The wind swept up the yellow sand, the war horses neighed, and the hooves and neighs of the Western Qin cavalry came from a long distance, and Berke, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened, he immediately grabbed the war knife and turned over, and where his eyes arrived, dust rose on the horizon in the distance, and he felt that the sand on the ground was shaking.

In front of the rapidly swept dust, a large food ranger desperately whipped his war horse and galloped forward, and Berk immediately turned his head and shouted at the big food cavalry who were still sleeping on the ground: "Get up, get up, there is an enemy coming!" ”

The intensity of last night's battle was too great, and these cavalrymen of the Great Food Army were woken up before they slept for two hours, and many of them were still dazed, even if they heard the sound of the enemy coming, they couldn't lift their spirits.

Berk immediately shouted at the cavalry general: "Wake everyone up, and if you don't want to die, cheer them up immediately!" ”

"Yes, General!" The subordinate general immediately conveyed the order to the officers below, and the officers had no other way but to use the horsewhip to smoke one by one, and when the horsewhip was drawn, the skin and flesh were opened, and no matter how big the drowsiness was, there was no more sleepiness.

The galloping Great Food Ranger finally ran in front of Berk and gasped and reported to him: "General, the cavalry of the Western Qin Army has been dispatched, about three thousand people, each of them is equipped with two horses, and they are still led by the general surnamed Erzhu, their target should be us, they are only six miles away from here!" ”

After hearing this, the muscles on Burke's face twitched, "No wonder there is such a big momentum, it turns out that it is equipped with two horses!" ”

Speaking of this, Burke couldn't help but be furious at the rangers who reported the news: "They are only six miles away from here, why did you come to report so late?" ”

The ranger was very aggrieved and said: "General, it's not that we don't want to report quickly, the assembly speed of the Western Qin army is very fast, and when we figure out their commander and the size of the troops, they have already been assembled, and each of them is equipped with two horses, and they don't hesitate to gallop wildly, and the villain has done his best to rush back to report!" ”

Burke was a little irritable, knowing that he couldn't blame the rangers for this, he waved his hand to let him go down, the Western Qin army was only six miles away from here, this distance was too close, he didn't have time to line up to meet the enemy, and the hasty response would only make the defeat worse, and the Western Qin army would not hesitate to kill it with just a cup of tea.

Time is too short, now there is no room for him to think about how to deal with the enemy, since there is no time to line up to meet the enemy, then can only temporarily avoid its edge, he immediately called his generals and ordered: "Give an order to everyone, in order to reduce the weight of the war horse, anyone is only allowed to keep weapons, water and food, and all the armor and everything else are thrown away, withdraw!" ”

The general said, "Yes, General!" Don't know where to retreat? ”

Berk looked at the Ruti Desert to the south: "In the direction of the Ruti Desert!" ”

"Huh? Desert? General, the Ruti Desert is too dangerous??????"

Burke looked at his general: "If we don't retreat to the Luti Desert, how can we get rid of the pursuit of the Western Qin cavalry?" How could they come back and attack the main force of the Western Qin army? I know it's dangerous to go to the Ruti Desert, but we have to take the risk! ”

The subordinate general was silent for a moment, and saluted: "Okay, I'll go and give the order!" ”

The Great Eclipse cavalry quickly left under the leadership of Berke, and they discarded the superfluous things as they withdrew, retaining water, food, and weapons, and some even had to throw away their beloved armor, in order to get rid of the pursuit of the Western Qin army, this was a last resort, and only in this way could the burden of war horses and camels be lightened.

Soon after Berke withdrew with his cavalry, Erzhu Xianzhong took three thousand Western Qin cavalry to the location where they were just now, and a soldier jumped down from his horse to inspect the footprints and horseshoe prints on the ground, and picked up a few pieces of horse manure and sniffed it under his nose, and then got up and hugged his fist to Erzhu Xianzhong and said: "General, the cavalry of the Great Food Army is divided into twelve groups and goes to the direction of the southern desert, and the time is no more than one tea!" ”

Hearing this, Erzhu Xianzhong's eyes flashed, and he looked at the direction of the Luti Desert and said, "Playing this with Lao Tzu again?" Come on, bring the map! ”

A personal soldier quickly brought the map, and the meticulous workers of Western Qin had already figured out the terrain of the mountains, rivers, passes, and castles in various parts of the Great Food Country and drew a combat map, and almost every general in the army had a large stack of maps of the Great Food Country.

Another soldier laid a wide blanket on the sand, Erzhu Xianzhong spread the map on the blanket, his fingers kept looking for the map in his sight, he said while searching: "Since the Great Food Army has come to break up the tactics again, their purpose is nothing more than two, one is to get rid of our army, and then come back to attack the main force of our army; The second is to disperse our troops, and then concentrate superior forces to carry out various breakthroughs, and then destroy our troops and horses, and then attack and harass the main force of our army! There are mountains blocking the road in both directions, and they just want to take advantage of the complicated terrain of the mountains to get rid of us or attack us, and now they have divided their forces, and with today's communication conditions, they can only determine the meeting place in advance, and then gather to attack one of our men and horses after our army has divided their forces, where is this meeting place? ”

The commander of the first battalion said: "General, you see that the ground is full of things they have discarded, but there are no food bags, water bags and weapons, and there are no people in the north and south directions of this area, and it is not easy to find even a water source, I think they will definitely meet where there is a water source!" ”

"That's right!" Erzhu Xianzhong looked at the first battalion lieutenant with a little appreciation and nodded, and pointed with his finger on the map, this location is located more than three hundred miles away from the north of this place, there is a mountain, called Wolf Head Mountain, the mountains in a radius of hundreds of miles around here are bare, but this Wolf Head Mountain is densely wooded, green grass and green grass, there is a small stream on the mountain that flows down the mountain, and a cold pool has been hit out for many years, which is the only place to get water.

Erzhu Xianzhong stood up and sneered: "Hmph, Berke wants to lure our army into dividing troops to pursue, and then they can concentrate their forces to defeat each of us, and General Ben is not fooled by him!" Pass the order, don't care about the other scattered cavalry of the Great Food Army, all the generals will follow the general to pursue the Great Food Cavalry in the direction of Wolf Head Mountain, and advance at full speed! ”

"Yes!"

Subsequently, the army moved quickly, and the three thousand elite cavalry each rode a horse and led a horse to quickly pursue a small group of cavalry of the Great Cannibal Army in the direction of Wolf Head Mountain, and no one paid attention to the things that the big cannibals threw on the ground, and it took a long time for the soldiers of the Western Qin Army to leave, and no one came out of Nabid Town to pick up things.

Berke ran for more than an hour with five hundred cavalry, and seeing that he was about to arrive at the expected ambush location, an entourage behind him chased and reported: "General, three hundred cavalry of the Western Qin Army have caught up!" ”

These 300 cavalry are the vanguard arranged by Erzhu Xianzhong, one is to confuse Berke, and the other is to explore the way for the army, if there is an ambush in the big food army, these three hundred people are just bait, and when the ambush big food army is lured out, the main cavalry behind will soon be able to arrive.

While galloping on his horse, Berke turned his head to look behind, and sure enough, he saw a wisp of dust rising from the sky on the horizon, and he immediately ordered his general: "You take two hundred people to slow down, and you will not keep a distance from them until the cavalry of the Western Qin Army can see you, and I will take three hundred people to speed up and ambush ahead!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Huang Chen, the commander of the first battalion, led 300 cavalry to chase along the horse hoof prints and horse manure along the way, and finally saw the figure of the Great Food Army, and he immediately shouted: "Speed up and catch up!" ”

"Chase!"

It was another quick horse, but Huang Chen soon found that this cavalry of the Great Food Army always kept a certain distance from his men and horses, he accelerated the pursuit, and the Great Food Army accelerated his speed to escape, if he slowed down on his side, the cavalry of the Great Food Army also slowed down, and a pocket-like basin terrain appeared in front of Huang Chen's line of sight.

"Interesting, interesting!" Huang Chen seemed to sense some tricks of the Great Food Army, and he turned his head and asked the herald behind him, "How far is the main force from us?" ”

"General, ten miles away, this is the closest distance that can be maintained, if you get closer, you will be discovered by the Great Food Army!"

Huang Chen said to the herald: "Go down, there may be an ambush ahead, let the brothers not panic, the main force of our army is ten miles behind us, and we can arrive in the time of a cup of tea, even if we encounter an ambush, as long as we can hold on to a cup of tea, the Great Food Army will die!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Seeing that the cavalry of the Great Food Army of two hundred people entered the hilly terrain with sand dunes on both sides and a basin in the middle, Huang Chen chased after the soldiers without any pressure, and when he chased to the mouth of the basin and stopped, he began to hesitate, but after he saw the cavalry of the Great Food Army fleeing from the valley mouth at the other end, he quickly took the soldiers to beat their horses and continue the pursuit.

At this time, a centurion who was ambushed on the sand dune on the left side said to Burke: "General, the Western Qin general hesitated just now, will he find something?" ”

Burke said: "The terrain here is suitable for ambushes, as long as anyone with military education knows that this is a dangerous place, his hesitation is a normal instinctive reaction, if he does not hesitate to chase people in, I have to wonder if he has noticed something!" Well, don't think about it anymore, they're all coming in soon, ready to attack! ”

"Yes, General!"

"Followers of Allah, my brothers, rush down with me and kill these infidels who have invaded our land!" Berke shouted and drew his Damascus scimitar and rode down first.

"Allah!" The cavalry of the Great Food Army shouted the slogan of Allah and drove their horses to rush towards the cavalry of the Western Qin Army below.