Chapter 833: A Fight (Medium)
"There are ambushes!" The soldiers of the Xia army saw that there were cavalry in the northeast and northwest, and the smoke and dust were billowing out, and they couldn't see the specific number of men and horses, and the impact was terrifying.
The more unexpected and unknowable things are, the more uneasy they naturally feel. The appearance of the ambush soldiers suddenly affected the morale of the Xia army, and they felt like they were in ambush.
Dou Jiande's face was pale, and the feeling of uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger, seeing the unexpected cavalry appear, his right eyelid kept jumping, he didn't expect that the Chinese army would arrange other armies around, how many people and horses there were, whether the back road was cut off, etc., he didn't know, so he didn't know the bottom in his heart.
Knowing oneself and not knowing the other, this feeling of confusion is terrible.
"Don't panic, fight!" Dou Jiande sent a military general to command, and quickly set up a formation to resist the cavalry coming from the flank.
But at this time, three arrows rang out, shooting many arrows from the jungle in the south, enveloping the past, and the shouting of killing became noisy, three thousand archers, one thousand Mo sword hands, and one thousand Shenji battalion soldiers, under the command of Xue Wanbei and Niu Jinda, rushed out of the jungle, because they were an expeditionary army, and the Shenji battalion had black powder, set up catapults, and threw explosive shells.
Nearly 100 black shells, pulling the long tail of black smoke, projected in a parabolic line onto the flank of Dou Jiande's army.
Boom Boom!
The explosion exploded in an instant, the sound was deafening, the cannonball was very powerful, and the lethality was very wide, and the left flank of the Xia army received heavy damage in one shot.
"Your Majesty, there is obviously an ambush in this Chinese army, and I don't know how many ambushes there are, for the sake of safety, we will withdraw our troops quickly, return to Xingyang, and then think about it in the long run." Gao Yaxian was also worried, and always felt that this matter was not as simple as he thought at first.
Qu Tutong, a veteran defender of the city, suddenly gave up the danger of the Tiger Prison Pass, and deliberately slowed down the march, which is unreasonable! What is his purpose? Is it just to lure the Xia army out of Xingyang City and fight an ambush here? Thinking of these doubts, Dou Jiande, Gao Yaxian and others all felt cold in their hearts, feeling that they had not thought it through before.
"After another moment of fierce battle, take a look at the situation, if these ambush troops alone are not enough to eat our army!" Dou Jiande brought 70,000 elite soldiers this time, and he would not be frightened by a few surprise soldiers that suddenly appeared, and the victory or defeat on the battlefield still had to be known.
At this moment, Luo Zhaoyun had already descended the hillside and returned to the front of the military formation in the foothills.
In a deep valley behind the foot of the mountain, 8,000 Yanjia elite horsemen, 2,000 Praetorian Guard masters lurked here, strong soldiers and horses, and fierce and abnormal.
"It's almost time, strike!"
Luo Zhaoyun turned over and got on his horse, white horse and silver spear, majestic, like a god, waved his hand and sent Wang Junkuo and Wang Junjun two brothers to rush in front with two thousand soldiers and horses, and then His Majesty Dahua personally brought eight thousand elites to the rear, to go around for several miles and block Dou Jiande's Chinese army from the rear.
All the generals who followed Luo Zhaoyun to fight are lucky and proud, and today they are going to witness the Tiger Prison Battle in which His Majesty pacified Dou Jiande.
With a cup of tea, Dou Jiande's 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses fell into a chaotic state of meeting the enemy on all sides, because the three strange soldiers charged from different three directions, or charged with iron cavalry, or attacked from afar, which dealt a great blow to the Xia army defending in situ, which changed the momentum of the Xia army's main attack and had become a passive defensive side.
Suddenly, there was a violent sound of horses' hooves behind the Xia army, and many people turned their heads to look, only to see smoke and dust billowing from afar, and the momentum of thousands of horses galloping.
"Could it be that reinforcements are coming?" Many Xia soldiers had a look in their eyes, thinking that Xingyang had sent reinforcements.
However, when the soldiers and horses approached and saw the flag, their faces changed greatly, and it turned out that the Dahua army was coming with a broken tail and wanted to block them here.
"Your Majesty, it's not good, there are more Chinese troops coming from the rear, I don't know how many people, looking at the movement and smoke, there are at least 20,000 cavalry!" A lieutenant came to report in a panic.
In fact, Luo Zhaoyun ordered the cavalry in the last few rows to drag brooms and ride back and forth, creating two or three times the posture of the cavalry, increasing the prestige and deterring the enemy.
Sure enough, many Xia Jun saw the scale of the smoke and dust, and all of them changed color.
"That's it, sound the horn, prepare to withdraw!" Dou Jiande didn't dare to fight anymore, because now that he was surrounded, he would probably become a turtle in an urn if he didn't break through.
And at this time, Wang Junkuo and Wang Junjun were stunned with two thousand cavalry as the first wave, and they had approached the tail of the Xia army, and were shot by a round of arrow rain, and they were not hurt much.
Dou Jiande was also ruthless at this time, and personally commanded the Royal Forest Army to break through the siege and break through the cavalry in the rear.
The melee began, the fighting was fierce, from time to time someone was cut down, stabbed, hacked to death with a knife, or pierced through the body, trampled by the horse's hooves, the flesh and blood were blurred, everyone was fighting desperately, not only to kill the enemy, but also to live.
"Dahua Emperor Luo Zhaoyun is here, Dou Jiande is dead-" Luo Zhaoyun's martial arts are very high, and his internal strength is great, but he has not entered the realm of the Taoist master who divides the water, but under the grandmaster, he is still a first-class martial artist in the world, and he shouts out through internal strength, so that the soldiers on both sides can really hear it
"What, Emperor Dahua is here, is it really fake?"
"Your Majesty has really arrived!"
The soldiers of the Xia army were shocked, and the soldiers of the Chinese army were mentally prepared, because at the moment before the start of the war, the generals of all parties told the soldiers under their command that His Majesty Dahua had secretly come to the barracks, and he would fight in person today, and they all fought in good spirits, and they wanted to behave well in front of His Majesty, which greatly stimulated the morale of the Chinese army.
The prestige of the Chinese army has become more violent, while the Xia army's face has changed greatly, its morale has plummeted, and it has no fighting spirit, because Luo Zhaoyun's prestige is too great, and he often wins more with less, wins a hundred battles, and has endless tricks. The Xia army has been ambushed at present, and the appearance of Luo Zhaoyun has completely suppressed their confidence in victory.
Even Dou Jiande, when he heard Luo Zhaoyun's name, was extremely shocked, and he had a premonition that a catastrophe was coming.