Chapter 3: Night Raid

In the middle of the night, a piercing scream suddenly broke the silent night sky.

Gongzi Wei Xing's eyes opened, and suddenly a carp rolled and stood up, put on his leather armor, grabbed the war spear and bag around him and rushed out of the tent, and asked sharply, "What's wrong?" ”

"Childe, it seems that our secret outposts that are ambushing around have discovered the enemy!" Wei Zhongdao, a guard guarding outside the tent.

When Wei Zhong replied, the sound of messy horses' hooves and fighting came from a distance.

After the bonfire dinner, the cavalry of Phoenix Fort would rotate a squad of ten people every other hour to disperse and lurk a mile away from the camp, always keeping an eye on the periphery.

At this time, Ning Zhenhu, the head of the dart and some of the dart masters, all dressed up, rushed out with weapons in hand, and asked hurriedly: "Master Wei, what happened?" ”

"Chief dartman, I'm not in a good situation, the secret sentry sent out by our Phoenix Fort seems to have exchanged fire with some inexplicable enemies!" Gongzi Wei Xing frowned and finished speaking, then turned his head to the guards Wei Zhong and Wei Cheng, and said, "Ah Zhong, Ah Cheng, you immediately bring three teams over and cover our sentinels back." ”

"Yes, Childe!"

Wei Zhong and Wei Cheng immediately ran on the war horse, Wei Zhong tightened the horse rope and shouted loudly: "The second, third, and fourth teams will go to us, and support the brothers of the first team!" ”

The cavalry of Phoenix Fort had already ridden on their horses, and rushed out of the camp with Wei Zhong and Wei Cheng in full swing.

Fortunately, the moon was high tonight, and the cavalrymen who were more or less night blind could barely see the situation more than ten meters away.

"The enemy situation is unknown, don't be too entangled!" Gongzi Wei Xing shouted loudly at the cavalry that rushed out.

"Yes, Childe!" Wei Zhong turned his head in response, and then quickly disappeared into the night!

"Chief Dartman, just in case, let all the people in your caravan make some preparations!" Gongzi Wei Xing suggested.

In the harsh environment of the Western Regions, some unexpected situations may occur at any time, and Mr. Ning, who has been walking the dart bureau for more than 30 years, has long been accustomed to it, and immediately arranged for his dart masters to be on standby, hiding behind various carriages, and the bow and arrow are ready to attack at any time.

As time passed, the sound in the distance became louder and louder, and the sound of fighting did not stop, and Gongzi Wei Xing had to wait patiently and stay still.

A stick of incense passed, and I finally saw the cavalry of Phoenix Fort return!

When Wei Zhong jumped off the war horse, he immediately shouted in a panic: "It's horse bandits, there are many, many of them, immediately block the camp entrance!" ”

Finding that Wei Cheng cautiously walked off the war horse with Uncle Meng Ping in his arms, the son Wei Xing immediately surrounded him and asked anxiously, "What's wrong with Uncle Meng Ping?" ”

Meng Ping was a royal guard who had escaped to the Western Regions with the baby-like Wei Xing, and his son Wei Xing had always respected him.

"Childe, Uncle Meng Ping's legs were shot by arrows, and he has passed out!" Wei Chengtie explained with a blushing face.

Wei Zhong and Wei Cheng are two alien orphans adopted by Tang Zhongyi after coming to the Western Regions, four or five years older than Wei Xing, and their relationship has always been very good with Wei Xing's dozen secret uncles, and the martial arts of both of them were taught by the secret guard uncles.

At this moment, Wei Cheng wanted to kill all the horse bandits who hurt Uncle Meng Ping.

"Hurry up and take Uncle Meng Ping and the rest of the brothers down to bandage the wound, after treatment, don't forget to wipe a little more wine, be careful of infected wounds!" Gongzi Wei Xing immediately arranged.

For this situation, Gongzi Wei Xing also has no good way, the self-made leather armor just covers the knees, once the enemy finds that his arrows can't penetrate the leather armor of Phoenix Castle, he will naturally deliberately shoot at the legs, this situation is not once or twice!

"Childe, there are horse bandits outside, due to the night, the subordinates can't see the specific number, I feel that there are at least more than a thousand, only a lot more!" Konoe Wei Zhong reported anxiously.

When Gongzi Wei Xing heard this, he immediately changed color, feeling that the situation was very bad, and the number of horse bandits was a little too much!

Although the cavalry of Phoenix Fort is very strong, it is a little too little, only more than fifty people, and six cavalrymen have been injured, temporarily losing most of their combat effectiveness!

Sometimes, ants can bite elephants to death!

Hearing the sound of large-scale horses' hooves, Mr. Ning said loudly: "Children, get ready!" ”

Wei Zhong immediately pulled Gongzi Wei Xing to the back of a carriage and said cautiously: "Gongzi, be careful!" ”

The rest of the cavalry of Phoenix Fort hid their horses and hid behind the carriage with the dart masters, ready to fight with great interest!

Soon, the messy sound of horses' hooves is getting closer!

When the horse bandits were fifty or sixty meters away from the convoy, Mr. Ning calmly ordered: "Shoot!" ”

Suddenly, the arrows in the sky shot out like a torrential rain, drawing beautiful parabolas and shooting towards the dense horse bandits!

Then, a miserable howl came!

The horse bandits who were not hit immediately scattered like birds and beasts, and fled into the distance!

Then, slowly gathering out of range of arrows, brandishing a variety of weapons, running back and forth around the camp on horseback, speaking a variety of foreign languages.

Mr. Ning slowly touched his head and said uneasily: "Master Wei, the situation is very bad, there are too many horse bandits!" As soon as the morning dawns, we are very passive, and we can't stop so many horse bandits! ”

"It's a lot, and the exact number is impossible to estimate for the time being! But it's not something we can defend ourselves against. ”

"Chief dart, do you have a good idea?" Gongzi Wei Xing also frowned bitterly, and then asked.

Mr. Ning shook his head silently, there is no good way!

Gongzi Wei Xing thought for a moment and said, "Once the day dawns, we people will be passive!" Taking advantage of the night, we will strike first, give the horse bandits a dismount by surprise, and try to slaughter as many horse bandits as possible to reduce some pressure! ”

Mr. Ning's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "Please give instructions to Master Wei!" ”

"Put out the campfire in the camp first, you dart masters are ready to meet us at any time!" Childe Wei Xingdao.

Mr. Ning didn't know Wei Gongzi's specific plan, but he believed that he would not play with everyone's lives.

After the bonfire was extinguished, the camp suddenly became much darker, and Gongzi Wei Xing secretly dispatched people.

After about half an hour, there were many fewer horse bandits running back and forth around the camp, and there was no longer the same momentum, some horse bandits rode on horses and stood on high places and laughed, some horse bandits found some dry firewood, lit a bonfire, and a group of people gathered around the fire to warm up, and some horse bandits even took out a tent sewn from leather, and went directly into it, waiting for dawn.

The weather in the Western Regions is completely different from that in the Central Plains, and the temperature difference between day and day is very large!

It's a little better in early spring, but if it's a cold winter, if you go out of the house to pee, the urine may freeze into ice cubes directly in the air!

Gongzi Wei Xing glanced at Mr. Ning's darthead, and with a wave of his hand, seven or eight dart masters immediately moved the three horses at the entrance of the camp!

Gongzi Wei Xing immediately slapped his war horse, held a crossbow bow, and rushed out first, and Wei Zhong and Wei Cheng led the rest of the cavalry to follow closely behind.

Gongzi Wei Xing led the cavalry of Phoenix Fort to rush frantically towards the area where the horse bandits were concentrated, and the three crossbows fired specifically at the horse bandits who dared to resist, but they didn't pay much attention to the horse bandits who fled for their lives.

In order to kill and injure as many horse bandits as possible, the cavalry of Phoenix Fort tightly surrounded each other, forming a triangular pyramidal formation, clamping the horse's belly with their legs, desperately waving the horse whip, wantonly trampling on the horse bandits who could not be evaded!

After galloping around the camp twice, Gongzi Wei Xing waited for everyone to load their crossbow arrows again, and braved the messy arrows to lead the cavalry of Phoenix Fort to charge again towards the dense area of horse bandits in the distance.

The horse bandits, who had finally gathered together, were scattered by the cavalry of Phoenix Fort again, and had to flee farther away.

Since the cavalry of Phoenix Fort was only about fifty people, they could only gather tightly together, clench into a strong fist, and launch a fierce charge against the horse bandits again and again.

The cavalrymen wore the special leather armor and leather hats of the Phoenix Castle, and were not afraid of the arrows that the horse bandits hastily fired, and they attacked, drove and killed the horse bandits in the wilderness to their heart's content.

In this bloody night, the horse bandits were also aroused in their hearts, and organized several counterattacks, but they were all scattered by the cavalry of Phoenix Fort!

A lot of corpses were lost, and the remaining bandits had to flee in pieces, never daring to gather together again!

For a while, I was scared by the Phoenix Fort charge!

Although the horse bandits have always been bloodthirsty, ruthless and cunning, and do not take human life seriously, they cannot afford to toss back and forth like this.

As soon as they saw the cavalry of Phoenix Fort rushing over, they immediately fled far away.

After wreaking havoc on half a cup of tea, Gongzi Wei Xing didn't know the situation farther away, so he had to lead the cavalry of Phoenix Fort to return!

"Congratulations to Gongzi Wei for his victory and killing the horse bandits!" Mr. Ning came up with eight big shopkeepers, and said with a smile.

After Gongzi Wei Xing dismounted, he took off his tight fur hat and said: "Please lead a part of the dart master out of the camp immediately, and collect as many arrows and weapons as possible, especially our crossbow arrows, the crisis has not been eliminated much!" ”

This time by surprise, the cavalry of Phoenix Fort killed at least three or four hundred horse bandits, and the pressure on the convoy was greatly reduced, why hasn't the crisis been resolved? This made everyone present wonder.