Chapter 295: Pacification (Sixth)

Thousands of panicked soldiers suddenly rushed out of the jungle and rushed towards Wang Wen's camp. Seeing their armor-drawn and panicked look on their faces, they could see how fierce the fire in the jungle was.

Because he was prepared, Wang Wen's soldiers were not surprised by the enemy's panic attack. According to the original arrangement, the Rangers carried out a cover strike against the enemy on the inside of the camp. The surviving enemy troops seemed to have only one dead end in front of the heavily armed heavy infantry.

However, Wang Wen's camp was limited after all. Although it blocked many enemy troops who escaped from the jungle, a large number of enemies fled from both sides of the camp to help their own barracks. Immediately afterwards, the sky-swinging fire mixed with the whistling north wind enveloped the entire jungle. The soldiers who had not escaped from the jungle were covered with flames and screamed and struggled out of the forest, but then they fell to the ground powerlessly and were engulfed by the fire on their bodies. Although the vine armor on the Su soldiers was strong, they were very prone to fire. If they encountered such a situation, it would be lucky to be able to escape.

Since the fire started to ignite from the side of the wind, the dense forest burned very fast this time. In just over a day, the fire that soared into the sky had weakened a lot. At this time, the Soviet troops, who had been following closely behind, actually began to attack.

At this time, the thick smoke that filled the entire world was still very strong. Even if he was lying on the ground beside the pond, it still made people feel breathless. Wang Wen never expected that the Su generals who were camping in the ashes could actually issue an order to attack.

Seeing the dust and smoke rising from the back of his camp, Wang Wen and other generals had to order their soldiers to get up to fight. Although they were covered with wet cloths on their mouths and noses, the feeling of standing up and lying down in such a fire scene is absolutely different. A place more than one person tall has made people feel that the air is thin. In such an environment, it is difficult to stand simply. It is really hard to imagine how the soldiers of the Soviet Union could launch an attack under such conditions?

Although Wang Wen and the others did not understand, the Soviet troops still attacked the front of their camp after all. Although soldiers fell to the ground from time to time in the thick smoke, the soldiers who caught up later still rushed forward as if they had not seen it. This situation was seen in the eyes of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty who were defending, and they couldn't help but feel nervous and admired. Unconsciously, they also grabbed the weapons in their hands, their bodies trembled slightly, preparing to face a difficult battle.

Wang Wen and Yuchi Xiong stood on the high observation deck, tightly covering the wet towel in their hands, enduring the dizziness caused by lack of oxygen in the air, and nervously paying attention to the situation on the battlefield. Although the thick smoke prevented him from being too far away, from the situation in front of him and the battle situation reported by the front row scouts through the intercom, he firmly grasped the situation on the battlefield. When he learned that most of the enemy had entered the range of the rangers, he decisively waved his right hand.

With the rhythmic sound of war drums, the well-trained soldiers immediately understood the combat intention conveyed by Wang Wen. Several heavy infantry standing in the front row immediately squatted down on the spot and lit up the sight of the Rangers who were following him. With the gray light, the Rangers raised their crossbows in their hands and aimed at the enemy running in the front row and started accurate shooting. This purposeful shooting caused a huge loss to the enemy. Thirty thousand rangers stood in two rows and took turns to carry out precise strikes on the attacking enemy troops, trying to avoid the opponent from attacking in front of their own formation. In such a harsh environment, heavy infantry will suffer a lot. The heavy equipment on their bodies consumed a lot of energy, so they must prevent the opponent from getting closer as much as possible.

The attacks of the Su soldiers were rising and falling. In the open space about 30 meters away from the camp, there were densely packed with Su soldiers. Although they were all wearing strong vine armor, the distance was too close. Even if the crossbow arrows could not kill them immediately, they could still cause severe damage to them. Therefore, most of the people lying there are groaning and unable to move.

Seeing that the Rangers could not break through the life-and-death line under the dense rain of arrows, the generals of the Su Kingdom stopped the attack in time. They originally thought that in this environment, Wang Wen's Rangers could not use their high mobility to deal with their severe damage, but they did not expect that the Rangers' power was still so terrifying in the defense of the position. This attack was sent in a total of 50,000 soldiers, and only two or three thousand were left behind. The remaining ones were shot on the spot from time to time, and they were struggling in pain in front of the enemy camp.

Seeing the enemy retreating, Wang Wen finally let down his heart. The enemy obviously wanted to fight for consumption and tried to consume his own vitality with his superior forces. Once the troops of both sides fought in this environment, his own soldiers could not stop the other side. Fortunately, the Rangers' Firepower Grotto Alliance, otherwise the opponent would really succeed.

Wang Wen, who had relaxed, realized that Yuchi Xiong beside him had fainted and was carried down. He was old and could no longer stand the severe hypoxia and was covered with smoke. Even Wang Wen had difficulty breathing at this time, so he bent down and coughed wildly.

Under the sky full of smoke and dust, in the evening, the place was already out of sight. With the lessons learned during the day, Wang Wen specially sent a secret whistle outside the camp in the evening to prevent the opponent from sneak attacking in the dark. The enemy's advantage lies in the large number of people, and they are not afraid of close combat, so defense at night is crucial.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, the Su troops launched a sneak attack of numerous people and were discovered by secret mail a hundred meters away from the camp. The rangers on duty received the order and carried out a dense arc strike within fifty meters in front of the camp. Although this kind of shooting was a bit like a blind cat hitting a rat, it was still very effective at night when the hand was out of sight. The enemy could also see nothing. They were just groping forward with the help of the day's memories and suddenly being shot from the sky. This panic can be imagined. The night was originally a fear, and then heard the screams around and the whistling of crossbow arrows above their heads. Even though the Su soldiers were brave and good at fighting, they still retreated completely. In the night, no one knew what the other party had.

He shot five or six rounds into the open space ahead until he could no longer hear the other party's screams. The officer on duty ordered the Ranger to start resting after hearing the secret whistle report buried in the pile of corpses a hundred meters away, saying that the enemy had retreated.

The next day when the sun was hanging in the sky, there were only a pile of embers shining with dark red flames left in the dense forest in front of Wang Wen’s camp. He didn’t care to wait for the fire to be completely extinguished. After cleaning the battlefield and recycling used crossbow arrows as much as possible, Wang Wen’s army began to move horizontally along the edge of the ash that emitted residual heat. Their current mission is no longer to retreat, but to burn the jungle around them as much as possible to open up a large enough battlefield for the heavy armored cavalry that arrived later. Therefore, Wang Wen tried his best to avoid fighting with the other party, and completing his tasks efficiently is the serious matter. The matter of eliminating the enemy is handed over to the heavy armored troops.

With the painful lessons from yesterday, the generals of the Su Kingdom did not dare to attack the tightly-shaped Wang Wen army on the flat ground, but they were unwilling to give up the fat meat in front of them. Therefore, they formed a large arc around Wang Wen's army, surrounding Wang Wen's army, and followed them tightly, waiting for an opportunity to find an opportunity to attack.

Wang Wen's team walked horizontally for three days and finally came another dense bushes. The telegram from Tong Chong's Armored Cavalry Unit learned that they had been less than seven days from now on, so they had to burn the jungle in front of them as soon as possible.

Although the generals of the Su Kingdom did not know what it meant to burn the jungle, since they did this, there must be some reason they could not guess. Therefore, when Wang Wen sent his troops to sneak into the jungle again to burn, he took the lead in stationing a more than ten kilometers of camp in front of the jungle, completely isolated Wang Wen and the others from the jungle.

Although this is on the plain, if you want to forcibly capture the enemy's camp, your own losses will be huge. Wang Wen, who does not aim for combat, would certainly not do this. Seeing the enemy's camp, Wang Wen made a quick decision and ordered the troops to turn around immediately and return quickly to the way they came.

The enemy's troops were four or five times that of Wang Wen, so it was entirely possible that they would completely encircle Wang Wen. A few days ago, due to those jungles and Wang Wen's arson, the encirclement of the Soviet troops had not been formed. Now on the burning flat ground, it is easy to be surrounded by the opponent. Since the jungle in front of him could no longer be burned, Wang Wen had to find the center of this open space to camp, attract the enemy to the center of the burned open space as much as possible, and usher in a greater space for the impact of the heavy armored cavalry.

The encirclement of the Soviet troops had indeed been formed. Just as Wang Wen led the troops to battalion step by step, the Soviet troops had already set up numerous camps behind and on both sides. Now Wang Wen led his troops to retreat, and was blocked by the other party's camp.

If it is blocked here, the plan to attract the enemy into the hinterland will be vain. Therefore, Wang Wen did not hesitate and directly issued an order to attack all the personnel. The heavy infantry was covering the front. The rangers first covered the camp in front with crossbow arrows, and then the heavy infantry rushed into the camp with the enemy's bodies and crossbow arrows all over the ground.

This three-dimensional tactic of long-range fire cover and infantry attack was very effective in this era. Under the cover of arrow rain, less than half of the remaining enemy troops in the camp were left. Under the fierce fighting of heavy infantry, there were serious casualties. Although the camp temporarily delayed the retreat of Wang Wen's troops, fortunately, Wang Wen's order was very timely, and the chasing enemy troops were still far away. Therefore, after losing four or five hundred soldiers, they passed through the camp built by the enemy in a hurry and walked quickly towards the center of the open space.

It has been less than four days since the heavy armored cavalry troops arrived. It is impossible for Wang Wen to clear out a larger space within this time. Therefore, it is the most correct to attract the enemy to the central area. Wang Wen, who has personally walked this distance, can of course roughly determine which center location is, not to mention that there are personnel from the security department who specializes in the map drawings in the army?

Wang Wen, who rushed out of the encirclement, deliberately slowed down his retreat, maintained a distance of about one kilometer from the enemies chasing behind, and slowly retreated to the jungle area they burned for the first time. According to the estimates of the surveyors, that place should be the center of this open space. Under the threat of the Rangers, the chasing enemies did not dare to approach too much. The troops of both sides were moving closer and closer on this dusty land flying all over the sky.

Three days later, Wang Wen's troops arrived at their scheduled location, and then began to set up a simple camp there, where they had to block the fierce attacks that the enemy might launch before the arrival of the heavy armored cavalry.

According to the contact between the heavy armored cavalry and Wang Wen, they have reached about fifty kilometers away from Wang Wen. At the speed of the cavalry, they can arrive in two or three hours. However, half of the 50,000 heavy armored cavalry must bypass the enemy's defense line far away and completely cut off the enemy's retreat route. This action must be very strict. Once discovered by the enemy, they will waste all their efforts. Therefore, the road that heavy armored cavalry needs to revolve is very far away, so Wang Wen and the others must persist for one or two days.

On the afternoon of the second day after camping, the remaining 200,000 troops of Su State had completely surrounded Wang Wen's more than 60,000 soldiers. The layers of battalions tightly surrounded Wang Wen's camp in the middle, and the enemy was still reinforcing the camp. It seemed that the generals of Su State did not intend to fight with Wang Wen's troops on the plains. They were trying to slowly trap Wang Wen and the others here. In such an airtight encirclement, it was impossible for Wang Wen to send troops to break through and ask for help. Apart from being starved to death, there was only the way to surrender. However, what the generals of Su State could never dream of being that there would be something like telegraph in Wang Wen's troops.

The two days of tense time passed quickly, and Wang Wen's camp was not attacked by the enemy. It was also seen from the pursuit battles these days that there was no baggage in Wang Wen's team, that is, Wang Wen and others carried no supplies for more than one month. Therefore, the generals of the Su Kingdom believed that within half a month, Wang Wen's troops would completely lose their combat effectiveness, so they would not choose to attack when Wang Wen's troops were still combat-effective. After all, the Rangers' crossbow arrows were too powerful.

The logistics route of the Soviet country was not cut off at all. They used a unicycle. Every day, the long transport team would send them enough supplies with the cover of the jungle, so they were not worried about time.

After completing the counter-encirclement of the Soviet troops, the heavy armored cavalry did not cut off the other side's supply route. On the contrary, they left the troops far away from the enemy's frequent routes to prevent the opponent from discovering whereabouts.

Although the power of heavy armored cavalry is amazing, if the enemy hides in the camp, it will not cause a fatal blow to them. Therefore, they have to continue waiting for the stone-cat troops that can arrive in a day.

Wang Wen, who was in the camp, learned that the stone-pourling soldiers would be in place the next day, and was so excited that he did not sleep well all night. Over the past month, he led the retreating soldiers to run around and suffer all the hardships. Now, he was about to solve the problem of the enemy surrounding him breaking out, so why didn't he excited? Therefore, for a night, he kept running around the outer camp to check to prevent the enemy from breaking through the camp during the final battle the next day.

In the early morning of the next day, the stone-cattered troops that had arrived had appeared on the side of Nanzhou. At the same time, the heavily armored cavalry who had been ambushing around for two or three days began to close the encirclement, and the enemy's supply line that had been left unattended was completely cut off.

The catapult troops were located on this side of Nanzhou. The heavily armored cavalry first opened the way in front. They followed closely behind the cavalry and pulled the catapult chariot and slowly approached the enemy camp.

The generals of Su State never expected that the Tang Dynasty reinforcements arrived so quickly. Looking at the large number of heavily armored cavalry that were pressing over, they felt extremely panicked, especially after discovering that they had been surrounded by the Tang Dynasty reinforcements, they were even more uneasy. While the other party had not set up the camp, the generals of Su State decisively ordered the attack to break up the enemy's encirclement.

So, the camp gate located outside opened with a bang, and the Soviet infantry came out one after another, quickly formed a formation in front of the camp, and rushed towards the heavy armored cavalry.

Some time ago, when Wang Wen's troops confronted the Soviet army, the heavy armored cavalry did not come in much use. Therefore, most of the Soviet soldiers had never fought with the heavy armored cavalry. When the heavy armored cavalry were holding long guns and not the crossbow that scared them, the confidence of victory began to fill their hearts again.

Seeing the Soviet soldiers rushing out of the camp, the heavy armored cavalry did not act abnormally. They continued to move forward slowly and maintain a certain distance from the stone-cavalry soldiers behind them. However, when they were less than 500 meters away from the opponent's attacking troops, the horses suddenly accelerated. The long row of heavy armored cavalry rolled up dust and launched the first round of attacks on the Soviet soldiers.

The same battle began almost at the same time around the Su State Camp. Each test of more than 10,000 heavy armored cavalry lined up in rows of more than ten kilometers, sweeping across like a steel city wall. In a blink of an eye, more than ten rows of Su State soldiers rushed to the ground. After crossing the enemy, the heavy armored cavalry turned around in front of the Su State Camp, and turned around and swept again.

Such a simple fighting method made the generals of the Su Kingdom dumbfounded. A total of 100,000 soldiers were sent out in four directions. In a blink of an eye, they all fell to the ground. A few soldiers who did not die on the spot because of the strong vine armor on their bodies were lying in pain in the corpses. That scene was simply comparable to the previous Heavenly King Wen Fenlin.

The heavy armored cavalry attack made the Soviet generals no longer dare to send troops. In just over ten minutes, the 100,000 troops were wiped out, and the forces of both sides immediately made a big reversal. This huge contrast made them not believe that the facts in front of them would be true.

The heavy armored cavalry could not set up camps and defend at night, so they had to end the battle during the day and saw that the enemy no longer went out to attack. The heavy armored cavalry located in Nanzhou Yichao began to approach the enemy camp and stopped their war horses more than 200 meters away from the enemy camp.

The maximum range of the catapults of Li Ming's troops is 500 meters. Therefore, the catapults behind the heavy armored cavalry began to prepare to shoot oil tanks can cover the depth of 200 meters of the enemy camp. The width of this distance is almost one-third of the depth of the enemy camp. As long as the enemy camp in this direction ignites a fire, the catapults can continue to advance, and then include all camps in the enemy direction into their strike range.

With a loud shout, the catapult waved their arms like lightning, and cans of fuel drifted through an arc in the air and fell into the enemy's camp. Suddenly, the pungent smell of fuel filled the entire space.

Some generals who had seen fuel power in Wang Wen began to panic and ordered the soldiers in the camp to retreat. However, compared with the speed of the catapult launch, their orders were too slow. Before their troops could react, crossbow arrows burning with raging fire were fired out of the crossbow. With a loud bang, the more than ten kilometers of battalions caught fire almost at the same time. The sky-sky light surrounded the enemy's camp.

The stone-casting soldiers who completed the shooting crossed the defense line of the heavily armored cavalry and continued to advance more than 100 meters. They started the second round of shooting in the face of the raging fire. In just over an hour, the camp on this side of Nanzhou was completely turned into ashes. More than 90% of the soldiers ended their lives in the flames before they had time to escape from the camp.

Seeing that something was wrong, the enemy troops in the other three began to attack the periphery frantically, but in front of the heavy armored cavalry, they seemed too fragile. The enemies who rushed out of the camp all became souls of heavy armored cavalry under the hooves or from the cavalry. Wang Wen's camp in the middle was not subjected to any counterattack from the enemy.

Before the sun set, the burning camp extinguished the last trace of embers. On the battlefield, besides the thick smoke and the smell of burning flesh, there are corpses covered with skin on the ground. On this ashed ground, blood cannot be seen, so on the surface, the scene does not seem too tragic.

In Nanguo City, Li Ming was anxiously waiting for the final result of the war in his study. All the senior officials were there, looking forward to the news coming from the front. The war in Nanzhou was the biggest battle in Nanzhou at present. If there was victory there, there would be no more large-scale wars. The unification of the Tang Dynasty was just around the corner. Therefore, since the war started in the morning, these people have been waiting here, waiting for the news of victory.
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