Chapter 82: Atypical Battles
The sky gradually darkened, Zhao Chun originally expected that the army of the Black Ice Tribe would catch up in the second half of the night, but they just caught up at night, four or five hours in advance, which shows how quickly they pursued, if Zhao Chun insisted on capturing K Town first, I am afraid that he would not be able to attack it at this moment, and he would not be able to escape the fate of being attacked from both sides.
But this army, which had tens of thousands of cavalry, thousands of flying soldiers, and more than 30,000 infantry, stopped when it came to the snowy mountain.
"Why did the troops in front stop?" asked a man who looked like a general on a horse.
"Dudu, these snow-capped mountains are very steep, and there is only a canyon tens of meters wide in the middle that can be passed, in case the traitors set up an ambush here, it will be extremely unfavorable to our army. Shall we take a detour or send someone to test it first?" said an adjutant running up to him.
"We can't take a detour, we have to walk twice as much to bypass these snow-capped mountains, and by the time we arrived, the traitors had already captured K Town, which is one of our army's food production bases, and once it is lost, it will have extremely serious consequences. The wrath of the leader is not something you and I can afford, and as far as I know, these traitors are made up of miners and other people with no military training, they may not have such a high level of military strategy, how can my tens of thousands of troops be frightened by this rabble of one or twenty thousand? Order them to go full speed, and the achievement will be tonight!" the governor said disapprovingly.
"This ......" The adjutant general hesitated, but quickly conveyed the governor's order, and the troops advanced quickly, but for the sake of insurance, he still sent a thousand cavalry to the front to explore the way, and also sent five hundred pilots to fly in the sky above the canyon to reconnoitre, if there is an ambush or a trap or something, you can find it in advance.
However, to their surprise, the cavalry and the pilots searched the entire canyon, but found nothing out of the ordinary, and the traitors seemed to be all heading towards the town. At this time, the intelligence sent back by the flying scouts revealed that there was indeed an unknown number of troops rushing towards Ktown, which was now less than two kilometers away.
The governor was in a hurry, and the deputy general was called in and scolded him, saying that he had delayed the warplane, and if he let K Town lose because of this, and the military rations in the town were robbed by traitors, he was the sinner of the Black Ice Tribe, and the leader would never let him go.
Therefore, he ordered his troops to move forward at full speed, and make sure to reach K Town within an hour!
When the tens of thousands of troops of the Black Ice Tribe all entered the canyon, the snow-capped mountains near the canyon suddenly burst into a huge roar, and then, as if the entire snow-capped mountain was about to collapse, the rolling snow was sandwiched with stones and mud blocks, and fell down from the mountain, these mud and stone sleet were not just smashed in one place, but on the peaks on both sides of the entire canyon at the same time, and its falling speed was no less than throwing a stone from the top of the mountain.
The Black Ice Tribe army, which was marching rapidly, suddenly heard this loud and strange noise, and they were all stunned for a moment, until nearly ten seconds later, someone shouted: "Run, it's an avalanche!"
As this guy shouted loudly, the army of the Black Ice Tribe suddenly exploded, because they live in an icy and snowy place all year round, and they are most familiar with avalanches, but familiarity does not mean immunity, the Black Ice Tribe has lived here for a long time, and has naturally summed up some experience in dealing with avalanches for thousands of years. But now tens of thousands of people are crammed into this canyon, which is only a few dozen meters wide and more than two kilometers long, and many experiences are not used at all!
Moreover, these mud, rocks, and snow blocks were thrown down to the bottom of the valley from all directions, and so many people were huddled together, and there was no way to escape or dodge. On the contrary, because everyone wanted to find a safe place to hide, the scene became extremely chaotic, and even people pushed people, people stepped on people, and before the avalanche fell, people were injured. Even if their commander wanted to maintain order and prevent this from happening, no one would listen to them at all, and in the face of this natural force, if they didn't find a way to protect themselves, they would be buried alive, which was even more terrifying than going to the battlefield.
The terrifying avalanche smashed for half an hour before it stopped, and the soldiers who had not been buried alive, or who had escaped relatively close to the mouth of the canyon, were about to breathe a sigh of relief, when a large number of Zhao Chun's troops suddenly appeared like ghosts and killed them from both sides, which made them unable to organize decent resistance at all, and were quickly defeated.
After dealing with the soldiers who escaped on both sides of the canyon, Zhao Chun ordered people to clean up the battlefield while sending a team of 5,000 people to attack the center of the canyon from both sides of the canyon, because he knew that although this avalanche fell very violently and suddenly, there were still a lot of fish that slipped through the net, and if he didn't take the opportunity to capture or remove these people, it wouldn't be long before he was a big threat to himself.
But Zhao Chun and the others have cleaned up the battlefield for a long time, and the prisoners, weapons and the like have also been dealt with and distributed, but there is no good news of the five thousand people, but a scout covered in blood came back and reported: "Commander-in-chief, the five thousand people led by Deputy Commander-in-Chief Shen encountered a fierce attack by the Black Ice Tribal army in the middle of the canyon, including two thousand flying soldiers and more than ten thousand infantry. But the other party's pilots were too powerful, and their spiritual arrows caused us heavy casualties, so Deputy Commander-in-Chief Shen sent me to ask for support. ”
Zhao Chun was taken aback, feeling that he was still a little careless, thinking that the avalanche could make them suffer almost as many casualties, and sending five thousand people in was just to clean up the battlefield, but he did not expect to seriously underestimate the ability of the other commander, and in a short period of time, he organized the chaotic soldiers in the canyon, and even used the advantages of the pilots to cause huge damage to the troops of the Shen Bureau.
"Xiaolu, quickly organize our cavalry and flying troops, and you will lead them to suppress their flying soldiers, and I will lead the rest of the infantry to arrive later. Zhao Chun hurriedly said to Xiaolu and the others, "Order the soldiers who were ambushed on the mountain just now to take advantage of the high place to throw stones and snow blocks at the army of the Black Ice Tribe to attract the attention of some enemy pilots." ”
By the time Zhao Chun led the troops to arrive, more than half of the Shen Bureau's troops had already suffered casualties, and they gradually had the intention of retreating, but the addition of cavalry and flying soldiers in the back suddenly reduced the pressure on them to face the flying soldiers.
Although there are as many as two thousand flying soldiers of the Black Ice Tribe, they can't be placed here in the canyon, if they fly too high, it is difficult to aim at the target in the night, and if they fly too low, they will be injured by the soldiers who haunt the ground and on both sides of the canyon from time to time, and although the cavalry and flying soldiers on Zhao Chun's side are not many, they add up to a little more than a thousand, but they are all elite soldiers, and the morale is not comparable to the morale of the Black Ice Tribe army, they have just experienced that huge disaster, so many comrades died at once, and now they are still in shock, although they were forcibly organized by the commander, it is okay to have an advantage as just now, once they are suppressed, began to appear unintentional love war.
And unlike the infantry, if these pilots are not defeated, it is still possible to escape from the battlefield. So when Zhao Chun's cavalry, flying soldiers, infantry, and ambush soldiers on the mountain kept coming, some of the flying soldiers were a little shaken - the enemy was coming in a steady stream, and I don't know how many people there were, but one thing is certain, that is, there are many more people than their own side, and if they continue to fight like this, there is no chance of winning this battle at all.
"Listen to the officers and soldiers of the Black Ice Tribe, now that you have been surrounded by us, we are ten times more numerous than you, your general has surrendered to us, and your young master is also in our hands. Lay down your weapons and surrender, we will give you a way to survive by treating your captives well. At this critical moment, Zhao Chun suddenly shouted loudly with all his strength, and his voice was strong and powerful, and it clearly reached the ears of every soldier who was fighting.
"Don't listen to him, he's lying. The Governor of the Black Ice Tribe shouted loudly, but unfortunately he didn't know Zhao Chun's method of transmitting sounds, and he was quickly drowned out by the noisy sounds around him, and only the hundreds of people around him could hear it clearly.
Especially the flying soldiers in the sky, they had no intention of fighting, and only barely fought under the forced suppression of the commander, but now they heard that the general had surrendered, and the young master was in the hands of others, so those commanders could no longer suppress it, and there were even some squad leaders who fled with the entire team.
So the 2,000 flying soldiers of the Black Ice Tribe, those who fled, and those who stayed were quickly besieged and annihilated.
The infantry of the Black Ice Tribe, which had lost the greatest reliance on the flying soldiers, was slowly exhausted under the three-dimensional siege of Zhao Chun's superior forces, despite the fact that the governor himself was in charge and the number was more than 8,000.
However, that governor was quite tough, even if there were only a few hundred people left in the end, he was still unwilling to surrender, and he used his spiritual power very strongly to make some big moves, so that dozens of officers and soldiers on Zhao Chun's side died.
Zhao Chun had to go out in person, and used his signature martial art "Dragon Descending Three Styles" to fight with him in a few moves, and his spiritual power was almost consumed, before he took advantage of the advantage of numbers to seriously injure him and capture him.