Chapter 458: The End of the Road
Lu Fan frantically rushed left and right, wanting to get rid of Min Rou's tearing, wanting to gather more cavalry to re-form the advantage of the group, only in this way could he see a glimmer of hope. The two armies fought, and the biggest loss he caused to the other side was the short period of time when the two sides had just joined the battle.
At that time, the Lu cavalry still had a numerical advantage.
However, as the cavalry group was torn apart and dissected by the Chengde wolf cavalry, the other party used its rich combat experience to lure a group of Lu cavalry away from the main battlefield, and this battle became more and more a one-sided massacre.
When there is no advantage of the group, one-on-one, or dozens or hundreds of cavalry battles, the Lu cavalry is no longer the opponent of the other party at all.
The Chengde wolf cavalry was obviously aware of this, and they stretched the battlefield more and more, driving and luring the Lu cavalry to fight separately, and then annihilating them one by one.
At this time, the evil consequences of Lu Bu's all-night running last night were slowly revealed. The tired soldiers and the more tired horses have begun to show their exhaustion. Many of the horses fell to the ground and could not get up again, and few of the soldiers who fell with the horses could still stand up alive. They were either trampled to death by their horses or stabbed to death by their opponents.
The appearance of Shi Zhuang became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
With the loud military horn accompanied by the flying flags, Shi Zhuang personally led a cavalry of about 1,000 people to the battlefield.
There were not many people, but it made Lu Bu completely desperate, because Shi Zhuang's appearance meant that Shi Bu's main force had arrived at Fangtou, and if they didn't leave, they would never be able to leave.
The cavalry of the Lu Division, who was still fighting desperately just now, completely collapsed and fled in all directions at the moment when the stone banner appeared. completely became the target of the Wuwei Army's pursuit.
At this time, I don't care how fast Wu Weibing runs, but in the race, whether they can run faster than their companions.
Lu Fan did not run.
He let out a long sigh, reined in his horse, and turned back to meet Min Rou, who had been chasing him.
"Let's go, how many can you run." He said to the guards who had been following him behind him, probably less than a hundred people left.
After a moment of silence, one of the soldiers suddenly shook the reins of his horse, saddled down and galloped to one side. Someone started to start, and naturally someone followed.
About half of them fled after Lu Fan said this.
Lu Fan took a deep breath, and clasped his fists at the remaining dozens of horsemen and said: "Lu Fan, thank you brothers, this life is like this, in the next life, I hope we will still be brothers." β
Turning around, he slapped the horse on the stock with a violent blow, and the war horse rose to the last of its strength, and galloped forward with a long neigh, and dozens of followers followed with shouts.
On the opposite side of them was the sword light that the Chengde wolf rode on the horse slashing knife and rolled up like a snow practice.
LΓΌ Fan's troops were basically wiped out, and in Montenegro, the battle entered the most intense stage from the beginning. Cao Huan simply did not have time to test where the opponent's camp was more heavily defended and where there were more loopholes, but as soon as he arrived, he ordered the whole army to launch a full-scale attack.
And after Qin Zhao arrived in Montenegro, he didn't do anything else, just desperately built a camp. After the big trees with the thickness of the bowl mouth were cut down, they were cut into two, and some of them were buried in the ground without even cutting off the branches, and simple arrow towers rose from the ground, and on top of each arrow tower, a bed crossbow was erected.
In front of these camps, there was a trench about a zhang wide and almost a zhang deep, and the entire trench surrounded the camp, leaving only a passage in one place, and before this passage, it was Qin Zhao's most powerful subordinate Jin Shiyong who led a unit to garrison the town.
More than 1,000 guards were Qin Zhao's descendants, and he handed them all over to Jin Shiyong without hesitation, and then carefully selected a group of warriors from among the rest of the soldiers, a total of 3,000 people, and placed them outside the trench.
Although there are nearly 20,000 horses in the Qin Zhao Department, most of the 20,000 people are soldiers abandoned by Xue Xiong when he escaped from Zhaoyi. How much of their combat power was barely integrated, Qin Zhao really didn't dare to trust them too much, so he could only put them in the camp to defend.
And the only reason why Qin Zhao had the confidence to defend the surrounding soldiers and horses was because of the large number of ordnance that Li Ze issued to his soldiers and horses when he set off.
With a team of less than 20,000 people, Li Ze gave them 3,000 crossbows and 100,000 crossbow arrows. There are also dozens of state-of-the-art splicing trebuchets. Although these trebuchets are not as powerful as the larger siege trebuchets, they are the most useful against infantry or cavalry attacks, and the faster trebuchets are the most useful.
It is not an exaggeration to describe the current Cao Huan as a dog jumping over the wall. He had no way to retreat, and after defeating the Qin Zhao Department and escaping into Black Mountain, he simply looked for a second way.
All the oxen, horses, and donkeys that could still move were gathered, put on their horses, and then tied to their tails with a fire-starter, and when the fire was lit, the soldiers drove the animals towards the opposite camp in a frenzied rush.
Even Qin Zhao was slightly discolored in the face of so many animals running wildly, not to mention the soldiers in the battalion.
With the roar of the officer, countless stone bullets flew into the air, and above the arrow tower, the bed crossbow made a sharp whistling sound, and closer, the dense crossbow arrows pounced out like flying locusts.
Some of the livestock were hit by arrows, smashed, and fell with a bang, but more often than not, after being wounded, they accelerated even more frantically and rushed forward.
Jin Shiyong's eyelids jumped wildly. The section he guarded was not wide, less than fifty paces, and in front of it was full of all kinds of obstacles, and at the front of the troops, the strongest soldiers raised one after another half-man-high shields, and behind the shields, a specially made and elongated spear poked out far away.
It looks airtight, but in front of these animals who are inhumane and extremely crazy at the moment, can they withstand it?
Jin Shiyong's mind only turned a few thoughts, and the herd of livestock had already rushed over.
The deep trench that surrounded the camp served as a barrier for the first wave, and the cattle and wagons that rushed first smashed into the ditch, and the trench that was more than half deep was filled in an instant.
Jin Shiyong didn't have time to pay attention to what was going on in the trench now, because in front of him, although the red-eyed horses, cows, and donkeys tripped over a lot of obstacles, many of them still rushed in on a rampage, and with the rumbling sound, his shield array instantly shattered a small half.
Behind the livestock were the soldiers of the Tianping Army who rushed over.
Half of the soldiers who stood up the shield were lost, and the fallen or struggling livestock were instantly cut by the spears and knives of the soldiers in front of them, but these crazy animals also knocked out a huge gap in the military formation.
Without thinking, Jin Shiyong lifted his broadsword, roared wildly and rushed into the gap.
Jin Shiyong is definitely a rare big man in this era, more than two meters tall, and the big knife he uses is one size bigger than that used by ordinary people.
Rushing into the gap, he slashed down with a knife, and the head of a buffalo that had just risen from the ground was cleanly cut off by Jin Shiyong.
The figure jumped high, and stepped the body of the buffalo that had not yet fallen, and Jin Shiyong, who jumped up, roared wildly with words that no one could understand, and landed in the crowd of the Tianping Army who rushed up.
"Kill!" The soldiers behind him saw that the general was so brave, and they were in high spirits for a while, and they rushed forward one after another to re-plug the gap.
Even the soldiers behind the fence were greatly shocked by Jin Shiyong's unbeatable bravery, and for a while, their morale was greatly boosted.
Crossbow bolts flutter in the air.
Stone bullets rained down.
A spear poked out of the crack in the fence, stretching and retracting like a tongue.
Above the watchtower, although the rate of fire of the bed crossbow was slow, every time a sharp whistle sounded, it would take several lives.
The Balance Army is fighting for its life.
One group fell, and another pounced. The deep trench had been filled, and the first cattle to fall in, the wagon, had long since disappeared, and only the corpses could be seen stacked on top of each other, and the soldiers who followed stepped on the corpses of the people in front of them, crawled out of the pool of blood, like evil spirits, and launched one attack after another against the fence.
As time went by, the battle became more and more intense, Cao Huan's Chinese army banner had advanced to a place only a few hundred meters away from the barracks, and the more and more crazy Tianping army Qin Zhao finally felt that he couldn't resist, Jin Shiyong had already retreated to the camp, and together with Qin Zhao, he struggled to maintain the last line of defense. The fence outside the camp has long been flattened, and the watchtowers have now turned into torches.
At this moment, their camp has shrunk by more than half. Fortunately, when the battle is fought to this extent, even the most timid and fearful soldiers know that either you die or I die, there is no way to retreat, and if you want to run, you can't run away.
The officers kept cheering up the soldiers, and reinforcements were about to arrive.
Compared with the Qin Zhao Department who was still looking forward to it, Cao Huan's mood sank little by little as time passed.
Eventually, one by one, the scouts rushed back.
The other three troops of Wuwei had already arrived, and Cao Huan's broken troops had already been routed by them. A large number of Wuwei cavalry, at most, will take half an hour to reach the battlefield of Montenegro.
For the first time, Cao Huan felt what it meant to be at the end of the road.
Of course, it is also very likely that it will be the last.
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