Chapter 216 The first battle was defeated
Everything seemed calm, but Yue Lianyun would not be so stupid that he really thought that the Xiliang army would not move him. After a long time, the Xiliang army would inevitably have their minds. Therefore, Yue Lianyun had already prepared ten thousand cavalry ready to go. As long as there was any movement in the Xiliang army, his ten thousand cavalry would immediately kill him and concentrate the remaining ten thousand cavalry... However, Yue Lianyun was still a little lacking in confidence. Twenty thousand were against the enemy 70,000, and the other side had tens of thousands of cavalry, which was completely at a disadvantage.
Seeing Guan Shanyue's vanguard army, and then and again, the Five Lords and Hu Ben felt that there was something wrong, and their own information could explain everything.
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The news brought back by Xiao O was that the other side had only cavalry, and the number was definitely much smaller than that of his side. At most, it was about 20,000, and all of them were cavalry.
With this news, the Five Lords and Hu Ben can make up their minds.
That night, the Five Lords gathered the entire army and ordered five thousand swords and shield soldiers to escort ten thousand spearmen to attack the enemy camp, while the troops were led by the life and death disaster.
The Life and Death Tribulation is very clear about his mission. He is not going to attack the new army of the Celestial Dynasty, but to lure them into battle, and then let the cavalry surround them and face the attacks from the front and back. Even if the new army of the Celestial Dynasty is strong, he will be forcibly killed by himself.
If they don't go to war, it's even better. As long as their soldiers approach the enemy camp, they will set fire and force them out.
"General, the enemy attacked us."
Hearing his subordinates' reports, Yue Lianyun looked happy and said, "Are you finally here? I'm really afraid that they won't come." Then several generals from his opponents ordered: "Send the entire army to fight."
The life and death catastrophe was very popular because he was afraid that the new army of the Celestial Dynasty would not know that they were going to attack them. When he heard the sound of horse hooves from the enemy camp, the life and death catastrophe knew that they were ready to go to war. Isn’t this very good?
Seeing that the gate of the new military camp of the Celestial Dynasty opened wide, a team of cavalry rushed out and rushed towards him, without saying anything at all, but the life and death disaster was also the general of the cavalry. Faced with the actions of the enemy cavalry, they naturally knew that the other party would take advantage of this impact and disperse their team.
"Slowly retreat, the sword and shield soldiers cover the spearmen." The life and death robbery immediately ordered, but a hint of joy appeared on his face. Since it was dark, the enemy could not even realize that the items they carried in his army were "rejecting horses".
After a year of preparation, Xiliang had already created a large number of weapons to deal with alien cavalry, namely, horse-resisting with sharp spearheads, and other various attack weapons.
"Sir Tongzhi, the opponent's cavalry is too fast." Seeing that the enemy was about to rush up in a short while, the soldiers immediately reported to the life and death disaster.
The Tribulation of Life and Death frowned and said calmly: "Go back quickly and show off the horse." Although it was not all arranged, there was no way now. Otherwise, if the horse was not used to resist the horse, the enemy's war horses would hit.
"General, the enemy is really setting up a trap waiting for us to go up." A general who was following Yue Lianyun smiled.
Yue Lianyun looked calm and determined, with a firm look: "If they didn't find out that we were all cavalry for so many days, I would find a way to let them discover it."
"General is wise." After flattering, the deputy general immediately ordered: "Both sides spread apart and shoot."
Hearing the howling sound, the life and death disaster was full of surprise.
"Sir, it's not right..." The soldier next to the life and death tribulation heard this slightly familiar voice and shuddered. He just turned around and said something to the life and death tribulation, but halfway through, a sharp arrow had already shot through his back to his chest.
Life and Death Tribulation looked at the soldiers falling down in shock, and hurriedly shouted: "Seal of the sword and shield soldiers."
It turned out to be a powerful crossbow!
With such a long shooting distance, crossbow arrows that can penetrate the iron armor of soldiers can only be done by strong crossbows.
The sword and shield soldiers quickly combined into a large shield, and then they only heard the symphony of the gold and stone dying arrows shooting the shield.
Xiao O in the army in the distance also heard this voice and turned his head to look at the Five Lords and said, "It seems something is wrong."
The fifth master nodded and said, "I'm afraid the other party is a archer..."
"What should I do?" Xiao O asked hurriedly.
"I will take the remaining 15,000 sword and shield soldiers over here. You can stay here and watch the camp." After saying that, the Five Lord jumped forward and shouted: "All sword and shield soldiers follow me."
Hearing the order of the Grand Commander, all the sword and shield soldiers raised their big shields and ran away quickly.
On the other hand, since only 5,000 sword and shield soldiers could not resist such a large-scale shooting of the enemy, the Life and Death Tribulation could only order the soldiers to retreat and get a distance from the enemy. This not only could weaken the power of the opponent's arrows, but also effectively preserve the soldiers, but also were shot to kill many soldiers, and some sword and shield soldiers were even shot through.
"Sir, the Governor personally led reinforcements to support him."
The Tribulation of Life and Death also heard a lot of steps behind him, and he was not worried about the enemy at all, but he did not expect that the Five Lords personally led their troops up.
As soon as he rushed up, he did not need the Five Lords to order all the sword and shield soldiers to rush to the front and use the big shield in his hand to resist the arrows.
"The opponent used a powerful crossbow. The closer the distance, the stronger the power. Even our big shield could not resist their arrows." Seeing the Five Lords, the Life and Death Tribulation took an enemy's arrow to show to the Five Lords.
"Spiral arrow?" After seeing the arrows on the arrow, the five masters were shocked. No wonder the range is so long and the power is so great.
Life and Death Tribulation nodded and said, "Yes, this modified arrow is fired from a powerful crossbow and will definitely rotate at high speed. When it rotates, it will bounce off the air barrier. When it is shot on the item, it will also have strong and effective drilling and permeability."
"So our powerful crossbow has no effect on them at all." The Five Lords, the five thousand swords and shield soldiers in the hands of the Life and Death Tribulation and the 15,000 swords and shield soldiers just brought by the Five Lords, both wore powerful crossbows. However, the Xiliang powerful crossbows were far from the powerful mechanical crossbows of Guanshanyue New Army. At this distance, even the enemy's clothes could not be shot. But when they came forward, they risked their lives and suffered too much loss to themselves.
Hu Ben and Kuang Niu on both sides of the distance became a little anxious. They originally led 10,000 cavalry each to wait for the signal of life and death on both sides, and then attacked the enemy from the side, but the signal of life and death on the long run made the two confused.
The Five Lords and the Life and Death Tribulation had no choice but to retreat slowly, but Yue Lianyun's cavalry was unable to take a horse to attack because of the horse-resisting formation in front of him.
Soon after, both the Five Lords and the Life and Death Tribulation found that the other party's shooting gradually weakened, and in the end there was no shooting.
The Five Lords and the Life and Death Tribulation looked at each other, and the Life and Death Tribulation was the first to say: "Is the distance between their arrows so far?"
The Five Lords shook their heads: "No, they have withdrawn."
"Have you withdrawn from the camp?" Life and Death Tribulation was stunned, but because it was too dark, it could not see what was ahead.
Just as the Five Lords and the Tribulation of Life and Death were hesitating whether to step forward, the camp behind him was burning.
The two of them were shocked and looked back and were shocked: This fire was too unusual.
"I'm so bad, I'm trapped." The Five Lords suddenly woke up and said to the Life and Death Tribulation: "You stay here, I'll take people back." They were afraid that the enemy would suddenly come from here when they retreated, so the Five Lords asked the Life and Death Tribulation to lead the previous army to stay here, and he rushed back with 15,000 swords and shield soldiers.
The five masters who were running and rushing to the generals around him flashed with inspiration and said to the generals beside him: "Send a signal and let the cavalry on both sides not move rashly."
Hu Ben and Kuang Niu waited for a long time but still did not see the agreed signal. Instead, there was a fire in the camp and were considering rushing back to the camp. The signal came, but it was a signal that the troops were still.
"It seems that it is impossible to raid the Xiliang Army." Yue Lianyun shook his head and said softly in a quiet place where even the sound of the war horses breathing.
Chapter completed!