Transmigrating into a Turbulent Era as a Soldier, Starting with Marrying a Wife

The cavalry advanced rapidly through the valley of Green Pine Ridge.

Battalion Commander Abu constantly observed the ridges on both sides, hidden in the mist.

He didn't seem to find anything suspicious.

However, he quickly dismissed the thought.

Perhaps he was just being too suspicious.

Fortunately, nothing unexpected had happened along the way as the army entered Green Pine Ridge, and the only sound in his ears was the rumbling of his cavalry's hooves.

Before long, the mountain pass ahead brightened, and the cavalry charged into a small plain within the mountains.

Abu breathed a sigh of relief. This was the small plain within Calabash Hollow.

Once they passed through here, the Liang army's rear camp would be only twenty li ahead.

At the speed of the Tiele cavalry, twenty li was just a blink of an eye.

Even if the Liang army discovered the Tiele surprise attack team coming from behind, they wouldn't have time to react.

They could only allow the Tiele army to attack from both front and rear.

Abu threw his unease to the back of his mind, a cruel smile appearing on his lips. He drew his refined steel scimitar and shouted to all his Tiele warriors.

"Charge with me! Kill all the Liang dogs!"

The Tiele cavalry behind him let out wolf-like howls in unison.

Before Abu's words could fade, he suddenly felt a sinking sensation beneath him, and a crisp cracking sound of branches came from under his horse's hooves.

With a deafening crash, followed by a dizzying spin, Abu and his mount tumbled into the pit beneath them.

The bottom of the three-to-four-meter-deep pit was filled with sharpened wooden stakes. This extremely skilled Tiele battalion commander barely had time to cry for help.

He and his warhorse were pierced through by dozens of sharp wooden stakes.

At the same time, nearly a hundred personal guards following Abu also stumbled, their horses losing their footing, and they tumbled into the pit.

The subsequent cavalry couldn't rein in their horses in time, and many also fell into the pit. For a time, overturned warhorses and the wailing and screaming of Tiele cavalry were everywhere.

The cavalry, without command, were at a loss, and instantly panicked.

Just then, behind the cavalry formation, a low rumble came from the mountain slopes on both sides of the narrow mountain road.

The Tiele people were no strangers to this sound. It was the Liang army's terrifying iron carts!

Amidst the terrified cries of the Tiele people, countless carts loaded with rocks and lime rushed down from the mountain slopes on both sides, dragging up dust clouds.

The Tiele cavalry in the rear, who had not yet rushed out of the mountain road, were smashed into disarray.

The battalion commander had died in battle, and the few chiliarch commanders leading the team reacted quickly.

They knew they had been ambushed, and the rear cavalry was clearly beyond saving.

They desperately shouted, directing the cavalry to continue charging forward, trying their best to break out of the ambush circle.

But how could Li Yuan's arrangement leave them a way out?

The small plain was covered with honeycomb-like dense pit traps.

The Tiele people were also desperate, charging forward like trapped beasts, disregarding casualties.

They knew that if they stopped here, the result would be complete annihilation.

After paying the price of nearly a thousand casualties, the crazed Tiele people actually filled the trenches and pit traps with the corpses of their men and horses.

The subsequent Tiele cavalry, without hesitation, stepped over the bodies of their fallen comrades in the pit traps and continued to charge forward.

However, what awaited the Tiele cavalry ahead was not a way out, but tripwires and caltrops scattered all over the ground.

The Tiele people who had just rushed through the pit trap formation were filled with despair.

Immediately, the cavalry charging in the front stepped on the tripwires. Under the effect of the enormous stopping force, the cavalry on horseback were thrown far away, crashing heavily onto the small plain covered with caltrops.

A chiliarch commander tightly pulled on his terrified warhorse, looking around. The small plain was full of taut tripwires, like countless giant spiderwebs.

The subsequent Tiele cavalry, like moths to a flame, were brought down by the tripwires in swathes.

The chiliarch commander shouted with a heart-wrenching voice.

"Dismount! Cut the ropes!"

However, his voice was drowned out by the sound of horses' hooves and screams.

An arrow pierced through the chiliarch commander's neck, and his corpse rolled off his horse, trampled into minced meat and broken bones by the subsequent cavalry.

Immediately afterward, more arrows rained down densely from the mountain slopes and dense forests on both sides.

The completely out-of-control Tiele surprise attack team was plunged into complete chaos, and people were constantly falling from their horses in the hail of arrows.

Bugle calls sounded from the ridges on both sides.

This was the Liang army's command to attack.

Suddenly, from the grass, behind the trees, and everywhere that could hide people, countless figures stood up.

Most of them wore coarse linen clothes, felt hats with red tassels, and held only simple spears and old sabers. These were tens of thousands of Liang soldiers.

These cowardly sheep, once in the eyes of the Tiele people, were now like a pack of tigers descending the mountain.

Howling, they charged from all directions towards the Tiele people's already chaotic ranks.

At this moment, the sound of fighting and killing in the Green Pine Ridge valley shook the sky!

Those bewildered Tiele cavalry were actually defeated by these Liang soldiers, who were poorly equipped but high in morale.

Many Tiele people hadn't even figured out what was happening when the soldiers' spears pierced through their bodies.

Chaos and panic continued to spread among the Tiele surprise attack team. The three thousand Tiele cavalry in the rear were slaughtered by the soldiers of the two prefectures like chopping vegetables.

Only then did Li Yuan breathe a sigh of relief. The Tiele surprise attack team was completely finished.

The rear was no longer a concern.

But just then, a team of cavalry galloped from the direction of the Redwater River.

Li Yuan was very puzzled and hurriedly got up to look, and his heart was shocked.

Those were more than a dozen Dragon Corps personal guards, and they were protecting one person in the middle.

It was none other than Dragon Marquis's younger sister, Bai Yuxuan!

Li Yuan had a bad feeling in his heart and hurriedly turned his horse to meet them.

Coming closer, he hurriedly asked loudly.

"Miss Bai! Why did you run here!"

Who knew that when Bai Yuxuan saw Li Yuan, she burst into tears.

"Brother Li! Please go and save the Marquis. The Huaizhou and Qingzhou armies can't hold on. The Tiele people have already broken through the front camp."

"My sister forced the Dragon Corps personal guards to take me to escape, and I could only come to find Commandant Li."

"Now only the Dragon Corps is still desperately defending the central army camp. My sister Bai Jing is in grave danger!"

Li Yuan frowned. He had anticipated that the Redwater River defense line wouldn't hold for too long.

But he didn't expect that in less than half a day, the Redwater River defense line had already collapsed.

Over there, Bai Yuxuan was still sobbing as she narrated.

"Brother Li, you must hurry. When I rushed out, the Tiele people had already begun to attack the central army fiercely."

Li Yuan closed his eyes, his mind calculating rapidly.

If Dragon Marquis died in this battle, even if he won, it would be meaningless.

Because Li Yuan's current official position and status came from the Dragon Marquis's conferment and endorsement.

Once Dragon Marquis died, he would immediately become an ordinary military fort commandant.

Everything he had gained in this battle would be directly reset to zero.

Moreover, according to the military laws of Great Liang, if the commander-in-chief died in battle, the entire army would be guilty.

Therefore, Dragon Marquis must not die.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan opened his eyes and said to Bai Yuxuan, who was tearful.

"Miss Bai, don't panic!"

"I will go and save Dragon Marquis immediately!"

Li Yuan turned around and looked at the three hundred state prefecture personal guards and soldiers forming the cavalry.

"The Marquis is in a critical situation."

"I am preparing to go and save him. Are there any warriors willing to go with me?"

Although Li Yuan nominally commanded 12,000 Liang troops with the two state prefecture generals.

In reality, Li Yuan could not command the other troops without the permission of the two generals, except for his own eighty-odd soldiers.

But now the two generals were dividing their troops to surround the Tiele people in the rear, and they were unable to spare any manpower.

Li Yuan could only rely on himself.

And most of the three hundred pieced-together cavalry beside him were not Li Yuan's men.

If he took them to charge the Tiele people to rescue Dragon Marquis, Li Yuan didn't think that these people would all follow him.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, several riders galloped out immediately.

"We are willing to go with Commandant Li!"

Li Yuan took a look and saw that they were all his old brothers, Cui Ping, Cui Yong, Liu Heitou, and even Uncle Fu.

Li Yuan had equipped them all with warhorses, and these people had not disappointed Li Yuan.

He nodded in satisfaction, not wasting his efforts in cultivating them on weekdays.

Under the lead of several people, dozens more people galloped out, including Centurion Xue Dacheng, leading more than a dozen Dongxiang soldiers who were skilled in horsemanship.

Adding some volunteer mounted personal guards, there were finally 65 riders willing to follow Li Yuan to save Dragon Marquis.

With the matter urgent, Li Yuan was unwilling to delay. He pulled on the reins of his black steed.

"Everyone! Follow me!"