Chapter 750: The Sound of Drums and Horns (22)

The gate of the Kushan Pass slid open silently, and the war horse was wrapped in cotton cloth and stepped on the ground, silently, the horse's mouth was chewed, and even each soldier had a small wooden stick in his mouth.

There are not many cavalry in Kuoshan Pass, Hu Yanchao knows very well that the role of Kuoshan Pass is to hold it, here, he is only equipped with about 200 cavalry, just to have a mobile counterattack force in the defense. As Ye Zhong expected, Hu Yanchao is good at defense, but he is not blindly defending, defending the middle and leading the attack, which is what he is best at.

Wu Bo, as his favorite general, chose to attack immediately this evening, also because the two sides had just experienced a day of fierce fighting, and the other side broke through the valley, set up camp, and had an unstable foothold.

The camp set up by the other party, only a few miles away from the city of Kunshan Pass, out of the city gate, it doesn't take a pillar of incense time, you can rush to the front of the camp, during the day, Wu Bo has been carefully observing the other party's camp, the eastern army did not dig a trench, but simply erected a wooden fence, and even the sentry tower has not been built.

There was only less than a thousand steps left from the opponent's camp, Wu He suddenly accelerated, two hundred cavalry bowed down, and rushed forward with Wu He, and behind him, hundreds of foot soldiers took steps and rushed forward.

The other battalion did not react at all, only until the wooden fence collapsed in front of the spear and halberd, and the camp seemed to be alert, the drums and trumpets suddenly sounded, and Wu He even saw the figure running in a panic.

He couldn't help but sneer, and it was done. Spit out the wooden stick in his mouth and roared, "Kill the thief!" ”

With his shout, the guards of Kunshan Pass who went out of the city let out a shout in unison.

Wu He took the lead and rushed to the opponent's tent a stone's throw away. My heart was filled with the joy of the success of the attack on the camp, because until this time, the other side did not seem to have succeeded in organizing a defensive line, and it seemed that the so-called victorious Eastern Army was nothing more than that.

As soon as he thought of this, Wu He felt himself flying. The war horse under the crotch seemed to have touched something, and it fell on the spot, and with a bang, Wu He fell to the ground, and as far as his eyes could see, the cavalry behind him seemed to hit some invisible barrier one after another, and they planted their horses one after another. And those war horses all fell to the ground, convulsing constantly.

Wu He was stunned. The infantry who followed closely behind the cavalry were also stunned.

"There are ghosts!" As a military general who fought on the battlefield and killed people without calculation, Wu He's heart was flooded with this thought. But there is no doubt that this raid has failed, and no matter what tricks the opponent uses, it is by no means as defenseless as he imagined.

In the camp of the Eastern Army, the sound of a loud military horn sounded, rockets were fired at the periphery, and piles of fires burst into flames. Behind the tent, hundreds of soldiers of the Eastern Expedition rushed out, holding a well-wounded arm crossbow in their hands.

"Let's go!" Wu He roared. He got up and ran back, and just took a step, something in front of him blocked, and there was a bang. When he fell on all fours and lay on his back on the ground, he took advantage of the light of the fire around him. He finally saw what it was, a thin rope hung horizontally in the air, he got up with a bone, reached out and touched this rope, the tentacles were cold, this was not an ordinary rope, this was made of iron. Wu He pressed his hand, and the iron rope hanging in the air only trembled.

Wu He finally understood why the rushing horses were now lying on the ground, and none of them could survive, and when they charged, these iron ropes were deeply strangled into their bodies.

Wu He got up, got through the iron ropes with his short body, and fled for his life without looking back.

No wonder they no longer dig trenches, and the fence is also built very simply, they are digging a trap for the Yan army, just looking forward to your attack on the camp, such a thin wire, hanging behind the fence, in the night, can not be seen at all.

On the dark wall, Wu Bo was also inexplicable, he was farther away, and he couldn't know what was happening, but when he saw the other party's camp, there was a sudden fire, and the sound of screams came faintly, where did he not know the truth that the night attack had failed.

Looking at the soldiers running back from the wolf, his pupils contracted, his cavalry was no longer there, only dozens of Liao Liao's war horses were left, and the rest were left by the opponent, how could it be?

"Raise the fire!" He sighed, this time the night attack, a big defeat.

If it succeeds, the brigade of men and horses will then kill and drive the other party back to the valley again, and if it fails, it can also cover the soldiers who attacked the camp to come back.

In the camp of the Eastern Army, Chen Weixing rushed to Ding Wei's camp and shouted through the curtain: "Commander, those bastards have escaped." ”

The sound of Ding Wei turning over came from the big tent, followed by an impatient voice, "Ran away, just ran away, Lao Tzu was just dreaming, and was woken up by your ghost howl, do you know, Lao Tzu has only been married to his wife for half a year, and he was just about to pick up a gun and enter, and he was stirred up by your kid, get out." ”

Chen Wei was dumbfounded for a long time, the battle in front was in full swing, and the commander behind him was actually dreaming of spring, and hesitated for a while before he continued: "Commander, don't you really chase after you?" ”

"Chase your mother!" Ding Wei's scolding came from the house, "If you chase the past, you can take the Kunshan Pass, Wu Bo's kid must have prepared countless feather arrows for you, chase a fart, it's better to let the brothers sleep well, and fight again tomorrow." ”

Hearing the sound of turning over and sitting up in the house, Chen Wei agreed while running away, he was not stupid, if Ding Wei got up and got out of the tent, his butt would bloom.

At the juncture of Kuoshan, Wu Bo was stunned, behind the soldiers who fled back, and did not chase after the soldiers of the Eastern Army, he squinted his eyes slightly, is the other party confident? Don't even bother to do such a pursuit?

On this night, the Eastern Army slept soundly, but in the Kunshan Pass, it was a sleepless night.

Just when Ding Wei was sleeping soundly, Anlu County, Hejian County, which was thousands of miles away from Kunshan Pass, had just experienced a test of blood and fire.

An Lu Shou General Zeng Xianyi was covered in blood, walking step by step on the broken city wall, his feet were on the ground, a little slippery, that was because the blood soaked the ground under his feet, above the city, although the soldiers were tired, but they were still holding on to the spirit to clean up the city, the enemy's corpse was mercilessly thrown off the city, making a muffled sound, the remains of their comrades were carried off the city wall one by one, there were special people in the city to deal with the remains, generally cremated on the spot, a living person, in the blink of an eye, There is only a small square box left, for Zeng Xianyi, he is not very accustomed to the rules and regulations of the Eastern Army, he is more accustomed to the traditional entry into the ground for peace.

Maybe it won't be long before I become such a small handful of ashes and be put into such a small box. Seeing a familiar face being carried past in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a little sad, this young man was one of his own soldiers, less than twenty years old.

There are 3,000 defenders in Anlu County, but not all of them are Zeng Xianyi's original subordinates, since he surrendered to the Eastern Army, his 3,000 descendants have been disrupted and mixed, he was still a little worried that he would be hollowed out, but as time went by, he found that every order he gave would be unswervingly implemented, so he put his mind at ease.

Slowly, he became familiar with the military system of the Eastern Army, in the system of the Eastern Army, there is no such thing as his own lineage, the defenders of Anlu are the main generals, they are like this, if they are transferred to a completely unfamiliar unit at this time, they will not encounter problems if they command the troops below.

This is probably the reason why the Eastern Army is strong, an army will never lead to a sudden decline in combat effectiveness because of the change of commanders.

He has been guarding Anlu for eight days, and he has suffered more than 1,000 casualties.

Anlu County does not have to be defended, Zeng Xianyi received an order to hold on here for ten days, and then retreat to Xinhui, rendezvous with Naha, Xinhui, at least to hold for more than half a month, and then retreat to the Luliang Mountains to continue to resist.

This order made Zeng Xianyi a little puzzled, the importance of Anlu's iron ore and copper ore to the Eastern Army was undoubted, but why should he give it up when he still had the strength to spare? Is it trying to lure the enemy deeper, it's not like ah, because the strength of the Central Army of the Eastern Army is not enough now, and the infantry with a full 6,000 cavalry is still in Daijun.

It's easy to give up Anlu, but if you want to take it back, it's not that simple. Zeng Xianyi felt that he could completely rely on the strong city to consume the opponent, and he defended it for eight days and lost more than a thousand, but the Yan army lying under Anlu City was several times as many. If Naha didn't defend in Xinhui but came with himself to defend Anlu, it would make Conde feel pain, and it would also make him think about whether it was worth paying such a big price to recapture Anlu?

But an order is an order, although Zeng Xianyi was suspicious in his heart, he would not violate it, and after two days of guarding, the whole army retreated to Xinhui, and Naha would arrange someone to answer it. In these ten days, the woolen iron that had been produced in the mining area was transported away, and Zeng Xianyi even felt that if he wanted to give up Anlu, he would at least destroy the mine.

When he put forward this opinion to Ye Zhen before the war, Ye Zhen smiled and said: "Don't destroy it, keep it, it won't be long before we come back, besides, if the mine is destroyed, how can the tens of thousands of miners and their families here live?" Whether it's for us or for Conde, they can get paid, right?"

This answer made Zeng Xianyi feel a little unbelievable.

It seems that the top brass of the Eastern Army must have a mind and are confident that they will recapture Anlu in a very short period of time, but with their own rank, they are not qualified to know. (To be continued......)