Chapter 193: The Horse Thieves Who United
On this side, Xia Qi is doing whatever he wants in the world of that unlucky player.
On the other side, on the grasslands of Great Xia, accompanied by the hooves of horses, a huge and surprising number of cavalry teams swept through the snow waves.
The total number of this cavalry team has reached thousands of horsemen!
This is the grain transportation team headed by Zhou Tong.
For several days, they kept going back and forth between Qingyan City and the two grassland cities, along with mammoths and yak knights, constantly transporting food resources.
During this period, there were naturally many horse thieves who attacked them, but this exaggerated battle was placed here, and there were thousands of cavalry without counting the mammoths and yak knights.
This is a completely irresistible force for horse thieves who ride into a group of dozens or at most two or three hundred.
Horse thieves and the army, the gap in hard power between the two sides can be said to be clear at a glance.
In the previous battles, in addition to the few who ran fast and fled, there were a few other groups of horse thieves who were slow to beat up, and they were almost swallowed up by the torrent of iron horses on the spot.
Under the trampling of thousands of cavalry, all that was left in the end was a piece of blood.
The horse thieves who coveted the grain of the grain transport team were shocked, and they also told them from all sides that there was only one dead end to fight against Great Xia!
Quickly transporting this batch of grain and grass to the blue wolf tribe, Zhou Tong dismounted and stretched his muscles, and he was tired all the way, with obvious exhaustion on his face.
After days of high-intensity marching, they had to pay attention to the attacks of horse thieves while transporting food, and few people could afford it.
Looking at the tired cavalry under his command, Zhou Tong decided to rest for a day in the blue wolf, and then continue the work of transporting grain.
The deputy sent by Kree was called Huck, and he was a small steppe man who looked very sturdy.
Beside the bonfire, he looked at Zhou Tong, who was holding a bowl of ginger tea and drinking it one by one, and said, "General Zhou Tong, in the past two days, the horse thieves seem to be a little too peaceful, and I am a little worried." ”
Hearing this, Zhou Tong, who was also sitting by the fire, was stunned, and then his brows furrowed slightly.
Apparently, he knew what Huck was worried about.
Zhou Tong drank all the ginger tea in the bowl and said, "Let's see the move." ”
"We have a thousand cavalry pressing here, in addition, there are mammoths and yak knights behind us, I don't believe it, just horse thieves, and dare to touch the moldy head of our Great Xia army!"
At the same time, in a tent deep in the grassland.
The whole area of horse thieves in this vicinity can be said to be all gathered here at this moment.
A windy and frosty, five-year-old and three-coarse prairie man gathered around the fire to discuss things.
One of the strongest horse thieves present was called Duride, and he occupied a very important voice in this group of people.
Du Ride first reported a list of names, but no one came forward.
I saw Du Ride sigh first, and then said: "These people are all dead, and not even everyone under his command is left!" ”
After hearing Du Ride's words, everyone present trembled.
These names are not unfamiliar to them, because they are all horse thief leaders like them, and they are all mixed in this area, and they have some intersection with each other.
Several of them have good strength, and the horse thieves under their command have reached hundreds of horses.
But that's it, they all know what those people died for.
In the eyes of thousands of regular cavalrymen, these horse thieves could only be sent to death.
Just as there was silence in the tent, a young man broke the silence.
"The grain transportation route of those Xia people is directly placed in our eyes, this is not to take us seriously! This is a provocation! ”
Everyone looked at the young man, but found that he looked very strange, including Duride.
"You are?"
"I am the son of the leader of the Arata tribe, Shinar."
After hearing the young man's words, the horse thieves in the tent also let out a burst of surprise in surprise.
The Aratha tribe is a large tribe in this area, and its strength is not much worse than the blue wolf tribe that has already surrendered to the Xia people.
Normally, a big tribe like this should generally disdain to mingle with them horse thieves, and even have some hatred.
After all, he was harassed by horse thieves in normal times.
Looking at the current situation, I'm afraid it was the previous snowstorm that caused the Arata tribe to suffer heavy losses. Even the chief's son had to come out as a horse thief and plunder the grain.
Just when everyone's minds were full of thoughts, Shinal, who seemed to have become the focus of the audience, spoke again.
"Duride, everyone's chests are already hungry, but I'm not here to listen to your nonsense."
The unceremonious words made Duride's facial muscles twitch, and the other horse thieves in the camp were also shocked, and some even moved their bodies far away, while harming the pond fish
Shinar stared directly at Duride, and that posture didn't take the other party into account at all.
And in fact, it may be true.
Horse thieves are horse thieves after all, and their Arata tribe can be said to be an existence at the level of the Earth Emperor in this grassland.
Even after the blizzard, a large number of cattle, sheep, horses and clansmen died, and even a food crisis broke out, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and it was necessary for him to take Duride in his eyes?
After all, the Arata tribe is famous, and Duride is obviously a little jealous in his heart, and he really doesn't dare to do anything until he completely understands the details of the other party's strength.
In the end, he simply threw a question in a sullen voice.
"Listening to you, it seems that you have a good idea?"
"Huh."
Hearing this, Shinar sneered, and said, "Duride, you don't come with me for this." ”
"Xia is powerful, and directly mobilized a thousand troops to transport food, in addition, I heard that there should be a huge monster in this food transportation team that has never been seen at all. In the face of this kind of strength, we can kill it alone, and there is no chance of winning at all. If you want to grab food and solve the food problem, the only way is to gather the tribal warriors in everyone's hands together and act together. When you gather all the people here, you are nothing more than playing this idea. I'll save me a lot of nonsense in front, just say it, how to divide the food that was grabbed in the end? ”
The horse thief leaders who heard this pricked up their ears one after another, and Du Ride, who had lost face, also had an ugly face, but he couldn't attack yet.
In the end, he held back his emotions and said: "Although it is said that they are acting together, presumably whoever commands will be unconvinced, and it is impossible for them to be willing to hand over the soldiers under their command to others to command." ”
Duride's words are undoubtedly to the point, it is impossible to let the leader of the horse thieves hand over the tribal warriors under his command, after all, this is their survival guarantee, life. Root. Son!
Once you hand over people to someone else's command, isn't it out of your own hands? So the Duri German fight did not count on this from the very beginning.
Anyway, he has the most people under his command among this gang of horse thieves, and no matter how you beat him, you won't suffer.
Thinking of this, Du Ride said again quite simply: "Since this is the case, then everyone should just see an opportunity and rush forward together, how much food can be grabbed after that, and how much can they rely on?" ”
As soon as Duride said this, he immediately received a response from the leaders of these horse thieves, and even Shinal, who had a little-for-tat with him, also responded. After all, there is no better way than that.
"Well, our goal is the next wave of grain delivered by the Xia people!"
Recently, in the great summer, the snow has gradually become heavier again.
The wind and snow howled on the grassland, and fine snowflakes were blown into the air, forming a snow mist.
The change in weather has undoubtedly increased the difficulty of grain transportation for the grain transportation team.
The entire grain transport team, one by one, was covered with coats and hats to protect them from the wind and snow.
However, because of the snow and fog, the grain delivery team did not wear the slightly funny blindfold anymore.
However, it was not only the grain transport team that suffered in the snow, but also the horse thieves who had reached a cooperation one by one.
How powerful was the grain convoy composed of 1,000 cavalry?
From a long distance, a group of horse thieves squatting there were already aware of it.
The horse thieves in charge of squatting didn't dare to be careless, ignoring the cold snow on the ground, and after using both hands to remove a large pile of snow, they directly put their ears on the ground.
After quickly determining the movement from afar, he immediately jumped up from the ground, rubbed his ears vigorously, and hurriedly went back to report the situation.
After receiving the news, Duride, Shinar and the others all frowned.
It's really time for the Xia people to come to the grain transport team, and it is very risky for them to rob the grain in the wind and snow, and it is difficult for them to give full play to their proud riding and archery skills.
However, at this moment, they obviously have no way out.
Calculate the efficiency of the grain delivery team, if you miss this time, the next one will have to wait at least eight or nine days later. But the people of their various tribes have been short of food for a long time. If we wait another eight or nine days, I don't know how many people will starve to death.
Can't wait!
After a quick exchange of glances, the horse thief leaders saw each other's determination to grab food from each other's eyes.
Du Ride spoke in a deep voice and said, "The plan remains the same, get on the horse, and grab the grain!" ”
The prairie people, one by one, are good hands on horseback, even in the wind and snow, their movements are still neat.
After turning over and getting on the horse, the grain raiding troops, with a total number of nearly 2,000 horsemen, officially set off.
Just like Zhou Tong's grain transport team, because of the large number of cavalry, it is difficult to hide their whereabouts, and this group of horse thieves who robbed grain is obviously the same. The speed of nearly 2,000 horsemen galloping, and the feeling up close was like an earthquake, and the ground rumbled.
"There's a lot of cavalry rushing towards us!"
Upon hearing the commotion, Huck immediately shouted a warning voice.
Zhou Tong said luckily in his heart: "Could it be that some general knew that we were coming, so he sent reinforcements over?" ”
"Impossible!" Huck shook his head dryly.
"After the two generals entered the winter, most of their energy was focused on protecting the two cities from horse thieves, and they couldn't get out of it at all!"
Zhou Tong's eyelids twitched uncontrollably, and he said, "That means, it's a horse thief?!" ”
As the enemy cavalry units approached, the roar of the horses' hooves grew louder and louder.
Everyone was born in cavalry, and according to this movement, the approximate number of troops was judged.
Zhou Tong looked at Huck and said with a wry smile: "Listen to the movement, about two thousand horses, what you were worried about before has happened, and the horse thieves on this grassland have united!" ”
Huck also looked helpless when he heard this, he had been worried that the horse thieves had been too honest in recent days, and would they be forced to join forces to rob food for their livelihood.
Now it turns out that he guessed it, but this kind of thing, it's better to guess than not to guess.
In the face of such a large number of horse thieves, even if they were able to win with a slight advantage in equipment, they would have to pay a relatively heavy price.
"This side is not far from the Blue Wolf Tribe, and General Hawke should be patrolling the Blue Wolf Tribe at this time!"
Hawke is the leader of the blue wolf tribe, and his bravery and command have reached four stars, although his personal strength is not as good as that of Kree, but with the advantage of numbers, he still beats Kree very lightly.
As he spoke, Huck hurriedly sent a cavalry to bypass the area and rush to the Blue Wolf Tribe for help. If the reinforcements can arrive in time, then the casualties and losses of their food transport team should be manageable.
"Tell the story, everyone, get ready for battle!"
Shouting work, Zhou Tong quickly will hang on the horse's back. The crossbow was removed, and at the same time, a cruel color flashed in his eyes.
"If you want to move our grain transportation team in Great Xia, then you have to be mentally prepared to pay the price!"