Gu Liangchen stopped and the cavalry in the back team also stopped. The Xiguan archers behind the wall did not move at first, but Chu Huan had already given an order, and the arrows were like rain, shooting towards the dark pit.

The place where the dark pit was excavated was the best range of arrows. Some cavalrymen who fell into the pit finally crawled out of it with injuries. As soon as they looked up, there was a dense rain of arrows in front of them, and many people were shot into hedgehogs in an instant.

Gu Liangchen was extremely angry, and the rushing momentum of the Tianshan cavalry was severely hit in an instant.

The Xiguan army was flying arrows. Gu Liangchen did not continue to order the cavalry to advance, but ordered a soldier who received the flag to wave the flag. Not long after, he saw a group of infantry rushing up from the rear of the cavalry.

The group of infantry was mainly shield soldiers in front of them. The shield soldiers lined up in a row and moved forward quickly. Three or four hundred shield soldiers formed a wall of iron. Behind the shield soldiers, there was a toad soldier composed of three or four hundred people.

The so-called toad soldiers are actually no different from ordinary infantry. However, compared with ordinary infantry, they have more weapons on them, which are exquisitely crafted shovels. This type of shovel is much smaller than the shovel handles of the farm shovels, but the shovels that dig and shovel are not much smaller, and are actually more difficult to use than ordinary farm shovels. Because they need to be carried in the army, the smaller the ones, the better. However, the shovel surface itself cannot be too narrow, so you can only shorten the shovel handles as much as possible. In this way, the effort consumed when using this kind of military shovel will be much greater.

When fighting, the toad soldiers are no different from ordinary savage soldiers, but because they take on more responsibilities, they will be treated better. The toad soldiers also choose soldiers with great strength to serve.

When the Tianshan Army attacked Hezhou, it naturally had a long time to know the defense line of Hezhou. Before going to war, it did not immediately think of using the people to fill the land. Instead, it prepared a batch of toad soldiers. However, the battle of Hezhou was useless. However, this toad soldier still advanced east to Qingyuan Horse Farm, and the number was not large. Zhu Lingyue had 60 million troops, and the toad soldiers totaled only three or four thousand.

When Zhu Lingyue learned that there were trenches dug on both sides of the Qingyuan Horse Farm, when he mobilized infantry to support him, he mobilized 3,000 infantry, including six or seven hundred toad soldiers to make a complete plan.

Gu Liangchen decided to charge with cavalry from the beginning, and did not send toad soldiers. The reason was very simple. Although the Tianshan Army was one, there were still factions, and there were conflicts between infantry and cavalry in private.

Zhu Lingyue focused on developing cavalry and invested a lot of energy and financial resources. The cavalry generals led by Hou Jingang were highly valued by Zhu Lingyue. Gu Liangchen was a member of the cavalry general and was naturally one of the defenders of the interests of the cavalry group.

In fact, the infantry group in Tianshan is mainly a group of people who were originally affiliated with the Tianshan Governor-General Guards. Dongfang Xin, who was crushed by Chu Huan, was also affiliated with the infantry group in the Tianshan Group. These people followed Zhu Lingyue for a long time and were considered veterans of the Zhu Party. The cavalry was not large in Tianshan before and did not belong to the main force. When Zhu Lingyue developed the cavalry, he vigorously promoted many up-and-coming celebrities. These cavalry generals were either promoted from the state army or although they came from the Imperial Guards, they did not have much high status in the Guards. When the cavalry group developed and obtained a large number of various military supplies from Tianshan, they would naturally make the veterans who had followed Zhu Lingyue for many years very dissatisfied. The veterans also despised the cavalry generals, and they felt that these up-and-coming talents were nothing more than a fancy way. In this way, the conflict between the two sides was naturally inevitable.

Fortunately, Zhu Lingyue coordinated Yin and Yang and had the ability to control people, so the Tianshan Group generally seemed to be quite stable, and the contradiction between the infantry group and the cavalry group had not expanded.

However, this time when we went to Xiguan, the conflict between the two sides naturally surfaced. They all wanted to make military achievements in this war and gained the attention of Zhu Lingyue.

The infantry had this mind, and the cavalry was naturally even more mindful. Although they had trained for many years, they had not yet shown their skills on the battlefield. If they wanted to continue to gain strong support from Zhu Lingyue, they naturally had to make military achievements in this war. Only in this way can those veteran infantry generals who despise the cavalry group shut their mouths and gain the upper hand in the power struggle of infantry and cavalry.

Before going to war, Hou Jingang, the commander of the cavalry, had already summoned a group of cavalry generals and repeatedly reminded him that in this battle, he must strive for the first place and must overshadow the infantry in the limelight.

Therefore, after attacking Hezhou, the cavalry attacked everywhere and quickly captured the major counties in Hezhou with their powerful maneuvers. Because Pei Ji narrowed his defense line and stationed troops in Hezhou City, the attack of the Tianshan cavalry was very smooth and could be said to be invincible. At one time, they were in the limelight. They also left the infantry and carried out cavalry assault operations, with excellent results.

In the Hezhou siege, infantry went into battle and cavalry stood on standby, but the infantry attacked for several days but could not capture Hezhou City, which made the infantry group extremely upset, and the cavalry group was overjoyed. When the cavalry generals were in the limelight, they tacitly reached a tacit understanding, striving for every opportunity to make military achievements and keep the infantry aside as much as possible.

Although the infantry was upset, Zhu Lingyue attached great importance to the cavalry. When he attacked the horse farm this time, the infantry and cavalry generals naturally made suggestions to Zhu Lingyue, hoping to take the lead in attacking. However, the cavalry group obviously stood up, and the area of ​​the horse farm was indeed suitable for cavalry to kill suddenly. Therefore, as the main force in this battle, the infantry could only assist from the side.

Gu Liangchen naturally hoped that his cavalry could break through the defense line of the Xiguan Army in one go and take the lead in entering the horse farm. However, the barrier of the hidden pit caused him to lose hundreds of cavalry in a short period of time. Such losses were not small. According to the loss ratio on the battlefield, more than half of the soldiers on both sides were killed or injured. In that case, the war could be said to be extremely tragic. Generally speaking, the death rate of both sides exceeded one tenth was considered to be fierce.

Now that we have not rushed to the edge of the wall, hundreds of people have been killed or injured in an instant. For Gu Liangchen, who has only 5,000 cavalry, this loss is definitely not small.

There was also an open trench ahead, and the obstacles of the hidden pit seriously hindered the impact of the cavalry. Of course, Gu Liangchen hoped that the cavalry could complete the attack independently, but as a general with a clear mind, after encountering such losses, he knew that he could no longer care about the differences between cavalry in his department. Since there were toad soldiers behind him, of course, he should still use their advantages as much as possible.

Attacking plains and wild villages is of course much simpler than attacking cities, and the tools are actually not much more than preparation. At this moment, the most effective and simplest way to defend against the horse farm is to fill the soil.

The infantry had the opportunity, of course they would not miss it. The shield soldiers formed a line, providing cover for the toad soldiers behind them as much as possible, and advancing quickly. Although the shield soldiers and toad soldiers fell down in the chaos of arrows from time to time, someone immediately made up for it behind, and the speed of the propulsion was still very fast.

Soon, the team advanced to the edge of the dark pit. In the dark pit, human corpses and horse corpses intersected each other. Some were not dead, they were fuzzy and struggled freely.

The shield soldier raised his shield in the midst of the arrows and rescued his surviving companions in the dark pit as much as possible. As long as the dead bodies were dead, they were no longer able to take care of them.

When the survivors were rescued, the shield soldiers had to retreat and separate and give up the place. Otherwise, the toad soldiers would have no place to dig the soil. The toad soldiers were well-trained and were already in their hands with shovels. They worked hard to dig the soil and fill the soil. Someone who fell down afterwards immediately made up for it. They lost the protection of the shield soldiers' wall. The Xiguan Army intended to kill the toad soldiers, and the sharp arrows were like rain, and they shot at the toad soldiers who filled the soil.

The toad soldiers lost their protection and many people fell to the ground one after another, but the toad soldiers who followed were still brave enough to move forward. They were worthy of being professional toad soldiers. They were waving shovels and the soil was flying. A layer of dust was spread in the rain of arrows. The dead bodies had been filled with part of the dark pit, but some toad soldiers were shot and died, and the corpse was also in the dark pit. As part of filling the dark pit, the shield soldiers also held up their shields as much as possible, trying their best to provide protection for their companions.

At this time, a small number of archers in Tianshan infantry were already behind and launched a counterattack towards the Xiguan Army behind the wall, hoping to suppress the opponent's rain of arrows with arrows. Both sides were arrowed and arrowed. The counterattack of Tianshan archers also played some role. From time to time, Xiguan soldiers were caught and fell to the ground behind the wall, and the momentum of the arrow rain was slightly weakened.

At this time, not only were the arrows on the north raining, but the sound of killing sounds shook the sky, but the situation that Han Ying encountered was almost exactly the same as that of Chu Huan in the north.

Di Renjie's cavalry legion also encountered the same misfortune as Gu Liangchen's troops. During the sprint, he was also blocked by the hidden pit. Compared with Gu Liangchen's troops, Di Renjie's situation was even worse. His cavalry did not set a sufficient distance, which also led to more cavalry trapped in the hidden pit than in the north. However, the next choice was the same as Gu Liangchen. Di Renjie obviously realized that the open and dark pit dug by the Xiguan army would indeed bring considerable losses to his cavalry legion, so he also sent a signal that the toad soldiers would come forward to fill the soil.

The feather arrows shuttled through, and the sound was shrill, cutting the suffocating space. The Xiguan Army used the walls to cover the walls and used open trenches and dark pits as barriers to continuously shoot sharp arrows, in order to cause the greatest damage to the Tianshan Army with the minimum loss.

Before the war started, the soldiers on both sides might still be nervous, but once they really entered the war, their eyes turned red. Whether it was Xiguan Army or Tianshan Army, these northwest children were very brave. Tianshan soldiers on both sides of the north and south filled the soil and pushed forward regardless of their casualties, using shields, corpses, and everything they could use, just to push forward. Although the Xiguan Army was densely equipped with arrows, it could not prevent the Tianshan Army from filling the hidden pit. The hidden pit did not need to be completely filled, and the cavalry could pass through and it was accomplished.

Not only were the toad soldiers in front digging soil along the wall of the pit, but the toad soldiers behind were not idle either. Many people took off their clothes, dug soil from behind and put it in their clothes. After filling them, they handed them to the front, filled the soil in the clothes into the pit, and handed them back. As a tool for transporting soil, the efficiency was very high. Chu Huan saw it, but he was quite admired in his heart. He thought that after all, they were going out of the northwest together. They said that the people in the northwest were brave and brave. This is true that they would not deceive me. The soldiers of the Xiguan Army and the Tianshan Army were all full of blood.
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