Chapter 444: Night Attack
At the same time, in the barbarian camp, two middle-aged white-haired men looked at the Xianjun camp under the moonlight:
"This group of northerners killed 25,000 or 6,000 of us in two days, and Xochko was also killed by them, it must be a demon sent by the evil god."
"The god of evil will never be on the side of the northerners, don't be alarmist." Another white-haired, yellow-bearded man in armor scoffed.
"There are only more than 20,000 of them, but they have killed 25,000 or 6,000 of us, they are the minions of the demons, and only the true sons of the moon god can destroy them!"
"I think you were scared by them, don't panic and talk nonsense because of the slightest loss, if your majesty hears it, he will let you go to see the priest of the shrine."
"Then what do you say, they are likely to sneak up on us tonight, we should strike first and kill them!"
"Are you blind, our warriors and horses are too tired to move, and they are the same, they have been fighting for two days in a row, they will only be more tired than us, if we go to attack tonight, they may dig holes in the ground like during the day, and they will kill us"
"Don't just say it's useless, the commander of the legion is for us to annihilate them, and rush back to the camp the day after tomorrow to fight the main force of the northerners, now we are losing our troops, and I don't know if tomorrow will be more embarrassing than today."
"No, we will continue to retreat west tomorrow, and wait until reinforcements arrive tomorrow night, and the day after tomorrow will be their time of death."
"Are you sure?"
"We'll see, I'm going to slaughter their leader with my own hands, and stick his head in my horse's mallet to scare some northern bugs."
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When the moon was in the sky, the soldiers and horses of the two soldiers were racing against time to recuperate, Baili Yan glanced at each other, and when he woke up, his eyes were still bloodshot, and he picked up a handful of snow and rubbed his face, and immediately felt much more energetic. Looking up at the moon, just after the hour, I thought to myself:
"Yesterday there were 30,000, and today another 20,000 elite heavy cavalry, just to deal with my 20,000, it seems that they have a lot of troops. If the barbarian army had found out the strength of the coalition army in advance, the barbarian army would have been able to mobilize 50,000 people to fight before and after, and its strength would definitely be much more than that of the coalition army. So how many barbarian troops are there that attack Xiaochi? The siege of the city is not only besieging the city, but also setting up an ambush east of the Xiao Chi, is its strength ......?"
Bai Liyan didn't dare to think about it anymore, this was beyond what common sense could know, and even said that everything at the moment was against the common sense of the earth's cognition.
As long as the barbarian army has animal resources such as unicorn and sufficient reserves of grain, grass and forage, it is enough to wage an unlimited war. To know the war potential of the barbarians, it is necessary to know where they came from, how large the native army is, and what the population base is.
And all this, for hundreds of years, was only vaguely understood from the mouths of the captives, and never really invaded the barbarian army and captured their books and records.
After thinking for a long time, Lu Cheng quietly came:
"General, are you awake?"
"Something?"
"Two quarters of an hour ago, three miles to the southwest, wiped out a barbarian scout."
"Ben will erase one while he is resting?"
"Yes, just erase this one."
"There must still be that. To the southwest is our camp yesterday, and they sent people to find the number and clues of our army from there. On the outskirts of our camp, there should still be their scouts. ”
"What the general said is extremely true, and indeed the broken helmet and armed bag of our army were found from that man."
"I am going to wake up the brothers, and I will get up again when I have eaten on my stomach, so as not to startle the snake. You scout battalion, you don't need to go into battle tonight, stay in the camp with the Qi army to take care of the wounded, and before our army goes out, once you find the barbarian scouts, kill them immediately. ”
"No! However, if there are few people, it will backfire, so let's pull the Qi army to do it together. ”
"I don't want to think about it, but in today's battle, nearly thirty percent of the casualties of the two thousand Qi troops were already frightened. Let them fight together, they can't help at all, and they may not be able to help the barbarian army. Let's do it."
"The last general obeys!"
The Qi army is under the control of Ji Yao, and will never fight hard to the death, and if it gets cheap, it will naturally shrink back, and night attacks are professional tactics, and improper operation may backfire.
Two quarters of an hour later, the battalions were ready, and the torches planted in advance clearly assigned the directions. Bailiyan re-revised the direction, about thirty degrees north-west direction, and thousands of people slowly walked on the way to the sneak attack, and the sound was extremely small. Approaching to five miles, the telescope could faintly shake the wandering war horses under the bright moonlight, and the camp of the barbarian army was close in front of him.
Sikong Nan ordered the four of them to carry two flying canisters on foot, and carefully approached two miles to the barbarian camp and ignited them immediately. Our army made a detour north of the barbarian camp and launched an attack! ”
"Will this startle the snake?"
"To beat the grass is to frighten the snakes, their horses are concentrated on the west side of the camp, and if our army attacks from the east, they will quickly retreat to the west, relying on their horses, to block our surprise attack. The purpose of placing the Flying Jar on the east side was to lure them out of the bed and retreat westward, so that our troops could rush from north to south and knock them all down. ”
The cavalry rested at night, and the horses were separated from the people, so as to prevent the horses from walking around and trampling people to death.
The barbarian army camped at night, limited by the field of vision, unable to know the camp formation, and launched an attack from the east, although it can achieve suddenness, but the barbarian army will quickly retreat to the west, and can quickly turn over the war horse.
What's more, it's winter in the southern hemisphere right now, and both the moon and the sun are located at the Tropic of Capricorn, so the moonlight shines from north to south, and the line of sight is conducive to impacting from north to south. At the same time, people who are lying on their stomachs are more threatening than people who are standing, especially when attacking at night, and you have no way of knowing the width and layout of the enemy's camp. Only by getting people to stand up, the goal will be clearer.
The army quickly circled north, reaching the assault position ahead of four soldiers.
"Attention of all battalions, Leopard Tao and Weiwu Zhongwu column rushed to kill, Long Wu and Xiao Cavalry followed closely behind, and the horizontal team rushed to kill head-on, all remember clearly!"
"Yes!" The generals spoke in unison.
When it was young, the white light on the east side of the barbarian camp roared like day, and the barbarian army was shocked:
"Oh damn, the northerners are sneaking up, get up, get up for me......"
Hysterically urging, the barbarian ran to his horse in terror, and almost when all attention was focused on the east side, the Xian army suddenly entered from the north, and the two battalions of Xiaocai and mighty were like a sharp sword inserted into the throat, piercing the heart of the barbarian.
The barbarian army that hurriedly ran to the west in the confusion was unprepared, and fell into the collision and fighting of the Xian army, and more barbarians did not even hurry to pick up their weapons, and the cold blades with the moonlight killed them in a pool of blood.
Xiao cavalry, mighty from the north to the south swept the wind, Long Wu, Xiao cavalry followed, the horizontal team killed and plundered, those panicked six gods and no masters, scrambling to scatter the barbarian army, killing the flesh and soul scattered, only one wave, is the barbarian camp rushed away.
When Sikong Nan and Bai He rushed out of the camp, they adjusted their battle positions again, only waiting for Lu Gao and Su Hong to leave the battle, and swept from south to north for the second time. After two rounds of repeating, the barbarian army was already in a great rout.
At this time, the star was in small numbers, and the barbarian army quickly turned on their horses and fled westward, and the Xian army pursued and killed until dawn.
"General, our army has won a complete victory, only more than 400 brothers have been killed or wounded, and the barbarian army has almost been wiped out!" Su Hong's eyebrows fluttered, almost with irrepressible excitement.
"Disperse your men and continue to hunt down the barbarians scattered nearby."
"No!"
"General Lu Gao." Bailiyan said again.
"The last general!"
"Collect all the horses, weapons, grain and grass of the barbarian army, and count the casualties of the barbarian army."
"No!"
Just after the hour, at the beginning of the hour, Sikong Nan led the army back and captured a very special long sword in his hand:
"Look, General, this sword is so gorgeous, it's extraordinary."
"Good boy!" Bai Liyan exclaimed: "The scabbard made of gold is also inlaid with diamonds!" ”
"General, what is a diamond, isn't this a crystal?"
"No, it's a diamond, it's a diamond, not a crystal, and its price is far higher than that of crystals and pearls. The person who wears this sword must be a high-ranking general of the barbarian army. ”
The diamond set at the end of the hilt is the size of a grape, and the polishing process is still extremely crude, but it cannot stop the magnificence of the diamond. Drawing the long sword, there is a blood groove on each side of the sword body, and an unknown text is engraved in the middle, I don't know what it means.
"General, this is the text of the barbarians?"
"Well, it's a physical text, I don't know what it means yet."
The biggest feature of "Shape Script", a kind of imitation text, is not a pictograph, and its biggest feature is to use straight lines, semicircular lines, points, and closed geometric patterns as strokes to form a single character, which is very different from the original characters and Chinese characters, which are very different from the language system composed of a single character.
In the Jinxuedi worldview, everything in the world is composed of points, lines, planes, and arcs, so the written words that express language can also be expressed by points, lines, planes, and arcs. Because its characters have the functional characteristics of pictographs and strong attribute characteristics, Bailiyan calls it the form script.
Jin Xuedi's pronunciation is very special, a word has two vowels, one is located before the consonant, one is located after the consonant, the same word, the first and last vowels are different, can express different meanings, in a sense, if not Jin Xuedi grammar has congenital defects, the expression efficiency of its text is extremely high. Because of the special pronunciation of the front and back vowels, it inevitably leads to grammatical inefficiency.
The most typical example is that a substance with the same initial properties has a similar font or the same pronunciation, but the pronunciation is different. For example, gold and silver are both tradable currencies and precious metals, and the original text is two completely different fonts, while in the Jin Xuedi text, the two are the same font, the only difference is that the gold character is one more point than the silver character.
The first vowel of both, exactly the same as all consonants, differs in the vowel sound of the last suffix. Although it is convenient for writing and memorization, this leads to a large number of first and last diphthongs and homovowels. At the same time, with the emergence of the new concept, the original rules for the use of words increase with the new concept, and the expansion space of basic symbols is limited, so we have to continue to create words.
If precious metals such as platinum, palladium, etc. appear in the future, a point may be added to the gold characters, and other precious metals will have to be added, and it is completely impossible to fundamentally distinguish their meanings. In this way, the language system that defines the text by a single attribute can imagine the complexity of its grammar.