Chapter 218: Fighting the Horse Thief (Asking for Subscriptions, Recommendations, Collections)
From a distance, Gecuo noticed that today's Longmen caravan seemed to have changed a little, and Gecuo hurriedly stopped his partners who wanted to rush up rashly.
Let's take a look at the wind first.
Gecuo and his subordinates quietly moved out of the way of the attack, and saw horse thieves from other gangs rushing over.
Bang, bang, there was a loud bang in the caravan.
Ge Tso gasped.
Right in front of his eyes, the three horse thieves who stormed the caravan were directly knocked to the ground by the caravan. Looking at the angle at which they fell, there is a good chance that they will never be able to stand up again.
No wonder the Dragon Gate caravan made a change, it turned out to be for this.
After the teenagers came up with a countermeasure, the caravan quickly made changes.
According to the idea of the teenagers, the caravan arranged 3 teenagers on the roof of each carriage. With the help of the height of the carriage, the boy can effectively observe the movement of the surrounding area.
When a horse thief is spotted, the boys will send out a signal and attack with three muskets.
The shot on the roof of a bumpy carriage will not have a high hit rate. But that's just a set of hits.
The idea of the teenagers was that as soon as they spotted the horse thief, the teenagers in the surrounding cars would shoot nearby.
It is difficult for a group of horse thieves to pinpoint the fast-moving horse thieves, but the fire net laid by several carriages makes it difficult for horse thieves to cross unharmed.
Seeing the musket attack from the caravan, Gecuo was a little smacked.
It turned out that this was the real main force of the caravan, and the cavalry guarding the caravan in those days was only the role of the cavalry.
Seeing this scene, Gecuo began to believe the rumor that seemed to be a lie: more than 2,000 horsemen were wiped out by this caravan, and the caravan's war horses were all looted from the Duoyan tribe.
It seems that although the rumors are somewhat exaggerated, it is really possible for this caravan to do it.
Seeing that the musket used by the caravan could knock down the horse thief in more than 100 steps, Gecuo couldn't help but shudder in his heart.
Gecuo can shoot a 3-stone strong bow, but even with his special riding bow on a horse, he can only guarantee an accurate range of 6 or 70 steps. No matter how far away, the arrows fired from the bow will not be lethal.
To fight against the caravan's muskets, Gecuo could only use the rifle. The range of the 3-stone infantry bow is sufficient, but the hit rate of 100 paces away is not at all certain.
And that's not all.
The caravan no longer seemed to be sympathetic to the horses, and they tied their horses to the carriage in complete disregard of the danger that the horse thief might injure them by mistake. Expensive war horses turned out to be the meat shield of the carriage.
This performance of wealth is even more heartbreaking.
This Longmen caravan is a caravan of the Han Chinese, right?
I wonder if they are afraid of the plague?
If they are not afraid of the plague, when they return to the edge of the steppe, I can try to take refuge in them.
Standing in the distance, Gecuo was planning for his future in his heart.
As long as someone can take him in, Gecuo doesn't care who the boss is.
By the way, where did those cavalry of the caravan go?
Gecuo remembered that in the past, there were some skilled cavalrymen in the caravan, who often guarded the caravan, but they have not been seen today.
Gecuo seemed to smell a hint of conspiracy.
Are you waiting for the right time to rush out?
Beckoning his subordinates to retreat a few dozen steps back, Gecuo continued to observe the Dragon Gate caravan.
Since he wanted to take refuge, Gecuo certainly hoped that the caravan would be as strong as possible.
Even if one of the horse thieves died, the other horse thieves did not seem to see the change in the caravan, and there were still horse thieves rushing towards the caravan.
The sound of thumping muskets rang out continuously, and one after another horse thieves were knocked to the ground.
Losing dozens of people and failing to effectively approach the caravan, the horse thieves finally noticed the anomaly and restrained the pace of rushing towards the caravan.
Gecuo's premonition seemed to be wrong, and no matter how the horse thieves harassed and attacked, the cavalry of the Longmen caravan never appeared.
While resisting the harassment of horse thieves, the Dragon Gate caravan did not stop advancing. They kept moving forward until the sun was about to set, and then they hurriedly chose a place and stopped to set up camp.
With his men, Gecuo patiently followed the caravan. But Gecuo was only silently observing, and no longer attacked the caravan.
Seeing the Longmen caravan set up camp, Gecuo still chose an area with a wide field of vision from a distance and observed it carefully.
At sunset, the Longmen caravan set up a car formation.
The boy who fetched water slowly walked out of the car formation.
More than a dozen teenagers gathered in a team, carrying muskets and water bladders to the water source to fetch water.
Gecuo keenly noticed that the caravan's cart formation seemed to be a little far away from the water source, and the teenagers seemed to have to walk longer than before.
"What kind of conspiracy is the caravan going on?" Gecuo muttered to himself.
With the terrain here, the caravan can completely set up its cart formation next to the water source, so there is no need to keep such a distance?
Was the caravan deliberately luring the horse thieves into attacking their convoy for water?
With this in mind, and then looking at the angle formed between the car array and the water source, Gecuo seemed to understand something.
They didn't let Gecuo wait long before the boys walked to the water source. The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the team of horse thieves appeared in the clouds.
A smile appeared on Gecuo's face, the Dragon Gate Caravan was waiting for them!
Bantianyun is the larger group of horse thieves in this grassland, and there are more than 200 of them in total. Bantianyun is relatively close to Duoyan, and often does some secret things for Duoyan, which is one of Duoyan's black gloves.
In this attack on the Longmen caravan, Bantianyun was the leader among the horse thieves.
Attacking the outgoing personnel of the caravan is the most common method used by Bantianyun.
Among the horse thieves, only Bantianyun got the only caravan head. Among the horse thieves, Bantianyun is definitely a bullish existence.
Maybe it was because there were more than 10 teenagers who saw the water fetching, and there were more than 50 horses in Bantianyun's dispatch this time.
The horse thief in the middle of the sky rushed towards the boy who was fetching water at a gallop. With the speed of their horses, there was no way that the teenagers would have time to escape back into the formation.
It seems that the half-day cloud horse thief wants to get a bigger result.
With the sound of the horse's hooves sounding, there were whistles in the carriage, and a red flag was raised on the carriage.
Seeing the red flag, the young man who was fetching water quickly lined up in the direction of the incoming clouds of the middle sky, and the muskets were pointed forward.
"Sure enough, I was prepared!"
Seeing the young man's swift and orderly movements, Gecuo smiled again.
With the half-day cloud horse thief quickly approaching.
Bang, the muskets rang out again with precision.
However, it was not the boy who took the water to fire first, it was the musketeers in the formation who fired first.
The Dragon Gate Caravan hated these horse thieves who attacked their outings.
The junior team is specially designed to give the horse thief a deep memory.
This terrain seems to be a random location for the caravan, but it is actually the result of the careful selection of the boy team on the map.
In this place, the cloud horse thief wanted to attack the boy who was fetching water, and no matter which direction he rushed from, he would be hit by a strong side attack from the car formation.
Ge Cuo guessed correctly, this is indeed a trap specially prepared by the junior team for the half-day cloud horse thief.
There is an ambush in the cloud horse thief for half a day!