Chapter 179: [It's Them!]

Although it was already dark night, the surrounding horse thieves lit torches, illuminating the night as if it were day, and thousands of horse thieves surrounded the chariots of Char and others, looking at each other in the night, the torches lit up like a coiled python.

By night, Char and the others had repelled three attacks by horse thieves.

The attack of the horse thief caused the most damage and pressure to Char and the others in the first wave. Those horse thieves rushed up in a swarm, and the number of horse thieves in the first wave was about two hundred, Char stood on the carriage and looked at the enemies who rushed over, but made an unbelievable decision!

He ordered that all those Lantis archers be on standby, and not a single arrow would be fired!

As a result, the horse thieves easily rushed to the front of the car formation, because the surrounding cart only left a gap, so the horse thieves could not invest too many people in each attack, they could only crowd in the gap and rush in, the rest of the horse thieves gave up their horses, and tried to climb over the carriage on foot, but were stabbed down one by one by the mercenaries of the Fire Rhino Mercenary Regiment who were waiting behind the carriage, and only a few brave horse thieves successfully jumped into the car formation, but they were hacked to death by the coachmen who had been waiting for a long time.

The battle for the gap in the car formation is the highest level, but there is the existence of Char's fierce man, he is the one who is the pass, the left hand is a fork, the right hand is a fire fork, a horse thief rushes to the front, Char stops head-on, a edge hammer first smashes over the war horse, and then goes up to a fire fork to stab the enemy, and easily reverses seven or eight enemies who rushed in, as a result, the horse corpse and the dead body almost filled the gap, causing a lot of trouble to the horse thieves who rushed up behind, Char took Hawke and a few fire rhinoceros mercenaries, and firmly guarded the gap!

The charge of the horse thieves lasted only a quarter of an hour or so before retreating, leaving behind fifty or sixty corpses.

Char's Fire Rhino Mercenaries here killed four and wounded eight, while the improvised coachmen died eight.

And the first wave of attacks suffered heavy losses, and the second wave of attacks of horse thieves seemed a little soft. The horse thieves seemed to lack the courage to force their attack at the urging of their leader, and the main target of this attack was no longer the gap in the chariot formation- It seems that everyone is afraid of Char's killing god, and most of the horse thieves have to give up their horses and try to fight over the carriage, but Char has long been prepared here, removing a lot of long wooden poles loaded on the car and tying them with daggers, which is a temporary spear, the mercenaries hid behind the carriage, came up and stabbed one by one, and the horse thieves' attack was frustrated, and they threw down the corpses on the ground and retreated.

After the second wave of attacks, the thieves waited more than an hour before organizing another attack.

If the second wave of attacks is soft, then the third wave of attacks is simply perfunctory. Although the third wave of attacks, the horse thieves gathered more than 300 people, but these more than 300 people were obviously frightened, while shouting hard, but the speed of the charge was obviously sparse, it seemed that everyone was unwilling to fight hard, deliberately left behind, although the shouting was loud, but the running was very slow, the third wave of attacks almost only lasted for a moment, and the horse thieves dispersed in a hurry.

Originally, everyone was surrounded by thousands of horse thieves, and their hearts were full of panic, but Char performed a rush in the afternoon, and the extraordinary martial arts first frustrated the morale of the horse thieves, and then the horse thieves' soft attack greatly increased the confidence of everyone in the car formation: with such a situation, there was basically no problem in holding the car formation.

Especially compared to the swarming of horse thieves, the people in the car formation were carefully divided by Char in an orderly manner. Thirty of Lantis's bodyguards were used as a reserve by Char, the Fire Rhino mercenaries were used as a force to attack the fortifications, and the improvised armed grooms and coachmen assisted in the battle. The orderly division of labor made everyone very clear about their tasks, and compared to the aimless rush of the horse thieves during the battle, Char's people here seemed to be in order.

After the third wave of horse thieves retreated, until it was dark, the horse thieves did not seem to be interested in attacking again.

At this time, Hawke was already impressed by Char. The young mercenary commander hacked a horse thief to death with his own hands in the afternoon, but he rushed too hard, and once when the horse thief retreated, he rushed directly out of the chariot formation, and was almost surrounded by several enemies, but fortunately Char rushed out and rescued him.

Hawke suffered several minor wounds, notably a sword in the chest from a dying horse thief, which was fortunately blocked by his breastplate, which slid down his ribs, but also left a finger-deep wound.

After a simple bandage, Hawke came to Char's side, looking at Char who was standing behind the carriage, quietly staring at the horse thieves in the distance, Hawke coughed: "My lord......"

"Huh?" Char turned around, his face deliberately not erased with blood, and smiled casually, as if it had a hideous taste.

Looking at the young mercenary who had been subdued by himself, Char smiled and said, "Those smashes won't attack for the time being, let's let everyone rest for a while." ”

Hawke was puzzled, Char looked at him, smiled, and said lightly: "If the other party is a regular army, then let alone thousands of people, as long as it is a battalion with three hundred soldiers, we will definitely not be able to hold it." Here we are, counting me, and you, plus two of my men, Sharpa and Philip............ There are only four of them in total. But in the real battle, personal martial arts are actually not of much use, no matter how good your sword skills are, in the chaos of the army, you may not know which direction to stab a sword, can kill you. The real war is about coordination, and a group of several people, fighting in a coordinated manner, and forming an array, can resist an enemy several times larger than oneself. But here we ...... Those mercenaries of yours have good personal combat effectiveness, but if they encounter regular troops, they will only be beaten. ”

After a pause, Char smiled disdainfully and pointed to the distance: "However, those horse thieves are even worse! Although there are many people, they are divided into seven or eight groups, and they do not listen to other people's orders, and they fight separately! When they attack, they are chaotic, and when they retreat, they are even more scattered!" Moreover, these guys are here to seek wealth, and in this wildfire field, every gang of horse thieves wants to preserve their strength, otherwise, their own losses will be too great, even if they can break us and grab the property, they are afraid that their strength will be damaged, and they will be hacked by others! These guys have too many concerns, so they naturally refuse to fight to the death, and they are soft when they fight. If the heart is not aligned, there will naturally be no combat effectiveness. Therefore, I have long been very confident that although we are few people, we will definitely be able to hold it!"

Hawke was convinced, although he had been a mercenary for many years, and there was no lack of experience in fighting, but after all, the tactics and tactics in this army were ignorant, and in the three battles this afternoon, Char not only showed his personal martial arts, but also commanded a group of rabble mercenaries and coachmen, commanded in an orderly manner, and easily repelled the attack of the horse thieves.

"If the other party was a regular army, as long as it was two battalions, I wouldn't dare to defend it like this, and I would have fled with people and goods. Char smiled self-deprecatingly, and then his tone changed: "Moreover, the best thing is that I rushed into battle in the afternoon, and my luck was so good that I actually killed the leader of the Cossack regiment for me! These horse thieves were all summoned by the Cossack guys, if the leader of the Cossack regiment is still there, then relying on that guy to match the internal situation, maybe the internal disputes of these horse thieves can be settled, but now...... They don't even have a person who can unite many gangs. So many people died in the afternoon attack, but I am afraid that in the evening, they are already arguing with each other internally, where do they still have the intention of attacking immediately. Hmph......"

"My lord, I'm convinced. Hawke sighed and asked again: "You said that you want to give these guys a little bitterness, now, we are naturally not afraid of them, as long as we guard until their morale collapses, it will naturally disperse." So, are we going to stick to it?"

Xia Ya smiled and touched his chin: "Just holding on, how enjoyable!"

He gestured with his eyes: "We still have a new force to use." ”

Hawke's eyes lit up: "You mean...... Those Gallensian merchant guards?"

The thirty Landis warriors were all ordered by Char to stay in the middle of the formation in the afternoon and not release a single arrow! Now it seems that Char has another trick!

"Rest for another hour and watch Lao Tzu's clever plan to break the thief!" Char smiled and touched his chin.

Although Hawke was as curious as a cat scratching in his heart, he didn't dare to ask more questions when he saw Char say this, so he had to sit down next to him, lean on the carriage and close his eyes to rest.

Towards midnight, Char suddenly jumped up and summoned the Rantis warriors.

These Lentis guards of the Gallens Chamber of Commerce, all of them are archers, and they were not used in the afternoon, these people were still a little aggrieved, but the leader of the Chamber of Commerce ordered that everything must obey Char's orders, which barely appeased everyone, and at this moment, seeing Char gather everyone, these people are all jīng gods, and they all look like they are jumping yù - after all, people's hearts are like this, if the situation is in a crisis, these people may not have such courage. But these horse thieves didn't seem to be in much danger, and they were beaten several times in the afternoon - who wouldn't want to beat the water dogs?

"You are all Lantis, and I heard that you Lantis are good at shè, but I don't know what you are capable of. Char deliberately provoked him with words.

"My lord, we're all old shès. One of the captains of the guard shouted dissatisfied: "Several of our old brothers have served in the army before!

"Good. Char nodded, and immediately selected seven or eight shè archers with a better number of jīng, although the number was a little less, but after all, these Lantis were all merchant group guards, and there were not many really good shè hands, and the seven or eight people who could be selected were all those who had served in the Lantis army.

After visually measuring the distance from the team of horse thieves on the opposite side, the horse thieves on the opposite side seemed to be much quieter at the moment, and in the queue, only clusters of torches were shining.

"See, give me shè where there are torches! Don't worry about the head, just shè where there are torches!"

These Lantis archers gladly accepted the order, and seven or eight people took out the longbow that the Lantis people were accustomed to - this kind of Lantis longbow is characterized by its distance and strength! According to tradition, a qualified longbowman must be at least 1.75 meters tall, so as to ensure that the longbowman has a long enough arm span to open the bow. The height of the regular longbow is generally more than 180 centimeters! When the Lantis longbowman is shè arrow, the posture is slightly backward, and the arm strength plus waist strength to open the bow requires years of training to train an excellent longbowman, so it is said that many longbowmen have an occupational disease left by the bow with this peculiar posture for many years: spinal deformity.

The seven or eight Landis people who were selected were obviously qualified to be longbowmen, and they took out their longbows as Char had ordered...... In the distance, the horse thieves were still resting, and the gang of horse thieves did not seem to have the confidence to attack, while the leaders of the various tribes gathered together, and as Char guessed, they were arguing. Some of the tribes that attacked during the day shouted because of the loss of manpower, and the others wanted to preserve their strength and refused to send their own people to take the lead, hoping to let others attack the fortifications, and each had selfish intentions, so although the number was large, there was no combat effectiveness.

Seeing that the leaders were arguing endlessly, the people below naturally had no intention of fighting, and it was still quite cold on the wildfire at night, so the clusters of torches were lit, and everyone gathered around the torches to warm up.

At this time, I suddenly heard a sharp sound of breaking through the air!

The horse thieves were still in a daze, and an experienced old horse thief suddenly changed into a sè, screaming and rushing to the side, and at the same time exclaimed: "Bow and arrow! Bow and arrow!!

Plop puff puff puff ...... In a series of dense movements, the horse thieves who had originally gathered around the torches were suddenly hit by three or four arrows that fell from the sky! The longbow used by the Landis was heavy in weight, and the arrows were all made of iron! They were thrown from afar, full of strength! Immediately, several horse thieves who had been hit by the arrows were pinned alive to the ground!

The horse thieves were stunned by the sudden rain of arrows!

But before they could come back to their senses, there was another sound of cracking the air in the sky! In a nearby firelight, several horse thieves were suddenly hit by shè, and some of them were not killed by arrows, and they were wailing and rolling on the ground and screaming miserably. The terrible roar was particularly clear and sharp in the night!

The entire team of horse thieves was immediately alarmed.

Char had six or seven waves of arrows here, and the horse thieves sensed the other party's target, and one by one they scrambled to shout: "Their goal is fire! Fool!

The horse thieves are in chaos, one by one for fear of becoming the next unlucky ghost, these guys think they are "smart" and find out each other's loopholes: in the dark night, the attack of the bow and arrow must have a good line of sight, as long as the torch is extinguished, the opponent's archer can't see the light, then the damn arrow can't shè himself!!

As a result, one by one the horse thieves scrambled to extinguish the torches, threw them on the ground and trampled them back and forth, and some horse thieves were impatient, unbuttoning their pants and peeing to extinguish the torches.

Soon, in the darkness of the night, Char saw that the horse thief was in the place, and the flames were extinguished, and gradually it became a darkness, and there was a faint sound of noisy scolding.

Some horse thieves came to control their subordinates, and when they saw that their subordinates had put out the fire, they ordered people to set fire, but these horse thieves were afraid that they would be targeted by the opponent's archers, so where would they be willing to light the fire? After some quarrels, the horse thieves leaders could not control their subordinates well, so they could only order: Stand back!

In the dark, and did not dare to light the fire, a group of horse thieves were driven up, asking everyone to retreat, but there was no fire to illuminate, in the dark night, everyone was chaotic, you pushed me, and some people could not find their companions in the dark, some trampled each other in the dark, and even some horse thieves could not find their horses in the dark, and quarreled with each other.

Hearing a mess of scolding in the darkness in the distance, Char laughed, and suddenly jumped up: "It's time to break the thief!"

"Whoever can move will be put on the horse by Lao Tzu!"

Char was ready in the afternoon, and there were originally more than thirty horses in the chariot array, plus all the horses pulling the cart were all gathered, and a total of fifty horses were gathered. All the Fire Rhino mercenaries were gathered by him, and together with the Lantis warriors, fifty people with relatively good riding skills were selected.

"I have only two commands for you! First, when you advance in the darkness, don't be afraid to see the road clearly! Just follow me! Just follow me! Wherever I rush, you will rush! Second...... When we were engaged in battle, all of them were not allowed to say anything else, and they all shouted to me desperately, 'Okeok'! Got it! In the darkness, we also couldn't tell who was the enemy and who was our own! So we all shouted 'Okeok' to Lao Tzu! Keep shouting! So, as long as you hear that the person in front of you doesn't shout 'Okeok,' then you must be a horse thief! Just close your eyes and cut it!!"

Char gave the order, everyone turned on their horses, took up their weapons, and in the darkness, Char and Sharpa took the lead and led the team towards the chaotic horse thieves in the distance.

In the distance, the horse thieves were still in a chaotic formation to pull out the camp and retreat, and people shouted and neighed—in the darkness, even the regular army would be in chaos for a while, not to mention these rabble, which were already scattered?

And when Char and the others came out of the battle, they were even quieter, deliberately slowing down the speed of the horses, and approaching cautiously under the cover of darkness, and the horse thieves themselves were in a terrible mess, and they didn't expect that the other party would actually have dozens of people come out to attack their team.

As a result, Char and the others ran out of the battle for a short time, and they were only discovered when they were less than fifty meters away from the horse thief's team!!

"Landis! Raise your bow!shè!!"

As soon as Char gave the order, the thirty Landis people immediately grabbed their bows and arrows on the horse! This was Char's order in advance! After the thirty archers made a chorion, the arrow rain suddenly fell on the heads of the horse thief team, and there was a chaotic shout in the darkness.

"Bow and arrow attack!!"

"!Everyone!!"

"Disperse!Gather together to be a target!!Disperse!! Hurry!!"

"Damn! What are you hitting me for!"

"Bastard!

"What are you doing robbing my horse!!"

Seeing that the distance was close, Char didn't need to hide his traces anymore, and suddenly yelled: "Lose the bow!!"

The Rantis warriors were ordered to throw their bows and arrows directly on the ground - they would have to pick them up later anyway.

"Follow Lao Tzu!rush!!Oak Oak!!"

Char took the lead, galloping towards the silhouette of the faint crowd of horse thieves in the darkness, and the fifty horsemen behind him also shouted "Oke Oak" at the same time, and struggled to follow Char and crashed into the queue of horse thieves!

For a while, in the darkness, the sound of ping-pong collision was heard, and the sound of slashing was endless, and the roar of "Okeok" was sandwiched between them.

When it comes to horsemanship, these people under Char are really not very good, and many of them are just barely able to run on horseback, and even if they are many horse thieves, their riding skills are far better than those of Char.

But the problem is that in the darkness, the horse thieves were making a fuss, and suddenly the enemy rushed in front of them! In addition, a wave of arrows and arrows before the battle made the horse thieves even more chaotic! In the dark night, you can't see me, I can't see you, and you can't even see what your companions look like! I heard a group of people slaughtering into their ranks!

I couldn't see the situation clearly, and I heard countless screams, such a scene...... Not to mention horse thieves, even if it is a real regular army, there is only one way to rout!

The horse thieves roared wildly, some simply scattered and fled for their lives, and some could not see the enemy clearly in the dark night, and in the sound of shouting and killing all around, they could only shout and slash indiscriminately with weapons! As a result, as long as one person bombed the camp and slashed indiscriminately, then the situation could not be seen clearly in the night, and everyone could only cut indiscriminately in order to save their lives!

After this chaos, Char and the others easily entered the queue of horse thieves with fifty horses, and rushed to kill head-on, and many mercenaries did not have to worry, shouting "Oak" in their mouths, anyway, the people around them, as long as they didn't shout like this, they would cut them with swords!

For a while, the ranks of horse thieves soon collapsed completely! Those who fled in all directions killed each other! Most of the horse thieves died at the hands of Char and the other fifty horsemen who raided the horses, but the number of more dead and wounded was all in the dark of night, killing each other, and trampling on each other...... Char led the people, he ran at the head, he was born with night eyes, and it was true to see things in the dark, with him as the leader, Char kept yelling, his voice, the mercenaries were familiar with it, as long as he followed Char's voice.

Char led the people and easily rushed the horse thief's team directly to a counter! A textbook-like cavalry chiseling tactic!

After killing the enemy, Char looked back at the people behind him, and shouted "Okeok", and the people behind him also shouted, but the number of people was a little less, three or five people less, thinking that they were trapped in the chaos.

But behind him, the team of horse thieves has been completely chaotic! The best thing is that after Char led people to rush for a while, there were also some jīng Ming among the horse thieves, who recognized the sound of the enemy in the dark shouting "Oak", and in order to save their lives, they followed the shout, trying to avoid the enemy's weapons - but of course there are such smart people, and there are also some smarter horse thieves who also recognize the enemy shouting "Oak", so good, but whoever shouts Oak, Lao Tzu will cut it!

For a while, those who shouted Oak wanted to be killed! Those who didn't shout Oak were also killed! This scene was ...... At this time, let alone those horse thief leaders! Even if the Odin army god Hastings comes, he can't control these crazy subordinates in this dark bombing camp chaos!

"Rush again!Do you dare!" Char laughed and pointed to the chaotic beehive in the distance: "This time we will change the code! Everyone shouts 'Suosuo'! Remember! Don't shout wrong! The wrong shouter was killed by his own people, but he was very wronged!"

Dozens of subordinates raised their long swords at the same time: "Suosuo!!"

This battle lasted for an hour, Char led the people to charge three times, in the dark night, his eyesight was the best, several horse thieves had seen that a few groups of people were barely about to gather, Char rushed up.

As a result, in less than an hour, the horse thief collapsed!

The team could no longer be retracted, and a gang of horse thieves shouted, "Run!"

With a bang, thousands of horse thieves suddenly scattered!

Char laughed, and led people to run back and forth on the battlefield to exterminate the scattered horse thieves. After the enemy was completely defeated and fled, Char led people to stop and light torches.

After some of the fires were lit, everyone looked at them, and all of them were covered in blood and panting from exhaustion, but they looked at the horse thieves around them...... Countless corpses on the ground, apparently most of them were killed by cannibalism at all.

I have roughly counted them, but I am afraid that in this night attack, at least two hundred of the horse thieves were killed! And on the battlefield, there were some wounded on the ground, and some of them lay in the dark and pretended to be dead, and after clearing the battlefield, all of them became prisoners, and there were actually one hundred and eighty!

Char's light cavalry attacked in the night for fifty nights, destroying 200 enemies and capturing 100!! Such a record suddenly made the Flame Rhino mercenaries burst into high morale!

Char smiled silently, but the Sharpa next to him sighed, especially dissatisfied, and said in a low voice: "These people are still too waste...... If these fifty horsemen are replaced with ...... Alas, not to mention our Rhodrian cavalry, even if it is replaced by an ordinary regular army, this result can at least be doubled. ”

"Just win. Char shook his head, glanced at Sharpa, lowered his voice and said, "Don't talk too much, these people, Lao Tzu still plans to take them all for his own use!"

※※※※※ darkness, those unlucky horse thieves scattered and fled, but after all, everyone has a herd heart, and since they can't see it in the dark, many horse thieves simply follow the direction that sounds the most moving.

As a result, after running for an hour, the horse thieves stopped to gather the people, and the number of fleeing horse thieves in this group was the largest, there were three or four hundred people, but the team was scattered, and many of them could not find the gang tribe they belonged to at all.

For a while, everyone stopped to rest, and one by one was shocked, and reluctantly gathered the men and horses, and several horse thief leaders vomited blood in their hearts, seeing that this time they came out to hunt, and they actually suffered such heavy losses, in this wildfire field where the weak eat the strong, strength means everything!

After some arguments and scolding, they finally reluctantly gathered their subordinates, three or four hundred people gathered together, and lit torches, and everyone finally felt a little more at ease.

A few horse thieves were about to send people around to collect the scattered men and horses, when they suddenly heard a dense sound of horses' hooves in the distance!

This sound immediately alarmed the horse thieves, who had become frightened birds, but fortunately they could see from a distance, by the light, and the group of people running in the distance were also carrying torches, but they could see it clearly.

There were about two hundred of those who came, all dressed up one by one, and they looked like horse thieves, mottled and messy, and the weapons used were also different, but they were the only one, and when the two hundred horses were galloping, the team was surprisingly solemn.

Running at the front, a majestic war horse, with a vigorous and majestic figure on his back, an iron hammer in one hand, a reins in the other, and a plate axe behind him!

From a distance, this group of horse thieves saw that they were "peers" instead of Char's guys, and they were all relieved, anyway, there were more than 300 people on their side, even if they met their peers, they were not afraid that the other party would have bad intentions, and some horse thieves shouted: "The other side, what is the way!!"

The two hundred horsemen who came running from afar stopped at a distance, and the two sides looked at each other, and the other heard the shouts here, and asked from afar: "We are on the south mountain! On the opposite side, on which hill are we trading?"

As soon as they heard this, they were considered experts, and the horse thieves were even more relieved, and some people shouted loudly to intimidate each other: "Listen to the one in front! The six tribes in the south of the wildfire field are joining forces to do business! Idlers dodge! Don't make trouble yourself!"

In order to strengthen the momentum, many horse thieves here have shown their names:

"The old pole tribe of Mashanpo is here!"

"The one-eyed wolf tribe in the Westview Valley is here!!"

"Brother of the old shelf of the oil river!"

"We're from the Cossack regiment! Get out of the way if you don't want to get into trouble!"

Originally, the other party listened to the horse thieves here, but the other party still stopped there and listened with interest, and each other also followed the rules of the horse thieves on the road, and kept a distance. Unexpectedly, as soon as I heard the name of the "Cossack" regiment, the group on the opposite side suddenly boiled!!

For a while, more than 200 cavalrymen suddenly shouted happily, and everyone raised their sabers: "Found it! Damn, I ran for most of the night, and finally found it!!"

The horse thieves here are all amazed - found it? What do you mean by that?

Some people looked at the people of the Cossack regiment: Could it be that you have also contacted the horse thieves from other mountains to do this business? But the people of the Cossack regiment also looked at each other, and some people tentatively shouted: "Is the other side also a fellow who has come to do business with you?"

As soon as these words came out, the mighty leader in the lead suddenly became angry!

"Say to your mother!! brothers!