Li Zhao, who was stationed in the camp, heard the sound of horse hooves getting closer and closer, and his palms were already covered with sweat. The infantry on the front line tightly grasped the spears and horses in their hands, forming a spiked defense line to resist the horses.
It is said that if the light cavalry wants to break through the spear formation head-on, it is tantamount to seeking death.
But knowing this, the soldiers could not help but feel frightened. After all, they were facing one of the most elite expedition brigades in Beidi!
Just when everyone's hearts were in their throats, the sound of horse hooves finally arrived. However, the Snow Wolf Brigade cavalry did not charge head-on. Instead, they divided into two teams and separated diagonally to the left and right along the front of the camp. , and in an instant dense crowds of horse bow and arrows shot towards the camp from both wings.
Although Li Chou had sent elite soldiers to defend the two wings in advance, facing the dense rain of arrows, he still caused a large number of casualties in an instant.
Li Zhao did not dare to hesitate and quickly shouted the order: "Hold still and fight back!"
The soldiers defending the two wings knelt on one knee or lay down directly. The infantry archers in the center fought back against the Snow Wolf Brigade cavalry who were attacking on both wings.
Facing the horse archers, the infantry archers have the advantage of range and power. However, due to the blind fire and the high speed of the cavalry, it is difficult to lock the target. They can only shoot "probably" blindly. In this way, the infantry archers' counterattack will be difficult. It seems like a drop in the bucket.
In just a few breaths, the Snow Wolf Brigade cavalry passed by both sides of the station, and the sound of horse hooves came from near to far, and then from far to near. The two cavalrymen crisscrossed, exchanged positions, and charged back from the opposite direction, receiving another round of arrow rain.
Due to the crude camp, not only was the space small, but it also lacked effective defenses. The defenders, whose footing was not stable, were beaten by the Snow Wolf Brigade and were unable to fight back.
After several consecutive attacks, the defenders of the camp had suffered more than 300 casualties.
Although the casualties were less than one-tenth of the total number of soldiers, the impact on morale was huge, and the dense formation had begun to loosen.
Li Zhao shouted at the top of his lungs: "Hold on! If you are defeated, you will not escape death even if you flee to the ends of the earth. The only chance of survival is to hold on until reinforcements arrive!"
If it were normal, the defenders under Li Chi would have begun to collapse. After all, it is human nature to run away if they cannot defeat them. But for the defenders, from the moment they chose to surrender to Qin Feng and support the royal family's orthodoxy, they had no way out.
Go forward or die.
Forcing the defenders to fight against trapped beasts has always been a taboo for military strategists. After all, blocking all escape routes means that the defenders will have no choice but to fight to the death.
Chen Mou knew this truth, but he had no choice. After all, the entire Sangzhou had almost become Qin Feng's world. Simply defeating Lu Ci and Li Zhao's troops would not solve the problem at all, because the scattered defenders would soon be reorganized, and Chen Mou had no conditions to pursue them.
Therefore, we can only kill them all and eradicate them all!
Round after round of arrow rain continued to pour into the camp, and Li Zhao could only defend passively. After all, once he left the camp or his formation was disrupted, what awaited him would be a ruthless massacre by the cavalry.
At the same time, Lu Ci, who was dormant several miles away, had led two thousand cavalry and charged back, preparing to "clamp" the Snow Wolf Brigade to death.
This tactic is extremely correct. After all, only cavalry can defeat cavalry. It does not seem to be difficult to defeat the Snow Wolf Brigade by relying on numerical superiority and attacking from both internal and external wings.
Unfortunately, Lu Ci overlooked one point. The cavalry he faced were not ordinary cavalry, but the tiger and wolf divisions that had forced Liang's border troops into desperate situations several times, and even Qin Feng had to avoid their sharp edge.
As early as the moment Chen Mou launched an attack on the camp, he had already sent out a dozen rangers and dispersed to monitor the surroundings.
While Lu Ci led his army to attack, the messengers had already brought the news back to Chen Mou.
Instead of rallying his troops, Chen Mou divided the two cavalry groups into ten groups, each with a hundred men, led by their respective tooth generals, and fled in all directions.
Because the larger the scale of cavalry combat, the more difficult it is to command. Even if Chen Mou arranged nearly fifty messengers in the army, once a battle occurs, he will no longer be able to issue orders in time. At this moment, as the troops are broken into parts, it is more convenient to command. Just let the messengers convey the orders to the various generals.
And as it breaks down into parts, its actions become more flexible.
When Lu Ci led the mighty two thousand cavalry to the attack point, they found that Chen Mou's cavalry had already fled without a trace.
Before Lu Ci could issue follow-up orders, the surrounding area began to be harassed endlessly and tirelessly by the Snow Wolf Brigade cavalry.
Ten groups of cavalry fired bows and arrows at Lu Ci's large army from all directions.
Since it was thrown towards a large-scale cavalry position, no accuracy was needed at all, and it could escape with one shot.
The messengers kept reporting to Lu Ci that they were being attacked, but they could not catch a small group to harass the enemy cavalry. The enemy cavalry not only ran fast, but also moved flexibly, fighting and retreating. The most critical point was that the target of Lu Ci's cavalry was too big, but the target of Chen Mou's cavalry was too small. They exchanged arrows with each other in the dark night, and the results can be imagined.
The casualty rates on both sides were not proportional at all.
Lu Ci was so harassed that he could only start to give orders, and the troops dispersed and attacked separately.
However, this move played into Chen Mou's wish. As the news came from various troops, it was gathered that Lu Ci's cavalry had dispersed into several small troops and began to pursue them everywhere. Chen Mou immediately ordered all the cavalry under his command to assemble, put away their bows and arrows, unload their horses and horses, rely on the messengers to capture the target, and then launch charges against the target again and again.
In just one hour, more than half of the cavalry under Lu Ci's command were killed or wounded, and they were completely defeated. They could only flee back to the camp in panic and coordinate defense with the infantry defenders.
Once Lu Ci's cavalry was defeated, Chen Mou became more confident and began to harass the camp one after another. When the formation of the spearmen in the front row was finally in chaos, Chen Mou did not hesitate and immediately ordered the entire army to attack, rush into the camp, and charge back and forth to kill.
Although Lu Ci and Li Zhao had long expected that the combat effectiveness of the Snow Wolf Brigade was simply not comparable to their own.
However, the 6,800 defenders were unable to resist the attack of 1,000 Snow Wolf Brigades. This was tantamount to subverting the two people's understanding.
As the formation completely collapsed, the Snow Wolf Brigade's slaughter speed became faster and faster.
Just when Lu Ci was about to give an order for the entire army to retreat and flee in all directions, trying to retain its remaining strength, Chen Mou suddenly led his army to retreat.
Almost in the blink of an eye, Chen Mou and the Snow Wolf Brigade cavalry escaped without a trace.
