choke element

Chapter 512 Small Matters

"An enemy is coming, it is a strong enemy!"

Liu Ran looked up at the two-colored flag rolled up on the watchtower.

Ding Haijun didn't teach him the meaning of the semaphore, but after working together in the past few days, Liu Ran summed up some rules by himself.For example, if the flag is single-colored or double-colored, it means that the incoming enemy is infantry, cavalry, or both.The number of left and right swings represents the number of enemies, and is carried out in steps of ten, hundred, five hundred, thousand, and five thousand.

At this moment, the two-color flag was rolled up five times in a row, and then held high again, it was found that the enemy cavalry brigade had more than a thousand and less than 5000 people.

This is the arrival of a strong enemy, and the Mongolian army has come for real!

Liu Ran returned to the camp and yelled at his companions sharply, asking them to lead the old and the weak to the Wozikou Seawall in the south of Zhigu Village to take shelter temporarily, and the middle-aged men who could fight with knives immediately formed a formation, ready to respond to Ding Haijun's call .

This is what Tian Xiong, the guard here, will order Liu Ran to do every time he is harassed by the enemy in the past few days. He has already made experience.

Unexpectedly, the messenger who came this time brought a completely different order. Seeing Liu Ran's sufficient preparations, he was even a little puzzled: "There are a lot of enemies coming this time. You let the people go south to do it." What? If the enemy surrounds the Zhigu village, how long can the people hide in the Wozikou sea pond? Hurry up and lead people around to the back and into the village!"

"The size of Zhigu Village is just that. Thousands of us are crowding into it. The military men...cough cough, we are afraid that we won't be able to help, and we are also afraid that the military men will not be able to turn around."

Zhang Pingliang interrupted.Even though he said this, what he actually meant was that he was worried that the defenders would use the surnames of the refugees as shields to defend the city... In the previous few battles, the Ding Navy did not drive the refugees, but who knew how many enemies there were? After that, what will happen to them?
After hearing Zhang Pingliang's words, the messenger immediately showed an angry expression: "The bandit army attached to Mongolia is here! This is a trivial matter, and you are still needed to deal with these people?"

He raised his voice and said loudly: "We are going to fight now, you just need to watch from the village!"

"Go to battle?"

Liu Ran was stunned for a moment, and the messenger said repeatedly: "Hurry up! Don't delay our business!"

It would be the best if he could really take refuge in the stockade, and everyone listened to the order with a loud bang.

And when Liu Ran and others entered the city walled city, they understood why the messengers were in a hurry to urge them.

It turned out that the Ding Navy's troops stationed in Zhigu Village had been fully prepared and were constantly dispatched outside the city. On the other side of Lushui, in a small fort in the direction of Xin'an Haiyu, there were also hundreds of garrison troops crossing the river by boat and bypassing the refugees. The camp area, join the main force.

In fact, the sum of the two is not a lot of troops.After the small group of sentry cavalry stepped forward, the infantry in gray military robes formed a small square formation one by one.About a hundred people form a square formation, three square formations form a horizontal formation, and then the three horizontal formations are arranged in a staggered order.Sword and shield players lined up side by side on the outer edge of the formation, spearmen scattered among them, and then archers filled the center of the formation.

Due to the restriction of the terrain of the depression in the north of Zhigu Village, the shape of the entire army formation was irregular.But every horizontal formation and even the square formation felt that the spears and spears were held high like a forest, and the banners were like clouds, and they were extremely neat and orderly.

When the soldiers in the front row were in position, hundreds of Alixi were still walking through the formation. Some of them helped the main army put on the armor, and some rushed to the main camp to fetch arrows or spare weapons according to the order of the main army.

When the three horizontal formations were all in place, the Alixis withdrew one after another and formed another small formation behind the formation.On the side of the small formation, the cavalry were in place.

Most of the cavalry were riding tall horses, and some horses were covered with vests.

At this time, all the regular troops in front of the horizontal formation have all put on the armor; and the archers have also put on the light chain mail. Turn it over, just stand on both sides of the ear, and then slightly fix it with a leather strap.

As the generals in the formation shouted and issued orders one after another, the whole team rushed forward with a bang.In the process of advancing, the distances of the multiple phalanxes are constantly changing and appear orderly, just like a giant snake opening and closing the cold steel scales, advancing rapidly on the frozen field.

Zhang Pingliang appeased the refugees in the city wall and ordered them not to move around. At this time, he climbed up the wall of the wall and was surprised at a glance: "What kind of army is this? Even the small army of the imperial court doesn't have such equipment?"

Liu Ran shook his head: "Even if the Xijun we have seen, everyone can't be armored, right? Besides, how can the Xijun have such awe?"

He had seen the actions of dozens or hundreds of people in the Ding Navy. At that time, looking at the equipment, he thought it was the soldiers of the generals in the Ding Navy.It is only now that I realize that there are thousands of soldiers and horses around the Zhigu village, and all of them are in armor.

In the early years when he was in northern Xinjiang, he had seen the fine army of the imperial court, that is, the elite of the Wuwei Army, but the equipment of the Ding Navy was actually better than that of the Wuwei Army.
Moreover, there are tens of thousands of troops stationed in the Central Capital, such as the Wuwei Army and the Weijie Army. In fact, there are not many troops that can really fight. Rely on, please the boss.Once Dinghai's queue is lined up, the battle-tested and capable aura is more than ten times stronger.

If the entire Ding Navy is like this...

In fact, Liu Ran thought too much.The Ding Navy has expanded too fast in the past six months. With such a large number of troops, it is impossible for everyone to wear armor, but what Chen Ran brought was elite.

Liu Ran was stunned for a moment, then looked at Zhang Pingliang, the young man opened his mouth wide open, and his saliva formed a line in mid-air, dripping down all the time.And beside the two of them, many rout soldiers also looked shocked.

At this time, the Dinghai team passed through the passage in the depression ahead, and with the sound of rumbling drums, the entire army began to move forward in neat steps.

"After all, there are only 1000 people, so it's too much." An officer said tremblingly: "If there is a loss, wouldn't the Guo Xuan envoy of the Dinghai Navy be so distressed?"

"Yes, yes, there are about 5000 or [-] enemy troops attacking. This battle is not easy!"

The officer who spoke like this was a smart man who also guessed the flag of Dinghai. He looked at the others and said in a low voice, "If Dinghai's field battle is not good, we have to find a way to secure the Zhigu stronghold."

In these words, there is a meaning of magpie's nest and dove's occupation.The frontier warriors are poor, and seeing that the military resources in Zhigu Village are sufficient, it is also possible for them to be dizzy for a while.

Liu Ran glanced at a few Dinghai soldiers who stayed behind in the distance from the city wall, and couldn't help laughing:
"Such an army of one thousand men is perfect in every aspect of stationing, marching, preparing for battle, and queuing up. It is also supported by a huge fleet, and the Dinghai headquarters in Shandong and Liaodong are the backup...Who dares to fight in Zhigu?" Do you want to offend the navy? Are you not afraid of death?"

"Ahem...I mean, we have to be ready to help at any time!"

The officer laughed a few times, explained a few words to himself, and then put on an appearance of watching the battle intently with his companions.

In fact, others understand their mentality.Those who were able to fight along the way and retreat to Zhigu Village did not have any cowards who were afraid of death, but on the one hand, they hoped that Dinghai could defeat the enemy; powerful.

Otherwise... everyone is really worthless.

At this time, in the wilderness several miles away, there were bursts of horns whimpering, and everyone cheered up, saying repeatedly: "Come, come!"

"But I don't know which way the enemy is coming."

"It's nothing more than those few. Yeruke Zubaer from Khitan, You Xingzong from Bohai, and Shi Tianying, Xue Talahai, and Brother Yang Jiezhi are three ruthless people."

(End of this chapter)