Chapter 308: Chase
(The second update beast has broken the power, this is the only chapter today, sorry!)
Above Chengjiawu Fort, the horns were roaring, and the gate that had been closed was wide open, and the suspension bridge was laid down. Thousands of rural soldiers held spears and shields, and under the guidance of dozens of cavalry, they came out of the fort one after another. These were the original rural soldiers in the fort. The two leaders were Li Rui and the other was the owner of Chengjiawu Fort, and Cheng Jia, the current village head of Chengjiawu Fort.
"General Li is a magical calculation!" Looking at Fei Can and his cavalry who were trapped in the Jedi, Cheng Jia was impressed.
Li Rui was also extremely proud. This time, he led 800 elite troops to sneak in secret from Shenzhou, without any supplies, but only brought a large number of crossbow arrows.
Eight hundred people actually carried two thousand crossbows, and each soldier had nearly three on average.
Of course, if the crossbow is not undergoing special training, it will not be able to play with it. If the soldiers of Chengjia Crossbow are used by them, the effect will probably be greatly reduced.
After arriving in Chengjiawu, he summoned another 200 armored soldiers stationed in Gaoyang. A total of 1,000 armored soldiers were the main force of his battle. With 1,000 armored soldiers and 1,000 village soldiers, against Fei Can's two thousand cavalry, it sounded like a striking stone with eggs, but he designed the traps and was determined without intention. On the battlefield arranged in advance, Fei Can suffered a great loss.
The two sides have not yet formally contacted each other, and Fei Can has lost more than 500 cavalrymen.
"Don't underestimate him, Lu Longbing, their strength is still there, and there is still a fight in this battle!" Li Rui suppressed his excitement and said.
"They can't escape." Cheng Jia was very excited. As the first batch of Yingzhou Yuanwu Fortress owners who lost to Wuwei Jie Town, he was treated preferentially. If he made another military contribution this time, the position of Gaoyang County Magistrate, who was granted his position as the magistrate of Gaoyang County, would be within his control.
Now Fei Can has a military formation composed of 500 elite soldiers in front and behind, and traps are everywhere in the dense green gauze tents on both sides of the left and right. Their activity area is limited to such a small area, and it is difficult to exert the maneuverability and speed advantages of the cavalry. In addition to the terrifying long-range strike power of the Wuwei Military Town, can Fei Can still fly into the sky with wings?
The moment Fei Can climbed up from the ground, he had a clear understanding of his situation. He looked at his war horse with some pity, which had broken his horse's hooves. This war horse had accompanied him for five years and was the longest time with him, and was staring at him wailingly.
Fei Can picked up his spear from the ground, walked to the horse, closed his eyes, roared, and stabbed him with a fierce shot. The war horse's head, which was raised hard, hung down dejectedly.
A soldier brought Fei Can back a war horse without his master. Fei Can turned over and stepped onto the saddle. His helmet fell to a certain extent and his hair also fell to pieces. At this moment, his long thick hair was dispersed, showing a more fierce aura.
As a veteran of a long battle formation, he knew that there was a lot of trouble.
Behind are hundreds of elite martial arts soldiers, large shields, spears, and crossbows, forming the classic formation against the cavalry. More importantly, there is a pit in front of them at this moment.
After these soldiers climbed out of the underground tunnel, they did not move forward, but retreated to the back of the pit. Facing Fei Can, the side facing Fei Can, the Wude soldiers stood on the other side of the tunnel and stood up a long shield. This small obstacle has now become an unbearable weight for Fei Can.
If his cavalry wants to break the enemy formation, they must leap through this tunnel, but the problem is that he cannot accelerate now, and without speed, it is difficult for his cavalry to rush over in one go.
And directly in front of him, hundreds of other armored soldiers were in the same formation.
Fei Can knew even more that it would be difficult for him to defeat such an elite force in a short period of time. Once he was entangled, the consequences would be unimaginable.
In the dense green gauze tents on both sides, the cunning Wude people set up many traps, tripping ropes, tunnels, or anything else, which would make his cavalry difficult to move forward.
"Split the troops left and right, and sweep over the Wude people's army formation ahead. Don't bother with them. We will attack the rural soldiers behind them." In an instant, Fei Can knew that he had no other way except this path.
Even if this would cost him a huge price.
Under Li De's nose, Fei Can's cavalry was divided into two, and the remaining more than a thousand cavalry were arranged into thin columns, rushing towards him quickly while rubbing the narrow open space between the Wude soldiers' military formation and the green gauze tents on both sides.
The path he chose was the two wings of the military formation ahead, and rushed forward against the edge of the Wude military formation.
The charging Lu Long cavalry tried to block the side facing the Wuwei military formation with the small shield he carried, lowered his body, and desperately destroyed the war horses.
Now they only have speed.
The crossbow arrows were whistling, and the Lulong cavalry fell down like dumplings. Some of them were hit by crossbow arrows, while others were injured and fell to the ground.
What made Li De's expression slightly was that the Lulong cavalry who fell off the horse, as long as they could move, would get up from the ground, holding shields, waving their swords and guns in their hands, and yelling and rushing towards the military formation without hesitation. This forced the crossbow arrows in the military formation to separate some of them to deal with these chargers.
The crossbow arrows shooting the running cavalry suddenly became much weaker.
"It's true that there are two brushes!" Li De reached out and took off the big knife hanging on the saddle, and smiled at Cheng Jia and said, "Cometown Master Cheng, it's up to you next."
Cheng Jia was nervous at this moment. He might not be afraid, because he could also see that the other party is just trying his best now, and his advantage is still on their side, but the other party's posture clearly pointed the finger at him. Although there are now a military formation composed of thousands of rural soldiers on his side, he has no confidence in his heart.
Hearing Li De's words, he took a deep breath, raised the horizontal knife in his hand, and shouted sternly: "Old and young men, after winning this battle, each of them will be rewarded with ten taels of silver."
Of course, he took out the money himself, and thousands of village soldiers were worth tens of thousands of taels of silver. This was also a huge sum of money for a rich man from the fort.
But when I turned around and thought about it, if I could perform well in front of Li Rui, he would not care about the money he had spent, and he would not care about how many people died.
As long as he is still alive to seize the fruits of victory.
At this moment, he clearly saw that the attacking military formation in Li Rui's rear had crossed the trench and advanced forward. The two military formations were brought together and formed a forward and back attack with him. It only took him a while to last longer.
Fei Can paid nearly 300 people and rushed to Cheng Jia's village soldiers.
"Pengthening!" Fei Can shouted angrily with his fingers of a spear.
He didn't have much time. Behind him, Wu De's two military formations had already merged into one, and he was strode forward.
Almost as he yelled, Li Rui also raised his big sword high. With a long roar, he rushed towards the roaring Lu Long Cavalry with only dozens of cavalry beside him.
The two armies collided heavily.
The personal guards who followed Li De were indeed very brave, but after all, there were only dozens of cavalry. Although they directly entered the heart of the other party like a burning fire tong, more Lu Long cavalry roared past them and rushed towards the village soldiers of Chengjiawu.
When Li Rui came out of the formation, more than ten robes were missing around him. When he turned around, he shook his head with regret. Cheng Jiawu's rural soldiers either had innate fear of the Lulong army, or because they were indeed not strong enough, or they were frightened by the Lulong people's fierceness at the moment, even though Cheng Jia offered a heavy reward, even if Cheng Jia himself worked hard to intercept the Lulong cavalry, Cheng Jiawu's rural soldiers were still defeated by a blow.
After Fei Can rushed away the soldiers of Chengjiawu Township, he bypassed Chengjiawu Fort without looking back, circled a big circle, and ran wildly towards the distance.
Although he broke through the encirclement, only more than a thousand cavalry left when Fei Can came.
"General Li, Cheng is ashamed." Cheng Jia came to Li Rui dejectedly. Behind him, the frightened village soldiers were still in chaos at this moment.
Li Rui did not think it was offended, and the village soldiers were at this level. This battle allowed Cheng Jia to see the reality that the village soldiers he could organize were vulnerable to the face of a truly elite army, and also could also blow some small thoughts that might still be hidden deep in his heart to no longer exist.
Besides, this time the cavalry that surrounded and annihilated Fei Can was not the move in front of him, it was a chain of plans.
"The soldiers in Chengjiawu performed well." Li Rui smiled and said, "Especially, the township chief Cheng was brave and killed many Lu Long's cavalrymen. I will definitely write this in the battle report."
"Thank you General Li, I am ashamed, ashamed!" Hearing Li Rui's praise, Cheng Jia felt a little fever on his face.
"Captain Cheng, organize everyone to clean the battlefield!" Li Rui said.
"General Li, what should I do if those Lu Long cavalrymen?" Cheng Jia asked carefully.
Li Rui smiled and said, "If they run away, we don't have to worry about it. There will naturally be someone else to do the rest."
For Li Rui, of course, he wanted to keep Fei Can's troops, and he had to do some effort for this, but he had to admit that Fei Can and his cavalry were not only extremely tough, but also responded quickly. Fei Can was also a very powerful general. In such a short time, he could find the only road that could be protruded and surrounded.
"Young Master said that Lu Long's army is definitely a strong army in the world, and this is true." Li Rui thought in his heart that if he encounters any Lu Long's army in the future, he must not be careless at all. He must be careful to deal with them.
After escaping for more than ten miles in one breath, Fei Can, a cavalry with only half of them, finally took a breath. They had to stop and rest for a while. If their war horses continued to run like this, they might be ruined.
"General Fei, let's take a break, we might as well kill one of us. Now those people are afraid that they are busy celebrating the victory. Let's go back and avenge the brothers who died in battle!" A lieutenant walked up to Fei Can and said loudly.
Fei Can did not answer his words, but looked at the distance in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.
"General Fei, what does a small setback count? When we fought the Khitan Golden Point, we lost thousands of brothers in one battle. Didn't we win in the end?" said the lieutenant.
"Kill back, kill back!" The captain's words aroused the arrogance of a group of veterans around Fei Can, and these people asked Fei Can to fight in unison.
Fei Can breathed a long sigh. He still had such morale after the defeat, which certainly made him very happy, but at this moment, he thought of a more serious problem.
In the battle just ended, Cheng Jiawubao obviously guessed what he thought, so he set up a trap for him to get into it. These soldiers were not Liu Chenglin's subordinates, and he still knew that the soldiers and horses of Shenzhou appeared here, so they could only be specifically targeted at him.
If all this was designed by Liu Chenglin, then where did the cavalry of Li De who had been behind him go? Have they really been tricked into going somewhere else by themselves?
"Where is Li De's cavalry?" He suddenly turned around and asked the captain who had just asked for battle.
The captain was stunned. Before he could answer, a slight tremor came from the ground. For these experienced cavalry, what this represents is self-evident.
"The enemy is coming, prepare for battle!" Fei Can shouted loudly, and took the lead in turning over the horse. More than a thousand cavalrymen rolled over toward each other.
On the horizon to the left, a vast cavalry was rushing towards them like a tide. It was the rangers led by Li De.
"Don't be in love with the battle, go!" Fei Can shouted, then left after hitting the horse.
His army had just experienced a fierce battle and was still breathing. When he met more than 2,000 cavalrymen who were raising their strength, he had no chance of winning at all.
A trick of chasing and escaping began to take place in Yingzhou. Fei Can and his cavalry tried hard to escape towards the Shilin. As long as he could escape to the Shilin, the Great Rift Valley everywhere would provide him with the best protection. Wherever people who were not familiar with the terrain of the Great Rift Valley would be as if they had entered the Secret Palace. At that time, it was the time for him to fight back.
However, as Fei Can thought, his cavalry could not escape the opponent who was raising energy. On the way to escape, he had to divide up a group of cavalry again and again to intercept and delay Li De's main force.
When he saw the Great Rift Valley of the Stone Forest, he tried hard to follow his cavalry, and only six or seven hundred cavalry were left. Behind him, Li De's pursuers had already revealed their figures on the horizon.
The cavalry were still in shock, but they rushed into an entrance to the Great Rift Valley with some feeling of surviving the disaster. Fei Can, who was standing at the back, looked fiercely at Li De's cavalry who were getting closer and closer.
Chapter completed!