Duan Xiong remembered the surprised gazes of the two Yamen military lords when he made the plan before the war.

Haha, a bunch of young chicks!

Except for the pitiful experience he had learned in the war, he had never been exposed to the orthodox military heritage.

It is true that some people have never read a book of war or learned the art of war, but they have found their own set of effective methods in the course of a long war, and what they do is "secretly combining the art of war."

But such people are only a minority after all.

At that time, he deliberately asked: "In the deep road, the thief is ambushed?" What will be done? ”

Zhang Gu thought that the thief army would retreat.

Yu An thinks that those who have entered the pass road cannot retreat, which will cause a lot of chaos, and can only accelerate and rush forward, so there is still a glimmer of life. Only those who have not yet had time to enter the pass have the possibility of retreating, but the thief army has been cut in two, and the defeat is assured.

Duan Xiong admired Yu An's mind more, so he mentioned it: "At this time, if you can place the auxiliary soldiers and Ding Zhuang in the south, and wait for the enemy brigade to pass, beat the drum and blow the horn, and advance with a shout, the vast majority of the thieves will not dare to retreat, and will only move forward together." ”

Zhang Gu felt that it made sense when he heard it, and asked again: "Then why don't you stop in front?" The thieves came from the south, the east and west two crossbows were fired together, and the south ambushed the auxiliary soldier Ding Zhuang, shouting and shouting, and if the north pass could be blocked, the thief army could be annihilated. ”

Why? You'll find out right away.

One hundred and fifty cavalry armored horsemen rushed directly towards the Huns who were still in the containment army.

Some scattered in panic and circled around the perimeter, trying to shoot arrows.

Some people fled directly, and they didn't even care about Liu Ling's greetings.

Someone else was knocked on the ground.

Under the iron horse of Jin Ge, he screamed again and again, and cried out in pain.

The same cavalry, but their horses were almost like donkeys compared to armored horses.

The same cavalry, but their equipment was nothing compared to the armored cavalry.

Under the two-phase onslaught—no, in fact, only one side was attacked, and the other was just charged—the light cavalry was directly scattered, and those who fell off their horses were unknown.

At the end of the first charge, the armored cavalry circled back and launched a second charge.

For a moment, Liu Ling was extremely entangled.

He had already seen clearly that this armored cavalry was not covered by light cavalry, although it was powerful, but its movements were heavy and slow, and the nearby terrain was relatively open, theoretically speaking, there was a chance to use speed to defeat these tin men.

The armored cavalry could not catch up with the light cavalry, this was their dead end.

But he gave up anyway.

He had just experienced an ambush and was intercepted by armored cavalry when he rushed out of the pass, and he was really a little scared.

If you dwell on them for too long, will you be entangled by the infantry or light cavalry of the Shao Thieves, and that will be the end of it - who knows if there are any ambushes nearby!

After struggling for a while, the armored cavalry rushed closer again.

Liu Ling sighed, performed the stunt of changing horses in the air, jumped on the back of another horse running empty, and shouted: "Go!" ”

"Boom!" The armored cavalry rushed into the light cavalry formation, and where it passed, dozens of people fell from their horses.

The Hun light cavalry shouted and fled together.

Duan Xiong did not pursue after a circle, but ordered to return to the starting place and dismount with the help of the auxiliaries to recover his strength.

However, it didn't take long for another three or four hundred Huns to rush out of the pass, looking panicked and embarrassed.

The armored cavalry mounted their horses one after another, rushed straight down the hillside, and killed the Hun light cavalry head-on.

The Huns were swept to pieces.

After dropping seventy or eighty corpses, they scattered in a hurry.

******

The south exit of the pass, as Duan Xiong suggested before.

The three thousand auxiliary soldiers held high the banner, beat drums on all sides, and rushed over with shouts.

The Hun cavalry in the rear already knew that there was an ambush ahead, and they were already panicked in their hearts.

When he saw a large number of foot soldiers killing them, and the mountains were full of banners and war drums, he panicked even more.

This has to be at least 20,000 infantry, right?

With such a big momentum, it is clear that they are going to be surrounded and annihilated.

So some of the cavalry, who had not yet entered the pass, immediately made a decision, turned their horses, and fled into the distant wilderness.

Hundreds of others had already entered the pass, but those who had not entered deeply, also looked back and retreated.

The bows and crossbows on the hills on both sides did not stop for a moment, and from time to time falling rocks fell, and the Hun cavalry suffered heavy losses.

When he returned to the south entrance in embarrassment, he saw a large group of foot soldiers, and he didn't even dare to rush, so he took the road and fled.

The auxiliary soldiers Ding Zhuang were still worried about whether they would be crushed by the Hun cavalry, but when they saw that they only wanted to flee for their lives and did not dare to fight back, their courage soared, and they accelerated their pace and stopped them.

The spear stabbed, the wooden smash people, the hook and sickle hooked the horse's legs, and the Huns were killed on their backs.

War is a contest of courage and will.

The combat effectiveness of these auxiliary soldiers Ding Zhuang is actually very average, and under normal circumstances, they are estimated to be killed by the Hun cavalry.

But in this meeting, their morale is high, they are agitated, and they are brave.

On the other hand, the Huns only had the idea of running for their lives in their minds, and there were very few people who dared to stop and organize a counter-attack, and they were soon drowned in the surging infantry crowd.

The auxiliary soldiers Ding Zhuang also ignored the fleeing Hun cavalry, let them go, and then slightly reorganized the formation and attacked from south to north along the pass.

There are still a few remnants of the Hun cavalry in the pass, and when they saw the Jin soldiers coming from the rear, they rushed desperately to urge the horses and fled north.

See, that's the wonder of the formation.

If the 3,000 auxiliary soldiers Ding Zhuang were arranged at the north entrance of the pass, they would face the Hun cavalry who had fled the way, and it was difficult to predict what would happen at this time. There is a high probability that these people will be crushed. Even if they don't collapse, they will have to pay unimaginable heavy losses, after all, they are poorly equipped, their combat effectiveness is not good, and they have little combat experience.

But if you put them behind the enemy's ass, you can play at a super level when the enemy is not ready to fight.

If you are not old enough to fight in battle, you can't play this kind of trick.

After the auxiliary soldier Ding Zhuang rushed in, the soldiers of the Yamen Army on the east and west plateaus also went down the mountain and joined him.

The passage was full of corpses of men and horses, and blood rose to the sky. But the sons were very excited, and went north, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

On the way, when he encountered a wounded soldier of the Huns, he directly and mercifully made up for it.

When encountering a lone thief, he shot arrows from a distance and stabbed with a spear at a distance, and killed him very happily.

At this time, at the north entrance of the pass, the armored cavalry led by Duan Xiong rushed three or four times, and finally could not rush.

Their results were also astonishing: they directly killed more than 300 Hun cavalry, and even directly broke up their formation, making them frightened, panicked, and had no fighting spirit.

Zhang Gu and Yu An hurriedly planned in the pass and killed more than 1,000 thieves.

More than 400 thieves were also killed at the south entrance of the pass.

With this ambush, at the cost of minor casualties, they obtained the effect of beheading 1,800 levels, which can be described as a brilliant victory.

Moreover, according to the captured captives, there was also a relative named Hu Yanhong who was killed by random arrows......

******

The battle is not completely over.

When Liu Ling rushed to a place a few miles away from Shaanxi County, he encountered more than 700 returning horsemen.

These people were either light horsemen who were exploring the way in front, or the front team that was let go by Zhang Gu and Yu An, and after hearing that the rear was ambushed, they immediately turned back to help, but met Liu Ling who was running in embarrassment halfway.

There were only more than two hundred riders around Liu Ling.

They stopped their horses, ate some water, and sent for the scattered soldiers.

By the afternoon, three or four hundred horsemen came to vote.

Looking at the growing troops, Liu Ling was shocked for a while, and after a long sigh, he said to everyone: "It's impossible to return along the same road, why don't you go all the way east and find a ferry to return to the north shore?" ”

Everyone didn't have any heart, and they all responded.

Before the expedition, they were an imposing 5,000 cavalry, as if the world was so big that they could go anywhere, no one could stop them, no one could catch up with them.

If the main force of the Shao thieves is still in Dayang, then they will give full play to the excellent mobility of the cavalry, run for hundreds of miles, occupy the pontoon bridge, and even destroy the pontoon bridge, blocking the main army of the Shao thieves on the north bank.

At that time, he could only retreat eastward in a hurry, climb over Wangwu Mountain, exit the Guan, and enter Hanoi.

This retreat was hasty and embarrassing, and it was inevitable to throw away all unnecessary baggage, and it was also necessary to face the pursuit of the big Han cavalry, and the losses were bound to be not small.

If he stays in Dayang and doesn't leave, it will be even better, tens of thousands of cavalry will press over, and he can only retreat to the city. Then 100,000 infantry dug trenches three times, and the siege also surrounded Dayang to death.

There was no problem with this plan formulated by His Royal Highness the King of Chu, and the action was also very decisive, starting from outside Hongnong City, marching all the way, and fighting was a surprise.

However, the thieves were cunning, predicted their plan in advance, and set up an ambush in Qili Pass to kill them in embarrassment.

It's too late to say anything. If you lose, you have to admit it, and it is important to find an opportunity to withdraw.

The soldiers and horses led by the king of Chu are just forwards, and the main force of the 150,000 foot cavalry of the Han Dynasty has not yet set off, and they will come to take revenge after a while.

After resting, Liu Ling led everyone on their horses and headed all the way to the northwest.

When approaching Shaanxi County, hundreds of horses suddenly appeared in front of him.

The other party also seemed to be surprised, he didn't expect to meet the Xiongnu in the suburbs of Shaanxi County.

But they reacted quickly, immediately dismounted and assembled, occupied both sides of the post road, skillfully took out the crossbow machine, and shot at the Hun cavalry.

"Rush over, don't fight!" Liu Ling roared, and under the protection of his own soldiers, he slapped his horse and rushed straight away, and the speed was very fast.

The Huns—well, most of them weren't—lay themselves on their horses as much as they could, dodging the bolts.

Others performed their hiding stunts at high speeds, sometimes hanging on one side of the horse, sometimes on the other, trying to dodge the barrage of crossbow bolts.

But how can it be so easy to escape when you meet head-on?

Crossbow bolts were fired from both sides of the road, and more than 1,000 Hun cavalry once again performed a spectacular repertoire of people on their backs.

Someone was directly pierced by a crossbow arrow and planted on the ground.

Someone was shot on the mount and thrown straight out.

Others were blocked by the corpses in front of them, and they didn't have time to turn around, and even the people and horses fell to the ground.

The scene was tragic.

But the Huns had no intention of stopping and resisting at all, and almost destroyed the horsepower to the extreme, running for their lives without fighting spirit.

After running out for more than ten miles, when he saw that the horses were overwhelmed, the sound of hurried horses' hooves sounded from behind.

Liu Ling turned his head to look, but saw hundreds of cavalry holding horse lances and halberds, shouting and chasing after him.

He closed his eyes in despair, and a wave of remorse welled up in his heart.

I knew that I was going to be chased and killed like this, and I should have contained as many rout soldiers as possible outside the pass, and then fought to the death.

But he was scared at the time and habitually ran away.

When encountering the crossbow-wielding mounted infantry of Fang Cai, it is not impossible to fight to the death.

But he was in a hurry to run, and he had no fighting spirit.

What I encounter now should be the Jin Guo Xiao cavalry, these people are professional cavalry, and most of the horsepower is still sufficient, how to escape?

One wrong step, one wrong step.

Looking back now, today is like falling into an evil spirit, from the moment of encountering an ambush, step by step in the calculations of others, constantly missing opportunities, not only losing fighting spirit, but also finally at the end of the road.

The horse suddenly knelt down with its front hooves and fell to the ground softly.

Liu Ling was not careful, and was thrown out, but fortunately he reacted quickly, rolled over when he landed, and was not injured.

Just as he got up, more than a dozen horses rushed in front of him.

Someone shouted in surprise: "There is a thief here, catch him alive!" ”

Liu Linggang wanted to resist, but he was surrounded by groups.

He sighed, hung his head, and fell to his knees.

Beside him, a large group of cavalry swept by like a lightning bolt, and the pursuit continued.