Hardan was like this, and the situation on the northwest front was even worse. It could be said that as soon as the breakthrough was launched, the left and right wings were tightly clamped, and then they were outflanked by the same roundabout.
The three troops of Xirong are equivalent to a lone army on each line of defense. They cannot fight head-on and there will be danger behind them. However, the Qin army can mobilize multiple troops to fight back and forth and intersperse the battlefield. In this regard The tactics are also tried and tested.
The war continued until the second day. Baltu's attack was declared a failure. If the entire battle was viewed from a sand table, the three small flags of the Xirong army in the northwest, northeast, and southeast had been completely uprooted at the battle site. .
There is only one last small flag left, moving westward from Black Rock City.
In fact, in Baltu's heart, he didn't have much hope in repaying Hadan and the others. His original intention was to use these three lines of troops to shake the Qin army's defense line from the north to the east, and even the entire right half of the arc, and contain the effective forces. , create opportunities for yourself to escape westward.
It's a pity that Xiao Yuan can't let him escape.
It can be said that as soon as he left Black Rock City with 20,000 troops and horses, Xiao Yuan had already followed him. At the same time, he sent an order to Chen Hui on the western front to be ready to cut off the Xirong army while holding on.
The Qin army on the western line of defense had the smallest strength, with only 10,000 troops. Under Xiao Yuan's deployment, Chen Hui first fought bloody battles with Baltu for an entire afternoon, but was eventually "lost" and was torn open by him.
Of course, this opening is within the plan, and it has the intention of inviting you to enter the urn.
But for the Western Rong army, this was undoubtedly the hope of survival. Baltu was even more excited. He continued to command, and the other Western Rong soldiers were like crazy. They seemed to see the way home and howled out one after another. Holding their scimitars high, they rushed in through the gap in a swarm.
Then he broke through the western front and turned north, trying to escape from the entire encirclement and return to Rongdu.
In the morning, a certain valley.
The other three groups of Xirong soldiers had been almost wiped out, leaving only Baltu as the main force.
Judging from the map, they had indeed broken through the Qin Army's western defense line, but Baltu did not dare to relax and was still on tenterhooks. Especially when they marched here, he subconsciously tightened the reins.
Perhaps out of a general's instinct, or perhaps because of something else, he rode a war horse, holding the reins in his left hand and raising his right hand slightly to stop the team's progress, and then looked around.
"General." The deputy general hit the horse's belly lightly and came up.
Baltu continued to look at both sides of the valley with a gloomy face, and said quietly: "The empty valley is silent, this place is dangerous."
After hearing this, the lieutenant general looked at the terrain and couldn't help but swallow and said: "Although it is a bit strange here, we have broken through the Qin Army's western defense line, so there should be no danger."
"Who knows if the Qin army deliberately made way for us and let us take this road." Baltu said.
"Ah? The general is saying..." The deputy general's heart suddenly shrank.
Baltu raised his hand to interrupt him and said directly: "Take your own troops and go first."
"What?" The deputy general was startled and stammered: "General, this, this."
"Huh!?" Baltu's face turned cold and he glared angrily.
The terrain here is dangerous and silent, and everything is weird. Looking around, on both sides of the valley and in the dense forest, it feels like there are countless pairs of eyes staring at me.
The lieutenant general felt extremely uneasy, but he did not dare to disobey the commander's order. He could only respond with difficulty as his Adam's apple slipped: "Yes, yes... I will take people to explore the road now."
Subsequently, the remaining 10,000 Xirong soldiers were divided into two groups. One group was led by a deputy general and opened the way first.
"You teams, hurry up and follow on the left. If there is any danger, immediately protect this general."
"Your teams, guard the right side..."
He was riding a war horse, followed by a large number of soldiers. Not to mention how careful he was in walking, and he arranged a lot of guards around him. He walked carefully looking at the environment on both sides as he walked.
Suddenly, the trees on the mountain on the right trembled, and the already nervous Lieutenant General Xirong immediately screamed: "Who is it!?"
"General, it's a wild bird." A soldier from the Western Army returned.
Hearing this, the deputy general sighed secretly and said with lingering fear: "Quick, hurry up, it's not suitable to stay here for a long time."
The valley is not big, but the valley road is enough for marching.
The deputy general of Xirong was scared to death, but fortunately, there were no dangers along the way and he walked out of the danger safely, and then reported the situation to the rear army.
Knowing that there was no danger ahead, Baltu was still a little worried, but he had no choice. After thinking about it for a moment, he could only wave his hand and say: "Let's go!"
Following his order, the rear army began to walk along the valley road. Like the deputy general, Baltu also looked around the mountains on the left and right from time to time.
But when the rear army was halfway through the march, there was sudden movement on both sides of the valley, and then, large rocks began to roll down the hillside, mixed with dust.
"Ah!? There's an ambush!"
"Quick! Get out of here!"
"Let the former army respond -"
Amidst the shouts and the neighing of war horses, the Xirong army was already in chaos. Huge rocks fell down, people fell on their backs, and many soldiers died of violent blood.
Baltu's eyes were even more splitting, and he couldn't care so much anymore. He jerked his horse's butt and ran straight ahead among the chaotic army.
But before he could run far, several sharp wooden frames fell down on both sides of the valley ahead, mixed with rocks, completely blocking the way forward.
"Uu——"
Under such circumstances, Baltu had no choice but to tighten the reins, turn the horse's head again, and turn back.
This is a typical example of deliberately giving way, asking you to enter the urn, ambush in the valley, and then cut it off so that the front and rear of the army cannot respond to each other, and destroy them one by one.
Baltu, who wanted to abandon the large army and escape alone, was forced to turn back. When he saw him, a young general from Xirong immediately shouted: "Quick! Protect the general! Protect the general——"
Under his roar, the nearby Xirong soldiers began to surround Baltu. The latter also drew his scimitar, pointed at the way he came, and shouted with his hair and beard stretched: "Kill! Kill out-"
In a desperate situation, no one dared to stay. Without his orders, all the Xirong soldiers, in panic, had already begun to flee madly outside the valley.
On the mountains on both sides, battle flags fluttered. At that moment, black armor and red tassels filled the mountains and plains.
Then they all bent their bows and set arrows, pointed them downwards, and started shooting randomly.
Arrows rained down from both sides, and the soldiers of the Western Army were running to death. Some people had just drawn out the arrows from their backs, and before they had time to draw their bows, they were turned into hedgehogs by the random arrows...
At the same time, Xirong's front army.
Such an ambush made a lot of noise. Naturally, the deputy general heard it. While his face changed drastically, he also shouted in a trembling voice: "What's going on behind there! What happened!?"
"General...General." A Xirong soldier ran over in a panic: "The rear army was ambushed, and General Baltu was trapped in a tight siege..."
