Chapter 260: The Big Fight
Three days later, the greedy wolf descended the mountain. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoOttawa and Manila, two brothers of the same mother, each leading the warriors of the tribe, set up a position and glared angrily.
Manila brought over all 70,000 of his men, and by his side was a very elite looking guard. This is Manila's five thousand tribal warriors carefully selected in three days, and equipped them with new weapons and iron armor, and now this force of only 5,000 people can be said to be Manila's fist troops.
On the other hand, Ottawa brought 100,000 people. Ottawa also did his best this time, gathered all the young men who could fight under his subordinates, and tried to eliminate Manila, which was a great threat to him, as long as Manila died, those who wanted to impeach themselves would lose their leaders and no longer pose any threat.
Ottawa looked at Manila coldly on the horse, and in this eye, there was not the slightest brotherhood that had been together for decades, only hatred and anger. The same is true of Manila's look at Ottawa. It was as if their parents had brought them into this world just to make them brothers kill each other.
There was no conversation between the two, as if the words had long been unable to express the hatred between them, and it seemed that they did not bother to talk to each other at all. The two began to dispatch their troops and let their subordinates slowly move. In terms of arranging troops, Manila's talent is among the best among the Xin barbarians, and Ottawa is far from Manila's opponent, so when the two of them are mobilized. Manila's subordinates have formed a formation of implicit wheel formations within the square circle. He had a lot fewer men than Ottawa, so he put up two defensive formations that were interlocking in order to defend and counterattack. And Ottawa can't arrange any decent formation at all, his 100,000 troops are just divided into four echelons layer upon layer, ready to take advantage of the advantage of being large in numbers to attack Manila.
Next, Ottawa did not hesitate and directly gave the order to launch a general attack. Twenty-five thousand cavalry of the first echelon. At the same time, he raised his saber to the sky, shouted and rode his horse out, and when they had rushed fifty paces, the second echelon began to do the same. And so on. The four teams are hierarchical. At a distance of fifty paces, they successively slaughtered the headquarters of Manila.
Manila sneered, then yelled, "Sons. "In Manila's eyes, Ottawa and his men have become enemies. The 70,000 Manila subordinates immediately set up a battle formation, and the Fangyuan Array and the Wheel Formation were running in the opposite direction, like a huge meat grinder, ready to devour Ottawa's living forces little by little. Only the 5,000 elite soldiers stayed by Manila's side, and did not make any movement for the time being. This fist force, Manila has already given them a secret mission, that is, to wait for changes, and when Ottawa's troops are defeated, they will roar into Ottawa's main formation and cut off Ottawa's people in one fell swoop!
Dust and smoke rose on the battlefield, and two forces that were very similar in size and appearance and weapons and leather armor collided fiercely, maybe they had the same relatives between them, but they had to start a life-and-death fight under the command of their respective leaders.
Not far away, on the greedy wolf mountain, several members of the hidden dragon who had already been disguised and lurked everywhere secretly made a few gestures to each other, and one of the hidden dragon members was disguised and retreated step by step, until he thought that he had been out of the field of vision of the Xin barbarians, then he suddenly stood up and turned around and ran away. The hidden dragon is like a pervasive mercury, which not only plays the role of picketing internal military discipline, but also monitors the enemy's movements around the clock. Now that Ottawa and Manila have fought, it seems that this battle will last at least a day, and the members of the Hidden Dragon, who are secretly observing the situation, quickly make a judgment and send one person to report the matter to Yuan Qi.
After half a day of non-stop running, this member of the hidden dragon found Yuan Qi's army at the junction of the edge of the desert and Saibei, and when he panted and handed the wax pill in his hand to Yuan Qi, he immediately fainted from exhaustion. Along the way, he ran and killed two horses, and under the heat of the desert, he didn't even have time to drink a sip of water, he just wanted to find Yuan Qi as soon as possible and pass on the news, so that after completing the task, as soon as his mind relaxed, he fainted.
Yuan Qi turned over and dismounted, personally picked up the fainted Qianlong member from the ground, and then handed it to the medical officer accompanying the army, telling them to take good care of him. After watching several medical officers carry the members of the hidden dragon away, Yuan Qi crushed the wax pill in his hand, took out the note inside, and looked at it. On the note, there is still only a very simple line of small words: infighting has started, and the decisive battle will be fought under the greedy wolf mountain.
Although this line of small characters was simple, Yuan Qi immediately understood the meaning. Ottawa and Manila are already at war, just below Greedy Wolf Mountain. Turning over and getting on his horse again, Yuan Qi raised the mixed yuan halberd and shouted: "Speed up! Tomorrow at noon, you must rush to the foot of the greedy wolf mountain!"
After this detour to Mingzhou, Yuan Qi's subordinates had 20,000 more soldiers, Tian Yu, who was responsible for handling Mingzhou affairs, thought that he didn't need so many people to guard Mingzhou, he felt that the management of the Thorn Tower people should still be dominated by the Thorn Tower people, so he divided the 20,000 subordinates into 10,000 and handed them over to Yuan Qi, and also gathered 10,000 Thorn Tower cavalry with high loyalty, and handed them over to Yuan Qi, so that Yuan Qi's total strength on this expedition reached 80,000, which can be regarded as an extra boost for Yuan Qi. By the way, Yuan Xie's will has been restored, agreeing to Yuan Qi's recommendation of Tian Yu as the Ming Prefecture pastor, and officially appointing Tian Yu as the Mingzhou pastor.
As for the Thorn Tower people who went out with the army, although they were defeated by Yuan Qi not long ago, the Thorn Tower people have always believed in the concept of respect for the strong, Yuan Qi is stronger than them, and they surrender to Yuan Qi, and there is nothing to make a fuss about. What's more, Yuan Qi treats them equally, and all the Thorn Tower cavalry who go out with the army will get the same salary and weapons and equipment as the enemy army, so that these 10,000 Thorn Tower cavalry are willing to work for Yuan Qi. At least, now that they are fighting for the Yuan Qi, they still have military salaries and equipment to take, unlike in the past, when they had to prepare their own war horses for the leader of the Thorn Tower, what else do they have to complain about? What's more, although the Thorn Tower was conquered for a relatively short time, but Yuan Qi's infiltration of the Thorn Tower, but it had already begun ten years ago, tens of thousands of Thorn Tower people, and nearly 100,000 Thorn Tower captives, as a victim of the war, were given to Yuan Qi by the King of Thorn Tower, and moved to live in the interior, ten years later, they have already accepted the sinicization, and the Han people are almost the same, Yuan Qi's kind treatment of the people and captives of the Thorn Tower is also another important factor that prompts the Thorn Tower people to be willing for him to drive.
After a night of darkness, the sun rose again, bringing light to the desert. The mild sun does not have the power of the heat at noon, and it emits a soft light, spreading its mild heat to the people living in the desert. However, there are some people who can no longer feel the warmth of the sun.
After a day of fighting yesterday, the barbarians of Ottawa and Manila were seriously wounded, and their subordinates suffered a large number of casualties, and the total number of deaths on both sides has exceeded 50,000.
Yesterday, the two barbarians launched numerous attacks against each other, Ottawa had the advantage of being numerous, while Manila's strength was the formation of troops. Under the offset of the two, the battle between the two Xin barbarians fell into a stalemate from the beginning. In the middle, except for suspending the battle and letting the subordinates eat, the rest of the time was spent in the fight. And as soon as the men and horses on both sides come into contact with each other, they will immediately enter a white-hot fight, so it is not surprising that their respective battle losses remain high.
It wasn't until yesterday evening that the two divisions, who had not won or lost, suspended their attacks on each other and began to clean up the battlefield, cleaning up the corpses of their respective clansmen and the weapons and equipment left on the battlefield. The two Xin barbarians followed the rules of the previous dynasties, and when cleaning the battlefield, they maintained the order that the river water did not interfere with the well water, and each ignored the other. The weapons and equipment left on the battlefield, even the war horses, were piled up or dragged to the same place by the two barbarians at the same time, and then neither of the men and horses could move these things until the victory was decided. The winner, will have ownership of these items. The bodies of the people killed in the war were carried back to their respective camps and cremated. Cremation is also one of the ancient customs handed down by the Xin barbarians.
After counting, the hearts of Ottawa and Manila were dripping blood at the same time. In yesterday's battle, Ottawa's 100,000-strong army lost 30,000 people, and Manila's troops suffered as much as 20,000 battle losses! Although Manila's troops were less than Ottawa's, but by virtue of the advantage of the battle formation, the battle losses were 10,000 less than those of Ottawa, but no matter how little the battle losses, it was also war losses. In addition to women and children, there are only three or four hundred thousand young people, and every time a young man is lost, it takes time to restore the number of young and strong people of the Xin barbarians, and this time often takes at least twenty years!
While the blood was dripping in their hearts, the hatred of Ottawa and Manila for each other rose to the point of no return, so that early the next morning, as soon as the sun climbed into the sky, the two of them once again set up a battle under the Greedy Wolf Mountain, ready to fight for life and death!