In the next few days, Xuan Liang changed his strategy and no longer confronted the soldiers of the northern tribes, they no longer had enough arrows, and once they fell into the short-range phase, they were no match for more than 2,000 people anyway. So far, Xuan Liang has not ordered the soldiers to use the imperial crossbow.

Xuan Liang led sixty cavalrymen, surrounded the wounded five people in the middle, and immediately dodged every time he made the slightest contact with the soldiers of the northern tribes. Considering that he could no longer be surrounded by the other party in the middle, after Xuan Liang stood out, he always circled around them. Neither fleeing nor going deeper, as long as they were restrained and reinforcements were not allowed to attack the Wangshan garrison, Xuan Liang would achieve his goal. Now I don't think about ending the nest of the northern tribes.

Even so, after two days in a row, the tired and hungry dragon cavalry still lost another eight people. By the fourth day after Wei Long left, including the eleven wounded, there were only fifty-seven people under Xuan Liang's men. The arrows of the bow have long been used up, and only the imperial crossbow remains untouched. In order to better shoot the soldiers of the northern tribes, Xuan Liang led his men to gradually attract the other party to a small river valley. When the soldiers of the northern tribe arrived, Xuan Liang led their horses up the gentle slope, suddenly turned their horses' heads, and fifty-seven people raised their imperial crossbows together and shot the first wave of dense arrows.

This time it caused huge casualties to the other side, not to mention, it also caused panic among the opposing soldiers for the first time. None of them knew that the other party still had such a powerful weapon in their hands, and in just one round of shooting, the soldiers of the northern tribe were shot to the ground by more than 200 people. In the past three or four days, the number of casualties among the soldiers of the northern ethnic group has been dozens of times that of Xuan Liang and them, and with the round of shooting just now, the number of northern soldiers of about 3,000 is already less than 2,000.

Xuan Liang led his men to fight with the soldiers of the northern tribe for two more days, and after losing the lives of seven more soldiers, the number of wounded also reached twenty-one, and Xuan Liang was able to use only twenty-nine troops, and the arrows of the imperial crossbow had been exhausted. And the soldiers of the northern tribe obviously also discovered that Xuan Liang almost no longer used that powerful weapon against them, and gradually surrounded them from all sides.

The sudden dense javelin made Xuan Liang, who had always been the leader, a heavy shot in his thigh and back, and the war horse was also stabbed to the ground. Xuan Liang used the last trace of consciousness before falling unconscious, and ordered the remaining twenty soldiers and eighteen wounded:

"Don't leave a bow and arrow and a royal crossbow behind, retreat to the grassland and hide."

The reason why Xuan Liang asked the soldiers to retreat to the grassland is not unreasonable, although the vast grassland, although it is in winter, it is easy to hide dozens of people and dozens of horses in the dead grass that is more than one person high.

Until the moment when Xuan Liang fell unconscious, he didn't know why Wei Long, who went back to move the rescuers, didn't have any news coming.

Under the cover of Xuan Liang, Wei Long led one of Tianli's squads, and when they came to the bank of the big river, they didn't find a suitable ferry, so they had to go east along the big river and go straight to the ferry where they originally crossed the river. After traveling day and night, it took a day and night to arrive. Although the Wangshan garrison had been attacked by the northern tribes, Xiao Yiran did not withdraw the soldiers who stayed here to guard the ferry and raft, in order to leave a way for Xuan Liang and them to retreat. It just happened to be used by Weilong.

It's just that what Wei Long didn't expect was that he could get in, but he couldn't get out. By the time he took the hunting troops of Xiongshan and wanted to cross the river to rescue Xuan Liang, the Wangshan garrison had already been surrounded by the northern tribes.

Not only did Wei Long fail to discover that the northern tribe not only had 5,000 soldiers, but even Tian Yuan was also deceited. From the west, 5,000 soldiers, including 2,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry, attacked the Wangshan garrison from the west, while 2,000 soldiers bypassed the Wangshan garrison and attacked the Wangshan garrison from the east. In other words, plus the 3,000 soldiers who stayed at the garrison to block Xuan Liang, there were a total of 10,000 soldiers in the northern tribe. The cavalry was indeed only two thousand.

When Wei Long saw the emperor and reported the situation on Xuan Liang's side, Xiao Yiran immediately ordered Wei Long to lead Xiong Shan to cross the river from the east ferry and go to rescue Xuan Liang. I didn't want to, but I was stopped by the two thousand soldiers of the northern tribe who suddenly appeared.

Xiao Yiran was also shocked by this. All along, the defense was placed in the west and southwest directions, and the east was never considered. Not only is there a dragon horse farm, but from the horse farm along the riverbank, it is easy to reach the dragon family's stronghold, smelters and pottery factories. There's nothing to lose.

Seeing that Xiong Shan's hunting troops were temporarily unable to cross the river to rescue Xuan Liang, Xiao Yiran could only transfer Xiong Shan to the eastern front to defend, and then find a way to rescue Xuan Liang after the situation changed. At the same time, there were seventy cavalrymen left in the cavalry unit, as well as a squad of Tianli who rushed back, twelve people. Although in terms of numbers, the hunting force in Xiongshan is less than one hundred and fifty people, plus all the cavalry, there are only more than two hundred and thirty people in total, and the opponent's strength is just ten to one, however, the dragon clan is only on the defensive, with the bow and arrow in hand, facing two thousand infantry, there is no problem in holding the defensive line.

On the other hand, the shape of the western front is even more severe than Xiao Yiran expected.

When the soldiers of the northern tribes came to the edge of the open field, they did not continue to advance that day, but set up camp, and by the next day after breakfast, the cavalry was in front and the infantry followed, and began to pass through the open field. After rushing out of a road, they also paid the price of nearly twenty percent of the cavalry. The dragons did not take the initiative to attack, but stuck behind the wide trench, waiting for the soldiers of the northern tribes to arrive.

Obviously, the northern groups are also prepared. Instead of storming the trench, he cut down many trees from the nearby jungle and filled them into the trench, and soon paved two roads for the army. Still the cavalry in front, followed by the infantry. However, when they entered the trench, they also entered the range of the dragon soldiers' bow and arrow attacks. The dense arrows caused the northern tribes to drop the corpses of more than 200 cavalrymen and retreat. After a day of stalemate, the northern tribes also tried to bypass the dense forests in the southwest, not wanting to be shot back by the dense traps set by the hunting department of Bear Mountain, and a hundred archers who had been waiting for a long time.

Forced to do nothing, the soldiers of the northern tribe had to watch the cutting down of trees and fill the trenches in front of them to prepare for the next round of attacks.

Xiao Yiran kept an eye on the front line and watched the other party's every move.

"Li Yu, Xiang Lin, wait for the next time the other party attacks, put a part of it over the trench and attack with the imperial crossbow."

"Yes, Emperor."

"They took advantage of the darkness to retrieve the arrows from the trenches and burned the roads they paved. At the same time, let the soldiers take turns to rest and prevent the opposing side from launching a night attack. ”