Chapter 13 Encirclement, Pursuit, and Interception
The next day, night fell again, and the soldiers marched towards the quartermaster camp with excitement. Twenty miles away from the enemy's quartermaster camp, everyone dismounted collectively and walked, the three thousand soldiers were already elite, and there was almost no sound of footsteps when they walked, and under the deliberate suppression, the silent needle drop could be heard.
Ai Hao and the other thirty people were sent as the advance team because they were proficient in the art of concealment, and their main task was to kill the guards guarding the gate. Ai Hao prostrate on the ground and cast the snake body method, you know, after Ai Hao performed the snake body method, he didn't even find any trace of the throne, well, although the thrones were fighting at that time. However, Ai Hao's hiding technique is the most famous in the army.
Ai Hao and the others quietly approached the sixteen guards at the door, and then carefully walked behind them, suddenly burst out, covered the mouths of the sixteen guards, and took out a quenched dagger and wiped it on the guard's neck. The sixteen guards rolled their eyes and fell to the ground unconscious, and even if they were not killed by a single blow for the time being, they would have been poisoned and killed. Ai Hao and the others continued to quietly touch in, and several teams of patrols were easily wiped out without making any sound.
Unconsciously, Ai Hao and the others have already entered the quartermaster camp, as long as they go in and kill the quartermaster and other senior officers, the entire quartermaster camp will be leaderless, and the chaotic soldiers will only be slaughtered. But things were beyond everyone's expectations, Ai Hao and the others had just touched the largest tent in the quartermaster camp, that is, the tent where senior officers such as the quartermaster general lived. A cacophony of footsteps rang out, and hundreds of soldiers with strong bows and crossbows surrounded the entire tent.
Ai Hao and the others were shocked, and the dagger in their hands couldn't help but hold tighter. A lean man in his fifties from the enemy walked out of the group and laughed: "Hahaha, just thirty of you still want to attack the camp? Don't you know, you have already set off the alarm more than once when you came in." The lean man looked up at the moon in the sky and continued, "Besides, you're coming too slowly. It's only three miles from the door here, and you've walked for an hour. Come on, shoot me. ”
The sound of arrows breaking through the air sounded, but it was not the enemy's, but Ai Hao's. The team that followed had already followed, and it was precisely because all the soldiers were gathered here that the follow-up troops arrived without any hindrance.
Ai Hao and the others immediately fell to the ground, and after the first round of arrows fired by the follow-up troops, half of the enemy garrison troops had already suffered casualties. The rest of the people also immediately dropped their weapons and fled, although Li Rui sent people to chase after them, but a large part of the enemy troops fled. Those deserters are no threat to Ai Hao's army, they will only flee away from the army and will never dare to go back, the quartermaster camp is burned, even if they go back to report the news, they will definitely not survive, so no one wants to go back to die.
The flames were blazing, and the 3,000 soldiers successfully completed the task with almost no damage. I thought it would be a vicious battle, but I didn't expect to burn down the enemy's quartermaster camp so easily. As a result, the Sanyang Empire will be given more than a month to attack, and as long as the cities along the Zhishui are captured, there will be no more terrain obstructions. That would be a flat ride, and taking down the entire Mubo Empire would be just around the corner.
The faces of the three thousand soldiers were full of irrepressible excitement, of course, the excitement was not that the Sanyang Empire could get excellent fighters, nor that they had finally served the country, but that they had been knighted. After this battle, everyone can go home to care for their grandchildren.
Half a day after Ai Hao and the others left, that is, when the sky was just dawning. A team of iron horsemen galloped towards the quartermaster camp from afar, they were originally here to receive supplies, but they did not expect to see the fire rising into the sky in the distance, and they suddenly felt bad in their hearts, so they urged their horses to gallop towards the quartermaster camp.
This iron cavalry is known as the first elite of the Mubo Empire's silver-armored iron cavalry, although there are only five hundred silver-armored iron cavalry, but everyone is a cultivator above the Yuan division, the combat effectiveness is jaw-dropping, and good at the art of totaling, even in the face of the enemy's 10,000 heavy armor soldiers are not afraid. And the leading general of the silver-armored iron cavalry is the first god of war of the Mubo Empire - Wang He. If it weren't for the Sanyang Empire to send three waiting seats to contain him, the Sanyang Empire would not have broken through the first line of defense of the Mubo Empire so easily.
Wang He is also the father of Wang Chen, the emperor of the Mubo Empire, which means that Wang He is the emperor of the Mubo Empire. Although Wang He is already eighty years old this year, his majesty is still the same as it was back then, otherwise the Sanyang Empire would not have sent three waiting seats to contain him. But now he somehow appeared here, could it be that the three waiting seats have been defeated by him?
It is said that after Ai Hao and the others set a fire to the quartermaster camp of the Mubo Empire, they immediately returned to the quartermaster camp twenty miles away, stepped on the war horse, and drove towards the Tiger Beast Mountain Range non-stop.
As soon as he entered the Tiger Beast Mountain, Li Rui quickly dispatched 300 people with 900 war horses to divide into three roads, and galloped towards the military aircraft camp of the Sanyang Empire day and night. Maybe it's the beauty of the sky, that night the three hundred people just out of the Tiger Beast Mountain Range, there was a thick fog, the line of sight is only a hundred meters, although it has a certain impact on the judgment of the route, but it is also this way that the three hundred people were not discovered by the enemy, all the way is unimpeded, a thousand miles away, the three hundred people only took a day and a half. As soon as the news arrived, all the soldiers were overjoyed, and His Majesty Xu Su ordered all the officers and non-commissioned officers of this raid to be promoted by one level, but Li Rui had no way to be promoted again, so Li Rui was canonized as a hundred victories. After taking the main city of the enemy Zhishui River, he will be rewarded again.
The three hundred people arrived at His Majesty Xu Su with the news of victory, but Ai Hao's side was not so lucky. Because Wang He was furious when he saw the burned camp, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and he almost burped. This is not an exaggeration, because once the military quartermaster camp is burned down, it means that the food and grass cannot be supplied, then there will definitely be a mutiny on the front line, and the only way now is to eliminate the army that is engaged in surprise attacks to stabilize the morale of the army. Therefore, Wang He passed the order to all the garrison soldiers around the Tiger Beast Mountain Range with the Golden-winged Falcon, and each garrison army took out a thousand people to search the mountain, and as long as it was alive, they were all killed.
To say that this golden-winged falcon is not only expensive, but the flight speed is really not covered, and the news reached in half a day. The 30,000-strong army marched into the Tiger Beast Mountain Range.
This was the fourth day after the raid on the enemy's quartermaster camp, and twenty-three people, including Ai Hao and Deng Dong, wandered in the Tiger Beast Mountain Range like lonely ghosts, and from time to time they had to avoid the enemy's search. Rao is like this, Ai Hao and the others have also had no less than ten encounters with the enemy in three days, originally there were more than 50 people, but now there are only 23 left, and the others are either killed or separated. Ai Hao was also slashed with four swords, if it weren't for his strong recovery power, Ai Hao would probably have reunited with his parents by now.
The reason for this situation is that the 2,700 soldiers led by Li Rui were about to drive out of the Tiger Beast Mountain Range and met the enemy's 5,000 infantry, and the 2,700 elite soldiers were not vegetarians, Li Rui and the others did not choose to turn around and run away, but worked with the enemy's 5,000 infantry, and killed more than 500 enemy soldiers in one shot, because the infantry is generally not equipped with bows and crossbows, and bows and crossbows do not play any role at all in the woods. But it's a pity that they ran into the elite army of the Sanyang Empire, and a round of crossbow shooting directly overturned more than 500 enemy troops, and then the two sides fought together.
However, they never expected that the enemy army actually launched a signal flare, and everyone thought that this was a trick of the enemy army, so they didn't care at all, and everyone continued to kill. However, a moment later, four identical flares were raised in other places, which was terrible, I didn't expect the enemy to organize an army to encircle and suppress so quickly. Li Rui immediately ordered, go back to their own homes, find their own mothers, no matter what else, break through first, and then find a chance to go back. Fortunately, an elite army has completely become a guerrilla. But only in this way can the survival rate be increased to the maximum, and the more people there are, the easier it is to expose the target, and it is not afraid of them alone.
Even so, this elite army has paid thirty percent of the casualties, and all the soldiers have been scattered, and the largest number belongs to Ai Hao's twenty-three people and Li Rui's thirty-four people.
Ai Hao and the other twenty-three people wandered in the Tiger Beast Mountain Range, completely cut off from the outside world, and the enemy forces around them increased instead of decreasing. The food he carried with him had been eaten, and there was no water source around, and Ai Hao and the others had not drunk water for two days, which made Ai Hao feel fear for the first time.
Time passed unconsciously, this was already the tenth day, and Ai Hao was separated from his allies on the sixth day and became completely alone. There are more and more scars on Ai Hao's body, often old injuries that have just healed and new ones are added. Because of this, Ai Hao found that the speed at which his injuries healed was significantly faster, which proved that the bloodline was further awakening. Moreover, under the pressure of the current situation, Ai Hao successfully advanced to the third rank of the Yuan Master, and his strength increased to the power of the Seventeen Tigers.
Although Ai Hao has advanced now, the situation is still not optimistic, and there are more and more enemy troops around. In order to avoid clashes with them as much as possible, Ai Hao spent most of his time every day dodging the enemy army, and could only advance a dozen miles a day at most.
It was on this afternoon that Ai Hao discovered that three enemy troops were left alone. This was an excellent opportunity, Ai Hao crouched in the grass and waited for the three to get close to him, and then suddenly burst out and killed two of them with a single sword. The third person reacted extremely quickly, dodging Ai Hao's sword three times in a row, this is a man of about forty years old, with a standard figure, a handsome face, a scruffy beard, and a sharp eagle-like eyes with a slight hesitation, a handsome uncle who makes Lori scream.
However, Ding Ding told Ai Hao: "Master, this handsome uncle's cultivation is the fourth grade of Yuanzong, according to my speculation, it is absolutely no problem to kill three or four of you." Master, do you want to consider escaping?" Hearing this, Ai Hao could only smile bitterly, where to run, even if he believed that his speed was faster than his peers, he would not be able to outrun Yuanzong. Because the Yuan Sect's Yuan Force is in a liquid state, while the Yuan Sect's Yuan Force is in a fog state, in other words, the difference between Yuan Zong and Yuan Shi is greater than that between a human and a pig.
Now he can't run away, Ai Hao has no choice but to bite the bullet, Ai Hao's grip on the sword can't help but hold it tighter, the joints and bones have turned white, and the Yuan Force has also reached its peak. The handsome uncle also looked at Ai Hao vigilantly, and then drew his sword from his waist, and his intuition told him that the young junior in front of him was not as easy to deal with as an ordinary soldier.
The two sides have reached the point of saber rattling, either you die or I live (well, I'm fine anyway. )
This handsome uncle will be the most formidable enemy Ai Hao has encountered in seventeen years.