Chapter 0496 - Outnumbered?
What's under the snowy mountains?
What can make Kebi get out of Crook Lake and entrenched under the snowy mountains?
The answer is grain!
Only food can make this old horse thief with a legendary life get out of Crook Lake and entrenched under the snowy mountains.
A small amount of grain can allow this old horse thief to spend a comfortable winter in the snowy winter.
A large amount of grain can allow this old horse thief to take advantage of the snowy winter to recruit troops and buy horses and make a comeback.
The old horse thief must have been very old.
But his ambition doesn't seem to have been extinguished by time.
It's just that he shouldn't have provoked the evil star of Kou Ji.
If it was an ordinary Great Song Dynasty baggage transport team, he made a threat, maybe the grain overseer would hand over the grain to buy peace.
But Koji won't.
Koji will not compromise with anyone who is weaker than himself.
No threats are accepted.
"It should be for the food ......"
Kou Ji sat on the back of the horse and slowly spoke, unraveling the doubts in An Ziluo's heart.
An Ziluo took the initiative to ask: "I'll take someone to kill him." ”
Kou Ji smiled indifferently, "No need to ...... Brother An is a general in Qingtang, and to deal with Kebineng is like killing a chicken with a knife, which is not advisable. ”
An Ziluo opened his mouth to prophesy.
Kou Ji had already turned his head sideways and ordered the leader of the patrol guards beside him.
"You take someone to go with Liu Heng."
The leader of the patrol guard hugged his fists and took the other patrol guards to straddle the horse and put on armor.
After a while.
The familiar iron armor reappeared in front of the people.
Although it was the second time that they had witnessed the appearance of the heavy armored cavalry, many people still looked at the heavy armored cavalry with fear in their eyes.
When Liu Heng was patrolling the horses and guarding the men in armor, he selected a thousand Japanese soldiers and ordered them to take off their heavy armor, replace them with light armor, and ride on horseback.
After everything is ready.
Liu Heng took 1,000 Japanese soldiers, 200 patrol horse guards, and 100 spies of the Imperial City Division, and broke away from the team escorting grain and grass.
In the blink of an eye.
Liu Heng and his entourage disappeared under the snowy mountain.
A large detachment of troops.
Liu Heng was going to send spies to escort the Imperial City Division to investigate Kebineng's stronghold.
But the leader of the guard stopped him.
"Liu Gongshi doesn't have to be so troublesome, just follow our brother. Our brotherhood will soon dig up the stronghold of the horse thief leader. ”
The leader of the patrol horse guard, led Liu Heng and his party, followed the traces of horse manure, and soon found the trace of Kebineng.
When the Hui man wearing a yellow dress and a yellow scarf appeared in front of Liu Heng, Liu Heng was stunned for a long time.
Liu Heng looked sideways at the leader of the horse patrol guard in astonishment, "You can find the traces of thieves just by horse manure...... Have you spent time on the prairie? ”
The leader of the patrol horse guard smiled brightly at Liu Heng, "You don't need to ask more about Liu's affairs, the little young master won't let me say it." ”
Liu Heng glanced at the leader of the patrol guard, "Then I won't ask......"
The leader of the patrol horse guard smiled: "The little young master said that except for me, the Song people, there is no one left. The group of horse thieves in front of him, less than thirty in number, should be the spies of the horse thieves, and a large number of horse thieves should be entrenched nearby.
Shall we rush up and destroy them, or shall we drive them and let them lead us to the great army of horse thieves? ”
Liu Heng groaned: "You seem to be very experienced in dealing with horse thieves? ”
The leader of the patrol guard chuckled in a low voice: "A little bit ......"
Liu Heng asked, "What do you think we should do?" ”
The leader of the patrol guards said earnestly: "Drive them away, let them lead us to find a large group of horse thieves." ”
Liu Heng frowned slightly.
"The other party has three thousand......
The leader of the patrol guard glanced back at the 1,000 Japanese soldiers who were following behind him, and said with a smile: "We have 1,000 Japanese elites. ”
When Gao Yi, the captain of the Japanese army, heard the words of the two, he stepped forward and said solemnly: "I am in favor of driving them, going to find a large group of horse thieves, and gathering them to annihilate them." ”
Liu Heng hesitated: "The other party has more people than us. ”
Gao Yi Zhengse said: "It's just a group of rabble. We are the most elite Great Song Forbidden Army. ”
Gao Yi glanced at the leader of the patrol guards, and said to Liu Heng: "Compared to them, we may be inferior. But compared to the rabble, we are more than a star and a half stronger.
Besides, our main task this time is to escort grain and grass to Shazhou City, and we don't have any extra time to waste on the grassland with these horse thieves.
Therefore, gathering and annihilating them is the most appropriate and fastest way. ”
Liu Heng's eyes lingered on the leader of the patrol horse guard and Gao Yi, and said in a deep voice: "It's good if you are sure......"
Liu Heng looked not far away, the horse thieves who had already found them and were about to flee, solemnly ordered.
"Kill the ......"
Liu Heng took the lead in urging the war horse under his crotch and killed it.
The leader of the patrol guards, Gao Yi, followed closely with people.
When Liu Heng and his party charged, the horse thieves scattered in an instant, divided into several shares, and fled in all directions.
Horse thieves aren't stupid either.
After discovering the huge team of Liu Heng and his party, he knew that he was incapable of the enemy, so he decisively chose to leave.
Years of experience as thieves tell them.
When you run away, you must not flee to one place in a swarm.
Instead, they had to flee separately.
If the enemy divides their forces, they have a chance to reunite and eat each other.
If the enemy only chases one share, then the other people who have escaped can also go back and bring rescuers.
However.
They are inferior to the enemy's strength.
While they separated and fled.
The iron-clad enemies raised their iron cylinders as they ran.
"Smack......
The iron cylinder spewed flames, and the fleeing horse thief instantly fell off the horse's back and died of exhaustion.
There were also horse thieves who were shot but did not die.
Before they could continue to escape, the sound of artillery fire rang out again.
ran out hundreds of feet all the way.
Four artillery battles rang out.
Of the three bands, two of the thieves died under the sound of the cannonballs.
Left alone, running wild on the grassland.
The surviving horse thief realizes that he has encountered a strong enemy.
I have the intention to divide my troops again, but I am afraid that the other party's artillery will sound again.
"Go to the Great Chief......"
The enemy obviously has the strength to annihilate them in one fell swoop, but they have been chasing them, and what their purpose is, the horse thieves have already guessed some.
The enemy is trying to force them to go to their leader.
The horse thieves felt that the enemy was a little arrogant.
Although the enemy had weapons they had never seen before, the enemy numbered only a thousand people.
But there were more than 4,000 people under their leaders.
If you use people to pile up, you can also pile up and kill enemies.
If they can get the enemy's armor and weapons, their strength can be improved by one more point.
The thieves rushed all the way to the bottom of a low hill, and suddenly turned around and ran down the eastern side of the low hill.
Liu Heng and his entourage pursued them relentlessly.
Rounded the low hills.
The sight is a pasture.
Tens of thousands of cattle and sheep are chewing dead leaves, digging grass roots, and foraging on the withered yellow grass.
Horses rejoiced unbridled among the cattle and sheep.
At the foot of the low hill, nearly a thousand tents are set up.
The horse thieves in the tent had already appeared outside the tent when they heard the sound of a large number of horses' hooves.
When Liu Heng led the people to appear on the edge of the ranch, he happened to meet their eyes.
Liu Heng suddenly reined in his horse, his pupils shrank slightly.
"Nearly 4,000 people?!"
The number of horse thieves exceeds the number known from Yasukoro's mouth.
Liu Heng retreated.
But he heard the leader of the patrol horse guard smile, and his eyes flashed with excitement, "How about more than 4,000 people?" Kill it right! ”
Liu Heng said solemnly: "There are three times more people than us, and we can't be beaten." ”
The leader of the patrol guard looked at Liu Heng and laughed, "Liu Gongshi probably hasn't seen the strength of our brothers. ”
Liu Heng said in a deep voice: "I know that you are very strong, but there are many people on the other side, and we can't take risks." ”
The leader of the patrol guards said decisively: "The little young master has an order, and there is no one left alive, we must obey it." Don't say it's 4,000, it's 40,000, and our brothers will rush forward. ”
Liu Heng glared, "Are you crazy?!" ”
When the leader of the patrol guards heard this, he actually thought about it seriously and said, "If you think we are, then we are." ”
"You sweep the formation! Let's rush! ”
"Brothers!"
"Draw your sword!"
A long-handled scimitar appeared in the hands of the guards on horseback.
The guards held their knives excitedly and rushed out.
The horse thief who escaped from the tiger's mouth has rushed into the ranch and turned with the other horse thieves.
When they learned of the enemy's arrival, the horse thieves who came out of the tent stepped on their horses.
The elderly Kebi can be surrounded by a group of horse thieves, staring at the horse patrol man who rushed over with a gloomy face.
At the first sight of the enemy's appearance, Kebineng retreated.
The enemy was clearly a regular army.
Far from being comparable to the rabble under his command.
But when he saw that the enemy had only sent out two hundred iron horsemen, he felt a wave of anger in his heart.
"Two hundred, dare to be the enemy of my four thousand?!"
"Arrogance!"
"Brothers, get on your horse and kill it."
"Whoever kills them, I will give them their armor!"
“……”
The horse thieves received the order, brandished the scimitars in their hands, and rushed at the men patrolling the horses with a roar.
"Bang!"
The two forces collided, and the first sound was a dull collision.
The guards were dressed in heavy armor and bravely crashed into the group of horse thieves.
The knives of the horse thieves did not leave any marks on the men who patrolled the horses.
But he was knocked off his horse by the men who patrolled the horse guards.
Iron hooves whistled over, leaving behind a mutilated corpse.
The strength of the patrol guards far exceeded the imagination of everyone present.
Like an iron cone, they plunged into a mass of flesh, bringing out countless pieces of blood and scraps.
Just one charge.
Kebineng realized that the other party was not his own enemy.
It's a pity that he can't escape the battlefield for the time being.
The Patrol Guard rushed from east to west, blocking his way to the west.
After Liu Heng rushed out with the men patrolling the horses, he led the people to rush over and blocked the east.
To the south is the mound, and to the north there is a large and spacious river.
There was no way he could escape.
"Kill!"
Kebineng turned the horse's head and killed the man who patrolled the horse.
Naturally, the men of the horse patrol guard will not be afraid.
Carrying a bloody knife, he greeted him.
Another collision, leaving behind a hundred corpses.
Kebineng never looked back.
He led his horse thieves and fled to the west.
Seeing this, the leader of the horse patrol guard smiled and shouted, "Change horses!" ”
The men of the horse patrol guard all changed into unarmored war horses and chased them out.
One hit misses, and it is thousands of miles away.
It is a means for horse thieves to run rampant on the grasslands.
It's just that they used the wrong means at the wrong time and picked the wrong target.
The horse patrol guards who changed into unarmored war horses pursued no slower than the horse thieves.
The musket became a weapon for harvesting the lives of horse thieves.
The men who patrol the horse guard don't need to deliberately aim.
Just stare at the backs of the black pressure group and shoot wildly.
From one end of the hill, he fled to the other end of the hill.
The horse thieves paid more than two hundred lives.
Kebineng's heart was dripping blood.
The more than 1,000 horse thieves he had managed to recruit were probably going to be exhausted after this battle.
And he sent men to plunder grain, gold, silver, cattle and sheep.
It also became the enemy's trophy.
But he did not dare to stop fighting with the enemy.
Because he spelled.
Not an opponent.
Far from being an opponent.
"Rushing through Gesenqiu, there is a lost forest in front of us, and when we get to the lost forest, we can get rid of them......"
Kobi shouted angrily at the horse thieves.
The horse thieves naturally understood the meaning of Kebineng.
The reason why horse thieves were able to thrive in the Western Regions was because of their familiarity with the terrain.
After they provoke a strong enemy, they can easily get rid of the strong enemy and escape thousands of miles away by virtue of their familiarity with the terrain.
The reason why Kebineng chose to camp on the edge of the dwarf hill is because not far from the dwarf hill, there is a lost forest that they can easily get out of.
This is also the reason why he dared to send a threatening letter when he knew that Song Guo's baggage transport team was escorted by An Ziluo.
"Hahaha......"
The horse thieves, led by Kebineng, rushed into the labyrinth, and laughed madly after escaping the pursuit of the strong enemy behind them with the advantage of the terrain.
Once again, they took advantage of the terrain and got rid of a strong enemy.
Kebineng's loyal slave came to Kebineng's side, gritted his teeth and said, "Big leader, we have been deceived by Tuoba Wu. We shouldn't have listened to him, came out of Keluk Lake, and provoked the Song people. ”
Kebineng said resentfully: "That thief of Tuoba Wu must have taken refuge in Naye, and Naye wants to get rid of us by the hands of the Song people." ”
The Tuoba Wu in Kebineng's mouth is a small nobleman in the yellow-headed Hui.
And Naye is the yellow-headed Hui Khan.
"We must take revenge!"
"That's right! Avenge! ”
“……”
In the shouts of his subordinates, Kebineng gritted his teeth and said: "Out of the Lost Forest, we will be able to Luk Lake, kill the tribesmen of Tuoba Wu first, and then settle accounts with Naye." ”
"Namir, you lead the way ahead......"
Namier is a middle-aged Qingtang person, but Ke can be different.
Kebineng and his entourage are all dressed in yellow, wrapped in yellow cloth, and his beard is also yellow.
Namil, on the other hand, is all black, and his beard is also black.
After Kebineng arrived in Daxue Mountain, he recruited Qingtang people.
Namier heard Kebineng's order and took Kebineng and his party through the forest.
Soon after, the group appeared on the west side of the maze.
And then.
They all froze in place.
I saw the cavalry that they had gotten rid of, smiling and groaning waiting for them outside the labyrinth.