Chapter 308 On the eve of the decisive battle (please vote and subscribe)
After days of jungle ambushes, more than 300 of the more than 1,200 enemy troops that originally surrounded Hanyang City have been captured by Luo Chong, and dozens of people have been killed directly during the period. Now there are at most 800 enemy troops gathered outside Hanyang City. Now, these people have decreased again because the enemy has sent two teams of 100 people into the forest to look for their missing soldiers.
In early summer, on the morning of April 8, Luo Chong was drinking porridge in the camp south of Tuoguling. This was the battlefield where the Fire Tribe was ambushed for the first time. At this time, a Han tribe cavalryman wearing armor rode his horse and came to Luo Chong to dismount and salute.
"Report to the leader, the enemy's two teams of 100 people have taken the bait and are searching along the bait we set up. It is expected that they will reach the encirclement before noon. Does the leader have any instructions?" The cavalryman knelt on one knee and said with a fist.
"How many giant apes are there in these two teams?" Luo Chong asked, putting down his bowl.
"One team is heading due south with 6, and the other team is heading southwest with 5."
"Well, let's do this. Go back and tell Chief Mouse that since the coalition has more people this time, let them fight in close combat. Let our archer flag not participate in close combat, but shoot the enemy's giant apes from a distance, and strive to kill these monsters first to avoid heavy casualties.
In addition, tell Chief Mouse that there are giant apes participating in this battle. In order to avoid the situation getting out of control, we don't need to take prisoners this time, so as to ensure our own safety first. If it is difficult to catch them, just kill them directly." Luo Chong stood up and thought for a while and said.
"Yes, I will pass the message now." The cavalry also stood up and rode away.
After Luo Chong finished breakfast, he walked around the camp. There are more than 300 prisoners under guard here. They are all tied up and have been hungry for several days. Now they are all half dead. Not giving them food is the easiest way to control their resistance. Even if they have the heart to resist, they have no strength to resist. Besides, Luo Chong doesn't have too much food to eat, so there is no need to waste it on them. As long as they don't starve to death, it's fine.
There were dozens of wounded soldiers in the camp, most of them were reinforcements from other tribes, and there were three warriors from the Han tribe. After fighting for several days, it was impossible to fight without casualties. Fortunately, the warriors of the Han tribe had armor and were not seriously injured. However, the wounded soldiers from other tribes were in a miserable state. More than 20 people died in the past few days, and more than a dozen of them died.
However, Luo Chong had sent medicine from Hanyang City by flying eagles, and basically all those who could be saved were saved. There were still 300 to 400 women and children left. Some of them were small tribes who brought their entire tribes to Hanyang City, and there were also female warriors summoned from other tribes. However, Luo Chong did not let these women go to the battlefield. The number of men was enough, and there was no need to use so many people, so these women temporarily did some logistical work in the camp, such as guarding prisoners and watching children and cooking.
At noon, the two pre-set ambush positions also started to fire, and the war was about to break out. The location of the ambush circle was very particular, and most of them were small open areas without trees, in order to prevent the giant apes from climbing trees, which would double their attack power.
The tactics did not change much. They waited for the enemy to enter the circle and sealed the gap first. However, this time, there was a slight difference. Before the cavalry charged, there would be a wave of long-range attacks. Archers first shot at the cannibals. Some of the giant apes died immediately after being hit by seven or eight arrows, while others continued to break through after being hit by one or two arrows.
When the giant apes rushed to 60 meters away from the encirclement, the sword and shield soldiers had already formed a shield wall. It was not an exaggeration to say that it was a shield wall. The Han tribe did not have many sword and shield soldiers, but in the battles over the past few days, they also seized a lot of homemade shields made by the cannibals.
Although it was very crude, the reinforcements from other tribes saw how brave the sword and shield soldiers of the Han tribe were, and they also liked the shield as a weapon. They did not despise the inferior shields of the cannibals, and they all took them in their hands happily, imitating the sword and shield soldiers of the Han tribe to charge into battle with shields in hand.
Behind the shield wall were the spearmen, with a row of long and sharp spears placed on top of the shields to ensure that no one could break out of the encirclement.
Further back were countless reinforcements from other tribes, each of them holding three or four spears, watching the giant apes rushing towards them. Under the command of the flag chief of the Han tribe, they all threw several rounds of spears, and the rain of spears covered them one by one. Several cannibals did not even touch the shield wall and were completely dead. Needless to say, so many spears were also captured in the past few days.
After the giant ape was eliminated, the tactics were similar to those of the previous few days. The cavalry was responsible for charging and disrupting the enemy's formation, while the spearmen and shieldmen took advantage of the chaos to charge and kill. The two battles were completed in less than half an hour from start to finish. After all, the Han tribe coalition had 400 to 500 people fighting against 100 people. From weapons to tactics, and then to the battlefield, the advantages were all on the coalition side, and it was basically a sure win.
After the battle, the team began to clean up the battlefield. Some people escorted the prisoners back to the camp, while others were dispersed to scout the enemy.
By the time the group escorted the prisoners back to the camp, it was already evening that day. There were not many prisoners in this battle, but there were about 120 people. At this point, the enemy's remaining forces were only about 600 people outside Hanyang City, while Luo Chong's coalition had more than 2,000 people. Each larger tribe sent an average of 100 people, and 17 or 18 tribes had more than 1,700 people. Add a few small tribes that came to surrender, and the number of people has exceeded 2,000.
At night, Luo Chong looked at the moon and calculated the days. In more than a week, the first season of rice in Hanyang City this year should be harvested. The busy farming season does not wait for anyone, and tomorrow is the time for a decisive battle.
That night, Luo Chong sent a letter to Hanyang City by flying eagle, notifying the defenders in the city to cooperate with him to launch a general attack tomorrow to completely eliminate the invading enemy, and told them the specific plan for tomorrow's decisive battle.
The next morning, leaving about 300 people to guard the camp and guarding about 430 prisoners, Luo Chong led a team of more than 1,900 people to the direction of Hanyang City. There were 1,800 coalition forces and more than 100 elite warriors from the Han tribe.
The group marched from dawn to about three or four o'clock in the afternoon. When they were about to leave the forest, Luo Chong asked the team to stop, eat some dry food, rice and barbecue made in the morning, and rest for an hour. At five o'clock in the afternoon, they broke out of the forest from the southwest and southeast directions, forming a semi-encirclement structure, blocking the enemy on the west side of Hanyang City.
The defenders on Hanyang City couldn't help cheering when they saw the leader coming with a large group of troops. The enemy had been besieging the city for more than ten days, and the leader finally showed up with the coalition forces.
(End of this chapter)
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