Chapter IX: War
Yang Qice made a gesture behind him, and then, the soldiers began to wrap the hooves of the war horses beside them with soft cloth, the battle-hardened war horses are the best companions of the cavalry, they have the best and stable quality, at this moment nearly a thousand war horses have not neighed, but the hot breath exhaled from the nasal cavity rises in the cold night, and the mist is clearly visible.
Neither humans nor horses can stand in the snow for a long time, otherwise the body will suffer hypothermia, and only by moving can the stiff body become warm. Soon Yang Qice gave an order and led 800 personal soldiers to ride around from a small road, while the rest of the ghost dumb army rushed to the Beihu rear army along the periphery of the hill.
The deep snow and the soft cloth on the horses' hooves make them ghosts in the dark night, silent.
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By the time it was ugly, eighty bed crossbows were already ready, and arrows with the thickness of children's arms were skillfully placed in the notches of bed crossbows by the sergeants. The thick bow crunched, and the eighty bed crossbows hung up the bowstrings almost at the same time, Gu Jinan took out the fire fold in his arms, lit the torch in his hand, and waved it forward.
"Put!"
At the sound of an order, hundreds of huge arrows roared towards the Beihu army.
Beihu never expected that there would be a weapon with such a huge lethality in Beiguan. As the arrows carried the corpse of one man through the tent and continued to knock down a fire, hundreds of arrows rained down.
In the first round, the unguarded Beihu army directly lost more than 200 people.
This sudden attack soon caused chaos in the Beihu camp. The bed crossbow is so powerful that it is like the scythe of death constantly harvesting the lives of the Beihu people.
The sound of arrows whizzing in their ears made them drag their tired bodies away from the arrows.
The arrows fired from the eighty crossbow beds, although they had great power for these 800,000 people, could not affect the battle situation, but the ultra-long-range attack of the bed crossbow was like a demon's power, so they had no room to think. Coupled with the terrible howl that made people feel terrified, countless torches lit up in the entire Beihu camp in an instant.
A tribal leader wanted to stop the battalion roar, the sword in his hand was already stained with the blood of his own soldiers, and shouted loudly, while the Beihu sergeants who fled for their lives in the camp turned a deaf ear, and at this moment they only had the cold corpse of their companion in their minds, and their only thought was to flee for their lives. What's more, they even turned swords against their own people.
Ashina Jue recognized the direction in which the arrows were coming from, and immediately organized his most elite soldiers to line up for defense.
However, the ultra-long distance and powerful power of the bed crossbow were divine weapons that he had never heard of but had never seen, and the defensive formation had not yet been arranged, and another round of arrow rain struck, and the soldier in front of Ashina Jue was directly pierced through the neck by a huge arrow and slammed into Ashina Jue's chest.
Ashinajue's face was full of disbelief before he died, and he died under this arrow before he could fight the Beiguan soldiers head-on.
Three volleys fell, and the Beihu army lost nearly 1,000 people.
In the panicked Beihu camp, although Ashina Jue died, there were still some Beihu soldiers who built a shield wall in front, intending to resist the next round of arrows.
Before waiting for the next round of arrow rain, the Beihu soldiers who raised their shields to defend in front only heard the sound of rapid horses' hooves, getting closer and closer.
The Beihu soldiers, who were like frightened birds, didn't have time to judge how many people were in the sound of horses' hooves, and with the help of the moonlight, the soldiers only vaguely saw that on the white snow, a row of black pressed people appeared, they were dressed in armor and holding horse lances, like death at this moment. The morale that the Beihu soldiers had managed to accumulate collapsed in an instant.
These arrogant and unusually arrogant Beihu people who were wantonly killing under the border gate city during the day are now like a flock of frightened lambs, no longer as arrogant as the daylight, and some of them even turned around and fled directly.
The generals who reorganized their defenses were horrified and immediately sent their own soldiers to pursue the fleeing sergeants, and wanted to behead them all to correct the military discipline.
Li Xuanyi led 3,000 cavalry to appear in the field of vision in front of the Beihu army, and did not hesitate to attack the Beihu army.
The speed of the three thousand cavalry horses did not decrease, and the horse lance in their hands waved, constantly reaping the lives of the Beihu soldiers.
The Beihu defensive army formation was not established at this moment because a group of soldiers fled timidly just now, so it could not stop the charging war horses at all, and there were more and more corpses under the horses' hooves, but there were too many Beihu soldiers, and the war horses had to slow down.
Soon, hundreds of Great Zhou cavalry had died here, and Li Xuanyi led the cavalry to constantly move through the Beihu army, one to try to delay time, and the other to avoid being cut off.
At the same time, the 90,000 soldiers of the Golden Court led by Chen Yujue were ready to go under the city, and the deafening war drums began to sound.
Li Xuanyi, who heard the sound of war drums, immediately led the cavalry to fight and retreat, breaking through to the weakest place of the besieging Beihu soldiers.
After the first battle, the Beihu soldiers lost more than 2,000 people, while the cavalry led by Li Xuanyi only lost more than 500 people.
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"A bunch of rubbish, why don't you call Ben Khan back?"
Hearing that the former army was coming, the Great Khan of Beihu was angry for a while, and the soldiers of the Great Zhou finally couldn't bear to abandon the city to fight to the death with Ben Khan? Overestimate one's strength or oneself!
The Great Zhou soldiers dared to attack at night, and in his camp as if they were in a no-man's land, his army was completely like a plate of scattered sand, unstoppable, which he did not expect, in his heart, this group of yellow-faced and thin Great Zhou soldiers were like lambs to be slaughtered.
"Repay the Great Khan! The grain and grass of our rear army was burned by a cavalry of 100 people, and our army lost nearly a thousand people! ”
Spies kept coming into the tent to report on the battle, and this spy was kneeling on the ground at the moment, his head pressed against the cold ground, he wondered if the Great Khan would cut off his head in anger after he told the news.
"What a bunch of shit!"
As soon as the Great Khan finished speaking, another soldier hurried in and bowed his hand
"Great Khan! A cavalry of nearly 1,000 people is approaching the tent, and the soldiers can't resist it! ”
The Great Khan looked at the panicked soldiers, and then at the spies who were kneeling on the ground and their bodies were shaking, and laughed angrily
"Heh, is this a self-defeating trap? Tiger Division! Kill these rats with Ben Khan! The Great Khan casually picked up a delicate war knife, immediately finished the trembling spies, and walked out of the tent.
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Yang Qice saw that the Beihu Rear Army was burning a raging fire, dyeing the black sky into a red color. Immediately, no longer hiding his troops, he launched an attack.
When the Beihu people found their figures, they were only a thousand steps away from the handsome tent.
In an instant, Yang Qice had already led his army to attack it.
The horse lance pierced the enemy's body fiercely, and the eight hundred soldiers were unstoppable.