Chapter 134: Small Victory
The eighteen servants who were surrounded in the middle were panicked to deal with the attacks from all directions, and when they heard Zhao Ziliang's voice, they immediately increased their confidence, and one by one they formed a circular defensive array back to back again, without a single gap in the middle, and the weapons of the two sides kept colliding and intersecting.
The circular defensive formation without unified command could not exert its original defensive strength at all, and the attacks of the Arab cavalry did not have a unified action, and the soldiers on both sides fought separately, and they were in chaos.
"Ha-" Zhao Ziliang rushed over and immediately raised the golden nail Zaoyang lance to attack the backs of the masked cavalry who were besieging the followers, and the war horse Wuli ran quickly around the circle, and the horse lance in his hand kept chopping, stabbing, and smashing, and the action was as fast as lightning, and all the masked cavalry in front of him who could attack fell off their horses one by one, and these masked cavalry kept falling off their horses and dying like dumplings.
It was only two or three breaths, and the dozen or so servants who were originally besieged quickly felt that the surroundings were empty, and the oppressive feeling disappeared, and when they looked again, there were no enemies around.
"Quick, find a horse for each person, and all of them will get on the horse and fight with General Ben!"
"No!" The morale of more than a dozen servants was greatly boosted, and one by one they quickly found one of these war horses that had lost their owners and rode forward.
"Follow me! Follow me in three formations! Zhao Ziliang killed the two masked cavalrymen who rushed over with his backhand, shouted loudly to the servants who had just mounted their horses, and then instigated their horses to rush towards the place where there were many enemies, and those servants immediately rode their horses to follow, and formed an assault formation in a very short time, which benefited from their daily training and high tacit understanding.
Cavalry can only exert the greatest power when maneuvering, although Zhao Ziliang only brought a dozen cavalry, but still unstoppable, their small team is like a sharp arrow, he is the arrow of this sharp arrow, said that the situation is like a bamboo, all the masked cavalry in front of him were picked off the horse one by one, this small team under his leadership in the camp left and right, keep rushing to kill, the masked cavalry can not organize an effective attack and defense formation at all, even the siege can not be done, just organized some people and horses, In the blink of an eye, he was shocked by Zhao Ziliang and others.
"Kill him, kill him for me, all up!" Aple, who had already galloped to the gate of the camp, saw Zhao Ziliang rushing everywhere as if no one was in a no-man's land, and killing his cavalry was like slaughtering pigs and dogs.
At this time, on the sand dunes in the northwest, Chu Ge saw that most of the enemy troops had rushed into the camp below, and knew that the time had come to attack, he and Brehan glanced at each other, and the two nodded at the same time, got up and waved to the other servants.
The servants rode their war horses forward from behind, appearing at the top of the sand dunes, and Chu Ge said to Chen Qingying, Wang Zhiyun, and the blacksmith Fu Kun: "You just stay here, you are not allowed to go anywhere, it is better to bury yourself in the sand, and you can only come out when I send someone to call you."
The three of them also knew that this was the most dangerous time, and they all nodded to indicate that they knew.
Chu Ge and Brehan turned on their horses, and at the same time pulled out their weapons and shouted: "Soldiers, light torches, rush down with me to rescue the general, kill all those enemies, kill—"
"Kill-" Nearly two hundred soldiers shouted at the same time, pulled out their weapons with a swish, and rode their horses to follow Chu Ge and Brehan down the slope of the sand dunes.
"Rumble ・・・・・・"
"Kill—"
Suddenly there was a large number of shouts and killings on the dunes, a large number of horses running, and a lot of fire in the night, just like the stars in the sky, and they did not know how many men and horses there were on the other side, and the Arab cavalry was greatly alarmed when they saw it, and the terrain limited them from rushing up to meet the enemy, and in this situation and terrain, they could not have the courage to meet the enemy, they began to panic, and most of them were at a loss.
Zhao Ziliang and the others also heard or saw it, and knew that Chu Ge and Brehan had already led the army to rush down, and the reinforcements would rush over in an instant, Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Brothers, our reinforcements have arrived, everyone work hard, kill me."
"Kill!"
Inside, Zhao Ziliang rushed from the cavalry with more than a dozen Hu, and the Tang army with an unknown number of troops rushed down, and the Tang Arab cavalry had no fighting spirit, and the panic made them lose their judgment and effective organization.
Aple quickly reacted, he knew that something bad was wrong, except for Zhao Ziliang and these people in this camp, it was an empty camp, and everyone else was hiding in the sand dunes behind, and now the people who were in ambush rushed over, and he and his army were tricked!
Aple immediately shouted: "There is an ambush, there is an ambush!" Withdraw, withdraw! ”
The whole camp was in chaos, and no matter how loud his shouts were, very few of his Arab cavalry could hear them, and most of them were still scurrying around.
It was impossible to retreat safely, and there was not enough time, and before most of the Arab cavalry had turned their horses, Chu Ge and Brehan led their troops to rush forward and slash and slaughter.
The screams soon spread everywhere, the morale of the Arab cavalry has plummeted, the courage has all been lost, and they cannot stop the effective resistance, everyone only wants to escape, but the camp gate is so big, everyone can not withdraw all at once, a large number of Arab cavalry were blocked at the camp gate by the corpses originally left on the ground, they can escape, but they can not escape from the camp gate very smoothly, which makes the Arab cavalry have both hope of escape, but do not have the courage to turn around and resist the Tang cavalry's charge.
The camp was full of flames, screams everywhere, arrows were lost and flying indiscriminately, and the Arab cavalry could not all rush out of the camp gate for a while, so they could only find and escape from other places, but there were wooden fences all around, how could they rush out for a while? They can only look everywhere to see if there is an exit to escape, so all the Arab cavalry is running around, which makes the camp appear more chaotic, which gives Zhao Ziliang and Chu Ge and others the opportunity to cut them down, if they can form an effective organization to resist, the situation is definitely much better, but Aple has escaped from the camp gate with a dozen cavalry, and fled into the night, there is no one who can organize other Arab cavalry on the scene, and the Arab cavalry of more than two hundred people has not fought and is in a mess, Zhao Ziliang and others brandished weapons like chopping vegetables and melons, killing these panicked Arab rebels.
The battle lasted less than half an hour, Zhao Ziliang led the army to chase and kill dozens of miles back, there were more than 200 corpses lying on the ground inside and outside the camp and on the route where the Arab cavalry fled, as well as many horse corpses, and most of the Arab cavalry's horses were enclosed in the camp and did not run away.
Chu Ge rode over with blood on his face and asked Zhao Ziliang, "General, I saw you seem to be injured earlier, are you okay?" ”
Zhao Ziliang shook his head and said, "It's okay, it's just a small injury, I'll find a clean fabric and wrap it casually!" By the way, have the losses and results been counted? ”
"Well, we lost thirty-two dead and sixteen wounded, all lightly! A total of 238 enemy soldiers were killed, and 51 people were captured, and the weapons and horses of these people were basically left in the camp, with these war horses, we can completely achieve two horses per person, and these war horses are very tall, they look like they should be big eating horses, and their sprint speed and endurance are much better than our own war horses! ”
"Big Eater? Although it is not very far from the Great Food Country, the Great Cannibals rarely sell their horses to other countries, and this time there are more than 200 Big Food Horses, which is a bit strange! Let's go, come with me! ”
The two walked in front of the corpse of a masked horseman, Zhao Ziliang squatted down to uncover the mask, and by the light of the torch, both of them clearly saw the person's face.
Zhao Ziliang frowned: "This is a big cannibal!" Let's go look at the other corpses."
After looking at dozens of corpses in a row, all of them were big cannibals, according to these unified weapons and equipment seized, and then remembering the previous scene when these masked knights collectively charged over, lined up in a very neat formation, Zhao Ziliang immediately understood.
"The Great Food Army, this is the army of the Great Food, their appearance here can only mean one thing, they are the army of the Great Food Country stationed in Kangguo!"
"Huh?" Chu Ge was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "It's troublesome!" Why did they raid us, and why were they all masked? ”
Zhao Ziliang said: "Since they are masked and dressed as horse bandits, this matter is not troublesome!" Disguised as horse bandits and masked, it means that they don't want us and others to know that they attacked us, and as for the reason for attacking us, I think it is probably that they don't want us to meet the kings of the Zhaowu countries, and they are afraid that they will lose their influence in the Zhaowu countries because of our arrival! ”