Chapter 341: An Unexpected Encounter
Just when Ouyang Ke was thinking about someone in his heart, a camel cavalry full of bloody killing had bypassed the black forward army and secretly lurked towards this side. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"General, the tempest is dead. "In the dark and icy desert, under a large leeward sand dune, there were dense sandbag tents, and one of the ordinary tents, which was indistinguishable from the other tents, was suddenly pulled open by a dark shadow.
Inside the dark tent, with the help of the faint red light of the charcoal fire, a sergeant respectfully reported to a tall, heavily armored man in the upper seat.
"Is it dead? Did it just delay us for three days? The tall man couldn't see his face clearly, but his rough and powerful figure and tall skeleton could make people believe that he was powerful.
"Go down and rest, to-morrow we have to march hastily!" commanded the general.
Blood Kill or Yelu Jinshi, is the name of this man, he is not only one of the three famous bandits in the Western Regions, in fact, he is also the blood of the Western Liao royal family, but after his father's failure to compete for the throne, he can only become a rebel in exile.
At the beginning, under the cover of some central ministers, he was still young after the political defeat and was able to survive incognito in the Western Regions, of course, as a price, whether he was willing or not, the surname Yelu, he would never be called, otherwise even those old ministers and nobles who helped him would not agree.
In the first ten years of his arrival in the Western Regions, he was secretly taken care of by those old ministers, and at the same time, he also received part of the power arranged by his father in the Western Regions, and finally became one of the three major bandits in the Western Regions.
Of course, with the passage of time, he gradually grew up and also lost the help of those old ministers and nobles, and the two sides have become more of a mutually beneficial cooperative relationship, after all, love is always used up, and he can be taken care of for more than ten years, and his dead father's face is big enough.
It's just that if you don't know, forget it, but people's desires are endless, especially in a chaotic place like the Western Regions, which gives birth to people's desires, Yelu Jinshi, who lives in the name of blood, is not willing to be a robber for a lifetime.
And the longer time passes, the stronger the peep at the king in his heart becomes, but he has never had this possibility and opportunity before, even if it is the huge crack between the horse and the king in Western Liao, the throne has the possibility of changing his surname, and those old stubborns don't want him to return to China openly.
Yelu Jinshi knew that it was those old ministers and nobles who felt that the current King of Liao had children to inherit the throne, and as long as the political struggle of the King of Liao was victorious, then there was no need for him to participate as an exile.
After all, he has been living outside for more than 20 years, and those old ministers don't know him now, they only know that he is one of the three major robbers in the Western Regions, so even if the King of Liao really fails, there are many princes of the same clan as the King of Liao, and after solving the foreign horses, it will not be his turn to go back to inherit the throne as a bandit leader who has been in exile in the Western Regions for many years.
"It's just that you guys are guarding against me, and I'm afraid that if you don't understand the rules and damage your interests, aren't you worried that you won't be able to get rid of that ambitious colt?"
"Ha, do you really think that the nobleman's set will be useful in front of the army? If that guy didn't want to save some fame, he wouldn't have gotten a broken Liao State, and he would have already done it when he had mastered nearly half of the army of the Liao State. ”
Thinking of the ambitious guy he had secretly met last year, Yelu Jinshi felt powerless.
Yelu Jinshi, who only had 2,000 bandit-like troops under his command, could not compete with the other party without getting the name of the nobles of the Liao State
"Fortunately, God has never stopped me, and this time actually gave me the opportunity to conquer the Western Regions. Yelu Jinshi thought excitedly in his heart.
"White Camel Mountain, let him continue to fight! After you take most of the Western Regions, I will almost be able to directly smash the Yellow Dragon, and directly intercept and kill the leader of the White Camel Mountain, and when the time comes, most of the Western Regions will be directly deterred."
Thinking of his plan, Yelu Jinshi said to himself excitedly again in his heart: "Win this time, or in less than three years, I will be able to gather 30,000 elites in the Western Regions, and more than 100,000 miscellaneous soldiers, which is definitely a force that is enough to influence the divided Liao State." ”
"When the time comes, let's see who dares to deny my name as a Jerujinshi. ”
Ten days, for ten consecutive days, the northwest road, which was not strongly blocked, was the first to open up the assembly point from the White Camel Mountain to the central part of the Western Regions, and then immediately rushed to the direction of the southwest road with the army in the direction of Hei Er, or it would not be long before it would form a flanking attack with Hei Er, and the Black Wind Thieves would die unless they fled immediately.
However, just when the overall situation had been decided, the long-hidden blood killing had not been traced, until even Ouyang Ke himself thought that the other party had left the Western Regions and planned to find another way to make a living, it suddenly appeared in front of Ouyang Ke's eyes.
"Damn, are the scouts blind, are the Ghost-Faced Army in front of us dead?"
"The cavalry of 2,000 men appeared directly in front of my eyes. On the tall white camel, Ouyang Ke's fat face, which had gained weight again, was completely red.
"Damn, don't hurry up and set it up. Looking at the black cavalry in the distance who was slowly approaching with the strength of the camel team, Ouyang Ke knew that there was not much time for him to prepare.
If it weren't even for the habitual placement of sufficient wagon defenses around the camp, he might have been greeted by a direct surprise attack this morning.
"General, they are preparing. Among the black camel cavalry, the deputy said to the leader of the Yelu Jinshi.
"I know, but this time it was an accidental collision, we were discovered by their scouts first, so we had to urgently gather first to see the situation, but now it seems that not only have we found our target, but the situation is still in our favor. Yelu Jinshi opened his mouth and said, "Let the brothers eat three mouthfuls of dried meat and drink saliva, but they don't need to eat more." ”
"Yes. The deputy then took a few steps back and gave orders to the people around him.
In fact, when Ouyang Ke was angry in his heart, Yelu Jinshi's heart was not very satisfied, because of the surveillance of the Ghost Face Army, the intelligence network developed by Yelu Jinshi from his father's inheritance had also become intermittent since three days ago.
And without sufficient accurate intelligence support, coupled with the fact that Yelu Jinshi's army did not dare to approach the town oasis and sneaked in the vast desert, it had already become blind with only an approximate location target.
Otherwise, last night or in the early hours of the morning, Yelu Jinshi would definitely launch a strong attack on the enemy army less than ten miles away from him, even if the bad cold weather would make his own losses greater, but it might cause a decisive end to the rabble of five thousand people in front of him.
"It's a pity. Looking at the camp that was urgently moving, Yelu Jinshi sighed.
A quarter of an hour later, Ouyang Ke, who was shielded from the sun by a huge umbrella, stood on a makeshift platform and looked down at the black cavalry who had already entered the charging distance in the distance.
At this moment, Ouyang Ke's face was no longer irritable and angry before, but replaced by a calm temperament and a touch of excitement in his eyes.
"Although I have seen a lot of big scenes in my memory, but in my previous life, I cherished my life, and things that were really life-threatening have always been avoided and avoided, and this kind of thing facing the battlefield command is really the first time!" Ouyang Ke thought with a little excitement in his heart.
Although Ouyang Ke was not without worrying about his lack of experience, but adhering to the instinct of prudence, Ouyang Ke was still very well prepared for this trip, so sufficient that he was confident that as long as his side did not mess up, then at most it was only a question of how much he lost, not to mention the danger of his life, and even the possibility of failure would not happen at all.
Since it won't die anyway, and it's hard to even get hurt, what else is there to worry about.
"Archers prepare. Ouyang Ke shouted calmly and loudly.
"Projectile. ”
The next moment, a dark rain of arrows rose from the simple protection of the camel cart and the carriage with Ouyang Ke's order, and "swished" towards the oncoming cavalry.
"No way. Yelu Jinshi, who had already charged, shouted in disbelief.
It is almost inevitable that cavalry will be attacked by infantry arrows head-on, the only difference is whether the arrow rain is dense enough, and how far the range is, so that the cavalry can shoot several waves of arrows before they charge closer.
"It's just that it shouldn't be so far away anyway, how can it be so strong!"
"Three hundred paces, at least three hundred paces away, how can there be so many archers who can shoot arrows three hundred paces away. Jerujinshi slashed away from an arrow that flew towards him, and watched in disbelief as his men were constantly being shot and then falling to the ground screaming.
"Ahhh.....hhh
As the rain of arrows fell, screams continued to be heard from the charging cavalry caravan.
The cruel reality made Yelu Jinshi no longer have the heart to investigate why the enemy could shoot so far.
"Charge. Under the unimaginable long-range attack, Yelu Jinshi only paused slightly, and then took the lead in continuing to charge towards the enemy without hesitation.
The cavalry behind him was still a little dazed by the sudden blow, but when Yelu Jinshi, as the leader, charged, they subconsciously followed.
"One team rests while preparing Plan No. 2. Ouyang Ke continued to order: "The second team prepares." ”
I saw that with Ouyang Ke's order, the next moment, the three rows of soldiers operating the big bow behind the wooden carriage immediately put down the guys in their hands, and began to fiddle with one of their clay pots on the spot.
The Sanhe Archery Team is one of the killing armies specially trained by Ouyang Ke for war, and its principle is similar to that of a humanoid strong crossbow, relying on the joint efforts of three people to train so that every three-person squad together forms a powerful crossbow arrow. And it's a crossbow bolt with an extremely long range.
As a far more than attacker in the army war in the era of cold weapons, the archer is very powerful on the battlefield, and it plays a very powerful role in many times, but the range and strength caused by manpower greatly limit the development of this type of troops, making it still important, but it can only become an auxiliary class.
Its upgraded crossbowmen represent a kind of power sustenance for its long-range attacks.
In addition to the shortcomings of short range and troublesome reloading, the powerful crossbow is equivalent to a large-size sniper rifle in the era of cold weapons, and if there is no range limit, it will be even more terrifying.
The most famous is the pre-Qin period, the crossbow array army of the strong Qin. As soon as you enter the battlefield, when you encounter the enemy, you will first shoot crossbow arrows to wash the ground, and then push up with a powerful and dense infantry phalanx, with a fierce combat style that is not afraid of death, its tactics are simple and crude to the extreme, but people also have nowhere to eat.
Basically, it is not an elite army with a mortal heart and a heavy shield to protect the army, and a rain of arrows will definitely make you doubt life directly.
But in addition to this, for hundreds of thousands of years, with the loss of the Qin crossbow technology, except for the cavalry cavalry, which is still a specialty in archery, there is no battle that can completely rely on the archers to solve the problem, not even the main force.
Although the long-range high-lethality crossbow team, Ouyang Ke is not unable to study it, after all, although the world is different, the basic physical rules are still the same.
After just some research, Ouyang Ke gave up the option of forming a strong crossbow force, without him, because it was too expensive, the cost of making a strong crossbow and the cost of follow-up maintenance were too high, so high that Ouyang Ke, who was sitting on the main trade routes in the Western Regions and collecting protection fees, could only give up.
Therefore, the three-way bow and arrow unit is derived, one kneels forward and holds the bow handle with both hands, one person steps on the former's junior, holds the arrow and pulls the bowstring with all his might, and the third person helps to aim at the target of the arrow, so that the three people who were originally just ordinary people can basically pull a longbow with a stone after a period of cooperation and training, (the more a strong bow with a full stone requires 30 kilograms of strength) The limit can even send out a three-stone strong bow that pulls twice (the exchange of drawing the bow and aiming comes once).
Of course, in this case, no matter how you practice, unless you reach the point where the three of you have the same mind, it is absolutely impossible for the archers to be able to wash the ground in a large area of arrows in the army.
And if you want to become an archery team that can shoot three or four hundred meters away with a nine-stone strong bow as a weapon at this time, and there is still a lethal force, you must practice martial arts, and it is a hard skill that can enhance arm strength.
For this reason, Ouyang Ke specially adapted the first five layers of the Dragon Elephant Prajna Gong and changed it to the Divine Arm Gong, which specializes in enhancing the strength of the upper body limbs, which not only retains the characteristics of enhancing strength, but also accelerates the speed of cultivation.
Of course, because I don't want the relationship in the future, although this exercise will not go crazy and not lose my life, but in the same way, there will be no future in the martial arts, and being an honest archer is the only way out in the future.
Returning to the point, just as the first team of archers squatted down to prepare the clay pots in their hands, and the camel team that galloped up at the same time, after leaving behind two or three hundred corpses, continued to charge towards Ouyang Ke, the second wave of arrow rain rose again.