Bai Li Yan (i.e. Wei Xian) led his army swiftly northwest against public opinion, arriving sixty miles away after dark. As expected, the barbarian army had already built an earthen village four or five miles ahead, and the lights inside and outside were bright, and the sound of wolves could still be faintly heard.

"No wonder it hasn't been missing recently, it turned out to be transferred here for an ambush!"

"What should I do now, there are still a lot of barbarian soldiers."

Lu Gao was at a loss, and Sikong Nan said at this time:

"This stockade seems to be unusual, there is a hidden white light, could it be that it was built with snow ramming!"

"Not only snow, but also crushed soil and forage, pile them up, smooth them out, and then pour them through with hot water, and so on, layer by layer, so that the walls can be stacked up in a short time without ramming."

Bai Liyan looked at the telescope and roughly judged the barbarian army's method of building walls, and then continued:

"In my opinion, it will only take four or five days at most to completely build up this earthen village. And it's extremely robust. On the east side of it is a small river, and on the west side it is flat, but the barbarian army is guarding the earthen wall, as long as the wolf is released, the reinforcements will inevitably be blocked from passing here. ”

"Do you want to go around it?" Lu Gao proposed.

Bailiyan shook her head and vetoed.

"No, now the west wind is blowing, blowing from west to east, the east side of the village is the river, our army can only detour from the west, even if it is detoured to dozens of miles away, our smell will be discovered by the wolf, the barbarian army has tamed the beast for hundreds of years, the wolf has a slight abnormality, you can know that our army is nearby. In my opinion, it is still the old way. ”

"The old way? What the old way! Lu Gao was puzzled, and he really couldn't think of any "old way" to take down tens of thousands of people with thousands of people.

"I judge that there are most infantry troops in the earthen village, even if there are cavalry, the number should not be large, and they will definitely not go out with the fierce wolves, so I will find a way to lure out some of this barbarian army, and then gradually encroach on it."

Beast soldiers are different from elephant soldiers and fire pigs, and most of them are carnivorous beasts, and they are still aggressive to animal tamers, and they are more aggressive to other weak animals. For this reason, the tamers generally do not ride horses, but rather on foot to prevent the beasts from attacking their mounts.

At the same time, the beast soldiers are very sensitive to high-speed moving animals, including people, and should attack before their own cavalry and infantry to prevent the beasts from killing horses and their own people with their backs to the movement.

To clarify this relationship and how to lure the snake out of the hole, Bailiyan already has a plan in his mind and plans to repeat the old trick.

Pulling the men and horses back five miles, camping ten miles away from the enemy, thousands of people took turns digging trenches in the dark, the trenches were one meter deep and half a zhang wide, and the length reached two and a half miles before dawn and dusk, and they were able to take time to widen and deepen two feet.

The trench was filled with broken and captured spears, horse lances, long swords, sharpened guns, wooden sticks and other weapons, and the dug earth was covered on the north side of the trench, facing the side of the barbarian earthen fortress, so as to increase the drop from the ground to the bottom of the trench.

Climbing up from the north side, there was a drop of two and a half meters from the bottom of the trench, and the width was more than two meters. Finally, the raised soil layer and the trench on the north side were covered with a layer of snow that was not thick to camouflage.

Before dawn, the east and west sides of the camp were at an angle of 35 degrees to the ground, and spears, horse lances, and wooden thorns were planted all over the place, and they were covered with snow camouflage.

In this way, the Xian army hid on the south side of the trench, and used the soil slope that was piled up higher than the north side to shield the view of the snow-covered trench, and repaired for half a day in the morning, but it was not discovered by the barbarian army ten miles away. On the contrary, it was the Xian army hiding behind the raised soil slope, and the barbarian army's every move could be seen with a telescope.

In the afternoon, Bailiyan sent people to ride the fastest high-headed horses to provoke.

"Look, our people are back!" Lu Cheng pointed forward and said.

Bailiyan used the binoculars and found more than a dozen barbarian light cavalry following behind:

"There are not many chasing soldiers, let the other whistles keep an eye on it, Su Hong, transfer fifty people, ride the good horses of the barbarian army, give them some powerful tastes, don't kill them all, leave one or two alive, and go back to report the news."

"Okay!"

When he was young, fifty old soldiers mounted fast horses, attacked from the south side of the camp, and soon engaged more than a dozen light cavalry of the barbarian army, and in only a few minutes they were knocked to the ground by the crossbows of the archers, and the cavalry battalion did not suffer any casualties, and captured a number of weapons and horses, twelve in the left ear.

"Lu Cheng, continue to send people to provoke, this time there will be more people."

"Yes!"

Lu Cheng sent 80 people to provoke again, but this time he was indeed not fooled.

"General, did the barbarian army see through our plan, they changed their minds." Lu Cheng said.

"It's not like, it's mostly holding back some bad tricks, and you want to release it all at once. The battalions were ordered to prepare for battle, and the barbarians were not allowed to make big moves. ”

The barbarian army cowered in the earthen fortress and did not make much movement until the more than 80 people who had gone to provoke were withdrawn for half an hour, and the barbarian army finally could not bear it anymore and moved out in a big way.

"Sure enough, after holding back such a big bad move, it was finally released. Lu Gao, go and tell the brothers to take their places, the range of the barbarian army's strong bow is longer than ours, although it will not shoot through the chain mail, but if it is pierced in the leg, it can be fatal, don't look for mold yourself. ”

"No!"

The barbarian army dispatched 10,000 strong archers in one breath, 4,000 light cavalry to defend the left and right, and 2,000 pikemen and beast soldiers in the front row, forming a phalanx on the west side of the earthen village, slowly approaching the Xian army camp.

The strong bow of the barbarian army has always had a longer range than the strong bow used in the Central Plains, and the projectile can often reach 1780 meters, or even farther. It is made of unique wattle and toughness of solid wood to process into a composite bow, which is the most advanced of many bows today

The barbarian army approached quickly, and when it reached five miles, the dire wolf broke away from the large array and quickly pounced on the Xian army:

"Soldiers, prepare for battle!"

Bailiyan gave an order, thousands of people abandoned their horses, and quickly surrounded and formed a phalanx twenty-five paces away from the south side of the trench.

The speed of the dire wolf is so fast, it is jaw-dropping, it only takes less than two minutes for five miles, and a fierce wolf has been approaching in front of him, just turning over the north side of the trench to raise the soil slope, the front foot has just landed, one did not stand firm, and even the rolling belt crawled into the back ditch, not waiting for the struggle, a terrible scream, the dire wolf plunged into the trench trap, and in a blink of an eye was pierced through the chest and abdomen by the upside-down spear, horse lance, and sharp wooden thorns.

The other dire wolves saw that the Xian army was twenty paces away, and they rushed to chase after them, but as soon as they got up the high slope, they mistakenly thought that the ground was still flat in front of them, and they stabbed them to death by stepping on the air and flipping down the trench.

When he was young, the whimpering and screaming sounds were endless, and the rest of the dire wolves stopped at the high slope when they heard the news, looked down and saw that a stream of blood came to their noses, and their companions struggled to die down the slope.

Suddenly, a creepy wolf howl resounded through the sky, as if telling their full of anger and anger, and suddenly showed a hideous and ugly face at the Xianjun, took a few steps back, rushed up the high slope, jumped up and crossed the trench and plunged, landing two feet away on the south side of the trench.

Seeing this, Bailiyan suddenly had a numb scalp, and shouted:

"Prepare for battle!"

As soon as the words fell, the first fierce wolf that had climbed over the trench flew forward, and when it was close to ten paces, it was attacked head-on by dozens of crossbow arrows, and it was already seriously injured in front of him.

Even so, its vicious and brutal nature remained unchanged, dragging its seriously injured body to make a dying struggle, opening its bloody mouth to reveal sharp fangs and claws, and struggling to pounce on the Xian soldiers.

In the blink of an eye, several cold and sharp spears stabbed mercilessly, piercing the chest and stabbing into the heart. With a scream, several spears stabbed him, instantly stabbing him to the ground, pinning him to the ground and unable to move, until he lost his breath, still struggling to bite the enemy in front of him.

At the same time, several dire wolves crossed the trench in this way, but they were all drunk by the Xian army, and finally died tragically under the guns of the soldiers.

The wolf is a cunning and treacherous animal, and seeing that his companions have died in front of the enemy, the dire wolf found that the east and west sides of the Xian army seemed to be a flat land, so he quickly bypassed the trench and tried to attack from the east and west.

But unexpectedly, he plunged headlong into the snowdrift, and the weapons that were densely inserted into the ground from south to north whimpered with a whimper. Even if they finally break through the trap, what awaits them in the end is a crossbow bolt that cuts their heads and faces, a cold and ruthless weapon.

The east, west, and north sides were defeated one after another, and the dire wolf once again detoured behind the Xian army on the south side, but was blocked by horses.

There were tens of thousands of horses, in groups of three, one of which was tied to a sword stuck in the ground, and the other two were tied to the hind legs of the immobilized horse.

In this way, two horses are fixed with one horse to form a group, and then so reciprocating cycle, tens of thousands of horses are nailed to the same place, and the end and end are densely packed and unable to move, forming a huge obstruction with a width of more than ten zhang, a length of two or three miles, and a height of nearly two meters.

The wolf could not go around, and several times in a row he killed the horses, but they were kicked by the horses, and some were even seriously injured by the trampling. A few fierce wolves escaped by luck, and they were stunned to kill the wolf and wanted to run, Bailiyan saw that the situation had been achieved, and gave an order:

"Crossbows, pounce!"

"No!"

A group of 100 crossbows with crossbows in hand, divided into two gaps opened by the phalanx, rushed out of the two gaps, pounced on the traps on the east and west sides, aimed at the fierce wolves who fled in a roundabout way, and even wanted to fight back, it was a torrential downpour, and immediately shot seven heads, seriously injured eleven of them, and some of them fell to the ground while running, panting and dying.

"Fuck, happy!"

Su Hong's exit became dirty, and Baili Yan ordered again:

"Look at the hand, report the situation!"

"Three live mouths were found on the west side......"

"Two bands were found on the east side......

"There is no ...... on the south side"

"The three wounds on the north side fled north......"

In front of the barbarian army, all the dire wolves were empty, with more than 90 dead and wounded, and only a few escaped back. At this time, the barbarian army phalanx approached a mile away, and the dire wolf that had suffered so much fled back to the enemy position like a lost dog, and the surprise and shock on the faces of the barbarian army could not be increased.

"Sikong Nan, Lu Gao!" Baili Yan ordered.

"The last general!"

"Loosen the reins, strap on your shield and get ready to attack. Watch out for enemy archers. ”

"No!"

The formation of the Xian army changed in an orderly manner, and Lu Gao and Sikong Nan led their troops to turn over the armored war horses of the barbarian army that had been captured earlier, and the troops attacked in two ways, east and west.

"Su Hong, Bai He!"

"The last general!"

"Quickly drive the horses out, wait for Lu Gao and Sikong Nan to lure out the barbarian cavalry, and I will use my horses to charge the archers on the flanks of the enemy formation, and at all costs, we must crush them."

"No!"

Su Hong and Bai He turned on their horses and led their troops to drive tens of thousands of war horses around the camp.