Chapter 66: The Mountains

The vanguard was like a sheep in the mouth of a tiger, bitten to the death by the Wei army, and it was not until they attacked the Wei army in two waves that the other phalanxes of the Korean army followed closely. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

At this time, the 3,000 Korean troops in the vanguard were less than 1,000, and only death awaited them under the dense flanking attacks on both sides.

In the rear of the Korean army, Gong Zhongxuan tried his best to suppress the emotional ups and downs in his heart. I never relaxed for a moment to watch the station.

At this moment, although his vanguard was caught in the siege and inevitably suffered losses, the Wei army formation also became passive because of their attraction. The wings on both sides are half closed and half open, and even the chief general of the Wei army can't imagine such a situation.

As long as his own army breaks through a gap in the future, the hope of victory in this battle is just as great, not to mention that he has the advantage of numbers on his side.

The 3,000 vanguard phalanx were all wiped out in the blink of an eye. But the Han army in the rear had already followed, and when the Wei army was caught off guard, the cold Ge blade had fallen heavily, and the armor on the backs of many Wei soldiers was directly hooked off by the Lian blade on Changge, and a bloody trace spread along the backbone, and the exposed Sensen white bones were all shocked.

But at this time, the soldiers of the Wei army, who were originally digging holes in the rear, had already brought bows and crossbows along the left flank of the army, relying on the cover of the army, and silently shot the first wave of arrows towards the Korean army coming from the chrysalis.

It was like a sudden thunderbolt on a sunny day, and this attack made the Korean soldiers even more difficult to guard against, and countless soldiers under the random arrows began to scream.

In the middle of the military formation, an arrow pierced the eye of the Korean soldier, the eyeball shattered, and the powerful force of the arrow rushed into his skull again, before the dead body fell to the ground. The Han army in the rear chrysalis had already driven his body to roll around, and some of the Han soldiers did not pay attention to their feet, and there was no chance to get up after stumbling to the ground.

"It's ...... The Wei army's surprise soldiers were not successful? Gong Zhongxuan, who was staring at the battlefield, only chuckled in his heart at the moment he saw the rain of arrows, but he did not hastily withdraw his troops at this moment.

Before withdrawing troops, it is always necessary to see whether it is an ambush or a suspicious strategy. If it was just a sudden rain of arrows, it might just be caused by the attack of the crossbowmen in the Wei army's array, and the suspicion was more likely.

But Ni Tao had already ordered the five thousand crossbowmen to divide into two waves of alternating but uninterrupted attacks.

So after the first wave of arrows, Gongzhong's extravagant heart could no longer fall. Wave after wave of arrows rained down on the heads of the Korean army like scattered flowers of the heavenly maidens.

The longbowmen in their own army had nowhere to use their strength because they were caught in the charging army, and the two armies had already fought head-on, and it was impossible for the longbowmen to directly cross the Han infantry rushing in front to attack the Wei army as they had done before.

The configuration of the formation has been completely below, although there is still a possibility of victory if the impact continues, but Gong Zhongxuan does not know if there will be another infantry on the right side of the Wei army after a while.

And the rain of arrows that had fallen no less than ten waves in succession was like countless sharp needles shot at his heart, and it was so painful.

A soft sigh of helplessness. Gong Zhongxuan finally took a deep breath and sighed: "The general order is that the front army resists the edge of the Wei army, the foot soldiers of the Chinese army begin to retreat, and the longbow soldiers divide into battle formations and wait for the opportunity to cover on both sides of the army to ensure the evacuation of the vanguard soldiers." The whole army retreated fifteen miles and set up camp. ā€

As the words fell, he withdrew his gaze from a distance and tightened his grip on the reins in his hand.

……

The bright sun shone in the mountains northwest of Xincheng, South Korea, gradually dissipating the humidity and fog that had shrouded the mountains overnight.

On a trail in the middle of the trees, weeds, and rock walls, a woodman led a group of more than 3,000 farmers through the mountains.

This is a team full of problems no matter how you look at it. A medicine farmer with more than 3,000 people is afraid that anyone will feel strange when they see it.

"Dare to ask the old man, how far is it from here to the other side of the mountain, and when will it take to get there?" As he walked forward, a chaifu who followed behind the medicine farmer walked a few steps forward and frowned and asked.

The medicine farmer held his footsteps, stretched out his hand, and placed it between his two thick eyebrows, the expression on his face obviously observing and carefully calculating something.

This team has been in the mountain for four days, but the distance that could be traversed in one day on the flat bottom has not reached the end in four days when it reaches this mountain. Moreover, when the team was advancing to a dangerous place, three people accidentally fell off the cliff, and three people fell to death in the same place, which is enough to see the danger in this mountain.

Yao Nong was a physician on the Wei border, known as a divine doctor by the local civilians, with a long white beard and two thick gray eyebrows across his eyelids. He was in his fifties. But because he is a doctor and has been mountaineering and exercising all year round, he still looks strong at this time, and he still doesn't see wheezing and fatigue after walking more than ten miles of mountain roads in a row.

The chaifu behind him also stopped one by one at this moment.

The old farmer stared at it, looked at the marks he had made around him, and turned to the person who asked just now: "If you are in a hurry, you can see Xincheng under the mountain only in the dark temporarily, but the grass people who go down the mountain don't know." The original mountain situation there was not dangerous, but since the Koreans opened the mines, the mountains have been artificially made much more dangerous. ā€

Stretched out his arms and loosened his muscles and bones back and forth, Chai Fu just now arched his hand and continued to ask, revealing indescribable respect in his words, "The old battle doesn't have to be polite, Wu Ming was born late, and everything here depends on the old battle." I wonder if we can accelerate now? ā€

This person turned out to be Wu Ming, who had been missing for many days. Who would have thought that Wu Ming, as the general of Wei, would not command the army to resist the strong enemy when Han and Zhao formed an alliance to attack Wei, but he would follow a medicine farmer to the little-known barren mountain.

"The mountain road ahead should be relatively gentle, far less hard than when going up the mountain, and it is okay to speed as soon as possible, but the grass people-" said the old medicine farmer, looking at the sky.

Wu Ming also raised his head and looked through the dense branches of the trees to the sky with white clouds. "The old man has something to say, but it doesn't hurt, if there is discomfort, just say it, we will not embarrass you."

After watching quietly for a while, the old medicine farmer looked at Wu Ming again, but there was a touch of melancholy in his expression: "It's just that the grass people can only send you until ten o'clock at dusk, and at that time, you should be able to see the cities under the mountains." Don't hide it from the general, the grass people have come and gone on this mountain no less than a hundred times, and after three days of dark clouds, the grass people have to rush back to treat everyone. ā€