Chapter 43: The First Battle Reveals Hideousness
In the afterglow of the setting sun, a group of knights came in a circle, and the last trace of the remnant sun dragged their figures to a long time! Since they had been riding on horses for several days, these knights were a little tired, and suddenly after hearing the order of the leader to garrison the camp, they cheered, dismounted one after another, and got busy!
This group of knights numbered about sixty or seventy people, and it must be said that there were many people and great strength, and in just a few moments, the camp was kept in good order, and there was no disarray. The bonfire has risen, and the large pieces of meat have been set up on the fire, and when the dripping meat and oil splash down, it is already full of aroma and hooking!
This group of knights was a group of Ling Xiao's honor guard plus the Song State Mission! Zhang Trap, who had settled down the camp, was an idle person, so he roasted a piece of rich lamb leg meat by himself and sent it to Ling Xiao and the delegation representatives!
Unexpectedly, these five big and three thick Zhang Trap actually roasted a good meat, which was three points more fragrant than that made by the person in charge of food in the envoy group!
In the noisy atmosphere, Ling Xiao and the leader of the envoy group were sad, sitting opposite each other on the side of the bonfire, discussing something with each other!
The leader of the envoy group was over forty years old, and his face was quite weathered, thinking that he was a person who often traveled from south to north, named Hu Bugui, who traveled all over the world for the motherland, did not achieve his goal, and did not return to his hometown!
At this time, this Hu Bugui was eating mutton indifferently, and said, "Commander Ling, the current situation is too weird, and the places I have been to are not less, but today, there are many troubles in all directions, and there are many bandits and heroes everywhere, but we haven't met us once along the way! I think it's better to be careful!"
In this regard, Ling Xiao also deeply agreed, the current situation in the God of War Continent was really not optimistic. With its powerful military, the Dreadnought Empire fought in all directions, and the number of displaced people in various places increased day by day. Many of these powerful people have taken risks and started trading without capital. This is about to go out of the border of the Li Empire, and I haven't encountered it once, so it's really a bit weird!
Seeing that Hu Bugui was extremely sad, Ling Xiao couldn't help but enlighten a few words, "Old Hu, don't think so much, if you want me to say, there are only two situations, one is that we have soldiers to escort us, and those people dare not come;
In fact, in the depths of Ling Xiao's heart, he hoped that there would be an unsightly force to come once or twice! Along the way, with the assistance of Zhang Trapping, he practiced many tactical tactics such as setting up camp, marching and guarding, and encountering counterattacks. But without the troops that have been tested in real combat, their combat effectiveness will never reach the peak!
The difficulty of the escort task is that you can only defend passively, even if the scout horse is scattered far, it is always in vain if you can't find the enemy. Faced with this strange situation, Ling Xiao and Hu Bugui discussed that there was no better way to go, so they had to arrange to go down and defend carefully, and each went back to the tent to rest.
However, it was the past few days of getting along, Ling Xiao found that no matter where he went, the most important thing was a small boxy box, which he would take with him at any time, and he didn't say anything when he asked him, but just said that it was a family inheritance and should not be abandoned!
Ling Xiao didn't believe all about this, he thought that maybe the real thing to protect on this mission was this inconspicuous box! In any case, the five boxes of treasure that accompanied him would never be guarded by his own royal honor guard!
The body was tired, of course, he slept quickly, but in the middle of the night, Ling Xiao was suddenly awakened by a shout! It was a sentry warning! Ling Xiao reacted instantly, and without thinking about it, he rushed out of the camp with a bow in his hand.
Outside the tent was already scattered, and the originally well-organized camp was trampled into wreckage by soldiers shouting back and forth! Sure enough, a soldier who had not gone through a major battle could not be considered a soldier. Obviously, the enemy has not appeared, but he is in chaos first, he will not know the soldiers, the soldiers will not see the generals, and there is no need for the enemy to attack, I am afraid that after a while, someone will escape!
At this time, the most important thing is the heart of the soldiers! In this regard, Ling Xiao had already been prepared! He took out a chirping arrow and shot it into the air! A terrible whistling sound suddenly resounded over the camp, covering out all the noisy sounds! And Ling Xiao flew onto the top of the tent, holding a torch and standing solemnly!
The military regulations of the guard of honor, the arrows sounded, and all the troops should go to the person who sent the arrows within ten breaths to form a whole team, and those who did not breathe ten breaths were immediately decided! The long-term training still had some effect, although the armor on these soldiers was incomplete and the wolves were unbearable, but they finally rushed to Ling Xiao within ten breaths and the whole team was ready!
Fortunately, everyone has storage equipment, and the weapons have not been lost! Ling Xiao didn't say much, just gave the order solemnly!
"Zhang is trapped, lead the first team, and quickly find out the number of enemies and weapons that are coming!"
"Liu Zongyu, lead the second to fourth troops, stay in the barracks, but there are enemies who are adventurous, retreat with bows and arrows, and must not leave the camp, pay attention to guarding the envoy group!"
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One after another orders were issued, and from time to time a leader replied loudly and took the order away! Gradually, the soldiers' hearts settled down! Thinking of the situation just now, those soldiers who had settled down couldn't help but be a little surprised!
At this time, in order to avoid becoming the target of the enemy's long-range attack, Ling Xiao had already extinguished his torch, but he was still standing silently on the top of the tent, constantly looking around, waiting for the feedback of the military intelligence!
In the end, he was born in the border army, and he was more familiar with the affairs of the army, but it was just a meal, and Zhang sent people back to the camp to report the enemy's situation!
It turned out that it was the same as Ling Xiao had considered, and there were indeed bandits who were eyeing the property that the Li Empire had given to the Song State in this team, but they were afraid of the soldiers who accompanied them, so they kept following left and right, waiting for the opportunity to move!
However, some of the gadgets designed by Ling Xiao made a great contribution, a series of silk threads crisscrossed the perimeter of the camp, and a few small bells were tied to the silk threads, and it was the front of the bandits who came to touch the sentry and touched the bells, so that the sentry had a chance to warn!
Seeing that the sneak attack could not be achieved, the bandits were gathering in one place, and it seemed that they might immediately attack! Zhang Trap left the periphery with that group of soldiers, keeping an eye on the bandits' movements at any time!
That's often the way things are, and people tend to be fearful, scared, for the unknown. But after really understanding it, even if they learned that there were more than 400 enemies who were coming, the soldiers in the column were no longer afraid, on the contrary, they were eager to try, eager to immediately counterattack and annihilate those invading enemies!
Ling Xiao stood still, waiting for further enemy situation ahead! Just let the archers under his command get on their horses and be ready for guerrilla tactics at any time! The people who stayed behind also found the commanding heights, took out the arrows from the storage equipment and inserted them one by one on the ground in front of them, so that they could be used quickly!
After about a quarter of an hour, the night as far as the eye could see, the stars lit up with fires, and I thought that the bandits were about to attack!
"Liu Zongyu, protect the camp, the others and others, follow me forward to kill the enemy!" With this order, Ling Xiao rushed out of the camp like a whirlwind, and rushed towards the place where the fire emanated! Then, with the sound of hooves, the archers rode on their horses and rushed out in turn!
About a stone's throw away, Ling Xiao's order came again, "Archers prepare, shoot on the march, four arrows in a row, target, shoot with my dragon-shaped arrow!" Before the words fell, a giant dragon with golden light had already left the bow and swooped forward!
And in the midst of a buzzing sound, nearly 200 arrows were also fired! If it were a good day, you could see that the rain of arrows was like a cloud covering the place where the bandits were!
Then came the second command, "Shoot at will, single arrow, target torch!"
"Blocking shot, two arrows in a row, target, ten meters in front of the enemy's cavalry!"
"Concentrated shooting, wind feather arrows, target, enemy spirit control person a hundred paces ahead!"
"Disperse, attack on your own, kill those who resist, disarm those who surrender!"
Zhang Huzi is the leader of a group of horse thieves, he is ruthless, when he took over this horse thief from his father, there are only twenty people, no more than three horses, and the weapons are just some ordinary farm tools polished, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined!
However, when his father was the leader, he only robbed half of the wealth, and the personnel were let go unharmed. But when it came to his hands, it was all about people and money, women were left with sexual pleasures, and men were sold to the Dreadnought Empire as slaves. In just five years, a group of outlaws have gathered and become a scourge in the Li Empire!
The officers and soldiers also surrounded and suppressed several times, but this beard was unusually slippery, and he could often know the news in advance, and he escaped. Only then did I have to restrain myself and wander around the borders of several countries to make a living!
This time, in fact, he was forced to do nothing, and he didn't act for a long time, and he was about to run out of food, so he made up his mind and decided to make a big deal! After eyeing Ling Xiao's group of people, Zhang Huzi, who was cautious by nature, attracted several more horse thieves for the sake of insurance and personal prestige, and gathered nearly 400 people to attack!
But unexpectedly, this business was done very depressingly, first the striker accidentally touched the other party's alarm, lost the opportunity to sneak attack, and then in the darkness of the night, arrows rained down, so that Zhang Huzi hated to death the bandits who inquired about the news! Look at this posture, there are more than 200 people in this group, and there are only sixty or seventy people, if you have the life to go back, you will definitely cut off the head of the sentry detective!
This beard has been dead for many years and has his own set of life-saving experience, and the horse he rides has actually learned the ability to play dead with his master. Relying on the method of stopping and stopping, falling down and pretending to be dead at any time, this beard slowly slipped out of the battle circle.
Seeing that the men who followed him to do this vote died or surrendered one by one, Zhang Huzi couldn't help but sigh and disappeared into the night, without a trace!