The name of the mountain is Luhu Mountain, and the shape is like a tiger. The spring at the foot of the mountain is called Fuhu Spring, that is, the place where the Yu River originates. There is a huge valley here called the Valley of the Sorrows, which is the seat of the Prefecture of the Sorrows.

Mu Guiying took Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, as well as a young man named Zhang Liao who had just joined the army, as well as 20,000 Youzhou Iron Cavalry, and Xu Rong's Changshui Battalion, who arrived in the Valley of Worries two days ago and quietly hid in it.

Xu Rong was very dissatisfied. He came to Bingzhou to kill the enemy and make a name for himself, not to hide in this inaccessible valley and be bitten by poisonous insects. He didn't say it in his mouth, but he had already scolded Li Yi in his heart.

Now the battle in Juzhu Mountain is very fierce, and more than 20,000 iron horsemen can't kill the Xianbei people in Juzhu Mountain, but they are recuperating in this valley, which he thinks is too ridiculous.

Said to ambush the enemy, is it right here in the valley? No matter how he looked at it, this valley didn't look like a place to ambush the Xianbei people. If you want to ambush the enemy, you should also be in Guangwu City to the north of the Yu Mountain, which is the only way for the Xianbei people to go south.

Chang Yuchun saw Xu Rong restless in the Valley of Worries, sighing for a long time, looking like a hero was useless, which was very funny.

Chang Yuchun glanced at the beads of his eyes and said to Xu Rong: "Captain Xu, you'd better go to the river to soak in cold water, sober up your mind, and lower the fire, so as not to curse people here and get upset when you listen to it." ”

Xu Rong was overjoyed when he heard this, and happily ran to the river with a few guards to take a bath, but was caught by Mu Guiying. Mu Guiying said that they violated the military order to hide their traces, and they showed no mercy to each person.

Xu Rong was so angry that he scolded Chang Yuchun's ancestor countless times.

Xu Rong didn't dare to scold Mu Guiying. Although Mu Guiying is a woman, she has high martial arts skills, and she is also the commander of their cavalry. The sage once said that only villains and women are difficult to raise, and if he offends her, he will definitely not have good fruit to eat.

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In the afternoon of this day, Li Yi finally led the cavalry withdrawn from Juzhu Mountain into the Worrying Valley.

After the two armies met, the number of cavalry reached 30,000. In the battles of these days. Youzhou Iron Cavalry lost more than 3,000 people.

Xu Rong knew that there was no need to wait, the big battle was about to begin, and he spent a sleepless night in excitement and excitement.

The next day, the Xianbei people arrived at Guangwu City, and they were very careful, and only after several reconnaissance and confirmation by hundreds of scouts did they cautiously cross Guangwu City.

As soon as the Xianbei people left Guangwu City, Li Yi led the army to leave the Worrying Valley, crossed the Worrying Mountain, and went around the back of the Hu army.

The 30,000-strong army roared all the way down the Hutuo River. Majestic.

Xu Rong was in the midst of thousands of troops, and for the first time, he deeply felt his insignificance and powerlessness. He is like a fine grain of sand on the river beach, insignificant and insignificant, he is like a dead leaf floating on the surface of the river, struggling on the edge of overturning.

He was drowned out by a loud roar, his consciousness was fading, he was completely lost to himself, he couldn't think. He couldn't pause, he was involuntarily swept down in a boiling torrent. He only knew that he was going to kill the enemy, to go to war, and his ambition was shattered in an instant.

Tens of thousands of troops against each other. Hundreds of thousands of troops are fighting, what can you do alone? Killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions seems to have become a joke, a desire, and an unattainable dream in the blink of an eye.

Xu Rong looked around him. Dense and overwhelming, all of them are Iron Knights. Everyone looked excited, numb, leisurely, drowsy, or full of fighting spirit, without timidity, without fear, without panic before death. Everyone galloped and converged into a magnificent torrent, moving forward.

Xu Rong suddenly knew where he was going.

The advance speed of the Han army's iron cavalry remained very steady, and it seemed that they were not in a hurry to catch up with the Xianbei people.

"General Mu, when are we going to attack?" Xu Rong approached Mu Guiying and shouted loudly.

"Yuanping, let's go to Yuanping." Mu Guiying shouted loudly, "Shen Zhengnan is now there to stop the Xianbei people. ”

"Why not hurry?" Xu Rong was anxious, and shouted louder, "Why don't you rush forward?"

Mu Guiying pointed to the clear blue sky and said loudly: "Wait for the signal, wait for Shen Zhengnan's signal for help." ”

Xu Rong looked at the blue sky suspiciously, and then suddenly realized. Li Yi fights, not only is he elusive, but he even grasps the timing of cannibalism so well.

What a terrifying tiger.

Thinking of the bloody battle that was about to start, Xu Rong was excited, and there was a slight tremor all over his body.

"Let's go, kill the enemy...... he kicked the horse's belly, whipped the horse, and roared again and again, "Kill the enemy and ......"

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On the evening of his arrival at Longmen Mountain, Zhang Fei went to the camp to visit his subordinates.

After four days of bloody fighting, only a little more than 1,000 of his 5,000 soldiers remained. The soldiers were very excited, shouting for revenge, to go down the mountain and fight to the death with the Xianbei people.

"General, we don't have time to bury our dead brothers, whose remains have all been dumped by us in the woods by the roadside." Bian Xi's eyes were red, and he said sadly, "Their heads must have been cut off by the Xianbei people to make war trophies, general, we want to take revenge." ”

Zhang Fei was in a heavy mood and tried his best to comfort everyone for a while. Zhang Fei said, don't worry, we are about to go down the mountain and fight the Xianbei people again, but we are not ambushing, but blocking, or a tragic blockade.

"The supervisor led the cavalry to ambush the vanguard of the Xianbei people along the Hutuo River, and we went to Guangwu City to block the enemy's reinforcements, giving the lord and them time to completely destroy the enemy." Zhang Fei sighed and said, "The terrain of Guangwu City is gentle, there is no danger to defend, we use the phalanx to block the enemy's cavalry, and it is estimated that the casualties are even greater than when we were in Juzhu Mountain." ”

"We only have 24,000 infantry, but the Xianbei people have at least 30,000 iron cavalry, and the terrain of Guangwu City is also suitable for the impact of the cavalry army." Zhang Fei said worriedly, "The lord asked us to hold on for a day, and we felt very difficult. ”

Originally, after the Juzhu Mountain Blockade Battle, there were less than 20,000 foot soldiers left in the Youzhou Army, but Li Yi directly added the county soldiers who were withdrawn from several counties in the north of Bingzhou to the Youzhou Army, so that the size of the army was restored to about 24,000 people.

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The soldiers sat around the side, solemn and silent.

"According to our experience in fighting the Hu cavalry many times, although the dense infantry phalanx plus giant shields and giant spears can temporarily block the enemy, it can only hold out for a while. If the follow-up armies of the Xianbei people arrive one after another, they will surpass us in numbers, and at that time, we will not be able to stop the Xianbei people. Tian Yu looked at the soldiers around him and asked, "Do you have any better way to stop the attack?" ”

The surrounding soldiers exchanged heads and whispered discussions.

"You can use the rejection horse." Bian Xi whispered.

Although Bian Xi's voice was very small, it was still heard by Tian Yu.

"What did you say?" Tian Yu pointed at him and asked, "You say it again." ”

Zhang Fei looked up at him when he heard the sound.

Bian Xi glanced at them timidly, muttered two words in his mouth, and his voice became quieter.

"You say it louder." Zhang Fei said with a smile, "You have to know that if your method works, you can let countless brothers survive, you can let the lord calmly command the army to defeat the Xianbei cavalry, and you can annihilate the Xianbei people south of Juzhu Mountain, so you don't have any scruples and say it boldly." ”

Bian Xi thought of his dead comrades-in-arms, and his courage suddenly grew stronger, and he stood up, "We can meet the enemy with a rejection horse." ”

"Rejection?" Zhang Fei and Tian Yu exchanged a surprised look with each other. The chatter of the surrounding soldiers suddenly became louder.

Rejection of horses, for the soldiers, is too familiar, so to speak, as long as there is a barracks, there is a rejection of horses.

The so-called rejection of horses is a triangular utensil tied into three long logs and multiple short vertical logs according to certain rules, one of which is a row of vertical logs that is longer, obliquely stretched forward, and the top is sharpened, placed in front of the camp gate or in front of the fence, specially used to block the charge and leap of the enemy's cavalry, so this thing is also called "rejecting horses". Generally, when the large army is encamped, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking the camp, it is necessary to set up a horse rejection array dozens of paces around the camp.

"Sit down, sit down." Zhang Fei beckoned at him and said with a smile, "Can you tell me more carefully?" ”

Bian Xi licked his lips, thought for a while, and said, "I used to be the Yellow Turban Army. During the time of Guangzong, our army fought with the Northern Army and suffered a lot from the Changshui Battalion of the Northern Army. Later, we thought of a way to use the rejection of horses to set up a large rejection array in front of the large army array, and as a result, the Changshui battalion was defeated by us. ”

"Oh?" Zhang Fei became more and more interested, and he said excitedly, "Have you defeated the Changshui Battalion with the Horse Rejection Array?" Great, tell me how you defeated the Changshui Battalion? ”

"We used horses of different sizes on open ground suitable for cavalry charges, and arranged them in phalanxes, which were tall and short, uneven, and inconsistent. In this way, the originally open space became a winding and rugged array of horseback phalanxes, and our soldiers hid in the horseback formation and waited for the opportunity to kill the enemy. Whether it is cavalry or infantry, if they want to attack in battle, they must intersperse detours in the rejection formation, and they must be attacked from both front and rear directions at the same time. "At that time, the Changshui battalion wanted to attack the horse rejection formation and destroy our blocking position, but their cavalry could not be used in the formation, and as a result, our archers, spearmen, and sword and axe men were killed and fled in embarrassment. As soon as they withdrew, we followed up and killed. When the Changshui battalion regrouped and came again, we ran into the horse rejection formation and lured them to attack. So back and forth, finally the Changshui camp was beaten away. (To be continued.) )