Chapter 293: Crossing the River
The enemy released the harrier eagle, Zhou Xiaojiang's eyes were sharp, and he saw this scene clearly, he took out the charcoal pen on his waist, wrote down the report on the results of the two days, and asked a squad of soldiers to rush back to White Horse City.
Although I don't know what the handsome's intentions are, I can't let a flat-haired beast spoil a big thing!
At this moment, on the grassland east of the Ergun River, countless cattle, sheep, and horses are moving westward. The herdsmen, who were forced to flee last year due to the eastward invasion of the Qiyan tribe, began to embark on the road back to their hometowns.
And the army of White Horse City is mixed with the crowd of people returning home.
After Yan Kang received Zhou Xiaojiang's report, after reading the letter, he rubbed the envelope and turned it into a cloud of paper. Then, he asked the scout to report back to Zhou Xiaojiang, and as originally planned, he continued to find ways to continue to provoke the enemy.
After Zhou Xiaojiang received the order, he led the team to the whole camp on the riverbank every day to scold, cowards, cowards, weak chickens, and urinated on the Ergun River, which was extremely insulting.
Not to mention a few irascible centurions, even Ada, an old and serious centurion, couldn't hold back the anger in their hearts.
So, Ada sent a team of ten people every day to rush over and fight.
Zhou Xiaojiang did not let Wang Zhitan go down again, but selected elite men from several other companies and took turns to fight.
Although their own casualties were also somewhat heavy, the side of White Horse City has always maintained a complete victory record.
On the seventh and eighth days, no matter how insulting the other side was, Ada was reluctant to send people to fight.
On the ninth day, Zhou Xiaojiang took the whole battalion of soldiers and scolded across the river.
Just bark like a dog, Ada thinks so.
Scolding and scolding, the east bank seemed to feel that the scolding was boring, so he sent a small soldier to pass the word, the beggar department can send two hundred-man teams, and White Horse City only meets with one hundred-man team.
With one enemy and two, don't dare to fight?
What about one against three?
Seeing that Ada was still reluctant to express his position, the little soldier didn't say much, turned around and left, leaving only one sentence: "Weak chicken!" ”
Several centurions clenched their swords and fell to one knee one after another, asking for battle again.
Ada sighed: "Brothers, we only have 800 people left, if we are deceived by three more centurs, I am afraid that we will fall for the enemy's tricks and will not be able to hold this crossing!" ”
When several centurions thought about it, they all felt that there was some truth, but they were so insulted that the anger in their hearts was really uneasy. One of them turned his mind and said, "Why don't you let them come?" ”
When Ada heard this, this was a good idea, and he hurriedly called the little soldier who was spreading the message and asked him to bring the message back: If you want to fight, send someone over!
Your own warriors are only losing in equipment, and in terms of personal bravery, they are not afraid of the other party. If the other party really sends a team of 100 people over, and the other side fights more and less, they must leave them all behind. Ada looked at the other side and thought viciously.
A quarter of an hour later, a consensus was reached on the other side. Zhou Xiaojiang shouted to the west bank and told them to retreat two miles.
Two miles, completely able to observe every move on the opposite shore, and can make the horse completely increase the speed, Ada has no problem with this, and began to lead the team to retreat.
After the enemy retreated, a hundred-man team of White Horse City began to cross the river.
When the men and horses of White Horse City crossed the river, several centurions of the beggar tribe were arguing fiercely for the candidates to fight.
Before they could decide which three centurions would lead the team, someone suddenly exclaimed.
Ada looked at the river bank, and saw that the hundred enemy soldiers who had just crossed the river did not dismount and rest, but directly trotted towards this side.
Several centurions also reacted, fuck, Lao Tzu hasn't decided on a candidate yet, is this group of people crazy, it's not enough to have one enemy and three enemies, so they have to rush to die!
Ada looked at the formation of the enemy's hundred-man team trotting, and always felt that something was wrong, and after a while, he came to his senses.
The enemy army is not a sharp arrow formation, but a goose-shaped formation!
This posture is clearly a posture that wants to wipe out all of yourself!
Hearing that several centurions were still noisy, Ada roared angrily: "Shut up, the whole army is in formation, charge!" ”
With this roar, the hundreds of soldiers under Ada's command also began to act.
Seeing that this side began to move, the hundred-man team of White Horse City began to speed up.
As the charge of the 100 people accelerated, Ada and several centurions in the lead clearly felt that it was not a 100-man team that was attacking, but a thousand troops!
At this time, the two armies were still three hundred paces apart.
The dark horse knight who was in the lead on the opposite side suddenly opened his bow and shot an arrow into the sky.
Ada was wondering in his heart, and suddenly heard a faint wail from above, and he looked up to see that his precious harrier eagle was actually shot down by this person's arrow.
Without its own summoning, the Harrier Eagle can fly in the air at least two arrows away. Even the old Jebel-sama, with a two-stone strong bow, would never be able to shoot the eagle. And this man can do this with a random arrow while running......
Thinking of this, Ada suddenly understood that this dark horse knight must be the invincible coach of White Horse City.
And the hundred-man team that charged with it, where are the men and horses of the scout camp, it is clearly the unparalleled flying horses of White Horse City!
With the combat power of the unparalleled flying horse, it seems to be commonplace to fight ten against one, and when Ada thinks of this, his heart is like falling into an ice cave.
But the two armies were about to intersect, and it was impossible to retreat or maneuver, so they could only bite the bullet, but Ada unknowingly, the horse was a little slower.
After Yan Kang shot down the harrier eagle with an arrow, he continued to ride his horse, and when he estimated that he was two hundred paces away, he opened his bow and arrows and shot them at the beggar army.
When he shot the arrow, it seemed to move clearly, and he didn't see how fast it was. But the horse had only run another twenty paces, and Wan Yankang had already shot five arrows, and each arrow had hit a centurion.
"Zhang Gong!" After Yan Kang shot five arrows, he began to shout.
The unequaled flying riders immediately pulled out the strong bows in their hands.
"Arrow!"
With the second shout of Yan Kang, the whistling sound began to sound, and after a while, the front of the beggar department poured a large piece of brush.
If it is said that the equipment used by the scout battalion of Zhou Xiaojiang's department is much better than that of the soldiers of the Qiyan Division, but the two sides still hurt each other.
The two-stone strong bow that the Peerless Flying Horse was equipped with as standard, and it was absolutely crushing at this time.
When the Wushuang Flying Cavalry was killed, even if the warriors of the Qiyan Department opened their bows and arrows, they could not even touch a single hair of the enemy.
The warriors of the peerless did not stop pouring out the arrows in the quiver to their heart's content.
After ten rounds of arrow rain, the front of the beggar army was exhausted, and none of the centurions or above could move and shout.
The rest of the people began to flee in all directions.
Escape?
The unequaled flying horse is the standard war horse, but the commander of the beggar department may not be able to find the treasure. At this time, Zhou Xiaojiang's scout camp also rushed over.
After a cup of tea, the war of annihilation ended.
"Dashuai, this is even a mouthful of meat scraps, don't let us pick it up and eat it!" Zhou Xiaojiang looked at the Wushuang flying rider who was still searching around and mending the knife, and looked depressed.
He worked hard to lead a battalion of men and horses to fight with the enemy's thousand-man cavalry for almost ten days, and he only won two hundred ranks. As a result, as soon as Yan Kang's personal rate arrived, he easily harvested all the remaining 800 heads of the enemy.
Although it is said that there is a layout for a long time, Zhou Xiaojiang is a little unhappy, and it is understandable to complain.
Wan Yan Kang laughed and pointed to his feet: "Look at your stingy appearance, this battle, count the first merit of your scout battalion!" ”
"Really?" Zhou Xiaojiang was overjoyed.
"Stinky boy, I'm afraid that if you don't fight, you won't be able to stand without merit! At the ferry port a hundred miles to the south, you led the team over and touched it for me at night. Wan Yankang pointed to the south and explained the next task.
Zhou Xiaojiang jumped off his horse, gave a military salute happily, and then ordered the scout camp to assemble and run south.
A quarter of an hour later, on the east bank of the Erguna River, dense cavalry appeared and began to cross the river.
This plan to cross the river, Wan Yankang began to plan from the moment he knew that Temujin had sent rangers to patrol the river bank, and it was finally perfectly achieved at this time.
The plan to cross the river was only the first step in this westward expedition.
After Yan Kang waited for Wushuang and his reserve team to cross the river and form a team, he called Juekong: "Wushuang is handed over to you, can you have the confidence to complete the task?" ”
Juekong raised his head and said loudly: "Dashuai, I promise to complete the task!" ”
Wan Yankang patted him on the shoulder and said slowly: "Your task is to lead the peerless and surprise attack the royal court of the Qiyan Tribe. But you have made it clear to me that the task is important, and Temujin was by no means an ordinary person, and it is unlikely that he will succeed overnight. If you can't do anything, remember not to be reckless, the unparalleled warriors are my treasures. A hundred slashes are not worth a peerless warrior. ”
Juekong nodded heavily: "I know!" ”
Since the establishment of Wushuang, before the winter of last year, the regular army finally gathered enough 300 people, and the reserve force was nearly 1,000 people. As a result, after a battle to defend the city, Wushuang went out of the city to receive Tian Dali, and most of it was lost. After Yan Kang returned to the city, although he never scolded anyone for this, when he was learning martial arts with Tian Dali, Tian Dali's cry of pain clearly exposed the annoyance in Wan Yankang's heart.
In the past few months, after re-selection and training, the Wushuang regular army has been re-expanded to 300 people. Wan Yankang left fifty regular troops beside him as pro-army, and the other regular troops and reserves, totaling more than 1,000 people, were all handed over to Juekong to command.
Originally, according to Yan Kang's plan, he wanted to personally lead the ace army of Wushuang, and attacked the royal court of the Qiyan Ministry, trying to destroy the center of the Qiyan Ministry. The main force of 60,000 troops was led by Deputy Marshal Wu Shiman, with Huang Rong as a staff officer.
But on the first day after the army, Huang Rong suddenly retched on the horse, and Wan Yankang immediately called a military doctor to probe the pulse, which made him overjoyed, and Huang Rong was overjoyed.
He carefully escorted Huang Rong back to White Horse City, and repeatedly told Xu Daosheng that Huang Rong should not be allowed to participate in political affairs during pregnancy, and everything was important for the safety of the pregnancy.
After doing this repeatedly, Wan Yankang turned his horse back to chase back and catch up with the large army.
Huang Rong, a female Zhuge can't follow the army, and Wu Shiman, a reckless man, how can he lead an army of 60,000. After thinking about it, he had to change his plan and let Juekong lead Wushuang to carry out a surprise attack.
Juekong has just passed the year of his establishment, and his martial arts cultivation is extremely exquisite, second only to Wanyan Kang and Tian Dali in White Horse City. When it comes to kung fu immediately, Tian Dali is far from being Juekong's opponent. What reassured Wan Yankang was that when Juekong was in Shaolin, he took good care of his junior disciples. After joining the army, he was lenient and did not lose the law, which can be said to have won the hearts of the people.
Seeing the more than 1,000 ace troops rushing away with Juekong, Wan Yankang shook his head, put all kinds of distracting thoughts behind him, and began to think carefully about the various strategies for the march of the army.
Wushuang went first, and the army arrived later, according to Yan Kang's estimate, the time difference between the front and rear armies arriving at the royal court of the Qiyan Department was about two to three days.
When the 60,000-strong army was assembled and the whole army set off, Wan Yankang found that the original plan did not seem to be feasible.
The march of more than 1,000 people, although the momentum is not small, is nothing when placed on the vast grassland.
When the army of 60,000 was advancing rapidly, its mighty momentum, frightened snakes, insects, rats and ants fled in all directions, and the birds in the sky did not dare to fly on the head of the army.
The herdsmen on the grassland can see the way from a distance. If the original plan is not changed, it will inevitably alarm the enemy's rear early, and destroy the Musou surprise attack mission.
After pondering it carefully, Wan Yankang waved his hand, and the army changed its battle plan and began to march in a dragnet style with cavalry battalions as units.