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Chapter 804 Siege and Killing
The so-called "mountain-shaped camping method" means to be as immovable as a mountain.

Since it's a mountain standing here, it's not just a place to stand and take a beating without fighting back. So, all sorts of traps are constantly appearing around this camp. They don't look out of place from the outside, but once you get close to the designated area, you'll immediately experience the danger.

Liu Chang had never seen this kind of camping method before. The key point was that he never expected that this transport team would set up so many traps on the perimeter when setting up camp. He was confident that he had not revealed any flaws.

This carelessness caused the first wave of cavalry to suffer heavy losses.

One after another, half-foot-deep holes were dug out of the ground in a random pattern, and then covered with a layer of turf in an extremely insidious way. You wouldn't notice them unless you stepped on them, let alone from a distance, let alone on a warhorse galloping at high speed.

A thin hemp rope tied between two clumps of bushes, with some thatch inserted, makes the simplest tripwire.

Amidst the chaos and disarray, dozens of riders were instantly killed by the barrage of arrows from behind the chariot formation. The remaining riders, however, were skilled horsemen who managed to rein in their horses and turn to leave.

He Jiaxi's bow moved like thunder, and with a volley of arrows, he killed seven or eight people on the spot.

In his shock and anger, Liu Chang immediately changed his tactics. He first cautiously probed the enemy, then spread his troops out completely and attacked from all sides, making it impossible for his superiors to find the focus of his attack.

After several probing attacks, Liu Chang finally discovered and opened up an offensive front. Under the high-speed charge of the cavalry, the defenders felt increasingly heavy pressure.

Lu You stood in front of the cart, carrying his broadsword and leaning against it, actually withstanding the charge of the cavalry. He swung his broadsword like a windmill, and with the help of the arrows from the archers behind him, he was still able to charge forward.

The arrow slowed the cavalry's speed, and then he rushed forward and slashed the man's head with his sword. Under normal circumstances, this would cut the man and his horse in two with a single stroke.

Having withstood the charge of the Northern Yuan cavalry, Lü You was not afraid of the charge of these light cavalry, because they were not even in the same league.

What troubled the defenders even more than the cavalry's repeated charges was the barrage of rockets launched by the enemy under the cover of their charges.

The enemy's rockets were insidious; they had oil tied to the shafts. When the arrows hit the grain, the oil spilled out, and a large area immediately caught fire. Of Lü You's more than a thousand men, almost half were busy putting out the fire.

Compared to killing the enemy, their more important task was obviously to protect these supplies.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the battle, Lü You ordered all the livestock in the middle to be laid down and their hooves tied up. Otherwise, if these rockets came, these livestock would have surely caused the camp to explode, and Liu Chang wouldn't even need to attack; the camp would have collapsed on its own.

"Old Lü, we can't hold on much longer!" He Jiaxi charged for a while, slightly pushing back his opponents, then turned back to the wagon formation and looked at Lü You, saying, "If reinforcements don't arrive soon, we really won't be able to protect this grain."

Lu You picked up his broadsword and said, "I'll go out and hold them off for a while longer. You stay and cover the retreat! Reinforcements should be arriving soon."

Watching the mountain-like Lü You rush out, panting heavily, roaring as he slashed a cavalryman off his horse, then engaging him in a fierce battle, hacking and slashing more than a dozen times before finally killing him with a single blow, he then leaned on his sword, panting heavily.

Clearly, Lü You was exhausted. He Jiaxi quickly pulled out a water bag from under the carriage shaft, tilted his head back, and gulped down half of it to catch his breath before taking Lü You off the carriage.

Thinking back to how he hadn't taken Lü You's proposal to establish the "Mountain" camp seriously yesterday, He Jiaxi couldn't help but feel a wave of fear. If he had been leading the team, all those thousand or so men and hundred or so carts of grain would probably be lost by now.

He poured the remaining water over his head, shook his head, put his helmet on, grabbed his gun, leaped onto the wagon formation, and shouted, "Old Lü, I'll take your place!"

The two of them had to maintain a balance, with one charging forward and the other holding the line. "No need, I can hold out a little longer!" Lü You roared, brandishing his sword and cutting another rider off his horse.

He Jiaxi cheered. Standing on the roof of the carriage, he suddenly saw a black flag appear on the horizon. Then, countless cavalrymen followed the black flag, first as a black line, and then as a black tide.

Liu Chang turned around in shock.

A massive cavalry force surrounded them from three directions.

"Reinforcements are here! Reinforcements are here!" He Jiaxi laughed loudly, and the infantrymen on the position were greatly encouraged, cheering loudly.

Lu You took a few steps back, jumped onto the roof of the car, looked at the fluttering T-shaped flag, and laughed loudly: "That's my brother Er Gou, haha, I knew it, how could he not be in a hurry to come and save his brother!"

"Why are there so many cavalry?" He Jiaxi was somewhat taken aback as he looked at his own troops who were surrounding him from three sides. He knew Ding Ergou, but he only had a little over a thousand cavalrymen under his command. But judging from the size of the troops now, there must be three or four thousand of them.

A thoroughly satisfying battle of annihilation.

First they surrounded them, then they routed them, and finally they pursued them. Only a few dozen riders managed to escape. In one fell swoop, they annihilated nearly a thousand enemy cavalrymen. This was the greatest victory for both sides since the Battle of Yangguan.

Ding Ergou dismounted and walked towards Lü You, who was sitting in the carriage holding a knife.

"Er Gou, if you had stayed any later, I would have been reporting to the King of Hell!" Lu You spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva.

"Who doesn't know you're a famous lucky general, Fatty? This little skirmish can't possibly hurt you! Back then, you fought alongside General Xia Zhi against the Northern Yuan cavalry. General Xia was seriously injured and had to recuperate for almost half a year, but you were perfectly fine." Ding Ergou jumped up and sat down next to Lü You, laughing, "After receiving your plea for help, I figured if I came alone, they would turn around and run away, and I wouldn't be able to do anything about it. It would be better to contact two more teams and wipe out Liu Chang's army in one fell swoop. You don't know how arrogant this guy is; in the past month, he's taken down several of our garrisons!"

"Tsk tsk, this guy is really something! It's a pity he escaped again this time!" Lü You said with regret, "You should have kept him here!"

"I'd like to too, but their martial arts cultivation is much higher than mine, so I really can't keep them!" Ding Ergou shrugged.

"When did you break through to the eighth rank of the Profound Origin Realm?"

"I don't know!" Ding Ergou shook his head and said, "It's all up to fate. I asked the Protector, and he said that I'm too fixated on this matter, which is not good. If I don't think about it, things will naturally fall into place!"

"That's true!" Lü You nodded. "It's a pity that Cai Ming didn't have the luck, otherwise he would love a battle like this one the most!"

“Brother Fatty, we should all take care of ourselves. This battle is no ordinary one. Even the appetizers are getting bigger and bigger. I’ve heard that conflicts may break out simultaneously along the thousand-mile-long battlefield from Yangguan to Shanggu Yuyang. But no one can say for sure where the decisive battle will take place. The worst thing is that both sides fight their own battles. If the side that encounters the enemy’s main force, it will be very difficult.”

"Anyway, it's enough to make a profit!" Lü You said, "Didn't you say I'm a lucky charm? Let's just leave it to fate!"

Neither of them spoke, but simply watched quietly as the soldiers cleaned up the vast battlefield.

(End of this chapter)