Chapter 17: Ambush the Wasp (Part I)

Thanks to one man and two horses, the Black Hawk Thieves arrived at their destination earlier than expected.

Thirty miles away from the Valley of Flames, there was a small saltwater lake with a grassland nearby.

At noon the next day, the team arrived at this grassland, Bai Qi ordered everyone to rest on this grassland, and sent people to the Valley of Flames to check on the situation.

The horse thieves cut the grass and sprinkled it with coarse grain for the horses, and took good care of the horses.

This grassland was the only place in the vicinity for dozens of miles where they could graze, and it was also their last supply point.

The spies soon returned to report that there was no sign of a large number of cavalry passing through the Valley of Fire.

After resting on the grassland for an afternoon, when the sun was about to set, Bai Qi gave the order to set off.

The team trotted at a fast pace and reached the front of the Valley of Fire before it was dark.

The bare, all made of red rocks, is actually just a small mountain range, the highest peak is only two or three hundred meters, and the height of the peaks on both sides of the Valley of Flames is only about one hundred and fifty meters.

For unknown reasons, the Red Mountain split into two mountain ranges in the Valley of Flames, and staggered each other, forming this narrow valley with an average width of more than fifty meters and a length of about one kilometer, which was relatively flat.

In front of the eastern exit of the valley, a mountain beam about ten meters high blocked the view inside and outside the valley, which was very beneficial for the cavalry to ambush.

Bai Qi led the leaders to inspect around the Valley of Flames at night, and they found that the Valley of Flames was actually around. It is formed by the staggered tails of two mountain ranges, at the eastern mouth of the valley. It is the end of the mountain range to the north, and the west entrance is the end of the mountain range to the south. At the end of the mountain range, the height is very low, but it drags very long, near the eastern exit of the valley, the height of the cliff on the north side is only twenty or thirty meters, and near the western exit, the southern cliff is only thirty or forty meters, these two positions are undoubtedly very suitable for ambush.

Combined with the terrain, Bai Qi decided to divide his horse thieves into three after some consideration.

First of all. He divided the hundred strongest horse thieves who had been selected some time ago and were going to be trained to become heavy cavalry.

During this time, under Bai Qi's reckless procurement and a large number of looting craftsmen working day and night, sixty or seventy sets of heavy armor and thirty or forty sets of vests had been gathered.

The hundred strong horse thieves selected have also been trained for adaptation.

In this battle, Bai Qi gave priority to the leaders of the horse thieves, and the rest were allocated to these selected elites.

In addition to the hundred future heavy cavalry, Bai Qi also selected a hundred relatively strong ones from among the horse thieves.

He placed the 200 horse thieves and all the horse thieves leaders under the mountain beam at the entrance of the valley, and these 200 horse thieves were responsible for charging head-on.

After that, Bai Qi divided the remaining five hundred horse thieves in two, and some of them lay in ambush on the lower northern cliff at the east entrance. Part of it was ambushed on a lower southern cliff at the western entrance of the valley.

These thieves will carry all the arrows in their team and will have a large number of stones to throw at the ambush.

Bai Qi also placed Qin Qing and Barian together with Huang Mao in these two ambush teams, and let them serve as the commanders of these two teams.

Qin Qing and Huang Mao were arranged at the east entrance of the valley. Barian was placed at the West Exit.

In the end, Bai Qi selected dozens of old and weak from among the horse thieves and drove the surplus horses to hide in the mountain col several kilometers away. lest the horses reveal their whereabouts.

The next thing is to wait patiently.

About fifty miles west of the Red Mountain, there is also a grassy beach. Not surprisingly, it will be the last place for the Wasp Thieves to repair. It is likely that they will spend the night there, and it is estimated that they should have arrived at the Valley of Flames at about ten o'clock in the morning, so that when they crossed the Valley of Flames and arrived at the grassy beach where they had rested before Bai Qi in the east, it would be the middle of the day when the people were sleepy and tired.

As it turned out, Bai Qi's guess was correct, and at about ten o'clock in the morning, the wasp thieves appeared on the west side of the valley.

When Bai Qi was discussing tactics yesterday, he was worried that if the wasp thieves were careful enough to send someone to investigate in advance, his ambush would be wasted.

And Qixing felt that his worries were completely unfounded, the horse thief was not an army, and Huang Mazi was not a famous general, he would never have imagined that Ying Fei would directly abandon Moon Lake and come out to ambush him.

And, in general, horse thieves who go to the wind are hardly ambushed, and they will never be so alert.

It turns out that Seven Stars knows horse thieves better than Bai Qi.

The wasp thieves entered the valley without hesitation, and had no intention of sending anyone to investigate.

Hearing the news from Barrian, Bai Qi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

What happened next went very smoothly, and the Wasp Thief made his way through the Valley of Flames without a hint of vigilance, and came to the eastern exit.

With Qin Qing's order, more than two hundred horse thieves who were ambushed at the eastern exit appeared at the same time, and arrows rained down towards the horse thieves in the valley, and countless rolling stones were pushed down the valley, which immediately caused the wasp thieves to fall into chaos.

Huang Mazi is worthy of his murderous name, he quickly made the most correct judgment, at this time, if the order to retreat, there will be greater chaos, the best way out is undoubtedly the valley mouth less than 100 meters ahead, as long as you can rush out of the valley, with the maneuverability of the horse thief, then the sky is high and the bird can fly.

Huang Mazi did not hesitate to draw his sword and point at Taniguchi, and launched the order to charge.

Qin Qing, who had been waiting for a moment for a long time, scattered all of her three first-level spell slots as quickly as she could, and she had already replaced the first-level spell slots with greasy spells.

Qin Qing released all three greasy techniques at the bottleneck of a valley about fifty meters in front of the horse thief, and the three greasy techniques just cut off the entire valley.

The distance of fifty meters is just enough for the horse thief's charging speed to reach the maximum.

When the horses rushed into the range of the greasy technique, tragedy naturally happened, the horse thieves in the first few rows fell into very neatly and beautifully, and the horse thieves who could not brake in the back rushed up, and even more chaos ensued.

The wasp thieves who rushed to the first row were all leaders and leaders of the bandits, and the moment the horses fell, more than twenty agile figures rose into the sky, and jumped out of the greasy area with one rise and fall.

The first person to jump out of the greasy technique was a big man with a bearded face, and this person was the famous Yellow Horse.

Huang Mazi glanced back at the chaotic subordinates behind him, and the sharp arrows that kept shooting down from the cliff, let out a roar like a trapped beast, and turned his head to rush towards the valley mouth first.

At this time, Qin Qing poked his head out from the cliff, raised the "Holder's Flame Scepter" in his hand, and locked his spiritual power on the yellow horse who rushed to the front.

At the moment when he was locked by the spirit, Huang Mazi seemed to be aware of it, and his steps slowed slightly, and he was about to turn back.

But at that moment, a black steed in a vest rushed up to the hill outside the valley mouth, and on the steed sat a man of medium stature, who had a delicate and resolute face.

Seeing this person, Huang Mazi naturally understood everything, and two words popped out from between his teeth, "Eagle fly!" (To be continued......)