Chapter 861 Chaos
On the cloud car, Shen Luoyan was also very surprised to see this scene. She originally thought that this barbarian soldier with no military discipline would be defeated by a single blow after being surrounded. But at this time, she had already seen some of the names.
Although the local soldiers had no military discipline, they were not chaotic. Judging from their marching and breaking through, they were a well-trained army. They also put away their contempt and ordered calmly: "The whole army chased after them, bite them, maintain their formation, and drive them to Jiankang!"
The Shen Luoyan did not let the troops pursue their full strength, but instead allowed the troops to maintain their formation to pursue them, hanging them all the way, not letting them go, but not in a hurry to pounce on them.
"Tell me the order to the two generals Sun Shihan and Chen Dang, and they immediately tighten the encirclement from the southeast and southwest towards Jiankang City. Sun Shihan is in the southwest, Chen Dang is in the southeast, and our palace is in the south. Our three armies tighten the encirclement, and cooperate with the attacks of the three marshals Shan Xiongxin, Du Fuwei and Li Tong. Be sure to annihilate all the Chen army in Jiangdong in one fell swoop!"
"Yes!" The sender turned over and flew away.
Guazhoudu, Jingkou City, Lishan.
A few days ago, Su Lie and Feng Huan and his daughter besieged the city to fight for assistance, and wiped out 10,000 Wu troops in one fell swoop. After a few days, the blood on the plain at the foot of Lishan had not been washed away. Chen Feng, who hurriedly returned to the aid from Jiankang City, led 10,000 Chen troops to hurry back to Jingkou and set foot on this blood-stained land again.
Ten thousand Chen troops were all infantry, and they walked in a hurry.
"Puchichi!"
Suddenly, a bird flew away in the forest on Lishan Mountain.
Chen Feng in Chen Jun's formation frowned and raised his hand and said, "Stop moving forward!"
"Governor, what happened?" the deputy general stepped forward and asked.
"The frightened birds in the forest are signs of ambush! It is the time of tension, and we have to deal with it carefully. Immediately send a team of light cavalry to enter the forest to reconnaissance! The entire army will stop advancing and prepare for combat." Chen Feng said.
The emperor suddenly ordered them to return to Jingkou, and the Wu army disappeared here, so Chen Feng had to be more careful.
Ten thousand Chen troops stopped advancing and quickly changed their formation in front of the mountain, from a combat marching long snake formation to a phalanx formation waiting for the enemy infantry spear.
"Swish!"
The team of knights who were going up the mountain just entered the forest and had galloped back after a while, and feather arrows kept flying out behind them.
"Report, governor, find the ambush in the Wu army in the forest!" The light cavalry responded quickly.
As soon as he finished speaking, countless birds in the forest were startled. With a huge shout of killing, countless Wu soldiers wearing red battle robes rushed out from the edge of the forest.
"Array!"
"Welcome to the enemy!"
"Bowman ready!
"The crossbowman is ready!
"Pulleyman ready!"
"Shield soldiers are ready!
One after another, the orders came one after another in the Chen army. Although the ten thousand Chen army was not the elite of the Chen army, their equipment was formulated according to the regular government army. The long-range crossbowmen team, the archer team, the medium-range javelin soldiers, the thunder thrower soldiers, the shield soldiers, the snatchers, and the swords and axes were all standard Chen army field construction, relying on powerful and sophisticated equipment. Although these are mostly second-level troops of the township militia, their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.
"Boundist, launch!"
When the Wu army rushed within 100 steps, the Chen army, who was ready to attack first.
Countless crossbow arrows flew up and turned into clouds of dark clouds, and then roared into rain of arrows the next moment.
One after another, the strong arrows fell and shot one Wu army after another. The Wu army was constantly being shot by arrows in the charge and nailed to the ground. Some unlucky people even directly hit several arrows and became hedgehogs.
After thousands of light infantry in front launched a charge, another unit rushed out on the edge of the forest. This time it was a well-equipped light cavalry unit. The Marshal of the South Vietnam Army, Li Tong, stepped slowly out of the forest. Looking at the light infantry who were constantly charging and falling, there was not much regret in his heart.
These light infantry are equipped with simple equipment, basically everyone has a spear or a horizontal knife, and they don’t even have a piece of iron armor on them. These people can’t talk about much training, they are basically soldiers who are supplemented before each battle. To put it bluntly, they are cannon fodder. At the beginning of each battle, they are used to impact and consume the enemy’s weapons.
"Clang!"
The sword was unsheathed, and Li Yong pointed forward with a cold expression: "The cavalry surrounded the left and right wings, and the armored infantry attacked!"
"Kill!" The real main force of the Vietnamese army began to launch an attack.
At this time, thousands of light infantry as cannon fodder finally rushed to the front of the Chen army after half of their casualties.
"Change the formation! Gun formation!"
With another loud shout, the well-trained crossbowmen retreated one after another, while the soldiers holding shields and spears quickly stepped forward. After a moment, they had changed one formation, turning one square formation into a turtle hedgehog formation.
"prick!"
"Drink!" Countless spearmen roared together, and spears stretched out from the shield formation. In an instant, the faint lights on the spears shone out in a flash, shining in Wu Jun's eyes, and the gun pierced Wu Jun's body!
"Thorn again!"
"Ha!" Before the spearmen in the first row had retracted the spear, the spearmen in the second row had already shouted and stabbed the second shot.
Kill the gun, collect the gun. Kill the gun, stab the gun.
Rows of Wu army light infantry fell into the formation, and corpses piled up in pieces, and a circle of corpses were piled up outside the formation. The first wave of light infantry attacking by the South Vietnamese army, with as many as 5,000 people, except for a small number of arrowheads who were still lying on the ground, were mostly dead under long-range crossbows and close-fitting gun formations. The spearheaders, thunder throwers, and knife and axemen were destroyed before they could take action.
Li Tong's face by the forest was extremely ugly. He did not expect that this combat power, which Shen Luoyan called the Chen Army's second-line reserve army, was so powerful. However, after a little lost in his mind, he immediately regained his calmness.
No matter how strong the Chen army is, they only have ten thousand people. And he has 20,000 troops on this trip, not to mention that he came here just to hold back the Chen army. His real purpose was to attack Jingkou City. There, he had 30,000 troops on the other side, and there were only 10,000 Chen troops in Jingkou City. As long as he dragged the reinforcement troops, when he captured Jingkou City, no matter how powerful the Chen army was, he would be a turtle in the jar.
"Pull the catapult cart up and trap them!"
Chapter completed!