As the sun set over the mountains, the blood-red sky stained the earth blood-red.

"What an unpleasant color." Cha Jung-hyun couldn't help but think so. As a military general of the Goryeo Kingdom, Cha Jung-hyun, who is now thirty and nine-year-old Chinese New Year's Eve, can really be regarded as a leader. To become a military general in his thirties, it is not enough to become a henchman of Ah Yi Zhi, if he does not have extraordinary ability, Ah Yi Zhi is not a person who will make incompetent people become his cronies. With Ah Yiji's recommendation and his own outstanding ability, Cha Jung-hyun was able to make a name for himself in the Goryeo Army and become one of the new generals. After three years of war with the country of silk, the military commanders of the Goryeo Kingdom suffered an unprecedented blow, a large number of middle-level commanders died on the battlefield, and there were many young and middle-aged senior generals who sacrificed their lives for the country. This made Cha Jung-hyun, who was a member of the Ah Yi branch, very unhappy.

Since the death of Chang Miao of the Silk Country, the strategy of the Silk Country against Goryeo suddenly changed abruptly, and changed to the tactics of cavalry attack, which was very disadvantageous to the Goryeo army, which lacked cavalry. Moreover, the other side targeted the bullying of the civilian people, and did not fight the Goryeo army head-on at all, and the Goryeo army, which was dominated by infantry, could not keep up with the cavalry troops of the Silk Country that attacked like the wind, and could only see the burned villages and the people whose thumbs had been cut off. This situation made every Goryeo soldier indignant. But he couldn't find anyone to vent, so Han Wen wanted to retaliate and led the army to cross the Yalu River and plunder the villages in the country of silk. However, it was fiercely counterattacked by the opponent's tightly deployed defensive positions, and the infantry advanced too slowly, and the direction of the main attack was exposed before the assembly was completed, and as a result, instead of taking advantage, many soldiers were lost. As a result, Lu Xuan, who was the commander-in-chief, strictly ordered not to attack easily, and all localities strengthened their own defenses, built fortresses, and protected food and personnel. Don't give the other party a chance, and at the same time ask Li Chenghui, who has already retired, to go out of the mountain again, and be responsible for training cavalry to resist the attack of the cavalry of the Silk Country.

Cha believes that there is nothing wrong with this approach. But the results were very slow - how could the construction of a fortress against cavalry attack be completed overnight? Moreover, in the case of a village, even if a fortress is barely built, it is difficult to withstand the attack of a large force of cavalry; As for the re-formation of cavalry troops to balance the opponent, of course, it is the most effective means, but it is a pity that Goryeo lacks a source of military horses, and its cavalry is weaker than that of Silk Country in terms of number and recovery ability. Therefore, Cha Zhengxian did not have much confidence in the role that cavalry could play. Compared with Lu Xuan's steady and steady tactics. However, the cavalry of the Silk Country haunts the small mountain villages and towns like ghosts every day, constantly burning and plundering and killing the people, the people are looking forward to their own army to protect themselves, the emotions of the soldiers are uncontrollable, these Che Zhengxian are anxious in his eyes, so he made a bold decision - take the initiative to set up an ambush to attack the enemy, if not to defeat the enemy army, at least to boost the morale of his own people.

Of course. He didn't report this plan to Lu Xuan. Because he knew that Lu Xuan would never agree to do this.

As for the location of the ambush, he chose a small mountain village between Turtle City and White Wolf Mountain, Lao Yao Village. The village was surrounded by mountains on three sides, and only a small road to the south could enter the village, and a small river happened to run through it outside the village, so that once the enemy cavalry entered the village, the Goryeo army could encircle and annihilate it.

For this reason, Cha Zhengxian made full preparations: he ordered the soldiers to transfer all the villagers, and then disguised themselves as villagers and dug a large number of pits in the village; A large amount of hay was hidden in the house for fire attack, and a simple horse fence was set up for the blockade of cavalry in time of war; He also sent a team of soldiers to block the upper reaches of the creek with sand, and once the cavalry of the Silk Country entered the village, he could dig up the sand and make the water level of the creek rise rapidly to prevent the cavalry from escaping; At the same time, soldiers were also sent to pretend to collect food from the surrounding villages and transport it to Lao Yao Village to attract enemy troops. After making these preparations, Cha Zhengxian and his 4,000 soldiers hid in the surrounding mountains, waiting for the cavalry of the Silk Country to throw themselves into the net.

According to the habits of the enemy, it is generally launched in the middle of the night, so although the number of our troops is insufficient, they can take advantage of the night to launch a surprise attack, and in the dark the enemy does not know the reality of our army, and must panic, so that the ambush of our army will become. Cha Jung-hyun thought so.

"My lord, the enemy!" A soldier whispered.

What the? Cha Jung-hyun was taken aback - the enemy army had arrived much earlier than expected, and it was not completely dark yet.

Sure enough, Che Zhengxian saw a group of cavalry coming towards Lao Yao Village from afar, and the number was about five hundred.

Cha Jung-hyun frowned: This is less than expected. But after thinking about it, it's okay, your own side has an absolute superiority in troops, and with a surprise attack, victory is inevitable.

However, instead of entering the village, the cavalry fired a wave of rockets at the village from outside the village!

Worst! Cha Zhengxian secretly complained in his heart: the enemy army has changed its previous tactics, and their purpose is not to snatch food, but to burn it! By setting fire to the houses with rockets, they could easily drive the villagers out of the village, so that the villagers could not escape the cavalry. But in this way, his plan will be ruined, and the houses in the village are full of hay ready for fire!

I saw that the house ignited by the rocket turned into a sky-high fire in an instant. Seeing this situation, the cavalry of the Silk Country was also taken aback, and they were obviously a little confused. Soon, however, they stopped their panic and began to search in all directions. Cha Zhengxian knew that something was wrong, so that instead of stepping into his encirclement, the enemy army might find his own ambush, and once the plan was revealed, it would be difficult to catch up with this cavalry, and everything he had painstakingly planned would be in vain.

Just when Cha Jung-hyun was hesitating whether to attack the enemy immediately, suddenly shouts of killing sounded in the mountains on both sides of the east and west! Cha Zhengxian immediately judged from the sound that it was the sound of a large number of cavalry wrapped in cloth hooves launching a surprise attack, and his heart suddenly cooled - it turned out that the enemy's arrangement was to use a small group of cavalry to drive the villagers out of the village, and then the cavalry that had been waiting on the east and west sides to attack! The ambush he had arranged happened to be on the route of the enemy's cavalry! Cha Jung-hyun slammed his fist on his head, he was so unlucky that he set up an ambush circle in the enemy's ambush circle! It must be a mess now.

Before Cha Zhengxian could recover from his composure, the voice of the cavalry also sounded behind him, and Cha Zhengxian was shocked and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to line up against the enemy. It's a pity that the time was a little late, and before the Goryeo army reorganized its formation, the cavalry of the Silk Country had already rushed over, and the Goryeo army suddenly fell into chaos.

Cha Jung-hyun knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly flew on his horse and rushed to the front line to organize the troops to resist. At this time, he caught a glimpse of a young general wearing a white robe and white armor in the enemy army, and a white tiger skin on his back.

Just as the two were about to clash, Wang Hanxin suddenly took out an iron rod from behind him, and when Cha Zhengxian recognized it as the terrifying weapon of the Silk Country, a ball of fire had already drowned out his sight!

The battle of Lao Crow Village started with a situation that neither side expected, but in the end it evolved into a unilateral defeat of Goryeo, and the results of many analyses by war historians show that the key to determining the outcome of this battle is entirely due to luck, because if Wang Hanxin had not temporarily changed his offensive strategy at that time, then the cavalry of the Silk Country is very likely to crash into the encirclement of the Goryeo, or at least the battle between the two sides will become very tragic. But the actual situation was that when Lu Xuan learned that Cha Zhengxian acted without authorization and led the army to support, he was greeted by the corpses of more than 1,000 Goryeo soldiers and the corpse of Cha Zhengxian, who was hung at the entrance of the village and had his head smashed. (To be continued......)