Chapter 750: The Sound of Drums and Horns Shows Its Sharp Edge (22)

The gate of the Xiaoshan Pass slid open silently, the warhorses were wrapped in cotton cloth, stepped on the ground, silently, the horses were tied with bits, and each soldier held a small wooden stick in his mouth.

There were not many cavalrymen at the Xiaoshan Pass. Hu Yanchao knew very well that the role of the Xiaoshan Pass was to defend it. Here, he only equipped about two hundred cavalrymen, just to have a mobile counterattack force in defense. As Ye Zhong expected, Hu Yanchao was good at defense, but not blindly defending. Attacking while defending was what he was best at.

As his favorite general, Wu Bo chose to attack immediately tonight because the two sides had just experienced a day of fierce fighting. The other side had crossed the valley and set up camp, but was not yet stable.

The enemy camp was only a few miles away from the Xiaoshan Pass. It would take less than an incense stick of time to rush to the camp after leaving the city gate. During the day, Wu Bo had been carefully observing the enemy's camp. The Eastern Expedition Army did not dig trenches, but simply erected wooden fences, and even the sentry tower had not been built.

There was less than a thousand steps left to the enemy's camp. Wu He suddenly accelerated. Two hundred cavalrymen crouched down and rushed forward closely following Wu He. Behind him, hundreds of infantrymen stepped forward and rushed forward.

The enemy camp did not react at all. It was not until the wooden fence collapsed in front of the long spears and halberds that the camp seemed to be alert. The drums and trumpets suddenly sounded, and Wu He even saw panicked running figures.

He couldn't help but sneer, and it was done. He spit out the wooden stick in his mouth and roared: "Kill the thieves!"

As he shouted, the Xiaoshan Pass defenders who left the city shouted together.

Wu He led the way and rushed to the enemy's camp, which was just an arrow away. He was filled with joy for the successful attack, because until this moment, the enemy seemed to have not successfully organized a defense line. It seemed that the so-called victorious Eastern Expedition Army was just like this.

As soon as he thought of this, Wu He felt that he was flying. The warhorse under his crotch seemed to have hit something and fell on the spot. With a bang, Wu He fell to the ground. As far as he could see, the cavalrymen behind him seemed to have hit some invisible barrier one after another and fell off their horses. And those warhorses all fell to the ground and kept twitching.

Wu He was stunned. The infantrymen following closely behind the cavalry were also stunned.

"There's a ghost!" As a general who fought on the battlefield and killed countless people, Wu He actually had this thought in his mind. But there is no doubt that this raid has failed. No matter what tricks the opponent used, it was definitely not as defenseless as he imagined.

In the camp of the Eastern Expedition Army, a loud military call sounded, rockets were fired around, and a bunch of fires burst into flames.

Behind the tent, hundreds of soldiers of the Eastern Expedition Army rushed out, holding arm-drawn crossbows with strings in their hands.

"Go!" Wu He shouted. He got up and ran back. Just as he took a step, something blocked him in front of him, and there was a bang. He fell on his back and lay on the ground with his back. With the help of the surrounding firelight. He finally saw clearly what it was. A thin rope was hanging in the air. He got up and reached out to touch the rope. It was cold to the touch. This was not an ordinary rope, but iron. Wu He pressed it with his hand, and the iron rope hanging in the air just trembled.

Wu He finally understood why the horses that rushed over were now lying on the ground, and none of them survived. When they were charging, these iron ropes were deeply tied into their bodies.

Wu He got up, ducked through the iron ropes, and fled without looking back.

No wonder they stopped digging trenches and built fences in a very simple way. They were digging traps for the Yan army, waiting for you to attack the camp. Such thin wires, hanging behind the fences, could not be seen clearly in the night.

On the dark wall, Wu Bo was also puzzled. He was farther away and could not know what happened. But when he saw the sudden fire in the enemy camp and the faint screams, he knew that the night attack had failed.

Looking at the soldiers running back in a panic, his pupils shrank. His cavalry was gone, and only a few dozen war horses were left. The rest were left by the opponent. How could it be possible?

"Fire!" He sighed. This night attack was a big defeat.

Suddenly, the lights on the dark Xiaoshan Pass were bright. Everything was ready at the pass. If successful, a large group of troops would rush out and drive the enemy back into the valley. If unsuccessful, they could also cover the soldiers who attacked the camp and return.

In the camp of the Eastern Expedition Army, Chen Wei ran to Ding Wei's tent excitedly and shouted through the curtain: "Commander, those bastards have escaped."

The sound of Ding Wei turning over came from the tent, followed by an impatient voice, "Let them run away, I was just having a good dream, and you woke me up again. Do you know that I have only been married for less than half a year, and I was just about to take up my gun and enter, but you disturbed me, get out."

Chen Wei was silent for a long time. The battle in front was in full swing, and the commander in the back was actually having an erotic dream. After hesitating for a long time, he continued: "Commander, are you really not going to chase them?"

"Chase your mother!" Ding Wei's loud curse came from the room, "If you chase them, you can take down the Xiaoshan Pass. Wu Bo must have prepared countless feather arrows for you. What's the point of chasing them? It's better to let the brothers have a good sleep and fight again tomorrow."

Hearing the sound of turning over and sitting up from the room, Chen Wei agreed and ran away quickly. He was not stupid. If Ding Wei got up and left the tent, his butt would burst.

At the juncture of Xiaoshan, Wu Bo felt lost. Behind the soldiers who had fled back, no soldiers from the Eastern Expedition Army were chasing after him. He narrowed his eyes slightly, was the other party confident? Are you even too lazy to pursue such a pursuit?

That night, the Zhengdong Army slept soundly, but inside the Weishan Pass, they stayed awake all night.

Just when Ding Wei was sleeping soundly, Anlu County, Hejian County, thousands of miles away from the Yaoshan Pass, had just experienced a test of blood and fire.

Anlu guard Zeng Xianyi was covered in blood. He was walking step by step on the broken city wall. His feet were a little slippery on the ground. That was because the ground under his feet was soaked with blood. On top of the city, although the soldiers Tired, but still holding on to the energy to clean up the city wall, the enemy's corpses were mercilessly thrown down the city, making a muffled sound, and the bodies of our comrades were carried off the city wall one by one. There were people inside the city. Specialized personnel handle the remains, which are usually cremated on the spot. In the blink of an eye, all that is left of a living person is a small square box. For Zeng Xianyi, the rules of the Eastern Expeditionary Army are still in his mind. He is not very used to it, he is more accustomed to the traditional burial.

Maybe not long after, I will turn into a small handful of ashes and be put into such a small box. Seeing a familiar face being carried past him, he couldn't help but feel a little sad. This young man was one of his own soldiers, less than twenty years old.

There are three thousand defenders in Anlu County, but they are no longer Zeng Xianyi's original subordinates. Since he submitted to the Eastern Expedition Army, his three thousand direct lineage has been disrupted and mixed. Previously, he was a little worried that he would be However, as time went by, he found that every order he gave would be carried out unswervingly, and he felt relieved.

Slowly, he became familiar with the military system of the Eastern Expeditionary Army. In the Eastern Expeditionary Army's system, there was basically no such thing as direct lineage. The Anlu garrison would be its own general. They were like this. If someone else The same goes for them when people come over. To put it another way, if I were transferred to a completely unfamiliar army at this time and commanded the troops below, I would still not encounter any problems.

This is probably the reason why the Eastern Conquest Army is so powerful. An army will never suffer a sudden drop in combat effectiveness just because of the change of chief officers.

He had been guarding Anlu for eight days, and his men had suffered over a thousand casualties.

Anlu County does not have to be defended. Zeng Xianyi received the order to hold on here for ten days, and then retreat to Xinhui to meet up with Naha. Xinhui must be defended for at least half a month, and then retreat to Luliang. Mountain areas continue to resist.

This order made Zeng Xianyi a little puzzled. The importance of Anlu's iron and copper mines to the Eastern Expeditionary Army was undoubted, but why did they give up when there was still strength left? Was it to lure the enemy in? Unlike Ah, because the Central Army Group that is currently conquering the Eastern Army does not have enough troops, and the infantry and six thousand cavalry are still in Daijun.

It is easy to give up Anlu, but it is not that simple to take it back. Zeng Xianyi felt that his side could completely use the fortified city to consume the opponent. He defended it for eight days and suffered over a thousand deaths, but he was lying in Anlu The number of Yan troops under the city was several times greater. If Naha had not set up defenses in Xinhui but came with him to defend Anlu, it would have made Kongde feel heartbroken and would have made him consider paying such a high price to recapture it. Is Anlu worth it?

But an order is an order. Although Zeng Xianyi had doubts in his heart, he would not violate it. After remaining on guard for two days, the entire army retreated to Xinhui, and Naha would arrange for people to come and take over. These ten days would be the time for the general to The raw iron produced in the mining area was transported away. Zeng Xianyi even felt that if he wanted to abandon Anlu, he would at least destroy the mine.

When he proposed this opinion to Ye Zhen before the war, Ye Zhen said with a smile: "Don't destroy it, keep it. It won't take long before we will be back. Besides, if you destroy the mine, the mine here will be destroyed." How can tens of thousands of miners and their families live? Whether they work for us or for Kong De, they can still get wages, right?"

This answer made Zeng Xianyi feel a little weird.

It seems that the senior officials of the Zhengdong Army must be confident and confident in retaking Anlu in a very short period of time, but they are not qualified to know because of their own rank. (To be continued...)

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