Chapter 543: This is Beheading!
A few days later.
Luanguan City, the city gate is wide open, to welcome the vanguard army from afar.
Led by several personal guards, Meng Wu climbed the high slope outside the city.
The wind and snow had already covered all the traces of this place, and Meng Wu pressed the handle of the knife on his waist with one hand, squinting his eyes, looking at the abandoned Rongdi military camp below.
"General, my subordinates have all inquired, and the second lady has been here before." Qin Wei Xi said:
"The defenders in Luanguan said that a few days ago on the night, a group of 300 horsemen claiming to be the Zhengyang Army attacked the camp of 1,000 people in Rongdi at night and won a complete victory!"
Meng Wu squinted his eyes to see the terrain here, and rode down the high slope to observe in the abandoned Rongdi camp, mentally deducing the situation of that night.
In the early years, Meng Wu had a lot of dealings with Rong Di, and knew well how effective Rong Di's soldiers were, Rong Di was good at riding and shooting, very strong, and the Qin army was on a par with the Qin army.
Three hundred horsemen, even if there is cover of night, how can they not leave a piece of armor killed in the camp of thousands of people in Rongdi.
Unfortunately, after many days, the wind and snow have erased a lot of traces.
Meng Wu could only deduce the situation that night based on the traces of the burning of the wooden stakes on the ground.
But he couldn't figure out how Rong Di could be ridden by only three hundred, and he was out of proportion for a while.
At this time, the guards grabbed a Luanguan defender and ordered him to tell him what happened that night.
The defenders were on the city walls that night and witnessed the battle with their own eyes.
"That night, I only saw, and saw a red signal suddenly rise in the sky, and then all the horses in the camp of Rongdi had run away, and then, from there, on that hillside, rushed down a group of men and horses, with strange weapons in their hands."
"That kind of weapon will sound, bang, it will emit fire and white smoke, and then Rong Di soldiers will fall to the ground one after another, and we will look afterwards and find that those Rong Di soldiers have a hole in their bodies......"
Meng Wu listened carefully and knew that the kind of weapon in the guard's mouth should be the "gun" that Long Wuwei usually carried behind his back and wrapped in cloth.
After listening to the guard, Meng Wu furrowed his gray eyebrows: "Who killed Commander Rong Di?" ”
"I don't know." The guard shook his head and said, "From the beginning to the end, Commander Rong Di never showed his face, and later we learned that the commander had his neck cut off and died in the tent before the battle began...... Oh, and several centurions died early, too. ”
Hearing this, Meng Wu's breath stagnated.
Understood, he understood, this was "beheading", and the leader of Rong Di's side had long since died before the war began.
Three hundred horsemen can indeed rush down the camp of 1,000 people in Rongdi.
After Meng Wu figured it out, he turned over and got on his horse: "Go!" Keep chasing! ”
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After several days of rapid marching, on this day, the Zhengyang army led by Meng Wu officially entered the Wolf Mountain, as long as the Wolf Mountain was passed, it was officially arrived in the north, where it was the main battlefield of the Qin army and Rong Di, and what I saw along the way before was sent by Rong Di to attack the rear of the Qin army.
On a boulder, Meng Wu and several guards squinted at it, and there were many Rongdi tents densely stationed in the river valley in the distance, with two thousand, which meant that there were tens of thousands of Rongdi soldiers stationed in the river valley.
"General, what are they doing?"
Following the direction of the guard's finger, Meng Wu looked over and found that a clearing in front of the Rongdi camp was full of Rongdi soldiers, all of them with their heads bowed, their expressions low, their eyes closed, and their mouths were chanting, as if they were praying for something.
In front of them, a group of goshawks were pecking at food, and when they looked closely, it turned out to be several people.
"Heavenly burial ......!"
Meng Wu was stunned and couldn't believe it.
Sky burial is the highest etiquette after the death of Rong Di, and only after the death of the noble Rong Di people, this kind of ceremony will be held.
I saw a celestial burial here?
After thinking about it, Meng Wu's face was overjoyed, and he immediately ordered:
"Pass the order, prepare the army, and eat this group of Rong Di in one bite."
"Yes!"
After the guards went down to give the order, Meng Wu continued to observe, and he found that it was not one person who held the sky burial, there were at least three or four corpses, which means that at least three thousand commanders died, and the thousand commanders were equivalent to the leaders of the small tribe of Rongdi.
On the other side of the goshawk's pecking, a large bonfire was burning, which also attracted Meng Wu's attention.
The campfire was billowing black smoke and smelling of burning.
Looking closely, I found that dozens of people were burned in a bonfire.
Centurion?
Meng Wu couldn't believe it.
Why did Rong Di die so many important people at once?
Without waiting for him to think about it, the army in the rear was ready, and Meng Wu immediately ordered the army to storm the past, which was bound to open the passage from Wolf Mountain to the north.
Woo –
Woo woo –
A dull horn sounded in the Wolf Mountain, and the Rong Di soldiers who were holding the heavenly burial ceremony panicked for a moment, and then they saw the black Qin army rushing towards them.
First, a rain of arrows lifted into the air.
The Qin army's arrow array is unparalleled in the world!
Swish!
A rain of arrows suddenly rose into the air, and the heavens and the earth instantly darkened, and those Rong Di troops frantically searched for cover.
The horses neighed, and after a few rounds of arrow rain, the cavalry rushed over, and countless Rong Di howled and retreated, completely devoid of their former bravery.
Meng Wu stood on the stone, always paying attention to the entire battlefield, directing and dispatching.
As soon as the war began, he knew he had won.
The Rong Di army in the river valley lost its backbone, and no one could stand up and command Rong Di to resist the sudden attack of the Qin army.
"Rush!"
"Kill them all!"
The Qin army rushed into the Rongdi military camp in a daze, killed people when they saw them, and shattered them at the slightest touch of resistance.
Meng Wu had never felt that it was so easy to fight, and the vanguard army of almost 20,000 soldiers and horses was put into the battlefield in an orderly manner, and the river valley was soon occupied by the Qin army.
Soon, the battle came to an end, and Rong Di was defeated, and the defeat was complete.
A Rongdi centurion who was captured alive was quickly escorted to Meng Wu.
He stared at Meng Wu fiercely, and muttered a few words in his mouth, indignant.
Soldier in Rongdi, simple translation:
"General, he said that we are invincible, and a few days ago he attacked their military camp and killed many of them."
Meng Wu's face was cold, he didn't reply, he waved his hand, and the captured Rongdi centurion was taken down.
Meng Wu looked at the battlefield in the river valley and shook his head slightly.
No matter who looks at it, he will not win so easily, but in fact, the morale of the Rong Di army is very low, and the leaders of the battalion were all killed overnight.