Chapter 172: Re-strike
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Li Shehu brought the eight thousand thrust cavalry from Linxicheng and ten thousand crossbow dragon cavalry from the north to meet with the eight thousand thrust cavalry from Duan Zigang. It was already late at night. Duan Zigang did not stop the routine harassment every night, but today he reduced the scale. The continuous harassment for the past three days was actually prepared for tonight's raid.
"Zi Gang, have the traps in the preset positions been completed?"
"All right. Let the Dragoon generals lead the way to see the place later. Don't run to the wrong place in the dark and dark place."
"Didn't you leave the supporter behind?"
"Be careful, there's no big mistake!"
"Haha, not bad, Beidaying is mine. This time I have to burn the Wuhuan people's camp to white ground."
"Well, let me get the blocking support from the east. After you finish here, you can release three rockets and I will retreat."
The Wuhuan people attacked fiercely for a day today. Even though they knew that there would be harassment from the Han army at night, they could not resist physical fatigue. Besides, aren’t there any troops on duty on shifts?
In the second half of the night, the sound of horse hooves suddenly woke up the sleeping Wuhuan people. However, before they could come out of the camp, the rockets like fireflies in the sky had already fallen. In it, there were the bows and arrows of the Han cavalry.
As the rockets continue to fall, the firefighting work is very difficult. In addition, there are a large number of bows, arrows and arrows inside, extinguishing the fire is at risk. In winter, it is a time when things are dry and dry. Even if there is heavy snow around, it is in the camp. For the sake of dryness of the ground, the heavy snow has been eradicated. Now it is impossible to find snow to put out the fire. If you want to dig the soil to put out the fire, the land is frozen like a block of iron.
When the guard of Beida Camp saw that such passive firefighting was not a solution, Hata immediately organized the troops to rush out. In his consciousness, the troops that could cast rockets were all infantry. As long as they chased them out, they would make a profit.
Unfortunately, when he rushed out of the camp gate, he was blocked by the opponent's cavalry. Judging from the density of the bows and arrows, the number of Han troops was quite large. After finally rushing out of the camp gate, Hata commanded the cavalry to light torches on the snowfield. The infantry troops were retreating quickly, and as for the archers and cavalry cruising around his troops, he didn't care about so many.
Unfortunately, when he rushed to two hundred steps away from the infantry formation with 30,000 cavalry, he was hit by heavy infantry crossbows. Seeing the group of cavalry around him falling off, Hata could only grit his teeth tightly. As long as he rushed over, he could avenge these sacrificed warriors.
Hata fought desperately, and the cavalry beside him also tried hard to urge the horse, while hiding in the stirrups to guard against the powerful attack of crossbow arrows. Suddenly, the cavalry rushing forward fell over and overturned the horse. The cavalry team that was attacking at high speed suddenly collided into a group, and some cavalry were even thrown high and fell to the ground fiercely.
With the help of the faint firelight, Hata discovered that the flat ground had slit-like ice ridges, and there were many waist-high horse stakes inside. Of course, small mole holes were also indispensable. The width of this trap was not very large. It must be due to time, but this trap really blocked the crazy impact of the cavalry. Now nearly 30,000 Wuhuan cavalry that had stopped have become the target of heavy crossbow soldiers two hundred steps away. The cavalry behind them were also constantly consuming the troops behind and on both sides with their rushing shots.
Hata's eyes were about to break. He knew that he could not hesitate at this time. There was only one way to break the dead end, that is, "rush!"
"Roar! Bounce over to me! At all costs!!" Hata shouted at the top of his lungs.
In just a few breaths, the crossbows of heavy crossbows never stopped. The heavy crossbows used a three-stage shooting mode to improve the sustainability of firepower and increase coverage.
Just as Hata was about to attack the defense line of the heavy crossbowmen, Li Shehu discovered this fighter plane and immediately issued an order to attack. Now the opponent's cavalry had lost their speed. Li Shehu's cavalry changed into a spear and penetrated it from both ribs of the enemy. Because it was dark, everyone's vision was actually not good, but the attacking party had the advantage, because the party that launched the attack only maintained its formation and rushed with its teammates, but the attacking party was a little troublesome because they didn't know who was the teammate and who was the enemy, and they dared not attack with bows and arrows. The Wuhuan people were not worthy of a spear, and they were still working when charging, but when being charged, it was really not easy to use.
The heavy crossbow soldiers lowered their shooting angle and almost shot flat. Even so, the power of the heavy crossbow did not weaken at all. The Wuhuan cavalry in the front row tried to attack the trap fell one after another like mowed grass. Even if they could hide under the belly of the horse to avoid crossbow arrows, the horses could not avoid crossbow arrows of this heavy crossbow. When the war horses fell, the knights were charging the cavalry. Even if they were not trampled to death in the dark, the dense crossbow arrows shot from the opposite side would not survive.
The heavy crossbow soldiers rolled back while shooting, and soon approached the horses they placed behind. After shooting out the last arrow in the heavy crossbow, the heavy crossbow soldiers got on their horses, turned around and ran. Hata saw clearly, but the distance of 200 steps could not be broken through. He could only watch these heavy crossbow soldiers get on their horses and go away, so angry that Hata almost vomited blood.
His follow-up troops were now pierced by the Han army's thunderbolts. Even if Hata can catch up now, the number of troops that can keep up is very limited. Moreover, if he does not look back, the Wuhuan cavalry behind them can be slaughtered by the opponent's thunderbolts.
Hata had to turn around and join the subsequent troops and finally drove away the Han army's thunder cavalry. However, these Han army's thunder cavalry were not in a hurry to retreat, but instead watched the side. They rushed up to take advantage of the darkness and bite it. Until Hata wisely retreated back to the camp, the Han army's cavalry retreated beyond the range.
The three rockets were very eye-catching in the night sky. The joke about circling around reinforcements in the camp east was just smiling and shouting to his subordinates to retreat.
Hata returned to the camp, and soon reinforcements from Dongdaying arrived, but the Han army had already disappeared while the night was dark.
Hata counted, in addition to the numerous losses of the materials and the slave soldiers were shot to death and burned to death by more than 3,000, but led his team to attack the opponent's crossbow soldiers formation but lost more than 8,000 cavalry. This night attack, plus the loss of more than 10,000 in the daytime siege, the Beida Camp originally had nearly 100,000 troops, but now there are only more than 70,000 left.
What's even more terrible is that the Wuhuan people have no way to deal with the heavy crossbow dragon cavalry. If they come to fight every day and run away, the Wuhuan people will not be able to catch up. It is impossible to set up an ambush on this plain grassland. Besides, the periphery is now the most active place for the Han army and the Yiren. If there are few troops to set up an ambush, they will be eaten directly by the other party at any time. How can there be many ambush troops to hide their tracks?
Therefore, the appearance of the heavy crossbow dragon cavalry put the Wuhuan people in a passive state of being beaten. If this situation does not change, the Wuhuan people will not talk about siegeing the city. Let’s first think about how to avoid being burned to death in their sleep.
When Hata was having a headache, Li Shehu and Duanzigang were not idle, but circled around and attacked the Nandaying of the Wuhuan people again. This time, because there were no reinforcements from the Dongdaying, Li Shehu repelled the Wuhuan troops who had been cleared out of the camp, and then used heavy crossbow dragon cavalry to conduct a second attack. Since the Wuhuan people were sorting out the camp at this moment, the damage caused by the dragon cavalry was particularly huge. The Wuhuan troops who attacked again chased after the Wuhuan troops who were shooting a lot on the periphery by Li Shehu, they did not chase anything. Fortunately, it was finally dawn and the Han army retreated.
After dawn, the two camps in the north and south looked miserable. Not only were the tent burned, but the corpses were even hidden in the camps. After counting, the two camps lost nearly 30,000 people in one night. This loss was as huge as the siege during the day, which was really unacceptable.
The Wuhuan people's offensive slowed down the next day, or in other words, they were unable to attack at all. Now the Wuhuan people must seriously consider whether they were asking Xianbei people to help. In a day and overnight, more than 200,000 Wuhuan troops died a quarter of them, and this battle could not be fought.
The players in the city did not know what method Fang Zhiwen's troops used to conduct night attacks, but from the fire in the Wuhuan camp that night and the scenes I saw the next day, the Wuhuan people probably suffered heavy losses last night.
The Wuhuan people removed the camps in the north and south directions and concentrated them all to the east. In this way, the three camps in the shape of Pin made Li Shehu not very easy to attack, but it doesn't matter. According to the current situation, Li Shehu was going south. His mission was to break through the camp on the northern grassland of Tadun, where more than 400,000 people were waiting for him to plunder.
He had just exchanged four thousand dragon cavalry with jokes. Li Shehu, who was full of passion, quietly moved south with 12,000 thunder cavalry and 6,000 thunder cavalry. He led so many thunder cavalry units first. More importantly, the troops he led were to end the thunder cavalry hero Tadun, and from then on, the existence of this thunder cavalry was no longer needed on the thunder cavalry.
The Wuhuan people gathered their troops on the east side of Fengning, which was equivalent to resolutely siege of Fengning City. The system station had begun to re-operate, and the materials needed for Fengning City were also transported continuously. Duanzigang could also send the prisoners back to the city and supplement war damage and food and equipment.
Since Fengning City has been fully open to players, coupled with the crazy bombing of the national media the day before, players kept appearing in the system station. After replenishing supplies in the city, they quickly led their troops out of the city and headed to the grassland to establish their own merits. Fengning City now has many combat tasks, harassing the Wuhuan, harassing the Xianbei, robbing the Hu clan, clearing the Hu clan scattered soldiers, collecting strategic supplies, etc. From the air, Fengning City is like a huge monster, constantly sucking and spitting, and it seems to be a powerful heart, providing strong power for the Han family who are fighting the grassland. (..)
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