CHAPTER XVII

A battle came suddenly, at least for Qin Kangyi.

The signal for support was lit at midnight, and six specially made rockets shot into the night in a zigzag shape every two quarters, shining like stars and lasting for a long time. This is a unique way of communication between the Toyokoku troops, which can not only mark the location of reinforcements, but also appease the morale of the trapped friendly troops, as long as there is hope, the morale of the trapped army will not collapse.

Chen Chuanzhi, the guard of the Black Tiger Pass, stayed awake all night, and stood on the highest lookout platform in the pass with his own soldiers, responding from time to time according to Qin Kangyi's letter arrows.

After climbing over a small hill, there were still fifteen miles away from the Black Tiger Pass, and the fires in the Daye military tent were already faintly visible in the darkness. Qin Kangyi ordered the army to camp on the spot, and the soldiers were sleepy and tired of horses, so they had to replenish drinking water and dry food as soon as possible, and the day was almost dawn, and the tired division was difficult to resist the enemy, and the soldiers urgently needed to take a breath.

Dai Fangqing personally led people to touch the Daye army tent three miles away, lying in the bushes half a person high on the low hill, the shrubs in March had not completely pulled the leaves, and the dry branches scratched Dai Fangqing was painful, and Dai Fangqing couldn't take care of a lot, while observing the distribution of the Daye army, he wrote and painted on the fire fold that the four scouts were holding. At this time, it was already the darkest scene before dawn, a little fire could be found far away, Dai Fangqing was too close to the enemy, and when the fire fold was bright, he had to cover it with his palm, and only dared to leak a trace of light that could be written downward.

"Whoosh", a scout was shot by a cold arrow from nowhere through the forehead, the hard skull was wedged by the arrow made a tooth-sore sound, Dai Fangqing's face was warm for a while, his eyes were covered with blood and brains, unable to see, the arrow scout's instinctive screams were a few times and then he was gone, Dai Fangqing wiped his eyes with one hand, and hurriedly extinguished the fire with the other, and shouted "withdraw".

Several scouts alive escorted Dai Fangqing and got out of the bushes, and the enemy's location was unknown, so they could only roll down the low hill, trying not to leave the field of vision of the archery for Daye archers. Daye's archers lost the guidance of the fire fold, and they lost their heads, and from time to time feathered arrows fell and nailed to the ground, and their tail feathers trembled.

Feeling a clear tremor under his feet, he put a green head on a tree. Cavalry, and a large number of cavalry. As the tremor became stronger, Dai Fangqing no longer hesitated, and stood up to the sky and released a sharp-sounding arrow to warn the rear army.

Dai Fangqing froze suddenly, and maintained the posture of shooting arrows in the sky, a feather arrow has been shot into the back of the heart, Dai Fangqing felt that his heart was hit, Dai Fangqing remembered the scene of his wife half leaning on his arms before leaving, the breeze was blowing, such as the tips of his wife's hair brushing his cheeks, the torches of the rear army had blurred, consciousness was gradually lost, the map drawn fell from his hand, Dai Fangqing stretched out his hand and tried to grab something, and finally everything was swallowed up by darkness.

Daye cavalry shouted in the mouth like thunder, the cavalry passed by Dai Fangqing's side, a young cavalryman saw that Dai Fangqing's military armor was different from ordinary sergeants, thinking that it should be an officer of Fengguo, he lowered his body on the horse, the scimitar swept Dai Fangqing's neck, picked up Dai Fangqing's flying head, casually stuffed the military bag behind the horse, raised the knife to shake off the blood stuck to the blade, and shouted a few words in the grassland language, which caused the surrounding cavalry to laugh.

A glimmer of light was already blooming in the sky. Qin Kangyi could already see the resolute and nervous faces of the soldiers nearby.

"Array! Array! "Middle-level officers desperately restrain their subordinates. The Feng army, which had just been stationed, quickly entered a combat state.

Qin Kangyi abandoned his horse and got into the chariot, and led a group of flag soldiers to command and dispatch in the Chinese army, and when the war started, he could not convey orders by shouting, and could only rely on flags of inconsistent colors and different flag groups to issue orders. The shield soldier is at the front, and the pikeman puts a spear more than a foot long on the shoulders of the shield soldier in the front row, and the tail of the spear is on the ground, which can minimize the impact of the cavalry. The mixed line of swordsmen and pikemen followed, the upper could stab people, the lower could cut off the legs of horses, and the lightly armored archers were a team of 100 people, carrying quivers and arrows on their backs, and the infantry arrays were located on both sides, only waiting for the cavalry to charge to exhaust the momentum of the encirclement and harvest.

"Two Miles ......"

"One and a half miles ......"

"One mile ......"

"One hundred and forty zhang ....."

From time to time, rangefinders reported the distance of enemy troops.

"Projectile!" Qin Kangyi ordered, and the flag officer next to him quickly played the flag, and round after round of arrow rain rose to the sky, and then fell from the sky, directly hitting the waist and abdomen of the cavalry. As long as the cavalry's charging formation is cut off, the subsequent cavalry will naturally avoid, and the overall impact force will drop a lot, which can minimize the loss of the front row shield pikemen.

The cavalry formation of the charge spreads out, changing from a vertical column to a horizontal column, reducing the range of the arrows.

There are constantly Daye cavalry shot off the horse, there are also war horses are shot and the knights are overturned to the ground, the cavalry who fall to the ground has almost no chance of survival in the large-scale charge, some knights have long died, but they are still wrapped in the reins, dragged to the ground by the galloping horse, and rushed to the Feng army with a blood line all the way.

"Flat shot!"

The archer changed the way he fired, and he barely had to aim, and he couldn't aim at this time, he only needed to rain the arrows in the quiver to cover the incoming cavalry, but the feathered arrows were really limited against the heavy cavalry who were at the forefront of the charge.

The fingers and arms of each archer were trembling violently, and the bows and strings were constantly stretched and drawn, and the fingers of many soldiers were cut to pieces by the vibrating strings of ox tendons, but they did not seem to feel the pain, and numbly carried out the orders of the man again and again.

The heavy cavalry in the front row had already joined the sword and shield soldiers and pikemen, and the light cavalry detoured to the flanks of the Feng army to harvest the lives of the foot soldiers. Once the speed of the light cavalry was raised, it was a one-sided slaughter for ordinary foot soldiers.

In fact, the heavy cavalry accustomed to war will consciously force the knight's dead and uncontrolled war horse into the center of the charging formation, and the cavalry that is the first to engage in battle completely relies on speed and flesh to break through the opponent's defense, opening up a bloody path for the cavalry in the rear to continue to charge. The war horse neighed and hit the round wooden shield, the flesh and blood cracked with the wooden shield, and fell down, some of the war horses who were not seriously injured struggled to stand up, no matter how hard they tried, the horse blood sprayed out was mixed with the fragments of the wooden shield, the stumps of the human body, and the broken gun armor, drawing a hideous pattern of hell on earth.

"Hold on! Resist! The first layer of defense was scattered in an instantaneous collision, and the surviving shield soldiers knelt on the ground, stubbornly pressing their shoulders against the thin wooden shield. A shield commander saw a gap in the first layer, and while shouting that the command robe was resisting the charge, he desperately held the iron shield and went up, and in an instant, like a leaf falling in the wind, he was hit into the air by a galloping war horse.

The blood adhered to the dust, slowly pooled into a stream, and gathered low, carried up by the horse's hooves and standard army tracks, and trampled on the ground like a little broken plum, bloody and bewitching. The sun seemed unwilling to witness this tragic image, and crept into the dark clouds, blindfolded like a frightened child.

The battle situation was stalemate for a while, Qin Kangyi stood upright on the chariot, his voice was already hoarse, and the sound of battle came from afar, it was estimated that Chen Chuanzhi broke through and tried to join Qin Kangyi, but there was a huge gap in military strength with Daye, and he was blocked in the Black Tiger Pass and couldn't get out.

The last batch of reserves were also sent, Qin Kangyi's troops did not show signs of rout and escape for the time being, some recruits went to the battlefield for the first time, and were frightened by the tragic situation of the battlefield, and were slashed by the supervising team.

No matter how eager Qin Kangyi was for victory and how much he wanted to drive the steppe people out of the Giant Elephant Mountain, the advantage of the steppe people's light cavalry was too obvious. The front army successfully dragged the heavy cavalry of the steppe people, and the heavy cavalry fell into the encirclement, forcing the heavy cavalry to fight with the sword soldiers and spearmen, but the casualties of the foot soldiers on the left and right sides were more than half, and there was almost no complete establishment, the grassland cavalry was like peeling the skin, after cutting a layer, the horse was controlled to gallop away, and the horse continued to come back to kill a wave, like a wave of waves layer by layer to break down the sand and gravel on the tidal flats, and now the soldiers of Fengguo are completely supported by a lonely bravery, and the rout of the two wings is only a matter of time.

Qin Kangyi arranged for the flag officer to order the grain and grass in the rear to be transferred, otherwise he would not even be able to eat when the army was collected after the withdrawal, let alone counterattack. At present, the most important thing is to protect the grain and grass, and when the logistics troops withdraw to the safe area, they must withdraw their troops, and if they do not withdraw their troops, large-scale deserters will only be killed by the light cavalry.

Seeing the arrow of the safe transfer of the baggage battalion from afar, Qin Kangyi immediately issued an order to collect the troops, for the general, the success or failure of a battle is nothing, and the most important thing is to realize the strategic intention and ensure the expected results. As long as the Daye cavalry is dragged down, the pressure on the Black Tiger Pass is reduced, and the follow-up reinforcements sent by the military department continue to be completed. Qin Kangyi knew in his heart that now he could only exchange time for space and nail the Daye King to Black Tiger Mountain, so that these grassland barbarians could pay the price of aggression.

The flag officer who was supposed to give the order to collect the troops suddenly fell headlong, and a bearded man who was always wearing a personal guard robe with his head down quickly walked to Qin Kangyi's side, facing Qin Kangyi and blocking in front of him, as if he wanted to protect his general. Qin Kangyi's personal soldiers he knew, was surprised how the sergeant in front of him had no impression at all, at this time there was a pain in the lower abdomen, a sharp cone-like weapon pierced into the stomach, the cone holder pulled out and stabbed again, stirred hard, Qin Kangyi felt his stomach twisted together, and then released, the strength slowly passed, Qin Kangyi was unable to stand firm, his hoarse throat was stimulated by the pain and could not shout any words, he could only hang softly on the body of this pro-soldier, and slowly fell down.

"The general has been attacked, come and protect the general." The beard shouted in the not very proficient Fengguo dialect, the Chinese army was in a panic, and all the soldiers hurriedly gathered around the chariot commanded by Qin Kangyi, and the beard smiled sympathetically, taking advantage of the crowd to leave quietly, and disappeared again.

It will be the soul of the soldiers, with the paralysis of the command center of the Feng army, the situation of the battle changed rapidly, I don't know which array took the lead, and the rout spread like a plague in the Feng army.

Most of the 60,000 Hump Pass reinforcements were wiped out, and less than 1,000 escaped.

Half a day later, the Black Tiger Pass was broken, and the guard Chen Chuanzhi was killed.

Two days later, the prince of Daye led the cavalry to join the previous southern invasion army, but did not enter the fortified city, and plundered the most important and rich four states in Fengguo. The hinterland of Fengguo has not been fought for a long time, and there is no effective resistance, Fengguo urgently dispatched a large army to pursue and intercept the Daye army, but because the speed is not as fast as the Yee army, it cannot form an effective encirclement, but the Yejun army defeated several armies separately.

Eighteen days later, Daye Army took countless trophies to break through the remnants of the Giant Elephant Mountain and return to the grassland.

According to post-war statistics, Daye slaughtered more than 1.72 million soldiers and civilians in Fengguo, and the material losses were incalculable.

At the same time, the legendary forbidden flower ---- "wrong flower", which has long been extinct, has reappeared in the world, and the whole world has been shocked.