Wei Jing personally led 3,000 cavalry to rush over from the front, the formation was neat, the queue was tight, and the momentum was majestic.

The loose formation of the Rouran cavalry could not block the charge of the cavalry of the cadre army in a tight formation, and as soon as the face came down, the Rouran army was knocked over in pieces.

The cadres each outflanked each with 1,000 cavalry from the left and right flanks, and the Rouran cavalry was frightened, and the formation was in chaos, and the cavalry in the rear did not want to be dumpled, so they were afraid in their hearts and turned around and fled.

The 3,000 Rouran cavalry lasted less than a cup of tea before they were completely defeated, and the leading general, Abu Ganyuan, was carried by the rout and fled all the way to the valley, he was so angry that he yelled loudly, but he could not stop the rout from continuing to flee.

I don't know how many people died, Abu Ganyuan was dragged into the valley by the rebels, and he was also shot with an arrow on his body, which hurt terribly, and when he entered the valley, he found that the cavalry of the Qianjun army who was still pursuing just now was blocked by a large number of arrows shot from the slopes on both sides of the valley entrance, and was forced to withdraw from the valley.

Wei Jing stopped outside the entrance of the valley with the army, he observed for a while, and was thinking about whether to send someone in to test it, when a fast horse came running from behind.

The knight stopped beside Wei Jing and took out a bag and said, "Your Highness, Your Majesty's military order!" ”

Wei Jing took the bag and opened it, took out a piece of folding paper from Li Mian, unfolded it, looked at it, pondered after reading it, and ordered: "Order the 1,000th cavalry to send two troops to this king to attack the slopes on both sides of the valley mouth!" ”

Cavalry to attack the mountains? What kind of fuss is this? The left and right generals were very puzzled.

The military order has been issued, and the 1,000th commander has no choice but to receive the order: "The last general obeys the order!" ”

The commander was about to prepare, but Wei Jing stopped him: "Wait! Let the soldiers protect themselves, hold the small round shield in their hands, spread out some when attacking, the rhythm of the attack is controlled by you, do not be brutal, so as not to increase casualties! ”

As soon as Wei Jing said this, the commander understood that what seemed to be an attack on the mountain was actually a feint.

Under the orders of the commander, the two generals each led their men to attack the slopes of the valley mouth on the left and right sides, and the attacking team was scattered all over the mountains, each holding a small round shield in front of them, and holding a knife or spear in his right hand, and one by one carefully climbed up the mountain.

"Shoot arrows—" There was a loud roar from the mountain forest, and the Rouran soldiers hidden in the mountain forest shot arrows at the soldiers of the cadre army on the hillside.

Arrows shot down in waves, and when the soldiers heard the sound, they immediately squatted on the hillside and blocked the small round shield in front of them, although they could not completely block their bodies, if they were huddled together, they could block more than half of the area.

The wounded soldiers will not talk much, and the slope of the hillside and the surrounding rocks, as well as the small round shields in their hands, will play a role.

Several waves of arrows were shot in a row, and the Rouran people hiding in the mountains and forests found that the arrows had little effect, and they didn't kill a few people at all when they shot so many arrows, so General Rouran, who led the troops, ordered to stop firing arrows.

Soon after the rain of arrows stopped, the generals of the cadres ordered to continue the attack, and the soldiers got up and cautiously climbed up the mountain again.

Several times, as long as the Rouran people stopped shooting arrows, the soldiers of the Qianjun army continued to climb the mountain, and the general Rouran saw that the arrows were ineffective, so he ordered to throw stones.

"Boom ······" There was a loud noise, and I saw a large number of large and small stones rolling down from the mountains and forests.

When the general of the cadre army saw it, his face changed, and he immediately shouted: "Withdraw, quickly withdraw-"

The cadres and soldiers turned around and ran down the mountain, fighting bravely one by one.

Four miles deep into the valley, Rouran Khan Tuhe Zhen and his ministers rested here, also waiting for the military intelligence report in the direction of the valley mouth.

Not long after, a cavalry galloped over and reported: "Qiyu Khan, the Qianjun is attacking the slope of the valley entrance, General Hulu led people to defend it strictly, and repelled two attacks by the Qianjun, and the Qianjun is preparing to reorganize the attack outside the valley mouth, and General Hulu asked, how long will it be defended?" ”

Toga Zhen took out the map and looked at it, the mountains near here were undulating, the terrain was extremely complicated, and they had already discarded a lot of baggage during the march, even butter and mutton fat, and they could not make torches, so they could not march at night at all, so they could only camp in the valley and wait until tomorrow after dawn to pull out the camp and get up.

He immediately ordered: "You go and tell Hulu that our army will camp in the valley tonight, let him guard the valley mouth, it is best to block the valley mouth, and not be killed by the dry army!" ”

"Yes, Khan!"

Abu Ganyuan, who had just been defeated by Wei Jing and retreated, said: "Khan, do we still want to spend the night in this valley?" Why don't you march through this mountain range overnight! ”

Toga Shin put the map in front of Abu Ganyuan, "The mountain road is difficult, it will only take two days to completely pass through this mountain range, we have lost a lot of baggage, there is no butter and sheep fat to make torches for lighting, it is easy to get lost when marching at night, and it is easy to be in danger, if we get lost in this mountain forest, the army is likely to break up!" ”

Tan Wuye next to him sighed: "I can only hope that the cadres are not familiar with the terrain in this area, otherwise we will be very dangerous!" ”

Kuhehan didn't say anything, he had long suggested marching along the southern foot of the mountain range all the way to the northwest, so that there would never be any worries about getting lost at night, now that the army had entered the mountains, this radius of hundreds of miles was full of lofty mountains, and once it was lost, the army might soon collapse.

Tuga was really a little lacking in confidence, but he still said to the ministers and generals: "Don't worry, this is the territory of our Rouran people, even we ourselves are not very familiar with this area, how can the Qianguo people find out the terrain here?" ”

The attack of the cadres continued until dark, and the cadres retreated down the hillside like a tide and headed out of the valley, and the Rouran generals in the mountains and forests breathed a sigh of relief.

There was no night attack on the cadres that night, but the Rouran generals guarding the valley did not have a good night's sleep, because they were afraid of the sneak attack of the cadres at night, and they did not dare to sleep.

At the beginning of a new day, the feint attack of the cadres also began, and the Rouran generals had to brace themselves to resist.

At this time, the main force of the Rouran army was passing through valleys, mountain streams and mountain paths under the leadership of Khan Tuhezhen.

In the afternoon, when Shen arrived, the Rouran army came to a fork in the road, and the Kuhehan Horse, who was leading the team in front, reported to Tuhezhen: "Khan, there are two roads ahead, I don't know which one to take?" ”

Tuga Zhen took out the map and looked at it, "Take the road on the left is farther, there are fewer mountains and mountains, the one on the right is closer, it is more difficult to walk, let's take the road on the right!" ”

"Yes!"

Under the guidance of Kuhehan, the Rouran army turned to the valley on the right, but after walking less than a mile, Kuhehan felt that something was wrong, there was no sound of insects and birds nearby, isn't it strange?

He suddenly thought of something, and before he could react, he heard shouts of killing from the mountains and forests on the left and right: "Kill, kill the Rouran people, shoot them with arrows, throw stones at them!" ”

For a while, a large number of arrows and stones fell from the sky, and countless shouts of killing echoed in the valley.

The generals of the Rouran army were so frightened that they turned around and ran, but they were all riding horses, and the terrain in this valley was rugged and narrow, so how could they turn around for a while?

The Rouran army was frightened and rushed to escape, crowding and trampling on each other, and some anxious Rouran soldiers brutally slashed and killed their companions in order to escape.

The panicked Rouran generals in front wanted to pass through the ambush area, but a large number of rocks in front of them rolled down to block the way, and the Rouran generals were so frightened that they had to turn around again.

"Go to the left, go to the left!" Togama shouted, and the guards around him retreated from the upper valley on the right side and turned to the upper valley on the left.

For more than half an hour, the Rouran army fled from the valley to the left, but it lost more than 5,000 men, and in fact the Qianjun soldiers who were ambushed here were only more than 1,000 people.

Everyone in the Rouran army who escaped from the ambush area had a miserable face, and no one expected to encounter an ambush here.

After embarking on the escape again, Toga Shin still did not recover from the blow after a full hour.

"How could the cadres set up an ambush here? How did they get here? "Toga really couldn't understand it on horseback, he was haunted by this question.

Tan Wuye, the national teacher who followed beside him, comforted and said: "Khan, now is not the time to think about this, the cadres can appear here, I believe that they are not only familiar with this mountain range, but also very familiar with the terrain here, they should have sent people to reconnoiter the terrain in advance, otherwise there is no way to explain how they set up an ambush there!" From now on, we must march at a faster pace, and the sooner we cross this mountain, the better! ”

Looking at this mountain road, Toga really can't march fast if he wants to, and it's better to walk faster on horseback! He turned his head to look, and saw that most of the soldiers behind him had lost their horses when they were ambushed just now.

"How many people did we lose just now, and how many are left now?"

An official made a rough estimate and replied: "Khan, we have lost more than 5,000 men, and if we don't count the men and horses under General Kulu who blocked the pursuing troops, we still have 10,000 men left, and half of them have lost their horses and can only walk on their legs!" ”

Tuga Zhen's face was painful, "I regret that I didn't listen to Kuhehan's advice to go to the periphery of the mountain range, one wrong step, one wrong step, if we encounter an ambush again, it is likely that the whole army will be wiped out!" ”

Tan Wu Yelema stopped and turned to Toga Zhen and said, "Khan, do you believe in the poor monks? ”

Tuga Zhen turned his head to look at it, "What is the national teacher's words, of course I believe you!" ”

Tan Wuye said: "In this case, the poor monk suggested that the Khan order the whole army to turn around, return to the valley along the same route, and then go northwest along the southern foot of the mountain range!" ”