Chapter 1031: East Becomes West 24
Li Xin didn't wait for Yan Haibo, but what he was waiting for was an opponent he never expected.
Under the hazy moonlight, two figures crawled through the grass like ghosts, and went straight to the fence of the Qin army's barracks, the two made a few gestures, took out a short knife from their arms, and gently pried it on the fence a few times, and several horizontal baffles were taken down, sticking to the ground, and the two climbed into the Qin army's camp.
This is where a greedy division of the Qin army is located, about 3,000 people. It was the third watch, and the camp was already in darkness except for the lights above the towering watchtowers and some bonfires.
Two black shadows touched the bottom of the sentry tower, one looked at the wind, and the other climbed up like an ape along the thick log that held up the sentry tower, and through the gap between the bottom plates, a Qin soldier stood in front of the railing with a spear, staring ahead, and on the ground on one side, another Qin soldier sat on the ground with a spear, his head hanging on his chest, already asleep.
The black shadow gently took off the short knife from his waist, measured the distance, slowly approached the gap in the plank, accelerated steeply, and the short knife pierced deeply into the dung door of the Qin soldier sitting on the ground, and with a stir of his wrist, he didn't know how many intestines were stirred into in an instant, and the Qin soldier sitting on the ground raised his head sharply, opened his mouth wide and wanted to shout, but except for squirting out a mouthful of reverse blood, nothing came out, and his head was tilted, and it was already tilted to the ground.
The Qin soldier who was facing away from him heard the shout, turned around, and was shocked, his mouth just opened, and a blow arrow flew up from the gap, piercing straight into his mouth, and the man fell backwards when he looked up to the sky, and the black shadow under the bottom plate turned over with great dexterity, jumped up, and held the Qin soldier who was falling towards the railing, and gently placed it on the bottom plate.
After gesturing downward, another black figure immediately left the head and felt towards another watchtower not far away.
The black shadow slipped down from the watchtower, took the rope from his waist, tethered one end to the fence and the other end to the log of the watchtower, and then took out his short knife and slowly cut deep breaks in the log.
After doing this, the black shadow took a deep breath, took out the riding crossbow from his arms, loaded it with a special crossbow arrow, raised his hand sharply, and the crossbow arrow shot straight into the sky with a sharp whistling sound.
The sound of horses' hooves just sounded, the Qin army camp was already boiling, countless Qin troops rushed out of the barracks, swarming in the direction of the sound of horses' hooves, the black shadow lying under the sentry tower, seeing the reaction of the Qin soldiers, couldn't help but be secretly shocked, these Qin soldiers didn't even take off their armor to sleep, and in the moment of attack, the reaction was so quick and the response was correct, which was amazing.
The cavalry came very fast, when they ran to only a hundred steps away from the fence, the swarming Qin army was only a dozen steps away from the fence, as long as these infantry grabbed the fence before they erected their spears through the fence, and then set up bows and crossbows at the back, this sneak attack would be in vain.
Two black shadows sprung up from the shadows under the watchtower, brandished the big knife in their hands, and slashed at the log that was originally only a small piece of connected together, the watchtower shook a few times, and suddenly toppled over, and the main trunk of the fallen watchtower drove the rope, and in the rumble, the fence of about forty or fifty meters was pulled up and overturned.
In the exclamation of the Qin soldiers, the cavalry outside screamed and rushed in, and faster than them were the feathered arrows they shot. The Qin soldiers did not react in the shock of the sudden fall of the fence just now, the feather arrows hit, and they immediately shot down a large area, and after a round of feather arrows, the cavalry pulled out the scimitars next to the saddle, and rushed straight towards the camp in the strange cry of yo ho.
The burning bonfire was provoked by a scimitar and landed on the tent, and a raging fire was ignited in the camp, and in the midst of the fire, war horses came and went, wantonly slashing the Qin soldiers who were in chaos.
When the infantry is unable to stop an effective defense and a long-range weapon, the infantry will become a lamb to the slaughter in front of the cavalry, leaving little room for resistance.
The cavalry rushed back and forth several times, and only then did they march away in a burst of whistles, leaving the remnants of the Qin army with a large camp that had been burned to ruins and corpses all over the ground.
With a bang, Li Xin smashed his fist on the big case in front of him, within three days, the peripheral soldiers and horses of the Qin army have been attacked, and there are not many cavalry who came to attack, the largest one has more than 2,000 cavalry, and the least is only two or three hundred cavalry, but they come and go like the wind, fight and run, and in three days, the loss of the Qin soldiers has reached an astonishing more than 3,000 people.
"General, these are not the regular cavalry of the Han army, but all of them are Xiongnu herdsmen." But Yu also frowned tightly, "We caught a wounded and lonely Huns, according to his confession, the elder of the Huns Helan tribe, Helan Kang, Helan Jie issued a conscription order, calling on all the Huns who can get on the horse to gather and come to rescue Helan Xiong, now on the prairie, large and small Hun teams are only afraid that there are dozens of up to 10,000 people, and there are more distant Huns, including many Huns who have moved to Liaoxi, are also rushing here, and the total number is expected to reach an astonishing 30,000 horsemen."
"30,000 cavalry!" Li Xin said coldly: "I was not afraid of the 100,000 iron horsemen of the Huns back then, it was not defeated in our hands, and now the 30,000 rabble, how can I still get it?"
"General, I'm afraid that the other party is really a rabble, they are a group of hundreds of people, come and go like the wind, and the attack is irregular, they have no contact with each other, often a group of Huns have just left, another group of Huns came again, yesterday one of our soldiers and horses suffered such a loss, just dealt with a group of Huns night attack, is cleaning up the battlefield, the second wave arrived, repelled the second wave and did not breathe, the third wave came one after another, and finally our army did not survive." But the rain channel.
Li Xin frowned deeply, the so-called indiscriminate fist to kill the master, these Hun herdsmen did not have any tactics, nor did they know any combat skills, they came to attack the Qin army with a bloody bravery, without any overall organization, it was simply a bad battle, but the more so, the more tricky he actually felt.
"General, it's better for us to shrink our forces, ignore these small waves' attacks, or find a way to attract them to one place to attack us, so that we can gather and annihilate them." But the rain channel.
"It's not impossible to shrink our forces, but in this way, what should we do over there in the Aguyara Grand Canyon, these Huns are frantically attacking us, the purpose is nothing more than to rescue Helanxiong, we shrink our forces, and we give them the opportunity to attack the Aguyala Grand Canyon, and finally trap Helanxiong, if he escapes again, wouldn't he abandon the front attack."
"What then?" But the rain said with a bitter face. They attack day and night, the soldiers can't rest at all, and we can't set up an ambush to destroy them, because with great effort, we may only be able to catch the smallest of them in the end, and more of the Huns are following the wind, and we can't afford to spend it with them!"
"Do you want to use chaos against me?" Li Xin pondered for a moment, "But Yu, you personally go to command, bring 10,000 cavalry, divide into joint attacks, and wipe them out one by one."
"Chaos to chaos?" But Rain asked.
"You are in the Great Qin Army, not a rabble!" Li Xin said with a calm face: "Coordinate the soldiers and horses in your hands, divide and gather, disperse when you want to divide the attack, and collect it when you need to concentrate, do you still want me to teach you?"
"I see!" But Yu clasped his fists and saluted Li Xin, turned around and walked out of the big tent.
Looking at Dan Yu's back, Li Xin's brows were wrinkled even tighter, this time the attack was not smooth from the beginning, Wang Xiao was planning to lure Feng Fayong in Shannan County, and after successfully destroying the 20,000 main forces of the Feng Department, he still ran into a bloody battle in Shannan County, and finally the Han army in Shannan County took the initiative to retreat, although it seems that the Qin army led Dai County and occupied Shannan County, but none of the grand strategic goals formulated in advance were reached, and Helan Xiong's main force ran.
Now that he finally caught Helanxiong's main force and trapped him, Yan Haibo in Jishi City actually ignored his old boss, but a group of rabble came to stir up the scene, deep down, Li Xin suddenly lost confidence in this battle, and the heavily defended Jishi City was only afraid that it could not be broken by manpower.
If Jishi City is like this, can Dayan City in the Hetao area be taken lightly? These two cities were built by Guo Quan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry of the Han Kingdom. If something happens, Wang Xiao's experience will be even more sad than himself, because he has already entered the prairie too deeply.
The only hope now is that Lu Chao and Meng Tian's way, as well as the Chu army, can go smoothly, so that Gao Yuan can't take care of everything, so as to give himself more time.
In the depths of the savannah, next to a puddle of water, Guli was gulping down dry cakes, with blood stains on his leather armor, after eating the dry cakes, he picked up the helmet from his side, and washed the blood stains on the helmet with the water in the puddle, wiped it shiny, and put it back on his head.
"Guli!" Topler walked to Gu Li's side, in several sneak attack battles, Gu Li's military talent allowed Topler to automatically give up the position of commander, most of their troops were from Baiyang Village, and on the way, they gathered the Huns from other places, and during this time, they absorbed some stragglers who were defeated by the Qin army, and the team has swelled to more than a thousand horsemen." I just received news that the 10,000 cavalry of the Qin army has been divided into more than ten troops, and four or five of our troops have been wiped out on the prairie. We lost more than two thousand horsemen."
"Is their location clear?" Guli asked.
Topler dug out some mud balls from the puddles and placed them casually, staring at them, Guli took a deep breath, "Retreat, retreat to the steppe. At the same time, inform the other clansmen that the distance between each other should be widened, and the distance between the Qin army should be stretched as far as possible, so that it will take longer for them to echo each other, the opponent is the regular army, and the cooperation between each other is not comparable to us. We only have a chance if we keep them further away from each other."
Toppler nodded, looked at Gu Li, and suddenly said, "Gu Li, who do you mean?"
Gu Li looked at Topler and smiled, "Brother Topler, you don't care who I used to be, no matter who I used to be, now I am Gu Li, the wife of He Dayou, I don't want to mention the past."
"Got it!" Toppler turned and walked away.
After a pillar of incense, the cavalry team of more than 1,000 people got back on their horses and set off, running towards the depths of the prairie. (To be continued......)