Chapter Seventy-Seven: Stratagem (2)
The old soldier screamed miserably, and instantly collided with a fast horse running from behind, and the fast horse was hit, and suddenly the man stood up, and almost threw the cavalry on his back off the horse. The fast horses rushing behind him couldn't hold their feet, and with a bang, they had already collided together, and suddenly people turned over on their backs, and they were already in a mess.
At this moment, countless sharp arrows poured down from the dense forests on the slopes on both sides like rain, and in an instant, hundreds of old horsemen and war horses were shot into a hornet's nest, and the corpses were densely lying all over the mountain road. The relentless rain of arrows shot down all the way down the mountain road, and the number of more than 10,000 Lao Mao cavalry quickly decreased.
More than 30,000 wounded soldiers were slowly moving forward on the mountain road because of their extremely slow speed, but they heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves in front of them, and they were startled and stopped in a hurry. Countless old Mao soldiers were driven by Helian Nian's army and could only rush forward, but when they turned the corner of the mountain, they were stunned, and they were not far from the injured old Mao soldiers.
Several old woolly cavalrymen who rushed to the front wanted to stop the footsteps of the war horses, but they couldn't withstand the impact of the old woolly cavalry who kept rushing forward behind them and wanted to flee for their lives, and the war horses were not controlled at all, so they could only rush forward. The old hairy cavalry quickly rushed into the wounded soldiers, but these wounded soldiers did not even have the strength to resist, and dozens of people were knocked off their horses in an instant, and died under the hooves of the galloping horses.
The old Mao cavalry who rushed behind heard the people in front shouting and neighing, but he didn't know what was going on, and thought that there were enemy troops blocking the road in front of him, so he immediately panicked. Seeing that the road ahead was blocked, the old Mao cavalry had no choice but to rush up to the hillsides on both sides, and soon the entire hillside was densely covered.
Helian Nian saw that the old Mao cavalry suddenly dispersed, so he no longer pursued, leaving a team of cavalry to suppress the other party with bows and arrows, and he rushed up the hill first, and the cavalry behind him rushed up, and soon occupied the mountain beams on both sides, and the old Mao cavalry who had already rushed up the mountain beams began to fight.
After all, the old Mao cavalry had fewer people, and soon they could not resist the impact of Helian Nian's army, so they could only retreat along the mountain beam. Helian Nian led the army all the way forward, and did not occupy a section of the mountain beam, but the old Mao cavalry who was still rushing up the mountain suffered a disaster, and they fell off their horses with arrows and rolled down the hillside.
The wounded camp of the old hairy man quickly reacted, and the rear army turned into the front army and began to slowly retreat, and the blocked mountain road gradually returned to smoothness. It's a pity that the wounded soldiers of the old hairy man are really slow, and they soon entered the range of Helian Nian's army.
The sharp arrows fell mercilessly, and the wounded soldiers, who were already wounded, had almost no chance to resist, and they had already fallen off their horses. In the torrent of the war horse's continuous progress, as long as the horse falls, it is basically equivalent to losing a small life, and the war horse will not care about what obstacles are in front of him, but can only instinctively continue to move forward.
The sky gradually darkened, and Helian Nian's army also disappeared from the mountain beam, leaving behind corpses all over the ground that stretched for more than 20 miles of mountain roads, as well as a few old wounded soldiers who could still breathe. And Helian Lu, who has been chasing Xuan Qi, has lost the trace of Xuan Qi, fortunately, there is only one mountain road ahead, and now he can only continue to move forward, because the news that the rear team was cut off and attacked has already come, and there is no way to retreat.
The army entered a flat area in the canyon, and it was already getting dark, so Helian Lu had to order the whole army to rest in place. Looking at the army in front of him, which was already less than 160,000, Helian Lu couldn't help but sigh, the 300,000 army came out of Mulun, originally thinking that he could teach the Juyanhai army a lesson, but he didn't expect that in just a month, it had already been folded by nearly half.
Helian Lu began to worry about how to explain when he saw Ivanov and Queen Elena in the future, after all, the 600,000 troops he led before and after were now fully counted, and it was estimated that there were only 2,780,000. The entire army of more than 300,000 was almost wiped out by Juyanhai's army, and compared to Ivanov, who was like a bamboo all the way, his incompetence has been completely magnified. Thinking of the fifty-year-old who was still asking for too much every night, and would draw his sword and kill Queen Elena who had just spent a happy time with him when he couldn't get satisfaction, Helian Lu couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
Countless war horses were killed and became the rations of the army, and Helian Nian, who had thought about it all night, finally figured it out, no matter what, he was unwilling to face Mr. Bai anymore, what hatred or hatred was not as important as his own life, and returning to Mulun was the only right choice for him at present.
There are three roads in front of Helian Lu, one is to return along the original road, the shortest distance, but it is very likely that the army of Juyanhai is waiting for him; the other is more than ten miles away, there is a fork road that leads directly to Bultay, and along Bultay, you can also reach Mulun; the third is to go directly to Ula in Chechnya, and then from Ula in Chechnya to the east, after reaching Talmen, along the banks of the Idel River, although the distance is long, but the road is the best.
Helian Lu thought about it for a long time, and finally chose the farthest third way, hoping that when he arrived in Ula, Chechnya, he would be able to get a little supply. The army rumbled forward, and after walking out of more than ten miles, on the fork in the road leading to Bltay, he saw Xuan Qi riding a horse and waving his hand at him in the distance.
Before nightfall, Helian Lu's army finally arrived in the small town of Ula, Chechnya, but the whole town was empty, and there was not even a ghost at all. Helian Lu, who was extremely disappointed, had to order to continue to slaughter the war horses as rations, but within two days, more than 7,000 war horses had lost their lives.
At dawn the next day, Helian Lu's army turned eastward, along the avenue, all the way to the Tyler Gate. It wasn't until he walked hundreds of miles that he still didn't encounter Ju Yanhai's army blocking the road, which made Helian Lu also increase his confidence a lot.
The army advanced rapidly, and soon reached the southern shore of Lake Taylormen, but Helian Lu was stunned. I saw that the only passage in front of me, the Taylor Gate Lake Dam, had been blown open in the middle, and the raging water blocked the way. Helian Lu naturally knew that this must have been done by Ju Yanhai's army, although he was angry, he was helpless.
There are only two ways to go, one is to return to Ula in Chechnya and return the same way, and the other is to go down the river to the downstream and find a way to cross the river. As for bypassing Lake Taylor Gate to the north, the mountains are majestic, and there is no way to go at all, but it is not in the choice of Helian Lu. ()