Northern Dynasties

Chapter 404 Fierce Battle in the Valley

After leaving Xiurong City, the Hu merchant armed forces realized that the destination of their trip was not the world of flowers in Jinyang, but the rugged and desolate mountains in the south, and they were quite surprised in their hearts.

But there were thousands of brave and strong Jinyang soldiers following behind. Even if they had any dissatisfaction in their hearts, they did not dare to show it. They could only obey the order and head south obediently.

When they saw that the suspected opponent on the opposite side had far fewer people than their own, the fear in their hearts suddenly dissipated, their words and deeds gradually became reckless, and they kept making various provocative actions, and they began to fantasize about ending the battle Ke went to Jinyang to receive the reward, but he didn't realize that the expressions and reactions of the companions around him were a little strange.

Seeing that the enemy was weak, people from all walks of life became agitated.But Luo Chao, who was at the left rear of the team, ordered his troops to slow down and move closer to him, and muttered in a low voice: "Although there are not many people in this team, the formation is not loose. momentum.

They are not Jinyang troops, but they must be the elites of the Western Dynasty and Beizhou. It is definitely not something that the mob of these business groups can attack and defeat.You have to be careful, don't rush forward to fight! "

Li Yunxin, who was in his army, came closer after hearing the words, frowned and said in puzzlement: "General, the elite of the Western Army are really so powerful and formidable? But didn't they lose to King Gao's army a few years ago? There are only so many people, but we have tens of thousands of people!"

Luo Chao also took good care of this little fellow who spoke a friendly local accent but was also quite strong and brave, and sighed after hearing the words: "You also know that it is Gao Wang's army that can defeat the Western Army, what has it to do with the mob in front of you.

The battle is imminent, so you might as well tell the truth to you greedy men, these thousands of miscellaneous people were originally used to wear down the enemy's strength, and the real killing move is the Xiurong County soldiers from the back.If you forcefully go forward, you will only die. Even if you survive by chance, I am afraid that there will be no rewards!
Although the Jinyang government treasury is full, it will not give generously to outsiders like you.Is Lao Tzu a vulgar person?In the past, he was also a hero who dominated Qinlong, but he has been idle for many years since then. These town slaves from the six states are the most domineering and protective. If outsiders want to make their mark here, it is really difficult! "

Speaking of this, Luo Chao's face, which has seen vicissitudes, is already full of resentment for being underappreciated. He has already dominated the party when he was weak, and he can follow the trend after several twists and turns, and his power and status have also risen with the tide. , I think I can be regarded as a hero in troubled times.

As a result, after returning to the Eastern Dynasty, he sat on the bench for many years and was always excluded from important military and political positions. A dignified commander of the army was actually sent to Ma Ling as a garrison lord. What a disgrace!

Under normal circumstances, he would not dare to show his indignation at being unappreciated, but he couldn't help showing it a little bit when facing Li Yunxin, a little fellow who had just entered this place.

Hearing Luo Chao's angry words, Li Yunxin felt rather gloating in his heart. He did not know Luo Chao before, but after some communication and getting along with him, he realized that this guy was the traitor who harmed Qinzhou's native land during the Zhengguang period. A member of the army.

Li Yunxin was still young at that time, but he still remembered how bad the rebellion was to the local people, and their Li family in Longxi was even more implicated by Li Yan, the governor of Qinzhou at that time, and received the attention of the rebels. Killed by the rebel army, and this Luo Chao is one of the executioners!
After knowing the other party's identity, he secretly hated Luo Chao in his heart, but because he was in the enemy's territory and had to use the other party's identity to cover up his party, so he could only reveal his real identity. Hold back in your arms.

Hearing Luo Chao's resentment at this time, Li Yunxin said in a low voice: "My servant heard that General Yan, who commanded the army, also returned to Yi from the Western Dynasty. Seeing that he has promoted the elite, he seems to be highly valued. General and He belongs to the same origin, and if he can be taken care of by him, it is not difficult to be famous because of his general ability. If he is a high-ranking man, he will go to Jinyang to see my employer after this battle is over, and ask him to help us with wealth. As a gift..."

"If you have such a heart, it is not in vain for me to take care of you. But if you want to bribe a swallow, you should avoid it."

Luo Chao first smiled at Li Yunxin with some relief, and then turned his head to look behind him and sighed: "This disciple was originally a confidant in Prime Minister Yuwen's mansion in the Western Dynasty, but he defected while he was on an envoy. I voted here only because the fortune-tellers told me that the wealth is in Qi Zhao.

It can be seen that this man is greedy for power and has no sense of gratitude. In order to cover up his injustice, he treats the personnel of the Western Dynasty most cruelly.Every time there is a war with the Western Dynasty, no prisoners will be kept, and surrenders like me who are defeated and surrendered are even more hated by them.The words and deeds of others are the biggest provocation in his eyes! "

After Li Yunxin heard the words, he couldn't help secretly thinking that it was a pity, he originally wanted to use Luo Chao to get close to the commander Yan Zixian at the rear and then kill him while taking advantage of the chaos, but it was obviously impossible to hear what Luo Chao said.

As if to prove the truth of this statement, as soon as Luo Chao's words fell, a messenger galloped into the army formation from the rear to convey the military order to him: "Yan Dadu is supervising General Luo's troops to attack the enemy's flanks, and ordered As soon as the sound is heard, attack immediately, and don't miss the fighter plane!"

After hearing this, Luo Chao cursed inwardly, but he didn't dare to speak out against it, he could only nod in response, and then recruited his troops again.

He has been in the Eastern Dynasty for several years, and there are not many original parts left, and he cannot be supplemented at all among a group of Jinyang soldiers. My own department also wants to take this opportunity to develop and supplement my own power.

But Yan Zixian was obviously aware of his intentions, because of his extremely harsh temperament towards the personnel of the Western Dynasty, he was not happy that Luo Chao, a descendant, would gain power under his nose, so he wanted to drive the people he had just recruited People and horses take the lead.

These troops recruited from outside the Great Wall of Beishan were led by several garrison masters of Beishan garrison. The soldiers have the highest horse distribution rate, and more than half of them have horses for horse fighting, so they are ranked in the front line.

At this time, the distance between the two sides has been shortened to only a few miles away, and the opposite side has already formed a cavalry battle formation and slowly moved forward. After that was the array of long spears, the longbowmen were at the end, and the cavalry team was guarding the rear on both sides.

This kind of formation is both offensive and defensive, and it is especially suitable for terrains such as Chijialing and valleys that are not suitable for large-scale separation and gathering. Although Li Tai despised these mobs, he also noticed that the subsequent battle formation was calm and orderly, so he still didn't dare to go too far. Underestimating the enemy and advancing sharply, he planned to use the infantry battle formation to defeat the bandit formation head-on, and after the formation was scattered and defeated, he would charge out with cavalry on both wings, and rely on these rout soldiers to destroy the subsequent battle formation.

Luo Chao, who was on the opposite side, felt a little headache for a while when he saw the enemies forming such a battle formation. To be on the safe side, he decided to send a small team to fight first, to test the opponent's combat effectiveness.

Here he ordered the army to stop for the time being, and was about to mobilize [-] infantry to test first, but there was a drum order ordering the entire army to attack from the rear army formation. Even if he still wanted to stabilize the rhythm, the other troops followed With the drum order, he pushed his troops forward.

The other garrison generals were not fools either. Seeing that the opponent's formation was well-organized, it was obviously not an ordinary army, and it was not suitable for forward and backward shifting in this valley terrain. Naturally, it would be unlucky for those in the front.

"If you don't attack now, when will you wait!"

Before Luo Chao could give an order here, Li Yunxin leaped out of the horse next to him, waved the long spear in his hand and shouted loudly at the opposite war, even the sound of war drums swinging in the valley could not suppress the roar .

Hearing this sound, Luo Chao immediately frowned, before he could reprimand Li Yunxin for his own assertion, he saw the disciple fight back and stab him directly!The sudden change really caught him off guard. Fortunately, during his many years of military service, some stress reactions have become his instincts. Even though he fell and fell off his horse, he managed to avoid the fatal blow .

However, a flag bearer next to Luo Chao was not so lucky. Li Yunxin's spear pierced his heart, and the flag also fell to the rear.The vanguard battle flag in the front line was originally intended to announce to the back passers where the vanguard was advancing and guide their attack direction, but now it fell down steeply, causing great confusion immediately.

However, this is not the most terrible thing. For most merchant groups, due to lack of experience in battle formation, they are not very sensitive to the change of the flag order. They just feel that the drums of war have sounded, so they will rush forward. .But just as they bravely moved forward and wanted to fight, the companions beside them suddenly slashed at them with butcher knives!
In the valley at this time, with the sound of the drum to charge, the battle started instantly, but it did not happen between the enemy and ourselves, but the armed merchant groups that filled the valley started to kill each other.Such an unbelievable scene made people shocked.

When Li Tai saw his eldest grandson appearing in the enemy's line and turned against him, he was astonished and almost lost his ability to think for a moment. No matter how intelligent he was, it was difficult for him to figure out what happened in a short time. But knowing that this is an excellent opportunity, he immediately gave the order, "Attack, the whole army!"

The enemy line that fell into fratricide was already in chaos, and as Li Tai's cavalry athletes rushed up, they immediately fled to the rear, and the chaotic rout quickly spread to the entire army.

"No retreat, no..."

The soldiers who supervised the battle in the rear still had to work hard to stabilize the battle, waving their long sticks and beating those soldiers who fled backwards, but they were quickly hacked and killed by the panicked soldiers with their knives, and the corpses were pushed down in an instant Stampede, it didn't take long before it turned into a mass of flesh and blood.

"What happened? How could it be?"

Swallow Xian, who led the elite troops to sit in the rear, was a little dumbfounded for a moment when he saw this scene.

Although he has long known that these temporarily recruited Hu merchants are not reliable, but after all, the number is here, even if they are not capable of defeating the opponent, they can always fight back and forth for a period of time, consuming the strength of the opponent's troops. He really did not expect the situation to turn around So quickly, before the two sides even had substantive contact, these Hu merchants' armed forces fell into chaos and collapsed.

When he was astonished, the hood on his head was accidentally grabbed by himself, revealing the sparse and messy hair on the top of his head.But he no longer cared about whether this appearance was unsightly, and he just ordered loudly: "The front lineup will attack, and the rear lineup will quickly put on armor. These routs must not be allowed to rush out of Chiqiao Ridge!"

After passing Chijiao Ridge, although the mountain road is still rugged and winding, there are more passages at the intersections, it is difficult to block them, and some of the trails can lead directly to Jinyang City, so Yan Zixian dare not take the road no matter what. These scattered soldiers were released from Chiqiao Ridge so as not to affect the situation around Jinyang.

But before, he also had the idea of ​​underestimating the enemy because he saw that the enemy was outnumbered and we were outnumbered. He felt that the Hu merchants were armed at the forefront, and he did not order the soldiers to be armored so that his elite troops could go into battle in the best condition.

Now the defeated soldiers have rushed directly into the front team formation, and it is obviously too late to put on armor again, so the soldiers in the front team can only let the soldiers in the front team resist for a while, and the troops in the rear team put on armor and arm as soon as possible, and form a group. into a stronger line of defense.

"My lord, the last general will live up to his mission! As long as he rushes out of this valley, there will be little resistance from the thieves on the way!"

After jumping back in front of the formation, Li Yunxin did not rush inward to kill, but quickly recruited nearly a hundred soldiers from the left, and waited against the side of the mountain wall for Li Tai to lead his troops to attack. Luo Chao, who was dead but left where he was, was captured, and when he saw Li Tai riding his horse, he strode forward and shouted.

"Good job! Continue to mount your horse and kill the enemy, and talk about things in detail after the battle."

Li Tai didn't have time to say goodbye to Li Yunxin, and threw a pair of fine armor to him before and after entering, with a smile of admiration on his brows and eyes, and pointed to those subordinates who had withdrawn from the defeated army one after another and stood against the mountain wall The soldiers laughed and said: "All the soldiers are not afraid of hardships and dangers, go deep into the enemy's rear, kill the enemy and make meritorious deeds, and make a name for yourself today! Join me to defeat the bandit army and create a feat together, go!"

As the men and horses hidden in the Hu merchants' armed forces gathered one after another, Li Tai's men and horses became more powerful. They rode their horses and charged forward. No enemy dared to stop and fight back. The valley is even redder.And the defeated soldiers in front were like a flock of sheep chased away by tigers and wolves, just blindly fleeing forward, hoping to escape.

Yanzixian's men and horses responded hastily, and the front rows were quickly harassed and fought by those rout soldiers.

Although those rout soldiers didn't dare to turn around to resist the enemy, their survival instinct made them more irritable and fierce. With people blocking their eyes, they slashed with knives and used their hands and feet without any explanation, trying to fight for a way out.

In an ordinary season, how could these merchant group armed forces be the opponents of the well-trained and experienced Jinyang soldiers? Whether it is individual bravery or the cooperation of the army, they are all not on the same level, let alone the armed forces of the Jinyang soldiers. The level is also far beyond these civilian armed forces.

But today, the sudden change has caught people off guard. No matter the well-trained elite soldiers or those rout soldiers, they are all disturbed and at a loss, each reacting to their instincts.

Those Jinyang soldiers may have the courage to fight against the crowd, but what they are facing is not a rational person who knows how to advance and retreat, but a person who has broken his nerve, even if he knocks down the opponent's sword and stick, they But they still waved their hands and feet, scratched and kicked, and even rushed forward to bite with their teeth, each one of them looked like a ghost.

After Li Tai led his troops into the room, he saw these soldiers wrestling and wrestling, and they were inseparable for a moment. Naturally, he would not let this opportunity go, and directly ordered his troops to lead them forward to perform indiscriminate shooting skills.

The distance between the two sides was already very close, because of the disturbance of Hu merchants' rout soldiers, it was difficult for those Jinyang soldiers to counterattack effectively against Li Tai's organization. As the arrows shot out, there were a large number of casualties immediately.

At the formation where the entanglement was the most intense, the corpses of the Eastern Army that had been shot were piled up in the valley layer upon layer. They were all brave and strong, but at the moment they were shot dead one after another without any power to fight back. .

As the killing continued, the number of casualties increased, and the battle line here was gradually unable to maintain. Seeing that the robes were like weeds, they were about to reap their lives, and those Jinyang soldiers who were fighting at the forefront also joined the fleeing team one after another.

However, in the valley in front of him, there was a sudden sound of iron hooves, and the whole valley felt like an earthquake. Even the mountain walls on both sides were shaken by the majestic and huge sound.

Li Tai looked up from his horseback, and saw a 300-man armored cavalry lined up in a row, charging slowly from the mouth of the valley behind into the valley, he couldn't help but gasp.

Equipped heavy cavalry is the absolute king on the battlefield in this era. No matter what the battlefield situation is, once the armed heavy cavalry that has become a battle order is put into battle, it will bring great changes to the battle situation.

Li Tai saw the opponent throwing into the armored cavalry, his heart trembled.Although he also has this kind of armed system, but because he is in the enemy's territory and it is not easy to carry too much luggage, he does not carry heavy armor.

Originally, the enemy army had been killed here, and they were a little terrified, but as their armored and heavy cavalry were armed and put into the battlefield, the original panic was relieved. Line up front, and quickly form an army in the rear after the heavy cavalry rushes past.

Li Tai led his men and horses to retreat slowly, not daring to confront these heavily armored cavalry head-on, while retreating, he ordered the infantry behind to quickly form a battle formation, lined up in front of the mountain walls on both sides, Each lined up their long spears to meet the enemy, as if two roads erected on both sides of the mountain wall often refused to horses.

The heavy cavalry on the opposite side were arranged in a line, covering the entire space in the valley horizontally. It was obvious that they wanted to push Li Tai's troops out of the valley, so as to buy time for the remnants of the rear to regroup.Although it is not the best time to invest, if you don't invest in the battle to seek a turn for the better, and wait for the collapse to expand, it will be a complete failure.

However, in the face of Li Tai's two-character long snake spear formation, the coverage of the heavy cavalry is far from enough, only the edges and two wings may be affected, but such a single heavy cavalry charge is really not deterrent. If you pick it out once, it may be acceptable, but if you pick it up twice or three times, you will inevitably be thrown off your feet.

However, due to the strong inertia of the heavy cavalry charge, it is absolutely impossible to stop if you want to. Just after it charged more than ten feet, heavy cavalry men and horses were overturned on both sides of the edge, and as the front of the spear formation tightened, Like teeth biting against the edge.Although they also crashed and killed more than a dozen enemies who were too aggressive, their own losses were even greater.

"Collect and gather together!"

Yan Zixian, who personally led the charge of heavy cavalry, knew that the terrain was not suitable for heavy cavalry to fight, but he had no other choice. He had originally hoped that the enemy generals might not respond quickly so he could seize the opportunity to turn the tide of the battle, but Now it seems obvious that he was thinking too much.

The opponent's Qingqi battle formation is still gathering in the front, but there are thousands of spear infantry on the mountain walls on both sides of the rear.If these soldiers form a battle formation to block the retreat, then his team of heavy cavalry will become a lone army here, and the situation will definitely be even more dangerous. The only plan for now is to quickly gather and retreat to cooperate with the troops who have been breathing a little in the back. It is not a disastrous defeat to hold Taniguchi to the north tightly.

But Li Tai naturally didn't give him a chance to readjust his tactical rhythm. Once the armored heavy cavalry stopped, it would be a tin can placed on the battlefield, and it would have no advantage other than being a little harder, so it would be a bird!
"Go back and smash these iron walnuts!"

Following his order, the horse pointed far away to the north, and all the Qing cavalry reined in their heads and rushed back to the battlefield.

"The thief is looking for death!"

Swallow Xian saw that the distance between the two sides was rapidly closing, and it was difficult to increase the speed again when charging again, but the horsepower was wasted in vain, so he simply ordered the soldiers to dismount to face the bandit army, so as to save money and restore horsepower, and avoid be divided.

Since the battle, Li Tai has also figured out who is the one who gave the order, and when he got close, he waved his arms with both lances and threw the swallow at the head.

Yan Zixian is also a mighty and brave general, and he was not frightened when he saw the situation. He stood on the ground with his legs straddled, his lower body sank steadily, and he also held a lance in both hands, waiting to remove the smashed lance However, the strength contained in this big lance was beyond his imagination. His left shoulder was so shocked that his strength was not enough. It's too late.

Li Tai failed with the momentum of a galloping horse, so he couldn't help but be amazed that the Eastern Wei Dynasty had many brave generals. He was able to attack this move, but he might not be able to handle it himself, but this enemy general was able to handle it. no problem.

He felt a little unwilling in his heart, he turned and twisted his waist back when he was in the wrong position, and stabbed backwards.Yanzi Xian was going to take a step across to block, but when he took a step, his foot became unstable suddenly, and his head was picked up by the lance, revealing his thin-haired head.

Sure enough, if you have less hair, you can become stronger?
In Li Tai's mind, Zhu Meng leaped up behind him. Taking advantage of Li Tai's previous attack, he swung his spear and swung Swallow Xian around the waist. When he was still in the air, the fierce general was already vomiting blood from his mouth and nose, and was thrown back as soon as his body fell to the ground. At this point, Li Tai, who has quick eyes and quick hands, stabs him through the throat to death!

　A battle will not be divided into chapters, and a two-in-one chapter will be published. . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)