The thief of the fortress dominates the world

Chapter 175 The Death Trap Prepared for Cao Bianjiao

Cao Bianjiao was eager to make contributions, since he came to Datong, he began to hear how powerful the Jiang family army was, and how it defeated the Manchu Tartars.

Later, even Hong Chengchou, who went to persuade him to surrender, was humiliated by others and then robbed of all his weapons. This made him even more upset. Hong Chengchou, as well as himself, let out the bad breath in his heart.

After all, he is also a warrior known for his bravery. The rogues who chased him on the battlefield in the Central Plains cried for their parents and mothers.

This kind of pride accumulated on the battlefield has soaked into his bones, and he absolutely does not allow anyone to bear the reputation of bravery more than him.

Not to mention an army of horse thieves coming, even if an army of Tartars came, he would still dare to lead people to kill three in and three out.

Half of the [-] former troops he led were cavalry, so they marched very quickly, and they were getting farther and farther away from Yuan Chonghuan's central army as they walked.

Moreover, he didn't see half of the enemy during this journey, which made him more sure that the bandit army only dared to hide in the lair and prepared to resist when they heard the army was coming.

He now very much suspects that the news of the rebel army's repeated defeats against the Tartars was fabricated. Even the words of Li Yongnian, the commander-in-chief of Datong, began to feel that he was making excuses for his own incompetence.

Thinking of this in his heart, he naturally didn't take Jiang's army seriously.As soon as it was dawn, he ordered the whole army to move forward.

And seeing the slow movement of the infantry, he was even more anxious, so he simply handed over the [-] infantry to the deputy commander, and he took the [-] cavalry to take a step ahead.

The lieutenant wanted to persuade him, but Cao Bianjiao glared at him, and the lieutenant didn't dare to say anything, so he had to let him go, and he took five thousand infantry with him.

Five thousand cavalry galloped mightily towards Calabash Valley, and it didn't take long to find the enemy's trail.

"Report! Commander-in-Chief, we found enemy rangers spying ahead." The scouts flew to report.

"Explore again!" Cao Bianjiao ordered loudly without any fear.

After a while, the scout came to report again, with a louder voice: "I found a group of enemy cavalry charging towards our army."

Not only did Cao Bianjiao not panic at all, but he became excited when he heard the words. He suddenly stepped on the stirrups and stood up on the horse. Called the real elite of Ming Dynasty!"

The five thousand Ming army cavalry behind them also roared in unison, raising their arms and shouting: "Kill the thief! Kill the thief! Kill the thief!"

The roar of 5000 people formed a rolling sound wave, and the momentum was terrifying, sweeping away in all directions, startling the birds in the nearby mountains and forests to flee overwhelmingly,

Seeing this majestic momentum, Cao Bianjiao laughed loudly, drew his long knife, and galloped forward at the head of the horse, followed by five thousand fine riders roaring loudly behind him.

Five thousand war horses set off billows of smoke and dust on the wasteland, sweeping away towards the northwest.

Not long after, the Ming army discovered what the scouts said was a group of black-clad and black-armored cavalry charging towards them. Cao Bianjiao shouted excitedly, accelerated suddenly, and rushed over with his men, trying to crush these thieves with mantis arms as chariots in one fell swoop. military.

Seeing the power of the Ming army, the black armored cavalry rushed to the front and fired a few arrows indiscriminately, then yelled and turned around and ran back, obviously frightened by the momentum of the Ming army cavalry.

Cao Bian was a bold man with excellent skills, and he was not afraid of an ambush in front of him. He led [-] cavalry in pursuit.

The bandit cavalry obviously didn't expect the Ming cavalry to be so brave and fierce. Some people fell off their horses constantly, and the rest were so frightened that their hearts were broken and they ran for their lives.

Cao Bianjiao was full of pride in his heart, and made up his mind to wipe out all the bandit cavalry, so as to vent the anger he had accumulated in his heart for two months.

The two sides chased and fled, and chased for more than ten miles in the blink of an eye.

Only then did Cao Bianjiao realize that the two mountain ranges in the distance that originally meandered from west to east were suddenly tightened and cut off in front, and a deep valley was formed between the two mountains.

But in the mouth of the valley, there loomed an incomparably tall fortress city wall, squatting there like an incomparably huge beast, opening its bloody mouth to itself.

Is this the lair of bandits?There is such a tall city wall fortress, it is even taller than the city wall of Datong City or even Beijing City!

When Cao Bianjiao was startled, suddenly the soldiers beside him exclaimed: "My lord, look!"

Cao Bianjiao came back to his senses, only to realize that the bandit cavalry who were chased by them just now suddenly split into two groups and rushed to both sides. As they separated, the blocked vision in front of them quickly widened.

A huge infantry phalanx was waiting not far away, like a hunter waiting for the Ming army to bump into it.

Cao Bianjiao was startled, and only then realized that he had fallen into someone else's trick to lure the enemy.

The infantry phalanx in front of them was the real killer weapon under the command of Bai Shan and Jiang Chuan as the commander according to the plan.

Jiang's army currently has a total strength of about 7000. Except for [-] cavalry, the rest are all infantry.

Jiang Chuan only left [-] infantry in the city to guard the city, and [-] monk soldiers to maintain law and order, the remaining [-] infantry were all put out.

The entire formation formed a huge arc, with a hollow in the middle and protruding wings.The front of the phalanx was [-] heavily armored halberd soldiers, which were divided into three rows. The first row erected a huge iron shield. , the defense is airtight.

While erecting the iron shield, a thousand halberd soldiers stabbed [-] halberds nearly two feet long from the bottom to the top from the groove left above the iron shield, and the soldiers squatted on the ground , The tail of the eucalyptus is fixed with a small hole in the ground, and the soldier's right arm is tightly clamping the eucalyptus at about three-quarters of the end of the eucalyptus, using a three-point line to stabilize the eucalyptus.

The soldiers in the second row stood up and stabbed the nearly two-foot-long halberd through the gap above the heads of the soldiers in the first row. The sharp halberd head blocked the space in the middle.

The third group of halberd soldiers held the halberds tightly in the middle and back, and stabbed from top to bottom, blocking the space below.

The three rows of halberd soldiers formed a dead forest with sharp halberds in their hands, with no dead corners in the top, middle, and bottom, shining with a gloomy cold light. Once the enemy bumped into it, the sharp halberd heads in three directions made it impossible for the enemy to avoid it.

And behind the halberd soldiers are lined up a thousand silver-armored swordsmen in heavy armor, holding a shield in one hand and a big sword in the other, with only a pair of cold eyes showing. After the first line of defense was breached, they quickly stepped forward to prevent the enemy from advancing.

Behind the silver-armored swordsmen are 6000-meter crossbowmen, each equipped with a long bow and a strong crossbow, a bow for long-range shooting, and a crossbow for short-range shooting, which will give the enemy a full range of long-range strikes.

This is the frontal layout of the large formation, and the two wings of the arc-shaped formation are composed of two thousand spearmen also wearing iron armor. Although their defense is not as strict as that of the halberd soldiers, they still follow the same formation furnished.Although it is weaker, it is not that the Ming army can be defeated at one touch.

Moreover, the two thousand cavalry of the Jiang family army who were originally in charge of luring the enemy also went to the two wings of the formation to protect the fragile two wings and prevent the enemy from attacking the formation from the two wings.

And Jiang Chuan still holds [-] reserve teams in his hands. Once the battle situation is unfavorable, the [-] reserve teams can fill in weak defensive positions at any time.

This is an almost airtight death trap prepared by Jiang Chuan for Cao Bianjiao.

As long as Cao Bianjiao dares to rush forward, Jiang Chuan promises to make him bleed.

And if Cao Bianjiao didn't dare to rush forward and wanted to escape, that's okay.Although the infantry could not catch up with him, Ran Wu's [-] cavalry were still waiting for him.

　The first update arrives.There are two more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)