"Oh my God, what is this? What the hell is that? ”

At the exit of the dark Yaling Gorge in the dark night, a cavalryman of the Qian tribe screamed as if he had gone crazy.

From the screams of his companions around him, he realized that he had been ambushed, but he had no idea what kind of weapons the enemy was ambushing them, or what kind of weapons they were using against them.

The dark environment around him made the fear in his heart even stronger, and the fear of the unknown made a warrior of the Qiang tribe tremble unconsciously.

Suddenly, there was a sound in front of him, and then, before he could react, he suddenly felt as if something was piercing through his sheepskin jacket with strong force, and at the same time through his body.

"What the hell is that...... What is it?'

He gathered what little strength he had left, reached out and touched his chest, only to find that a bloody hole appeared in his chest.

"It's not like an arrow...... Is it the kind of weapon called "crossbow" in the Central Plains? But how could that kind of crossbow be so thick? How can the power be so great?'

He thought in horror, and in an instant, he felt as if his whole body was light, and all the pain quickly disappeared, and the whole person floated upwards like smoke.

Then he couldn't feel anything more.

"Smack-"

A heavy object, falling heavily to the ground.

However, the sound of the heavy object falling on the ground was inaudible in the chaotic situation at the moment, because it seemed as if all the cavalry of the Qiang tribe were howling miserably, or letting out a cry of terror.

"Ambush! It must be an ambush by the Wei people! ”

"Evacuate! Quickly retreat to Yaling Gorge! ”

The cavalry of the Qiang tribe here were shouting in horror, and suddenly, there was a loud noise from the direction of Yaling Gorge behind them, which seemed to be a mountain collapse, and the roar was deafening.

"It's the Wei people! The Wei people blocked the exit on the other side of Yaling Gorge! We are doomed, we will be killed by these Wei people! ”

"(Iz) calm down! …… Rush over! Now, there is only one way to go! ”

"(Zong language) rush! Only by rushing past can you survive! ”

After some controversy and commotion, the vast majority of the advance cavalry of the Qiang nationality mustered up the courage to charge towards the unknown and terrible Wei weapons in front of them, in an attempt to break through the encirclement. During this period, a small number of the advance team of the Qiang nationality retreated to Yaling Gorge in the spirit of luck, hoping to return from the way they came.

"It's a shame...... You have missed your chance.'"

Listening to the sound of horses' hooves in front of him, Zhao Hongrun shook his head secretly.

In his opinion, if these cavalry of the Qiang tribe immediately chose to forcibly break through the ambush at the moment of realizing the ambush, then the defense line of the Shang Shui Army might be broken through by them, but these people, because of the fear of the unknown, wasted the best opportunity to break through, so that the Shang Shui Army, who was not skilled in loading crossbow arrows, pushed the second wave of crossbow arrows onto the crossbow machine arrow slot.

Sure enough, the second wave of crossbow arrows did not need Zhao Hongrun's order at all, and those merchant sailors who loaded the follow-up crossbow arrows immediately pulled the trigger and shot out the crossbow arrows after loading.

"Puff puff—"

There was another strange sound of a foreign object piercing through the flesh.

Although the night was dark at the moment, the Shang Shui Army could still feel that the cavalry of the Qian tribe in front of them had turned on their backs under the baptism of the powerful war weapon of the repeating crossbow, and a large number of people died.

"Puff puff—"

The third wave of crossbow bolts is launched.

With just three waves of crossbow arrows, the cavalry in front of them seemed to have lost their vitality, so that they could no longer hear the sound of horses' hooves.

"Stop shooting! Throw the torch! Zhao Hongrun calmly ordered.

Hearing Zhao Hongrun's general order, the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army did not pull the trigger again to shoot the crossbow arrows after loading the crossbow arrows this time, but lit the torches from the flint and steel they carried with them and threw the torches forward.

"Shhhh

A strange sound of gasping cold air sounded from the side of the merchant water army.

Because they were shocked to see that there were corpses all over the front, whether it was those cavalry of the Qiang tribe or their mounts, they all fell in a pool of blood, covering the land in this area.

Only a handful of cavalrymen who were lucky enough to survive were huddled in the pile of corpses with their heads in their hands, trembling.

"This ...... What a powerful weapon! Is this the power of the new repeater developed by the Smelting Bureau? It's so ...... It's amazing!'

Sima An's eyes bloomed with unprecedented excitement.

Suddenly, he heard a foreign language in the distance, and it seemed that some of the not dead cavalrymen were holding their heads and praying among the corpses, praying for the protection of the "gods" they believed in.

Sima An's eyes were cold, and he lowered his voice and said to Zhao Hongrun: "Your Highness, these people ......"

I saw that under the imprint of the torch, Zhao Hongrun silently closed his eyes.

Sima An immediately understood, looked back at the two generals beside him, Wen Xu and Bai Fangming, and made a throat-cutting gesture.

A moment later, a group of infantry from the Dangshan Army went and returned, only to see them holding torches in their left hands and sharp blades in their right hands, striding forward in a column in front of the corpses of the Qiang cavalry.

Mend the knife after the war!

This is the reason why no one has ever been able to escape from the hands of the Dangshan Army before.

The infantry of the Dangshan Army marched forward in a neat manner under the light of torches, mending their knives on each corpse with the sharp blades in their hands.

Suddenly, one of the Dangshan infantry stopped, because in front of him, a cavalryman who was lucky not to be hit by a crossbow was looking around at the corpses of his companions with a horrified face.

He was horrified to find that his companion had been killed by a crossbow bolt as thick as two fingers, and he saw that these crossbow arrows were as hard as metal, and it was no wonder that these arrows could easily pierce through the human body and shatter bones, even the strongest skull in the human body.

He was shocked to see the corpse of a companion beside him, whose head had been shattered by this terrible weapon, and his death was extremely miserable.

"You despicable Wei people! You're ...... You actually used this despicable and despicable monster to slaughter the people of the Plateau Celestial Gods, and the Plateau Celestial Gods will not let you go......"

This cavalryman of the Qiang tribe shouted in fear and anger at the Dangshan Army infantry in front of him.

But in the next instant, he was beheaded by the Dangshan Army infantryman.

Shaking off the blood from the blade, the Dangshan Army infantry stepped over the headless corpse that was slowly falling to the ground with a calm face.

"Humph! Don't know what you're talking about! ”

I have to say that these cavalrymen of the Qiang tribe, known as warriors, had already lost their fighting spirit after being brutally attacked by the new crossbows of the Wei State, trembling all over, and they were stunned by the tragic death of their companions, even when the infantry of the Dangshan Army walked in front of them, they still did not put away the dazedness on their faces, and they were killed one by one.

"The Shangshui Army is on standby, and the Dangshan Army is ...... Aftermath! ”

Zhao Hongrun ordered in a deep voice.

Sima An happily accepted the order, because he knew that the corpses in front of him were not all of the advance cavalry of the Qian tribe, and many people still fled back to Yaling Gorge.

"White!" Sima An ordered: "Go, kill the remnants of the enemy army in the Yaling Gorge!" ”

"Yes!"

Bai Fangming, who has always been bohemian, behaved extremely seriously at this moment, and shouted in return: "The soldiers of the 'Attack Battalion' listen to the order and follow the general into the valley to kill the enemy!" ”

Hula, a large group of Dangshan Army infantry poured into Yaling Gorge again, and launched a final offensive against the small group of Qiang advance cavalry that had fled into the canyon but had fallen into a nowhere to retreat because the exit of the canyon on the other side had been cut off by the Shang Water Army.

On this side, the soldiers of the Shangshui Army have already followed the orders of Zhao Hongrun, and began to collect the corpses of the enemy soldiers, and recovered the crossbow arrows that were fired.

After all, this special crossbow arrow, although there are 300,000 of them, are consumables made of metal, and the cost is not low.

By the time dawn, the battlefield had been cleared, and the corpses of those advance cavalrymen of the Qiang tribe had been buried by the Shangshui Army and the Dangshan Army.

I have to say that even the Dangshan Army, which has excellent psychological quality, still inevitably feels a chill from the bottom of its heart when it sees the corpses of these Qian cavalrymen who have been baptized by a crossbow, whose corpses are mutilated and who have died miserably.

The power of the crossbow was too great, three waves of crossbow arrows, full of 4,500 crossbow arrows, but almost killed nearly 5,000 cavalry of the Qiang tribe here, as well as more than 10,000 of their mounts, so that after this ambush battle, the Dangshan army only harvested more than 200 sound war horses.

"That's a ...... It's a pity. ”

Looking at the corpses of the war horses all over the place, Rao is Sima An couldn't help but sigh in a regretful tone.

Around the beginning of the hour, the sky gradually brightened, and Bai Fangming, the general of the Dangshan Army, led his infantry out of the Yaling Gorge.

At this time, Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Shui Army, was standing in the bloody land, inspecting the work of cleaning up the battlefield after the war, and caught a glimpse of Bai Fangming's army coming out of the Yaling Gorge.

"General White." Wu Ji hugged his fists.

"It's 'White Fang', and a certain compound surname is 'White Fang'." Bai Fangming grabbed his hair and said angrily.

"Uh, General White......" Wu Ji corrected the other party in a curt.

However, Bai Fangming didn't care much about this, and after waving his hand, he glanced at the red land around him, and said with an exaggerated expression: "So it's so tragic? I didn't really pay attention to ...... at the time."

Wu Ji also had a look on his face and asked, "I don't know ...... the cavalry of the Qiang tribe in the canyon?"

"It's all buried." Bai Fangming said with a smile: "Throwing corpses at will will cause epidemics. ”

"......" Wu Ji opened his mouth in astonishment, wanting to say that what he wanted to ask was not actually this.

However, after thinking about it carefully, Wu Ji felt that Bai Fangming's words were not an answer.

"It's infantry against cavalry, but it seems to be easy...... I don't know how many casualties there were.'

Looking at Bai Fangming's relaxed expression, Wu Ji hesitated for a while, but finally didn't ask about the casualties.

After all, even if the Shang Shui Army and the Dangshan Army are friendly troops, it is still a bit rude to ask each other such a sensitive question.

After bidding farewell to Wu Ji, Bai Fangming went straight to Zhao Hongrun and Sima An's side and told them about the results of entering the valley to pursue and annihilate the cavalry of the Qian tribe.

Although it is said that with the help of terrain and new repeater crossbows, it can destroy a Qianzu advance cavalry with a full five or six thousand cavalry at such a small cost, which makes the morale of the soldiers of the Shangshui Army and the Dangshan Army high.

And it didn't take long for Zhao Hongrun to receive a message from Chenggao Pass.

It turned out that two hours earlier, there was a team transporting grain in Chenggao Pass, which was attacked by a mixed army of the Qiang and the Qiang people in the Gong and Luo areas. (To be continued.) )