Chapter 409: Engagement
The sound of hooves, Tuoba Yan and the left eagle rode side by side, in addition to their respective elite subordinates, the soldiers and horses of the two tribes were clearly divided into left and right wings, following behind the two, bypassing from the southeast foot of Yaoshan Mountain, and heading west. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
A few eagle vultures flew overhead, monitoring the movement left and right, and the billowing iron behind them swayed with puffs of smoke and dust.
During the march, Tuoba Yan suddenly froze, and the green barbarian giant beast under him stopped, muttered for a while, his condensed brows expanded again, and a disdainful smile appeared on his hideous and ugly face.
Zuo Vulture didn't know why, and asked with a puzzled face: "Tuoba Yan, what are you laughing at? ”
"The Blackstone Khanate has only sent two thousand soldiers to fight us. Tuoba Yan said indifferently.
In the body of the Tuoba tribe, he has the blood of the ancient vulture demon, and has a kind of talent and supernatural power that can communicate with the demon vulture spirit, just now Tuoba Yan directly passed through the vision of his natal vulture, and vaguely saw that there was an elite wolf rider of about two thousand people, which was bypassing the southwest foot of Yao Mountain, and galloped quickly towards them, more than two hundred miles away, and they had already met with the forward scouts they sent.
"What? Just 2,000 people dare to fight?Ha! The Black Stone Khanate also underestimates us," Zuo Vulture glared at the giant eyes of the copper bell and asked in disbelief, "Look at me and lead people to eat his two thousand men first, and give them a dismount!"
As soon as he urged the green barbarian giant beast under his crotch, he had to return to his own formation to transfer troops, thinking that he would meet the past first and eat the two thousand black stone barbarians who dared to kill from the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain.
Tuoba Yan hurriedly shouted: "Zuo Vulture, why are you in a hurry?" As he spoke, several demon vultures flew back and brought back more detailed information: "These two thousand wolf riders are soldiers and horses of the Iron Cliff Department......
Zuo Vulture touched his head and smiled, and said disapprehantly: "The Iron Cliff Department is just a small tribe in the Black Stone Khanate, so if you have a chance, you will naturally kill it first." ”
"In the early years of the Iron Cliff Tribe, it was greatly injured in the war of the southern attack on Taiwei Mountain, and even the clan clan Tie Kun was taken captive by the Terran as a slave, but after the Iron Kun escaped from the Terran side, his personal cultivation increased greatly, not to mention, I heard that he was still learning the art of military management, building cities and manufacturing war weapons, and refining magic weapons and armor from the Terrans, and the strength of the Iron Cliff Department has improved a lot in recent years. Don't despise the two thousand elite soldiers of the Iron Cliff Division. ”
Tuoba Yan didn't have too many soldiers and horses in his hands at this time, and before they set off, they already knew that Mu Tu led 20,000 remnants to stay in Yaoshan, and in the later stage, he didn't know if the Black Stone Khanate had sent more reinforcements over, so before the main force of the Tuoba Department came over, he still had to form an alliance with the Left Eagle Department, and the necessary reminders still had to be given.
If Zuo Vulture is too arrogant, after he reminds him, he still insists on leading his troops to advance, and finally suffers a big loss, and he can't blame him, and after suffering a loss, he will obey him, which is even better.
"That's it, then spare them for the time being!" Zuo Vulture has a rough temperament, brave and belligerent, a pair of giant eyes like copper bells smacked Tuoba Yan suspiciously, and for a while he couldn't tell the truth of his words, but he wasn't really stupid, so he didn't rush to send troops to meet him
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Zuo Vulture and his barbarian generals and witch barbarians do not have the ability to communicate with the spirit of the vulture, nor do they have the habit of raising spirit birds, mainly relying on the wolf riders galloping in the grassland to reconnoiter the enemy situation on the periphery, and the efficiency is slower than that of the demon vultures raised by the Tuoba Department.
However, Kereh's elite scouts are better at infiltration and reconnaissance, and can often infiltrate the hinterland of the Blackstone Khanate single-handedly to reconnoiter intelligence. Although there were rumors that Mu Hao, the lord of the Black Stone, was seriously injured when he explored the underground palace, it was only after the scouts confirmed that Mu Hao's army was heading north, so he ordered Zuo Vulture to lead a group of soldiers and horses to Yaoshan to spy on the truth.
Soon over, the wolf cavalry scouts of the Keree Department brought back the latest situation at the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain.
"Meng Zhan led the Mengwu tribe of more than 100,000 horses and a large number of herds, and yesterday they have entered the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain one after another, and the follow-up Mengwu tribe and its subordinate tribes will also move the entire capital to Yaoshan?"
Knowing the latest information, Tuoba Yan and Zuo Vulture did not dare to move forward rashly, and ordered the barbarians behind them to stop and recuperate temporarily.
What they are facing in front of them is no longer the 20,000 remnants of the army led by Mutu, but the entire Mughal tribe will move to the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain in the future to settle down.
Although during the winter sweep, I heard that the soldiers of the Mughal tribe were extremely badly injured on the front line of Tianshui County, but the strength of the Mughal tribe, as one of the six major tribes of the Black Stone Khanate after the Black Stone Khanate was not to be underestimated. Even if the Mughal tribe only moved over with more than 100,000 people in the early stage, the Black Stone Khanate was at the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain, and it should be able to gather 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers at this time.
At this time, it is no longer something they can bear, they have to change their tactics.
"I knew it wasn't that simple!"
Knowing the latest information, Tuoba Yan didn't worry, but smiled and showed a little greed.
Although the soldiers of the Menggu tribe were two or three times or even higher, a large number of tribesmen and slaves of the Menggu tribe had moved to Yaoshan Mountain, and they needed to occupy a large number of grasslands to feed and herd, and only 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers could not guard the entire grassland in the west and south of Yaoshan like an iron bucket.
And if the Mughal soldiers can be defeated, the population and slaves of the Mughal tribe will be taken captive, which will greatly enhance the strength of the Tuoba tribe.
What Tuoba Yan covets is far more than the treasures hidden in the underground of Yaoshan Mountain.
For a tribe to be strong, population is always the most fundamental.
Tuoba Yan and Zuo Vulture's troops and horses stopped at two grass beaches to rest, but the two thousand wolf cavalry soldiers of the Iron Cliff led by Tie Kun did not slow down the speed of westward travel, and they had the power to rush up to fight to the death.
Tuoba Yan and Zuo Vulture also returned to their respective soldiers' and horses, and ordered the main cavalry to disperse to the two flanks to form a formation to prepare for battle, and ordered the slaves of the army to shrink in the middle with wooden shields and war spears, forming a simple and effective phalanx to meet the enemy, and twenty miles ahead, Tie Kun with two thousand wolf horses did not show any signs of stopping, but accelerated to attack, as if a black flood overflowed the green grass flats.
"Could it be that the infighting in the Black Stone Khanate has reached such a point? Now it is really sending two thousand elites to death!" Zuo Vulture had never learned even such a small method as sound transmission, and he asked Tuoba Yan in a voice three or four miles away, and his voice sounded like thunder.
Tuoba Yan could see that the two thousand wolf riders on the opposite side were the elite of one in a hundred miles in terms of charge and momentum, and he was also puzzled in his heart, but thinking about the upcoming bloody killing, he couldn't help but secretly get excited.
"Phew!"
Seeing that the more than 2,000 wolf riders showed no signs of slowing down, Tuoba Yan ordered to form a denser shield wall, and the witch barbarians scattered the anti-impact witchcraft one by one on the barbarians in the front formation, and patches of earthy yellow brilliance bloomed in front of the formation, which also made many barbarians feel more surging power gushing out of their bodies.
Tuoba Yan also secretly ordered to make the cavalry formation on both wings denser, hoping to suppress the two thousand wolf cavalry of the Iron Cliff Department and attack the array of the Left Eagle Department first, so that he could completely grasp the initiative on the battlefield.
The spear throwers of the two clans, behind the shield wall at this time, shouted with excitement, and their eyes revealed a bloodthirsty light.
These most elite spear throwers, after their bloodlines were stimulated by witchcraft, could throw their spears at a distance of seven or eight hundred paces.
The left vulture didn't notice Tuoba Yan's small movements, silently calculated the distance, watched the wolf cavalry of the Iron Cliff Department get closer to them, and prepared to wait for the first batch of short spears to be thrown out angrily, and before they could hit the shield wall, they sent the main cavalry on the flank to charge and kill.
The sturdy shield array was used by him to guard against the possibility that Tuoba Yan, the old fox, might not be so honest and could not be washed away.
Of course, the left vulture still enjoyed imagining in his mind the scene of the wolf rider of the Iron Cliff slamming into the giant shield and being chopped into pulp.
But just as there were less than three or four thousand paces left to engage the battle, the two thousand wolf riders of the Iron Cliff suddenly turned in the northeast direction from their eyes, and drew a huge lone line on the grass beach.
In front of the side, the left vulture deployed more than 100 rangers, they were the closest to the two thousand wolf riders, looking at the sudden changes, they were at a loss for a while, and they didn't know whether to meet the two thousand wolf riders and entangle them, or withdraw first to avoid unnecessary casualties.
At this time, I saw that among the two thousand wolves riding on the Iron Cliff Division, the iron clusters of heavy arrows and cast iron spears were like dense rain of death.
The more than 100 rangers deployed in front of the left vulture were suddenly taken by surprise, and dozens of barbarians were shot by iron arrows and throwing spears. Although most of the brutes, supported by strong vitality, were only wounded and did not die, they also howled in pain.
The left vulture's eyes were split, and he immediately ordered the two thousand cavalry on the left flank to attack, but the two thousand wolf riders of the Iron Cliff Department quickly turned in front of the grass beach and fled to Yaoshan, not to mention the speed without slowing down, and at the same time scattered a large number of iron nails on the side and back.
The war horses of the left vulture department did not have the habit of installing iron palms, and there must be a ground nail with sharp iron thorns several inches long when they stepped directly on these four edges and landed, and the thick hooves of the riding beast were directly pierced, and the front of the charging cavalry formation suddenly became chaotic, and even the brute soldiers fell from the back of the riding beast, and the body was also pierced into the ground nail.
"Wow!" Zuo Vulture's anger roared, the iron spear in his hand slashed through the void of two thousand steps like a meteor, and ruthlessly pierced a soldier of the Iron Cliff Department and the wolf warrior under him, but the cavalry formation was chaotic, and he had lost the opportunity to pursue, so he could only watch the wolf rider of the Iron Cliff Department flee in the direction of Yaoshan.
Although he only lost more than 100 people, he was teased by the Iron Cliff Department like this, and the short-tempered Zuo Vulture was about to explode in his stomach.