For Zhou Jun, Huangzhang Valley was simply a place of nightmares.

At the sound of the horn, countless cavalry engaged in hand-to-hand combat in the valley, and the slow advance array of the Zhou army became chaotic due to the stop and battle ahead, and in this narrow position, the Khitans who had grown up on horseback since childhood obviously had an absolute advantage.

They were like hunting countless yellow sheep on the grassland, wielding swords, chiseling through the ranks of the Zhou army, and the soldiers did not stop, just moving forward, and the follow-up men and horses who swarmed like locusts followed closely behind, continuing to slash and kill the soldiers of the Zhou army.

When the wolf smoke at the mountain pass surged, Sun Wanrong, who was ambushed in the belly of the mountain, saw the wolf smoke rising in the distance, and under great joy, he jumped up and shouted: "Attack!" ”

It is true that thousands of troops and horses cannot be ambushed in the dense forests on the mountain, but Sun Wanrong only brought a few cavalry, and the rest were foot soldiers, and it was easy for these foot soldiers to hide in the dense forest.

The wide valley like a gourd's belly is indeed not suitable for a surprise attack on the Zhou army, but these herdsmen who compete with the sky for food have their own methods.

One by one, huge cage balls tied with rattan rolled down the hillside, jumped, and crashed into the cavalry team below the mountain, the cage balls were stuffed with dead branches and leaves, some of them were poured with fuel, and the Khitans lit the cage balls before they were pushed down the mountain, and the light and elastic cage balls were enough to roll from this side of the hill to the foot of the opposite mountain if they were not blocked.

Thick smoke rises, flames rise, thick smoke quickly blocked the entire valley, thousands of fired, smoking cage balls pushed into the canyon, the whole valley thick smoke billowing, five steps away is difficult to see people, those war horses were burned by the flames, smoked by the smoke, panicked and screamed, trampled and jumped, the Zhou army collapsed without a fight.

Immediately, countless Khitans, dressed in animal skins and holding hunting bows, rushed densely in front of the dense forests on both sides, and shot at the Zhou troops who escaped from the fireworks array and the Zhou troops who occasionally showed their bodies in the thick smoke with bows and arrows.

Meanwhile. Ambush farther away. The 2,800 Khitan horsemen who were waiting for their orders also rushed out along a sparsely wooded hillside, and they rushed to the rear of the Zhou cavalry, intercepted them, and trapped them in this valley.

Although the valley was wide, eight hundred horsemen were enough to form four blocking positions, and the rest of the cavalry had galloped in reverse. Throw the Zhou army struggling in the fireworks far away, and pounce on the Zhou army's foot soldiers who are still hurrying several miles away.

The fire in the valley is actually not very serious, what is really fatal is the billowing smoke, such a thick fire, is enough to kill, and the Khitans, who know all kinds of herbs, have added many poisonous or spicy herbs to the cage ball. It burned, and it made people cry, their throats were swollen and painful, and it was difficult to breathe.

Horses are even more unbearable, and people can try to keep their composure in such situations, but horses can't, even well-trained horses. Some of the horses were startled. Kicking and stomping, biting and bumping. Then he led more horses to blow up the battalion, not counting the Khitan arrows, but countless soldiers who were trampled and kicked by startled horses and were killed and injured.

Seeing this, Cao Renshi couldn't help beating his chest and repenting. Suddenly, a cold arrow struck, and an arrow knocked off his helmet, and a strand of sideburns scattered. The soldiers around him were shocked, and hurriedly covered with a riding shield, shouting: "General, hurry up and rush back!" ”

Cao Renshi pulled out his sword and shouted: "You can't retreat, attack the mountain, only by occupying this place, can you have a chance to kill!" ”

The old general said that, took the lead, and rushed to the hillside like crazy.

He can't do it now, in the billowing smoke, except for these personal soldiers around him, he can't see anyone else, how to carry out the command.

Although in addition to flags, there are also drum music in the army that can convey generals' orders, but those things can only express simple generals' orders, such as attacking, retreating, or standing in place, and cannot convey complex orders, and most importantly, ...... He can't even find a vocal band now.

Cao Renshi led his own soldiers, cloaked in hair, and rushed with his sword, as if he was enchanted.

In fact, it was not without the Zhou army that they should escape from the smoke array and charge up the hillside, but the edge of the smoke was exactly the place where the Khitans' arrows were called.

Cao Renshi rushed out of the smoke, and a Khitan soldier on the hillside immediately raised his bow and aimed at him.

"Wait!"

Sun Wanrong, who had been a proton in the Tang Dynasty for many years, only glanced at it, and recognized that this was a general with a high rank from Cao Renshi's drape, and immediately ordered: "This person wants to live!" Arrest him! ”

Immediately, a few Khitan soldiers rushed down the hillside, Cao Renshi rushed out of the fireworks array, first gasped for a few breaths, and tried to open his eyes that were red and swollen with tears.

"Come over to me!"

The Khitan who was holding the lasso pulled hard, and Cao Renshi, who had not yet established his footing, staggered away from his own soldiers and crashed into the enemy's side.

Sinong Shaoqing Ma Renjie was being escorted by several personal soldiers at this moment, stumbling around in the crowd of horses, shouting all the way: "General Cao! General Cao? ”

The cage ball gradually burned out, and the smoke gradually thinned, but how many people could still fight with knives in the Zhou army, which was trampled by frightened horses and smoked so much that it was impossible to see?

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The horizontal knife in Ma Qiao's hand has been cut to the ground, and now he is using a long knife of the Khitan that he snatched from his hand.

He rushed all the way back, and he didn't know how many people had been hacked to death, he had blood-stained robes, and there was the blood of the enemy, his own blood, and the blood of his comrades, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers following him, but there were still boundless and desperate Khitan cavalry in front of him.

Thanks to the mixture of enemies and friends here, I can only fight hand-to-hand and cannot release arrows, otherwise Ma Qiao would have already been dead on the spot, and it would be impossible to rush to kill until now.

When Ma Qiao was leading the team forward, he faintly heard a horn sound, turned his head to look again, the forest was silent, but there was no sound, Ma Qiao thought it was his hallucination, but several soldiers also said that they heard it.

When he was suspicious, the wolf smoke that Taniguchi used to inform Sun Wanrong to launch an attack surged, and Ma Qiao knew that something was wrong at first sight, but when he waved his army back to Taniguchi, he was even more stunned.

The endless Khitans, like ants rushing back to their nests in a hurrying back to their nests in a rainstorm, poured mightily into the valley. When he arrived at Taniguchi. The Khitan army was still pouring into the valley, and they just randomly divided a group of men and horses, and formed a rolling attack and surrounded them.

"Brigade Marshal, let's go!"

Ma Qiao's soldiers shouted in panic.

"Can't go, kill back!"

Ma Qiao drew his sword out of its sheath, and a fierce gaze burst out of his eyes.

The Zhou army fell into an ambush. In fact, it has nothing to do with him, a pawn, but he still blames himself, thinking that it was his own negligence that caused the robes to fall into a heavy siege, and now that the robes are bathing in blood, how can he retreat?

Ma Qiao raised his long knife and rushed towards the enemy formation without hesitation. Like a fierce tiger that chooses people to devour, shouting and shouting, and in the neighing of the war horse, it rushes forward fiercely! But until now, there are fewer and fewer people around him, and there is still no one in the encircled robe, but there are more and more Khitans around.

"Brigade Marshal, let's retreat! At least. Someone has to go to Lulong to report the news! ”

A soldier with a broken arm had just spoken. was stabbed in the heart by a spear from the Khitans.

"Let's go!"

Ma Qiao, who had just been killed in battle because of the war horse, and who had snatched a horse from the enemy, knew that it was pointless to rush and kill again. had to lead the remnants of less than twenty people to rush back with hatred.

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Yan Banditshi, the general manager of the marching army, and Li Duozuo, the general of Zuo Weiwei, led the guards and baggage troops, and always maintained a speed of two days away from the main force in front of them to march north.

On this day, the soldiers arrived in Tangshan, and the army set up camp here.

This is a town, and its real name is Ojo Mountain. At the beginning, Li Shimin went east to Goryeo, passed through here on the way back, and the concubine Cao unfortunately died of illness, Li Shimin missed the concubine, and gave this mountain the surname Tang, and this place has been called Tangshan since then.

Li Duozuo led the elite of the forbidden army in his headquarters, responsible for escorting grain and grass, and managing and leading heavy soldiers.

Grain and grass are the most important materials for the army, and the people who hold grain and grass have always been experienced in a hundred battles, calm and cautious generals, from this point of view, there is nothing wrong with letting Li Duozuo escort grain and grass.

However, there are also factional disputes in the army, Cao Renshi, Zhang Xuanyu and others are all generals who are close to the Wu family, so they have to be more reused, and although Li Duozuo is loyal to the court and has never been disloyal, he has always been reluctant and not enthusiastic about the Wu family's wooing. Now that the Wu clan is the most powerful in the army, it is reasonable to reject him, so it is reasonable for him to escort grain and grass.

Although he was only stationed for one night, and there was no threat from the enemy army here, Li Duozuo still made serious arrangements for the military rations, made fire prevention arrangements in the camp, and stationed soldiers and horses on the periphery to form an arch guard formation.

As soon as the two chatted for a few words, a Chinese army guard hurriedly entered the report: "Chief, the front army has sent an urgent order!" ”

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After the troops were stationed, the men and horses of each battalion were arranged in detail by the general manager of the headquarters.

Don't drive Shi Rui is a veteran, very familiar with all kinds of affairs in the camp, Yang Fan doesn't know much about these affairs of marching and fighting, so he is naturally virtuous and good, and Shi Rui is in charge of everything, and he himself follows Shi Rui, watching and listening, secretly figuring out to himself, for the various arrangements for the military camp, but also has a little gain.

After the military camp was stationed, Yang Fan made an appointment with Shi Rui, Yun Gufan and several other subordinates to go to the river together.

When the military camp is stationed, they must choose a place with water, and the location of their camp is the closest to this river.

All the way down, the wind and dust, several people are all covered in dust, there are many soldiers by the river who have taken off naked and bathed in the river, Yang Fan and a few people do not care about the identity of the general, but also want to take off clean and slippery, go down to wash a good time. Unexpectedly, as soon as Yang Fan took off his robe, he had not yet walked into the river naked, and there was a military drum beating in the distance.

Shi Rui listened to it and exclaimed: "Point the drum!" General, what's going on? ”

Yang Fan has been in the army for a long time, he can hear the drums, the drums, the drums sound three ways, the drums stop and do not arrive, cut!

Yang Fan didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly put on his robe again, and rushed back to his camp tent as if flying, Shi Rui, Yun Gufan and others knew that at this time, there would be a big event, so they hurriedly took advantage of the general order to jump into the river and wash it in a hurry.

Yang Fan returned to the tent and put on his battle armor, and hurried to the big tent of the Chinese army.

In the big tent, there are many generals, Yang Fan rushed to catch his breath, Yan Daguan has been promoted to the point of the account, all the generals are one by one, Yan Bandit Shi announced loudly: "This general has just received the news of General Zhang Xuanyu, the commander of the former army, that the army of our court has engaged the Khitan rebels, and the enemy army will be defeated in a battle!" ”

When the people in the tent heard this, they burst into flames, and each of them rejoiced.

Yan Bandit Shi's face remained unchanged, and he said sharply: "However, the enemy has broken up and fled to the direction of Yingzhou, and it is not easy to encircle and suppress, General Cao and General Zhang have led their troops to cover up and kill the past." General Zhang Da urgently ordered the officers and soldiers of our department, abandon the baggage, abandon the weak, and the three armies will be fully launched and advance at full speed! If the front army pursues and kills to Yingzhou and our army does not arrive, the generals will be killed, and the soldiers will not be honored! ”

When the generals under the tent heard this, their hearts were awe-inspiring, and Yan Bandit Shi solemnly ordered: "Now, this general order: except for General Li Duozuo's first escort to the grain and grass hall, the rest of the generals immediately prepare five days' rations, set off immediately, and participate in the encirclement and suppression in time. ”

P: Three more 10,000, ask for a monthly pass!! (To be continued......)