Countless Houjin soldiers were on fire, wailing heartbreakingly, some rolling on the ground, others running in all directions, but this was useless except to make the fire spread faster!

Narrow roads, dense crowds, simply the best conditions for fire attack. The Red Fire Banner, which www.biquge.info well versed in this way, made the allied forces of the Northern Beggars and the Cao Gang suffer a lot when they were in Qingwu Town, but the fire attack conditions at that time were far less favorable than now. Now the dense Houjin soldiers are trapped in the narrow mountain road, unable to evacuate at all, which may be the easiest slaughter for the Red Fire Banner.

In just half a pillar of incense, more than half of the more than 1,300 post-Jin soldiers in the area under the responsibility of the first section had already burned to death! Countless corpses were burning, emitting billowing smoke, which made people a little breathless! The pungent smell of burning, desperate screams, and cries of collapse were intertwined, and the sound of collapse resounded throughout the valley. Many of the surviving Houjin soldiers tried to attack the mountain, but a dense rain of arrows brought them down again. Among the 2,000 defenders in the first section, there were 100 crossbowmen and 100 archers, who were dedicated to dealing with these survivors.

At the same time, the massacres in the B, C, and D defense areas were immediately launched. The Red Fire Banner people in these ambush points also concocted the same method, first showing off a fierce fire attack, and suddenly the entire path was in flames! Then, bows and arrows and strong crossbows were fired in unison, and they shot again.

After that, the thunderbolt of the Red Fire Banner began to wield its might. These thunderbolts are actually the prototype of the early mines, but the trail is formed by a stream, so most of the soil underneath has been washed away, leaving only an extremely hard rock layer, so that the "thunderbolts" are not easy to bury, so the red fire flag is directly thrown by hand.

The lethality of mines in the Ming Dynasty has been extremely great, according to historical records, the mines at that time can achieve the effect of "car and horse cracking" after detonation. In addition, the Red Fire Banner has improved it, and the mines are filled with sharp thistles, which will explode in pieces once they explode, causing great damage to people.

One "thunderbolt" after another exploded in the dense crowd, each of which swept down a round piece, like a boulder thrown into the water, setting off ripples. It's just that after the stone enters the water, the ripples will soon recover, and those fallen Houjin soldiers will never get up again.

It can be said that if there were only these 6,000 post-Jin troops in the encirclement, this battle would be extremely easy! However, Qin Shuhuai and the others were facing the 60,000-post-Jin army, so it was destined that this kind of ease would only be temporary!

The Houjin army, which was stopped outside the ambush circle by a boulder, quickly organized a counterattack after a short period of panic.

The counteroffensive was commanded by the first rank commander-in-chief Yang Guli, who was deeply trusted by Huang Taiji. The experienced man did not command his soldiers to move the boulders, but directly commanded the army to go up the mountain, touch it from the mountain, and go straight to the 2,000 defenders stationed in the first section.

Qin Shuhuai knew that the key to whether he could completely annihilate the 6,000 Tartars in the ambush circle was whether the first section could be held. Section A is at the forefront of the ambush circle, if you can rely on the advantage of the terrain to block the Houjin army that came to the rescue, then the Tartars in the ambush circle will definitely be able to be wiped out. But if they can't be stopped, then once they continue to fight in, it's hard to say whether everyone can successfully withdraw.

Therefore, he took Meng Hu, Fujisanren, and other masters one by one, and personally stationed them in Section A.

It took Yanguli a quarter of an hour to mobilize 3,000 troops. The reason for being so slow is very simple, because the Houjin army is lined up, and these three thousand people stretch for more than a kilometer, and if they need to be notified in place, they must be divided into two groups and assemble on the mountains on the left and right sides of the trail, which is already fast in a quarter of an hour!

Yanguli divided the three thousand men into two groups, one of fifteen hundred, and attacked the hills on the left and right sides of the path.

Qin Shuhuai and Wu Lie personally guarded a hill on the left side of the trail, while Meng Hu took one by one and Chen Hou to guard the hill on the right side of the trail.

Yanguli led fifteen hundred men to attack the hill on the left side of the trail. Of these 1,500 men, 500 were pawns, and only 1,000 were Tartar elites.

This was the first wave of effective counterattacks from Houjin.

Qin Shuhuai quickly organized a defense, and the shield soldiers rushed to the front first, using shields to build a copper wall and iron wall. Behind the shieldmen, fifty crossbowmen stood by in battle.

And the One Hundred Red Fire Banner and the One Hundred Loess Banner formed their own formation, and they didn't need Qin Shuhuai's command at all.

Yanguli led fifteen hundred Tartar soldiers to rush forward. One thousand of them were in the Chinese army, and the two flanks were all pawns.

The Loess Banner was the first to attack and began to show the results of their continuous work on the hillside in the previous two days. When Yanguli's counter-attacking troops were still fifty meters away from the defenders' positions, the Loess Banner detonated three thunderbolts!

"Boom, boom, boom!"

After three loud bangs, the whole hill suddenly shook suddenly, and then on the mountain within a radius of about a mile ahead, some soft soil on the surface slid down the mountain one after another, as if a powerful mudslide had erupted! The surging soft soil devoured everything with the momentum of devastating and decaying, and along the way, the grass and trees fell, and everything was urged, and countless Houjin soldiers were instantly wrapped in the mud and stones, and were annihilated in wails and screams!

It turned out that the loess banner saw that the mountain was mainly composed of extremely soft loess, so he used a special method, first loosening the frozen soil, then digging a lot of pits underneath, and then burying three "thunderbolts". As soon as the "thunderbolt" explodes, a collapse will form and the attacking enemy soldiers will be buried alive. The size of the collapse area is mainly controlled by the pits dug underneath, and they are currently controlled within a radius of about 500 meters.

Qin Shuhuai was dumbfounded, although he had crossed over from the afterlife, but after seeing this scene, he actually had the feeling of seeing black technology in a trance!

The collapse continued to expand, and in the blink of an eye, nearly half of the 1,500 Jin soldiers were buried! Even Yanguli was almost buried, but fortunately, he did a good job and avoided the fate of being buried after a few vertical jumps.

The mountain continued to shake, the collapse continued, and Qin Shuhuai was amazed.

At this time, a small leader of the Loess Banner said lightly, "Oh no, it seems that Thunderbolt has put one more." ”

"Hmm, what are you talking about?" Qin Shuhuai asked.

"The landslide seems to be bigger than we thought. The man replied.

"How much bigger?"

"Probably bury us too. ”

"I'll wipe it! I can still do it for you, how reliable this black technology is!" Qin Shuhuai jumped up and hurriedly shouted at everyone, "All retreat!"

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately ran backwards desperately, and ran a full 200 meters before stopping. At this time, I saw that the place where they used to be began to collapse rapidly, and a huge gap was suddenly opened.

After counting, except for two people who were injured by the rocks, the others were fine. Qin Shuhuai said in his heart, in the end, it was still in the Ming Dynasty, and it was good that the Loess Banner did not collapse the entire mountain.

On Yanguli's side, the collapse occurred almost at their feet, so the losses were extremely heavy this time. There were originally 1,500 people under his command, but all of a sudden there were less than 500 left!

And with so many people lost, he hasn't even met his opponent yet!

"Your Excellency, I'll help you!" At this moment, a loud roar suddenly came from behind him!