Chapter 180

When Zhao Sen took his men back to the mouth of the canyon, there were 1200 soldiers in the Zhechong camp and 200 cavalry handed over to him by Li Xiaozong. There were about 70% left. The infantry suffered heavy losses. Because the cavalry did not directly fight with the enemy, there were almost no casualties. Therefore, when Zhao Sen immediately set up a defense line at the mouth of the canyon without letting the soldiers rest, some idle cavalry suffered contempt that made their conscience uneasy.

"Look!"

An infantryman, while sorting out his arrow pot, sneered: "the equipment on his body is almost enough to buy a cleaner, but when we fight, people are wandering... They all have the same life, and people's money is so precious."

Another soldier covered his mouth and signaled that Zhao Sen, who had a bad face over there, was looking over here.

"What are you afraid of!"

The soldier who ridiculed the cavalry shrugged his shoulders indifferently: "it's a miracle that I can survive this war. If I don't say everything now, wouldn't it be a loss if I went to hell and pulled out my tongue?"

He looked at the knife wound on his right arm, frowned and tore off a messy package: "when he came out of Qingxia, others rode in the front, and when he retreated to guard Qingxia, others still ran in the front, unharmed. The reincarnation in the next life is still in the great Sui Dynasty, but I'd rather be a horse!"

The cavalry captain Zhao Qi's face was very ugly, and the sarcastic words of the infantry stabbed him in the heart like a knife. Like all the cavalry in the great Sui Dynasty, he was full of pride when he was assigned to his own war horse. It is precisely because of the lack of war horses that a soldier can not become a cavalry casually. Their skills are very good, they are tall and strong, they eat, use and wear better than infantry, and even their pay is twice that of infantry.

They did pay more sweat than the infantry. They were also practicing when the infantry were practicing, and they were still practicing when the infantry were resting. Regardless of wind, rain, cold and heat, these cavalry kept working hard for their dream of surpassing Mengyuan Qingqi, but... When he came to the battlefield, he found that these arrogant cavalry with him had become the most useless people.

He did not resent the sarcasm of the infantry, not even the enemy.

His hand was shaking slightly, and there was a fire burning in Zhao Qi's eyes.

"Captain!"

A cavalry soldier couldn't stand the white eyes and sarcasm of the infantry. He looked at Zhao Qi's eyes and asked loudly, "are we just watching paoze die? Can we just stand by while we practice in the wind and rain?"

"Shut up!"

Zhao Qi bit his lips and said, "we are cavalry, but first of all we are soldiers. Soldiers... Must obey military orders. If the general's orders are not issued, you will all stay honest with me!"

"But..."

"No, but!"

Zhao Qi's eyes looked at the herdsmen who rushed towards this side after gradually dispersing in the distance. He knew that the brothers who broke into the camp of Pan Mei were dead. Just now, his 200 cavalry were ready to charge to save pan Mei, but they were stopped by Zhao Sen.

They really watched the robes die, and did nothing like useless waste.

It was more than 1200 live lives, besieged and killed by tens of thousands of poorly dressed herdsmen. When those robes were in a bloody battle, how much did they expect their companions to come to the rescue? But they did not see the fierce red flag of the great Sui Dynasty behind the enemy until they all died.

Zhao Qi's heart is dripping blood. He wants to roar loudly to vent his dissatisfaction.

He could not help but take his eyes back from the enemy and turned to General Zhao Sen. At this time, the cavalry he sent to ask Zhao Sen whether to fight came back, bowed his head and looked disappointed.

"Captain... The general asked us to wait."

The cavalry spoke in a very low voice. It seemed that they were afraid that the voice would hurt their heart.

"Waiting for orders..."

Zhao Qi murmured again, holding Ma Shu's hand with green tendons exposed.

Not far from him, Zhao Sen, the toothed general, ordered the soldiers to set up defense at the mouth of the valley. Before the enemy rushed, the soldiers hurriedly dug many horse pits dozens of meters outside the valley. These pits are shallow and small, but once a fast-running horse steps in the pit, it will lose its center of gravity.

"Fortunately!"

Zhao Qi wiped the sweat on his forehead and said to himself: "Fortunately, those herdsmen don't know how important it is. Killing people makes them lose their reason. They all rush around pan Mei's folding camp and don't divide people and horses to occupy the canyon at the first time. I'm afraid this is something that Mandu wolves didn't expect. These untrained herdsmen don't know what tactics are. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'm already a sinner."

"General!"

The watchman standing high shouted down: "General Li, the situation is not very good! The enemy rode around the military array, archery did not attack directly, and our military array is getting smaller and smaller!"

"What a vicious tactic!"

Zhao Sen's eyes were cold. After a moment of silence, he shouted, "Herald, find Zhao Qi, the cavalry captain, to see me!"

"Here!"

The herald promised loudly, turned and ran out.

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Li Xiaozong's forehead was already full of sweat. His eyes looked at the Mongolian Yuan cavalry galloping by. The corners of his mouth kept twitching. He looked particularly painful. Before marching, he thought he had thought of all the tactics of Mengyuan's light riding and charging, and wanted to figure out how to deal with it, but the only thing he ignored was that the enemy's cavalry swam outside the array by relying on the speed advantage, and sharpened the array little by little like a bow, arrow and soft knife.

The enemy roared past forty steps away, but could not kill the enemy. The boxwood riding bow in the enemy's hand is faster than the standard walking bow of the great Sui Dynasty. The biggest headache is that the enemy's speed is faster. The arrows shot by the archers of the great Sui Dynasty often fall behind the enemy. Even if he ordered the archers not to aim at people, but in front of them, there was still a great difference in the proportion of deaths and injuries between the two sides.

The only thing that shocked the enemy was the thirty heavy crossbows. But the Heavy Crossbow is too clumsy. If the front enemy is powerful. But the enemy's wandering tactics make the Heavy Crossbow have little power.

The giant shield has less than 150 people and can't protect the whole battle array. But even if the giant shield hand can protect it, how can it shrink inside without fighting back?

After struggling for a long time and biting his lips, Li Xiaozong finally issued a military order.

"Attack!"

He raised his crossbar and shouted, "it's better to rush and die than to do nothing like this!"

"Forward!"

Less than 1500 soldiers of the Sui Dynasty burst into a roar and immediately changed their formation. The giant shield hand was on both sides, the archer was at the end, and the long shield hand rushed in front. At the front are Li Xiaozong and his ten or so close soldiers. This is also the only cavalry in the Sui army.

But during the charge, Li Xiaozong and his own soldiers jumped off their precious horses and ran forward with the infantry. They didn't give up their mounts.

"Forward!"

"I'd rather charge and die!"

The soldiers shouted reluctantly, and everyone's face was determined.

Mandu wolf looked at the Sui people opposite and changed their formation. He couldn't help laughing proudly: "How dare such Sui people claim to be invincible in a hundred battles? I killed almost half of his men and horses with only a group of herdsmen. If I want, I can even continue to kill them with the tactics of cavalry wandering. But I won't do this... Since they choose to attack, let them see how the strongest army in the world kills people and how the strongest army attacks ！”

"Blow the horn and fight!"

He took out his machete and pointed forward, and the sound of heavy ox horns began to whine. All the cavalry returned to the formation, and then followed the man Du wolf and killed the Sui people.

Sui people are proud, and so are Meng Yuan people. When the enemy chooses to charge, Mandu wolf's pride does not allow him to avoid the war. He just wants to defeat Li Xiaozong, who has been his opponent for three years across a mountain from him.

The fierce and savage herdsmen of Manchu banner used the crowd tactics to forcibly fill pan Mei's folding camp. 1200 well-trained elite soldiers of youxiaowei of the great Sui Dynasty died in this way. Although none of them surrendered, the fact that the enemy was not the regular army of Mongolia and Yuan made each of them angry.

The herdsmen who killed red eyes didn't stop their horses because of huge losses. When they found that the Sui people around them had been killed, they immediately turned their horses and rushed to the canyon. Although... When Mandu wolf told them before, they were forced to seize the canyon as the first important thing, but after the killing began, they couldn't control themselves Human nature.

About 6000 herdsmen and women roared towards the canyon mouth. According to the regulations of the rulers of the Mongol Yuan Empire, each herdsman was only allowed to have one bow, so the pressure on the infantry of the Sui Dynasty on the defensive side was a little less. Otherwise, the 6000 herdsmen kept washing the army array with arrow rain in the charge, and they couldn't bear it for long.

The crazy herdsmen shouted to urge their horses to move forward. Many people in the front fell down because they stepped on the pit. But the companions coming from behind didn't give them a chance to escape. Soon, the fallen herdsmen were trampled into meat mud. The horse's hooves made a clatter on the soil mixed with blood and viscera.

An eyeball that doesn't know who it belongs to is covered with dust, but stubbornly looks forward.

"Shoot an arrow!"

Zhao Sen issued a loud order, and a small number of Sui Army Infantry poured - out the feather arrows. Herdsmen with no combat experience didn't know how to avoid dodging, and the people shot by the feather arrows fell one after another like dumplings.

Before, the antlers arranged by the Sui army at the mouth of the canyon played a role in resisting horses. Those herdsmen didn't know how to dismantle these things in the shortest time. They jumped off their horses and clumsily wanted to remove the things blocking the road, but how could the archers of the Sui army give them time?

Soon, the front of the antlers was covered with bodies.

The land at the west mouth of the canyon seems to be moving, and a high hill formed by flesh and blood is getting higher and higher.

When the soldiers of the Sui army shot the empty arrow pot, they threw it out as a shotgun. When the long dog was gone, they drew out their horizontal knives and prepared to fight close. The herdsmen who suffered heavy losses were unable to ride over the high pile of corpses. They climbed off their horses and rushed over with all kinds of weapons. Like bows and arrows, machetes are not herdsmen, and everyone is qualified to have them.

In any country at any time in this world, the monarch will not allow the people to hold weapons that can resist his rule. Moreover, Mengyuan is a country lacking in iron. Therefore, many herdsmen waved a sharpened wooden stick.

How could the herdsmen who got off the horse have an advantage in the face of the elite Sui army? Of course, when the number reaches ten times that of the enemy, the herdsmen can also see the dawn of victory.

At the beginning of the hand to hand fight, there were less than 400 people left in the Sui army. They barely formed a three-layer defense line at the mouth of the canyon, which looked thin and pitiful.

The herdsmen fell one by one, and the soldiers of the Sui army decreased one by one.

Just as the last sixty or seventy Sui soldiers were supporting hard, there was a sudden chaos behind the herdsmen. The herdsmen who were on the verge of collapse could not bear the fear of death and began to run away crying. If they find that there is only a cavalry of less than 100 people behind them, they may regret the choice of running away.

Li Xiaozong came back with three arrows and blood in his armor.

The cavalry returned, losing half their men and horses. But they declared with a horse that although they were small in number, they were more terrible than the cavalry of Meng Yuan!

The infantry didn't come back and all died. Their bodies were left on the grassland, and it was unknown whether their souls could fly back home through the canyon.

This was the first battle on the first day. There were less than 200 of the five thousand men and horses who left Qingxia. Although they killed more than 8000 herdsmen and more than 1600 Mongolian cavalry, is this the first victory?

Maybe it's just the first war.

PS: for the war, cast your sharp red ticket.