Chapter 276: Pursuit
The Warats were defenseless, they didn't expect such a powerful weapon to appear in a small army, they had never seen this kind of miniature one-handed crossbow at all, not to mention two hand crossbows with continuous fire per person, many of them were shot into the body by a series of four or five crossbow arrows before they could open their bows, and they fell.
Fifty people after the break, as soon as the work started, they shot out a rain of arrows of a thousand people, although the range of this small crossbow is not very long, but the rate of fire of the burst and the stability of one hand by one, so that the chasing Warat people behind are to the eldest sister, at least half of the team, are hit by an arrow, the arrow design is very fierce, not to mention, but also quenched poison, more than 200 people, rolled directly to the horse, Warat's team is a mess.
At this time, if Situ transferred the brigade back to Malai, he could definitely eat this army steadily, but Situ focused on the overall situation, looked back for a second, took the team, and continued to run down, and the surviving Warat cavalry behind did not dare to chase anymore, but stopped the horse, and the distant spectators Situ They walked away, and a cloud of smoke disappeared,
Having escaped the first wave of scouts from Warat, Situ stopped in a position that was invisible to Warat in front of them, changed horses again, and brought four horses, but now there were only two horses left, and these two horses, although they were empty, but after running for so long, they were also exhausted, but they were jogging forward with the warriors in front of them.
Situ was very anxious, but at this time, the horse had no strength, no matter how anxious you were, its speed was already the limit, in the distance, the Gulan Wooden Tower City could already be seen clearly, but Situ knew that Wangshan ran a dead horse, and now, there was at least half a day of distance between himself and the Gulan Wooden Tower,
After running for a while, the horse under the body could not support it, and as soon as the front legs were weak, he knelt on the grassland, Situ knew that this horse was no longer good, so he simply ordered the troops to dismount and rest, even the people and horses were trimmed, and the crossbow had to be reloaded with arrows in order to continue the fight.
The cavalry brought, each of them was good, although it was after a day and a night of running, it was already possible to see the fatigue, Dai still maintained a high fighting spirit, and each was very experienced, after dismounting, he took out dry food and water bags, and ate and drank quickly without saying a word, after eating and drinking, except for the sentry post in charge of the lookout, the rest of the people immediately spread out the felt, lay down, and within a minute or two, they could hear the sound of snoring from sleep.
This is all a veteran of the rest of the battle, no matter what time it is, only when you have a good rest can you have combat effectiveness. When you fight, you give it your all, and when you need to rest, you give it your all. There are no psychological fluctuations at all. This can be called an elite division.
Situ is also seizing the time to rest, but unlike others, Situ did not fall asleep, but with the help of geography, he repeatedly looked at the city defense of Gulan Muta City, and in the field of vision, he could not see the main cavalry of Warat, but according to Situ's many years of career in northern Xinjiang, his familiarity with Warat was definitely clearer than that of ordinary officers.
He could instinctively feel that the large army of Warat was not far away. Now it's time to see when the horses can recover, and to enter the city of Gulammuta as quickly as possible.
Situ was looking out, and Zhao Jinlong, the cavalry commander beside him, sent it up, water and jerky:
"Situ-sama, eat some."
Situ nodded:
"Good!"
Picked up the water bag, drank wildly, and then picked up the jerky, which was as hard as a rock, and began to chew it.
This kind of jerky is made of cow's hind leg meat, plus salt, and is made after drying for a long time, seven or eight catties of beef, and the jerky made is only about one catty, which looks like a dark red stone, and when you hit it with a knife, it will make a metallic sound, not a steppe person, and it is likely that you don't know a piece of dry food at this time, but in the Warat army, this is the best ration, and a small piece of jerky can support an adult Warat cavalry for a day.
As long as there is this and water, the Warat cavalry will not lose their combat effectiveness, and over time, the Ming cavalry, which is opposite them, also began to use this kind of jerky as dry food.
This kind of jerky can not be chewed violently, it will break the teeth, it can only be contained, little by little, the shredded meat is torn off little by little to eat, but the more you chew, the more fragrant, it is a rare delicacy on the grassland, Situ drank enough water, took this jerky, and began to attack little by little, jerky will not care whether you are in a hurry or not, it has its own rules, you can only listen to it, otherwise, it will give your teeth a good look.
Situ patiently chewed the jerky, his eyes were constantly patrolling, recovering his physical strength bit by bit, watching the horse team also stand unsteady from the beginning, and now he was a little energetic, at least there was no problem with eating grass, Situ began to prepare for the next march,
At this time, Situ noticed that at the foot of the mountain on his side, by the Shiquan River passing through the city, far away from the city wall, there were two small pairs of cavalry chasing each other, a team of black-clad cavalry was using the tactics of Situ when they came, pressing a team of white horse cavalry farther and farther away from Gulan Muta City, running towards Situ and them, the distance was still a little far, Situ couldn't see their outfit clearly, but it was basically certain that it was the black cavalry, it should be the scout scout of Warat. If the black is the Warat cavalry, then the white forehead should be this Hull's people, watching the two teams get closer and closer to his side, Situ raised the alarm.
In an instant, the team woke up, and everyone seemed to have never fallen asleep, and immediately woke up Ali, turned over and got on his horse, and made an arrow-shaped formation of an attack.
Cavalry leader under Situ:
"My lord, what do you think this is?"
Situ looked at the two teams that were getting closer and closer at the foot of the mountain, and after a little contemplation, he said affirmatively:
"The gang in black armor must be the scouts of Warat, the same outfit as the one we met, and the gang with white horses, judging by the costume, it should be Jehr."
"Shall we greet us, then? They have been pursued like this by the Warats, and it doesn't seem to be very good! If we continue to chase after it, I am afraid that this horse team of the Jehr people will be captured or even killed on the spot! ”
"Don't do it yet, if this wave of people in Warat wanted to kill them, they would have released arrows a long time ago, but you see, they didn't shoot them to death, but just drove them to our side, which shows that Warat wants to catch them alive, our horsepower is very precious, we can't rush straight down like this and waste it, let them rush up, we are here to meet them."
"Yes, my lord!"