There were not many cavalry entering the woods, only a dozen or so, and more cavalry pursued the fleeing villagers outside the grove.

Xu Mo saw that this group of cavalry had already entered the forest, swung his sword, turned his head and ran towards the depths of the woods. When the Yang State scout cavalry first entered the forest, they all slowed down their horses and looked around. After all, they were all battle-hardened cavalry warriors, and in any case, these cavalrymen had a natural wariness of the woods.

In the woods, their speed is greatly limited, and it is even more difficult to retreat if they are ambushed. However, when they saw that there was no ambush around the woods, and saw Xu Mo dragging a sword and running away into the depths of the woods, they relaxed and chased after them with whistling and whistling.

It stands to reason that they really don't have to worry too much. After all, their sweep of the villages on the Jiang Plain was completely random, and even they themselves didn't know when they would start sweeping these villages, maybe they were here today, and they might go to another village tomorrow, and it was not easy to ambush them.

Moreover, these people have experienced a hundred battles, coming and going like the wind, the small army can't stop it at all, but the big army can't avoid their scouts, if they want to deal with them, it must be Jiang Guo's scout cavalry like them. However, after a few years of consumption, Jiang Guo has not many scout cavalry like them, and it is unlikely that they will take it out for the sake of these villagers to fight against Yang Guo.

In the eyes of these Yang State scout cavalry, the scene in front of them should be a brave person among the villagers, who was not angry that the food was robbed and the homes were burned, so they rose up to resist. For ordinary civilians, these cavalrymen received an order from Shangfeng not to be slaughtered, and they must be driven into Jiangcheng.

But for these brave villagers who resisted, they need to be killed, because if they are let into Jiangcheng, they will be good army soldiers, not to mention that these villagers also killed their colleagues, it is even more necessary to die. Thinking of this, the more than a dozen cavalrymen sped up one after another, wanting to catch up with Xu Mo in front.

While running, Xu Mo occasionally turned sideways to observe the pursuers behind him with the corner of his eye, and saw that those cavalry gradually went deeper into the woods, and several hazy figures also appeared behind them. The corners of Xu Mo's mouth went up, and he put on a sarcastic smile, and he didn't run away, but turned around.

"Sliding!" With Xu Mo's loud shout, a circle of pale yellow light masks appeared around him that were invisible to others, dragging a series of afterimages behind him, slamming into the side of the horse's head of the leading cavalry.

The huge strength of "Yu Yu" made the war horse neigh in pain, and the owner of the body staggered a few steps sideways and fell to the ground. Xu Mo took a step forward and stepped on the dizzy Yang State cavalry, and with a swipe of the Blood Demon Sword, he cut his throat.

The cavalryman reached for his throat, blood gushing from between his fingers, and as he was dying, he understood why his comrades had not come to his rescue when he had fallen to the ground. Because all the cavalry around him were already taking care of themselves, the bronze sword in his hand kept dropping the arrows shot from the trees around him, and the cavalry was hit by arrows all the time.

"Ambushed!" This is the first thought in the minds of all the cavalrymen who entered the grove, these ambushes are really good at archery, this is the second thought of the cavalrymen, the ambush soldiers turned out to be on the big tree, this is their last thought.

In general, ambushes in the woods will not go up to the trees, although there are many advantages in the trees, condescending, no need to fight in close combat, only by long-range strikes can hit the enemy.

But the general formed army will not do this, the reason is very simple, because staying in the tree for a long time will consume a lot of physical strength, and once the ambush fails, then it will go up, and there is no need to come down. Even if the ambush is successful, you can hit the enemy with only long-range attacks, but you can't completely destroy the enemy.

Unless the number of people exceeds the enemy several times, you can destroy the enemy only by long-range attacks, but if the number of people is several times that of the opponent, as long as you are surrounded on all sides, you can destroy the enemy with a small loss, where you need to go up the tree. This is also the reason why these battle-hardened Yang State scouts did not detect the ambush when they first entered the forest, they never thought that the enemy would be in the tree.

In fact, if these Yang State scouts and Xu Mo could sit down face-to-face and discuss, Xu Mo would also shrug his shoulders innocently, saying that it was also his helplessness to ambush the bandits and hunters in the trees. Although these bandits and hunters have seen blood, to make them fight against the regular army, especially these elite scouts, is simply to seek death.

Although there were about 60 of them in number, and only about 10 cavalrymen entered the forest, except for a few people, they did not have the courage to fight the regular soldiers face to face. As for the physical exertion of staying in the trees for long periods of time, it was not a problem for them, and both bandits and hunters had similar experiences.

Within a moment, the cavalry of the Yang State that entered the forest was completely lost under the joint attack of Xu Mo and the bandits. However, at this time, outside the woods, the cavalry chasing the villagers had faintly heard the shouts in the woods, and began to enter the forest one after another to check, but after being tripped by a few tripping ropes, they began to slow down their speed into the forest.

Xu Mo waved his hand, and all the bandits and hunters in the tree got off the tree and scattered, and a semi-circular straggler line surrounded the cavalry who entered the forest later. There was little point in staying in the trees any longer, and the cavalry who entered the forest afterwards saw the dead bodies of men and horses in a place, and it was unlikely that they would step into the trap again.

There were more than 70 cavalry in this group, except for the first batch of more than 10 people who entered the forest, this time more people came in, a total of more than 30 people. They soon found the corpses of their former colleagues in the forest, as well as shadowy figures in the woods.

However, this time they did not make a reckless impact, and dismounted and hid behind the trees, took out the crossbows behind their backs and began to shoot at the bandits, and a few cavalry behind them immediately went out of the forest, beckoning more than 20 companions who were still outside to enter the forest to help in the battle.

In the absence of any clarity on how their original companions all died in such a short period of time, this was their best choice. In fact, this is what Xu Mo wants them to do, if these more than thirty cavalry also rush up desperately, then the bandits and hunters must have suffered heavy casualties, of course, if all the remaining cavalry also enter the forest, then the situation will be different.

Since these cavalry had made a mistake again, Xu Mo would not give them another chance to gather together, and under the cover of the trees, Xu Mo quickly approached the hiding place of the Yang State scout cavalry. After several of his companions screamed before they died, the scout cavalry of the Yang Kingdom finally found this killing god dragging a blood-red sword upside down.

The bandits and hunters also used their bows and arrows to cover Xu Mo's assassination, and whenever the scouts wanted to concentrate on surrounding Xu Mo, they would be baptized by a rain of arrows. Soon, when only half of the more than 30 cavalrymen remained, they finally broke down, shouting and desperately rushing out of the woods.

Although the remaining 20 or so scouts outside had also entered the woods at this time, they also turned back and left the forest under the beckoning of their panicked companions. Under the stumbling ropes of Fang Mao and several other bandits hidden in the shadows, from time to time cavalry were tripped and fell to the ground. The bandits and hunters cheered and began to pursue, shooting to death the scout cavalry who fell to the ground one by one.

Yang's scout cavalry finally saw the sunlight outside the woods again, but in the end, there were only about 20 people left, and in this small wood, they left behind the corpses of their comrades equivalent to the number of bandits and hunters.

After leaving the forest, the surviving scout cavalry of Yang State did not dare to stay any longer, and threw down the food they were carrying on their horses, and went into the distance without looking back, leaving a mess in the land.

"Leader, there are still more than 30 war horses to ride, and the intact grain bag is about 50 stones, and there is some meat, if you save some food, it will probably be enough for everyone in the valley to eat for two months." Lu Yong couldn't suppress his excitement and said happily.

Xu Mo looked at the scattered villagers who began to gather outside the village, frowned, and said, "Gather everyone, bring food and war horses, and we will leave immediately!" ”

"Leader, there is still a lot of food scattered on the ground, at least more than 20 stones, don't you want them?" Lu Chen, who came from behind, said in surprise.

"It's too late, when these villagers gather, it's difficult for us to leave, they are afraid of the cavalry of the Yang Kingdom, but they are not afraid of us, leave them some food, they will not follow us to prevent us from leaving." Xu Mo said lightly.

After speaking, Xu Mo was about to leave, but he remembered something, looked at the village that was being burned, sighed, and said after a pause: "Lu Chen, you went to tell those villagers that those cavalry just now were Jiang Guo's scout cavalry pretending to be Yang Guo's scouts, and the purpose was to snatch food as military food. ”

"Huh? But that's obviously ......," Lu Chen asked with wide eyes.

"Huh?" Xu Mo glanced at Lu Chen coldly.

"No!" Lu Chen immediately closed his mouth and answered in a low voice.

In the next few days, Xu Mo and others attacked Yang Guo's scout cavalry several times in several small villages. Gradually, however, their success rate became lower and lower, and the number of cavalry they were able to deal with became smaller and smaller.

There were even a few times when the scout cavalry was attacked by a sneak attack, and they did not leave immediately, nor did they engage Xu Mo and the others. It was just hanging them far behind them, and if it weren't for the bandits and hunters running into Luliang Mountain, they probably wouldn't have been able to get rid of these alert scout cavalry.

After these several battles, the remnants of Jiang's villages began to circulate on the Jiangcheng Plain, and Jiang's scout cavalry were pretending to be enemy countries to attack their villages and rob them of military rations. Although some people did not believe it, the rumors still affected many of the people of Jiang State, and these people began to leave the Jiang Cheng Plain with their families and go to the deep mountains of Yang State or Luliang Mountain to escape the war.

(The red ticket plus more has been put to 12000, no longer in arrears, and it will be issued later!) ）