Chapter 514: Avalanche
The next day it was dark, and the Jinxuedi urged the prisoners of war to continue on their way, and all of them were stripped of their hair buns, strung together with ropes, shivering in ragged clothes, and walking with heavy steps to a foreign land with an uncertain future.
Bai Liyan waited alone in the cave at the blasting point, with one hundred and twenty or thirty catties of gunpowder beside her. The first to pass through the pass were the vanguard of the Honor Regiment, which was no less than the expected 30,000, then 5,000 prisoners of war, escorted by 2,000, and then passed through five groups of 5,000 prisoners of war, each two or three miles apart.
When the sixth group passed, behind him was a group of 50,000 auxiliary legions, and when the sixth group of prisoners of war passed, the group of soldiers entered the mountain and galloped.
Behind him a rope held him tightly, leading to the hiding hole, and the other end was firmly nailed to the ground by an iron drill. Jiang Jie had wrapped the rope around his waist at this time, and everyone behind him was like this, and his waist suddenly struggled, and Jiang Jie had already seen Baili Yan fly into the snowdrift.
"Quick, pull the adults up!"
Jiang Jie's eyes were quick, his feet pushed the ground backwards, and the other old soldiers worked hard, and before they could pull Bailiyan closer to the cave, there was a deafening explosion that tore through the sky, and the gunpowder exploded.
Jin Xuedi was shocked when he heard the news, and when he looked closely, the mountain had collapsed:
"Not good, Avalanche...... Avalanche. Quick, spread out, spread out! ”
At this moment, the snow on the mountain is like a flood that opens the floodgates, pouring down like a tide, its momentum is like a flood beast invincible, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of snow quickly broke down the array, and the people of Jin Xuedi fled for their lives, and thousands of lives were swallowed in the blink of an eye.
Baili Yanqiang climbed into the hiding cave against the collapsed snow on the mountain, and his body was already filled with snow inside and out:
"Your Excellency, it's okay."
"I almost buried it in the snow, so give me a change of clothes."
"No!"
Taking the cotton robe handed by Jiang Jie, Bai Liyan said:
"Let's see what's going down there."
"Yes."
Jiang Jie's eyebrows flew and ran to the exit, and shouted in a young time:
"My lord, the white-haired thief is unlucky now, not to mention drowning more than 10,000 of them."
"How far did the snow hit south?"
"One and a half miles less, it's still extending south, and it looks like it's going to have to rush out of three or four miles."
Jiang Jie shouted, Bai Liyan had already come to the entrance of the cave, and said gloatingly:
"Wait and see, there's still to come."
"My lord, when will General Lu Gao attack?"
Bai Liyan looked up at the sky and said:
"When dusk comes, it's time to strike."
"Shouldn't it be now, wouldn't it be a surprise to attack him now?"
"But we will also pay a big price. If it waits until dusk, the Jinxuedi will drive more prisoners of war to dig the snow, and then there will be far more prisoners of war gathered at the bottom of the mountain than the Jinxuedi, and at that time, the chances of victory are greater, and the price to pay is smaller.
If we do it now, the captives will be too scattered, and we will definitely suffer a big loss. And after nightfall, it is also very good for our army. ”
As he spoke, there was a mess at the bottom of the mountain, and almost no one thought that the avalanche was a man-made disaster. The commander of the corps, Temir, urged the soldiers to drive the prisoners who had passed through the mountain pass on the west side, and turned around again to rescue, and tens of thousands of captured prisoners of war from the Central Plains quickly gathered at the scene of the avalanche.
Digging and digging, Su Fangyi suddenly dug up a big tree, the trunk of the big tree showed a strange section, and the section had traces left by the felling, Su Fangyi was taken aback when he saw this scene. He knew very well that if it was not an accident, it was an artificial avalanche, and there must be someone in the vicinity who was ambushing the Jinxuedi people.
But in this foreign land thousands of miles away, how can the strength to deal with hundreds of thousands of barbarian troops. Su Fangyi did not dare to delay, quickly buried the trunk with snow and continued to dig.
At dusk, 100,000 prisoners of war gathered at the scene of the avalanche, and hundreds of people were rescued from under the snow one after another.
"Your Excellency, Legion Commander, these warriors are dead." Pointing to the rows of purple-faced corpses on the ground, Governor Nakikas said, "At least 12,000 people are buried under the snow, and it will take two or three days to dig them all up." ”
"What a hell of a life! Why was this road built here, and has there been an avalanche before? ”
"I don't know."
"Send an order to the rearguard immediately, and tell them to speed up and hurry here, they must get here before dark tomorrow."
"Yes!"
As soon as the words fell, a trumpet sounded, and Temir frowned and was stunned:
"Nakikas, my ears heard me right!"
"This ......" Nakikas was equally surprised: "This is the battle number of the northerners." ”
"How can there be a northerner's battle number here!"
When Temir hesitated, the east side of the avalanche suddenly burst into a killing sound, accompanied by the roar of the explosion, Lu Gao led his troops out of the snow, waved the banner of the Xian army, and sounded the battle horn of the Central Plains.
"My lord, General Lu has done it!"
Jiang Jie said quickly, Bai Liyan leaned out of the hole and looked at it carefully:
"Give me the battle horn to the coalition army, and beat the banner of the Xian army!"
"No!"
Honk......
A long whistle resounded through the sky, and the two old soldiers hugged a wooden pole and stretched out of the hole, on which hung an enlarged special Xianjun flag, and the huge Xian character was still clearly legible even if it was separated by two miles.
"Look, it's the battle flag of the Xian army, and there is the Xian army here!"
"That's right, it's the battle flag of the Xian army, and this trumpet is also our trumpet!"
"There is a killing sound in the south, look, it's our people!"
……
The long-lost trumpet sounded in the sky, the prisoners of war were excited, and Su Fangyi was in disbelief, and when he saw the banner of the Xian army, he burst into tears and couldn't cry:
"There is salvation, there is salvation......"
The banner of the Xian army is like a shot in the arm, inspiring the army's heart and igniting the spirit of war:
"Brothers, it is better to fight with them than to live in humiliation!"
"Yes, these beasts and beasts are heinous, and if they don't kill them, they can't settle the hatred in their hearts, and they fight ......"
"Kill, kill......"
The prisoners of war quickly gathered to break free from the ropes, and the Jinshedi were busy fighting back against the sudden onslaught, trying to suppress:
"All go back, go back!"
"Take a step forward, shoot and kill!"
Jin Xuedi fiercely waved the weapons in his hands, not only failed to scare off the prisoners of war, but on the contrary, aroused the anger of everyone:
"Brothers, pinch the snow hard and smash them in the face, it will be more useful than stones!"
Someone raised their arms and shouted, and the crowd responded.
At the same time, Lu Gao led 6,500 men to break into the chaos army, first a volley of crossbow arrows, and then a volley of bombs, and the line that had just gathered on the southern flank of the Jinxuedi people was quickly blown up by gunpowder.
Jin Xuedi's army, who had never seen the power of gunpowder, could not know what weapon made a thunderous noise in the blink of an eye, killing hundreds of their people, and under the extreme fear, they were attacked by a second wave, Lu Gao led the army to approach the strong burst, and the front of nearly 10,000 people quickly collapsed and fled, and the entire southern flank was completely exposed to the Xian army.
"Quick, free the captives and scatter the weapons!"
"No!"
As soon as Lu Gao gave the order, the soldiers who had already entered the battle quickly rushed to the prisoners of war, cut their ropes, and quickly distributed weapons to arm the prisoners of war. Before this attack, Bailiyan took precautions and let each person carry two more weapons, long and short, to facilitate rapid armed resistance.
The situation on the eastern flank is rapidly spiraling out of control, and the situation in Temir, which is blocked on the western flank, is equally bad:
"Nakikas, what the hell happened, we were actually attacked by the army of the northerners on our homeland, is the administrator of Po Song Province crazy!"
"Your Excellency Legion Commander, they may just be a small group of rebels, not a northerner army, but just under the guise of northerners."
"Is that so, when will the local rebels be able to organize an attack of tens of thousands of people, and dare to attack hundreds of thousands of us! They even put a damn flag on the mountain. ”
"Your Excellency, Legion Commander, our hundreds of thousands of people are scattered on the road of four or five hundred miles, and we only have tens of thousands now. And there are 100,000 prisoners of war here, and we are now surrounded by them, and on the west side we are very disadvantaged.
We should make a detour to the east to join up with the auxiliaries, first eliminate the rebels and prisoner of war rebellions on the east side, and then settle the rebellion on the west side, otherwise we will be killed by them. ”
"Okay, let everyone break south and go to the east side"
Temir quickly pulled the men and horses south, and the Baili Yan Cave watched the fire:
"Jiang Jie, blow the trumpet!"
"No, blow the trumpet!"
Honk......
Ten old pawns lined up on the mountain, holding a cornet horn, and struggled to blow the battle horn, and the horn spread far and wide, but only Lu Gao and a few others knew what information the horn had agreed on.
"Order, the enemy will make a detour to the south and prepare a powder canister!"
"No!"
Bai Liyan gave Lu Gao enough gunpowder jar, but it was not enough to severely damage the enemy, and it couldn't even have much effect, after all, the simple and rude use of a small amount of black powder could not exert the true power of black powder, Bailiyan only hoped that the input of black powder could deter the offensive of the Jin Xuedi people and strive for more respite.
When Temir detoured to the south and the east side, Bai He and Tian Peng led five hundred men to kill from behind the northwest:
"Hahaha, kill me, kill these brutes!"
Tian Peng raised his axe and shook his arms, and the five hundred miners behind him were surging in battle, and they rushed into the western formation all the way, catching the retreating honor regiment by surprise.
"Jiang Jie, let's go down!"
"No!"
Bailiyan led Jiang Jie and eleven others, wrapped gunpowder canisters around their waists, and slid down the mountain on a sleigh and stepped on a wooden plank.
When Temir circled to the east side, he was suddenly attacked head-on, and the horse was so frightened that it was difficult to control:
"Woohoo...... Damn, what was that sound just now! ”
"I don't know!" Nakikas said, trying to stabilize the retreating men and horses, and grabbed the retreating soldier with his hand and asked sharply: "What happened to the bottom just now, why retreat!" ”
The soldier was terrified and said:
"Hui, General Hui, I don't know what the enemy threw over, I saw a flash of fire, a thunderclap, and many people fell in front, and then a few thunders......
The soldier's vague words for a long time left Nakikas confused, as if it was a weapon that had never been seen before.
"Your Excellency, the rebels are probably using weapons we haven't seen before, it sounds very powerful, we need to figure out what it is, so that we can destroy them, or if they are owned by us."
"Then go ahead and kill the past, I want to see what big waves these rabble can turn up."