After walking for nearly two hours, the Zengtou City army had only walked thirty miles. The muddy ground made the horses restless. Qinbei Pavilion
"Report, there is a swamp ahead, the water is more than three feet deep!"
A soldier came to report.
"Why is there Mizusawa again!"
Zeng Mi yelled angrily. There was not much smooth road along the way, and now there was even a puddle of water.
"Quickly pass through, and after walking for more than ten miles, you can reach the hills. Beyond the hills, you will reach high ground, and there will be no water accumulation!"
Zeng Tu directly ordered that they had walked more than twenty miles and could not turn back now, so they could only continue walking.
Six thousand cavalry quickly entered the water, leaving only scattered torches to illuminate them.
Suddenly, a flying claw flew out of the darkness and hit a Zengtou City cavalry. Unprepared, the cavalry was dragged directly into the water, struggling and causing a splash of water.
The same thing happened among the regular cavalry, and hundreds of them were hooked into the water.
"Enemy attack! Light the torch! Get closer!"
Shi Wengong immediately shouted. The team of six thousand cavalry was very long. The enemy could attack from anywhere, and the army had to move closer to defend.
The movement of war horses in the swamp became more difficult, and many people were dragged into the darkness by hooks flying out of the darkness.
As the cavalry gradually gathered, torches also gathered, and the fire finally illuminated the surroundings.
"who is it!"
Zeng Suo looked at the corpses of soldiers floating in the water and yelled angrily.
"It must be Sun Lei, he is the only one who would be so mean!"
Zeng Mi immediately said, the only one around here who dared to attack them was Sun Lei.
"Don't stay here for long, leave quickly!"
Shi Wengong's face turned pale as he looked at the floating corpses. They fell into Sun Lei's trap, but what puzzled him was that they suddenly decided to leave the city. How did Sun Lei know about it and set up an ambush.
"Walk!"
Zeng Tu yelled and continued walking north with the cavalry. They must leave this swamp quickly.
But what they didn't expect was that a large number of floating logs appeared in front of them. Each log was at least one foot thick and one or two feet long, blocking the way.
"Chains! Not good!"
Su Ding used the spear in his hand to pick it up, but the log just shook and could not be picked apart at all. Although the log was heavy, it was not difficult to move it while floating on the water. With a sweep of the spear, iron chains were found at both ends. , these logs were all connected by iron chains.
"What can I do? I can't get through it at all!"
Looking at the stacked logs, Zeng Kui and Zeng Sheng were a little anxious. They pushed them several times, but the logs were locked together and couldn't be pushed open at all.
At this moment, another flying claw came and hooked dozens of soldiers in the rear into the water. Those soldiers were killed amidst screams and splashes of water.
"Kill me! Where to kill!"
Shi Wengong pointed in a direction and shouted. He couldn't see the enemy clearly in the dark, so he could only find a random direction and crush them.
The cavalry rushed over on horseback, but soon there was a scream and the sound of falling into the water. The cavalry at the front fell off the horse and fell into the water.
“There are logs here too!”
The cavalry in front roared, and there were also logs chained in this direction.
“There are logs over there too!”
“There are logs in the back too!”
"We are surrounded!"
Bursts of chaotic shouts came one after another, and panic spread among the soldiers. What the light cavalry feared most was being restricted. Now they were deep in the water, already had difficulty moving, and were surrounded by logs connected by iron chains, which was equivalent to It trapped them to death in this swamp, and they could not use 20% of their 100% combat power.
"Cut it! Cut it out!"
Seeing that he was surrounded, Zeng Tu directly asked the soldiers to use their weapons to chop down the iron chains nailed to the logs.
But the logs were not connected in one order. At first, they were chopped open several layers, and the logs immediately fell into a mess, and even rushed into the team, causing the team to be in chaos.
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"Mr. Li, this iron chain is so high!"
Sun Lei looked at Shuize Li's chaotic enemies and said with a smile, Li Zhu's chain of iron ropes was able to defeat those cavalry to death.
"Haha, if there is no water, there is really no way to trap these light cavalry."
Li Assistant said with a smile.
"Order, kill!"
Sun Lei smiled and waved his hand, and the sound of war drums sounded in the dark night. The flying claws were continuously thrown in the darkness, and the cavalry in the hook was dragged into the water. The horse thieves who were hooked would struggle for a while, causing chaos around them.
"Fire the arrow!"
Shi Wengong roared. Enemies attacked from all directions, leaving them unable to defend themselves. They could only force the enemies back by missing arrows.
Sure enough, after the sound of the bow string, no flying claws appeared in the darkness, but the shooting of the crossbow stopped for a while, and those life-threatening flying claws appeared again.
"We can't fight like this, we must escape from this swamp!"
Su Ding watched the soldiers dying and said quickly that if they continued like this, they would be slowly worn to death by the enemy.
"How do you get out? Everything is blocked!"
Zeng Mi yelled that normally, he would be able to overcome these obstacles with his horse, but now they were trapped in a swamp more than three feet high, with logs floating on the water, and they could not get over it at all.
"Abandon your horse!"
Shi Wengong said two words.
"What? Don't even think about it!"
Zeng Mi, Zeng Suo, Zeng Kui, and Zeng Sheng shouted in unison that the war horses were their lives and could never be abandoned.
"If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave!"
Shi Wengong looked around. They were holding torches. They were living targets in the dark. The enemy would kill dozens or hundreds at a time. If they killed dozens of times, more than half of them would be killed or wounded. Once the number of people was reduced, the enemy would attack more unscrupulously. In a vicious cycle, There is only one way for them to die.
"No, we can't give up the war horse!"
Zeng Sheng looked at Zeng Tu, the war horses were the lives of the Jurchens, and the six thousand war horses could not be given up under any circumstances.
"Cut it, keep cutting it, chop it out!"
Zeng Kui shouted at the soldiers.
The soldiers were chopping with all their might, but unfortunately the weapons of the cavalry were mostly spears and lances, which were very powerful in breaking formations and killing enemies, but chopping hard objects was not enough.
At the same time, the cavalry also kept shooting around to block the approaching enemies.
"These people should be running out of arrows soon, prepare to charge!"
Not long after, Lin Chong looked at everyone and said, once the cavalry is trapped, they will be jackals without teeth and claws.
"kill!"
There were loud shouts of killing all around, and Lin Chong, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, Yang Zhi, Ou Peng, Pang Wanchun, Lei Jiong, Ji Ji, Tang Bin, and Hao Siwen from the Ma Army rushed out at the same time.
"Hurry up, or it will be too late!"
Shi Wengong saw the surrounding Liangshan army and shouted to everyone in the Zeng family, now is not the time to feel sorry for the horses. What's the use of having horses if their lives are gone.
"Walk!"
Zeng Tu roared and finally made a decision. He led everyone to abandon their horses and step on the driftwood and wade through the water. After wading through the water for a while, they saw that they were approaching the edge of the swamp, and suddenly there was another shout of killing.
"kill!"
Du Bo, Xiang, Yuan Lang, Feng Tai, Li Yan, Yuan Lang, Teng Kan, Teng Shu, Ma Yi, and Ma Jin led their men to kill.
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