Chapter Seventy-Seven: Bursting Chrysanthemum
Shen Xingzhou hugged his fists and said: "My lord, just let me bring a thousand cavalry over, and you don't have to work hard." ”
Xiao Tianyu nodded, "Okay, you take a thousand cavalry, kill the cattle and sheep, try not to kill the people, and then burn their tribe after robbing their jerky." ”
Shen Xingzhou was ordered to lead the troops to attack, and Xiao Tianyu walked to the hill and sat down to watch.
The deputy commander of the Flying Tiger Battalion followed Xiao Tianyu's side, vigilantly guarding, and the rest of the soldiers all hid behind the hill and waited.
The deputy commander whispered: "Your Majesty, your golden body, your subordinates are afraid that you will be hurt, so you should go back and wait!" ”
Xiao Tianyu patted his helmet lightly, "Don't call me Your Majesty, just call me an adult, I'm fine, you didn't keep the door open, if you leak my identity, I'm really in trouble, the brothers of the Flying Tiger Camp know the severity, right?" ”
The deputy commander nodded, "They know, and we have told us many times, and we will never reveal the secrets of the adults." ”
Xiao Tianyu sat on the slightly prickly grass, blowing the wind with the smell of grass, watching the unilateral abuse of vegetables not far away.
The cavalry rushed out from behind the hill, and then divided into two groups of men and horses, one group of men and horses led by Shen Xingzhou to sneak attack the tribe, and the other group of people to kill those cattle and sheep.
The small tribe didn't expect someone to come and attack, and they didn't make any preparations at all, after a few guards at the gate were killed, the entire tribe was controlled, Shen Xingzhou drove everyone out of the tribe according to what Xiao Tianyu said, robbed them of their jerky, and then set fire to the tribe.
Xiao Tianyu didn't have much joy, Shen Xingzhou had zero injuries and zero deaths, and after sorting out the army, he brought it back, "My lord, it's done according to your orders." ”
Xiao Tianyu turned over and got on his horse, "Go to the next tribe." ”
The tribe that had ignited the fire was soon left behind, and with it were the tribesmen weeping in despair.
In the next tribe, Shen Xingzhou concocted the same method, in order to keep the army in war, Xiao Tianyu asked Shen Xingzhou to take soldiers who had never been there to practice every time he attacked a small tribe, so that the soldiers had a hope.
This was only the first day of entering the grassland, and Xiao Tianyu burned three small tribes.
Shen Xingzhou was very happy to be shocked by the victory, "My lord, it is better for us to conquer a medium-sized tribe of two thousand people, in this way, we don't have to sleep in the wilderness." ”
Xiao Tianyu was very sober, and poured a basin of cold water on Shen Xingzhou, "I don't want to fight a battle that I am not sure of, you look at the 50,000 cavalry, now only 3,000 of them have a little experience, and even how many of those 3,000 have killed people?" Suddenly going to fight a tribe of 2,000 people, we will lose a lot, and it will also attract the attention of others, but we have to keep a low profile now, low profile, you know? ”
Shen Xingzhou woke up from the joy of victory, "My lord, I was confused and almost broke something." ”
Xiao Tianyu put his hands behind his back, "It's good to know, go and set up camp, disperse the scouts, get up tomorrow (four to five o'clock in the morning), and set off at six o'clock in the morning (six o'clock to seven o'clock)." ”
With the experience of the first day and the bad things on the second day, Xiao Tianyu is more familiar with the road.
First of all, Xiao Tianyu called the captain over. One lieutenant was in charge of a thousand cavalry.
"After yesterday's test of the waters, I plan to throw a lieutenant to attack the tribe every time I go to a place, I take people to the next tribe, and the people who are left behind will quickly follow after the tribe is burned. Do you know all about it? Xiao Tianyu said.
One lieutenant boldly asked, "My lord, why don't you just send us out and agree on where to assemble?" Isn't that faster? ”
Xiao Tianyu explained: "This is indeed faster, but there is no shelter on the grassland, if we stay in one place for a long time, we will be discovered by them, only by constantly moving, they don't know that we are in the upper place, this is the safest." We are currently going to exterminate the small tribes, you take a thousand people with you, if you accidentally run into people from large and medium-sized tribes, then you are very dangerous, I don't want any of you to be able to stand in front of me again. ”
"My subordinates understood."
The speed of the slaughter was very fast, and within ten days, all the small tribes with less than 1,000 people on the grassland were suffering, and they all ran to the medium-sized and large tribes they had befriended to seek refuge, and Xiao Tianyu's reputation also started on the grassland.
Xiao Tianyu looked at the distribution map of the grassland tribes provided by General Jin Wuwei, and the small tribes on it were all crossed out.
"It's time to trouble those medium-sized tribes with less than 10,000 people." Xiao Tianyu muttered to himself.
Xiao Tianyu called the lieutenant in charge of 10,000 cavalry.
"In the past few days, you have watched those captains raid the tribe, have you learned their routines?" Xiao Tianyu laughed.
A tall and strong lieutenant hammered his chest, "My lord, we have long been in a panic, my lord should let us fight, every day I watch others lead troops to fight, I also want to be loyal to the country." ”
Xiao Tianyu was amused, "You all know the routine, then I won't be verbose, from tomorrow onwards, it will be you who will lead the troops to fight, I will assign the task now, and you all come over a little." ”
The five captains all came over, and Xiao Tianyu asked the two captains to cooperate in attacking a tribe of 10,000 people, and the remaining lieutenant followed her to fight a tribe of 2,000 people.
The five lieutenants were not very happy, and looked at each other a few times, and finally it was the tall and strong lieutenant who was sent out to give advice, "My lord, are you a little too cautious?" ”
Xiao Tianyu said helplessly: "I have to be responsible for you, 20,000 people to attack a tribe of 10,000 people, you can ensure that nothing goes wrong, and if there are more people, it is easy to take care of them, and reduce casualties in disguise." Xiao Tianyu looked at them and still looked angry, "These 50,000 cavalry, there is no substitute for one less, you are subordinate to Your Majesty, every time there is one less person in this cavalry, Your Majesty will be very distressed." ”
The five lieutenants gave up," and the general retired. ”
"Wait!" Xiao Tianyu suddenly thought that they were so high-profile on the grassland, the medium-sized tribe must be on guard, and it was impossible to wait for them to kill, "Remember, if the tribe is heavily guarded and is not allowed to attack the tribe, you only need to kill the cattle and sheep they are grazing outside, and then raid another medium-sized tribe, remember not to attack in a well-guarded situation, otherwise military law will act." ”
The lieutenants clasped their fists and said, "No." ”
Xiao Tianyu drove away all the people from the small tribes, and those people ran to medium-sized tribes and large tribes, and the patriarchs of those tribes didn't want to take them in, but after all, they had been friends for many years, and if they didn't take them in, what would make other tribes look at them, so they could only reluctantly take them in, thinking that they would have to grab more things and come back when the time came, otherwise they would definitely not be able to survive this winter.
Now that the small tribes have been wiped out, the medium-sized tribes have thought with their toes that they are the next target, and they have all strengthened their defenses, spreading scouts, and as soon as there is a stir, the whole tribe will enter the first level of alert.
The big tribes on the grassland didn't take Xiao Tianyu very seriously, after all, they were all small tribes with hundreds of people, and they felt that Xiao Tianyu was just bullying the soft and afraid of the hard.
However, today Xiao Tianyu was targeting three medium-sized tribes.
Xiao Tianyu took 10,000 people to attack the tribe of 1,000 people, and before he got very close, he found the enemy's scouts, and it seemed that he could not sneak attack by surprise.
Xiao Tianyu slapped the horse's ass fiercely and shouted, "Full speed ahead." ”
By the time they arrived in front of the tribe, the tribe was ready to defend, but a large number of cattle and sheep were still outside, and the tribesmen were driving them back with all their might.
Xiao Tianyu drew his sword and pointed forward, shouting, "Rush into the flock, take the opportunity to rush into the tribe." ”
"My lord, just let me lead the troops." Shen Xingzhou said: "The Flying Tiger Battalion left behind to guard Lord Cao. ”
Xiao Tianyu tugged on the reins of the horse, and the psychic horse ran to the side, and the Flying Tiger Battalion behind also left the team.
Shen Xingzhou led the cavalry to charge, crashed into the flock, and rushed straight towards the open gate.
The tribesmen now don't know whether to close the gates and isolate the sheep from the enemy, but if they do, they really don't have much food left.
The patriarch anxiously watched Shen Xingzhou get closer and closer, and the sheep were also desperately running towards the tribal camp, and finally when Shen Xingzhou was only ten meters away from the gate, the patriarch ordered, "Hurry up and close the door." ”
The door is closed.
Shen Xingzhou continued to rush forward, as if he was dying.
The patriarch seemed to see Shen Xingzhou's intentions, and shouted in horror: "Release the arrow, hurry up and release the arrow." ”
However, it was too late.
Shen Xingzhou took advantage of the horse's momentum to pierce the wooden door with a shot, and with a strong pick, he forcibly opened the door, and the cavalry behind poured into the tribe like a tide, killing those who stubbornly resisted.
The patriarch saw that the general trend was gone, and hurriedly drilled back.
Shen Xingzhou could see the patriarch at a glance, nothing else, just because the patriarch was the best dressed, wearing animal skins and unknown colorful jewelry, which was particularly conspicuous in a group of people.
Shen Xingzhou clamped the horse's belly, and the horse ran towards the position of the patriarch, how could the patriarch's two legs outrun a four-legged horse? After a while, he was caught up by Shen Xingzhou.
The patriarch remembered that those small tribes were all surrendered and not killed, at most, they were expelled and the tribe was burned, so as long as he surrendered, Shen Xingzhou would not kill him, and he would be able to pick up a life.
"I surrender, I surrender." The patriarch raised his hands, knelt down towards Shen Xingzhou, and surrendered in unskilled Chinese, for fear that Shen Xingzhou would kill him.
Shen Xingzhou sneered in his heart, it is true that those who descend will not be killed, but it is limited to the tribesmen, and those who resist, those who are powerful and those who are powerful and the patriarch are all going to be killed.
The surrounding battle was almost over, the soldiers had already controlled the tribe, the women, children and old people were not killed, and the young people were all under control, all kneeling in one place.
Shen Xingzhou looked at all those middle-aged men, and at a glance saw the depth of their strength, pointed at a person, and the soldiers stepped forward to take them to the back of the tribe to kill, and every time they took away a person, some people in the women's pile would cry bitterly.
"Come on, drive them all out, and then burn the tribe, and the rest of the people will come with me!" Shen Xingzhou gave the order in an orderly manner.