Chapter Eighty-Six: The Wolves Are Coming
Just experienced a big battle, Guo Qi's Yongjun soldiers were already exhausted, in the face of Guo Qi's sudden military order, all the Yongjun soldiers began to drag their tired bodies to assemble, but the speed was much slower, the Yongjun army had not yet assembled, and the cavalry had already been killed.
In order to prevent misunderstanding, Zhuo Yidao ordered to stop the march when he was still two arrows away from the battlefield, and rode his war horse under his crotch to the assembly place of the Yong army.
After seeing Guo Qi, Zhuo Yidao immediately knelt down and saluted: "The last general, Zhuo Yidao, will see the lord." ”
After seeing Zhuo Yidao, Guo Qi frowned, and then asked, "Yidao, why did you come here with cavalry?" ”
"My lord, when the last general and General Tang were ambushed outside the Huating camp, they learned that they had sent 3,000 cavalry to rescue their baggage pairs, and General Tang was worried that the lord's security was in danger, so he discussed with the last general, and the last general led the first cavalry mansion to support."
"Did you encounter the remnants of the Xijon Army on the way here?"
"I ran into it, about three or five hundred people, all of whom have been killed by our army."
"The First Cavalry Mansion took over the defense of the camp; The soldiers of the two prefectures of the Tooth Army and the Guard hurriedly rested. Guo Qi ordered.
"No! The last general commanded. After Zhuo Yidao received the order, he immediately went to arrange to take over the camp.
The camp of the Yongjun army was on the mountain road, and according to Guo Qi's orders, it was surrounded by horse-drawn carriages, and a bonfire was lit at intervals, and there were guards patrolling back and forth.
"My lord, the battle damage has been counted." Chen Feng came to Guo Qi to report.
"Say it! What are the losses of our army? ”
"My lord, our army suffered one thousand and fifty-seven casualties, of which seven hundred and ninety-two were killed, one hundred and seventy-one were seriously wounded, and ninety-four were lightly wounded; Some of the seriously injured brothers may not survive tonight. Chen Feng reported.
"All the wounded brothers must be treated with all their might, and the dead brothers must also find their bones and bring them back with them when they leave."
"No! Humble duty understands. ”
After Chen Feng left, Li Wu glanced at Guo Qi and said, "Lord, why are you unhappy!" Although our army suffered a lot of losses, but the results were quite rich, this battle wiped out 1,000 sword knights and 2,000 elite cavalry in Xirong, not counting the nearly 1,000 escort troops of the Xirong baggage team that we destroyed before! ”
In fact, what Li Wu said was right, the result of one to four was a big victory no matter what era it was placed in, but even so, Guo Qi couldn't be happy in the face of such a result.
"In this battle, my Yongjun army lost thousands of elites, and the elite soldiers of the first house are gone, do you think this king can be happy?" Guo Qi glared at Li Wu and said.
Nowadays, the strength of the Yongjun army is limited, and only the tooth guards can be called elite, after all, the hussar guards have not experienced any war not long after they became an army, and they are not elite; And the tooth guard is only six thousand people in five mansions, and nearly one of them was lost in this battle, it would be strange if Guo Qi was not distressed, this tooth guard was trained by Guo Qi himself.
Looking at Li Wu, who bowed his head and was silent, Guo Qi then said, "You are also tired for a day, go and rest!" This king will be alone. ”
"No! Retired from his position. ”
Guo Qi, who was sitting alone by the bonfire, looked up at the starry night sky, and couldn't help but think of the prosperous life in Luodu in the past, all this was like a dream, the prince who had no worries about food and clothing in the past, but now he has to fight with the enemy in this uninhabited and wild place, this should not happen to a prince, but it happened to Guo Qi.
"Woohoo, woohoo, woohoo......"
The roar of a pack of wolves pulled Guo Qi's thoughts back to reality, many Yongjun soldiers who were around the bonfire, snuggling up to each other and had just fallen asleep, woke up in the roar of the wolves, picked up the weapons around them and watched around; Guo Qi also pulled out the dragon tooth war knife on the ground on a business trip, ready to fight at any time; Although Guo Qi had already arranged for the wolves, he didn't dare to be careless at all.
"Don't panic, the crossbowmen line up with their bows and crossbows, and the sword and shield soldiers are ready to wait." Guo Qi immediately issued a military order.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"
A black shadow rushed out of the mountains and forests, and some Yongjun armor soldiers with good archery skills immediately released their arrows, but because the wolves moved too fast, the arrows shot did not hurt them at all, these wolves were very smart and cunning, and they all hid in the shadows and kept roaring to disturb the Yongjun.
"Whew......"
As soon as a distant roar fell, a wolf suddenly sprang out of nowhere and jumped directly onto the camp cart, exposing itself to the light of the campfire.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"
Several arrows came out of the string, shooting the wolf that jumped on the cart into a hornet's nest, after losing a companion, the wolves launched several attacks on the Yongjun camp, but they were all repelled by the Yongjun army, although the Yongjun army did not have any losses, but the loss of the wolves was not small, about five or six wolves died under the arrow rain of the Yongjun.
However, Yongjun's nightmare is not over, but has just begun; After the failure of the attack on the Yongjun camp, the wolves did not leave there; Although the soldiers of the Yongjun army could not see the situation nearby, they could still hear that some wolves were eating the corpses of the soldiers of the Xirong army who had died in battle and had not yet been cleaned up.
In order to prevent the wolves from attacking again, Guo Qi ordered all the Yongjun soldiers to guard the camp in three shifts, and it was not until almost dawn that the well-fed wolves left the mountain road and returned to the mountains.
In the early morning of the next day, Zhuo Yidao, Li Wu, and Chen Feng came to Guo Qi and asked Guo Qi for instructions on his next move.
"My lord, how did you know that wolves were coming to attack last night?" Li Wu asked Guo Qi.
"This king didn't know that there were really wolves attacking, it was just a guess, just in case; Yesterday we had a big battle with the Xirong army, and the smell of blood spread everywhere, and those wolves, insects, tigers and leopards hiding in the mountains and forests must be able to smell it;
It is winter now, and there are relatively few prey in the mountains, so this king feels that the hungry wolves are likely to venture down the mountain, and if our army is unprepared, it will definitely suffer heavy losses. ”
"The lord is wise."
"Okay, you don't need to shoot this sycophant, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, and give everything you can take away to this king." Guo Qi immediately ordered.
Although the Yongjun lost more than 1,000 people in yesterday's battle, but the harvest was also huge, for Guo Qi's Yongjun, the biggest harvest had to be said to be the more than 2,000 war horses, these war horses are all Xirong Hudao knights and Xirong elite horses used by the war horses, are the best Hexi war horses, for Guo Qi, who lacks war horses, these war horses are tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow.
Of course, in addition to war horses, there is also grain, but due to the damage of some carts, it is impossible to transport all the captured tens of thousands of stones of grain and grass, and those that cannot be transported can only be burned on the spot, in addition to war horses, grain and grass, there are also captured ordnance, in line with the principle of using what can be used, as long as there is still the slightest place for use, all of them were cleaned up by the Yongjun, and the corpse of the Xirong army that was collected was burned by a fire; When the Yongjun army returned east, it left only ashes everywhere.