50. Seize the air
"The thief really has no intention of taking the battle!"
Seeing the chaos of the thieves, the attackers couldn't help but be greatly encouraged, and they stepped up their throwing arrows, constantly killing and injuring the thieves on the outside of the front row, making them even more confused. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Among the thieves, there were occasional counterattacks with bows and arrows, but because of the darkness of the night and the range of inferior bows, they were not able to shoot the cavalry galloping back and forth.
Seeing that less than half of the feather arrows in his quiver were left, and the formation of the thieves in front of him was becoming more and more chaotic, Yan Xing immediately turned his horse's head and shouted loudly with his subordinates:
"Second and third sons, the thief's formation is out of order, follow me to charge and kill the thief!"
As soon as the words fell, Yan Xing took twenty followers to ride, bypassing the chaotic thieves in front and instead attacking the scattered thieves who were bluffing in the rear.
Yan Xing and the others rode like the wind, like the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, and the thieves who were scattered and holding torches in the rear rushed to pieces, and the horses' hooves were everywhere, all of them were invincible, and the torches that fell to the ground continued one after another, and the original scene of the thieves' fire suddenly dimmed a lot, accompanied by the declining morale of the thieves.
Cheng Jia saw that his bluffing plan was seen through by the other party in the rear, and he only used dozens of cavalry to disrupt his own formation, he was annoyed in his heart, and his uneasy premonition gradually strengthened, he felt that the leader of this group of cavalry was the sentry who ambushed him in the forest, and this kind of awe-inspiring murderous aura and fighting intent was something he had never seen before.
Seeing that this group of unusual businessmen was so difficult, Cheng Jia concluded that this group of people was definitely a sergeant who was hiding the way from, and the idea of retreating had already risen in his heart, but of course he couldn't retreat so rashly now, the other party was so good at riding, and he could only walk on two legs, and once he retreated at night and was pursued, it was easy to collapse. Only by forcing the cavalry back into camp can they find an opportunity to retreat slowly, thus sparing the lives of most of their men.
Since the Cheng family wanted to force back this group of arrogant and raging cavalry, they had to use all their strength to deal with it. While blowing the horn to gather the bluffing thieves scattered behind him, he prepared to gather into two teams to outflank these cavalry rushing back and forth from the left and right, and on the other hand, he sent a small group of elite thieves to the front to maintain the situation, making the appearance of cutting off the retreat of this group of cavalry and annihilating them all in one fell swoop.
As his horn sounded, the thieves in the rear began to gather, and even the thieves who were scattered and fled began to turn back, and the thieves in front gradually calmed down after being killed by the elite thieves of the small team, and there were even signs of cutting off the rear of the cavalry.
This trick really worked against Yan Xing and other cavalry, Yan Xing saw that the formation of the thieves went from small chaos to big chaos, and then from chaos to stability, and secretly praised in his heart that the leader of the thieves was really a capable person. He had no intention of restoring stability, and faintly wanted to cut off the back road and outflank his own thieves desperately, his own purpose of harassing the thieves and seizing the courage of the thieves had been achieved, so he naturally had to take advantage of the high mobility of the cavalry to leave quickly, he roared, took the cavalry around a corner, successfully turned the horse's head, avoided the thieves who were about to outflank, rushed out of the encirclement, and quickly ran to the temporary camp on the slope.
It only took a few moments for Yan Xing and the other cavalry to retreat from the attack, but after returning to the camp, the cavalry galloping back and forth were sweaty and consumed a lot of energy. After Yan Xing jumped off the horse, he let his subordinates take the war horse, he adjusted his breathing, walked quickly in front of Li Ru and Dong Huang, hugged his fists and said:
"Li Gong, Dong Jun, his subordinates are fortunate not to be dishonored, they have broken the courage of the thieves, except for one night horse that lost its front hoof and was damaged, the rest of the people and horses have no casualties, and they are here to restore their lives!"
"Okay, Yan Junhou has worked hard, let's go down and rest for the time being, and I will rely on your courage a lot later!"
"Don't dare, it's the duty of the soldiers to kill the thieves, and the subordinates will retire!"
Li Ru did not praise Yan Xing's good fighting in front of Dong Huang, and Yan Xing was not a proud figure, he could see that Dong Huang's face was slightly ugly, he was originally just to curb the thieves' wanton attack and save the lives of the soldiers, and he didn't want to go-for-tat with this Dong family gentleman to embarrass him, so he immediately saluted and retired after returning to his life.
Dong Huang watched the sergeant who had just ridden his horse and killed the thief retreat, his face was embarrassed, and he remembered that he had just talked about the situation of the enemy and the enemy, and judged that he could not attack easily, but could only stick to the decision. Now that Yan Yan led the cavalry to rush, the bluffing of the thieves who attacked at night was exposed, this kind of embarrassment was not intended by others, but the fact was that the naked slap in the face was really uncomfortable for the arrogant Dong family gentleman, he had a black face, glanced at the cronies who falsely reported the thief's feelings, and the thought of breaking him into pieces had already risen in his heart, but he had to endure it, and he didn't want to lose people in front of everyone again.
He clenched his sword and continued to motivate the soldiers loudly, and after seeing Yan Xing and the other horsemen galloping across as if they were in a no-man's land, the morale of the Dong soldiers who were defending in the formation immediately rose a lot, and Dong Huang naturally put this morale-boosting credit in his heart to his own name. However, in his heart, he was still thinking that these incompetent thieves should not withdraw so easily, and at least try to attack once, so as to confirm the confirmation of his previous oath, no matter how bad it is, he can show his ability to command people and horses to break the thieves, so as to take the opportunity to save the image of his family that has just fallen into the dust.
It's a pity that all these things in Dong Huang's heart have come to naught. Although the horn of the thieves gathered at the bottom of the slope was blowing loudly, the pace of the attack was not slow, but the thieves could be seen supporting the casualties, cleaning up the battlefield, and slowly retreating, Dong Huang wanted to drive the soldiers to attack and pursue, but when he thought that once he won the battle, he was hitting his own face before, once he was ambushed and retreated, his own image would only be more unbearable tonight, after hesitating again and again, Dong Huang finally made up his mind to defend to the end, never pursue, did not say a word in his mouth, and let the thieves retreat.
When the thieves had almost retreated, the light of the fire under the slope dimmed. Dong Huang, who had been holding his head high and holding a sword in his hand, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't dare to relax and underestimate the enemy, and hurriedly sent a team of elite cavalry scouts to sentinel to see if the thieves had completely retreated, and on the other hand, let the people who had been tense not relax to prevent the thieves from counterattacking.
After waiting for a while, the scout spirits sent out also came back one after another, and the fact that the thieves took advantage of the cover of the night to retreat was also confirmed. Dong Huang finally couldn't support it, put the sword he had been holding back into the sheath, and threw it to his cronies, he yawned while letting the many soldiers who were defending in the formation disband the formation, but this time he didn't dare to disband the sentry post again, let everyone disperse and return to the account, and insisted on letting his soldiers strengthen their guards and take turns to rest.
In the flattery of "gentleman wise", "gentleman talented", and "gentleman tiger power to scare away thieves" from the mouths of his cronies, he felt that his image had been maintained, and he felt good about himself again, yawned and said hello to Li Ru, and scolded the incompetent cronie a few times, before taking his cronies to his tent with his cronies.