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Chapter 1544 Melee in the Night

Night gradually fell, but the fighting on the battlefield continued.

Li Kui was panting heavily after fighting for a long time. This was the most strenuous battle he had ever had. Even when he faced the Iron Pagoda of the Jin Kingdom before, he had never felt so strenuous.

"Damn it, this body is covered with thorns!"

Li Kui roared angrily. Their casualties were not heavy and the enemy did not rush over, but the consumption was far greater than charging. The armor on their bodies were scratched by spears.

"Tie Niu, are you discouraged?"

Wu Song's voice rang out.

"Who dares to make a noise..."

Li Kui was already in a bad mood and was about to get angry when he suddenly realized something was wrong. How could Wu Song's voice appear in the Xianzhen Camp?

"Why are you here?"

Li Kui looked back in surprise and found that it was really Wu Song who came.

"You haven't seen any improvement here, brother asked me to come and take a look!"

Wu Song said with a smile.

"This is a battle between our Xianzhen Camp and has nothing to do with your Fuhu Camp!"

Li Kui said angrily that he could not accept replacing people at the last minute, which was an insult to the Xianzhen Camp.

"How can you, Iron Ox, be so ungrateful? Who would care about your mess? Look, who isn't doing well in the fight?"

"My brother asked me to come up and take a look while it's still dark. The enemy still has two phalanxes of heavily armored spearmen. Can you handle them if they come up again?"

Wu Song pointed at the enemies who were standing still in the distance, as well as nearly 10,000 heavily armored spearmen, which were also very troublesome.

"I'll support you if I can!"

Li Kui said unconvinced.

"Erlang, don't listen to Tie Niu's nonsense. The enemy's heavily armored spearmen are very troublesome. Their spears are densely packed and it is difficult to get close to them. Even if you get close, the follow-up spears will force you back."

Bao Xu looked at Wu Song and explained. They got close several times, but the enemy's follow-up spears immediately made up for them and forced them back.

"Yeah, I just saw it, it's very troublesome!"

Wu Song nodded.

"We still have some grenades. We can concentrate them to defeat the enemy!"

Xiang Chong said that the enemy was covered in heavy armor and his flying knife had no way of breaking the enemy.

"Your Majesty said that the enemy will definitely launch a general attack after dark. You should be prepared. We will come up to help later!"

Wu Song said.

"General attack after dark!"

Several people were stunned.

"Yes, His Majesty said that once the war begins, we don't need to wait for orders anymore, and each battalion will fight on its own!"

Wu Song looked at them and continued.

"it is good!"

Several people spoke excitedly that the reason they couldn't defeat the enemy was because they were fighting head-on. If a melee began, there would be a lot they could do.

The night enveloped the earth and a full moon rose overhead.

Trumpets sounded loudly on the battlefield.

"kill!"

There was a loud shout of killing in the Western Liao army, and more than 200,000 troops rushed forward directly.

The Qi army was also well prepared, and the troops from all camps rushed straight to the battlefield. The shouts of killing were deafening, and the clash of swords resounded through the night sky.

"Your Majesty, it's better to retreat from this kind of melee!"

Zhu Wu looked at Sun Lei and said that accidents could easily happen in a melee, and if an enemy suddenly appeared, the central army might not have time to respond.

"We can't retreat! Can't our brothers protect the central army?"

Sun Lei shook his head and said that if they retreated at this time, it would have a great impact on morale.

"I and others swear to protect your majesty till death!"

Hua Rong, Pang Wanchun, Hao Siwen, and Zhang Qing immediately said in unison.

After nightfall, Pang Wanchun had led his troops back. Like Hua Rong's army, he was good at bows and crossbows, but they could not fight effectively due to poor visibility in the dark.

Hao Siwen is responsible for the safety of the central army and will not go into battle easily.

The battlefield gradually expanded, and hundreds of thousands of troops stretched out for dozens of miles. The night obscured everything, making it difficult to tell who was winning or losing.

"Your Majesty, Yelu Dashi has been prepared for a long time. I wonder what else he has planned!"

Zhu Wu looked at Sun Lei and said that the war had continued until now, and everything was going according to Yelu Dashi's ideas. Qi State was just responding passively. This made Zhu Wu very uncomfortable, because in previous battles, Qi State had always taken the initiative.

"In war, someone has to make the first move and someone else has to counter it. We used to take the initiative, but the initiative will not always be in our hands. Now that we are on an expedition, we need to get used to passive warfare."

Sun Lei opened his mouth and said that the reason why he had been dealing with it passively was because he wanted to see the army's ability to cope with different situations. It was not easy to march westward, and now it seemed that the army was performing very well.

After the melee, the Qi army quickly gained the upper hand. They fought in battalions, and the team of several thousand people held together tightly, which made them invincible in battle.

But it was different in Western Liao. The teams of the four Khans and Yelu Dashi were almost all put together at short notice. Not only was there no cooperation between the various Khanates, but even among their own people there was no cooperation at all. Everyone fought their own battles and did whatever they wanted.

If they were facing an ordinary enemy, they could win by relying on their numerical advantage, but they were facing the well-trained army of Qi. A scattered charge against a well-organized army was like hitting a rock with an egg.

“I can’t see anything!”

Xin Qiji looked at the darkness anxiously. He wanted to see the situation on the battlefield clearly, but the moonlight was not enough to illuminate the night. He could only see crowds of people and fighting on the battlefield, but he could not tell who was who.

"We will definitely win!"

Sun Lei said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, can you see it?"

Xin Qiji asked curiously.

"Of course, look over there, that's Lin Chong's team. Lin Chong likes to advance slowly, so he advances slowly, but kills a lot of enemies. Almost all the enemies around him have been killed."

"That's Wu Song's team. Although the infantry moves slowly, look at the enemies that are constantly being thrown into the air. It must be a divine force that can do that."

"That's Mi Sheng's team. All of Mi Sheng's battalion uses axes..."

Sun Lei said with a smile, pointing at various places on the battlefield.

"It's actually like this!"

Xin Qiji nodded frequently following Sun Lei's instructions. To be able to analyze a detailed team from the vague battle situation, one must have a very good understanding of the army.

"The most challenging thing in a melee is not combat effectiveness or equipment, but command ability. Not to mention that it is night, even in broad daylight, the central army will lose command of the troops in such a melee. They can only rely on the commanders of the various battalions and officers at all levels to command on the battlefield. Once they lose command, they will be like the enemy, a pile of scattered sand."

Sun Lei looked at Xin Qiji and Lu You and said, this is a very important lesson. It is impossible for someone to command on the battlefield all the time. The army must be able to deal with any situation.

"Your Majesty, if we launch a surprise attack on the enemy's center at this time, will we be able to win?"

Lu You looked at Sun Lei and asked, the enemy would not be able to command the army in a chaotic battlefield, but they could use the chaos as cover to launch a surprise attack.

"Yue Fei, what do you think?"

Sun Lei looked at Yue Fei. Yue Fei did not go into battle either. There was no need for his special operations battalion to get involved in such a melee.

(End of this chapter)