Since the motorcade entered Suizhou, everyone in the team has become much more excited.
Firstly, we are very close to our destination, and we will be able to have a hot meal soon, and maybe take a shower to cool off in this hot summer; secondly, we are about to come here on the way, and we haven't even encountered a thief.
People are also short of guard.
The convoy passed the city level and headed northeast, entering a place called "Raccoon Hope Valley".
When the raccoon dog looked into the valley, there were hillsides on both sides. Although the slopes were gentle, they were easy to climb and difficult to descend.
Zhou Jun was riding a horse in the valley and looked at the tops of the slopes on both sides. He saw the lush vegetation there and not a single bird in the sky. He intuitively felt something was wrong.
Riding next to him was a deputy lieutenant of the Yulin Army named Luo Anyuan, who was twenty-two years old.
Because he was afraid of the heat, Luo Anyuan took off the bare armor on his upper body and shoulders, leaving only his temples exposed, revealing the white cloth armor lining.
The opportunity for Luo Anyuan to become familiar with Zhou Jun during his journey was also due to The West Chamber.
Not only did he go to Pingkangfang to watch The West Chamber on the spot, but he was also a loyal fan of Song Ruo'e, who played Cui Yingying.
Luo Anyuan said that he once stole a hundred strings from his home just to see Song Ruo'e's true face, but unexpectedly, the Dongchuang incident happened and the elders in the family found out about it. He was locked up in the woodshed and starved for a whole day and night.
Luo Anyuan was riding on the horse and said to Zhou Jun with a smile: "I heard that Song Duzhi You like calligraphy and painting, so I thought that I would make a lot of money during this trip to the north. I would like to take it back and exchange it for more copper goods.
If you buy a few authentic paintings, maybe you can meet her."
Zhou Jun just shook his head after hearing this. This guy had been starved for a whole day, but he didn't behave at all. He was still thinking about chasing stars.
Just as he was about to speak, there was suddenly the sound of a bow string exploding in the air.
An arrow struck from the top of the mountain, it was powerful and heavy, and pierced directly into Luo Anyuan's shoulder, and shot him off his horse in front of Zhou Jun.
Almost at the same time, the sound of strings being pulled and arrows being fired from the top of the slope could be heard all the time.
Arrows fell like rain, shooting into the convoy.
In the blink of an eye, accompanied by screams one after another, dozens of people died.
Things happened so suddenly that when Zhou Jun regained consciousness, his mount was also hit by random arrows and fell to the ground, whining uncontrollably.
Zhou Jun was lying on the ground in a state of embarrassment. He first looked up at the hillside and determined the direction of the bow and arrow attack.
Then, using his hands and feet on the ground, he carefully crawled behind the horse corpse.
Zhou Jun took advantage of the stall to avoid the rain of arrows and looked into the motorcade.
I saw those few brave knights who were not afraid of death. They didn't have time to get the troops. They just held horizontal swords and rode towards the hillside.
Several riders only rushed halfway up the hillside before being shot to death by random arrows. They had to get up from the ground, put on armor, and continue charging on foot.
Before he could run much further, he was hit by throwing axes, chains and other objects, and he was killed in the middle of the road. There was no further movement.
The shrewd military guard covered his back with a wooden board, got on his horse, and rushed towards the mouth of the valley, hoping to report a message for help.
Before leaving the valley entrance, the guard's horse fell into the air and broke. Looking carefully, it turned out that someone had dug a pit for the horse at the crossing.
Seeing that there was no way to kill the enemy and no way to report the news, some of those who were still alive in the convoy cried loudly, while others knelt down and begged for mercy.
At the same time, as the momentum of the arrow's falling dropped slightly, Zhou Jun crouched and rushed to a Yulin guard, shouting to the latter: "Where is your superior officer?"
The Yu Linwei looked pale and pointed at the empty field not far away.
Zhou Jun turned around and saw a captain wearing bright light armor, lying on his back in a pool of blood, his body covered with arrows.
Zhou Jun gritted his teeth and thought to himself that the attackers probably knew the generals guarding the two armies in advance, so they focused on killing these generals one by one in the first wave of arrow attacks.
Just then, the arrows on the hillside stopped.
Zhou Jun turned around and saw a group of Tibetan people in different clothes, shouting in unintelligible Tibetan language and slowly walking down from the top of the mountain with weapons in hand.
A rough count showed that there were no less than two hundred people in this group, and what made Zhou Jun most uneasy was that there were many cavalrymen armed with crossbows among them.
The entrance to the valley was blocked by a horse pit, the view from high places was controlled by the enemy, and the way in was cut off.
Compared with the enemy, our own troops are insufficient in nature, and they are also a group of "connected households" with worrying combat capabilities, not to mention that their morale has collapsed to the point where it is difficult to recover.
At this moment, Fan Nianji, the military supervisor who was originally hiding in the carriage, saw that there was less movement outside, so he tremblingly poked his head out.
Seeing the enemy troops slowly approaching on the hillside, Fan Nianji screamed and quickly turned back.
Zhou Jun first took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and then looked around.
Then, he rushed to Fan Nianji's carriage and said loudly: "Mr. Fan, the situation is critical. Please release the general!"
Seeing no response from the carriage, Zhou Jun had no choice but to shout again.
Fan Jinian finally replied with a trembling voice: "As long as you can defeat the enemy, we will allow you to do things easily!"
Zhou Jun heard this and yelled to the side: "In urgent matters, Fan Jianjun has approved a certain general! Everyone listened to the order, formed a circle around the cart, and then lowered it to form a wall!"
Long Wu and the surviving soldiers of Yu Lin's Second Army saw Zhou Jun wearing an official's robe and were suspicious at first, but when they heard that Fan Jianjun had released the general's power, they all sang "E" and took action.
Zhou Jun saw the miscellaneous households and slaves who were accompanying him hiding everywhere, shivering, and shouted loudly: "The barbarians in Mobei like to eat living people and livers, and even cook human breasts for military rations. You are just waiting to die."
That’s it?!”
The servants and servants in the motorcade looked at each other in shock when they heard this.
Driven by fear and survival, these people stood up one after another and began to follow the sergeant to clean up the battlefield.
As Zhou Jun's order spread, more and more people began to gather around him.
Watching people connect large carts end to end, and then knock them down to form walls, forming a circular formation.
However, Zhou Jun thought that the formation of camps surrounded by chariots and the formation of fortifications had already existed in the Han Dynasty.
Under the protection of chariot fortifications, soldiers can engage in tug-of-war with the opponent's cavalry and infantry with less physical exertion and sacrifice.
This kind of fortification is especially effective when fighting nomads in open areas, or when there are fewer enemies and more enemies.
Just after descending the hillside, the foreign enemy soldiers who were still massacring wounded soldiers and robbing property on the outer battlefield saw Zhou Jun starting to assemble a car formation, and they immediately realized that something was wrong.
Only a burst of Fan talk was heard, and another wave of arrows fell towards the car formation.
However, relying on the car wall formed by the large cars, the people who were setting up the car array continued to work while avoiding the arrows. Only occasionally a few unlucky guys were shot in the legs and feet.
Seeing that the enemy began to approach, Zhou Jun ordered into the chariot formation: "Long Wu, Yu Linwei listened to the order, use the gap in the chariot wall and the gate as an eye, and draw out your spear to defend against the enemy!"
"The rest used cotton as chains and ropes as knots to tie the car walls end to end and connect them two by two!"
Long Wu, Yu Lin's soldiers took out their spears, Ma Shan and other long soldiers, passed through the gaps between the cart walls, and the holes on the bottom of the cart, forming a whole array of thorns. "Iron Hedgehog".
The first wave of offensives by the foreign Tibetan enemy forces against the vehicle formation came soon.
Dozens of enemies, armed with iron axes and sabers, slashed at the wall of the carriage, causing sawdust to fly everywhere and making a loud roar.
The spear behind the wall of the carriage first retracted and then thrust out suddenly.
Suddenly, amid screams, a cloud of blood mist rose outside the car wall, splattering the car wall blood red.
Just as Zhou Jun thought, although the chariot formation has weaknesses, it is afraid of fire attacks and grappling hooks, but since this group of enemy soldiers came from afar and sneaked into the Tang Dynasty, they naturally could not carry kerosene or fire oil with them. Hooks, etc.
Moreover, this group of Tibetan soldiers may have some ordinary weapons and crossbows, but they certainly don't carry iron armor with them, and their protection must be extremely poor.
Therefore, using the vehicle wall to resist the opponent's arrows and then using long soldiers to cause damage is currently the best way to defend against the enemy.
The Tibetan soldiers attacked once more with infantry, and the third time they used cavalry as the spearhead to attack the chariot formation.
After three charges, the chariot array suffered very little damage, but the Tibetan soldiers lost about forty people in vain, and for a while they were at a loss of ideas.
Hearing the angry and fierce words outside the car wall, Zhou Jun did not dare to slack off in the slightest.
While he ordered the miscellaneous households and slaves to continue repairing and strengthening the vehicle formation, he also ordered the soldiers to take out their bows and crossbows from their weapons.
The armies of the Tang Dynasty were equipped with bows and crossbows, which were divided into two categories: heavy and light.
The heavy ones are Fuyuan crossbow and Zhangzhang crossbow; the light ones are angle bow crossbow and single bow crossbow.
Each crossbow is equipped with thirty arrows and one arrow.
Fortunately, when forming a chariot formation, the armament chariot where the bows and crossbows are stored is nearby and can be used immediately after being retrieved.
Seeing that the Tibetan soldiers were still hesitating on the periphery, Zhou Jun first asked the soldiers to draw their bows and set arrows, and then gave an order to fire the crossbows.
In an instant, some of the Tibetan soldiers fell down, and the rest sped away towards the hillside amidst screams.
Zhou Jun asked his soldiers to fire two more rounds. After the enemy fled far away, he stood up and breathed a long sigh of relief.
I don’t know who took the lead in shouting: “Zhou Lingshi is mighty!”
Then, the sergeants, miscellaneous households, and slaves all shouted: "Zhou Lingshi is mighty!"
Everyone gathered around Zhou Jun, and everyone's face showed the joy of surviving the disaster and indescribable gratitude.