Unlike other trophies, which can be used to equip their own men and horses, some can be taken away after the end of the war in the south, and Jin Xuedi's high-headed horses cannot be taken away, and all of them are handed over to the Song and Xu armies for breeding after the war, and in exchange for the right to take away other trophies.

For this reason, many soldiers died in plundering horses in order to compete for military merits, and the gains outweighed the losses.

The cavalry of the southern expedition of the Xian army was all equipped with continuous archer crossbows, with an effective killing range of 25 steps, and half of the crossbow arrows could be shot into the body of the war horse within 15 steps, and all of them were submerged into the body of the war horse within 10 steps, which caused great damage to the unarmored light cavalry.

About three minutes later, a scout arrived, and his comrades were nowhere to be seen:

"Report, General Wei, traces of the barbarian army have been found in the woods fifteen miles northwest!"

"The woods!" Bailiyan was surprised.

"Exactly, there's a big pine forest."

Qianyue Mountain is dominated by grassland landforms, and there are not many forest and grassland landforms, and even if there are, most of them have been cut down. However, the Song, Xu, and Yu families were stationed in the south all the year round, and in peacetime they would plant trees in the grasslands far from the city in the rear, so that the timber could be used up in wartime and used locally.

Bai Liyan (also known as Wei Xian) suspects that this forest in the northwest of Pingshuang Mountain is most likely a masterpiece that has been planted one after another for hundreds of years.

It is no wonder that Cao Chi is judging that the barbarian army will set up an ambush in Pingshuang Mountain, and it turns out that there are forests in the northwest.

"Herald!"

"The subordinates are here."

"Order all battalions, all mounted, and prepare to retreat east."

"No!"

The Xian army suddenly withdrew to the east, Ji Yao knew that it was not good, so he didn't greet him, and ran quickly with the Qi army, and the speed was unbeatable.

"Hey, how can Qi Jun be so virtuous!" Lu Gao said with disdain.

Bailiyan disagreed:

"The bones were collected by the Jin people, and they didn't scare out the urine, so they were already good."

As he spoke, Lu Cheng caught up from behind, panting and said:

"General, the barbarian army behind you is catching up!"

Baili Yan reined in the war horse, took out the binoculars and looked at it:

"There are still a lot of people, not to mention 30,000 horses, and the barbarian army is quite face-saving. The battalions were ordered to chase after the Qi army and jog at a uniform speed, pay attention to preserving the endurance of the horses, turn south after five miles, and quickly break away from the Qi army. ”

"No!"

The barbarian army pursued with 30,000 horses, most of which overestimated the strength of the Xian and Qilian soldiers, and with Jin Xuedi's previous combat strength, 20,000 horses were enough to suppress the same number of Central Plains cavalry. Most of the new steel weapons of the coalition army appeared, which made the barbarians mistakenly believe that the coalition army was leading the way this time with all the elite, and wanted to annihilate them with superior forces to defeat the morale and determination of the coalition army.

The Xian army pursued the Qi army closely, but it did not chase it, and when it ran out of five miles, the Xian army suddenly turned around and went south, at this time the Jin Xuedi cavalry pursued it for less than three miles, and the speed was shocking.

"Damn, it's fucking fast!"

Bailiyan scolded and accelerated to flee south

At the same time, when Ji Yao saw the Xianjun suddenly heading south, he gloated:

"Hmph, the concubine is just such an ear!"

After another whip, Ji Yao's good horse rushed to the front of the Qi army, and he was stunned to pull away the distance of the Qi army for nearly half a mile.

At this time, the barbarian army also divided its troops into two routes, most likely because they found that the horses of the Qi army were far inferior to the Xian army, and its main force of 20,000 people quickly turned to the south, 10,000 people continued to pursue the Qi army, and 20,000 people pursued the Xian army.

At this time, the distance between the two armies was less than two miles, Bailiyan blew the brass whistle on his chest, the Xian army quickly dispersed in an organized manner, and the barbarian army caught up from behind and rushed into the formation, but it was found that the cavalry of the Xian army was disorganized, there was no main force at all, and there were chaotic horses everywhere.

Call......

Jin Xuedi's war horse neighed violently, and the crossbow bolt inserted into the body quickly split and twisted in the body with the violent movement of the horse, and the blood spurted from the mouth and nose of the war horse, and a horse lost its front hooves and fell to the ground, together with the warriors on the horse, they fell half dead and did not wake up, and some even hit the ground directly on the head, breaking the cervical vertebrae or fractures.

The Xian army continued to flee south, Jin Xuedi chased into the formation, a brute force but nowhere to go, the Xian army did not entangle at all, even if the horse speed was not as good as it, but it relied on the crossbow of the even archer in his hand, and stayed until ten or fifteen steps, and it was an arrow of lack of virtue to draw his hand and rush at the horse's belly.

Then this goes back and forth several times, often before the barbarian army can get close to him, and the war horse under the crotch falls to the ground and dies.

If you kill in front of you, even the shooter's crossbow and chain mail are connected with a deerskin scarf, which has excellent elasticity, and you can throw off the crossbow and stab the gun, relying on a chain mail, and the brute saber and gun are also helpless.

The two armies fought for more than three moments, and the barbarian army not only did not take the slightest advantage, but lost a large number of men and horses, and seeing that it had chased more than 20 miles out of Shuangping Mountain, the pursuit of the barbarian army turned around and headed north halfway, in a vain attempt to get rid of the Xian army with speed.

"If you want to run, chase after me!"

A whistle sounded, and Baili Yan turned his horse to chase after him.

Although the speed and sprint of the barbarian war horse are unparalleled in the world, the endurance maintained at high speed is not as good as the high-quality horses of the allied mixed blood, chasing all the way for more than 20 miles, coupled with the previous march, the horse's physical exertion is extremely great, and at this time the sudden retreat, the physical fitness of the barbarian horse has gone downhill.

Chasing after him, Baili Yan crotch under the good horse took the lead in chasing behind the barbarians, and the cavalry encountered after breaking off, and suddenly a gust of wind swept in front of him, that is, he saw a bow and arrow close to his face, Baili Yan was busy turning the war horse, running out of a clockwise, and was shocked into a cold sweat.

Thirty paces to the northeast, a Jin Xuedi archer stopped his horse and opened his bow and shot an arrow.

Baili Yan looked at the six roads, quickly swept around, and found several barbarian archers stopping to release cold arrows.

"It turns out that it won't run!"

Cavalry archers who can only stand still are at best archers who can move immediately, and only cavalry that can master the shooting, can keep moving on horseback, and shoot the enemy with bows and arrows can be considered real cavalry archers.

The difficulty of running is far higher than that of riding a horse and firing arrows on the spot, and it requires continuous contact over the years and artificial proficiency to master the pre-movement at relative speed. In modern times, the relative preposition of two moving objects often requires a ballistic calculation computer to complete.

Jin Xuedi's crotch is a high-headed horse, although the speed is fast, but when it runs, it is affected by the weight inertia, but it is more bumpy than the Central Plains horse, and the practicality of running is very poor.

Even the archers who can only shoot arrows still in place, the countries of the Central Plains also have some equipment, but after encountering the Zhiguo Chaotian Array, this kind of dense archers who can't shoot are undoubtedly sent to death.

Seeing the face of the barbarian army's archers, Baili Yan was relieved, pressed his body forward, and used his crossbow to urge the horse to rush forward, at this time, an arrow came again, hitting Bai Li Yan's back, blocked by chain mail, and there was no damage.

Approaching twenty paces, he shot an arrow at the archers' horses. The war horse was startled, Jin Xuedi's archer fell off the war horse in a blink of an eye, Bai Liyan took off his hand and shot the crossbow continuously, picked up the spear and turned around to chase and kill, and before the man stood up, he was already shooting away. The steel spear pierced the iron armor and pierced through the back, killing the archer on the spot.

Urging the war horses to continue the pursuit, the Xian army chased five miles to the north, the barbarian horses were physically exhausted, and the speed of the barbarian horses decreased sharply, and the Xian army launched a pincer offensive, surrounding it from north to south, and the two armies fought again. This time, on the contrary, the speed of the barbarian horse was not as good as that of the Xianjun Central Plains mixed horse, and the high-speed endurance advantage of the Central Plains horse gradually appeared.

The two armies fought until the afternoon, the barbarian army of more than 20,000 cavalry was defeated by the Xian army, and dispersed to the west, Bailiyan led the army to save the Qi army, the Qi army was routed at this time, and was being chased and killed by more than 10,000 people of the barbarian army. The Xian army entered the battle, and the fierce battle lasted until dusk, and the remnants of the barbarian army suffered heavy losses, and successively broke through to the north and west, and the battle came to an end for the time being.

Chewing the sugar paste, Baili Yan was out of breath, and at this time, Lu Cheng came on horseback, covered in blood:

"General, the barbarians have fled."

"Where is the main force of our coalition now?"

"The scouts have reported that the main force of the barbarian army is moving to the northeast, and the main force of the coalition army is probably sixty or seventy miles away from our army."

"It's too far away to join the main forces. The herald ordered the Baihe mighty battalion to search for the dead and wounded on the battlefield and quickly rescue them. The herald ordered Su Hongxiao's cavalry battalion to sweep away the remnants of the enemy within a radius of ten miles, and kill them all. ”

"Don't catch alive?" Lu Cheng asked.

"Our army has no interpreter, and it is useless to arrest it, unless it is able to speak the original dialect, otherwise it is a burden to take prisoners, all of them will be killed, and no one will be left."

"No!"

Lu Cheng turned around to leave, but Bai Liyan shouted again:

"Ordered Sikong Nan to detach a group of men and horses to collect the scattered arrow boxes, crossbow arrows, and the accompanying items of the barbarian army in case of emergency."

"No!"

After a day of fighting, the Xian army was exhausted, and before dark, Lu Gao reported the casualty statistics:

"Hehe, our army has won this battle, looking at the past few hundred years, this time it can be regarded as a handful of eyebrows."

"How many casualties?"

"Five hundred and seventy-eight were killed and one thousand three hundred and four wounded."

"What about the barbarians?"

"As of now, 15,28,000 left ears have been received, not counting those that have not been cut."

"So much!" Bailiyan was taken aback. Although there was a great certainty of victory at the beginning of the battle, I did not expect it to be a one-sided result.

But when you think about it, most of the barbarian light cavalry did not die in weapon fighting, but were trampled and collided by the Xian cavalry and their own cavalry after being dismounted, or stabbed to death by the cavalry and horse pistols, or even directly thrown off the war horse to death. The Xian army is equipped with chain mail, which is basically invulnerable, so blade injuries are not the main lethal injuries of the Xian army.

But it was not such a big exchange ratio, many people who were alive and breathing, who could not run fast without horses, and those who were injured, were also directly executed, and then the Xian army chased after them, so the results soared. If the battle is tough, the Xian army will suffer at least half of the casualties.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan said again:

"What are the casualties of the Qi army?"

"More than half." Lu Gao was straightforward but straightforward, and he might be secretly happy in his heart.

"You can't be wrong. There were only more than 10,000 barbarian troops pursuing the Qi army, and when our army arrived, the Qi army had been defeated, and this barbarian army had seven or eight thousand, and its combat power was indeed overwhelming compared with the ordinary garrisons of the Central Plains Coalition Army. If it weren't for the well-equipped and proper tactics of our army, this battle would have been completely annihilated. Don't be too happy too soon, I'm afraid the barbarians will come to retaliate. ”

"This ...... Did the general say that the barbarian army was going to come and fight with heavy cavalry? ”

Bai Liyan's eyes were fascinated when she heard the news, and a smile jumped on her face:

"It seems that General Lu Gao has grown again."

"Hey...... The barbarian army set up an ambush with limited strength, and the elite light cavalry was killed by our army with less victory and more people on their backs, and if they came to retaliate, they must fight with heavy cavalry. ”

"Well, yes, that's true. If it is just a draw, most of them will not retaliate with all their might, but now they have been killed by our army and routed, and our army has become a bird, and the barbarian army will think that our army is the elite of the coalition army, and it will definitely postpone the decisive battle with the main force of our coalition army tomorrow and take revenge on our army first. ”

"And what is the general's plan?"

"Treat the wounded first, fill your stomach, seize the time to rest, and then you will have your own arrangements in the middle of the night."

"What about the barbarian army's ordnance and horses, the Qi army can't fight, it's fast to grab merit, if it's ......"

Without waiting for Lu Gao to finish speaking, Baili Yanton glared:

"The equipment of the Qi army is very poor, and after getting the equipment of the barbarian army, it will only be beneficial to our army. For the rest, Ben will have its own arrangements. ”

The barbarian army lost nearly 15,600 men and horses, and there were countless horses and weapons left, and the Qi army picked up equipment and horses, and now they can only improve themselves.