Chapter 17: The First Battle

It is said that Guilin's landscapes are the best in the world, but in Ye Zhao's view, whether it is compared with the 21st century in his previous life or the later new era, in this dynasty that has never been polluted at all, even if it is a landscape located in a border village, in the later generations, it is not much worse than the landscape of Guilin.

Qiu Shui is located in a low mountain group at the junction of Hu and Han, although there are mountains here, but the mountains are not high, there is no majestic phenomenon, Qiu Shui is a spacious river between these low mountains, to the north is the endless grassland, to the south more than 30 miles is the horse city, the terrain is not dangerous, go along the river, the terrain is spacious, very suitable for the cavalry to gallop.

"Lord, you're going to snipe Agul here!?" Qiu Chi looked at Ye Zhao's gaze, as if he was looking at a madman, and said loudly: "The area here is open, the terrain is flat, and it is suitable for cavalry to gallop. ”

"Don't worry, it's like this now, if that's all there is to it, what am I bringing so many craftsmen for? The only question now is whether it is certain that Aguli will inevitably follow this path? Ye Zhao waved his hand, and while leading people to survey the terrain, he said to Qiu Chi.

Qiu Chi really wanted to ask what a group of craftsmen could do? However, seeing that Ye Zhao had already begun to gather craftsmen and some laborers recruited by Meng Hu to start construction under Ye Zhao's command, he could only helplessly follow Ye Zhao and said: "Although there are many ways to cross the revenge water, if it is a large number of cavalry, there is only this way." ”

There are still traces left by Aguli on the ground, and after he left Macheng, he immediately took away all the Wuhuan people near Macheng.

Ye Zhao nodded reassuringly, and began to let the craftsmen make preparations.

The place they chose was a road wide in the middle and narrow on both sides, only to see Ye Zhao ordering several carpenters and stonemasons to set up mechanisms on the cliffs on both sides, this Qiu Chi could understand it, but the other party did not say that the people were coming, even if they only brought more than a thousand people, with the strength in Ye Zhao's hands, it was difficult to trap the other party.

Then I saw Ye Zhao commanding a group of laborers to start digging pits near the south and near the mountain.

It wasn't one of those big traps, but fist-sized holes, no more than a foot deep, covered with some dead branches, and he really couldn't see any use. It's just that Ye Zhao made people dig this kind of small pit in the second half of this road, and he also dug countless pits in the place close to the mountain.

In addition, the stonemasons and carpenters were also summoned to start some obstacles on both sides of the mountain, where the mountain is not steep, and even the cavalry can rush up, making these obstacles can effectively prevent the enemy from rushing up the mountain, but the gap in numbers is too large, even if there are these obstacles, with this little man in their hands, how can they stop the other party?

In the next few days, Ye Zhao has been arranging in the valley, even eating and sleeping in this valley, and in Qiu Chi's eyes, the valley in front of him has gradually returned to its original state under Ye Zhao's arrangement, at least walking in this valley, even if it is a person who is familiar with this place, it is difficult to detect that there is an ambush at a glance.

On the seventh day, a scout sent by Ye Zhao rushed to Ye Zhao's side, bowed down and said, "My lord, it's here!" ”

"How many centaurs?" Ye Zhao asked.

"The smoke is so thick that I can't see the number of people."

"Probe!"

"Whoa!"

The scout left, Ye Zhao looked at Gao Sheng and said, "You take the craftsmen and those coolies back to the city immediately." ”

"Whoa!" When Gao Sheng heard this, he hurriedly bowed and began to retreat with a group of coolies and craftsmen.

"Meng Hu."

"In!" Meng Hu took a step forward.

"According to what I said before, let your people carry their shields, and you have only one task, which is to block the arrows fired by the other party, and you don't have to worry about the rest."

"Whoa!"

"Guan Hai!"

"In!" Guan Hai came out of the queue and hugged his fist towards Ye Zhao.

"Defend the pass, fight together here, and immediately cut off its retreat."

"Whoa!"

"Ding Li, Qiu Chi, you two follow me, listen to the order!" Ye Zhao said in a deep voice.

"Whoa!"

Ye Zhao waved his hand, and everyone returned to their respective positions according to the previous plan, and hid themselves well in the low mountain with the help of the cover they had made before.

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Aguli frantically urged the war horse, looking ahead, it seemed to be filled with a flame, in Macheng, he was fed up with bird energy, first Qiu Chi, and then Ye Zhao, over the years, his tribe with the help of the resources provided by Macheng, has continued to grow, and now it is the top tribe on the grassland, with different identities, destined to have different mentality, when it was only a small tribe before, it still knew how to compromise, but now, his tribe has as many as 8,000 people, just can go on the horse to kill the enemy, there are 3,000 people, put in Dahan, That is also comparable to the strength of a county, how can he still stand this idleness, this time, he will definitely wash Macheng in blood, and he will be ashamed.

The terrain in front of him was suddenly open, but the anger in his chest did not dissipate for a moment, but continued to burn as Ma Cheng approached, as long as this revenge water passed, it was Ma Cheng, but in seven days, it was impossible for the other party to repair the city wall, this time, he wanted to use the blood of those Han people in Ma Cheng to wash away the humiliation brought to him by these Han people.

The war horse that sat down seemed to feel the murderous aura in the master's heart, and the speed was a little faster.

"Sigh Rule~"

Without warning, the horses of several Cavan knights stumbled, let out a series of chaotic neighs, and fell headlong off their horses.

Aguli looked at it with some doubts, I don't know how these people's war horses suddenly stumbled, at this moment, the war horse that sat down suddenly sank, Aguli was shocked, instinctively pressed the horse's back, jumped high from the horse, but saw his war horse fell to the ground fiercely, under the action of inertia, slid out of a distance of a zhang, and many dead branches on the ground were wiped away, Aguli was surprised to find that on the ground in front of him, there were more fist-sized potholes.

"Chief, be careful!" Just when Aguli was dazed, a gust of wind suddenly came from behind, but in order to avoid bumping into his own people, a subordinate made the war horse soar directly into the air with his superb horse speed, but although he crossed one person, he crashed straight into Aguli.

Without being reminded by others, Aguli hurriedly dodged to the side and narrowly avoided the impact, but the others were not so lucky, many people were directly knocked away by the war horses that rushed up later, and some were directly trampled by countless horses' hooves and trampled into minced meat.

This time, Agul finally knew why this was happening, but he saw that the front hooves of a high-speed war horse suddenly stepped into a hole, and then the whole horse instantly lost its balance and fell headlong.

"Despicable Han Chinese, stop!" Aguli's eyes were torn apart, and with all his strength, he knocked down an out-of-control war horse with one punch, and roared sharply.

On the low mountain, Qiu Chi was stunned to see those cavalry being put down by the fist-sized hole like this, the small trap that he thought was too much to do before, and there was no way to have any power, but at this moment, he directly abolished the biggest advantage of these Karasuma cavalry, turned his head to look at Ye Zhao with a calm face, and felt an indescribable admiration in his heart.

Ye Zhao looked at the Karasuma cavalry that was gradually stopping on the road, turned his head to look at Ding Li and said, "It's almost, release the arrow!" ”

"Whoa!" Ding Li agreed, and with a wave of his hand, one hundred and eighty soldiers quickly appeared, bent their bows and arrows, and began to rain arrows at the chaotic Karasuma warriors.

Although I haven't done special archery training, but at this moment these Karasuma warriors are simply live targets, and gathered together, as long as they can shoot arrows, even if they are blind, they can hit the enemy, just a moment, there are many corpses of Karasuma people on the road, but unfortunately the number of people on their side is too small to form a dense arrow array, otherwise just this wave of arrow rain will make these Karasuma people suffer heavy losses.

After waiting for Ye Zhao and them to shoot three rounds of arrows, Aguli reacted, and hurriedly commanded the Karasuma warriors to counterattack with bows and arrows, as a nation on horseback, no matter what the combat effectiveness is, they will generally have a good archery skill, and at this moment, they reacted quickly, and quickly bent their bows and arrows, and in an instant, countless sharp arrows gathered into a dense rain of arrows pouring down.

"Shield!" Ye Zhao waved his hand, and Ding Li beside him roared.

Four hundred people who were temporarily alerted quickly came out of the bunker according to Meng Hu's explanation before, and used their shields to protect these warriors and themselves under the shields, except for some unlucky people who were panicked by the scene in front of them, the dense rain of arrows almost fell on the shields and bunkers, and a group of soldiers took the opportunity to drill into the bunkers and let the other party shoot.

Aguli commanded the soldiers to shoot for a long time, except for a few unlucky ghosts, Ye Zhao was almost not injured here, and he was even more angry in his heart, commanding a group of Karasuma warriors and roaring: "They are few people, kill them for me, and hack these damned Han people to death." ”

"Kill~"

A group of Karasuma warriors threw away their bows and arrows, drew their sabers, and rode their horses towards the low mountain, but before they could get close to the low mountain, the previous scene happened again, and countless small holes had already been dug around the mountain, and a piece of war horses fell, and a group of people turned over on their backs, and the screams or roars of the Karasuma people were constantly heard, mixed with some pleading.

"These people, how can they not have a long memory." Ye Zhao shook his head, waved his hand, and under the leadership of Ding Li, a group of soldiers reappeared and fired arrows at these Karasuma people again.

Some of the Karasuma people at the bottom of the mountain abandoned their horses and began to charge towards the mountain, some began to fight back with bows and arrows, but more often they began to turn around.

One drum, then decline, three and exhaustion, one after another setbacks, has made many Karasuma people begin to lose courage, Ye Zhao watched the angry Aguli began to retreat under the crowd, a smile flashed in the corner of his eyes, the pass in the distance, Guan Hai has begun to order people to push down the falling rocks and giant trees, block the pass, and also block the retreat of these Karasuma people, this battle has been won here.