Chapter 1971 Flying Stones
The Yi barbarians didn't even see Chu Huan's shadow and fell a big fuck.
Ibrahimovic watched hundreds of cavalrymen turn over and almost wipe out their entire army, almost all of whom were angry.
A trench was dug a large pit to the west of the trench. Such a simple trap easily killed hundreds of thunder cavalry. Ibrahimovic thought that heavy snow weather could protect the barbarian cavalry, but at this moment he realized that it was the opponent who was really good at using this heavy snow weather.
The Yi barbarians came in a fierce manner, but they had to stop in front of a trench and damaged hundreds of elite cavalry. Not to mention not being able to see the legendary King of Chu, even the shadow of the Northwest Army could not see many.
Ibrahimovic couldn't understand why the dozen Northwest Rangers rushed over were safe and sound.
But at this moment he had already noticed that since the other party dug trenches here and set up traps, and even sent Rangers to deliberately lure them, it means that the Northwest Army is ready.
The Northwest Army has always remained silent, but it contains solemnity. Even if hundreds of barbarian cavalry were killed, the Northwest Army camp was still quiet.
Chu Huan looked down from a high place, and of course he knew why the Northwest Rangers came over safely.
Because the trench was not connected to the north and south, there were several narrow passages in the middle of the trench and not excavated. Moreover, these places were made very hidden marks, and the Yiman cavalry could not see them, but the Northwest Rangers knew it clearly. They passed through several narrow passages safely, and in order to be foolproof, they had practiced them in advance and were very familiar.
The barbarian cavalry could not have thought that there would be traps where the rangers passed under heavy snow. They were excited to chase them, and saw that the other party passed safely, but they did not expect that the Rangers would be the beginning of the trap.
Gu Liangchen stood beside Chu Huan at this time, and saw the scene at the foot of the mountain, and smiled and said, "King, this ditch has killed so many people in the Yi barbarians. I don't know if these tens of thousands of cavalry are enough for us to kill?"
"It seems that you like killing the barbarians very much?" Chu Huan said with a smile.
Gu Liangchen sneered: "They burned, killed, looted our land, and thought they were in trouble. This time, they wanted to take a look. Some places were not allowed to come."
Chu Huan looked at the black barbarian cavalry and said, "They have tens of thousands of cavalry. The barbarians have rode horses and shot arrows since childhood. They can conquer and fight well, and they must not be despised."
"King, how do you know that the Yi barbarians will definitely come to attack?" Gu Liangchen was a little confused, "They knew that our cavalry had gone to the grassland and should have returned to the army to rescue."
"If it were a pile of loose sand, the Yi barbarians would have left clean long ago." Chu Huan said: "Although they are brave and ruthless, they do not mean they are very stupid. If they attack Hexi, if they fight each other, they will probably not be sure of themselves, so they would recommend that Shi Shi Khan as their commander." He turned to look at Gu Liangchen and smiled, "What do you think the leader who was elected like this, what do they want to do the most?"
Gu Liangchen thought for a while before saying, "Stand up to power!"
"No," Chu Huan praised: "It hit the nail on the head. For such temporary leaders who were elected, they certainly hope to take this opportunity to establish their power. To establish their authority, the first task is to make contributions. After being elected as the leader, he would have to defeat Wuping Prefecture City no matter what. Only in this way can he show his power to the grassland. If he gave up halfway, Chuxi's reputation will not only not increase, but will its power will decrease greatly. Therefore, I decided that before conquering Wuping Prefecture, Chuxi would never withdraw at least Chuxi would not retreat."
Gu Liangchen nodded slightly and asked, "King, according to your opinion, if Wuping Mansion has been captured and they learn that the grassland has been attacked, they may return to the grassland?"
"It should be like this." Chu Huan said: "It's just that Dingwu is determined to defend the city. The Yi Barbarians have not taken it yet. Even if the Yi Barbarians know that the grassland was attacked, Chu Shi would never be willing to withdraw their troops back to the grassland. But if he did nothing, the Yi Barbarians' defenses would be unstable and the people were disintegrated. Of course, this was not what Chu Shi wanted to see."
"So the king is sure that he will send someone to raid?" Gu Liangchen understood, "Only in this way can the hearts of the barbarians stabilize?"
"They knew that our cavalry had penetrated deep into the grassland and naturally hated us. If we suddenly sent troops to attack us, the barbarians would naturally be impatient." Chu Huan sneered on his lips, "And since they knew that our cavalry had gone to the grassland, they expected that our strength would be unbearable. If we took this opportunity to deal with severe damage to us, the reputation of the sudden movement would naturally increase greatly."
Gu Liangchen smiled and said, "It turns out that everything is in the king's plan. The Yi Barbarians think they are smart, but how do they know that every move of their chess is in our calculations." His brows were slightly tightened, "But the Yi Barbarians came to divide the troops, and the pressure on Wuping Mansion will be greatly reduced. If we do this, it will help Dingwu."
"The Yi barbarians have been harassing the border, and many people in the Central Plains have been harmed by them." Chu Huan's expression was solemn, and his eyes were cold: "Now tens of thousands of barbarians are heading south, and the people of Hexi are suffering. They burn, kill, loot in Hexi, and their crimes are too numerous to be written. If we do not stop them, this disaster may spread. People are not satisfied with their hearts. If they really occupy Wuping Mansion by the Yi barbarians, they may not let it go. The brutality of the Yi barbarians, as long as they are bloody men, will naturally not ignore it. If they have to sit idly by this time, it will make the Yi barbarians even more rampant. We certainly want to wipe out the Qin State, but the Yi barbarians are rampant and endanger the Central Plains. We naturally have to distinguish the priorities. At this time, it is the most urgent thing to eliminate the harm of the Yi barbarians."
Gu Liangchen said with a composure: "What the king said is that it is a blessing for the last general to be able to fight against the barbarians with the king. He must take these beasts back to his hometown."
At this time, tens of thousands of Yiman Iron Cavalry were deterred from looking at the trench in front. A trench of just a few feet is actually nothing. With the horse-drawing of the Yiman Cavalry, it is easy to cross the trench, but how many deep pits are there opposite the trench and how much attack power is the Northwest Army camp, which has no movement, the Yiman people are now beginning to feel nervous.
Although Ibrahimovic is prone to impulsiveness, he is not a reckless person. Moreover, he has been in charge of tens of thousands of troops this time, and he has learned from the past, but he does not dare to act rashly.
He knew that even if the opponent's strength was not as strong as the Yiman Iron Cavalry, he was still a very difficult opponent.
The Northwest Military Barracks were intricate and complex. He had even seen the swords and guns poking out from behind the tent. The swords and guns were cold. In the deadly continuous camp, there were no one knowing how many soldiers were hiding.
A martyr next to him approached and whispered: "Ibrahimovic, the people of the Central Plains are very cunning. In order to avoid excessive unnecessary damage, it is better to send a small number of people to hike forward first to find out the size of the trench and how many pits there are on the opposite side of the trench. Those are covered with snow. As long as they are cleared out, we can see clearly and it will not be too late to attack."
The other man raised his hand and pointed halfway around, "Look, their camps are all within the valley entrance, and they put themselves in their pockets. Since they have noticed our whereabouts and are prepared, we are not in a hurry to hit them. I heard the people of Zhongyuan say that it is right, catch the urn in the turtle, and we keep the exit, they have no way to escape, we approach step by step and block them inside."
The previous barbarian general immediately said: "We pressed forward step by step. It would be just right if we could force them out. Look, there are indeed no traces of cavalry in the valley. If they really came out, it would be easy for us to defeat them."
After Ibrahimovic calmed down, he knew that since the Northwest Army was prepared, it would be difficult to quickly resolve the battle. If he advanced easily, he might even fall into other traps. What these two barbarian generals said was correct, pressing each step to make the Northwest Army unable to escape.
He was not worried about the army's food. When he sent troops, every soldier carried the food that was available for ten days, enough to hold on here for several days.
Ibrahimovic turned over and got off the horse without hesitation. He sent Rangers to patrol nearby, while sending people to clear the trenches and pits.
He was indeed a little annoyed. Fighting in the Central Plains is far less than enjoying the grasslands. When the grassland tribes agglomerate each other, there were no such strange tricks. Even if the other party had a simple defense, he just needed to ride a horse to step on it. Now a trench has frustrated the army's aura, which is indeed a little annoyed, but in order to avoid unnecessary damage as much as possible, the obstacles still need to be cleared first.
It would take some time to send a team of nearly a thousand people to explore the trenches and pits. The barbarian cavalry had already gotten off the horse. Last night, they started to rush on the road from midnight, without stopping. They wanted to enter the Northwest Army camp in one go, but the Northwest Army was caught off guard. Now the plan failed and they could not attack for a while, so they naturally dismounted and rested.
The soldiers responsible for clearing the obstacles naturally had to carefully get the corpses of companions who fell into the pit and were stabbed to death by sharp wood. The trench was about meter wide, and at this time it was filled with corpses of people and horses. Although most of the soldiers were dead, a very small number of soldiers still struggled and twisted in the trap, and were already dying.
The corpses are easy to deal with, but these dying soldiers are difficult to deal with. If they are left alone, they will die soon. But if they are lifted out of the inside, they will be pulled up from the pointed wood. In this way, the wound will inevitably bleeding a large area and die faster. There is no doctor in the Yiman army. Simple flesh and blood may help each other to deal with each other, but no one can treat such injuries. In desperation, they can only take out the dead bodies first. Those soldiers who are about to die can only ignore them for the time being.
In this scene, even if the cruel barbarians saw it, they felt a sense of fury. Then they looked at the Northwest Army camp, which was still silent, with resentment and anger in their eyes.
At this time, Ibrahimovic was sitting on the snow, biting the stiff jerky meat, thinking about something in his heart.
Suddenly, a scream came, interrupting Ibrahimovic's thoughts. The screams continued. Ibrahimovic suddenly stood up and looked at the sound. He saw that the teams clearing the trenches were actually running towards this side. Everyone was panicked. Ibrahimovic was stunned at first, and then he looked shocked.
The Northwest Army Camp, which had not been moved before, did not have much movement at this time, but from the camp, stones flying out like heavy rain and pouring into the vicinity of the trench.
The stones fell near the trench and hit the body of the Yi barbarians. Many Yi barbarians were still thinking of ways to get out the corpses in the trench. The sudden stone caught them off guard. Many barbarians who were originally trying to catch the corpses instantly turned into corpses, and were smashed into blood by the huge rocks and fell into the trench.
Ibrahimovic was trembling with anger.
Of course he knew what this was. Not long ago, the Yi Barbarian Army used a stone throwing cart to launch an attack on Wuping Prefecture City. Ibrahimovic still remembers clearly that the stones knocked out by the stone throwing cart were extremely powerful, and they actually made holes in the hard city walls.
He never thought that a stone throwing cart could be used like this.
Countless stones flew out from the Northwest Army camp. Of course, they could not throw them out with their hands, but could only use stone throwing carts to knock out these stones.
The stones produced by the throwing cart cannot even withstand the city walls, let alone the flesh and blood of the barbarians.
The screams continued, just like a meteorite outside the sky. The huge stones can sometimes kill several people in one go. The soldiers who were unable to react were already covered by the huge stone raindrops. Even if they reacted quickly, they raised their feet and ran back, but many of them were smashed into meat paste by the stones falling from the sky.
Ibrahimovic was angry, but his heart was cold. At this moment, he finally realized that the cunning of the people in the Central Plains was really extraordinary.
At first, Ibrahimovic thought it was used by the Northwest Army to stop the cavalry's charge, but now he understands that the purpose of the trench is not only that.
The trench actually has a constant distance from the continuous barracks of the Northwest Army. If you shoot arrows from the barracks, it is absolutely impossible to shoot into the trench. The trench is far beyond the range of the bow and arrow.
Because of this, Ibrahimovic was not worried that the barbarians would be attacked by the Northwest Army when they cleared the trenches. However, he never expected that although the Northwest Army could not shoot arrows and attack, they used more terrifying weapons. The stones thrown by the stone thrown chariot had a wider coverage and a more lethality.
The Northwest Army originally came to capture cities and villages, so it is naturally impossible for them to lack siege weapons.
The Yi barbarian cavalry, who were preparing to take a good rest, looked over there. Seeing the tragic situation in front of him, the Yi barbarians were both angry but also cold.
Seeing those huge stones on the barbarians, they instantly smashed a strong and strong man into meat paste. When they thought that if these stones fell on me, many people's hair would have stood up. The war horses were also panicked at this time, and their hooves were nudes. The originally neat team suddenly had a commotion.
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