The fog was getting thicker and thicker, mixed with a lot of smoke coming from the valley, and it was difficult to see people ten paces away, but tens of thousands of people huddled together to flee for their lives, and they could still see those densely swaying figures from this cloud of smoke.

The thousands of figures in front of them were shocked by the sound of gongs and drums and shouts of killing, some of them obviously stopped, but more people were still running forward at full speed, and those who stopped or ran slowly were soon pushed by the people behind them, and continued to run forward.

In the eyes of these soldiers, the ray of sunshine outside the dense fog is like a ray of life, and only by rushing out with all their strength can they save their lives!

Soon, the first batch of thousands of people rushed out of the valley like a herd of cattle and sheep, but the people who ran at the front were surprised to find that what appeared in front of them was actually a bright spear tip.

The sound of the "puff puff" piercing the human body was mixed with the screams and scolding before death, and the rebels who escaped from the valley fled completely spontaneously, and there was no organized and large-scale frontal attack at all, and the more than 2,000 people who ran in the front instantly hit the tip of the lance.

Many of the soldiers who were running behind were surprised to find that there was suddenly a bloody spear tip on the back of the person in front of them, and before they could figure out what was going on, they were also pierced in the heart, and then the brothers who followed behind them also suffered the same fate as themselves, only in an instant, each long sheath was pierced like a skewer of mutton at least three or four people, and more than 5,000 rebel soldiers unfortunately became the background material for the first batch of human meat skewers.

The soldiers in the first row quickly grabbed the lances from their shoulders and held them in their hands, while the soldiers in the second row pulled the lances that had been pierced into the body from the corpses. With the sound of corpses falling to the ground. The blood-drenched lance rested on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row.

The soldiers in the front row were covered in blood. It looked like the enemy was slaughtered by a man from hell, and the thousands of corpses lying in front of them literally scared the enemy soldiers who could see this qiē five paces away into a nervous breakdown.

The death-defying screams of more than 5,000 rebels finally stopped the footsteps of the people behind, and some of the rebels who followed finally understood, and shouted: "There is a gun array in front, everyone run from the side!" In an instant, the rebel clusters that had just stopped for a moment fled to both sides.

There was a burst of bows and crossbows breaking through the air in the air, and Yang Xuangan was too familiar with this kind of three-shot crossbow arrows specially made by Xiaoguo cavalry. Fifty paces is enough to shoot through the chain of bright light armor.

A few days ago, after Yang Xuangan single-handedly challenged Wang Ba under Daizhou City, he was shot with the bow and arrow before the fight with the hundred dragon horse guards, and Yang Xuangan himself was shot through the double-layer iron armor by several of these continuous riding crossbows at a distance of seventy or eighty steps, and the feeling of crossbow arrows entering his body made him unforgettable in his life.

The sound of the crossbow machine came and went, Yang Xuangan usually practiced this kind of continuous crossbow shooting formation every day when he trained Xiaoguo, similar to the archers' three-stage continuous shooting, these knights quickly fired three crossbows in a row, they would throw the crossbow arrows back, and easily take over the next three-shot riding crossbow handed by the person behind. Three arrows in a row again.

In this way, the walking Fruit Riders standing in five or six rows can do so in less than a minute. Each person shoots more than thirty arrows.

In this dense formation, there is only about an arm's length between people to facilitate the transmission of bows and crossbows, and there are 500 people standing in a row, and more than 15,000 arrows can be shot in the blink of an eye.

The rebel soldiers had no way to avoid it, and these people fled in a hurry, so they didn't have time to put on their armor, and often after being hit by an arrow in the body, the crossbow arrow passed through the body and shot directly at the person behind, and an arrow could be shot into the third person before it was nailed into the human body and no longer pierced.

What's even worse is that these fallen corpses are scattered all over the ground, forming a huge obstacle for the soldiers fleeing behind, many people are running, and if they are not careful, they are trampled by the corpses under their feet, and they fall to the ground, and they will be stepped on by the people behind them, and they will never be able to stand up again.

This kind of trampling on each other by the rebel army is always more terrible than the damage caused by the enemy's weapons, because in this stage of self-care and escape, any slogans and military orders are useless, and all people only think of squeezing out of those who stand in their way, whether they are friends or foes.

In less than half an hour, in this pocket array hundreds of steps long and wide under Yang Subu, there were nearly 20,000 corpses lying horizontally and vertically, and the hundreds of rebel soldiers who occasionally rushed to the sides in front of the Xiaoguo knights on foot were also hammered with swords and axes by the Xiaoguo killers who had already been waiting for the battle, and all the corpses were mutilated, either missing arms or heads, which was much worse than those companions who were shot and stabbed to death.

The pocket array was full of corpses, and the people behind could no longer run out of the valley as they had just done, and the sound of the seriously injured soldiers in the corpse pile who had not died turning their screams was heart-wrenching, so frightened that the rebel soldiers behind did not dare to come out again, and they were all looking for a place to hide at the mouth of the valley, and did not dare to step forward to die.

Yang Xuangan heard the same screams and gongs and drums coming from the other side of the valley in the distance, presumably the same feast was arranged by General Zhou to entertain these rebel soldiers who were desperately trying to escape from the fire, because of the natural barrier of Fenshui, I am afraid that the enemy's luck there will be worse than here.

The Warriors took advantage of this gap to reload the three rounds of crossbow arrows, and still lined up in the same crossbow formation as before, just waiting for the enemy to come and die.

The soldiers in the seventh row opened a certain gap with the gun formation of the first six rows, and only when the enemy attacked again, they threw this short lance and used it as a javelin, and at close range, the penetration and lethality of this short lance were far greater than that of ordinary bows and arrows.

The smoke grew louder and louder, the screams and wails in the valley gradually subsided, and the rebels, after the initial panic, began to attack outward in an organized manner, although they had already paid the price of tens of thousands of lives, Yang Xuangan heard bursts of neighing and whistling from the wind in the valley.

Cavalry! The rebels are ready to send out their cavalry for a last-ditch fight!

As the neighing of horses and people in the valley of the rebels became higher and closer, Yang Su also began to give orders one after another through the horn:

The cavalry on both sides all pushed the ironclad horses forward. Resist the assault of enemy cavalry! ”

"The infantry in front of the formation laid down their horses to resist the horses. The infantry in the front row lined up with spear arrays and shield walls behind the rejection of their horses. Fast! ”

"The archers on the cliff hurriedly marched back with five thousand men and stood by, and assembled at the place where the wolf smoke was lit! Others continued to fire arrows into the valley. ”

"Two thousand infantry on the cliff have returned, come to the Chinese army commander's banner and stand by!"

While the horn of the last command was still echoing in the air, the noisy sound of horses at the mouth of the valley in the distance suddenly fell silent, and a voice made an impassioned speech:

The gist of the speech was that the enemy had set up an ambush at the mouth of the valley for a while, but they were not many in number, and only under the cover of the morning fog could they make up for the lack of their own forces.

In addition, the enemy army had no cavalry, and General Liang Luoliang in the direction of Huozhou had already arrived with rescue troops. is fighting fiercely with the enemy, and the sound of the earth-shattering horn outside the valley is the best illustration of the fierce battle.

The enemy army was gradually unable to resist General Liang's attack, and even began to pull the archers on the cliff to help in the battle.

On the other side of the valley mouth there is Fenshui as a barrier, although our army can not rush out, but the enemy does not want to attack lightly, at this time, as long as our army works together, with iron cavalry to open the way, the infantry out in formation, will definitely be able to rush to the sky, kill a bloody road.

As the man's speech ended. There was a deafening cheer in the valley, and the rebel soldiers seemed to see the dawn of victory and the hope of survival. Like a man in the water grasping at a straw floating on the water, everyone is making a last-ditch effort to survive.

Yang Xuangan listened to this person's speech, and secretly admired it in his heart, as soon as this person spoke, he was panicked just now, like tens of thousands of enemy troops waiting to be slaughtered, all of them were silent, it should be the general Zhao Zikai, who is not chaotic and handsome.

Moreover, one of his speeches, three points true and seven points false, described the enemy's herald horn as the sound of a fierce battle when reinforcements had arrived, and Yang Su transferred the archers and infantry on the cliff back in case the enemy could not resist the attack of the reinforcements.

Zhao Zikai could even quickly see that the other side lacked cavalry after two failed breakthrough attempts, and the troops were slightly insufficient, and used this to cheer up his own soldiers.

The horn sounded again, but this time Yang Su's order was clearly to make the Xiaoguo knights shout loudly, and the people shouted and the horses neighed.

Yang Xuangan immediately understood, Yang Su wanted to use practical actions to expose Zhao Zikai's lie to boost morale: Didn't you say that the enemy army had no cavalry? The battle cry of the knights will make each of your soldiers frightened, the strongest iron cavalry in the world is on the opposite side, and the morale you just mustered will no longer exist.

The heart-warming roar of the Xiaoguo knights echoed in the canyon of Huoshan with the long neighing of the war horses: "Xiaoguo, Xiaoguo, sighing; Xiaoguo, Xiaoguo, sigh and tweet! The rebel soldiers, who had been cheering just a moment earlier, fell into a deathly silence again.

Yang Xuangan's heart began to sigh: The saddest thing about people is not that there is never hope, but that they have just had hope and then are beaten into boundless despair, just like a person who finally climbed to the top of the cliff and was kicked down the mountain with a heavy kick, the blow is far more than dying at the bottom of the mountain at the beginning.

Zhao Zikai's lies burst like soap bubbles, and the morale that had just been mustered was no longer there. Yang Xuangan could even imagine Zhao Zikai's pale and distorted face in the valley opposite.

Zhao Zikai's voice sounded again after the battle cry of the Xiaoguo stopped: "There are only 10,000 Xiaoguo, and they are also flesh and blood, and just now you all saw that they all dismounted and fought on foot, is it still Xiaoguo without the war horse?" The soldiers of the King of Han, if you defeat Xiaoguo, you are Xiaoguo! Rush me! ”

The earth-shattering drums and trumpets sounded in the valley again, Zhao Zikai was afraid of any more accidents, and he was unwilling to give Yang Su a chance to expose his other lies, so he directly ordered the horse team of the front army to launch a surprise attack, and the earth-shaking sound of horse hooves accompanied by the sound of shouting and killing converged into a surging angry wave, rushing towards the infantry army array in front.

Halfway through the hour, the sun had already risen, and the morning mist gradually dispersed, Yang Xuangan looked back and saw from the narrow valley. A black iron stream was surging out. Behind the Iron Flow. It was a blazing fire, and at the front of the black iron stream were more than 10,000 tall horses huddled together, and the horses were full of knights with gnashing teeth and chain mail.

Yang Xuan felt a little pity, in order to attack lightly, the infantry of the front army only carried short knives and light swords to cut through thorns in the jungle. Before cutting the road, even the spears and lances in their hands were temporarily handed over to them by the Warriors.

With such a dense enemy formation, if there are Sui army's standard eight-stone crossbows and ten-stone crossbows, put hundreds of them in front of the formation, and in such a narrow valley mouth that cannot be turned, it is enough to shoot the enemy army with men and horses, and the corpses can block the valley mouth that is more than ten feet wide.

Yang Xuangan was lamenting that more than 1,000 horsemen of the rebels' vanguard had rushed out of the valley, and everyone who was a soldier knew it. The first martyr to rush, the second to rush the hero. Those who rush to the front are often the ones who die the fastest.

The vanguard is the group with the highest casualty ratio in ancient and modern times, so it is often the most courageous stunned young people or servant soldiers of different nationalities to do this kind of thing, and the veterans who have experienced many wars are the baby bumps in the hearts of the generals, and they will not be put at the front as cannon fodder.

The more than 1,000 horsemen at the forefront of the rebels are such Jihu recruits, and their ears are still echoing with Zhao Zikai's seductive words: "If you defeat Xiaoguo, you are Xiaoguo!" And the urging of the officer behind them made them have no time to think, and they didn't care about the danger, so they gritted their teeth and rushed out.

Yang Su took advantage of Zhao Zi's speech to let the guards of the Chinese army temporarily build a handsome platform with a height of more than one zhang with wooden planks, and he stood on this high platform, with a full view of the situation in front of him, he sighed softly, and issued instructions to the heralds around him majestically and quickly.

The Jihu cavalry rushed out more than 200 steps in an instant, and the corpses and the few wounded soldiers who had not yet died suddenly turned into mud and mud under their tall horses, and the bodies of the horses without vests were splashed with mud and clods mixed with blood, water and flesh, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of blood.

And these war horses were also stimulated by the heavy smell of blood, their eyes became blood-red, and even the rough breath that spewed out was also foaming with blood, and one by one they lowered their heads, carrying the riders on the horses, and viciously rushed towards the spear lance phalanx in front of them.

Although the horsemen on the horses were fanatical, their brains were not dull, whether they were recruits or veterans, they all knew that the front of the opposing infantry phalanx was often the most terrible strong bow and hard crossbow, and for these unarmored war horses, the arrow rain crossbow array was the most terrible threat.

However, the dragon cavalry guards of the Han King Yang Liangjia have all been damaged under the city of Daizhou, and the number of Hu cavalry led by Zhao Zikai is only 20,000, and they are all light cavalry without vests, and even these Ji Hu knights were originally only wearing leather armor and cotton robes.

Because Zhao Zikai needed to open the way with a cavalry assault, he picked up a lot of infantry armor and put it on these Hu people, although it was impossible to fit, and it also made many riders feel awkward to wear it, but compared to getting up and wearing leather armor to face the rain of guns and arrows in that terrible phalanx, what else is this discomfort worth?

The knights saw through the dissipating fog and saw two rejection horses in front of the infantry phalanx, and in normal times, they would never have rushed straight into such a well-defended infantry phalanx with their flesh and blood wrapped in a layer of iron skin.

In the blink of an eye, more than 1,000 horsemen all rushed out of the valley, and the knights on the horses used their shields to protect the horse's head, in their impression, this distance of about 200 steps from the enemy was the most dangerous, and it was useless to protect their head and face, and seventy percent of the cavalry were shot first on the horse, and then the knight above the horse fell to the ground, and finally either fell to death or was trampled to death by the war horse behind.

The rain of arrows did not appear, and the knights of Jihu poked their heads out from behind their shields in surprise, is it really as General Zhao said, the enemy army lacks bows and arrows? Or have the enemy archers really been sent to meet reinforcements?

Just in a flash, the Hu knights rushed out forty or fifty steps, and they were less than fifty steps away from the first rejection of the horse, and even these Hu knights could clearly see the two rejection horses in front of them, and the resolute and cold eyes of the commanders in the front row of the Sui army.

The familiar sound of the crossbow breaking through the air suddenly sounded, like a storm in the flat ground, but this time, the storm did not come from the front, but from the two wings, and the storm of crossbow arrows on the left and right was like a locust that quickly swept across the earth, spreading death in this open field within a radius of only a mile.

The shields of the knights were all in front of the horses' heads, and they had no time to care about the blows from the two wings.

Three-shot repeater, then three-shot repeater, although the distance is two hundred paces, although it is only a cavalry crossbow of about two stones, but it is enough, because this time, the Xiaoguo knights are not shooting people in iron armor, but unprotected horses!

A burst of blood mist rose in front of the infantry phalanx in front of the Sui army, and the wind blowing from the valley drifted to the faces of every soldier. The neighing of the horses and the screams of the riders as they landed, while the eyes of the lancers in the first row gleamed with bloodlust.

In the blink of an eye, a total of 10,000 crossbow arrows were fired from the left and right, and more than a thousand horses fell in pieces like wheat harvested by a sickle.

Eight out of ten Hu riders who were shot through the thigh often had no time to react, and were thrown directly under the horse by their mounts, and then the horse shot from behind was crushed under them and stoned to death. (To be continued......)