Chapter 208: Clever Schemes
At nightfall, the black-pressed rebels appeared thirty miles outside the Jinsha Pass. As the saying goes, if there are more than 1,000 soldiers, you can't see the end, if you have more than 10,000 soldiers, you can't see the edge, 20,000 people line up in six columns to march, looking at it from afar, boundless, and the people who see it are dizzy for a while.
The leader of this rebel army also knew that there were not many soldiers and horses in Jinsha Pass, so he was arrogant and unscrupulous along the way, and he had already forgotten all the taboos of "not entering the forest and not drinking when encountering water". Although it was already dark and they encountered such a forest, they did not order the troops to stop their advance, but went straight through the forest.
Xie Chen took a hundred cavalry guards to hide in the canopy, quietly watching the enemy pass by. Although Xie Chen's personality is also relatively impatient, after several battles in a row, he has also developed absolute calmness when performing tasks, and these hundred Xiao Cavalry guards are also the elite of the elite, so although it is boring to lurk, no one makes a sound.
Before the arrival of the enemy, Xie Chen had already made specific arrangements for everyone's division of labor, who was responsible for killing the scouts, who was responsible for killing the team leader, who was responsible for setting fires, and who was responsible for breaking off, everyone had already been familiar with each other, and now they only had to wait for the enemy's baggage troops to appear in front of them.
The long procession marched for a long time before the rear team carrying grain and grass materials appeared in Xie Chen's eyes. A rebel officer rode at the head of the procession, his pheasant feather on his head making it easy to identify him. It may be that the imperial court did not have too many troops to use, so the leader of the rebel army did not pay enough attention to the grain and grass, and the number of troops responsible for escorting the grain and grass was only a few hundred.
Xie Chen let out an eagle's cry, which was a pre-agreed signal to annihilate the enemy, and at the same time, he jumped down from the tree, and the short sword in his hand swept horizontally towards the major artery in the general's neck.
Xie Chen was confident enough in his own ability, and when he jumped down, he was already full of the belief that he would kill with one blow, but he didn't think that the rebel general was not incompetent. Seeing that he was no longer able to block Xie Chen's blow, he was in a hurry, and directly fell sideways from the horse, avoiding the attack of the short sword.
Xie Chen saw that the first shot was missed, and while secretly blaming himself for underestimating the enemy, his hands were not idle. With a loud roar, the short sword in his hand flew like a bolt of lightning towards the rebel general who fell to the ground.
The officer was not weak, and although he had just fallen from his horse, he was able to draw the long knife at his waist in the flash of lightning, and did his best to swing the flying short sword.
A sneer appeared at the corner of Xie Chen's mouth, and with a sharp flick of his left hand, another short sword flew out, accurately stabbing into the throat of the rebel general.
Xie Chen rushed forward and pulled back his short sword with shaking hands. Blood arrows shot from between the rebel generals' necks. Shook twice and fell. Xie Chen rushed forward, picked up the opponent's long knife, and slashed it with a wave of his arm, beheading the general of the team transporting grain and grass.
At this time, the Xiao Cavalry guards had also killed all the scouts on the periphery. Xie Chen held the head of the general, jumped onto the grain truck beside him, and roared like a killing god: "The enemy general is dead. Surrender or kill! ”
That general was one of the few good hands in the rebels, and the rest of the rebels saw that the master in their minds was actually killed by the other party in the blink of an eye. For a moment, they all froze in place, not knowing what to do.
These cavalry guards had experienced the battle formation continuously, and knew that they must not show mercy to the enemy's subordinates on the battlefield, and before jumping down, Xie Chen unmistakably issued an order to completely annihilate the enemy. So although the rebels were in place, they were not idle, and the blades in their hands flickered. In the blink of an eye, there were more than a hundred more rebel corpses on the ground.
The rest of the rebels reacted and hurriedly picked up their weapons to resist. Among them, the soldiers closest to Xie Chen rushed over brandishing their swords.
"Look for death!" Xie Chen snorted, the long and short swords in his hand slashed through the air in a seeping arc, and the three rebels covered their throats with their hands. Unwillingly, he fell, and the blood mist splattered out like a fountain between his fingers.
The soldiers of the Horse Guards remained unmoved, silently harvesting the lives of the enemy one by one.
In just a few minutes, the army transporting grain and grass was completely wiped out, and there were no casualties among the cavalry guards. Everyone was full of excitement and red faces, scrambling to squeeze towards Xie Chen, pulling their necks and shouting, "It's so fucking cool." General, let's catch up with the enemy in front of us and kill them! ”
"!" Xie Chen wiped the blood stains on the short sword while scolding with a smile: "There are 20,000 enemy troops in front, just rely on our 100 people, even if people stand still and cut us, it is enough to exhaust us to death." What are you doing catching up? Waiting to fuck someone's ass? ”
"Haha!" The soldier laughed and said, "General." We killed so hard. It's not fun to go back like this, we definitely can't kill the first 20,000 people, but it's definitely okay to kill a few hundred more people, let's catch up. ”
Xie Chen put away the short sword and said, "There are some fights after the battle, so don't be in a hurry for a while." The military order we received this time is to burn the enemy's grain and grass, and be sure to preserve our strength, the enemy in front, the Holy Lord has already had another plan to deal with them, so we don't have to worry about it. Now hurry up and set fire to the grain and grass, and then retreat. ”
"All burned?" Looking at the baggage carts full of grain and grass, the soldiers of the cavalry guard felt a little reluctant.
"Burn it all, not a single grain will be left." Xie Chen resolutely ordered.
"Let's take some back with us." Several soldiers began to carry food.
"You don't fucking understand military orders, what's the matter?" Xie Chen raised his foot and kicked down a subordinate and scolded, "I'm going to burn it all, burn it all, do you understand?" There are still thirty miles away from Guannai, when will you be able to climb back with such a big bag of grain? ”
"Yes, yes!" When the soldiers saw that Xie Chen was on fire, they stopped inking, took out the flints one after another, and ran to the various grain trucks, and after a while, the lights of the fire were lit up one after another, and with the help of the wind, the fire soon spread.
"Withdraw!" Xie Chen gave the order to retreat.
Xie Chen led people to burn the rebels' grain and grass under the instruction of Li Guanqi, and the rebels in front found that there was a fire in the rear, so they hurriedly turned back, but when they arrived at the arson site of the Xiao Cavalry Guard, only the burned grain and grass and a charred rebel corpse remained, and Xie Chen and the others did not even leave a single hair.
"Bastard." The leader of the rebel army was angry, and he drew his sword and slashed at the surrounding trees. (To be continued......)