Chapter Seventy-Two: The Scout's Showdown
Lin Luo cautiously climbed on top of a house that had been burned down by the Jiannu soldiers, far away in the night, looking towards the Jiannu camp in the direction of Tongzhou City, and from time to time put a monocular clairvoyant in front of the right eye, watching the situation of the Jiannu camp.
In the camp of the Jiannu army, after night, many bonfires and bright pine trees were lit in the camp and around the camp, and the surrounding area of the camp was illuminated, so as to prevent the enemy from sneaking up on their camp at night, if there was really a sneak attack by the enemy, under the illumination of so many lamps and torches, the enemy army entered within 200 steps around their camp, and the Jiannu soldiers on duty could find the gong warning in advance, plus the dark sentry outside the camp, so even in ancient times, if you want to launch a successful night attack, it is similar to gambling, The odds of success are slim.
However, Jiannu made the lights around the camp bright, but it just exposed them to the light, so that Lin Luo, who was staring at them from afar, saw their camp through clairvoyance.
Lin Luo was lying on top of the dilapidated house and observing the Jiannu camp, while constantly whispering to the subordinates below what he saw, and a descendant was holding a charcoal bar and writing and drawing in a notebook, recording what Lin Luo said, and drawing a sketch to outline the layout of the Jiannu army, so that it could be seen at a glance.
Lin Luo, this guy doesn't look very young, but he is also a veteran of the battlefield, he was a pawn under Li Zicheng at the earliest, but was later rescued by Xiao Tianjian, and then he followed Xiao Tianjian with all his heart, Lin Luo was born in the Orion family, and he practiced a good archery at a very young age, and he was good at using two hunting forks, and his kung fu was also good, after following Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian soon found that this kid was clever, and he was bold, and he was a good scout seedling. So he sent him to Shi Ran to call, he has already become an old scout over the years, and now that Shi Ran has been promoted to the head of a town, he has become the scout leader under Xiao Tianjian.
This time Xiao Tianjian led the troops from Tianjin Wei Chi to aid Tongzhou, Lin Luo did not need to command, he served as an outpost, led the troops to open the cordon, this day came up and cleaned up a lot of Jiannu Tartar sentry horsemen along the way, and now he actually took some of his subordinates, simply took advantage of the night to touch the city of Tongzhou, personally arrived outside the city of Tongzhou, and sentry into the situation of the Jiannu army.
After looking at it for a while, Lin Luo lowered his head and chuckled at a few of his subordinates below: "Jiannu must not have expected our arrival, the camp is not neatly set up, or the posture of besieging the city, dividing their camp outside the north gate and the west gate, it seems that we have killed a lot of Tartar sentry riders today, and also blinded the ears and eyes of the Tartars!" So that they didn't even notice that our army was rushing towards this side! Hey!
All right! Almost, let's pack up and leave! …… Slow down! Hey! There is movement in the Tartar camp! Quite a few Tartar cavalry came out! Take a few more looks! ”
While speaking, Lin Luo was staying, but suddenly stopped, and quickly raised his clairvoyance to look at the Tartar camp, and said to his own people below.
A few of his subordinates were about to pack up and evacuate here, and after hearing his words, they were all immediately alert, some went to calm their horses, so that their horses would not make a hissing sound at this time to reveal their whereabouts, and some people prepared short crossbows, mounted crossbow arrows, and were ready to move.
Lin Luo suddenly slipped out of the wall, slid down the broken wall, and waved his hand and whispered, "Go!" This place is not to stay for long! The Tartars must have found that a lot of their sentry riders are missing, and at this time they have already noticed that something is wrong, and they have sent out a lot of sentry horses, which are galloping in all directions, let's hurry back and inform the saint, it seems that it is unlikely that the Tartars will not find out the whereabouts of our army tonight! ”
When a few of his men heard this, they immediately packed up their things and led the horses to Lin Luo, a few people turned over and got on their horses, shook the reins slightly, and immediately turned around and disappeared into the darkness, and at this time, there were just a few Jiannu sentry horses, riding past them, a tartar white-armored soldier suddenly retracted the reins, raised his hand to stop a few of his subordinates, and after listening attentively, he suddenly pointed forward and said: "There are people in front!" Catch up and check it out! ”
The reason why horses can stand out among many animals and become the most loyal mounts of human beings is because they have too many advantages, they not only have a keen sense of smell, but also a good sense of hearing, and their vision at night is far more than that of humans, so night war horses have a certain tracking ability.
So these Jiannu soldiers immediately followed the white-armored soldier and accelerated with trembling, and in the night, with the dim moonlight in the sky, they chased in the direction where Lin Luo and the others left.
After Lin Luo led a few of his subordinates to walk for a while, suddenly an old scout under him shouted softly: "Lin Dutong! We've got a couple of Tartar dogs in the back! They're eyeing us! ”
After Lin Luo heard this, he immediately listened to the faint sound of horses' hooves coming from behind, so he immediately nodded and said, "Grandma, I'm really being targeted by dogs!" Ignore them, let's hurry back to the army now to report the news! Let them follow! After Zhangjiawan, send a signal for our people to clean them up! Let's go! ”
So they immediately hurried their horses and headed southeast.
And the Tartar sentries behind them also quickly began to speed up, chasing after them, those Tartars at this time, have decided that these people running in front of them are definitely not their people, since they are not their people, then they must be enemies, and now they come out to find the traces of the enemy, once they catch up with these enemies, under torture, they will definitely be able to obtain the information they want, you must know that they come out to spy people, once they get important information, There is a heavy reward for going back, so these Tartar soldiers are chasing in full swing, and they are constantly whipping up their horses one by one, trying to catch up with Lin Luo and the others as soon as possible.
Lin Luo and they will suffer a lot at this time, after all, they came down all day, from the direction of Tianjin Wei to come here, this day, more than 100 miles of travel, but also on the road to continue to clean up those encountered Tartar sentry horses, the war horse is already tired at night, and the Tartar side has just come out, the physical fitness of the war horse sitting down is in the peak state, under the elimination of the other, these Tartars soon gradually approached Lin Luo and others.
Listening to the sound of horses' hooves behind them, and getting closer and closer to them, the two Lin Luo's men pulled the reins of the horses, and they all stopped, and said to their brothers: "Protect Lin Dutong and hurry up!" The two of us are holding these slaves in tow! ”
Lin Luo was not hypocritical, he knew the importance of himself at this time, so he grabbed the reins of the horse, saluted the two remaining subordinates, didn't say anything, just nodded heavily to them when he put down his hand, and then dialed the horse and urged the war horse to continue galloping towards the southeast with the remaining few subordinates.
The two scouts left behind glanced at each other in the night, and nodded to each other, the eyes of the two people flashed with a decisive look in the night, the scout this guy is in the military, it is an absolutely high-risk class, so the scout is also the most courageous person in the army to fill, and they are required to have some work on hand, so each of these scouts has the wisdom to die at any time, at this time someone has to make sacrifices to keep more people safe, So the two scouts chose to stay without hesitation and drag these pursuers.
Both men adjusted their weapons in their saddles, each of which had a number of fragmentary weapons in his saddle, and after they had cleaned them up, they dismounted and brought their horses to the side of the road, loosened the reins, took off their bows from the saddle, and plunged a few arrows into the empty earth by the roadside.
In addition, the two of them also had a short hammer with broken hair around their waists, and they also pulled it out at this time, pulled out the wooden stopper at the mouth of the gun, pounded it with a few strokes, tamped the ammunition loaded inside, and put the spear in the position where they took advantage of it, and checked the waist knife.
In a short time the sound of horses' hooves drew closer and closer to them, and both of them first stood still and put an arrow on the bowstring, and slowly began to pull the bowstring, keeping it close to their noses, aiming at the darkness.
Only listen to the sound of two bowstrings, between the two like ghosts quickly disappeared into the darkness, not long after hearing a Jiannu scream, a bang, someone fell off the horse, and then caught up with the Jiannu exclaimed, obviously one of the two arrows shot down an unlucky Tartar soldier, so the frightened Tartar soldier immediately knew that there was an ambush in front of him, so he quickly began to scatter in both directions, but at the same time, he continued to gallop towards the location of the two large army scouts.
The two scouts shouted angrily, and immediately pulled out arrows on the ground, set strings, opened bows and arrows, the action can be said to be done in one go, and each person released two arrows in a row, but this time Jiannu was on guard, and it was impossible to get accurate in the night, only one of these arrows hit a Jiannu's war horse, and the painful Jiannu's war horse hissed for a while, but under the comfort of the Tartar soldiers, it did not fall, but slowed down.
It was too late, and it was too late, and in an instant, the Tartars rushed to the front of the two scouts, and the two scouts could no longer fire their arrows, so they threw their bows out with a wave of arms, and pulled out their broken hair and short guns at their waists like lightning, and immediately aimed at the two Tartars who rushed towards them, and the two flashes of light flashed in the darkness, and at the same time two roars rang out.
The two Tartars who rushed to the front were miserable, and almost at the same time they screamed, and then they fell headlong into their horses, and fell under them with a thud, and rolled on the ground in pain.
The scout's short gun is different from the spear, the bullet contained in it is not a projectile, but a loaded shotshot, and a projectile is pressed on the shotgun to prevent the shotgun from leaking out of the gun, although the long-range shooting power is insufficient, but the fire at close range, a dozen is a piece, two unlucky Tartar soldiers, were hit head-on by two groups of loose soldiers, when even if one guy was beaten all over the face, both eyes were blinded, and the other was shot in the chest, and the solid bullet broke through his armor and penetrated deep into his ribs, A rib was crushed on the spot, and he also hit his head off the war horse, and with the medical level of the Tartars in this era, the possibility of survival is basically zero.
The two scouts suddenly opened fire, which startled Jiannu, but these slave soldiers were very experienced, although they couldn't understand why these two enemies could fire without even using a fire rope, but they knew that it was impossible for the fire gun to continue to fire, so it was a wise choice to rush forward immediately, so several Jiannu Tartars continued to urge their horses and flew towards the two scouts.
One of the two scouts was named Zhang Daben, and the other was Jiang Laoshi, and the two of them shouted: "Brother! That's enough! What you kill more is what you earn! Kill! ”
(Today, I would like to thank the two brothers Baiyun and Hong360 for their tips!) )