The Art of War says that when you encounter a big city on the middle road, you must overcome it or prepare for it.

With Liu Ling's seven or eight thousand troops, it is definitely impossible to "conquer" them and can only "prepare" them.

"Preparation" is of course very dangerous, so if Li Chong goes south, he will have to deploy cavalry on the line between Yuci and Jinyang. In the end, only five or six thousand cavalry can be brought south to join the party.

But enough is enough, the most important thing is existence.

It was enough to make the Huns believe that a large army was coming from behind. After all, they did not know the strength of the army going south.

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At the foot of Danzhu Ridge, the sound of drums was loud.

Hou Feihu, a person who is usually extremely calm, couldn't sit still.

He pushed the drummer away and struck hard with the drumstick, turning his head to look at the drummer as he struck.

On the mountainside, several small camps were built far apart. Under the call of drums, the sergeants filed out of the camp with incomparable bravery.

After fighting for more than half a month, both sides had lost thousands of lives in Danzhu Ridge, and the battle line slowly extended from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.

It's not that the enemy army didn't fight hard enough. In fact, Liu Yao sat in charge and personally supervised the battle. He personally killed a dozen military officers who retreated without authorization. The soldiers worked hard. They were pushed up the mountain and they simply couldn't beat them.

When the news came that Jingxing Pass had been breached and that the Jin army had marched in, even though it was concealed in every possible way, it was finally spread.

As soon as this happened, it was over! Morale dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The sergeants who were still able to fight hard yesterday only resisted briefly and then withdrew today. Even though on the surface it looked like they were beaten to the core, in reality that was all. Even the veteran warriors could see it.

For example, when the two sides are fighting for a certain commanding heights, sometimes they are just short of breath. It’s not that they can’t persevere if they bite the bullet, but now they are unwilling to bite the bullet.

Or, the enemy has just occupied a certain camp and has not yet established a stable foothold. At this time, if someone raises his arms and charges with strength, he may not be able to recapture it, but there is no such person now.

That's the difference.

It seems that the killing sound is loud and lively, but in fact it is just for the superiors to see. Once the battle situation is unfavorable, they will retreat immediately and no longer insist on waiting for reinforcements.

Of course Hou Feihu also noticed it.

So he decisively invested in the elite soldiers selected from the Shangdang Zahu, Xuchang, and Yanzhou soldiers, and used them as vanguards to take the lead in the conflict.

Eighteen hundred people from the elite Heijin Left Battalion (formerly known as the Heijin Army) followed closely behind and launched a fierce assault on Danzhu Ridge.

The sound of drums became more and more passionate, and the two sides started a fierce battle on Danzhu Ridge.

The first group of more than a hundred people were repelled, and the second group came up. After being repelled, the third group followed.

The corpses of both sides were piled on top of each other, almost covering the mountain road.

Those who advanced fell down, and those who came behind stepped on the corpses and continued to charge, breaking through the horses, crossing the ditch, and fighting through the earth wall...

A group of cavalry rushed out of the Huns camp and took advantage of a rare piece of flat land to launch a charge.

This move was very useful before and saved the crisis several times, but what happened? Our infantry retreated too fast and did not leave enough space for them. The horse climbed up the mountain when the speed was halfway up.

The Jin army's infantry collided head-on.

For a while, people screamed.

The front row of the Jin army faced the charging enemy troops and suffered heavy casualties. The remaining troops calmed down and dispersed to both sides.

In the past, this move had been successful, but today there were too many Jin troops coming up, and the cavalry could not increase their speed. The two sides froze for a while.

There was a stalemate and it was very unfriendly to the cavalry.

You can't move forward while riding on a horse. There are huge gaps on the left and right sides, and the weapons you wield are not as fast and powerful as those who are down-to-earth. In a one-on-one situation, there is a high probability of being killed by infantry, not to mention that they are far from one-on-one...

The black army also came up. When Yaori's armor appeared on the battlefield, there was almost no suspense in this battle.

The remaining enemy cavalry fled in a hurry, and the enemy infantry also slipped away quickly, heading towards the camp.

More Jin troops swarmed up the mountains and plains, chasing the defeated troops and rolling towards Liu Yao's camp.

There was chaos in the camp, and the banner with the character "Liu" moved backwards quickly, as if it foreshadowed the change of hands of Danzhu Ridge.
Chapter completed!