In the dark night, there was a chaotic sound of horses' hooves, the sound was indecisive, this was a hundred cavalry team sent by Holm to carry out a tentative attack, led by the black horse bandit leader Mars himself, this cavalry team has not undergone much training, the horse team is not neat when running, but these people have lived on horseback for a long time, and naturally understand that the cavalry charge needs to form a dense formation to have enough impact force, so the distance between each cavalry is very short.

Here it comes! As the speed of this hundred-person cavalry team is getting faster and faster, and the distance is getting closer and closer, Qin Dong and the others stood on the high platform and vaguely saw a black torrent rushing over, a hundred people running may not have any momentum, but a hundred cavalry running can cause a lot of momentum, and can give people the illusion of a lot of numbers.

When the hundred-strong bandits rushed to within four hundred meters of the outermost defensive ring of the camp, something happened when the foremost bandits fell from their horses like dumplings, and their horses began to neigh.

"Bastard, asshole, stop, stop me!" Mars, the strong black man, reined in his horse and shouted, but his shouting was obviously a little late, and it was not so easy for the horses under the high-speed sprint to stop, and after the chaos appeared, there were screams and shouts everywhere, and the horses were neighing, and it was difficult for the horse bandits behind to hear his shouts.

At last the whole caravan of horses was stopped, and by this time a quarter of an hour had passed, and Mars was saddened to find that the hooves of the hundred horsemen he had brought with him, of which forty-one had broken horses, and that they had fallen from their horses. Twenty-two people were slightly wounded, eleven more were trampled to death by the horses behind, and the remaining eight were seriously injured. It was still four hundred meters from the caravan's camp, and almost half of the men and horses were lost before the battle began, how could Mars stand it?

"Damn, these damn businessmen are so cunning that they have laid out so many traps at such a distance, these black-hearted businessmen should all go to hell!" Mars was really distressed and hadn't arrived at the caravan camp yet. He lost almost half of his men, making him, a always honest horse bandit, furious.

It is not known how far there are pitfalls ahead, and if these traps are not cleared. How can you make a charge? Mars had to go back with the rest of his men and wounded soldiers to report to Hom in despair.

Mars returned with his men and horses and informed Holm and several other bandit leaders of the situation, and the situation seemed to be much worse than they had expected, and the caravan was not a soft persimmon to be pinched.

Holm saw that the faces of these horse bandit leaders were a little worried, and immediately smiled: "Don't worry, everyone. Scouting and this first tentative assault we failed though. But after all, the losses were not great, I lost eight scouts, and Mars's men died eleven, the others were only wounded, and those who were slightly wounded could still fight, so don't worry, the night is still a long one, and we have a way to break through the caravan's camp. You see, these two times we have not gained nothing. The first reconnaissance cavalry reconnaissance died silently, from here we can know that the other party must have a number of people with very good archery, indicating that the other party has bows and arrows, but the number should not be much, the second tentative attack, we tried to remove the other party in the periphery of the horse trap, although we don't know how many of these horse traps, but we have time to clean up these horse pits, as long as the horse traps are filled, we can approach the perimeter of the camp! I wonder if any leader would be willing to take on this task of clearly trapping the horse? ”

"I'll do it!" After Home's words fell, Ruth stood up and said that he was willing to accept the task of filling up the trapped horse pit, this guy is also a monkey spirit, he took this task that looked very dangerous, but in fact there was no risk at all, the location of the horse pit was about four hundred meters away from the camp, and the bow and arrow could not shoot so far, and although the caravan had cavalry, it did not dare to attack in the night, so this task of filling the horse pit was very easy, and the next task would definitely not be his turn, but someone else's turn.

Ruth's men were accompanied by some men sent by Mars, who had come to bring back the horses with broken legs, and they were going to kill the wounded horses and drag them back for meat.

In the camp, Qin Dong and Alfold sat on a small pony on a carriage, Qin Dong crossed Erlang's legs and hummed an unknown song, while Alfold kept an eye on the horse bandits in front of him.

"My lord, the horse bandits are here again, this time they seem to be filling in the horse pit, and they are also slaughtering and dragging the wounded horses back!" When Afald found out about the situation, he immediately reported it to Qin Dong.

Qin Dong didn't open his eyes either, and said directly: "This is inevitable, we have arranged horse traps in the outermost part of the main reason to delay time, they only sent a hundred cavalry, those traps can only make them lose a small part of their combat effectiveness, the big head is still behind, let them fill in, fill it up and then continue to attack, we can also clean them up more ruthlessly!" Wait until they're done cleaning up and then report to me what they're doing! ”

Alfald promised: "Yes, my lord! ”

Finding the pit was not dangerous, but it was not an easy task, and Ruth and his men lay down in the grass to find the holes, which must have been filled with dirt, a meticulous task that took them two hours.

Ruth, who had completed the work of filling in the horse pit, finally returned to the gathering place of the horse bandits with his men and horses, and when he saw that Ruth had brought people back, Holm immediately asked: "Ruth, have all the horse traps been filled?" Where do you clean it all the way? ”

Ruth wiped a handful of sweat beads and said: "The scope of the horse trap is not large, only two hundred Luo meters away from the caravan camp, if there is a horse trap in front of us, we will definitely spend more than a little time!" And I also sent someone to touch the camp within a hundred feet and found no horse traps, I think there should be none! ”

If there is no horse pit, the cavalry can safely and boldly attack, the outer defense cart in the camp is not high, if the horses run fast, they can use the speed of the sprint to jump over the outermost defense and directly rush into the camp, then it will definitely be a massacre.

"Okay!" Holm said, "Now is the time to start attacking the caravan camp, according to what we have observed. The caravan has an escort of nearly two hundred people, and the combat effectiveness of these people is not very strong, and no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of the guards is, it is not much stronger! This time two hundred men were sent to attack. I hope to storm the camp this time, and the others will follow me, and once these two hundred people rush into the camp, we will quickly rush up and kill all the people in the camp, grab the things and leave! ”

When the bandits heard Holm's words, they were all very excited, and some of them were even eager to try. There are not many opportunities for them to rob such a large-scale caravan, and this time it can be said that many people are the first to rob a caravan with two hundred guards, if it is a single group of horse bandits. Or maybe two or three bandits didn't have the courage and enough men to grab such a huge caravan.

Two hundred horse bandits were ready, and the men were lined up in ten rows of twenty horsemen, under the name of Home. The bandits began to gallop on their horses. Then pick it up.

The distance of two kilometers was not far, and the movement of two hundred cavalry galloping together was too big, and the specific number was quickly heard by the Huns under Qin Dong in the camp.

"Your Excellency, the enemy has appeared! About two hundred cavalry! "A Hun came to report.

After hearing this, Qin Dong waved his hand to signal the man to go down, and then waited quietly, the horse bandits came quickly, very fast, and quickly rushed through the range of three hundred meters. The cavalry in front even rushed to two hundred meters, and Qin Dong immediately ordered: "Blow the trumpet." Let the people in the pit stumble".

"Yes, sir!" One of the guards immediately agreed, and picked up the horn and blew it.

The melodious sound of the horn sounded, and this horn directly exceeded the sound of the horse's hooves far away, and the lawns on both sides between one hundred and fifty meters to two hundred meters in front of the outermost defensive ring of the camp were suddenly overturned, but in this dark night, the horse bandits who were immersed in the thrill of charging did not notice it.

In the pits on both sides of the front of the camp, two groups straightened the strong and resilient strings in their hands and tied them to the wooden stakes, this is the tripping horse rope, the whole team of the horse bandits who were charging was divided into several sections by this trip horse rope, row after row of horse bandits planted from their horses, thrown on the ground and then trampled to death and injured by the horses behind, and the front of the camp that was originally full of shouts and killings instantly became screams one after another.

There was not more than one stumbling horse rope, Qin Dong arranged more than a dozen people, every two people in a group, more than half of the horse bandits who were stopped by the stumbling horse rope and planted their horses, more than 100 of the two hundred horse bandits were planted, and more than seventy percent were injured.

In the camp, Qin Dong saw that there were not many horse bandits holding torches, and he immediately said: "Order the archers to prepare, and shoot at the horse bandits in front of the three-stage shooting method!" ”

"Yes, sir!" The guards around him immediately agreed and conveyed Qin Dong's order.

"Whoosh..."

Rows of arrows were shot by three rows of archers in turn, without stopping in between, although there were not many horse bandits shot each time, but the continuous shooting gave the horse bandits the illusion that there were many archers in the camp, and the horse bandits who were hit by the arrows screamed loudly, and some of the horses were also shot.

The bandits, who had not tripped over the tripping rope, had finally stopped their horses, but now they were under fire from the bows and arrows in the direction of the camp, and it was impossible to charge at this time, and no one knew if there were other tricks waiting for them in front of them, and until now, the bandits had not known that they had tripped over the tripping rope.

Some of the remaining bandits soon turned their horses and fled in the direction they had come, and this soon spread to the entire charging bandits, and in less than a few moments the bandits who were still on their horses ran clean, but less than a third ran back, and the other two-thirds were either trampled to death or shot to death, and most of the remaining people were wounded, and these people had to abandon their horses and limp back.

"My lord, except for the seriously injured and dead, the other injured horse bandits have fled, do you want to send someone out to kill those seriously injured horse bandits?" Alfald asked.

Qin Dong shook his head: "No need, just let those people stay where they are, they won't be able to run anyway!" Let the archers hurry up and rest, and restore the body! ”

"Yes, sir!"

"Wait!" Qin Dong stopped Alfard, who was about to turn around and convey the order, and said: "Send a few people to the front two hundred meters to book a dozen torches, and light up that area, it is too dark, and there is drizzle, and the vision is blurred, if the horse bandits secretly touch the edge of the camp, it will be troublesome!" ”

Alfalde admired Qin Dong's foresight, and he saluted respectfully: "Yes, my lord, my subordinates will arrange it!" ”

The two bandit leaders who returned to the horse bandit gathering place were all miserable, this time the loss was not big, but each of them had more than two-thirds of them injured, which was equivalent to losing their combat effectiveness, and the two hundred cavalry did not rush to the edge of the camp with such a rapid charge and were lost two-thirds of their combat effectiveness for inexplicable reasons, which made the two horse bandit leaders feel sad.

"What the hell is going on? Each of you has lost two-thirds of your combat power, you don't know what caused it, right? Holm asked with a solemn face.

One of the leaders of the horse bandits said with a pale face: "It's like stepping into a horse pit, we see the horses around us fall one by one, and the people on horseback also fall down, but we have already looked for it, there is no horse pit at all, I don't understand, why is this happening, is it really his evil sect!" ”

When the leaders of the horse bandits heard such words, they were all awe-inspiring, these people were the most superstitious, and they thought that they were cursed by the gods, but soon one of them stood up and said: "I think there must be another reason, I once heard a traveler from the east say that there is a way to deal with cavalry, let two people on the flat ground far away each hold one end of a rope, and when the cavalry rushes over, the two of them pull the rope at the same time, and the horse's hooves will be tied, and then fall to the ground, they call this method a tripwire." However, this situation can only be used in special circumstances, because in the event of war, both sides will clean up and check the situation on the battlefield, and will not allow the other side to use such evil methods! ”

It turned out to be a tripping horse, and the horse bandits finally knew that there was still such a way to deal with the cavalry, and Ruth asked, "Then why didn't they find ropes and other items just now?" ”

The man shrugged, "I don't know, maybe the tripwire they use is thin and very strong!" ”

After this situation appeared, the scene suddenly became cold again, and the leaders of the horse bandits did not expect that the caravan's defense measures were one after another, not only tripping horses, but also archers, and the number was not a few!

Mars muttered in a rough voice: "If I were to say, I think we were too careful, they only have two hundred men at most, and now we are within a hundred meters, now we just need to rush through, as long as we can break through the camp defense, they will be finished, even if they have bows and arrows?" By the time we stormed the camp, the bows and arrows were useless! ”

Holm said with an ugly face: "Okay, let's concentrate all the horses and divide the troops into two ways, one way to attack from the left, and the other from the right, avoid the defense point in the middle, and do our best to break through the opponent's long-range attack!" (To be continued......)