The winter of Hongwei's 19th year seems to have come later than usual, and at the beginning of November, the northern grasslands should have been covered with snow, but this year's winter snow has not yet fallen.

After the completion of the sacrifice to the heavens in Rouge Mountain, Xu Rui immediately led the Tianqiwei to continue north, approaching another core grassland of Wuliji, and Wuliji's 100,000 troops had already arrived at the Raven River three days in advance and were ready for battle.

The lookout post on the hot air balloon was the first to spot the enemy, and Xu Rui immediately ordered the Apocalypse Guard to stop advancing on the south bank of the Raven River and camp on the spot, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts to cooperate with the hot air balloon and Hai Dongqing to reconnoiter the enemy's position.

On November 3, the Uliji army on the north bank of the Raven River was unable to hide and was immediately attacked by hot air balloons, but because the hot air balloons were too slow, the experienced steppe cavalry quickly broke away from the attack range, and the air attack plan was put on hold.

On the second day, Uliji sent a small force across the Raven River to attack the supply lines and large camp of the Apocalypse, but the large army that went forward was discovered by the lookout post in advance, and the defending troops of the Apocalypse were ready to counterattack with positional warfare.

In order to avoid casualties, Uligi did not choose to continue the assault, but ordered all the horses to withdraw from the battle and return to the north bank of the Raven River.

So far, after a round of testing, the two sides have basically reached a draw, and no one has taken advantage.

Xu Rui realized that after the battle of Khanting, Uliji must have fully studied the tactics of the Apocalypse, and it was difficult to use the old method to attract the grassland cavalry moths to fight the fire.

On November 4, the Tianqiwei scouts found a large number of men and horses on the south bank of the Raven River, thirty miles west of the Tianqiwei camp.

The battle meeting that night was a bit dull, and the generals were worried that because of the Rouge Mountain sacrifice to the heavens, Sukhbaru and Uliji would put aside their prejudices and join forces to attack the Apocalypse.

At present, the Apocalypse Guard is camped along the river, and the number is small, if it is sandwiched between these two roads of men and horses, besieged but not attacked, it will not take long to run out of food and grass, and if it catches up with a heavy snowfall, it is impossible to say that the whole army will be wiped out.

Out of conservative considerations, Zhang Zuofeng believed that the army should immediately retreat, return to the terrain conducive to logistics and supply, and then look for fighters to start a decisive battle with Uliji and Sukhbaru.

However, Xu Rui felt that after the battle of the Khan Court, Wuliji's pampering spirit had been lost, and he tended to be cautious in the use of troops, but this time it was only because he had the crown of the Great Khan on his head, and he had to express his appearance in the Rouge Mountain.

If the army retreated, Uligi could borrow the slope to get off the donkey and drag it through the winter, and it would be very difficult to find another chance to fight his main force.

Moreover, the Apocalypse Guard army has been away from home for a long time, and if you want to ensure that the army's morale is not disturbed, you can't spend the winter on the grassland, and time is not on Xu Rui's side, so you must fight quickly.

In the early morning of November 5, Xu Rui ordered the engineering battalion to erect a pontoon bridge over the Raven River, and the army forcibly crossed the river in an attempt to get rid of the Sukhbaru army on the south bank and find the main force of Uliji as soon as possible to start a decisive battle.

However, just when the engineering battalion began to erect the pontoon bridge, Xu Rui inspected the situation of the Crow River along the river bank, and suddenly found that the water level of the river had dropped a lot compared with three days ago.

At this moment, everyone heard a loud roar, and the earth began to tremble slightly, as if hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen were charging towards the camp.

"There's a big tide!"

Seeing this, the people of the Apocalypse Guard did not change color.

Xu Rui was shocked in his heart, and secretly said that Wu Liji was indeed secretly intercepting the water channel in the upper reaches of the Raven River, and wanted to use Han Xin's art of war to rush the Apocalypse Guard into the river in one fell swoop.

At present, time is pressing, and the army has no time to retreat, Xu Rui immediately ordered the whole army to abandon grain and grass, and retreat to the nearby high slope with only ammunition.

After a pillar of incense, the tide of the Crow River, which was intercepted, really arrived as scheduled, and the low-lying Tianqiwei camp was swallowed by the river in an instant, and all the grain, grass and baggage that had not had time to be taken away were lost.

Fortunately, due to the timely retreat, the Apocalypse Guard army suffered almost no casualties, and most of the artillery and important equipment were saved.

However, the good fortune seemed to end here, and with the invasion of the tide, the main force of Uliji also suddenly appeared on the south bank, and launched a fierce attack from behind like a tide on the high ground where the Apocalypse Guard had taken refuge.

It turned out that the initial temptation was just a cover for Uliji to attract the Apocalypse, and after a round of testing with the Apocalypse, Uliji immediately let the main force retreat on all fronts, out of the detection range of the hot air balloon, and then the whole army crossed the Raven River and came to the south bank to ambush.

It was only when the dam that intercepted the Raven River was destroyed and the camp was flooded that the army suddenly came out again, wanting to deal a fatal blow to the Apocalypse.

This strategy is not poisonous, and it is implemented perfectly, even deceiving Xu Rui's eyes.

After the Battle of Khanting, Xu Rui had the advantage of science and technology, thinking that in the normal state, Wu Liji had no way to take himself and Tianqiwei, and it was inevitable that he would be a little careless.

Fortunately, he had a last-minute insight into Uligi's plot and avoided a catastrophe that wiped out the entire army.

After the tide, Xu Rui, who was shocked into a cold sweat, woke up, although the Apocalypse Guard temporarily escaped, but the loss of grain and grass was still very fatal to the Apocalypse Guard, who was unable to fight for a long time.

Coupled with the hatred of Rouge Mountain and the feat of flooding the Apocalypse Guard's camp, the morale of the steppe cavalry was greatly shaken, and the situation of the Apocalypse immediately became precarious.

On this occasion, Xu Rui was not in a hurry, and calmly ordered the artillery regiment to deploy on the high ground, and at the same time used the Apocalypse chariot to defend the pass, and the Death Battalion equipped with rifles and thousands of crossbows cooperated to defend against the attack of Uliji. Qiankun Audiobook.com

The battle once again became the trench warfare that Apocalypse Wei was good at, and at that time, there was not much ammunition left for Apocalypse, but Xu Rui still ordered the whole army not to spare ammunition and fire with all their might.

Both sides knew that it was now a critical moment to decide life and death, and Uliji's army fought very resolutely, even piercing the eardrums of the war horse in advance, minimizing the chance of artillery causing horse convulsion.

The battle lasted from noon to late evening.

The steppe cavalry fearlessly launched more than 20 charges to the high ground, and the most thrilling one had even broken through the defense and killed Xu Rui's Chinese army tent, and even Qin Fei, the commander of the personal guard, personally went into battle to fight the enemy who rushed in.

Everyone sweated for the Apocalypse, at this time, if Sukhbaru's fresh force could enter the battle as agreed, Xu Rui would probably fall into the sand.

However, Xu Rui's gamble is that with Sukhbaru's personality, there is a chance that he will not enter the battle at the first time, as long as Xu Rui can defeat Uliji head-on again, this wall grass will not dare to send troops.

As he expected, when the battle continued into the evening, with heavy casualties and the exhausted main force of Ulligi still not waiting for reinforcements, the overwhelmed soldiers finally broke down and began to flee.

At this time, Xu Rui's shells had basically been fired, and maybe one or two more charges to Uliji would be victorious.

War is like this, when both sides are fighting to the limit, it is a matter of willpower and a little luck.

Seeing that Wuliji's main force was scattered first, Xu Rui immediately ordered all the cavalry to pursue on all fronts, and for the first time, the cavalry of the Apocalypse Guard fought a decisive battle with the steppe iron cavalry without artillery and air support.

In fact, compared with the cavalry of the Apocalypse Guard, there is a big gap between equestrianism, combat power, and tactics, even if they are equipped with terrible repeating crossbows, they can't make up for it.

If it were a different time, the cavalry of the Apocalypse Guard would definitely be beaten by the steppe iron cavalry after a field battle.

But when the steppe cavalry had already retreated, it was a different matter.

When the Apocalypse Guards came out, fear immediately began to spread in the hearts of the steppe cavalry, as if they had turned back time and returned to the terrifying moment of the Battle of the Khan.

The army, which could have retreated in an orderly manner, was instantly chaotic under the trend of fear, and was chased and beaten hard by the thousands of cavalry of the Apocalypse.

The power, rate of fire, and accuracy of the repeating crossbow were vividly reflected in this pursuit battle, and countless steppe cavalry became the ghosts of the crossbow in the process of escaping.

After dark, the scene became even more chaotic, with both sides chasing and fleeing, and the scattered soldiers were everywhere on the vast grassland like spilled beans.

As a last resort, Xu Rui had no choice but to order the troops to be collected, light a bonfire, release signal flares, and regather the scattered soldiers, and a terrible pursuit came to an end temporarily.

In the early morning of November 6, the Apocalypse Guard, who had just completed the second reorganization, rested for only two hours before setting out on the road again and continuing to pursue Uliji.

As soon as the morning dawned, the main force of Wuliji, which was more than 20 miles away, was first discovered by Hai Dongqing, and then locked by the hot air balloon lookout post that arrived later, Xu Rui immediately ordered the whole army to attack.

Frightened, the exhausted army of Uliji was about to retreat north after reading the Raven River, when they happened to be caught by the Apocalypse Guard.

Regardless of the difference in numbers between the two sides, the Apocalypse immediately launched a fierce attack on the steppe cavalry like a tiger.

The steppe cavalry had no intention of fighting, and their loose resistance was completely crushed in just one round.

At this time, it was the turn of the Apocalypse Guard to block the steppe cavalry on the bank of the river and strangle them.

Until this moment, Wu Liji was no longer able to return to the sky, so he had to take a few henchmen to fight his way out of the encirclement, secretly cross the Crow River and flee north, and the remaining more than 60,000 people were all taken prisoner by Xu Rui.

When the news of Uliji's defeat and the annihilation of the entire army reached Sukhbaru's camp, the timid wallgrass was immediately terrified.

He didn't know that Tianqiwei had run out of food, grass and ammunition, and he was afraid that Xu Rui would kill him after cleaning up Wuliji, so he immediately sent someone to confess to Xu Rui.

Sukhbaru explained that he had an insight into the intention of the Uliji army to attack the Apocalypse, so he sent someone to help the Apocalypse.

Xu Rui sneered at the envoy: "Since it's aid, then you have to leave something, otherwise how can you make me believe?" ”

The envoy thought that Xu Rui wanted to take the opportunity to blackmail, so he had to pinch his nose and promise Xu Rui to leave 10,000 cattle and sheep, but Xu Rui shook his head and asked Sukhbaru to leave most of the war horses, cattle and sheep that came with the army, saying that it was as a punishment.

Su Hebaru did not dare to resist because of his brilliant military exploits, so he had to agree to Xu Rui's request, and these materials temporarily solved the crisis of Tianqiwei's loss of food and grass.

On November 9th, heavy snow fell from the sky, and overnight thousands of miles of grassland became an endless snowfield, the terrible winter finally came, and the battle of the Crow River finally came to an end, which lasted only six days, but it used up the last bit of confidence of the grassland people and the last bit of capital of Wuliji.

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