After resisting the first wave of attack by the Fan cavalry outside the gorge, the six hundred Tongbai Mountain soldiers quickly changed their formations. Taking the capital team as a unit, they formed a cone-shaped formation with four in the east and twenty-six in the west at the mouth of the gorge that was nearly 300 feet wide.
Cut the Tibetan soldiers apart completely.
Layers of heavy shields supported the ground, and sharp spears thrust out from the gaps in the shields.
The wounded soldier was simply bandaged on the spot and then carried back to Houerwu for treatment; the archer and crossbowman counted the arrows and crossbow arrows in his quiver; the swordsman and shield hand took a breather while holding tight, and took off the skin bag from his waist to drink water.
At this time, more than a hundred armored cavalry galloped out from the Wuzhai and filled the middle area of the six conical formations so that they could coordinate to suppress the Tibetan soldiers and launch another attack from both wings.
It was only at this time that the engineering troops had time to drag more than a dozen sidecars, as well as heavy obstacles such as horses and deer antlers out of the dock one after another to strengthen the flanks of the defensive array.
Of course, the Xishan Fanhu were not willing to accept that more than a thousand Fan cavalry were blocked outside the gorge entrance, but nearly 2,000 infantry soldiers were divided and surrounded by only one-third of their Tongbai soldiers on the inside of the gorge.
Soon the Fan cavalry outside the gorge mouth once again gathered a group of cavalry and forced them over like a torrent.
At this time, the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain were better prepared at the mouth of the gorge. Without waiting for the enemy cavalry to approach, more than a hundred foot bows and more than a hundred divine arm crossbows fired out waves of arrows like a swarm of locusts, covering the area.
Although the Tibetan cavalry were skilled in mounted archery, they would fight back with bows and arrows from a distance. However, the Tongbai soldiers who were well prepared were wearing strong armor and protected by large shields. How could they be afraid of the Tibetan soldiers shooting with cavalry bows from horseback?
An arrow coming?
The sharp blade of the halberd that Xu Huai used when he came out of the stronghold was broken in the battle just now, and the side blades had several gaps. It was discarded at this time. In addition to the sword on his waist, he replaced it with a walking bow.
In his hand, he stared at Fanqi who was more than a hundred paces away.
Xu Huai frequently participated in frontline battles. The biggest disadvantage was that the most sophisticated weapons were destroyed too quickly and too much in his hands.
Fortunately, there are many good swords in the army, such as Mo Dao, Zhan | Saber, Hengji Long Dao, Drop Dao and other battlefield knives. Whether they were captured from the battlefield or allocated by the military commander, Xu Huai can now wield them with ease.
However, a super strong bow that can shoot two to three hundred paces away is a rare treasure that cannot be forced. At this time, Xu Huai could only retreat to the next best thing in the army, and he could only carry two Zhemu rifles with him when he went to the battlefield.
Bow spare.
"Do you need to be so exaggerated?" Guo Junpan glanced at Xu Huai holding six feather arrows in his right hand and asked with a smile.
It is true that the people of the Xishan Fanhu tribe are brave and aggressive, but after all, they only have a population of 20,000. Guo Junpan still doesn’t believe how many evil and tyrannical Tibetan generals can emerge from such a small tribe.
Before Guo Junpan finished speaking, he saw a maroon war horse galloping quickly from a distance. The horse was so handsome that it covered the figure of the general on the saddle. But just as the maroon war horse arrived at the front of the cavalry formation, it suddenly
After a pause, the man on the saddle recoiled forward with his extremely reclined figure. The short spear held by his long arm, at this moment, emitted a sharp whistle through the air like a bolt of lightning, and was thrown towards this side.
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"So strong!" Guo Junpuan shouted as he watched the short spear being thrown towards his formation, and saw that Xu Huai's Zhemu walking bow had unstrung and shot out the first arrow.
Although the Fan general inevitably exposed his body when throwing spears, Xu Huai did not fire directly at the Fan general. He fired several arrows at the short spears thrown across the sky.
go.
The three arrows missed, and the three arrows hit the throwing spear. Although the arrows were all broken, even a slight deviation from the direction of the throwing spear caused its strength to be released, and finally it hit a shield horizontally, without any injuries.
one person.
"Be careful of the opponent's spear throwers!" Xu Huai shouted loudly, reminding his own shield throwers not to think that there is no threat at all because the opponent is not directly approaching the attack.
At this time, Guo Junpian could also shoot five arrows in a row, but even with the arrows in a row, the speed of the arrows varied.
Just now, the Fan general threw his spear at an astonishing speed. He could move a hundred steps in the air in just two breaths and a little more.
In such a short moment, he might be able to shoot five arrows at his limit, but the accuracy would be unsatisfactory. But Xu Huai not only shot one more arrow than him, but more importantly, three of the six arrows were accurately judged by short spears.
The trajectory of the throw.
Guo Junpan had no time to be surprised. At this time, he saw a dozen armored men dismounting from their horses. Someone from behind brought a large bundle of short spears. Soon, he saw these spear throwers finding a suitable place and throwing short spears one by one.
Throw it over as fast as lightning.
The opponent's spear throwers are protected by small shields and have armor on their bodies. They don't have to worry about the crossbows shooting at a distance of seventy or eighty steps. However, the short spears they throw are more penetrating.
It is much stronger than ordinary feather arrows, so one can only judge its trajectory and block it with an iron shield. However, if there is a slight oversight, some people will not escape the tragic fate of having their stomachs pierced.
"Shen Zhen evil, Diao Gui'er..." Xu Huai also quickly named a dozen sharpshooters who were good at shooting hard bows, and said, "You listen to Master Crow's command!"
Although the opponent's spear throwers were within the range of the infantry bows, the spear throwers all wore armor and were protected by a few sword and shield soldiers from Xishan Fanhu. It was difficult for ordinary infantry archers to pose any threat to them.
They must have sharpshooters who can break armor with a hard bow at a distance of a hundred paces or accurately shoot at critical points such as the face, in order to suppress this group of spear throwers who are a bit too strong.
Generally speaking, soldiers in the army can throw spears at a distance of about forty or fifty steps; if they exceed fifty steps, they can be considered elites - due to the limited distance of throwing spears, spear throwing operations usually involve a shield formation in front to meet the enemy behind |
conduct.
It is not surprising to say that Xishan Fanhu has three or five strong generals who can throw short spears seventy paces away. However, the dozens of Fanhu soldiers who suddenly dismounted were not impressive in appearance, but they all had such a look.
Super strength is obviously abnormal.
Guo Junpan's expression became serious at this moment.
Although they had always suspected that the Chihu people were instigating Xishan Fanhu's restlessness behind the scenes, at this time it could be said that they had directly caught the clues of the Chihu people appearing on the battlefield.
It is a pity that this small group of Tibetan soldiers seemed to realize that their joining could not change the situation of the battle, or they had no intention of exposing their existence anymore, so they quickly withdrew from the battlefield on the flank under the leadership of the red horse Tibetan general.
After returning to the dense forest, he did not appear again.
In the afternoon, Xishan Fanhu organized soldiers and horses to attack the mouth of the gorge one after another, but all attacks were quickly suppressed.
The soldiers of Tongbai Mountain not only filled in more obstacles such as horses and deer antlers at the mouth of the gorge, but also took advantage of the war in the afternoon to use hundreds of workers and soldiers and healthy Hu women to dig trenches.
A catapult crossbow was set up to suppress the attack of the Fan soldiers on both wings.
At this time, Xu Xin'an also joined the reinforcements from Wuchizhaizhaizhaizhai, and then rushed to the inside of the gorge entrance from the other side, completely encircling the two thousand Tibetan soldiers inside the gorge entrance.
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Dozens of Fan cavalry retreated to the Maoliang opposite Hou'erwu in the dusk.
There were several strong Tibetan people dressed as herdsmen hiding in the woods. When they saw the dozens of Tibetan cavalry approaching, two people came out to greet them, took the horse from the leading Tibetan general, and led the way into the woods.
Walking through the woods and walking to a high cliff, you can see from a distance the grand gorge where the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain divided the soldiers and horses of Xishan Fanhu.
Yue Hailou, who had disappeared from the land of Hedong for several months, was accompanying an old man with a thin face and a withered face, dressed as an old herdsman, standing on a high cliff, looking at the battlefield in the distance.
"The Motu tribe underestimated the enemy too much. Lord Muchi reminded them many times, but they still thought that the Tongbai Mountain soldiers were no different from the Tianxiong army. This doomed their defeat to be inevitable; what a pity!" Yue Hailou saw Fan.
When he came back, he said with emotion in front of the old man.
"What a pity. No matter how many idiots there are, they are still idiots. It is better to die cleanly." Fan Jiang said.
Yue Hailou smiled and asked the Tibetan general: "Master Mo Lihu, you have fought with Xu Huai, how did you feel?"
"It's not that good." The Tibetan general looked down on Yue Hailou from the bottom of his heart and was not very willing to pay attention to him. He took off his leather Bian, revealing a young and rough face, and asked the old man dissatisfiedly, "Old Commander, why did you
Shall I call you over?"
"I asked you to go to the Motu tribe in the hope that you would remind them not to underestimate the enemy. But you are so good that you actually encouraged the Motu tribe to step on the trap of the Tongbai soldiers - and you asked me why I called you here?" The old man looked at General Fan.
, asked with a hoarse voice.
"I didn't encourage them to attack Houerwu, but I didn't remind them to pay attention to Tongbai Mountain Soldiers, but it's true,"
The young general said,
"The Motu tribe was completely unaware of the powerful enemy so close at hand. Such waste is only worthy of being used as waste - even if it is annihilated, there is no pity. The soldiers of Tongbai Mountain are indeed not weak. There are usually a hundred thousand like them in the Southern Dynasties.
With our elite troops, I will definitely advise the Great Khan to abide by the peace agreement with the Southern Dynasties for the time being and not to go south easily. However, the Southern Dynasties have hundreds of millions of people, but they are full of trash like the Motu tribe. They ignore their own incompetence, but they still
Extremely arrogant, underestimating the enemy and greedy. It is precisely because there are so many wastes like the Southern Dynasty that hundreds of millions of people have become the fattest lambs. If you don’t take them, God will send them!”
"We are here to just wait and see the situation in Yunshuo and Hedong. If something happens, it is enough to remind you. Then you have to start a fight. Are you really not afraid that there will be any clues that will fall into the eyes of the Southern Dynasty?" the old man said dissatisfiedly.
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"Didn't Yue Hailou say that with the virtuous behavior of many princes and ministers in the Southern Dynasty, even if we leave any clues, they will just pretend not to see it, so what is there to worry about?" said General Fan.
"You say that others underestimate the enemy, but you want to raise your tail to the sky. No wonder the king has not allowed you to lead the army. The monarchs and ministers of the Southern Dynasties were lethargic, but it is not that there are no sober people. You are so easy to act at this time because you are afraid of falling asleep.
Can you wake up from the shock?" The old man scolded the Tibetan general and then smiled at Yue Hailou, "It's a joke to ask Mr. Yue. Mo Lihu and the others are still too young and have not been tempered by war. What's more,
I have not experienced the most difficult and darkest years of my clan, so I thought that the Red Guard Cavalry was born to be invincible in the prairie. But I didn’t know that my clan was constantly discovering and grasping the shortcomings of the enemy’s arrogance, and gradually grew to where it is today.
