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1888: The Death of Tuoba Yan (Part 1)

Time went back ten days ago, in the dense forests of Hengduan Mountains, Tuobayan pulled out his knife, pointed his halberd forward, shouting loudly: "Strike!"

More than a thousand mountain cavalry suddenly burst out with shocking shouts, rising from their hiding place, and pounced on the two thousand Ming cavalry who were going to reinforce them.

Although Tuobayan was few, he was full of confidence. At this moment, the opponent's cavalry formed a long line to march on the mountain road, but he concentrated all his strength. As long as he clenched his fists tightly and hit the middle section of the Ming army, he could cut off the Ming army in half, so that the head and tail could not be taken into consideration.

The ambush he chose was extremely beneficial to him. While leaning against the extremely steep cliff, the Ming army faced his attack, and could not retreat backwards into the dense forest to gain room for buffering. If you want to rush forward, it would be difficult to gather in the shortest time.

As long as he defeated the cavalry in the middle of the Ming army, he would be allowed to attack one of them on both sides of the head and tail.

He doesn't care whether he can wipe out all of them. As long as he kills most of the cavalry and lets them escape in a panic, he will be able to attack Murong Hai with Sun Yang.

These days, although Murong Hai was entangled with Sun Yang, although Sun Yang's infantry paid a huge price, he was exhausted and his subordinates suffered a lot of losses. Among them, Sun Yang also effectively preserved some of his cavalry.

Tuobayan believed that this was an extremely exquisite series of strategies. Although it was too exquisite and faced a great risk of failure, he now had no choice. Once the opponent's large-scale infantry approached the city of Guangyang, he did not think he could defend it.

As long as Murong Hai's mountain cavalry camp was destroyed, this forest would still be his world, and He Weiping would never dare to enter the mountain rashly. Of course, if he dared to come in, his cavalry would cost him a heavy price, just like a few years ago.

The Ming cavalry, who were suddenly attacked, did not fall into chaos as Tuobayan imagined. Their reaction made Tuobayan dumbfounded.

Because when these people discovered the enemy attack, they jumped off the horse at the first time, then pulled out their waist knife, and cleanly cut off the head of the war horse under their crotch with one knife.

The horse fell down with a bang, becoming an obstacle between the woodlands. The cavalry who jumped off the horse actually cast shields from one side of the horse, stood behind the horse, and then quickly set up horse lances. The horse lances were all specially made three-piece poles that could be quickly connected together.

The Ming cavalry who abandoned the horse immediately gathered small military formations behind the shield, and the horse spears were like forests and poked forward. Behind them, long bows stood up, and whistling sounds, feather arrows flew towards the charge Qi cavalry with countless Mars.

"Be careful." Tuobayan shouted loudly and suddenly pulled his horse away from a big tree. Fortunately, this kind of charge in the forest was nowhere to go. Many Qi cavalry quickly stopped the horses and looked for places to hide. The explosion-able feather arrows of the Ming army opposite once made them suffer.

But the group rushing in front could not hold back the horse's hooves anyway.

At a maximum of twenty steps away from the Ming army's killing horses, they were baptized by arrows. The feather arrows themselves could not cause much damage to them, but the explosives attached to them instantly made the Qi cavalry rushing to the front wail. A large number of people fell down in an instant before the Ming army's position.

A few cavalrymen who had passed these explosives roared and rushed forward, but the shaky horse spear blade, which was almost two feet long, unconsciously slowed down the speed of the war horses and wanted to avoid them.

With just a small pause, a dozen horse spears came out, and with the sound of the horse spears entering the flesh, dozens of horse spears fell down.

"They are not Murong Hai's mountain cavalry camp." Tuobayan shouted sadly, "Retreat, retreat!"

It was already a little late when Tuobayan discovered this. The middle part was indeed not a mountain cavalry battalion, but the Ming cavalry at the end and tail were like a mountain cavalry battalion.

When these Ming troops were attacked in the middle, they did not care about the situation in the middle, but instead rode their horses toward the two wings. Obviously, they wanted to surround the Tuobayan from both sides.

A feather arrow snatched the ground and inserted it into the big tree where Tuobayan was hiding. Accompanied by the violent explosion, the whole tree trembled, countless fallen leaves fell down, and large pieces of wood splashed. Tuobayan did not hesitate at all, and then took the horse back.

"Retreat immediately, retreat." He quickly retreated and shouted loudly to his soldiers.

It was not so easy for the chargers to turn around completely between the woods. When they stopped the horses and turned their heads, they had no momentum at all. The Ming army behind them held up their shields and actually passed the body of the war horse in front, and then rushed forward. The feather arrows were still firing at the mountain cavalry of Qi army that had lost their speed.

Amid the rumbling explosions, Qi cavalry often screamed and fell off the horse.

At this time, no one cared about them anymore. The Qi cavalry quickly retreated. The people who were injured and caught up desperately to keep up with the retreating troops, but their injured bodies made them unable to speed up at all. At this time, the shield soldiers behind them had abandoned their shields, pulled out the big sword on their backs, and rushed forward with shouts.

When they passed these injured Qi soldiers, they slashed them down without hesitation and chopped them down on the ground.

Tuobayan suddenly found that he was in a desperate situation.

This was a trap carefully targeted him. It was not so easy for him to retreat at this time, because the cavalry on both sides of the Ming army had already surrounded him.

From the cavalry in the middle of the Ming army skillfully dismounted, killed horses, then gathered small military formations and shot explosive arrows. It was obvious that he knew the attack he was about to launch, so that all the tactical movements could be smooth. Murong Hai's mountain cavalry battalion could not do this. Murong Hai's mountain cavalry battalion never carried things like horse lances. Even the rod-style horse lances of the Ming army were equivalent to waste for mountain cavalry, fighting in the forest, and fighting on horseback. This kind of long weapon was like waste.

But those people just carried these things specifically, which only shows that these people were infantrymen, otherwise it would be impossible for them to form small military formations in such a short time.

It is impossible for these military formations to deal with the cavalry's charge on the open flat ground. The full-speed cavalry sprint can defeat their military formation in the shortest time. But among the dense woods, everything is possible, because mountain cavalry never wins at absolute speed, and they pay more attention to the control and flexibility of horses.

Tuobayan couldn't understand why the Ming army knew his plan so well, and even arranged this trap very targetedly.

The sound of weapons fighting came from both sides. The Ming army mountain camp that was surrounded by troops had already fought with his subordinates, but Tuobayan ignored it and ran all the way forward.

Since it is a trap, it must be more than that. Where are the two thousand cavalry left in He Weiping? Since there are some Western-Captain goods in the middle of the Ming cavalry, then where are there hundreds of soldiers from the Ming mountain cavalry battalions now?

Tuobayan didn't have to think about it. Those people must be coming from the front where they were running away. The explosions and shouts were clear signals.

Now he just wants to rush out when the Ming cavalry has not yet completely surrounded. As long as he breaks out of this encirclement, the vast Hengduan Mountains can still allow him to return to Guangyang City safely. As for how to defend the city, that is another matter. Fortunately, when he left, he still issued a letter to send 10,000 reinforcements from Cangzhou. With these 10,000 people, he and the Ming army can still compete in Guangyang City, and may not lose.

At this moment, he finally understood why Cao Yun said that the more exquisite the plan, the more likely it is to have problems. As long as there is a problem at a certain link, it will inevitably lead to a painful failure.

Cao Yun did not say these words to Tuobayan casually, but to Tuobayan's military habits. Tuobayan liked to send out surprise troops and liked to give the enemy a head-on attack in places that the enemy would most unexpectedly do. If such a battle goes on a lot, one day you will suffer a great loss. As the saying goes, you will often walk by the river, and you will not have any feet wet.

In front of him, a cavalry general was looking around in panic, and seeing Tuobayan, he shouted loudly: "General, general, go quickly, I'll cover you."

"Sun Jun, retreat, don't do anything." Looking at Sun Jun who was rushing over with several personal soldiers, Tuobayan shouted loudly.

"I will cover the general's retreat. Follow me and rush forward." Sun Jun shouted and rushed over with those people.

The moment the two horses intersected, Tuobayan suddenly felt a pain in his waist and fell off his horse. He fell to the ground and looked at the bloody knife drawn from his waist in surprise.

Several personal soldiers following him quickly jumped off the horse and pressed against Tuobayan.

"Not good, the general is dead, the general is killed by the Ming people!" Sun Jun shouted loudly.

Listening to Sun Jun's crazy shouting, Tuobayan suddenly understood why Mingren was so clear about his plan. Mingren had long buried his nails around him.

He sighed, feeling that it was really a cycle of heaven and that he was unhappy in retribution.

As his eyes turned dark, he completely fainted.

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