Chapter 124 In fact, if the Mo army in Xiashui Town can calm down and observe, it is not difficult to find that the attack of the wind army is thunderous and rainy, and they only blindly use long-range equipment such as stone throwers and city-breaking crossbows, while the soldiers who are engaged in the siege have not come up for a long time.
But now Hu Xian and his local soldiers can still notice those, who have been smashed by the large equipment of the Plains Army, if it weren't for the strict military law of the Mo Army, at this time they may have already chosen to abandon the city and escape.
The long-range strikes of the wind army were still wave after wave, even though he knew that the Mo army had already run into the city to dodge, and the stone thrower and the city-breaking crossbow could no longer exert their lethality, but Xiao Muqing did not have any intention of ordering to stop the attack.
At the same time, the light cavalry sent out to ask for help in Xiashui Town was also one after another, and it seemed that Hu Xian wanted to send out all the light cavalry in the city, and there was a great posture that he would not stop without seeing reinforcements.
The emergency of Xiashui Town kept spreading to Yangchuan and Bailin City like a marquee, because he had not yet fully figured out the intentions of the Feng Army, Li Rong ignored Xiashui Town's call for help and turned a deaf ear, and Lu Hongming on the other side couldn't sit still.
Listening to the news from Xiashui Town, there are more than 100,000 Feng troops, and the offensive is very fierce, Xiashui Town is already in danger, and there is a possibility of falling at any time.
From this point of view, this is by no means a bluff of the Wind Army, but a real intention to start a war with his own country.
Although his official rank is much higher than Hu Xian, the location of Xiashui Town is extremely important, he was arranged by Shao Fang in Bailin, the main purpose is also to help defend Xiashui Town, once Xiashui Town is lost, then his responsibility will be great.
After confirming that the Feng Army was a real attack rather than a feint, Lu Hongming finally decided to send reinforcements.
He ordered the troops, gathered the soldiers under his command, left only 20,000 people to guard Bailin, and personally led more than 80,000 people from eight corps to go straight to Xiashui Town.
Bailin's dispatch was discovered by the eyes of the wind army for the first time, and then it was transmitted to Jiang Fan at the fastest speed.
At this time, Jiang Fan led the four corps of the Plains Army to ambush in the dense forest between Bailin and Xiashui.
This mountain forest is close to Xiashui Town, and the official road passes through the forest, so it can be said that the official road is a forest.
It is not easy for Jiang Fan and the officers and men of the Plains Army to lurk in the jungle, it is now the height of summer, there are many mosquitoes, flies, poisonous insects in the forest, and the soldiers of the Plains Army who bite are miserable, and the weather is hot and sultry, and they cannot move at will, and people are gritting their teeth and standing up in ambush in the forest.
When the spies brought back the news that Mo Jun had been out of Bailin and was heading in the direction of Xiashui Town, it was undoubtedly a shot in the arm for Jiang Fan and the other Feng Jun, and the hard work he had suffered was not in vain, and Mo Jun really came.
Jiang Fan asked the spy: "How many soldiers and horses are there in the enemy's army, and how far away is from us?"
"Back to the general, the enemy army is less than 100,000, and there are still more than 30 miles from here, because it is lightly armed, without baggage, and the marching speed is very fast, I am afraid that it will not take more than two hours to arrive."
The spy snapped.
"Okay" Jiang Fan nodded and said, "Explore and report again" "It's the general" The spy intervened rudely, turned and walked away quickly.
Jiang Fan cheered up, called four corps commanders and several partial generals, and said: "Although the number of enemy troops in this battle is numerous, they are coming in a hurry, without any precautions, although our army is outnumbered, it is ready to attack, it is unprepared, it is unprepared, it will be able to win with one blow" The generals sat around Jiang Fan, nodded their heads one after another, and responded: "Although the general gives the order, we will fight to the death and live up to our mission."
Jiang Fan casually picked up a branch and said while drawing on the ground: "The second and third corps are mainly responsible for blocking the enemy's way.
The enemy is bent on rescuing Xiashui Town, and once they find out that they have been ambushed, they will definitely go all out to break through Xiashui Town, and the 2nd and 3rd Corps must resist the enemy no matter what, and they cannot let an enemy soldier pass" Shang Xing, commander of the Second Corps, and Li Yue, commander of the Third Corps, both intervened and said: "Don't worry, General, I will guarantee with my head, if I let go of an enemy soldier, I will come to see the General."
Saying this is tantamount to making a military order in public, whether they can do it or not, but this desire and courage to win is absolutely desirable.
Jiang Fan's pale face showed a rare smile, he nodded and praised: "I deserve to be the general of my Gale Elite Division" After speaking, he looked at Zhang Ling, the commander of the Sixth Corps, and Zhao Shun, the commander of the Seventh Corps, and said: "The Sixth and Seventh Corps are mainly responsible for cutting off the enemy's retreat.
Once the enemy finds that he can't break through in front of him, he will definitely retreat desperately, and this battle will be very difficult for the 6th and 7th Corps, and you two can be confident that they can withstand the enemy's counterattack."
With Shang Xing and Li Yue in front of the military order, how could Zhang Ling and Zhao Shun show weakness The two looked at each other, bowed and saluted, and said directly in unison: "We are willing to make a military order, if we let the enemy break through from our side, we will cut ourselves in front of the general."
Jiang Fan nodded again and said, "Yes, there will be a heart of death, and there will be no greed for life."
As long as the officers and men can risk their lives and fight bloodily, I believe that with the combat power of our army, we will be able to stop and kill the enemy."
Jiang Fan can only be regarded as a novice in the dispatch of troops, but he has seen too much, and after being by Tang Yin's side for a long time, he has also learned Tang Yin's way of boosting morale.
Under his mobilization, the four corps of the Plains Army were divided into two parts, with the second and third corps in front and the sixth and seventh corps in the rear.
The Plains Army laid a net on the way to Xiashui Town, and the Mo Army could only get in by himself, and Lu Hongming didn't know anything about it, and he was still urging his soldiers to hurry forward.
At the same time as the hurried trip, Lu Hongming also paid attention to the movements on Yangchuan's side, and heard that Li Rong had been holding his troops still, he sneered in his heart, he looked down on Li Rong, a general who climbed up by connection, and now he saw that Li Rong was unwilling to send troops to rescue Xiashui Town, thinking that he was afraid of the wind army and did not dare to send troops, and his disdain was even stronger.
But the generals under his command are all worried, if Yangchuan and Bailin send troops at the same time, there is still the possibility of fighting with the Wind Army, and now only his own side has sent troops, even if he arrives in Xiashui Town, I am afraid that he may not be the opponent of the Wind Army.
Lu Hongming disagreed, he thought that if he could fight, he would fight, and if he couldn't fight, he would withdraw, anyway, he had done the responsibility of sending troops to assist in defense, if the battle situation was unfavorable because Li Rong did not send troops, then it had nothing to do with him, and he would not be the one who would be punished by the king at that time.
Lu Hongming is a calculating man, but all his ingenuity is used in internal intrigues, but he has not carefully studied why the Feng Army is attacking Xiashui Town, the core of the Mozambican defense line, with great fanfare.
When the Mo army was about to march to the place where the plain army set up an ambush, someone in the general of the Mo army reminded Lu Hongming that the terrain here was very complicated, and the dense forest was close to the official road, and once there was an ambush, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Lu Hongming scoffed when he heard such a warning, the main force of the Feng Army entering the Mo Realm was all storming Xiashui Town, how could it be possible to set up an ambush here, unless it was with wings on his back and flying over out of thin air.
Lu Hongming ignored his suggestions and continued to urge the whole army to advance at full speed.
His negligence for a while didn't matter, but he brought the Mo army of 80,000 people into a desperate situation.
Before the Mo army walked forward for half an hour, he heard the whistle in the dense forest on both sides, and then countless arrows flew out of the forest like raindrops.
The Mo army that was rushing was defenseless, and was caught off guard by the sudden arrow array, only to see that in the camp of the Mo army, the soldiers who were hit by the arrows fell to the ground in groups of wailing, and the knights on the horses were the first to bear the brunt, and they all rolled down their horses like hedgehogs.
In just an instant, the Mo army was in chaos.
It's not good to have an ambush, Lu Hongming finally understood that his concerns were not wrong at this time, and there were really ambushes from the Wind Country in the forest.
He also reacted quickly, and immediately ordered the whole army to line up and raise their shields to resist the enemy's attack.
However, the official road here is narrow and long, and the Mozambican army cannot be concentrated in one place at all, and the front line is several miles long, and it is so easy to gather, and the arrow arrays in the jungle on both sides of the formation are round after round, as if they are endless, and they keep falling into the crowd of the Mozambican army.
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The whistling of eagles, the sound of arrows piercing armor, the screams of people, and the neighing of war horses are intertwined and become a song of death.
At this time, the camp of the Mozambican army can only be described as miserable, the ground is full of corpses killed by arrows, people push and trample on each other, countless dead and wounded, and the blood flowing out makes the roads muddy.
The Mo army was not only passively beaten, many soldiers spontaneously gathered together, and then all rushed towards the forest.
For the counterattack of the Mo army, the wind army has long been prepared, with the help of the forest as a cover, the wind army or behind the tree to release arrows, or climb to the tree to shoot condescendingly, the Mo army rushed over fast, but fell faster, once into the forest, there are arrows flying over the head in all directions, people are often full of arrow feathers before falling to the ground.
Soon, Lu Hongming also realized that the place where he was was not conducive to the formation, and he could not spread the formation, and if he rushed to the forest, the wind army inside had already laid a net, and his soldiers had no way back.
The only way to fight is to get out of here as soon as possible.
At this time, Lu Hongming had not been knocked out by the ambush, and his mind was still calm, and he ordered the generals around him not to fight with the enemy, rush forward with all his strength, and rush through the enemy's ambush point.
His strategy was not wrong, but this had long been expected by Jiang Fan.
The Mo army had not rushed far forward, only to see the crowds surging in the woods in front of them, swarming out countless wind troops, blocking the road in front of them.
Lu Hongming saw it really and was secretly surprised in his heart, but on the surface he was very calm, and he did not hurry to the left and right and ordered: "Brothers rush over with the general":