Mu Lige led more than 20,000 soldiers to quietly ambush in the woods next to the bend behind the mountain pass, it was almost noon, and the enemy was coming soon. The enemy scouts had already passed through two groups, but they all briefly inspected both sides of the road for a while, found nothing unusual, and left. The soldiers of the Gaoyue clan under his command were all trained by Mu Lige with the backbone from the Qingyang First Garrison Division, and Mu Lige had a strong confidence in them, so he dared to make a military order in front of his boss.

This is an excellent ambush place, where the rushing Tali River makes a bend and continues to flow towards the hinterland of the Tengger grassland, where the enemy must pass if they come from the mouth of the mountain, and where the army will be led by Mulig to block the enemy, so that the ironclad cavalry of the Luope people will not be able to give full play to the advantages of the field charge, but also put them in a situation where they cannot advance or retreat.

When a scout came running out of breath, Mulig secretly screamed, "It's coming!"

Under the orderly orders of the officers, the hoplites could not wait to get up, quickly rushed out of the woods, faced the side of the mountain mouth, lined up in a dense square, and immediately blocked the road to the front. The slingers also assembled at great speed behind the hoplite phalanx, divided into several echelons, separated by a certain distance in between, so as to facilitate the run-up and make the shooting range of the slingers longer.

The engineers were busy between hoplites and spearmen, installing small detachable trebuchets brought from the city of Gyeongyang, which were small but would give the enemy great lethality. I have given up on arranging this place in view of the fact that the bow and arrow are too little for the heavy ironclad cavalry, and I think that trebuchets and spearmen can make up for this shortcoming.

The Luobei forward troops, who had just rushed around the mountain mouth, also discovered the abnormal situation ahead, and on the plains along the river, which were originally flat, now suddenly gathered a large number of troops with black pressure, and the number was at least tens of thousands, and there were neat square formations. The information was quickly reported to the ears of the younger brother of the forward commander, General Zhengdong.

Upen was also a well-known warrior among the Rope, but also had the same arrogant and conceited surname as his brother, and when he learned that there was an enemy army blocking the way, his first reaction was: "Order the first part to attack, and trample these horse thieves who don't know whether they are alive or dead!"

The five thousand robes were lined up in ten, one for every five hundred men, and they began to charge from five hundred meters away, and the earth trembled, forming a thick cloud of yellow smoke and dust. The five thousand war horses seemed to be stepping on a unified drumbeat, the frequency changed from slow to fast, and the speed also soared rapidly, and no other sound could be heard on the entire battlefield, only the sound of the iron hooves and thunder of the war horses.

Four hundred meters! Three hundred meters! While admiring the skilled horsemanship of the Luope people, Mu Lige silently estimated the distance of the enemy's running. Just when the Luope cavalry were a little surprised that they did not encounter a bow and arrow attack, without any mental preparation, a shower of stone rain fell from the sky, dozens of watermelon-sized boulders fell from the sky, and dozens of Luope cavalry who were caught off guard were shot down on the spot, causing a small panic in the entire cavalry charging phalanx, and some of the comrades who followed behind did not have time to adjust, and collided together.

However, the nightmare did not end, after narrowly dodging two rounds of trebuchet attacks, the extremely fast Luo Pei cavalry had rushed to a place less than one hundred and fifty meters away from the enemy, and in a few seconds, these damned enemies would taste the taste of iron hooves trampling, just when all the Luo Pei cavalry was fantasizing, with an earth-shattering roar, overpowering the sound of galloping horses' hooves, a dark cloud surged from the enemy's rear, and the Luo Pei cavalry rushed forward at the speed of an arrow from the string.

"It's a spear throwing !!" Many Luo Pei cavalry only had time to think of this idea before they were stabbed by the oncoming spear company. At that moment, the screams of the Rope soldiers could not be heard at all, only that most of them were repeating the same action, people on their backs, horses flipping, and a burst of red blood was splashed.

After two rounds of spear throwing, there was not much left of the 5,000 Luo Pei cavalry, and they rushed to the front of the hoplites who were waiting for the battle, without any momentum, and after a few screams, the powerful Gao Yue hoplites even lifted the Luo Pei soldiers who had pierced the corpses high. The battlefield was calm again, and only the corpses of soldiers and a few surviving horses stood alone next to the corpse of their master between the two armies.

Just as the fierce battle started on the side of the mountain, the battle on the main battlefield on the bank of the river west of the mountain mouth was officially opened. I led Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu to quietly observe the Luo Pei Zhong army slowly advancing by the river. The entire Chinese army stretched for nearly five miles, stretching from the side of the mountain to the rear, and because there were a large number of baggage troops in the middle, the marching speed of the troops was quite slow.

After careful observation, the enemy was not defenseless, and the formation was very loose, so I secretly shouted, "God help me," and hurriedly returned to the troop assembly place with Liang and Cui. All of them, at my gesture and the orders of the officers, quietly slipped out of the forest, there was no need to hide, and ordered the cavalry to throw away the cages on their horses, and the 30,000 cavalry rushed down the mountain like tigers descending from the mountains to the unprepared Luope infantry by the river with lightning speed.

With the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves, the Luopei soldiers, who were moving forward in the normal way of marching, seemed to be unable to accept this reality at once, and when the new soldiers had not yet reacted, the veterans shouted in horror: "It's the enemy's cavalry!" "We are in ambush!"

Panicked shouts rang out one after another, and the officers whipped the soldiers who were scurrying around like headless flies, ordering them to quickly form a front-facing formation for the brutal battle that was coming.

I took the lead and led the hoplites into the belly of the enemy's center, who was clearly not yet fully in battle, and as the horses galloped, I could even see the frightened expressions on the faces of the enemy's infantry. The rain of arrows did not have much effect on the heavy cavalry who bore the brunt of the attack, but hundreds of people still fell beside me, and I gritted my teeth, held my halberd high, and finally rushed through this difficult distance, broke into the ranks of the enemy army, and the real battle officially began.

With every swing of my halberd, there were always a few of the Luo Pei soldiers in front of me, holding their heads and covering their necks or holding their chests and abdomen, and I couldn't remember the dozens of times I waved the weapons in my hands, and the blood had already soaked my whole body. Like a normal soldier, I vented my frustration in the woods for days and nights, until the call of the guards beside me woke me from my madness.

The defense line of the Rope people had begun to crumble, although their soldiers were far more skilled than our army, but due to the replenishment of a large number of new soldiers, these recruits had never seen such a sudden attack, blood was flowing all over the ground, corpses were strewn all over the field, these cruel sights greatly stimulated those soldiers who had never been on the battlefield, they were the first to flee the battlefield, because of their considerable numbers, they soon impulsed the entire infantry line, coupled with the ensuing onslaught of our light cavalry, the enemy's line finally collapsed.

When Uller received the news of the attack, he immediately organized his 10,000 ironclad cavalry to prepare for battle, but the swarming rout infantry blocked the entire road, and his 10,000 ironclad cavalry and 40,000 light cavalry were blocked so that he could not move at all, and watched the fleeing soldiers surround him and retreat. He immediately ordered the light cavalry in the front to shoot the retreating deserters at once, which could both deter the deserters and clear a passage for the cavalry team.

I immediately noticed the change in the enemy, the enemy's infantry retreated significantly slower, and some of the veterans had even begun to organize a counterattack, once the enemy had established a foothold, it would be difficult for our 30,000 cavalry to get out, and they would be eaten by the enemy in one bite, let alone achieve victory. I also immediately adjusted my deployment, ordered the heavy cavalry to concentrate in the center, and under the personal leadership of Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu, concentrated my forces to break through to the central part where the enemy was numerous, and strive to completely defeat the enemy, because it was he who completely lost the will to fight and forced him to retreat, so that the cavalry formation in the rear of the enemy army could be disrupted, which was conducive to our final victory. The enemy on both flanks was left to the light cavalry that followed.

Under the personal leadership of Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu, the main heavy cavalry launched a new round of massacre. The frenzied attack without fear of death, and the difference in combat effectiveness, soon set off a frenzy of fear among the Rope's infantry, and the officers could not control the movement of the soldiers, and were surrounded by the fleeing soldiers in a slow but unstoppable rush backwards.

The light cavalry in the battle had not only shot and killed many of their own compatriots, but the corpses all over the ground still could not stop the torrent of defeat and retreat, and there were still more and more retreating soldiers pouring towards them, and they had no choice but to let the retreating soldiers rush their phalanx to pieces, and even the cavalry directly under the general of the expedition to the east had been scattered.

Ulle rode on his beloved Molong horse, watching the retreating crowd crush his originally neat phalanx, he could only bite his lip in pain, and Buda who was standing on the side sighed softly, he had long felt that something was wrong, but he didn't expect the enemy to be so bold, he dared to go deep into his territory for more than 300 kilometers to set up an ambush, and did the secrecy work so well, the scouts on his side didn't find anything, and those so-called horse thieves must have been dressed up by the enemy's army, the purpose was to paralyze their own side。

"General, the matter has come to this, let's retreat quickly, wait a little longer, I'm afraid it will be troublesome. Although Buda admired the arrangement of the enemy's commander, he still made a proposal to retreat on his own initiative according to the current situation.

Although Ulle is arrogant, he is not a brave man, he doesn't know that the defeat is now decided, but if his direct cavalry retreats at this time, I am afraid that it will cause the collapse of the whole army, and the losses are so great, I really don't know how to explain to the big chief when I go back? But if I insist on it, I am afraid that everyone here may become prisoners, this is really a difficult choice!

Buda also understands his boss's dilemma, but if he doesn't make a decision, I'm afraid the consequences will be unimaginable. He resolutely issued an order to the herald next to him: "General Chuan's order: order the 10,000-strong team of heavy cavalry and four light cavalry directly under him to immediately retreat, break away from the infantry, and maintain the formation." ”

As soon as the Luo Peihou battalion moved, I was keenly aware of the change in the situation, and immediately ordered Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu to follow closely, not to let the enemy break away, but to bite tightly, otherwise once the enemy broke away and reorganized, it would also make my perfect battle unable to draw a successful end.

Just when the battle on the main battlefield was one-sided, the hoplite fighting method outside the mountain mouth also entered the **. After watching the fiasco of his first shockwave, Upen also received a report of an attack on the Chinese army, and he already fully understood that he had been ambushed by the Tanghe people. But he was not discouraged, as long as he defeated the enemy army in front of him, he still had the opportunity to turn around and reinforce the Chinese army.

He simply made a desperate bet, ordering the remaining 35,000 ironclad cavalry to leave only 5,000 as his reserve, and ordered the 30,000 ironclad cavalry to take turns to charge in groups, trying to break through the hoplite defense line led by Mu Lige. The entire battlefield became a huge meat grinder, and every round of charging Rope cavalry would suffer heavy losses from trebuchets and spears, but the ironclad cavalry that rushed to the front would also inflict great damage on the hoplites. The sound of shouts, cries, the clash of weapons, and the dull sound of corpses falling to the ground filled the ears, and many soldiers were completely numb, just subconsciously brandishing their weapons to attack or defend.

After nearly an hour of bloody fighting, both sides paid a heavy price. The Ropes had left nearly 20,000 corpses in front of the battle, and the first few platoons of Mulig's hoplites had changed several times, and both sides were preparing for the final charge with red eyes.

However, a scout who reported the news changed Upeng's plan, the Chinese army had been defeated, and his brother had retreated, and this news was like a blow to the head that Upeng could not react for a long time. That is to say, this battle is a complete defeat for one's side, and if you don't break through, I am afraid that you will be completely annihilated by the enemy. He quickly gathered his troops, pushed 10,000 heavy infantry back, turned his horse's head, and took advantage of the opportunity of our light infantry to clean up the battlefield, break out of the encirclement, and flee westward.

And Liang Chongxin and Cui Wenxiu were also under my strict orders, regardless of fatigue, and continued to pursue, until it was dark, and they continued to pursue for more than 300 miles, until it was dark, and then they collected their troops back. And the light infantry led by Kamapov also joined the battlefield at the right time, surrounded the fleeing stragglers, gathered them, and immediately set off to Qingyang, which is a lot of wealth in my words.

It was a battle, which later generations called the "Second Northwest War", and ended with a complete victory. In this battle, according to later statistics, a total of more than 120,000 people of the main army in the east of Luopei Zheng were annihilated, of which 50,986 were killed, 47,833 were captured, and more than 10,000 people were missing. The commander of the Eastern Central Army, Tik, was captured, and the deputy general of the Chinese Army, Carlden, was killed in battle.

It is also recorded in the most famous historical chronicle of war in the Western Continent, "The Chronicle of the Millennium War": "In the autumn of 693 in the continental calendar, Li Wufeng, a native of Tanghe, made a surprise attack and defeated the Luobei people in the eastern part of the Eastern Tengger Prairie, killing more than 50,000 enemies and capturing more than 40,000 enemies. ”

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