Chapter 1314
This group of enemy soldiers is unlucky [Spring Chapter: May All Your Wishes Come True]
Chapter 1314 This group of enemy troops is unlucky [Wishing you all the best for the Spring Festival]
Boom boom boom boom boom!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
The flint, carrying immense force, struck the ground, overturning tens of thousands of pursuing enemy cavalry from the Eastern Desert.
The enemy's warhorses were hit and startled, running around in all directions, causing a new round of casualties among the enemy.
"Aaaaah, roar roar roar!" The Eastern Desert soldier roared in fury, stabbing the warhorse that had caused him to fall to its death with a few swift strokes of his sword. He raised his sword and shouted, "No retreating! Charge forward! Kill the bastard Liang Wei! Kill Jiang Dalang! Avenge the fallen heroes of the Eastern Desert!!"
"Kill Jiang Dalang, for..."
Upon hearing this, almost every enemy soldier from the Eastern Desert shouted in unison, their eyes wide and bloodshot, their faces contorted with rage, clearly showing how much they hated Jiang Dalang.
Why do I hate him so much?
Because Jiang Dalang killed nearly five thousand of their light cavalry... These five thousand light cavalry were ordered to pursue the fleeing General Liang.
It was initially thought that with Liang poisoned and unconscious, the Wei army would be thrown into chaos, and their marching speed would be slowed down by internal strife.
Five thousand light cavalrymen were about to catch up with the man surnamed Liang when, just as they saw the Liang family army's banner and victory seemed within reach, three cavalry units suddenly attacked from the left, right, and rear.
Blitz them.
They attacked and ran, showing no interest in fighting. These Wei cavalrymen didn't even dismount to collect their supplies!
The five thousand light cavalry were ambushed for the first time, losing four hundred and eighty-five men. The northern royal general Bei Qide was furious and ordered his troops to pursue the Wei cavalry that had ambushed them in three directions.
This military order resulted in the loss of 611 men for this light cavalry force in the northern part of the Eastern Desert!
The reason is that this beast Jiang Dalang actually laid a trap on the way back, which was full of poisonous creatures... poisonous insects, rotting poisonous things, poison powder, and some new poisons that were raised with the blood of red poison.
There were too many different kinds of poisons, and when they were chasing each other on horseback, they fell into a trap, and both man and horse were thrown about, getting contaminated with all sorts of poisons.
Even the great physician who accompanied the divine disciple came to treat them, but it was to no avail... It did have some effect, but the Eastern Desert cavalry who were not poisoned to death were all too poisoned to march or fight anymore.
There is no camaraderie in the Eastern Desert, and they hate burdens the most. So Bei Qi De La ordered: kill all the Eastern Desert cavalry who can no longer fight, and the blood debt will be on Jiang Da Lang's head!
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Alright, alright, so this is how you Eastern Desert calculates things, is that it?
However, the blitzkriegs did not happen only once. On the way to pursue Liang, the five thousand light cavalry of the Beiqi Dela tribe encountered more than a dozen blitzkriegs.
Each blitzkrieg resulted in casualties among the cavalry of the Beqidela tribe.
Without camaraderie, it became a situation where there was only death and no injury.
After more than ten battles, only 1,300 of Beiqide's 5,000 light cavalry remained.
Bei Qi De La panicked and had no choice but to ask his elder brother, the Northern King, for help.
King Beiqidemo of the North felt deeply ashamed. In order to save face for the North, he sent another royal brother, Beiqideer, with 10,000 cavalry to rush over.
Finally, they caught up with General Liang and the main force of the mountain people on the main road outside Dongfu Town.
How should I put it?
These enemy troops are really unlucky.
dong dong dong dong!
The war drums thundered, and the messenger shouted: "Deputy General Lang and Commander Jiang's orders: Long-range weapons will disrupt the enemy's formation; the Wei army will lead the charge, and the mountain soldiers will cover the rear. Using the main road as a focal point, we will radiate outwards in three directions to encircle and annihilate the enemy. Kill as many as they come! This time we can collect spoils of war! We can collect spoils of war!!"
Previously, fearing the arrival of the enemy's main force, they would launch a blitzkrieg and then flee for their lives, abandoning a lot of spoils of war, which everyone found heartbreaking.
But this time is different. This time we're very close to Dongfu Town, so I dare to spend time picking up equipment!
"Yes, sir! Listen to Commander Jiang! Long-range attack, herd the enemy like ducks and surround them to wipe them out and loot their equipment!!"
Wei Jun, Aunt Alan, and the mountain soldiers they led shouted excitedly, as if it were New Year's Day. "Catapults, fire!"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh, boom boom boom boom, bang bang bang bang, the sound of flint striking flint continued.
On the opposite main road, thuds and screams of enemy soldiers and their horses fell to the ground.
Some soldiers from the Eastern Desert also experienced difficulty breathing.
"This, this batch of flint, is poisonous!" Dongmo Bing shouted, his face already red from suffocation, his tongue stiffened from the poison, making it difficult for him to speak.
The Eastern Desert soldiers, unaffected by the poison attack, hurriedly waved their military flags and shouted to inform the two members of the Northern royal family behind them of the military situation.
Bei Qide La and Bei Qide Er, filled with shock and rage, roared from a distance beyond the reach of the firestones: "Charge! If we can't get back the Liang family member, we must kill the Jiang family member! We absolutely cannot let Jiang Dalang live any longer!"
It's understandable that they couldn't seize General Liang because he was heavily guarded in the middle. But Jiang Dalang was right there on the front lines, and he was the one who had caused the Northern Kingdom to lose face. They had to kill him to restore the dignity of the Northern royal family!
However, now you are surrounded and killed by tens of thousands of troops (tens of thousands of Wei soldiers and hundreds of thousands of mountain people). If you still cannot win, then Jiang Dalang might as well die.
But Jiang Dalang didn't want this battle to end too quickly; he wanted to give the mountain people practice and teach them how to fight a proper battle.
Only after experiencing this dynasty will the mountain people and soldiers know how to fight when facing the main force of the Eastern Desert army in the future. Otherwise, in a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people, they will not even know how to position themselves and will accidentally injure their own people.
but……
Thump thump thump, thump thump thump!
Strange war drums sounded from afar, and the sentries standing on the mountains on both sides of the main road immediately waved their military flags and signaled to Jiang Dalang: "A new enemy force has appeared, cavalry, a long line, numbering twenty to thirty thousand!"
The scouts rushed towards Jiang Dalang, repeating the sentry's words as they ran: "Beiqi, there are enemy cavalry reinforcements on the main road far behind you..."
He shouted all the way so that the sentries and scouts along the route could hear him and inform Deputy General Lang and the other commanders to prepare to fight the enemy.
"Reporting to Commander Jiang..."
Jiang Dalang, who was on a high slope, was directing the battle. After hearing the scout's report, his heart sank slightly. He said, "Pass down the order to finish this quickly. The reason is that there is a high probability that there are more enemy troops on their way behind the newly arrived enemy troops."
"This constant reinforcement suggests that the enemy is desperate and wants to take a gamble to cut off General Liang's 100,000 troops from returning to the city and joining the troops inside."
"In short, the situation has changed. We can no longer train our troops at a leisurely pace; we must act quickly and decisively."
As Jiang Dalang spoke, he took out a small piece of paper specifically for writing military orders, wrote "I fear the enemy may have reinforcements, so we must fight quickly and decisively," then pressed his fingerprint and dog tag pattern on it and handed it to the scout.
"Yes, sir!" The scout took the military order and went straight to Deputy General Lang's office and the operations departments of each commander to inform them of Jiang Dalang's orders.
Logically speaking, with so many veteran officers under General Liang's command, it wouldn't be Jiang Dalang's turn to command this battle based on seniority.
However, His Majesty had a secret order that Great Wei needed young generals, and Jiang Dalang had once again achieved remarkable results by swiftly annihilating nearly four thousand cavalrymen of the Beiqi Dela tribe. This was another small battle that was sure to be won, so they delegated power and put Jiang Dalang in the command position.
Jiang Dalang was promoted from a centurion to a chiliarch, but this was a temporary appointment and he did not yet have a formal appointment letter from the Ministry of Personnel or the Ministry of War.
Upon receiving Jiang Dalang's order, the commanders did not hesitate and commanded: "The enemy has reinforcements. The Wei vanguard should assemble and quickly kill this enemy force from the Beiqi brothers' unit to buy time to kill the newly arrived reinforcements!"
The Beiqi brothers also heard the thumping drumbeats and burst into laughter: "The reinforcements have arrived! We won't die! Retreat, retreat! Once the reinforcements arrive, we'll charge together and kill that bastard Jiang Dalang from Liangwei!"
They truly hated Jiang Dalang to the core.
Thump thump thump!
"Retreat! Retreat! After we rendezvous with the reinforcements, we'll kill those bastards from Liangwei!" The surviving cavalrymen of Dongmo shouted, feeling as if they had survived a catastrophe. It was clear that although they were ruthless, they were also afraid of death.
Aww, it's Chinese New Year! Happy Lunar New Year of the Horse! I originally wanted to write a limerick-style blessing, but then I felt awkward, so I changed it to a simpler version: Wishing everyone: wealth, courage, steadfastness, self-reliance, self-awareness, self-respect, and freedom. PS: Don't mind the names in the text. I'm terrible at naming characters, but I've tried my best to name them. I only do it when absolutely necessary, preferring to use numbers like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. So, any characters with proper names are precious.