Chapter 378: Successful Retreat
With this order, many sharp arrows suddenly flew down from the top of the mountain, just one after the other with Li Erhei, blocking the front and back ends of the Huns. Due to the limitations of the terrain, these cavalry have great strength, but they cannot be used at all. Although there were some relatively tough guys, relying on the speed of war horses, they rushed all the way from the north to the front of the Huashan army, but in the face of the layers of deer blocking, there was no way for a while.
Some people want to split these deer, but Li Erhei and they can't sit idly by, the bows and arrows in the hands of him and some sharpshooters have been aiming at these guys. As long as a fish escapes from the rain of arrows, then it is an arrow to pass.
The arrows in their hands are much more powerful, after all, they are all strong bows, the kind that ordinary people can't pull. This kind of bow and arrow has a long range and great power, and it is convenient for an arrow to fall to the ground directly.
As the saying goes, shoot people first ~ shoot horses, capture thieves first capture kings, the best way to deal with cavalry is naturally to deal with the war horses under them. These are light cavalry, not heavy cavalry, so there is no protection on the body of the war horse, and in the face of this dense number of arrows, who can cross this line of death!
After the attack, it was not only arrows, but also bundles of branches and hay that fell from the cliffs on both sides. As soon as these things were thrown into the valley, the Huns realized that something was wrong.
Soon, rockets fell from the sky and fell straight into the valley. Although the rockets were not aimed at a specific target, they quickly ignited the flammable materials in the valley. The whole valley was suddenly on fire, and it burned to pieces.
Many Hun soldiers ran back and forth in it, just to escape from this purgatory place on earth. Hearing the miserable howl and cry below, Shao Zisong and the others standing on the top of the mountain couldn't help but change their color and were silent.
"Alas, it's cruel to do that. However, if you want to blame, blame yourselves for violating us! Otherwise, why would this happen! Seeing that the fire below was getting bigger and bigger, Shao Zisong couldn't help but muttered to himself.
The river valley is relatively long, and Shao Zisong and the others only held the position of the valley mouth. Originally, even if you set it on fire, you wouldn't be able to set the entire valley on fire.
However, there were many weeds growing in this valley, and by the time winter came, these weeds had already dried up. In this way, all it takes is a fire to ignite the underneath.
Li Erhei, who was guarding in the south, couldn't help but be startled when they saw that there was suddenly a fiery red color from the north, and they actually rushed towards their side in the wind. Fortunately, they had already been prepared to empty the part of the place in front of them.
The Huns in the valley were miserable, the fire came too quickly, and many people were burned to their bodies before they had time to escape. There was originally a river in the valley, but the problem was that the flow of the river was not large.
If it's spring or summer, it's probably fine, and there's plenty of water. But now, it is the dry season, and the whole river is only left with spring water ~ murmuring. However, if it weren't for the fact that the water flow became smaller and the river beach was exposed, I'm afraid the Hun army would not have gone here.
Under the fire, everyone's survival instinct is particularly strong. Where can the Hun cavalry still manage to attack Li Erhei at this time! One by one, they jumped directly into the stream, and even worse, the whole person was directly immersed in the water, so as to escape the fire.
In the entire river valley, there was a lot of space near Li Erhei that had not been burned, and some of the Huns who were close to them were crowded there at this time.
But this place is too close to Li Erhei and them, so basically one by one dies. It didn't take long for the place to be piled up with corpses.
The fire relieved the Huashan Army of a lot of pressure, but it was not without other serious consequences.
Because of the sudden fire, the war horses in the valley were crazy, and the beasts instinctively chose to flee directly to the south to avoid the threat of the fire.
So many war horses suddenly rushed in the same direction like crazy, and the momentum didn't need to be thought about.
Thinking about how powerful the Fire Bull Array was, you knew what a terrible thing it would be for these crazy horses to be confined to this narrow valley to charge. At least, the deer barbs that Li Erhei and the others arranged were almost trampled on in a flash.
Fortunately, Li Erhei saw the opportunity early, and took the first step to let everyone avoid under the cliffs on both sides, otherwise, in the face of these war horses, I am afraid that they will all have to turn into meat mud.
It's just that no one can ride a crazy war horse, and the war horse itself has rushed out a lot! But in the process, those Huns don't know how many were directly turned off their horses, and then trampled to death by random horses.
After everything in the valley was burned, the fire was slowly extinguished. The Hun cavalry, who was lucky enough to escape, will sadly find that they have become foot soldiers at this time.
The smell of barbecue filled the entire valley, and the corpses of the Huns, as well as the fallen war horses, covered the entire valley.
"Let's go! Check it out! Everyone be careful, those who dare to resist will be killed! After waiting for a while, seeing that there was no movement in front of him, Li Erhei ordered.
Everyone cautiously pushed forward while on guard, and after a while, they had already come to the place where the deer fence had been set up before. There was nothing left but broken wood, and further on, there was ash on the ground, and there was curling green smoke and a lot of embers.
"Wow!" After walking a little longer, there was a lot of vomiting throughout the valley.
"General, it's really miserable! Under a fire, most of the Huns were burned to death, and some were trampled to death by war horses! There are still some left, and they have survived because of the water of the stream. However, it looks like he's already stupid! Soon, the sent general came back to report, but his face was also ugly.
"War is like that, it's brutal and violent! On the battlefield, either you die or I die! Pass the order down, gather all the surviving Huns together, and watch them first! In addition, send someone to contact Taniguchi's brothers immediately and let them join us! Li Erhei's face is not good-looking, but he is not as obvious as others. After looking around, he said coldly.
The soldiers of the Huashan Army are all veterans, and they can be said to be accustomed to seeing life and death. But it was the first time they had seen such a scene, and so many enemies were burned in one fell swoop. Even if these people are enemies, whoever sees them, I am afraid that they will be shocked and silenced by them!
Come to think of it, there should be a lot of people in this group of soldiers who refuse to barbecue in the near future, after all, every time they think of the scene in front of them, who will have the heart to eat it!
After a while, everyone gradually recovered and began to clean up the battlefield. Under this circumstance, the war naturally ended directly, because this fire saved a lot of time and things.
On the other side, Shao Zisong and Deng Qiang in the valley, after setting the fire, did not care about the affairs in the valley anymore. At this time, they were still dealing with the Huns who passed first outside the valley.
The number of these Huns was not large, only three or four hundred. But when they found that the army behind them had been cut off and that someone was ambushing the army on both sides, they immediately killed it and tried to break through the encirclement from the outside.
In this way, Shao Zisong and the others naturally can't let these people succeed. So, from the very beginning, hundreds of people were assigned to deal with these people. On one side, more than 200 soldiers did not care about the affairs of the valley, and the position built on the hillside was also facing outward.
When the cavalry returned, they fired arrows to stop them. And when the other party wanted to rush up directly from the bottom of the mountain, they rolled down the logs and stones they had prepared as if they were defending the city.
But compared to the Huns in the river valley, these Hun cavalry outside were more troublesome. Because they are in an open area, they can fully exert the true combat power of the cavalry. Therefore, when the battle in the valley began, the battle outside was already very fierce.
At the speed of the horses, if they start to accelerate from a distance, they can rush all the way to the woods on the hillside where they are ambushing. Although the mountains are not as flat as the ground, and the Huns rushing up may not have such a great effect, they will eventually affect the battle in the river valley.
Especially later, the group of Hun soldiers outside prepared to set fire to the mountains and forests to save the Hun soldiers in the river valley. Fortunately, the defending soldiers were extinguished in time, but when it came to extinguishing the fire, they became much more conspicuous.
The Hun soldiers dispersed and fired arrows into the mountain as they rode down the mountain. In this way, the soldiers of the Huashan Army on the mountain basically could not shoot them, but they could shoot the Huashan Army on the mountain.
By the time the fire broke out in the river valley, dozens of soldiers of the Huashan Army, who were responsible for resisting the Huns outside, had already been killed or wounded. There was no way, Shao Zisong had to adjust the plan and increase the strength of the defense.
When the fire in the valley gradually went out, Li Erhei sent someone to contact them. After hearing this, Li Erhei immediately ordered people to release the captured Huns. In this way, the Hun cavalry who were anxious outside would no longer care about attacking the Huashan army.
Especially after they learned about the situation in the river valley from the mouths of those Xiongnu remnants, many people were frightened, where would they dare to run back to the river valley.
In this way, they watched Shao Zisong and Li Erhei join forces and disappear into the river valley at night.