The fourth wind swept Jingyun, and the country broke mountains and rivers Chapter 591: The Battle of Qilian Mountain (4)
Between the Meridian Valley and the slope of the cliff, there are two hills, in the Qilian Mountains that stretch for thousands of miles, these two hills are inconspicuous, even nameless, the locals call them South Mountain and North Mountain, extremely random names, but also highlight the status of these two hills.
But these two peaks are the only way between the two places, the peaks are no more than 100 meters high, and a river three feet wide flows from south to north, and after passing the cliff slope, it flows southward.
There is nothing but grass on the mountain peak, and it is extremely difficult to set up an ambush here.
Tian Hu and Tian Ke both knew about this situation, so they didn't worry about an ambush at all, at a glance, the two peaks were unobstructed, if the cavalry rushed down from the mountain, it would be discovered as soon as it appeared, and the role of the cavalry was extremely limited.
Huo Wenxing looked at the sky that was gradually brightening, and Lin Chong and Zhao Xing took the "remnants of the defeated generals" to control the speed through the North Mountain and headed towards the South Mountain.
"Pass the order, get ready, wait for me to sound the arrows." Huo Wenxing lay on the ground and said to the herald.
In just a quarter of an hour, Tian Hu's men and horses had already appeared in sight, and Huo Wenxing narrowed his eyes.
The sound ......of horses' hooves getting closer and closer, and the nearest person was only a dozen zhang away from Huo Wenxing, and although the two sides were separated by the river, they didn't find him lying on the grass.
Tian Ke and Tian Hu didn't ride their horses very fast, the two of them still understood the reason of poor Kou Mo's chasing, and the combat effectiveness shown by Lin Chong also made them quite jealous, and their purpose was to drive them into the Meridian Valley and trap them all in it.
And Tian Liang had already led people up the hill from the trail to the passage on the south side of the Meridian Valley, there were not many people and horses, although there were only five hundred people, but it was enough.
Tian Ke looked at the river that was not too wide, frowned, grabbed the reins, and got down from the war horse.
The river flows very fast, but the water level is a little low, and now it has entered April, and the temperature is very high at noon, and only in the morning and evening will you put on cotton clothes, and as far as the eye can see, the snow line of the snow on the top of the mountain has moved up significantly, but the river ......
Tian Ke pondered for a moment, squatted down, and reached out to touch the river.
The half-arm river is still wet, and the grass is extremely fat, Tian Ke suddenly raised his head and saw black eyes flashing on the grass on the opposite bank, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Rao is he is the military advisor of the Liang Gang, and he can't stand this glance.
He stayed here for a moment, but he saw the grass move, and he drew his bow and shot his arrows in one go, and the arrows burst in the air and echoed in the valley.
The eyes of the marching Liang gang all looked towards the other side of the river, and they were obviously stunned.
Big change of life? Is it a human or a ghost?
It was the first thought that popped into everyone's minds, and the herald who appeared out of thin air fired the first arrow, followed by a violent explosion on the south side of the higher ground front.
The turf and black soil kicked off by the explosion were more than a foot high, and then the water of the white flowers rushed down from the highlands not far away, and the snow water that had been hoarded for seven days was really a considerable volume, and the ground on one side was low, and the snow water mixed with ice was whistling and attacking, and it instantly poured into the vanguard team.
"Damn ......" Tian Hu couldn't have imagined that these people would use the method of water attack, this method is the most difficult to achieve here, but it is also the best and most obvious effect.
For a time, there were countless people who were crushed and trampled, and the front team was directly overturned with people and horses, and the team behind could only run back when they saw this, and then they were scattered by their own people because they were not clear about the situation.
It's not an exaggeration to say it's a mess.
At this moment, on the grass on the north bank, more than 20 people stood up, holding crossbows in their hands, and shot indiscriminately at the Daliang Gang team more than ten zhang away.
The rate of fire was unprecedented......
As the arrows whizzed by, the screams were endless.
"Killing ......" rushed out from the dead corner of the valley on the side of the North Mountain, more than 200 horsemen, armed with long knives and spears, rushed towards the middle of the team.
Where did the people of the Great Liang Gang have time to react, under this rush, they actually messed up, and Huo Wenxing's team was like a heavenly soldier descending, killing indiscriminately for a while.
Tian Hu was the first to react, holding a knife and slashing towards Huo Wenxing.
The annoyed and angry Tian Hu exerted twelve points of combat power at this moment, Huo Wenxing was certainly very brave, but for Tian Hu, who now seemed to be a little desperate, it was still a little worse.
"Withdraw ......" Huo Wenxing gave an order, and everyone did not love to fight, so they withdrew and left.
The people who reacted wanted to organize a counterattack, but they were already too busy to take care of themselves, so they could only watch Huo Wenxing run towards Nanshan with his men and horses.
Tian Hu took dozens of people to take the lead, rushed out, and chased Huo Wenxing.
But seeing that Huo Wenxing didn't look back, someone behind him was chased by Tian Hu, and he was killed with a knife, although he was very sad in his heart, and the people around him wanted to turn around to save him, but he was stopped by Huo Wenxing.
In this kind of war, we cannot care about the gains and losses of one or two people, casualties are inevitable, and how to achieve victory is the most important thing.
The group fled for several miles, and Tian Hu grabbed the reins and rushed back.
When he arrived in the army, Tian Ke had basically completed the reorganization of the team, drowning, trampling to death, being shot by the crossbow, and being rushed in to cut down, there were more than 2,000 people, and the team of 10,000 people lost 20% after traveling ten miles, which was simply a shame for Tian Hu......
Since the Great Liang Gang rampant in Qilian Mountain, this is the first time that there has been a rout, or even humiliation, only killing more than 30 people on the other side, this kind of battle loss ratio is unacceptable to him, and it is also unacceptable to Tian Ke.
He has always regarded himself as the first strategist of Qilian Mountain, of course, before Xu Xuanjie arrived, he was indeed the first strategist of this thousand-mile mountain range, no matter in terms of cultural level and management ability, he is second to none.
But now that Xu Xuanjie is here, he has a faint sense of crisis, and now there is another Jiang Ning, the fight has only been five days, and he has always been led by the nose, which is okay, until now, he has encountered four times, and each time the Liang Gang has suffered heavy losses, Jiang Ning has been one step ahead of him and won by surprise.
And these people, both in terms of physical fitness and cooperation on the battlefield, are much higher than the Liang Gang, and there is even a faint Turkic ruthlessness.
"Jiang Ning, Lao Tzu must catch you and see if you are a human or a ghost......" Tian Ke was already completely enraged.
This anger is not because of the heavy casualties, but because he, as an intellectual, has been rubbed on the ground with knowledge, and there has been no room to fight back.
"Big brother, if you catch Jiang Ning, you must hand it over to me to deal with it personally." Tian Ke said angrily.
Tian Hu frowned, already questioning whether to trim up and then pursue.
But Tian Ke said: "Don't chase now, when they return to the Meridian Valley to react, it will be too late, the reason why they sneak attack is because of the lack of troops, and we have no strength to fight at all, as long as we go head-to-head, we will definitely lose, if we give them a chance to breathe, the consequences are unimaginable." ”
Tian Hu nodded slightly and said, "Okay, then march in a hurry and go straight to Huanglong...... Come...... Break it into parts, two thousand people and horses as a group, look after each other, and if there is an ambush, we are not afraid of ......"
Doing so will slow down the march, but it's a surefire solution.