Chapter 180 First Sorrow

When Zhao Sen led his men back to the entrance of the canyon, the 1,200 soldiers from the Zhechong camp and the 200 cavalry handed over to him by Li Xiaozong were still about 70%. The infantry suffered heavy losses, and the cavalry had almost no casualties because they did not directly confront the enemy. Therefore, when Zhao Sen immediately arranged defense lines at the entrance of the canyon without letting the soldiers rest, some idle cavalry were despised that made them feel uneasy.

"Look!"

An infantryman sneered his quiver while saring, "The equipment on his body is almost enough to buy a priest, but when we are fighting, they are wandering around... They are all the same fate, but their own are so precious."

Another soldier covered his mouth and signaled that Zhao Sen was looking here with a bad face.

"What are you afraid of!"

The soldiers who mocked the cavalry shrugged their shoulders indifferently: "It is a miracle that I can survive after this battle. Now I won't say everything I should say. Wouldn't it be a pity to panic after going to hell and get pulled out your tongue?"

He looked at the knife wound on his right arm, frowned and tore off a random package of clothes: "When he left Qingxia, he was riding a horse in front to show his power, and when he retreated to guard Qingxia, he was still running in the front without any damage. He was naturally reincarnated in the Sui Dynasty in his next life, but I would rather be a horse!"

The cavalry captain Zhao Qi looked extremely ugly, and the sarcastic words from the infantry were like a knife stabbed him in his heart. Like all the cavalry of the Great Sui Dynasty, he felt a sense of pride when he was assigned to his own war horse. It was precisely because of the lack of war horses that no soldier could become a cavalry. They were all very good at skill and strong, and they ate better than infantry, and even the salary was twice that of infantry.

They did pay more sweat than infantry. They were also practicing while infantry was practicing, and while infantry was resting, they were still practicing. Regardless of wind, rain, cold and heat, these cavalry kept working hard for the dream of surpassing the Mongol Light Cavalry in their hearts, but... when they arrived on the battlefield, they found that the arrogant cavalry he brought had actually become the most useless people.

He was not angry with the ridicule of the infantry, and even the enemy was not angry.

The hand holding the horse lance tightly trembled slightly, and a fire was burning in Zhao Qi's eyes.

"Captain!"

A cavalry could not bear the rolling eyes and sarcasm of the infantry. He looked at Zhao Qi's eyes and asked loudly: "Are we just watching the robes fight to the death? Can we keep practicing in the wind and rain and have to stand by and watch?"

"Shut up!"

Zhao Qi bit his lips and said, "We are cavalry, but first of all, a soldier. Soldiers... must obey military orders. If the general's order is not sent, you will be honest with me!"

"But..."

"No, but!"

Zhao Qi's eyes looked at the herdsmen who were gradually dispersing in the distance and rushed towards him. He knew that Ya Jiang Pan Mei's brothers in the Zhe Chong camp were all dead. Just now, his 200 cavalrymen were ready to charge and rescue Pan Mei, but they were stopped by Ya Jiang Zhao Sen.

They really watched the robes die in battle, doing nothing like useless waste.

That was more than 1,200 living lives, besieged by tens of thousands of untidy herdsmen. How could they look forward to their companions coming to rescue when they fought bloody battles? But until they all died in battle, they did not see the fierce red battle flag of the Great Sui Dynasty appear behind the enemy.

Zhao Qi's heart was bleeding, and he wanted to roar loudly to vent his dissatisfaction and reluctance.

He couldn't help but take his eyes off the enemy and turned to General Zhao Sen. At this moment, he sent the cavalry who asked Zhao Sen to fight back, lowered his head, and his face was disappointed.

"The captain...the general asked us to wait for our appointment."

The cavalry spoke very little, as if they were afraid that the sound would hurt their hearts.

"Waiting for office..."

Zhao Qi murmured and repeated, and the blue veins on his hand holding the horse lance were exposed.

Not far from him, Yajiang Zhao Sen ordered the soldiers to set up defenses at the entrance of the canyon. Before the enemy had arrived, the soldiers hurriedly dug many traps dozens of meters outside the entrance of the valley. These pits were shallow and not big, but once the fast-running horses stepped on the pit, they would lose their center of gravity.

"Lucky!"

Zhao Qi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said to himself: "Fortunately those herdsmen don't know what the importance of the matter. The murders made them lose their minds. They all rush around Pan Mei's Zhe Chong camp and did not divide their troops to occupy the canyon at the first time. I'm afraid that this is something that Mandu wolf did not expect. These untrained herdsmen do not understand what tactics are, otherwise I am afraid I am already a sinner now."

"General!"

The lookout hand standing on a high place shouted loudly to the bottom: "The situation on General Li's side is not very good! The enemy cavalry wandered around the military formation and did not attack directly, our military formation is getting smaller and smaller!"

"What a vicious tactic!"

Zhao Sen's eyes sterned, and after a moment of silence, he shouted loudly: "Sentiman, please call the cavalry captain Zhao Qi to see me!"

"Here!"

The messenger agreed loudly, turned around and ran out.

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Li Xiaozong's forehead was covered with sweat, and his eyes were looking at the Mongol cavalry galloping by, and his mouth was twitching constantly, looking particularly painful. Before entering, he thought that he had thought of all the Mongol light cavalry's charging tactics and had thought about how to deal with it, but the only thing he ignored was that the enemy's cavalry was wandering outside the formation with the advantage of speed, and grinding the military formation little by little with the soft knife of bows and arrows.

The enemy whistled past forty steps, but could not kill the enemy. The boxwood archer in the enemy's hand fired faster than the standard step bow of the Great Sui Dynasty. The most troublesome thing is that the enemy's speed is faster. The arrows shot by the Great Sui Dynasty archers often fall behind the enemy. Even if he ordered the archers not to aim at the person when shooting archers, but aim at the person in front of the person, the proportion of casualties between the two sides is still very different.

The only thing that shocks the enemy is the thirty heavy crossbows. However, the heavy crossbows are too clumsy. If the enemy is in front of them is extremely powerful, the enemy's wandering tactics make the heavy crossbows play a very small power.

There are less than 150 people in the giant shield hand, and they cannot protect the entire battle formation. But even if the giant shield hand can protect it, it can be huddled inside and has no power to fight back?

After struggling for a long time, Li Xiaozong, who bit his lips, finally issued a military order.

"Occurrence!"

He raised his sword and shouted loudly: "It is better to charge and die in battle than to do nothing like this!"

“Forward!”

Less than 1,500 Great Sui infantry burst out with anger and then changed their formation. The giant shield hands were arranged on both sides, and the archers were at the end, and the long spear hands rushed in front. The front was Li Xiaozong and his ten personal soldiers. This was also the only cavalry in the Sui army now.

But during the charge, Li Xiaozong and his personal soldiers both jumped off their precious war horses and ran forward with the infantry, without any reluctance to leave their mounts.

“Forward!”

"It's better to charge and die!"

The soldiers shouted unwillingly, and everyone's face was determined.

Mandu Lang looked at the Sui people on the opposite side who changed their formation and couldn't help laughing proudly: "As such Sui people dare to claim to be undefeated in a hundred battles? I only used a group of herders to destroy nearly half of his troops. If I were willing, I could even continue to use the tactics of cavalry wandering to death. But I wouldn't do this... Since they chose to attack, let them see how the strongest army in the world killed people and how the strongest army attacked!"

"Brave the horns and fight!"

He pulled out his scimitar and pointed forward, and the sound of heavy ox horns began to whimper. All the cavalry returned to their own formation, and then followed the Mandu wolf and killed the Sui people.

The Sui people were proud, and the Mongols were the same. When the enemy chose to charge, the pride of Mandu wolf did not allow him to avoid fighting. He just wanted to defeat Li Xiaozong head-on, the guy who had been an opponent of him for three years across a mountain.

The violent and barbaric Mandu Banner herders used human sea tactics to fill Pan Mei's Zhechong camp. One thousand and two hundred well-trained elite soldiers of the Great Sui Right Guard were killed in battle. Although none of them surrendered, the fact that the enemy was not the regular army of the Mongolian Yuan made each of them a little angry.

And those herders who had red eyes did not stop the horses because of huge losses. When they found that the Sui people surrounding him had been killed, they immediately turned their heads and rushed to the canyon. Although... when Mandu Wolf explained to them before, they forced them to occupy the canyon as the first important thing, but after the killing began, they could no longer control their humanity.

About 6,000 herdsmen mixed with men and women whistled towards the entrance of the canyon. Because the rulers of the Mongol Empire stipulated that each herdsman was only allowed to have one bow, so the pressure was slightly less for the Great Sui infantry defending one side. Otherwise, these 6,000 herdsmen would not have been able to withstand the military formation with arrows during the charge.

The crazy herders shouted and urged the horse to move forward. Many people in the front fell down because they stepped on the pit. But the companions who rushed over from behind did not give them a chance to dodge. Soon, the herders who were dismissed were trampled into meat paste. The horse's hooves stepped on the soil mixed with blood and blood, making a clattering sound.

An eyeball that doesn't know who belongs to is covered with dust, but looks forward stubbornly.

"Shoot the arrow!"

Zhao Sen issued a loud order, and one of the few Sui army infantry poured out feather arrows. The herdsmen with no combat experience did not know how to avoid dodge, and the people shot by feather arrows fell one after another like dumplings.

The deer antlers arranged by the Sui army at the entrance of the canyon played a role. The herdsmen did not know how to remove these things in the shortest time. They jumped off the horse's back and clumsyly wanted to move away those blocking things, but how could the archers of the Sui army give them time?

Soon, the front of the antlers was covered with corpses.

The earth at the west entrance of the canyon seemed to be moving, and a high hill formed by flesh and blood was getting higher and higher.

When the Sui army soldiers shot the quiver empty, they used the long spear as a gun and threw it out. When the long spear was gone, they pulled out the horizontal sword to prepare to fight in close combat. The herdsmen who suffered heavy losses were no longer able to ride over the high pile of corpses. They climbed off their horses and rushed over with various weapons. Like bows and arrows, scimitars are not qualified for each herdsman.

In any country in any era in this world, the monarch would not allow the people to hold weapons that could resist his rule. Moreover, the Mongols were a country with few iron tools. Therefore, what many herders waved in their hands was simply a sharpened wooden stick.

How could the herdsmen with horses have an advantage when facing the elite Sui army? Of course, when the number reaches ten times the enemy, the herdsmen can also see the dawn of victory.

When the melee battle began, the Sui army had only less than 400 people left. They barely formed three layers of defense at the entrance of the canyon, and looked a little pitiful.

The herdsmen fell one by one, and the soldiers of the Sui army also decreased one by one.

Just when the last sixty or seventy Sui soldiers were struggling to support, the herdsmen suddenly had a chaos behind them. The herdsmen who were on the verge of collapse finally could not withstand the fear of death and began to escape. If they found that the only cavalry that was attacking behind them was less than a hundred people, they might regret making the choice to escape.

Li Xiaozong is back, he is hit by three arrows and is covered in iron armor and covered in blood.

The cavalry returned and lost half of their men. But they declared with horse lance that although they were small in number, they were more terrifying than the cavalry of the Mongolian Yuan!

The infantry did not come back and all died in battle. Their bodies were left on the grassland, and it is not known whether the souls could fly back home through the canyon.

This was the first battle on the first day. The 5,000 troops left by the Sui people from Qingxia were less than 200. Although they killed more than 8,000 herders and more than 1,600 Mongolian cavalry, is this the first victory?

Maybe it's just the first tragedy.
Chapter completed!