Chapter VIII Small-scale raids
"It's here!" When Li Tianhao heard the news, he jumped high with joy, startling both Senas and Alam. Li Tianhao snatched Mueller's note and read it carefully, and then returned to his original expression.
"Mueller listened to the order, immediately prepared 500 soldiers, set off immediately, and must arrive at the ambush site within three days!"
Mueller gave a deep salute: "Yes!" With that, he immediately turned and left.
"Boss, what kind of goods are you, and you have to send troops?" Alam leaned up and asked.
Li Tianhao patted his head and said, "It's our own goods, but it takes some effort." Anyway, the two of you are idle, so let's complete this task together. β
"It's okay to help with the fight, but there is a fee." Xenas picked up his great sword path again.
"What a money-grubbing guy, I see." Li Tianhao said and walked out of the courtyard with Senas Alam.
Pokel rode his horse, taking in the strange mountains around him. As a member of the Li family's merchant group, Pokel is not only a loyal warrior, but also an excellent weapon maker, which is why he was chosen by Elda this time. Li was dissatisfied with the level of weapons in the Dils Mountains, so he urgently needed a good weaponsmith to forge better weapons.
Ten days earlier, Pokel's ship had docked at the port of Portsmo. This time, Elda commissioned him to bring Li Tianhao 500 horses from Paz, plus a batch of special weapons, but all this had to be concealed from the Yaji army in Port Portsmo. As soon as he got off the boat, Pokel carefully inquired about the situation in the area, and based on this information, he devised a strategy to sneak out of Portsmoport. He falsely claimed that he had gone to the Duchy of Palchi to sell horses and silverware, and in the face of the current situation of bandits, he demanded that Port Portsmo send an escort and was willing to pay a considerable amount of money for protection.
Antmetheus, the consul of Potsimo, looked at the request, and the reward was quite generous, and he also gave a gift for himself. However, if an escort was sent, Port Potsmo's own defenses would be weak, and in the end, after some bargaining, Andermetheus agreed to Pokel's request, but reduced the requested 500 guards to 200. Pokel couldn't ask for this, if it weren't for the suspicion that too few guards would arouse suspicion, he would have liked to have less.
Along the way, Pokel was afraid that the flying pigeon he sent would not deliver the letter. Seeing that he was approaching the agreed ambush site, and that he could not see any sign of an ambush, Pokel's sweat gradually soaked his clothesβif he really missed it, he would be escorted into the territory of Palchi, and the weapons and horses would be snapped up when they entered Palchi.
Pocker was thinking about it when he suddenly heard a sound breaking through the air. It's an arrow! Pokel reacted immediately. When I raised my eyes and looked again, I saw that the centurion of the Yaji Army, who was walking at the front of the team, had been shot through the neck with an arrow! The Yaji army was in chaos, and Pokel knew that Li Tianhao's people were already in place, so he hurriedly shouted to his subordinates: "Quickly hide under the horse's belly!" β
In fact, without his orders, Pocker's men had already jumped off their horses and hid under the horse's belly. Aki cursed the incompetent merchants as they formed a circle. At this time, flags were waving on the surrounding hills, and shouts were like thunder. A group of thieves had already rushed down the mountain beam. Led by a tall horse, on which sat a big man with a giant sword, Pegasus jumped into the formation of the Yaki army, and with a wave of the giant sword, a Yaji officer was beheaded, and then the giant sword danced into a dark whirlwind, and the blood of the Yaji army splattered everywhere as if it had been pumped out by a water pump. The Yaji Army couldn't resist such a brave opponent at all, and the circular formation instantly cracked a gap. At this time, the thief army that followed up also joined the battle group, and this group of thieves acted in a uniform manner, with tacit understanding, even Yaji's regular army may not have such skills, not to mention that Yaji's army lost its commander from the beginning, and the situation suddenly became out of control.
Pokel watched the battle unfold from under the horse's belly. This thief army only has about a hundred people, but in terms of its combat ability, it is more than enough to disperse these two hundred Yaji troops, but the method of the young master Li Tianhao will never be so simple and direct. While thinking about it, the second team of thieves came over again, and the leader Pokele recognized it at a glance, it was Mueller! It was only at this time that Pokel relieved himself, and there was no doubt that the thief army in front of him was indeed sent by the young master.
If the Yaqui Army had resisted desperately, Muller's attack declared their complete defeat. However, this was not the final blow, and Li Tianhao's team made the Yaji army completely collapse from behind. The soldiers of the Yaji Army did not even have any hope of escaping, they were completely surrounded by the three-way thief army in the center, everyone's sense of combat had collapsed, there was no formation at all, everyone was fighting on their own, in this case, either kneeling down and surrendering, or dying on the battlefield. Some of the soldiers thought of the horses, which, though they did not care so much without a saddle, at least ran faster than on two legs. However, as soon as the men turned to the horses, Pokel's men came out from under the horse's belly and cut them to the ground one by one with their Pascutlass in their hands! These merchants are actually the armed guards of the Li family's merchant group, and they are not weak, and the Yaji Army is not their opponent at all. In this way, the Yaji Army is like a dying man who has been given the final blow, and almost every Yaqi Army soldier understands that he is being put in by the other party! The only way to survive now is to abandon your weapons and surrender! The battle was over in an instant, and all the surviving Yaqui soldiers threw down their weapons and fell to their knees, begging for their lives.
Li Tianhao motioned to his subordinates to stop killing, jumped off his horse and walked towards Pokel: "Welcome, Pokel, it seems that Elda told you how much I need your ability here, right?" β
Pokel hurriedly stepped forward, knelt down on one knee and said, "My lord, long time no see." On behalf of all the Li family business groups, I would like to express my greetings to my lord! β
"Alright, no need to be polite. Tell me, what good things did you bring this time? β
Pokel agreed, stood up, and said, "My lord, these are five hundred horses from Paz, which have been trained to be used directly as military horses; The sacks on horseback were all silver utensils, and they contained a thousand crossbow parts from the Silk Country. β
When Li Tianhao heard this, he was overjoyed, and patted Pokel's shoulder again and again: "Okay! Well done! With these five hundred horses, we have five hundred cavalry! With this thousand-pay crossbow, we will be able to make a thousand powerful crossbows from the high-quality wood of Dils! With you, the weapon master, we have countless sharp swords! Come with me, Pockel, and we'll take care of you! β
"The villain does as my lord wills." Pokel saluted and followed behind Li Tianhao.