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Chapter 267: Each Shows His Own Intentions

Pei Yuan hesitated for a moment, but finally gave the order.

"Dispatch a hundred auxiliary soldiers to the rear camp and replace Cheng Leixiang."

Pei Yuan looked around and found that the only person who could coordinate the auxiliary troops now was Eunuch Gu.

This old eunuch had been fighting the bandits in Bazhou for more than a year, and indeed he had begun to specialize in Bazhou. He had been supervising the battle in the front camp without changing his expression.

After hearing Pei Yuan's words, Gu Dayong was very conscious and quickly asked the young eunuch Wu Qing to lead more than a hundred people to the rear camp for support.

Pei Yuan was relieved a little, and then ordered, "All auxiliary soldiers, go up to the wall and shoot arrows. Chen Toutie, you and your infantrymen, be ready to fight for the wall."

After hearing this, the auxiliary soldiers quickly climbed up the wall to take over the archery task. Chen Toutie and his infantrymen nervously checked their weapons, waiting for the Bazhou bandits to break through the trench and rush up.

Pei Yuan climbed up the short ladder to the village wall and observed for a moment.

I saw a group of bandits dragging a bamboo raft and rushing towards the trench under heavy cover.

Pei Yuan secretly felt regretful, wishing that the "Big Tiger"'s bandit army had not arrived so quickly.

The people of "Mantianxing" had just suffered a great loss, and their morale was not that high. They could definitely charge out again and repel them again.

But now with the arrival of the "big tiger", the gap in military strength between the two sides has widened to a huge proportion again.

These bandits are good at bullying the weak and fearing the strong. When they saw that their family was doing well again, the morale of the bandits, which had just been reduced, rose again.

Pei Yuan, who was on the wall of the village, could only watch helplessly as the bandits swarmed towards the camp again.

Pei Yuan asked for a bow and arrow and shot a few arrows at random.

He is very strong and does not need to aim when facing dense lines of soldiers.

But soon, the enemy's archers approached under the cover of other bandits.

This time the bandits' attack was so fierce that it felt like the two leaders had gathered all the archers. Pei Yuan and the auxiliary soldiers who had just climbed onto the village wall were unable to raise their heads because of the blast of arrows.

Fortunately, having a large number of enemies also has its advantages. The auxiliary soldiers hid behind the village wall and fired randomly, which often had an effect.

Pei Yuan saw that it was not possible to use the fortifications to gain free advantage from a distance, so he could only reluctantly order the auxiliary troops to retreat a little and replace them with Chen Tou Tie's infantry to prepare for the battle for the village wall.

When the bandits start to climb the village wall and their archers extend their fire into the village, these auxiliary archers will be of great use.

The Xuzhou soldiers don't have many bows and arrows, so instead of using them to deal damage, it's better to use them to control the rhythm.

Pei Yuan was somewhat relieved at this moment that Xiao Bapi had finally done something useful.

Fortunately, he deliberately let those prisoners go, letting the enemy know that the village had good fire prevention measures. Otherwise, if a few rockets were fired at this time, even if they did not have much effect, they would definitely cause chaos.

In this tense time, if there is any disturbance, there will be only one way out, which is death.

Pei Yuan and Chen Toutie's soldiers were hiding behind the village wall, when they suddenly heard cheers coming from the bandits' group.

Chen Toutie didn't understand what was going on and wanted to get up and look outside.

Pei Yuan grabbed him and said, "No need to look, it must be their bamboo raft coming up."

Sure enough, they heard a few dull noises. It was obvious that the bandits had laid several large bamboo rafts on the trench.

As the trenches were covered, the favorable situation previously created by fortifications had been greatly weakened.

Chen Toutie said a little nervously, "Captain, do you want to go up now?"

Chen Toutie has followed Pei Yuan into battle several times and has experience in commanding his own soldiers.

But it was the first time for him to face so many enemies. Just looking at the dense crowds of heads outside made him feel powerless.

Can we really stop so many enemies?
If Pei Yuan hadn't been there at the moment, he wouldn't even know how to make basic judgments and give commands.

Pei Yuan thought about it and felt that it was safer, so he shouted, "Wait, count to ten first."

Chen Toutie's mind was blank at the moment, and he didn't think about why, so he just started counting silently.

Just as I counted to three, I saw a volley of arrows shooting towards the top of the wall. The arrows were as fast as heavy rain and kept shooting, as if they were going to pour out all the firepower.

The enemy's arrows had poor accuracy, most of them hit the wall, and many went directly into the camp.

There were several auxiliary archers in the back who were waiting for counterattack but they were unable to dodge and grimaced in pain after being shot.

Chen Toutie was shocked and immediately filled with fear.

Pei Yuanmo calculated the distance. With the rebels' broken bows, the projectiles could still cause such damage. It seemed that the archers of the bandits were very close to the camp.

Really, so arrogant.

It seems that the other team that is trying to climb up the wall to fight for the village should be not far away.

Pei Yuan whispered to the auxiliary soldiers, "As soon as the enemy's arrows stop, you shoot. Shoot at a position about ten steps outside the village wall."

As soon as the bows and arrows stopped, the densely packed bandit army would use their numerical advantage to fight for the village wall, which would be a good opportunity to deal a wave of damage.

Upon hearing this, the auxiliary soldiers waited nervously, and as soon as the enemy army's rain of arrows stopped, they immediately started shooting.

These people are good at building ships, and they don't really have any skills in archery, but this kind of random shooting into the crowd is actually the most suitable fighting method for them.

The volley of arrows fired by the auxiliary archers soon had an effect.

Pei Yuan was leaning against the wall of the village when he heard a cry of pain.

But there were too many bandits. After four rounds of arrow rain, Pei Yuan still heard the "clacking" sound of ladders falling on the wall of the village.

Pei Yuan signaled Chen Toutie, "Go!"

Chen Toutie immediately jumped up, climbed up the short ladder, and swung the knife in his hand wildly.

The Xuzhou soldiers who had been waiting nervously for a long time also subconsciously followed and rushed to the wall of the village, slashing wildly outside. Then they heard screams from outside the wall, and several people fell directly from the wall.

But there were also some quick-moving bandits who rushed up the village wall with shields on their heads.

There was an immediate burst of cheers outside the camp.

But before the bandit could gain a foothold and seize control of that section of the village wall, a spear flew over and knocked over his shield, causing him to fall back with his head tilted back.

The Xuzhou soldiers in the camp also responded by shouting in unison, "Captain Pei is mighty!"

Pei Yuan threw out two more javelins in succession.

Relying purely on his powerful force and close-range shots, he was able to suppress the momentum of the two attacks.

However, this small-scale confrontation did not affect the overall situation at all.

The soldiers of both sides began to hack and slash at each other indiscriminately across the village wall. This method of attack, in which every blow was made, caused the number of casualties on both sides to increase at a very fast rate.

Not counting those who had died from arrows previously, this brief confrontation alone cost the lives of at least three or four hundred bandits from Bazhou.

The soldiers of Xuzhou had the advantage of terrain, they were wearing helmets and cotton armor, and they had much more physical strength than those bandits.

However, even so, forty or fifty people were killed or injured in a short period of time.

If it weren't for the fact that the Xuzhou soldiers had fought so few battles and lacked combat experience, they would have already run away by now... Pei Yuan watched the Xuzhou soldiers' defense line on the wall begin to thin out at a speed visible to the naked eye, and could only shout, "Back off, back off, let them in!"

After hearing this, the Xuzhou soldiers, who had already begun to panic, came down from the short ladder as if they had been pardoned, removed the ladder and took a few steps back.

Pei Yuanze did not retreat but advanced, rushed forward with a golden hammer in hand, and blocked the position of the village gate.

The gate of the village had been propped up with wooden stakes when the assault team retreated just now, but although the mechanism was firmly propped up, it was easy to open from the inside.

As long as the gate of the village is opened, a large number of bandits will pour in like a flood.

Then it will all be over.

The bandits outside saw that their own line had been fully pushed forward and they all shouted excitedly.

The bandits who rushed up the wall of the village were extremely excited. They jumped down from the wall and were about to seize the gate of the village. However, they saw that the retreating Xuzhou soldiers had already changed to long spears under the command of Chen Toutie and were stabbing at them indiscriminately.

In order to make it easier to climb the village wall, the bandits carried ordinary broadswords and no long weapons.

The first batch of bandits who attacked the camp were caught off guard and were stabbed to death in rows.

As a result, an outrageous situation arose at the forefront of the battle.

The symbolically captured stockade wall not only failed to demonstrate any significance, but instead completely separated the vanguard from the troops behind, resulting in a situation where the Xuzhou soldiers outnumbered the Bazhou bandits.

Pei Yuanze blocked the gate of the village and held it tightly. Any escaped fish who wanted to open the gate were killed by him with a hammer.

Mantianxing, the leader of the Bazhou bandits in the rear, saw batches of bandits rushing into the camp but they were slow to open the gate, and he knew something had happened.

It’s just that these bandits are poorly organized and there’s no way to adjust them now.

Now we can only rush in more people at once before the bandits realize something is wrong.

He has a simple but firm belief.

No matter how elite the soldiers and generals are, they will be defeated sooner or later in the face of such unreasonable and overwhelming attacks!

Following the repeated urging of "Mantianxing", more and more bandits climbed up the wall of the village, preparing to attack more places.

Although the Xuzhou soldiers under Chen Toutie's command were tall and strong, they could not withstand such continuous and uninterrupted attacks. As more and more people died, the pressure on those Xuzhou soldiers became greater and greater, and they gradually showed signs of exhaustion.

The place with the most pressure in the whole game is Pei Yuan.

Because basically every bandit who can successfully jump off the village wall will choose to open the village gate as his first choice.

But the village gate is connected to the village wall.

This is equivalent to Pei Yuan himself guarding a line of defense that has been abandoned.

Chen's iron-clad defense began to loosen, and Pei Yuan was under increasing pressure. With the help of "the poorer the stronger", Pei Yuan, who was in high spirits, hammered and chopped with his sword, and there was almost no enemy in front of him that could match him.

As the number of corpses in front of Pei Yuan increased, even the bandits who had just entered the camp and had not seen Pei Yuan take action, looked at the terrifying god of death with fear in their eyes.

It was at this time that Cheng Leixiang's team of soldiers arrived from the rear camp in time.

The battle on their side was just a dull test, but they didn't expect that the fighting in the front camp was so brutal.

When Cheng Leixiang saw Pei Yuan's signal, he quickly asked his soldiers to change to spears and go forward to help Chen Toutie's men defend.

When Chen Toutie and his soldiers saw the reinforcements coming, they were shocked and tried their best to push back the bandit army that was gradually opening up the space.

Seeing that even after investing so many troops at once, he still failed to break the deadlock, "Mantianxing"'s face gradually changed.

Seeing this, Chen Hutou had an idea in mind and said to Zhao Xinghe, "The government troops are defending with all their might. My strategy must have worked. Their current forces should all be gathered in the front camp."

"I am leading a group of soldiers now. We will launch a surprise attack from the rear, which will surely put the empty rear camp in a state of emergency. As long as they withdraw troops from the front line to reinforce, it will inevitably cause a chain rout and cause the battle line to collapse! Then the big thing will be accomplished."

Gypsophila heaved a sigh of relief and patted his forehead, "That's exactly what it should be."

Chen Hutou immediately called a group of soldiers from behind and quickly went around to the rear camp of the government army.

However, Chen Hutou's troops' departure happened to fall into the sight of Gu Dayong who was looking around on the observation deck.

Gu Dayong, the former highest military commander who had learned from his failures and finally maxed out his skills to become an "expert in Bazhou", recalled the tragic battles of the past and quickly saw through Chen Hutou's intentions.

However, the opponent's idea is to destroy the morale of the front army. If he shouts, the morale of the front army may collapse before Chen Hutou attacks.

Gu Dayong was very anxious, but he couldn't remind him directly.

He anxiously gestured towards Pei Yuan, hoping that Pei Yuan would notice him quickly.

Gu Dayong's stupid method soon produced miraculous results.

Pei Yuan was facing the inside of the village to defend the gate, which was exactly the opposite direction of the Xuzhou soldiers who were facing the village wall to defend against the bandits.

He happened to see Gu Dayong's dancing.

Seeing the old eunuch's anxious look, Pei Yuan knew something was wrong and immediately shouted, "Auxiliary soldiers, shoot arrows. Chen Toutie and Cheng Leixiang, push the enemy back together!"

Pei Yuan suddenly realized something at this moment. The isolation of the village wall made it difficult for the bandits to attack, and it created a situation where the Xuzhou soldiers were outnumbered.

However, the great victory of the Xuzhou soldiers did not have a spreading effect and did not damage the morale of the bandits.

With such a small number of government troops, it is almost impossible to kill all the bandits in a frontal battle.

The most effective way to deter the enemy now is to undermine their morale.

When Pei Yuan thought of this, he immediately came up with an idea. Instead of defending, he counterattacked and cooperated with the Xuzhou soldiers to kill all the attacking bandits.

The auxiliary soldiers' random arrows also brought a brief period of calm to the village wall.

Seeing this, Pei Yuan dropped his weapon, picked up a corpse from the ground and threw it out, followed by another one.

Pei Yuan kept working, taking advantage of the rare time he had gained to desperately throw the corpses on the ground out.

Seeing this, Cheng Leixiang immediately shouted and asked his men to help throw the body out.

The Xuzhou soldiers led by Cheng Leixiang had just joined the battle and still had plenty of strength. They worked together in pairs and threw the corpses out of the village wall.

As a large number of corpses were thrown out of the camp, making muffled "bang bang" sounds, the bandits who had been attacking like a tide suddenly stopped.

Pei Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I cursed in my heart, this is fucking right!
How can these guys have such strong fighting spirit?
It was entirely because of the village wall that the bandits could not see the battle situation inside. When the bandits jumped in, they were blocked by the village wall and could not retreat, so they could only fight like trapped beasts.

Pei Yuan gained some battlefield experience when he saw Gu Dayong shouting at the top of his voice, "Retreat! The enemy is retreating!"

Pei Yuan looked towards Gu Dayong, only to see that although Gu Dayong was celebrating loudly, his face showed fear instead of joy.

Pei Yuan looked at Gu Dayong's hand that was desperately pointing backwards, and immediately realized what Gu Dayong wanted to hint to him.

Back camp!

The bandits from Bazhou are attacking the rear camp!

Pei Yuan's scalp tingled. Regardless of his fatigue, he quickly raised his sword and shouted to the last reserve force of Xuzhou Cavalry, "Go!"

(End of this chapter)