Chapter 4: The Drunken Country (8)
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Both sides have war horses that can be changed at any time, chasing after others, and eighty percent of them are likely to chase each other away. If it's blocked in the tribe of the Xia? , but half of them may block the other party head-on. The problem is that once the other party is desperate, he can't compare to other people's bows and arrows in the distance, and he can't compare to other people's scimitars in the distance, so he can't go up and die, so why bother!
No matter how deep Xu Dayan's wisdom is, it can't penetrate into the hearts of the enemy. He didn't know that the scouts had been so frightened that they began to take the story, and just led the group to avoid the nearest route home as much as possible. If they are unfortunate enough to meet their opponents again, even if it is a four-on-four, he and Ah Silan can get out, and the Zhongjian brothers and Dur will definitely not have a chance to be spared. He racked his brains to think of a countermeasure, and led the people to the southeast, to the east, and then to the north.
Snow began to fall again, and the evening breeze blew the snow grains like sand and clanked on the blood-frozen leather robes. The setting sun struggled to shine a little behind the clouds. The faint glow was immediately frozen at the edge of the sky, filtered by the solidified clouds, and turned into a faint pink ice chip.
The snow also slowly began to turn powder, and in the tens of thousands of miles of boundless pink world, four people and sixteen horses moved with difficulty against the north wind. The bloody horseshoe prints made a deep furrow in the snow, like someone drawing a knife and cutting a wound in the earth's body, deep and painful to the marrow.
"Ah Silan, Ah Silan, when my wife is pregnant" Dur opened his eyes in a daze, and his pale lips spit out a few words with difficulty, "Please help me pick up some stars and iron, give, give it to my wife!" ”
"Pick it up yourself!" Ah Silan turned sideways, collected a cloud of frost from the horse brown, and rubbed it firmly on Dür's mouth. "You go and pick it up yourself, and you want your son to work hard!"
"I, I would love to! But the Immortal Heaven has already summoned me! Durr smiled wryly and shook his head, as if he had anticipated that he would not have a chance to approach the felt bag alive. Before leaving in the morning, he had promised his wife that he would give her the most beautiful yellow sheepskin. But in the future, she can only appear in her dreams.
"Nonsense, the Holy Wolf and the Elders will definitely cure you." Aslan shouted to refute Dür's frustrated words, "The holy wolf has already begun to show his strength, just now, he was the one who gave his power to Attachment, and let Attachment bite the enemy to death!" ”
"Really?" Dürr's eyes, which had dimmed, slowly brightened again. After he was injured, he was tired of protecting himself, and he didn't see the terrifying scene when Li Xu got up from the enemy's corpse.
"Yes, definitely!" Xu turned his head and shouted loudly. "I don't believe you asked for Attachment, if it weren't for the Holy Wolf Manifestation, how could he bite the enemy's veins with his teeth!"
Dur must not be allowed to give up hope of living, two of his companions have died, and he must not be allowed to die again. Li Xu let out a sad cry in his heart. If he could keep Dur alive, it would be for him to admit that he was Ganro, and he accepted this statement unceremoniously.
"Lord Silver Wolf told me that the four of us can sit in your felt bag and drink again! Daddy Gabler thinks you're a loser and scolds you in a low voice while throwing a large piece of lamb into the pot! Li Xu stepped forward and smiled with tears on his face.
"Really? My dad is that kind of person. Durr chuckled softly, his pale face instantly turned pink by the clouds on the horizon.
"Lord Silver Wolf keeps us all alive! Alive! Li Xu shouted, galloping his horse. Near, closer, he had already heard the peculiar rhythm of the horn of the Su Si Division, and a large group of men and horses appeared on the snowy fields in the north, and quickly approached them with the sound of the horn.
Tao Kuotuosi hugged Ganluo and galloped at the front of the team. Her eyes were red and swollen, and her leather robe was dirty and torn. The smile that bloomed on her face in an instant was the warmest Li Xu had ever seen since she met her.
"Detachment!" In the pink world, Tao Kuo desi held the silver Ganluo and rushed to it.
The scouts of the Xi tribe, who followed the footprints left by Li Xu and others on the snow, suddenly found that the footprints under their feet were in chaos, and after careful distinction, they judged that at least more than 500 war horses had appeared on the snowfield, and they did not dare to slack off, so they immediately turned around and retreated, and reported the news that the other party had prepared to the army of their own clan.
The leader of the Xi clan, Ejin Lifu, listened to the report and knew that the news of the sneak attack had leaked. Hurriedly adjust the strategy. While continuing to slowly approach the garrison of the Su Si Division, he was accumulating his horsepower and ready to fight to the death with the allied forces of Zhufei who came to meet him.
The tribal camp of any nomad does not have walls, so no tribe will hold the fort. At present, the number of the Xi army is as high as 5,000, and the Zhuwei coalition army has just begun training, and the soldiers and horses are less than 3,000. There is such a huge disparity in numbers, even if the sneak attack fails, there is no reason for the Suotou Xi people to be defeated. Therefore, he is ready to completely destroy the resistance of the Zhufei tribe through a head-on decisive battle, and take the grassland near the Crescent Lake in one fell swoop. Although the climate in this area is cold, the abundance of water and grass is no less than that of Suotou Waterfront. It is believed that after a few years of repair, the tribe will slowly recover from the loss of being expelled by the Turks.
As for the reports of the first six scouts to flee about the adequacy of the opponent's sword and horse and the skill of archery, he thought that it was all a prevarication of the cowardly. Those who have lost a battle will give themselves a catchy excuse, as if the braver they say the enemy, the less responsibility they have to blame. So he only listened halfway, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered the deserter to be dragged down. At present, the tribe is short of food, and this waste is useless to raise, so it is better to throw it into the snow and freeze to death.
The reaction of the Zhufei coalition army was beyond the expectations of Tong Lifu, knowing that the Xi people were coming from afar, but they did not go out of the village to meet the attack. Instead, all the young men stationed on the periphery of the camp withdrew into the village, and nearly a hundred pyres were lit about 150 steps outside the wall, as if to welcome the arrival of the sneak attackers with a bonfire.
With the acquiescence of Willif, more than a dozen cavalrymen rushed to the fire to provoke, and were immediately shot through the body by the powerful crossbows flying out of the camp. The thick and long crossbow was castrated, and after shooting the cavalry, he continued to fly with his body for more than ten steps before he landed. The wounded cavalryman struggled on the crossbow pole, shouting, just not having the strength to pull himself off. His companion couldn't bear it, and made up a few arrows with his bow and arrows from afar, before he ended his pain completely.
After seeing the power of the opponent's crossbow, he felt that he could not afford the loss of attacking the camp, so he had to take the team to camp five miles away for repairs on the grounds that "the enemy will attack at night, and the enemy will be dark and I will be clear". It's freezing cold, where can I make a stake in the snow? It took more than an hour for the soldiers to get into the tents that they could barely manage. Before their numb bodies could be warmed by the night wind, a trumpet suddenly sounded in the distance, and a long fiery dragon rushed straight into the tent.
The Xi soldiers were shocked and hurriedly raised their weapons to meet the battle. The enemy troops, armed with torches, rushed to a position more than 200 paces away from the camp, and suddenly stopped again. He shouted and let go of the arrows for a while, then turned and retreated. Tong Lifu was angry and laughed, so angry that the Zhufei coalition army was so combative, and he actually wanted to copy his own camp. The smile is that since the other party's combat effectiveness is low, tomorrow's battle will definitely be easy to win.
Thinking about it made him happy. Order the soldiers under his command to seize the time to rest, and when the sun rises tomorrow, they will immediately pacify the Zhuyun tribe. The soldiers cheered and entered their tents, the leather cushions under their bodies not waiting to be warmed. Outside, the sound of horses' hooves was loud, and in the night, I don't know how many cavalry came to rob the camp.
The Xi soldiers climbed out of their tents and bent their bows at each other. The attacking cavalry circled half a circle from afar, shot cold arrows for a while, and fled again. Enraged, he ordered his men not to sleep, and to prepare horses, bows and arrows, to take them by surprise when the enemy came to harass them again. The soldiers struggled in the cold wind for half an hour, but the allied forces refused to come.
After tossing for a little half of the night, until the pink morning glow appeared on the horizon, the Xi soldiers fell asleep. While he was thinking about the rushing river of his hometown and the abundant pastures by the river, he heard the low sound of horses' hooves outside the tent.
"Harassment again, it's endless!" Lifu thought in a daze. The war between the tribes depends on each other's strength, and it is already a miracle to run from afar like him. And the behavior of repeatedly harassing in the middle of the night and not letting the other party sleep is purely a loss outside of the strange.
It's a time when my muscles are weak, and it's hard to get up. Besides, the Zhufei coalition is only harassing, and will not seriously engage with themselves at all. Thinking, thinking, Liver's mind was a little confused, and suddenly, a cold wind blew into his neck.