Chapter 341: Defeat
Yu Wenxiong was still outside the first wall of fire, and dozens of horses rushed into the sea of fire, knocking the burning cart into pieces, so that the fire also decreased slightly, which made Yu Wenxiong see the hope of breaking through this wall of fire.
"Ku'er Hai, quickly lead someone to tow away the cart and open the passage." Yu Wenxiong shouted loudly.
Hu Erhai shouted in agreement, turned his horse's head and ordered in a loud voice to the Xi cavalry who were crowded together behind him and were busy controlling the fire-fearing war horses: "Dismount, dismount, push the cart." Use the handle of the gun, use the twig, in short, whatever you use, open a passage...... Yes! ”
As soon as Hu Erhai's voice fell, he suddenly let out a loud cry that had nothing to do with the order, and everyone looked in shock, but saw Hu Erhai twisting his body on the horse's back, scratching behind him with his hands, as if there was something on his back. As he turned around, everyone saw that he had a feathered arrow nailed to his back, piercing through the thin armor and nailing it into his body, revealing half of the arrow feathers on the outside.
Yu Wenxiong shouted, wanting to step forward to help Hu Erhai, so he heard the sound of Xiu Xiu, more feather arrows shot out from behind, Yu Wenxiong hurriedly waved his blade to block, and after this round of arrow rain, he looked at Hu Erhai again, and he was already full of body like a hedgehog and fell off the horse. And more than a dozen Xi cavalry were also shot and fell off their horses.
A Xi soldier covered in smoke rolled out from behind the first wall of fire, his clothes catching fire as he ran, and red flames erupted. As he ran, he cried out: "There is a wall of fire behind you, you can't rush over, save me, save me." ”
As the words fell, his body fell to the ground with a thud, and his body writhed on the ground with a smoky fire, and after a moment it was silent.
Yu Wenxiong fully understood the current situation, and the other party set up several obstacles, each of which could become a wall of fire that hindered his pursuit, and they bent their bows and arrows behind each wall of fire. He and his men and horses are like a herd of wounded deer in the wilderness, and they will be shot one by one, but there is nothing they can do.
Even if he doesn't want to admit such a predicament, even if he is helpless against the Tang army that is close at hand, even if he is unwilling, as a general who has experienced a hundred battles, Yu Wenxiong also understands that he needs to retreat away immediately, rather than blindly rushing and killing, obviously the other party is fully prepared.
"The back team becomes the front team, immediately retreat, the sooner the better." Yu Wenxiong gave the order to retreat.
The rear cavalry was asked to turn around and withdraw as soon as they arrived, and many people didn't know the situation in front of them, and the shouting and scolding sounded, but General Yuwen's order could not be violated, so they hurriedly turned the horse's head, and the scene was chaotic. More than 1,400 Xi cavalry were crowded like headless flies on the long canyon passage, and there was no military discipline at all.
Yu Wenxiong quickly moved away from the range of the arrows behind the wall of fire, and at the same time was very angry at the chaotic scene in front of him, and scolded angrily: "A group of bastard things, messed up into a pot of porridge, they haven't fought for a few years, and they don't know how to fight anymore. Fortunately, the Tang army was stupid and did not set up an ambush on the top of the cliffs on both sides, otherwise it would be a catastrophe today. ”
Before he could finish speaking, he heard a heart-rending noise from the men and horses behind, and the screams and neighing of the war horses were clearly transmitted to the front, because he turned a canyon bend, and he couldn't see the situation of the soldiers and horses behind clearly, and he could only hear the creepy screams.
"What's going on, report it quickly." Yu Wenxiong roared angrily.
"General Bao Yuwen...... Greatly...... The big thing was not good, and the rear team was ambushed by the Tang Army archers on the top of the cliff, and suffered heavy casualties. The news was not long in coming, and an officer rushed to report.
Yu Wenxiong was shocked, slapped himself in the mouth, and scolded: "Lao Tzu's crow mouth, I'm bah!" ”
"What to do? General Yuwen. ”
Yu Wenxiong was dumbfounded: "What else can I do?" Braving the rain of arrows to retreat. All the staff retreated as quickly as possible, and immediately retreated. ”
All the Xi cavalry scrambled like the waves of the ebbing tide to the rear, on the cliff wall in the rear, more than 100 archers condescended to slaughter, almost no need to aim, just mechanical bow shooting, bow shooting, almost every arrow can be shot to the crowded people and horses in the canyon. Every round of arrows can almost kill almost all the cavalry in an area, and there are almost no people who can escape.
But after all, there are only a hundred archers, unable to carry out a large area of continuous shooting, the gap after a round of arrow rain is the best time for the Xi cavalry to escape, and only the cliff in the west can be ambushed, unable to form a three-dimensional cross fire blockade, so that the power of the archers is greatly reduced, so although the Xi soldiers and horses suffered heavy casualties, but there are still many cavalry escaped from the range of the archers, desperately fleeing towards the exit of the canyon.
Yuwen's ambition was like a fire, urging the horses to scold the crowding and fleeing men in front of him, but no one was willing to happily cross the death zone controlled by the Tang archers, and the more he rubbed Yuwenxiong knew that the danger would be.
"I hope the Tang army behind the wall of fire in the rear doesn't have the courage to rush out, if they rush out and chase our butts to fight, it will be very bad." Yu Wenxiong thought to himself.
As soon as the thought turned, like a roundworm in Yu Wenxiong's stomach, the wall of fire burning violently in the rear collapsed, hundreds of Tang soldiers holding pine branches and fighting the flames, and hundreds of Tang cavalry stepped on the ground with green smoke and galloped out. The horses became agitated and jumped because they felt the heat on the ground, and they ran faster. At the front of the team, Yu Wenxiong saw the young man on the white horse who attracted him to come, and next to him was a handsome young general, a bright armor shining, and the long sword in his hand also flashed with cyan light, although Yu Wenxiong didn't know him, but he guessed that it was Wang Yuan, the envoy of the Tang River North Province.
Yu Wenxiong slapped his mouth, slapped his mouth swollen, and scolded himself angrily in his heart: "Lao Tzu is really a crow's mouth, what does Lao Tzu want to do this?" It's okay now, it's impossible to turn back and fight, everyone is busy fleeing, it's impossible to turn around and face the battle in the chaos, the only way, hurry up and run for your life, if you think about it more, you will die here. ”
Yu Wenxiong has no intention of fighting, and today's defeat is absolutely unexpected, and the blow will be even heavier. thought that Wang Yuan and others would be easily solved, but unexpectedly, the enemy rushed forward, and Wang Yuan set up a heavy pocket and suffered heavy losses. At present, more than half of his men and horses have been lost, and what is even worse is that his soldiers and horses have no fighting spirit, so they can only evacuate immediately.
Yu Wenxiong loudly scolded the Xi soldiers who were squirming in front of him, and seeing that the soldiers were still congested, he scolded angrily while slashing several soldiers who were terrified with the scimitar in his hand. Under the pressure of such powerful means, coupled with the fact that the feathered arrows shot from the cliff in front of them had gradually sparsely sparsely scattered, the Xi cavalry finally began to quickly flee from the place of death.
In the rear, Wang Yuan waved his leather whip and slammed the buttocks of the big black horse, and ordered loudly: "Bite the Xi people, don't let them distance themselves." ”
Nearly four hundred Tang cavalry approached the ranks of the Xi cavalry like a storm, biting their tails tightly. After chasing for several miles, someone reminded Wang Yuan loudly in the rear: "Wang Qin, you can't chase it, the front is the ambush location of the archers of the Xi people, and it will be dangerous to chase it again." ”
Wang Yuan shouted: "Don't stop, rush over, this is the last chance to rush out of the valley, as long as you bite the tail of the Xi people, their archers will not dare to release arrows indiscriminately." Rush. ”
Everyone suddenly realized that it was because Wang Yuan wanted everyone to bite the tail of the Xi cavalry tightly, and the archers on the other side did not dare to release arrows indiscriminately. Under the smoke and dust of the valley, the archers could not distinguish the battle situation on the rock wall nearly twenty feet high.
Yu Wenxiong also understood Tang Jun's intentions, but he had no time to take care of it, he was at the rear of the team, and he couldn't give the order for the archers to shoot regardless of life or death, because that would envelop himself in the rain of arrows, and he could only run desperately outside the valley mouth.
The sound of hooves rumbled, the smoke covered the sun, and the miles away almost came to an end in the blink of an eye, and Yu Wenxiong's Xi soldiers and horses rushed out of the north pass of the Jiming Mountain Canyon, and suddenly they were like wild beasts running all over the mountains and fields. Although Yu Wenxiong had the intention to organize a U-turn counterattack, after running out of the valley, he saw the situation of his escaped soldiers and horses scattering and fleeing, and he had to give up this idea with a long sigh.
Yu Wenxiong and more than 100 cavalry ran wildly all the way, until someone reminded him that the Tang army behind him did not chase after him, then he breathed a sigh of relief and stopped, looking at the sparse more than 100 cavalry around him, a sense of humiliation arose, and Yu Wenxiong couldn't wait to slap himself a few more mouths.
"The general must not blame himself, it's not that General Yuwen is not brave, it's really that the Tang Army is too cunning." A partial general stepped forward to comfort.
"Less nonsense, blow the horn to gather the soldiers and horses, and straighten out the soldiers and horses. Someone was sent to immediately reconnoiter at the mouth of the valley, and a thousand archers on the top of the cliff also ordered to withdraw to this place. Then find out the movements of the Tang army after leaving the valley, and report quickly. Yu Wenxiong shouted.
The general nodded in agreement, turned around and muttered to himself: "At this time, I want to know the movements of the Tang army, and when I left the valley, I was so frightened that I didn't dare to go back, of course I don't know where the Tang army went." Bah, what the hell. ”