The Sacred Ding

Moyue Lake is one of the three horse thieves in the depths of the northern desert of the Western Qiang Kingdom. At its peak, it had more than four thousand soldiers and horses. It is located a thousand li or so southwest of Jinxiangling.

At this time, the allied forces were fighting, and the two leaders of Moyue Lake led the 1800 elite horse bandits to join Songyang Lake, which means that there are more than two thousand elites left behind in the Moyue Lake cottage.

If Yequ Mountain’s soldiers and horses collect the remnants of Jinxiangling, and there are preliminary results in the training of nearly five thousand horses, they may be able to fight at Moyue Lake, but at this time the gangs order the small and medium-sized thieves The remaining soldiers and horses of the village all assemble to Moyue Lake and Guhuo Mountain, which means that the Moyue Lake they are about to choose to attack may gather four thousand or even more elite horse bandits.

Although they have five thousand-horse infantry troops, they cannot be used as the main force; and the Yequshan soldiers and horses recruited the Jinxiangling remnants, and there are more than 500 elite cavalry. How to fight this battle?

After reading the letter sent by Hu Junhu Qin Lingying, Fan Dachun and the others have figured out the first dynamics of Zhu Kou, and watched Chen Hai waiting for him to make a decision.

Chen Hai outlines the geographic locations of Black Mountain Village, Jinxiangling, Moyue Lake, Guhuo Mountain and other places on a piece of yellowed fluffy paper, and then follows the descriptions of Fan Dachun and Deng Tonger To complete the main terrain.

In the depths of the vast desert, apart from a little oasis, it is not all sand seas, but more gobi deserts and barren stone mountains, but there are little ups and downs, and there are no large forests. The barrier to the river is therefore the place for cavalry to hire.

“Should we send someone to take a Lingying to Moyue Lake for reconnaissance and find out how many soldiers and horses there are in Moyue Lake?” Deng Tonger suggested.

Chen Hai shook the head and said: “Anyway, there are more soldiers and horses in Moyue Lake than expected, and it will be quite difficult to attack the village anymore. However, if the spirit hawks are rushed over, the actual It will let the thieves know that their details have been leaked.”

“What should I do?” Fan Dachun asked, “Retreat to Black Mountain Village?”

Won two consecutive battles. Shengjie and Fan Dachun are not so courageous anymore. Thinking of retreating to Black Mountain Village and watching the situation, it is still a good choice.

Even if Kong Peng and other thieves and the internal thieves of the Western Qiang Kingdom succeeded in subverting Ye’s Royal Family, they still have six-seven thousand soldiers and horses in their hands. They can’t fight against the elite horse thieves. They see Chen After Hai’s various methods, Fan Dachun believes that there is nothing wrong with the Black Mountain Village where they stick to the city’s strong land security.

“We did not show up as a spirit eagle. We are here to rest for three more days. However, you directly rode five hundred spirits to Moyue Lake, and then retreated to the east in panic and fled to Black Mountain Village. We meet at Shiyue Gorge,” Chen Hai pointed to a barren mountain and Shiyue Gorge between Black Mountain Village and Moyue Lake on the crude map, and said to Fan Dachun, “As long as the thieves gathered in Moyue Lake are unwilling to let us go According to the guard of Black Mountain Village, then we will face the bandits in Shiyuexia.”

“Fight with the horse bandits?” Fan Dachun and Deng Tonger looked at Chen Hai in disbelief.

They thought about all kinds of possibilities, but the 5,000-6,000 battle strength extremely reluctant horse infantry and three or four thousand elite horse bandits fighting in the field between the flat rocky desert is definitely not something they can imagine.

“For good time, the horse infantry can rush to Shiyuexia one day in advance to rest, and the chasing soldiers are arrogant,” Chen Hai squeezed his fist and said, “In this battle, we may not have no chance to win!”

“Even if there is a chance to win, isn’t it more likely to win the Black Mountain Village?” Fan Dachun asked puzzledly.

“Zhukou can make the soldiers and horses of many small and medium thief villages gather in Moyue Lake and Guhuo, which means that the horse thief forces in the northern part of West Qiang will be completely united,” Chen Hai said, “we At this time, I went to defend the Black Mountain Village, and I was not worried for the time being, but let the thieves contact the internal and external eunuchs and successfully steal the West Qiang Kingdom. When the time comes, seven or eighty thousand soldiers will attack the Black Mountain Village. We have several points of chance of winning? “

Listening to Chen Hai, Fan Dachun and Deng Tonger were both sucked in a breath of cold air, and I thought about it in my heart, thinking that the past habits of the bandits would really have to give up their nests. , Should also be ordering the left-behind soldiers and horses to bring their belongings accumulated for many years to Yequ Mountain to join the main force. How could they bring their belongings into the nest of others and be controlled by others?

Now that this anomaly appears, it is very likely that it is like Chen Hai said that all the bandits must unite completely.

This is no accident. As long as the Black Mountain Martial Venerable Kong Peng can convince the bandits that the subversion of the Western Qiang State will be successful, and all bandits will have the honor of glory and wealth after success. Zhu Kou gave up some small interests in front of him and united more closely.

In that case, only the horse thieves in the northern part of the Western Qiang Kingdom have gathered more than 30,000 elite horse thieves. In addition to their success in subverting the Western Qiang Kingdom, they finally joined forces to attack the Black Mountain Village. It will be difficult to estimate. They will have difficulty in keeping the Black Mountain Village.

In order to keep the warhorse after passing through the sand sea of ​​a thousand li or so, it can still maintain sufficient physical strength and avoid being overtaken by thieves in the depths of the sand sea before reaching the Shiyue Gorge. During the siege, when Fan Dachun and Ning Chan’er set out, they also carried 2000 Jin Shique honey.

2000 Jin Shique honey is worthy of the city, and it is not worn by people to carry it with the army. Instead, it is mixed with horse material and fed to the horse to ensure that the horse can pass through the vast sand and sea to ensure sufficient physical strength.

Fan Dachun led his troops to the outskirts of Moyue Lake, and the sentry confirmed that the number of thieves who had gathered outside Moyue Lake far exceeded the two thousand remaining soldiers who had been in Moyue Lake. Fan Dachun without the slightest Hesitation led the department to turn to the south-east direction and escape.

As expected by Chen Hai, there are more than 4,000 thieves who gathered in Moyue Lake. How can the strong and strong horses allow Yequ Mountain’s five-six hundred horses to evacuate calmly?

Immediately there were three or four thousand horses riding out of the castle in the Moshan Lake, chasing after the tail, like a black cloud group, passing through the sand sea, and going to the south-east direction. The bandits also sent out A large number of reconnaissance riders searched for the enemy in the direction of Jinxiangling.

Previously, the Yequshan soldiers and horses attacked the two villages of Black Falcon Cliff and Jinxiangling. They were all cavalry first, and the main force of the horse infantry rushed to the outside of the cottage two to three days later. This time, since they saw that Fan Dachun led hundreds of elite cavalry soldiers just approaching, they fled in a hurry, guessing that the main force of the thousands of horses would inevitably drag a large number of siege equipment on their way to Moyue Lake.

Chen Hai and Fan Dachun really want to rate 5,000-6,000 soldiers and horses to defend the walled city. The invaders of the Moyue Lake will certainly not attack rashly. After all, siege and pull walled villages are not good for horse thieves, but Chen Hai from slave , The 5,000-6,000 weak soldiers selected by the prisoners, dared to enter the boundless sea of ​​sand. No matter how timid and uneasy the invaders of the Moyue Lake are, how can they escape back to the Black Mountain Village?

The reconnaissance sent by the Kou Kou of Moyue Lake found the silhouette of the horse infantry in Yequ Mountain on the second day. At the same time, he also found that more than five thousand horse infantry troops compiled by the prisoners and slaves of Yequ Mountain. He threw a large amount of siege equipment and food supplies into the vast Desert, and fled to the Black Mountain Village to the south in panic.

The main force of the bandits in the Moyue Lake is still focusing on the five-six hundred cavalry of Fan Dachun, and after getting the detective report, it can also be confirmed that the two soldiers and horses of Yequ Mountain want to merge and Fight and retreat, retreat to Black Mountain Village to defend.

The walled city of Black Mountain is completely different, but the wall is intact. How can the bandits of Moyue Lake allow the 5,000-6,000 soldiers and horses of Yequ Mountain to withdraw to Black Mountain Village?

The time when Fan Dachun appeared on the periphery of Moyue Lake was deliberately arranged by Chen Hai. At about the same time, Chen Hai led a five-thousand horse infantry on the route from Jinxiangling to Moyue Lake. At that time, it was also the closest to Shiyuexia, less than 300 li. In this way, when performing this play to pull a snake from its hole, the five-thousand-horse infantry abandoned large equipment and excess food and luggage, and only needed to go south for a day to enter the preset battlefield.

When the Moyue Lake reconnaissance found the main force of the Ma Infantry, it was actually already not far away from Shiyue Gorge. At this time, hundreds of Moyue Lake scouts were watching, Chen Hai led his troops into Shiyue Gorge, and more Like to guard against these hundreds of enemy riders from attacking the horse infantry from the flanks.

Fan Dachun led six hundred fine riders not to flee all the way, but to use the rugged stone ridges and sand dunes from Moyue Lake to Shiyue Gorge to slow down the pace of chasing troops as much as possible. To give the horse infantry more preparation time, it was not until the early morning of the 3rd day that they arrived at Shiyuexia to join the horse infantry led by Chen Hai.

Shiyue Gorge is located in the depths of the boundless sea of ​​sand. The gorge is like a long and narrow crescent. The narrowest point is less than two 300 meters, and the wide valley is only one or two miles away.

The stone ridges on both sides of Shixia are not very high, ranging from one or two hundred zhang to three-four hundred zhang, but they are extremely rugged, which can limit the elite horses of the bandits and thieves. Ride, cut into the Macedonian long spear phalanx at high speed from the flanks.

Except for the twenty Hundred Men Squad, they all hold five meters super-long iron spears, and they are combined with the archers to form four Macedonian lance phalanx. They guard the four corners of the Shiyue Gorge. The gap in the army formation left narrow passages on the two wings, which could restrict the enemy’s horses from outflanking it, but it allowed the more than 600 horses of Yequ Mountain to quickly get out of the battle and engage the enemy from the flanks.

Even in the formation, there are still six stone throwing crossbows that have been assembled, and hundreds of stone bullets are neatly stacked to one side.

The gangs of Moyue Lake almost laughed their teeth when they saw the horse infantry in Yequ Mountain holding an ultra-long iron spear that was much taller than normal. These super-long iron spears, the spear shafts are temporarily lengthened, that is, a large number of Populus wood rods are re-cut, and they are tied together with ordinary iron spears. Only such super-long iron spears, apart from the simplest stabbing, are basically What can it be worth without performing more complex tactical moves?

All the bandits of Moyue Lake also saw that the super-long iron spear would limit the impact of the cavalry. At this time, more than two thousand people were arranged to raise their swords and shields and dismount to fight.

In the eyes of the bandits of Moyue Lake, the horse infantry in Yequ Mountain is not even as good as the servants of the Western Qiang Kingdom. There are two thousand elites who dismounted to fight, which is enough to make these elusive slaves flesh and blood. Flying horizontally, leaving more than a thousand horses to guard against the six hundred fine horses led by Fan Dachun from the formation.

When the Moyue Lake more than two thousand bandits armed with swords, shields, halberds and spears came up, the Korean who was in charge of commanding the two lance phalanx at the front should wave the flag and order the first five lances of the lance phalanx to be dense. Paste them together, and move forward with lance.

The bandits of Moyue Lake have never seen this kind of tactics, especially the more than two thousand horse bandits who dismounted and fought. Only then did they realize that they were not facing the most advanced generals. Lance, and the spear wall formed by the dense stacking of the first four to five rows of Yequ Mountain, like a stormy wave, pushes one after another toward their relatively loose and conceited battle formation…