After Long Tianyu subdued Chen Ying, the troops were dispatched to the Ashbals and the Ashbals was integrated into the Dragon Army. Of course, the old, weak, and handicapped citizens were sent back to work as farmers, and the remaining three thousand people joined the army.
Chen Ying invited Long Tianyu to the remaining fifteen thousand troops. At this time, a scout reported quickly that the pursuers from behind were almost fifty kilometers away.
Long Tianyu was certain, at the moment, there were many people who were not afraid of the pursuers, but thinking of how Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang's soldiers were so bravely fighting, how the Ashbals and the Guo Mansion were able to fight against each other, and how they could clash head on, although the opponent only had two thousand troops, the outcome was truly hard to predict.
Long Tianyu asked Xiahou Ying and the other generals by his side: "What is the best way to deal with the cavalry?"
Chen Ying understood and said: "The most miraculous thing would be falling into a pit, tripping ropes and rolling wood and crushed stone."
Long Tianyu looked around at the hills and passes, and laughed: "That's right, we will pack up our pursuers here. Xiahou Ying, you lead your men to take out the arrows made from the bow in the carriage, and distribute them to the few men, each of them with bow and arrows. Guo Hao and Guo Dian brought a thousand people to turn all the carriages into objects, and placed them one word at a distance of five hundred meters, blocking the road, and then dug a pit about ten meters away from the north and south of the carriage.
"Fan Kuai, Zhang Yun will bring a thousand of them to set up a pit at the intersection, and leave marks for our own people to jump through. Chen Ying will bring 2000 people to ambush on the hill, and prepare the Rolling Stone for the pursuers to close in on us, bow first and attack from behind. If the enemy still has some strength left, I will bring another 500 elites to attack from the middle, and our war horses will soon see the truth!"
The tasks were assigned before the war, and the generals were given orders to carry them out in an orderly manner.
Liu Shishi, Guo Yuying, Zhang Qian and the other two girls, as well as the female servants that accompanied them, were all escorted through the entrance and were resting and camping in front of them. No one had more confidence in Long Tianyu than the three girls, and when they watched him return to fight, the three girls each took a sip of incense on Long Tianyu's handsome face as encouragement.
Long Tianyu thought about how he had to travel for a few days, the situation was tense, he had never had the chance to fight the three girls, and with the situation reversed, he returned to the Pengcheng to win. He relaxed his body and mind, his mood turning better, and did not forget about Yun Yu's love in the middle of the night.
Dozens of heavy mules loaded with weapons were moving in an east-west direction. They were crossing the road in front of the wilderness, blocking the way. If the pursuing troops were to come, they would have to gallop their horses over the vehicles and give chase. Fan Kuai, Zhang Yun and the rest had already arranged the manpower, the sharp wood and lime in the horse pit, and the three defensive lines in the pit had been set up.
Long Tianyu ordered for the horses to be brought to the camp in advance, in case they fell into the pit after they retreated, they revealed their secret. The pursuers were still around five kilometers away, and the dragon army was already prepared to fight.
In order to reduce the suspicions of the pursuers, and his five hundred elite riders rode on horseback and waited at the furthest corner, waiting for the commander's order. Pretending to camp out and rest, they set up the wok, lit up the smoke, but in reality, all of them were holding crossbows in their hands, with the quiver on their back. With Long Tianyu, Zhang Yun, Guo Hao and the rest oversaw, they patiently waited for the pursuers to catch up.
Not long after, the sound of horses galloping came from the distance. Dust flew everywhere, and rumbling sounds of iron hooves trampling on the ground shook the earth. The sound was getting louder and louder, and soon, it was a few miles closer.
Long Tianyu and the rest looked towards the direction where the sound came from, only to see that the distant Bifang Cavalry Knights were already at least two thousand meters away from the archery range, this was the first time the thousand riders had entered the battlefield, upon seeing the thunder-like might of the enemy soldiers, their faces all changed color. If they blocked it head on, the cavalry soldiers would be like a pack of wolves pouncing into the sheep pen, and their own side would only be slaughtered, but at this moment, using their battle of intelligence, the situation was naturally different.
Long Tianyu's palm also broke out in a cold sweat, the enemy cavalry of 2000 was strong enough to defeat more than 10,000 Ashbals s, if he had acted on impulse just now and fought head-on, other than the casual 500 elite soldiers, the rest of the people would not be able to stop him, causing his heart to tremble: "It's Xiang Yu's Great Desert Battle Cavalry that brought me to the Central Plains!"
By this time, the pursuers were less than three hundred feet away from them. Ordinary bows had a range of only thirty to forty feet. Everyone's bodies trembled and their hearts thumped loudly along with the hooves of the horses. Their faces paled.
In order to boost his morale, Long Tianyu mounted the Iron iron arrow, although he was not an expert in horse shooting, he had fought in place and participated in international competitions where his drawing of the bow was like a full moon and her arrow was like a shooting star, with a whoosh sound, a iron arrow flew out quickly towards a general who was standing in the middle of the troops hundreds of meters away.
The man was dressed in armor and was mounted on a black horse. A halberd hung on his horse, which shone with a silver light, and his head was covered by a cloth. He could not see the face of the mountain, but when the leader saw the flying arrow flying towards him, he gave a loud cheer, and quickly nocked the bow.
The two iron arrow clashed in the air, sparks shooting everywhere, and unexpectedly, none of them were able to escape. They all flew into the air and inserted into the ground, the remaining force did not weaken, and the eagle feathers on their tails still trembled.
Long Tianyu took the initiative to shoot from his position, but as the arrow went too far, it lost some of its strength, which was again disadvantageous. The man had a long arrow behind him, but he pulled the bow from his horse, the two of them had their advantages and disadvantages, it was still difficult to differentiate.
The first arrow tested each other's skills. The two looked at each other from afar. They both thought, "It's him!"
Six hundred feet, four hundred feet … two thousand Steel Cavalry galloped over with a murderous look on their faces. He was unstoppable and had entered the range of the dragon army.
Long Tianyu shouted: Soldiers, victory or defeat will be decided in one move, shoot first, shoot first!
Suddenly, arrows filled the sky like a spring, the force of the arrows piercing through the air made a loud noise, the horses in front of them were hit by one of the arrows, but they did not fall, only when three or four arrows were shot did they fall, the force was too great, the soldiers on the horses were either killed or injured, the iron hooves following them stepped on the flesh in front of them, they continued to rush forward, shocked but not panicked.
Long Tianyu shot three arrows consecutively, but they were all swept away by the halberds of the leaders. The enemy soldiers on top of them were also releasing arrows, but they were blocked by vehicles, and only a small number of Guo Mansion generals were killed by the arrows. Long Tianyu saw that the enemy's horse was too fierce, the enemy's cavalry was brave enough to fight, he could not help but be shocked, and ordered: "Retreat as you shoot, no need to panic, our victory is already in sight!"
When they thought that there was no need for them to panic as they were being assisted by the ambush troops, their morale was stable, and their shooting skills were excellent, in a blink of an eye they had hundreds of cavalrymen or men who had been shot by arrows and had been wounded. The casualties were not low, but they were only several zhang away from each other.
Seeing more than a thousand pursuers about to rush to the front of the vehicles, the ground suddenly softened as the hooves of the horses fell into the pit. The cavalrymen who were running in the first two rows screamed miserably as they fell into the pit, blood and flesh splattering everywhere.
Suddenly, seeing that the black horse was about to sink into the pit with its front hooves, the fierce general on the horse jumped onto the ground first. With an explosive shout, he raised the horse's arms and pulled it out of the pit through the air.