Chapter 176: Contact

After the hussar battalion stabbed the first enemy in front of him with a single shot, he immediately let go, replaced it with a scimitar that had already been drawn, and according to the usual custom, the flat-ended scimitar, with the momentum of the two horses when they were wrong, cut off the heads of the opposing enemy.

Cai Jiqian's iron harriers also had guns, but they hurriedly urged the horses to attack, and the queue was not neat. In the dense fog, it was impossible to see the situation ten feet away, and the moment the two sides collided in formation, Cai Jiqian's ears were almost full of familiar voices screaming and falling off his horse. He was closely supported by the loyal iron harrier on his left and right, and a hussar suddenly jumped out of the thick fog, and when he saw a large group of enemies gathered here, the hussar did not dare to come forward to provoke, and shouted in Mongolian, using his speed, gently turning his horse, and rushing past Cai Jiqian's group. Just as the iron harriers were slightly relaxed, suddenly a horse behind them screamed, but it was the hussar just now who turned around and fired arrows, and in the thick fog, he shot one of his own people.

Grassland people, Cai Jiqian's heart instantly woke up, only the grassland people in the northern desert tribe would use such a despicable tactic. But was the charge that was as swift as the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves that the scattered Mongol tribes could do?

But the battlefield could not be thought about, and after Xingu led a dense detachment of hussars to rush through the enemy formation, he immediately shouted loudly: "Hussar battalion, move closer to me if you are not dead, return to your horse, return to your horse, rush over!" The blind dash in the dense fog is very energetic, especially suitable for these hussars who pin their heads to their belts like Xingu, charge at full speed, each according to his ability, and his destiny, this is the simple philosophy of hussars.

The well-trained hussars regrouped and turned their horses as fast as they could, and charged again under the leadership of Singu. Only this time, without the guidance of sound, there was a scattered sound of horses' hooves in the thick fog, and the way the hussars had just rushed was quiet. This is because the tight formation of the hussar battalion is twice as dense as that of the Iron Harriers, that is, under the advantage of two to one and speed, the iron harriers who rushed to the battle are almost all wiped out on the narrow impact front of the hussar battalion. At present, the iron harriers scattered on both sides are regrouping in a panic, more people are looking for Cai Jiqian's direction, and Cai Jiqian's personal entourage is hugging him out of the battlefield with all their might for his safety.

The charge of the hussar battalion instigated by Xin Gu again was like a heavy fist in the air, and only a few iron harriers were killed, and the rest of the horses were urged to flee in all directions after Cai Jiqian could not be found, and Xin Gu did not dare to divide his troops to look for him in the dense fog.

Feng Bo, the centurion of the hussar battalion, happily stepped forward to report and found more than 100 reserve horses abandoned by the enemy in the rear, and immediately carried complete cavalry armor, food, water bladders and other things. In order to prevent the retaliation of the enemy, the hussar battalion quickly left the battlefield full of corpses with the catches, and the dense fog in the evening often indicated a storm in Mobei, and they urgently needed to find a high slope to set up a camp, and while waiting for the bad weather to pass, they continued to monitor the exit of the valley road north of Yinshan.

Wu Yingying couldn't stop cursing, this damn fog hadn't dispersed yet, only the scorching sun at noon had faded a little, the sun was slightly westward, and it was thicker again, Wu Yingying's heart began to look forward to the storm coming soon, but Yu Furen had already begun to pray incessantly, hoping that the coming storm would not be too violent.

Misfortune is not a one-way line, the scout cavalry came to report, and encountered a large tribe's camp in front, and the other party asked the Lanzhou army to take a detour, otherwise they would meet each other. "Damn!" Wu Yingying blurted out angrily, "How many men and horses do they have, anyway, the dense fog does not disperse and the march is slow, so they will destroy this stumbling block first." He drew his whip and struck it twice in the air.

Pu Hangu, the captain of the high-hoof battalion, looked embarrassed and explained in a low voice: "They call themselves the Kerebu, like the remnants of the Turks, and the dense fog covers the road, but there are no less than 500 cavalry to stop our army. ”

"How did the Keree tribe migrate here, aren't they on the edge of the Trouble River?" "The Kerebu is a large tribe with a relatively large population, but they wander in the grasslands further north all the year round, Wu Yingying frowned and thought, the grassland tribes live by water and grass, and their migration is uncertain, but it is really a big trouble, he transferred all the hussar battalion detachments to the preset battlefield and near the valley road at the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, and his army migrated to a large tribe like the Keree tribe on the way. If it is always time, they are not afraid to deal with this kind of tribe that drags their families and mouths, after all, they have cattle and sheep, women and children, old and young, and all of them are cavalry, the so-called porcelain does not touch the steel bowl, no matter how strong the Kereh Department is, it can't be done, but in the dense fog, the grassland tribes are also afraid of being raided by strong enemies, so they resolutely do not let the foreign army approach the camp.

Thinking of this, Wu Yingying became worried about Xiao Jiu's department, who had not been able to contact him for two days. The so-called camp of the steppe tribe is not a small area, they will divide the large grasslands and rivers around the camp as forbidden places, and when they encounter a large group of cavalry like themselves, they will politely ask you to take a detour, and when they encounter a small number of scouts who are lonely, they may just do it. On the grassland, horse thieves are tribes that can't get along, and tribes are horse thieves who mix well, and the difference is not very obvious.

At present, there is still a big war to fight with the party members, so I can only endure this idle breath first. Wu Yingying waved his hand and said: "The whole army is on alert, take a detour to the south, pass the forbidden area of the Kereh Department and then return to the established road." The three thousand cavalry slowly made a bend in the fog and continued to move forward, and on the opposite side of the dense fog, more than 500 cavalry of the Kereh tribe were waiting for a strict formation, and they had been watching the foreign cavalry leave the tribal camp for a hundred miles before slowly returning.

What Wu Yingying didn't expect was that when the main force of the Lanzhou cavalry made a detour, Cai Jifeng's cavalry had already found the Lanzhou caravan led by Xiao Jiu.

"Blessed by the Immortal Heaven. When he heard that the former army had found the camp of the Han caravan, Cai Jifeng smiled and said to the left and right, his decision to insist on advancing quickly even in the dense fog was almost a gamble, but obviously, this dice rolled out a "full garden spring", seeing that Cai Kexian and Cai Keyuan had to sit down in convincing, he thought with high spirits, Changsheng God blessed me Cai Jifeng. Like Lanzhou, a large caravan of four or five thousand guards and people combined was very rare on the grassland, and as soon as they saw the size of the camp, the party detectives quickly determined the target.

Cai Jifeng smiled and said to Cai Keyuan: "Since we have found the Han caravan, then ask my uncle to lead the troops to monitor the caravan camp, and wait until the caravan departs tomorrow, and we can get the best results by hitting it on the way." He seems to be respectful, but in fact, he wants Cai Keyuan to do the most tiring work. He has also heard of the style of the Lanzhou army, the last time Cai Jiqian plundered, the caravan guards insisted on not surrendering until the bow was broken, and finally destroyed most of the valuable goods. Cai Jifeng mobilized the crowd to come, naturally he didn't want to return empty-handed, and hit it in the middle of the road, and the Lanzhou caravan not only had no time to set up the formation, but also had no time to destroy the goods.

But Xiao Jiu was too cautious, and before he contacted Wu Yingying, he made up his mind not to pull out the camp again, anyway, the caravan carried a large number of reward grain and grass that was ready to be delivered to the hussar battalion detachment, and two wells were drilled in the camp. It turns out that prudence saves lives a lot of the time.

Cai Jifeng's patience is limited, although Cai Keyuan repeatedly assured him that he did not alarm the Lanzhou caravan, he still cursed the old dog 10,000 times in his heart, if you didn't alarm the Lanzhou caravan, how could they stay where they were, could the caravan carry so much food?" Cai Jifeng ordered, all the troops immediately went down to prepare, and after a while, the horse's hooves were soaring, and the hunter who had been suffocated for many days because of the march, the dense fog and the internal intrigue could finally pounce on its prey like a real hungry wolf, and everyone had inexplicable excitement in their hearts.