Chapter 17: The Angry Vanibal
In the valley a hundred miles away from Longlingji, a huge army is slowly advancing.
It was early in the morning, and Vannibal sat on the high general's car, looked at King Hebi, who was still sitting and dozing, and sighed.
If His Royal Highness the Prince was in such a state of mind, how dare he let him come to the battle in person. Vanibal stroked his beard, and suddenly it occurred to him that he called a general.
"During this time, you will stay in the car and protect His Royal Highness the Prince, and you don't need to act with the Chinese army in the future, just follow the rear army, and you can do whatever His Highness asks you to do."
"Yes."
When he had given the order, he got out of the cart, and immediately a soldier brought a horse to him, and he took the reins and rode on.
"Pass my order, speed up the march, before tonight, you must arrive at Longling Rock, and you are not allowed to rest until you reach Longling Rock."
"Yes."
At this time, Siwei and others, who were still in Longlingji, were still counting the booty, and salvaged some weapons and corpses that had not been washed away from the river, as well as tents and military rations seized from the place where the Ganghe soldiers were camped.
It's a pity that when some soldiers ran into the river, the military rations were all on their bodies, and they were already soaked and inedible when they were salvaged.
Yesterday he sent his men out to clean up the battlefield, and Swei himself went to the communication room to report the results of the battle to Aeron.
He learned from Ayron that all the outposts between Longlingji and Hanse had been withdrawn, and that the last team was almost bitten by Ganghe's cavalry. Fortunately, Ayron sent a death squad of prisoners to block the Gangga cavalry near Hanse, and only then did he ensure the safe retreat of all troops.
Ayron also mentioned that the prisoner force, if they followed his orders, would have infiltrated into the mountains after the blockade, and then rushed to Longlingji to join Siwei's troops.
There was nothing to do all night, and the soldiers were busy from midnight, and by the morning they were a little tired, so Siwei only arranged for a small group of men and horses to advance twenty miles in the direction of Saimen Gorge to reconnoitre.
Judging from the results of the overnight interrogation, the information provided by the previously captured captives is basically true, and the only problem now is that it is not known where Wannibal's specific location is.
Si Wei shook his head, his more than 4,000 people are still too small in such a battlefield, and the next thing is to depend on Aeron.
Head of the city of Hanse
Ai Rong pointed to the figure of the cavalry looming in the distance, and said with a smile:
"Look at those little cubs of Ganghe, who didn't catch up with us, they didn't leave outside."
The subordinates on the side also laughed: "Yes, fortunately, General Si is resourceful, otherwise he will be bitten by these guys, and he will have to shed a layer of skin." ”
Aeon laughed, Siwei was his classmate at the Western Military Academy of Magic, and he had a good relationship, and it was obvious that his subordinates praised Siwei very well for him.
Ai Rong leaned forward, put his hands on the female wall at the head of the city, and showed a thoughtful look on his face:
"The Zhang Yuan that Si Wei told me is quite interesting, and he was able to come up with this kind of tactic. You know, I couldn't believe it when I heard that they were able to deal with a force of about 700 people with zero casualties. I wonder if this tactic can be carried out without a regular army. ”
The subordinates next to him showed puzzled expressions: "General, what kind of army do you use if you don't use a regular army?" ”
Ayron didn't answer him, but walked down the wall with his hands behind his back, and the subordinate hurried to follow.
Soon his question was answered, and when Ejon returned to the barracks, he immediately ordered the soldiers to go to the city of Hanse, informing the nobles of his decision.
"Whoever is willing to lead his private soldiers out of the city to engage in guerrilla warfare will not only be personally owned by the nobles for all the captured booty, but will also receive a large bounty for his exploits."
There must be brave men under the heavy reward, and some nobles received the news and went to the barracks to see Aeron, wanting to understand what guerrilla warfare was in person.
Ai Rong relayed Swei's original words to the nobles, and some of the nobles immediately had questions:
"If we just sneak attack like this, how can we get our hands on something that proves our military achievements?"
Ai Rong pointed to a soldier beside him: "This is a special person in the army to record military merits, I will arrange one of my people in each team to accompany him to record military merits, you just fight guerrillas, don't worry about rewards."
At that time, for every ordinary soldier you kill, there will be a white fungus; For every sergeant major killed, there are five white fungus; A general, one dead gold ear, thirty gold ears alive, if you catch the other party's main general, I will personally pay you a thousand gold ears! ”
The white fungus and gold fungus mentioned here are a kind of currency, and the soldiers of this world are used to using the enemy's ears as proof of their exploits, and later when the army issued bounties, all the money was cast into the shape of ears, which is considered a bad taste. Unexpectedly, this move evolved into a tradition, and all the army bounties became ear coins.
Hearing such a high reward, many nobles were moved. Everyone rushed to tell each other, and the nobles who had not been tempted before also became interested in such a good thing, and began to gather their private armies.
It was night, the west gate was quietly opened, and a large number of men and horses left the city of Hansey in the night, and dispersed outside the city, disappearing into the night.
Unaware of the large guerrillas waiting for him, Vanibal would have jumped up and pointed at Aeron's nose and scolded him for being despicable.
Because he has now been disgusted by the guerrillas under Siwei.
After separating from the rear army of King Hebi, he accelerated his march with what he had promised, and camped at the river in Longlingji before nightfall. As a result, it was completely dark now, but he was still ten miles away from Longlingji.
Although it was only ten miles away, it took him nearly an afternoon to get to the last ten miles.
When he arrived less than twenty miles from Longlingji, Siwei had already received the news and immediately arranged for the guerrillas to harass the march of Vinibal's troops.
At the beginning, Vanibal didn't care about the small movements made by Hanse's stragglers, for his army of 50,000 people, the death of two or three people was just a tickle for himself.
Vannibal then gave the order to speed up the march.
Unexpectedly, his lack of attention soon intensified the guerrilla methods.
First, when the front army walked to an uphill road, several figures suddenly appeared on the top of the slope, and several soldiers of the front army who were eager to make meritorious contributions just wanted to rush up, when they saw a large stone emerging from the top of the slope.
"Ahh Run! ”
Because Vanibal beheaded the generals of the former army in a fit of anger before, he reaped the consequences of his own evil at this time. At this time, there was only a group of sergeant majors left in the ranks of the front army to command, and there was no way to take big stones.
By the time a general of the Chinese army arrived, a magic smashed the boulder into a cloud of debris, and a large group of soldiers of the front army had been injured or even crushed to death by the big stone, and the formation of the Chinese army was also disrupted by the front army.
Vannibal was furious, and he couldn't find the enemy to retaliate, so he changed his formation in a fit of rage, and began to use a cart to consume mana because of the rock golem.
Now Vanibal didn't care if he consumed mana or not, and directly let the huge puppet go to the front, but in this way, the speed was much slower.
The front was solid, but the ass soon had a new situation.
The cart that had unloaded the stone man had now become a tool for transporting the wounded, following at the back of the line.
Vannibal was patrolling the army on horseback when he suddenly heard a soldier shouting:
"It's on fire, it's on fire!"
When Vannibal looked back, it was the cart with the wounded that was billowing smoke.
"Shut up and keep marching! Come on a few people, come with me to the back and have a look. ”
Vannibal walked to the end of the line only to find out where there was a fire, only a lot of lit wet branches were thrown on the cart, and so much smoke came out, and some generals had sent soldiers to pick bundles of branches off the cart with spears.
He frowned, pulled a soldier over and asked:
"What's going on with you, why are there these things in the car?"
"Report to the general, just now a lot of these bundles of branches suddenly fell from the mountain, and all of them were thrown on the car, and then a few red rays of light shot down, and they all set the branches on fire."
Wannibal's face turned blue with anger, he felt as if he had been played, and he scolded and sent all the troops on the left and right flanks to the mountain, making sure to protect the safety of the Chinese army.
At night, the left and right armies on the hill were advancing much slower, but Vanibal did not care, and under his orders, all the soldiers advanced while searching the surroundings, trying to keep the pace of the Chinese army as fast as the two flanks.
Unexpectedly, the Hansei soldiers did not know how to avoid the search of the two wings of the army, and dazzling white light appeared everywhere on the mountain, and at a glance, it seemed that there were stars in the sky.
Of course did Vanibal know that it was the lightsaber technique that the soldiers were used to, and that it was the troops on both flanks that had encountered the enemy? However, the absence of shouts of killing made him deny his judgment.
In order to understand the specific situation, he sent soldiers to the troops on both sides to understand the situation, and soon replied that it was not his own lightsaber technique.
Seeing the commotion of the army because of the sudden flash of light on the mountain, Vanibal was a little depressed.
For so many years, I have been fighting big battles and tough battles, when have I been so aggrieved by this kind of indiscriminate means, and I can't find the enemy when I want to find it, which has made the whole army panic.
Vannibal fortunately directly ordered:
"All the soldiers take turns using my lightsaber in groups of five, and I want to see that it's brighter than daylight!"
Soon the order was conveyed, and after a commotion, the whole valley lit up, as if it were daytime.
At this time, the Hanselian guerrillas on the mountain were almost speechless when they saw this scene:
"I'll go, it's too bright!"
"Let's get out first, let them consume their own mana."
"Brothers, go."
Now both in the mountains and in the valley were bright, and the disdain on his face was clearly illuminated as Vanibal rode his horse.
Hmph, you shady means also want to mess with me, and see how I can defeat you in a dignified manner when the time comes.
The soldiers were naturally tired from using the lightsaber for a long time, and Vanibal had to slow down the march again to give the soldiers time to rest.
By the time we reached Longling Rock, it was almost dawn.
Vannibal jumped off his horse and scolded:
"These Hansei scum are so hateful, don't catch me!"
A general leaned over next to him and whispered: "General, do you still want to rest here?" ”
Wannibal waved his hand:
"Pass my order, the whole army rests, the middle army and the front army camp here, those who can't set up tents along the road, the left army and the right army stay on the mountain, cut down all the trees for me, don't give Hansei scum a loophole."
So, large and small tents were set up on the river beach, and at this time the sun rose from the top of the mountain, shining on the quiet Longling Rock, and there was a piece of purple shining with a different luster in the sun.