Chapter 1620 Decisive Battle From Homeland Valley II
"You should be very aware of my past achievements. In this case, I must be prepared to deal with the cavalry, but just in case, I will send the cavalry to check first. As soon as they find that your vanguard is slowing down, they will stop attacking."
Ding Kui explained his tactics to Yang Kuo on the spot and seemed to be doing a sand table deduction.
Jiang Nan first discovered that the enemy troops approaching from the opposite side were slowing down because they had reached their maximum speed. The slowdown in the opposite speed meant that the opponent was slowing down. Previously, Ding Kui had given clear instructions that the enemy troops could be ignored if they did not cross the center line of the valley. They should hold the center line and wait for the order to retreat.
Can.
The rebel vanguard stopped when it was less than a hundred meters away from the center line of the valley, and Jiang Nan also promptly commanded the cavalry to stop at the center line.
The fictitious center line became the defense line of the imperial army. More than 3,000 cavalrymen stood there motionless. The rebel vanguard commander looked at it in amazement.
The rebels' two thousand cavalry were more than adequate in defense but insufficient in attack. If they charged forward and fought head-on, they would probably not win. However, both sides stood still, which was not in line with Yang Kuo's pre-war deployment.
The current situation was beyond Yang Kuo's expectation.
The rebels could not be said to suffer a loss if they dragged on. Judging from the superficial strength of the troops, they made a small profit, but there were no substantial gains. For Yang Kuo, who was well prepared, failure to win would mean failure.
"It's not like the Ding family to be so timid." After speaking, he rushed down and made a gesture.
"It's not like the Ding family's style to plan and then act." Ding Kui did not accept the other party's provocation at all.
As they spoke, the rebel team rushed out of two cavalry and launched an attack from the air at Jiang Nan, who was under the command of the brigadier general.
A tiger-shaped fighting spirit and an arrow hit Jiang Nan's face.
Judging from the speed and momentum, it was no ordinary warrior's attack.
Sixth level combatant!
Everyone behind Jiang Nan took a breath, but he was very calm and raised his sword to strike casually.
The Dou Qi Flying Fish was shot out by the fierce wind, accurately hitting the tiger-shaped Dou Qi. The two exploded into a ball of red light and dissipated in the air.
The sharp arrow was not affected and still shot towards Jiang Nan.
Phew, a black shadow flashed and intercepted a sharp arrow a few meters in front of Jiang Nan.
"Arrow Qi? You also send a great archer!" Yang Kuo was no longer calm.
He hid six-level warriors in the vanguard, planning to catch the imperial army off guard. Because he knew of Ao Yu's existence, he hid more than one.
"If I'm not wrong, there must be at least one great martial artist in your army." Ding Kui showed his white front teeth.
"Hmph! Your follower didn't show his head either." Yang Kuo's back molars itched.
Ao Yu would definitely want to beat him up if he heard this.
When the two knights saw that their attack failed, they simply turned their horses around and ran back to the group. There were many people on the opposite side and many experts, so it was not suitable for their plan to capture the flag.
Shi Jiang urged his horse to come to Jiang Nan and asked, "Do you want to chase him?"
"Don't worry, they are just testing, the battle hasn't started yet." Jiang Nan is familiar with fighting in battle and has more experience than the underworld killers.
He turned around and asked, "Have you not seen the battle plan?"
Shi Jiang was stunned for a moment and said, "I don't look at that thing. I can't understand it either."
Although he is a follower of Ding Kui, a sixth-level archery master, and has been on the battlefield, he is not a soldier, has not received military training, and does not have the ability to command.
"You can attack here and test it. You have been exposed just now, so there is no need to hide it." Jiang Nan was unwilling to stand still.
According to his character, he should rush forward to attack with a spear and sword, and behead several levels to establish his authority, but he must not disobey military orders.
General Shi was not polite after hearing this. He opened his bow and shot, shooting nine arrows in one breath, targeting different targets.
The troops here are not equipped with mounted crossbows yet, and only a few officers who know how to mount and shoot carry bows and arrows. However, it is difficult to hit a target nearly a hundred meters away.
Seeing General Shi's methods, many officers and soldiers cheered in low voices.
Perhaps stimulated by the cheers, the rebel archer was not to be outdone, and quickly shot nine arrows to stop General Shi's attack without asking his companions to help.
"Haha, it's a rare sight for a great archer to fight an arrow." Ding Kui looked down with interest.
Yang Kuo kept a straight face and said nothing, but his attention was also focused below.
It is very important to understand the combat characteristics of the opponent's Grand Archer. The Grand Archer poses a great threat on the battlefield, and there are countless examples of sudden cold arrows shooting and injuring level 6 combatants.
General Shi's probing attack gradually turned into an arrow fight. Both sides chose to watch the battle in a tacit understanding, and cheers came one after another, cheering for their own master's archery.
However, a huge roar interrupted this "show".
Yang Kuo looked for the source of the sound with a vigilant look.
The sound was like a mountain falling apart, which meant fatal danger in the valley, and experienced people were very sensitive.
"Why did you make such a big noise!" Ding Kui cursed in his mind.
The sound came from the east, and a large amount of smoke and dust obscured the view, but soldiers and horses could be vaguely seen.
"Where is your follower?" Yang Kuo suddenly asked.
Ao Yu emerged from the smoke and dust, waved his hands violently a few times, fanned away the smoke and dust around him, and said to the commander of the 3rd Division: "It's your turn."
After saying that, he ducked into a hole in the mountain wall.
"Quick, quick, quick! Now build a circle around the perimeter and fill in the rubble." The leader of the 3rd Division An took the lead and dropped a bag of mud.
The distance from this point to the east entrance accounts for one-third of the length of the entire valley. It is almost the narrowest section in the valley, with a width of less than fifty meters from north to south.
It turns out that the ground is high in the north and low in the south, with a slight slope laterally. The mountain wall in the north has a large inclination angle and the surface is uneven.
Ao Yu ran over and punched the mountain wall a few times, causing a landslide and large pieces of gravel and soil sliding down the mountain wall, which was the source of the roar just now.
The officers and soldiers of the 3rd An Division had no time to be surprised. They picked up the bags of soil on their shoulders and ran to the rubble pile. According to the commanding officer's request, they built a combat platform on the spot.
This is equivalent to artificially creating a high slope.
The rubble that fell from the mountain wall occupied half of the flat ground at the bottom of the valley. Xu Bin led the 218th Division to line up in a defensive formation on the other half of the open space.
"There will be a clear passage on the far left, and the vanguard troops will be able to withdraw to the back later."
Xu Bin rode his horse forward and backward, constantly adjusting his formation.
"The Ninth and Tenth Brigades are going to help the 3rd An Division move soil..."
An 3rd Division moved very quickly. In less than a stick of incense, the basic outline of a platform that was 20 meters wide and 50 meters long had already come out.
Xu Bin silently calculated the time, then called a squad leader and ordered: "Go to the front with the token and notify the vanguard that they can withdraw."
It turns out that the role of the vanguard is to cover the earthen platform of the 3rd An Division.
Dou Xiaoqi commanded his men to line up against the mountain wall and wait quietly for the completion of the earthen platform ahead. Ding Kui gave the Special Operations Regiment the task of holding on to the earthen platform.
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Ding Kui shrugged at Yang Kuo and said, "Didn't you see it? He is over there, but it seems there was an accident and the mountain wall collapsed."
"Is it really an accident?" Yang Kuo obviously didn't believe it.