Chapter 184: Big Break Xianbei
"Whoa~~"
The Xianbei cavalry in the front row roared frantically and rode forward, the Han army's tight shield wall and the rows of sharp horse rejection guns protruding from the shield wall were already close at hand, but they had no intention of slowing down! These Xianbei cavalrymen simply had only one crazy thought in their heads.
That is to rush up, even with people and horses! Knock the Han army's rejection array away! As long as they broke through the Han army's rejection formation, and let the follow-up Xianbei cavalry rush into the rear of the Han army, these hideous Han troops will become humble two-legged sheep, and there will be only one fate waiting for them, that is, they will be slaughtered by the Xianbei warriors.
"Puff~~"
"Puff Bulge~~"
The frenzied Xianbei cavalry finally rushed to the Han army's horse rejection array, and the sharp horse rejection gun instantly pierced hundreds of Xianbei cavalry with horse spurs in pairs, but the wild momentum of the Xianbei cavalry also made the Han army's horse rejection rifle break one after another, driven by the huge habitual surname, the war horse that had died continued to run forward, and hit the extremely strong shield wall erected by the Han army's hoplites, and the huge impact sound resounded in the sky in an instant.
In this huge impact sound, there is also a crisp sound of bones shattering, which is the sound of the Xianbei war horse's leg bones and neck bones being broken, and the miserable howls of the soldiers of the two armies before they die are even more endless, hundreds of Xianbei cavalry were thrown high by the huge habitual surname in an instant, and when they fell from the air quickly, they were horrified to find that waiting for them was only a piece of dense sharp spears like a forest~~
Under the wild charge of the Xianbei cavalry, the Han hoplites in the front row also suffered heavy casualties, although the scimitars thrown by the Xianbei cavalry before death were all blocked by the strong shield wall erected, but the Xianbei war horses that hit the shield wall with a strong habitual surname made them suffer enough.
The huge shield, though strong enough, relied on the bodies of the infantrymen to support it! Highlighting the shield wall, the rejecting rifle with a bowl mouth can stab the Xianbei cavalry to death, but it can't stop their wild charge, under the almost suicidal fierce impact of the Xianbei cavalry, the solid shield wall has been shattered, and many soldiers have been knocked into the air with a shield and fly backwards~~
People turned on their backs, howling miserably.
Although the casualties were heavy, the charge of the Xianbei cavalry did not stop there, and the follow-up cavalry still swept madly and disregarding life and death, like waves of turbulent waves, continuously and viciously impacting the Han army's defensive positions, and many heroic hoplites were either hacked to death by the Xianbei people or were killed alive.
The originally neat and strict Han army's horse rejection array suddenly appeared chaotic, if this chaos is allowed to continue to spread, if there is a moment of effort, the entire defense array will completely collapse!
The young Tuoba Li keenly smelled the confusion in the formation of the Han army, and suddenly shouted hoarsely: "Great Xianbei warriors, the Han army is about to collapse, show your invincible courage, victory ~~ will eventually belong to you, you are the descendants of the wolf, kill ~~"
"Kill, kill, kill~~"
The morale of the Xianbei cavalry was greatly boosted, the offensive became more and more fierce, and the defense line of the Han army was already crumbling.
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Xianbei right-wing.
"It's a pity." Tuoba Jiefan waved his fist fiercely and muttered, "If it weren't for the limitations of the dense forest terrain on both sides of the battlefield, our cavalry would not be able to spread out to the two flanks and give full play to the superiority in strength, and it would have been easy to break down the defensive formation of this Han army. ”
Xianbei Zhongjun.
"Well done!" Bu Dugen slammed the knot, unable to hide the excitement between his eyebrows, and said in a condensed voice, "It seems that the Tuoba Department is about to break down the Han army's defensive formation." ”
Qu Tuyu also said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect that Tuoba Liwei, this little doll can fight, and it is not inferior to him at all." ”
Xianbei left.
"The Han army is going to collapse?" Kebi snorted, a trace of coldness flashed leisurely in his eyes, and said in a condensed voice, "It's still early!" The war had just begun, and the Han army was going to collapse so easily, and it had already been wiped out by the iron cavalry of the Great Huns hundreds of years ago. ”
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The two armies are in front.
"The first team, fight to the death and do not retreat, the second team and the third team retreat five steps back and re-array!"
At the critical moment, a small colonel of the infantry army frantically brandished the Yanling knife and roared hoarsely, until a cold wolf's tooth arrow pierced his throat, and the roar stopped abruptly, and then soon another infantry colonel brandished the Yanling knife and rushed up, continuing to lead the hoplites to re-array.
The hoplites quickly calmed down, and the remaining first row of hoplites fought to the death, building a parapet at the cost of their lives and flesh and blood, swearing to resist the trampling of the Xianbei iron cavalry, and finally bought time for the follow-up infantry to re-array, and the second and third rows of hoplites quickly retreated five steps and re-arrayed.
When the first row of hoplites was slaughtered by the Xianbei people, the strict and complete horse rejection array was like a phoenix reborn from the ashes, and it had been re-arranged, and the Xianbei cavalry had just stepped on the corpses of the first row of hoplites, and they hit the shield wall of the second row of hoplites head-on, but this time, the Xianbei people suffered more casualties.
Because of the desperate blocking of the first row of hoplites, the sprint speed of the Xianbei people began to slow down, and once the cavalry slowed down, the power of the sprint would be sharply reduced, and it was easier to be injured by the Han army's horse rejection pistol, easier to be blocked by the Han army's shield wall, and easier to be shot by the longbowmen who shrank behind the defensive formation!
This is not a harassment war that the grassland people are familiar with and good at, but a frontal decisive battle that the Han army is most familiar with and is best at! The two armies are facing each other, and if the nomadic cavalry cannot break through the Han army's rejection array, then there is only one fate that awaits them, and that is to die on the battlefield!
Five thousand elite longbowmen are still mechanically pulling their bows and releasing arrows, pouring wave after wave of arrows on the heads of the Xianbei cavalry, from the beginning of the battle to the present, the archers have lost count of how many times they have pulled their bows and shot out of their arrows, their arm muscles have long been numb, and they no longer feel soreness, fatigue, tiredness, and pain.
The only thing that sustains them to continue fighting is their stubborn will, and they will never stop until they have shot the last arrow!
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Xianbei right-wing.
"It's a pity! It's just a little bit away from kicking through the Han army's defenses, alas~~"
Tuoba Jie Fan sighed.
At this moment, Tuoba Jiefen's heart was dripping blood, and his eyes were breathing fire, because he saw that the warriors of the Tuoba tribe were falling one by one under the fire of the Han army's longbowmen, turning into a cold, meaningless corpse, these are the strength of the Tuoba Department and the backbone of the Tuoba Department.
If the backbone of the Tuoba Department is broken, how can you still stand up straight on the prairie and be a man?
Xianbei left.
The general said in a speech: "King, the Han army seems to have blocked the offensive of the Tuoba Division, the forward cavalry of the Tuoba Department has been crowded into a group in the narrow forest area, and the subsequent large group of cavalry can not rush in, the battle situation has fallen into a stalemate, and the two armies have begun to shoot each other with bows and arrows." ”
Wu Li Tu also said in a deep voice: "However, the longbows of the Han archers are more lethal and the formation is more loose, while the cavalry formation of the Xianbei cavalry is too dense, and the situation is very unfavorable to the Tuoba Department!" ”
"This king has long said that the Han army will not collapse so quickly, if Tuoba Jiefen does not order the collection of troops, the Tuoba Department will be finished!" Kebi can say this, the colder the color in his eyes becomes stronger, and he said in a deep voice, "However, even if Tuoba Jiefan wants to collect the troops now, he can't take it back~~"
"Yes, I can't take it back, the people of the Tuoba Department have already killed the red eye."
"Ah~~"
"It seems that the Tuoba Department is really going to end!"
The generals of Wuli Tu and Leaking Back to the Mud, sighed one after another, looking at the noisy and tragic battlefield in front of them, and their eyes couldn't help but reveal a trace of imperceptible compassion.
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The Han army was in the rear, on the lookout.
Yiyang Princess Liu Ming breathed a long sigh of relief, a hanging heart finally landed, and her pale pink face finally regained a touch of blood. However, ~~ The army in front is really tenacious, if there is such a tenacious army stationed in Luoyang, Gyeonggi, which rebellious minister and thief in the whole world would dare to disobey the orders of the imperial brother?
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The bustling left flank of the battlefield, miles away in the dense forest.
Under the cover of the yellow leaves, a black oppressive cavalry was quietly lurking in it, all the horses were covered with mouths and hooves, and the soldiers were strictly forbidden to talk and make noise, except for the howling wind blowing through the woods, and the sound of rattling, there was only the noise from the battlefield ahead.
"Sigh Rhythm ~~"
The silence of the dense forest was suddenly shattered by the neighing of a horse, and a horse was carefully skirting the thorn bushes and jagged trees, stepping slowly on the thick fallen leaves.
"General!"
"It's the general!"
"The general is here!"
"Brothers, get up, the general is coming~~"
In the shouts one after another, the soldiers who had been waiting quietly in the dense forest gradually became noisy, shook off the defeated leaves on their bodies and stood up, leading their war horses to gather around the general.
Fang Yue picked away the last bush of thorns in front of him with the steel gun in his hand, and his eyes suddenly opened up.
A clearing has been split in the dense forest, and a full six thousand Wuhuan cavalry have been waiting quietly here for a night, the soldiers' iron armor, faces, and eyebrows are covered with frost flowers, but their eyes are only as hideous as wolves, as early as the time in Youzhou, the horse butcher has trained them into a group of cruel and murderous wolves.
In the eyes of these black wolves, there is no courtesy, righteousness and shame, no benevolence and morality, and no saint education, only the bloody, hideous, and terrifying face of the horse butcher in their eyes! They will do whatever the horse butcher asks them to do, and the horse butcher will let them listen to Fang Yue, and they will only look forward to Fang Yue.
Catching up with the murderous eyes of the Wuhuan cavalry, the killing aura in Fang Yue's heart was also quietly ignited.
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"Instigation~~"
In the piercing sound of breaking the air, dense locust-like arrows rained down endlessly from the sky, and the young Tuobali's eyes widened slightly, staring viciously at the rain of arrows that were shooting in, and his eyes almost wanted to erupt with fire! How many heroic Tuoba warriors have fallen under the rain of arrows of the Han army~~
"Prince be careful!"
The captain of the pro-soldier suddenly shouted, and his whole body bounced off the horse's back with agility, and he was able to block Tuoba Liwei, and the scimitar in his hand swung out like lightning, and after a few soft sounds, three wolf tooth arrows had already been flying, but he finally failed to block the fourth wolf tooth arrow that shot at him.
The captain of the pro-soldier had already been hit by an arrow in the lower abdomen, and it was not up to the feather.
"Prince~~"
The captain of the pro-soldier snorted, fell to the ground from the air, struggled to look back at Tuoba Liwei, and died in an instant.
"Gaisuwen !!"
Tuobali roared slightly, hurriedly dismounted and hugged the angry captain of the pro-soldier in his arms, he and Tuobali grew up together, the two were like brothers, but unfortunately, let Tuobali roar slightly to break the sky, his pro-soldier captain Gai Suwen would never be able to open his eyes.
"Ah~~" Tuoba looked up to the sky and howled, "Kill you, Xiao Wang is going to kill you~~"
The wolf howled three times, Tuoba Liwei abandoned Gai Suwen's corpse and turned over on the horse, brandishing a heavy mace and riding the horse straight to the Han army's main formation, the hundreds of personal horsemen who were responsible for guarding the safety of Tuoba Liwei did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly rode their horses to follow, and the nearby Xianbei cavalry saw that His Royal Highness the prince personally led the troops to cover the kill, and the morale that was already low was greatly revitalized.
"Kill!"
Tuoba Li roared slightly, the heavy mace swung out viciously, three sharp horse rejection guns were smashed into six in an instant, the broken tip of the spear flew back, deeply penetrated into the big shield of the Han infantry, making a muffled sound, the next moment, Tuoba Li slightly pulled the reins of the horse, and the horse under the crotch suddenly stood up, and the huge iron hooves kicked in the air and then stepped heavily with a powerful habitual surname, and kicked fiercely on the shield wall of the Han infantry.
"Puffy!"
"Kara!"
Two muffled sounds, the two big shields were instantly smashed by the iron hooves of Tuoba Liwei's mount, the two Han infantry who supported the big shield had not had time to come to their senses, Tuoba Liwei's mace had been smashed down viciously with monstrous anger, after two dull heavy blows, there was a piercing sound of bones shattering, and the two hoplites were smashed to the ground in an instant, and there was red blood overflowing from the corners of the two mouths, and the originally cold eyes quickly dimmed.
"Roar~~"
Tuoba Li roared slightly, intending to advance again, more than a dozen sharp horse rejection spears stabbed at the same time from three different directions, Tuoba Li Wei barely blocked the six spears that stabbed at him, but finally failed to open the other seven spears that stabbed the mount under the crotch, the war horse raised its head and neighed, and Tuoba Li Wei fell out fiercely.
Tuoba Liwei was in the air, and a dense rain of arrows had already rained in from all directions, shooting him into a hedgehog in the blink of an eye. With the death of Tuoba Liwei in battle, the demise of the Tuoba Department is inevitable, and the Tuoba Xianbei Empire, which once ruled the area north of the Yellow River for nearly two hundred years~~ will never appear again.
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Xianbei right-wing.
Four or five thousand cavalrymen covered in arrows and covered in blood fled back to their camp in panic, and a blood-stained Xianbei thousand cavalry staggered in front of Tuoba Jiefan, kneeling on the ground and crying: "King! Prince he~~he~~"
"What's wrong with Wang'er?"
"The prince died in battle, woo woo woo~~"
"What! What did you say!? ”
Tuoba Jiefan roared, his facial expression twitched suddenly, and he stared at the thousand horsemen in a daze, and suddenly spat blood from the horse's back and fell headlong.
"King!"
"The King?"
The guards hurriedly rushed forward and helped Tuoba Jiefen up, only to see Tuoba Jiefen's eyes closed and his face like gold paper, and he was already angry.
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Xianbei Zhongjun.
Qu Tuyu came to Bu Dugen with a heavy expression, and said in a deep voice: "King, the Tuoba tribe is also finished, and more than 20,000 cavalry have only fled back with four or five thousand horsemen!" Although there are not many people who have really died in battle, the vast majority of them have been injured by arrows and are now lying on the battlefield unable to move, and if they fall into the hands of the Han army, there is only one way to die. ”
Bu Dugen's expression was gloomy, Qu Tulu didn't say that he had seen it all, he just didn't expect that the Tuoba Department would be defeated so miserably! The crushing defeat of the Kebineng was expected by Budugen, and their mission was to consume the arrows of the Han army, that is, to clear the obstacles in the way of the Tuoba and Gold Division's charge at the cost of blood and lives.
But what Budugen didn't expect was that the Tuoba Department was defeated even more miserably than Kebi Nengbu! Although the Kobineng tribe suffered heavy deaths, most of the wounded soldiers fled back, while the Tuoba tribe only escaped back with four or five thousand horsemen.
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The Xianbei people were not afraid of the hoplites of the Han army, let alone the archers of the Han army.
The Han hoplites were powerful, but without the protection of the archers and the terrain, these bulky guys could easily be killed, and similarly, the archers of the Han army would become lambs to the slaughter if they lost the protection of the hoplites. However, when hoplites, archers, and terrain are perfectly combined, it becomes a haunting nightmare for the Xianbei people!
If this happens, the wisest choice for the Xianbei people is to quickly withdraw their troops and no longer continue to entangle with the Han army! Sadly, there is no way back for Budugen, and there is no way back for him.
Qu Tuyu said in a deep voice: "King, so far the Han army has used 10,000 infantry to participate in the battle, including 7,000 archers (in fact, there are only 8,000 infantry, because they are too far away and there is the cover of the banner array, the Xianbei people have misjudged), although the Kebi Neng Department and the Tuoba Department are finished, but their fiasco is not all costless, at least the Han army has also paid heavy casualties, and now the Han army has at most 3,000 people left. ”
"Hmm." Bu Dugen nodded solemnly and said in a deep voice, "It's time to deal a fatal blow to the Han army!" ”
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The Han army was in the rear, on the lookout.
Liu Mingxi diligently asked Guo Tudao: "Sir, has our army won?" ”
"It's too early to say that." Guo Tu shook his head, a trace of melancholy flashed in his eyes, and said in a condensed voice, "Although the left and right wings of the Xianbei people have returned, their most elite Chinese army has not moved!" And the 5,000 archers on whom our army relied to kill the enemy have suffered heavy casualties, and the remaining unwounded archers are exhausted and can no longer hold their bows. ”
Pei Yuanshao continued: "What's more serious is that more than half of the only 1,000 hoplites in our army have been killed or wounded, and the 2,000 pikemen and 5,000 archers are also killed and wounded, and there are not many left, and after most of the day's fighting, the physical strength of the soldiers has reached the limit, but I am afraid it is difficult to resist the impact of the Xianbei Chinese army." ”
The more Liu Ming listened, the more chilled he became, and he said: "But~~ But doesn't our army also have cavalry?" ”
Guo Tu said: "Cavalry combat is the best combat method of the Xianbei people, and our cavalry is only 6,000 cavalry, until the last critical moment, we must not easily put into the battlefield!" Otherwise, our cavalry will not only be unable to kill or injure the Xianbei people, but they will also be eaten by the Xianbei people in turn. ”
Liu Ming lost his voice and said: "That~~ What should I do?" ”
"Your Royal Highness the princess don't worry." Guo Tu said in a condensed voice, "Although the performance of the Xianbei people is somewhat unexpected, our army is not unprepared, at least so far, the battle situation is still under the control of our army!" It's just that ~~ The casualties of our army in this battle are not small, and when the lord comes back from Liangzhou, I am afraid that it will be difficult to explain to him. ”
"Pony?" Liu Ming's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he asked crisply, "When will he return to Hetao?" ”
"Uh, this~~" Guo Tu scratched his head when he heard this, "Xia Guan doesn't know either." ”
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The left flank of the Han army, in the middle of the dense forest.
"General~~" A personal soldier rushed into the dense forest, came to Fang Yue and knelt down, and said quickly, "General, the second wave of Xianbei people's attack has been repulsed, more than 20,000 Xianbei cavalry only fled back to four or five thousand cavalry, and most of the rest of the Xianbei cavalry were injured by arrows and were lying on the battlefield waiting for death." ”
Fang Yue said in a deep voice: "What about the casualties of our army?" ”
The expression of the pro-soldier darkened, and he said in a low voice: "The casualties of our army are also extremely heavy, the archers and pikemen are almost all killed and wounded (they are all casualties, many are only wounded and lose their combat effectiveness, not all of them are dead), there are no more than one in ten capable fighters, and more than half of the hoplites have been killed or wounded, and the physical strength of the brothers has been seriously overdrawn, and it is difficult to resist the charge of the Xianbei cavalry." ”
"Hmm~~" Fang Yue sighed softly, a trace of melancholy flashed in his eyes, and said to the infantry, "Quickly return to the Chinese army, Mr. Guo Tu, just say that General Ben has everything ready here, just wait for his order to fight to the death with the Xianbei people!" ”
"Yes."
The soldiers responded violently and took the order.
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Xianbei Zhongjun.
The sharp-eyed Qu Tuyu Huo Ran looked back and said to Bu Dugen: "King, the Han army is retreating!" ”
"Oh, the Han army is starting to retreat?" Budugen smiled coldly and said in a deep voice, "However, at this time, it was too late to think of retreating!" Order, the warriors of the Golden Tribe attacked with all their troops and crushed the Han army in one fell swoop~~"
"Order!"
Qu Tuyu roared sharply, rode his horse to the front of the Chinese army, and pulled the mace in his hand forward, and the Xianbei cavalry, who had been recuperating for a long time, swept away like a flood that broke the embankment.
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Ahead, in front of the Han army, the soldiers of the Han army who had survived the bloody battle were retreating in a panic.
By the time these heavily wounded soldiers crossed the distance of two hundred paces and fled back to the banner formation, the Xianbei cavalry had already rushed in like a tide, and at this moment, a sudden change occurred! The banners that were originally dense like clouds and firmly covered the rear of the Han army suddenly fell down one after another.
The simple "chariots" that were originally hidden behind the banner array suddenly revealed their hideous grandeur.
In the battle of the grassland on the dam, Ma Yue defeated Liu Yu's army with an ironclad chain of chariots and achieved an incredible victory! However, the ironclad chariot can only exert its powerful power on the plain terrain such as the Bashang grassland, and is not suitable for fighting in the potholed Hetao Plain.
Guo Tu only modified Ma Yue's chariot slightly, and it turned from a sharp offensive weapon into a solid defensive barrier.
These "chariots" are said to be chariots, but in fact they are a wooden frame firmly tied together, and these wooden shelves are nailed together by long iron nails with four stakes horizontal, vertical and vertical, and then supported by four wooden stakes in the middle to form a solid whole! At the top of each frame are ten arm-thick logs, all of which are cut from sturdy poplar wood, more than six feet in length, with the tips sharpened.
The Han infantry who retreated in panic were very comfortable passing through the gap in the middle of the wooden shelves, but the Xianbei cavalry rushing over like a tide could not do this! When the banner that covered the sky suddenly fell down, the Xianbei cavalry that rushed to the front was only a few dozen steps away from the hideous "chain chariot", and they couldn't contain it at all.
Only a very small number of Xianbei generals with superb riding skills jumped high on their horses, barely dodging the rows of wood-cut spears, but the vast majority of Xianbei cavalry could not do this at all, so they slammed into the hideous "chain chariot" with a powerful habitual surname, and the hard and sharp poplar wooden spears pierced the bodies of hundreds of Xianbei cavalrymen in an instant.
In front of the two armies, a crowd of people turned on their backs, and the surging momentum of the Xianbei cavalry was suddenly paused, and the rigorous charging formation was already in chaos. If the "rear hand" of the Han army only stopped there, then at most it would cause limited casualties, and briefly block the attack of the Xianbei cavalry, and it would not completely change the fate of defeat.
However, Guo Tu's backhand is obviously more than that, this gentleman has followed Ma Yue for a long time, and he has already integrated the cunning surname of the horse butcher in his bones! Although the horse butcher likes to take risks, he knows how to interlock, and once he seizes the opportunity, he will come up with endless means, and he will never rest until he is completely killed by the enemy.
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On the lookout.
Guo Tu Huoran looked back, nodded to the pro-soldiers standing behind him, and the pro-soldiers hurriedly hung a blue flag on the top of the lookout, and in less than a moment, a blue flag was also hung on a big tree not far away, and so on, and the news quickly spread to the dense forest a few miles away from the left wing.
"General~~" The pro-soldier ran in front of Fang Yue panting, and said quickly, "Mr. Guo Tu has an order, the cavalry will attack!" ”
Fang Yue bowed his head slightly, jumped on the horse's back with a spear pillar, and then swept the steel spear into the air, and the six thousand Wuhuan cavalrymen who had been recuperating for a long time turned over on their horses, and in the endless sound of gold and iron grinding, the six thousand sharp sabers had already been unsheathed, and a cold killing force suddenly filled the dense forest.
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Xianbei Zhongjun.
Qu Tuyu had already led the Golden Ministry to launch the last and most fierce attack, and at this moment, there were only 2,000 cavalry soldiers left around Bu Dugen! The Tuoba Jiefan of the Xianbei right wing was still unconscious, and the entire Tuoba Department was in a gloomy fog and had fallen into extreme chaos.
The left flank of the Xianbei army seemed relatively quiet, and the more than 20,000 "wounded soldiers" of Kebineng did not show much pain, they just quietly straddled the horseback, and their expressions were inexplicably cold, especially their leader Kebineng, seeing that there were only 2,000 cavalry soldiers left around Bu Dugen, Kebineng's eyes couldn't help but pass a trace of cold murder.
(To be continued)