Volume 1: The Seven Stars of the Twilight of the World Chapter 116 The Tiger and the Wolf Ride
After 500 breaks, only more than 100 horsemen were left to catch up with the brigade. Tong Meng watched the return of the more than 100 scarred elite horsemen, and roughly guessed the scene of the battle on the stone bridge.
Tong Meng glanced at the tiger army that caught up, a tiger cavalry at the front, the blood splashed on his face had not had time to wipe it, and he didn't know if it was his own or another soldier's, Tong Meng asked him, "Are there any brothers in the back?"
"That's all we have. ”
"Then how did you break it? What about Zuo Junwei? Call him to me!"
Seeing that Tong Meng still had the meaning of Xingshi asking for guilt, this tiger cavalry completely collapsed, he watched Zuo Jun give up his life and jump into the mouth of the demon snake, and the soldier couldn't help but scream,
"Master Tong! Our brothers have done our best! Master Zuo Junwei jumped into the mouth of the demon snake himself, and only then did he repel the monster, and the stone bridge had already been entangled by the demon snake! No one could come over. ”
"What? That monster destroyed the stone bridge?" Chang Poyu on the side heard the soldier's report, and suddenly felt bad, although Tong Meng also felt a little strange, but he couldn't think of what it meant for a while.
Chang Poyu already had the worst estimate in his heart.
That monster had a deliberate ambush, and it wasn't an instinctive attack. If the stone bridge is destroyed in advance, it should be to prevent the brigade from supporting Jinsha, and Jinsha will be in danger.
If it had the intention of annihilating the force, it should strike it halfway, cut the team in half by destroying the stone bridge, and then break it up.
But now the snake is attacking when he crosses the bridge, and he also lets himself cross the bridge and then intercepts the follow-up troops, although the tiger Ben desperately repels the snake, but it can be seen that if the demon snake attacks with all its strength, the whole team may suffer a catastrophe.
So judging from the timing of the snake's attack, as well as the subsequent attacks, its goal may be only one, that is, to break itself.
The old general couldn't help but admire Lu Kefa, the captain of Tianyao who had been shattered with Tianyao, his intuition was right, these demon beasts who came out of nowhere had really set their sights on him, the governor of the five armies of Great Xia.
Then, an inference that made him shudder even more came to mind, what the demon beast wanted to destroy was not only his own governor, but the five armies of Great Xia that he represented, then this weird demon beast army, their ultimate goal would be the entire empire.
This thought was only a fleeting thought, but it made the battle-hardened veteran general feel a deep fear, and he looked at the team beside him who was still a little overwhelmed,
From now on, no matter what happens, we will march with all our strength and go straight to Jinsha. Also," the old general paused, "Tong Meng, from now on, you command by my side, and if I am caught by an ambush, use it." ”
As he spoke, the old general handed over a carved arrow on his body to Tong Meng's hand.
This carved arrow is red and yellow, shining with dazzling golden light, it was given to Chang Po by the Marquis of Tiankui back then, the old man treasured it for many years, every time he marched and fought, he carried it with him, as a thing to calm down. Since the enemy was bent on targeting him, Chang Polu, in order to avoid being captured alive, specially told Tong Meng to give him a ride with this arrow if necessary.
Tong Meng still wanted to excuse himself, but Chang Po was captured and roared angrily, "Take it!"
Immediately, the brigade did not make any stops, the horse team was in front, and the pawns followed, and hurried to Jinsha at full speed.
Under the leadership of Tong Meng, the men and horses protected General Chang and traveled more than 30 miles in one breath, seeing that more than half of the journey from Jinsha was over, and under such an intensity of galloping, there were constantly foot soldiers who fell down from exhaustion, Tong Meng saw that Chang Poyu beside him was also tired and pale, afraid that the old man's body would have a mistake, please ask if he could repair it.
Chang Poyu still wanted to hold on, but seeing that more and more of the foot soldiers were left behind, once they were attacked, it would be difficult for the troops to shrink their defense, so they had to nod their heads in agreement.
Along the way on both sides are towering and tall mountains, Chang Poyu, who is familiar with the art of war, has a gloomy face, so he has to let the brigade grit his teeth and hold on for a while, only then can he find a terrain with relatively gentle mountains, relatively wide vision, and not easy to ambush, so that the troops can stop and repair.
Tong Meng handed the old general a water bag, watched the old man drink a few sips, and drank wildly for a while, waiting for the old general's face to recover a little, and then he couldn't help but ask,
"I've been stationed in Tianyao with Captain Lu for ten years, and I've never seen these monsters, have you ever seen them, have you ever seen them? We don't know anything about them, but how did they target General Chang?"
In fact, Chang Po had no clue about these problems, he was just unwilling to watch the destruction of Yaocheng in the Great Summer, and even more deplored the general Lu Kefa, "Captain Lu is a rare general in our Great Xia. ”
Several guards of the Chang Shengjun on the side heard this regret from General Chang Lao, and their faces suddenly turned gloomy.
"Tong Meng, the situation is critical now, you can help me find three scouts. I will send an epistle to the saints of today. I will copy this letter three times, ask them to choose different routes, and make sure that the message is delivered. ”
Scouts are the name given to heralds in the Five Armies of Great Xia, and these are some of the best players selected from the army who are good at camouflage and swiftness.
Tong Meng took the order to arrange, General Chang closed his eyes and recuperated under the care of several soldiers on duty, counting from the beginning of the siege of the walking corpse, this old man with white hair has almost not rested for a day and a night, plus the horseback gallop just now, even if the old general is in good spirits and does not quit martial arts, he is exhausted at this moment and needs to take a good rest.
In fact, not only the old general himself, but now the entire army is exhausted. Coupled with the repeated fierce battles and marches, I witnessed the continuous fall of my comrades who used to laugh and play together, most of whom still had the blood of their comrades, but they still don't know what kind of enemy they are facing.
Although Chang Polu was closing his eyes and recuperating, in fact, he was thinking a lot in his heart, he recalled the scene of the soldiers fighting with the army of the walking corpses and the snake in Shekou Gorge, but for a while he couldn't find a way to break the enemy, if he wanted to establish a second line of defense between Jinsha and Shuiquan, he was afraid that the current army and equipment would be difficult to achieve......
Just when the old general was thinking wildly, a sudden sound of breaking wind woke him up from his contemplation, but before he could react, there was a muffled bang, and a hot liquid splashed on his face.
The old general looked for prestige, and it turned out to be the Chang Sheng guard standing beside him, with an incredible look on his face, watching his chest pierced by a sharpened branch, and blood splashed on the face of Chang Po beside him.
"There are assassins!"
The other guards beside the general reacted quickly, one of them pounced and crushed the old general under him, and the rest of them instantly erected a wall of shields around the general.
Through the gap between the shields, the soldiers saw that from the top of the mountain peaks on both sides, gray torrents slowly seeped out, and these gray torrents continued to converge and grow, accelerating, and soon the whole ground began to tremble.
The camp that Chang Poyu chose for the army had a wide field of vision, and it was not convenient to hide the ambushes, but the current situation made him regret it, and he ignored that if the enemy had incredible speed, then these gentle slopes were just right for launching a group charge.
On closer inspection, this growing gray torrent turned out to be a giant wolf with bared teeth and grinning.
No, Chang Poyu quickly denied his judgment, ordinary wolves should have more developed front legs than hind legs, so they are better at climbing instead of diving, but these giant wolves, which are taller than ordinary war horses, have an exceptionally well-proportioned figure, and with the help of downhill mountains, they run even more than ordinary war horses.
These giant wolves have lion-like manes on their necks, but these manes look much harder, like hard thorns standing straight up, and the huge wolf heads are all grinning with large mouths dripping with salivation, and the long fangs are hanging out, glowing with a cold blue and white light.
What made the soldiers even more frightened were the knights who rode on the backs of these giant wolves, all of them with green fangs, two pointed ears protruding from the unkempt hair on their heads, and their naked bodies were also wrapped in a thick layer of gray hair, and they howled in their mouths, like shouting slogans and simple wolf howls, if it weren't for the fact that they straddled the back of the giant wolf, it would have looked like a giant wolf with a slightly shorter mouth.
The weapons in the hands of these riders were the same long poles that had pierced the chests of General Chang's guards before, and they looked like they had been made of local materials, and the branches that had just been shaved off the bark of the trees had also been cut out of their long pointed heads, and they danced in the hands of these beasts, and they were as terrifying as their fangs.
As the gray army rushed faster and faster, round after round of spear rain began to fall above the heads of the victorious army, and these simple spears and spears about a length of about a zhang, because of the speed of the giant wolf charge, the undulating hills of the hillside, and the throwing power of those wolf knights, slammed on the shields erected by the victorious soldiers, and from time to time there would be shields pierced by these spears, and then the warriors with shields and the warriors covered by shields were pierced by the spears thrown from them.
Seeing this, Tong Meng urged his horse to start a defensive line along the flank of the team, and he ran through the rain of spears, urging his men to set up double shields, and under the cover of the double shields, the longbowmen also began to counterattack.
At the same time, Tong Meng began to gather all the tiger cavalry who could still fight to take up their swords and mount their horses, ready to start a frontal counterattack against these beast-like giant wolf knights.
Under Tong Meng's supervision, the victorious army, which was exhausted but still unwilling to give in, began to re-establish its defensive line, and between the gaps in the shields, spears and spears were erected to resist the cavalry charge.
Although he was a little panicked when he first saw those giant wolves, he also began to stand firm under the comfort and encouragement of his own riders, and waited for work behind the shield spear, ready to meet these opponents he had never seen before.
Seeing these war horses begin to sneeze violently, their front hooves constantly digging the dust under their feet, and the snow swords of the tiger riders, Tong Meng was relieved, he knew that these warriors of his mine, as well as their war horses, were ready for this fierce battle.
Of course, the battle that Tong Meng wanted to launch was not for the sake of love, he had already dispatched the most elite 100 elite cavalry to protect General Chang, asking them to take advantage of the melee to break through to the front.
There is no way to retreat, only the Shekou Gorge with a broken bridge, and only the Jinsha blocked by the wolf horse has a glimmer of hope to keep General Chang.
The speed of the wolf rider was too fast, the longbowmen only had time to fire two volleys, and the gray torrent had already rushed to the gun and shield defense line, these giant wolves did not slow down at all, and collided head-on with those shield and gun defense lines, with a huge momentum, the first batch of wolf knights were pierced by spears, but at the same time, the impermeable shield and gun defense line was also knocked open by the follow-up wolf riders, and those gray torrents were like real floods, and they continued to pour into the defense line of the victorious army along these gaps.
These wolf knights, who had broken through the victorious defenses, slaughtered these human warriors with their seemingly crude weapons. The reason why it is called slaughter is because the weapons in the hands of the victorious warriors are difficult to even pierce the fur of these tall giant wolves, but the fangs of these giant wolves can easily tear apart the bodies of human warriors.
Tong Meng watched his subordinates fall in a cloud of blood mist, and his eyes once again signaled to the group of tiger elites who were covering General Chang, and shouted, "Follow me!"
All the war horses neighed together, as if shouting to those giant wolves and beasts, "We are the victorious war horses of Great Xia, and the fastest war sword of the Great Xia Empire." ”