Chapter 34 describes the hostile situation
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The sound of hooves resounded across the mountain road.
A team of elite iron horsemen like a torrent of steel, wrapped in the murderous spirit rushed to the mountains and fields of the sand bandits, on the hunting flag, you can see the eagle with wings ready to fly, you can also see the flexible and vigorous fox hunting, the fierce hunters crotch high-headed horses, long knives and sharp guns in their hands, a roar, the two teams of people and horses like two clusters of tides colliding, pouring boiling foam in an instant, the two clusters of tides were smashed at the same time, blended together, shouting and killing suddenly resounded through the mountains.
The hunting brigade stationed in the western frontier of the tribe rushed to the scene as soon as they saw the signal arrow shot by Zhou Lu. The brigade of iron cavalry converged into the valley to block the sand bandits head-on and start a fight.
The western frontier of the Heavenly Demon Clan is garrisoned by a total of forty-six hundred-man teams of the Fox Hunter Army and the Eagle Wing Rangers, and the Western Xinjiang has always been heavily guarded and waiting, but this time the sand bandit raid was still too sudden, and it touched up from the almost unwalked path in the mountain behind the Fire Pavilion, and caught the tribal garrison off guard.
If it weren't for Zhou Lu, they would have sent the signal out in advance, I am afraid that the sand bandits would have attacked directly into the mine.
However, there were still many people in the vicinity of the mine who were affected, and everywhere the sand bandits passed was full of blood and screams, and clusters of lit tents rose into the sky.
This time the sand bandits' sneak attack was as fast as lightning, and the scale was extremely large, and it was impossible for the Heavenly Demon Clan to transfer all forty-six hundred-person teams to the West Mine in a short period of time, and the hunting team that rushed over nearby seemed to be overstretched.
On a high slope, Xin Baishou, the commander of the fox hunting army, looked at the scene of the hunters and the sand bandits in the distance, fighting and shaking, his eyebrows tightened, and he and his three centurions spread out the mountain map to point out the terrain, and studied in detail the attack route of the sand bandits and the key roads they had to hold.
It is imperative to know as much as possible how many enemies are coming, so that they can divide their forces and meet them separately.
Lei Hao was sweating profusely and dismounted, and galloped towards the hillside, seeing Xin Baishou's straight and solemn figure, Lei Hao raised his eyebrows vigorously, and shouted from a distance: "Commander, I didn't expect that there were sand bandits on my territory, but you arrived first." ”
The men turned their heads with a hint of teasing.
Lei Hao ran to the slope in a few steps, nodded at the centurions beside Xin Baishou, stretched out his hand and shouted with a thick and thick beard indiscriminately: "Brothers, the battle is on my territory, how to fight this battle, it must be me who is in charge." ”
"Just you?"
"Haha, Lao Lei, do you think which of us will obey you?"
The centurions asked playfully and rhetorically, pursed their lips defiantly, and met the smell of gunpowder with the thunder, and for a moment there was some tension on the slope.
The Fox Hunters and the Eagle Wings have not fought once. The two teams were by no means ambiguous in cooperating with each other to meet the enemy, but the distribution of benefits after the war was frequently contested.
There have been no bandits here in Western Xinjiang for a long time, and this sudden large-scale invasion of sand bandits, Lei Mi is most afraid of his brothers after a bloody battle, but all the credit is easily fished into their pockets by the fox hunting team.
This time, the three centurions and the commander of Xin Baishou took turns to rest and stay in the West Mine overnight, but they just caught up with this banditry, judging from the momentum of their first rush to the scene, the ambition to seize the war merit is self-evident.
Lei Hao narrowed his eyes, watching the brothers of the Sixth Brigade of the Eagle Wing Army under the mountain bravely rush into the valley in front of him, and the killing intent in his heart was slowly rising, he raised his head and stared at the three centurions, and shouted loudly: "Disobey?
"Enough. ”
Over there, Xin Baishou withdrew his gaze from the mountain map, looked at Lei Hao with a stern face, and shouted loudly: "The sand bandits are still raging in the mountains, but you are fighting here and there, and you don't care about the overall situation, you all look at yourself, do you still have a little bit of the appearance of the Heavenly Demon Clan's war hunting?"
A few words scolded all the centurions without momentum.
Forget about the three centurions, they are all Xin Baishou's old subordinates, and they are scolded for not hurting or itching, but Lei Hao's face is a little unbearable, and he has a sneering look on his face, but he can't collide with others.
Xin Baishou's thin face was full of awe-inspiring expressions, and he waved his hand and shouted without question:
"I'm the commander of a thousand soldiers, my position is the highest here, and the battle to meet the sand bandits is under my full command, Lei Hao, don't blame me for not reminding you, there are also your brothers fighting below, if you don't obey my unified dispatch, you will be responsible for any losses." ”
Lei was stunned, he was so angry in his heart, people directly used his military position to pressure him, but he had no words to refute.
"But ......"
Lei Hao shouted unconvinced: "This is the territory of our Eagle Wing Army......
Xin Baishou Huo Ran turned around, and scolded with a cold face: "What Eagle Wing Army Fox Hunting Army, in the face of foreign enemies, we are all Heavenly Demon Clan war hunters, Lei Hao, don't use narrow interests to confuse the army's heart during the war, otherwise don't blame me for sending you to the Elder Pavilion Military Aircraft Department after the war!"
Without waiting for Lei Hao to reply, Xin Baishou turned around and shouted, "The scout hasn't come back yet, hasn't the specific situation in front been found out yet?"
The valley was undulating in the distance, and it was impossible to see how many sand bandits were coming.
The enemy situation is unknown, the number of people is unknown, and the direction of the attack is unknown, Xin Baishou eagerly awaited the information.
Lei stood there breathlessly, his dark face full of indignation.
Who's to blame them for the Falcon Commanders aren't around?
This time he rushed to meet the enemy, Xin Baishou is really the highest person in the military, he wants to use the military position to suppress people, Lei Hao really doesn't have the slightest temper.
Lei Hao is not afraid of fighting, and it is not how he cares, but from past experience, this time the sand bandits attacked, Xin Baishou robbed him of the command, no matter how big the loss of the Eagle Wing Army was after the war, the fox hunting would snatch most of it in the distribution of battle merits, but Lei Hao could only drink a mouthful of soup when he fought at home.
How chilling it would be for his brothers, how he, a centurion, could rise up to the brothers who fought to kill the enemy in front of him.
Lei Hao was indignant.
A scout ran from a distance at the bottom of the slope, and he flew up smartly, ran to the front and shouted excitedly: "Commander, we have received three refiners, they said that they went out to look for mines, and it happened that the sand bandits were attacking, and they ran away quickly, and they also shot the signal arrow." What the hell is going on with the bandits, they should know better than us, do you want to ask?"
"Three refiners?"
Xin Baishou and Lei Hao were stunned at the same time, and Xin Baishou waved his big hand and shouted eagerly: "Go, take us there." ”
Zhou Luan, Xiao Luan and Ke Ling stood on the side of the road with their horses.
The hunters of the Eagle Wings and the Fox Hunters rushed into the valley to stop the sand bandits' charge, and the three of them were exhausted from running around the road, and staggered with the approaching hunting team.
Now they are finally safe.
Xiao Luan and Ke Ling were shocked and frightened, and only now did blood gradually appear on their faces.
Several elite fox hunters held long knives and guarded tightly around the three of them, which gave Xiao Luan and Ke Ling a sense of security in their hearts.
The shouts of killing behind made them suspicious.
It was only a few steps away, and they were almost trapped inside and couldn't get out.
On the mountain road in the distance, Xin Baishou took the lead and ran towards the three of them quickly.
Seeing the three refiners guarding in the middle from a distance, Xin Baishou frowned vigorously.
He urgently needed to get the details of the sand bandits ahead, those three refiners escaped all the way from the enemy, and they should be able to see something that they couldn't see now, but two of the three of Xin Baishou were weak women, and the other was a fat man with a dull head, and he was a little disappointed in his heart.
Xin Baishou knew that those noble refiners, it was too late for everyone in the clan to take care of them, how could they let them experience real knife training, their combat experience was almost zero, and the sudden incident scared them terribly, and it was already their greatest ability to persist and escape, how could they still expect them to summarize any useful information at such a critical juncture.
If it was the powerful wild old wall in the Fire Pavilion, it would be just two women and a fat man.
Xin Baishou walked forward with a few centurions, and first hugged his fists at the three of Zhou Lu: "A few master stokers, you are frightened. ”
The stoker is an honorific title for the refiner, and in the wasteland, even the commander of the thousand will greet the refiner respectfully when he sees him.
Xiao Luan charmingly brushed her cheeks to the side, and said lightly:
"Commander Qian, thank you for saving your life, the military situation is urgent, if you need our cooperation, please make it clear. ”
Xin Baishou was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but be impressed by Xiaoluan's bearing.
Escape from life and death, can still be so graceful, a word between words puts the current military situation in the first place, this woman is not simple, compared with this woman, the temperament of the fat man next to her, that is, the material for her to hold the saddle.
Xiao Luan is the granddaughter of the second elder Mo Xuanji, who lives in the Qi and nourishes the body, and has developed the bearing of a superior since she was a child, although Xin Baishou does not know Xiao Luan's true identity, but she can see her extraordinary at a glance.
Xin Baishou took another step forward and asked anxiously: "Okay, I won't talk nonsense, may I ask this stoker, you said that you just escaped from the bandits, so can you see how many sand bandits came? Which way did they come in? How many strong people are the enemy......
Xiao Luan's face turned red, and Ke Ling rushed over there and said: "There are a lot, there are all on the hillside on both sides, some are chasing behind, some are rushing down from the hillside, the three of us grabbed two horses, rushed out all the way, and we were not surrounded by them......"
"By the way, most of them have bone spears, thick and long......"
Ke Ling spoke quickly and urgently, and the danger of Fang Cai still made her still palpitate, and she rushed to describe what she had seen.
Xin Baishou frowned.
What Colin said sounded to him almost all nonsense, nothing useful. It is not a full-time war hunt, and it is only based on one's own feelings and impressions to describe the enemy's situation, and cannot limit the enemy situation to specific numbers, and such descriptions are useless for combat.
"They really shouldn't have expectations. ”
Xin Baishou shook his head in disappointment, he didn't want to talk anymore, and was about to wave his hand to let the hunters take the three of them to a safe place to protect them, Zhou Lu came out from behind Ke Ling, smiled at Ke Ling narrowly, turned his head to look at Xin Baishou and the others and said lightly:
"There are about 240 people on the left slope, and more than 180 people can rush down on the right slope, and those who catch up from behind, their team is too far away to see clearly, and the visual inspection cannot be less than 300 people. ”
"The vast majority of them are bandits, and there are no less than twenty high-level hunters with iron weapons, and there are at least ten blood barbarians among them. ”
"Less than 30% of the horsemen are ridden, and they don't have baskets with them, all of them are light horses, so the possibility of robbing the mines is very small, and I guess the sand bandits must have other plans this time. ”
"Huh?"
Xin Baishou and the centurions behind him were moved at the same time, Huo Ran turned his head to look at Zhou Lu, and the look in his eyes was full of surprise.
These numbers are incredible, a refiner who has desperately broken out of the chaos can report the number of enemies to such an accurate point, even the elite scouts in their fox hunt.
Xiao Luan and Ke Ling were also stunned at the same time.
They didn't expect that at the dangerous moment when Fang Cai licked blood with a knife and life and death were all on the line, Zhou Lu could still observe so many things, and he could also make the numbers so accurate, at that time they could only care about screaming, how could they still have any concept of numbers at that time, and the sand bandits in their eyes could only be described as all over the mountains.
Ke Lingqi's face turned red, and he stomped his feet in hatred behind him.
What did Zhou Lufang mean by smiling at her, was it a mockery? Hmph, I know that you are amazing.