Chapter 117: The Wind Outside the Plug (1)
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After passing Liupan Mountain, everyone continued to move westward, there was no one on the way, and then walked more than 100 miles to the west, it was all over the Gobi, and the customs of the desert were everywhere.
Originally, when he saw the desert, Liu Zhi should have recited Wang Wei's "The desert is lonely and the smoke is straight, and the sun sets on the long river." "Such a majestic poem, and Wang Wei also made this poem when he was on a mission, it is very suitable for the scene.
But somehow, when he stepped on this land, a sense of vicissitudes actually rose in his heart, a sense of sadness and slaughter, the Wuding River is not on their side, but in the north, and on the top of Yan'an County, and they can't fight with the eight poles here, but it is also a pass, and it is also a place of a hundred battles, who knows how many white bones have been buried here from ancient times to the present, and how many lonely souls and wild ghosts have been accumulated!
The grassland, they are already very close to the grassland at this time, and there are many tribes living near the grassland at this time, and it is not enough to lie between them and the grassland, but there is a large desert, the Tengger Desert.
And where there are deserts and grasslands, there will definitely be horse thieves, and their team has become the prey of others.
There are not many people who came to the first temptation, only two or three horses, and they also looked at the mountain from afar, and the other party seemed to be a little eager to try, after all, Liu Zhi's team was not large, in addition to them, there were only seven dart masters, a total of ten people.
Ten people, this can only be regarded as a very small caravan, maybe not a caravan at all, looking at their carriages, there are only two in total, such prey will not be too fat.
However, since the war in Hexi began, there are very few caravans passing through this part of Hexi, even if there are caravans passing by, most of them are armed to the teeth, these guys have a large number of armed guards around them, these people are not easy to gnaw, rashly start is very likely to steal chickens and rice, the scale of the tribes on the Gobi is not particularly large, the nearby Tang Dynasty army will come to clear every once in a while, too many people will become the target of the Tang army, the Tang army is expanding the army, is in need of a large number of war horses, And these tribes are relatively small in scale, and the number of war horses is also some, which is simply fragrant in the eyes of the Tang army, so many tribes in Hexi have migrated north.
To the north is the Tiele Department of the Western Turks, which is a large tribe, strong soldiers and horses, as long as they are accepted, then their safety will be guaranteed, but to join the Tiele Department, you must sacrifice half of your sheep and horses, and this price is not small, so there are many tribes who are very hesitant, and it is not easy to be in the cracks.
But a smaller tribe like them is too small, and the Tang army will not take it seriously, at least it will not deliberately send troops to recruit for them, and the gains outweigh the losses.
However, small tribes have advantages and disadvantages, the biggest disadvantage is that their number is too small, on the grassland, the number of tribes determines the strength of the tribe, the more population, the more warriors can go on horses to fight, and the stronger their strength.
In order to compete for the most fertile pasture and the most abundant water source, the tribes on the grassland need to go through some competition and even fight.
Larger tribes have their own fiefdoms, migrating and surviving on a large piece of land, while small tribes naturally do not have such good treatment, go north, there is the world of the Turks, their tribes are too few in number, too weak, they can only become the other party's prisoners, even if they offer half of the treasure, the other party may not be able to look at it, it is very likely to swallow them up directly, the men are killed or left as slaves, the women are all rewarded to the warriors, as for the old people, they have no use value, they will be all killed.
The law of the steppe is iron and blood, and there is no mercy.
"Liu Gongzi, it seems that we are being targeted!"
With the dart is a dart master surnamed Xia, he is in his thirties, tall, at first glance he has practiced martial arts, the next plate is very solid, the riding skills are also very exquisite, he has run through the line of the Western Regions many times, and he is more familiar with the situation in this area.
"Well, I saw it!"
Liu Zhi nodded, knowing that it could be big or small at this time, when he left Chang'an, he had already inquired about the situation on the way, and he had already been prepared to encounter horse thieves, and he was not particularly panicked at this time.
"What tribe are these people from? How many of them are there? ”
Although Liu Zhi knew the situation in this area, the big tribes were basically gone, but there were still a lot of smaller tribes, and these people were not able to compete for pastures and water sources, so he set his sights on the trade routes in the south, often robbing the caravans in the past, their methods were very cruel, and they often did not leave a living mouth when encountering the caravans, so as to avoid the survivors of the caravan from leaking their news to the pursuing army, although the current army's control over this area is not very strong.
"These people look like Shatuo people, but Shatuo people shouldn't rob our convoys, they are only interested in large caravans, these people should be the fox-bearded people who fled here to the east, you see, their scimitar is the symbol, I recognize this weapon, although the warriors on the grassland all use scimitars, but these people's scimitars are obviously different, this is the forging technology left over from the Kushan country back then, the scimitar is forged by the cold air, extremely sharp!"
Liu Zhi was a little surprised to hear that this dart master surnamed Xia was able to judge the origin of the other party through the weapon in the opponent's hand, it seems that Dewey did send a good hand to himself this time, and there is a guide who is so familiar with the local situation, it is much more comfortable and safe on the way.
"Xingtian, teach them a lesson, don't kill people!"
The other party is engaged in the business of licking blood from the knife edge, Liu Zhi is not a good man and a woman, he will use his own means to tell the other party that if you want to beat me, you have to pay the price!
Fang Xingtian let out an "oh" and stretched out his hand to pull out a javelin from the carriage on the side, this kind of javelin was used by them to set up camp when they set up camp and set up a fixed stake in the corner of the tent.
The two horse thieves looked a little surprised, they were in the upper hand position, there was actually a distance of about a hundred paces from the convoy, at this distance, ordinary bows and arrows were shot from the bottom up, basically there was no lethality, on this kind of terrain, the wind in Taniguchi was actually very strong, the arrows would be blown back, and what was the other party going to do when he picked up a javelin?
Not only the two horse thieves were a little puzzled, but even several of the dart masters in the team were a little puzzled at this time, they had already seen that Fang Xingtian should be the guard who followed this young noble son, looking at his walking posture, he knew that his martial arts should not be bad, but what did he want to do at this time? Could it be that he is swinging a gun and rushing to kill? The other party is a cunning scout, and they are in the upper hand, as soon as they see your side to charge, they will definitely turn around and run, these nomads are a people on horseback, with superb riding skills, and the horses are better than the horses in the Central Plains, and they must not be able to catch up.
The two horse thieves also had the same thoughts in their hearts at this time, they wanted to see what this person was going to do, as long as they didn't outflank them, the two people on their side could control the horses to pull around and crush each other with bows and arrows.
Does Fang Xingtian want to chase them?
Of course not, he held the javelin in one hand, and with a slid of his body, he had jumped off his horse.
Now everyone is even more strange, could he ...... Could he be...... Do you want to throw this javelin a hundred paces away? How is this possible?
Generally speaking, whether it is infantry or cavalry, will be equipped with a certain number of throwing guns when the combat is needed, of which the cavalry's throwing guns are slightly shorter, so as to be easy to carry, the purpose of the battle is to throw a large number of short guns on the eve of the sudden contact between the two sides, at a distance of twenty or thirty paces, to penetrate the opponent's shield or disrupt the opponent's cavalry formation, and to kill and injure the opponent in large quantities, thereby reducing the morale of the opponent.
The lethality of the throwing gun is huge, because its own weight is very heavy, with excellent armor-piercing effect, and the close-range throwing gun can even break through the heavy cavalry equipped with heavy armor, this kind of cavalry is simply like a tank on the battlefield, charging and killing, invincible.
But the combat distance of throwing a spear is only twenty or thirty steps, that is, about thirty meters, and at this time, the opponent is a hundred steps away from them, one hundred and twenty meters, not to mention throwing a spear at such a distance, it is a little difficult to shoot a bow and arrow, after all, they are in a state of headwind.
Liu Zhi pursed his lips, this kid, he told him not to go too far, he actually thought of such a method, it's too messy, but if it hits this time, the deterrent effect will definitely be very strong!
Hehe, sure enough, he will pretend to be forced, the back waves of the Yangtze River urge the front waves, and the front waves are shot dead on the beach!
Just when Liu Zhi sighed and the others were puzzled and surprised, Fang Xingtian shouted fiercely, rushed forward a few steps, and then with a swipe, the spear in his hand had already been thrown, turning into a lightning-like black shadow in the air, and quickly rushed towards the other party's two horses.
This sudden change came too suddenly, maybe it wasn't called a change, but it was completely different from the scene that everyone thought about before, who would have thought that at such a distance, the gun he threw could really fly out, fly so far, so fast!
Burst!
A dull sound of metal entering the flesh sounded, and the knight on horseback obviously fell directly from the war horse without the slightest preparation, and the war horse was actually pushed backwards by this spear and flew out more than three feet, only then did it hit a rock wall, and the flesh and blood were blurred, and the dead could not die again.
One of the two thieves had fallen off his horse, and the other had not yet recovered from this incident, for he had only seen the young man on the other side in a throwing gesture, and before he could see his movements clearly, the spear shot straight at him like a bolt of lightning, and crashed into the mount of his companion beside him, and then knocked the mount upside down.
What happened in an instant made his brain go blank, and he couldn't accept such information for a while, and he couldn't figure out why a throwing gun could fly so far, and there was such a powerful force to kill a strong war horse. Is this man a man of God?
For a moment, his eyes looking at Fang Xingtian had changed, and a kind of fear from his heart had spread, because he shook his head when he saw the other party, and pulled out another throwing gun!
For a while, he was so frightened that he was in the air, and the other party shook his head because he felt sorry for not being able to shoot it just now, and at this time, he pulled out a throwing gun, did he want to throw it at himself? Can you dodge it yourself? With such a huge force, if it crashes into his body, what will happen to him......
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and after thinking about it, he didn't dare to stay here any longer, so he hurriedly turned his horse's head and began to run.
And on the ground, the knight who fell down before actually had nothing to do, he just fell down, and he was not injured, but his mount was dead, and his companion also abandoned himself and fled, he glanced back, and also saw the throwing spear in Fang Xingtian's hand, and he was so frightened that he immediately got up with his hands and feet, and ran in the direction of his companion.
And here, seeing the other two fleeing, Fang Xingtian shrugged his shoulders and put the throwing gun in his hand back into the car.
On the side, several dart masters were still in the shock just now and did not recover.
Xia Yuntian is well-informed, and from the other party's exposed hand just now, he noticed that the opponent's martial arts are unfathomable, and his cultivation has reached an incredible realm, and being able to throw a seven-foot-long spear so far shows that the other party is born with divine power, and this kind of thing can only be done with strength, but after throwing the spear and flying such a distance, it still has such a powerful lethality, and it can still knock a horse into the air, which cannot be explained by innate divine power.
A horse, weighing seven or eight hundred pounds, such a behemoth, was pushed upside down and flew out three feet away, which in itself was already very amazing, and it was done more than a hundred steps away, if this kind of thing was not seen with his own eyes, he would never believe that it was true, and in addition to this matter, there was another thing that made him feel very surprised.
That is, the throwing gun is a very penetrating thing, after shooting into the body of the war horse, since it has such a great force to push it upside down, then why did the throwing gun not directly penetrate the body of the war horse?
Thinking about this matter carefully, I feel very terrifying, this person's ability to control strength has reached such a point, this is really unimaginable, and the other party looks like he is only seventeen or eighteen years old! (To be continued.) )