Chapter 1267: Ill-intentioned hospitality
There were several herdsman men around the Hucha Winter Cicada, pouring wine in large bowls, laughing loudly like Hucha Winter Cicada, without hiding the heat in their eyes. This kind of eyes are also naked, exactly the same as when the women in this camp looked at Li Luo and a few people, scrutinizing, picky, and judging their heads. Instead of getting angry, the Hucha Winter Cicada became even more happy, and in the blink of an eye, it drank a large bowl of spirits. After drinking, he threw the big bowl in his hand aside, took the wine jar in the hand of a herdsman man, and shouted that he would finish the jar again.
Li Luo watched coldly, silent, not knowing what he was thinking. There was the sound of the herdsmen's leader's even breathing beside him, and it turned out to be earlier than Li Luo's drunkenness.
It was very dark, and I drank a lot of wine, and all the soldiers were a little top-heavy, even if they were not drunk, they were a little up-and-coming. The bonfire in front of the tent was not extinguished, but it was burning brightly, driving away the cold of the night.
It was already the second half of the night, and the herdsman leader seemed to wake up, sat up straight, stretched his waist, and looked up, only to see a person in front of him looking at him intently with clear eyes. The herdsman leader was slightly startled, rubbed his eyes, and carefully distinguished, it turned out to be Li Luo.
"General, you haven't slept yet? I'll go find you a tent and rest early. The middle-aged man said in harmony.
"Don't worry, I'll wait with you."
The man was stunned for a moment, and asked inexplicably, "What are you waiting for?" ”
"Wait for someone who can see the campfire here."
The man's face changed greatly, the drunkenness in his eyes disappeared in an instant, he touched the close-fitting boning knife on his waist with one hand, supported the ground with the other, and hurriedly took two steps back.
Li Luo smiled kindly, beckoned, and said, "If I were you, I wouldn't act rashly." Come, sit down and talk. ”
The man did not sit, like a lone wolf that had been dormant for a long time, staring fiercely and cruelly at his prey, but he did not dare to make a move. At the moment when Li Luo broke his tracks, there was a sudden silence in the sporadic and noisy camp, except for the crackling sound of firewood in the flames, and even the sneezing of cattle, sheep and horses disappeared without a trace.
Li Luo didn't force it, looked at the darkness outside the camp, and said lightly: "The person you are waiting for may not be able to come tonight." ”
The man's face changed, his hand holding the knife tightened a little, and he secretly glanced around, and the herdsman who was still drinking with the winter cicada was unconscious, but his chest was still fluctuating, maybe he was really drunk.
The man stared at Li Luo gloomily, pursed his lips and said nothing, with a stubbornness that would not flinch in his murderous eyes.
"You may not really know a place called Dagan, but I can probably guess what coming from the south means to the Grass Sea Clans. The people of Caohai are hospitable, but your hospitality makes people suspicious, the Caohai tribes are constantly in strife and attacking each other, since you are a leader, it seems that you should not believe what others say so easily, let alone send people to leave the camp for help. We came from the army, and we could probably guess how many people would be in this camp based on the number of horses and the number of tents, and the cattle and sheep all returned, but some of the people who herded the horses did not return. ”
The man's face turned pale, and the hand holding the knife began to deform a little, and he lost all the games with one wrong move, and there was no room for maneuver.
At this moment, the faint neighing of war horses came from the distance, very hurried, but very short, but the scene of tea could not be heard. The face of the herdsman leader became more and more ugly, Li Luo looked indifferently at the remorseful herdsman leader, stood up, bowed his hand, thanked the ill-intentioned hospitality, did not say a word, turned around and left the camp.
Hucha Dongcicada and Li Luo left the herdsman's camp one after the other, and the screams behind them came to their ears. When leaving, Li Luo passed on the order of the general, and there was no forgiveness for killing. What I didn't notice for a long time was the sad and desperate roar of the herdsman leader, if he didn't want to stabilize Li Luo and the others, but let it go, at least he wouldn't be like now, without the slightest power to fight back, and let others slaughter.
The screams in the camp were shorter than the faint neighing of horses just now, and after a few breaths, no more frightened cries could be heard, as if swallowed up by the night of the sea of grass, silent.
Li Luo didn't speak, and he didn't speak, and he drank more wine tonight, but he sobered up at the moment when the herdsmen reinforcements were ambushed, and he conveniently sealed the acupoint of the young man who came to find himself to fight for wine, saving the Chinese army from riding more hands and feet. After doing all this, Hucha Dongcicada quietly retreated, and after Li Luo gave the order, he rode his horse alone to the cavalry battalion that was waiting in ambush.
Li Luo followed behind Hucha Dongcicada, and Hucha Dongcicada knew, but he didn't wait for Li Luo, and he didn't mean to speak.
Dozens of horsemen galloped head-on, and the first general was Ban Zhong, who saw Hucha Dongcicada say hello, and then saw Li Luo behind Hucha Dongcicada, and couldn't be surprised, he stepped forward and saluted: "General Hui, here is a five-hundred-man Yaoting cavalry, which has been wiped out by General Yuan, in addition to the soldiers killed on the spot, there are about a hundred living mouths left, waiting for the general to fall." ”
Li Luo nodded and said hard: "Go over and take a look." ”
Ban Zhong led the way, and Li Luozhu rushed to the place where Yuan Jun set up an ambush. It is said that it is an ambush, which is much more difficult than the mountainous terrain of Dagan. Now the sea of grass under the feet of the generals is endless, except for the hills, not even a taller low mountain can be seen, it is easy to charge and seize the battle, but there are many constraints to set up an ambush. Fortunately, it was night, the sky was unknown, and tens of thousands against hundreds, how could the Dagan soldiers have an advantage in numbers, and they killed all these soldiers who came to help from Yaoting, and did not let go of a single person.
This battle was just a small test, and Yuan Jun's generals did not have any success, and when they saw Li Luo coming, they briefly talked about everything before and after this battle. The herdsmen sent people to ask for help, but Yuan Jun was instructed by Li Luo to let the people go, and then set up an ambush to wait for the reinforcements to throw themselves into the net. It's just that what the generals didn't expect was that only these soldiers and horses came, and they were somewhat disappointed.
There were more than 100 Yaoting soldiers captured, and Li Luo ordered several generals to bring people to interrogate separately, and be sure to ask where the Yaoting barracks that came to help were located, and how many soldiers were left in the battalion in addition to these cavalry soldiers.
Just when Yuan Jun interrogated the captured Yaoting cavalry, Qian Yi led the crowd to rush back. None of the herdsmen in that camp survived, and they had been slaughtered by the Chinese cavalry soldiers, and some soldiers of the Northern Expedition had looted the cold and cattle and sheep food in the camp.
Li Luo responded, looking as usual, but there was helplessness in the depths of his heart.