Chapter 3 The Red Ocean
Seeing that the situation was settled, Xu Haifeng gave the order to withdraw the troops. A man next to him held up a black chess and kept waving on the highest wall of the inner city. When Qin Yong and others saw this scene, they immediately reclaimed the team without saying a word and rushed back.
In contrast to Xu Haifeng's order, the commander of the Red Ocean issued an order to pursue the entire army. All the cavalry of the Red Ocean were well-trained and divided into one hundred squads, ranging from twenty or thirty people to each squad. They abandoned their guns and pulled out their carry-on sabers to chase the defeated Caesars. The sabers were swung away and took away a life.
The Caesars spontaneously organized several small counterattacks, but because they were too small, they could not stop the strong impact of the cavalry. A red wave hit him and disappeared immediately, leaving only a few corpses lying desolately on the ground. From time to time, the Caesars abandoned their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender, but the cavalrymen of the Red Ocean turned a blind eye and called them directly with the sabers in their hands. They made up their minds to not keep the prisoners and kill them all.
Seeing the brave performances of the Tongzes, Xu Haifeng admired him and spread the entire team into a team of dozens of people. It was just a joke in a large-scale melee, but it was just used to pursue the enemy at this moment, achieving the greatest killing effect. The huge reputation of the Red Ocean was obviously not obtained by verbal words.
The pursuit did not last long. In less than half an hour, the soldiers of the Red Ocean stopped chasing, gathered from all directions, cleared the battlefield a little and started entering the city.
At this time, the sound of galloping horse hooves came from a distance again. Xu Haifeng stood high and naturally looked far away. He immediately determined that the person was the Caesars' cavalry. Obviously, they received the news and came to reinforce. Unfortunately, they were still one step late. If they could reach half an hour earlier, or if the Caesar infantry commander did not escape, but organized the army to resist with all their might, the number of winners would be unpredictable.
Although the Red Ocean team saw the opponent's cavalry, they still kept their original speed and entered the city gate one after another. Once everyone entered the city gate, the thick gate was immediately covered. Although the city wall had encountered the biggest disaster ever in the past twenty days and most of the places were broken, the mold was still there. With it as a support, it was a huge advantage over the flat ground.
The Caesars quickly arrived at the battlefield. They were not many, but there were more than 5,000 cavalry. Xu Haifeng gasped. He finally understood why the commander of the Red Ocean only pursued for half an hour under such a good situation just now, and also implemented the strategy of not leaving prisoners. It seemed that he had known that the Caesars' reinforcements were nearby, and he had calculated that the other party would have time to arrive, everything was confident and all actions were orderly.
Xu Haifeng secretly compared him in his heart, but found that he was far inferior. If there was anything that could compete with them, perhaps those soldiers who drank blood wine had a slight advantage in their personal qualities.
However, he didn't know that the other party also estimated him high in his heart. In fact, based on Qin Yong and others' performance just now, no one would underestimate him. How many dead soldiers who are so brave and fearless are there in the world.
The Caesar cavalry did not attack the city, but circled around the distance between the city walls, and then half of them dismounted and began to clean up the battlefield, while the other half were focused on guarding the Han army in the city. Judging from this posture, both sides could not fight.
After the initial excitement, Xu Haifeng returned to his weak state of excessive blood loss. He couldn't stand with his feet and was supported by the people around him so that he would not fall. He was very surprised that where the strength he got just now could support him to run from the foot of the city to the top of the city in one breath. However, after seeing the soldiers of the Red Ocean start entering the city, he immediately ordered to open the inner city gate and go out to greet him.
The soldiers of the Red Ocean suddenly fell into two sides, and an officer in a big red robe walked out under the escort of several people. Seeing a row of men standing at the gate of the inner city with blood-filled men standing in front of a young man sitting on a rattan chair, and beside the young man was standing that man like a demon, the fierce general Qin Yong. Just look at this posture, the idiots knew who the real leader was.
"I am the former general of the Red Ocean Legion. May I ask your official is..."
Xu Haifeng looked at him and saw that he was a young officer in his thirties, with a rectangular face, sword-browed eyebrows, tiger-backed and wolf-waisted waist, and a bright red robe with an eagle that was about to fly. He was tied with a lion and tiger-bar jade belt around his waist. His expression was full of heroism but a bit tough. The guards around him were not simple either. They were all tall and mighty. Even though they were heavy armor, they were still free to move. They were all good men in the army.
"The Xiaguan is Xu Haifeng, the fourth squadron leader of the second squadron of the Fifth Column of the Western Front, and has met the commander." Xu Haifeng sat on a rattan chair, holding his fists weakly, struggling to stand up, but he was obviously unable to do so.
Xiang Ming was slightly stunned. He obviously didn't expect that the other party's official position was so low. But when he saw Xu Haifeng's actions, he quickly took a step forward, gently pressed Xu Haifeng's shoulder, and said, "Brother is injured, so there is no need to be too polite." He looked at the people outside the city gate and asked, "How many people are there in the city?"
"It's gone..." Xu Haifeng smiled bitterly, and couldn't help but feel sad, and cried loudly: "More than five thousand brothers, there are only a few, and 124 people are all here, and the rest of the brothers have sacrificed their country."
Including Xu Haifeng had 192 people, but the battle just now was too fierce. The positional war was different from defending the city, and 68 people were lost in one go, so there were only such people now.
"Brother, please be relieved. We will definitely keep this hatred in mind. Sooner or later, we will seek justice from Caesar." Xiang Ming also felt the same and comforted him.
"Yes..." Xu Haifeng choked and couldn't speak for a while. Qin Yong's eyes were red behind him, but he just held back his tears. Xu Haifeng's blood wine was extremely magical. People who drank blood wine would be stimulated and their physical condition would be greatly improved. In addition, they would obey Xu Haifeng's orders subconsciously, but they had a great impact on the mind of the eater themselves, and they almost lost their self-awareness from then on. But for some reason, Qin Yong was an exception, so when he thought of his dead comrades, he was also inexplicably sad and angry.
Xiang Ming knew that he would not be able to persuade him for a while, so he changed the subject and said: "I am ordered to come this time just to support your army. Fortunately, your army is brave, and we are not late."
"Thank you, the magistrate, for your hard work, and for rushing to help you, and ask your Majesty to protect this city. Now the official obeys the order to hand over the city defense to your army." Xu Haifeng quickly straightened his chest and shouted loudly.
"Okay, from now on, our army will take over the defense responsibilities of this city." Xiang Ming paused for a moment, and smiled slightly and said, "Before I came here, the Marshal Gudaoyan asked me to say something to everyone in your army."
"Marson of the Ancient Daoyan?" Xu Haifeng couldn't help but be stunned. This Marshal of the Ancient Daoyan was the commander of the Sky Eagle Legion, one of the five major legions stationed in the West. Since the outbreak of the war with the Caesars, he has been appointed by His Majesty the Emperor as the president of the Western Front Camp, which is the commander-in-chief of the Caesars. At this moment, all his soldiers under his command were as high as 300,000. How could such a big man think about this small military camp?
Xiang Ming shook his military uniform, respectfully Xu Haifeng bowed deeply, and said solemnly: "Yes, Marshal Gu Daoyan asked me to say to you, you are the pride of the soldiers of the imperial army. Here, please allow me to represent the Marshal, the 300,000 soldiers in the Western Front Camp, and also on behalf of our Red Ocean Legion, to pay the highest honor to all the soldiers in your army who survived and died gloriously."
Chapter completed!