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- There is a valley twenty miles outside Suiyang City called Qinglang Valley. Now Li Kuo led ten thousand cavalry to the entrance of the valley.
As Li Kuo expected, the balance between himself and Cui Boyuan was eventually broken as he continued to approach Suiyang City. When he arrived at a position thirty miles away from Suiyang, Cui Boyuan led the cavalry to attack on both wings. Although the number of cavalry he sent was not very large, it had a considerable restraining effect on himself.
In a cavalry duel on the plains, quantity is the decisive factor, followed by speed and quality.
Even if you have a thousand elite troops, you won't be able to take advantage of ten thousand riders of average quality. If someone really dares to defeat an army of ten thousand cavalry with a thousand cavalry, he may be lost in the vast sea of ??cavalry in an instant.
What's more, Cui Boyuan faced an elite army like himself that was eager to rush to Suiyang for reinforcements. Hatred can sometimes make people burst out with surprising power, and this army is obviously full of hatred for the rebels.
Cui Boyuan is well aware of these principles, so of course he will not take the initiative to seek a decisive battle with himself. But it was impossible for him to watch these thousands of troops galloping to the foot of Suiyang City. So what he had to do was to limit his marching speed as much as possible to buy more preparation time for Yin Ziqi outside Suiyang City.
From the beginning to the end, Cui Boyuan never thought about having a head-on confrontation with him!
This kind of harassment continued until he arrived outside Qinglang Valley. At this time, Cui Boyuan led his soldiers and fled away as if he had completed his mission, leaving the ten thousand horsemen staring blankly at the valley.
The last time Li Kuo rushed to aid Ningling, the route he took this time was one south and one north, so the detailed actual topography of this line is very vague.
"Qi Lang, it seems that Cui Boyuan is sure that we can't pass through the Green Wolf Valley." Zhou Wuwuzhe held his riding whip and pointed at the mouth of the valley not far away, smiling bitterly. No wonder Cui Boyuan led his troops to evacuate without hesitation. In such a narrow valley, the numerical advantage was not reflected at all. There was no essential difference between 100,000 people and 10,000 people. It seems that the rebels only need to station five thousand soldiers in the valley to block their way to Suiyang.
Li Kuo sighed: "Yes, it seems that there is a fierce battle to be fought."
Even if the rebels firmly control the valley entrance, he must lead his army to fight them. Only if he wins can he pass through the Qinglang Valley and rush to the aid of Suiyang. And if you can't win this battle, all your previous efforts will be in vain.
Green Wolf Valley, Green Wolf Valley!
Li Kuo clenched his fists loudly, and a cold light shot out from his eyes.
Qinglang Valley is in the shape of a bag, with the mouth of the bag on the side close to Suiyang. In other words, it is very easy to advance from Li Kuo's side, but it will be very difficult to pass through the valley safely.
But Li Kuo had to face the difficulty. At this time, he had no choice.
He divided the 10,000 cavalry into four battalions, commanded by Zhou Wuwei, Dou Qing, Li Sheng and himself respectively. The reason why the troops should be divided into four battalions is because the farther north you go, the narrower the space in the valley becomes, making it impossible to accommodate too many people.
The four armies attack the rebel formations in a certain order. This can well compensate for the decline in combat effectiveness caused by fatigue caused by one army taking the lead.
?Things seem simple, but are actually very difficult to do.
First of all, the space in the valley was narrower than Li Kuo imagined. Before the army had passed one third of the valley, they had to get off their horses and walk alone. Not being able to ride horses also has a huge impact on this army. After all, what is most needed to charge into the formation is a certain impact, and if the speed of the war horse can be used, it will be very easy to complete the charge. But now, they had to give up riding horses and fight on foot.
Since they are light cavalry, they cannot carry too heavy weapons, so the weapons each person is equipped with are no more than a horizontal sword and a silver spear. There is nothing wrong with such ordnance in horse battles, but its shortcomings are fully exposed in infantry battles.
The spear is slightly better, after all, it can kill the enemy from a long distance. However, the horizontal sword is almost the weakest weapon in infantry combat. When the enemy builds defensive trenches and firewood, soldiers holding the horizontal sword will often be shot to death by a round of random arrows before they get close to the enemy.
Therefore, Li Kuo must come up with better ways to reduce the damage caused by enemy long-range crossbows to his own army.
Finally, he discovered a strange-looking dead tree in the valley. The hardness of this kind of dead wood is similar to that of fir and cypress. It is better than dry wood and is very suitable for defense. Li Kuo immediately ordered the entire army to collect dead wood and string together arrowheads with the skins removed, and finally formed a shield wall as tall as a person.
"When I pass on my general's order, the first step is toThe whole army attacks the camp! "
Li Kuo calmed down his expression, pulled out the black sword that drank countless blood from the scabbard, and swung it forward with all his strength.
This is a brutal hand-to-hand battle!
This was clearly felt when Li Kuo led his troops into the enemy's first line of defense.
Although the enemy only deployed more than 500 people on this line of defense, they blocked their way. If he didn't kill them all, he would never be able to move forward.
But how easy is it to kill them all?
¡°Puff!¡±
¡°Hyangyang!¡±
"Poof!"
The arrows like locusts kept hitting the giant shield, making a terrifying sound. Although they knew that the wooden shield was enough to block the enemy's fire, the brothers who rushed to the camp after the first turn behind the wooden shield still felt heart palpitations for no reason.
Now for the soldiers who first broke into the camp, every step forward was very difficult, but they could not stop. There were many brothers behind them waiting to move forward. If they could not seize this first line of defense, the whole army would be in danger. It would be impossible for the army to go further, and rushing to the rescue of Suiyang City would be like a flower in the mirror, which is simply impossible to achieve!
"Come in!" Li Kuo gritted his teeth and issued a death order. At this moment, I must not hesitate at all. No matter how high the price is, I must seize this first line of defense.
"The Governor has an order, come in!" Wang Xiaochun shouted loudly, raised his knife and shouted.
"One, two, go in!"
"One, two, go in!"
Because the giant shield was made on a temporary basis and its workmanship was extremely rough, the soldiers would consume a lot of energy every time they moved forward. But this huge shield was their only support. The rebels were standing on the slope. From this angle, if they only relied on the wooden shield issued by the army, they would be shot into sieves sooner or later.
¡°Hyangyang!¡±
¡°Puff!¡±
The arrows continued to hit the giant shield, but the soldiers were not as panicked as before. They knew that the rebels' arrows would not cause harm to them, so they pretended not to have seen the scary sound!
One step, two steps, the brothers who rushed to the camp at the first break moved forward with difficulty.
"Ah!" "Ah!"
At some point, casualties appeared in the first charge into the camp. Some Jianghuai Army soldiers covered their wounds and fell to the ground in pain, groaning loudly. As the Jianghuai Army continued to advance, the angle with the rebels on the slope became wider and wider. The rebels did not have to worry about the arrows being weak due to the excessive angle of the crossbows. They leaned back and shot the arrows.
More and more brothers fell down in pain and never stood up again!
The rebels adjusted the angle and fired upwards. This was the reason why the brothers in the first charge of the camp suffered casualties!
Li Kuo took a deep breath and ordered: "Except for the brother who moved the giant shield, everyone should take out the wooden shield to protect the vital parts of the body!"
As soon as this order came out, the soldiers took out the wooden shields behind their backs to protect their heads and chests.
At this time, more and more feather arrows were shot upward from the slope. These feather arrows easily crossed the giant shield and shot down from the sky towards the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army.
¡°Bang bang!¡±
¡°Puff!¡±
¡°Bang bang!¡±
Most of the feather arrows hit the Tang Dynasty standard wooden shield and were relieved of their strength. They slid to both sides, losing their due threat. But there were still a few feather arrows that got through the gaps in the shields and shot out of the throats of Jianghuai Army soldiers.
"Uh, uh!" A soldier of the Jianghuai Army held the arrow at his throat tightly, as if he wanted to say something. But apart from making a few buzzing noises, he couldn't make Pao Ze understand what he wanted to express. A stream of bright red blood surged out of his throat, and he fell back with a heavy look in his eyes.
Another soldier was shot through the eye by a leaping Eagle Feather Arrow. He fell to the ground in pain and was trampled into a pulp by Brother Paoze who followed him.
"Speed ??up, hurry up, there are only a few dozen steps left, rush over, brothers, rush over harder!" Li Kuo drew out his big black sword and ordered resolutely.
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