Chapter thirty-eight encounter
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After stabbing the first enemy who met with a shot, the cavalry camp immediately gave up and replaced it with a scimitar that had been drawn. According to what they usually do, the scimitar was flat, and with the momentum of the two horses being broken, they cut off the head of the enemy's enemy.
Li Jiqian's men also had guns, but they rushed to attack the horse, and the queue was not in a mess. In the thick fog, they could not see clearly what was ten feet away. When the two sides collided, Li Jiqian's ears were almost full of familiar voices screaming and falling off the horse. He was closely supported by the loyal Iron Harrier. A cavalry suddenly jumped out of the thick fog. Seeing a large group of gathering enemies here, the cavalry did not dare to go forward and provoke him. He shouted in Mongolian in his mouth, and used his own speed to gently pluck the horse, and rushed over from Li Jiqian's group. Just as the iron Harrier was a little relaxed, he suddenly screamed behind him, but the cavalry turned around and shot an arrow in the thick fog.
The grasslander, Li Jiqian suddenly realized that only the grasslanders in the Mobei tribe would use such a despicable tactic. But was the charge that was as fast as the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves just now, which was something that the Mongolian tribe could do in a scattered manner? He couldn't help but wonder again.
But the battlefield was not allowed to think. After Xin Gu led a dense Husband's squad to rush through the enemy's formation, he immediately shouted loudly: "Husband Camp, the one who is not dead is approaching me, return to the horse, return to the horse, and rush over!" The blind sprint in the thick fog was very exciting, especially suitable for these Husbands who tied their heads on their belts like Xin Gu, charge at full speed, rely on their abilities, and fulfill their destiny. This is the simple philosophy of Husband.
The well-trained cavalry completed the reorganization of the team and turned the horses at the fastest speed, and launched a charge again under the leadership of Xin Gu. However, this time, without sound guidance, there was a scattered sound of horse hooves in the thick fog, and the way the Hussars rushed past was quiet. This was because the strict formation of the cavalry camp was twice as dense as the Iron Harriers. In other words, under the advantage of two-for-one and speed, the narrow impact front of the Cavalry camp, almost all the Iron Harriers who were hasty to fight were destroyed. At present, the Iron Harriers scattered on both sides were gathering again in panic, and more people were looking for Li Jiqian's direction, and Li Jiqian's followers were surrounding him with all their might from the battlefield for his safety.
The charge of the cavalry camp that Xin Gu instigated again was like a heavy punch hitting the air, and only reaped the lives of a few iron kites. After the rest could not be found, they all urged the horses to flee everywhere. In the thick fog weather, Xin Gu did not dare to divide his troops to search.
Feng Bo, the centurion of the Cavalry Camp, came forward happily and reported that he found more than a hundred horses abandoned by the enemy in the rear, carrying complete cavalry armor, food, water bags and other items. It seemed that this was not a simple grassland tribe. Xin Gu thought secretly, was it the vanguard of Li Jifeng's army? In order to prevent the revenge of the brigade of enemies, the Cavalry Camp quickly left the battlefield where corpses were everywhere with the seized objects. The thick fog in the evening often heralds the storm in the north of the desert. They urgently needed to find a high slope to establish a camp. While waiting for the bad weather to pass, they continued to monitor the exit of the valley road north of Yinshan.
Chen De kept cursing. The damn thick fog had not yet dissipated. Only the scorching sun at noon had dimmed a little, the sun was slightly slanted westward and became thicker again. Chen De began to look forward to the storm coming soon, but Yu Furengui had already started to pray constantly, hoping that the storm that was about to come would not be too violent.
The disaster did not go solemnly, and the detective came to report it. He encountered a large tribe camp ahead. The other party asked the Lanzhou army to take a detour, otherwise they would meet each other. "Damn!" Chen De was so angry that he blurted out, "How many people do they have? The fog doesn't dissipate anyway, the march will be slow, so he will destroy this stumbling block first." He pulled out the horse whip and hit it twice in the air.
Pu Hangu, the captain of Gaoti Camp, looked puzzled and explained in a low voice: "They call themselves the Krei tribe, like the remains of the Turks. The thick fog blocks the road and does not know the reality, but there are no less than 500 cavalrymen who just block our army."
"How did the Kelie tribe migrate here? Aren't they on the edge of the Onon River?" The Kelie tribe is a large tribe with a large population, but they wander in the grasslands further north all year round. Chen De frowned and thought, "The grassland tribe lived with water and grass, and the migration was uncertain. It was really a big trouble. He transferred all the teams of the Cavalry Battalion to the preset battlefield and the valley road on the northern foot of the Yinshan Mountains. His army was moving on the way. He didn't know that it was a big tribe like the Kelie tribe. It was really raining. If it were regular, he would not be afraid of such tribes that were home and family. After all, they had cavalry, women, children, and young, and all of them went out to the frontier were cavalry. No matter how strong the porcelain was, he could not do anything. However, in the thick fog, the grassland tribe was afraid of being attacked by strong enemies, so he refused to let foreign troops approach the camp.
Thinking of this, Chen De was worried about the Xiao Jiu's troops who had not been in contact for two days. The so-called camp of the grassland tribe is not a small area. They will divide the large grasslands and rivers around the camp into forbidden areas. When they encounter a large group of cavalry like themselves, they will be polite to ask you to take a detour. When they encounter a few cavalrymen with single power, they may take action directly. On the grassland, horse thieves are tribes that cannot be kept, and tribes are horse thieves that are good, and the difference is not very obvious.
There is still a big battle with the Dangxiang people, so I can only bear this idle breath first. Chen De waved his hand and said, "The whole army is on guard, take a detour south, pass the restricted area of the Kelie tribe and return to the established road." The three thousand cavalry slowly circled a bend in the fog and continued to move forward. On the opposite side of the thick fog, more than 500 cavalry of the Kelie tribe were on guard, and they were monitoring the foreign cavalry a hundred miles away from the tribe camp before returning slowly.
What Chen De didn't expect was that when the main force of the Lanzhou cavalry was detouring, Li Jifeng's cavalry had already found the Lanzhou caravan led by Xiao Jiu.
"The blessing of the heaven of the Great Han Dynasty." When he heard the front army report that he had discovered the Han National Caravan camp, Li Jifeng smiled and said to the left and right, he insisted on the decision to advance quickly even in the thick fog. It was almost a gamble, but obviously, this dice shuhaige7 was released. Seeing Li Kexian and Li Keyuan had to sit down in the lower head with consent, he thought with great enthusiasm that the heaven of the Great Han Dynasty was my Li Jifeng. Like Lanzhou, a large caravan with four or five thousand people in total with four or five thousand people was very rare on the grassland. As soon as he saw the size of the camp, Dangxiang Cavalry quickly determined the target.
Li Jifeng smiled and said to Li Keyuan: "Since you have found the Han caravan, please ask your uncle to lead your troops to monitor the caravan camp. When the caravan sets off tomorrow, we will hit him on the way, and we will get the best results." He seemed respectful, but in fact he wanted Li Keyuan to do the most tiring work. He also heard of the style of the Lanzhou Army. Last time Li Jiqian robbed, the caravan guards insisted until the arrows were gone and the bows were broken, and finally destroyed most of the valuable goods. Li Jifeng mobilized a large number of troops, so he naturally did not want to return empty-handed. He attacked him in the middle way. The Lanzhou caravan not only had time to set up a formation, but also had no time to destroy the goods.
But Xiao Jiu was too cautious. Before contacting Chen De, he made up his mind not to pull out the camp anymore. Anyway, the caravan brought a large number of reward food and grass to be delivered to the cavalry camp team, and two wells were drilled in the camp. Facts proved that caution can save lives in many cases.
Li Jifeng's patience was limited. Although Li Keyuan repeatedly assured him that he had not alarmed the Lanzhou caravan, he still cursed the old dog ten thousand times in his heart. If you had not alarmed the Lanzhou caravan, how could they stay where they were? Is the caravan so full of food? "Since that's the case, take advantage of the heavy fog and attack from all sides to break the car formation before the Han people took action to destroy the goods." Li Jifeng ordered that the troops immediately go down and prepare. After a moment, the horse's hooves were booming. Hunter, who had been suffocating for many days due to the march, thick fog and internal intrigue, could finally pounce on its prey like a real hungry wolf. Everyone was inexplicably excited.
The conservative Xiao Jiu army immediately discovered the enemy, and the entire camp immediately started to operate like a sophisticated machine.
This time, Xiao Jiu led the baggage camp, Bashan Camp, Lingbo Camp, Theater Camp, and the commanders Jin Ju, Lu Zhongjie, and Zheng Bin immediately made preparations. Among them, the baggage camp led by Xiao Jiu himself sounded like the head of the logistics camp, but in fact it was an intra-battle camp with various equipment concentrated in the Lanzhou army. For example, the crossbow chariot that was successfully tested by the craftsman, and other infantry camps had not seen it. However, the baggage camp was used in the entire trial production process, so twenty crossbow chariots could be used as soon as they were firecrackers, turbulent oil, stone throwing tools, bed crossbows and other complex weapons were all in the baggage camp. Originally, Chen De had left the baggage camp to stay in the Lanzhou camp after all his expeditions. In order to reduce casualties of the bait troops and to restrain the Iron Harrier heavy cavalry, Xiao Jiu led the baggage camp to fight.
He heard horse hooves ringing from all directions, and Jin Ju, the captain of Bashan Camp, sneered. In the past two days, countless holes were dug outside the Lanzhou camp. They were not big, and they could break the horse hooves. They were very sinister. A half-foot-deep trench was dug in front of the chariot formation, and a half-foot-high wall was piled on the trench. A horse could leap through it, but the moment the cavalry jumped into the air, they would be subjected to a dense crossbow shooting.
After the caravan led by Xin Gu failed last time, Lanzhou carefully summarized the lessons. One of them was that the crossbow soldiers and archers in the guards were too weak to stop the enemy's cavalry. This time, among the four infantry camps led by Xiao Jiu, Bashan Camp, Lingbo Camp, and The Diao Camp were all good at crossbows. Among them, Lingbo Camp and Bashan Camp were good at crossbows, and if necessary, they could also fight with the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. The Diao Camp was the essence of the archers in the entire Lanzhou army. They were all archers with perfect arrows.
Jin Ju was not mindful of whether the chariot formation could be kept in the end. As soon as he went to the battlefield, his soul was sold to the bloodthirsty devil. He stared at the thick fog that could not be seen through invisible. His ears carefully identified the sound of the enemy's hooves. Suddenly, a scream came from the thick fog. It was the scream of the enemy's cavalry stepping into the pit and the cavalry fell. It seemed that the main force of the enemy was about 150 steps away. Jin Ju's face darkened and he ordered loudly: "Shoot!" Thousands of powerful crossbows were fired at the same time, and the strong wind brought the thick fog, bringing more horse neighing and screams. Behind the crossbowmen, the civilians were organized into two teams, one team was specifically responsible for the crossbows, and a pair of crossbows who were specially responsible for handing the strings to the sergeant. This arrangement increased the firing speed of the Lanzhou military crossbowmen. Almost as soon as the enemy had just put in one breath, the two crossbow arrows that did not stop harvesting more lives with the strong wind.
Note: The dice in the double continents was originally two. After the middle of the Tang Dynasty, it developed to a maximum of six. Six dices can form an innumerable arrangement and combination method, so a "dice grid" with many names in later generations was formed. The four "four"s are called "Manyuanchun", which is the highest color.
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