Chapter Ninety-Three: Fighting
"Drive, drive!" The three thousand horse bandits raised their scimitars and shouted to each other and rushed towards the caravan, and the momentum was breathtaking, which made many people in the caravan chill.
Xu Kai said loudly: "Raise the crossbow!" ”
When the guards heard this, they all raised their bows and crossbows.
When the horse bandits who rushed to the front were within the range of the bow and crossbow, Xu Kai shouted: "Release the arrow!" ”
"Whoosh!" Hundreds of crossbow arrows were shot out in an instant, and the horse bandits who rushed in front immediately fell a group, but those horse bandits continued to rush towards the caravan without fear of death.
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! Xu Kai roared desperately.
Bows and crossbows are expensive to cost, and they used to be only used in elite armies, but since the seventh year of the Great Cause, there have been many thieves all over the world, and many large families have bought them to equip their own guards.
Because the use of bows and crossbows is relatively simple, it does not require too much arm strength, and ordinary people only need to master the skills to use it, and the lethality is no worse than that of bows and arrows.
At this time, after several rounds of arrows fired by the caravan guards, the horse bandits had suffered nearly 100 casualties, but the people who rushed to the forefront of the horse bandits also rushed to the front of the caravan guards at this time.
In front of the caravan guard, several horse troughs had been arranged before, and a lot of thistles were sprinkled in front of the horse troughs, which had a good defense effect on the cavalry.
When the horses stepped on thistles, they stumbled and threw people out, but the bandits behind them still did not stop in the slightest, and continued to rush forward with a mad shout, trampling the fallen man to death under the horse.
"Bang, bang!" Several horses crashed into the spikes of the trough, and the horses died instantly, and the people on the horses were also hacked to death by the guards with weapons, but the trough was also knocked off a bit.
After Li Yin saw this situation, he knew that as long as those horse troughs were knocked open, and the horse bandits could no longer block them, their caravan could only be slaughtered by these horse bandits.
When the horse bandits rushed to the front and rear of the caravan, the death toll of the caravan guards also rose rapidly, Li Yin looked at the panicked merchants around him, and said loudly: "Everyone, the guards can't stand for long, we surrender to death, and we can't run away if we escape, for today's plan, we can only take up arms and fight with them!" ”
Zhao Lang, the leader of the caravan, also shouted: "Brother Li is right, now we can only fight with them!" ”
Li Yin pointed a knife at the horse bandits, "If you don't want to die, kill them with me!" As he spoke, he grabbed the horse in his legs and rushed forward.
These more than 900 merchants, with a lot of people with flexible minds, but have never held weapons, but most of them, because of the perennial walking outside the border, have a few strength, not to mention the bow and horse skill, it is no problem to carry a knife and cut people.
If at any other time, these traders were to fight the bandits, most of them would not dare.
However, rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry, and people will die if they are forced to be in a hurry, and now at this time, as Li Yin just said, if they don't fight with the horse bandits, they will be dead, so they can only choose to fight hard.
So when Li Yin rushed towards the horse bandits, these merchants also rode their horses one after another, took up their weapons, followed Li Yin's back, and killed the enemy.
When Li Yin led people to rush to the front of the horse bandits, the horse bandits at the front just knocked the horse trough open, and many horse bandits poured in like a flood and killed people when they saw them.
Li Yin slapped his horse forward, raised his knife and fell, cut down a horse bandit, swung the knife again, and slashed again! At this time, the more simple and rude the answer, the more powerful it is.
After Li Yin slashed and killed several horse bandits, the horse bandits' offensive was slightly blocked, and the merchants were greatly invigorated, and they immediately killed the horse bandits, and the two sides began to start a bloody battle.
The so-called capture the thief first captures the king, Li Yin feels that in the current situation, just the desperate fight of everyone is still more defeated and less winning, if you want to turn defeat into victory, the only way to kill him is to kill a few of his bandits.
Li Yin had already been instructed by Zhao Lang, the leader of the caravan, and knew that those people were bandit leaders, so he immediately led people to kill the nearest bandit leader.
The bandit leader was very strong for a while, so he walked relatively forward, and when he saw his own men and horses in front of him avoiding the side, he felt that something was wrong, and when he was about to go elsewhere, Li Yin's big knife had already slashed at him.
The bandit leader hurriedly raised his knife to fight, and after a few clicks, he was cut into two pieces by Li Yin's waist, Li Yin rubbed his head on the tip of the knife and raised it high, and the horse bandits around him suddenly panicked.
"Agamou is dead, Agamou is killed!" A horse bandit shouted, and Li Yin only then knew the name of the person who was killed.
Taking advantage of this panic, Li Yin saw a bandit leader in the distance, and the bandit leader seemed to be directing people to intercept and kill Li Yin.
Li Yin immediately drew the bowstring with an arrow, and an arrow shot out, hitting the heart of the bandit leader, and the bandit leader was also killed in an instant.
This group of 3,000 horse bandits, there were a total of five bandit leaders, and now they were killed by Li Yin in the blink of an eye, and they were immediately in a panic.
After panicking for a while, the horse bandit team finally stopped attacking and retreated like a low tide, and everyone in the caravan shouted excitedly.
After a while, the two teams of the bandits who had died in the bandit team left the team, and the two groups together had about 800 people, and in addition to the casualties of the two sides in the battle, there were only about 1,600 horse bandits left near the caravan.
Although the horse bandits still outnumbered the caravans, they could no longer attack for a short time.
After burying the corpses with snow, the caravan continued cautiously, and the bandits, although they followed, did not attack again.
As the caravan approached the Tabu tribe, the bandits finally left in order to avoid conflict with the Tabu tribe.
Although they didn't know if those horse bandits would come back, everyone in the caravan breathed a sigh of relief, and their hearts that had been held in their throats were also relaxed.
After the caravan had moved forward for another hour, suddenly, there was another sound of horses' hooves, and everyone immediately became nervous, "Could it be that the horse bandits are here again?" ”
But the people were soon relieved, for they saw from afar that the number of people who had come was not very large, only about twenty horsemen.
"Brother, look, it's a caravan of the Han people!" A sound like a silver bell rang.
Then, a jujube red horse was the first to appear in front of everyone, and there was a beautiful girl sitting on the jujube red horse, holding a horsewhip and a silver knife at her waist, and she was looking at the caravan with wide eyes and curiosity.
"Ador, don't run so fast!" Among the people who came on horseback, an older man shouted with concern.
Those people also quickly came to the girl named Adol, and after seeing that Adol was okay, they breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the caravan.