Chapter 6: Night Raid
Ten minutes later, when the cruise ship slowly docked, a large number of soldiers also carried weapons, ammunition and other materials and got off the ship in an orderly manner.
Because there were hundreds of people in total, it took a lot of time for them to finally complete the task of disembarking, and then they did not stop, and immediately walked in the direction of the oasis.
After a two-hour walk, the army of hundreds of men finally arrived at the location of the only oasis before entering the desert.
It is worth mentioning that seeing the appearance of hundreds of soldiers from country Y, the Egyptians in the bazaar here in the oasis also panicked instantly, and they thought that these soldiers from country Y were here to rob them.
Fortunately, several soldiers who were proficient in Egyptian immediately told the Egyptians in their native dialect that they were not bandits or anything like that, and that they were just buying some supplies here and then heading out into the desert.
The soldiers were appeased and, most importantly, when the Egyptians saw the money that the soldiers had taken out, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Then the soldiers also bought almost all the camels on this market, and barely enough to get enough mounts for hundreds of people in the army, but fortunately, the food and water supply of the army was already in the military camp of country Y, which was enough for hundreds of people to eat and fresh water for more than a month, although most of them were mainly canned food and dry food, but at least it could fill the stomach, right?
And this transaction also made the merchants of the entire market smile.
Because today's transaction alone is enough to compare to their usual monthly trading volume.
And after purchasing enough camels, Ye Feng and the others also set out for the capital of the dead, that is, the depths of the desert, with a camel mount in their hands.
Compared with horses, the character of the camel is undoubtedly much more tame, as long as the courage of a normal person, can easily drive the camel forward, although the camel does not travel as fast as the horse, but its staying power is also incomparable to the horse.
After entering the desert, I saw that there was an endless ocean, but the ocean was composed of countless yellow sands, and there were only a few cactus-like plants on the road.
In addition, in addition to the yellow sand, it is still yellow sand, which will not only make people's vision feel very tired after looking at it for a long time, but also make people lose their sense of direction.
At least within ten minutes after Ye Feng entered the desert, he couldn't tell the difference between southeast and northwest, in fact, this is the main reason why you must guide when entering the desert, because if you don't have a guide who can identify the direction in the desert, then it is likely that you will not be able to get out of the desert for a few months or even a year.
Of course, if you can survive that long in the desert without water and food.
But fortunately, in addition to O'Connor's knowledge of the route, there are also several soldiers who are proficient in desert warfare, and it is worth mentioning that I saw that the M people led by Benny and the dozens of Egyptian workers they led also followed the same route behind Yefeng.
After thinking about this, Ye Feng did not order the soldiers to expel him, because at this time, he also thought that resurrecting Immorton would require the lives of a few unlucky people, and there was no doubt that these people of Country M already had a purpose in his heart, and these workers could also play a certain role in digging up the capital of the dead.
Because the climate in the desert is very dry, and the water is also the source of life, and talking will aggravate the loss of water in the body, so along the way, everyone is silently sitting on the camel and moving forward, and the whole team is also very quiet.
With the passage of time little by little, soon, unconsciously, I saw that the originally clear and bright sunlight over the desert was gradually twilight.
After a while, when the sun completely sank into the horizon, the bright moonlight also sprinkled onto the earth.
However, although it was already night, the team only ate and drank and rested, and then hurried all night again, and as for sleeping, they could only lie on the back of the camel.
Although the ups and downs are not very suitable for sleeping, it is possible to barely fall asleep even when you are extremely sleepy.
This kind of boring and painful time lasted for about three days, and at this time, everyone in the whole team was also very embarrassed, and from the outside, it looked like a refugee.
It is worth mentioning that during these 3 days, the attack from the man in black that Ye Feng had been worried about never appeared, and as he got closer and closer to the capital of the dead, his heart became more and more heavy.
Because the space will not allow him to complete a B+ level side quest so easily, the attack from the man in black may be delayed, but it will definitely not disappear.
And the longer the time drags on, the more powerful the attack from the men in black becomes.
Therefore, when O'Connor told everyone that the capital of the dead should be there the next morning, Nightfront also gave a strange order, that is, to stop the night march tonight, and instead set up camp to stop.
Although those anxious M people wanted to go alone, under the threat of the black hole muzzles of the hundreds of soldiers under the command of Ye Feng, they also died down in an instant.
Anyway, the capital of the dead doesn't grow legs to run around, so it's not a big deal to arrive half a day late.
And Ye Feng's plan is also very clear, if he continues to march at night, then the people who have been in a state of exhaustion, once they are attacked by the man in black, they will be caught off guard and suffer very heavy losses.
On the contrary, they are now encamped, but they are in a state of defense, which can be said to have an advantageous position, and if the men in black do not attack tonight, then tomorrow, in broad daylight, even if the men in black launch a surprise attack, in such a vast environment as the desert, the soldiers can clearly see the traces of the people in black thousands of kilometers away.
It's not like it's night, it's likely that the whole team will finally react when the men in black raid the front of the group.
And for this, not only the hearts of the night blades are clear, but also the hearts of those in black, so their best chance to attack is tonight instead of tomorrow during the day.
In fact, this arrangement is also forcing the man in black to attack as much as possible tonight, because he wants to fight a defensive battle more than an encounter.
At the same time, under the operation of those soldiers, dozens of cloth tents were also rising from the ground, and between each tent, there was a distance of at least 5 meters, which was also to prevent the fire in one tent from spreading to the other tents.
Due to the lack of rocks and wood in the desert, the outer defense of this temporary camp was that the soldiers cut down the cacti that could be seen nearby and piled them up outside the camp to form a circle, and under the orders of the night front, the soldiers poured a layer of flammable fire oil on top of these cacti.
After arranging for several squads of soldiers to patrol, after a while, everyone also went into their tents to rest.
Under this quiet night, time passed quietly, and soon, the time was unconsciously in the early hours of the morning, when even the patrol team yawned and lost most of their vigilance.
At this moment, a slight vibration began to be heard on the ground, but this did not attract the attention of the soldiers.
However, the Terminator, who didn't need to rest, noticed that something was wrong at the first time, and when it saw the continuous ripples of the water in the specially placed water bowl, it immediately called out the night blade.
Later, Ye Feng, who woke up, also immediately felt a slight vibration from the ground, and he immediately knew that this was the movement caused by the charge of a large number of cavalry, but because these cavalry were still a certain distance from the camp, the shock was not so big.
Thinking of this, he immediately raised his gun and shot into the air.
The sound of "bang" gunfire was also particularly eye-catching in the quiet night, and soon, under the loud gunshot, all the soldiers immediately subconsciously grabbed the guns placed beside them and rushed out of the tent.
And when these soldiers rushed out of the tent, they immediately found a large number of black shadows surrounding the camp from all sides.
If you look closely, these black shadows are a cavalryman riding horses, and their number is at least a hundred.
Although these soldiers had just woken up from their sleep, they immediately showed good military qualities, and they immediately set up a circular defensive line and shot at those black shadows.
A large number of bullets rained out, and although the accuracy of these soldiers was not very high because of the darkness of the night, because the objectives of these cavalry were very important, at least five or six cavalrymen were hit.
In the midst of the successive screams, the cavalrymen who were shot also fell off their horses in an instant, and several of the unlucky guys, although they were only shot at non-lethal parts such as hands and feet, but after falling off their horses, they were unfortunately trampled into meat by the hooves of their companions who rushed up behind!
It is worth mentioning that because of the early discovery of the Terminator, these cavalrymen were shot at by the soldiers of Country Y a few hundred meters away, and by the time they rushed to the front of the camp, they had already suffered several rounds of shooting.
In these rounds of shooting, the black-clothed cavalry also accumulated nearly 40 casualties, which can be said to be nearly half of the casualties for the black-clothed men with a total of only hundreds of people.
It is worth mentioning that although the cavalry in black is not armed with backward bows and sabers like the ancient cavalry, it is also equipped with rifles.
However, you must know that the men in black are riding on the back of a horse that is constantly shaking up and down, and in such a harsh environment, their shooting accuracy is also conceivably low.
Therefore, although the men in black launched a surprise attack, they also charged and shot back at the camp, but in the end, they only caused single-digit casualties on the camp.
In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why when guns appeared, cavalry, which was an ace in ancient times, gradually disappeared in the end.
Charging at the enemy, who are armed with guns, the huge cavalry is like a live target.
However, despite the heavy price paid by the cavalry in black, they finally managed to rush to the front of the camp, and the periphery of this temporary camp had no other defenses except for a circle of cacti, and for those cavalry, it could be said that the door was wide open.
And once the remaining dozens of cavalry are allowed to rush into the camp unscrupulously, although it will still be Yefeng's side that wins in the end, after all, the numerical advantage of hundreds of people on their side is there, even if it is a one-to-one battle loss ratio, it is enough to drown these cavalry.
But before these soldiers killed the black cavalry, they themselves would suffer heavy losses.
As for Ye Feng, each of these soldiers has a role to play before he completes the main quest, so he naturally wants to keep every point of combat effectiveness as much as possible.
Thinking of this, his eyes were also suddenly cold, and then he immediately lit the torch in his hand, and at the same time, his eyes were also firmly fixed on the distance between those black-clothed cavalry and the camp.
After more than ten seconds, I saw a flash of light in his eyes at this time, and then I saw that he immediately threw the torch lit in his hand forward.
In the next second, I saw the flames that rushed to the sky suddenly burst into flames, and after a while, I saw that the entire camp was surrounded by a circle of flames, and this burning circle of fire was caused by those cacti.
It is worth mentioning that at the moment when the flames were burning, the cavalry of the man in black also happened to rush to the front of the fire ring.
Although the horses ridden by these black-clad cavalry were all trained over time, so they could obey orders on the battlefield with guns roaring, no matter how well trained they were, they could not erase their natural fear of flames.
It is well known that most animals are afraid of fire.
Therefore, when these war horses found that a wall of fire suddenly appeared in front of them, they also suddenly let out a cry of fear, and then they also avoided the wall of fire in a panic and fled to the back, regardless of the spurring of the cavalry on their backs.
At the same time, the soldiers in the camp naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity to beat the water dogs, and in an instant, I saw that the camp was also full of gunfire, and the fires kept flickering in the dark night.
In the end, after a total calculation, less than ten of the hundreds of cavalry who attacked survived and escaped, and the rest died tragically on the way to the charge.
It is worth mentioning that a small half of them did not die on the spot, but were given a mend by the soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield afterwards.