It was a battle without warning, and one to be expected.

It is said that there is no warning, because during this period of time, the Mobei tribes have been in a state of avoidance, although there are some sporadic harassment, but the initiative of a large force has never been attacked. Therefore, it was not until the troops of Badu and Guiyou were in the sight of the reconnaissance cavalry that the rear army of the Han army found that they had encountered a major crisis.

However, this battle was actually expected. From the moment they stepped out of the site of the Great Wall, the generals implemented such a belief to all the soldiers: in Mobei, there is a possibility of encountering the enemy anytime and anywhere! Don't think that the enemy is in front of you, he could appear behind you at any time! Therefore, although the army of Lang General Yelu Shago was in the rear, his surprise did not last long when he found that there was a very large enemy in the west.

"Could it be that Yunzhong also sent troops to copy our back road?" Jerushago thought to himself. Compared with the Mobei tribes that have been avoiding the main force of the Han army, this place is closer to the Fengsheng Prefecture in the clouds. The threat in the clouds in the southwest direction was also one of the variables that the Han army had to consider, but this situation was quickly denied, and an impact on the snow in the middle of the winter quickly confirmed that the comer was not a soldier in the clouds, but the Hu tribe in Mobei!

There are less than 1,000 people in front of Yelu Shage, but more than 2,000 people are one of the few half-Hu armies in the rear army, of which half are Han people in the north, one-third are Khitan, and the rest are Xi people.

"Kill!"

This is the slogan of the Mobei army, and it is Badu who leads the charge, while the Han army is waiting, waiting for the Hu people to enter the firing range.

"Ten more steps...... Five-step ...... Come in! Do it! ”

The crossbowmen in the front row suddenly gave way to a few gaps, and the rain of arrows rained down like raindrops, and nearly two hundred Hu people fell from their horses in the first round of shooting, and then the second and third rounds! After three rounds of arrow rain, the strength of Huma's impact and the courage of the Hu people were significantly weakened.

"Get on the horse!"

The crossbowmen retreated, mounted their horses, and turned into cavalry, and while they were retreating, the cavalry in the front row had already rushed out, and the two sides took over. The rear of the Mobei Hu cavalry spread out to the left and right, intending to outflank them, but Yelu Shage's crossbowmen were all on their horses, and the entire cavalry team rushed forward, rushing the men and horses of Badu in half. Badu kept shouting in the melee, asking the troops to assemble and obey orders, but the organization of the Mobei Hu cavalry was obviously not as good as the Han army, and the number of men and horses of Yelu Sha Ge was less than him, but he had the upper hand in organization and weapons, and after a fight, the Mo Bei Hu cavalry became more and more chaotic, and seeing that he was about to win, Ye Lu Sha Ge's adjutant suddenly shouted: "General, there is movement in the northwest again!" ”

Yelu Shage raised his eyes, and sure enough, there was another group of men and horses rushing in the northwest, judging from the direction and the flying snowflakes that it was not the Han army, so he did not dare to fight, and led the men and horses to rush in the direction of due north and west. In this battle, Badu lost more than 400 people, and Yelu Shage only lost less than 30 people, which was a small victory for the Han army. However, when Jerushago found that the two men and horses had joined up, he did not rush to chase him, but continued to plunder to the southeast, and was surprised: "Are they going to cut off our grain routes?" "While sending people to send a police message to the Chinese army, he bypassed Badu and Guiyou, marched rapidly in the southeast direction, and rushed to the lonely cliff, the most important stronghold of the Han army within 200 miles.

The first temporary stronghold of the Han army in the southeast to be attacked by Badu was a rear army of 500 people, the soldiers and generals were all southerners, in such cold weather, all the faces and hands exposed to the air were covered with chilblains, 200 of the 500 people even found it difficult to hold weapons, when Badu attacked, there was no strength to resist, hundreds of men and horses were eaten clean, half of them were killed and half were captured.

Badu and Guiyou learned from the torture of the captives that the most important grain stronghold of the Han army within 200 miles was on the lonely cliff, and after some discussion, they took a team of 1,000 people and raged all the way and pounced.

The lonely cliff is a rather dangerous place, leaning on an unnamed stone mountain about 100 feet high, a cliff in the northwest stands on the wall, so it was named the lonely cliff by the Han army. The Han army camped against the cliff, borrowed the mountain to block the north wind, the camp mainly has two exits, the west is the main exit, the terrain is gentle, the northeast is the back door of the camp, it is a slope that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. This is one of the westernmost trade road transit stations of the Han army, it is the logistics supply point of the Han army's 200 miles within a radius of each army, there are a large number of food, weapons and even firearms, when Yelu Sha Ge rushed to the precipice of Badu and Gui by the day before, the precipice was guarded by Zhou Zheng, the general of the Hou Junlang, mainly with 2,000 horse infantry troops, but Ye Lu Sha Ge found that most of the soldiers shrank and withered in the cold wind, and suddenly met the enemy and did not know if they could fight.

After discussing with Zhou Zheng, it was decided that Yelu Shage would lead the crowd to guard the Xizhai Gate, and Zhou Zheng would guard the Dongzhai Gate. Suspend the march of grain convoys to the north, and warn merchants and grain convoys in the south not to come. The Han army cleaned up the area around the cliff, and Mobei Hu rode away.

Batu and Guiyu were apparently reinforced by men, and about thirteen troops of about 1,000 men plundered from the northwest.

"Can't let them surround them!" Jerushago thinks. So before Mobei Hu rode to the walled gate, he led 1,500 soldiers to rush out, and the infantry guarding the walled gate behind also quickly mobilized, prepared bows, arrows and firearms, and shouted to cheer for Yelu Shage.

It's a pity that Jerushago didn't create his last record again when he went out this time, Badu recognized this army that had almost defeated him with less than 3,000 men, and wanted to be ashamed of his defeat last time, and led the most powerful hundred warriors of his own clan to fight directly with Jerushago, and Guiyou commanded several light cavalry troops in the rear to threaten Jerushago's flank.

"Chok-" The weapon touched in the cold wind, and the arrow was useless! Badu bit Yerushago like a wounded leopard, the ranks of both sides looked a little chaotic after contact, Badu didn't care, he didn't rely on organization to win, but Yelu Shago was worried, the other party's strength was several times his number, if they cut off the back road, this army may not be able to go back. He knew the situation inside the lonely cliff, although those southern infantry troops had strong crossbows and firearms, but because they were even moving very slowly, they couldn't do without the organic combat force he led!

Jerushago's hesitation made his troops not as crisp and neat as they had been in the last battle, which was fatal for the side that did not have the upper hand in physical strength and was absolutely inferior in numbers!

"No more! Remove! "Yelu Shago ordered, at this time, the light cavalry troops commanded by Gui who came to outflank had not yet been encircled, and he still had a chance, but there was still a team of nearly five hundred people who did not have time to draw their feet. Fifteen hundred men went out and a thousand returned, and Jerushago's attempt to go out of the village to meet him failed this time. The Han army outside the fortress retreated to the vicinity of the camp, turned the horse's head again, and formed a defensive wall outside the wall. Although the defense measures of the camp are tough, they are temporary fortifications after all, and they must not be compared with the city, and they cannot be directly used to resist the hooves of the horses of the Mobei Hu cavalry.

Due to the hasty U-turn, the formation was broken in that moment, and the Hu cavalry who came on tiptoe was about to take the opportunity to rush in, but fortunately, at this time, two hundred assault musketeers ventured out of the gate, and fifty long bamboo pole muskets stretched out to the front of the formation before Jerusha could gain a foothold.

"Fat!"

Under the orders of the general, forty-five long bamboo muskets were sprayed together by the soldiers, but three could not be ignited because of the weather, and two burst due to the soldiers' mistakes.

However, the forty-five fire dragons that suddenly burst out still frightened the horses of the Mobei Army who rushed to the front, once the horses were out of control, even the bravest warriors would be out of proportion, Badu's mount just hit the fire dragon sprayed out by the long bamboo pole musket, and his ears were burned, and he was frightened away with a sad hiss, and Badu also fell to the ground.

Half of the 45 long bamboo pole muskets were discarded after being used once, and the soldiers threw them on the ground casually, followed by 80 assault muskets - in appearance, they were only 80 giant bamboos, but after the general gave the order, dozens of explosions were heard at the same time, and more than 60 Zi Yi (similar bullets) that were successfully fired shot out with a stronger penetrating power than a bow and crossbow, and more than a dozen Mobei soldiers fell off their horses in response, and dozens of Hu horses were frightened by Zi Yi's flying fire.

The two rounds of long bamboo pole muskets and assault muskets took turns to buy a little time for the Jerusha tribe, and a thousand horses held their positions with their backs against the gate of the fortress, half of them raised their shields, two hundred and fifty men raised their swords, and two hundred and fifty opened their crossbows.

"Prepare for ignition—"

The generals in the village shouted.

"Put!"

The catapult crossed the head of Yelu Shage outside the gate of the village, and smashed it towards the Mobei Hu horse, I don't know how many people fell off their horses and screamed, I don't know how many people were robbed by the fire, in the chaos, dozens of Hu people who were smashed rolled on the ground.

Seeing that the front door was difficult to take, Gui Yu led troops to attack the back door. The back door was a gentle slope, and the horses were running upwards, reducing their speed and impact. The soldiers and horses under Zhou Zheng were far inferior in combat effectiveness to Yelusha's troops in such weather. However, the defensive characteristics of the southern soldiers were quickly revealed.

"Prepare the fireball!"

A fireball is a fire-attacking weapon that uses gunpowder as a combustion source, and when used, the fireball shell is burned through with a red-hot cone, and then shot out with the help of a small stone thrower or crossbow, and when it falls into the enemy, it will explode and burn when it hits a hard object. Fireballs started out with paper skin, but then slowly improved and developed into iron fireballs with iron skin.

When the soldiers and horses sent by Guiyou rushed into the firing range, he faintly heard a "release" order in the village, and dozens of iron fireballs shot out, and those who ran in front were killed instantly. The fireball was followed by a bow and crossbow flying stone, which flew down condescendingly, leaving no living mouth within thirty paces.

Gui You was quite frightened when he saw it, thinking that the combat strength of the Han army was really not to be underestimated, so he hurriedly ordered to retreat a little, arranged troops and horses, blocked the roads around him, and trapped this stronghold of the Han army to death with most of his troops, and at the same time sent 2,000 cavalry to continue to plunder to the east and south, and sent people to urge Aradu Mahei to come to join the division.