Under the silent moonlit night, another charge horn sounded in the empty and charming canyon. The sound was long and deep...
The ground began to tremble, and bursts of smoke and dust flew across the canyon. As the smoke and dust rose, an army of about 100,000 slaves was seen rushing towards the Guards like tigers...
Lott mobilized half of his army, and they launched a general attack on the enemy.
Facing the slave army coming like a tide, the Guards also responded quickly. As the gate of the camp slowly opened, a heavy cavalry force of about 5,000 people filed out. Their thick and powerful horse hooves stirred up gravel all over the place. On the ground, the solid and neat armor shined in the moonlight.
Like an impenetrable iron wall, they pounced on the oncoming slave army.
Behind the heavy cavalry is a light cavalry force of about 20,000 people. After the former disrupts the enemy's formation, the latter will use its mobility and other characteristics to inflict heavy damage on the enemy and clean up the mess.
The shouts of the slaves and the thumping of the horses' hooves were intertwined, and they were rushing towards each other like an overwhelming force. From a distance, the two sides looked like two long dragons advancing rapidly, and they could not be seen to the side at a glance.
On a hill not far away, Luo De stared intently at the two armies that were about to come into contact. His eyes were fixed on the four lines about 5 meters deep and 8 meters wide located about 50 meters in front of the heavy cavalry. to a 10-meter trench.
Those four trenches were about to become his key to turning the tide of the war, but at this moment, he didn't seem to have enough confidence.
Facing the heavy cavalry moving as fast as a gust of wind, he was not sure whether the four trenches could block their charge and undermine their will to fight.
Victory or defeat is decided in one fell swoop.
Just when the two sides were about to come into contact, the front of the heavy cavalry entered the area where the four trenches were located. With the sound of neighing sounds, horses wearing heavy armor carried soldiers who were also wearing heavy armor on their backs. Fell into the ditch.
As the formation moved forward, more and more heavy cavalry fell into the trench like mercury pouring down the ground. The trench, which was about 5 meters deep and 8 to 10 meters wide, became an insurmountable chasm for the cavalry.
The charging slave army stopped its progress like nails. They either put their hands on their hips or stopped to watch, quietly witnessing the heavy cavalry falling into the trench not far away.
Once the charge of the heavy cavalry started, it would be impossible to stop them. The sudden appearance of the trench caught them off guard. As the cavalry in front kept falling, they fell towards the trench like one layer after another like waves...
Soon, the trench that was 5 meters deep and 10 meters wide at the front was filled. The cavalry behind them rushed forward on the body of the former. In just a moment, the second trench was filled. When it was full, the third trench was filled up, and then the fourth trench was filled up one after another.
The charging cavalry finally stopped. They stopped in front of the four trenches, looking at the slave army standing 50 meters in front, and never took another step forward.
The four trenches caused them heavy losses. They didn't know whether there were several trenches waiting for them in the short 50 meters.
There was a confrontation between the two sides, and no one took a step forward.
Suddenly, about 2,000 large birds appeared above the canyon. They were an aerial force sent by Lot. They were entrenched in the sky above their own army, but they did not attack the cavalry troops below.
About a minute later, 400 big birds flew out from this air force. They flew above the four trenches. As baskets of grease poured down one after another, people in the four trenches stood on their backs.
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The overturning heavy cavalry was soaked in bright yellow grease.
"Whoosh whoosh..." Dozens of flaming arrow clusters flew towards the trench, "Boom, boom, boom!" Groups of flames suddenly shot up, and in an instant, four raging walls of fire rose up.
The fire wall is about tens of meters high, like a matrix of four fires dividing the canyon into two.
As early as when Lot ordered the slaves to dig the four trenches, he ordered them to pour waist-deep grease into the trenches. The grease not only made the already steep trenches more slippery, but also provided abundant fuel for the current fire. of fuel.
Four raging walls of fire prevented the cavalry troops of the Guards from any possibility of charging forward. They became a group of trapped beasts, unable to move, but unable to retreat. In view of the disadvantage of the rebels not having cavalry, their cavalry It only takes one charge for the troops to send the slaves to the west.
Confidence stems from the asymmetrical weapon hierarchy, sophisticated equipment, and excellent tactics. Even though the fire prevented their temporary crushing charge, the fire also extinguished for a moment.
Suddenly, the cavalrymen felt something strange. There were gravels rolling down from the mountains on both sides of the canyon under their horses' hoofs. They looked up and saw two groups of slaves appearing on the mountains on both sides. Their number was about Around 3,000 people.
Under the dim moonlight, they were densely distributed on the mountains on both sides like ghosts. Before the cavalry could react, round table-like boulders rolled down like a flood.
The crashing sound of boulders mixed with the cold whistling sound rushed down from the mountains on both sides, rushing towards the cavalry in the canyon like wind and residual clouds.
The cavalry queue was in chaos. They fled backward in groups, but the huge team not only blocked their escape route, but also made the originally chaotic queue even more crowded and chaotic.
Before the boulders on both sides fell down, some of the cavalry were knocked over or trampled to the ground as they crowded and collided with each other.
The chaos didn't last long before it was shattered by the impact of the roaring Stonehenge. The panic sounds turned into the whine of the war horses and the screams of the cavalry...
The boulders were like chariots that used the potential energy of the mountain to destroy everything along the way. Although the horses and soldiers had thick armor, they were as fragile as eggshells in front of the boulders.
The war horses were either knocked several meters away by the boulders, or were crushed all over them. The cavalry on them were even more helpless. Some of them were pinched to death by the boulders from both sides, and the other part were killed on the spot by the boulders. More of them became meat pies amidst the impact and chaos of the boulders.
For a time, the sound of rolling boulders, the tearing sound of hitting the body, the screams of the cavalry, and the neighing of the horses resounded throughout the canyon, like hell.
Under the cold moonlight, the boulders on both sides of the canyon were still pouring down crazily like endless waves. At this moment, 2,000 big birds flew out from the other side of the fire wall, with three slaves sitting on the backs of the big birds. , they raised their bows and nocked arrows, aiming their sharp arrows at the chaotic cavalry troops in the canyon.
"Swish, swish, swish..." A dense rain of arrows poured down like a storm. After the rain of arrows, the cavalry troops fell on their backs, dead and wounded.
The cavalry troops on the ground were completely targeted by the aerial troops for wanton killing, and they were helpless. The big birds sometimes swooped down and used their sharp claws to pierce the bodies of the cavalry on horseback, or grabbed them firmly, Throw it high into the sky.
Sometimes the big birds flew over the heads of the cavalry like hurricanes, and they were greeted by piercing spears and whistling scimitars.
While the air forces were attacking, both sides
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The surging and dense boulders of the mountain were still crushing and destroying everything along the way, and more and more cavalry were buried under the boulders.
3,000 big birds took off from the Guards Corps camp. They flew towards the fierce fighting area like a dense swarm of locusts. The goal was naturally to rescue the trapped cavalry troops.
They flew not high, flying forward along the canyon, and their height did not exceed the mountains on both sides, in order to reach the target area as soon as possible.
Just when they arrived at the fierce battle area, nearly 2,000 slave crossbowmen suddenly appeared from the heights of the mountains on both sides. Before the air troops of the Guards Corps could launch an attack, the latter overturned a cloud-like attack on the former. Cluster of arrows.
The air troops who came to the rescue were caught off guard. After the rain of arrows, nearly 30% of the big birds were shot by arrows. They fell headlong into the canyon like hedgehogs...
The attack caused a brief chaos in the air force of the Guards Corps, but the attack of the slave army did not stop there. Large nets appeared in the sky, numbering more than 100.
There are 6 big birds at both ends of the big net. They form a group of 12, pulling the big net and flying quickly towards the air troops of the Guards Corps...
Soon, 100 large nets collected all the chaotic air troops at the bottom of the net like fishing. As the large nets closed, they became the turtles in the net.
At the same time, a group of about 800 big birds composed of slave rebels flew around 100 large nets. The slave warriors on the backs of the big birds swung their spears and stabbed the soldiers in the net. After the blood mist sprayed, the soldiers on the big bird's back were slaughtered.
After that, 100 large nets were pulled by the big birds and flew to the other side of the fire wall, which was the camp of the slave resistance army, followed closely by the 800 big birds and their backs who carried out the assassination mission. The slave warriors above.
At this point, the air troops of the Guards Corps had been wiped out, while the air troops of the resistance army had grown from scratch, and their number had increased to more than 3,200.
This also marked that Lot's army had achieved absolute air supremacy.
The massacre on the ground continued. The rolling boulders destroyed and massacred the horses and cavalry along the way. Arrow clusters from the mountains on both sides of the canyon were still falling densely. More and more cavalry fell into a pool of blood.
The massacre lasted for a full three hours. 5,000 heavy cavalry and 20,000 light cavalry were almost slaughtered. Only a handful of defeated soldiers, about 300 people, broke out of the siege.
They were all seriously injured and had no fighting capacity.
In this battle, the cavalry troops of the Guards Corps were completely wiped out.
The four walls of fire were still burning fiercely. The waist-deep grease and the heavy cavalry that fell into the ditch became a steady stream of fuel. The raging fire was like four bright lamps, illuminating the fighting battlefield brightly, and the firelight reflected the room. It’s the lives lost one by one and the piles of broken limbs.
On the hill not far away, Lot breathed a long sigh of relief. The strategy he formulated was effective, but he was very clear. Although the air and cavalry units of the Guards Corps were completely wiped out in this battle, their main force still remained. , it is not easy to completely chew this hard bone as quickly as possible.
One of the most unfavorable factors is that the five Qinwang troops encircled by land and water are not far away from each other and are advancing extremely fast. They will reach the canyon area in up to 2 days.
Luo De must wipe out the Guards Corps as quickly as possible, otherwise, the empire's King Qin's army will arrive at the outskirts of Jiye City and surround them. By then, the situation will be completely reversed.
Time for him means survival and victory.
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