Cai Jiqian refused the conditions for the Lanzhou caravan to hand over the goods and return the whole caravan, and asked them to all lay down their weapons and wait for the delivery, in fact, all the soldiers, coachmen, and merchants of the caravan were captured.

"Phew!" was Singu's answer to him.

After listening to the reply brought by his entourage, Cai Jiqian laughed instead of being angry, raised his horsewhip and pointed at the besieged Lanzhou caravan, and said proudly to Ars, the leader of the Mandu Latu tribe: "Originally, I wanted to recruit a few warriors to break the chariot formation tomorrow and use all these fanatics as slaves. ”

In the distance, above the caravan formation in Lanzhou, the banner was shattered, and the remnant sun was like blood. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, the tribal cavalry, who were not good at night fighting, stopped archery attacks, and the Lanzhou caravan, which had been hungry for most of the day, had the opportunity to take out the water bladder from the cart and eat it with dry food and dried meat. The soldiers wounded in the daytime battle endured the pain and dug out arrows, disinfected their wounds with spirits, and the soldiers who were shot in the vital parts lay peacefully under the cart, waiting for death. Many of the wounded runners in the caravan covered their wounds and moaned and wailed.

Looking at the smoke rising from the camp of the tribal cavalry, Xin Gu chewed the jerky in his mouth, tightened the strip of cloth wrapped around the arrow in the right shoulder socket, and said in a deep voice: "Tomorrow must be a bitter battle, the steppe people's galloping and flying tactics are extremely horsepower-intensive, when he is tired, Captain Yu Fu, you take the horse-based merchant to lead the cavalry to break through and go first, and I will take the foot soldier to hold on to the spot." ”

"No, Captain Xin is the commander of our army, how can he fall into ......" Before Yu Furen's voice fell, he was interrupted by Xin Gu: "I didn't discuss with you, this is a military order." His sharp eyes suddenly made Yu Fu Ren's words hold back in his stomach. Seeing the blazing bonfire raised by the sergeant of the battalion, Xin Gu said: "I am the commander of an army, how can I leave my post without permission, you should strive to break through the siege, return to the lord, and rob my Lanzhou caravan, it is the party Cai Jiqian." Seeing that Yu Fu Renliang nodded yes, Xin Gu's throat moved, and finally he didn't say anything. He closed his eyes and lay down with his body fitted.

The next morning, when the sky was just white, Cai Jiqian urged the tribal cavalry to attack. More than 3,000 tribal cavalry rested all night and was vigorous, galloping around the chariot array of the Lanzhou caravan, the healthy horses came and went, sometimes far and sometimes near, the riders sometimes hid in the belly of the horse without a trace, and sometimes the people immediately bent their bows and arrows, aiming at the figures exposed in the gaps in the Lanzhou caravan array and firing arrows. Usually, after releasing an arrow, the rider quickly hits the horse and leaves, without waiting for the Lanzhou archers to reach out and fight back. But if the Lanzhou sergeant shrank behind the cart and ignored it, the tribal knights would rush to the front and try to break through the chariot formation. On several occasions, the tribal cavalry approached the chariots, and even horses jumped over the gaps between the carts, and were driven out with spears by the foot soldiers of the Ya and Jinfan camps. The number of archers lost in the shots grew, and Xingu had to temporarily use some of the cavalry of the White Feather Battalion, which was preparing to break through, as infantry archers. He hoped to consume the horsepower of the tribal cavalry, and Cai Jiqian didn't want to consume the energy and morale of the Lanzhou army, his iron harrier had been sitting on the ground to rest, and only waited for the moment when the caravan guards' hearts collapsed, and then launched a fatal blow.

The sun gradually rose from the horizon in the east, and the war horses of the tribal cavalry galloped for half a day, most of them showed fatigue, and the rain of arrows shot was also sparse, and Xingu turned to the Furen track: "The enemy army is tired, please lead the cavalry to break through the siege." Yu Furen had just started to form the team, and the remaining twenty or so soldiers of the hussar battalion were all agitated when they learned that Xin Gu was going to stay where they were, and the centurion Feng Bo said loudly: "Captain Xin is here, my hussar battalion brothers will never leave!"

"Presumptuous!" Xin Gu vigilantly looked out of the car formation, made sure that there were no enemy troops nearby, and reprimanded loudly: "The cavalry all followed Captain Yu Fu to break through, the military order is like a mountain, and if there is anyone who does not respect the military order, I will immediately kill it." Seeing that the hussar battalion soldiers were subdued, Xin Gu got up and led his war horse, handed the reins to Kang Ke Khotan, and said apologetically: "Brother Kang, I can't protect the safety of the caravan, you can ride this good horse, see the commander and make an order on behalf of Xin Gu." After speaking, regardless of whether Kang Ketian accepted it, he forced the reins of the horse into his hands, walked straight to the corner of the car formation, and commanded the foot soldiers to secretly move the cart and antlers. "Led more than 200 horsemen to kill the horses.

The time to break through was at noon, and the cavalry of the grassland that had been killed for half a day in the periphery were all sleepy, sleepy and lacking horses, and were caught off guard, and because most of the grassland cavalry were only for money, and did not have much heart to come to intercept and kill, they actually gave this Lanzhou cavalry a sudden break out of the encirclement, and the party iron harrier who had been sitting on the ground to rest was even more unable to catch up. Seeing that this force of more than 200 light cavalry broke away, Cai Jiqian was furious, he didn't expect that this small caravan also knew the art of war, and he actually fell into the plan of exhausting the troops, but the cavalry breakthrough was a mixed pros and cons for him, since the enemy's main force had abandoned the brigade, not only the strength of the defensive car formation was even thinner, but also the abandoned soldiers must be frustrated, just add another fire, you can easily break through the car formation. Groaning so far, his face is even more cold, he has recruited the leaders of the cavalry of various tribes, and said in a deep voice: "I can't bear to damage the warriors, Fang ordered to shoot the tired enemy, and now I have run this enemy, I don't know when to recruit reinforcements, in order not to waste the previous efforts, you should go and urge the warriors now, before dark, you must break through the car formation." ”

The leaders of the tribes thought that after letting go of the caravan guards, this young nobleman would be furious and uneasy, who knew that he was so knowledgeable, and the strategy he ordered was also very reasonable, and he was ashamed of his hidden strength at first, but he listened to Cai Jixian and said: "Pass my order, each part is three teams, take turns to attack the car formation, and those who break into the caravan car formation first will be rewarded with a pair of iron armor, and those who cut off the head of an enemy army will be rewarded with a silk cloth." "Most of the income from the robbing of the caravan by the steppe tribes in the past is owned by the nobles of the head, and the warriors get very little, Cai Jiqian will pass on the order, and the knights of all departments are overjoyed, and even if the leaders are dissatisfied, they can only hide in their hearts, and no one dares to compete with this party nobleman who is in the limelight.

Almost a moment after the Lanzhou cavalry broke through, the siege of the chariot array suddenly became tense. Even the iron harrier beside Cai Jiqian also saddled up his horse, and the shadow followed frantically forward and rushed forward behind the tribal cavalry to press the formation. The tribal cavalry, wielding sabers and spears, and screaming gro-yo or mobbs, rushed towards the chariot formation as if they were overwhelming.

Sergeant Sun Yuqing held a crossbow machine, his teeth were fighting unconsciously, and his legs were trembling, he thought that he still had a house in Lanzhou City, and he ruled two households, so he was extremely envious of those cavalrymen who broke through. Looking at the tribal cavalry who rushed over with gritted teeth, Sun Yuqing's mind was only blank, and suddenly a hand slapped Sun Yuqing on the shoulder, so frightened that he trembled, and when he looked back, it was Han Yu, the centurion of the Ya military camp, he thought that the cowardice in his heart was seen, and he was speechless, Han Yu pointed to the enemy cavalry two hundred steps away with his finger, and smiled at him: "Shoot again when you get closer." After saying that, he squatted down behind the cart and patted the shoulders of the other soldiers. Next to a big cart behind Sun Yuqing, Xin Gu, the commander of the left army and the captain of the hussar battalion, also opened his bow and aimed an arrow at a cavalryman, seeing Sun Yuqing turn around, he nodded at him, his thumb was lightly released, the bowstring sounded, and a cavalryman in the distance fell off his horse holding his throat. Seeing that the captain and centurion were there, Sun Yuqing felt relaxed, after all, he hadn't been abandoned, and he aimed the Wangshan on the crossbow at the rickety figure on the horseback.

In Singu, Under the leadership of Han Yu and other officers, the Lanzhou sergeants used bows and spears to deal with the enemy cavalry who rushed forward one after another, the departure of more than 200 cavalry made the defensive strength of the chariot formation stretched, the tribal cavalry from all sides kept attacking in turns, and continued to maintain pressure on the thin defensive line, in order to stop the enemy's offensive, the Lanzhou army could only keep pulling the bow and releasing arrows, some archers had their thumbs cut by the bowstring and bled continuously, their arms were sore and weak, and they still gritted their teeth and persevered, until they were cut down by the tribal cavalry who jumped forward, and they would never retreat. The men in the rear were also organized by the sergeants, and the crossbowmen wound up their crossbowmen in groups of three, and when the crossbowmen died, the men used their crossbow arrows to fire at the enemy. From time to time, the cavalry of the tribe beat their horses and jumped over the gap in the chariot formation, wielding their swords to drive away the soldiers and civilians of Lanzhou who were fighting on the chariots, but the soldiers who had already killed the red only stabbed with spears, chopped with horizontal knives, and even stabbed the people with wooden sticks, and drove out the enemy troops who rushed in again and again. Xingu even organized dozens of spearmen from the Ya battalion to launch a counter-assault and stabbed a group of enemy cavalry in front of the car formation, which greatly boosted morale.

This fierce battle lasted from noon until dark, and the tribal cavalry collected their troops and returned to the camp to rest, and in the Lanzhou car formation, whether it was a sergeant or a merchant, almost everyone was wounded, and all of them were tired and scattered, sitting on the ground panting.

The red sun gradually set on the horizon, Captain Xin Gu counted the number of people, and there were only one hundred and fifty-nine sergeants left who could barely support the battle, and the crossbow machines were all damaged and could not be used, looking at the bonfire of the tribal cavalry outside like stars in the sky, all the sergeants sat silently beside the fire, wiping their blades and adjusting their bowstrings.

The infantry sergeants who escorted the caravan this time were all elites selected from the two battalions of the Ya Army and Jinfan, and they had been on the battlefield for a long time, and they all knew in their hearts that tomorrow would be a battle to the death, but no one said anything discouraged.

Sun Yuqing was slashed in the chest, and many seriously injured soldiers lay in the car formation together, enduring the severe pain and not groaning, he is from Chuzhou, I don't know when, I heard my colleagues around him humming an old song softly, "Wu Gexi was rhinoceros, and the car was wrong and short-handed." The sun covers the enemy like a cloud, and the arrows and fallen soldiers compete for the first. The voice is intermittent, very weak, this song Sun Yuqing once listened to the teacher when he went to the private school, at this moment looking at the shining stars in the sky, Sun Yuqing seemed to have a soul with this familiar tone to the sky, suddenly, the singing soldier's voice was so weak that it was almost inaudible, Sun Yuqing then sang, "Ling Yu is in a position to stumble for the rest of the line, the left is slashed and the right is wounded." After these two sentences, a few soldiers from Jiangnan sang together, "The haze is two rounds and four horses, and the jade is beating the drum." When the sky falls, the spirit is angry, and the wilderness is abandoned. ”

In the Lanzhou army, the two battalions of the Yajun and Jinfan have the most Jiangnan children, and the heroic and sad Chu Ge together evokes the nostalgia of many soldiers, and everyone is just saying that they will fight to the death tomorrow, and they are more and more impassioned, and the song goes straight to the sky: "You can't go in and out, and the plain is far away." With a long sword, he carried the Qin bow, and his head was not punished. Cheng is both brave and martial, and he is strong and invincible. The body is dead, the god is the spirit, and the soul is resolute!"