Chapter 160: Trapped on the Peninsula
The three thousand Xuanwu guards drove out of the gate city neatly and mightily, and drove southeast along the route marked upwards on the sketchy map sent back by Liu Ji. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Wang Hu had already received the news sent by Liu Ji two days ago, and they were surrounded by the chasing Tatar people on a small peninsula on the coast more than 80 miles southeast of Zhacheng, and invited them to attack the Tatar people.
Even if there is no order from King Yan, Wang Hu plans to send troops, how can he not want the military exploits that are sent to his mouth?
At this time, a fierce offensive and defensive battle was being fought at the narrow entrance to the Posiette Peninsula in what would become Russia.
Liu Ji retreated here after breaking through the village of the Tatar people, cut down large trees, and erected a wooden wall made of logs at the entrance to the peninsula.
Two days after the city wall was erected, the escaped Nuo Gejiao led the reinforcements of his relatives, and more than 1,000 soldiers and horses from the east and west of the Funi Department chased after the traces of the expedition and blocked the periphery of the peninsula.
On the day of their pursuers, they launched a strong attack on the newly built wooden wall, which was only 18 feet high.
It's a pity that the wars between the various divisions of the Black Water Warrior are all field battles, and they have no siege experience, and the bows in their hands are not composite bows with huge elasticity in the hands of the expedition, and the arrows are bone arrows that cannot penetrate the iron armor of the expedition soldiers.
More than 1,000 people faced the expedition of more than 60 people, and the fierce attack not only failed to break through for two days, but killed more than 200 people.
Nuo Gejiao and the leaders who came with the other two troops looked at the battle situation and frowned.
The wooden walls were not very high, and the expedition did not have time to repair them properly, so the climbers could climb up by grabbing onto the recessed log walls.
To the distress of the three chieftains, the warriors were not well armed and unarmed, and as soon as they climbed the wall, they were cut in two by the enemy on the wall.
For the first time, the two leaders saw the steel knife with a blade like snow and a cold light, and their eyes stared at the expedition team on the city wall with fiery eyes, constantly wielding and harvesting the lives of their own warriors.
"This is a steel knife!" Abnok, from the eastern branch of the Funebe, had a twinkle in his eyes, and he hoped for the steel knives in the hands of these outsiders.
Abnok made up his mind: "I must kill all these outsiders, and rob them of the iron armor and steel knives......"
Originally, he just promised a corner for the relationship between relatives, and led the troops to avenge the hatred of other clansmen being killed. Now seeing that these outsiders are so well-armoured, they are greedy and must be annihilated.
The leader of the western branch of the Funebe, who was even more than that, but the dog that could bite did not bark, and he despised Abnok who howled at any thought.
"I must kill them all, or how can I comfort my people who have been slain?" Looking at his left arm that was wrapped in cloth and unable to exert strength, the strip of cloth wrapped around the wound on his torso, Nuo's bloodshot eyes at the corners, and his depressed face said in chagrin: "It's a pity that I'm seriously injured and can't slash the enemy." ”
That night, No's father, the tribal leader, was burned to death in the house. After a few days, Xu persuaded the leaders of the two relatives to gather troops and horses to help, but when Nuo Gejiao finally returned to the village with reinforcements, he only found a corpse of his father that was burned like barbecue. Most of the tribesmen were killed and scattered, and there were only more than 1,000 old and young women and children gathered together, and only more than 100 people were left in the strong, and the stored grain and livestock were either burned or looted.
Killing his father and destroying the clan, Nuo Gejiao and these outsiders did not share the sky, and led the reinforcements of the two clans to find the traces of Liu Ji and their departure.
"Virtuous nephews should live and recuperate, the enmity between your father and the clan, the two of us who are uncles will definitely avenge your blood hatred."
Abnok and Taker comforted the angry Nokhorn, but they thought in their hearts about how to divide these iron-clad weapons between the two clans when they destroyed these outsiders. As for Nuo Gejiao and his remnants of the clan, they naturally took the opportunity to divide up the matter, and then occupy their land to strengthen their own clan. It's good to know each other in a corner, but if you don't know each other, you have to send him to see his unlucky father.
Although they are both relatives, it is a little immoral to fall into the well, but this is the custom of their Ya people for thousands of years, how to expand the strength of their tribe if they do not take the opportunity to annex weak tribes and occupy their territory?
"The two uncles of the little nephew Xie are willing to lead the troops to avenge our people, he has been sent, and the little nephew must go all out......"
Nuo Jiao's sincere thanks made the ghostly Abnoke and Tie Ke'er smile awkwardly, patted Nuo Jiao's shoulder and said how the blood relatives between the three clans were, and said that Nuo Jiao was grateful and couldn't repay it.
The expedition of no more than 60 men in the city lost 13 more than 13 of them, and the rest were exhausted and consumed a lot of arrows, and some of the soldiers had to use the arrows to shoot the bone arrows of the city in order to save arrows.
After the attack of the Tatar people retreated, Liu Ji inspected the city wall, and several soldiers were tired and slept on the wall.
Looking at the hundreds of leather and simple tents outside the city, more than a thousand of the Tatar people, Liu Ji sighed, No, the entrance to this small peninsula is too narrow, so that the Tatar people can't deploy their troops, where can the more than 60 soldiers of the wooden city wall more than ten zhang high stop it?
Fortunately, the weapons and equipment of the Tatar people were too backward, only the iron spear and the iron arrowhead of Shaoli, and the steel knife was possessed by a few tribal nobles such as the chief.
Since they do not know how to smelt iron, the iron tools of the Black Water Warriors are rare through exchange, and even an ordinary iron knife can only be owned by the famous warriors of the tribe.
"Eryang, let's withdraw." Zhang Cai's face was bitter, and he persuaded: "There are only fifty-one people left at the moment, most of the arrows are consumed, many people are injured, and it is pointless to keep it any longer." ”
Withdrawing to the peninsula, Liu Ji had the raft cut down and build a raft, and built a wooden wall at the entrance of the peninsula to wait for reinforcements from the city.
The purpose of doing this, Liu Ji just wanted to atone for his crimes. He was ordered to lead the right northward expedition to explore the situation of the Tatar tribes in the northeast of the Governor's Mansion of Dongzha Prefecture, but only a few dozen miles inland he encountered the Tatar people, and the exploration mission was impossible to achieve after the battle between the two sides.
After the night attack on the village of Yao, Liu Ji had an idea, and there was speculation about the motive of King Yan to send a northward expedition. Liu Ji thought of this plan, and stuck to the easy-to-defend peninsula that Yu Feng found to attract the chasing soldiers here. Previously sent a messenger back to Pyongyang to report the news, King Yan's motive guessed correctly, and he would take the opportunity to send troops to come, even if King Yan did not send it, Wang Hu stationed in Zha Cheng would bring troops after he sent him the news.
Wang Hu's Xuanwu Guard's performance in last year's campaign was too poor, and he was ridiculed by the generals in the army, and he would not let go of this opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
The previous night attack broke through the village of the Tatar people, and the other two reinforcements begged by the young leader who fled must not be less than a thousand, otherwise, they would not dare to come in the first two battles.
When the time comes to hold the peninsula, Wang Hu's reinforcements will come in time, and under the combination of the inside and the outside, he will definitely be able to defeat the chasing soldiers, and then persuade Wang Hu that Xuanwu Wei will move eastward and will definitely be able to take the place where the three clans of the Funi tribe are based.
With this great achievement, Liu Ji can not only make up for the failure of the expedition mission, but also increase the rank and rank of knight, and the whole team will be rewarded.
In addition, the back road has been arranged early, so why not?
Stuck to it for two days, with the situation in front of him was really not good, Zhang Cai didn't want to die in this wilderness inexplicably.
Liu Ji said in a deep voice: "Hold on for one more day, before Nuo Wanghu's reinforcements arrive, let's withdraw." ”