The inevitable war in the north has finally begun, and the bloody battle is in full swing!

As the Northern Wei soldiers and horses rushed forward like wolves, all the archers in the Chengtian army reacted almost at the same moment!

The 70,000 troops led by Ling Xiao this time are veritable subordinate soldiers, and they are also the strongest elite of Chengtian, and the quality of the soldiers looks around the entire Tianxing, at least they are among the top three, as far as the performance of the archers is concerned, it can be seen!

The archers quickly formed three columns, the first row of archers knelt on one knee to form a low-angle shot, the next row of archers was straight, flat-ended longbows, and shot normally, but the archers of the last row raised the arrows and shot the enemy at a high altitude with a parabolic trajectory.

"Whoosh Whoosh ......."

Flying locust-like arrows suddenly filled most of the entire battlefield's space, shooting out in all directions at the same time! The light of the entire battlefield was actually dim!

Chaotic screams rang out, and countless Northern Wei soldiers fell from their horses with arrows, and then were trampled into a mass of flesh by the torrent of battle formations rolling from behind! But the follow-up soldiers still rushed up with desperate flying horses! This round of offensive was actually all cavalry offensive! Looking at this posture, it was to disrupt Ling Xiao's army formation in one fell swoop, forcing them to fight separately, which was conducive to extermination!

Only a few waves of arrow rain Northern Wei cavalry or wounded or killed, no less than a thousand, although the horse speed is fast, but the arrow rain is undoubtedly denser and more ruthless, although the Northern Wei cavalry is numerous, but for a time it can not be approached!

Wei Chengping saw that the elite cavalry he had painstakingly cultivated had lost nearly half of his efforts in less than a cup of tea, and he was very distressed, and he had the heart to change to other teams to attack again, the corner of the young man surnamed Shui lifted the corner of his mouth, and said, "Brother Wei, is his heart hurting?"

Wei Chengping didn't seem to dare to offend this young man, and said in a harmonious voice: "Brother Shui, the strength of our army is far superior to that Ling Xiao, why do you have to consume the cavalry force so much, it will inevitably cause too much loss!"

The young man surnamed Shui smiled coldly: "The so-called person who has achieved great things, is not informal, the benevolence of the woman above the battle array, although the army led by Ling Xiao is 70,000, but it is a few elite soldiers in the world, if you can't solve the battle as soon as possible, it will inevitably fall into a stalemate situation. Moreover, Ling Jun is a rapid march this time, and the redundant equipment must be carried less, as long as there are a few casualties, it will definitely be able to meet in short arms, at that time, what can Ling Jun do to recover!"

Although Wei Chengping was distressed, what the young man surnamed Jueshui said was indeed reasonable, so he had to be ruthless and watch the battle with his heart!

As expected, after the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty paid another 500 casualties, the distance between the two sides was finally only one stone's throw away, and the archers shot two more rounds of sharp arrows, and the cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty had already arrived in front of them! Under the reflection of the rising sun, it could be clearly seen that all the faces were extremely hideous and terrifying!

Ling Xiao was not in a hurry, and the red flag in his hand slashed down fiercely! Suddenly, countless stout wooden stakes were thrown out of the Chengtian army array! They all fell seven or eight feet away in front of the Chengtian army array! They were densely spread all over the ground! Some were long and some were short, some were thick and some were thin, some were horizontal and some were vertical.

Just these seven or eight zhang space has formed a dividing line between life and death!

The cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty rushed forward like a whirlwind, just now suppressed by the rain of arrows, helpless, now it is close at hand, and is waiting to be returned, when the mutation suddenly comes. I didn't have time to react, so I hit my head over!

Many cavalry horses lost their hooves in an instant, the horses fell one after another, and the cavalry on horseback was caught off guard, and there was no room for adaptation, and one by one the upside-down onions fell down! The cavalry behind them were also galloping at high speed, where to stop in a hurry, and suddenly collided with the front again, for a while, people turned over on their backs, and they may not die if they fell off the horse, but the horse team behind them came one after another, and people fell on the horses, how could they still survive, as soon as the people fell, between a few breaths, they were trampled into meat by the war horses, and the scene was miserable!

The archers in the Chengtian army stood up, arrows raining down, mercilessly slaughtering those defenseless enemies in front of them! In all directions, screams rang out to the sky!

In the Northern Wei army, the horn of retreat finally sounded. Wei Chengping finally couldn't bear the loss of his elite cavalry, and forcibly gave the order to retreat! The young man surnamed Shui had a sinking face, and he didn't say a word!

When the Northern Wei cavalry in the back finally reined in their horses, before the Chengtian army array, the space of less than ten zhang was already a hellish miserable situation! Many Northern Wei soldiers who had been hit by arrows but died in an instant were still rolling on the ground in pain, howling miserably, and on the dry ground, blood flowed into small streams, and the dead horses were piled up like a hill, together with the corpses of the Northern Wei soldiers, just deliberately forming a natural barrier between the two armies of Chengtian and the Northern Wei Dynasty!

In this attack, the casualties of the elite cavalry of the Northern Wei Dynasty were more than 6,000! In the direction of Chengtian, only a few hundred people were slightly wounded, and only a few dozen were killed. It can be regarded as a big victory for Ling Xiao, and he will take the lead first!

"Great commander!" a partial general looked at the battle situation in front of him expressionlessly, but his mouth was to Ling Xiao beside him: "Although the first contact was successful, the enemy is outnumbered, the army strength of the arrival side is more than five times that of me, and it is surrounded on all sides, the situation is too dangerous, we need to break through as soon as possible!"

"Not busy. Ling Xiao watched the Northern Wei soldiers retreat like a tide, shook his head and said, "It's only the first wave of the Northern Wei attack, and it's not clear how their forces will be distributed. Or wait a little longer. Dayuan, the Northern Wei Dynasty knew that our army was in full battle, and actually came up and sent cavalry to kick the camp, which was already very unusual. ”

That partial general's name is Kong Dayuan, who has followed Ling Xiao for more than ten years, and is both wise and brave, and is Ling Xiao's right-hand man. He frowned as well, and said, "Yes, this matter is very incomprehensible. At the moment, the best way to pay more for our army is not to advance slowly with the infantry, and the archers and spearmen to make intensive attacks first. As long as a large number of bows and arrows in our army are consumed, the elite cavalry will be dispatched in the end, and the elite cavalry will be dispatched to wait for work, and will surely defeat our army in one fell swoop with the momentum of thunder. This was the most basic military common sense, but the other side did not adopt it, but instead adopted the foolish cavalry charge! People were puzzled, and their subordinates thought that there were two possibilities for a commander who could make such a decisive decision. ”

Ling Xiao asked, "What are the two possibilities?"

Kong Dayuan said: "The first possibility is that the current commander of the Northern Wei Dynasty is not good at commanding troops, and he thinks that he has the chance to win, so he has committed the taboo of soldiers! ”

"This is impossible!" a partial general next to him retorted: "How can the commander of the 400,000-strong army not be good at commanding the troops? If he is really not good at commanding the troops, how can he set such a careful ambush trap, I think this move must have other motives!"

Kong Dayuan nodded and said: "However, the second possibility is that our army reinforcements are very likely to have arrived in a hurry on the way, and the other party is in a hurry to fight quickly, so there is this mistake!"

A middle-aged general came up, it was the general who had quarreled with Ling Twenty and gambled on the victory, named Li Xiangdong, and only listened to him: "This is not very possible, both of them are already determined to kill us, where will Chengtian send us any additional reinforcements? What's more, the general's descendants have already poured out of the nest this time, what backup is there there? Even if someone gets information to help, they will inevitably be blocked by the 30,000 army of the three mongrels, in my opinion, it must be this group of bastards of the Northern Wei Dynasty who have another conspiracy." ”

Everyone nodded in unison. Ling Shijiu's identity was Ling Xiao's personal guard, and it was not his turn to speak at this time, but when the matter was urgent, he couldn't take much care of it, and said loudly: "Who said that we don't have reinforcements? My son's reinforcements will arrive soon! These bastards of the Northern Wei Dynasty, in the eyes of the son, are just a group of local chickens and dogs!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone was relatively speechless. These people have been staying on the battlefield in recent months, and except for the news related to the war, other news can be said to be completely closed, and how can they know that Ling Tian has risen in the sky and is powerful in the world! In their hearts, they still have the impression that they are useless and useless, at most they are just a good kung fu disciple.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, Ling Xiao actually nodded and said, "Yes, I believe that Tian'er will definitely lead the army here." Therefore, before he arrives, we must find a stable place to hold on, and try our best to delay time until reinforcements arrive! What we lack now is time, and the longer it drags on, the more favorable the situation will be!"

The generals had already made up their minds about Ling Tian in their hearts, and although Ling Xiao confirmed it, it was inevitable that some generals would be suspicious, but they still agreed in unison!

Kong Dayuan said: "I believe that when the enemy attacks again, it should reveal their true attack intentions." And directly besieging and annihilating our army is the most inferior method. Even though the military strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty is many times superior to our army, but the elite strength is far inferior, if you want to annihilate our entire army, at least half of the military strength of the Northern Wei Dynasty will be lost, I believe that such a huge consumption, the person in charge of the Northern Wei Dynasty will not be willing to bear it, and may not be able to afford it. Therefore, the general will infer that the Northern Wei Dynasty will inevitably adopt the tactics of encircling three and one, opening a gap, letting our army escape, disintegrating the morale of our army, and pursuing the tail is the right way. ”

"And there must be another ambush on the road that has been set aside!" Li Xiangdong said: "As long as the generals who have been on the battlefield a few times do not know?"

Kong Dayuan smiled slightly, and said: "People's will to survive is so strange, knowing that there are traps in the place where it seems to be a way to live, but they will also covet a moment of vitality and step in, if we do the opposite, or it is the real vitality, if we break through from the opposite direction, that is, the strongest side of the enemy's army, and fight desperately, if we can get out of the encirclement, it is the real way to survive! That is to say, if the gap they leave is the north, we will break through to the south! If they leave the east, we will break through to the west. He smiled proudly and said: "In this way, we will certainly be able to take the enemy by surprise, and the risk will be reduced a lot! Although if we break through in the opposite direction, we will inevitably face the strongest side of the enemy's army, but the enemy will adopt the tactic of encircling three and one, and as soon as the war begins, it will inevitably be unwilling to tear and kill desperately, and if we advance on three sides, the troops will inevitably be scattered, and our army's military strength will be superior, and in addition to fighting with all our might, I believe that the vitality variables will definitely increase greatly!"

(To be continued)