Turbulent Times Chapter 1234: The means of the military intelligence government
Xiong Kuohai led the cavalry to gallop back and forth outside the three phalanxes, roaring and waving the axes, sabers and short spears in their hands, but no one could charge into the hedgehog formation of the county soldiers. They just ran powerlessly back and forth outside the formation, drawing arcs of light with their knives forcefully in the air, venting their anger.
From time to time, bandits who fell from their horses roared and rushed towards the phalanx of the county soldiers. If these people were not hit by their own horses, they could run to the pikemen of the county soldiers.
"Kill!"
A row of county soldiers shouted at the same time, in front of ten long spears stabbing obliquely from the ground at the same time, seven or eight big gashes were opened in the body of this bandit who is not weak in martial arts. When the spear was pulled out of his body, his life flowed out of his body along with the blood. The bandit's eyes were wide open, his throat was gurgling but he could no longer utter a word.
The bandit fell to his knees with a plop, and supported the ground with a knife in his right hand. But it was only a moment, and he plunged headfirst into the dirt. With the violent collision between his face and the ground, the leather helmet slipped from his head and rolled to the knees of a county soldier, but the county soldier still maintained a squatting and kneeling posture, motionless and slanted. With a long gun.
Xiong Kuohai led the cavalry around in circles outside the phalanx of the county soldiers, and the county soldiers kept firing crossbow arrows at them again and again, and more and more bandit cavalry fell from their horses.
After repeated attempts, although Xiong Kuohai roared again and again, he had to admit the reality. They had nothing to do with the hedgehog phalanx of these county soldiers, so they had to prepare to lead people out of the battlefield.
It's just that he just wanted to evacuate at this time, but it was already too late. Following Shan Xiongxin's order, the drums in the three county soldier phalanxes arranged in the word "pin" suddenly changed drastically, and the three phalanxes It moved at a very fast speed, and when Xiong Kuohai reacted, he found that they had been surrounded in the middle. They could have rushed out, but after walking around for a long time, the horses exhausted their physical strength, and they couldn't make it in time just now. withdraw.
There was another drumbeat, and the pikemen stood up when they heard the sound. Under the command of several captains, they pointed out their nine-foot long spears and approached the Taihang bandit cavalry who were only left with more than 700 people.
The cavalry is trapped in the circle, unable to pick up the speed, facing it
It was this kind of spear and hedgehog warfare again, and soon the outermost cavalry was killed by the county soldiers who came up from all around.
Xiong Kuo Hai was roaring with anger. Relying on his formidable strength, he rushed from left to right and killed nearly a hundred county soldiers by himself. People, the gap will be immediately filled by the county soldiers behind.
In this way, the bandit cavalry was forced into a smaller and smaller circle of activities by the county soldiers, and finally there were only more than 400 cavalry left. They were driven into a group by more than 4,000 county soldiers, and their horses were tightly packed together. , all of them were desperately bumping back, trying to avoid the spear point that stretched out in front of their eyes.
At this time, each of the outermost bandit cavalry had to face at least eight or nine spears. No matter how hard they swung sabers, short spears, and axes, they would be easily parried by three or four spears. Then four or five spears were stabbed into the belly of the mount. After being overturned to the ground by their dying mounts, most of these brave bandits would not even have a chance to stand up and resist again, so they were stabbed to death by several spears.
What's more deadly is that behind these county soldier spearmen, there are many county soldiers holding fast crossbows and shooting upwards, shooting the tall cavalry directly into a sieve through the crowd.
The overall situation here has been decided, Shan Xiongxin left 2,000 men to continue to besiege the cavalry led by Xiong Kuohai, and let Liu Fangyi lead more than 700 cavalry and another 2,000 county soldiers to push towards other bandits and rebels. When the pikemen of the county soldiers pushed over, those bandits and rebels who had hesitated to escape or save people resisted for a short time before being defeated. After being forced to the edge of the woods, they finally completely lost their fighting spirit. They fled and got into the nearby dense forest, some of them dropped their weapons and knelt down to surrender.
"The cavalry chased and killed, and other county soldiers cleaned the battlefield, treated the wounded, and gathered the prisoners."
Shan Xiongxin ordered in time that Liu Fangyi led people to hunt down the rout soldiers, and other county soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, gathering all the prisoners together to watch.
"Xiong Kuo Hai, if you surrender, all your brothers can live." Shan Xiongxin saw that the fire was almost over, ordered the county soldiers to stop attacking, and shouted loudly outside the encirclement.
"Dou Jiande, the dog day, cheated us this time." Xiong Kuohai was so depressed that he was dying, feeling that today's battle was useless
Extremely, what else can he do at this time? There is no death feud with the other party, and although they lost today strangely, they were convinced. Besides, the one who surrendered was the side of the famous King Qin An, and it was not a foreign race, so it did not involve any psychological burden of betrayal. The most important thing is that no one is willing to die if they can survive. Under the pitiful begging eyes of the remaining 400 brothers under his command, Xiong Kuohai left the ax in his hand on the ground with a depressed face, and jumped off the horse. .
Seeing this, the other 400 bandit cavalry breathed a sigh of relief, quickly unarmed and jumped off their horses, expressing their surrender.
Marching hurriedly for half a day, fighting for another half day, the soldiers were also exhausted, so Shan Xiongxin ordered to camp and rest in place.
That night, the local gentry heard that the rebels in the county had been wiped out, and they all went to the military camp to work.
On the second day, Liu Fangyi escorted hundreds of captives back early in the morning. Two of the captives were carrying a stretcher, which turned out to be the injured Dou Jiande.
"That's right, Liu Fangyi, you've made a great contribution." Shan Xiongxin didn't expect that Liu Fangyi would capture Dou Jiande back, and he was also overjoyed. In this way, their cross-county eradication of the rebels can be regarded as a successful completion.
"General, this is not the result of a lowly position." Liu Fangyi smiled wryly, pulled a man dressed as a rebel behind him to the front, and introduced to Shan Xiongxin: "General, this is Dou Jiande, a rebel who was infiltrated by the Military Intelligence Bureau. The spy next to him was the one who put medicine in the soup that Dou Jiande and his party drank last night, and when the humble officials left, these hundreds of rebels had already been poisoned and lay motionless."
Shan Xiongxin was also taken aback, looked at the spy carefully, and said with emotion: "Your military intelligence department is very good! After returning to Fanyang County, the general will report your credit in the report."
"Thank you, General Shan, Li Chenggui, a spy from the low-ranking military intelligence office." The spy hurriedly clasped his fists in salute.
Shan Xiongxin nodded, and the spy retreated to the side. At this time, Sun Tieya, who was always dressed as a soldier behind Shan Xiongxin, said: "Shan Lang, hand Dou Jiande to me, and I will kill him with my own hands."
Shan Xiongxin hesitated for a moment, and was about to agree, when Liu Fangyi hurriedly stepped forward and said: "General, since the leader of the bandit has been captured alive, he should be escorted back and handed over to the general manager."