In the dense forest, one catapult after another was removed from their camouflage, and their hideous appearance was revealed.

In times like these, catapults are heavy weapons. No matter how good the shield is equipped and the armor is worn, under this kind of siege equipment, only the smashed flesh and blood are blurred, and it becomes the result of a mess of rotten flesh.

Mo Ge happily watched that the formation of the Sui army had begun to be chaotic, especially the appearance of those Goguryeo people scattering in all directions, which made his eyes full of excitement. As long as the chaos continues like this, even if the Sui army is not chaotic now, it will not be able to hold out for a few minutes.

Nodding at Abao Grotto, Abao Grotto, who had already mounted his war horse and gathered five thousand people from his tribe, waved his arm and pointed forward with the sharp horizontal knife that he had just gotten for a day, "Rush!" ”

Like a fierce beast out of the cage, five thousand bald-haired Khitan knights, one by one, swooped out of the dense forest like wolves. The target was directly aimed at the junction of the middle army and the rear army of the Sui army, like a scalpel, and they directly and accurately slashed through that narrow position.

Lu Shishen's 6,000 infantry in the rear army was cut off at once and then rear.

The whistling sound started again, and the young people of Watai and other tribes led three thousand allied troops of various tribes to directly rush through the troops of Abao Cave, and rushed straight towards the rear road of the rear army. They wanted to go around to the back road of the Sui army and cut off the retreat of the Sui army in the first time. They were forced to be besieged in this valley, and finally they were scattered, crushed, and annihilated.

The 5,000 soldiers and horses of the Dahe clan of Mago, at this time, divided 1,000 cavalry and rushed directly to the valley in front, where it was the 500 cavalry of the Sui army that had just passed to open the way. As long as he intercepts them, then he can eat the soldiers and horses in this valley with peace of mind. Sixty thousand people, as long as they are defeated, these people will not be able to become slaves of their own tribe at that time, and with so many slaves, they still need to worry that their tribe will not be able to grow.

In addition, he divided two thousand cavalry and went directly to the front of the Chinese army, so that those Khitan cavalry roared to attack the Chinese army of the Sui army. The 5,000 soldiers and horses of Abao Cave were behind, and his 2,000 soldiers and horses were in front, flanking on both sides, driving them together, and he believed that it would not be long before these Sui troops would collapse. As soon as the Chinese army collapsed, the entire Sui army became half of the meat on his chopping block.

"The remaining 500 cavalry advanced forward, set up a defensive formation, and pushed the catapults behind to the front, and smashed them directly at the place where there were many Chinese soldiers, and smashed them at me wherever there were many people. Put the fireballs up again and burn them. ”

Fireballs are some grass balls poured with oil, lit with fire, and then projected into the Sui army's formation with catapults to disrupt its army's morale.

Chen Kefu was tightly guarded by the guards in the middle of several human walls, although he had not yet seen who ambushed them. But just because the other party actually has a trebuchet, this already makes him very vigilant.

If ordinary small tribes want to take advantage of the fire to rob, even if they can gather a lot of soldiers and horses to ambush them at a moment, there will definitely be no such thing as a catapult. The catapult isn't a particularly high-end thing, but it's definitely a very powerful weapon. This thing is definitely equivalent to the artillery in modern warfare, and it is unlikely that the ordinary Liaoxi tribes will have these things.

The use of catapults fully shows that the other party has been prepared.

Is it Goguryeo? Goguryeo has this strength, but Chen Kefu doesn't quite believe that it is Goguryeo. In the northwest of Goguryeo, the only thing left of Goguryeo is those small mountain towns, and it is too late for these scattered small mountain cities to protect themselves, and it is impossible for them to have the strength to plunder them. More than 80 percent of the mountain cities in the entire northwest were looted by them, and the rest were dozens of mountain cities near Buyeo City. Even if they joined forces, Chen Kefu didn't believe that they dared to take the initiative to ambush him.

If it's not Goguryeo, then who could it be? It is even more unlikely to be the Sui army, so the only ones left are the Khitan, Mòhé, and Murwei tribes bordering the northwest of Goguryeo. No matter what kind of clan it is, it is not very powerful at this time. Although the three tribes later gave birth to the Liao State, the Bohai State, the Jin State, the Méng Ancient State, and the Qing Dynasty, these are only three primitive tribal tribes that did not even have the king Great Khan.

The biggest thing that can be gathered is that Goguryeo united with other tribes to counterattack the Great Sui.

Thinking of this possibility, Chen Kefu's face was very unsightly. It was the last thing he wanted, and if it did, they would be in danger. At that time, the tribes of Liaoxi will attack Liaodong from the northwest to the south, and the Goguryeo soldiers and horses will counterattack from the southeast, so they will really fall into a situation of being surrounded on all sides. ,

didn't have time to think so much, Chen Kefu said loudly, "Drumming!" The heralds gave orders to the officers, and the Chinese army moved closer to my banner. All the Goguryeo captives leave them alone for the time being, if they dare to rush into battle, they will be killed! ”

Chen Kefu knew that no matter which tribe ambushed him, as soon as this ambush began, it must have been a cavalry charge. This kind of play is a trick he uses that is about to rot, so it is naturally very clear. Deal with situations like this. It is to quickly form a completed defensive formation and completely block the cavalry from the outside, so as to block the effect of the enemy's ambush charge.

Several herald bannermen stood on horses, each holding two blue and red flags, and constantly issuing flags in all directions.

In addition to them, there were more than a dozen heralds, riding war horses, to orally convey Chen Kefu's military orders to the officers of various parts of the Chinese army.

Suddenly there were several dazzling lights and shadows in the sky, and with the sound of whistling, a large row of catapults had already appeared at the edge of the dense forest. At this time, these catapults had already begun to throw huge fireballs into the air one after another, shooting straight at their formation.

At a glance, Chen Kefu saw the soldiers operating next to the catapults, with robes on the left side and tuǐ boots. There is a lock of hair on each side of the head, but the periphery is all light. As soon as he saw the appearance of these people, Chen Kefu gritted his teeth and said coldly: "Damn Khitans!" ”

He didn't expect at all that the Khitans not only had catapults, but also fireballs. This thing isn't as lethal as a stone bullet. But it has a considerable momentum, facing this raging and flying fireball, to minimize the psychological resistance of the soldiers.

If one is not good, the recruits will collapse, and then the defense line will collapse.

One by one, the fireballs, with raging flames, streaked through the air, carrying a string of sparks, and smashed into the dense crowd in the middle of the Sui army. The fireball was doused with oil, and when it hit the soldier, it would immediately set the whole soldier on fire. The soldiers had not learned how to deal with the situation, and they did not know that they were going to roll on the spot, but ran desperately one by one with panic screams, so that the fire burned more and more by the wind. Even if it gets on other people, it will burn other soldiers to the ground. Everyone panicked, and as soon as they saw the soldiers on fire rushing towards them, the defensive circle collapsed, and all the soldiers ran backwards, not only the recruits, but also the veterans.

"Tree shield, form a formation, use the shield to block the fireball, don't run if you are burned, roll on the ground immediately!" Chen Kefu shouted loudly, and asked the rest of the soldiers to help shout together.

The fireballs continued to fall, some on the soldiers, some on the Goguryeo captives, and some on the cavalry's horses. The fireballs were like weights pressed on the hearts of the soldiers, constantly raising their fear points desperately.

If this continues, no matter how strong a soldier is, he will not be able to withstand it, even if it is a veteran of a broken barracks. Chen Kefu glanced at the trebuchets outside the dense forest in the north in the human wall, and at a glance, there were definitely a hundred of them.

There were about four or five hundred Khitans maneuvering catapults, and in front of them there were five or six hundred cavalry sitting upright on horseback, forming a defensive phalanx.

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves sounded, and several cavalry teams were killed from the dense forest, divided into four teams, two teams rushed towards the rear of the Chinese army, one team rushed straight in the direction of their Fuyu City, and the remaining team, more than 2,000 cavalry, rushed straight towards the Chinese army.

Finally came, Chen Kefu had expected all this, and scolded in his heart, this is really a standard ambush tactic, isn't there a little novelty?

Although I felt that Xu Yu had passed, it had not been long since the first boulder of the Khitans was thrown out to the current cavalry attack. Although the soldiers of the Sui Central Army continued to assemble and gather, at this time, the entire Chinese Army was still divided into more than a dozen defensive circles, and they were not completely gathered together. Now that the Khitan cavalry has attacked, there will be no more chance to gather into a complete defensive formation.

"Defend on the spot and hold your ground!" Chen Kefu held the horse lance and pointed high and roared loudly.

"Tree Shield Array!"

"Raise your spear and hold your ground! "Crossbowman ready!" ”

"Archer ready!"

One by one, the heralds ran desperately back and forth in front of the various formations, shouting.

Fireballs still flew over their heads, smashing into the human wall, causing a flurry of panic.

Fortunately, the Sui army has become a relatively complete defensive formation, although only the soldiers at the front have large shields, but the other soldiers in the formation also have small shields. Every time the fireball flew to the side, everyone picked up their shields from the ground to block them.

But those Goguryeo people who had been abandoned by the Sui army did not go so far, and after running for a long time, they were still running around like headless flies, and from time to time a fireball hit the Liao people, igniting the entire desperate running people into a fire, screaming and letting out an inhuman howl, and constantly continuing to run, igniting one panicked Goguryeo after another, reflecting the entire battlefield even more tragically.