Chapter 581: Burning Xue Yantuo

On the hillside, crossbow arrows were constantly being fired.

One by one, Xue Yantuo's soldiers fell to the ground with arrows.

Even, many arrows were shot around them.

At such a close distance, such a powerful crossbow arrow, and it was shot not far behind them, they simply did not have the slightest room to dodge.

Even, there is no room for reaction, because they are attacking with their backs, and they can't even see the trajectory of the attack.

They could only pray that these bolts were not fired at them.

At this time, even if the crossbow bolt was fired from their side, they did not have the slightest chance to find the murderer.

Because, they are running at full speed, and it is very difficult for them to stop under the impact.

Seeing this scene, Xue Yanhong's eyes widened, and even his eye sockets were opened, leaving traces of blood.

The losses are too heavy!

It was so tragic that Xue Yanhong's heart was dripping blood.

Rushing up the hill and then down the hill, they had already killed and wounded fifteen or six hundred people.

And this number is still increasing.

Fortunately, the nameless mountain is not steep, and the length of the slope is not too long.

Xue Yantuo's soldiers finally rushed down the nameless mountain.

Datang's crossbow arrows can no longer reach them.

Now, the Tang soldiers were assembling and quickly rushed down the mountain, ready to pursue them.

But in terms of speed, it will take some time for them to catch up.

After all, when they came down the mountain, it was called a wolf rushing to the pig.

That speed is an extreme explosion between life and death, and it is definitely extraordinary.

Tang Jun definitely doesn't have the speed of theirs.

And their Xue Yantuo soldiers are all cavalry.

At the foot of the mountain, there were five thousand war horses.

They will soon be able to run to the side of the warhorse, mount the warhorse, and withdraw along the road.

By the way, they can also help their ambush soldiers, who should be combined inside and outside, flanked on both sides, and killed a bloody way and rushed out.

In this battle, although they were killed by six or seven thousand soldiers, it was a great defeat.

But they still have more than 190,000 soldiers, and their overall combat effectiveness has not suffered much loss.

This is also a blessing in misfortune!

However, just when Xue Yantuo's soldiers were about to rush to the front of the war horse, another accident happened.

Just outside their five thousand war horses, in the grass more than three miles away, three thousand Tang infantry suddenly appeared, quickly approaching this side.

At this moment, the soldiers of Xue Yantuo were stunned by these Tang soldiers who suddenly appeared.

Wochot's seventh uncle and grandmother!

Where did so many people come from?

You must know that this area under the nameless mountain is a flat grassland.

At least ten miles are grasslands, and if there are Tang soldiers approaching, they can find it at the first time.

But now, the Tang Dynasty soldiers actually appeared three miles away, and they were still more than 3,000 people!

How could they never find out about this before?

However, after they saw the costumes of these Tang infantrymen, they finally came to their senses.

It turned out that they were all wearing grass-green clothes.

If they lie motionless in the grass and don't walk up to them, I'm afraid they won't be able to detect their existence at all.

Even if they sneak through the grass, they won't be able to spot it.

The three-mile journey is too close, and it won't be long before these 3,000 infantry can rush up.

At that time, their Xue Yantuo army had just come to the war horse, and they didn't even have time to get on the horse.

If they were close to the Tang infantry at this time, it would be a nightmare for them.

At this time, Xue Yanhong immediately took the opportunity to stand up, and immediately ordered the 1,000 Xue Yantuo soldiers who stayed behind to immediately divide 800 cavalry and step forward to block the approach of the Tang infantry.

On the plains, cavalry is always the enemy and nemesis of the infantry.

The distance of less than three miles, although it is a little close, can almost make the war horse charge.

Eight hundred cavalry, three thousand infantry, is enough to stop them, and even, can inflict heavy damage or annihilate them.

Soon, the eight hundred Xue Yantuo soldiers turned over their horses and rushed towards the Tang infantry.

Three miles away, it only took tea time, and the war horse rushed over.

At this time, the speed of the war horse has almost reached its peak.

It would take another breath or two to be within their range.

When the time comes, the Datang infantry will become their live target.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that the Tang infantry started shooting one step ahead of them.

According to common sense, cavalry has the advantage of sprinting horses, and their range will be farther than that of cavalry.

The infantry outside the range of the cavalry, their bows and arrows, could not get the cavalry on the opposite side at all.

However, this time the Tang infantry used strong crossbows.

This strong crossbow is also a single strong crossbow launched by Datang in the past two years.

This crossbow, with the help of the power of the machine, is not only more labor-saving, but also has a longer range than ordinary bows and arrows.

And on a crossbow, three crossbow arrows can be equipped, which can complete rapid bursts.

In the kung fu that archers can only shoot one arrow, they are able to shoot three arrows quickly.

Of course, it will take some time to continue loading the arrows after shooting these three arrows.

But these 3,000 infantry used segmented shooting.

That is, the first row shoots first, then the second row follows, and finally the third row shoots.

After the third row finished shooting, the crossbow arrows in the first row were almost loaded.

If you cooperate tacitly, you can almost achieve the effect of non-stop shooting.

In the blink of an eye, the first row of crossbow arrows came in a flash of fire.

Xue Yantuo's cavalry had already taken out their shields and were ready for battle.

With shields, they can keep casualties to a minimum.

However, the target aimed at the Tang Dynasty infantry was not a person at all, but a war horse under their crotch.

They were not heavy cavalry or light cavalry, and even their horses had armor.

Their horses, however, have no protection.

As a result, a large number of war horses fell to the ground with arrows.

And now, the running speed of the war horse has almost reached the top speed.

At this speed, when the horse falls to the ground, it throws its cavalry.

Under such an impulse, he fell to the ground and was either dead or disabled.

After falling to the ground, he had to face the trampling of other war horses, and there was basically no chance of survival.

And the fallen war horse will also have a certain impact on the formation of the cavalry.

There are even war horses that are too close to each other, and they don't have time to change direction and crash into the fallen war horses, and then fall to the ground with them.

Moreover, the shooting speed of the bow and arrow of the opposite Tang Dynasty is too fast and too dense.

Eight hundred Xue Yantuo cavalry, constantly falling.

Opposite them, there were 3,000 infantry.

A platoon of a thousand soldiers shot at a time, each of them fired three crossbow arrows, and one time was three thousand crossbow arrows.

After three rounds, it was nine thousand crossbow arrows.

Under such terrifying and intensive shooting, I am afraid that when they get close to the opposing infantry, their 800 cavalry will basically die.

At this moment, two or three hundred Xue Yantuo cavalry had already been shot down.

And this number is still increasing rapidly.

This cavalry was directly defeated.

No need for anyone's orders, the rest of the cavalry, turned desperately.

Turning the horse's head, it was too late, and they quickly turned to the side and fled as fast as they could.

The three thousand infantry of the Tang Dynasty quickly approached forward, their purpose was the remaining war horses of Xue Yantuo, and they had no intention or idea of pursuing those fleeing cavalry at all.

Of course, people are riding horses, and even if they want to, they can't catch up.

The three-mile journey is just around the corner.

At the same time, the three thousand soldiers who survived Xue Yantuo also approached their war horses.

They have to race against time, striving to get on their horses quickly before the Tang infantry and before the war horses.

Next, fight or retreat, will enter their rhythm.

But at this moment, three thousand Tang infantrymen, again with crossbow arrows, were ready to start shooting.

That's a little farther away.

According to the range of their crossbow arrows, the horses were still out of range.

Hey?

What are these Tang infantry going to do?

Soon, they got the answer.

Because at this time, the front end of the crossbow arrow of the Tang infantry burst into flames and burned fiercely.

Rocket!

It's a rocket!

Sou!

Sou! Sou!

One rocket after another burst through the air, making a terrible sound in mid-air.

It was like a popular one by one cutting through the sky and falling to the grass in front of Xue Yantuo's war horse.

The light of the fire startled the horses, and they snorted, and the horses' hooves lifted restlessly, trampling on the grass.

Fortunately, these are well-trained war horses.

Although they were frightened, they did not receive orders from the cavalry, and they all stayed where they were.

If it was an ordinary war horse, it would have been scared away by this firelight.

Xue Yanhong, who had already approached the war horse, also quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

It's okay, it's okay!

Fortunately, Datang's infantry is still a little short of the distance.

Otherwise, if these rockets are fired at the war horse, the war horse will be frightened away after all, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

But the next moment, Xue Yanhong found out in horror.

The rocket, which fell on the grass, did not go out.

Instead, the grass was quickly set on fire, erupting into flames.

This, how is this possible?

It's grass!

Although the grass will dry out and burn under the scorching.

But how is it possible to ignite these grasses in such a short period of time with these rockets alone?

How can it burn so fast?

This, this is not scientific!

The speed at which the fire spread completely exceeded Xue Yanhong's expectations.

Almost in the blink of an eye, the flames spread rapidly, and they had already burned the nearest horses.

Hiss!

Wow!

The war horse was burned in an instant, the hair on its body burned, and it turned into a fire horse.

In pain, the fire horse fled.

And the speed at which the flames spread was beyond the imagination of all Xue Yantuo soldiers.

In just a few breaths, the flames had spread throughout the area.

More than 4,000 war horses, almost none of them were spared, and all of them were transformed into fire horses.

Most of the war horses were directly burned to death.

A small number of them screamed in pain and fled in circles.

Even some of Xue Yantuo's soldiers were burned by the fire.

The remaining Xue Yantuo soldiers fled one after another, fleeing in the direction where there was no fire.

And in that direction, it is right opposite the nameless mountain......

Some of the fire horses even panicked and fled towards the formation of Xue Yantuo's soldiers.

Along the way, I don't know how many Xue Yantuo soldiers were knocked over and burned by the flames on the fire horse.

Fortunately, these fire horses did not last long before they fell to the ground.

But what made Xue Yanhong secretly bitter was that just opposite them, the three thousand Tang troops who had just come down from the Nameless Mountain were ready to use strong crossbows.

When they rushed into their range, they were greeted by a flood of arrows.

The unsuspecting Xue Yantuo soldiers were shot down again.

And behind them, the same three thousand Tang infantry were bypassing the fire zone and quickly besieging them.

At this time, Xue Yantuo's general, Xue Yanhong, had a miserable face.

He had to lead the remnants of the defeated army, which had only more than 2,000 men left, to flee to the south.

Behind, the six thousand Tang troops were in hot pursuit.

Ahead, more than 2,000 Xue Yantuo soldiers who lost their armor can be described as wolves.

Under the threat of death, Xue Yantuo's soldiers once again burst into their potential, and one by one they ran faster than rabbits.

The Tang army, which was chasing behind, was not only shortened, but was pulled away by Xue Yantuo's soldiers.

According to this posture, they are not without hope of escaping!

Just when the flame of hope in Xue Yanhong's heart was just ignited, he found that the black pressure in front of him was a Tang cavalry, roaring.

It turned out that at this time, the 20,000 cavalry led by Cheng Yanjin had already cleared the barricades and rushed over.

20,000 cavalry against 2,000 cavalry who lost their horses, you don't even need to think about the consequences, there is no way to survive at all!

Xue Yantuo's soldiers, without any fighting spirit, threw away their weapons one after another.

More than 2,000 Xue Yantuo soldiers were all captured by the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, Cheng Yanjin's follow-up 30,000 infantry also followed.

Cheng ordered 10,000 infantry to stay behind to extinguish the fire, clean up the battlefield, and then escort all the more than 2,000 prisoners back.

And Cheng Yanjin led 20,000 cavalry and quickly pursued the periphery.

Although he had just won a big victory, there was not much joy on Cheng Yanjin's face.

Of the 10,000 Xue Yantuo soldiers, they had 20,000 cavalry, but they had 7,000 people captured by the annihilation belt.

And the other 6,000 infantry actually killed nearly 3,000 cavalry of the other side.

Say it, it's a shame to lose people!

They were dignified cavalry, and they were actually compared to the infantry.

If you can't continue to expand the results, you won't be able to see people in the future.

He is old Cheng, isn't he shameless?

The job of extinguishing a fire is actually very simple.

Because in advance, Li Yu had already calculated all of Xue Yantuo's reactions.

Therefore, the area where Xue Yantuo left his war horses had already been sprinkled with special white phosphorus.

White phosphorus has a very low ignition point and may burn at room temperature.

When it comes to an open flame, it's definitely a little bit off.

Of course, these white phosphorus are specially made and will not burn at room temperature.

Of course, to be on the safe side, they didn't just sprinkle special white phosphorus on the area beforehand.

Rather, white phosphorus has been sprinkled over no less than ten areas.

No matter where they choose, they will not be able to escape the end of being burned.

Under the action of white phosphorus, the fire will burn so quickly.

The fire will be so strong.

However, in areas where there is no white phosphorus, the fire is gradually contained.

After all, it's all grass, and the flame must first dry the grass before it can continue to burn.

With the efforts of several thousand soldiers, the flames were quickly extinguished.

……

On the other side, the battlefield is also in full swing.

On this battlefield, the main force on Xue Yantuo's side is Xue Yanshou.

When the green wolf smoke rose in the direction of the Nameless Mountain, Xue Yanshou couldn't help but be overjoyed.

The military advisor's plan was successful, and everything was in the military advisor's calculations!

Xue Yanshou quickly organized an army of 90,000 and quickly killed in the direction of Nameless Mountain.

In Xue Yanshou's view, Datang must have put all the main forces on the frontal battlefield.

Whether there are 90,000 Tang troops in this area is unknown.

Even if there are 90,000 people, they will not have the slightest resistance in the face of their surprise attack.

After all, there is a big gap in the combat effectiveness of the two sides.

The Tang army would definitely not be the opponent of their Xue Yantuo soldiers.

And this area is all grassland, and the terrain is very flat, so there is no need to worry about the other party's ambush at all.

All you need to do is go to the small mountain range ahead and send scouts to probe.

If there is an ambush, it is only possible that there will be an ambush in that place.

At this moment, in front of and behind them, a roar suddenly sounded.

Sure enough, from the direction of the mountain range in front, 20,000 Tang cavalry rushed out.

From their rear, 20,000 Tang cavalry were also killed.

Faced with this situation, instead of being nervous and scared, Xue Yanshou laughed out loud.

This Datang is really vulnerable, their commander is definitely a fool, and he is simply stupid.

The mountain range in front of you is a good place to ambush.

Although he has seen it through, at least it occupies a certain geographical advantage.

You said you should be ambushed somewhere, right?

Now he actually took the initiative to give up the geographical advantage and chose to rush over.

However, the 20,000 Tang cavalry behind were somewhat unexpected by Xue Yanshou.

But with only 20,000 cavalry, isn't it a food delivery to them?

Now, they Xue Yantuo are begging for war but can't get it.

Even Xue Yanshou was not too worried that Datang would concentrate all his forces to besiege him.

Because even if 100,000 people come to Datang, he is not afraid at all.

Datang's combat effectiveness is far below them.

If they gather 200,000 people, huh!

Their main army of Xue Yantuo is not vegetarian.

On the other hand, it can quickly break through the defenses of the Tang army and quickly kill the generals.

In either case, the Tang army will inevitably be defeated.

However, in this situation, Xue Yanshou is still extremely cautious.

Although he flew in his heart to despise Tang Jun, Xue Yanshou did not have the slightest carelessness.

Xue Yanshou directly stopped the whole army, quickly changed the formation, and prepared to meet the 40,000 cavalry on both sides of the Tang Dynasty at the same time.

Xue Yanshou actually has another choice.

Because his strength was twice that of the other party, Xue Yanshou could choose to take the initiative.

But Xue Yanshou was still afraid that the Tang army would have any conspiracy or ambush, so he didn't do that.

Instead, it was decided to directly put the Tang army in and fight them on this plain.

At that time, even if there are other reinforcements from Datang, the initiative of choice is still in their hands.

Closer, closer!

The Tang cavalry on these two sides did not attack with all their might, but maintained a certain rate.

The two sides were calculating time and distance, and approached Xue Yantuo's army almost at the same time.

At this time, the distance between the two sides has come to a distance of three miles.

This is already a very dangerous distance.

Under the cavalry charge, this distance was instantaneous.

Xue Yanshou was already preparing to give the order to attack.

However, at this moment, Qin Qiong was holding something that looked like a remote control in his hand.

On this thing, there are more than 20 buttons, and on each button, there is a number.

Qin Qiong chose the button numbered 1 and pressed it decisively.

After pressing the button, Qin Qiong looked nervously in the direction of Xue Yantuo's army.

Although the King of Shu repeatedly assured that this button would definitely take effect, Qin Qiong never believed it in his heart.

After all, this kind of thing was too unbelievable, and Qin Qiong was a little incredulous.

If this setup doesn't work out, they'll have a tough battle ahead.

Xue Yantuo's 200,000 troops, all of which were cavalry.

Because they give birth to horses on the grassland, they have grown up on horseback since childhood.

All the war horses are made by themselves.

The 90,000 Xue Yantuo army in front of him were all cavalry.

And what about them?

Although he and Wei Chigong had an army of 100,000, there were only 40,000 cavalry, and the rest were infantry.

40,000 against 90,000, this is a tough battle!

If one is not done well, there is a risk of heavy losses.

Whether it succeeds or not, it depends on the present!

The next moment, in the middle of Xue Yantuo's army, sparks suddenly appeared.

This spark, in a large area in the center of their army, quickly burst into flames.

Hiss!

Wow!

The war horses of that large area soon turned into fire horses.

In pain, the war horse rushed forward frantically.

The knights on the horses, panicked, fell off their horses one after another.

Below, it turned into a sea of fire.

If you fall into it, you have no chance of surviving.

This time, in order to prepare for battle, Xue Yantuo's cavalry was very far apart from each other.

The area where the fire started, the knight is not too big.

There were only a thousand horses on the left and right that were on fire.

But fatally, this area is almost in the middle of the battlefield.

And those fire horses, with fire on their bodies, rushed to and fro, completely disrupting their formation in an instant!

Moreover, the fire in the middle is still spreading.

Although the speed of the spread was much slower, the horses were frightened and fled one after another.

It was only a few moments, and Xue Yantuo's formation became a mess.

And Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong, who were in front and back, saw this scene, their eyes lit up, and they suddenly became excited.

They are all veterans of many battles, where will they let go of such an opportunity?

"Kill!"

The two decisively gave the order to attack.

40,000 Tang cavalry in front of and behind quickly killed Xue Yantuo's cavalry.

The three-mile journey can be said to be fleeting.

With just a cup of tea, they rushed to range.

The Tang cavalry, the crossbow arrows in their hands were already ready, and at this time, all the staff fired.

The arrows in the sky, like raindrops, shot densely towards Xue Yantuo's cavalry.

At this time, Xue Yantuo's formation was still in chaos, and at this time, even Xue Yanshou was dodging the fire, and there was no one to command him at all.

Fortunately, Xue Yanshou was behind the Chinese army and was not in the middle of the team.

Otherwise, he would have been burned to death by this time.

Rao is like this, and he is also afraid for a while.