Chapter 1063: Fight Again at a Certain Time

The Western Wei deployed nearly 50,000 troops in the rear, of which 20,000 were stationed in the upper reaches of the Sushui River. The Shaozhou army led by Yang Yu had nearly 10,000 soldiers, who stayed in Chexiang City north of Guzhong Road. As for the 20,000 divisions led by Yang Zhong, they first marched to Lishan on the west side of Qinshui River.

Although the three troops were deployed in relatively close areas, their respective tasks were slightly different. The troops stationed at the Sushui River were naturally to protect the safety of the waterway and supply lines, while Yang Yu was mainly responsible for guarding against the enemy from the Northern Qi Dynasty. As for Yang Zhong's troops, they were responsible for the main force of attacking Jianzhou.

Yang Zhong had not yet officially marched towards Jianzhou. When he received the news sent by Yang Yu and learned that the enemy had indeed launched a surprise attack from here and had already established a foothold in Lengkou Valley, he did not dare to neglect it and immediately led 2,000 elite soldiers to the place where Yang Yu was blocking the enemy.

The two groups were not far apart. It took Yang Zhong and his party only more than an hour to reach the camp outside Lengkou Valley. After hearing the news, Yang Yu hurriedly came to meet him. After seeing Yang Zhong, he said a little embarrassedly: "I didn't expect that the bandits would seize the upper hand today... There are about three or four thousand bandits in the valley. They are all brave and fierce, led by Hulu Jin's son Hulu Mingyue. The bandits came to attack desperately, and our army formation was not strong enough. They were disrupted by the bandits and had to retreat here and fight again as a whole."

Yang Yu was naturally quite embarrassed to retreat under the fierce attack of the enemy despite being well-rested and having superior military strength.

After hearing this, Yang Zhong did not blame Yang Yu too much, but went straight to the front line of the battle between the two sides, stood in his own battle formation and looked inside for a while, carefully looking at the distribution of the enemy in the valley.

When he heard the neighing of many war horses in the valley, Yang Zhong frowned slightly, slowly retreated to the camp, and said to Yang Yu and others: "Since the bandits have come here, they are determined to take risks and fight to the death. They will not be limited to staying at the entrance of the valley to harass us. They are currently accumulating manpower and horse power, and will definitely break out soon. Once they get out of here, they will be a big threat and must be killed here as soon as possible!" Yang Yu's face became more and more ugly after hearing this. He took a deep breath first, and then said "It is my fault that I was unable to stop the bandits in the mountains. I will personally lead my men to fight to the death here and must annihilate the enemy here!"

"The soldiers here are tired after a long battle. Let's retreat and rest for a while. Since I have led my troops here, I can't just watch. Let's attack first. Please ask Yang Shaozhou to distribute armored soldiers to the nearby mountain roads to prevent the bandits from escaping and causing trouble."

After watching the battle for a while, Yang Zhong could see that Yang Yu's troops were slightly inferior to his opponents in terms of equipment, skills and fighting spirit. After all, Yang Yu's troops were directly under the local garrison state army, and the resources they could obtain from the hegemony were relatively limited.

In other combat environments, perhaps some means could be used to offset these differences between each other. But in this narrow and long battlefield with close combat, the only thing to compete is the hard quality of each soldier, and the Shaozhou state army will inevitably be somewhat inferior.

Hearing what Yang Zhong said, Yang Yu was ashamed again: "This matter is within my duty. I am grateful to Lord Anlu for coming here to raid the battlefield. I really dare not..."

"We are all following orders and serving the country. There is no need to distinguish between each other!"

Before Yang Yu finished speaking, Yang Zhong waved his hand and said, and then returned to the camp, ordered the soldiers to take off the armor, long swords and other weapons on the horseback, and then put on armor and armed in the camp.

Not long after, two hundred heavily armored soldiers including Yang Zhong were ready, and other soldiers were also armed with light armor or half armor, and then under the command of Yang Zhong, they occupied strategic locations outside the valley.

After seeing this, Yang Yu also hurriedly arranged his own soldiers to cooperate with the defense of various parties and set up a wide encirclement outside the valley.

After all these things were ready, Yang Zhong held a saber and led a group of heavily armored soldiers to the entrance of the valley with steady steps. The Qi army soldiers in the valley also noticed the dynamics of the Wei army, and immediately reported the situation to the valley and asked for countermeasures.

At this time, Hulugu also woke up. Although he had only experienced a short sleep, his spirit had recovered. The injuries on his body had been properly treated. Although the pain was unbearable, it was fortunate that it did not have much impact on his actions.

Knowing that the enemy army had invested in heavy armor to attack, Hulugu looked around with the help of his generals, and his mood became a little solemn and nervous. There was nothing in the valley that could be flexibly moved, such as wood and stone, and it was difficult to build a line of defense in a short time.

The only way to temporarily avoid the enemy's edge and consume the enemy's strength was to lead some of the horses in the valley forward to block the entrance of the valley. Although this would inevitably cause heavy casualties to the horses, at least it would avoid direct confrontation with the enemy.

So Hulugu ordered his men to drive hundreds of horses forward to occupy the valley space, and at the same time he ordered people to dig trenches behind the horses to try to hinder the enemy army.

"Use me as the arrow, and rush into the valley!"

Yang Zhong did not order his men to line up in a row to completely block the valley passage, but he led a column of three people into the valley.

The enemy troops originally guarding the valley entrance had already retreated inwards, and the first to be affected were the crowded and restless horses. These horses were already frightened and uneasy, and the fatigue brought by crossing mountains and ridges had not yet been completely eliminated. Now that they were driven to the front of the valley, they were suddenly even more difficult to control, and they rushed out of the valley in a noisy manner.

"Die!"

Yang Zhong shouted, and the sword in his hand chopped down the warhorse that rushed in front of him. The blade fell straight from the horse's neck, and the warhorse fell dead on the spot. The warhorses beside him were frightened by this, and they immediately neighed and fled to the left and right, not daring to stand in the road directly.

Although war horses are quite human, they are not as good as human cognition. They still follow the biological instinct of seeking benefits and avoiding harm, and gallop out of the valley along the two sides of the heavily armored team. Even if some war horses rush towards this team in a panic, most of them cannot escape the fate of being killed on the spot. Although it has a certain impact on the speed of Yang Zhong's heavily armored soldiers, it has not reached the extent of blocking the team and making it difficult to move forward.

Soon hundreds of war horses galloped past, and at this time the Qi army soldiers in the valley had already lined up at the edge of the stream, hoping to use the terrain difference of several feet between the valleys to stop the enemy.

In the previous battle, Hulugu's overdraft was too great. Although his energy has been slightly restored, it is difficult for him to put on armor and go into battle again, so he can only dispatch soldiers and supervise the battle with swords in the rear.

Soon, the heavy armor of the Wei army advanced to the front of the enemy formation. Facing the enemy's swords and spears stabbing in front of them, Yang Zhong and his two soldiers on the left and right swung their swords and chopped off several enemy blades directly. Even if the sharp blades fell on their bodies, they only made a clanging sound on the armor, but did not cause any damage.

On the contrary, when the sabers were swung upwards, several enemy soldiers were unable to avoid it, and their leg bones below the knees were directly cut and broken, and they fell to the ground screaming.

"Whoever blocks me will die!"

Because the enemy formation in front was too dense and the terrain was higher, Yang Zhong could not climb over for a while, so he kept swinging his sword and slashing under the huge rock against the enemy's sharp arrows.

Soon, the huge rock was covered with thick blood plasma, becoming more slippery, and the corpses of the Qi army soldiers who were killed above kept sliding down from the top of the rock, forming a bloody slope under the rock.

Yang Zhong and his men climbed up the rock on the corpses of the enemy. Just as they were standing firmly, two long spears came straight at his chest. Yang Zhong was not afraid of this. He turned his upper body halfway and used his back to withstand the impact of a long spear. After taking the blow, he twisted his waist and turned his arm to swing the saber in his hand. The blade was slightly blocked, and then the two enemy generals in front were cut in half on the spot!

"The pillar of the country is mighty!"

The soldiers who climbed up the rock in the back saw Yang Zhong's heroic scene and cheered loudly. Yang Zhong also laughed loudly, pointed the blade forward and shouted: "The enemy is in front, don't stop! Kill!"

In the mountains and fields where it is not easy to move and change formations, the heavy armored infantry is a kind of almost unsolvable force, except that their movements are slightly restricted. Especially under the leadership of Yang Zhong, the most powerful general in the Northern Town, the elite soldiers of the palace soldiers at this time burst out with fighting power that is no less than the elite soldiers of Heyang carefully selected by Hulugu.

Yang Zhong's fighting style is steady and solid. Even if it is also a force to destroy people, it gives people an irresistible sense of oppression. If Hulugu led his team to capture the mountain valley before, it was all based on the bravery and fearlessness of the soldiers who met each other on a narrow road, then the heavy armored soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty led by Yang Zhong at this time are like killing machines without emotions.

From the valley entrance to the valley, from the horse herd to the enemy formation, the heavy armored soldiers following Yang Zhong on both sides have rotated several times, but Yang Zhong still advances with a steady pace and a slow rhythm, swinging his sword to kill the enemy all the way.

"No more retreat, no more..."

Seeing that the valley they had fought so hard to capture was taken back by the enemy, Hulugu was extremely anxious, and even the wounds that had been bandaged before were bleeding again. He was no longer suitable for fighting in the battlefield, and could only shout and order the soldiers to hold the front line again and again.

But manpower is ultimately limited. At this time, Yang Zhong had already led his team into most of the valley, and was less than ten feet away from the rear formation where Hulugu was. He and the team behind him seemed to be iron spikes deeply stuck in cheese, and their steady forward speed was despairing.

When facing such an enemy, the Qi army soldiers who had been fearlessly charging at the Shaozhou army before could not help but feel a chill in their hearts, and dared not to go straight in front of the enemy, and fled to the sides.

After advancing a few meters, Yang Zhong stood still and shook off the blood plasma on his sword, then raised his hand and pointed at Hulugu who was not far away, and shouted in a deep voice: "Hulugu kid, don't run!"

"Bastard..."

Hulugu saw this scene, and his eyes were bloodshot. He wanted to fight Yang Zhong to the death. However, not to mention that his current physical condition did not allow it, his left and right guards also pushed him back without saying anything: "The enemy is fierce, please avoid the sharp edge for a while, keep this useful body, and fight again at a later time!"

After hearing this, Hulugu's face was full of bitterness. At this time, his own battle formation in the valley had been killed and the formation was in chaos. Behind him was the rugged mountains and fields. After retreating from the valley, he lost the place to reorganize the formation. For him, he really could only fight again at another day.