After listening to the words of the vice-captain, the captain hesitated for a moment and replied: "Don't do it for the time being, we can't see anything without torches, and we can't find traps." ”

"However, if we do not extinguish the torches, we will become a live target, and we will approach the enemy's position, and our subordinates will fear that the enemy will be attacked by the enemy's crossbow arrows." The vice-captain said.

The captain hesitated again and said, "Then let's let the two people who are exploring the path still hold the torches, and the others will extinguish them first." Also, let everyone spread out a little more, so as not to be served by others. ”

This is the attention of the abandoned pawn and the commander, and the first two pathfinders are the abandoned sons who were unfortunately sacrificed. After the captain gave the order, everyone did as ordered. When the two soldiers who were exploring the path saw that everyone had extinguished their torches and realized their fate, they immediately trembled with fear.

They didn't want to move on, but the military order was difficult to disobey, and the captain blindly urged them to move forward, so they had to bite the bullet and continue to move forward. However, soon the horses were frequently attacked, and the two people who explored the path did not encounter a trap, but the cavalry following behind kept their horses and feet into the pit.

There were only two people exploring the path, and the area they could cover was only a few meters wide, but the team spread out so much that it formed a forward cross section of twenty or thirty meters. If it is to deal with tripping horses, it is still a little useful to have two people in front, but now it is a horse trap to deal with, and these horse traps are irregularly distributed in this area, and there is not much difference between using two people to find the way and no one to find the way.

This time, the traps dug by the special forces were slightly different from the standard traps dug by the previous troops. The first difference is that this pit is slightly larger than the standard horse pit, because this operation is aimed at the infantry in addition to the horse's hooves, so this kind of dirt pit can trap not only the horse's hooves, but also the human feet.

In addition, the pit is also equipped with sharp iron spikes with barbs, which are mainly aimed at infantry, and if a person steps on it without defense, the foot will definitely be pierced. The horses were a little better, because they were protected by horseshoe armor, and the damage was not great.

There is no way to do this, whether it is stumbling or getting stuck in a pit, and you want to cause damage to the horse, provided that the horse is running at high speed. However, after the trap is discovered by the enemy, the enemy will no longer run at high speed, in which case the tripping rope and the trap will basically lose their lethality.

However, it is not completely lethal, and the slow-walking horse is tripped by the horse rope, or the horse's hoof trap in the dirt pit, there will definitely be some interference to the horse, and the horse is likely to be disturbed for a while, and may even turn the knight on horseback off the horse.

Although this does not cause much damage to horses and cavalry, it can also delay their advance speed and achieve the purpose of delaying time, which is enough for special forces.

The Soochow cavalry advanced more and more cautiously. The captain again sent a horse back to the camp to report the situation, and urged reinforcements, while shouting to everyone to keep going. There are so many traps here, and it would be strange if there were no ghosts in front of them, so the captain would kill them at any cost to the front to find out.

Sure enough, not far ahead, everyone suddenly heard three "whoosh" sounds, and then, "Ah! "Ahh "Ahh

"Enemy attack!" The captain shouted.

Everyone panicked and pointed their crossbow arrows at all directions to find out where the enemy was, but found nothing. However, no one dared to get too close to those two pathfinders, and it was estimated that the enemy saw the cavalry near them with the help of the torches in the hands of these two pathfinders, but these enemies were very cunning, and instead of shooting the two pathfinders with torches, they shot the cavalry behind them.

At this time, in the trench of the Han army's blocking field, a soldier ran to the side of the special forces captain with a low waist and said in a low voice: "Platoon leader, the enemy is fifty meters away from the front, about thirty-five meters away from the left position, but only twenty-five meters away from the right position. ”

Although the special forces of the Han army did not have night vision devices, they had a way to determine the distance of the enemy, in fact, the method was very simple, just pull some silk threads at different distances, and the enemy would break the corresponding silk threads when they walked through these places.

The end of the silk thread is pulled all the way to the trench, and it is guarded by a special person, and according to which silk thread is broken, it is possible to judge the enemy's entry into the area, and the distance is known. The blocking position constructed by the special forces was a semi-circular encirclement, like a pocket, into which the enemy had now entered.

There were thirty special forces in this group, and ten of them were distributed on the front and sides of the encirclement. It was indeed difficult for thirty men to deal with the thousands of troops of Soochow, but in this dark night, it was not impossible to delay the enemy's attack and buy time for the hot air balloon to drop bombs.

"Wait a little longer, let all the enemies enter the encirclement, otherwise you will scare them away, and it will be even more troublesome to come with the brigade when the time comes. Tell them to calm down, don't rush to shoot the enemy first, and wait until the full-scale fight begins. The platoon leader said.

"No!" When the soldier received the order, he ran short to convey it.

From time to time, the hooves of horses on the side of the cavalry of the Eastern Wu were caught in the pit, and the sudden loss of the horse's front hooves could easily turn the cavalry on horseback to the ground. The cavalry, who had been thrown to the ground, hurriedly stood up, and did not care about his own injuries, but immediately ran to the front to see if the horse's feet were injured.

If their horses were wounded in the foot, they would also be unlucky, and in an instant they would be transformed from high cavalry into infantry. The point is, it's too dangerous to be an infantryman, not to mention that you will be stabbed in the foot if you fall into a dirt pit, and if you want to run away from something, the infantry can't escape the cavalry.

After another moment, the front of the Dongwu cavalry had approached twenty meters to the blocking position, and the nearest place on the left and right sides was only ten meters, and all the cavalry had entered the encirclement. Of course, the Soochow cavalry paid the heavy price of more than a dozen horses stepping on the pit, a dozen cavalry turning into infantry, and two or three infantry being stabbed in the foot.

Suddenly, ten flames flew into the sky, and the Eastern Wu cavalry shouted in fright. "Get out of the way, get out of the way!" The captain screamed hysterically.

Everyone rode their horses to avoid the landing points of these fires, but fortunately, these flying flames did not fly fast, and no one was hit by them.

However, after these fires landed, only the sound of "ping" was heard, and then a blaze rose. It turned out that these were burning~burning~ bombs, that is, a stoneware jar was filled with some fire oil, mixed with some sugar, and then stuffed into the jar with a strip of cloth, ignited and thrown out.

The raw materials of this kind of thing are available everywhere, and the production is very simple, and the special forces will prepare them all. After these ten burning ~ burning ~ bottles smashed on the ground, the clay pot cracked, and the fire oil splashed everywhere, and the ignited cloth strips ignited the fire oil that splashed everywhere, and instantly formed a flame on the ground.

Ten flames suddenly appeared in the entire encirclement, and it was obvious that the location of these ten flames was carefully planned and evenly distributed within the encirclement, so in an instant, the entire encirclement was brightly lit by the firelight. The Soochow cavalry once again burst ~ in front of the eyes of the special forces.