Suddenly, a horse on the left front fell down without warning, and the horse let out a painful neigh.
Before the knight had time to react, he fell to the ground and was trampled by the cavalry behind him.
This guy is so unlucky.
Manrad couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
He will soon escape from the pursuit of the Western Qin people.
At this time, if he stumbles in front of his horse, it is not bad luck.
But just as Manrad finished sighing, he found that two more riders fell down at the same time.
The two fell to the ground with their horses.
The knight was thrown far away from the horse and fell to the ground and was trampled by the hoofs of the cavalry behind him.
After these two rides, the horses stumbled one after another.
One by one, the knights and their horses fell to the ground.
Manrad finally came to his senses.
This was definitely not an accident, definitely not a coincidence.
There must be someone setting up in this area.
Fell into a horse trap.
The constant falling of cavalry made Manrad feel chilly.
He did not know that this horse pit was very large.
If this continued, it would not take long for his two thousand cavalry to suffer heavy losses, but the Western Qin cavalry behind them He was already chasing him, and he couldn't stop no matter how great the losses were.
Whether he could get through this trap area or not depended on his luck.
Something happened that made Manrad even more frightened.
Rows of cavalry began to fall down in front of them.
This was definitely because someone had arranged a tripping rope here.
Only tripping ropes could make a row of cavalry fall down neatly.
The collective collapse of a large number of cavalry caused the running speed of the cavalry led by Manrad to slow down.
The rows of knights and horses in front blocked the cavalry behind, which forced the cavalry behind to slow down to avoid tripping. .
"There's a tripping rope on the ground," a cavalryman shouted, pointing to a thick hemp rope on the ground.
Manrad looked over, and under the light of stars and moonlight, he could indeed see a hemp rope.
It was originally tied to something, but now it has become limp because it tripped many cavalry. lying on the sand.
"Kill the big cannibal" Indistinct shouts of killing came from the north.
Manrad couldn't understand what it meant, but he turned around when he heard the sound and saw many dense lights appearing on the northern horizon.
These were torches.
Firelight.
The Western Qin army came from the north, followed by a large number of Western Qin cavalry.
Manrad felt anxious and immediately shouted: "Run forward, run forward, fast, drive!"
Under the leadership of Manrad, the heavy-loss cavalrymen once again crossed the snagging rope and flew towards the west, leaving behind only a large number of horses neighing in pain and wailing knights.
Behind Manrad and the cavalry led by him, ministers and officials such as Harun, Thomas, and Ishag were quickly following with four thousand cavalry.
Their escape was discovered by the Western Qin Army.
Now the Western Qin Army I'm chasing after you from behind.
I have no choice but to... haha Lun could only order the infantry to stay to block the pursuers, but at this moment of escape, who would have the heart to block the pursuers?
Only a few die-hards would stay and block the Western Qin army's pursuit like a brainless person, while the others At this time, people only care about escaping for their own lives.
"I hope General Markhan can lead the infantry to block the pursuit of the Western Qin army," Thomas, who was galloping on horseback, shouted.
Harlan said: "We must leave here.
I have great doubts that the infantry can stop the pursuit of the Western Qin army.
If the Western Qin army bites us tightly, we will not be able to get rid of them."
"No, there's an enemy in the north, it must be the army of the Western Qin Dynasty," Ishaq shouted.
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Hearing his frightened cry, Harlan, Thomas and others turned to look north and saw dense fires on the horizon, which were the light of torches.
Someone else shouted: "Look to the south, the enemy has appeared!"
Everyone turned to look at the desert in the south.
As expected, a large number of torches appeared on the horizon.
Harlan's face changed drastically and he shouted: "Everyone, run forward.
You must break out of the encirclement before the Western Qin people come around.
Otherwise we will be surrounded and annihilated here, drive" "Driving" everyone hit the horse's buttocks with their riding whips and galloped forward as fast as possible.
Harlan and others soon arrived at the horse trap and horse stumbling area.
Through the starlight and moonlight, they saw injured horses and wailing knights lying on the ground everywhere.
They immediately pulled the reins and slowed down.
Haha.
Lun stopped and asked a big food knight lying on the ground: "What's going on?
Why are so many people injured here?"
The knight lying on the ground wailing said: "It turns out to be your Highness.
Someone has laid a large number of horse traps and horse ropes here.
It must be the people of the Western Qin Dynasty who did it to prevent them from escaping."
Harlan and Thomas felt their hearts sink when they heard this.
Thomas asked, "Where are General Manrad and the other brothers?"
"They have already passed through this area and continued to the desert area to the west."
There was a look of fear on everyone's faces.
If they continued to move forward, it would depend on their luck whether they could pass through this area with horse traps and horse ropes.
If they were not lucky, they might not be able to escape from here.
Thomas turned to look at Harlan and said: "Your Highness, what should we do whether to leave or stay?
Please make a decision quickly.
The Western Qin pursuers are already very close to us, and we have no time to delay."
It was too difficult to make this decision.
He asked: "General Thomas, what do you think?"
Thomas sighed and said: "Now no one has the courage to continue fighting.
If you stay, you will be eaten by the Western Qin army.
If you want to survive, you can only gamble on luck."
Harlan gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, then let's break out of this sandy land with horse traps and horse ropes.
Everyone follow me, and no one is allowed to look back."
"Wait a minute" Ishaq stopped Harun and said to a general next to him: "General Melenga, you take a thousand people and leave first, we will come later."
Melunga, who was named, didn't know that Ishaq asked him to lead a thousand people to explore the road ahead.
This clearly meant that he and his soldiers would be used as cannon fodder.
Once there was danger ahead, Harun and the others would stop.
Come down and think of another way.
Melunga looked at Harun, and Harun nodded.
Melunga could only wave to the thousand cavalry behind him: "Follow me and drive."
In the wilderness, it seems that the Western Qin army has appeared, but this place is located on the edge of the desert area, and the cavalry cannot run fast on the sand.
Although they have seen the Western Qin army coming towards them with torches, they are chasing after them.
It will take quite some time to come up.
Although Harun and others were delayed a lot of time, the Western Qin army was also on its way, but this caused a lot of pressure on Harun and all the food soldiers.
The Great Food Army moved quickly to the west again.
In this area with a large number of horse traps and snagging ropes, there were still war horses stepping into the horse traps or tripping on the snagging ropes.
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Some horses were more lucky, and the horseshoes It is not broken, and you can continue to run when you stand up.
However, some horses are unlucky and cannot run if their hoofs are broken.
The knights on the horse can only abandon the horse and rely on their legs to escape, but this is in vain.
How can the legs outrun the cavalry?
The horse traps and snagging ropes in this area first allowed more than 300 of Manrad's 2,000 cavalry to stay here, and now more than 500 of the 4,000 cavalry led by Harlan and Thomas were left here.
Here, a total of more than 800 horses were lost.
After running westward for about a quarter of an hour, seeing the Western Qin army coming from the north and south getting closer and closer, Harlan and Thomas finally caught up with Melunga and Manrad's troops.
As for the infantry, they had already They are far behind, and no one knows the current situation of the eight thousand infantry.
When Harlan saw a large number of soldiers and horses gathered in front of him, he immediately slowed down and trotted over and asked loudly: "What's going on in front, why are you stopping here?"
Many people in the crowd turned around and saw Harlan, Thomas and others coming with their troops, and they all made way for a passage.
When Harlan and Thomas came to the front with their troops, they couldn't help but gasp when they saw the scene ahead.
Cool air.
I saw a deep trench running north-south, endlessly long, ten feet wide and one foot deep.
Under this deep trench lay countless knights and war horses, as well as a large number of knights.
He led the horse down the deep ditch and headed to the other side.
A big soldier said to Harlan, Thomas and others: "We were just running forward on our horses.
The light was not very good at night.
No one noticed that there was such a wide and deep ravine in front of us.
General Manrad and Nearly eight hundred brothers had no time to rein in their horses and fell into a deep ditch.
The brothers suffered heavy casualties.
Some were not killed but were seriously injured.
Not to mention the horses, they could not walk away.
In order to escape, the brothers had to Dismount and lead the horse through this deep ditch."
"Poor Manrad."
Harun sighed and gritted his teeth: "We all dismounted and walked through this deep ditch.
Since the Western Qin people are constantly setting up traps and digging ditches to block us, they must not have enough troops to stop us."
We are completely surrounded.
As long as we cross this deep ditch, we should be safe.
Let's go."
Under the leadership of Harlan, the cavalry behind him also dismounted, led the horses down the deep ditch and headed towards the opposite side.
As the Western Qin army from the north and south gradually approached, the pressure on the Dashi army became more and more intense.
The speed of the deep trench also began to increase.
Just as a third of the people have led their horses across the deep ravine to the other side, another third in the ravine are preparing to go ashore, and another third are still here waiting to cross the deep ravine.
During the ditch, a large number of torches also appeared in the west.
Harlan and others, who had just climbed out of the ravine to the other side, saw a large number of torches in front of them, and their expressions suddenly changed.
Thomas said, "I knew the people of Western Qin would not let us break through so easily.
It turns out they had already done it."
They were ready, just waiting for us to get into their already prepared pockets, but we still got in stupidly":