Chapter 234: Into the Famine
There were no trips, no pits, no obstacles on the flat, solid, low-lying ground, the soldiers and civilians behind the convoy, looking at the faces of those horse thieves who were extremely clear, their bodies were cold, and the hands holding the spears tightly trembled even more than before, if they didn't know that surrender was death, and fleeing backwards was also death, I was afraid that at this time, everyone would just need to shout, and everyone would throw away their weapons and scatter around.
There is a huge disparity in the strength of the enemy and us, the camp of the grain team is under the meadow, the geographical advantage is completely lost, and there is no preparation, how can it be possible to stop these wolf and tiger horse thieves? It seems that there is no way to save the fate of this grain team, although the 200 military cavalry not far from the south have already begun to ride their horses and gallop towards this side, but when they rush over, the horse thieves have already rushed into the camp and begun to massacre on a large scale.
What's more, the two hundred military cavalry did not choose the nearest straight line to help, but ran towards the gentle slope of the meadow to the east in a very strange way, what did they want to do? The cavalry went up the gentle slope at a slower speed, and it consumed a lot of horsepower, did they want to become the target of the horse thieves' feather arrows, or ...... They want to run away?
Thinking of Xu Chen's insistence on not setting up tripping ropes and traps last night, and seeing the two hundred Western Jin Dynasty horses running towards the east at this time, Zhao Ling'er flashed a very bad association in her heart, she didn't want to admit that the senior brother of the Dushan Sect was such a villain, but in addition to being greedy for life and afraid of death, what else could explain his actions?
There was no time for Zhao Ling'er and the girls of the Western Jin Dynasty to feel sad and angry, they could only use their afterglow to glance at the dark horses in front of the Western Jin Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty that seemed to be getting farther and farther away, and they had to retract their spirits in front of them.
The horse thieves in front of him came like black clouds, and thousands of hooves kicked up thousands of black gravel and dust.
With a heavy and muffled sound, a horse thief who rushed to the front, suddenly fell heavily on the hard black gravel ground for unknown reasons, splashing a cloud of smoke and dust, and the war horse could no longer stand up with a wail, and its front hooves seemed to be broken.
Immediately after that, one after another heavy and muffled sounds sounded continuously, and the dozens of horsemen at the front of the frantically charging horse thief group fell to the ground one after another like the horse thief at the front, and there was chaos between the sloped valleys!
Zhao Ling'er, who was holding the Xiujian tightly, didn't know what was going on, and there was a puzzled look in her eyes, and then the confusion in her eyes turned into ecstasy - more and more horse thieves fell to the seemingly hard black gravel ground.
The group of thieves rushed down the gentle slope of the meadow, and by the time they reached the low-lying area between the meadows, the speed had been increased to the maximum, which was undoubtedly the most perfect for a normal charge, but the problem was that it was not a normal charge, because the low-lying ground was not normal ground.
In the barren and cold wilderness, the low-lying land sandwiched between two oblique meadows is rare, and this place was originally a very ancient river channel, I don't know that it has dried up and disappeared tens of millions of years ago, only the remains of the riverbed remains, with the invasion and accumulation of wind and sand, gradually no longer see the appearance of the river, the two banks have turned into a spring green and winter frosty white meadow, and the riverbed has become a seemingly solid black gravel land.
Even these horse thieves who roamed the wasteland didn't know that this low-lying land was an ancient river channel, and Xu Chen didn't know either, but when he came here with a grain team last night and set up camp, he found the problem of this low-lying land, under the thin layer of mud and sand, all of them were still smooth round pebbles.
The middle of the ancient river channel is deeper, and the soil accumulated for thousands of years is also the thickest, and then covered with the corpse of vegetation and grass, there is not much problem in the process, but against the ancient river bank, that is, the edge of the two meadows today, it is only covered with a very shallow layer of black soil and gravel, if the force is slightly larger, or even only needs to be blown by the wind, it is possible to touch or see the round pebbles below, as well as those irregular natural pits.
This is not a trap, it is not a trap laid by Haotian for these horse thieves, because if the speed is not too fast, even the heaviest Nanshan horse, carrying two people, will not fall into the mud and gravel accumulated over the years, but the horse thief rushes down by the gentle slope of the meadow, the speed increases too fast, and the relative impact force between the horse's hooves and the ground is too great.
So the edge of the low-lying land under the gentle slope of the meadow became a trap laid by Haotian for the horse thief.
Swiftly swept away, almost bringing out the afterimage of the horse's hooves, stepped heavily on the low-lying ground, the powerful horse's hooves sank deep into the mud, and wanted to get up, but they slipped away, because the speed was too fast, the war horse itself could not maintain its balance at all, and fell heavily with the horse thief on its body.
There were horses' hooves kicking off the black gravel, but it happened to get stuck between the cobblestones under the ground, under such a high speed, the war horse couldn't stop rushing down, the heavy horse body pressed over, clicked, the horse's hooves broke miserably, revealing blood-colored muscle keys and white periosteum, looking miserable.
The dozens of horse thieves who rushed to the front fell, and the large army of horse thieves behind had already sensed the problem, but it was still because of the damn reason - the speed was too fast - to pull the reins to stop the charge, and one horse after another rushed into the edge of the low-lying area, and then kept falling to the ground, making a heavy muffled sound from time to time.
If the hundreds of horseback thieves who had rushed down the gentle slope of the meadow before were like black and oppressive tides, then the seemingly ordinary black gravel ground outside the grain team's camp was like the famous breakwater on the coast of the Song Kingdom, which was affiliated to the Kingdom of God, and countless invisible circular stone pillars appeared, which were hard and ruthless to smash all these tides.
The tide came in waves, and then broke into foam in waves, the first wave served, and the second wave followed, wave after wave, wave after wave.
The scene between the valleys was extremely bloody and cruel, countless horses with their legs broken and their heads crooked to the ground, countless horse thieves were thrown and their legs were crushed by the heavy horses, and they pushed the horses in horror and frantically, but in vain. The lucky horses and thieves fell or died, while the unfortunate horses and thieves were screaming in pain, especially the horse thieves at the back who charged at high speed but fell miserably, and they were squeezed together, and the blood oozed out like a fruit pulp, smeared on the ground in the morning light.
The fighting power of the horse thieves is much stronger than that of the grain team camp, although there were at least a hundred horse thieves who suffered heavy casualties in the previous charge, as long as they are given time to re-entrench the queue, even if they abandon their horses and charge on foot, it will bring great pressure and danger to the camp.
If the current hundreds of people in the camp of the grain team are elite soldiers of the Chaoyang Army who can fight well, even ordinary soldiers, at this time they rush out of the car formation with weapons and come to a close-quarters counterattack, and they can kill a horse thief with a random stab, maybe the first wave of the horse thief's charge may be repulsed.
It's a pity that the vast majority of the people in the camp are people, under the protection of the wooden compartment board and big shield of the car array, they may have the courage to defend with wooden sticks and spears, but they do not have the courage to rush out of the camp to kill the enemy, and more importantly, the more than 300 horse thieves behind finally narrowly avoided the natural trap in the low-lying land, and at this time they were vigilantly observing the movement of the camp with bows and arrows in hand.
Therefore, whether or not the first attack of the horse thieves could be repelled, all hopes must be pinned on the two hundred Western Jin Dynasty horsemen in the south. At this time, the people in the camp had already understood that the two hundred Western Jin Dynasty horsemen abandoned the valley bottom and chose to climb the meadow, not to escape, but to avoid those traps hidden by Haotian in the ancient river channel.
The two hundred Western Jin Dynasty horses started early, but because they rushed up to the meadow in reverse, the horsepower was extremely consumed, so the speed was not fast, especially compared to the black horse at the front that looked like black lightning.
As soon as the Western Jin Dynasty rode a move, more than 100 horse thieves who monitored and suppressed the Western Jin Dynasty horses on the left hand meadow immediately moved, and these horse thieves rushed down the meadow with the fastest speed, wanting to make a circle from the oblique thorn and intercept the Western Jin Dynasty horses from the side, but they did not expect that these Western Jin Dynasty horses did not go along the center of the inclined valley, but drove towards the meadow.
Seeing that they could not catch up with the Western Jin Dynasty cavalry, these more than 100 horseback thieves waved their horsewhips, accelerated their speed with a continuous whistle, and chased down the meadow like thunder with the sound of hooves, so they also suffered the same miserable experience as their comrades in the north.
The cold wasteland winter wind hit his face, but his cheeks became a little hot, Xu Chen listened to the miserable cries from behind, knowing that those horse thieves could no longer catch up with him, and began to think about some strange questions after a little calm.
The cold wind can blow the face hot, is it because the wind is too strong and the friction generates heat? But if this is the reason, how thick and hard should your skin be?
The hat was tied extremely tightly by the rope, and no matter how strong the winter wind on the wasteland was, it did not blow off, and Xu Chen's eyes exposed outside the mask did not have a trace of emotion, just staring intently at the group of horse thieves who were getting closer and closer.
Nearly 200 horse thieves were trapped among the cobblestones on the edge of the low-lying land, embarrassed, and 300 horse thieves dragged behind them, forcibly recovering the territory, but the formation was extremely chaotic, especially the side defenses were even weaker. If a large knife is forced to cut down from the side of the horse thieves at this time, it is believed that the horse thieves will definitely be defeated.
When the three horses were staggered like lightning, the blood from the broken shoulder of the horse thief and the slurry bursting out of the eye sockets burst out, spraying him all over his face, and the smell of blood and other peculiar smells were mixed together, which was very strange.
It is said that blood is hot and the wind is cold, but Xu Chen feels that the wind blowing on his face is hot, but the blood sprinkled on his face is cold. Because he was very calm, he still remembered clearly the principles of battle that he had held for many years.
Killing a horse thief is never as good as injuring a horse thief, a horse thief dies, and if he is seriously injured for a while, he will drag down more horse thief companions, this kind of careful thinking is cruel but very useful.
Looking at the more than ten horse thieves rushing towards him, Xu Chen took a deep breath, clamped the black horse under him, and lifted the standard saber horizontally, turning into a blade to kill the past, behind him, the two hundred cavalry finally rushed over, condensed together, and fiercely attacked the side of the scattered horse thief group.
The winter wind in the wasteland rose again, but it couldn't blow the hair in front of his forehead, because the hair had been soaked in the blood of the horse thief, and at this time, the sticky cold and thick paste were tangled together, just like Xu Chen's tangled mood at this time.
The camp was a mess, and there were already a few gaps in the car formation. The horse thieves temporarily retreated, but before the retreat, the wave of abandoned horse and foot attack still brought great harm to the camp, and the camp was full of bloodied and dying people's soldiers with numb and dying eyes.
The situation of the horse thieves was not much better, and at the edge of the low-lying ground not far from the camp, many horses with broken hooves were lying on the cold ground and dying, swaying their heavy heads from time to time, and under or beside the horses, there were many corpses of horse thieves who had no temperature.
However, all the wounded soldiers of the horse thieves were brought back by their companions, and it can be seen from this that although the horse thieves suffered heavy losses, they still did not break down, and they still had the ability and spirit to attack again.
Xu Chen raised his arm to wipe away the blood that was slowly dripping between his eyebrows, and glanced back at the northwest direction of the camp, where the cavalry was fighting with a horse thief and gradually moving away, he couldn't help but shake his head.
In the impression of the Central Plains people, the horse thief on the grassland is the most murderous existence in the world, but he has dealt with the horse thief for many years, but he thinks that the horse thief is the most cowardly and useless existence in the world. Cruelty is just a cover for inner weakness.
At this time, the six hundred horse thieves around the meadow became ferocious, daring to directly slaughter the direct tribes of the royal court, and when they were timid, a team of Han soldiers could chase their butts and run, the key was strength, and the horse thief was a realistic creature that was the most sensitive to the difference in strength, so it was the easiest to disperse.