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Nilan watched with some despair as the red sun leaped out of the clouds and shone on ten thousand golden rays. Perhaps, this is the last time he will see the sunrise, he thought bitterly in his heart. After a night of fighting, he couldn't believe he was still alive. At night, when the Han Chinese crossbowmen launched a surprise attack and covered the fierce arrows and crossbows, he was filling the trench in front of the ice castle with his clothes and his auxiliaries like his own auxiliary, Ba Jia. When the rain of arrows fell with a screech, his horse was the first to be struck, and the horse fell to the ground and crushed him under the horse. Nilan, who didn't have time to jump off the horse, was crushed by the horse, and one of his legs was slightly injured, but it was not strict. It is also a blessing in disguise, when the horse fell there was a horse corpse that was killed by an arrow, although he was suppressed, but it happened to be in the gap between the two horses, his leg was just stuck, and there were some bruises.

Blessed by misfortune, he was crushed under the horse, and he happened to avoid the most sudden and violent rounds of arrow rain from the Sui army. Many of his companions were unable to dodge and were shot one after another, but he missed all. By the time he finally pulled out his leg and crawled out from under the horse's carcass, those damned Xi cavalry had just come out of the city. The crossbow shooting under the city weakened considerably, and he picked up a horse that had lost its owner, and fled west with the leopard banner.

This night was followed by a major battle with the Xi cavalry, a surprise attack by the Sui cavalry, and a melee with the last three cavalry.

After dawn, the Tongluo cavalry suffered heavy losses, but they still relied on the fierceness of the Mobei people, and finally fought and retreated. The soldiers and horses gathered together, and now in the valley about ten miles west of the ice castle, they were besieged by the Sui and Xi coalition forces. They were guarding a shallow valley. Blocked the valley mouth, and the negative corner held on. However, the situation is extremely not optimistic, in the small valley, there are wounded soldiers everywhere, especially the valley mouth, and there are corpses all over the field, in order to defend this small valley mouth. Having a chance to breathe, he had a fierce battle with the Luo and Sui Xi coalition forces last night, and they changed hands several times. In the end, they defended the mountain with flesh and blood.

However, when they went south, there were 10,000 leopard riders in the desert, and now there are less than 5,000 left, and many of them are injured. Last night's battle. They lost at least 3,000 cavalry. It's an unbearable injury. By now, they had lost more than half of their men and horses, and they were now in a desperate situation.

He knew they would never have a chance to break through. In the past three days, all their smooth affairs have been nothing more than traps and traps set by the Sui people, and when they are careless, they have dealt them the heaviest blow.

After dawn. Both Xi Qi and Sui Qi had stopped attacking and seemed to have received orders from above.

There was silence on the battlefield. The snow near the small valley has long been trampled and stained, and many places are covered in the black blood stains of the big beach in the sun, which looks shocking. The tranquility of the moment is more like a sign before a blizzard. I'm going to die here, and I'll never be able to go back to Mobei. He suddenly remembered what his uncle Ted had told him, that there was no shame in surrendering, and that he was now kneeling down to conquer just so that he could stand up again in the future. But will they ever have such a chance?

In the ice castle, Yi Feng had already received a detailed report on the battle situation last night.

According to the statistics of the staff officers, last night's battle achieved the expected results.

Three thousand one hundred and seventy-eight Tongluo people were killed on the battlefield, and no prisoners were taken. The Wuzhou cavalry battalion suffered 39 casualties, 16 seriously wounded, and more than 300 minor wounded. The Xi cavalry killed 1,869 and seriously wounded 322 people. Nearly 2,000 people were killed in the first battle, and more than 10,000 Xi people suffered battle losses of 10 percent, which is a huge number of casualties. If you consider that the vast majority of these Xi cavalry are just newly recruited herdsman recruits, and the enemy is an extremely fierce Mobei wolf cavalry, I am afraid that such casualties will be unbearable. However, the casualties of the Wuzhou cavalry battalion were well controlled, and the casualties of about one percent were enough to make Yi Feng proud. However, these figures also illustrate a problem, the gap between the professional army and the herdsmen tribesmen like the Xi people is still huge, even if the Huaihuang cavalry is only a new army, it is far from being comparable to the Xi herdsmen recruits who have not undergone strict training and are not well equipped. More than 1,000 people were killed in World War I, and if they had had been rigorously trained, well-equipped, and commanded, they would never have suffered such heavy casualties.

The Tongluo people had less than 5,000 remnants left, and they cowered in a small ravine in the river valley to resist stubbornly. Although he still refuses to surrender, he is already defeated. After last night's battle, these Tongluo people no longer even have the ability to fight Yi Feng. Before last night, Yi Feng still didn't dare to confront these Tongluo people head-on, but now, although these Tongluo people still have nearly 5,000 people, they have long since lost their previous bravery, and they are just a piece of meat on his chopping board.

"In last night's battle, in addition to killing more than 3,000 Tongluo people, we also captured more than 30,000 war horses, more than 20,000 pack horses, and more than 100,000 camels, cattle and sheep and other miscellaneous animals, and the harvest was extremely rich." Wei Zheng, who consulted the army, looked at the records in his hand and laughed at the report.

The habit of the Tongluo people is that the main army goes out with three horses, and the two families also bring one horse each, but they are generally not ridden, but used to carry equipment. When they were at war with the enemy, they would use looting to supplement their logistical supplies, especially when they were fighting with other tribes, they would also loot what they saw, and in addition to people and horses, they would also loot cattle, sheep, camels, etc., which were used to carry booty and serve as rations. Before, the Tongluo people killed all the way to Shehechuan, plundered more than 10,000 Xi men and women, robbed tens of thousands of horses, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep and other miscellaneous animals. After being trapped in the river, the Xi people who were captured were all shot in front of the Sui military camp. In last night's battle, although the Tongluo people finally stabilized their position, their spare horses, pack horses, cattle and sheep almost all fell into the hands of the Sui army.

"Very good, in addition to leaving some cattle and sheep for rations, the rest will be given to the Xi people, which can be regarded as borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, rewarding the Xi department at the same time, but also enhancing some relations, this time the Xi people are also considered to have suffered a catastrophe." After a pause, Yi Feng said again: "But the horses and camels will stay, these are good leg strength, helping us transport supplies, or staying to build roads and cities in the future, can play a great role." As for the 30,000 war horses, they must be fed well, and we will expand the cavalry next, and we need good war horses. The Mobei war horse of the Tongluo people is an iron-hoofed horse, but it is an excellent war horse. ”

After discussing and arranging some other things, Wei Zheng said: "The infantry battalion and the chariot battalion are ready, are they allowed to play?" ”

"Well, let the cavalry retreat and recuperate, and it's time for the infantry battalion and the chariot battalion to go into battle." Yi Feng nodded.

Although this kind of training has to pay a lot of casualties, Yi Feng has never felt that such casualties cannot be beared. Only by training troops in actual combat can we train real elite soldiers.

At the sound of the horn, the west gate of the ice castle opened again, and the chariot formation of chariots was in front, the infantry battalion followed closely behind, and the troops marched forward in a neat array.

The troops arrived at the battlefield, and the cavalry battalion began to withdraw from the battlefield as ordered, retreating to the camp to rest.

The first to enter the battlefield was the chariot battalion, their attack was modest, with the chariots as the lead, slowly advancing to a distance of sixty paces, and the chariots maintained a neat line. In the huge chariot carriage, ten crossbowmen were divided into two groups, one group stood in front of the arrow hole and ready to shoot, and the other group stood in the back to prepare, and when the first group had fired, the two groups would quickly change positions, and they would step forward to take over the shot, while the crossbowmen who had finished shooting retreated to the back and wound up, and so on. Behind the chariot, which propped up the high armor plates, was a group of five sword and shield men, a group of five heavy infantrymen, and a group of two spearmen, two of whom were the drivers and one of the commanders of the chariots as the chariot moved. The chariot battalion has a strong defense, and the chariot array is a moving castle, and hoplites, sword and shield men, and pikemen can quickly strengthen the defense of this castle. At the same time, the ten crossbowmen in the chariot also make this mobile castle have a strong defense and a strong long-range attack ability. In particular, the setting of the heavy infantry is specially designed to deal with the impact of the cavalry, their thick steel plate armor can not only resist the bow and arrow, but also resist the impact of the cavalry, and the long and heavy two-handed sword in their hands can directly split the cavalry and the horse in half.

Wei Chigong was wearing a full set of steel plate armor at this time, wearing a closed helmet on his head that only exposed the two slits in front of his eyes and the ventilation hole in front of his nose, in addition to wearing iron gloves on his hands, iron boots on his feet, and even a chain armor in this iron can, which can be described as a strong defense. And the nine-pound horse-chopping sword he held in his hands standing on the side of the chariot was even sharper and flashing with a ghostly glow. After the visor on his helmet was lowered, his vision narrowed a lot, and even the sound outside seemed to be much softer, but his own exhalation was particularly loud. The face that others couldn't see, at this time, was red in the black, and through the narrow slit, Wei Chigong's eyes showed extreme longing. Along the way, today it was finally his turn to really go to the battlefield.

The Tongluo people in the small ravine on the opposite side did not move, allowing the chariot battalion of the Huaihuang army to calmly approach the valley mouth, and then unloaded the horses, and the drivers locked the chariots one by one with thick iron chains, and formed a formation. Heavy infantry shrouded in iron armor stood in the gap between the chariots with big swords, and between every two chariots, there were five tall ironclad men, the iron armor with a tight body, the long and big giant sword, all made Nilan's heart at the mouth of the valley feel like ice. (To be continued......)