Chapter 199: Where there are lanterns

Some people say that the day is the time given to humans by the gods, and the night is the time when the gods allow the demons to come out and move. But on the battlefield, even the fiercest demons did not dare to approach the humans who smelled of blood, even in the darkest nights.

Whether in the Central Plains or elsewhere, there will always be stories of demons and monsters circulating. Most of these stories take place at night, when ghosts drift into people's dwellings to feed on life, or cling to the bodies of living people to do evil. Demons roam the streets at night, ripping out the hearts of the living with their claws and tasting the fresh fishy smell. But the place where these stories took place could never have been in the barracks.

Soldiers are the most murderous things in the world.

No matter how violent and vicious the devil is, he will not dare to approach the barracks.

And on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, at least 20,000 self-proclaimed devil Meng Yuan Jing rode through the night, aiming directly at the Sui army camp less than ten miles away. This is almost half of the troops in Mandu Ratu's hands, and it has been a long time to think about being willing to invest so many men and horses in Mandu Ratu. He struggled with his inability to determine victory or defeat, and if he lost, the history of Mandu Banner might end here.

The Mandu family has never been a real wealthy nobleman in the Mengyuan Empire, and Mengyuan is too big. Mandu Latu, who has a fief of 2,000 miles, is like a rich man in the eyes of those real nobles. And for so many years, Mandu Ratu relied on his tough style and hostility to the Great Sui to let his name gradually be known in Mengyuan, and it was precisely because of this that he would be looked up to by those great nobles.

But when the war really came, Mandu Latu could not rush into the Sui people with the cavalry of the Mandu banner and slaughter the Sui people like a lamb as he had preached in the past. The image of a madman that took him twenty years to build up is likely to be brought back to its original form by this war.

This is also one of the reasons why Mandu Ratu is so entangled between war and defense, if he didn't spend so much time to increase his popularity, then he could have behaved as a coward, guarding the city and waiting for reinforcements from the royal court.

The Mandu family cannot decay, and the Mandu banner cannot perish!

So, he finally decided to give it a go. When the Mandu wolf told him the news about the Sui people's Spring Festival, he had been waiting for this day. He felt that every nation had its own absolute awe, such as a certain festival that could not be violated. Like the Mengyuan people's favorite fasting festival, this day is like jumping into a sea of joy for the inhabitants of the savannah.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, he personally led all the remaining troops to support. Stopped thirty miles from the Sui army camp. And his second son, the main general of this raid, Mandu Teller, will lead 20,000 elite horsemen to charge into the camp of the Sui people. The wind swept through like the name of Mandu Teller.

The horse's mouth was covered with chews, and the horse's hooves were wrapped with felt cloth. The soldiers did not draw their scimitars in advance, because that would reflect the brilliance of the moon. The Mengyuan people said that the sun and the moon are the eyes of the eternal heaven overlooking the world, one opens and the other closes to rest during the day, and the same is true at night. For everything in the sky, the Mengyuan people maintain absolute awe. Just as they feared the Ming King on the Great Snow Mountain, because the Ming King said that he was the only messenger left in the world by the Immortal Heaven.

The cavalry ranks were like the slowly rising tide of the sea, and a black eroded towards the Sui army camp.

The journey was smooth, and the sound of celebration in the Sui army camp could be heard from a distance. Gongs and drums beat auspicious and festive music, and torches form a happy dance troupe. Mandutler, who rode up a high hill, looked at the torches swaying back and forth in the camp below, and the killing intent in his eyes poured out irrepressibly.

Condescendingly, it is best suited for cavalry charges. And the gentle arc of the high slope on the grassland makes the war horse run most comfortably.

"Kids!"

Mandutler drew his scimitar and no longer hid the chill on the blade: "Do you see those lowly robbers?" It's that they took away the pasture that belongs to us, but they don't know how to cherish it. Their filthy feet walk on the sacred steppe, and the stubborn pasture will not give in, let alone us? There has always been only one master on the grassland, and that is the Mengyuan Empire! ”

"Kill all those Sui people and take everything from them!"

Mandu Teller roared wildly, and then pointed his scimitar at the Sui camp not far away. The elite cavalry of 20,000 Mandu banners rushed down the high slope like a wave.

"Phew!"

The shouts of the charge shattered the night sky, bringing the celebratory gongs and drums of the Sui army camp to an abrupt halt.

A whining horn sounded, and the torches in the Sui army's camp were immediately chaotic.

"Enemy attack!"

Mandu Teller heard the panicked shouts of the Sui people, so a grim smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Those Sui people would never have imagined that the Mandu Banner army, which had less than 60,000 horses, would take the initiative to attack the Sui people with an army of more than 700,000. The huge difference in numbers made the Sui people relax their vigilance.

The sound of thunder rolled out against the earth, and the horses' hooves made even the steppe tremble.

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The resistance of the Sui people was more tenacious than imagined, and the Mandu Banner cavalry, which rushed down from the high slope like a flash flood, encountered the first round of arrow rain when it was less than a hundred steps away from the Sui camp, and the arrows were very dense, which shows that the quality of the Sui soldiers was indeed very strong, and they took up arms in the shortest possible time. But it had reached this distance, and the feathered arrows could not stop the sprint of the warhorse.

The Mandu Banner Cavalry, who had been shot, fell from their horses and soon merged with the grass.

The thousand-strong team led by Agudamu rushed to the front, and in front of them were not only the Sui people's feather arrows, but also the dense antlers outside the camp. The Sui people seem to have thought of a lot of ways to deal with the cavalry, and this kind of thing is one of the most effective means to prevent the cavalry from setting foot on the camp.

Agudammu shouted, and the cavalry at the front braved the rain of arrows from the Sui people to throw out the ropes, for these cavalrymen who could easily trap the wild horses, the antlers that could not move in the trap were not a little difficult. One after another, the ropes flew out and were put on the antlers, and then the cavalry began to speed away from each other. The slipknot of the rope is very particular, as long as it is pulled, the slipknot will be tightened more and more tightly and will not be detached. The two rows of antlers outside were about to be pulled apart, and although the skilled Mandu Banner cavalry paid a lot of price, they did not let the antlers stop the team for too long.

The cavalry at the front jumped down as they rushed out of the fence, and then frantically pushed the obstacles in front of them. The Sui soldiers inside the fence stabbed out frantically with their horse lances, and the enemy's blood sprayed out like a waterfall, and the corpses outside the fence quickly piled up in a layer.

"Crash it off!"

Agudamu roared loudly, his eyes full of anxiety.

More horsemen dismounted, ran as fast as they could, and then jumped up and slammed their shoulders. The corpses were piled up higher and higher outside the fence, and the long lances piercing out of the fence were densely packed like hedgehogs. But even so, after paying at least 500 casualties, the Mandu Banner cavalry finally crashed into a section of the fence.

The cavalry behind let out a roar and urged the horses to rush forward.

The shouts of hoo resounded in the night sky, and the brave cavalry poured in through the breach like a wave that broke the embankment. After the collapse of the fence, the defending Sui army had to begin to retreat. But their feet could not outrun the four hooves of their horses, and the scimitars that leaned down from their horses were difficult to dodge. Soon, the defensive front was torn open by the Mengyuan people, and the infantry of the Great Sui were forced to retreat.

After Agudam's thousand-man squad stormed into the Sui camp, Mandu Teller also rushed in under the protection of his guards.

"Mandu wolf!"

He turned back to look for his cousin: "You can't rush in, you take two thousand people to take care of the back road." ”

Mandu Wolf frowned slightly, and immediately guessed what Mandu Teller meant. He wasn't really thinking about the army, but about merit. The cavalry had already rushed into the Sui people's camp, and once the war horses were allowed to run, the Sui people had no hope of stopping them. And by this time, more than half of the victory had already been achieved. After Mandu Teller let Mandu Wolf break off, he just didn't want him to share too much credit.

"Hooha"

The Mandu wolf replied, looking without the slightest reluctance.

His father was originally the one who inherited the position of the banner master, but because of the damn rules of the royal court, when Mandu Ratu poisoned the old banner master, his father was still humbly and carefully dealing with the difficulties of those nobles in the royal court. If it weren't for that, the one who would be calling the shots now would have been him.

But none of this can be changed, and the Mandu wolf has shown enough respect and obedience to Mandu Ratu since he was a child. It is precisely because of this that he has been able to live until now.

Watching the young flag master and the soldiers rushing into it frantically, I don't know why, the Mandu wolf, who was cut off from the way to merit, was not only angry, but an inexplicable smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He turned his horse back and stopped outside the Sui army camp with his two thousand-man team.

In the distance of his vision, the firelight grew more and more messy. The cavalry that rushed into the camp was like a wolf that rushed into the flock, galloping back and forth unscrupulously, tearing the flesh and blood of those sheep unscrupulously.

"Did you see the place where the red lantern hung before?"

Mandutler asked aloud.

"See!"

The pro-soldiers replied.

"Follow me, keep rushing towards the place where there is a red lantern, and don't delay somewhere else. It was the most important place in the camp, and the generals of the Sui army were there! ”

"Phew!"

Under the restraint of the centurion and the thousand-commander, tens of thousands of Mandu Banner cavalry who poured into the Sui army camp, followed the war horse of the young banner master, and directly killed the Chinese army tent of the Sui people. The torrent of war horses and angry dragons swept through the camp, and everywhere they passed was a mess. The Sui people could not stop the cavalry that had already charged, and they could not keep up with the footsteps of the war horses.

"With your bows and arrows, tear down those tents!"

When rushing to the Chinese army, Mandu Teller gave a loud order. The cavalrymen quickly replaced their scimitars with riding bows, mounted their wolf's fangs and arrows, and aimed at the tall tents. In such a chaotic night, those bright red lanterns stand out.

The feathered arrows rained out like a downpour, and the big tent was immediately shot out of dense holes. And the feather arrows that stayed on the big tent made the tent look more like a pyre. If there were people in the tent, there was no doubt that the people inside had now become uglier than the pyre.

"That's not right!"

Mandutler's face changed suddenly.

Just now, I just blindly charged inside, and I didn't notice many details that were inappropriate. It was a camp with an army of 700,000 men, and it seemed that there were too few people to see. Since today is the festival of the Sui people, they should all be carnival.

He turned and glanced around, and saw that the camp, which was full of torches, was extremely empty.

Where are the people?

Mandu Teller was startled, and then turned his horse and ran back: "Withdraw!" ”

"Boom!"

At this moment, a deafening war drum suddenly sounded. Immediately after, the night sky suddenly became deeper. Even the moon has lost its trace, and it seems that the immortal heaven has closed its eyes looking down on the world. I don't know if he doesn't want to see his people being brutally killed.

A thick layer of dark clouds fell rapidly from the sky, and it was almost impossible for people to breathe.

That's a chilling shot!

"Get out!"

The shouts of Mandu Teller fell, and with it, the dark cloud of throwing guns. In an instant, more than 10,000 cavalrymen were slashed off by throwing guns. The cries of pain, the wails, and the cries for help immediately rang out, and if it weren't for the fact that a soldier used his body to block a throwing gun for Mandutler, he was afraid that he was also one of the people lying on the ground and shouting at this time.

A Mandu Banner cavalryman shouted as he tried to pull out the spear that had been nailed into his stomach, and he couldn't bear the sudden appearance of such an extra thing in his body. However, the moment he pulled the throwing gun out of his stomach he regretted it...... Blood spurted out like a fountain at the mouth of the cave, and the abdominal cavity, which had suddenly lost its pressure, immediately deflated, and something slippery came out in one go, and the plug could not be stuffed back.