Qin Dong's series of arrangements made the horse bandits' attacks end in failure again and again, but in fact, these nine horse bandits did not really lose much troops, the number of their dead was very small, and the lost combat effectiveness was basically injured, as long as they were treated in time and rested for a period of time, they could recover, and many lightly wounded people were not seriously harmed at all, and they could fight again in a critical situation.

Torches were lit within two hundred meters in front of the outermost defensive ring of the camp, and the burning torches illuminated the surroundings of the camp, so that as long as the horse bandits appeared, they could be spotted by the people of the camp even three or four hundred meters away.

The wounded horses lay on the ground screaming and struggling to get up, but no matter how hard they tried, they could not get up, and the badly wounded horse bandits lay on the ground and groaned, no one cared whether they lived or died, and fate seemed to predestined them to face extreme misery.

Looking at the corpses of horse bandits, seriously injured and horses, and injured horses lying everywhere in front of the camp, Afar couldn't help but ask Qin Dong in front of him: "My lord, there is something that my subordinates don't understand very well, I hope your subordinates can solve their doubts!" ”

"Oh, what don't you understand?" Qin Dong turned his head and glanced at Alfald strangely, he did have a great impression of Alfard, this is a very good learner, and he has a tendency to ask questions shamelessly.

Alfald said: "My lord, with the strength of our camp, we can attack those horse bandits when they are trapped in the horse pit and stumble and cause great trouble, and even annihilate the horse bandits who have attacked twice in a row, my subordinates don't understand why the adults don't do this?" The subordinates do not believe that the intelligence of the adults will not be able to think of this, and the adults must have other arrangements or ideas."

Qin Dong looked at Alfald. Nodding and smiling, he said, "Yes, it's good that you can think of this, with your current ability, you can command a thousand people!" ”

"Thank you, Lord praise!" Afald hurriedly saluted.

"Hmm. I ask you, how many of us are there? Qin Dong asked.

Alfald felt as if he couldn't keep up with Qin Dong's thinking rhythm at all, he couldn't understand why Qin Dong suddenly asked such a question, and this question was something they all knew, but he still answered: "With the more than fifty guards of Gebuus, we have a total of more than two hundred and thirty people's combat strength!" ”

Qin Dong said: "Yes, there are only more than 200 of us. And there are more than 800 horse bandits here, Afald, we are not here to fight the horse bandits. We're going to the Eastern Roman Empire, and even if we kill all the 800 bandits, how many of us will be left in the end? Maybe we won't have any left! Even if there are still some of us left, do you think Faisal will let us go? I don't want to fight to the death with the bandits here. In the end, he was picked up by Faisal. We'll just hold out until dawn, and then we'll pull out, leaving behind a mountain of cargo and an undefended camp, and what do you think will happen then? ”

After hearing this, Alfald said with a look of sudden realization: "Oh, my subordinates understand, Faisal who came after dawn naturally got the goods in the camp, but the horse bandits who retreated earlier were unwilling to watch Faisal take the goods. They're going to fight Faisal! Your Excellency is wise! We withdraw, and the cargo makes them fight to the death! So we can get out of here with ease! ”

Qin Dong looked at Afald and shook his head; "You still don't get it. If we inflict huge casualties on these horse bandits now, will they still have the strength to fight Faisal tomorrow morning? What we have to do is to hold the camp, at least tonight, leave these horse bandits to maintain enough combat effectiveness, so that they can fight with Faisal tomorrow morning, after tonight's battle, these nine joint horse bandits will lose a certain amount of combat effectiveness, but not much, and the men and horses led by Faisal are very tired because they have walked the mountain road all night, and their combat effectiveness will also decline, so that the combat effectiveness between them is basically equal, so tomorrow when they fight bloodily to get the goods, they must be both defeated, Finally, it's time for us to play! ”

Qin Dong finally said the whole plan, but this overall plan made Affard shiver all over, Affard had never felt so frightened, Qin Dong's wisdom made him feel like a fool in front of Qin Dong. He was glad that he was Qin Dong's subordinate and not an enemy, if he was Qin Dong's enemy, he would definitely be played by Qin Dong to death and didn't understand how to die.

Alfald is already in his thirties, and Qin Dong is only seventeen years old, less than eighteen, but Qin Dong is his allegiance, which seems a bit funny, but what can be done? Who is more capable than him? It's really not good to be unconvinced!

The drizzle did not wet the torches in front of the camp, but the smell of blood in the air disappeared, and the seriously wounded were not effectively treated, and it was estimated that they were almost dead at this time, and there were not many dead bodies on the battlefield, but there were many wounded horses, and these horses were lying on the grass panting after being wounded, and only the particularly strict ones kept neighing.

The sudden shaking of the ground made Qin Dong and the others realize that the horse bandits had started to attack again, and from the shaking of the ground and the huge roar coming from afar, it could be judged that the horse bandits were ready to fight for their lives this time.

Sure enough, within a few seconds, a Hun escort came over and reported: "My lord, the horse bandits are all dispatched, and the soldiers are divided into two ways, one left and one right, leaving a frontal attack, it seems that they want to avoid a frontal attack!" ”

Qin Dong didn't expect these horse bandits to fight so quickly, he still looked at these horse bandits a little highly, and after thinking for two seconds, Qin Dong ordered: "Pass my order, the bed crossbow group is divided into two parts, the left and right parts, aim the launch direction forward, and wait for my order to continue!" ”

"Yes!" The guards retreated to the side and shouted to the audience: "Your Excellency has an order, the bed crossbow group is divided into two parts, the left and right parts, aim the firing direction forward, and wait for the adult's order to fire continuously!" ”

Under the order of the group leader, the soldiers in each tent of the bed crossbow group who received the order were divided into groups of five, each took out a bamboo spear, and everyone put the bamboo spear in their hands on the bed crossbow and did not move, and then waited quietly for the order.

The curtains of the tents were lifted. Revealing the swarthy opening, facing the front of the camp, inside the tent was a murderous weapon that the bandits had never seen before—a giant bed crossbow.

Due to the rush of time. Qin Dong could only instruct his subordinates to use bamboo and cowhide ropes to make the simplest bed crossbow, this kind of bed crossbow is still single, and there is no recurve arc, using a simple winch to wind, five bamboo spears can be fired at a time, and the range is maintained at about one hundred and fifty meters, which is much different from the range of the real bed crossbow in the East. But it was enough to deal with these bandits.

The horse bandits finally appeared, and sure enough, they attacked in two directions, about 300 people on the left. There were about three hundred people on the right, and because there were torches illuminated in front of them, at a distance of three hundred meters, Qin Dong and the others saw the horse bandits' horse team charging over.

Outside the two hundred meters of the defensive circle of the camp. Qin Dong did not order the bed crossbow to be fired. This distance could not be shot at all, and he did not order the archers to shoot arrows, so he could only stare at the horse bandits who rushed to the front, silently calculating the distance.

When the horse bandits at the front rushed to about one hundred and twenty meters, Qin Dong immediately shouted: "The bed crossbow group takes turns shooting!" The archers retreat behind the tents and shoot freely at the front bandits! ”

After the order was passed down, the bed crossbow group finally wielded its might, and the cold weapon of the "Whoosh ......" bed crossbow was simply terrifying, and the loud sound of the bowstring just when it was fired made people shudder.

Rows of bamboo spears shot out. These bamboo spears carry a huge kinetic energy, and each one can shoot through the bodies of several cavalrymen. A bloody hole was left in the body of the bandits, and the corpses fell from their horses one after another.

There are torches illuminated at this distance, and the appearance of the horse bandits charging is not only seen very clearly by Qin Dong and others, but also by their own people, when the leader of the horse bandits saw that the horse bandits under his command were shot through the body one by one by thick and long bamboo spears shot from the front, he realized that something was wrong, these bamboo spears shot were too fierce, they could shoot through the bodies of several people in a row, and even three corpses were strung on a bamboo spear.

Five men were in charge of a bed crossbow, and the bed crossbow had a winch wound, and the interval after each launch was very short before it could be fired again, this terrifying firing frequency caused huge casualties to the horse bandits, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of cavalrymen on the left and right wings died, and the death toll increased dramatically in the shortest possible time.

The horse bandits rushed to the outer defense circle of the camp only fifty meters when they could not rush again, the distance between 100 meters and 50 meters was a death blockade, most of the horse bandits who were shot died at a distance of 100 meters to 70 meters, and more than 70 meters into the range of 60 meters were shot off the horse by those archers with marksmanship skills, these archers are all marksmen, they not only shoot arrows accurately, but also shoot very fast, almost two seconds to shoot an arrow, None of the bandits could escape from their arrows.

Seeing his men die quickly one by one, a horse bandit leader can no longer bear such heavy casualties, he immediately reined in his horse and fled backwards, shouting retreat while fleeing, the most feared thing during the battle is that someone takes the lead in escaping, once someone takes the lead in escaping, and it is also a leader-level figure, escaping will be like a plague that instantly infects everyone, these horse bandits heard the leader shouting to retreat, and immediately turned around and fled back, not only the horse bandits on the left flank, but also the horse bandits on the right flank could not withstand such a dense bed crossbow attack, The leaders had no choice but to flee back with their men.

This battle was the shortest, but it was also the most tragic, and the horse bandits had to retreat in pain without even touching a single hair of Qin Dong's men in this battle.

After a short rest, the casualty figures of the horse bandits who fled back quickly came out, a total of one hundred and sixty-nine people, and this was still the number of direct deaths, not counting the wounded.

Mars thundered: "Damn, damn merchants, I didn't expect these merchants to have such powerful weapons, my God, those bamboo spears are like the spears of Anubis, the god of death, and they easily shot through the bodies of my guys, what kind of people is this damn caravan, why do they have such powerful weapons?" Also, who commanded the caravan's escort, and why did our eight hundred cavalry have nothing to do with their less than two hundred? ”

One of the bandit leaders shouted: "Mars, it's all your fault, if it weren't for you and us to gather all the horses and horses to charge collectively, how could we have suffered such heavy losses?" You, you're the ones who killed me! My fellows are dead to just over thirty people! ”

This guy's men and horses are the most lost, and there are only more than 30 horses left in the team of more than 100 horses, and this kind of casualties is too great for any horse bandit leader to bear, which means that this horse bandit group will withdraw from the horse bandit group of the nine big forces, because his strength is no longer enough to be called the nine horse bandit cottage.

Mars gasped, "How can I be blamed for this? I just mentioned a Jianyì, and you all agreed in the end, and now there are casualties and it is not fair to blame me! ”

"Why don't you blame ......".

"Alright, stop arguing!" Holm loudly stopped the bandit leaders from continuing to quarrel, he took a deep breath and said: "Now is not the time to hold accountable, there will inevitably be casualties in the war, what we can do is to make more compensation afterwards, this is always okay, right?" Okay, now let's get down to business, this time our losses are very large, and this is also related to our ignorance of those two caravans, who would have thought that they would have such powerful weapons? And we underestimate the abilities and wisdom of the caravan bosses, we treat them as fat sheep, and the caravan boss is a hunter, and he in turn treats us as prey! How can we not fail? ”

The leaders of the horse bandits were silent, this time it was really a loss-making deal, the deal was not done, the horse bandits of each team suffered heavy losses, fortunately there were not many people who died before, most of them were slightly injured, but this time one hundred and sixty-nine people died, which can be regarded as the biggest loss.

Ruth looked at Holm and asked, "Holm, what are we going to do now?" If we continue to attack, maybe there are more powerful weapons waiting for us in the caravan's camp, and before we can grab the goods, we will all die, which is really not worth it! ”

Holm calculated: "Up to now, we have some losses, but most of our strength is still there, but we can't fight any more, we are not familiar with the force of the caravan, and we can only suffer more losses if we fight again, and it is dark now, which is very unfavorable for us, I think what we can do now is to wait until dawn, after dawn is beneficial to our attackers, not good for the defenders, we must break through the camp before Faisal arrives!" (To be continued......)