The orderly Xiao Jiu Department discovered the enemy's traces as soon as possible, and the entire camp was immediately put into operation like a sophisticated machine.

This time, Xiao Jiutong led the baggage battalion, the Bashan battalion, the Lingbo battalion, and the Condor Battalion, and the lieutenants under his command, Jin Ji, Lu Zhongjie, and Zheng Bin immediately prepared separately. Among them, the baggage battalion personally commanded by Xiao Jiu sounded like the head of the logistics battalion, but it was actually an infantry battalion in the Lanzhou army that was centrally equipped with all kinds of equipment. For example, the crossbow carts that have not been successfully produced by the craftsman battalion for a short time have not been seen in other infantry barracks, but the baggage battalion has been cooperating with the operation and experiment of the craftsman battalion throughout the trial production process, so the 20 crossbow carts can be used as soon as they are fired. Originally, Wu Yingying had let the baggage battalion stay in the Lanzhou camp on previous expeditions, but this time he fought with the party Xiang Qiang, in order to reduce the casualties of the decoy troops, and in order to restrain the iron harrier heavy cavalry, Xiao Jiu was allowed to lead the baggage battalion to the expedition.

In the past two days, countless potholes have been dug outside the Lanzhou camp, which are not big, just able to break the horses' hooves, which are very vicious, and a half-foot-deep trench is dug in front of the car array, and a half-foot-high wall is piled up on the trench, and the horses can jump over, but the moment the cavalry jumps into the air, they will be subjected to intensive crossbow fire.

After the caravan of the Xingu belt was broken last time, Lanzhou carefully summed up the lessons, one of which is that the crossbowmen and archers in the escort army are too thin to stop the enemy's stormy cavalry, this time Xiao Jiu led the four battalions of the infantry army, the mountain battalion, the Lingbo battalion, and the Condor battalion are all good at bows and crossbows, among which the Lingbo battalion and the Bald battalion are good at strong crossbow shooting, and can also carry out white-knuckle hand-to-hand combat with the enemy if necessary, and the Condor battalion is the essence of the archers of the whole army in Lanzhou, all of whom are archers with no missing arrows.

Jin Ji didn't mind whether the car formation would be able to hold on in the end, and as soon as he entered the battlefield, his soul was sold to the bloodthirsty devil. Staring closely at the impenetrable fog ahead, his ears carefully discerned the hoof sound of the enemy horse, suddenly, there was a scream from the thick fog, it was the sound of the enemy horse stepping into the hole, the cavalry fell and made a cry, it seemed that the enemy's main force was about one hundred and fifty steps away, Jin Qi's face sank, and he ordered loudly: "Shoot!" Thousands of strong crossbows were fired at the same time, with a strong wind into the dense fog, bringing more neighing and screaming, behind the crossbowman, the people were organized into two teams, one team was responsible for the crossbow, and the other was responsible for handing the well-wound crossbow to the sergeant, this arrangement made the Lanzhou crossbowmen's firing speed increase by two times, almost before the enemy had just put on a breath of effort, the non-stop two crossbow arrows harvested more lives with a strong wind.

The milky white fog was like an anesthetic, and it made the state and tribal cavalry on horseback not see the blood, the casualties of their comrades, the dense feathers of arrows rushing in front of them, and when a sharp arrow came in front of them with a strong wind, fear or courage was meaningless. It was common knowledge that the thick fog prevented the crossbowmen from aiming accurately, as was known to all the tribal cavalrymen who were also skilled in archery, and they all crouched on their horses, their scimitars almost to the ground, and waited for the last time they met the carts and antlers, and then harvested the enemy's heads with their scimitars.

The dense fog caused greater difficulties to the Lanzhou army than the Dingyan army, and the archers of the Condor Battalion could only stand powerlessly in the car formation, with limited visibility, and they only had the opportunity to fire an arrow. The crossbowmen of the Bashan and Lingbo camps had already drawn their swords and stuck them in the dirt beside them, staring at the milky white fog in front of them. The status of the sergeant in Lanzhou is respected, the treatment is good, and the soldiers are raised for a thousand days, and now is the time to sell their lives.

The party cavalry that passed through the rain of arrows suddenly appeared in the fog like a ghost, lightly lifted the reins of the horse, the horse of the river meandered and jumped in the air, the horse's paw climbed the earthen ramparts and the chariot formation with heavy force, the cavalry took the opportunity to lean down and cut down, manpower and horsepower were perfectly integrated, the foot soldier in front of him was suddenly knocked out, and a head flew into the sky with a rain of blood, this was a crossbowman of the mountain pulling battalion, his death did not deter the other comrades at all, the crossbowmen pulled out the horizontal knife inserted in their side, and slashed at the enemy cavalry that broke into the formation.

On the inside of the car formation, Xiao Jiu had already built four high platforms in all directions, and five crossbow cars were placed on each of the high platforms. Although the number of repeaters is small, it is just enough to block the enemy cavalry that breaks through in the gap between the crossbowmen's winding. The inner archers who reacted also opened their bows and shot the enemy cavalry that rushed to the front. The rain of arrows in the inner layer and the crossbowmen on the outskirts of the chariot formation were able to hold off the enemy horsemen, so that they could only kill all the troublesome crossbowmen before rushing in to kill the people like lambs.

The fog well covered the enemy cavalry rushing to the front of the formation, and the experienced Dingyan army soldiers did not blindly rush forward, but dismounted halfway, and with the help of the cover of the tribal cavalry rushing forward, they gradually dismantled the fortifications on the outer layer of the Lanzhou military vehicle array, and cleared a wide impact channel in four directions.

Although Lu Zhongjie was a captain, he also took a goose feather knife and fought against the car. In the face of the cavalry that kept rushing out of the thick fog, the soldiers of the Limbo battalion were already fighting with waist swords. In the face of the party men who relied on this horsepower volley, many soldiers were cut down by the enemy without even having time to react, but all of them insisted on staying near the car formation, and no one retreated. Such a non-commissioned officer does not need the captain to make more encouragement to say, everyone is just fighting to the death together. "There are two generations of generals in the Lu family, and one person died in Mobei, and it is not in vain. Lu Zhongjie thought secretly, a large amount of sweat dripped from the gap in the helmet, several times it was the personal guards for him to block the blade of the enemy's cavalry descending, and Lu Zhongjie himself was also slashed in the back, the knife scar was dragged obliquely from the shoulder blade to the waist, and the flesh and blood in the open military robe were open, which was terrifying, but at this moment there was no pain in the tense battle.

The chariot formation, which had lost the protection of the bow and crossbow, was like a broken egg, and more and more party members jumped out of the chariot formation, relying on the soldiers of the two battalions of Lingbo and Bashan to delay them rushing towards the formation with their flesh and blood. Xiao Jiu saw that the enemy cavalry was fighting together with his own infantry in the car formation, and immediately ordered the firecrackers to be lit, and the soldiers of the baggage battalion immediately lit the firecrackers that had already been placed in several iron barrels. The horses under the crotch of the cavalry were frightened, and they couldn't stop jumping in place, and the party cavalry couldn't control the reins, and the Lanzhou army on the side took advantage of the machine knife and gun on it, and stabbed these frightened horses and the horse cavalry to the ground.

The firecrackers like lightning and thunder also made the cavalry that constantly rushed into the car formation a little thinner, regardless of whether there were invincible horsemen jumping out of the fog, the baggage battalion and the crossbow carts kept firing crossbow arrows in all directions, and the archers who were a little free also used the same method, and after a while, finally the invincible cavalry poured in, and I don't know whether they were killed or temporarily retreated. All the sergeants were panting, their swords and bows drawn with full concentration, staring at the white mist outside the formation. There was no time to count the casualties, Xiao Jiu led the sergeants of the baggage battalion to mend the fallen enemy sergeants in the car formation one by one.

Taking advantage of the rare gap, Lu Zhongjie took off the armor on his upper body, and wrapped it on his back by a personal guard, at this moment Fang felt so painful, seeing that his face was sallow, Xiao Jiu asked: "Captain Lu, is the injury okay?" Lu Zhongjie smiled and didn't answer, and wanted to spit out out of the car with a heavy mouthful of saliva, and when Xiao Jiu turned around, Lu Zhongjie's handsome face that was as calm as water twitched involuntarily, and the blood soaked all the cloth belts that had just been tied.

The abominable fog, like the fog of hell, was the best camouflage for the enemy's cavalry, making it impossible to see the wolf smoke lit by the Lanzhou army. Xiao Jiu quietly looked at the fog outside, but what he thought of was the Shu Kingdom, who would have thought that he, the general of the Shu Kingdom, would die in this Mobei, thousands of miles away, is this a blessing or a misfortune? He smiled bitterly.

"A group of beasts, dog mongrels!" Cai Jifeng scolded with a pale face, "Seeing that the first charge was about to break the car formation, I was actually driven back by a few strings of firecrackers, and I haven't seen anything in the world." ”