A thousand cavalry archers and horses slowly retreated, and did not confront the thousand Khorasan cavalry who rushed over, they knew how much strength they had, and they fought at close range, they were not the opponents of the other party at all, and it was very likely that the whole army would be destroyed.

In order to preserve their own strength and annihilate the enemy's living force as much as possible, the only way for a thousand cavalry to retreat is to retreat, if the enemy is in pursuit, then retreat while attacking, and after the enemy cavalry is trapped in the horse, the cavalry and horses can give full play to their superiority and mobility.

In order to increase the strong mobility, the soldier's equipment is very simple, only a strong bow and a crossbow, no armor, not only the war horse has no armor, even the soldier has no armor, so that the burden of the cavalry is relatively light, so that it is not easy to get tired, and the gallop speed will be faster.

A thousand Khorasan cavalry pursued with all their might, and the retreating thousand cavalry archers and horses still had room to spare, and did not use all their strength, they retreated while releasing arrows backwards, and from time to time caused certain casualties to the pursuing Khorasan cavalry, but because the casualties were relatively small and were casualty step by step, in this way, this group of guys who were carried away by hatred did not notice this at all, and the pursuit became more and more crazy, as if they would not stop until they killed all the cavalry and archers.

A thousand horsemen and horses entered the valley very smoothly, and the pursuing Khorasan cavalry also rushed in without any scruples, seemingly not worried about encountering a greater ambush at all, maybe this is the arrogance of an elite army of soldiers and horses! Only elite soldiers and horses will be so presumptuous, and they will not take their opponents to heart so much.

After entering the valley, a smile appeared on the corner of the Datang general's mouth, looked at the supreme commander of the team, and said: "I will lead the three hundred cavalry to the left, and I will go around their backs later, and we will attack back and forth, and strive to inflict heavy damage on this elite Khorasan cavalry." ”

"That's a thousand Khorasan cavalry! Will there be pressure. ”

The bearded general said.

The Datang junior said confidently: "You can rest assured!" As long as we don't come into contact with the enemy army, there will be no big problems, and besides, they are not a thousand soldiers, there are at most nine hundred left, it's not a big deal, let's go. ”

After speaking, the young general of the Tang Dynasty confidently led three hundred cavalry archers and horses to accelerate to the left, intending to go around the back of this Khorasan cavalry, so as to flank the Khorasan cavalry on both sides, and inflict heavy losses on this larger arrogant cavalry.

Three hundred cavalry and horses can only be regarded as a small force among the 1,000 cavalry and horses, so after this army of soldiers and horses left from the side, the Khorasan cavalry did not attract attention, and still continued to pursue the main force of the cavalry and horses, as if only by annihilating the main army of the other party could they relieve their hatred.

Seven hundred archers galloped all the way, and they tried to lure the Khorasan cavalry as far away as possible from the enemy's camp, so that in case of danger, the Khorasan cavalry would not be rescued, and thus suffer extremely heavy losses.

The bearded general, who was in the lead, looked back from time to time to count the number of enemy cavalry, and found that the enemy cavalry had been decreasing, from 900 to 800, and it was still decreasing.

This situation made him very happy, if the enemy cavalry kept pursuing, it would be a matter of time before they were completely annihilated, after all, each of their soldiers had prepared a hundred crossbow arrows, and moreover, there were many more crossbow arrows placed in a safe place nearby, and they could go and pick them up at any time, so the problem of arrows was not a problem at all.

The pursuing Khorasan cavalry soon found a very cruel problem, they chased for so long, they were far away from the camp, and they had not caught up, and their soldiers and horses had been attrition, and when the general raised his head to count the number of people, he was stunned to find that there were only 700 people left in the 1,000 soldiers and horses under his command, which surprised him, he had lost nearly 300 soldiers just now, but he didn't expect that they lost 300 soldiers in the process of pursuing this thousand soldiers and horses, if they continue to pursue, the losses will continue to increase, And that's what they can't afford.

They felt that they had been deceived, so the general immediately ordered the pursuit to be halted and prepared to withdraw to the camp.

But just when they were about to retreat, the other route was already around their backs with three hundred archers and horses led by the Tang general, and they shot indiscriminately, causing great casualties to the Khorasan cavalry that was slowing down, because it was a sneak attack from behind, and many of the equipment of the Khorasan cavalry were frontal, so if you launched a sneak attack from behind, the damage that could be caused was greater and more effective.

Three hundred horsemen and horses attacked from behind, and soon inflicted great losses on the Khorasan cavalry who were preparing to retreat, and after a few rounds of volleys, only 600 of the 700 Khorasan cavalry remained, and their strength was once again sharply reduced.

This made the leading generals shocked, they had never seen such skillful tactics, they had not yet encountered the cavalry and horses, they had been wiped out by the powerful cavalry attack of the cavalry and horses, if they did not evacuate as soon as possible, it was estimated that the whole army would be wiped out.

They felt very frightened, the dignified 1,000 elite Khorasan cavalry was actually powerless to fight against a thousand cavalry and archers who were not as elite as them, if this was spread, they would not be laughed at by people.

"The whole army is attacking from the rear."

The leading junior general shouted, and led the remaining 600 cavalry to charge the 300 cavalry and archery horses behind him, but the cavalry archers and horses would not fight with them, and they immediately retreated, releasing arrows while retreating, and continued to kill and injure a large number of Khorasan cavalry, while the 700 cavalry and horses in front were not idle, and immediately turned to the counterattack, firing heavy crossbows while pursuing behind.

Although a thousand Khorasan cavalry are quite elite, most of them are ordinary lancers and scimitar cavalry, because the departure is in a hurry, most of the soldiers have not prepared bows and crossbows, and even if they have bows and crossbows, they are useless, because their bow and crossbow performance is far inferior to the bows and crossbows supported by the Tang Dynasty to the cavalry archers, especially the gap in range is fatal, which will cause the cavalry and horses to shoot them at a long distance, but they are not yet able to reach the cavalry and horses, so they are not only beaten.

These are similar to the later period of the Braided Dynasty, the cannons of the Western powers have a long range and greater power, and they can easily destroy the batteries set up on the coast of the Braided Dynasty, but the batteries of the Braided Dynasty cannot attack the ships of the Western Powers, this is because the Western Powers launched an attack outside the range of the Braided Gun of the Battery, so that it can be very easy to end the Braided Battery, while the Braided Dynasty has no choice but to be beaten passively, and the miserable ones don't want to be.

Backward will be beaten, this is thousands of years of more ancient truth, the cavalry and horses equipped with the advanced heavy crossbow of the Tang Dynasty, is to represent the advanced side, and the Khorasan cavalry is the backward side, therefore, the Khorasan cavalry will inevitably suffer a painful defeat, this is undoubted.

The rain of arrows attacked from both sides caused irreparable losses to the Khorasan cavalry, so that hundreds of Khorasan cavalry suffered heavy losses, and at the same time, it also greatly increased the confidence of the cavalry archers, how they had inflicted heavy damage on the three hundred Khorasan cavalry just now, and now how they had inflicted heavy damage on the thousand Khorasan cavalry, the tactics were exactly the same, the only difference may be that the enemy's strength has become more, and the annihilation is more enjoyable.

In order to avoid the fate of being completely annihilated, the Khorasan cavalry desperately attacked in the direction of the camp.

And because most of the soldiers are armored, therefore, they can defend against the attack of the bow and crossbow to a certain extent, as long as the bow and crossbow are not injured to the vital point, they will not die, and some strong soldiers have more than a dozen crossbow arrows inserted in their bodies, but the person is still galloping, and does not fall off the horse, only the soldiers who are injured to the point or leave too much blood will fall off the horse because of exhaustion.

The Khorasan cavalry had heavy armor, some of which were leather armor, some were iron armor and other armor, and were also equipped with small shields, which gave them a relatively strong defense, but at the same time, it also reduced their mobility to a certain extent, so that they could never outrun the cavalry and horses, and thus became a meal for the cavalry and horses.

The two cavalry archers and horses flanked back and forth, which caused huge losses to the Khorasan cavalry, and more and more Khorasan cavalry fell off their horses, and soon the number of soldiers was less than 500.

"General Tang, we are about to arrive at the valley mouth, if we let them leave the valley mouth, we will not be able to completely annihilate this army of soldiers and horses, do you want to completely stop them at the valley mouth position and annihilate this group of Khorasan cavalry?"

A young general, also bearded, asked.

When the Tang Dynasty junior general heard this, he hesitated, at this time, this group of Khorasan cavalry was already at the end of the crossbow, as long as he led three hundred cavalry archers and horses to seal the narrow valley pass, then none of these Khorasan cavalry could escape.

But these Khorasan cavalry is extremely elite, if the valley is really blocked, they will definitely rush desperately, thus causing huge losses to the three hundred cavalry archers and horses in this blockage, most of the losses are possible, although on the whole, this kind of loss is more worthwhile, and more enemies can be annihilated with smaller troop losses, but the Tang junior general does not want to do this, he is pursuing the so-called zero casualties in accordance with Li An's requirements, and the fewer casualties of the cavalry and horses, the better, after all, there are only 10,000 soldiers and horses in total, and, These thousand soldiers and horses are still the most elite, and if they lose some of them, it will be too much to lose.

However, if some of the Khorasan cavalry escaped, the Tang generals were also a little unwilling, what way could they block the retreat of the Khorasan cavalry, and at the same time not let the cavalry lose a lot?

The Tang teenager suddenly thought of the tripping horse, in fact, it is the rope that I have recently, only need to place the rope near the valley mouth, it can give a fatal blow to the fast-galloping Khorasan cavalry, of course, I don't know that there must be enough tripping horses, if there is only one, it can't play a big role.

"Immediately go to Taniguchi without knowing the stumbling block, deploy from the inside out, deploy one every thirty steps, be fast."

The young general of the Tang Dynasty opened his mouth and ordered.

Thirty cavalry archers and horses immediately rode to the valley mouth, because they have the advantage of speed, they can gallop faster, and they can reach the valley mouth one step earlier, and the deployment of the triphorse rope is not cumbersome, it only needs a short time to do it, and it is deployed from the inside out, as long as the first lane is deployed, the back ones do not need to be too anxious, no matter how powerful the Khorasan cavalry is, it is not possible to calmly break through the blockade of the triphorse cord.

In order to arrive at the valley mouth position more quickly, deploy enough triphorses, thirty cavalry threw away all the things they didn't need, all the dry food and water bottles, and even the extremely important bows and arrows, their task now is not to fight, but to arrive at the position as soon as possible, set up the tripwire, as long as this task is completed, it is a great credit, and the rest is not very important.

Thirty cavalry threw away the burden, and galloped at the highest speed, and soon opened a certain distance from the team behind, and finally arrived at the valley mouth one step ahead of schedule, using the rope they carried with them, deployed tripping horses at the valley mouth, and it was a layer by layer deployment, from the inner mouth to the outer mouth, and when they arrived at the outer mouth, they raised their eyes and saw a large number of Khorasan cavalry rushing in, so the thirty cavalry and horses immediately rode away on horseback, first save their lives, and then say, as long as they are alive, there is always a chance to join the main force, It's really not okay to return to Maia City first, anyway, you can't fight against the massive Khorasan cavalry, after all, their numbers are too small, and besides, all their weapons are thrown, how can they fight with their bare hands.

Before approaching the tripping horse, the Datang junior general immediately ordered the soldiers to dodge from the side, so as not to be killed and injured by the tripping horse and cause heavy losses.

With the absolute speed advantage, the Tang junior general quickly hid to the side with less than 300 cavalry, leaving a large number of tripping horses to the Khorasan cavalry.

Due to the time being very tight, all the tripwires were set up urgently, so there was naturally no concealment, and there was no at all.

In this way, the fleeing Khorasan cavalry easily found the tripwire, but there were strong pursuers behind and on the flanks, and they were attacking their own soldiers and horses, and if they delayed time, they would cause greater losses, so even if there were knives in front of them, they must rush bravely and never hesitate at all.

The tripping rope is in front of you, it is visible, as long as you suddenly rein in the horse and jump over it is completely feasible, the body, the more athletic soldiers, can also use the weapons in their hands to cut off the tripping rope in advance.

"Watch out for the tripping horse and rush over."

The young Khorasan rushed to the front on the side, and three arrows were inserted in his back, which made his body hurt, but because he was not injured, he could not die for the time being.