The Flying Fox is the most dangerous passage in the Taihang Eight Mountains. The total length is more than 40 miles, running through the north and south of the mountain beam, the strange peaks on both sides are steep, the strange cliffs are suspended in the air, the widest part is only seventy or eighty steps, and the narrowest place can only be used by two adults to walk side by side.

However, if someone is immersed in the strange rocks and mountain beams along the way, then, when he reaches the middle of the journey, he will definitely be startled by the sudden appearance of the vast valley and the magnificent scenery.

Here, it is the horseshoe beam, which is known as the aerial grassland in later generations.

Vast, majestic, majestic, magnificent...... People will use all the similar words they know to describe this miraculous existence.

However, just like the Flying Fox Road, a battleground for soldiers, in the eyes of the generals who are determined to compete for power, the biggest advantage here is that the terrain is open, and it can be used to fight in large groups, making it an ideal battlefield.

Two armies from outside the Saiwai and on the banks of the river have been fighting fiercely here for three days and nights.

At this moment, Qian Man's mood is as different as before the war.

In good conscience, Xu You's comments about him are not entirely correct, although he is young and vigorous, he can still listen to his opinions. In fact, he can't listen to him, the power in the clan is in the hands of the elders, even if he has the courage and recklessness to go his own way, without the permission of the elders, the clansmen will not listen to him.

After the setback of the Lingqiu and Guangchang fronts, realizing that the main force of the Yulin Army had arrived, the fighters no longer existed, and Qian Man immediately ordered a retreat. But what I didn't expect was that the unrelenting became the Yulin Army.

Although Qianman's troops were cavalry, the danger of the Flying Fox Road limited the mobility of the Hu cavalry, but the Yulin Army, which was dominated by foot soldiers, advanced faster.

At first, Qian Man didn't pay much attention to it, but after walking out of the land for less than ten miles, he found that something was wrong, and the tail of the Yulin Army chased and killed. The efficiency was beyond his imagination.

The commander of the Han army made the most of the terrain, except for the main team that pursued in the canyon and mountain beams, he divided into many small forces, and climbed the mountain beams on both sides with bows and crossbows and spears - Qian Man still can't understand how those Han troops climbed such a steep mountain beam.

If he had the opportunity to ask Yu Ban in person, he would tell him that these were all new recruits, locals who had recently joined the army in northern Hebei. It was intended to be used as a guide and auxiliary. As a result, after the pursuit began, these people found that they could not use their forces, so they began to recommend themselves, and after getting Yu Ban's permission, they went up the mountain.

In the mountains where there is no way to spread the troops. These infantry are nightmarish beings.

In normal times, it doesn't hurt, every time you reach a particularly narrow passage, you need the rear team to resist in situ, and when you buy time for the army to pass, the javelins and arrows that rain down from the top of your head will form a three-dimensional offensive with the spearmen lined up in a dense formation, killing Hu Qi to the point of blood.

Qianman and his people. With his own blood and life, he once again verified the truth that cavalry is a god when they run, and they are scum if they can't run.

When the retreat progressed to the middle of the Flying Fox Road, Qian Man finally couldn't bear it anymore. Halfway through the journey. More than 20,000 cavalry have already suffered more than 10% casualties, which is greater than the loss of attacking Lingqiu. If you continue to escape according to this momentum, when you withdraw from the Flying Fox Road, you will have to pay the price of nearly 5,000 horsemen just after it is broken! How can this be?

To know. These cavalry are the capital for him to restore the glory of his father and ancestors and regain the hegemony of the steppe. Losses in the war are inevitable, but it is so unprofitable, and it is unbearable to be chased to death by others.

The opinion of the elders of the clan was the same as him, believing that the pursuing Yulin army was all foot soldiers, and they could exert their combat power better in the mountains, and if they fought in array on the plains, they could not be the opponents of the grassland warriors. After all, their entire army is cavalry, and the number is close to that of cavalry and infantry fighting on the plains, is there still suspense about the outcome of the battle?

The Qingzhou army is very strong, but it should be stronger than the cavalry, whether it is an iron cavalry or a light cavalry, it has extraordinary strength. If the infantry were that strong, it would be too rebellious, right?

If it was somewhere else, even if they had this thought, they wouldn't be able to find a place, but in Flying Fox Road, it was as if it was made in heaven, with such a miraculous existence as a horseshoe beam.

So, the 20,000 Hu cavalry of the Qianman tribe stepped onto the plateau, turned around and lined up, ready to take revenge on the battlefield opened up for his people in this immortal heaven!

On the other hand, Yu Ban, who got the urgent report from Youzhou, was originally here to fight and kill, and the previous pursuit was just helpless, and he couldn't wait for a large-scale battle with Qianman to clear the obstacles to the north as soon as possible.

A fierce battle broke out.

As soon as the battle began, Yu Ban quickly breathed a sigh of relief, because he found that the world-famous Hu Qi was nothing more than that. The Yulin Army was not as professional in dealing with cavalry as the first dead soldier of Koji Yi, but it also accumulated a lot of experience and experience, and it was usually trained against the two friendly armies of the Hussar Army.

Compared with the Qingzhou cavalry, the impact of the Hu cavalry was far inferior to that of the Agni Iron Cavalry. Only at the beginning, when the Yulin army ascended the plateau and did not gain a stable foothold, it caused some trouble, and after the Yulin army stabilized its position, they could only break the blood in front of the iron wall.

And the Hu cavalry's attack method is not as unpredictable as the wind cavalry, although they can also ride and shoot, but their bows and arrows are too weak and weak, the maximum range is only eighty paces, and the effective damage must be within fifty paces, how much trouble can this kind of cavalry shoot cause to the Yulin army armed to the teeth?

Hu Qi himself knew the weakness of the equipment, so they adopted a swarm of rushing formation, that is, the famous pig assault method of later generations - rampage like wild boars, either to crush the opponent, or to be slaughtered like domestic pigs.

The situation of the Qianman army is naturally the latter.

In this regard, Qian Man could only respond with straight eyes and stunned.

The defense of the Yulin army did not blindly rely on spears, spears were actually the last line of defense, and when Hu Cai launched a charge, they were greeted by a dense rain of arrows.

The archers of the Yulin Army were also trained by Huang Zhong, and their specialty was not to penetrate the Yang in a hundred steps, but to shoot the most feather arrows into the designated area of the generals in the shortest time and at the fastest speed.

This standard sounds puzzling, not as good as a hundred steps through Yang, but Qian Man has a very deep understanding of this. With the same bow and arrows, a steppe warrior with excellent archery skills might be able to defeat ten Han archers in a row, however, after the archers exceeded hundreds, the Han archers could easily defeat the same number of steppe warriors.

This is the exquisite tactics of war mastery in China, which are far from being comparable to the barbarians who rely on blood and brute force alone.

The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly, and it was impossible for the generals to have time to specify targets for each archer. Therefore, he will judge the approximate distance between the enemy and himself, and then ask his soldiers to shoot all the feather arrows at that distance. Hundreds of feathered arrows are overwhelmingly smashed, and they don't need to be accurate at all, and the density can also make the enemy have nowhere to escape.

The pig rush charge of the Qianman army was the first thing to greet was the baptism of the dense arrow array.

Behind the arrow array are throwing guns.

As a general, Yu Ban is very sensitive to the distance of engagement, and the Yulin Army is also the most comprehensive army among the six hussar armies, except for the infantry's natural slow marching speed, the Yulin Army has no particularly outstanding advantages, but it also has no shortcomings.

Arrows are long-range attacks, while spear-throwing is mid-range attacks to bridge the gap between the arrows and the spear.

With the existence of the spear throwing array, the archers of the Yulin Army do not need to adjust the firing distance all the time, as long as they go all out to create a death zone at a distance of about 100 paces.

The throwing spear does not have the speed and density of the bow and arrow, but the power is far more than that, if it is hit head-on by the whistling throwing gun, the Hu cavalry will even be nailed to the ground with men and horses, and the riding shield or something will not play any defensive role at all.

After breaking through the arrow array and the spear throwing array in a row, Hu Qi's pig burst formation has almost become a star-scattering array, and in the face of the dense spear array, even if they are all warriors who regard death as home, it is impossible to rush away with the strong charge of exchanging life for life.

To their despair, they didn't even have this chance to see death as if they were at home, because after throwing their guns, they had to face a shield array and a strong crossbowman hiding behind the shield.

The crossbowman is responsible for accurate shooting, with a shield in front of him, a spear behind him, and an auxiliary soldier by his side to help with loading, so that they can aim and shoot in a good time, which is more relaxed than when training - during training, the crossbow bolts need to be loaded by themselves.

The fierce battle on the first day came to an end in the defense of the Han army as the Hu cavalry rushed forward, and the Qianman army was bleeding, but the Yulin army was almost unharmed. The area of the horseshoe beam is very large, 36 square kilometers, but for a large war of 40,000 people, it is barely enough.

Here, Hu Cai could not use the mobile combat and outflanking that he was best at, and in front of the sophisticated equipment of the Han army, he naturally only had to be slaughtered.

The next day, Hu Qi began to go on the defensive, and at the same time, Qian Man also repaired several blood letters in a row, asking for help from the main army of Shanggu County.

As a result, the reinforcements did not see it, but they saw the second tactic of the Yulin Army - the oppressive attack of the overall advance. The attack sequence remains the same, but the entire army will maintain an even speed and slowly move forward.

If Hu Qi did not fight back, the Yulin army advanced all the way to a distance of about 80 steps from the Hu Qi array, and used a strong bow and crossbow to kill and injure a large number of Hu Qi who lacked shields and iron armor. If Hu Qi could not bear the casualties and launched a counterattack, the situation of the first day of battle would be repeated.

Qian Man and his elders had never dealt with the regular troops of the Han army, and they could never have dreamed that it would be an infantry array battle, and the enemy general would be able to make so many names. The most terrible thing is that they can understand and know what is powerful, but they can't deal with it, so they can only retreat and retreat deeper and deeper!

By the third day of the battle, the Qianman army had suffered nearly half of the casualties, and only the cavalry in their early 10,000s remained, and they were almost unable to move in their dying struggles, and the only thing that could save them was the unlikely reinforcements.

Qianman was desperate.

Knowing this, it would be better to give up five thousand horsemen and run out of this terrible flying fox road in one go. To be precise, I shouldn't have come at all!