Stuck in the mountains, a dead end.

Retreat to the hidden sun, a glimmer of life.

After Liang Yuanzhi received the news that Zhao Lanjiang had recaptured Yinyang, he ordered the entire army of the Western Army to rest for two hours and prepare to withdraw. This is a battle against the water, and success or failure is here.

Three watches.

On the Shuangfeng Mountain, the Western Army began to withdraw in an orderly manner, and when it was withdrawn to the third batch, the Northern Zhou scouts finally sensed that something was wrong, and immediately sent troops to block it.

Liang Yuanzhi ordered the archers to return fire, and while delaying time, he ordered the rest of the men to evacuate. Since joining the army, Liang Yuanzhi has never been so embarrassed as he is today.

But the other party is Tuoba Niuren, the god of war of the Northern Zhou Dynasty who is as famous as Yuwen Tianlu, and he is like a god with soldiers, and it is not easy to escape under him.

The order he gave to Ye Erlang of the Huozi Battalion was to delay the attack of the Northern Zhou army at all costs, delay for at least two hours, and buy time for the other soldiers and horses to retreat.

In this battle, the Fire Word Battalion is probably going to be wiped out.

This is the price that war has to pay.

The cavalry of the Linzi battalion was the second line of defense for retreat, and after they were the first to withdraw from the Hengduan Mountains, they reorganized on the spot to block the pursuit of the infantry of the Northern Zhou Army.

The Northern Zhou Dynasty was dominated by cavalry, but it was not easy to cross the Chishui River.

In the twin peaks, the drums shook the sky.

Countless torches illuminated both camps as bright as day.

Wearing armor and carrying a longbow, Yejiro stood on the Twin Peaks Mountain, and in front of him were three thousand fire-character battalion crossbowmen, some of whom were veterans of the battlefield, and some of whom were newly recruited soldiers, with different expressions, or surprised, frightened, or resolute, but their whole bodies were upright, waiting for his lecture.

Ye Erlang said, "Fire Word Camp!"

The soldiers said: "Get the order!"

"Are you afraid?"

In the midst of the crowd, there was a commotion.

The Great War is coming, who can be fearless?

Ye Erlang took a deep breath and said loudly: "Tonight, the Western Army will withdraw from Shuangfeng Mountain, and we, the Huozi Battalion, will be ordered to intercept those wolf cubs in the Northern Zhou Dynasty. ”

Someone shouted, "General, is the court going to give up on us?"

Yajiro said loudly, "No, the imperial court will never give up on us. We are trapped on this broken mountain, without food or drink, and sooner or later we will starve to death, so it is better to fight!"

"Fight, we can die. If we run away, we will surely die, and the 30,000 robes in front of us will also surely die. You, whether you are willing to fight with me, in exchange for a chance, a chance to live, a chance to make the wolf cubs of the Northern Zhou Dynasty regret it for a lifetime. We're not going to rest on our laurels, because we're the Fire Battalion!"

Everyone said in unison, "Fire Word Camp!"

Ye Erlang untied his longbow, pointed to the front, and said, "Teach those wolf cubs in Northern Zhou tonight to know how powerful the Fire Word Camp is!"

Three thousand crossbowmen, divided into three rows.

The horn of the Northern Zhou army sounded.

The Northern Zhou infantry was in a group of four, led by a giant shield and the rest with a longbow and arrows, and began to cross the river.

Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred steps.

The terrain is high, and the enemy is within range.

Yajiro calmly ordered, "Release the arrow!"

Countless arrows shot up into the sky, cutting a long arc in the air, and shooting towards the Northern Zhou camp. The Northern Zhou infantry raised their shields to defend, and the rest took the opportunity to fight back, but the terrain was disadvantaged, and the effect was not obvious.

After the first row of arrows, it retreated, and the second row took turns attacking, and so on, and after three rounds of attacks, nearly 100 more people were killed.

In the night, the red light reflected in the river, and the blood flowed and mixed in the silt. Countless Northern Zhou soldiers who were hit by arrows, and the wails spread throughout the valley, which was particularly miserable.

This is war.

There are no emotions, only killing, brutal killing.

Once the shield-wielding soldiers were shot, the rest were exposed to the uncovered river, and Yajiro dispatched several sharpshooters to shoot the lone soldiers.

Eighty steps.

Loose arrows began to shoot into the fire word camp, and the Western Army also began to lose soldiers. But everyone was as solid as a rock, guarding their positions, obeying the slogans of the starting officer, and shooting mechanically.

On the battlefield, this kind of bow and crossbow shooting, the crosshair is still secondary, and the dense saturation attack has strict requirements for the arm strength and neatness of the archers.

After several rounds of volleys, some of the soldiers with insufficient arm strength had a shorter range. The Northern Zhou army suffered heavy casualties, with a loss of nearly six or seven hundred people, and at this time, the horn sounded again across the river.

The Northern Zhou army, which had originally forcibly crossed the river, began to move laterally to both sides, and nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses began to cross the river.

The crossbowmen of the Fire Battalion were all strictly selected, and each person could shoot two quivers with a full bow, but the opponent's river-crossing tactics changed, and the numerical disadvantage began to be highlighted.

Whoosh!

About fifty paces, the Huozi battalion entered the range of the infantry of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and there were more and more arrow soldiers in the Huozi battalion.

Boom!

The infantrymen who followed in the rear began to shoot fire and thunder at the fire battalion.

The so-called like fire and thunder, on top of the arrow cluster, tied with black gunpowder, under the arrow cluster is wolf dung and other flammable, smoke-generating things, after landing, suddenly fire, and give birth to a large amount of black smoke, can hinder the sight of the Western Army.

Obstructed view.

The fire word battalion fired more slowly, and Yajiro decisively ordered, "Tribulus terrestris." ”

On the trebuchet, the thistles that had already been loaded were thrown into the middle of the river. This thistle, hexagonal ridged and barbed, falls into the mud and is not easy to detect.

Countless Northern Zhou soldiers stepped on it, and there was another wail.

As a result, the speed of action in the rear row of Beizhou slowed down, and Yajiro began to order scattered attacks, no more volleys, and the two sides fired at each other, killing and wounding.

The sound of gongs.

The Northern Zhou soldiers in the rear were unable to break through the thistles in the river and began to retreat backwards, discarding the Northern Zhou soldiers who had rushed to within thirty paces on the front line.

Seeing this, those soldiers didn't care about anything else, and retreated back one after another, leaving their backs to the Fire Word Battalion. But it was not easy to cross the thistle, and Yejiro took advantage of the victory to pursue, and there were several rounds of salvos, leaving nearly a thousand corpses in the river.

After the first round of attack, the Northern Zhou army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and the Huozi battalion lost less than 200 people.

A big win.

The crowd cheered in unison.

Yejiro looked at the enemy camp with a solemn face.

If the other party sends more troops and horses to forcibly cross the river, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold out until dawn, but at this time, the Tuoba Niuren suddenly withdrew their troops.

This puzzled him.

He ordered the soldiers to rest and prepare for the second round of attacks.

The East is whitening.

The second round of attacks never came.

Yejiro looked into the river and was suddenly startled in his heart.

Just three or four miles downstream of the river, a potholed road paved with wooden planks and gravel has long been built. Fang Cai's feint attack in the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the incense thunder released at the opportunity were all suspicious tactics.

Their real purpose was to take advantage of the darkness and smoke to forcibly pave a road, a road to cross the river.

The main force of the Northern Zhou Dynasty had already crossed the river.

Ginger is old and spicy.

Compared with the Tuoba Cow Man, Ye Erlang is still slightly immature.

About 5,000 soldiers and horses crossed the river and besieged them, and the adjutant general, pale, asked, "General, what shall we do?"

Ye Erlang immediately decided, "Withdraw the troops, go up the mountain, and fight to the death!"

......

Along the way, there were no chasing soldiers, but Liang Yuanzhi did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

The 50,000 Western Expeditionary Army successfully evacuated Shuangfeng Mountain and marched all night, and by dawn, it was already sleepy and tired. The sky will be bright, and the last mountain in front of you will be over, and after turning over, you will enter the territory of Hidden Sun City.

It is less than 100 miles away from Yinyang City.

As long as the 50,000 expeditionary western army retreats to Yinyang, and this city, known as the first border city in the western region, refuses to defend it, the western expeditionary army can still have the strength to fight.

Now the imperial court must know the situation of the Western Army, the nearest garrison from here should be the Longxi Army and the defenders of the Jianmen Pass in Shuzhong, but the power to mobilize these soldiers and horses is in the military department, even if the request for help arrives, it will take a month or two to wait for the order of the capital to come down.

These are not immediate considerations.

They had to arrive at Hidden Yang City before the Northern Zhou caught up.

Tonight's withdrawal, Ye Erlang's Huozi battalion may be more auspicious. Liang Yuanzhi had no choice, he was the chief soldier of the Western Army, Yuwen Tianlu was not there, he had the highest official position, and he had to find ways to retain the strength of the Western Army.

War is as it should be.

As for the failure to defend the western frontier, the first line of heaven was broken, and the accountability of the imperial court in the future, Liang Yuanzhi couldn't think about it, he was a soldier, a soldier on the border, and their duty was to fight for the Ming territory until the last moment and shed the last drop of blood.

After the Shuangfeng Mountain was trapped, there was no news on the Hulukou side.

For so many days, the reinforcements on the Western Front did not arrive, and presumably they were in trouble. Since the Tuoba cattle people dared to step across Hengduan Mountain and come to the territory of Daming, the Western Chu army would not be idle, and the containment of Hulukou was also expected.

Liang Yuanzhi only has and can only pin his hopes on Yinyang and Zhao Lanjiang.

After Yuwen Tianlu was assassinated, his whereabouts were unknown, and Zhao Lanjiang was ordered to take the tiger talisman to transfer troops, offer a message to recapture Yinyang, and use Yinyang as a stronghold to drag this war into a protracted war.

In the past few days, he has a better understanding of Zhao Lanjiang from the mouth of the old soldier in the army, he has the ability, courage, straight temperament, no room for sand in his eyes, and the advantages and disadvantages are equally obvious.

Since Yuwen Tianlu chose him, Liang Yuanzhi had no choice but to obey. As the chief soldier of Yuwen Tianlu, he has an almost crazy admiration for Yuwen Tianlu.

He believed that in the eyes of the Grand Duke, he would never choose the wrong person;

With the means of the Metropolitan Governor's strategy, the war situation in Western Xinjiang will never get out of control.

Zhao Lanjiang did what he had to do.

The rest will be done by Liang Yuanzhi.

Liang Yuanzhi took a deep breath and ordered, "Order the whole army, march quickly!"

Half an hour later, the expeditionary army crossed the last hill, and at this time, a red arrow rose into the sky, and at this time, the Fengzi battalion scouted the rocket.

Red, representing military emergency.

Three miles away, on the hillside.

The 5,000 cavalry lined up, their spears raised, like death, watching the 50,000 expeditionary army to the west.

There are 50,000 troops in the west, although the number is large, but it is mainly infantry, and it is a marching army, stretching for five or six miles before and after, and only 3,000 cavalry are still in the back, and for a while, they cannot be transferred to the front.

Several large flags, fluttering in the wind.

It turned out that the Tuoba Cattle had already expected that they would withdraw, and the 5,000 cavalry were ready to go, and under this formation, as long as there was a charge, the 50,000 Western Army would be broken apart.

The dawn is coming.

A massacre, inevitable.

PS: I'm really not good at writing about war, so I'll have to avoid it later.