Chapter 404: Heavy losses

As the generals in the Jin army shouted, people raised their bows and arrows one after another, and fired a volley at the oncoming Huwei army.

The strength of the cavalry lies in its speed, even if it encounters the enemy's arrow array, it can rush to the enemy's front with minimal loss with its extremely fast speed, but now the Huwei army can't run at all, and the gravel all over the ground can restrain the cavalry's charge to the greatest extent, and the slow-moving cavalry has become a moving arrow target in front of the large-scale arrow array.

At this time, under the arrows of the Jin army, the soldiers of the Fourth Corps of the Huwei Army fell to the ground in groups, the light in the mountain was dim, and the main armies of both sides could not see the specific situation of the Fourth Corps clearly, even the First Corps was a blind shot in the dark, but it can be judged by the screams in the center of the battlefield that the Fourth Corps had suffered heavy casualties.

Li Wei frowned, and shouted sideways: "The Fifth Corps will go up and take over the Fourth Corps." ”

"Yes, General!" the commander of the Fifth Corps hurriedly replied, leading his subordinates to rush out of their own formation and advance forward.

When the Fifth Corps was about to approach the range of the Jin Army's arrow array, its commander hurriedly ordered the whole army to stop advancing, because he didn't see the shadow of the Fourth Corps in front of him, let alone people, not even horses.

What was going on? There was no fighting on the Jin Army's side, which showed that the Fourth Corps had not yet been able to rush to the enemy's approach, but there was no Fourth Corps in the center of the battlefield, so could it be that the entire tens of thousands of cavalry had disappeared out of thin air? He did not know the specific situation, so he sent a small team to investigate.

The squad did not ride horses, but stalked forward with their bouts bouted. They walked forward not far away, the strong smell of blood wafted towards them, and everyone's faces changed, looked at each other, and boldly continued to move forward.

He walked some distance forward. The red soldier at the head suddenly softened and fell to the ground. Afraid of attracting Jin Jun's arrows, he gritted his teeth and didn't scream, and was about to get up from the ground, when he suddenly felt soft under him, and looked down carefully. His face suddenly changed drastically, and it turned out that he was pressing against the corpse of a red soldier.

He slowly raised his head, squinting his eyes and looking around at the ground around him, well, the ground was full of corpses, human corpses mixed with horse corpses, horse corpses mixed with human corpses, stacked on top of each other. I couldn't tell the number, and many of the corpses looked like hedgehogs, covered with arrow feathers.

The red soldiers were so frightened that they shivered, and they crawled backwards again and again, retreating less than two steps, and collided with their companions who followed behind, and at this time, the others also saw the situation on the field clearly. People's expressions were shocked and sluggish, and their bodies trembled involuntarily.

A whole corps. It is incredible and appalling that tens of thousands of horsemen were wiped out and destroyed in an instant.

I don't know how long it took, but the ten people finally recovered from the shock. looked at each other, and then turned their heads and ran back as if they had seen a ghost, and when they ran back to the Fifth Corps, when they saw the commander of the corps, the ten people were already covered in cold sweat. One by one panting, one of the squad leaders stammered to the corps commander and said urgently: "General...... General, Great ...... It's over! It's all over......"

The corps commander was puzzled by his incoherent words, he lowered his body on the horse, waved his hand and slapped the squad leader, and said sharply: "You tell me clearly, everything is over?"

This slap really worked, making the squad leader's messy head a lot clearer, and he said in a trembling voice: "The Fourth Corps is finished, all of them died under the arrows of the Jin Army, General, let's withdraw quickly, if we rush strongly, I'm afraid we will have to follow in the footsteps of the Fourth Corps!"

"Huh?" Hearing this, the commander of the Fifth Corps was also surprised, how could it be that the Fourth Corps had all died, after hearing this, "You read that right?"

"No! Absolutely not! The Fourth Corps is all dead under the arrows of the Jin Army, General!" As he spoke, the squad leader's tears were about to fall.

Having learned from the experience of the Fourth Corps, the commander of the Fifth Corps did not dare to rashly attack any longer, and he sent his lieutenant general back to explain the situation to Li Wei and ask the commander to order the withdrawal of the troops, as the Fifth Corps could no longer fight this battle on its own.

The adjutant general did not dare to delay, and immediately turned his horse's head and went back to report to Li Wei.

After listening to the report of the deputy general of the Fifth Corps, Li Wei was shocked and angry, his eyes were round, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

The Fourth Corps was completely wiped out, and before he could even hear the sound of fighting, all the tens of thousands of officers and men of the Fourth Corps died? This news exploded like a bomb in Li Wei's mind, and his brain was muddy.

What should we do now? Should we continue to attack? This was the only question that Li Wei could consider. The Fourth Corps was inexplicably annihilated, and if he was intimidated back by the Jin Army like this, he, the commander of the corps, would be swept away in the army, and the face of the Huwei Army would be lost, but if he continued to fight under unknown circumstances, he was afraid that there would be greater losses.

At this time, Li Wei had already become a tiger riding a tiger, unable to advance or retreat, and finally he turned his heart sideways, clenched his teeth, and said fiercely to the deputy general: "Don't retreat! The Jin army has entered a dead end, and at the end of the crossbow, our army must take this opportunity to completely annihilate the gold thieves, and if your Fifth Corps dares to retreat privately, this commander will be severely punished!"

"But general, Jin Jun...... The Jin army's arrow array is powerful, and the terrain of the Golden Mountain is not suitable for our army to charge, and it is ...... Yes, I'm asking for ......."

Li Wei pulled out his saber with his hand, put it on the throat of the adjutant general, and shouted: "If you dare to disturb the morale of the army again, this commander wants your head!"

Looking at Li Wei, who was almost losing his mind, the adjutant general was dumbfounded, stunned for a moment, his tears fell, he stood against Li Wei's sword, and said with a crying voice: "General, please leave a way for the tens of thousands of brothers of my Fifth Corps to live......

This sentence completely angered Li Wei, who roared angrily: "Bold! You really don't dare to kill you as the commander?!" As he spoke, he raised his saber and was about to cut off the head of the lieutenant general.

At this time, General Mo on both sides stepped forward one after another, stopped Li Wei, and said in unison: "The general is angry, the general is angry!"

"The Fourth Corps suffered casualties so quickly, it can be seen that the attack power of the Jin Army is extremely strong, if the Fifth Corps is sent to attack strongly, I am afraid that it will also be a fierce general!" said Chen Hao, a partial general of the Huwei Army.

He meant to transfer back to the Fifth Corps and think about it in the long run, but Li Wei misunderstood his meaning, nodded, and said, "What you said makes sense!" Saying that, he waved his hand and said: "The Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Corps will all go into battle, and join forces with the Fifth Corps to break the enemy, and the rest of the corps will follow the commander to press the formation, as long as the Jin Army camp is disrupted by our army, our army will charge and level the gold thief!"

Although he did not get the desired result, the deputy general of the Fifth Corps was barely acceptable, after all, there were three more corps of troops attacking with his own corps, and if he attacked strongly, he might not be able to break through the Jin Army's arrow array, as long as he broke the arrow formation and killed the Jin Army closely, the Jin Army would not be his opponent at all.

He took a deep breath and said to Li Wei: "General, we will go all out to kill the enemy!"

Well, that's pretty much it! Like a general. Li Wei's face finally softened a little, he nodded, and said categorically: "Tonight, our army swears to fight to the death with the gold thief, either the fish dies, or the net is broken! Success, I will wait to return to the camp to celebrate, if we fail, you and my brother will be buried here, goodbye Jiuquan!"

As the commander of the First Army, Li Wei was able to risk his life to fight the enemy to the death, and the soldiers below were also deeply encouraged, and the morale of the generals of the Huwei Army was immediately raised, and people intervened one after another and replied: "We will follow the general to the death, live and die together, and advance and retreat together!"

The annihilation of the Fourth Corps did not make the Huwei Army retreat, but provoked a more ferocious attack by the Huwei Army.

As the commander swung the long sword in his hand towards the sky in the direction of the Red Army, and at the same time, as if he had exhausted all his strength, he "released the arrow", and under the background of the fire, the figure of the commander in the high place, like a majestic lion, issued a call for battle, which was encouraging and enthusiastic.

In an instant, countless arrows rose into the air and went straight into the sky...... (To be continued......)