Chapter 306
Stone bombs and the fireballs that can explode from time to time shot from the ridge opposite the gully. After falling onto the yellow soil, they either stir up a pillar of yellow dust or a flame rises up.
At this time, Ke Bineng had no idea of plundering stone lime miners and equipment. He just thought about how to escape unscathed and how to bring back these Xianbei soldiers as much as possible.
As soon as Kebien issued the order to retreat, he heard the sound of horses galloping and fighting in the distance. He looked in the sound and saw dust flying in the isthmus, shouting that horses were neighing.
"Oh no! It must be the enemy's army's retreat!" Ke Bineng complained secretly in his heart.
Ke Bi was right. The only thing he was in was connected to the other ridges. So he deployed a total of 1,000 Xianbei warriors at both ends of the isthmus. At this time, these Xianbei warriors were attacked by the Liang army.
If this isthmus is blocked by someone, Kebi can try to escape again, either go down to the gully and find a way out, or fly out with wings.
At this time, at the other end of the isthmus, nearly a thousand-liang army heavy cavalry were arranged into three long snake formations. The further forward, the closer the cavalry formation was,
The cavalry formation at the front was like a copper wall lying across the ridge plateau. The dense cavalry spears stumbled in front of the horse's head and existed like a forest. The sunlight reflected on the iron armor and spear blade was shining brightly.
These three cavalry formations were like combs, and the places swept across were the bodies of Xianbei knights with spears inserted. In the rain of sword light, the Xianbei army was quickly squeezed into the isthmus.
The Liang army's iron cavalry did not stop the attack and continued to launch his horse to attack. A Xianbei cavalry waved his sabre and slashed towards a Liang army's iron cavalry head-on, but was easily swept away by the wolf-toothed stick in the hand of the opponent.
In the midst of lightning, the two cavalry were close at hand. The wolf-toothed stick from the Liang army's iron cavalry swept out and hit the opponent's head with a bang. The Xianbei cavalry fell down and the body was immediately broken by thousands of iron hooves.
When some Xianbei cavalry faced these Liang army cavalry like iron towers, their morale was collapsed and they were extremely afraid to fight. On the way backwards, they fell down to the isthmus in a panic and fell into the gully.
The Liang army's iron cavalry drove these Xianbei cavalry out of the isthmus and stopped the attack. At the same time, Ke Bineng also led the other Xianbei troops to the vicinity of the isthmus.
Kebi Neng saw that the isthmus was occupied, and was shocked and roared in shock and angrily: "At any cost, we must take back the road, otherwise our army will be in danger!"
When the Xianbei Army heard the order, it reorganized the cavalry formation, intending to defeat the enemy cavalry with a crowded attack and open up the passage to the isthmus. Ke Bineng thought in his mind that the opponent was also a cavalry and could only fight against him. In that case, no matter whether he won or lost, the opponent would never trap him.
Unexpectedly, before the Xianbei cavalry launched a charge, the Liang army cavalry actually retreated like a tide. The surprised Ke Bi could only see what was going on. It turned out that there was a Liang army infantry following their heavy cavalry, and now it had layered defenses at the other end of the isthmus.
Ke Bi Neng suddenly felt a chill on his back, knowing that he was almost in desperate situation. He gritted his teeth and ordered word by word: "Transfer our military orders, and the whole army charges, and those who are cherishing their lives and fearing the war will be killed on the spot in front of the formation."
As soon as Ke Bineng finished speaking, he heard a muffled sound from the tent, and his cheeks suddenly felt warm. When he touched it with his hand, it turned out to be blood. Not far from him, another Xianbei cavalry was hit by a stone bullet from a crossbowl, and the stone bullet the size of a sea bowl pierced his chest. Liang Jun, opposite the gully, still did not stop the shooting of the crossbowl.
As the charge horns of the Xianbei people sounded, the remaining Xianbei warriors on the plateau rushed towards the isthmus like a tide. At this time, the isthmus was located at the back end, and a bamboo folded horse-rejecting horse was set up. Behind were layered with layers of Liang army spears, guns, shield soldiers, and longbowmen.
When the Xianbei cavalry poured into the isthmus, the flying spears, javelins, long bows and heavy arrows were poured overwhelmingly towards the Xianbei cavalry. The latter fell layer by layer like lodging crops. The Xianbei cavalry also spread out and shot with crossbows, but the other party had large shield walls to cover it, and its effect was also Miao Miao.
Then the Liang army infantry threw out the moor bottle made of naphtha pottery bottle. Rivals suddenly ignited on the isthmus. Many of the Xianbei cavalry's horses were frightened and ran around, and accidentally fell into the ravines.
The few Xianbei cavalry who rushed to the Liang army before refusing the horse were ultimately unable to escape the fate of destruction. After being rejected, the dense guns of Linzha were caught off the horse.
Kebi Neng looked at the tragic image in despair, knowing that he would never be able to escape from the isthmus. Now he can only treat dead horses as living horses. He shouted loudly: "Chaps, follow me, we will withdraw from this place from the bottom of the ditch!"
After saying that, he said to the two soldiers beside him who had come to report the message before: "You are familiar with the road here, and quickly take our soldiers and evacuate along the road at the bottom of the ditch!"
On the ridge plateau, the remaining Xianbei cavalry followed Ke Bi Neng to the bottom of the gully, and along the way they gathered the remaining defeated soldiers who had been lucky enough to withdraw from the mine.
At this time, these survivors were only two thousand riders in total. They fled to the other end of the ravine. On the edge of the ditch, two teams of archers and a battalion of light cavalry Feiyu kept chasing them.
From time to time, small groups of infantry emerged from the edge of the ditch and threw moor bottles at the bottom of the ditch, and huge rocks came to snipe them. Fortunately, Ke Bi Neng was not in the end, but the big band of Liang Jun sniped them on the edge of the ditch and cut off the passage at the bottom of the ditch. This made him a little regretful, and he should have chosen to break through from the bottom of the ditch at the beginning.
In fact, Ke Bineng's idea was to carve a boat and seek a sword. If he really chose to break through from the bottom of the ditch at the beginning, then he would be wiped out now. The reason why the Liang army did not send the main force to intercept him in the ditch section was precisely because most of the troops were used to encircle and annihilate the mines and block the isthmus.
Under the pursuit of Liang's army and sniping, Kebien escaped from the loess plateau and came back to the junction of the loess plateau and grassland, there were only less than 500 war cavalry left by his side. This means that the 15,000 Xianbei war cavalry he brought into the loess plateau were almost wiped out.
Ke Bi Neng was full of annoyance and said to himself: "It's right to start attacking Zhenbei City. Since the Liang army has set up heavy troops around the mine, the Zhenbei City will inevitably be empty. Moreover, Liang army must have expected that I would come to take the stone and lime mine, so they will inevitably transfer the craftsmen and equipment of the mine to Zhenbei City."
But it is useless for Ke Bi to regret it now. Even if he ordered Shi Biao, who was attacking Zhenbei City, to launch a real attack immediately, it would be too late. When the military order arrived, the main force of the Liang army must have returned to Zhenbei City.
When Ke Bi thought of this, he immediately found a soldier and asked them to go quickly to send orders to Shi Biao, so that Shi Biao must seize the time to retreat outside the Great Wall before Liang's army returns to the rescue.
After Ke Bi could arrange these, he rode his horse and hurriedly fled north with hundreds of remaining soldiers.
Chapter completed!