Chapter 366: Yi Ma Ji, Wild Bull Charge
The cold snap from the northern ice fields made its way south down the open grasslands, and the autumn flowers and plants began to turn yellow, losing their green color.
In the early morning, the fog of the mist shrouded a large area north of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain, and the sound of horses' hooves sounded in the dense fog, accompanied by the sound of the metal crashing, and walked ahead in the fog with less than a foot of vision.
On the armor, there is also a labyrinth-shaped dazzling badge, which was used by the border army swamp mansion in the past, but this badge has been abolished for more than two hundred years, since Leng Zhuo has played the name of the border army, he naturally even took out the old badge of this swamp mansion and used it, which is better than most of them still have the royal mandala badge of the Third Praetorian Guard.
"Brigade commander, do we want to go back, before we can enter the battlefield of the battle between the empire and the steppe cavalry, the military division has thousands of instructions, don't get too close to that side, Bi Ru...!"
Dol Yu rode the Cloud Swallowing Beast, this Cloud Swallowing Beast was slender, like a leopard, so the chassis was inevitably very low, and the blood black chick of Xiang Yu next to him was two heads taller than the ordinary war horse, and the length was more than a zhang, which can be described as a majestic anomaly, the two of them walked with a horse's head, but Dolhao had to look up at Xiang Yu on Wu Ya.
Xiang Yu interrupted nonchalantly: "It's still far away, besides, in addition to the fact that you can get a little oil and water here, where else is there anything worth starting!"
Dol Xiangna is called a Khan, some things he is not easy to say, but don't say it, this boss doesn't want to at all, the current establishment of the third brigade is now more than 6,000 people, most of them are the remnants of the rout gathered when they marched all the way west, even those old guys of the brigade are mostly explorers of the empire in addition to the more than 100 blood cavalry guards and his only 100 Eight Banner guards.
The Third Brigade seems to have a lot of soldiers and horses, but there are only about 200 people who can really rest assured, while the Korean Brigade has more numbers, but even the captured Hu Qi has more than 15,000 people.
Besides, the closer you get to the main battlefield in Youzhou, who knows if these gathered soldiers will pull people to join the empire again.
Although Dol Xiang had to admit that the commander of the Overlord Brigade was strong and domineering, unstoppable, and his personal charm was incomparable, he really didn't know how to be a man, and he now somewhat understood why Leng Zhuo had to mention his life.
Dolhao smiled and said: "But the fog march, it is inevitable that you will not be able to distinguish the direction, if you go to the wrong place, wouldn't it be beautiful.
Xiang Yu frowned slightly, but he was also dissatisfied with Dorxiang, and always pressed him with the young master: "This idea was yours, why is it so noisy this time!"
"Be careful, but this matter needs to be considered in the long run!" "Dolhao regretted it, why did he talk so much, but he couldn't help it, his subordinates expanded too fast, and now he barely had a weapon in his hands, as for the armor, it was even more varied, a whole miscellaneous army, and it was okay to deal with those small herdsmen and rangers, but if he encountered thousands of iron horses, he would definitely be blind.
Although Xiang Yu is the pioneer of cavalry warfare, but at that time Xiang Yu only had many horsemen in the army, and now there are more than two million iron cavalry gathered in front, cavalry is not comparable to foot soldiers, and coordination is the most important, but this brigade commander is a personal force supremacy, every charge in front, although people can't stop him.
"Where did you get so much long-term planning!" Xiang Yu said very unhappily, he has always been straight with his soldiers, where did he come from so many twists and turns, all of them are moves that cannot be put on the table, and the war must be solved by force in the end.
The speed of the march is not fast, this is also to place the soldiers and horses under his command to get lost in the fog, as for the direction of the march, but there is an old method, use a compass to identify the general direction, but whether it will deviate, then I don't know, anyway, this speed, before the fog dissipates, should not reach there.
The sun slowly rose in the middle, and the thick fog began to dissipate, and although the field of vision was a little wider, it was still not too far to see.
Stomping, suddenly in the fog, there was a sound of horses' hooves trampling the earth, the ground was also trembling slightly, Xiang Yu waved his hand to stop the team, and the concubine on the side quickly turned over and got off the cloud swallowing beast, attached to the ground, and in a moment's effort, his face changed slightly, and he got up.
"It's cavalry, no less than 20,000 people, from north to south, almost four or five miles away from us!" Dolxiang didn't know whether it was sweat or fog condensed water droplets on his forehead, it was too close, four or five miles away, if they were fast, they were likely to be hit by the iron cavalry that was rushing down.
Xiang Yu's face was as usual, but he could also see the solemnity in his eyes, and said, "Those who came from the north shouldn't be the Imperial Cavalry!"
Dolxiang groaned for a moment and said: "We are moving from the east to the southwest, although the empire has scout cavalry in the north, but the number will not exceed 100 cavalry, so it can be determined that it will not be the empire's soldiers and horses, taking advantage of the fog to go south, it is likely to be towards Yimaji!"
"Oh, that is to say, follow us all the way!" Xiang Yu's target this time is also Yimaji, which used to be the empire and grassland in the north of Youzhou
Although the empire still has a few grasslands in the north as a horse farm, those horses are far from enough for the empire, so thousands of horses, cattle and sheep are traded here every year.
In a valley in the remnants of the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range, there is a mouth in the north and south, there are mountains in the east and west, and the forests are luxuriant, but it is a natural place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but now it is a large grain and ordnance hoarding point of the empire in Youzhou.
Dol Zhen groaned for a while, but said with a smile: "That's true, it seems that the Hu people also have the idea of fighting there, Yimaji is less than two days away from the imperial camp, and it takes five days to go up from the fortress in the north of Youzhou.
"It's the end of autumn now, and seeing that this day is about to enter winter, it is estimated that the two sides will also fight in the near future, and a sneak attack here, although it can't make the empire retreat, is enough to hit the empire and boost morale!"
"And with them taking the lead, maybe Yi Ma Ji can be a picture!" Dol Yu said with a smile, when he originally proposed, Dol Xiang just said casually, but who thought Xiang Yu would take it seriously, Dol Xiang did not dissuade him along the way, but Xiang Yu couldn't listen to it, and there was no way.
There are almost 20,000 people in the first brigade and the third brigade, and it is enough to rely on looting, and there must be places to loot on this grassland, and even in order to raise grain and grass, a hunting team was specially formed, but it was reluctant, and it could only be done without starvation.
Xiang Yu nodded and said, "Let the brothers eat all the dry food and jerky, and when the fight starts, don't be weak, you can't even hold the knife steadily!"
The fog slowly dissipated as the sun rose, and the field of vision began to see farther scenes, but Xiang Yu's nearly 6,000 soldiers and horses did not rush to the road, but trotted all the way towards Yi Ma Ji, and the front exploration horses scattered in all directions, but this time it was not only to the west, but also to the north and south.
As the scorching midday sun and the fog completely dissipated, the shouts of killing outside the Yima Valley shook the sky, and the 20,000 sneak attack of the Hu cavalry blocked the water around the north entrance of the Yima Valley.
In the middle of Hu Cai, three hundred brute bulls, under the leadership of the patriarch of the brute bull tribe, launched a collision against the stone wall.
"Quick, quick, Rolling Rock Cannon Truck, Bed Crossbow Shoot Me!"
Huge boulders, strong crossbow arrows shot out one after another, shooting towards the brute bull horseman.
"Rock Guard!" the patriarch of the bull rider shouted, picked up the golden bull horn in his hand, whined, the horn sounded as if it was a military order, the running bull, crooked its neck, let out a howl, a yellowish earth armor surrounded the bull's body.
Bang, the dozens of pounds of round stone balls smashed the earth armor, and suddenly the ashes flew, and the stone balls smashed to the bull rider through the armor, but they were blocked by the rock guard, the strength of the stone ball has been lost, and the bull warrior who used the giant axe of the coiled bull waved the giant axe in his hand and easily smashed it.
And the crossbow arrows that looked like spears were not so easy to block, and they shot through the armor to the bull and the horsemen on the bull, but the bull itself was rough and thick, even if it was shot, as long as it was not critical, but it was not a big deal, and the ride on the bull was also fierce and abnormal, even if it was shot through the body, as long as the heart was still beating, it still rode on the bull, and it did not move.
The explosive power of the brute bull ride was very strong, and in just a moment, it had already reached within fifty meters of the city wall.
"Eye of Death!" The horn of the bull sounded again, and three hundred beams of death shot out, which immediately made the city head suffer heavy casualties, even if he was not stared at by the bull's eye, he was seriously injured, and the name of the eye of death was not in vain.
"Brute Bull Cavalry Battalion, damn it!" The general of the defender who was spitting blood looked at the brute bull cavalry that was already close at hand, coughing up blood, and said: "Open the city gate, let that team of ground lizards take the two teams of cavalry out to kill, and then withdraw the trap board!"
"My lord, you better not move, what about the spiritual healer, hurry up and treat the brigade commander, why don't you hurry up and open the mechanism, wait for death!"
At the north pass, the gate was slowly opened, and the brigade commander was not kicked in the head by a donkey, but did so, just to lure the king into the urn, originally this trick was used just in case, but I didn't expect it to be used when I came up.
It's worth exchanging ten lizard cavalry and two hundred cavalry for three hundred barbarian bull warriors!
In the face of the three hundred brute bull warriors, these cavalry who rushed out were simply looking for death, and the size of the ten ground lizards might have fought against the brute bulls, but at the moment of the death of the three hundred brute bulls, these ten ground lizards were a scum.
"Kill it, you can take whatever you want!" The barbarian bull patriarch obviously did not suspect that this was a trap, and rushed directly into the door hole that was crowded with cavalry, and even the cavalry dared to go out of the gate with this point, and they simply didn't know whether they were alive or dead, a group of stupid dragon people.
Three hundred brute bull horsemen rushed into the wall and rushed straight into the valley, and behind them, the rolling iron horsemen also rushed in.
"This Imperial Soldier and Horse is too bad, and it can't even be stopped for a round!" The soldiers and horses were hidden in the smoke emitted by the Cloud Swallowing Beast, but they were not easy to detect behind the hillside, but Xiang Yu and Dorxiang and the guards with them stood on the hillside, looking towards the valley in the distance, but they didn't expect that the Imperial defenders were so bad.
As soon as Dol's words fell, he saw that in the pass, billowing smoke rose into the sky, and the smoke and dust were still wrapped in flames that soared into the sky!