Mu Yi had no choice but to consult with Yue Ting.

Yue Ting pondered for a moment and said, "Now I can't take care of the Xuanjia Army of the Stone Tiger. You have already admonished him twice, and you have the power to act cheaply, and it is no wonder that he is completely destroyed. The wolf cavalry of Tocharian is very mobile, and I am afraid that it will be able to complete the encirclement in less than half a day. For the sake of today's plan, only by bypassing the encirclement of Tocharian as soon as possible can there be a glimmer of life. ”

Mu Yi nodded: "Yes, according to the scout's report, this west ambush has the least, so I will order to march westward, and then find an opportunity to return to Youzhou City." ”

Yue Ting thought that this plan was feasible, and at that moment the army no longer followed the Xuanjia army, but turned around and headed west, and on the way they really encountered several groups of Tocharian ambush soldiers, but the other party had not yet gathered together, and could only scatter and flee under the impact of Mu Yi's army.

Everyone marched in a hurry for a day, and felt that they should get rid of the enemy, so they turned north and prepared to return to Youzhou City.

Mu Yi ordered the scouts to reconnoiter around, and then discussed with Yue Ting: "I'm afraid that the Xuanjia Army will be wiped out, and half of this western expedition has failed. General Liu's Zhiwei army has no combat power, and our troops will not play a role, so I don't know what to do in the future. ”

Yue Ting shook his head helplessly: "Don't think about these useless things first, let's talk about it if you can reach Youzhou City safely." ”

As he spoke, the spies reported that they were surrounded on all sides by enemy troops, with no less than 300,000 troops.

Mu Yi smiled bitterly: "Big brother, you crow's mouth is really good, I'm afraid we're going to fold here." ”

Yue Ting muttered: "Not necessarily, not necessarily. Let's line up to meet the enemy first. ”

Mu Yi was attacked on all sides, so he had to order the army to form an iron bucket formation, surround the grain and grass in a circle on the periphery, and the infantry army raised spears and shields around the car to prevent the wolf cavalry from rushing into the formation. Archers and crossbowmen fire arrows at enemies on all sides in the center. The cavalry stood behind the infantry, and when the wolf cavalry arrived, they rushed out of the formation to delay the onslaught of the enemy, and then returned to the formation to rely on the infantry and crossbowmen to defend it.

As soon as the army was ready, the wolf cavalry scattered all over the mountains rushed over. When the enemy army left the battle less than 100 zhang, Mu Yi ordered the cavalry of the Xuanjia Army to go out to meet the enemy. Although the Xuanjia army was all veterans and old horses, they were still fierce, and they jumped out of the carriage one after another, and collided with the wolf cavalry about fifty zhang away from the battle. The onslaught of the wolf rider also came to an abrupt end. When the cavalry saw that their goal had been achieved, they fought and retreated, and soon retreated into the formation, leaving the rest to be defended by the infantry.

But this Zhewei army usually kills pirates, and has never seen the battle formation of this regular army. Seeing that the Tocharian soldiers were all fierce and vicious, and they were riding a one-man tall wolf, they were suddenly frightened, not only did they not resist the enemy behind the car, but followed the cavalry to the center of the formation, and many cavalry were squeezed into the formation, and were easily slashed by the wolf cavalry behind them.

Mu Yi was suddenly so angry that he smoked. Fortunately, the centurions and commanders of the Lingzhou Army knew that Mu Yi was powerful. Ordered the soldiers to stay by the side of the car, and those who retreated were killed in public. Only then did they hold their positions and block the first wave of Tocharo's offensive.

Wait for the first wave of wolf cavalry to retreat. Mu Yi immediately called the four captains and the four captains of the Zhiwei Army, and ordered that if this situation occurred in the next wave of attacks, whether it was the captain or the captain, they would be beheaded in public, and their families would be beheaded and exiled. Several people were so frightened that they hurriedly returned to the army to reorganize, killed several officers and soldiers who took the lead in escaping, organized a supervision team, and ordered all soldiers who saw them turn back to be killed immediately.

In the second wave of Tocharian attacks, there was no large-scale escape, the troops turned their spears diagonally outward, and the back was resisted with shields, and the wolf cavalry lost its impact and stuck to the spears and strung gourds. The one who didn't breathe was also shot into a hedgehog by the crossbowmen in the back. Seeing that they could not take advantage, the Tocharian cavalry left behind a piece of corpse and retreated.

Mu Yi hurriedly ordered people to go out of the battle to stack the corpses of the Tocharian cavalry and the wolf in front of the battle, which could be regarded as a flesh and blood wall, and it was even more difficult for the Tocharian cavalry to rush over.

Yue Ting wiped the sweat from his face and said, "Fortunately, this barbarian will charge with cavalry, if he shoots a salvo with a bow and arrow first, our army will suffer heavy losses." ”

Before he could finish speaking, a rain of arrows fell from the sky. Mu Yi ordered the army to raise their shields, and those without shields hid under the car or behind the war horses. These war horses are all fully armoured, and they are so dense that they stand together, but they are not afraid of this bow and arrow, but they are like an iron wall.

Mu Yi scolded: "Hurry up and stop your crow's mouth, say what." ”

Yue Ting's face turned pale with fright, but fortunately, the guards around him helped him raise his shield in time to block the top of his head, otherwise he would have to become a porcupine.

As soon as the rain of arrows passed, the wolf cavalry began to charge again, and Mu Yi saw that the infantry had suffered heavy losses, so he ordered his guards to come forward with crossbows to help. This crossbow is ten arrows at a time, it is extremely powerful, and the arrows can be used casually, even if they are sharpened with a branch, they are deadly. When there was a rain of arrows in front of the formation, the wolf cavalry turned on their backs, and more than half of them were killed in an instant, and those behind quickly turned the wolf's head and retreated.

Yue Ting sighed and admired: "This thing made by this little girl is really powerful, it should have been imitated more." ”

Mu Yi shook his head: "Although the crossbow is powerful, it consumes too many arrows, this round of salvo fires consumes nearly one-third of the arrows of the whole army, and at this time, it is impossible to pull back the arrows, at most it can hold two more times, and there will be no arrows to use." ”

Yue Ting sighed: "Then the next wave of attacks, let's use fire thunder, this fire thunder should be quite powerful." ”

Mu Yi nodded, he had also asked about the structure of Ru Yi's fire thunder at the beginning. The outer layer of this thunder is an iron shell, the center is gunpowder, and the interlayer between them hides fire oil. After lighting the fuse for three breaths, it exploded, not only the shattered iron pieces hurt people, but the fire oil also splashed and ignited, and the lethality was huge.

Immediately afterwards, the Tocharian army was another rain of arrows, and the arrows were still on fire, although the sergeants under Mu Yi had already taken precautions, there were not many casualties. But all the baggage vehicles on the periphery were set on fire, and everyone could only watch the grain and grass being burned. The outermost support of the Iron Bucket Array is gone, and when the rain of arrows stops, the army can only move more corpses as obstacles.

Yue Ting gritted his teeth with hatred: "Playing with fire with grandpa, I will let you taste the taste of fire and thunder." ”

After that, he personally arranged for the personal guards to throw fire and thunder in front of the battle. The wolf cavalry of Tocharian also said that it was there, and when the enemy's advance came within five zhang, Yue Ting gave an order, and all the guards lit the fuse and threw the fire and thunder hard, and suddenly there was a sea of fire in front of the formation, and the wolf cavalry suffered countless casualties.

Wolves are naturally afraid of fire, and they are burned by fire. The wolves scattered and fled, and the Tocharian army was in chaos. Mu Yi saw the time and ordered the crossbowmen to shoot with all their might, and in less than half a moment, the wolf cavalry of this charge was completely annihilated!

The Tocharian army was dealt a heavy blow, and there was no good strategy for the time being, so it could only besiege but not attack. Mu Yi took the opportunity to order the army to collect arrows for later use. Then surround the corpses of the enemy outside the formation, drag some dead horses and dead wolves into the formation, cook them and share them, and now the grain and grass are burned, and this is the only way.

The army was full of food and drink, and took advantage of the break to rest, Yue Ting and Mu Yi also seized the time to discuss the next plan.

"Big brother, now that the army has lost all the food and grass, although you can rely on these wolves and horses to satisfy your hunger, there is no drinking water. I can only drink blood at the next meal, I'm afraid that the army will be disheartened. ”

"Yes, and once it is night, I can't see the enemy's movements, which is extremely dangerous. I'm afraid I won't be able to survive a few waves of attacks. Only by breaking through before it gets dark can you escape. ”

Mu Yi said worriedly: "But most of our army is now an infantry army, and they can't escape the pursuit of the wolf rider at all." ”

"The breakout itself is a matter of life and death, how can you take care of so much, if you wait any longer, you can only be wiped out. Yue Ting said hurriedly.

Mu Yi couldn't bear to send the soldiers to death, but he also knew that the battlefield was dangerous, and if he didn't retreat in time, the whole army would be buried here. I can only nod my head in agreement.

"Now, in which direction is it good to break through?" Mu Yi asked.

"The west, it can only be the west. Yue Ting was very firm, "The Tocharian army wants to prevent our army from meeting with the Zhewei army in Youzhou in the north, the Zhenxi army in Jizhou in the south, and the Xuanjia army in Jingzhou in the east. Therefore, all three of these three areas must be heavily armed. And to the west is the country of Tocharia, and they will not expect our army to break through to the west. ”

"But to the west is the kingdom of Tocharia, and we are not sheep in the mouth of the tiger. Mu Yi felt that although this calculation was a second, it was too risky.

"Hehe, you don't know about that. Except for the northernmost steppe, the rest of Tocharian is a desert, and the border with Bactria is the Gobi. Except for the road carved out by the Tocharian kingdom itself, the Gobi Desert is full of gravel and broken rocks. The horses ran up without any problems, at most they walked more slowly. But this wolf's claws are all meat, and he can't go far before he is drenched in blood, and he can't move forward at all. ”

"Although these wolf warriors are faster than horses on the flat land of the grassland, when they reach the Gobi Desert, it is difficult to move an inch. When the time comes, these wolf cavalry of Tocharian will have nothing to do with us, and it will not be so easy to pursue. ”

Mu Yi was overjoyed when he heard this: "The eldest brother is so familiar with the Tocharian country, the sky will not kill me." ”

Yue Ting pouted and said, "This is my brother, what does it have to do with God." ”

Mu Yi immediately reorganized the army, and the infantry of the Zhiwei Army had lost 20,000 people, and the Lingzhou Army only had 5,000 left. The cavalry of the Xuanjia Army lost 5,000, and the horses lost less, about 2,000. The 5,000 horses he had begged from Liu Yuanshan also lost 3,000. That's just enough for 20,000 cavalry. Mu Yi immediately ordered the 5,000 Lingzhou army to select the remaining ownerless war horses, and the infantry turned into cavalry.

When night fell, Mu Yi ordered the whole army to attack westward. He led a thousand of his own soldiers to rush to the front, and the rest of the cavalry followed closely behind, and as for the 20,000 infantry, they could only resign themselves to fate.

The Tocharian army was resting and preparing to attack again at night, when it suddenly encountered a breakthrough by Mu Yi's army, and was a little caught off guard. Mu Yi plunged into the formation of the Tocharian army, and ordered his soldiers to each throw down a fire thunder, and suddenly there was a sea of fire in the Tocharian camp, and the wolf howl shook the sky. Then, everyone held a repeater crossbow and fired a volley, and a gap immediately opened in front of them. The cavalry rushed up and rushed out of the gap.

Mu Yi didn't dare to stay, and led everyone to run west. At first, you could still hear the wolf howls and shouts of the Tocharian wolf cavalry behind them, but gradually the sound gradually became scarce. It wasn't until dawn the next day that everyone realized that they had gone deep into the Gobi.

Mu Yi wiped the sweat from his head and said to Yue Ting: "Big brother's plan is really feasible, it is estimated that the Tocharian army will really not be able to catch up this time." ”

Yue Ting nodded: "It is estimated that their wolf claws will be worn out, so let's stop and rest." ”

Mu Yi smiled bitterly: "It's easy to say that you can rest, but after eating wolf meat and horse meat at noon yesterday, the army hasn't eaten anymore, so I'm afraid that I will be hungry for a long time." But in this desert Gobi, where to find food. ”

I saw Yue Ting smiling, Daoshan people only have clever plans. This Yue Ting had a lot of good ideas along the way, but on this desert, where could he find the military rations of the 20,000 army?

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