A thick and sluggish poisonous miasma shrouded the top of the mountain, as if draped in a colorful scarf on the top of the mountain, reflecting under the blue clouds, which looked magnificent and beautiful. But everyone knows that the top of the mountain shrouded in this beauty is a murderous Shura field.

With a weak wind, the miasma slowly swept across the entire mountain top ground from east to west. This was exactly the perfect situation that Ge Luofeng had in mind. In this way, the Tang army on the top of the entire mountain will be attacked by miasma without missing a single miss.

At the bottom of the hillside, the 20,000 barbarians preparing to attack began to swallow the white medicinal powder against the miasma, which was even more precious than the collection of the miasma, and was a special medicinal herb that grew between the cliffs of the Great Snow Mountain. It is extremely difficult and dangerous to pick. As the poisonous miasma as a means of attack has become a weapon used by the various ethnic groups of Nanzhao to attack each other, the demand for this medicinal material has also increased greatly, and the quantity of this medicine has gradually become scarce, so in order to even the Nanzhao barbarians can only carry a small amount to save their lives, and in the case of insufficient portions, these barbarians will often cause damage to the body due to the toxicity of the poisonous miasma after rushing into the poisonous miasma to kill the enemy. But even so, Ge Luofeng couldn't take care of it.

After swallowing the powder, the horn of the charge sounded immediately. Ge Luofeng once again personally sounded the big drum, and the two leaders of the Nanzhao barbarian soldiers, Ah Bao and Ah Hu, each led 10,000 soldiers and horses to launch a fierce attack on the top of the mountain. The barbarian soldiers shouting and charging all over the mountains and fields, they are not as Song Jiangong said, they are naked and hung with straw curtains, in fact, they also have armor to wear, and a large number of rattan armor is their most commonly used means of protection. It's just that the Nanzhao barbarians are accustomed to being topless and taking off their rattan helmets when charging and killing the enemy, which makes them more flexible, and secondly, they also use their blue-purple faces full of patterns to intimidate the enemy.

More than 20,000 barbarian soldiers quickly rushed up the mountainside, which was already within the range of the Tang army's attack forward, but not a single feather arrow shot down on the top of the mountain shrouded in chaos miasma, which showed that the entire army of the other party had been dizzy by the poisonous miasma. This miasma is not an instant death, and even many people can wake up and recover the power to fight back after getting rid of the miasma, so the best time to attack is when the miasma is about to disperse, which is why the brutes need to carry that precious powder to rush into the miasma.

The lack of any fire from the bow and arrow greatly boosted the confidence of the brutes, who rushed upwards with frenzied shouts, and some even threw away their wooden shields in order to climb quickly.

One hundred steps, eighty steps, fifty steps...... The banner of the Tang army in the miasma on the top of the mountain can vaguely distinguish the outline, and the shadow in the poisonous miasma can also be seen in the undulating fortification wall temporarily built by the Tang army, and the top of the mountain is already close at hand, but the Tang army still has no movement. Ge Luofeng's hanging heart also fell to the ground, handed the drumstick in his hand to the drummer beside him, and pulled out the spear inserted by his side and prepared to rush to the top of the mountain to slaughter the Tang army in person. However, just as he had taken two steps, he heard a terrible scream from the hillside and a terrifying hum of a large number of arrows breaking through the air.

The brute soldiers on the hillside approached the fortifications at a close distance of forty or fifty paces, and suddenly from the misty poisonous miasma, countless arrows broke through the air without warning, and at such a close distance, the barbarians in the front row were knocked down by the powerful arrows without even the most basic reactions. The arrows fired by the Strongbow and the Strongbow produced a terrifying lethality, piercing and piercing their bodies through their poor rattan armor.

Compared to bows and arrows, the attack power of the crossbow is even more amazing, they are already good at horizontal fire, when the thick crossbow arrow bolt hits someone's body from the smoke with great force, the iron blade of the arrow will burst into a cloud of flesh. It's like a watermelon that has been hit with a hammer, and it will burst open, causing a great visual impact.

Moreover, even if they hit gravel and grass, these crossbow arrows can still use iron arrows to knock dirt, rocks, grass and trees into the air, and hit the brutes behind with unfailing force.

The brute soldiers froze for a few moments, and then let out a cry of terror, and some of them began to turn around and flee down the hill. Ah Leopard, who commanded the attack on the south side, shouted loudly: "Rush up, rush up, and turn back is a dead end." ”

The barbarians reacted that such a close distance was the right choice only to rush up, at this time to turn around and run down, in a long distance will be shrouded in the arrows of the Tang army, it is difficult to escape for life.

So, in the face of a dense rain of arrows, the brutes charged desperately, using stones, dirt slopes, and the small wooden shields they carried on them as cover, and charged like ants to the top of the hill.

However, the cost of doing so was enormous, and countless brute soldiers fell at a distance of dozens of paces, and almost hundreds of people were paid for each step closer. Countless bodies of arrows tumbled down the hillside, and countless bodies hit by the crossbow erupted into bright red snowy fireworks and rolled down the hillside. The corpses rolled down, along with the rocks on the hillside, sending smoke and dust as if an avalanche had occurred.

"Stupid, don't retreat yet. How else is this offensive? Ge Luofeng scolded angrily at the foot of the mountain.

The heralds at the foot of the mountain blew the horn of retreat, and Ah Bao and Ah Hu hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops when they heard the sound of the horn. The brutes immediately turned around and rolled down the hillside. And the Don Army doesn't seem to be chasing their ass and shooting arrows. It was just a rain of arrows that shot aimlessly at the hillside, until the miasma smoke became even lighter and the situation could be seen clearly, and the aimless shooting stopped.

The chaotic defeated barbarians retreated down the mountain, all of them frightened, and they didn't know why the poisonous miasma had lost its effect, and they suspected that they had offended the gods and ghosts, so that the gods and ghosts appeared and punished them. Ge Luofeng immediately suppressed this panic, claiming that the ghosts and gods he believed in had not abandoned them, and the Tang army on the top of the mountain had also suffered heavy losses, and ordered everyone to stop spreading gossip. After killing more than a dozen barbarian soldiers who were frightened by fear and lost their minds and were full of nonsense, Enwei finally suppressed the panic.

Ah Hu and Ah Leopard came to Ge Luofeng with a face full of shame and knelt down to plead guilty, Ge Luofeng listened to them report the number of casualties with a gloomy face, and when he heard that the number of dead and wounded exceeded 5,000, Ge Luofeng's heart was dripping blood.

In one morning, two attacks, and even the use of poisonous miasma attacks, the loss of his own 30,000 soldiers and horses exceeded 20%, which is simply unacceptable. Ge Luofeng even had the urge to withdraw his troops quickly, because he couldn't afford such a blow. The soldiers and horses of the entire Nanzhao Kingdom that can fight are here, but even the more than 10,000 Tang troops cannot be defeated, how can the battle be fought in the future?

What to do? Do you give up or continue? Ge Luofeng was in a dilemma.

On the top of the mountain, Song Jiangong was also scolding. When the poisonous miasma was rising just now, Song Jiangong hatched this plan to suddenly give the barbarians a head-on blow. Because he didn't want the barbarians to know that the poisonous miasma was not effective against the Jiannan Army, making this attack more sudden, he didn't take the risk of letting the soldiers out of the poisonous mist to observe the movements of the barbarians below, but could only choose to rely on hearing to judge the timing of the attack. In this way, there was a bit of a risk in the choice of timing, the brute kept shouting, and the surrounding chaos was chaotic, and he didn't know the specific distance, and finally he vaguely saw the figure of the barbarian and then ordered the attack, almost letting the barbarian touch the top of the mountain, so that Song Jiangong was covered in cold sweat.

But Song Jiangong didn't scold because of this, he scolded that after the poisonous miasma dissipated, there were Jiannan soldiers and horses on the ground who were poisoned, and the number was as high as more than 2,000 people. This made Song Jiangong very angry, and the mask did not fully function. One thousand two hundred of them have died, hundreds have bleeding from their ears and noses, and they are unconscious and unable to fight. This made Song Jiangong's heart ache. These soldiers put on masks because they believed in the efficacy of the masks, which was equivalent to being poisoned here without psychological preparation, which Song Jiangong could not bear. He must ask the deputy marshal for an explanation of this matter, but at present, he is facing the heavy responsibility of continuing to stick to this place, and he can only suppress this matter psychologically for the time being.

In the morning, both sides were exhausted, and the barbarians did not seem to be going to attack, and Song Jiangong quickly ordered the soldiers and horses to eat something and drink some water. At the same time, Song Jiangong was also pleased to see that the other side seemed to understand that this was the interlude period of the battle, and more than a dozen large wooden platoons with ropes carried hundreds of soldiers began to cross the river again. When the soldiers arrived, there were hundreds of more ropes on the river behind them, and they could officially lay wooden logs and build rope bridges.

Everything is developing in a favorable direction, and Wang Yuan even feels that there is hope that the construction of the simple trestle bridge will be completed tomorrow, and the soldiers and horses can reach the opposite bank through the rope bridge to drive Ge Luofeng away. After that, the rope bridge can be strengthened to carry the baggage of horses and vehicles, and at that time it will be unimpeded. Strategic objectives can also be achieved in full. The whole army also has an optimistic attitude.

However, Wang Yuan still underestimated Ge Luofeng's determination and ability, and underestimated the combat effectiveness of the barbarians.