Late Tang

The drums of war are rumbling, and the long horns are melodious and passionate!

The coalition forces from Duli Town and Daxie Village landed and split into two groups.Pei You commanded the United Fleet and under the cover of the artillery thrown by the rooks on Yangtuozi Island, the whole army rushed straight to the shore of Shikou Wharf.After a long time of probing, Feng Zhang finally made up his mind to attack and led his army to the Beishan Pier.

The soldiers were driven forward on both sides. For a while, the Shamen guards at Shikou Wharf and Beishan Wharf seemed to be in a dilemma of fighting on both sides. They were retreating steadily and kept retreating.Feng Zhang left a few school captains to stay at the pier on the shore, and the self-commanding army killed the Beishan pier.

Li Jing led the army to meet them, formed a formation on the pier, stood under the banner, and stood up immediately.

Under the firelight, Feng Zhang saw Li Jing standing under the arrow tower of the bastion from a distance, and he couldn't help raising his whip and yelling at the horse: "Rat thief, dare you bully me again and again, today I will take you!" Life!" As he said, he raised his whip and ordered all the soldiers to cover up and kill him.

This time, the soldiers of Daxie came here desperately. Although the bows and crossbows flew together on the three bastions and the nine arrow towers, it was dark and it was difficult to see the enemy. The crossbow arrows were not very accurate. There are not many Daxie soldiers who hit the arrow.Furthermore, on Shaobing Island, which was only two or three hundred steps away, the heavy crossbows and cannons of Daxie Village were also roaring and shooting, and the crossbow arrows and artillery stones kept smashing into the bastions and arrow towers on the pier... …

Feng Zhang's driving soldiers lined up in a huge fish scale formation with shields and spears horizontally, and groups of soldiers lined up in small fish scales, shouting and rushing forward.Li Jing led the long-spawn infantry phalanx of the Tiebi Battalion to form a dense phalanx and guard under the arrow tower of the bastion. The two formations collided quickly, and the fish scales of the Daxie Zhai Army quickly gathered again. together.The two sides fought hand in hand and fought desperately.

Li Jing and his personal guards stood in front of the formation, and Heng Leng picked out several Daxie soldiers one after another, seeing the Daxie soldiers behind them rushing up continuously.The soldiers of the Iron Wall Battalion have been training for a long time, and after going through the last round of suppressing bandits, they are no longer recruits who have never seen blood.They were dressed in light leather armor, iron helmets on their heads, and a battle robe over their shoulders, with a big red cloak that reached to their heels hanging from their shoulders.On his left arm is a cowhide round shield, which is tied with a cowhide band and hung around his neck.In his hands, he held a five-meter-long infantry spear with a full length of one foot and eight feet.

They lined up in a dense phalanx, and the shields in their hands formed an iron wall, not only for their own protection, but also for the brothers next to each other.Their long lances are thick and super long, stretching forward in rows, like a huge hedgehog spreading its thorns.

Hit the lance to stab out and move forward.

Daxie's fish-scale formation collided with the Changlong infantry formation, and people kept falling.

"Bowmen, fire!" Feng Zhang shouted.After fighting for a long time, although Li Jing's will-o'-the-wisps would be thrown from time to time, under such a night, it really couldn't cause too many casualties to him.This will-o'-the-wisp is really powerful at sea, and it can burn when it touches water. Once the boat touches the will-o'-the-wisp on the water, it will be finished.But it's different on the shore, the damage of the will-o'-the-wisps has been reduced a lot.It hit the ground, and finally splashed to the two or three people next to it.Calculated, this kind of damage is even greater than the damage caused by directly throwing stone bullets.

In comparison, what is most harmful to them now is the crossbow arrows and stones that are constantly being shot down from the three bastions and the nine arrow towers. Not a lot.

Finally rushed to the front of the formation, Feng Zhang immediately ordered the crossbow to attack.The opponent's huge and super long rifle phalanx was really powerful, and the soldiers couldn't rush in at all.However, there is no phalanx in the world that cannot be broken, and no matter how long the phalanx is, it cannot stop the attack of bows and arrows.

The Xie soldiers took off their bows and crossbows one after another, and pieces of bows and arrows drilled into the infantry phalanx like locusts.Although there was a round shield to block it, casualties still inevitably occurred.

Li Jing swung his lance to fend off several arrows that shot in front of him, and seeing that almost all the Xie soldiers had landed, he immediately ordered: "Retreat!"

With the sound of war drums and horns and the iron whistle of the squadron leaders, the Iron Wall Battalion began to retreat slowly.At the beginning, the retreat was very organized, but Feng Zhang immediately ordered the whole army to cover up and kill. Immediately, Li Jing took the lead to escape on horseback, and then the Tiebi camp also turned around and said to run away.The formation was no longer there, so they could only flee hastily under the cover-up of Daxie Zhai soldiers.

Li Jing rode his horse and galloped wildly. After running for a long time, he rushed to the foot of Beishan Mountain, bypassed the foot of the mountain, and there was a Haogou in front of him. Li Jing entered the temporary command tent set up in Haogou.Once entered, Li Jing drank half a pot of water in one gulp and said, "Feng Zhang has already been hooked, are you ready?"

Li Wei said with a smile: "I thought that old guy had already been frightened by us, but I didn't expect that he would go crazy once again. General, please rest assured that the beacon tower on the top of the North Mountain has already been prepared. As long as we light the signal fire here, the fire will be lit on it. When the fire comes, the whole town can see it."

Seeing Li Jing's defeat, Feng Zhang was ecstatic in his heart, desperately urging the whole army to rush forward, vowing to smash the Samana army and enter the town.

Feng Zhang rushed to the side on horseback, and said loudly: "Li Jing has always been scheming, and now he is retreating so quickly. This seems to be a problem. Uncle, please beware of fraud. My nephew thinks that we should slow down for the time being. Take down these forts and arrow towers on the pier first."

Although Li Jing withdrew his troops, the crossbowmen on the three bastions and the nine arrow towers were still there, and they continued to shoot arrows.This fortress is so high and strong that it cannot be taken down for a while.

Feng Zhang looked at his nephew Feng Xun with some dissatisfaction, and loudly reprimanded: "March and fight, the most important thing is to go all out. Right now, the soldiers are approaching the city, and they are about to reach the edge of Hao. Li Jing has already fled, and his soldiers will also be defeated. If you don't fight at this time, you will be brave. Chasing and killing, do we have to wait for him to turn around and gather his troops before fighting again? It’s really hard to carve, so hurry up. I’m here with 3000 of you, and I’m responsible for taking down this fortress and arrow tower, and clearing the pier.”

After retreating Feng Xun, Feng Zhang led more than ten thousand Xie soldiers from Xinsheng, and drove straight forward.The soldiers and horses rushed to the foot of Beishan, but they only heard the sound of a drum. Suddenly a soldier and horse rushed out from the foot of the mountain, but it was the same soldier and horse that had retreated and fled earlier. But it's obviously out of order.

Feng Zhang was not worried when he saw it, but laughed out loud.The servant next to him, Feng Lin, asked, "Why is the lord laughing?"

"I laughed at the fact that Li Jing was defeated when he was defeated, and he still wanted to turn the tables. Just relying on such a small force, he wanted to stop this general. He was really trying to block the car, and he was overwhelmed." Feng Zhang laughed. Seeing this soldier, his heart was full Some worries went away instead.Li Jing only had so many soldiers, and now he had to fight against himself and Pei You, fighting on both sides, and had to stay to defend the rest of the piers and castles, how many soldiers did he have.

Li Jing, Li Jing, I blame you for being too greedy, you have to build such a big castle to build it.If it had been built smaller, the fortress would have been completed long ago. With the elite soldiers of Shamen Township, if they abandoned the four piers and just stuck to the fortress and waited for Dengzhou's help, they might really have no choice.Since Li Jing entrusted a large division of troops to fight, then he is seeking his own death.

"Who will defeat this thief with me!" Feng Zhang laughed loudly.

Feng Lin immediately leaped forward and said loudly: "My lord, I am willing to go!" Seeing that the soldiers of Shamen Township seemed to be defeated soon, he asked for orders loudly, hoping to take advantage of it and make military merits.

Feng Zhang nodded, and Feng Lin immediately led his army to kill him.After a burst of strong bows and crossbows, the rain of arrows attacked, and finally the soldiers on the opposite side were exhausted and lost again.Feng Lin drove the army to catch up.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew off Feng Zhang's bamboo pole.A general under his command said: "This is not a good omen, general, please be more careful, it is better to return to the pier for now." Feng Zhang was also a little uneasy at first, but after hearing what the captain said, he aroused the hostility in his heart and rejected the captain Suggestion, instead ordered the whole army to follow Feng Lin and continue to hunt and kill.

The soldiers of the Iron Wall Battalion were defeated all the way at this time, but they were defeated but not defeated.They adhered to Li Jing's military orders, pretended to be defeated, and did not flee straight to the castle, but fled in twists and turns. It seemed chaotic, but they were all running in one direction.

Feng Lin only cared about leading people to hunt him down, and didn't care about other things at all.When they were about to catch up, they suddenly saw fires on the top of Beishan, and it was all red.He hesitated, when Feng Zhang arrived later, seeing that he was about to ask questions.Suddenly there was another sound of drums and horns, and then there was a whistling sound from the mountain.

Feng Zhang looked up, and saw that they were already at the foot of Beishan, and countless torches suddenly went up on the slope of Beishan.In the light of the fire, soldiers and horses are densely covered, and many rooks can be seen faintly throwing cannons.

Huge red fireballs were smashing towards them with raging tail flames, and there were countless iron crossbow bolts in between.At the foot of Beishan, nearly ten thousand Xie soldiers gathered in that not-so-wide place, and the dense fireballs fell into the formation one after another, and the sudden blow immediately threw the Xie soldiers into chaos.

At this moment, there was another whistling sound, and many terrified soldiers raised their heads, only to see black dots flying in the sky, behind each black dot there was a string of orange-red fireworks.

Some Daxie soldiers who participated in the last battle at the Phoenix Mountain Wharf panicked and shouted: "Wild-o'-the-wisp, it's a will-o'-the-wisp!"

After the last battle, the will-o'-the-wisp in Shamen Town has been spread by countless people, and finally, the will-o'-the-wisp has become a real hellfire.As long as it appears, it will not be spared.Seeing so many will-o'-the-wisps appear, the soldiers were panicked and frightened.

The officers loudly restrained, but no one could stop their panic.Although there were tens of thousands of them at this time, even if all the will-o'-the-wisps were thrown into the army, they wouldn't be able to kill many people, but the fear of the will-o'-the-wisps in their hearts made them lose their minds and began to run around.

Hundreds of ghost tinkerers burst open in the narrow area, splashing orange-red fireworks.

Hundreds of soldiers who were hit or splashed by the will-o'-the-wisp let out inhuman howls of fear, fled around, and rolled all over the ground, but they still couldn't extinguish the will-o'-the-wisp like maggots attached to the bones.It could only be turned into a pile of charcoal in the midst of that terrifying howl.

When the first wave of fireballs came to attack, Feng Zhang's expression changed drastically.He knew what happened, and he was hidden by Li Jing again.This is an ambush, this is an ambush.Even Feng Xun saw the problem, but he couldn't figure it out.

But at this moment, what he thought in his mind was not to escape, but to continue to rush forward.In the last battle of Phoenix Mountain, he escaped, his reputation was ruined, and thousands of his subordinates became prisoners.Afterwards, he thought about it, maybe if he tried his best and continued to attack, the final result might be what it would be.

This time, all his capital was bet on, and he could only win but not lose.To lose is to die, even if he can escape back to Daxie village, it will not be a good result in the end.

"Continue to charge, charge forward, follow me!" Feng Zhangsheng roared exhaustedly, and the soldiers around him finally found their backbone and gathered together mechanically.It's just that as soon as they gathered more than a thousand people, the catapults and ballistas on the mountain immediately aimed at them and beat them fiercely. Hundreds of fireballs fell one after another, and there was also the frightening will-o'-the-wisp.The thousand or so people who barely got together were immediately dispersed.

Feng Zhang roared and shouted angrily, but no one was willing to gather around.Everyone has discovered that as soon as they get together, the mountain will violently attack them.It was much safer to run separately.

"Come back to me, listen to my order"

Holding a long lance in his hand, Feng Zhang rode his horse freely and roared loudly, but no one listened to him.Suddenly, a huge iron crossbow whizzed over, and it was nailed straight into the neck of his war horse. The horse was nailed to the ground before it could even bark, and Feng Zhang jumped off the horse. , rolled a few times on the ground, extremely embarrassed.Just as he staggered to his feet, he heard a whistling sound approaching. He turned his head and looked in disbelief. A huge fireball in his pupils was approaching and enlarging.He was shocked and rolled to the side, but the huge fireball still hit one of his legs.

A burst of pain came, and Feng Zhang felt that his leg was broken.Then came a more intense burning sensation, and he was on fire.

"what!!!"

Feng Zhang let out an angry howl of unwillingness, and then his whole body was burned into a human-shaped torch.He dragged his broken leg and rolled all over the ground, but he struggled for a while, and finally fell on the ground motionless, emitting an unpleasant smell of burning.

The chaos at the foot of the mountain continued, and countless fireballs and divine fires finally ignited the small area.Until this time, many Daxie soldiers who were still bumping and pushing around realized that there were actually a lot of hay scattered under their feet.They didn't notice this at all in the night just now, but at this time, the dry grass began to burn, and the fire of a single spark quickly started a prairie fire.

At the beginning, there were little flames, and finally the fire became bigger and bigger, gradually connecting into one piece, and the flames were blazing, piercing the sky.

(To be continued)