At the mouth of the eastern section of the Weilan River Valley, there is indeed a "city wall".

However, this wall is different from the previous walls, it is not made of square bricks, but hastily piled up with stones and wood, and it looks like it is out of order.

To be precise, this is a very irregular earthen barrier.

Despite its ugly appearance, the earthen rampart was more than two feet high, with a gate passage in the middle. By this time, the gates of the earthen ramparts had been tightly closed, and the walls were filled with armed soldiers, holding high swords and guns, bows and arrows.

A black banner at the head of the city, embroidered with a blazing flame pattern, is the second army of Zhenjiang codenamed "Agni"!

Looking at the blazing flags waving in the wind, Tani couldn't help but be secretly shocked in his heart: it turned out that the Zhenjiang Army used to deal with him was not only the "Thunder" Third Army, but also the "Fire" Second Army.

The smell of conspiracy is already very obvious.

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The other party looked like he was ready for battle and confident, obviously not worried about the attack of the Western Xinjiang Coalition Army at all, and Tani naturally did not dare to act rashly. He hurriedly sent someone to the back to check and see what the situation was at the entrance of the river valley.

Soon after, the spies reported that a strange wall had also appeared at the mouth of the valley behind them.

The walls, all made of stone-laden vehicles, were not as imposing as the earthen ramparts on this side, but they were just as solid.

What's more, the Zhenjiang army stationed there was much larger, and the cliffs on both sides of the valley were full of archers. The rearguard that Tani had left outside the valley was gone.

In other words, the Right Army was trapped in the valley of the Weilan River by the Zhenjiang Army.

Although the name of this place is River Valley, there is not even a drop of water in it; On both sides of the valley, there are cliffs that are difficult to climb, and the front and back passages have also been blocked by the opponent's fortifications.

The "Nine Places" chapter of the "Art of War" has clouds: those who enter are narrow, those who return from them are roundabout, and those who can attack our people are encircled. Those who fight will survive, and those who do not fight will die.

That is to say: the road to enter is narrow, the road to exit is long, and the area where the enemy can defeat many of our forces with a small number of troops is called an enclosure; If you fight quickly, you can survive, and if you don't fight quickly, you will be wiped out.

So, for Thani and her right flank, the Velland Valley is definitely a veritable "enclosure" and "dead land"!

Tani is also a general who can fight well, and he knows very well that the situation is dangerous at the moment, so he did not hesitate to order his subordinates to immediately launch a fierce attack on the city wall, and strive to fight a bloody way as soon as possible.

The soldiers of the Right Route Army also knew that the situation was critical and that the slightest hesitation might lead to a catastrophe, so they dismounted one after another and attacked the barrier in front of them.

Seeing this, the Zhenjiang army guarding the earthen fortress hurriedly drew their bows and released arrows, pouring a dense rain of arrows into the enemy group. To make matters worse, they even brought in trebuchets and smashed oil bombs into the valley through the earthen ramparts.

In a matter of moments, the entire valley of the Veran River was full of corpses, and thick smoke was billowing out.

Tani and the others stormed more than 20 times, killing and wounding thousands, but they could not even climb the edge of the earthen ramparts.

At this time, a large number of soldiers also appeared on the cliffs on both sides of the earthen fortress, lifting stones and rolling logs, and throwing them downward indiscriminately, smashing Shule soldiers and horses in misery. With such a high distance and such a narrow space, even a stone the size of an egg can kill someone. What's more, the second army of Zhenjiang threw down boulders the size of a grinding plate!

In the blink of an eye, there was no way to stand in front of the earthen fortress formation, and the right army, which was still desperately attacking, hurriedly retreated back in a panic.

Seeing that the road ahead was impassable, Tani hurriedly adjusted his direction and swung his army backwards, trying to break through the fortress position at the entrance to the river valley.

However, I didn't expect it to be even harder to gnaw here!

Although the fortress is much shorter than the earthen fortress, it is also guarded by the Second Army of Zhenjiang, and it is the main force of the Second Army, and their number is two or three times more than that of the earthen fortress in front, and the mountain wall is full of archers. Before Tani's men and horses could get closer, they heard a buzzing and screeching sound, followed by a barrage of locust-like arrows.

The right army was almost trapped, braving the flying arrows and rushing forward desperately, and finally someone approached the fortress position.

It's a pity that they were about to jump up and make a bloody way for the large number of men and horses behind, but they didn't expect countless shirtless soldiers to suddenly jump out from behind the barrier, brandishing long knives to kill them.

The Zhenjiang Army actually took the lead in launching a counter-charge!

Du Jian, the commander-in-chief of the Second Army, personally went into battle, shirtless, picked up an extended version of the ring-headed knife, and took the lead in smashing into the crowd of Shule, rushing left and right, invincible.

The Second Army, built according to the standard of the "Jianshu Battalion" of the Zhenjiang Protectorate, fully demonstrated its terrifying and murderous aura like a raging fire, and brutally beat the Shule people on the attacking side into the defender, and the battle line retreated hundreds of steps.

Tani dispatched troops and continued to send reinforcements, and more than 20 charges and counter-charges broke out between the two sides, and the battle was fought until it was completely dark.

Seeing that the time was late, the base position was still immovable, and the right army of the fierce battle, which had not advanced all day, was already exhausted. Tani had no choice but to order a temporary withdrawal of his troops, and led the whole army back to the middle of the valley to camp and rest.

In order to boost morale, Tani kept cheering up his dejected subordinates: "Brothers, don't worry! The Deputy Marshal Deman was still outside the valley. He will surely lead the brethren of the rear army to meet us. At that time, let's give the enemy a front and back attack, and we will definitely win! ”

Is Tani just looking at plums to quench his thirst and draw bread to satisfy his hunger? Of course not, as he said, the deputy marshal of the Right Army, Deman, did lead more than 10,000 people to stay outside the valley before.

These 10,000 troops are all infantry, mainly responsible for escorting grain and grass, standing guard and other tasks. During the day, Tani led the main cavalry to pursue Li Jiangyao, leaving Deman's part of the force to clean up the battlefield, take care of the baggage, and guard the safety of the rear.

However, what Deman didn't expect was that he was directing his men to clean up the battlefield, when he suddenly saw a large number of St. Tang Zhenjiang troops in the direction of the mouth of the Weilan Valley in the distance. Those men led ox carts, drove horse-drawn carts, and dragged stones to the mouth of the valley to quickly deploy defensive fortifications.

When he saw this, Deman suddenly screamed in his heart. He knew very well that this army that appeared out of thin air was blocking the back road of His Highness Thani.

Deman hurriedly gathered his troops, intending to launch an attack on the Zhenjiang army in order to plan for the rear passage of the main force of Tani. Unfortunately, before his order could be fully passed down, in the blink of an eye, on the distant horizon, suddenly smoke and dust billowed and hooves sounded.

Another way the Zhenjiang army has arrived!

After all, Tani still underestimated Li Jiangyao. Against his right army, not only the "Thunder" Third Army and the "Agni" Second Army, but even the "Tempest" First Army also came.

The three main forces of the Metasequoia Legion of the Zhenjiang Army, with a total of 50,000 elites, have all appeared so far.

The Third Army was responsible for luring the enemy, the Second Army was responsible for the siege, and the First Army, which was dominated by heavy cavalry, was specifically responsible for clearing all obstacles and reinforcements.

Before Deman's men and horses were in formation, the ironclad cavalry of the First Army had already rushed closer. At this moment, the formation of the Shule army is scattered, full of flaws, and what is worse, they are all infantry, and if they want to resist the impact of the heavy cavalry in the wilderness, it is simply to touch an egg with a stone.

Of course, Deman still had cavalry around him - the Turks' thousand-gold-armored warband.

To tell the truth, the Turkic Golden Armor Army is still unambiguous in the end. Seeing that the Zhenjiang army was killing violently, the gold-armored warriors didn't say a word, and immediately turned over their horses and drew their scimitars.

It's just that after they got on their horses and drew their swords, they didn't go to meet the Zhenjiang army, but went around behind the Deman infantry and began to seriously fulfill the task of supervising the battle.

Seeing this, Deman was so angry that he almost vomited blood, but he couldn't care about scolding the Golden Armor Army at this time, and hurriedly commanded his subordinates to meet the impact of the First Army.

From an objective point of view, Deman and his rearguard units were still tenacious. In the face of the wolf-like First Ironclad Cavalry Army, this hastily responded infantry unit to the battle, and it was carried for half an hour. Such an achievement, even if it is placed in the entire Western Xinjiang Coalition Army, can be called "rare".

Of course, there is also the credit of the Golden Armor Governor team.

A thousand gold-armored cavalry formed a straggler line and immediately stood behind the infantry with horizontal swords. Whoever runs away or retreats, they don't talk much nonsense, and rushing forward is a knife. The attack was even more ruthless than the ironclad cavalry of the Zhenjiang Army.

The Shule infantry was sandwiched between the two cavalry, and if they went forward, they were beaten by the Zhenjiang army, and if they went backward, they were cut down by the Turks.

Fortunately, this painful feeling was not long, it was only half an hour.

Half an hour later, the 10,000 lightly armed infantry were completely swept away by the 10,000 elite cavalry, and the only one who escaped was the 1,000 gold-armored cavalry.

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Early the next morning, Tani, who did not know that the reinforcements had long been gone, still led his men to continue to attack the base position in the rear, intending to cooperate with the deputy marshal de man outside the valley at any time to stage a wonderful repertoire of flanking and winning a great victory.

However, to the surprise of Tani and the Right Army, after a night's rest, the low barrier yesterday had grown taller and taller on its own!

It turned out that when Tani and the others were asleep last night, the officers and men of the Second Army, who were also sleepy, did not rest. They carried stone and wood materials and built fortifications overnight, and on the basis of the barricade, it only took four hours to upgrade to an earthen rampart more than two zhang high!

Seeing this miraculous front, Thani and his men felt a sense of despair in their hearts.

What kind of people are guarding the other side?!