V. 141 Cocoon and self-restraint
Yin Lei said and led everyone to retreat, and after leaving the camp for a few miles, Yin Lei said: "Brother Qing, you take our 2,000 people to hunt some weeds and dead branches, preferably the kind of oily pine branches, and make some torches, remember to bring as much dry wood as possible, and the speed should be fast." Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½β
Wang Qing said, "What do you want to do?" β
Yin Lei smiled and said, "Brother Qing forgot that I was born as a hunter?" Back then, when they caught wolves or rabbits in the mountains, if they hid in the nest and didn't come out, the old hunters would use smoke, this trick is very good, don't believe it. β
Wang Qing's eyes widened when he heard this, "You want to smoke them out?" If these 30,000 people really go crazy and come out to fight us, do you think we can ....... β
"Brother Qing seems to have forgotten that there are tens of thousands of horse traps outside, right? What is it called...... Is it right to dig your own grave? β
Wang Qing looked at Yin Lei with a monster-like eye and said, "Zongheng, you ...... The reaction was too fast. β
"Brother Qing doesn't want to say that I lack virtue, right? Hee-hee....... β
"You kid, this head doesn't know how to turn so fast, I won't tell you, I'm leaving."
"Brother Qing, we are going to set fire to the southeast upwind in a while, you had better take people to the southeast, so as not to give their scouts time to send the information back."
Wang Qing and Mi Feiyang left with 2,000 private troops.
Yin Lei said to Yan Sheng again: "General Yan, the battle of the trapped beasts is the most terrifying, Brother Qing also said just now, they are likely to find us desperately after they come out, so we must be prepared, if they are forced out, we must take advantage of their unstable formation to carry out a lore, and we must not give them a chance to resist." β
"General Xuanyuan, don't worry, if you point to the east, we will fight the east, and if you point to the west, we will fight the west, and we will definitely obey your orders, but I don't understand one thing, why are they trapped here? What are their plots? β
Yin Lei smiled and said, "Their main general is actually very smart, it can be seen from the fact that he can use the trap pit I created, I wonder if General Yan can see what else they have learned?" β
Yan Shengxue said, "What else have they learned?" They only temporarily occupied our previous camp, did they learn something else? β
"General Yan, why did they clean up the battlefield where we fought so cleanly?"
"Is there any mystery in this?"
"Of course, they took away all the spears we threw at us."
"Ah...... You're saying they want to learn from us to attack with a flying spear first. β
"Yes, and some of their heavily armored iron cavalry have damaged their eyes, these people need a quiet environment to cultivate a little, and they also need to practice their flying spears, our ready-made camp is the best place, so that we don't have to worry about discovering their schemes."
Thinking of the powerful attack power of the flying spear, Yan Shengxue couldn't help but say: "General Xuanyuan, if they really attack us with the flying spear, the loss will be great, this kind of heavy flying spear is the big shield of the sword and shield soldiers, and the main defense method of our heavy cavalry is armor, and even our armor can't prevent this kind of heavy flying spear, let alone our auxiliary light shield." β
"When the smoke rises, they'll be able to get through the crater outside with a clear line of sight, do you think they'll still have a chance to form a formation? Will you give them that chance? β
Yan Shengxue breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and after a while, several scout horses reported one after another, and within a radius of dozens of miles, they found a large number of Ziyun's scouts, but there were no other brigades of men and horses.
Yin Lei listened to this and said with a sneer on his face: "Heaven is still evil, self-inflicted evil cannot live, they are cocooning themselves, General Yan, let's go to make some small trebuchets, in case they really have a way to bring the team out neatly, what is more effective than flying spears is trebuchets." β
The two then led the heavy cavalry to a nearby grove, but the speed of the heavy cavalry was so slow that they had to take materials from the spot.
The structure of the large-scale trebuchet is complex, and it is extremely huge, the largest siege trebuchet power arm can even reach more than ten zhang long, and the huge stones thrown can even be smashed on the city wall, but what Yin Lei has to do today is not only small, but also disposable, which is much simpler.
At noon, with the efforts of more than 4,000 people, Yin Lei and they made a total of more than 100 one-time trebuchets with simple structures, and then everyone took the unassembled trebuchets to the temporary camp of the Ziyun army.
Coming to the vicinity of the camp, Yin Lei said: "After a while, the smoke will blow southeast and northwest, they only have two directions to leave, southwest and northeast, in this case they should be biased to the southwest, General Yan, you guard the southwest, Brother Qing and I will lead two thousand light cavalry to guard the northeast." β
Yan Shengxue couldn't help but worry when he heard this: "There are as many as 30,000 of them, if they really kill them from the northeast, you only have 2,000 people, and they are all light cavalry ......." β
"General Yan, rest assured, this team is my brother and Brother Qing, they all have a deep foundation in martial arts, and they have been trained by me for three or four years, even if they meet elite soldiers, they have the power to fight."
The two of them said that they had come to the southwest of this camp more than 300 zhang away, and more than 100 zhang ahead was the trap pit built by Ziyun.
When Yin Lei saw the camp surrounded by horse pits in all directions, he not only sighed that this General Yuan learned really fast, this kind of opponent is good at learning the enemy's strengths, and it is quite terrifying.
The Ziyun soldiers on the camp wall immediately blew the alarm whistle after discovering Yin Lei and the others, and a moment later, a large number of generals led by General Yuan appeared on the camp wall.
Two days ago, it was Ziyun who attacked Yin Lei and led people to defend, and in just two days, they were transposed at home and away.
When General Yuan and the others on the camp wall looked at Yin Lei and Yan Shengxue assembling the small trebuchet in the distance, their faces showed surprise, it would be good if such a small trebuchet could have a killing range of thirty zhang, they really couldn't think of what Yin Lei was doing with such a small trebuchet.
Behind General Yuan, a thunder mouth came out, and this person said with a mocking face: "General Yuan, do you see that their trebuchet also wants to attack our camp?" Not to mention that such a small trebuchet will hit at all, even if this trebuchet hits, it can throw dozens of catties of stones at most, will it have any lethality? β
General Xu, the leader of the light cavalry next to him, said, "I'm afraid they have another purpose, right?" What would they not have thought of? Even if they destroy our camp, how will they survive the pit outside? β
On the other side, an old general's face suddenly moved: "I understand, they saw that we learned to trap horses, and they must be worried that we should also learn the attack method of using quicklime bullets when they attack, so they are ready to use these small trebuchets, don't look at this trebuchet is small, if it is pushed up with the heavy armored iron cavalry, it can also suppress the archers at a critical time." β
This old man still hasn't said a word, if they also have this kind of trebuchet in the final attack, I'm afraid that it will not be easy for Yin Lei and them to release lime bombs.
Lei Gongzui smiled proudly when he heard this: "How do they know General Yuan's clever calculations, we have learned not only horse traps and lime bullets, we have also learned flying spears, and when we fight next time, we must let them also taste the power of flying spears." β
General Yuan couldn't help but smile smugly when he heard this, yes, even he didn't figure out how to crack this flying spear technique, even the shield and armor of the heavily armored iron cavalry couldn't block the attack of this heavy flying spear.
If it weren't for the fact that more than 2,000 heavily armored iron cavalry soldiers were injured by quicklime and needed to rest for a while, he really wanted to go out now and let Yin Lei and them try what it was like to be attacked by the flying spear he invented.
When Yin Lei and the others installed the trebuchet, the sun had risen to the highest point, and noon arrived, at this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and Wang Qing and Mi Feiyang returned with two thousand light cavalry.
Yin Lei immediately said goodbye to General Yan, and then Yin Lei and Zhang Xi took more than a dozen personal soldiers to meet Wang Qing's team in the southeast.
"Brother Qing, it's not early, we have to hurry, tell everyone not to get off the horse, let's eat while setting a fire, it is estimated that they will have half an hour to come out at the earliest, we have enough time to eat."
On the wooden wall of the camp, General Yuan and the others also turned to the southeast at this time, and they were a little confused when they saw that Yin Lei had actually divided the heavy armored iron cavalry and the light cavalry into two places, although they didn't know Yin Lei's purpose, but they also felt that something was wrong.
"General Wang, let all the soldiers prepare to fight, and at the same time the crossbowmen will be on the wall, as long as they are close, the lime bullets and strong crossbows will be fired in a volley."
"Yes."
General Wang turned around when he heard this, but for some reason General Yuan still felt a trace of uneasiness in his heart.
While General Yuan and the others were waiting uneasily, Yin Lei had already ordered the two thousand light cavalry to line up in two columns in front of the horse trap more than 200 zhang southeast of the Ziyun camp, and after a while, they were lined up five miles away.
When Yin Lei was lining up the team, General Yuan and the others finally saw the large bundles of firewood on the backs of these light cavalry horses.
The veteran was very experienced, and he was the first to shout: "General Yuan, they want to attack with fire...... It's a smoke attack, and we should immediately organize our team and prepare to go out and engage them. β
Hearing his words, everyone's faces changed, and now they finally understood why the heavy armored iron cavalry in the southwest had prepared such a small trebuchet, and they were not ready to push it up to attack the city, they just had to wait for themselves to send it before launching.
General Yuan's face turned pale, and when he saw the more than 100 zhang wide trap he had built outside, he couldn't help but feel like vomiting blood, so his face turned pale again, and then turned red again.
Then he stomped his foot hatefully and said, "Assemble the team and prepare to leave the camp ......." β
At this time, the veteran said, "General Yuan, which direction are we going to go out?" β
General Yuan couldn't help but hesitate when he heard this, the fire was released from the southeast, the southeast and northwest are flues, these two directions must not go, the southwest has the opponent's main heavy armored iron cavalry and trebuchets, it seems that you can only go to the northeast.
The northeast is Anxi County, where General Yuan and they are going, they have been thinking about it for the past few days, but Yin Lei and they just stopped it, and now Yin Lei has put the main force in the southwest, but has given up the northeast, what does this mean? Obviously let them go to the northeast, the enemy will be so kind? So General Yuan hesitated.
"Assemble the team first...... Immediately send a small group of scouts to the northeast to see, I am afraid that they will set up an ambush somewhere, or they will come and wait for us there stealthily when reinforcements come. β
He spoke everyone's mind, and everyone saw that there must be something wrong with the Northeast.
On the other hand, Yin Lei ordered 220 chiefs and 100 generals to take out torches and start to light fires, and when the fire rose, they took local materials and threw bundles of grass on it, and the smoke began to rise and drift southeast with the wind.
Yin Lei's brows furrowed when he saw the smoke, although he had lined up two rows of firewood on the ground to strengthen the smoke, but they were too far away from the camp, a distance of two hundred zhang, and most of the smoke was floating into the sky.
"Brother Qing, the wind is slightly light, and the smoke has drifted away a lot, and the smoke is not enough, immediately let people cut down a large number of trees, and the whole plant is OK, be fast."
At this time, General Yuan and others in the distance also discovered this problem, when the smoke came, they just felt a little choked, the only thing that could affect them was that their eyes became closer, looking at most of the smoke floating into the sky, Lei Gongzui couldn't help but look up to the sky and smile.
"General Yuan, they are too naΓ―ve, do they really think that this smoke is invincible? A little cigarette can smoke people to death? This smoke is even ten times thicker, it is bearable, not to mention that they are just lighting a fire there, even if it is a forest that is burning 200 zhang away, it is not a big threat to us. β
Listening to his words, everyone was easy-going, yes, 200 zhang is almost equivalent to 500 meters now, how much fire and smoke can they threaten?
General Yuan's heart finally let go, he hesitated for a while and said: "We can't be too careless, the team continues to assemble, and at the same time prepare a large amount of water, don't let them sneak attack and set our camp on fire." β
Hearing his words, Na Lei Gongzui hurriedly flattered: "General Yuan is wise, so we are not afraid of any accidents, and this gives us time to scout and ride, and they can also expand the scope of reconnaissance." β
General Yuan heard this and hurriedly said: "Send additional scouts to the northeast, and we must find out if they are coming to reinforce the army." β
Listening to his words, hundreds of light horsemen carefully led their horses across the horse trap in the northeast and left, at this time Yin Lei's 2,000 private troops were going to the southeast to cut down trees, and there was no one left behind.
An hour later, the smoke rose from the southeast, as if thousands of troops and horses had arrived, and even Yin Lei was stunned by this situation.
After a while, when everyone came back, Yin Lei saw clearly that some of the top masters and Jindan Qi Practitioners who had cultivated to a high level actually gave up their war horses and dragged huge trees back on foot.
There are also some people who cultivate a little bit and drag a big tree with two or three people, and once Wang Qing and they brought back nearly a thousand big trees, and at the same time, the more than 2,000 war horses are not empty, and no one's saddle is full of bundles of firewood.
Seeing this, Yin Lei was overjoyed, and he hurriedly said to Wang Qing, who was running in front and dragging back a big tree alone: "Brother Qing, although these smoke can't pose any threat to them, they can hinder their sight, and the people in the southeast camp are estimated to not even be able to see thirty zhang clearly.
Let's take the opportunity to drag these big trees to within fifty feet in front of their camp and light them, and they will find that we will definitely fire arrows or throwing spears, and those who are low in cultivation should not go, lest there be death or injury. β