Chapter 563: Night Attack
Thirty zhang!
Twenty zhang!
Fifteen zhang!
Leader A: "Brothers and sisters, rush with me!" ”
Lu Chen: "Stop! Longbowmen prepare! ”
The next moment, the Xia Guo array composed of three teams of soldiers stopped, the sword and shield soldiers at the front knelt on one knee, and the short archers in the second row also knelt on one knee to prepare for archery, only the longbowmen in the third row and the pikemen in the fourth row were still standing.
In just a few breaths, the longbowmen were ready to shoot their arrows.
Lu Chen: "Shoot!" ”
In an instant, more than sixty powerful longbows and arrows shot out from the Xia State Array, colliding head-on with the Jia tribesmen who were charging towards the Xia State Array.
Bang! Bang! Burst!
The powerful longbow and arrows directly penetrated the vine shield and vine armor that charged at the front of the vine armor soldiers of the A tribe, and the sharp arrow clusters pierced into the body of the vine armor soldiers of the A tribe, penetrating the body, and even penetrating the rattan armor behind them.
One after another tribesmen of the A tribe were severely injured by longbows and arrows, and their bodies fell weakly, including the leader of the first tribe, Lie, the leader of the first tribe is located in the middle of the front row of the array of the first tribe, and is almost the person who rushes to the front, which almost indicates the identity and status of the leader of the first tribe, causing the leader of the first to be taken care of by more longbowmen, and he alone has at least four longbows and arrows inserted in his body, and the dead can no longer die.
A wave of longbows and arrows went down, and the second wave of longbows and arrows followed, and the people of the tribe of Jia, who were blinded by the first wave of longbows and arrows, were baptized by the second wave of longbows and arrows before they could react, and suddenly dozens of people were severely injured by longbows and arrows.
Two waves of long bows and arrows went down, and a hundred vine armor soldiers of the A tribe were lost, and finally it was the turn of the short archers to exert their might, and the second wave of long bows and arrows were shot out, and the short archers who had been waiting immediately stood up and shot the arrows in their hands, and the short archers who had finished shooting the arrows quickly squatted down to make way for the longbowmen who had just completed the preparation.
Longbowmen and short archers fired alternately, and wave after wave of arrows fell towards the chaotic array of Tribe A, and the people of Tribe A who were hit by the arrows were either killed or wounded.
"Here it is, here it is again, this is how our Japanese tribe was defeated by the Xia people, and your A tribe can't resist the bows and arrows of the Xia people, they are too strong."
Ling, who couldn't dissuade the leader of A, watched the tribesmen of the A tribe being shot by arrows, and the A tribe, which had more than 600 combatants, was defeated by the Xia people who were less than one-half of the number, at this moment, Ling's heart was confused.
But soon Ling recovered from the confusion, this is the battlefield, he may be shot by the arrows of the Xia people at any time, to live, he must live, even if he can't drive away the Xia people, he has to live well.
Ling was almost the first person in the array of tribe A to turn around and run away, followed by the people of the Japanese tribe who were frightened by the arrows of the Xia people for the second time, and some people fled, whether they were from their own tribe or not, some tribesmen of the tribe A fled one after another.
On the frontal battlefield on the east side of the residence of Tribe A, the tribesmen of Tribe A were defeated, and on the west side of Tribe A's residence, another three teams of Xia soldiers had walked out of the jungle and marched towards the residence of Tribe A.
At this time, the people who could fight in the A tribe were all on the battlefield on the east side, and there were only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the residence, and a small number of people ran to the east side of the residence to observe the battle situation, and the rest of the people stayed in the residence, and no one was alert to the situation around the residence, and they did not know that the Xia people who should be fighting with their tribe had gone around to the other side.
On the battlefield on the east side, the troops of the A tribe were defeated, and the three teams of Xia warriors quickly advanced to pursue the retreating tribesmen of the A tribe, hoping to quickly complete the encirclement with the residence of the tribe of A that had gone around behind the enemy.
A young man standing on a wooden lookout on the east side of Tribe A's residence looked at the tribesmen who fled in the direction of the tribe's residence in a panic, and said with wide eyes and disbelief: "Our tribe has been defeated? ”
Our tribe is defeated? How did our tribe defeat so quickly, there were so many more people in our tribe than the enemy, how could it be defeated by the enemy so quickly, shouldn't we have defeated the enemy?
The faces of the tribesmen of the A tribe who were not involved in the battle in the rear showed various expressions, either disbelief, horror, or anger.
Some of the quick-reacting people quickly ran into their dwellings, and they wanted to tell the other tribesmen the news of their tribe's defeat, and the enemy was coming, so they fled quickly.
Just as they ran into the residence and loudly informed the other tribesmen of the news of their tribe's defeat, one team of Xia soldiers had already rushed in from the west of Tribe A's residence, and the other two teams extended to the left and right sides of Tribe A's residence, preparing to semi-surround Tribe A's residence.
Looking at the Xia soldiers who rushed into the place of residence, the place of residence of the A tribe was in turmoil, and it was chaotic, some of the people of the A tribe mustered up the courage to rush to the Xia soldiers with weapons, some of the people of the A tribe were afraid to hide in the house with their children, and some of the people of the A tribe ran around the tribe A in a panic, wanting to leave the place of residence and run into the jungle as soon as possible, as long as they ran into the jungle, they would be safe.
Ling was the first to run into the residence of Tribe A, but found that the inhabited place of Tribe A was already in chaos, and he even found that the people of Xia had appeared in the residence.
"What to do, what should I do?"
There are Xia people in front to intercept it, and Xia people in the rear to pursue, and Ling no longer knows what to do.
A moment later, Lu Chen's six teams of warriors completed the siege of the Jia tribe's residence.
"I am a member of the Japanese tribe, and the people of Xia asked me to tell you that as long as you lay down your arms, they will not kill you." The woman of the Japanese tribe who led the way was forced to shout to the tribesmen of tribe A.
There are three women who lead the way, and after shouting a few times, gradually, the people of the tribe A put down the weapons in their hands, and the people of the tribe A knew that they could not defeat the people of the Xia country, and they could not escape, and it was death to continue to resist, and only by laying down their weapons could they continue to live, and only after hearing the words of the women of the tribe of the three days let them make a decision.
Some people chose to lay down their weapons, a few people put down their weapons first, and soon led dozens of people and hundreds of people to lay down their weapons, but there were also people who were unwilling to lay down their weapons, and they were unwilling to lay down their weapons Nearly 100 people gathered together to make a final resistance, and nearly half of them were killed by the Xia soldiers, and the rest were subdued.
The more than 20 Japanese tribesmen who fled from the Japanese tribe to the A tribe, except for those who died in the previous battle, all chose to lay down their arms, and Ling was also included.
After the last resistance of Tribe A was killed, the Xia Expeditionary Corps led by Lu Chen officially conquered Tribe A.
Lu Chen looked at the position of the sun in the sky, and knew that it was already halfway through the afternoon at this time, and he could not reach the next tribe before dark.
"Divide the prisoners, clean up the battlefield, and we will spend the night here today."
"Whoa"
In the rest of the afternoon, the other two ways of the Xia Expeditionary Legion arrived at the target location one after another, and after the battle, Rabbit Bin successfully conquered the target tribe all the way, and no one let go, but there was a little accident on the way of the snake guard, causing more than a dozen people to escape.
The expeditionary legion will spend the night in the conquered tribe on all three routes, and when tomorrow comes, the three people will arrange for some people to stay behind the conquered tribe and guard the prisoners, and the rest will continue to move towards the next goal.
At night, there was no fighting on the Eastern Front, and the eyes turned to the steppes of the Western Front.
The nomadic tribe has been conquered by the cavalry town, but this nomadic tribe still has more than seventy people wandering outside, when Mu Shi sent the cavalry out to look for the cattle, horses and sheep grazing by the nomadic tribe, he encountered them, and a skirmish broke out, one person in the cavalry town was killed and many were injured, and the number of casualties among the nomadic tribesmen exceeded twenty.
If these people had not died, I am afraid that the remaining people would have gathered close to a hundred.
"Tonight is our last chance, we must rescue some of our people." Somewhere far away from the nomadic tribe's residence, the leader of the remaining seventy or so of the nomadic tribe said to his fellow tribesmen.
The dark night was their last chance, hoping to save some of their clansmen, they preferred to defeat or drive the enemy away, but they also knew that the enemy was very strong, they were not opponents, and it would be best to rescue some of them.
Mu Shi also understood the current situation, he divided all the personnel of the cavalry town into two waves, and rotated on duty in the first half of the night and the second half of the night to guard against the attack of the remnants of the nomadic tribesmen, and also to prevent the escape of the captives or riots.
When night falls, the prairie is quiet and terrible, the dim moonlight shines down, adding a little more sight to people, if the moon is obscured by dark clouds, then this is a perfect opportunity for night raids, but unfortunately the nomadic tribes do not have this luck.
In the middle of the night, the remaining seventy or so of the nomadic tribe came to the outskirts of the camp, which had been their home before, but now it was occupied by the enemy, killing so many of their kind, and many more of their kindreds were taken prisoner, and they had to rescue them.
It was already the second half of the night, and the leader of the nomadic tribe gritted his teeth and gave an order to his fellow tribesmen: "Let's go, let's go and rescue the clansmen." ”
More than seventy horsemen galloped towards the location of the camp.
At night, people's vision is blocked by darkness, but the cavalry town has a good way to spot the enemy in advance, almost every minute, there are cavalry lying on the ground in all four directions of the camp, their ears are in contact with the earth, feel the sound of the earth, as long as there are cavalry attack, they can feel the faint vibration of the earth.
Feeling the faint shaking of the earth, the cavalry immediately understood that the enemy was coming, and was about to report the news to the commander, who quickly went to the round tent where Mu Shi was resting, and reported the news to Mu Shi, who immediately ordered people to wake up half of the people who were asleep, and everyone rode on their horses and gathered around the camp.
It is not certain whether the enemy will rush directly over, the cavalry town can only scatter people around, and a part of the people must be left to guard the prisoners, there is an enemy attack outside, and there are prisoners riot/movement inside, and the cavalry town with the advantage of weapons and equipment can carry it, but the battle damage will be greatly increased.
Trample! Trample! Trample!
The closer they got to the camp, the faster the seventy-odd horsemen of the remnants of the nomadic tribe became, and they did not rush to the camp in a straight line, but divided into two teams when they were more than twenty feet away from the camp, and rushed in the direction of both sides at the same time.
However, just as they were about to shift their direction, the forty-six people in the cavalry town of the Xia Kingdom that they were facing quickly shot arrows, and the forty-six arrows shot quickly towards the more than seventy horsemen of the nomadic tribe.
A rain of arrows went down, and the results were small, only four enemies were severely damaged, and three enemies were shot in the arms and legs, but it was enough to have a record, you must know that it was night, and it was only by the sound to determine the enemy's location.
"The enemy turned, and with his senses, shot arrows freely." The tun commander ordered.
A rain of arrows was fired, and after a few breaths, another rain of arrows was fired, and forty-six arrows were scattered in two directions, this time the results were smaller, only two enemies were severely damaged, and one enemy was slightly wounded.
The second wave of arrows was fired, followed by the third and fourth waves of arrows, which were fired by the two canons of the cavalry town in the direction of the two teams of the nomadic tribe.
More than ninety arrows collided head-on with nearly seventy nomadic tribesmen's cavalry, and even nearly ten were hit.
Sixty people
Fifty people
The nomadic cavalry opened their bows and shot arrows, and at this time they only had about fifty people left, and the arrows they shot were either blocked by the leather armor of the Xia cavalry, or hit the war horses under the Xia cavalry, and only a few arrows caused some damage to the Xia cavalry.
forty
thirty
There was only a few zhang of distance left, and the nomadic tribe cavalry divided into two teams sent out a dozen people from the surrounding clan, what about the others?
"I can't rush anymore, I'll die if I rush again."
One after another nomadic cavalry chose to flee, but there were also nomadic cavalrymen who put down their bows and arrows in their hands and drew their bone knives and rushed towards the Xia cavalry who were close in front of them.
Burst!
The arrow penetrated the chest of the nomadic tribe cavalry, such a close distance, even if the moonlight was dimmer than usual, it was enough to confirm the figure of the nomadic tribe cavalry, and even the nomadic tribe cavalry who wanted to escape had to be taken care of by the arrows of the Xia cavalry.
Wave after wave of arrows rained down, and the charging nomadic cavalry either died or was seriously wounded and dying, and only a few nomadic cavalry were lucky enough to escape with their lives.
When the Xia cavalry engaged the nomadic cavalry attacking at night, the captives in the open space of the camp were also in action, mainly adult male captives, who "carefully" grinded or their companions bit off the ropes that bound their hands, and then quickly untied the ropes on their companions, ready to rush at the Xia cavalry guarding them.
Under the firelight, most of the captives' strange behaviors were noticed by the guarding Xia State cavalry, at this moment, the Xia State cavalry had only one choice, all the captives with strange behaviors, kill!
Or shoot arrows with bows, or rush out of the saber to kill, and the captives who want to riot/move are killed by the Xia cavalry, which directly deters the surrounding captives, but there are also a few dozen captives who successfully untie themselves and rush towards the nearest Xia cavalry.
However, in the face of the Xia cavalry on the horses, the captives' actions were very unsuccessful, and the Xia cavalry drew their sabers and wantonly slaughtered the captives who rushed over.
Until everything settles down, the last resistance of the nomadic tribes, fails!