Chapter 26: Breaking the Formation
Cattle and horses are everywhere, and the commotion is rampant.
The small hill is crowded with cattle and horses, and the smell of feces and urine on the body can be described as ten miles of wind and smell.
No way, special needs.
After a brief night's rest, Jia Huibu took more than 500 cattle and more than 700 batches of horses that had been recruited or purchased long ago, and set out on the road, both good and bad.
All the way to the march, 5,000 elite iron horsemen and more than 1,000 cattle and horses, it has been more than 200 miles west of Basu for two days.
According to the information that the night was not collected, the headquarters of Chahan Danjin also began to go back, and it was about two days before it could be here.
Unlike the troops that were buried in the snow before.
The vanguard of the evacuation was an army dominated by infantry, and because this group of people did not move fast and was still the backbone, Chahan Tenzin let them retreat first.
They retreated first, and then used the remaining 60,000 cavalry to fight a dozen of Liu Zhen's troops at a high speed, so that they lost the ability to pursue, and then began to retreat to the plateau in an orderly manner.
Facts have proved that in terms of commanding the army, Chahan Danjin is indeed better than Liu Zhen.
Annoyed, Liu Zhen led his troops to frantically attack the scattered Heshuo special army, and even Meizhou City, where Chahan Danjin was stationed, was recovered by Liu Zhen, but it had no effect.
After leaving the city, Chahan Danjin had no intention of fighting him head-on, and the Heshute army still harassed him day and night.
Then they continued to retreat in batches, and the headquarters of Chahan Danjin also pretended to be defeated again and again, moving in the direction of Ganzi.
The excited Liu Zhen came up, thinking that it was really his continuous attacks that repelled the Heshuo special army, so he rushed even more vigorously.
Rushing deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper, and finally cut off contact with Jinguancheng, he could not command the rest of the troops, and the rest of the troops could not contact him.
Let the group of generals who could see the intentions of the Heshuo Special Army could only be anxious, it was not that they didn't look for it, but Liu Zhen rushed too fast and couldn't catch up.
It was too late for Liu to realize this.
In the pursuit of Chahan Danjin to Tianquan County, Liu Zhen had to repeat his old tricks, and when he smashed the army formation on the opposite side, he was defeated by the army that suddenly rushed out from both sides, and lost more than 3,000 corpses. When he led the team to break through to the east, he found that Feixian Pass was taken away by the Heshuo special army and was wrapped in dumplings.
Leaving the corpses of 4,000 people again, he hurriedly ran north, and was intercepted by the Chahan Danjin headquarters hiding in Lushan County.
After this battle, only more than 80 of the 10,000 cavalry escaped, including Liu Zhen, and the southwest cavalry unit was completely annihilated.
The southwestern official army, which did not have much cavalry, completely became a pure infantry corps.
Liu Zhen, who had been a savage in Tiantai Mountain for a few days, returned to the actual control area of the Qi army.
It wasn't until this time that he reacted, and the Heshute army was pretending to be defeated and retreating, but actually retreated.
The most important thing is that I didn't find out about it, and in the end, I even got 10,000 cavalry.
The bowels of repentance are blue.
It was useless to regret it, and 26 days after the infantry retreated, the Heshute cavalry also set out on their way home.
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Tsahan Tenzin has been particularly proud lately.
After more than 30 years, he finally defeated the old enemy who had completely wiped out his troops in the Battle of Hexi.
In that year, he followed the Great Khan into the west of the Kou River, but was defeated by the coalition of four towns with Jia Daishan as the commander, and fled back to the plateau in a hurry.
If Razang Khan's nightmare is Jia Daishan, then his old enemy of Chahan Danjin is Liu Zhen.
Back then, they each encountered with 10,000 cavalry, how could the young and vigorous two endure it? They bumped into each other without saying a word.
Then he was defeated by Liu Zhen.
Since then, Chahan Danjin has been collecting information on Liu Zhen.
He even gave congratulatory gifts when Liu Zhen got married and had children.
Finally, after more than thirty years of continuous research, he Chahan Danjin finally defeated Liu Zhen.
Thoughts are clear and refreshed.
Left the body of the beautiful little servant and got dressed under his service.
He led the remaining nearly 50,000 cavalry out of Basu County and headed west.
Nearly 50,000...
Although he ate Liu Zhen's 10,000 cavalry, it was barely one for one, but he still felt so heartbroken!
60,000 to 10,000 is still a 1-1 or even 1-2 loss, which makes him feel that defeating Liu Zhen is not so proud.
But fortunately, they captured a large amount of cavalry equipment, and these things must have been installed in their own descendants as soon as they returned to Sunlight City to be counted and stored.
What is he going to do with Paulid, who is fighting a bad battle in the north?
The mood is good again.
Tsk, the Qi people serve well, but they are more obedient than on the plateau, why don't you develop it again at night?
After playing with the beautiful maid for decades, he is no longer interested, and now he likes the little girl more and more.
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"Tell the general, the cavalry of the Heshute Eastern Army has passed eight nights!"
"Report! The enemy is still sixty miles away from our army! ”
"All armoured!"
Jia Hui was wearing medium armor and leading the war horse that had already put on the vest.
In order to reduce weight and increase the combat duration, Jia Hui did not use the original all-iron vest.
He found some thick felt for the horse to drape on his body, and only used iron armor on his chest.
After actual measurements, the defense on both sides of the horse has decreased slightly, but the horse's endurance and speed have been significantly improved compared to the all-iron armor.
The five hundred sets of medium armor and heavy armor brought with him were all fully equipped, and Jia Hui was ready to personally lead this armored cavalry to take the lead.
However, Jia Hui did not choose to wear heavy armor, but chose to put a piece of chain mail inside the middle armor, which was taken from the captured Lazang Khan.
Thank you for nature's bounty.
A piece of chain mail plus a pair of medium armor has more defense than a simple heavy armor, and the weight is even lighter than that of heavy armor.
Jia Hui originally wanted to let the five hundred people he brought all wear like this, but there was no way, all the armor of the entire plateau was taken out to fight, and there was only a lump of rust slag left in the entire arsenal.
In order to reduce the logistical pressure of the army brought by himself, he only brought a large number of light armor and more than 400 sets of medium armor and 50 sets of heavy armor before departure.
But these Qi soldiers with chain mail all chose to join Jia Hui's five hundred people, dressed the same as Jia Hui, and lined up on the side of the entire vanguard team.
The follow-up troops wore light armor and were not tired of dressing, so they put on armor early this morning.
The medium armor and heavy armor are a bit burdensome, and they will not wear armor until the battle is about to begin.
I saw that the five hundred pioneers behind Jia Hui began to skillfully pierce each other's armor, and after a while, everyone was already standing next to the horse in armor.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I won't say anything more, everyone knows that if we let this group of people enter the plateau, everything we have done will be wasted, and even our lives will be lost, so we must do them in this mountainous area, think about the military exploits we have fought a few days ago, think about the seizures we have obtained these days, and then think about the wives and children at home, this battle is only allowed to win, not defeat, the whole army obeys the order, and sets off!"
"Great Qi Wansheng!"
"Great Qi Wansheng!"
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Chahan Danjin was a little anxious, the scouts he sent out had not returned for a long time to report the news, and he had sent more than one wave, but none of them had returned.
Chahan Tenzin knew that something big was wrong.
The Great Khan seems to have been captured, otherwise, he would have come to look for him a long time ago, and he would not have known that the Qi people had called now.
However, looking at the 50,000 iron horsemen behind him, Chahan Tenzin did not take the upcoming battle into his eyes.
According to his estimates, there will be no more than 10,000 people on the plateau, and if you fight all the way here, you have to lose half of it, what is behind you? It's 60,000 elite troops who have killed the 10,000 cavalry of the famous Qi general Liu Zhen, and he doesn't believe that this Qi general who came can be more difficult to deal with than Liu Zhen!
But he still ordered all his men to put on armor and prepare for battle.
It's one thing to look down on it, it's another thing to fight or not.
All the armor people put on the armor, and they didn't care about the rules, so Chahan Danjin also sent people to send down all the armor captured from Liu Zhen, and gathered all the armor soldiers to the front army, about 16,000 people.
The march reached the corner of a large mountain.
The sound of horses' hooves across the corner knocked on everyone's hearts.
The two sides tacitly agreed to stop the march.
There was silence for a long time.
"Attack!" Chahan Tenzin was the first to order, and he still had nearly 50,000 troops and 16,000 armor soldiers, and there was a chance for trial and error.
When the soldiers heard the order, they raised their spears and began to speed up with a smack of their horses' bellies.
With the vanguard general Zan's tooth as the arrow, the arrow formation was gradually formed.
There was a sudden wail from the opposite side, and then the muffled sound of the charge of the cavalry, which was not weaker than that of his own cavalry, accompanied by a burst of howls, came from the opposite side.
Zan Xinya felt a little bad.
For some reason, he always felt that something was wrong on the other side. But as the war horse accelerated, there was only one option left to stop being bumped into a pulp by the cavalry behind, and Zan Xinya could only continue to rush forward.
Suddenly, a group of huge bodies glowing with fire turned around the corner.
A herd of yaks with flames burning on their bodies!
"Not good!" Zan's heart is shocked!
Immediately threw down the spear, clung to the reins, and clamped the horse's belly with his legs.
Whether you live or die depends on your own immediate effort!
Zan knew that the yaks had gone berserk and could do nothing but run wildly into everything that moved.
Unless they dissipate their anger or die, but the flames on their bodies continue to scorch their bodies and make them want to die, making them angry all the time.
The cavalry behind him also saw the fire bull formation rushing towards them, and they were shocked!
immediately learned the movements of the generals in front of him, and life and death depended on riding skills.
None of them chose to rein in the horse, and everyone chose the latter in the choice of being knocked down and trampled into meat by someone behind them and fighting for luck to maybe survive.
The Fire Bull Formation and Zan's tooth were getting closer and closer, and he seemed to have seen the sizzling back of the cow and the blood-red bull's eyes.
Boom!
With a muffled sound, Zan Xinya flew into the sky, landed in the crowd, knocked over several cavalrymen, and fell to the ground with them, and was trampled on by the horse's hooves behind, and gradually became a puddle of meat mixed with broken iron and cloth, and then, the burning hooves of the ox stepped on it, igniting the fat squeezed out of the meat, and in a short time, the whole audience began to fill with the smell of roasted meat.
From the sky, the Fire Bull Array just stopped the galloping army, as if it had no effect, but in fact, the huge inertia caused by the galloping of the war horse hit everyone, and countless horsemanship and his war horse were squeezed into a meat pie and fused together.
The losses were heavy, especially in the middle of the military formation, and the losses were the heaviest, and I thought that hiding in the middle would increase the chances of survival, but it was tried and tested, but this time, it became a life-threatening talisman.
The person behind couldn't see the situation in front of him, and suddenly bumped into his companion in front of him without knowing anything, and was hit on the back by the brother in the back, and his chest instantly deflated.
Instead, the men and horses on both sides squeezed out along both sides of the mountain, and there was nothing but some abrasions.
Before the survivors could rejoice, a herd of horses dragging flames rushed ahead.
The subconscious whole team that has been trained in years of fighting has brought them together on the road again. They suddenly remembered that they had just joined the army, and they were like a blank slate.
Resigned to his fate, he closed his eyes.
With the wailing of the war horse under the crotch, it flew into the sky.
The horses squeezed the horses and stuffed the corners tightly, and when the front was dead, the rear immediately chased after them, so that a wall of horses crashed into one cavalryman after another, and they fell to the ground with blood in their mouths.
Finally, the last flaming war horse fell a hundred paces in front of Chahan Danjin.
Stunned, Chahan Danzin realized that he had hit a hard stubble today.
The vanguard began to converge, and in the end it was found that there were less than 2,000 horsemen left who could move.
The remaining 14,000 people were either killed on the spot.
Either they were huddled together, and the survivors spat out pieces of internal organs, and unconsciously fiddled with their arms that had knocked out the bones.
Either they were accidentally burned alive by the flames on their bodies, and even people and horses were burned alive.
More than 10,000 corpses were constantly squeezed, and then bulged as the cavalry behind them was constantly pushed in, forming a mountain of corpses. Fill the entire valley.
The whole valley was filled with the smell of barbecue, and the wind blew in the direction of the Eastern Army.
There was another smell of vomit in the wind.
"Everyone rush me..."Chahan Danzin once again felt the powerlessness of the annihilation of the whole army, but when he saw the pair of rotten flesh in front of the road, he still gave up the attack.
"Clean up the battlefield." Chahan Tenzin, with a gloomy face, ordered.
After rethinking the situation, he found that he could only rush forward.
It is flanked by towering cliffs, and there is only one path to walk underfoot.
When you reach the corner, you will find some gentle slopes, and you will not appear in the col until you turn the corner.
The Qi dog who killed a thousand knives was in that mountain col.
It will definitely be too late to retreat back to Basu, and retreating will only allow Qi Dog to bite and chase after his buttocks, and the narrow mountain road cannot open up a military formation, so he can only engage the Qi army with a fixed number of people.
Chahan Danjin was depressed, and only the Qi army was left to fight head-on.
Rao is the enemy, Chahan Danjin also wants to praise the other party's main general, the place is really good.
The others hurriedly went to the small river on both sides of the road to get water, and when it was almost burned, they poured the water onto a pair of burning things that were still burning, covering the burning flames, the smell was suddenly stimulated, and the smell of vomiting suddenly became much stronger, and when the smoke of the carbon team dissipated, there was no smell of barbecue.
But Heshuo Tejun felt that his clothes were all in his nose with this smell.
The bodies were quickly cleared to both sides of the road.
The armor soldiers who were frightened and did not dare to rush anymore did not dare to fight anymore, Chahan Danjin also understood, let them take off their armor and change it to more than 2,000 people behind, Chahan Danjin suddenly changed his face and ordered to hack to death this group of cowards in front of the battle.
Morale has finally stabilized, at least it won't get worse.
"All the troops are attacking!"
Although it was the same order, this time the horse was much slower.
Soon, the armorers found that there was no fire bull formation and fire horse formation, and the heart blocked in their throat finally returned to its original position.
Once again, the horse's speed was at its highest.
Finally, I turned the corner and saw the Qi army waiting in formation. It doesn't seem like there are many people.
Raising their spears and bowing down, the armorers were already thinking about what they would look like after they bumped into the Qi army's formation.
"The shooter is ready to release the arrow!" Jia Hui waved his hand, and all the people with bows, including him, picked up their bows and arrows and hid them on both sides.
"Pick up the bow and arrows, draw the bow, and release!" When the eastern army approached about 100 paces, Jia Hui ordered.
The archers in the rear immediately raised their bows and arrows from both sides in unison, and after receiving Jia Hui's order, they shot their swords.
The heavy arrows in the hard bow easily pierced the light armor of the Heshute army, and everyone was a well-trained professional martial artist, and two more volleys came before the enemy army collided with him.
The last armorer's horse was shot dead and flung out, falling in front of Jia Hui, and was stabbed to death with a spear.
The Heshute armor was completely annihilated.