Although there are still trees on both sides of the ridge, they have become a little sparse, which is different from the section of the mountain that has just passed, which may be related to natural causes such as topography, soil, sunlight, etc., but it may also be due to human factors.

Cutting down trees on the mountains is not only to ambush the soldiers and horses, but also to make rolling logs and block the retreat of the ambushed soldiers and horses.

The remaining sparse trees are for the purpose of blocking the sight of enemy scouts and covering their own ambushes.

Hu Che'er was also frightened by his crazy thoughts at first, and Pei Qian had already abandoned the city and fled, ready to flee to Hanoi, how could there be ambushes.

Just thinking that the latest batch of scouts had not yet returned, Hu Che'er unconsciously broke out in a cold sweat.

Therefore, he was agitated and loudly ordered the cavalry around him to stop advancing.

The many cavalrymen and horses who were rushing to chase after the people and horses who abandoned the city and fled, and captured the great achievements of Pei Qian, were stunned to hear the roar of Hu Che'er's neighing, and the knight mount next to him was also frightened and raised his head and hissed, and he couldn't help but have a grotesque feeling in his heart.

It was only after Hu Che'er's own soldiers also shouted "stop marching" that many cavalry began to restrain their horses and slow down their horses until they stopped.

The thousand cavalry, who were on the way to pursuit, stopped in a daze, because suddenly stopped, the cavalry were uneven, and the line was long and chaotic.

Hu Che'er squinted his eyes and looked at the nearest mountain, and he didn't seem to see trees, but—

Figure! Figures under the day, and more and more.

"It's not good, there are ambushes!" Hu Che'er yelled again.

It's just that by the time he realizes that he is in danger, it is already too late.

With Hu Che'er's shout, in the next instant, hundreds of crossbow arrows broke through the air, with a sharp scream.

At the same time, a large number of rolling logs and falling rocks poured down from the mountains, and in an instant the knights screamed, the war horses wailed, and the cavalry who were on the road were hit by arrows and fell off their horses, and the cavalry who were hit by the rolling logs and falling rocks were even more bloody and miserable.

The violent and brief pouring of wood and stone instantly formed an irregular and scattered obstacle on the mountain road, like a low wall, cutting the long cavalry team into two different lengths.

The Hongnong cavalry, who had made meritorious service and was not psychologically prepared, was frightened by this sudden wave of death, and many soldiers were shot into hedgehogs before they had time to take off their shields, and some cavalry took off their shields, but they were hit by falling rocks, and the shields were shattered, and all the men and horses fell to the ground.

They let out a terrible scream before they fell to the ground, shaking the hearts of their neighbors; Some of the cavalry were even stoned to death on the mountain wall by men and horses, and their hands and feet were still twitching on the exposed red rocks and rolling logs.

Before the victims could recover from the shock, a second round of intense firing followed, followed by a third and fourth rounds of arrows...... And along with this crazy crossbow attack, like an avalanche of rolling logs and rocks, fell in all directions, causing the array and will to fight of the cavalry under Hu Che'er's command to collapse with the splash of flesh and blood.

The cavalry, who had not been killed by rolling logs and falling rocks, and who happened to be lucky enough to be in the rear, had already turned their horses' heads without hesitation, braved the arrows in the sky, and desperately flapped their horses to the rear, and they no longer cared whether their main general Hu Che'er was still alive and whether he had ordered a retreat.

In the face of such huge casualties, no one cares about the main generals and military orders, and all that is left in their hearts is the endless desire to escape.

Even in the eyes of many soldiers, Hu Che'er, who ran to the front with the cavalry, is dead, even if he doesn't die now, the retreat is cut off by rolling logs and falling rocks, and it is estimated that he will not survive.

In the front section of the mountain road that had been severed, there was a dull pop sound, which was the terrible sound of an arrow piercing through the leather armor and digging into the flesh.

Hu Che'er looked back, wiped his eyes blurred by the splash of flesh and blood, just in the ambush, he was fortunate not to be hit by rolling logs and falling rocks, although he was hit by crossbow arrows, but because the iron armor was strong, he would not be seriously injured, and he was strong and he could still support it.

He watched in horror at the rolling logs and falling rocks scattered on the ground behind him, which had now become a nightmarish obstacle, cutting off the escape route of the cavalry in front of him.

The rain of arrows was still pouring, and the surviving guards around Hu Che'er were all battlefield veterans who had followed him for a long time, and they had already reacted at this time, supporting the shield and slowly approaching Hu Che'er, and at the same time asked anxiously:

"Captain, what should I do now?"

It is impossible for the prancing horse to rush through the mountain road full of obstacles, unless Hu Che'er and others get off the horse, while clearing the obstacles, while climbing over and walking, it is possible to cross these obstacles formed by rolling logs and falling rocks.

However, there were still an unknown number of enemy troops on the ridge, and the arrows were even more intense, and the cavalry broke through on foot, only afraid that they would die faster.

Hu Che'er was on the verge of life and death, and the ferocity in his body was also stimulated, his bloodshot eyes looked at the mountain road, and then looked at the direction of the mountain pass, and he quickly made a decision in his heart.

This mountain road is actually not the best ambush location, maybe it was discovered in advance, and the ambush on the mountain ridge will be launched in advance, or maybe it is because the ambush is not fully prepared, which has caused the failure to completely block all the retreats.

Rushing through the mountain road in front, the mountain pass is just a stone's throw away, and there are about three or four hundred cavalry around him, as long as he rushes through the mountain pass and reaches the wide flat land, those ambush foot soldiers will not be able to help themselves.

"Rush forward!" As soon as Hu Che'er was ruthless, he rode his horse and rushed forward, and the guards around him hurriedly shouted to catch up, leading the other surviving cavalry to follow suit, struggling to advance and charge.

However, the closer you get to the pass, the more dense the rain of logs, falling rocks, and arrows becomes, and the number of cavalry charging decreases dramatically.

There were horsemen galloping, and cavalrymen running on foot, running aimlessly, screaming like madness, until they were knocked to the ground by arrows.

One of Hu Che'er's own soldiers was shot in the side of his neck by a crossbow arrow, and fell off his horse amid a wailing, splashing his face with blood spraying from the wound. But Hu Che'er didn't have time to pay attention to the bloody blood hanging on his face, he knew that the current situation was out of control, and he could only let the soldiers flee towards the mountain pass.

"As long as I don't die and reorganize the cavalry in the open field, these little pawns won't be able to kill me."

Hu Che'er inexplicably motivated himself in his heart, and at the same time desperately endured the pain, speeding up his horse, he was hit by three more arrows, and the blood on his body had soaked through the clothes under the iron armor, but fortunately it was not a fatal injury.

Compared with other ordinary cavalry, Hu Che'er, who is the main general, is very lucky, the war horse under his crotch is a fast horse, and the iron armor on his body is the fine armor rewarded by Zhang Ji, although several crossbow arrows hit his arm and back from different directions, but the momentum has decayed, and it has not been able to cause fatal damage after piercing the iron armor.

With this advantage, the seriously injured Hu Che'er and a few personal soldiers miraculously rushed out of the mountain pass in the first batch.

But the miracle is only that, as soon as he got out of the mountain pass, the war horse under his crotch suddenly lost his front hoof, and fell to the ground with a wail, outside the mountain pass, the horse pit has been densely dug and trapped, Hu Che'er almost landed at the same time with several guards, some of the pro-soldiers were unlucky, and directly fell down their arms, only the bleeding Hu Che'er and the two pro-soldiers barely got up, and struggled on foot to continue to flee for their lives.

Hu Che'er was seriously injured, and he already knew that it would be difficult to survive today, but when he saw countless enemy soldiers suddenly pouring out in front of him, he was still fierce and unwilling to surrender, roared, pulled out the ring knife on his body, as if he was still a general under Zhang Ji's command, and rushed towards the enemy with injured and bloodshot eyes.

"Bang" Hu Che'er's ring knife cut down a shield, but in the next moment, his seriously injured body was pierced by four spears from different directions, this time the iron armor rewarded by Zhang Ji failed to block the spear's thrust, Hu Che'er felt that his internal organs were stirred by the edge of the spear, he spat blood, and let out a terrible roar from his back.

The other two pro-soldiers had already been killed, and then a team leader rushed up and dropped his knife and cut off the head of this Zhang Ji's general······

When Wei Xuan took Zhang Shi and retreated from the mountain to the mountain pass, the short battle was over, and a team leader excitedly carried a human head, ran to him, and told him loudly that this was the head of Hu Che'er, a general under Zhang Ji, who had been repeatedly verified from the mouth of the seriously injured enemy cavalry, and it was Hu Che'er himself.

Seeing that Hu Che'er, a young general who was greedy for merit and fell into an ambush, was easily cut off by a pawn, Wei Xuan let out a smug laugh, he looked at this team leader, and asked extraordinarily.

"What's your name?"

The team leader, whose face and armor were still stained with blood, was very excited when he heard Wei Xuan's inquiry, and immediately said:

"Du Lieutenant, subordinate Lu Pan, is the leader of Bingtun."

"Okay, I've made a note, you've done a great job."

Wei Xuan laughed and patted the shoulder of the heroic leader. This time the ambush was unexpectedly smooth, and there was an unexpected joy, and he actually killed Hu Che'er, the general under Zhang Ji's command, and it is estimated that Zhang Ji of Hongnong knew that he was afraid that he was going to beat his chest and jump like thunder.

Henan and Hongnong are on the verge of moving, for the mobilization of the army in Hongnong, it is also like a mirror, Pei Qian knows that the war is together, Henan will definitely fall, Luoyang City is dilapidated, not enough to defend, planning to take a small number of soldiers and civilians, retreat to Yanshi, Gongxian, and Wei Xuan thinks that abandoning Luoyang is a last resort, but it is necessary to fight, once let Hu Che'er of Hangu Pass lead the cavalry to catch up, I am afraid that it will be a disaster.

So Pei Qian and Wei Xuan went their separate ways, Pei Qian took the army and civilians, pretended to abandon the city and fled, and released the news that he was going to flee to Hanoi, while Wei Xuan took a thousand foot soldiers and sneaked through Gucheng in the opposite direction, preparing to ambush Hongnong's pursuing cavalry on the last mountain road into Henan.

Unexpectedly, not only did he annihilate most of the Hongnong cavalry, but he also ambushed Hu Che'er, seeing this dead head, although he still had to lead the army to retreat, Wei Xuan, who still had to lead the army to retreat, also had a lot of fighting spirit in his heart for the next battle.

But Henan was only a small-scale war, and the big battlefield was in Hedong and Hanoi.

"I hope that the Hedong army in Hanoi can take down the wild king as soon as possible and quickly return to Anyi!"

Wei Xuan's eyes were deep, looking into the distance, and he was no longer as proud and confident as when he had just spoken to Lu Pan.

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Otei

Zhang Liao stationed his horse on the field, he saw the Hebei soldiers waiting not far away, and the war horse under his crotch seemed to smell the breath of war, and he snorted anxiously, constantly slashing the horse's hooves, and made a mark on the dry land under the horse's hooves.

Gan Ling led the Hedong army to pull out the camp to the east, stationed in the city of Kui in the territory of Huojia, ordered to be stationed and repaired, and the reinforcements of Luyi confronted each other across the clear water.

Ganling and Lu Yi, Lu Yi and Lu Bu, Lu Bu and Gan Ling, are all friends and enemies, among which Lu Bu has the greatest pressure, he has gathered a thousand remnants of soldiers, but he has to face the enemy with thousands of soldiers in two directions, and the army's heart has been wavering.

If it weren't for the fact that both Lu Yi and Gan Ling were jealous, they were afraid that Lu Bu's troops would have been taken down by them a long time ago.

Lü Bu's remnants were sandwiched between the two armies, struggling to survive, but Lü Bu did not want to cross the river immediately, although Zhang Miao had already sent envoys two or three times to invite Lü Bu to Yanyan to discuss important matters.

But Lu Bu still thought about whether he could make huge profits under the opportunity of the two tigers competing for money.

However, there was no large-scale battle between Luyi and Ganling, and both sides were patient, looking for the best time to fight, but they continued to send scouts and light cavalry to test the details of the enemy army on the opposite side, so there were many small-scale battles along the Qingshui coast.

And Zhang Liao today, with the three hundred Qiang Hu Yicong allocated to him by Ganling, has crossed the boundary of Qingshui and penetrated deep into the territory of Gongxian County, until he met a well-armored Hebei soldier in Fanting.

On the field of the Fenting, the one who led a battalion of 800 soldiers to confront each other was the son of Koji Yi, Ko Ying.

Although his command is not the most elite first camp in the Lu Yi Army, but he is also a Hebei elite soldier who has practiced the tactics of the first camp, the soldiers have complete ordnance and armor, relying on the topography of the Fenting, the front row is set up with a big sword, and the spearmen and crossbowmen are all crouching under the shield, allowing the enemy to gallop on the war horses, all of them hold on to the ground, waiting for the enemy to rush and kill the formation.

This method of warfare does not advance the spear formation, nor does it first block the enemy cavalry with bows and arrows, but sets up a large sword to let the scattered enemy cavalry provoke, hold on to it, and wait until the enemy cavalry can no longer bear it, and when the vertical cavalry rushes to the front, another order is given, and the crossbow is fired in unison.

Subsequently, the soldiers and crossbows were abandoned, with spears in front and knives and axes behind, attacking the enemy cavalry that suffered the greatest firepower of the strong crossbow with the counterattack of the infantry soldiers, and striving to defeat the enemy with one blow in close combat.

This kind of tactics can only be completed by skilled and courageous elite soldiers, and it is often unfavorable to deal with the erratic and wandering Xiqiang cavalry. In the battle of Jieqiao, after defeating the white horse Yicong who Gongsun Chan relied on to become famous, he followed the Daimyo of Lu Yi and spread far and wide, becoming the usual tactics of the soldiers under Lu Yi to deal with the rangers.

Lu Ying was immediately behind the formation, and when he saw the Qianghu cavalry who were looking for a gap in a roundabout way, but did not dare to attack, he smiled contemptuously and said proudly:

"The thieves have no guts, and they also know my prestige, so they only dare to sneak and peep, and they don't dare to sweep the front of the formation!"

ps: The roots of Xiping's koji clan can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty, which was changed by the Ju family, and it was the Shangshu of the Western Han Dynasty that made Ju Tan be implicated in the rebellion of Liu Yun, the king of Dongping, and was cut to the people. In addition to the Koji family, in the Cao Wei period, Koji Yan and others also rebelled against Cao Wei in Liangzhou many times until they were suppressed and migrated to Jincheng.

The Koji clan in Xiping is also a powerful force in Liangdi. (Lu Yi, Lu Yan, Lu Guang, and Lu Ying are the same as the Xiping Koji clan, but the relationship between them is no longer examinable, so it is fabricated as a close relative.) ）