Chapter 501: A Sudden Armageddon
With so many livestock, it is obviously not something that these thousands of cavalry can bring, because such a small number of people are basically only enough to take care of these miscellaneous animals, and there is no need to do anything else. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info It's all at this juncture, obviously there can't be a certain tribe that is grazing in the direction of Shi Lei, and their travel speed is obviously not like that.
To say that these people came to give gifts to the Tang Dynasty army, it seems that it is unreasonable, they have their brains pumped, so they will do this kind of thing that clearly shows that meat buns beat dogs, and the Tang Dynasty army can't simply withdraw the army just because they accepted this kind of bribe, even a political idiot like Shi Lei knows that there is no such possibility.
Or these guys suddenly got their senses, this is planning to kill Shi Lei and them by relying on a large number of livestock, which is obviously unrealistic. If their more than 1,000 elite cavalry were trampled to death by the herd, or in the endless desert, they would have made history, but they would have laughed for thousands of years.
So the only possible explanation is that there are corresponding manpower scattered in other directions around, and these people and livestock on the front are just sweet bait, specially used to hook up with Shi Lei and them, in order to naturally trap them, the elite of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the henchman of the current Tuyuhun army.
Shi Lei just lacks political wisdom, and he is not a real idiot, but if you think about such a thing, you can still figure it out. And there are also the Xue brothers next to him, this kind of fierce general who has been pretending to be brainless, in fact, the guy who is not bad in brains, is really mentioning Shi Lei, so Shi Lei decisively sent his own scout team on land and water to go out to explore the possible movements of other enemies.
Sure enough, soon Qi Tianhou and they reported that on the left and right sides of the team, they had also found traces of enemy troops, and the number of people was much more than that of the front, and they had formed the shape of a pocket formation, gradually surrounding Shi Lei and them.
The news brought back by the flying eagles also confirmed this. Now some Shi Lei has a headache, whether to withdraw or fight, they must make up their minds as soon as possible, and there is not much time left for them to hesitate.
Shi Lei arranged manpower as soon as possible and sent the news to the rear camp. At the same time, scouts and eagles were once again sent to conduct a larger exploration.
Because he was very worried that the tens of thousands of horses found so far might be just part of a larger plan, if Shi Lei and his vanguard team, as well as Tuyuhun's men and horses and livestock, were all bait, maybe there were more armies waiting for them behind.
Shi Lei needs to figure out whether this possibility exists, because as the vanguard, in addition to playing the momentum of the army and winning a beautiful first battle, they also have the task of detecting the enemy's movements for the army.
If the news he reported was not timely and comprehensive, and thus the army was encircled, then his guilt would be greater, and he would basically not run away from taking most of the blame.
The more he thought about it, the more scared Shi Lei became, and once again increased the intensity of exploration and further expanded the area. Fortunately, the number of flying eagles is enough, if there is really such an ambush, the number of people must be indispensable, and there will definitely be nothing to hide in the eyes of flying eagles.
Before the first group of enemy troops really came into sight, the news brought back by the flying eagles once again confirmed Shi Lei's thoughts.
I don't know if they don't deal with each other very well, or if they have their own areas of responsibility, anyway, it is indeed in another place that is nearly a day's journey away, and another tribal alliance composed of tens of thousands of horses was discovered, and it seems that the composition is still relatively complicated, and it is likely to include those Qiang and Dangxiang people who defected to the Tuyuhun side.
They weren't in a hurry to come over and eat Shi Lei and them, and they didn't know if they were waiting to see a good show. Or it's more like planning to have a praying mantis to catch cicadas, with the yellow finch behind, and the target is either aimed at Li Jing, who is the main force where they are, or planning to eat the partial division that came to the rescue.
It's just that the battlefield is now one-way transparent to the Tang side, no matter what idea they have, they will naturally have Li Jing, the generalissimo, to deal with it, and Shi Lei only needs to complete his duties in accordance with the military order.
Probably Li Jing also knew that he couldn't expect the three fierce to make up his mind, so when the latest battle report was in hand, he would come back with his military orders with the messenger.
The military order clearly required Shi Lei and them to wait until they had joined the cavalry of the Qibi He Li clan who had rushed to support, and then they would attack the thousands of Tuyuhun cavalry in front of them and pull the so-called ambush circle here. Li Jinghui personally commanded the army and then rushed to cover all these tens of thousands of people for him as much as possible.
As for the tribal alliance on the other side, there is naturally Li Daliang who leads the men and horses under his command to be responsible for leveling down. In this way, the two-pronged approach can completely solve most of Tuyuhun's resistance at one time.
Of course, this seemingly simple battle plan has no low requirements for Shi Lei and the Xue brothers, as well as Qi Bi He Li, and it also involves the connection between them and the main force, if Li Jing can't arrive in time, Shi Lei and the others will be really dumplings, and it is difficult to say whether they can escape with their lives.
And Li Daliang's way must also be able to win in battle in order to reduce the pressure on this way, otherwise Li Jing's army will also face the dilemma of being flanked in front and back.
Therefore, this battle is definitely a common test for several large armies, and no link can be wrong, otherwise it is likely to be a situation of losing all the games.
Of course, if everything goes well, the results of this battle will definitely be very brilliant, and Shi Lei and they will naturally not run.
Fighting a war in such a realm is like this, you can't play too much work at all, in the final analysis, you still have to rely on strength to speak.
Before the arrival of Qi Bi He Li's team, Shi Lei and the Xue brothers' subordinates were quietly waiting for the decisive battle that came in advance to really start.
Most of them are relatively silent, and they are constantly stuffing some high-calorie food into their mouths to replenish their energy. At the same time, he sat on the war horse and closed his eyes to recuperate, and raised his state to the strongest state as much as possible.
Some of the people who were shouting there were basically grassroots officers like team leaders, who were repeating all kinds of precautions to their subordinates.
Like these horsemen in the vanguard ranks, they are all old soldiers, and they will not be like new soldiers, who must be extremely nervous or excited in every big battle. There are no people who will keep chatting with people there, because after talking too much, they will definitely get tired, and the excitement period of the body will pass, and the state of the war will be much worse.
This kind of small experience is not difficult for veterans to master, and it is not something that others can talk about casually, they will definitely be able to understand, it is a valuable experience that is exchanged for life, and those who can't learn it are likely to use their lives to pay this expensive tuition. Naturally, this is rarely the case in a carefully selected elite team.
Shi Lei's mind is also spinning, he is constantly determining a more ideal direction of engagement with the enemy, as well as the general direction of the assault, according to the movements of the three enemies reported by his subordinates and the flying eagle.
Not only do you want the ambush team of the other two roads to appear as soon as possible, but you can't really trap yourself in the encirclement, you also have to consider the obstacles that the huge herd of beasts may bring, there is a pre-planned impact route, it is very necessary, fortunately, Shi Lei seems to have a little talent in this regard, his battlefield intuition is relatively strong, and he can often lead his subordinates to find the enemy's weak link, and hit it with one blow.
By the time Qi He Li led his own cavalry and Shi Lei and successfully joined them, the Tuyuhun cavalry, who was facing Shi Lei head-on, had already appeared in sight. The billowing smoke and dust behind them really looked very bluffing, but what Shi Lei valued more was naturally these real opponents.
As Shi Lei expected, Murong Fuyun made a heavy bet on this trip. probably knew that Shi Lei and they were extremely strong, so the team that resisted them did not choose miscellaneous soldiers from other tribes, but the elite directly under his own command, which can be regarded as the real top strong soldiers of Tuyuhun. It looks like it's really going to be a tough battle.
In this way, what was originally thought to be a small-scale contact battle, but it turned out to be a fierce battle that developed into the ultimate Armageddon, and it was a real fight.