun armor.
Scattered here and there, it also seemed a bit messy, as if there was no system at all, just like a man in the rivers and lakes.
In Liang Cheng's words, the Sentinel Cavalry during the war is actually the eyes of an army, similar to the sandbox strategy games of later generations. In fact, there are always shadows in the field of vision, and the Sentinel Cavalry needs to be used to open up the field of vision.
As for how many to send out, how to arrange them, and the quality of the sentinel cavalry itself, they actually all have great particularities.
Generally speaking, in an army, the most capable individuals and small units are often sentry cavalry. For a long time in later generations, before the concept of special forces existed, scouts and reconnaissance companies often played the role of special forces. , many movies and TV shows about scouts and scout companies have emerged as a result, influencing several generations of children to say that their future dream is to be a scout.
Cuiliu Fort basically uses barbarians as sentinels, and whether they are Cuiliu Fort or the sentinels of the Zhenbei Army, as a reconnaissance force that can be active in the vast desert with extremely harsh natural conditions, their quality is undoubtedly the best in the world. , and therefore, these sentries from the Qian Kingdom riding in front of them were a bit unsatisfactory.
Even though those people were very skilled, it was too easy to be killed or even captured alive under the combined attack of several sentries and cavalry. From their interrogation, it was learned that some of them were not from the Qianguo army at all. Sentinels are servants sent by each family from the mansion to inquire about the situation.
If it was just a small fight before, now we have received feedback from the sentry riders that an established army is coming here.
The number of people is probably more than 2000.
Whether it is an organic unit or not is a key factor in measuring whether a troop has combat effectiveness. Therefore, when everyone came and played a one-on-one fighting game before, it was just a show, and no one took it seriously. However, they treated it as an organic unit. After Gan Jun appeared, the nature of the matter changed.
The Yan army was still crossing the river. Even a beginner like Zheng Fan who had just entered the military school knew the story of "attacking halfway across the river". At this moment, he directly slapped the horse's buttocks with the back of his sword and led nearly two thousand horsemen under his command. He rushed directly to kill him.
Zheng Fan's role ended here for the time being. Next, Zheng Shoubei consciously handed over the command to Liang Cheng.
Before I went to the battlefield, I always felt that the world was vast enough for me to roam. After truly seeing the cruelty of the battlefield, I realized that as a superior, you must have absolute confidence in your heart. A wrong decision of yours is likely to cause the death of your subordinates. Therefore, many more lives were lost.
However, Zheng Shoubei soon regretted it.
Because there was no testing, no reorganization of the military formation, and no echelon arrangement,
Liang Cheng waved the saber in his hand,
The order to charge was given without hesitation!
The frequency of the horses' hooves also accelerated, and all the knights began to accelerate!
Because he was in this mountain, with the tall tower of Fan Li standing in front of him, the other demon kings staying close to him, and his own cavalry on the periphery, Zheng Shoubei had not really observed the situation on the other side.
Oh, by the way, when Zheng Fan ordered the attack, Fan Li touched the little sword boy's head and put her on the spot without taking her to the battlefield.
As for whether she would slip away and run away, that was her own choice. It was up to her.
at last,
The two sides were in contact.
Once the two armies join forces, much of the previous order will be lost. In everyone's eyes, only the opponent in front of them is left, and all that is left in their minds is the words "hack him to death" .
Zheng Fan also chopped down a Gan Bing with one blow. However, after chopping him down, Zheng Fan was a little stunned, because this could no longer be regarded as a Gan Bing. The clothes this man was wearing were more like those on the stage when watching a play. person's clothing.
The Yan State was still dark, and the Yan State's system often meant that military and political affairs were not separated from each other. In other words, the Yan people did not have much "aesthetic" and "class" artistic talent.
"My lord, this is the yamen servant."
A Ming said.
Oh yes.
Zheng Fan suddenly realized, no wonder this man's clothes looked so familiar. This was indeed not a regular cadre, but probably a spook from a nearby government office.
So Liang Cheng directly ordered the charge. An army composed of a group of government servants and an unknown number of other troops was simply a mob. Facing an opponent who had no routine at all, if you don't pay attention to the routine, you will be in trouble. Ula will do.
Facts have also proved that this is indeed the case. Even the regular army of the Qian Kingdom could barely resist the Yan people's cavalry charge in formation, let alone this group of people who just gathered together without any structure.
After the charge, this group of soldiers and horses collapsed directly, and what followed was a unilateral killing time belonging to the Yan army.
However, there was a civil servant riding a donkey in the Ganren army.
Yes, riding a donkey, with gray hair, dragging a sword, because the sword was too heavy for him to lift.
Come to think of it, this ragtag group should have been summoned by him. Their spirit is commendable and even a bit shocking, but in terms of combat effectiveness, alas, there is really no combat effectiveness.
Zheng Fan just glanced at the old man. The next moment, the old man disappeared. Maybe he fell off the donkey or was chopped down by Yan Jun's knife.
In short, in the face of a huge defeat, the probability of the old man surviving can be said to be extremely slim.
This is a battlefield, and there is no room for any respect for the old or for the young. Even if you want to express your gratitude to the heroes among your opponents, it is an extended activity when the battle is finished and the battlefield is cleaned up.
The opponent came quickly and collapsed quickly. However, Liang Cheng did not order a fierce pursuit, but decisively ordered the withdrawal of troops. As the vanguard, the most important thing for them was to protect the crossing. If it was because of greed, If something unexpected happens, it's really not worth the gain.
Even if we rush south for a while, we might be able to see Qian Guo's ascension to the capital, and the great power of throwing the sky is right in front of us, but we still have to restrain ourselves.
When returning to the army, Liang Cheng came to Zheng Fan and reported:
"My lord, it's the defeated army of government officials and prisoners organized by the local old county magistrate, plus a group of local rangers."
Zheng Fan nodded after hearing this.
He didn't say anything else, let alone ask whether the old man's body had been buried. He went through a lot of similar things all the way south, and he was indeed a little numb.
The Qian Kingdom is so big that it is normal for there to be some people like this, but in fact, their appearance itself means that the power of the Qian Kingdom is declining.
However, at this moment, a Zhenbei army rushed over from the direction where Zheng Fan came. The leader was Li Fusheng, followed by Sun Guyi behind Li Fusheng.
"There are other troops stationed at the ferry waiting for the army to cross the river. Zheng Shoubei, lead your men to follow me!"
"The last will obey!"
Zheng Fan originally thought that Li Fusheng crossed the river first because he planned to go to the capital city to say hello to the official family of Qian Guo and fulfill his previous joke.
But unexpectedly, Li Fusheng led his army directly to the east instead of going south.
Zheng Fancui's Liubao cavalry and Sun Guyi's men added up to less than [-] cavalry. The follow-up troops were still crossing the river, but Li Fusheng obviously couldn't wait any longer.
Heading east, everyone ran straight for seventy or eighty miles without stopping. In front of them, there was a military stronghold that was full of people.
Judging from the appearance alone, this military stronghold is very neat and hierarchical. On the other side of the Bian River, there is another military stronghold. The military stronghold on the other side of the river is larger than the one in front of you. There are also more soldiers.
Naturally, the appearance of a large group of cavalry could not be concealed. For a time, soldiers from the Qian Kingdom appeared in the military villages on both sides of the river.
To be honest, Zheng Fan is already a little dizzy at this moment. His level of map reading in his previous life was actually that of sister Zhiling guiding you.
In this life of fighting, many times I am a little confused about the position.
In fact, it is not just Zheng Shoubei who is confused. At present, the area from Xishan County to Bianzhou County is not very big. With the Bianhe River as the dividing line, the directions of the Zhenbei Army and the Qian Army on both sides can be said to be It's so intertwined that it's extremely complicated. It's not an exaggeration to say that I am part of you, and you are part of me.
Li Bao, regardless of the cost of casualties to his men, beat them like crazy in the past few days and completely mobilized the Qianguo troops.
This is a chaotic war, and only truly outstanding generals have the ability to cut through the chaos and open up a situation.
Li Fusheng didn't hesitate at all.
Raise the long knife in your hand,
shouted:
"The ambition to break the formation!"
Behind him, the Zhenbei Army knights shouted:
"Death but not life!"
There was no pre-battle speech, and the big guy who had just been galloping for such a long time was not even allowed to stop and take a rest. It seemed that he was in a hurry, and most of the links were omitted, leaving only the charge!
Li Fusheng led the charge forward, followed closely by Sun Guyi. The Zhenbei soldiers no longer cared about the already overdrawn horsepower and began to drain the last bit of blood from their close comrades.
Liang Cheng turned his head and glanced at Zheng Fan. To be honest, this is very polite, because unless you want to defeat Dayan, if you still want to save your strength and not charge at this moment, then just wait for death.
The question is, if you don't continue to follow Dayan, can you still go to Qianguo, who is about to be beaten into a dog, and surrender?
Zheng Fan gritted his teeth.
shouted:
"rush!"
Liang Cheng ordered the charge, and the Cuiliu Fort cavalry no longer hesitated, followed closely by the Zhenbei Army knights, who also began to charge forward regardless of others.
Arrows were shot out of the Qianjun army camp. In front of them, Yanjun cavalrymen were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, but the cavalrymen beside and behind them continued to charge forward.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Some of the war horses directly hit the fence, and some of the war horses were stabbed in the abdominal cavity by the wooden thorns below, and blood and intestines flowed out directly.
The knight who fell off his horse held his saber, called to the few robes around him, and continued to charge into the formation on foot.
The cavalry on both sides of the perimeter began to throw flying claws and began to use the power of their hips to destroy the outer walls of the military stronghold.
Li Fusheng took the lead, and the saber was directly bitten in his mouth. After dismounting, he used his hands and feet to climb directly onto the outer wall of the military village. He was as fast as a monkey.
Behind him, batch after batch of Zhenbei troops also climbed the wall with bare hands just like him.
The outer wall of the temporary military stronghold was naturally not as good as the real city wall, but it was quite easy to climb up. However, inside there were spears used by the army to thrust, and archers shooting arrows. Less than half of the soldiers who were climbing fell down. came down, but the people behind remained unmoved, like a group of lunatics who were not afraid of death, and continued to climb up with their own generals.
Fortunately, Paoze in the rear also fought back with arrows. Because he was more fierce and not afraid of death and had many powerful cadres in shooting skills, he finally suppressed the cadres in the general's stronghold for a while.
At this time, Li Fusheng had already led the first group of soldiers to climb the wall and began to fight with the cadres above to clear a space for the following troops to climb the wall.
Zheng Fan also came to the foot of the village wall. On his left side was A Ming, on his right side was Siniang, behind him was the blind man, and in front of him was Fan Li.
For the demon kings, it doesn't matter how the war goes, as long as their masters are fine, it is acceptable.
Zheng Shoubei didn't force himself to "go out independently to have fun". After all, it didn't matter if you got too high and overturned, but it would probably lead to the collective death of the demon kings.
"What the hell is this thing about?"
Zheng Fan roared angrily. He didn't know who he was venting his dissatisfaction with. He only knew that he was digging into the family foundation that had been hidden for so long and had almost no damage since the beginning of the war. At this moment, he was moving at an extremely fast speed. A death.
But Zheng Fan knows that the best way to reduce casualties is to defeat the cadres inside as quickly as possible. Otherwise, if the stalemate continues, his losses will become greater and greater!
At this time, perhaps because the first-strength warriors led by Li Fusheng successfully withstood the pressure and entered the military stronghold, the threat to the surrounding Yan army in the military stronghold began to diminish, so a group of knights had already exerted their strength together. A fence was pulled out of the frozen soil.
"Kangdang..."
A vacant position about ten meters wide was opened.
But at this time, the cadres inside were not afraid to retreat. Instead, they swarmed in with shouts and wanted to block the opening of the general's stronghold.
The quality of the Ganjun in the military camp is good, at least they are much more able and daring to fight than the Ganguo guards in the city seen on the road.
"Fan Li!"
Zheng Shoubei let out an angry roar.
"Roar!"
Fan Li let out an angry roar and rushed directly to the gap first with two axes in hand. He was dressed in iron armor and even had a big iron helmet on his head. Like a mad bull, he rammed into the soldiers in front. .
Because Zheng Fan's strength is limited, Fan Li is not a master in the absolute sense, but his physique and his own strength are really useful on the battlefield.
"boom!"
Fan Li, by himself, actually forced the Qianjun in front to retreat.
At this time, Zheng Fan and others followed closely and rushed in.
The blind man's mind power could not do anything else at this time. He could only do his best to protect himself, Siniang and his master from being hurt by hidden arrows.
As for A Ming and Fan Li, it doesn't matter if they receive a few arrows.
At this gap, Yan troops kept coming to fight on foot. Gradually, the soldiers who tried to block the hole could no longer hold on and began to retreat. At this time, it was a battle of blood and courage to see who could retreat first. , often means defeat.
Gan Ren's momentum had been released. More and more Yan troops rushed in, and everyone began to fight in the military camp.
Without the protection of the military stronghold and the advantage of geographical location, Zhenbei's soldiers' personal martial arts advantages were undoubtedly evident, and the fighting in the military stronghold soon became one-sided.
Finally, as Li Fusheng took off the head of a general, the already decadent army finally collapsed. They stopped resisting and began to flee through other entrances and exits of the military camp.
This military stronghold was captured by the Yan army.
At this time, the troops in the military stronghold on the other side of the river came out of camp and crossed the glacier to rescue them. However, the military stronghold fell so quickly that the Yan army captured it before the reinforcements from the other side could arrive. What's ridiculous is that the dry army who came to rescue was surrounded by the dry army who escaped from the military stronghold, and the reinforcements also followed suit and started running away.
On the contrary, it made the soldiers of Yan Army, who were preparing for the second battle, dumbfounded.
However, Zheng Shoubei was really dumbfounded now, because in the charge just now, nearly 400 of his Cuiliu Fort cavalry were killed in battle alone, and twice as many were injured.
This kind of casualty cost made Zheng Shoubei, who had always been accustomed to small business, feel so heartbroken that he could not breathe.
Ultimately, it's because Zheng Fan hasn't evolved into the kind of person who can easily say, "One general's success will cost ten thousand bones."
The blind man was a little out of strength. He seemed to be huddled at the back, but he paid the most. In fact, what he feared most on the battlefield was not real swords or guns, but a sudden attack, and he would not die by then. Know how you died.
As soon as the battle was over, the blind man sat on the ground, lowered his head, and began to rest.
Fan Li's armor was also damaged in many places and there were many wounds. Siniang was helping him deal with them. Fortunately, he had rough skin and thick flesh, so the problem was not a big problem.
Zheng Fan turned around and looked, and sure enough, he saw a familiar and somewhat rickety figure sitting where the corpses were most densely stacked.
The man didn't have peanuts this time, but he kept putting fried noodles wrapped in red into his mouth, his cheeks were stuffed, and he chewed them with big mouthfuls, feeling indescribable satisfaction.
Zheng Fan took a deep breath and spit it out heavily.
Zheng Fan had no intention of going up and arguing with Li Fusheng, because it was Zheng Fan who was at fault.
At this time, A Ming secretly pulled out an arrow from his shoulder, threw it aside, and asked Liang Cheng who was standing next to him:
"What the hell is this?"
"It should be that Li Fusheng just learned the news that the defense of this military stronghold is empty. Obviously, according to the size of this military stronghold, there should be more than this number of defenders inside. They may have been transferred out to encircle Li Bao before."
"and then?"
"Then we have two ferry crossings along the nearly hundred miles long Bian River." Liang Cheng replied, "The ferry crossing is a suitable place for crossing the river. Although the river is frozen now, But it is unrealistic to cross the ice on a large scale. Many soldiers fell on the ice when we crossed the river before. It will take time to build a pontoon bridge, and as long as there are enough sentries and knights, Ganren wants to do it on a small scale. It is not a big problem to touch some people to cross the river, but if we want to cross the river on a large scale, we will definitely be discovered in advance, and it will be much easier to attack halfway across the river.
This should be the West Wind Crossing.
Originally, the most capable troops in the Qian Kingdom were transferred north. Later, because of Li Bao's troops, most of the elites that could be mobilized in the capital of the Qian Kingdom were sent to Xishan County to fight against the Qian Kingdom. Li Bao intercepted and suppressed.
Now, we have this ferry in our hands again. It is equivalent to saying that the Bianhe River that was specially dug by the Qian Kingdom to prevent the Yan people from going south is now on our side and can be used by us. "
Liang Cheng turned around and looked to the south, where the richest city in the world stood.
And this city has been isolated from its own soldiers and horses because of the Bian River that was originally used to protect it.
…………
"Zheng Shoubei."
Li Fusheng waved to Zheng Fan who was standing in the distance.
Zheng Fan walked over without any disrespect on his face.
Instead, after seeing a knife wound deep into the bone on Li Fusheng's left shoulder, he showed concern and said:
"Sir, are you injured?"
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. It's just a minor injury. It's just a minor injury. I'll just let someone deal with it later. But this is your general?"
Li Fusheng pointed to his side,
Only then did Zheng Fan see Xue San, who had been completely obscured by Li Fusheng's figure.
"If it hadn't been for him before, I wouldn't have been able to kill the opponent's general so easily. Zheng Shoubei, you have so many talents around you."
There were so many that Li Fusheng was a little jealous.
"Sir, you are joking, we are all yours now."
"Haha, don't talk nonsense like this. Once this stronghold is captured, leave seven or eight thousand riders to guard it. The goddamn people on the other side of the river won't be able to cross the river in peace. I'll do whatever they dare to do. Let him give away as much as he wants.
It's like trying to get around, hehe, with the structure of cadres and few cavalry, the infantry ran away, and within three or four days, there was no way they could get around.
That silly leopard had enough fun this time. He actually deliberately used a loophole to let the army surround him. Only then did he transfer all the soldiers in this military stronghold. Otherwise, it would be really difficult to take it down. "
Zheng Fan lowered his head and remained silent.
"This time I owe that stupid leopard a huge debt."
said,
Li Fusheng laughed again,
Pointing to the south,
Road:
"Zheng Shoubei, I said earlier that I would have a good chat with that official of the state. Now, the official of the state and I have at least three days to have a good chat."
Li Fusheng reached out and patted Zheng Fan on the shoulder.
asked:
"Zheng Shoubei, I have the greatest skill for you. If you get this skill, you will be the top one in this battle!
I ask you,
Do you dare to be my messenger tonight?
Go to the capital to send a letter of greetings to the official family of Na Qianguo? "
Zheng Fan immediately knelt down on one knee excitedly,
Hold your fists,
Sincerely said:
"Don't dare!"
"..." Li Fusheng.
(End of this chapter)