After Li Li saw the signal flare chasing out, an unexpected thing began to happen at the other end of the battlefield, a group of more fierce cavalry had gathered the team, the phalanx occupied more than three miles of land, whether it was horses or knights, everyone seemed very powerful, these were the combined cavalry regiment composed of the Qiang and Hu people.

Zhuge Liang was the first to notice the gaffe on this side, because only this eastern position did not have any attack at all, which was very suspicious in Ma Chao's strategy of wanting to eat the Powder Army in one bite.

But even Zhuge Liang found out about this doubt, he was still a step slow in mobilization, and when he ordered to start moving those bulky artillery, those Qiang and Hu cavalry regiments finally launched a charge, although their number was not as large as Xiliang's sergeants, but the momentum was not comparable to the other party.

When these men charged, they could only hear the sound of horses' hooves, no one shouted, not even the horses howled senselessly, and a huge team took advantage of the night to silently penetrate the eastern position of the Gunpowder Army, like a sharp steel knife.

The cavalry of the Qiang and Hu people were very clever, and the knights in the front of their ranks, every three horses, dragged a very large stake, or boulder, and immediately slowed down when they reached the edge of the trench, and then by inertia they dumped all these things into the trench, and in only a quarter of an hour, the ditch was filled.

When several of these bridge-like things were built, the knights in the rear rushed head-on, and smoothly crossed the trench, and these influx of knights were really like a flood that burst the embankment, and immediately fanned out after passing through the trench, and then countless arrows poured down into the Powder Army camp.

Zhuge Liang couldn't help frowning when he saw such a scene, at this time he could only mobilize all the musketeers to the east, and such a rapid movement finally blocked the invasion of the first cavalry regiment, and killed all the enemy troops who had poured in in the trench.

But when the cavalry fell, more cavalry began to pour in, and these people seemed to have no concern for death, and those in front of them charged without fear, even though they knew that the Powder Army was killing them with a strange thing.

Rows of people kept falling, and then more waves of people began to pour in, and the corpses and blood on the ground almost covered the earth, and the original white area was now almost a sea of red.

Yuan Yun also seemed to notice the difference in the battle outside in the camp tent, so he put down the noodle bowl in his hand and came to the front, and when he saw Zhuge Liang's serious expression, he immediately understood that the form was not good.

"The ranks of the Qiang and Hu people, we seem to have ignored." Zhuge Liang explained, and in an instant, he issued a token to the herald, asking him to mobilize five thousand infantry to move to the east.

Yuan Yun looked at the token issued by Zhuge Liang, and immediately felt a tightness in his heart, to mobilize so many people to block the east, it seems that the combat power of the Qiang people and the Hu people is really very explosive.

Zhuge Liang saw that the herald had run away, and immediately shouted to a person who looked like a civil official: "Let the general camp start digging a huge pit near the east, it must be deep and wide enough, but it can not be coherent." ”

Yuan Yun followed Zhuge Liang's point and looked in the direction of the east, where there were still gunshots coming one after another at this moment, proving that the war seemed to be very stalemate.

"The lord should go to the camp in the west now, this group of Qiang-Hu coalition troops is afraid that they will rush to the Chinese army in a while, and it must be their target now." When Zhuge Liang spoke, he looked at Yuan Yun nervously.

Yuan Yun smiled faintly and said, "There is really such danger, will we be defeated by these beards?" ”

Zhuge Liang was suddenly stunned at this time, and then shook his head and smiled: "It seems that our past battles were too easy, and this time the front that was broken through felt like a great enemy, in fact, this is a very ordinary thing in the battles of other armies, and Liang became nervous for a while." ”

Yuan Yun saw that Zhuge Liang had regained his calm and indifferent expression, and his heart calmed down, and he immediately continued: "Then there is hand-to-hand combat, this does happen relatively rarely in the gunpowder army, but it is not unhappened, our armor and weapons are much better than the enemy, and I am still very relieved about the results." ”

Zhuge Liang also nodded in agreement, and said: "The cavalry of the Qiang people and the Hu people is less than 20,000, and Liang sent 5,000 infantry to resist, and he is indeed very frightened in his heart, this is the disadvantage of lack of experience in battle, our 5,000 soldiers, I'm afraid it's not an exaggeration to top 50,000 horses and horses, it's just ......."

Zhuge Liang glanced at Yuan Yun halfway through speaking, and then looked like he wanted to speak and stopped.

Yuan Yun smiled bitterly and said: "Kong Ming doesn't have to look at me, after this battle, the soldiers will inevitably suffer heavy casualties, but this is war, in the past, it was just my wishful thinking to avoid it, since I can't hide, then I naturally have to be hard, there is nothing to say." ”

Zhuge Liang said: "Liang has already asked the general battalion to start digging pits, so that at least the speed of the cavalry can be slowed down, and our five thousand infantry will not suffer too much loss, but as for how many potholes can be dug, it depends on how long the musket battalion can block the other party." ”

At this moment, Shi Shen had already returned from the position in the east, and when he arrived at Yuan Yun's side, he immediately hugged his fists and said: "My lord, the musket battalion has now successfully forced the enemy to retreat to the opposite side of the trench, and several bridges built by the enemy have become the target of key shooting, and they will not be able to attack it for a while and a half, but the soldiers on the hot air balloon report that the enemy is collecting more boulders and stakes, and it is estimated that they plan to continue to fill our trenches. ”

Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "Pass the order, let them block it as much as possible, and prepare for the camp for some more time." ”

Yuan Yun was concerned about another question at this time, so he asked, "What is the state of our five thousand infantry?" It's all some new recruits, and there won't be fright? ”

Shi Shen was stunned for a moment, and said in confusion: "It doesn't look like it, when they came here just now, they all seemed to be talking about the issue of combat exploits, and it was the brothers of the musket battalion and the artillery battalion who achieved the greatest combat exploits before, which made our infantry brothers seem very aggrieved, so I only saw that they all looked very excited." ”

The corners of Yuan Yun's mouth twitched, the so-called killing talents originally thought that they were all battlefield veterans, and they didn't want these recruits to be so fierce and fearless of death, all they were thinking about was how to snatch the war merits, so far it can be seen that the military service implemented in Luoyang was successful, and when it was proposed to reward the war merits, there were still many people who questioned it, thinking that too rich war merit rewards would make farmers not want to farm, workers not want to work, and businessmen did not want to operate, but now it seems that as long as they can win the battle in this era, there is really nothing else to care about.

Soon, Zhuge Liang stopped the movement of the artillery camp, let it stay where it was, and intensified the attack on the Western Liang army, while the East issued an order to prepare for close combat.

As soon as this order was issued, the most unlucky was the Xiliang army, they suddenly found that the attack of those artillery suddenly became like rain, the speed and range of the shells poured suddenly became fierce, and they also used shells that would scatter the oil as soon as they exploded.

In this environment, even if the knight is not afraid of death, many of the horses refuse to advance, and every time they reach the edge of the sea of fire, they will immediately stop their steps, and even throw the knight on their backs.

When the Xiliang army began to slow down the speed of the attack, those trenches on the eastern battlefield were finally filled by the Qiang-Hu coalition army, and then a larger-scale collective charge took shape.

When the musket team rushed to the front of the formation two hundred paces in front of the local horses, they began to retreat en masse, and a large number of infantry brothers slapped their cuirasses to meet the front, and at this moment, under the reflection of the firelight, many potholes had appeared in the ground, and the speed of the enemy cavalry really slowed down as they bypassed these potholes.

Five thousand gunpowder army infantry first came to a round of steel crossbow salvo, instantly rushed to the front of the thousand cavalry almost all annihilated, when the rear row of cavalry to kill again, the second round of steel crossbow salvo fired again, this time the enemy cavalry was prepared, have set up shields, although many people are still shot by the steel crossbow through the shield, but it does block the power of the steel crossbow, so more enemy cavalry behind them proudly survived.

Finally, the enemy cavalry rushed to a range of less than ten paces, but at this time it was baptized by a hand-thrown gunpowder bullet, and the cavalry in front immediately became confused, and at this time, the five thousand gunpowder infantry set up their shields and began to insert themselves into the enemy's army.

There was more than the confusion of the enemy cavalry in front, and the speed of the cavalry rushing in front of him also slowed down, and the soldiers on both sides suddenly turned into a pot of porridge, and they began to fight in close quarters before each other, and the sound of swords and soldiers hitting one after another was endless.

The Qiang and Hu people, who were indeed brave men, saw that their horses had lost their speed advantage, so they immediately dismounted and fought, and they were unusually tall and confident, and when faced with the shorter Han people, they were full of confidence.

It was only after these shirtless Qianghu saw that the gunpowder army was almost armed to the teeth that they became a little apprehensive, and when the two sides began to fight, their confidence was completely wiped out.

When a strong Hu man instantly slashed his scimitar on the shoulder of a gunpowder soldier, he thought that this powerful slash would definitely cut the opponent in half, but after a crisp sound came out, the Hu man only felt a numb wrist, and his scimitar cut a cut.

The Powder Army soldier who was slashed was obviously not lightly hit by this knife, but when he recovered from his vertigo, he instantly showed the ring-headed knife in his hand, and with one sword, Hu Ren's stomach was slashed, and his intestines flew out along with the other internal organs following the position of the knife.

When the gunpowder soldier saw that he had slit open the opponent's stomach, he immediately became excited, and shouted in his mouth: "Ear, one ear to hand!" ”

Just when he was excited, the bearded man who had been cut open actually gritted his teeth, and then flew up and lifted the gunpowder soldier in his entirety, and then prepared to throw him alive on a boulder.

At this moment, I saw a flash of silver light, and the Hu man's head instantly moved from his neck, and his body fell to the ground softly, and the gunpowder soldier was not lightly thrown at once, and when he got up again, he was immediately kicked on the buttocks.

At this time, I saw a veteran shouting at him: "Dog, Lao Tzu told you, you have to wipe your neck to kill the enemy, what's the matter with your fucking belly?" ”

The dog's eyes lit up when he heard the veteran say this, and before he could reply, he saw that he had already swung a knife at the veteran.

The veteran was startled and scolded, "Damn, idiot, did you kill the red eye? Lao Tzu is his own ......"

Before the old soldier finished speaking, he suddenly found that the back of his neck was hot, and a stream of blood had gushed down, all of which was sprinkled on his back.

Only then did the dog, who was called a dog, laugh and said, "Another ear!" ”