Night 7: Thirteen Days of Death (1)

Just after Huang Zhi gathered his mood and walked out of the ruins of the eastern village, the scouts who were in charge of monitoring the movements of the chasing troops from the state capital army after the fall of the cavalry battalion also rushed back.

After listening to the scout's report, Du Ziteng didn't care about what important matters were being discussed by several adults, and interrupted their conversation without hesitation, "Several adults, we must continue to move forward, and the chasing soldiers from the state capital will catch up with us in half an hour." ”

Although everyone felt that they hadn't rested enough, they had to continue on the road even if they were tired, and with the current situation of everyone, it was really not suitable to fight with the army leaving the state capital.

Holding a half-hour lead, the Donghai team continued to march eastward, the first target was the camp of the eastern bandits, hoping to take advantage of the disadvantage of the unfamiliar mountain roads of the state army to throw them away. However, this wishful thinking is somewhat unrealistic, regardless of whether the pursuers know the road or not, as long as the Eastern Navy does not have time to cover up the traces of their own walks, the Lizhou army can follow their footsteps all the way.

The time for this chase and escape passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was already sunset, but the distance between the two sides not only did not widen, but had a tendency to shorten, because the Eastern Navy was already sleepy and could not compare with the still energetic pursuers behind them.

The camp of the eastern bandits is also near the Jiulong River, and it is the only way for the dreamers to escape from the town of Donghai, which was occupied by the Lizhou army. When he arrived here, the Dongzhou Continent was already on the moon branch, but the person in the dream did not appreciate the leisure and leisure of the moon, because the chasing soldiers were getting closer and closer.

With the neighing of the horses of "Herod", there was a stir in the ranks of the dreamers. The high weight of the muscular man finally became the last straw that crushed the war horse under the crotch, and the war horse fell to the ground foaming at the mouth, unable to stand up again. Wanyue herself was also smashed and broke a few bones, but fortunately Li Sha was treated in time, otherwise she would have been a casualty dragging down the team.

The whole team had to stop in place for a while, and Du Ziteng found a few dream people again, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid our war horses won't be able to hold on." From Dongweiguan all the way to the south, I traveled more than 400 miles, but I never got a good rest. Today, there was a continuous high-intensity battle during the day, and I was afraid that more war horses would die on the spot in the future. ”

Sima Fuqiang looked at his tired teammates and the soldiers of the Eastern Navy, these people had been fighting on horseback for a day in a row, all of them were tired, not to mention the war horses they sat on.

Originally, the Eastern Navy had limited financial resources, and unlike the northern nomads, they were able to prepare more than two war horses for each cavalry, so their ability to run long distances was slightly inferior. In fact, except for a very small number of ace cavalry armies equipped with horses, the vast majority of the army did not have such treatment. If any army is able to obtain more horses, the first thing that comes to mind is to train more cavalry, rather than equipping the existing cavalry with horses. The reason why the northern nomads were so extravagant was because they had more horses than warriors.

The Waning Moon's mount was dead, and they couldn't find another horse for him unless they were ruthlessly forcing one of their cavalrymen to make a sacrifice. But this is useless after all, according to Du Ziteng's judgment, all the war horses have reached a limit, and if they continue to run, they will only lose more.

If this continues, this organized and planned strategic shift will eventually turn into a complete rout.

"All abandon the horses and walk" Huang Zhi suddenly spoke, his decisive tone was sending a strong signal to everyone that he had a way to deal with this difficulty.

"How to do it, you say." Sima Fuqiang himself didn't have any ideas for the time being, so he simply chose to trust his teammates unconditionally.

Huang Zhi nodded, because the time was urgent, there was no time to discuss, so he skipped Sima Fuqiang and began to issue orders, "Everyone dismount, tie the horses in a string, and then quickly leave the mountain road." Let's go to the river and find a shoal to cross the river. ”

"Don't want the war horse? How can we get rid of our pursuers on foot? Xiaofeng habitually popped up two questions in a row.

Huang Zhi ignored Xiaofeng's question, but implemented the task first, after all, the chasing soldiers behind him would catch up in another twenty minutes, "General Du, hurry up and do it, and leave the rest to us to deal with."

Du Ziteng opened his mouth, but after all, he didn't raise any questions or objections, and immediately went down to arrange this matter.

At this time, Sima Fuqiang and Zhang Wei had already understood Huang Zhi's intentions, he planned to use the dream man himself as bait to attract the pursuers of the Lizhou army, and ensure that the soldiers of the cavalry battalion could be preserved. Although this plan is very bold, with the personal strength of the dream man, in this endless mountain forest, I believe that it is easy to get rid of the pursuers. Even if you can't get rid of the other party completely, you won't be surrounded and annihilated.

By the time the cavalry battalion had disposed of all the horses, ten minutes had passed, and it was only ten minutes away from the state army.

Huang Zhi hurriedly explained some more things to Du Ziteng, and asked them to rush along the mountain path to the bank of the Jiulong River, while the dream man drove more than 500 war horses to continue to the bandit camp.

Five minutes later, thousands of cavalry from the state army chased up the mountain road, and by the light of the torches, they could only make sure that the horseshoe prints continued to stretch forward, completely oblivious to the countless messy footprints on the side path.

"Actually, your heart is still not ruthless enough." Sima Fuqiang rode his horse and galloped on Huang Zhi's right hand, and couldn't help but remind him.

Huang Zhi didn't refute, but nodded apologetically, "I know, even if we keep the cavalry battalion for the time being, I'm afraid we won't be able to save the overall situation." Rather than that, it is better to use them as bait to protect us from breaking through. ”

"Oh, I thought you didn't think of that." Sima Fuqiang said this, and did not express any more opinions.

Huang Zhi knew that the captain still had a pimple in his heart, so he continued to say his thoughts, "If I do this, I'm afraid we will lose all opportunities." ”

"Oh, how do you say?" Regarding people's hearts, Sima Fuqiang thought that he did not know as much as Huang Zhi, so he humbly asked for advice.

"There is no love for no reason in this world, and there is no hate for no reason, if we treat the grassroots soldiers well, they will naturally be loyal to us. On the other hand, if we use them as outcasts, they will naturally surrender to the official army without any psychological burden. And that's not all, if I were the general of the Lizhou Army, I would have used the surrender of these cavalry battalions to persuade the defenders of Dongwei Pass, saying how the people in our dreams abandoned them, and even used them as bait to protect themselves. ”

"Aren't you 'inciting'? and it will be made to turn them into dead soldiers. Zhang Wei couldn't help but interject on the side.

"There's not enough time." Huang Zhi sighed, "If you give me ten more minutes, for the sake of my teammates, I won't be so pedantic." ”

Sima Fuqiang nodded, "It's best if you think so, the manipulators behind the dream world are playing with us in the palm of our hands, if we are still stupidly clinging to these illusory feelings, we will only end up putting ourselves in it." ”

Huang Zhi didn't answer, but said to himself in his heart, "If necessary, now I, even Zhang He and Xiang Yu can be used as outcasts, after all, this world is just a dream after all......"