Chapter 613: Capture one person and get promoted (please vote and subscribe)
In the last month of the long winter, on the morning of the third day after the landing of the Qianniu Guard and the Huben Guard, the two main forces had successfully moved to the periphery of the target area, temporarily lurking, and patiently waiting for the attack signal from the fleet.
The target barbarian tribe this time was exhausted after two days and two nights of non-stop harassment by the roaming lurkers, and there was little food left.
Before, they were already on a diet because of the shortage of food, and wanted to save money and survive until spring, but since the roaming lurkers came to "attack" them, they could no longer save money, and they had to eat more, so that all the men could maintain sufficient physical strength, otherwise once the two sides really fought, they would be at a disadvantage if they were hungry.
In the past two days, the barbarian tribe has been vigilant at all times. During the day, they destroyed the ice on the riverside, made floating ice to affect the landing of the roaming lurkers, and also had to allocate people to prepare a large number of stones to use as weapons.
At night, the already tired and hungry Barbarian tribe still had no rest, because Youfu had always relied on his large number of people and boats to divide the crew into several groups, taking advantage of the dark to launch night attacks in shifts. Not to mention, due to the Barbarian tribe's carelessness, Youfu successfully landed on them several times at first, but they did not fight after landing, and often took two or three prisoners and left immediately.
The Barbarian tribe had no choice but to send people to light bonfires along the coast and take turns to guard them, and they also burned a lot of stored dry firewood. These people were not as well prepared as the Han tribe, lacking food and clothing. Their houses were also far from the river, and they could only sleep in the open space by the river on cold nights, without even anything to block the wind, but they had to stay here all the time to respond to Youfu's sneak attacks at any time.
On the second day, You Fu ordered three sailboats to approach the river bank, tied several captives captured yesterday to the mast, and whipped them severely, making them scream continuously. He attacked the barbarian tribe madly in terms of spirit and morale. Finally, when these people were beaten all over, he cut off the big toes of these captives under the eyes of the barbarian tribe, and used red-hot irons to brand them with slave marks that could never be removed.
Such atrocities made the crew very relieved. Just a few months ago, their brothers were also brutally killed by the enemy here. This time they finally got revenge.
And You Fu's behavior was even more exciting than sneak attacks and harassment. They shouted to rescue these people, and even their leader Ju could no longer suppress the mutiny of the tribe.
But at this time, You Fu ordered the three sailboats to return to the middle of the river, and the warriors of the barbarian tribe were so angry that they howled on the shore and used various means to attack the sailboats of the Han tribe, but they could not even touch the hair.
Anger and failure are often followed by a huge mental blow. They had no boats, so they could only stay on the shore and passively defend themselves. They watched their people being captured and abused, and they couldn't save them. For a while, the entire temporary camp of the Barbarian Tribe began to be filled with a depressed atmosphere.
But this depression and helplessness could not save them. The harassment of Youfu continued. Occasionally, he would tie people to the boat and beat them up. The warriors of the Barbarian Tribe had been suffering from both physical and mental torture for two days. On the morning of the third day, their eyes were full of bloodshot, and their expressions were very depressed and tired. Just when they thought Youfu would attack again, the three sailboats in the middle of the river suddenly stopped moving, which made Ju, who had eyes like pandas, unable to understand. What on earth were they going to do?
Just when the Barbarian Tribe was collectively confused and thought that Youfu could no longer bear it and was ready to retreat, the development of things became beyond their imagination.
A two-masted sailboat as big as Youfu's was moving forward with full sails, quickly approaching this side, which surprised the Barbarian tribe. It turned out that they were not going to retreat, but to continue to reinforce. Seeing this scene, the Barbarian warriors' faces suddenly darkened. Only three ships had already made them unbearable to be harassed. Now there was another one. Wouldn't it be more difficult for them to defend.
However, this was just the beginning. After the first reinforcement ship was in place, several similar ships suddenly appeared behind, and soon the size of the fleet was expanded to ten. This number was terrifying, and even made the warriors of the Barbarian tribe begin to despair.
However, this action was far more than that. More and more ships gathered in the middle of the river, from three to ten, from ten to twenty, until finally 28. At this time, the most important guys of the Han tribe in this action finally appeared.
The appearance of three three-masted ships and several large sunken transport ships really scared the Barbarian tribe, and almost became the last straw that broke their nerves.
The warriors of the barbarian tribe ran toward the tribe, howling, ready to hide in the woods with their families before the enemy launched a large-scale attack, and then come out after the enemy left.
However, ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel. Just when someone packed up their things and was about to flee with their family, a huge drum sound suddenly came from the river behind them.
Dong -
that was the sound of hundreds of drums on more than 30 boats.
Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong, Dong Dong Dong -
hundreds of drums were beating at the same time, and the drumbeats were getting faster and faster. The vibrating air seemed to be able to tear the eardrums. The huge noise generated instantly spread to the forest several miles away. It was the agreed signal used to notify Qianniu Guards and Huben Guards.
On the other side, Xue Tu and Chai Duoduo, who had waited for a long time and finally got the signal, jumped up immediately, waved their hands happily, and said to their messenger soldiers.
"All troops, assemble and surround them in a horizontal formation." With the sound of neat friction between armored blades, thousands of fully armed soldiers suddenly jumped out of the woods and began to change their formation under the command of their respective commanders.
They
quickly spread out into a horizontal formation and then began to slowly advance forward to the rhythm of the drums.
The barbarian tribe was in chaos at this time. Everyone knew that the Han tribe was about to land, so many people hurriedly took their families to the surrounding woods. However, what they didn't expect was that an army with the same Chinese flag appeared in the woods. Judging from their attire and weapons, they were similar to the sailors on the ship, but the weapons and armor they were equipped with were hundreds of times stronger than those of the sailors.
The horizontal formation of more than 4,000 people formed a huge encirclement, blocking the entire residence of the barbarian tribe. The panicked barbarian warriors were at a loss at this time and could not organize an effective assault team. Some young and strong men tried to take advantage of the fact that the encirclement was not too tight and wanted to force their way out through the gaps in the battle formation.
However, the ability of one person is limited after all. As soon as the man rushed to the front of the Han tribe army, three people in the army rushed forward. A sword and shield soldier carrying a large shield collided with the man head-on, knocking him off balance. The other two took advantage of his unstable footing, one went up to capture him, and the other quickly tied him up. After tying him up, they didn't need to care about him, just left him there. However, the army that kept moving forward soon collapsed over the man, and the encirclement became tighter and tighter.
The leader of the barbarian tribe began to get nervous. He finally realized that this was a conspiracy set up by the other party specifically for his tribe. The three sailboats on the river were to confuse him, making him think that there were only so many of them. In fact, their large group of people had already landed from somewhere else, waiting to quietly surround his tribe.
This was not because he was arrogant and ignored this possibility, but in Ju's impression, there was no tribe in the world that could carry out such a military action. His tribe had a population of more than 2,000, which was already a hegemon in the surrounding area. However, in order to surround a tribe of more than 2,000 people, the number of warriors needed would be at least twice that.
What was the concept of 4,000 to 5,000 warriors? This was equivalent to a tribe of 30,000 people. All the adult males in the tribe were pulled to the battlefield at once. It could be said that they were out in full force. This was almost ten times the number of the entire barbarian tribe. However, in Ju's cognition, he did not believe that there was such a large tribe in the world. He had never even heard of it. How could he believe that such a thing would happen?
Ju looked at the thousands of enemy troops approaching the forest, swallowed nervously, and then looked back at the river. Dozens of large ships that had just arrived lowered their landing craft, two small boats and four large boats. In just a short while, the large ships were surrounded by small boats carrying forty people, which began to form a horizontal formation and rowed towards the shore.
Ju knew that he could not wait any longer, otherwise, once the two sides met, these large numbers of people with sharp weapons would instantly annihilate his tribe. He looked at the tribesmen who kept rushing into the enemy formation and were instantly knocked down and tied up, and then roared angrily.
"Don't charge anymore. You will only die if you go up like that. Come back, squeeze together, and charge out in a group. If we can't charge out today, we will all die here."
Ju's shout worked at the critical moment. Those tribesmen who had been frightened out of their wits seemed to suddenly come back to their senses. They began to retreat like a tide, and then all gathered around their leader Ju.
"Everyone listen to me. All the men line up in the front, just like we usually do when we hunt. The strong ones lead the way. Take more javelins and stone axes and attack the enemy from a distance. Those who have bows and arrows stand in the second row. Hurry up, start now. We will break out to the east mountain. They will not be able to catch up with us when we are in the mountains.
The other women take their children and hold spears in their hands. The children hold a few more stones. All the boys who are taller than their chests should follow me with spears. If you don't charge up now, we will have no chance in the future."
It's no wonder that after being commanded by Ju at such a short notice, the entire barbarian tribe seemed to have taken drugs. It seemed that the confidence that they usually had to bully small tribes had returned. The entire population of the tribe was mobilized. The men used the most familiar hunting formations and rushed towards a point with various throwing weapons in their hands. This made Chai Duoduo and Xue Tu secretly say that something was not good.
The Han tribe had more than 4,000 warriors, which seemed to be a lot, but if they wanted to surround the more than 2,000 people of the Barbarian tribe, the battle line would undoubtedly be very long. So although the encirclement looked large, it actually had no depth. It was just a thin layer of human wall. As long as one point was broken, the enemy would really run away.
In addition, the other side also prepared a large number of throwing weapons, stones, stone axes, and javelins. Although these things could not penetrate the armor of the warriors, it would be very uncomfortable if they were hit by heavy objects. Among them, the sword and shield soldiers were better. They had large shields to resist these attacks, but the spearmen and crossbowmen could only use armor to resist.
However, in the previous training, the leader had also taught them a lot of military formations. At this time, facing the enemy's breakout, if they didn't know how to change the formation, they could only say that they were stupid.
Since the enemy has now concentrated its manpower to break out in one direction, they also need to concentrate their superior forces to block this point and strengthen the depth of defense, and the manpower in other directions can be properly mobilized.
Xue Tu was the first to react. He shouted, "Messenger, beat the drums, signal with flags, and order all the sword and shield soldiers to charge forward against the enemy. The other soldiers should follow the general's flag and close the encirclement in the middle."
Chai Duoduo, who was standing next to him, saw this and quickly issued the same order.
Boom, boom, boom—the drums suddenly started beating loudly under the general's flag in the center, and several huge colorful flags were flying up and down. The commanders of the sword and shield soldiers at all levels quickly received the signal. From the director to the section chief, to the general flag and the small flags, they instantly raised their big shields, and with their other hands waved the wooden sticks they had cut during the march, and rushed forward like anti-explosion police in prison.
Thousands of sword and shield soldiers quickly formed a three-layer shield wall, wearing thick armor and iron helmets, and collided with the vanguard of the barbarian tribe like Mars hitting the earth. The enemy took stone axes and smashed the shields fiercely, but it did not cause any effective damage at all. On the other hand, the sword and shield soldiers on the Han tribe, after successfully blocking an attack with their shields, instantly swung out with the wooden sticks in their other hands, knocking people down on the spot. The two sides only met, and the vanguard of the barbarian tribe was reduced to 70 or 80 people.
Xue Tu and Chai Duoduo saw that the counter-assault tactics were so effective, and made a decision in an instant. What's the point of encircling them? They all rushed up and killed them.
In an instant, the sound of the war drums in the field became more urgent, and several large flags representing various branches of the army flew up and down. Finally, even the tallest general flag in the middle pointed forward. The bugler suddenly blew the charge horn, and all the commanders trembled all over and roared loudly at their soldiers.
"All troops charge forward. Anyone who kills one person will gain half a level of merit. Anyone who captures one person alive will be promoted to a higher rank. Charge—"
"Charge—"
(End of this chapter)
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