Early the next morning, Hulda's cavalry rushed towards the post house.
The Qiang soldiers in the posthouse were dispersed among the Qin troops. These Qin troops were all drawn from Wang Li's army and were good at formation fighting. They quickly pointed their crossbows at Hulda's cavalry.
Zhao Song shouted loudly from behind: "Soldiers, I have sent people to ask for reinforcements. Reinforcements will arrive after one day of support. Hold on!"
In fact, reinforcements will arrive any day. Although Zhao and Song had sent people out to ask for help last night, the nearest Qin army was also at another post house four hundred miles away. By the time they got here, the day lilies were already cold. Now we can only defend and hope that the Dada cavalry there will be the first to come over.
"Dadanghu, this small post house can't withstand our several attacks. I think the battle will be over in an hour and a half!"
Hulda looked at his cavalry rushing towards the post house in a mighty manner. He could already imagine the scene of a great victory and couldn't help but smile.
Suddenly, Hulda frowned.
Looking around, he saw that his leading cavalry had just approached the post house when they stumbled and fell to the ground.
The cavalry behind them had no time to dodge, so they could only step on the cavalry in front and rush forward. For a moment, people screamed and horses screamed, and screams resounded throughout the sky.
Hulda did not expect that a horse trap had been dug in front of the post house, and he lost hundreds of people before the Qin army took action.
But it doesn't matter, it's only a hundred or ten men. When the Qilian Mountains are taken, I will have thousands or ten thousand men to make up for the losses.
Not long after, Hulda's cavalry rushed to a distance of twenty steps. At this time, the Qin army fired thousands of arrows under the command of the centurion, and hundreds of people were killed and injured.
After losing three to four hundred men, the cavalry finally rushed to the fence, but was stopped by the fence of the post house. The cavalryman drew out his long sword and swung it towards the Qin army. Suddenly he felt his body lightened, and the horse fell to his knees, knocking him over.
When I lowered my head, I saw that there were Qin soldiers under the high wall. They were holding long-handled scimitars and were desperately trying to hook the horse's legs. It was a machete! The horse that was hooked on the leg could not break free, and began to go crazy under the pain. It could only have its front hooves cut off by a machete and fall to the ground.
The attack lasted for half an hour. Hulda saw that the shouts in front were loud, but the Qin army was as stable as a mountain, with almost no casualties. He quickly ordered someone to blow the horn and call the cavalry back.
In just the first charge, Hulda's cavalry lost more than 700 people, and more than 300 people lost their horses and became infantry and ran back behind them.
Commander Wan Qi said cautiously: "Dadanghu, we have never fought a battle. If we attack like this, we may not be able to conquer it! Why don't we all dismount, change the grain carts into battering rams, and attack with infantry!"
When Hulda saw that his attack failed, he was furious. He raised the whip in his hand and whipped it hard, roaring: "Trash, cavalry changed to infantry? Have you ever fought in a battle?!"
Wanqi Chang was shocked and hurriedly stepped aside, but his face was still scratched by Hulda's whip, causing blood to flow immediately.
"The big ones are powerful, but the small ones are incompetent!"
He screamed incompetence, but a trace of murderous intent flashed in his eyes! He was a dignified cavalry commander, but if the leader hadn't assigned his troops to Hulda, he wouldn't have had the chance to yell in front of him. He's just a pampered loser who dares to whip himself in front of thousands of his subordinates!
Hulda glanced around, raised his finger and pointed at a thousand-horse commander, and said sternly: "You! Take your thousand men and charge me with torches and burn their fences!"
The commander of a thousand cavalry looked stunned. A thousand cavalry went to attack a fortified camp of 6,000 people?
"Ah I?"
Hulda's eyes widened: "If it's not you, is it me? Go!"
Although the Qianqi Commander scolded his eight generations of ancestors in his heart, he still rode his horse, prepared the torch, and rushed to the post house again with a thousand cavalry.
Seeing the cavalry coming with torches, Qidaher quickly shouted: "The crossbows are ready to be fired. You don't have to wait until twenty steps, forty steps to fire!"
Qian Qianqian led the cavalry all the way to charge forward. Not only were there horse traps that had not yet been stepped on, but there were also corpses of his own men lying on the ground, which made the speed much slower. When they were forty steps away, countless flaming arrow clusters flew out from the Qin army's camp and shot towards them.
Qianqi Commander cursed fiercely: "Beast, you let me die in vain, why the hell didn't you lead others to charge up!"
Then he shouted: "Warriors, rush over and conquer the Qin army. There will be many rewards!"
When the flaming arrowheads fell on them, the cavalrymen didn't care about the reward. They held fire in their hands and shot fire at their bodies. They were about to be roasted alive.
Sure enough, as the Qin army's arrow clusters fell into the cavalry formation, because the cavalry was holding the horse with their left hand and holding the torch with their right hand, someone immediately threw the torch in their hands to free their hands to put out the fire.
"Damn it, who threw the torch? You think Qin Jun's fire is not strong enough?!"
"Ah, I'm on fire, I'm on fire, help me put out the fire!"
The Qianqi Commander was furious when he saw this, and shouted sternly: "Don't throw torches!...Ah! You are so fucking blind, how dare you throw them at me! I will skin you alive!"
When they were still twenty steps away, the enemy troops were all on fire, and the Qin army in the posthouse could already smell the smell of burning hair.
Hulda, who was at the rear, saw the cavalry on fire and said excitedly: "Yes! Yes! Charge forward! If you charge forward, you will definitely burn down the Qin people's fence!"
The few Qianqi commanders who were close to them cursed in their hearts: "Animal! Why don't you go up there yourself and roast yourself until you're charred on the outside and tender on the inside..."
Seeing that the situation was not good, Qianqi Commander shouted loudly: "Withdraw! Withdraw!"
If you don't retreat quickly and extinguish the fire on your body, I'm afraid you'll be cooked before you even get to the inn!
When Hulda saw the cavalry retreating, he roared angrily: "No retreat! Charge up, let me charge up!"
Who cares about the red-eyed cavalry? He just turned around and ran back.
This red eye is not a killer red eye, it is an authentic smoky red eye...
When he retreated to extinguish the fire on his body, the thousand cavalry commanders had turned into five hundred cavalry commanders, and the other five hundred people were burning brightly in front of the post house.
Hulda lost his temper and couldn't vent his anger. He thought for a long time and said harshly to the commander of the cavalry: "As you said, abandon the horse! Dismantle the grain cart and make it into a battering ram and a shield." , change to infantry attack!"
Commander Wan Qi next to him breathed a sigh of relief and said quickly: "Da Danghu Yingming, I will take care of it right away."
Damn, you are finally smart for once! If you had listened to me earlier, why would you sacrifice five hundred people in vain? After watching him think for a long time, I thought he had some bad idea.
Zhao Song and others in the post house saw Hulda stop attacking and quickly climbed up to the high platform to take a look.
"They abandoned their horses! They are dismantling the grain carts, probably to make a battering ram!"
Wei Cheng frowned and said: "If we change it to an infantry attack, our horse traps and horse-killing knives will be of limited use. Once the camp gate is breached, they will have a numerical advantage and we may not be able to hold on!"
Qidahel nodded and said solemnly: "This Hulda is a reckless man, he actually wants to change the cavalry into infantry!"
Zhao Song also sighed: "For now, the only way is to hold on and wait for reinforcements to arrive."
