Ba Lisu looked at the valley for a moment. The road at the bottom of the valley was about two feet wide, with lush pine forests on both sides. From the outside, this valley was quite long, longer than all the valleys they had passed before.
At this time, the spies from the front came to report, "There is nothing abnormal in the valley and it can be passed normally!"
Every time the team passes through a valley, spies will go to the front to explore the path. If there are no abnormalities, the army will pass through, which can avoid ambushes and sneak attacks to a large extent. The spies have already explored more than a dozen valleys in a row, and no abnormalities have been found.
Ba Lisu glanced at the deep valley. He felt a little strange in his heart, which made him hesitate a little. However, this hesitation only flashed past in his heart. Ba Lisu waved his riding whip and said, "Forward!"
The 50,000-strong army began to rush into the valley in a mighty manner. The slopes on both sides were steeper and covered with big trees. They were all towering pine trees. They grew so strong and tall that they not only blocked the sun during the day, but also blocked the sun at night.
Blocked by starlight and moonlight, the light in the valley is very dark.
After entering the valley, I discovered that the valley was much longer than I thought, at least more than ten miles long. It was indeed a good place for an ambush.
Ba Lisu felt a little uneasy. If he had explored all the valleys of more than ten miles, it would have taken at least half an hour. However, his spies only investigated the matter of a cup of tea, so they just came in and took a look.
What can be detected in this way?
It was a bit unrealistic to go back at this time. They had already walked halfway, so Ba Lisu had no choice but to bite the bullet and shout: "Speed up to cross the valley!"
The cavalry suddenly accelerated and ran towards the exit of the valley. When they were still five miles away from the exit, a gunpowder arrow suddenly shot out from the top of the mountain and flew into the night sky. The red flame was dazzling. Ba Lisu was shocked and blurted out: "Oh no!"
But it was too late, I just heard a series of rapid bang sounds, "Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Thousands of arrows were fired from the mountains and forests on both sides, and the 30,000 crossbow troops lurking in the woods fired intensively. The arrows shot into the crowd like a storm, and the several-mile-long team suddenly turned on their backs and screamed in agony.
"Boom! Boom!"
Hundreds of iron hedgehogs were thrown out and exploded in the crowd. The poisoned iron nails inside were scattered in all directions. The power of the iron fire thunder was much greater, and the poisoned iron nails were also shot far away. The soldiers could not hide and suffered casualties.
Extremely tragic.
After three rounds of arrows, the Jurchen cavalry suffered over 10,000 casualties. Many soldiers raised their shields and hid behind their horses. Although the iron fire thunder was sharp, the number was too small after all. Many soldiers were only shot by the poisoned iron nails, but for a while,
But nothing happened.
"Woo——"
The horn sounded on the top of the mountain, and the big trees on the mountain suddenly fell down. One by one, the thick trees hit the Jurchen cavalry on the valley road, one after another, like dominoes falling down. Thousands of them fell down, and the war horses fell down.
The soldiers screamed miserably. I don't know how many soldiers were smashed to pieces with broken bones and muscles, their flesh and blood were bruised, and they suffered heavy casualties.
But what’s really scary is that the items that rolled down the valley along with the big tree turned out to be kerosene barrels, filled with black kerosene. Countless kerosene barrels rolled down and hit the big tree heavily, causing the barrels to shatter.
It cracked, and black kerosene flowed all over the valley bottom.
"It's kerosene!"
The soldiers shouted in horror, abandoned their horses, and ran towards the entrance and exit of the valley.
Hundreds of rockets were shot down, and the kerosene ignited, forming a sea of fire for several miles in the valley, and the fire even spread to the mountains.
There was a raging fire in the valley, with kerosene and pine trees burning rapidly. Thick smoke filled the valley, and nothing could be seen. Only a shrill cry could be heard, just like a hell in the darkness.
All the ambushed Western Army archers evacuated to the other side of the hill. They evacuated very quickly. If they had been slower, they would have been engulfed by the fast and fierce fire.
The fire on the slopes on both sides was extremely fast, with big trees one after another. The fire took advantage of the wind, and even fire tornadoes and explosions occurred. With a "boom!", hundreds of big trees were instantly ignited.
Bali led tens of thousands of Jurchen soldiers to rush towards the exit of the valley, but soon they found in despair that the official road was blocked by countless fallen trees. The trees were all burning, and there were burning valleys on both sides.
People were blocked in a mile-long open space on the official road.
At first, you could still see the surroundings, but the smoke became thicker and darker, and gradually turned into pitch black. The soldiers were coughing desperately, and the oxygen was getting less and less. Many soldiers could no longer breathe, and more and more soldiers were injured by the thick smoke.
Choked and fainted.
Ba Lisu shouted twice, and a thick smoke choked his throat. His vision went dark, and he immediately fainted next to a big rock. The soldiers around him also fell down one after another, and they no longer cared about the life and death of the general.
Six thousand barrels of kerosene and tens of thousands of large trees dumped on the official road became the embodiment of death, taking away the soldiers' hope of survival.
The soldiers of the Western Army had already withdrawn several miles away, but they still felt the hot fire coming towards their faces. The soldiers had to continue to retreat, and they stopped when they retreated ten miles away.
In the distance, two mountaintops were engulfed in flames. Looking from a distance, there was a sea of fire for dozens of miles. The flames were raging into the sky. People seemed too small in front of this boundless fire.
Yang Zaixing decided to withdraw his troops. There was no need for an 80,000-strong army. He was already certain that the Jurchen army could not go south anymore. The fire had completely blocked all the passages southward.
He didn't know whether they could escape north, but there were 20,000 troops led by Li Fuxing in the north. Even if a small number of soldiers could escape from the valley from the north, they would not be able to escape Li Fuxing's sniper attack.
Yang Zaixing ordered Xu Qing to lead an army of 10,000 people to stay in the south to stop the enemy, while he himself led an army of 50,000 people to quickly return to the camp.
The fire was also seen in Licheng County, eighty miles away. Wanyan Wushu stood on the top of the city and looked into the distance. He could see dots of firelight and the night sky reflected red by the fire.
Wanyan Wushu was anxious. He had received a pigeon letter from Wanyan Chang from Daming City. The letter said that 50,000 reinforcements would arrive in the next few days. This was a reinforcement sent by the imperial court, all Jurchen soldiers.
It's the cavalry.
With the arrival of these 50,000 cavalry, his total force will reach 180,000, and he can definitely fight to the death with the Western Army. He is even sure of defeating the opponent.
But the reinforcements haven't arrived yet, so what's going on with the fire in the distance?
Wanyan Wushu urgently sent a team of spies to investigate.
At this time, Chen Qing also got the news. He stood in front of the big tent and looked into the distance. They were on a slightly lower ground and couldn't see the stars, but they could see a dark red in the night sky.
It can still be seen hundreds of miles away.
Wanyan Wushu may not know what happened, but Chen Qing knew very well that he allocated 6,000 barrels of kerosene to Yang Zaixing in anticipation of the fire. This should mean that Eagle Valley was completely engulfed in flames.
The fire burned for three days and three nights. All the flammable woods within a radius of fifty miles were burned away, and there was no wood left to burn. The fire gradually extinguished.
Two more days passed before the army began to enter Eagle Valley to clear the area. All the trees turned into black charred wood, and people and horses also turned into charred corpses. They were burned and huddled together. It was impossible to tell whether they were human or not.
Horses, or how many people are piled up and twisted together.
The soldiers of the Western Army had no choice but to dig hundreds of large pits in the mountains and bury the charred corpses of the men and horses together. The 50,000 elite Jurchen Army cavalry were completely engulfed by the fire. No one could survive, and
Tens of thousands of corpses were baked to dry, but instead of being burned to death, they were choked to death by the thick smoke or suffocated, and they were piled up together on a mile-long valley road.
General Ba Lisu's armor was recognized, and he turned into a pitch-black mummy. The golden helmet and armor were smoked black, but with a light touch, the golden light was still shining. The Western soldiers found his gold wolf head card.
It has his name on it.
All the armor and weapons that could be taken away were taken away, as well as the gold, silver and other belongings they carried with them. The mummified corpse of Bali Su was buried in a large pit together with the corpses of other soldiers.
More than ten years later, Eagle Valley has turned into a lush forest valley. The most tragic scene has been washed away by the years, and no trace can be seen.
The corpses of fifty thousand soldiers eventually became fertilizer for the growth of trees.