Chapter four hundred and fiftieth eight: the end of the road
Lu Fan rushed left and right frantically, trying to get rid of Min Rou's tearing and gather more cavalry to rebuild the advantage of the group. Only in this way can he see a trace of hope. The biggest loss he caused to the other party by the fighting between the two armies was the short period of time when both sides had just joined the formation.
At that time, the cavalry of Lu's army still had an advantage in numbers.
However, as the cavalry group was torn apart and cut open by the Chengde Lang Cavalry, the opponent used his rich combat experience to lure teams of Lu's cavalry from the main battlefield, and the war became more and more one-sided massacre.
When the group has no advantage, one-on-one, or a cavalry battle of dozens or hundreds of people, the cavalry of Lu's troops is no longer the opponent.
The Chengde Wolf Cavalry obviously realized this. They expanded the battlefield more and more, drove it away, luring the cavalry of the Lu tribe to fight on their own, and then wiped them out one by one.
By this time, the consequences of the Lu army's running all night last night were slowly revealed. The tired soldiers and the more tired war horses had begun to show exhaustion. Many war horses fell to the ground while running and could no longer get up. Few soldiers who fell down with the war horses could stand up alive. They were either trampled to death by the war horses, or they were killed by their opponents.
The appearance of Shi Zhuang became the last straw that defeated the camel.
The loud military horn accompanied by flying flags, Shi Zhuang personally led a team of cavalry with less than a thousand people to the battlefield.
There were not many people, but it made the Lu tribe completely desperate, because the appearance of Shi Zhuang means that the main force of the Shiman tribe had arrived in Fangtou. If they didn't leave, they would never be able to leave.
The Lu cavalry, who were still fighting hard just now, completely collapsed and fled in scattered the moment the Shi Zhuangda Banner appeared. They completely became the target of the Wuwei Army's pursuit.
At this time, I don’t care how fast the Wuwei soldiers ran, but in the competition, whether they could run faster than their companions.
Lu Fan did not run away.
He sighed, strangled the horse, turned around and met Min Rou who had been chasing him.
"You go, how many people can you run." He said to the guards who were following him who were probably less than a hundred people left.
After a silence, a soldier suddenly shook his horse's reins and rushed to the side with his saddle. Some people started to turn their heads, and naturally some people followed him.
About half of the people fled after Lu Fan said this.
Lu Fan took a deep breath, clasped his fists and bowed to the remaining dozens of riders, "Lu Fan thanks all brothers, this is the case in this life. I hope we will still be brothers in the next life."
Turning around, he slapped his horse's thighs with a strong force, the war horse raised its last strength, and ran forward with a long neigh, dozens of followers shouted and followed.
Opposite them was the sword light that was curled up like a snow-trained sword by Cheng De Wolf Rider.
Lu Fan's troops were basically destroyed, and in Heishan, the battle also entered the most intense stage from the beginning. Cao Huan had no time to test where the opponent's camp was more tightly defended and where there were more loopholes. Instead, he ordered the entire army to launch a comprehensive attack as soon as he arrived.
After Qin Zhao arrived in Heishan, he did nothing else, but he tried his best to build a camp. After the big tree as thick as a bowl fell, it broke from one to two, and some did not even cut the branches clean and buried it in the ground. Simple arrow towers rose up from the ground, and a bed crossbow was set up on each arrow tower.
Before these camps, there were trenches about a meter wide and about one meter deep. The entire trenches surrounded the camps, leaving only one passage in one place. Before this passage, Jin Shiyong, the most capable subordinate of Qin Zhao, led a unit to guard the town.
More than a thousand Immortal Guards were the direct descendants of Qin Zhao, and they were all handed over to Jin Shiyong without hesitation. Then, a group of people who dared to fight were carefully selected from the rest of the soldiers, totaling 3,000 people, and were outside the trenches.
Although Qin Zhao's troops had nearly 20,000 troops, most of them were soldiers abandoned by Xue Xiong when he escaped from Zhaoyi. They included Zhaoyi soldiers, Shencai soldiers, and even Wei Bo soldiers, which were purely a hodgepodge. They were barely integrated together, and Qin Zhao really did not dare to trust them too much, so they could only put them in the camp to defend.
The only reason why Qin Zhao had the confidence to guard the surrounding troops was because when he set out, Li Ze distributed a large number of weapons to his troops.
In a team of less than 20,000 people, Li Ze gave them three thousand crossbow bows and hundreds of thousands of crossbow arrows. There are dozens of latest splicing catapults. Although these catapults are not as powerful as large siege catapults, they are the most suitable for dealing with infantry or cavalry attacks.
It is no exaggeration to describe Cao Huan now as a rush. He had no way out of retreat. He defeated Qin Zhao's troops and fled to Heishan, and he simply looked for a second way.
All the cows, horses and donkeys that could still move were concentrated, put on the shaft, and then tied fire-induced objects to their tails. After a fire was ignited, the soldiers drove the livestock and rushed towards the camp opposite.
Even Qin Zhao had slightly changed color when facing so many livestock running wildly, and he couldn't help but talk about the soldiers in the camp.
Accompanied by the officer's roar, countless stone bullets flew into the air. On the arrow tower, the crossbows made a sharp roar. When they were closer, the dense crossbow arrows rushed out like locusts.
Some livestock were shot in arrows, hit, and fell down with a bang, but more of them accelerated and rushed forward even more crazily after being injured.
Jin Shiyong's eyelids leaped wildly. The section he guarded was not wide, less than fifty steps, and in front of him, there were all kinds of obstacles. At the forefront of the army, the most powerful soldiers stood up half a man-high shield. After the shield, a series of specially-made extended spears protruded from a distance.
It looks airtight, but can it withstand these livestock that are not human and extremely crazy at this moment?
Jin Shiyong had just a few thoughts in his mind, and the herd of animals rushed over.
The deep trench surrounding the camp played the first blocking role. The livestock that rushed over and the carriage smashed heavily into the ditch, and half of the trench more than meter deep was instantly filled.
Jin Shiyong had no time to pay attention to what was going on now, because in front of him, although the red-eyed horse, cow, and donkey tripped a lot by obstacles, many rushed in. With the rumbling sound, his shield formation instantly shattered a little half.
Behind the livestock were the soldiers of the Balance Army rushing over.
The soldiers who stood up the shield lost half of their losses. The fallen or struggling animals were instantly cut by the soldiers in front of them, but these crazy animals also broke into a huge gap in the general's formation.
Jin Shiyong lifted his big sword without thinking, roared wildly and rushed into the gap.
Jin Shiyong is definitely a rare burly man in this era. He is more than two meters tall and uses a big sword that is larger than that used by ordinary people. Standing among the crowd, he is definitely ahead of the crowd.
He rushed into the gap and slashed hard with one knife. The head of a buffalo that had just climbed up from the ground was slashed cleanly by Jin Shiyong.
He jumped high, and stepped hard on the body of the buffalo that had not fallen. Jin Shiyong, who was jumping up, roared wildly with words no one could understand, and landed among the group of Balance soldiers rushing up. He turned his back with a big knife and turned like a whirlwind. The Balance soldiers around him shouted and lay down.
"Kill!" The soldiers behind him saw that the generals were so brave, and they were very energetic. They rushed forward and blocked the gap again.
Even the soldiers behind the fence were greatly shocked by Jin Shiyong's arrogant courage, and his morale was greatly boosted for a while.
Crossbow arrows are flying in the air.
The stone bomb fell like rain.
A spear came out from the gap in the fence, stretching and contracting like a tongue.
Above the tower, although the fire rate of the crossbow is slow, it will take several lives away every time a sharp roar sounds.
The balance army is fighting for life.
One group of people fell down, and another group of people rushed up again. The deep trenches had been filled up, and the carriages that fell into the first carriage had long disappeared. Only corpses were seen piled up together. The subsequent soldiers stepped on the bodies of the people in front and crawled out of the pool of blood, like evil ghosts, attacking the fence again and again.
As time went by, the battle became more and more intense. Cao Huan's central army flag had advanced to a place only a few hundred meters away from the camp. Qin Zhao, the increasingly crazy Tianping Army, finally felt unable to withstand it. Jin Shiyong had already retreated to the camp and worked with Qin Zhao to maintain the last line of defense. The fences outside the camp had long been leveled, and the towers had now turned into torches.
At this moment, their camps had shrunk by more than half. Fortunately, the war was at this point, even the most timid and afraid soldiers knew that either you died or I died. There was no way out at all. If you wanted to run away, you wouldn't be able to escape.
The officers kept cheering the soldiers, and reinforcements were about to arrive.
Compared to the Qin Zhao tribe who was still looking forward to it, Cao Huan's mood sank little by little as time goes by.
Finally, the scouts rushed back one by one.
The other three troops from Wuwei have arrived, and Cao Huan's troops who have cut off their rear have been defeated by them. A large number of Wuwei cavalry will be at most half an hour before they can reach the battlefield in the Black Mountains.
Cao Huan felt the first time he felt what the end of the road was.
Of course, it is also very likely that it will be the last time.
Chapter completed!