Chapter 183: Lanzhou Crisis

Han Lin

Hanlin is a rare place in the northwest that is very common in the open area, and is surrounded by mountains and rivers.

It is said that it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, but in fact it is only backed by a high hill, and in front of it is a narrow stream, and the large camp of Jeluxiuke is set up between this "mountain and water", and there is an outpost camp on the east bank of the stream, where about one or two hundred cavalry are on duty, vigilant of the movements around them.

Zhao Baihu took these more than 800 people to touch it at night,

Sun Dezhang, the old governor, has a very accurate eye, this Zhao Baihu really has two brushes, and he didn't rush towards Yeluxiuke's camp as soon as he got up and pulled out his saber, but he was still three or five hundred steps away from the camp, and he stopped when he could vaguely see the firelight.

He ordered the hundreds of cavalry to stand by in place, and then took the two sergeants and climbed up the hill next to the main camp, which was still a little high, and it took three men and their hands and feet to reach the top of the hill.

However, the sight of this mountain top is really excellent, and the Yelu Xiuke camp camped on the mountain almost gives them an unobstructed view, but Zhao Baihu is a little strange, he didn't see the shadow of a Liao army sentry along the way, and the three of them also changed their sneak attack outfits,

But

He soon found the answer from the camp down the hill.

Zhao Baihu found a tall tree branch, climbed up in three steps and two steps to look down, this night is not very quiet in the Yelu Xiuke camp, but chaotic and noisy, countless people and horses are gathered in the camp in a group, some places are still carrying baggage, and even dismantling the camp tent,

"What is this for?"

He watched intently at every move in the camp below,

"Lord Baihu, I don't think they are going to pack up their things and run away, right?" A sergeant standing under the tree watched the movement in the camp and shouted at him.

Zhao Baihu listened to his words and felt that eighty percent of them were like this, and if the Liao soldiers were captured in the morning, it must be that the food and grass in his Yelu Xiuke army were exhausted.

And I heard the old governor say that the little prince still has some contradictions with their Liao queen mother, which led to the rear army not supplying military food in time, and now it seems that they should not be able to hold on and are ready to leave.

According to common sense, now is a good time to raid the camp of Jerushuk,

But there are too few soldiers and horses in his hands, only more than 800 people, how can he cause an impact in the face of more than 10,000 cavalry on horses and ready to go? I'm afraid it's like a pebble thrown into the sea, and it may not be guaranteed to come out if you go in.

If you return to Lanzhou now to move troops, Rao is Metropolitan Governor will be faster, and it will be two or three hours after the deployment of troops to attack here, and Yeluxiuko's army will have already withdrawn without a trace.

Gotta find a way to hold them back!

Zhao Baihu squeezed his brows and thought about it, and quickly thought about it,

He fell from the tree dexterously with his legs propped up, and ordered the sergeant under the tree to rush back to Lanzhou with the fastest speed Pegasus to report the change to the old capital governor, Yelu Xiuke was pulling out the camp and preparing to withdraw the army, and asked him to quickly mobilize troops and horses to attack Han Lin.

Then he himself set his sights on the outpost camp in front of the stream at the bottom of the mountain, and returned to the place where hundreds of cavalry were on standby just now, ready to make a fuss with an outpost camp.

Zhao Baihu actually planned to use the raid on this outpost camp to create some momentum, so that Yelu Xiuke's battalion thought that the summer army had to transfer troops to respond to the night attack, delaying their time to pull out the camp, and even making them think that they were temporarily caught in the war situation and gave up the camp, in short, it was best to mobilize them all, and not let Yelu Xiuke leave so quietly.

The number of eight hundred cavalry is not much, but once it rushes up, it is also a tearing force for this outpost camp of only one or two hundred men and horses.

"Kill!"

When Zhao Baihu rushed to the front of the camp with his saber, the sergeants inside were almost defenseless, because they also received instructions from Meng'an to pull out the camp, and asked them to be on duty at night and only put them outside the camp for a mile or two.

This order made them scratch their heads, but the general's military order could not be carried out, so they basically came back after a rotation post and a cup of tea, and they all gathered in front of the campfire in the camp tent, not expecting that this last night could be raided by the Xia army who was cowering in Lanzhou City.

Zhao Baihu raised his saber high, and when he rode to the front of the camp, he pulled the reins of the horse with his left hand, and the gray-white horse under his crotch seemed to have spirituality, jumped high with four hooves, and jumped over the low horse in front of the camp.

The Liao people, who hurriedly ran out of the camp when they heard the shouting of killing, were all shocked when they saw this Zhao Baihu who "fell from the sky", and hurriedly pulled the scimitar on his waist to block in front of him.

But this Zhao Baihu already has strength in his hands, coupled with the falling momentum of the horse under the crotch, it is like the power of Wan Jun to chop the head, chopping melons and vegetables, and the Liao people with the knife and the head are split into two petals.

The hundreds of cavalry behind him also swept into the camp like a torrent, and killed these Liao sentinels.

"Boom!"

Zhao Baihu raised his saber and took a steel gun stabbed from under the horse, his wrist quickly flipped, and he cut it down along the barrel of the gun, and then cut off the big hands holding the barrel of the gun.

"Ahh

The Liao soldiers, who have always been extremely brave on the battlefield, are not cast in iron and bronze, holding their bubbling wrists that spurt blood, and their eyes are full of endless horror.

"Poof!"

Zhao Baihu snatched the steel spear with his backhand, deftly threw a spear flower around his body, and then stood up with the cold light of the tip of the spear and stabbed into the chest of the Liao soldier.

Zhao Baihu, who was sitting on a horse and holding a steel gun in one hand and a saber in the other, rushed left and right in this outpost camp, and killed the blood that came out of his body soaked his armor, because it was very cold in the northwest night, many blood stains on his face were quickly condensed, and he wiped them on his face, which looked extremely fierce from a distance.

"Sigh Rule~"

The Liao soldiers in the battalion basically didn't have time to step on the war horses, and they were caught up by the cavalry of the Xia army and killed with a knife.

Zhao Baihu stood on the horse, feeling that this level was still a little insufficient!

He raised the tip of his spear and stuck it into a bonfire in front of his horse, and then struck at the surrounding tents, and the dry firewood with the light of the fire fell into the tents like flowers, and the northwest winter was dry and cold, and the tents with wood and cloth as the main materials were ignited at once, and even several nearby tents were set on fire, and soon fell into a sea of fire.

I don't know if the Liao people are all retreating, the fire in the outpost camp is about to burn down these camp tents, so a team of cavalry rushed from the camp, and at a rough glance, there are only thirty or fifty horsemen, and they are coming here.

Zhao Baihu, who was red-eyed, saw that the ink on the side of the camp had been inked for a long time before he came here, so he waved to the dozen or so cavalry around him, and rushed over to meet them.

It is also estimated that this group of Xia troops has gained confidence in the outpost camp, and more than a dozen people are strangled together with thirty or fifty Liao people, and they are not left behind at all!

The pole in Zhao Baihu's hand can no longer tell whether it is a windmill of the steel spear dance in the white time.

"Boom!"

Straight out like a poisonous snake, the Liao people's scimitar knocked down heavily, and then the saber in his right hand followed closely after the thunderbolt and slashed down, and the Liao soldiers who had no weapons were scattered on the spot even if you were a god!

"Whoosh!"

Then he leaned back like that, dodging the two feather arrows shot from the side, and then let go of his left hand, letting the steel gun in his hand slide down in the palm of his hand, and the hand that was about to slide out of his palm slammed it again, holding the tail of the pole and slashing it towards the Liao man who was about to shoot the third cold light with a bow and arrow on his side.

"Boom!"

Before he could scream, a red and white slimy substance ran down his cheeks.

Just as he was about to kill in all directions, the cavalry next to him pointed to the message on the left and shouted: "Lord Baihu! The cavalry of the Liao people is surrounding us! ”

Zhao Baihu responded to the call, and a large number of cavalry of the Liao army who came out of the camp were carrying torches in their hands, like a brilliant golden dragon in the night, and they were quickly trying to form an encirclement on both sides of them.

"Withdraw! Fast! Don't fight, withdraw! ”

The heroes don't suffer the losses in front of them, and they have these 800 people in their hands, where can they have a tough confrontation with these Khitan cavalry, of course, they will accept it when they see it.

"Wow!"

Zhao Baihu clamped his legs between the horses and put them under his hips, turned the horse's head and ran back, shouting at Xia Jun who was still fighting in the outpost camp as he ran:

"Withdraw! Everyone's withdrawn! ”

Hearing Zhao Baihu's shout, these people did not delay, they strengthened their hands, knocked off the weapons in front of them and nodded and ran outside.

Although there are many cavalry in the Liao camp, if you want to surround these hundreds of Xia troops, it is like a huge tiger trying to catch a little mouse stealing oil.

After the Liao people saw that they couldn't catch up, they all took the longbow in front of the horse and demonstrated against the back of the Xia army, and then they all stopped chasing.

Hu Baihu, a shrewd "mouse", obviously did not intend to give up, and scattered three or five miles in one breath, and stopped after seeing that the Liao people were no longer chasing,

"It seems that they really have no intention of fighting, and they are determined to withdraw."

"Lord Baihu, what should we do now?"

Zhao Baihu watched from a distance as the large group of cavalry gathered around the outpost camp one by one, as if he was afraid that there would be other Xia troops around.

"The more anxious these Liao people want to leave, the more Lao Tzu can't let them go! Now that I think about it, why did I go earlier! Walk! Let's go back around! ”

After that, Zhao Baihu took the lead, took these cavalry behind him to avoid the outpost camp, bypassed the high hill and went directly to Yeluxiuk's camp!