Chapter 84: The First Battle

Seven days later, the Fire Qi Army and the Fierce Blood Army were already maintaining a standoff between the Xiling Army and the Dongping Army, and they had not yet received news from Danyang. Although actually galloping on the land has a completely different feeling from doing deductions on the sand table, they have always tried to maintain a simple and accurate style when working on the map.

The army of 10,000 men, who had not yet been able to approach a single town or be resupplied in the past few days, was galloping all the way to avoid being intercepted by their own army. They worry more about their own people than they do about their enemies. It was not until today, entering this valley called Pengxi, and camping and settling down on the edge of this village where only more than a hundred villages lived, that they had a sufficient reason to rest.

Pengxi is more than a hundred miles away from Baishi City. Now, there are at least 30,000 troops of the Xiling Kingdom in these distances. The Fire Qi Army and the Fierce Blood Army quietly circled behind the enemy, but they were not ready to turn back to deal with the 30,000 people. Once entangled with the superior forces of these 30,000 men, then their goal will not be achieved. This is just the area where the Xiling army is most densely populated, and it is really too dangerous.

The villagers of Pengxi did not know about the invasion of the Xiling army until now, and they lived in the mountains and really did not have much contact with the outside world. However, since he was his own soldier, he was still warmly welcomed by the villagers. A few Orions climbed a few commanding heights with their sergeants on duty, looking at everything around the hill, which was not too deep and not too high.

Chi Lei's scout cavalry had set off after resting for two hours. The 300-strong scout cavalry divided into fifty squads and scattered deeper into the enemy-occupied territory. After all, this is the territory of Dongping, and although the Xiling army occupies a large area of land, its control over the place is still quite loose. It is absolutely impossible to carry out a comprehensive inspection of the control area. Scouts, on the other hand, need to know as much as possible about the enemy's situation and distribution, and choose their first target.

They were stationed in Pengxi, of course, because they wanted to rest. But another reason is that their first supply behind enemy lines is here. Just after midnight, a convoy appeared at the foot of the mountain, and the members of the convoy were all wearing Xiling's military uniforms, looking like a Xiling's baggage detachment. Only the oil lamp hanging from the front of the first carriage with a green flame indicated their identity.

"I'm still worried that you won't be able to come," Ye Tao said kindly, looking at the team leader who took off his Xiling military uniform to reveal the FedEx uniform inside.

"I almost didn't come." A middle-aged man in his thirties who looked extremely capable said with a smile: "It's hard to bring things in." Most of the things in the future were collected after being transported in small batches, because the time was relatively tight, and the things raised were not enough. Zeng Lao said that this first batch of supplies must be complete and the quantity must be sufficient, but he had to rob the second road. Even the military uniforms and things, the whole convoy has been sent to you. ”

Ye Tao was taken aback: "You really robbed the supply team of Xiling Land?" There were no casualties, right? ”

The middle-aged man waved his hand. He said, "When they were eating, they broke two brothers, and it is nothing. ”

Ye Tao sighed: "Thank you for your hard work. Broken brother, do you have a care at home? ”

The middle-aged man shrugged his shoulders and said, "Running on the Western Front." It's all land that no one has at home, don't worry about it. ”

At this time, a scout returned. He reported a strange situation, twenty-five miles to the west. There was a strange troop of cavalry, just over a thousand people. This cavalry, which looks very much like the Dongping Cavalry, is suspected to be the remnants of the army that camouflaged the raid on Xunshan Pass.

"This force must be taken." Ye Tao immediately made up his mind.

"The Fire Qi Army will not move, and the Fierce Blood Army will be ready to attack within half an hour. May I? After Dai Yun asked for details, he asked for instructions.

"That's it." Ye Tao clapped his hands and said.

Commanding this Dongping-style cavalry of the Xiling Kingdom was Zhao Hanzhi. With the title of deputy general, he went deep into Dongping many times to observe the cavalry of Dongping, and even pretended to be the people of Dongping twice. He joined the army and was trained, and then he single-handedly trained the five thousand special cavalry that were no different from the cavalry of the Eastern Plains in every way. From a long time ago, he knew that after this raid on Xunshan Pass, the team under his command would be useless. Staying in the Xiling army is too dazzling, and if you want to play any role, Dongping will not be so stupid. But what he didn't expect was that the battle of Xunshan Pass would be carried out in full accordance with the original plan with the cooperation of all parties. His five thousand cavalry were still dead and wounded. Only about a thousand remained.

What is even more intolerable is the attitude of colleagues in the army towards this unit. No one dares to deny their merits. But they are really too different in the Xiling army. The most excessive thing was that when he returned to the camp with the rest of the brothers in the rest of the field, the adjutant of the other battalion jokingly beat the drums to "meet them," surrounded them, and then ran over and patted him on the shoulder, praising them for being "too similar." Coach Tong Bingwen found out about this and arrested both of them and scolded them. God knows how innocent he is...... The grain transport officer jokingly told them that there was no forage from Dongping, so they would eat it......

All kinds of jokes are unbearable for them, the heroes. When he came out this time, he didn't have any tasks, but he really couldn't stand the atmosphere in Xunshan Pass, so he asked to be transferred to the front. Although there is no room for them to play on the front line of Ningshi City and Baishi City, their cavalry force of more than 1,000 people is really too weak, but at least the two armies on the front line face each other, and there will not be so many boring people.

And in the middle of the night, this cavalry army, which had made brilliant achievements, quietly became the first prey of the fierce blood army.

"You haven't killed anyone, have you?" Behind the knoll, which was less than five hundred meters away from Zhao Hanzhi's camp, Dai Yun commanded softly, "You have to get used to it quickly. This can be regarded as a practice for everyone, don't run away from one. Sortie. ”

After removing the scout troops that were scattered, Dai Yun now had less than 5,000 fierce blood troops under his control. She brought all the people out in order to let as many people see the blood as much as possible, otherwise, no matter how high she looked at the opponent, she would not need to attack the camp with three times the force.

Two thousand men were to be responsible for the first wave of the onslaught, a thousand for the subsequent leak detection, and the remaining two thousand troops were to scatter during the two rounds of the onslaught, surrounding the camp and making sure that not one of them escaped.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The distance of a few hundred steps disappeared in an instant, and at the same time that Xi Ling's duty soldiers began to shout responsibly, the first wave of arrow rain had arrived.

The two wings of the Fierce Blood Army spread out as fast as they could, to complete the encirclement of the barracks. The first cavalry had already stormed the camp. Compared to broadswords and spears, the hand crossbows that the cavalry of the Fierce Blood Army were equipped with were more direct. After rushing into the camp, the arrows fired indiscriminately at the figures in front and back, left and right, knocked down hundreds of people in the first place. They used spears to open tents, toppled braziers, and spread fire and death from the center of the camp to all sides in an orderly manner. The second wave of cavalry took advantage of the chaos in the camp and stormed down the wooden fence around the hastily constructed camp. The cavalry force, which was only a thousand men, was really not able to build a camp that only rested for the night to be very strong.

This army, which was able to hold out for a long time under the siege of several times the Dongping sergeants at Xunshan Pass, was indeed very strong, but what they encountered was a stronger and fierce-blooded army. The night made the killing less visual, minimizing the fear of the rookie officers, and the flashes of the knife saw the fallen figure instead of the splash of blood. Both soldiers and officers were only training according to the most customary raids of the Fierce Blood Army.

In only a quarter of an hour, the camp was completely uprooted. More than 1,000 cavalrymen dressed in Dongping cavalry uniforms but set up the Xiling Army flag were wiped out on the ground. The price paid by the Fierce Blood Army was only four killed and twenty-one wounded. While checking the results of the battle and ordering the soldiers to take the frightened horses away together, Dai Yun looked at Ye Tao who was spitting there with some apprehension.

The first time I killed someone...... Dai Yun recalled the scene when he first killed someone. Crying and vomiting are common, but the most painful thing is that she has been haunted by nightmares for almost a month, until she was still ignorant at that time, and her hands turned out to be a second evil life.

Ye Tao shook his head vigorously, took the small wine jug from the saddle with a trembling hand, and poured himself a sip. The psychological effects worked faster than alcohol, and he settled down almost immediately. "Pile up the corpses, cross the roots of the tree in the middle, and nail that general to it." Ye Tao got back on the horse and said to Dai Yun.

He was able to recover so quickly because he had already built his mind for himself when he went to the battlefield, and more importantly, he couldn't collapse at the moment. The first killing was as simple as that, one enemy soldier pounced on his horse's head, another soldier stabbed him with a spear, and he, instinctively, swung his sword.

He didn't know if the sword in his hand would be ranked on the sharpness rankings of this era—presumably there would be no such thing as an inventory in this era—but the sword flashed, and the spear broke. He stabbed a sword and slashed the throat of the spear-wielding enemy, and he saw only the dark liquid gurgling out of the night. The enemy had fallen, but his sword was still as shining as new...... Before the other soldier could even make a move, the horse under his crotch stood up with a snort, and with a kick of his front hooves, the valiant enemy soldier flew out. He didn't even remember whether the enemy soldier was tall or short, but he remembered that the horse's self-consciousness made him almost fall off his horse.

"Yes." Dai Yun looked at Ye Tao in surprise as he picked up the kettle to rinse his mouth, surprised at why he would give the order to dispose of the enemy's corpse so cruelly, but she still complied.

"I don't know if we're strong enough, and neither is the enemy. The best way to get the enemy to put us in an important position as soon as possible is to appear arrogant enough. Ye Tao spit out the water in his mouth and explained.

Dai Yun was stunned for a moment, then nodded.