Chapter Seventy-Five: Annihilation of the Enemy on the Riverbank

When the army of Helian Lu arrived at the city of Bretay, all they left behind was an empty city and corpses strewn all over the ground.

At this time, the Xuanqi army was going all the way north, and had already taken the two small towns of Chaganula and Alprague, and quickly turned westward, approaching Bayantes at the southern foot of Tangnuula Mountain. Because these towns are far away from the rear of Helian Lu's army, they are basically defended by only a small number of troops, and they can't stop the iron hooves of the Xuanqi army at all.

Helian Lu chased after the Xuanqi army like crazy, and immediately gave Helian a chance to take advantage of it. Helian Han captured several lost ground in a row, and the army approached Mulun. The Selenga River also temporarily blocked Ivanov's army, and Ivanov had to order the whole army to go west along the Selenga River and prepare to join the army of Helenglu.

The Xuanqi army went all the way to the west, and it had no intention of stopping at all, and often rushed straight through the towns it encountered. After taking Kyrgyzstan, the Xuanqi army turned south along the western shore of Lake Kyrgyzstan, and after quickly taking Zabhan, it was already approaching Kobdo.

With the Altai Mountains in its back and Lake Haraus in the background, the city of Kobdo was already the southernmost city occupied by the Helian army in the Altai Mountains. After that, a few hundred miles to the southeast, there is the city of Altai, two hundred miles to the south, you will enter the Juyanhai steppe, and to the east is the Zabkhan River.

Xuan Qi made a position to attack Kobdo, but he left only 10,000 troops, leading the remaining 90,000 troops to quickly move south from the narrow clearing between Kobdo and Lake Haraius, and then turned eastward, along the high ground between Lake Haraeus and Harhu to the north, and returned to Zabhan.

And the army of Helianlu, which was carried around by the army of Xuanqi, had already reached Ulegai west of Zabkhan, and was moving south along the Kobdo River, approaching Kobdo. Helian Lu didn't expect that the Xuanqi army would go around in a circle and return to Zabu Khan, but he only cared about urging the army and quickly moved south, and the 300,000 army stretched into a long queue, stretching for more than ten miles.

After listening to the scout's report, Xuan Qi led a large army out of the city overnight to the west, and after a night of rapid travel, he had already arrived in a canyon near the east bank of the Kobdo River. Near noon, the army of Helian Lu rumbled over a dozen miles west of the gorge and quickly approached Kobdo. However, the Xuanqi army quickly rushed out of the canyon and rushed towards the rear team of Helian Lu's 50,000 escorts of grain and grass.

With an army of 50,000 men, escorting grain and grass and baggage, Utanfu was slowly moving south along the valley of the Kobdo River, and in the sound of people shouting and neighing, he did not notice that in the dense forest above the valley, countless pairs of eyes were staring at him. With 10,000 cavalry, Helian Nian had already occupied a high ground, and high below was a narrow river bank that Utanfu had to pass through.

When the Utanfu army entered the narrow part of the riverbank, the whole formation was immediately flattened, and only two or three horses could pass at the same time. When the front army was about to reach the exit of the narrow riverbank, there was a sudden sound of roaring, and countless sharp arrows shot out from the dense forest on the high ground, and in an instant, dozens of old horsemen were shot by sharp arrows and fell off their horses. The whole team was in a panic, and suddenly countless war horses were forced to rush from the river bank into the river.

The narrow banks of the river were quickly emptied by a rain of arrows, leaving hundreds of corpses behind. Utanfu could only order the whole army to stop and let a group of cavalry go around the high ground from behind. Five thousand cavalry quickly rushed from the river to the high ground, and soon rushed to a dozen feet beyond the dense forest. With Xuan Qi's order, a rain of arrows shot out of the dense forest, and the old hairy cavalry who rushed to the front fell one after another, instantly lying all over the hillside.

The rest of the cavalry retreated like a tide, and Xuan Qi no longer hesitated, and rushed down the hillside on horseback. Countless iron cavalry followed closely behind Xuan Qi, rushing towards thousands of cavalry, and the sharp arrows in their hands were also shot out without hesitation. Seeing that the 5,000 cavalry sent by Utanfu was soon almost completely annihilated, Utanfu hurriedly sent tens of thousands of reinforcements again and rushed out.

Xuanqi's army rushed down from the top, but Utanfu's cavalry was from the bottom up, under the dense rain of arrows and the impact of Xuanqi's army, they couldn't stop it at all, and soon they collapsed and were driven backwards, and many war horses couldn't stop the retreating cavalry at all, and they were squeezed and fell into the river.

At the same time that the rout quickly rushed into Utanfu's army, Iligo also waved his hand, and the 50,000 cavalry left by Xuanqi for him quickly rushed out of the dense forest and rushed towards Utanfu's army. Sharp arrows stained with fire oil fell from the sky and shot densely into the grain carts, instantly igniting a raging fire, and the smoke spread rapidly, enveloping the entire riverbank.

Tens of thousands of old horsemen began to panic, their horses scurrying around in the thick smoke, and they couldn't control the direction at all, and they didn't know how many cavalrymen and horses rushed into the rolling Kobdo River, and they were instantly submerged by the river. The 90,000 Juyan Sea Cavalry had already stopped their footsteps, looking at the old Mao cavalry scurrying in the flames and smoke, and only when the old Mao cavalry rushed out, they would shoot the sharp arrows in their hands.

Near noon, the fire finally gradually subsided, one by one began to extinguish, the smoke also slowly faded, the entire river bank was in a mess, and countless old soldiers were still coughing fiercely. With a wave of Xuan Qi's big hand, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the last impact began.

The sound of the saber slashing into the body, the neighing of the horse, and the screams were mixed together, and the old Mao soldiers, who were already burned by the smoke and fire, could not organize a decent resistance, and countless old Mao soldiers were squeezed off their horses and died under the horses' hooves. Xuan Qi stood on the high ground and watched tens of thousands of war horses sprint back and forth along the riverbank, and it was not until four or five times later that he withdrew his troops.

Just when Xuan Qi led the army to the north quickly, Helian Lu, who heard the news from the scout, hurriedly led the army and quickly returned the same way, leaving Helian Lu with corpses all over the ground and grain and grass that had been burned to ashes. The 50,000-strong army was wiped out, and countless of them were burned, trampled to death, and fell into the water.

Helian Lu finally knew why the 150,000 army would all be buried in Xuan Qi's hands, and for the first time, he felt the fear that came from his heart.

After finding out that the Xuanqi army was going all the way north, Helian Lu no longer dared to rush forward carelessly, and always kept the army close together. It's just that this time, the speed of the army's advance has slowed down a lot, and it can only follow the Xuanqi army from a distance, farther and farther.

As the shortage of grain and grass began to appear, Helian Lu's army could only return to Ulan Gumu and send a large army to raise food and grass everywhere. And at this moment, the Xuanqi army has completely disappeared.