Chapter 149: Defeat is like a mountain

As more and more Zhao soldiers poured into the camp from the outer fence of the camp wall, which had not yet been erected, panic began to spread wantonly in the camp.

The Hun lord looked at this sudden and uncontrollable situation, and his heart suddenly became irritable, he rode forward, drew the war knife in his hand, and chopped several foot soldiers who fled to the camp in a panic, but still could not suppress the momentum of panic.

Looking at the soldiers who entered the camp and fled in all directions, the Hun lord couldn't help but be angry. He cursed and shouted in nonsense, but no one paid any attention to him. Some of the soldiers who escaped in went to their tents to get weapons, and then ran to the place where the camp fence was not standing under the leadership and command of the general, staring at the night sky outside the camp.

However, outside the camp at this time, a wave of arrows flew at the right time, shooting over the camp wall and straight towards the desperate and panicked stragglers running around the camp.

Because as soon as he heard the warning, the Hun commander ordered the battalion sergeants to extinguish all the fires, so the current camp was pitch black and could not distinguish between objects. Shao Lei and Dong Liang, who had just attacked the Zhao army's infantry in the forest, could only order their cavalry to shoot several waves of feather arrows into the Zhao army's camp by feeling.

In this dark night, although the actual results of the Guangwu cavalry shooting feather arrows were not significant, the night without seeing the five fingers of the hand magnified any subtle fear infinitely, and even the occasional faint pop of arrows into the flesh around them became a merciless talisman for the king of Hades in the ears of the rest of the Zhao soldiers who fled and screamed.

On the other side, accompanied by the noisy sound of golden drums, mixed with scattered arrows from time to time, shot towards the camp. The whistling wind sent these arrows into the camp smoothly, although most of them shot on the ground and the camp wall, but there were still some of them, ruthlessly burrowing into the bodies of the Zhao soldiers who were fleeing and screaming, causing them to fall to the ground, and soon after, they became a convulsive corpse under the merciless trampling of the surrounding soldiers.

In the chaos in the camp, mixed with the sound of miserable howls and struggles, the temporary camp of the Zhao army at this time was like a Shura slaughterhouse. Most of the soldiers were busy running for their lives, but a few stopped running for their lives and began to search for the fallen robes around them.

The complexity and ugliness of the human heart are undoubtedly revealed in this stormy temporary camp of the Zhao army at this time and here. The soldiers of Zhao, who were fleeing from place to place, blocked the road of the Hun cavalry in the camp who were ready to go, so that although they were riding on horses, they could not move a little.

Seeing the sporadic arrows shot from outside the camp, wantonly harvesting the lives of the Hun cavalry who could not move a little in the night sky, the Hun general on the horse was in an irritable mood.

In his eyes, the lives of the Hun warriors were far more precious than the Qiang Han miscellaneous soldiers who fled and screamed in the camp at this time. Looking at their disorderly and panicked appearance, thinking that it could no longer play a useful role in the battle situation, the Hun lord finally made up his mind and shouted loudly in Hu language, ordering his Hun cavalry to clear a way out of these panicked foot soldiers who fled indiscriminately, thinking that his cavalry would open a way out.

The Hun cavalry began to slash and kill the poor Zhao soldiers who were scurrying around. Their actions made the foot soldiers even more frightened. However, the Hun cavalry slashed and killed more than a dozen foot soldiers who stood in the way one after another, and after all, the temporary earthquake deterred these foot soldiers and accelerated their collapse.

After clearing the road, the Hun cavalry raised their horses' hooves and galloped towards the camp gate. The Zhao soldiers behind them witnessed the unrelenting slaughter of their robes by the Hun cavalry in the dark, which further destroyed their morale, which had already fallen to the bottom, and then they began to swarm in an orderly swarm towards the gap in the barracks to the south, which had not yet been built.

In this process, Zhao Jun's foot soldier, who accidentally fell, never got up again. Under the chaos, who still cares about the dignity of the superiors and subordinates, whether they are generals or lowly soldiers, they are all desperately squeezing towards the gate, in order to escape this realistic version of Shura Hell as soon as possible.

The foot soldiers of the Zhao army, who squeezed out of the camp fence, fled south one after another. Dozens of miles away, after all, there is a Zhao military camp. If you flee there, you don't have to worry about your safety anymore.

Under the tremendous psychological shock and coercion brought to them by the terrible Liangzhou army all over the mountains, they finally stopped moving, and the routed soldiers in groups of three or five marched straight in front of the south like cattle and sheep scattered all over the mountains.

The infanciers fled south in a chaotic rout, which made Cao Jian, who was still leading his troops outside the camp to beat gongs and drums, feel that it was too easy to achieve his goal. However, the rout of the Zhao army's foot soldiers and their flight south did not mean the end of the operation, on the contrary, there were more severe tests waiting for them.

Cao Jian galloped left and right in the formation, and not long after, Guo heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves in the camp. Then, there was an endless stream of shadows of men and horses at the camp gate, as if a cavalry army was rushing out of its camp.

Cao Jian had been prepared for this, and saw him put the bamboo whistle to his mouth, and then blew two long and three short notes several times. When the horsemen heard this signal, they turned their horses and turned their heads, then scattered and retreated, and fired several waves of arrows at the door of Zhao's camp.

After these waves of arrows were fired, the Guangwu cavalry who had originally scattered and retreated gathered together in various teams and each other, and merged into a rushing river, and under the leadership of the generals, they went straight to the valley mouth on the north side.

Shao Lei and Dong Liang, who had previously pursued and killed Zhao Jun's foot soldiers, also withdrew from the forest side of Fangcai after hearing Cao Jian's whistle signal, and then concentrated their forces and rushed back to meet most of Cao Jian's troops.

As soon as the two horsemen merged, the Hun horsemen behind them had already galloped up one after another. In a hurry, many of them also opened their bows and arrows, shooting a wave of arrows at the Guangwu cavalry in the darkness in front of them.

The Guangwu cavalry were still on the way to the valley mouth, and they were caught off guard, and some of the cavalry in the team were shot, some of them barely supported themselves on the back of their horses, and some of them were caught off guard, fell off their horses, and then were trampled by the hooves of the rear team.

In the hurry, no one cared to look at the soldiers who had fallen off their horses and were destined to not survive. Cao Jian galloped while shouting to the subordinates who were holding the iron thistles. After greeting for a long time, seeing that several people were there, Cao Jianfang was relieved.

However, in an instant, the second wave of arrow rain of the Huns' pursuers came suddenly. This time, the Guangwu cavalry had already taken precautions, took out the medals they carried with them, held them with their left hands, and stretched them out to the back to block the arrows that were shooting.

Although the Guangwu cavalry were prepared for this second wave of arrows, some of the arrows still penetrated through the gaps between the shields and shot down several of the cavalry. The rows of horsemen galloping at the rear of the team were also shot by the horses.

The horses were hit by arrows, and a few of them were thrown off their horses because of this, but most of them galloped wildly for a while, and then gradually quieted down under the best control of the rider on their backs.

Cao Jian led the team to the mouth of the valley, but happened to encounter Li Yanzhao and his party who came out on horseback. Li Yanzhao raised his hand in the dark, and the bamboo whistle in his mouth repeatedly blew three long and two short notes several times, signaling the horsemen to quickly enter the valley.

The horsemen galloped all the way into the valley, and then when Cao Jian passed by Li Yanzhao, Li Yanzhao glanced at him approvingly. Fang Cai led a few hundred people down the mountain, and Li Yanzhao saw that several soldiers stayed in Fang Cai's hiding place, taking care of his own and others' horses, so he learned about Cao Jian's feat from those soldiers.

It was also Li Yanzhao's carelessness. Even if he personally went to the top of the mountain to reconnoiter and spy on the enemy's troops, he would never be able to take away several hundred commanders together. Fortunately, Cao Jian stepped forward this time, and temporarily won the support of the leading officials of the team present. Otherwise, if no one is the leader, it is really difficult to say what the outcome will be this time.

This also taught Li Yanzhao a fatal lesson. From then on, he no longer dared to leave the army with his senior general Zuo when facing the enemy at the front.

The horsemen had already rushed into the valley mouth, and Cao Jian also stepped forward, took Li Yanzhao's horse's head, and then ordered the soldiers who were carrying the thistle terrestris to open the cloth bag one after another, and threw the iron thistle in the bag on the narrow road at the mouth of the valley. Several horsemen galloped their horses and threw them behind them. According to Li Yanzhao's visual estimates, this deadly hidden weapon has been thrown away on the land within a radius of one or two hundred paces from Taniguchi.

"Let's go!" Seeing that the arrangements had been completed, Li Yanzhao ordered loudly to the soldiers on the left and right.