Chapter 687 Three days and three nights (3)
While Li Ling and the others were resting in the town and planning, the Guirong people outside the town were not idle either. They were also raising their energy and thinking about ways to win the town.
After a night battle, they were surprised and agreed with the fact that the Great Vietnamese government army in front of them was more difficult to deal with than they thought. Although they had few troops, they were elite enough. Even if they had no solid city walls to support, they could still defend the town.
In this way, the strategy of quickly breaking the enemy with the four sides they had formulated before was to give up. The various Guirong soldiers came together again, and several leaders discussed for a while before finally deciding on the frontal attack and using their own powerful impact to break through the defense line of Desheng Town.
Originally, these Gui Rong leaders were not people who could make a brilliant plan to attack the enemy, and the two thousand warriors here belonged to different tribes, so it was difficult to fully achieve tacit cooperation. Since this was the case, they simply simplify the complex and attacked with the most direct and simple means, which would actually bring their own advantages to the limit.
So, after resting for half a day and eating the crudest food, they screamed again and rushed to Shengzhen like a wolf. While galloping, they rushed past three or five miles. They quickly rushed to the front of the town, and after avoiding the ditches more easily, they rushed to the temporary wooden wall that looked not strong.
The officers and soldiers in the town had already made preparations. When they saw the enemy coming, they still used to stab the spears as before, and stabbed the enemy in front again. But they immediately found that the opponent's followers were following very quickly, and they didn't even have time to draw the spears and stab them again. The man had already jumped high on the fallen body of the same tribe, and he was about to jump into the town from the wooden wall more than half a person high.
Obviously, the convenience brought to the Guirong people after dawn was still above the Vietnamese army, which fully reflected their superb riding skills.
Fortunately, Chen Daoshou was also wary of this. Seeing this, he waved the flag decisively and shouted: "Imperial Guard's sword and shield hand, go!"
The hundreds of imperial guards immediately cheered up and rushed forward. They saw the enemy's situation, decisively used their swords to confront their opponents whose troops had not yet landed. For a moment, the sound of killing filled the town, and the battle began to reach white heat.
The Great Vietnamese Imperial Army is also considered the elite of the middle school. Needless to say, the only thing each warrior lacks is experience and determination to kill the enemy. But after the fight last night, these two weaknesses were compensated at this moment. They completely used the narrow terrain of the entrance street to fight with the enemy, and actually blocked the first wave of attacks from dozens of enemies rushing towards them, and did not let them enter the town.
Seeing this, Chen Daoshou felt certain and decisively waved his flag and ordered again. Then he heard the shouts, and the Fengzhou soldiers who had been guarding the left and right sides turned around and attacked the Guirong Cavalry that had been blocked.
At this moment, there was not enough people entering the town. After a fight, the people fell to the ground and almost no one could retreat. As for the Guirong people outside, they finally felt a little scared after facing the continuous harvest of the spear formation that was not distracted and continued to thorn.
Even though there were still horns to promote war in the rear, their offensive slowed down rapidly, and in the end they turned around and retreated decisively regardless of the fact that they were still fighting inside.
A head-on battle was finally concluded with the Vietnamese army defending the town. They killed more than a hundred Guirong people at a very small price, and eventually forced the enemy to retreat again. Amid the cheers of the soldiers in the town, the sky gradually darkened. This battle was short, but in fact, it had been more than two hours. Many soldiers were covered in blood. When they saw the enemy retreat, they sat down on the spot, panting heavily, and even their bodies were close to the corpse, almost without caring about sitting in a pool of blood.
Fortunately, Li Ling and others who did not participate in the war were not useless. After the war, they immediately sent baskets of steaming steamed buns so that everyone could have a full meal and recover their strength.
Chen Daoshou also walked forward at this time. While counting the casualties, he looked at the enemies who had retreated for several miles thoughtfully, and exhaled, saying, "It seems that we might be able to have a good sleep tonight."
"General Chen means that they won't attack at night tonight?" Li Ling asked casually with two steamed buns.
"Realistically speaking, this is true. After all, we have fought two games last night and now, and they have not been able to get benefits. Morale will inevitably be set. If I were the general of the Guirong Army, what I had to do at this time is to let the entire army rest well and maintain enough energy to wait for tomorrow. At the same time, we must also encourage the morale of the entire army."
Li Ling nodded: "I can see that they are exhausted from the attack later and they are almost unintentional to attack."
"This is an inevitable result. The offensive and defensive sides are inequality on the battlefield, not to mention that they are fighting on our Dayue territory. Their biggest advantage lies in their military strength, but they are not united enough." The problem of the unparalleled internal forces naturally cannot escape Chen Daoshou's eyes.
Li Ling smiled and said, "Our biggest advantage lies in the sufficient supplies. Even if we fight with them for a year, we don't have to worry about logistics." Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something and whispered: "General Chen, I have something I can't figure out."
"What?"
"After these two battles, we were close combat with them and fought close together, which caused us to suffer a lot of casualties. But we could clearly have better means to retreat..."
"You mean crossbow shooting?"
"That's right. The baggage we brought us had hundreds of thousands of arrows and two hundred archers. If we were allowed to shoot from the rear, we would not dare to say that we could suppress the enemy's offensive in one direction, which would be enough to make them pay an extremely heavy price."
Chen Daoshou looked at Li Ling with a serious expression, and then said for a moment: "Mr. Li, you have actually thought about this idea, but in the end he gave up the idea of using a bow and arrow to retreat the enemy."
“Why?”
"Because it does more harm than good. You have also seen that not only did we not use crossbows, but also Guirong people did not use bows and arrows, because they do not have arrows on them now, and the property they brought from the grasslands before was consumed in battles."
Li Ling reacted quickly and immediately understood the other party's meaning: "You mean that once we use bows and arrows, we may create opportunities for them to obtain bows and arrows?"
"That's true, especially when fighting at night, it's hard to be sure of shooting the bow and arrow, and it will only make them cheap! And when it comes to shooting skills, my Dayue soldiers are definitely not as good as these grassland tribes, so we would rather not use it than let the Guirong people get arrows. Unless it is a key battle to decide the outcome, you can only endure it."
Li Ling nodded, accepting the other party's statement. At the same time, he thought more about it and preventing Guirong people from using bows and arrows to be more beneficial to his family. After all, Desheng Town is too small, and once hundreds of arrows are really shot over, it will be difficult to dodge.
"But I still don't plan to defend myself like this. I will take a break tonight. I will lead my troops to take the initiative tomorrow morning!" Chen Daoshou expressed his decision with a firm look.
Li Ling's expression moved: "But because of what I mentioned before, are you afraid that they will still have reinforcements?"
"This is just one aspect, and there is another flaw. I discovered it until just now." Chen Daoshou said, swallowing the last bite of steamed bun, and then drank a bowl of cold water.
Li Ling frowned in confusion, but with his movements, his eyes also fell on the empty bowl, and his expression suddenly became ugly: "Yes, why didn't I expect this?"
At the same time, in the Guirong army several miles away, the leaders of several sides were arguing with each other.
"Why didn't your Tieyan tribe rush up earlier? Are you just waiting for the warriors of our tribe to die in vain?"
"It's just a fart. Haven't you seen dozens of warriors in my unit suffer? How could you attack and rush again?"
"We had agreed to cooperate and fight together today, but you led your troops back at a critical moment. It was because of your retreat that dragged us down!"
"It was yours who retreated first, I saw it..."
"It's you..."
As everyone blamed each other, the atmosphere in the entire Guirong camp became more and more tense, and it seemed that a civil strife could break out at any time.
Originally, Hetura was just standing aside to watch the show. Seeing that the situation was out of control, he couldn't sit still. He quickly stepped forward and shouted, "Everyone can't get the town for a while, so it made you feel very unhappy, but we are one. This battle is more related to whether our tribes can survive, and everyone is more dedicated."
His persuasion finally made the gunpowder at the scene weaker, but someone still snorted: "Hertulai, the people in your Hetu tribe have the least casualties, so they are naturally happy to say such things. Also, have you been boasting about how many tricks you have? Why are you not thinking at this time?"
"I...of course I have a plan, but we all have to work together." Hertulai smiled bitterly, "Our advantage is still there, at least these Yue people have been surrounded by us in this small town."
"So what? Maybe soon, their reinforcements will arrive."
As soon as these words were said, everyone present felt uneasy again, and they were very interested in shirking responsibility again. And after staring at the front for a while, Hertulai suddenly shouted: "I have an idea. We can easily annihilate them and seize the food."
"Hmm? What's your way?" Everyone was excited when they heard his scream. They didn't bother to argue with each other and asked together.
"What do you think there is?" Hertulai pointed ahead.
Everyone looked in the direction of his fingers, and each was confused: "Isn't it just a town?"
"No, I mean this." He pointed down again.
Now, everyone finally realized: "It's Xiaohe..."
Chapter completed!