"The thieves are strong, retreat!"

Xu Chu saw the two cavalry units operating, roared, and prepared to retreat.

He ignored the Flying Bear Army that came in a roundabout way, but directly led his cavalry to charge towards the Xiliang cavalry that was blocking them.

Xu Chu led his subordinates, all of whom shot spears with arrows, and the Xiliang cavalry was chiseled through by the Han army before it could stand firm.

"The thieves are fleeing! Pursue! ”

Dong Yue roared loudly and ordered the Flying Bear Army and the Xiliang Cavalry to pursue.

Zhang Ji also has this intention! The infantry was ordered to move forward, and the cavalry went in pursuit.

"Uncle, don't chase after the poor, to prevent fraud."

Zhang Xiu reminded Zhang Ji.

"If we don't defeat Liu Fan, we won't be able to live! Why not give it a go? ”

Zhang Ji was impatient and didn't listen to the advice, it was really Dong Zhuo who gave them a death order.

Xu Chu rode forward and ran wildly, turning back and throwing from time to time.

The 20,000 Xiliang cavalry in the rear were in hot pursuit.

In order to fool the Xiliang generals, Xu Chu ordered some soldiers to throw away their helmets and weapons, as if they were desperate to flee for their lives.

When Zhang Ji and Dong Yue saw this, they thought that Xu Chu was afraid of the army. An order was given to accelerate the pursuit.

The army stepped through the fields that no one cared about, and came to the avenue in the middle of Hutou Mountain.

Here weeds cover the legs of horses, and dead leaves accumulate.

The peaks on both sides are not steep, only a high slope, but the mountains are crowded with trees.

Five thousand cavalry rushed straight to the end of the valley. In the rear, the Xiliang cavalry was getting closer and closer to Xu Chu, only two hundred paces.

"Don't enter every valley! Please Uncle Mingjian! ”

Zhang Xiu persuaded Zhang Ji again.

"What did you say? Will we be wasted? ”

Zhang Ji hadn't spoken yet, Dong Yue didn't listen, and jumped directly into the valley.

"Dong Gong's ruthlessness, don't you know it? Only by being bold in the use of troops can we survive in danger, and we can be safe. Go and meet the infantry! Don't follow me anymore. ”

Zhang Ji ordered Zhang Xiu.

After saying that, he also rode into the valley.

Only Zhang Xiu remained in place.

The two mountains are opposite each other, and they are more than ten miles long. This is not exactly a canyon, because the two mountains are particularly wide at each other, and the widest part is a mile.

This is also the reason why there is a lot of pedestrians and overgrown weeds.

When Xu Chu led the cavalry to the very end, he ordered to rein in the horse.

The soldiers were all wound up and fired at the Western Liang cavalry.

Zhang Ji and Dong Yue turned their horses regardless of people, causing the ironclad Flying Bear Army to clash with arrows.

As long as you can collide with the enemy, even the loss of a few men and horses is worth it.

At this moment, the cavalry led by Xu Chu suddenly retreated.

At the same time, in the cracks of the cavalry, countless infantry appeared, some holding large shields, some holding three-zhang spears.

Gradually, the cavalry in front of Xiliang was all replaced by infantry.

The shield wall was erected layer after layer, and the most terrifying thing was not the shield wall, but the spear in front of the shield wall.

The spear pierced through the gap where the shield met and dotted the shield like a hedgehog.

"Not good!"

Zhang Ji hurriedly reined in his horse, and the Flying Bear Army, which was only dozens of steps away from the shield wall, stopped.

Suddenly, on the hillside, a flag was held high.

Countless figures poked their heads out of the hillside.

"It's a plan, the rear army becomes the front army, withdraw quickly!"

Everyone was shocked, and Zhang Ji ordered.

To the west of the Hutou Valley, Zhang Xiu was about to go back to join the infantry. The sound of rumbling horses' hooves was deafening.

To the north and south, there were thousands of riders each, all running towards the entrance of the Tiger Head Valley.

Zhang Xiu knows that he has been tricked!

He had the heart to inform Zhang Ji, but reason told him that once he entered Hutou Mountain, he would also be trapped.

Zhang Ji is Zhang Xiu's only relative, and Zhang Xiu knows that the only way now is to bring the infantry to come, and the inside and outside should be combined to rescue Zhang Ji.

"Uncle, hold on!"

Zhang Xiu picked up his gun and rode his horse and ran towards the location of the infantry.

The two cavalry under Liu Fan converged.

The cavalry dismounted, as in the east, and blocked the entrance to the Hutou Valley tightly.

Above the valley, the soldiers drew their bows and arrows, and the rockets were ignited, and the first round of thousands of rockets was thrown into the canyon like a rain of fire.

After a round of rockets, countless large fireballs rolled down the mountains on both sides.

Fireballs are made of wattle strips, which are full of flammable materials and are difficult to extinguish.

The dead grass was at the touch of a button, and due to the number of rockets, in just a moment, the entire canyon was set on fire.

The Xiliang cavalry was smoky and smoky, crashing into the canyon and panicking.

"What if Taniguchi is blocked? If we do not rush through the enemy's walls and spears, we will be burned alive. Ahem! There is a silver lining to conflict. Otherwise, sit back and wait. ”

Zhang Ji avoided the place where the fire was at its greatest and shouted to his subordinates.

Even so, he choked on the smoke and couldn't open his eyes, covering his mouth and coughing loudly.

However, Zhang Ji's words attracted the attention of many people.

Many Western Liang cavalry seized this line of life and rushed to the shield wall.

But what Liu Fan prepared was not just a shield wall.

Although the long contradiction wall seems to be a great deterrent, it can withstand the full impact of several waves of Xiliang cavalry at most.

What Liu Fan was really confident that could stop the Xiliang cavalry was the strong crossbows and bows behind the shield wall.

The Xiliang cavalry had less than a hundred paces to attack, and the crossbowmen began to fire strong crossbows.

After the crossbow is the bow and arrow, and the arrows are like rain, and they will fall.

Most of the Xiliang cavalry died under the dense rain of arrows before they could rush over.

There are only dozens of horsemen every time they rush over, and they can't hit the shield wall at all.

On the hills on both sides, soldiers kept throwing rockets into the valley.

Gradually, more and more Xiliang people and horses were burned to death, and many were smoked to death.

At first, I could still hear Zhang Ji and Dong Yue's voices shouting, but in the end, I couldn't hear anything.

There was only the wail of the sky and the earth, and the smoke billowed straight to the sky.

Zhang Xiu, who had already galloped away, turned around and looked, clutching the reins with both hands, tears in his eyes.

The most tyrannical method of fire attack in the art of war, as long as it has the five factors of fire attack, once it is used, there is no life.

Zhang Xiu was very hesitant at this time, there were still 20,000 or 30,000 infantry, what should he do?

Liu Fan stood on top of the hill and stared at the battle that was about to end.

The flames were beating louder and louder, and the more unlikely the Xiliang cavalry was to survive.

"Yun Chang, lead 10,000 cavalry and Yinshan iron cavalry, go to pursue the Xiliang infantry. Take advantage of the maneuver of the cavalry and the advantage of the bow and arrow, and get tired. But when the enemy is exhausted, he will destroy him with heavy cavalry. ”

Liu Fan ordered to Guan Yu.

On this plain, infantry, without special training, was no match for cavalry at all.

"No!"

Guan Yu clenched his fists and ordered.

In the Xiliang infantry formation, after Zhang Xiu returned, he said that Zhang Ji, Dong Yue and others were besieged and asked for reinforcements.

At first, the Xiliang soldiers also had the heart to reinforce, but when they got closer and closer to Hutou Mountain, the Xiliang generals retreated.

If it is really as Zhang Xiu said, Zhang Ji and Dong Yue are trapped in the mountains, and this sky-high fire, I am afraid that they will not be able to live anymore.

(End of chapter)