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Chapter 576: Shocking

The vanguard army was defeated like a mountain, not that these soldiers were not brave, but in front of these rampaging elephants, the human strength seemed so weak and powerless, when they saw that even the infantry vehicle formation was picked up by the elephants' heads and noses, and was thrown high into the sky, the last trace of combat courage of the army also disappeared, and they collectively turned around and fled backwards. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sun Yao rode on the horse, the big knife in his hand hung down softly, and he looked at the defeated soldiers blankly, and did not shout at the soldiers to turn back and attack, in fact, he who has always been brave also has a deep sense of powerlessness at this time.

"General, retreat quickly, if you don't retreat, you will be entangled!" The pro-soldiers shouted loudly, seeing Sun Yao's unguarded appearance, several pro-soldiers glanced at each other, then turned Sun Yao's horse's head, and struck down with a heavy whip on the horse's stock, the war horse was in pain, and immediately ran forward, and the pro-soldiers surrounded him and went away.

The Qiang soldiers wielded scimitars and screamed after them, but whoever caught up with them was cut down with a knife, chopped off their heads, pinned their bloody heads to their waists, and chased after them again, for an enemy's head was a fortune.

Qiu Zhi's Chinese army, more than 10,000 soldiers have taken advantage of the time to fight in the front, dug deep trenches, set up high fences, horses, antlers, and scales, and some thick earthen walls are being raised little by little, and in front of these, there are piles of firewood that have been drenched with grease.

"General, Sun Yao is defeated!" The voice of the Chinese officer trembled, looking at the front of the Chinese army, Sun Yao's forward army was fleeing back in embarrassment, and behind them, there were Qiang soldiers all over the mountains.

Qiu Zhi's face was expressionless, "Guide the forward army into the main formation of the Chinese army, archers, trebuchets, and eight-bull crossbows to prepare." ”

In the middle of the Chinese army, the rumbling drums sounded, although the forward army was defeated, but after all, it was well trained, and when they heard the sound of the drums, they understood that this was to let them go around the formation, and after the detour from both sides to the Chinese army, at this time, if they rushed into the main formation, the Chinese army would mercilessly pour the rain of arrows on their heads.

When the defeated army arrived outside the land of the Chinese army, it was like a surging torrent that suddenly hit a tide stone standing in the middle of a great river, and it split into two with a bang and ran to both sides.

"Ignition!" Qiu Sheng shouted.

Rockets were shot out, and the flames soared into the sky, and the firelight was accompanied by bursts of green smoke, rising into the sky, and the Qiang soldiers who were chasing after the defeated army of the vanguard rushed up with a shout, Qiu Zhi sneered, "Release the arrow!" ”

The archers of the Chinese army raised their bows and arrows, and thousands of longbows were shot at the same time, the scene was spectacular, and the Qiang soldiers suddenly felt that the sky was dark, and when they looked up, they saw endless rain of arrows falling from the sky, and the screams immediately came and went.

The Qiang soldiers who were lucky enough to rush through the first round of arrow rain ended even worse, and they were greeted by thousands of thistles scattered on the ground, and the sharp triangular thistles no matter how they lay on the ground, had a sharp spike pointing upwards, effortlessly piercing the straw sandals of the Qiang soldiers, deeply embedded in the flesh and blood, and the Qiang soldiers who were jumping around with their feet would soon step on the second and third.

Throwing away their weapons and hugging their feet and screaming, they immediately heard the incessant sound of currolines, if anyone from the barbarians was here, they would definitely know clearly, it was a special crossbow with 100 rounds, and countless Qiang soldiers were immediately shot into a sieve.

The Qiang soldiers attacked frustrated, the invincible elephant army that followed them rushed up, saw the invincible army of their own family, because of the casualties and some hesitant Qiang soldiers courage immediately plucked up again, in their hearts, the elephant army is a symbol of invincibility, in the battle just now, the elephant army has fully proved this, the enemy's vanguard was beaten to almost no power to fight back, and the forward of a force is basically the strongest force in an army. They howled, and the elephants swept up like a tidal wave again.

"Trebuchet, eight-bull crossbow!" A few words burst out coldly between Qiu Zhi's lips.

The boulder fell from the sky, accompanied by the unique chirping sound of the eight-bull crossbow, the elephant soldier who was just majestic immediately became unlucky, the elephant is huge, the skin is rough and the flesh is thick, you go down with a knife, you may not be able to cause him much damage, but the boulder that fell from the sky dozens of pounds fell on them, its huge power can make them suffer extremely serious injuries, and the eight-bull crossbow is within hundreds of meters, its strength can be *** The solid city wall is about half a foot deep, and naturally it is not the flesh and blood of the elephant that can resist, As soon as the elephant soldiers, who had just engaged the vanguard army without any damage, and the Chinese army, more than a dozen elephants fell to the ground screaming, and in front of them, the sky-high fire also made them hesitate.

The front did not move, but the back rushed forward one after another, and the huge elephants suddenly crowded together.

Qiu Zhisensen smiled and pointed his finger, "All trebuchets, eight-bull crossbows, cover this area!" ”

Seeing his elephants being knocked down one by one by boulders and powerful crossbow arrows, the commander of the elephant soldiers, the princess of the Qiang tribe, Ma Lanhua, finally realized that the Great Chu army was not those indigenous tribes in the mountains, if they hesitated, only these hundred and ten elephants had to be handed over and waited here, a whistle, the first to turn around, she left, the rest of the elephant soldiers immediately followed, the elephant soldiers went, the Qiang soldiers suddenly seemed to be pulled out of the backbone, and also turned around.

As soon as the Chinese army exerted its strength, the enemy immediately retreated, and even the elephants that made the soldiers fearful fled in a hurry.

Only their boss, Qiu Zhi, was still frowning, looking at the large number of retreating Qiang soldiers, looking preoccupied.

"Dig the ditch wide and deep, and make more horses and antlers, and make the breastwork thicker and higher, and set up a double fence, and fill it in the middle to make a wall." Qiu Zhi gave orders one after another.

"General, Sun Yao lost the battle, and he has no shame to see the general, please punish the general." Sun Yao, who was covered in blood and staggered to Qiu Zhi, knelt down with a bang, and howled with a cry: "General, I will bury the forward army in Taiban, and ask the general to kill the last general to correct the military regulations to boost morale." ”

Qiu Zhi took a step forward, helped Sun Yao with both hands, shook his head and said: "This defeat is not a mistake in battle, I have seen the heroism of the forward soldiers." ”

Turning his head, he looked at a group of dejected forward generals behind Sun Yao, and said in an impassioned tone: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, this is just a small defeat, in front of my army, what is the way?" I've seen it all just now, I just need to deal with it, how can these demons and monsters from the deep mountains be the opponents of my dignified master? Raise your heads, hold your knives tightly, and in the next battle, I am sure you will prove yourselves. ”

With a few simple words, coupled with the ease with which they felt that they felt to be invincible elephant army, the courage of the vanguard generals was immediately aroused again, and they all drew their swords in their hands and shouted in unison, "Kill, kill, kill them all!" ”

Qiu Zhi laughed and instructed his guards, "Come on, go and drag those elephants into the camp for me, today the whole army will come to eat a meal of elephant meat to see how it tastes, hahaha, little ones, you have a good mouth, this thing is not easy to eat." ”

The surrounding generals and soldiers laughed in unison, and the depression caused by the defeat just now disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The pace easily returned to his big tent of the Chinese army, just entered the big tent, Qiu Zhi's pace immediately became heavy, just before repelling this round of attacks of the Qiang soldiers, he had received the news that his two troops left behind on the flank had been broken by Hu Ze Quanlan Mountain, Hu Lan's second army was all dragons, and the back road of his army had been broken, and he had really become a turtle in the nest.

"Good plan!" Qiu Zhi sat heavily on the chair, King Ning deserved to be a generation of heroes, he actually used himself as bait to introduce himself into the gourd, and blamed himself for being too careless, now the plan is only to base the soil for the city, stick to the camp, and wait until His Majesty the Emperor's army defeats Yizhou, and then attack on all fronts, one to relieve his own siege, and the other to defeat the main force of King Ning.

As long as he still exists here for a day, His Majesty the Emperor will have a greater chance of defeating King Ning, and his biggest role now is to contain King Ning's main force. For defense, Qiu Zhi still has some experience. The only thing to worry about is grain and grass, all the grain and grass in the army can only last for ten days at most, but how many days will the battle of Yizhou last?

"Someone!" Qiu Zhi said with some fatigue.

"Orders are sent to quartermasters, food and grass are distributed centrally, and from today onwards, soldiers preparing for battle will eat two meals a day, and the rest will eat one meal, and all officers will be allowed to eat only once a day."

"Summoning all the generals to enter the account immediately."

Taking advantage of the time to wait for the generals of the battalions, Qiu Zhi leaned back in his chair, ready to take a break, his nerves had been too tense today.

Just when Qiu Zhi was confused, hurried footsteps suddenly sounded outside the tent, the big tent was opened, and the Chinese officer led a man in ordinary clothes to stride into the tent.

"General, the staff department is here!" The lieutenant officer whispered.

Qiu Zhihuo opened his eyes and looked at the comer.

"The staff is ten thousand winds, knock on the general!" The person who came respectfully gave a military salute to Qiu Zhi, "The last general sent a top-secret letter to the general under the order of the commander of Fang Si Yuan, I thought that the general was still in the station, but I didn't expect the general to be here!" Wan Changfeng smiled bitterly, "General, you have been surrounded by the enemy. ”

Qiu Zhi let out a sigh, "What about the letter? ”

Wan Changfeng lifted the lower edge of his clothes, Huo Di tore it open, took out an envelope from it, and handed it to Qiu Zhi with both hands.

Qiu Zhi tore open the envelope, opened the page, looked at ten lines, his face became whiter and whiter, his hands were loosened, the letter paper fell, Qiu Zhi's tall figure shook, and he almost fell to the ground.

The letter is written by the apocalypse, and there is one of the central meanings, Li Qing is not dead, the Dingzhou army invaded from Minzhou, Zhang Aimin's back road was cut off, and the life and death of tens of thousands of troops are uncertain.

Letter, it came too late.