Chapter 825: Turnaround

Once there are no rock walls and cliffs to stop the enemy, the heavy cavalry of the Iron Guard Battalion may cut through the opponent's formation and divide the siege.

Among the soldiers and horses commanded by the monarch's father, the 300 Iron Guard Battalion is the real elite main force, and the "Black Wind Banner" are just discardable chess pieces. He did not write on a piece of paper, but directly passed on the order orally, just to make it audible to the other party, so as to lure Hua Bushi to give the order to pursue.

This white-clothed Xiushi with a gentle appearance is indeed worthy of being the leader of the "Heavenly Punishment", and he didn't even blink an eye at the sacrifice of hundreds of Black Wind Bannermen, and completely quietly spoke to lure the enemy, and his scheming was very deep and imaginable!

But hearing this, the monarch sneered: "Young Master Hua is really witty, but if you don't pursue, you can only survive for a moment and a half, with these three or four hundred troops, even if there is terrain to rely on, can you support a few charges of the iron cavalry under the command of this monarch?"

On the hillside, both sides shrank without fighting, and the two Jurchen cavalry quickly retreated to a distance of fifty zhang, while the Da Zhen and the disciples of the "Bai Long Xing" once again formed a defensive formation, placing the mounts and horses left behind by the previously killed enemy in front of the formation, as a meat shield against the muskets.

The situation seemed to be back to the same as before, only after the first round of charging and fighting, each side lost fifty or sixty men, and the formation of the Great Gang and the "Blum Xing" was even weaker. In contrast, the Jurchen cavalry had a large number, but it was still overwhelming with dozens of people, and the combat power was not greatly damaged.

The monarch watched the battle while drinking, and decided in his heart that victory was firmly in his hands, but the situation on the battlefield was ever-changing, and there was no such thing as an absolute victory. At that moment, something suddenly changed on the other side of the valley.

The 500 cavalry archers of the "Huhan Rabbit Division" were pursued by the cavalry of officers and soldiers, these Mongols were not armored, and rode faster than the officers and soldiers in armor, and kept circling in the valley, and constantly turning around to shoot arrows. The three hundred cavalry led by Yu Jue were left behind, and as many as 100 people had been damaged, and the more they pursued, the slower they became, and the defeat was already a matter of Yujian.

However, just as the Mongolian cavalry galloped past the mouth of the mountain gorge, there was a sudden roar of popping beans, and fifty or sixty horsemen screamed miserably, and they fell from their horses like stones.

It's the shooting of muskets!

The timing of the attack was very good, it was when the Mongol cavalry crossed the gorge, there was no defense on the flank, and the cavalry archers of the "Huhan Rabbit Division" had not been damaged since the beginning of the battle, but unexpectedly, dozens of people were killed in this round of raids.

The monarch's father was shocked, and looked in the direction of the gorge with wide eyes, but saw a group of men and horses galloping in from outside the mouth of the gorge, all dressed in black short shirts, with a long knife hanging from their waists, and a tall horse on their hips, with a fierce appearance, about two hundred horses. On the back of a white horse in front of him was a handsome young man in black, carrying a six-barreled musket of dark gold and a strange shape, which shone in the sun.

This time he set up an ambush in the Valley of the Horse Lungs, and the monarch's arrangement was very thorough, blocking the road with rolling stones and logs between the two mountain gorges entering and exiting the valley, and arranging archers to guard them, but he did not expect such an unexpected situation to happen!

The two hundred horsemen who entered the valley were the reinforcements transferred by Hua Bushi from the Lu realm, the Thunderbolt Battalion, one of the three major war departments of the "Evil Dog Gate", and the black-clothed young man led by it was Ximen Hitomi. Two days ago, Ximen Tong led the Thunderbolt camp into Beizhili, Hua Bushi and the Great Sect were picking up the prince and princess out of Xifengkou Lulongsai, but they couldn't stay because of the urgency of time, so they used flying pigeons to send a message to let them follow.

When the monarch's father designed the ambush, he had already explored the strength of the soldiers and horses of Hua Bushi Yang Sichang and his party, and thought that they were foolproof, and the archers arranged on the cliffs on both sides were mainly to prevent the soldiers and horses trapped in the valley from rushing out of the valley, but he did not expect that the other party had a team to follow.

The Thunderbolt battalion attacked from the outside, easily eliminated the archers who had blockaded the gorge, removed logs and rolling stones, and opened a way into the gorge, where the men and horses of both sides were undetected in the fierce battle. The Mongolian cavalry and archery team of the "Tiger Han Rabbit Division" happened to gallop in front of them, and Ximen Hitomi saw that the timing was very good, and ordered a surprise attack, and under a round of musket bombardment, the opponent was immediately hit with heavy casualties.

At this time, the monarch's father didn't care about writing anymore, and shouted: "Pass the general's order, the Iron Guard Battalion will meet the enemy at the mouth of the canyon, the Huhan Rabbit Department will retreat to the hillside, and the Black Wind Banner Department will respond!"

His eyes were cold, he looked at Hua Bushi on the other side of the rock table, and said, "Young Master Hua is scheming, it turns out that there is another ambush outside the valley, how do you and I do the game?"

Before Hua Bushi could answer, Zhu Huichan had already preemptively said loudly: "Didn't you all ambush here before, and if you hide your head and shrink your tail, you are not allowed to set up an ambush?"

Hua Bushi smiled slightly and said, "What the princess said is good. Luo Wei, didn't you say before that you should be able to fight for the commander, and if you are in the middle of the battle, you must have the ability to deal with it, did you forget it so quickly?"

As he spoke, he turned his face to Meng Huan and said, "Pass on my general's order, the cavalry of the Yujue Department retreated up the hillside and formed a horn formation with the Da Zhen Department and the Blum Army. ”

Both of them dictated the order, and they didn't care about being heard by the other party.

When the flag came out, the people and horses in the valley moved according to the order, and the "Huhan Rabbit Division" retreated up the hillside and joined the cavalry of the "Black Wind Banner" in one place, while the official cavalry and the two infantry of the Great Gang Department also formed a horn formation to hold on.

At the foot of the hillside, the Thunderbolt camp that entered the valley met the Iron Guard battalion rushing down the hillside, and the two men and horses stopped at a distance of 100 feet and confronted each other.

At this time, the situation in the valley changed, but the two sides were still fighting on the east and west sides, but the troops that had previously faced each other on the west side of the valley were replaced by the Thunderbolt Battalion and the Iron Guard Battalion, and Yu Jue's officers and soldiers and cavalry and archers of the "Tiger Han Rabbit Division" all returned to the eastern slopes.

And the monarch's expression instantly returned to calm, and he said in a deep voice: "This monarch still has more soldiers and horses in the valley than you, as long as I give an order, the battle formation on your hillside will be defeated immediately." Young Master Hua thought that he could turn the tide of the battle by relying on two hundred ambush soldiers, but he was afraid that he was too naïve!"

On the hillside, there are no less than 1,000 people in the "Black Wind Banner" and the "Huhan Rabbit Division", one on the left and one on the right, forming a trapping trend, compared to the cavalry of the Da Zhen Division, Bailong Xing and Yu Jue, which have all suffered a lot of losses, and the total is less than 500 people, no matter how you look at it, it is difficult to resist.

Hua Bushi curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and said: "There are not many soldiers, but you are more valuable than fine, you pretend to know the art of war, you are good at strategy, and you also say that you are the best at seeing through the hearts of others, and now it seems that you are all talking nonsense, which is really ridiculous!"

Since the two sides gambled and fought on this bluestone platform, Hua Bushi had always been expressionless and had a solemn look on his face, but at this time, it was the first time he showed a smile.

Seeing it in his eyes, the monarch's father also sneered, and said: "Okay, this will let you see clearly whether this monarch is bragging! Pass my general's order, the Black Wind Banner Department, and the Huhan Rabbit Department will charge with all their strength and take down the enemy formation on the hillside in one fell swoop!"

Hua Bushi waited for him to finish speaking, and then said slowly: "Order, the three men and horses on the hillside will advance as a whole army and force back the enemy!"

The instructions of the two are all forward, which can be described as needle-to-point. After the flag order was issued, the soldiers and horses on the hillside suddenly moved, but the monarch's father looked at it from a distance, and his face sank. The cavalry of the officers and cavalry led by the Great Rebellion Department, Bai Long Xing, and Yu Jue marched forward in formation according to the order, while the Black Wind Banner and the Mongol Assault Cavalry did not move in place, and even showed signs of retreating.

"What's the matter, Qingzhu, have you sent out the flag order?" asked the monarch's father.

"Returning to my lordship, the flag order has been issued. Shi Qingzhu's face turned pale, and he replied in a trembling voice.

"Then why do they stand still, and hurry up and pass it on again!" exclaimed the monarch.

Shi Qingzhu went as ordered. Hua Bushi smiled slightly, and said: "It's useless for you to pass it ten more times, they don't move, it's not that the flag order is wrong, but that you can't discern their minds at all." ”

The monarch gritted his teeth and looked at Hua Bushi viciously.

Hua Bushi said: "Until now, don't you understand your position in the eyes of these Hu people? No matter what price you use to exchange with them, so that these two men and horses obey your orders, but their allegiance is always only the interests of their own tribe, how can they really be willing to die for you as a Han Chinese?"

For the "Black Wind Banner" and the "Tiger Han Rabbit Department", the monarch is just an employer who can bring them some benefits, an object to use each other. When the battle is going well, they will obey their orders, but once the situation suddenly changes, these Hu people will inevitably have different intentions.

The previous move of the monarch to sacrifice the Black Wind Banner, even if a rough person like Hu Luba was not aware of it, the banner master Zhuo Tuo Erhan would definitely be able to see it clearly, at this time, the Han war department that had formed a strong formation on the opposite side, and Yu Jue's cavalry joined, and the Black Wind Banner was going to charge with all its might, even if he won, he would definitely lose more than half of the men and horses.

In the final analysis, Zhuo Tuoerhan is just a merchant of the Jurchen clan, and the "Black Wind Banner" can have such a shili in Hu Man City, relying on the liliang of hundreds of banners under his command, weighing the advantages and disadvantages, of course he will not listen to the instructions of his father and put all his own family members and horses into it.

As for the Mongols of the "Huhan Rabbit Division", they were already at odds with the "Black Wind Banner", and they had already lost dozens of men and horses in the raid in the canyon just now, so it was even more impossible for them to rush up alone. Drodolhan is an old fox, and Zaiman Ke, the leader of the "Tiger and Rabbit Tribe", is not stupid.

On the hillside, as the Han war department continued to approach, the men and horses of the "Black Wind Banner" and the "Huhan Rabbit Department" began to slowly retreat, and they had no intention of charging forward.

The monarch's father was angry in his heart, slapped his palm on the rock table, and roared: "These barbarian businessmen are timid and afraid of death, and they cower in battle, and they are all unreliable.