Two thousand cavalry came in a rage, but only a few hundred fled back in a hurry.

In front of the trench, the crossbow could not exert its combat effectiveness, and the battle ended again, but Cheng Chumo was not happy, the crossbow could not exert its combat effectiveness does not mean that it was an ornament, but compared to the field battle, there were still hundreds of people who were missed by the crossbow, but fortunately, the people from the medical battalion rushed up to help with treatment, and it is difficult to say how much they could survive.

Thinking of the tragically dead subordinates, Cheng Chu was silently angry and shouted: "Quick, put the enemy's corpse in front of the first trench, move quickly, clean up the battlefield and prepare for another battle." ”

The team moved and crushed two thousand cavalry with a loss of a few hundred men, which was acceptable to everyone and the morale was still there.

The 1st Battalion of the Special Operations Regiment also jumped out of the trench, looking for repeaters and missing crossbows.

Cheng Chumo looked ahead with a cold face, and hated to lead the team to rush forward, but when he thought that the enemy still had 5,000 people and 5,000 crossbows, going up was to send him to death, so he snuffed out his thoughts, and shouted to the flag soldiers around him: "Ask, do you want to counterattack, straight thief, Lao Tzu doesn't like passive defense, offense is the king." ”

The flag soldiers hurriedly waved the flag.

On the hillside, Zhao Long received the flag and quickly informed Qin Huaidao.

Qin Huaidao's face was cold and silent, and he quickly calculated the enemy's strength in his mind, if he attacked, how big the loss would be, after some calculation, he found that it was not advisable.

Anyway, my goal is to cut off the water, as long as the dam is there, I will win, and I can't cause casualties in vain.

A thought flashed, and he shouted: "Order all departments, don't take the initiative to attack, give me a dead guard, wait for orders." ”

"Obey." Zhao Long quickly conveyed the order.

Li Dejian walked up, and when he heard the order, he was a little puzzled, the enemy still had about 5,000 left, and the army was surrounded on all sides, and he was sure to win, and asked curiously: "Brother Qin, why don't you take the initiative to attack?" ”

"It's them who are anxious now, not us, as long as the river is cut off, they will only have one way to compromise except to attack, relying on the trapping horse pit, and the trench is beneficial to our side, after exhausting their forces, we still win." Qin Huaidao said confidently.

Li Dejian heard that it made sense, and said: "And there are still about 5,000 cavalry left in the end of the kingdom, and Luo Zhang is staring behind them, they should not dare to fight anymore, they will withdraw their troops, and after the withdrawal of troops, the baggage troops will go up to help and dig more traps, especially the front position of Cheng Chumo." ”

"Yes, time permits, dig more traps in front of each army, add one more trench, and add a few more communication trenches in series to facilitate support, and then the main army of the end kingdom should go on the field."

"Understood, I'll go deploy it." Li Dejian hurriedly went.

After waiting for a while, the cavalry of the end kingdom really didn't dare to fight and began to withdraw.

After receiving the order to let go, Luo Zhang decisively led people to get out of the way, followed for a distance, determined that the enemy was going and the direction of the end of the city, and then led the troops back, came to the front of the position and stopped, signaled the army to standby, and came to the hillside tent alone.

"You're back, are you alright?" Qin Huaidao greeted him.

"It's okay, I fought with the enemy, and there were some losses, but a thousand repeaters were captured, where did these bastards get their repeaters? And 10,000 of them. Luo Zhang asked the doubts in his heart.

"It's hard to say, the preliminary suspicion is that it was a bargaining chip given by the Li family of Zhao County."

Luo Zhang couldn't react, and said incredulously: "You mean that the Li clan of Zhaojun exchanged 10,000 crossbows for the people of the end kingdom to kidnap the aunt?" Damn, it's really possible, those big families only have family interests in their eyes, so they don't care if others live or die, but what is the end of the kingdom? ”

"With these 10,000 repeaters, the end of the kingdom will have the opportunity to take down the major tribes within a radius of thousands of miles and increase its strength, if it weren't for Brother Xue's constant attacks and interruptions, the plan of the end kingdom would have been attacked, and the surrounding tribes who refused to submit would have already attacked, of course, just guessing, none of this is important, because we came."

Luo Zhang scolded: "You must find out the evidence, go back to Chang'an, who is the one who is guilty of his own edict?" There is also the Li family of Zhaojun, don't think about peace after death, uncle, is there a way to take this breath? ”

"Don't worry, once it is verified, it will be written into a book immediately, let all the storytellers in the world preach it, and then build a traitor shrine, Lao Tzu will turn all the traitors, ministers, and corrupt officials in the Tang Dynasty into stone statues, especially the people with five surnames and seven hopes, all kneel and face the monument, and then engrave the evidence of their crimes on the stone slab, so that future generations will know."

Kill, punish the heart!

Luo Zhang smiled with satisfaction: "This method is good, I think it will work, don't let go of the rebellious prince and the former prince, this matter will be handed over to me to handle later, these bastards have to be rectified like this." ”

After chatting a few words, Luo Zhang suddenly changed his words and said: "The light cavalry is released to deter the enemy and can contain some of the enemy, or will I fight flexibly on the periphery?" ”

"Yes, everyone's war horses are on the hillside, you don't need it, you have two horses, bring more feather arrows and meat for backup, use guerrilla tactics, take advantage of it if you have it, even if it's not cheap, be careful yourself."

"Don't worry, just learn guerrilla warfare, I will focus on sneak attack on the enemy's logistics, here is two hours away from the end of the kingdom fast horses, they can't beat us for a while, and it's not like admitting defeat, must."

However, food will be drawn up to die. Luo Zhang put forward his thoughts.

Qin Huaidao also thought of this, and said with a smile: "It's good that you can see this, go ahead, how you beat me I don't care about you, there is only one, give me a good life to come back." ”

"Obey." Luo Zhang bowed solemnly and hurried away.

"Luo Ying."

"In!" Luo Ying rushed up.

"See the riverbed?" Qin Huaidao pointed to the direction of the downstream that was cut off, and said solemnly: "Next, the enemy will attack frantically, the strength is superior, the riverbed must be the focus of the attack, they need water, your task is to hold the dam, and never let the enemy succeed." ”

"Obey!" Luo Ying replied solemnly.

"Bring a wire and lay a dense tripwire for me, and then collect stones to build a wall as a cover, and you will hide under the cover, and the wall must be high, and when it is piled up, it will be inclined inward to form an inclined plane, and people can hide from arrows in it, do you know how to do it?" Qin Huaidao asked.

Luo Ying was a little confused, how did the stones pile up into an inclined plane?

Qin Huaidao knew at a glance that he didn't understand, and he didn't talk nonsense, so he took the people of the special combat group to the riverbed, and asked everyone to collect stones and demonstrate in person.

Everyone gradually saw the doorway, simply put, the stone pressed the stone, the stone convex inward is mostly flattened, stacked layer upon layer, similar to the arch bridge, it is very solid, not afraid of feather arrows hurting people.

A thousand people do it, and it's fast.

In an hour or so, a long stone wall was formed, about one meter thick, intercepting the entire riverbed, there were many exits in the middle, and the soldiers could rush up at any time, and what was even more terrifying was that Qin Huaidao asked everyone to leave a lot of small holes in the stone wall, similar to shooting holes, which could not only observe the enemy's situation, but also shoot with a crossbow.

With this stone wall, coupled with the dense steel wire laid in front of it, the war horse will have to fall when it rushes over, and it will not form a threat, and a thousand people of the special combat group can block 10,000 people.

The last flaw was filled, and Qin Huaidao was in a good mood.

Before he knew it, it was dusk, Qin Huaidao returned to the top of the mountain to fight, and the commanders of the various armies came over one after another, and everyone sat together, chatting about the next battle while eating.

Maybe it was too late, or maybe it wasn't ready, and the end kingdom didn't send troops.

Night falls, and the moon is in the sky.

The army continued to dig horse pits and trenches by moonlight, and with the experience of fighting during the day, everyone paid more and more attention to horse traps and trenches, and no one was lazy.

Until midnight, the trap was pushed forward by 300 meters, and two more trenches were dug.

The 800-meter-wide horse pit and seven trenches greatly increased the confidence of the army, and they hid in the trenches to rest and recover their strength in preparation for the next big battle.

The moonlight is cool and the breeze is gentle.

The barren earth fell silent, and there was not even a single insect chirping.

Qin Huaidao stood still on the hillside, looking at the direction of the end kingdom, his heart was inexplicably a little irritable, the enemy suffered a big loss during the day, and he hoped that He'er would not be implicated.

"Sister-in-law, haven't slept yet?" Li Jingren walked over slowly.

"There's something you need to do." Qin Huaidao suddenly had a plan and looked at Li Jingren.

"That's what I command." Li Jingren didn't dare to trust himself as an eldest brother, so he hurriedly said.

"Arrange for some reliable Turks to infiltrate into the end city, find out the current situation of He'er, and report quickly, can you do it?" Qin Huaidao asked bluntly.

"It should be possible, there are a lot of Turks in the Ministry of Intelligence, their wives and children have followed them to Loulan, and they don't dare to betray, I'll arrange it in a while, by the way, the first batch of grain from the Dianhe deal has been transported to Shazhou, and you can go to Qitun in two days, and the liquor and crossbow you specially ordered were also transported to two large carts, you see?"

"Summons Luo Tong, stay in Qitun, find an excuse to delay, and then trade after receiving the news of our army's defeat and the end of the kingdom, just in case, at most five days, in addition, the liquor and the repeater will be transported at an accelerated pace, go."

"Obey." Li Jingren agreed and hurried away.

"I hope it's okay, He'er, you must hold on, it's going to be ......"

Qin Huaidao looked ahead, his eyes full of melancholy.