Chapter 167: Three-Way Ambush

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As Gaisu watched such a tragic slaughter from afar, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and almost forgot to continue to give orders. It was also the first time he had faced Zhang Xutuo, and he had never encountered such a sharp army.

When encountering an iron-blooded army with such strong combat power, even if it is full of blood, it can only become cool down immediately.

At this time, he sighed in his heart, fortunately, his own marshal Gao Jianwu had a careful arrangement, otherwise even if all the troops rushed up and fought hard with Zhang Xutuo's army, they might not be able to win.

After about half an hour, the smoke and dust slowly cleared, and all the coalition soldiers trapped in the Eight Winds Camp had disappeared. However, the formation of the Sui army did not seem to have changed much, which shows that they did not suffer many casualties.

However, more than 2,000 coalition heavy cavalry were completely annihilated, which made people shudder.

At this moment, the Sui army seemed to have no losses at all, and the soldiers in the front row slowly raised their spears, took a big stride, and continued to move forward.

The sound of their footsteps continued to sound, and they approached the crowd of the coalition forces again, not hurrying, not hurrying, not hurrying, but the expressions on everyone's faces were like sculptures, and they seemed extremely determined. The awe-inspiring momentum, like Mount Tai's overwhelming top, makes people feel that they can't compete with it at all.

"This is the legendary Eight Winds Camp of Zhang Xutuo's Army! It's amazing! Gao Jianwu looked at this almost invincible battle formation from a distance, and couldn't help but sigh. secretly thinking that it is not easy for his rabble to defeat Zhang Xutuo. Hard fighting is definitely impossible to win, and the only chance to win is to outwit.

"Zhang Xutuo's Eight Winds Camp is amazing!"

"It's really an invincible battle formation...... We can't beat it! ”

"Everybody should run away......"

"If you don't run for your life, it's too late!"

As the first frightened coalition soldier shouted, more Goryeo soldiers followed suit, and panic quickly spread among the Goryeo coalition troops. The coalition's position began to waver, and although the leaders tried their best to control their soldiers, to no avail, they could no longer command their troops.

If the 150,000 Goryeo coalition army is subdivided, it can be divided into six camps: Goryeo, Khitan, Tiele, Ji, Sumo, and Heishui, and among these six camps, they are divided into many smaller tribes. For example, the Khitan is divided into eight tribes, and the Sumo, Heishui, Tiele, Xi and other tribes are also united by several small tribes. These small tribes fought with the leaders of the larger tribes.

However, the soldiers of all the tribes except Goryeo came to loot their property and win profits, not to send them to death. Therefore, when this kind of army fights with the wind, everyone is brave and wants to rush into the enemy camp and plunder.

But when the war went badly, they were all afraid, and they were eager to spread their feet and flee. Therefore, even though their number is several times greater than that of Zhang Xutuo's army, their ability to discipline orders and coordinate operations is far from perfect, like a plate of scattered sand.

As they retreated, the allied forces of the tribes were in chaos in an instant, and those who fled and those who still wanted to rush forward collided with each other, and many fell from their horses and were seriously injured, and the scene was chaotic.

Among them, some knew that the Eight Winds Camp was powerful, so they fled in a panic;

There are also those who have never seen the strength of the Eight Winds Battalion, and they still want to wave their sabers and rush up to fight with the Sui army.

However, they were all frightened after seeing the Sui army's shield array, rushing towards it like a war machine, and everywhere they passed, the coalition troops in front of them were all twisted to pieces.

In the Sui army, at this time, the war drums were beating and the trumpets were sounding in unison.

Zhang Xutuo looked at the defeated coalition team, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the current situation of the enemy is something that any commander can see that it is a real defeat rather than a fraudulent defeat.

He looked into the distance, and saw that the outline of the camp of the Goryeo coalition army was already faintly visible not far away.

A hint of joy flashed in Zhang Xutuo's eyes, and he shouted loudly: "Listen to my orders, go forward and kill the past, today we will run over the camp of the Goryeo army!" Solve the enemy once and for all for the Great Sui and His Majesty! ”

His generals hesitated for a moment, after all, they had been fighting for several hours in a row, and they were a little tired. But for a long time, under Zhang Xutuo's prestige, they finally got up and tidied up their clothes, and some wounded soldiers also hurriedly bandaged their wounds, and then marched in the direction of the Goryeo army camp.

The large battalion of the Goryeo coalition army was located in a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is a large forest on the left, a small river on the right, and mountains behind it to prevent enemies from sneaking up from behind. Directly in front of the camp was a large open field, from which any enemy would attack would be revealed.

At this moment, in the woods, there was a large number of cavalry of the Goryeo coalition lurking. These people all looked fierce and breathed heavily. They clenched their sabers in their hands and gagged them with their mouths to prevent them from making a sound.

These cavalrymen looked nervously in the direction of the main gate of the camp in front of them.

Among the cavalry crowd, one person was another general of Goryeo, Uljideok. His face couldn't hide the excitement. According to Gao Jianwu's orders, Gaisu led a group of tribal soldiers with poor combat effectiveness to go to the front of Zhang Xutuo's army to deceive and lure the enemy. And he lurked in the dense forest, and when Zhang Xutuo's army advanced to the dense forest, he killed from the flank and ambushed Zhang Xutuo's Chinese army. Then Gaisu also led his army back to kill and entangle Zhang Xutuo's front army.

Gao Jianwu believes that Gaisu is brave and brave and can be qualified for the task of luring the enemy alone. Although Yi Zhide has heard of Zhang Xutuo's name, he is not afraid, the cavalry around him are carefully selected from various tribes, the cavalry with the highest martial arts, and equipped with the armor captured by the Goryeo army from the last two wars from the Sui army, which is enough to fight with Zhang Xutuo's elite soldiers.

After a while, there were bursts of noisy people shouting and neighing horses in front of me, and slowly from far to near, the sound became clearer and clearer. Everyone looked intently, and saw Gaisu on horseback, brandishing his saber, and swarming with more than 10,000 light horsemen, all of them looking embarrassed, and then went to the right of the camp at a fast speed, where a shallow river led. Although the river is wide, the water is shallow, and horses can wade across the river.

Zhang Xutuo's army arrived a moment later, still marching as before, without hurry or slow. By this time they had been divided into the front, the middle, and the rear.

Qin Qiong led the front army, Zhang Xutuo sat in the middle army, Cheng Yanjin followed him, and Luo Shixin led the rear army to the rear.

And when Yizhide waited until the Sui army came to the woods, he let go of the front army led by Qin Qiong and let it chase after Gaisu.

When Zhang Xutuo's Chinese army appeared, he shouted angrily: "Everyone go up together and kill Zhang Xutuo, Marshal Gao has already said, who can kill Zhang Xutuo, reward two gold!" Named the lord of the city! ”

"Kill!"

At this time, the coalition soldiers swarmed out of the woods, and in a shout, they rushed into the Chinese camp of the Sui army in an instant, and for a moment the two sides were inseparable, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Although Gai Su has been running for his life, he is very attentive to the movement behind him, and when he sees Yizhide killed, he is overjoyed, and immediately shouted: "Sons, the victory or defeat of Goryeo is in this move, we should step forward bravely, entangle the front army of the Sui army, and let the ambush soldiers kill Zhang Xutuo!" ”

After saying that, he did not hesitate to lead his troops back and kill Qin Qiong's front army. When the coalition soldiers who fled with them heard this, they hesitated slightly, seeing that the main general was so brave, and seeing a large group of overseers with crossbows and machetes coming out of the camp, they knew that the fate of escaping was the word "death".

So, after the soldiers of the coalition army weighed it, they also followed closely behind Ezhide and bravely killed the general.

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At this moment, Luo Shixin, who was walking behind, and the rear army led by him also encountered an ambush of the Goryeo coalition army at the same time.

These ambushes were led by the Khitan leader Abao Cave, hidden behind another hill, and when they saw Luo Shixin's rear army coming, they killed the generals, blocking Luo Shixin's way of advancement, and separating him from Zhang Xutuo's Chinese army.

Luo Shixin was in the center of the battle formation of the rear army. His eyes were sharp, and he was not flustered when he saw the ambush behind the hill next to him.

Luo Shixin pointed at the horse lance in his hand and shouted in his mouth: "Change the formation!" ”

The flag envoy beside him immediately waved the flag frequently, and the Sui soldiers around him originally formed a phalanx and slowly moved forward. Seeing the flags waving in the array, he immediately changed his formation and fought with the coalition soldiers......

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Zhang Xutuo shouted again and again, and the cavalry on both wings walking in the middle of the battle formation poured out, trapping all the ambush soldiers led by Yizhide in the formation. The banner of the Chinese army also changed again, and the soldiers marching in front immediately stepped forward with shields to protect the cavalry on both wings. Then the archers poured out quickly, shooting countless sharp arrows to stop the returning Gaisu army.

The formation of Zhang Xutuo's army changed rapidly, and although Yizhide was also an elite cavalry leader, it was still in a difficult situation. After falling into Zhang Xutuo's array, he saw countless spears piercing from all directions, and the elite cavalry he led was suddenly trapped, and they could only fight separately.

The cavalry, on the other hand, is better at charging into battle, and is inferior to the infantry in close combat. Moreover, the infantry of Zhang Xutuo's army was well equipped, and they were all spears aimed at the cavalry. The outcome of the battle was naturally unfavorable to the Goryeo coalition forces. However, after a cup of tea, several people died in the Goryeo coalition army.

Yizhide shouted angrily, waved his spear and rushed left and right, trying to kill a blood, but he could not rush out. But he also went crazy, the spear stabbed out quickly, and with each spear stabbed, a Sui soldier fell, groaning, screaming endlessly, and his whole body was already stained red with blood, like a bloody man.

Now next to this dense forest, there is a river of blood in an instant.

In fact, in this momentary time, the Sui army also suffered a lot of casualties, after all, the soldiers ambushed in the forest by Yizhide were all elite soldiers specially selected by Gao Jianwu from various departments, and they were by no means comparable to those rabble.

However, under such a bloody battle, the coalition cavalry trapped in the Eight Winds Battalion naturally died much faster than the Sui army. In just half an hour, most of the heavy cavalry of more than 5,000 people was lost.

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