Chapter 6793: Close before your eyes

Chapter 6793: Close before your eyes
The mountain roads in Beigui are mostly curved every ten to dozens of meters. The so-called eighteen bends in the mountain road may be an exaggeration in other places, but it is truly authentic here.

Therefore, even if there were only a few hundred meters left, Bakza fought and retreated all the way. Relying on the terrain and various simple defense facilities that had been prepared long ago, he was still quite confident that he could delay the retreat for a sufficient amount of time with less damage.

Of course, launching a battle based on this strategy is just a way to delay time. From the moment the front line is cut open by the cavalry and the battlefield is gradually and continuously cut open, whether Bakza is advancing or retreating, failure is only a matter of time as his strength is not enough to suppress his opponent.

"Where are the reserve troops! Why haven't they arrived yet!" When Bakza turned a corner again and relied on the terrain to counterattack, he found that the number of his own troops had been reduced to a few hundred. It was only thanks to the width of the battlefield that was only more than 20 meters. If it was a little wider, there would be no hope of stopping the Han army.

"It may take some time for Captain Aker. It's raining too heavily today." The guards at the side tried their best to say a good word for Aker, but in fact even the guards felt that their captain was too slow. It took so long to organize a submachine gun formation of a thousand people. You have to know that this is a war, and people will die every minute and every second!
Bakza cursed in his heart when he heard this, but Aker was a thousand-man he promoted and had always performed well, so he could be considered a confidant. It was impossible for him to betray him in such a matter. He thought that it was really what the guards said, that the rain was too heavy and it would take time to organize the team.

So Bakza could only lead the elite backbones to support and prevent the defense line from collapsing, while asking the scouts around him, "How long will it take for the general to arrive!"

"It will take at least half an hour at the fastest. And that's because there was a flood nearby. The general did not return directly to Kabul city before." The scout captain said expressionlessly. When the camp in the mountain road was attacked by the Han army, Bakza received the news and the scout captain sent intelligence personnel to notify Ardashir as quickly as possible. However, the speed of delivering the message would take at least half an hour no matter how fast it was.

After all, no matter what, the intelligence personnel need to pass the information first. After Ardashir receives the news and reorganizes the army, he will rush over. From delivering the news to reorganizing the army, even if Ardashir does not delay at all, it will take at least half an hour.

Of course, this was the judgment of the scout captain. In fact, when the rain in Kabul increased sharply and cold fog rose, Tavasdes realized that he and others were being plotted. Ardashir had already rushed over here with the Holy Death Knight and Nihawin.

So it didn't take half an hour at all. In fact, the intelligence personnel sent by the scout captain had already met up with Ardashir and rushed towards the northwest entrance of the Kabul Valley.

“Do we need to hold out for at least half an hour?” Bakza looked at the situation ahead that was already beginning to turn chaotic. If they continued to fight and retreat as before, although the losses would be small, they would not be able to hold out for half an hour. Moreover, once they withdrew from this mountainous terrain and entered the Kabul Valley, it would be even more impossible to delay the time. But if they fought head-on…

Bakza's face turned livid, and he called to his personal guards, "Go inform Acker and ask him to bring someone over. There is absolutely no time to delay!"

Seeing Bakza's ferocious face, and looking at the battle line in front that was already in a state of decline, the guards did not dare to say anything more and directly took two people and ran back. After all, everyone was not a fool, and Bakza's previous inquiries did not avoid them, so they also knew that they had to hold on for half an hour.

The terrain on the Kabul side is very special. The only passage to enter from Kandahar is from the northwest. Once you go out, you will reach the mountain valley. At that time, the Han army will be able to deploy. How can Bakza, who cannot defeat the enemy in the mountain roads, face the fully deployed Han army?
You should know that Kabul's previous arrangements on this mountain road were all based on the idea of ​​delaying the Han Dynasty to death in the mountain road, but who would have thought that the small and medium-sized camps specially arranged on this road for blocking, that is, the camp that Guangyuan and others attacked at the beginning, actually changed hands like this.

You should know that the reason why the camp was set up only about one kilometer away from the road entrance was, on the one hand, to detect and block the enemy on the mountain road, and on the other hand, to facilitate support from the rear.

There is no need to say much about the former. There is a camp across the mountain road, and then various sentries and hidden sentries are arranged in front of the camp for more than ten miles to block it. It can be said that if it were not for the heavy rain, Cao Ang and his party would never be able to get here. Even if they got here, facing this camp, they could only choose to attack it by force, and there was no possibility of taking it down by surprise.

After all, this is a closed camp built by hundreds of people. Even if there is a supernatural being like Zhang Huang who can instantly kill those with willpower below a certain level, the more than 20 Holy Death Knights who are the backbone of the camp are enough to block or pass on messages.

As for the assault by top officers and soldiers and the suppression by super-model clouds, it is no joke. A battalion of 600 to 800 soldiers, as long as they are fully equipped and still under the protection of clouds, is not something that a special operations team can easily take down.

And since there is no way to take it down easily, there will naturally be intelligence personnel who can ensure that the message is passed back quickly after being attacked. Just like when Guangyuan broke into the camp before, several soldiers turned around and retreated as soon as they saw Guangyuan. They played this role.

This is also why the Han army had done its best and defeated this not-so-large camp with the fastest speed and highest burst without being discovered by the enemy in front of the camp. However, Bakza was able to lead his troops into the corridor and began to block the Han army just after the camp was captured.

To put it simply, as long as the front camp was attacked, Bakza, who was blocking the road crossing, would directly lead the thousand-man defense team from the road crossing camp to either enter the mountain road or the cliff to attack the enemies attacking from the mountain road at the same time.

However, due to the heavy rain in recent days, many soldiers on duty hid in the cliffs. This was the reason why Bashu and others had just broken through the camp and rushed forward, but before they had taken a few steps, and even before they encountered the thousand-man team led by Bakza, they were encountered by short spears thrown from the cliffs.

Because people are lazy, it rains, it rains heavily, even if Ardashir issued an order to hold on to the rotation and never slack off, the veterans are more accustomed to running inside the cliff, after all, hiding inside the cliff will not get wet in the rain! And it is a little warmer.

Therefore, normally speaking, after the camp on the mountain road was attacked, Bakza should have led the 1,000-man defense team and his own 300-man guards to attack as soon as possible after receiving the news, and then cooperate with the 600 to 800 people in the camp on the road to block the attack on the mountain road.

Although it sounds like there aren't many people, in fact this place is only twenty meters wide, and the mountain path is winding back and forth, so you can't see the people at all. You can pretend that there are a lot of people, but you can just hold on anyway.

Theoretically speaking, as long as the camp on the mountain road discovers the enemy, it is basically impossible for the enemy to break through the camp. After all, the team behind Bakza will continue to follow up, and this kind of 20-meter-wide terrain can be used for refueling tactics. As long as the follow-up can continue to keep up, even the Han army will have no better solution.

However, the situation that Bakza faced this time was too complicated. First, the camp on the road was destroyed too quickly. When Bakza rushed in, the Han army was also charging into the mountain road.

Originally, Ardashir and Bakza chose to set up the mountain trail camp here instead of deeper into the mountain trail because the reason why the mountain trail camp was located here was that support from the trailhead could arrive in time.

Moreover, with the mountain road camp in this location, there would not be a situation where the camp's elite backbones would fight desperately to defend when their side suffered a heavy blow, and then order some elite troops to retreat to pass on information. As a result, because the journey was too long, the personnel transmitting the information were chased and killed by the enemy's elite, resulting in the sacrifice of a group of people, and in the end not even a message was delivered back.

Theoretically, the purpose of setting up this camp on the mountain road is that it would be best if the visible and hidden sentries could spot the enemy. If they cannot spot the enemy and they get close to the camp and get attacked, at least they can immediately notify the rear to send reinforcements for support. Relying on the defense of the camp and the configuration of the mountain wall, a few hundred people can delay for one to two quarters of an hour before reinforcements arrive.

This can directly undermine the morale of the attacking party.

As a result, there were many unexpected events. First, the camp on the road failed to discover the enemy in advance. Then, the camp on the road did not last until the arrival of its own reinforcements. Finally, the intensity of the Han army's attack was too strong. The thousand-man team brought in by Bakza for rotation defense failed to withstand the Han army in such a narrow terrain.

Or to put it bluntly, Bakza's personal guards plus the soldiers on duty at the pass number just over a thousand.

There was no other way. The only reorganized soldiers who could be mobilized instantly were the rotating 1,000-man team and Bakza's 300-man personal guards. Nearly half of the rotating 1,000-man team squeezed into the cliff to avoid the rain.

To be honest, you can't say that they are not working hard. Didn't you see the powerful javelins thrown down from the cliff? These were javelins thrown down from the cliff with all their strength. The javelins were able to pierce Xu Yuan's shield. You can't say that they are not working hard!
It can be said that one link collapsed and then all the links collapsed, but if we really have to say something, we can only say that this heavy rain did indeed end Ardashir's destiny. But it is also true that clouds will cover the sky and the sun.

For example, now, Bakza, who has tried his best to delay time and has retreated to more than 100 meters near the intersection, still has not been able to wait for his confidants to lead the reinforcements to arrive.

There is no way. What can be done on a sunny day may not be possible in a heavy rainstorm, not to mention this kind of rainstorm with cold fog after being activated by the special Xuanxiang. This kind of cold rain in the mountains can really take people's lives by hypothermia.

Originally according to Ardashir's military regulations, after Bakza led the rotating thousand-man team to attack, the other people in the camp, under the leadership of the deputy general or the thousand-man general, quickly reorganized, formed a battle array, entered the mountain road, and suppressed the enemy.

How can I describe this idea? It is indeed very good. Theoretically, if it can be implemented, now that Bakza has retreated, our side's spear suppression can already launch a counterattack. However, due to the cold rain, the spear phalanx has not been organized for half an hour.

It's not entirely because Acker and the soldiers are useless, but because of the cold fog condensing at the entrance of the road, just like the fog at the entrance and exit of the mountain road. Affected by the heavy rain and cooling temperature, the fog is five times heavier. The heavy rain plus the cold fog, not to mention the degree of pitch black, but it is true that you can't tell the difference between humans and animals ten meters away.

Compared to the Han Dynasty's widespread ability to change the situation, there were very few people under Ardashir who could change the situation. Even though they inherited part of the Parthian heritage and could barely keep up with other empires at a relatively high level, they had a clear gap with the big forces in such details.

As a result, the reinforcements that should have rushed up when Bakza retreated to within two or three hundred meters of the crossing did not rush up to provide assistance until Bakza retreated to less than a hundred meters away from the crossing.

At this time, Bakza had already realized that something was wrong. To be more precise, the white mist that was escaping from the crossing had even obscured his eyes. In this case, how could Bakza not know the situation at the camp at the crossing?

Even if we hadn't been ambushed, we probably wouldn't be able to organize ourselves now.

Well, Bakza didn't consider the issue of sneak attack, because logically speaking, it was impossible for a sneak attack to happen in this kind of terrain.

Now we can only pin our hopes on Ardashir. As for him, there is no point in holding on here. Without reinforcements, there is only a valley less than a hundred meters long left.

Even though Bakza had ordered his fortune teller to use his secret technique to change the weather and blow away the fog so that the reinforcements at the intersection could rush in as quickly as possible, there were less than a hundred meters left. Even if the Han army used blood to pave a path, it would not take much time.

"Charge! The intersection is ahead. Soldiers, follow me!" Huang Xiu had already replaced Zhang Ping and rushed to the front. He was riding the divine horse Jueying borrowed from Cao Ang. He pushed his defense, defense accumulation, and attack release to the extreme. He completely ignored all attacks and just crushed them.

Relying on the amazing power of Jueying, a divine horse with internal energy that leaves the body, and the terrifying defensive power provided by itself that can withstand two shots from the God-Slaying Spear, he completely ignored the opponent's attacks and buried his head in them.

To be honest, it is really impossible to use tanks in this kind of terrain that requires turning back and forth. Otherwise, tanks would definitely be the best solution to break through the front line.

In fact, this is also the key reason why cavalry can only be used to divide the battle line here, but not to win the battle. Such turning back and forth actually has a great impact on the cavalry's maneuverability and breakthrough. As for cavalry, except for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which does not need speed at all, any other cavalry will lose most of its combat effectiveness without speed.

This was also the reason why Huang Xiu led the backbone of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to crush the enemy forcefully. There was no other way. The combined power of man and horse was mostly greater than that of infantry. In the current situation, it was no longer possible to move forward by conventional means. Bakza was also a ruthless man. After realizing that he could no longer retreat, he chose to forcibly block the high-kill backbone of the Han army, and then rely on dense formations to defend other positions.

As I said, the top elite are very powerful, but they are not invincible. Zhang Huang alone can quickly kill an undead guard of a hundred people, and an undead guard of a hundred people under the super model cloud can chase Zhang Yong, but Zhang Yong can knock Zhang Huang to death. This is a question of compatibility.

Without this group of top-level lethal elites, the Undead Guards under Bakza had to push the front line hard and fight step by step with the elite Han army.

However, this entanglement did not last long, and was broken by Huang Xiu and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The dense formation was fighting for defense and squeezing each other, right? Come on, let me show you what the strongest defense in the world is.

Huang Xiu took the lead personally, and the five lieutenants of the Southern Army's elite innate defense, which had been accumulated for fifty years, fully blossomed at this moment. The idealistic defense, which the Western Liang Iron Cavalry was proud of, was even more brilliant, and the attack to remove this defensive force that was said to block absolutely everything was even more burning with flames.

Disposable? As long as I am willing to charge it, it can burn infinitely. This fifty-year-old golden body, crush it for me!
The old guys were not surprised at this moment, but Zhang Ping was dumbfounded. He could use his super defense and the coordination of various talent structures to block the javelin, but Zhang Ping could never catch this kind of thing with etched energy that could explode.

To be precise, even veterans like Sun Er and Zhang Yong, who were at the level of immortals and gods, had to dodge when they encountered it, and even those who were not at the top level of breaking through the realm did not dare to take it head-on. But Huang Xiu sneered and used his own weapon to deflect the etched short spear, and then let it explode five steps away from him, and then continued to crush him despite the explosion, and not even the horse's hair was burned by the flames!
"Follow Brother Huang!" A group of people rushed up along the road that Huang Xiu had crushed.

Bakza can command the Undead Guards, so he has naturally seen and experienced it before. Huang Xiu's performance is extremely amazing, but as long as there is talent, there will be shortcomings. Bakza can guess what the price or shortcoming is for Huang Xiu's exaggerated performance with just a little thought.

After all, the Persian Empire had faced this kind of thing before. Sparta's Wall of Sighs was also a thing of this type. In theory, if the attack continued to maintain a certain intensity, it would be breached sooner or later.

But the problem now is that there is no way to maintain a certain intensity of attack for a long time to continuously hit Huangxiu. After all, the Han army is not a pushover. A group of people protected Huangxiu in the front, and attacked both sides with all their might, trying their best to collapse Bakza's front line.

"Uncle Huang, can you still hold on?" Ba Chao sent a message to Huang Xiu.

"You can still hold on for a long time. This is a finishing move I created. I use idealistic defense as a medium and the accumulated defense to de-energize the attack. Don't worry, no one can break through my defense today." Huang Xiu smiled as he looked at Yamaguchi who was about to see the light.

I lay down, lost in a very complicated contemplation. This was probably the most tangled time in my life.