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Chapter 134 A Line of Defense

Hunhe and several of his followers rode horses to the front of the team. They had gone deep into the heart of the valley, but Hunhe didn't care. He saw several crooked deer fences at the east end of the valley from a distance. , there are also some wooden stakes nailed into the soil, and it seems that there are some ropes and other things in the middle.

Seeing this, Hunhe picked up his horsewhip, and laughed at Luzha who was far away: "These deer fences are crooked and out of shape. Tang Jun actually wants to use this kind of thing to ambush us in this valley. Do you think we will be afraid of them?"

His Tuyuhun cronies looked at the leaky defense line and couldn't help laughing.

Although the length of this valley is more than 500 steps, and the valley mouths at both ends are very narrow, it is a good place for ambushes, but they are not afraid at all. They know that most of the Tang army in this regiment have been captured by King Hanhai in the camp of the Chinese army However, the remnants who fled outside were no more than five or sixty people left.With such a simple defense, it is absolutely impossible for this man and horse to resist their charge.Even with the help of favorable terrain, this small number cannot fight an ambush.

Seeing that everyone was not afraid, Hunhe nodded secretly.He didn't have the idea of ​​going around from outside the valley to attack Tang Jun's back. The valley is surrounded by folded mountains. The head fled into other valleys, and it would be very troublesome to catch it.

At this time, Murongji's tent of the Chinese army was less than thirty miles behind them. Inside, many princes and princes from various tribes in Tuyuhun were waiting for news of their vanguard. Before Hunhe came out, Murongji specially asked However, although their battle was to capture prisoners, the actual meaning meant that they withdrew and wiped out this Tang army. It was related to whether he could maintain his position in the Tuyuhun anti-Tang forces. After a few people died, Hunhe didn't plan to spend half a day going around.

He stopped in front of the entrance of the valley, called the leaders of the five tribes' cavalry generals, and told them about the situation of the Tang army ahead. No one was afraid. In Hunhe, he conveyed Murong Ji's promise: Those who penetrated the front of the Tang army could return. Everyone became even more excited after going to Murong Ji's place to get ten Tang army prisoners as slaves. They could get a share of Murong Ji's men the next time they raided Longyou Road.

Seeing that the morale was high, Hunhe pointed his horsewhip forward and said, "Let's rush over and capture those Tang people!"

His order was translated into several languages, so everyone beat their horses one after another, and a hundred cavalry rushed into the mouth of the valley.

Hunhe led his personal guards to walk in the center of the team. He looked forward and saw that the most powerful Tubo mercenaries were at the head. These people came from the southwest of Tuyuhun, and the Tuyuhun people only regarded them as Tubo people. In fact, according to the country, they should be the tribes of the Zhang Zhung Dynasty, but the Tuyuhun people can't tell the difference between the two.

Each of these Zhang Zhung cavalrymen wore exquisite Tibetan armor, and they were the elite of the Tuyuhun cavalry coalition.

At this time, the crowd had already circled the valley for a certain distance. Hunhe looked back and saw another Tang army appearing in the valley behind, pulling the deer gate, as if they wanted to encircle the valley from the west. Hunhe couldn't help laughing, but There are only more than 50 people, but they actually want to sandwich two breads.

Did they think that their cavalry of more than 100 people might be caught in the valley by these two small teams and could not clash?

At this time, the elite cavalry of the Xiangxiong rushed to the front under the leadership of a cavalry general. A knight lifted up the simple deer fence on the ground with a single shot, and then rushed forward, while the Tang army guarding in front of him was just After firing a few arrows in vain, they took out their spears to prepare to resist. At such a distance, the cavalry would not use bows and arrows at all, and the impact of the horses was their greatest weapon.

Hunhe once again felt contempt in his heart. Although the spear formation was the enemy of the cavalry, it had to be deployed on a large scale. The Tang army in front of him only had about a dozen people. He actually wanted to use spears to block these cavalry. Isn't it like hitting a stone with an egg?
Seeing that his own Tubo elite were only a dozen steps away from the last line of defense of the Tang army, the two sides were separated by only a few short piles that looked very intimidating and a few thin metal ropes between them.The next moment, just when Hunhe felt that the Tubo cavalry was about to break through the formation of the Tang army, suddenly, he saw the horses of the Tubo cavalry jumping up in front of the steel rope, and then they all stopped, Hunhe was taken aback, Why?

But at this time, he saw that the attacking formation just now seemed to have encountered some irresistible resistance. No matter how the cavalry whipped the horse, the horse refused to move forward. At this time, Hunhe looked at the soldiers of the Tang Army When the Tubo cavalry was at a loss, they stepped forward with long spears, and two or three people surrounded a cavalry and stabbed them.

Their long spears were more than two arms longer than ordinary cavalry spears. The Tubo elites on horseback had no way to face such long spear formations when they could not get close to the enemy.

Hunhe watched with his eyes wide open, he couldn't figure out why the horses of the Tubo cavalry suddenly refused to obey the control.At this moment, he saw the second team of Hun tribe cavalry also rushing to the deer fence, and then as if struck by a magic spell, the horses bumped forward, roared suddenly, and then jumped on the spot as well. willing to move forward.Tang Jun acted in accordance with the law, and immediately came up with a spear to poke the Huns cavalry.

Then came the DANGXIANG people, Tuyuhun Qiang... In the blink of an eye, dozens of cavalry warriors crashed into the line of defense composed of short wooden stakes that seemed to have no deterrent effect, and then all the horses stopped and never charged forward again. go.

At this time, Hunhe finally rushed to a place less than fifty steps away from the defense line, and he finally saw the true appearance of the defense line. He saw that the short defense line was only as high as one person, and consisted of many It is composed of short wooden stakes, and on the wooden stakes are four spike defenses made of metal wires.

At this time, the spikes on those metal wires were already covered with blood.Only then did Hun He realize that the horses that suddenly stopped just now were injured by these sharp thorns and therefore did not dare to move forward.

He frowned, the wire didn't look thick, but he didn't have any cutting tools around him at the moment, so there was really nothing he could do.

Then Hunhe couldn't help looking back, and more than 60 riders were still rushing behind him. He couldn't help but get nervous, but it was too late. At this distance, including him, almost everyone could not stop the car, so the descendants The people in front of the collision pushed the horses in front continuously forward. The horses panicked. Some knights were shaken off their horses and trampled to death by the horses hooves behind them. Go forward, get entangled deeply in the barbed wire, a drag is a deep cut of flesh and blood, the pain makes people scream, and even some people have been knocked down from the barbed wire, hooked all the way, at this time the whole person is in a state of panic. Hanging on that wire.

The cavalry pulled out their sabers in a hurry, trying to cut off the wire, but the quality of the wire seemed to be good, and a knife made of ordinary rotten iron could not do anything with it. Even if some knights were equipped with good knives, they could cut one or two wires , but the barbed wire fence has four layers. When they cut it, Tang Jun fired arrows from a distance, and at the same time kept stabbing it with the damn long spear nearby. Often, a cavalryman was killed before the gap was cut. Killed.

Those Tang soldiers were extremely cunning. They held up their shields and did not rush forward. They just bullied the cavalry who didn't have spears and kept stabbing and harassing them.

And even if someone desperately cut off the barbed wire fence in a place, because the wooden piles are densely arranged, only a small gap can be opened for two horses to pass through. If more than 100 people want to rush out through this gap, it will take a lot of time. Long, and this is just a barbed wire fence. There are four such barbed wire formations in front of him. In this difficult environment, his huge cavalry team was actually blocked by the simple deer fence made of these few wires, unable to move forward at all.

(End of this chapter)