Chapter Twenty-Three: The Lamb of Eruption
The rumbling sound of the horn sounded all over the sky, as if it penetrated into the ears of everyone inside and outside the battlefield from all directions, rendering a suffocating agitation. The Turkic cavalry did not give the daughter army more respite, and as soon as the sun was tilting westward, the Turkic iron wolf guard rose up, quickly crossed the Kwai Shui, and did not need any rest to charge the daughter army formation on the north bank of the river.
The hussar-to-hussar dialogue does not require much prelude, horses, weapons, and shields for the front row of charge and defense. The number of cavalry on both sides is equal, it is nothing more than a contest of spears and solid shields, and the defensive formation of the daughter army is so strict that it exceeds any drill or actual battle, but this time it is facing an unprecedented and formidable enemy, and this battle will not leave any room for each other to turn around.
There is no third possibility, for total annihilation, or total annihilation.
"Whew...... Woo......"
The neat shout, like the long howl of the heroic division on the battlefield, the forward shock corps composed of thousands of iron wolf guards rushed to the horse, which was less than two hundred steps away from the front row of the daughter's army's defensive formation, and the two sides sent out the first round of arrows.
In the light cavalry battle, the two sides went from entering the firing range to hand-to-hand combat in the blink of an eye, and a round of arrows was already the limit. There was no suspense, and the shields in the front rows of both sides blocked most of the arrow feathers.
The daughter's army should have an advantage in shooting at the Iron Wolf Guard, but on the one hand, the woman's arm strength is limited, and more importantly, the Iron Wolf Guard soldiers never leave their hands from being able to climb and move, and they are skilled in riding and shooting.
"Knock ......"
It seemed to be a muffled drum, and the earth-shattering shouts of killing sounded. The Iron Wolf Guard soldier crossed his sword and horse, and the moment he made contact, he broke through the shield of the daughter army, and then poured into the clear water like a black mud stream, gradually staining a clear spring.
Blood, stumps and severed arms, corpses of people and horses littering everywhere, the entire battlefield seemed to be purgatory on earth. A steady stream of Turkic cavalry joined the slaughtering feast, and with the loss of the daughter's defensive flank, a battle with an equal number of cavalry turned out to be a three-sided encirclement of one side against the other.
After the completion of the encirclement, the first round of charging Turkic iron cavalry, except for some of them fell into bitter battles, most of them fought and retreated, and gradually retreated to the battle circle, and the subsequent cavalry immediately made up, one round of rest wheel tactics. The daughter army did not have such leisure, and with the infiltration of the Turkic iron cavalry from the three directions to the center, the defense line of the daughter army had collapsed.
Killing is the only melody, and the defense line of the daughter army can only retreat to the center of the battle circle, the encirclement gradually narrows, and the number of soldiers of the daughter army is greatly reduced.
At this time, the entire battlefield could no longer find a complete formation, and it completely turned into a small group battle. Iron Wolf's saber played a more obvious advantage than the daughter's spear in hand-to-hand combat, and each rise and fall was almost inevitably accompanied by a female rider's tumbling off her horse. The defensive circle formed by a dozen horsemen of the Daughter's Army was often easily torn apart by three or two Turkic cavalry.
Two hours after the start of the war, the daughter's army initially had about 30,000 men and horses, and the defeat was less than thirty percent, and the daughter's army would become history before dusk and sunset. At this moment, the Turkic Iron Wolf Guard completed the charge, completely withdrew from the battle circle, and handed over the remaining tail sweeping and killing to the ordinary cavalry who followed. The daughter army is absent-minded, even the ordinary Turkic cavalry who have faced them in ten battles and nine defeats can easily kill them out of formation, and the revenge is troubled, and these Turkic cavalry who have won the victory began to brutally torture and kill.
Time is constantly passing, and the nearly 2,000 bloody men who are ambushed on the mountain at this moment and witness this killing are the most tormented. I can't wait to pick up my arms and rush forward, even if I am desperate to die on the battlefield, than to witness the blood of my compatriots here.
Finally, when the Turkic Iron Wolf Guards felt that the battle was over, nearly 10,000 Turkic Iron Wolf Guards began to assemble on the river bank and crossed the river first, and their direction was to the east, towards the ambush circle at the foot of the mountain.
The lamb, who had been silent all afternoon, had his heart beating to his throat at this moment. Each lamb, with blood-red eyes, stared at the approaching wolves, and even the iron pestle in his hand was ready to smash a hole in the wolf's head.
Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps......
The killing over there is still going on, and the killing on this side is approaching. As the first team of Turkic Iron Wolf Guards entered the ambush circle, Liu Yu also personally lit the fire fold, and beside him was the blue fireworks that symbolized the official start of the ambush battle.
The three-mile-long ambush circle was almost covered with grass, and the thousands of iron wolves who had crossed the river first walked on it, and they could not feel that under the mud layer were layers of reinforced planks, and traps filled with gunpowder and tung oil. Originally, Liu Yue wanted to wait until the first batch of Iron Wolf Guards came out of the ambush circle before starting a battle, but from a distance, the daughter army on the north bank of Kwai Shui could not hold out at all, and if they didn't give them hope, they would be completely desperate.
"Whew...... Smack......"
The afterglow of dusk has not yet faded, and the heavens and the earth have not yet been shrouded in darkness. At this time, a pale blue firework suddenly rose into the sky in the mountains and forests on the banks of the Kwai River, blooming a huge blue circle of light, shining and condensing in the air for a long time. Immediately, a second blue flame also rose into the sky.
What a beautiful scenery it would have been without the carnage on the north bank of the river. Only the pale red water reminds everyone that this is not as simple as a landscape.
There is only about a few seconds of dwelling. The soldiers of the Turkic Iron Wolf Guard also looked up unconsciously, and before they could react to what it meant, countless arrows with red flame fell on them like a deadly charm, burning and falling on them, in the grass beneath their feet.
"Poof!"
The flames rose into the air, and the faint sound of the flames was drowned out by the rumbling explosions. The Turkic Iron Wolf Guard, who was full of pride, could never have imagined that the hunters would become prey in an instant, and the smile on their faces that was full of joy of victory even solidified into a terrifying relic.
Two battlefields, about four or five miles apart, came to a brief pause at the same time. After the pause, the soldiers who had been fighting all afternoon realized that the army of the Great Shun Dynasty had set up an ambush here.
The daughter's army instantly boosted the morale of the army.
"Brothers, sisters who fought for our blood, shoot!"
I don't know who shouted loudly, this time it was not only rockets that were shot, but also firecrackers, stones, shovels, bamboo poles, in short, everything that could be thrown at hand, and some even just grabbed a handful of leaves and threw them out, but after all, they were a hundred steps away, and the leaves were just scattered not far away.
The thousands of Iron Wolf Guard soldiers who entered the valley first were shrouded in flames, but after all, they had been tested by an extremely harsh environment, and they were on the line between life and death, but everyone who could still move threw themselves into the Kwai Shui River dozens of steps away, until they ran fast and extinguished the fire on their bodies, and they only saw the continuous rockets, and they didn't even see a figure in ambush. At this time, most of the horses were already frightened, and the horses were scurrying, and those who were not on fire also fell off their horses, and had to drill into the Kwai Shui River.
There was thick smoke everywhere accompanied by the smell of burnt meat, and only a piece of water in the Kwai River was a paradise in hell on earth, but the current in this section suddenly became rapid, and many soldiers who did not know the depth of the water thought that it was the gentleness of the upper reaches, and jumped into the water and never showed their heads again.
At the other end of the battlefield, the daughter army, which had only a few thousand soldiers and horses, was defeated by more than 10,000 Turkic cavalry, and the daughter army regrouped and was approaching the ambush circle at the foot of the mountain.
The ordinary Turkic cavalry has been suppressed by the daughter army, but after all, there is still the Turkic ace division Iron Wolf Guard, although many people and horses have been lost, there are thousands of Iron Wolf Guards who have not yet entered the ambush circle have formed a formation and counterattacked in the direction where the daughter army is rushing.
A red figure, behind him is a tall "Xu" handsome flag. The blood of the daughter army was the last to kill, and under the leadership of Xu Xuanzhu, they rushed in. They originally wanted to have a flank attack with the ambush soldiers on the mountain, but Xu Xuanzhu didn't know what to do, the only little cavalry on the mountain couldn't complete a decent impact at all, and when they approached, they still didn't show up.
The red figure was very eye-catching among the daughters, and the Turkic Iron Wolf Guard found the target and killed him directly to the side of Shuai Qi. It was just a round of impact, and the daughter army became the defeated side again, and a small piece of Shuai Qi and the red figure around the body were staggered by this round of charge and the connection with the large army, Xu Xuanzhu and a group of guards fell into a heavy siege, Xu Xuanzhu drew his sword and cut down the Turkic cavalry on the left and right, but the mount was shot by a cold arrow from the Iron Wolf Guard soldiers behind him, the horse kicked high and jumped high in pain, Xu Xuanzhu fell off the horse unsteadily, and his body fell heavily to the ground.
At this time, Liu Yu was on a small cliff behind Xu Xuanzhu, more than 20 meters apart, even if Liu Yu wanted to go down the rope to save people, Li Mi behind him pulled a hand and said, "Are you crazy?" Now is not the time to charge. ”
"I'll leave it to you!" Liu Yu snorted, grabbed the knife in the hand of the Xiangyong next to him and clamped it under his armpit, and the person also went down the rope, and several Xiangyong next to him saw that the leader went down, followed down a few, and those who wanted to do it later had been stopped by Li Mi.
Victory or defeat didn't matter to Liu Yu at all, he couldn't tolerate witnessing the tragic death of someone he remembered.
Xu Xuanzhu was stunned, clearly remembering that there was a cliff behind him, and suddenly a few people who were not afraid of death fell from the sky and rushed towards the Turkic cavalry.
"Chop off the horse's legs!" Liu Yu roared, and several villagers behind him immediately understood, and cut off the legs of the Turkic horses one by one.
The Turkic cavalry obviously had never seen such a deadly game, and they were not afraid of being hacked to death with a knife, were they not afraid of being trampled to death by the hooves of horses? And Liu Yu put Xu Xuanzhu, who was lying on the ground motionless, directly on his shoulder, and shouted again: "Drill the grass." ”
Then a few villagers next to him obediently plunged into the waist-deep thatch. The whole process was only a blink of an eye, but the Turkic horse's legs were cut off several times, and the Iron Wolf Guard, who rolled off the horse, tried to seek revenge on the victim, and he could no longer find a figure when he looked left and right.