The dozens of Western Jin cavalry who led the way in front couldn't help but feel a little surprised after hearing the whistle from the rear, because the whistle indicated that the grain team had decided to camp here.

Anyone with some military common sense would not choose to camp in such a low place. The lowlands were flanked by meadows, and if the hundreds of horse thieves took advantage of the terrain and were drawn into a long line of grain, the fragile defenses would be broken through in a very short time, which was very dangerous.

Immediately afterwards, the latest order came from the carriage, to assemble the grain wagons in formation, and to break off the carriage board to make a large shield, but did not let the people dig the pit, nor did they set up tripwire in the dark areas on both sides, giving the impression that the people in the carriage had given up their defenses and waited in vain for the attack of the horse thieves.

The last twilight came from the horizon, reflecting the blood red of the dying struggle, and the low-lying ground where the grain teams had camped was already dim, and it was vaguely visible that people were hastily disassembling the carriage boards, and the smoke of cooking was rising.

Suddenly, the smoke that had just risen was suddenly tightened, as if frozen by the cold air, and the busy people looked up at the meadow on the left, their bodies suddenly stiffened and fell silent.

Hundreds of horse thieves appeared on the meadow more than 100 zhang away, this is the closest distance between the horse thief and the grain team these days, the black pressure of the horse thief control indifferently stood above, in the reflection of the setting sun, as if it was a dense mountain forest, is burning fiercely, giving people an extremely violent sense of coercion.

Xu Chen lifted his hat a few points, looked at the group of horse thieves on the meadow, and frowned slowly. He noticed that today's horse thieves were more disciplined and silent, and that none of the horse thieves were provocative and intimidating.

He noticed that there were more than ten horses at the front of the horse thief group, and the reason why there were more than ten horses was because he confirmed that these days, these more than ten horse thieves with their faces covered had never appeared in his field of vision, which means that these more than ten horse thieves had just arrived today, and the alarming changes in the horse thieves team were precisely because of the arrival of these horse thieves.

"Even if they are not representatives of the forces behind them, these more than ten horsemen should be the ones in charge. Xu Chen looked at the horse thieves who were pointing at the camp with horsewhips in hand, looked at the cloth covering their faces, and said in a low voice: "If you have the opportunity, find a way to kill these more than ten horsemen, maybe you can break the siege." ”

Duanmu Rong stood beside him, looked at it indifferently, and said, "You once said that the target of these horse thieves is not food and grass, and killing people will not have any effect. ”

"A horse thief is a horse thief, a horse thief who is raised by someone is still a horse thief, they are more afraid of death than anyone else, and I believe that whether it is the royal court or the king of the Western Jin Dynasty, if you want to raise so many horse thieves in the wasteland, you must also raise them separately. ”

Xu Chen glanced at her and said, "That is to say, these horse thieves are not subordinate to each other, they just listened to the words of the leaders of the more than ten horse thieves who just arrived today, and if they kill these people, the horse thieves' fighting spirit will fade." ”

Immediately afterwards, he looked at her and added very seriously: "It's still the same sentence, you are the strongest person in the entire team, so until the last moment, you must not make a move, otherwise it will be a waste." ”

Duanmu Rong's eyes drooped slightly, his sparse long eyelashes rested on his fair skin, reflecting the last twilight, very beautiful, his slightly bulging cheeks were very cute, but the silence of not speaking was very unbearable.

Xu Chen ignored her anymore, unloaded the heavy package from the horse's back, stuffed it into the carriage behind him, and said seriously: "The things in the package are very important to me, help me keep them." ”

Duanmu Rong raised his head, looked at him and said, "Your secret?"

Xu Chen said: "Not bad. ”

"You seem to have a lot of secrets. ”

"You also have quite a few. Xu Chen said.

Duanmu Rong's eyes narrowed slightly, and he asked, "Why haven't you worried about the night attack of horse thieves all the way?"

Xu Chen looked at her slightly squinted eyes, looked at the beautiful little wrinkles in the corners of her eyes, and couldn't help but think of the leaves of a certain plant, it seemed to be a willow tree?

"The reason is very simple, because it is difficult to find the goods hidden by the caravan at night, and it will come to search again during the day, and I am afraid that the border army will see the warning and then search for it. Moreover, a night attack will reduce their riding and archery skills, and the sharpest means will be discounted, which is something that horse thieves can hardly afford, and it is rare for them to follow them for so many days. ”

Duanmu Rong raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "Since it's rare, then why can't they launch a rare night attack?"

Xu Chen found that he was indeed easily defeated by this girl in white, and after a moment of silence, he said: "These are the truths summed up by the ancestors of the horse thieves with blood and death, and they will not deviate from it. ”

"Maybe they can't think of turning away, because it's already an instinctive consciousness that is deeply rooted in their bones. Xu Chen looked at her and said: "Just like when you write a talisman, you don't need to think about how to write that talisman at all, the ink pen in your hand will make a choice in advance before your mind and wander on its own." ”

Duanmu Rong looked at him quietly and asked, "Do you also know the talisman?"

Xu Chen smiled gently and replied, "I understand a little." ”

Maybe it's because the big war is coming, maybe it's because the twilight is too beautiful and the night is too close, at this time in his eyes, Duanmu Rong is going to become much more pleasing to the eye, although her gaze is still proud and indifferent, but he secretly thinks to himself, with her reputation and status in the world, it should be so.

Similarly, Duanmu Rong also felt that this young Chaoyang native had become much more pleasing to the eye.

............

On this night, Xu Chen spent the night with the military cavalry behind those teams. He ordered those Western Jin riders to sleep with his mounts, and were not allowed to remove their armor, and he himself put on a light military armor.

"Reinforcements are already on the way, as long as we hold out until mid-heaven, we will win. ”

Beside the fire, he looked at the Western Jin cavalry with confused expressions and even a little numbness, and said seriously.

The expressions of the Western Jin Dynasty riders finally changed, and something called hope began to appear in their eyes.

Xu Chen didn't know if there would be reinforcements, he only knew that tomorrow morning, those horse thieves would definitely attack, and if the situation was not right, he would not hesitate to ride a black horse and escape.

It's just that you can't forget to bring the package, well, you should also bring Yaxiu, and Zhao Ling'er...... Duanmu Rong should also bring ...... It seems like there are too many things and people to bring.

At a certain moment in the early morning, not a specific moment, the horse thief, who had been following the grain team for more than ten days, finally launched an attack, and the first to sound was not the sound of a trumpet, but the sharp and poignant sound of arrows.

Hundreds of feathered arrows arced from above the meadow, tearing through the cold air and the remaining sleepiness of the camp, whistling and piercing.

Although the men of the grain team had been mentally and materially prepared for the attack, they were still in confusion, and in the rain of arrows, the people shouted loudly in terror, hid in panic, and desperately drilled into the vans around the convoy.

The sharp and cold arrows pierced the sturdy compartment and could no longer penetrate deeply, but there were still some feathered arrows that easily penetrated the torsos and limbs of the people and soldiers, bursting out blood flowers one after another, setting off a terrible howl of pain, and in an instant, they caused great damage.

The military cavalry in the southernmost part of the low-lying land was not in the camp, they were attacked by arrows almost at the same time, but because of Xu Chen's advice last night, their reactions were relatively faster, and they picked up simple round shields in front of them, or lay down behind the lowland rocks, nervously watching the arrows flying overhead.

The horses ridden by the Western Jin Dynasty neighed and ran around in the low-lying ground, and several horses could not bear the arrow wounds on their bodies and fell to the ground heavily.

"Get on your horse and get ready to sprint!"

Xu Chen turned over and jumped on the black horse, looking up at the edge of the grass in the northeast, these rogues who had no logistical supplies did not have the habit of carrying a large number of arrows with them, even if it was a long-planned pursuit, the horse thieves still had no way to attack from a distance alone, and they would bring a fatal blow to the grain team, and in the end the horse thieves still needed to rush the camp.

The edge of the northeastern road seemed to suddenly grow a black forest, and hundreds of horseback thieves wearing leather armor wrapped in thick cloth appeared there, and the scimitar in his hand looked extremely cold under the reflection of the first morning light on the horizon, so cold that everyone's breathing in the low-lying ground became much heavier.

Above the gentle slope of the meadow, a masked horse thief at the front slowly raised the knife in his hand and gave the order to attack.

Xu Chen noticed that the leader of the horse thieves was not holding a scimitar, but a straight knife.

Hundreds of horseback thieves galloped down the meadow along the extension line pointed by the straight knife. At first, there was a chaotic and slow sound of hooves, but as the speed increased, it began to become denser and more neat, and more than a thousand strong and powerful horses' hooves trampled heavily on the surface of the slightly hard meadow, causing the whole earth to tremble.

The wasteland in the early morning seems to be a drum without bounds, and the sound of the horse's hooves is like a heavy mallet that falls heavily on the drum surface, and every time it falls, the earth will shake for a minute, and the drum will sound like thunder, and the hooves will sound like thunder.

The camp had just experienced a rain of arrows, and had just calmed down from the chaos, and the soldiers and men who were guarding the rear of the chariot formation with blades and even wooden sticks in their hands felt the shaking of the earth under their feet, listened to the deafening sound of thunderous hooves, and looked at the group of horse thieves who flooded from above the meadow like a black pressure flood, and their faces could not help but show despair.

At this moment, more than a dozen disciples of the Xuanyuan Academy of the Jade Xuanmen of the Western Jin Dynasty clenched the jet-black wooden handle on the side of their waists, drew their slender swords, stood up, and shouted loudly as the soldiers and people beside them raised their weapons and walked behind the carriage board.

Looking at the group of horse thieves who are getting closer and closer, looking at the hideous faces of those horse thieves, looking at the Xueliang scimitar wielding in the hands of the horse thieves, and listening to the arrogant whistles of the horse thieves, there is no trace of nervousness on the young and childish faces of the disciples of the Jade Xuanmen Xuanyuan, let alone despair, because the calm and calmness are more resolute.

The calm and perseverance of the girls of the Western Jin Dynasty infected the military soldiers and people in the camp, and they subconsciously raised the crude wooden spears in their hands, although the hands holding the spears were still trembling uncontrollably, but at least they finally had the courage to face the bleak situation and those murderous enemies.

The sound of hooves was getting louder and louder, the horse thief was getting closer and closer, the smoke and dust were getting thicker and thicker on the slopes of the dawn meadow, the air was getting colder and colder, the atmosphere was getting more and more tense, and everyone in the camp had panic in their eyes, with the last glimmer of hope for luck, and their breathing became more and more rapid, waiting for the moment when the horse thief rushed to the front of the car.

Xu Chen was also waiting, but the time he waited was relatively shorter.

He glanced at the more than 100 horse thieves who faintly appeared on the northwest meadow, these horse thieves sneaked in at some point last night, appeared above the meadow at this time, but did not charge the Western Jin Dynasty cavalry, obviously the intention was to take advantage of the situation to suppress this group of Western Jin Dynasty cavalry, so as to ensure that the nearly five hundred horse thieves there could gather all their strength and successfully charge the camp at one time.

Xu Chen would not fight with these more than 100 horse thieves, he turned his head to see that the smoke and dust between the gentle slopes of the northern meadow were getting bigger and bigger, and seeing that the hundreds of horse thieves were about to rush down the gentle slope and enter the low-lying area, he pressed the hat on his head down, pulled out the standard saber from behind his back, and signaled the two hundred Western Jin Dynasty horsemen who followed him to prepare to charge.

"Don't ask how to rush, follow my horse to rush. ”

He looked at the nervous Western Jin cavalry beside him, did not do any pre-war mobilization, and directly said the above sentence, and then flipped his wrist, and the coercive saber pointed directly at the meadow on his right hand, and his legs clamped the horse's belly.

The black horse roared twice, kicked its hooves and feet, and rushed out like an arrow off the string!

The five hundred horseback thieves who were like a tide of black pressure were constantly speeding up by the gentle slope of the meadow, and in the interval of breath they had already rushed down the meadow to the low-lying area between the two meadows.

This low-lying area is covered with black soil and coarse gravel, it looks quite solid, about dozens of zhang wide, the grain team camp is stationed in the center, with the current speed of the horse thieves, from stepping on the low-lying ground to rushing to the camp, it does not take much time, and what is even more terrifying is that if there is no tripping horse rope and trapping and other things to slow down the speed of the horse thieves, hundreds of horse thieves can easily break down the grain team camp with speed.