Chapter 42 Divide and Break
Xu Shan entered the valley with his cavalry.
"Zuo Peisheng's little white face is right, sure enough, they have been waiting for a long time." Looking at the coalition forces waiting in the distance, Xu Shan sneered: "But no matter how treacherous you are, if you encounter that scheming little white face, you will have to die this time without a place to be buried." ”
Xu Shan seemed to have seen the defeat of the coalition army, and couldn't help laughing.
"Ah......h
"Help......
"There are traps......
Just as he was laughing heartily, several screams came.
He looked around, but saw more than a dozen cavalry companies leading their horses into deep pits.
"Damn, there's a trap, all dismount and walk tentatively." Xu Shan was furious, damn it, he actually played such a small trick. I can't spare them.
He felt a burning pain in his face. As soon as he laughed out loud, his subordinates were actually pitted by such a simple trap, which was simply slapped in the face by the other party and couldn't raise his head.
"Report...... In total, one hundred and sixty-eight traps were found, thirty-four brothers were killed and sixty-three were injured. It wasn't until he walked the wide ravine that Xu Shan received a report from his subordinates.
Although only a dozen traps at the beginning worked, it also cost him nearly a hundred people.
Although there were only about thirty people who died, almost all of the injured were seriously injured, and Yun Qing not only put sharpened spikes on the bottom, but also on the walls of the trap.
In addition, after those cavalry fell in, they didn't have time to rein in the horses and fell in, and the weight immediately crushed the soldiers who were not in a big problem to death.
Only the top ones did not suffer much damage.
Xu Shan's face was extremely pale, and the ravine in front of him was more than twenty steps wide, blocking them here. You must know that this distance is not something that any horse can jump over, at least most of the war horses in his army can't jump over.
"Landfill." It's a small trick, but it works. If you usually encounter this kind of ravine, you just need to get off the horse and lead the horse slowly through. But now he didn't dare to let the cavalry dismount and lead the horse over. In case the other party rushes over, it is too late to react.
I had to let some of the soldiers dismount and go to fill this ravine, but fortunately the ravine was not dug deeply, and it did not take long for the horses to pass.
Finally led the cavalry across the half-buried ravine, and Xu Shan finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Huangkou Xiaoer is really Huangkou Xiaoer, and he didn't take the opportunity to attack. Sure enough, it's a group of boys who don't know soldiers. Xu Shan sneered in his heart, although he let some of the soldiers bury it first, most of the soldiers were guarding against the other party's attack.
But if the other party attacks at this time, he only needs to rush to the front with a rain of arrows, and those soldiers who are responsible for filling the ravine will definitely not be able to escape.
The opponent did not choose to attack, which in his opinion was absolutely super stupid.
Knock knock knock......
At this moment, the drums of the coalition army were heard in the distance.
"Hmph, what can you do at this time? Am I afraid of you? Xu Shan sneered and waved his hand: "The whole army is ready to charge." ”
In fact, when Xu Shan ordered the ditch to be filled, Yue Qingrou had already ordered to charge, at least to shoot the soldiers who were filling the gully.
But he was stopped by Yunqing.
Yun Qing's reason is very simple, rushing over now, even if he takes advantage of it, he still can't get a decisive victory.
Wait for them to fill in the almost, and when the army comes, they will attack. At that time, they will inevitably launch a-for-tat charge.
At that time, the dense small potholes arranged on this side of the ravine will be effective.
Although Yue Qingrou didn't know what Yun Qing was doing with those small pits that couldn't fall into people and weren't deep, she still chose to believe Yun Qing.
After seeing that the other party had almost all passed the ravine, Yue Qingrou ordered the war drums to be beaten.
Then the army launched a charge towards the Yunshan army.
At this time, the Yunshan Army also followed closely and launched a charge.
The cavalry of both sides rushed towards each other like two surging rivers.
However, the cavalry on the side of the Yunshan Army ran out, and there was chaos after not many steps.
Horses fell to the ground, and the horses behind the cavalry stumbled.
So one after another, many fell.
It was easy for the horses behind to react and jump over the fallen horses and soldiers, but after a few steps, another horse fell.
It's not just that Xu Shan didn't figure out the situation, but even Yue Qingrou was dumbfounded, what's going on?
"What the fuck are you guys doing?" Xu Shan was furious, but as soon as he finished saying this, he felt that the war horse under him leaned forward violently, and his whole body fell out.
Gollum rolled out a long way, Xu Shan was knocked out of the eye, and finally saw the situation clearly.
I saw that the front legs of my war horse actually stepped into a small pit and broke alive in the high-speed running.
Screams rang out one after another, and the horses continued to fall, and the horses stepped into the small pit and broke the horses' legs.
And the cavalry on them was even more scattered, and before they could meet the coalition army, they had already lost a small half, and even Xu Shan himself fell off his horse.
"It's over...... It's completely finished...... "Xu Shan's heart was dead, he never thought that there would be such a trap specifically for war horses.
As soon as this thought arose in his mind, he felt a darkness in front of him, and a cavalry horse that followed him also fell and pressed down on him......
Before Xu Shan could scream, several more cavalrymen fell and pressed him down, crushing him to death.
Without Xu Shan, the general, no one ordered to retreat or stop the charge. The cavalry of the Yunshan Army could only continue to rush forward.
Finally, after losing most of the money, he rushed through the trap area arranged by Yun Qing.
But this unexplained loss and the unexplained disappearance of the generals made the morale of these cavalry drop to the extreme, at this moment, the archers of the coalition army suddenly appeared on both sides of the mountain road, and the arrow rain fell from the sky, shooting towards the Yunshan army that had just escaped from the trap area, and many soldiers were killed under the rain of arrows.
And when the cavalry of the two sides finally rushed together, the Yunshan army, which was extremely demoralized, was torn open almost instantly under the onslaught of the coalition cavalry with the Qingfeng Iron Cavalry as the tip of the knife, and soon became chaotic.
The shouts of killing shook the sky, and the cavalry of the Yunshan Army was still resisting stubbornly under the leadership of some squad leaders, but it was only a matter of time before they were defeated.
At this moment, there was a sudden shouting of killing from the Qianlin Mountain on one side.
The captains of the Yunshan Army were in high spirits, thinking that the infantry led by Zuo Peisheng had surrounded them, but when they looked up, they saw the military flags on the mountain waving, the war drums cracked, and the military flags of the coalition army and soldiers wearing the armor of the coalition army were everywhere under the shadows.
"Retreat, retreat." Finally, some squad leaders lost their fighting spirit and hurriedly ordered a retreat.
This has caused a huge amount of confusion. After all, some squad leaders want to retreat, and some squad leaders are very brave and want to fight to the death.
As a result, the cavalry under his command advanced and retreated inconsistently, and directly led to a large area of chaos in their troops.
In this way, the defeat of the cavalry troops was accelerated.
Finally, the cavalry of the Yunshan Army began to retreat frantically, but then they had to wade through the trap area again.
As a result, a large number of horses broke their legs, and only a few thousand of the nearly 30,000 cavalry finally escaped.
At this time, on the mountains on both sides, Hong Xiao and the big man took their respective soldiers to drop boulders towards the Yunshan army that climbed up the mountain.
Although there are not many enemy troops that are actually hit, it is a good delay for the opponent.
Zuo Peisheng didn't know how many people there were on the other side, and when he looked up at the flags and people on the top of the mountain, he was also a little frightened. I never expected that the other party would set up an ambush here.
Looking at it like that, there are tens of thousands of people, not to mention.
What's going on? Where did they come from so many people? Could it be reinforcements? But is it impossible? No matter how united these nobles were, it was impossible for them to have so many troops. Where the hell did these people come from? Zuo Peisheng was full of doubts and couldn't make up his mind.
If he knew that most of the soldiers he saw were straw men and shrubs in coalition armor, he would probably vomit blood in anger.
At first glance, when he saw so many people on the top of the mountain, how dare he attack the mountain casually. Isn't that an act of seeking death?
In the end, he had to give the order to go directly to the rear of the coalition army at the foot of Qianlin Mountain.
It is precisely because of this that Hong Xiao has the opportunity to run to the other side of the mountain to scare the Yunshan army cavalry as a suspicious soldier.
That's why he appeared so late.
And the big man on the other side is still in a stalemate with the other party. After all, the leader over there was just an ordinary general, and he didn't dare to order a retreat at will, nor did he dare to change his route, so as not to anger Zuo Peisheng.
So he had to order his soldiers to rush up the hill while carefully avoiding the falling rocks on the mountain.
"Collect the troops." Although thousands of cavalry escaped, Yun Qing still ordered the troops to be collected, and he didn't want his soldiers to go through the trap area. Even if most of those traps had been covered by the horses and corpses of the soldiers of the Yunshan Army, he did not want any soldiers to be injured by this.
"Go back at once, and go out to meet the infantry that has circled behind us." Yue Qingrou also knew that she couldn't delay, so she hurriedly ordered.
When Yun Qing and Yue Qingrou rushed out of the mountain road with the army, they found that in the direction of Qianxun Mountain, Zuo Peisheng's part had just bypassed.
"It seems that Uncle Hong and the big man have successfully restrained them." When Yue Qingrou saw this situation, she was immediately relieved.
"Without further ado, the whole army charges!" Yun Qing immediately ordered.
Yue Qingrou nodded, and then rushed out with Yun Qing. Since the other side of them hasn't shown up yet, it's the perfect opportunity. As long as this part of the soldiers is defeated in front of the other side, then the overall situation has been completely settled.
The rest of the soldiers could not escape defeat anyway. xh118