"Phew~"

After about an hour, Gebatu, who led more than 30,000 reorganized cavalry, finally came to this battlefield.

A surprise attack just now caught Hegel by surprise, and nearly six or seven thousand people died under the two rounds of assault on the escort camp just now, and about a few hundred others were wounded.

Fortunately, the weather is cold now, and the bleeding from the wound quickly stopped, and the lightly injured among these hundreds of people can still hold on, while the seriously injured can only resign themselves to fate with the medical level of the Hegel Department.

led a large army to come, but the sight was a place with stumps and broken arms, and the clothes on these corpses were clearly the three thousand horsemen he sent.

Three thousand!

It's just gone, annihilated here by the other party, Gebatu feels that his heart is twitching and aching!

He waved his hand with an ugly face, and immediately someone stepped forward to check the battlefield.

It didn't take long for the people to return.

Gebatu listened quietly to the report with a gloomy face.

"Back to the Khan, the battlefield has been divided into two parts, and the bodies of most of the clansmen in front of us are intact, but their bodies are full of holes, and they should be caused by arrows.

Most of the clansmen farther away were mutilated, and most of them died under sharp weapons except for those who were killed by a huge force, and this death was exactly the same as the casualties caused by which cavalry we encountered before, and it should have been killed by the same black-armored cavalry! ”

After listening to the report quietly, Gebatu pondered for a moment, and suddenly asked: "The wound of the arrow may be seen, what material is the arrow caused by it?" ”

The examiner recalled it for a moment and replied firmly: "Back to the Khan, it must be an iron arrow!" Most of our people use bone arrows, which are easy to break when shot, and they must not be cleaned up so cleanly, and there will be more or less broken arrows left in the body.

Besides, the wound is neat and smooth, and it must be an injury caused by a sharp blade, and a bone arrow cannot cause such an effect! ”

"Are they all made of iron arrows?"

Gebatu narrowed his eyes and asked in a deep voice.

"Back to Khan, it's all there!"

"Then there's only one possibility......"

Gebatu's brows furrowed slowly.

At first, he was attacked by a sneak attack, and he thought that it would be other tribes on the grassland, maybe the Xiongnu who happened to be passing by or something?

But judging from the information I got just now, there is no doubt that the cavalry that attacked him and others must be southerners!

Why? First of all, there was an extreme shortage of arrows on the grassland, and at least ordinary people on the battlefield in front of him were killed by arrows, and everyone had at least four or five arrows on their corpses, and many had more than a dozen arrows.

Coupled with the fact that it is impossible for all the enemy's arrows to be shot, the enemy has at least sixty or seventy thousand arrows on this battlefield!

This is not a small number for the steppe tribes, and even the arrows stored in their Hegel tribe probably do not exceed 500,000.

Half of the 3,000 people are willing to use 60,000 or 70,000 arrows, and they are all iron arrows, except for the southerners with advanced iron smelting technology in the south, no tribe on the grassland can be so arrogant!

Thinking about it again, at least when the other party raided, it was indeed as if he heard the words of the southerners, and the true identity of this cavalry jumped on the paper.

But the strange thing is that he has only just been out for a long time, why did the southerners know that they were going to invade them, and they are still ambushing them here?

Unless......

The information has leaked, and they Hegel has the fine work of the southerners!

As soon as he thought of this, Gebatu's face became extremely ugly.

The loss of 3,000 cavalry is a small matter, even if 10,000 people have been lost, it is not a big deal for the clan's combat strength to be close to 20%, as long as it can attack Liaodong County, the plundered things are enough to make up for all the losses.

But the problem now is that their actions seem to have been discovered by the Nanren court, and troops have been sent to snipe and sneak attack them.

The other party must be prepared at the border, and this invasion of his own tribe may fall short!

They have already lost two percent of their combat strength, and if they go back empty-handed, then they will probably be extremely sad this winter in Hegel, and it is a blessing to have half of them left after the winter.

At that point, the best outcome was that the Eastern Quarter was annexed by other tribes after the end of the season, and the name of Hegel ceased to exist.

And he would not allow that!

Bowing his head and pondering for a moment, his eyes flashed fiercely, and he immediately ordered the whole army to return to the water source to replenish the water source first and then continue to Yunzhou County.

He had already figured it out, the southerners only dared to use these means to sneak attack them, instead of fighting them head-on, there was only one possibility, that is, the opponent's troops should not be as large as them.

As long as you are vigilant on the next road, the other party will definitely not dare to act rashly under the disadvantage of numbers, and the army can also enter the border of Yunzhou County with peace of mind and force the other side to confront it head-on.

On this steppe, the Nanren is no match for their Tatar cavalry, as long as the other party comes out of the shadows, he is confident that he can defeat the other party!

After deciding on his next strategy, Gebatu immediately ordered his warriors to begin cleaning up the corpses of the dead tribal knights.

The Hegel cavalry began to gather up the corpses of their companions in a hurry.

Don't blame them for being so happy, according to the custom of the Tatar army, as long as you carry the other person's corpse back, then you will inherit everything from him, his property, and his woman will all be yours.

So for the Tatar cavalry, bringing back the corpse of a comrade may have gained more than a major battle.

After collecting the corpses all over the ground, even if Gebatu gave the order to return, the army followed him towards the water source.

But what he didn't know was that at this moment, the soldiers of the guard battalion, who had retreated from the water source, had begun to build fortifications at the unnamed lake.

Wooden stakes were laid around the lake, silver-white things were laid flat in the middle of the stakes, and a thin rope stretched backwards in the grass to reach the hands of the guards of the battalion.

The 13,000 guards and infantry soldiers each sent 2,000 people to station around the lake to enclose the entire lake, and Ding Hongguang took 3,000 reserves to guard the east.

By the time it was about to get dark, the soldiers of the guard battalion had completed all the fortifications, and the nameless lake had been surrounded by countless fortifications and defended tightly.

At this time, Gebatu, who had packed up the battlefield, finally arrived late with the remaining more than 30,000 people.

When he was still three or four miles away from the lake, Gebatu faintly saw a faint fire in front of him.

Even if you chuckle in your heart!

Where are the people, looking at this piece of fire, there must be a lot of people!

When the army got closer and saw the soldiers of the escort battalion who were faintly lined up in the light of the fire next to the lake, Gebatu only felt a roar in his head!

A bad premonition suddenly rose from my heart!

Not good, the enemy is going to cut off his way!

……