With the development of the war situation, the basic overall situation has been decided.

The commander of the Khitan soldiers and horses, the 1,000 men and horses of Mogo, were first attacked by Mao Yi's more than 6,000 cavalry, and then they were cut and chopped by 6,000 heavy infantry, and they were all finished in an instant. Only Mogo was left to flee to the north with forty or fifty horsemen in advance, and even Abao Cave and others couldn't take care of it.

After annihilating the army of Mogo, the more than 100 catapults also fell into the hands of the Sui army. Without the catapults, the array of the entire Sui army was as safe as Mount Tai, and began to take the initiative to move, squeezing towards the junction of the entire middle and rear armies.

The big shield is the array, the spear is like a forest, and the entire Sui military array is like a turtle, with a hard shell, and like a hedgehog, with a spear like a forest. On the Diao platform of Chen Kefu's middle formation, four herald banner soldiers, red and blue flags continued to wave, and the eight arrays of the Chinese army began to squeeze towards the junction with the rear army in a neat and orderly manner.

The 2,000 cavalry of Mogo and the 5,000 cavalry of Abao Cave were all pressed here little by little at this time. The entire 7,000 cavalry, at this time there were only about 5,000 cavalry left, and in less than an hour of fighting, the Khitans had lost 3,000 cavalry

In the face of these five thousand riders, Chen Kefu did not rush to attack immediately, but just kept squeezing and squeezing with the array, squeezing and shrinking their space. They were squeezed between the mountains on both sides. Chen Kefu's plan was very simple, with the Chinese infantry formation as the backbone, surround these thousands of cavalry here, and then use the cavalry as a mobile force to block the two passages in front.

Then with heavy infantry as a combination of offensive and defensive forces, the Khitans who tried to rush out of the mission were strictly guarded, and waited until the entire valley was finally blocked. He was going to let these damned Khitans all die under their bows and arrows.

Chen Kefu strictly ordered all formations not to scatter and attack, and never give the slightest chance to break through to the Khitan cavalry. As for those Goguryeo captives who ran away, he didn't care, these people were like sheep, and it didn't matter if they ran away, as long as they got here, they would be captured back at that time.

The more Abao Cave fought, the more wrong it became, and after a while, he received an order from Mogo to lead his army to retreat.

It's just that when this order came, it was already too late, and the array of the Sui army was like an iron wall in front of them. Their way to retreat north was no longer passable, and the only way to retreat was to retreat south in the direction from which the Sui army came.

He was just about to order the whole army to attack south, but Watai, who was previously responsible for bypassing the rear of the Sui army and blocking the retreat of the Sui army, suddenly rushed from the south with a defeated army.

"Abao Cave, it's not good, there are seven or eight thousand infantry in the rear army of the Sui army, and they have a very powerful crossbow arrow, with a range of nearly two hundred steps, and our soldiers are very hard to support. Just now, four or five thousand cavalry came from behind our formation, and the cavalry charged together. The soldiers and horses of our other tribes were no more than 3,000 horsemen, and they could not resist it, and they were defeated. Abao Cave, give me some more men and horses, and I will definitely snatch the back road of the Sui army again. ”

The Sui cavalry who attacked them only had 3,000 men, but in order to cover up his defeat, he deliberately exaggerated a little.

Abao's face darkened suddenly, and he said lightly, "We have been defeated, and Mo Ge just sent me an order to lead our troops to the north to meet him and retreat." But now the Sui army has blocked the passage to the north, and we can only retreat to the south. Alas, you have just lost this retreat to the south. There is no other way, the order goes, all the cavalry charge south, don't entangle with the enemy, just rush south, after the charge, we will assemble"

The cavalry of various tribes gathered, and there were nearly 7,000 horsemen, and a group of Khitans rushed directly to the south with a rumbling sound.

It was only when they reached the south that they found that they were already a step late, and those Sui troops seemed to have expected them to break through to this side. The entire rear army of six or seven thousand people in front of it, assembled into a large defensive array like the Chinese army, with huge metal shields, reflecting the golden sun's rays, and standing at the front of the array. Behind the shield array was a spear array, spears more than a foot long, with sharp spear heads glowing with cold light, like a forest of death, waiting for them to crash up. …,

Two columns of shields, three columns of spears, behind them were archers and crossbowmen, and at the end of the entire infantry array, there were thousands of cavalry that Watai had just mentioned. It's just that at this time, the cavalry has all dismounted, one by one holding crossbows, aiming at their side.

Looking at such a formation, all the Khitans felt chills in their hearts, but they had to continue to rush hard.

"Put"

A burst of shouts sounded, and crossbow arrows flew out of the formation of the Sui army like a swarm of locusts, and the sound of porphyries was endless, and the cavalry that rushed to the front fell in rows. Even if they had a shield, it was too small, and it was only a small round shield, which could only block the upper part of the knights. However, the Sui army chose to shoot horses without exception, no war horse could dodge these crossbow arrows, and no war horse was covered with iron armor, as long as it was shot, it basically had to fall.

And as soon as these cavalrymen in the front row fell, in such a dense charge, they could only be trampled into pulp by the Khitan cavalry behind.

One, two, three

Abao Grottoes allowed the Khitan cavalry to storm the rear infantry formation of the Sui army three times, and each time they had to drop hundreds of corpses, and almost more than a thousand cavalry corpses had been piled up in front of the entire infantry formation, like a hill, blocking the not very wide passage.

With these piles of corpses of Khitan cavalry, the defense of the military formation after the Sui army was even stronger. Like an obstacle, the charge of the Khitan cavalry was blocked by this mountain of corpses, which increased the difficulty of the impact more and more.

did not wait for the Abao Cave to reorganize and launch the fourth round of attack, but the Chinese army of the Sui army had already squeezed over. The sound of heavy footsteps, the sound of trampling on the ground, made every Khitan person despair.

What made them even more desperate was that more than a hundred catapults suddenly appeared in the Chinese army array of the Sui army. Abao Cave recognized it at a glance, it was the catapult they had brought. After Li Shimin strangled the last 100 or so horsemen in the dense forest position, only the 100 or so intact catapults were left in front of him.

Li Xuanba told the infantry to destroy the catapults, because he was ordered to destroy all the catapults within half an hour.

Li Shimin stopped him, and the general Chen Kefu asked him to destroy these catapults because these catapults were in the hands of the Khitans and did too much damage to the Sui army's array. But now that these catapults are theirs, why destroy them. At present, there are still many Khitans who have not been annihilated, so they can not be used. From Chen Kefu's order to divide the cavalry to block the passages on both sides, he had already guessed that he wanted to completely encircle and annihilate this army of soldiers and horses. At the moment, these ready-made catapults are also a good weapon against the cavalry.

Chen Kefu was really very happy with the catapult that Li Shimin brought back, and immediately ordered to bring it and rush to the rear army.

At this time, Abao Cave faced these catapults he brought, and his heart was very complicated.

In the large formation of the Sui Central Army, Chen Kefu had a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said to the infantry who were selected to operate the catapult, "In exchange for the fireball, I will also let these Khitan dogs repay the taste of the fireball." ”

For catapults, the Sui army has a lot of them, and this time they went to the Jinshan Gorge with hundreds of catapults. And the workmanship, the accuracy is much better than these refined catapults seized in front of me. It's just that these catapults, like those large crossbows, are all placed in Jinshan City. At this time, Chen Kefu gave an order, and immediately found out many infantry who could operate catapults.

Engineer battalion, this is a special forces. It can be said that some of them are a combination of artillery and engineer units in later generations, and they are not only responsible for digging ditches, setting up camps, building equipment, etc., but also taking on the task of manipulating various large equipment in the army. Catapults are also within their range. A veteran of the engineer battalion with the rank of honorary second-class non-commissioned officer was the first to operate, he stretched out his thumb and gestured a few times at the position of the Khitan cavalry, adjusted the catapult, and then ordered the operating soldier to put on the oiled grass ball, light the fire, and roar, let go...,

Like a blazing sun, the fire ball with a tail flame rushed straight into the Khitan cavalry formation, smashing on the body of one Khitan cavalry very accurately, and then jumped on the other cavalry, and in a blink of an eye, the fireball had already ignited three cavalrymen.

Death is sometimes not terrible, but it is just a stab in the head. But the long death, the pain of a little bit, the fear and pain are terrible. The burned cavalry, screaming and dancing, running everywhere, and the howl made the Khitan cavalry also feel cold

Abao Cave took his bow and arrows, fired several arrows in succession, and shot the three mounted cavalrymen on the spot. He knew that dying early was also a relief for these people of the same race. Although the man died, the fire was not extinguished, and the burning flame was always burning on the corpse, emitting a burst of corpse stench

"Woohoo"

One after another sounds sounded, and in the sky, all of a sudden it was occupied by the red fireball, and hundreds of fireballs roared towards the Khitan cavalry. As soon as they saw the tragic appearance of the people who were hit, all the Khitan cavalry collapsed, which was more terrifying than the rain of arrows in the sky.

The horses neighed, and the pale cavalry could no longer control themselves, and galloped wildly, but they had already been surrounded by the iron walls of the Sui army, and no matter how much they ran, they could only run in that small circle, until one fireball after another fell from the sky, hitting one cavalry after another, turning them into burning men. Countless screams rang out, and under the golden sunlight, it seemed to be the ...... of the Nine Hells,