Chapter 125: Gears of War
The battle between the Northwest Light Cavalry and the Desert Cavalry gradually evolved from the initial street hedge between the two cavalry to the pursuit of the Gang Alley.
Due to the existence of Chu Yujia, the desert cavalry has been a weak party from the beginning.
A master of a small Martial Saint realm, in this kind of battle where the two sides together were only fifteen hundred, it was quite terrifying.
Not to mention anything else, let's just say that Zhang Wutao, who was disabled by Chu Yujia before, is just a third-grade small grandmaster realm, so people can respect him as a general who can take the head of a thousand armies, so Chu Yujia, a character who is two realms higher than him, isn't it inappropriate?
It would be an exaggeration to say that it is inappropriate.
The main reason why Zhang Wutao is so highly praised is because he is from Shuiyue Villa, and in the Qi Kingdom, where the top masters are obviously withering, such a person is already an immortal genius.
Having said that, with only more than 1,000 people dispatched, there was really nothing he could do about Chu Yujia, if he was in a street battle, he would really be able to kill all these more than 1,000 people.
Of course, if it were his master Wang Yuanqing, these thousand people would be together, but it would be a matter of flying with a thousand swords.
Otherwise, how could Wang Yuanqing say that there is nothing in the world that cannot be solved with a sword?
After Chu Yujia dealt with the hundreds of desert cavalry in front of him who were entangled with him, he had already joined the battle group.
He also wanted to settle the battle as soon as possible, otherwise he wouldn't mind letting these Northwest Light Cavalry find out what it was like to be in the Northwest three years ago.
It's just that now the situation is urgent, he has solved this place, and he must rush to the next place as quickly as possible, because this time, the number of desert tribes entering Shuiyun County in Ye Country is quite large, at least tens of thousands, in order to reduce the poison of the people, he can only use the fastest speed to move around the place.
After completely breaking up this group of desert cavalry, Chu Yujia did not stop, and turned on his horse to lead the pursuit of less than three hundred soldiers under his command.
The rest of the people looked at each other, because Chu Yujia asked his soldiers to put away the military flag after the last battle for the sake of speed and so that the other party could not detect his existence, so these people did not know the origin of these soldiers.
The old village chief walked out of the crowd and walked to a soldier who was injured and could not continue the battle, so he stayed to gather his war horse and wait for the follow-up troops, and asked, "Dare to ask the little general, which army are you?"
He just felt that this army was very familiar in terms of temperament and behavior, but for a while he couldn't be sure whether it was the team he had in mind, so he asked.
The soldier's arm was wounded, and although he was not disabled, he did not want to continue to fight in the rest of the battle.
Even if the non-commissioned officers in the Northwest Army are iron-blooded, they are strictly forbidden to go to the battlefield, because if they go up, it is undoubtedly better to stay where they are and wait for reinforcements.
Moreover, at the suggestion of Meng Feihang, in order to avoid the phenomenon of casualties caused by the lack of timely treatment for injuries, each centurion now has ten to fifteen 'first-aid kits' that have been equipped, which contain drugs to stop bleeding and pain, as well as thin ones for bandaging, and each first-aid kit can be used by three to five people.
In this way, if a soldier is injured and can no longer fight, the centurion will immediately untie the first-aid kit and throw it to the private, let him simply bandage himself, and then wait for the follow-up troops to support.
It's just that the cost of this kind of first-aid kit is very expensive, and Chu Yujia got it from Zhao Kuan, but despite this, Zhao Kuan only gave the silver to make more than 2,000 first-aid kits, and Chu Yujia could only make a few hundred more out of his own pocket, which barely guaranteed that there were ten centurions among the three thousand light horses.
The soldier's wounds had been bandaged, his arms were hanging from his chest, and when he saw the village chief asking, he smiled and said, "We belong to the Northwest Army. ”
"Northwest Army?"
Although he had known in his heart that this unit was probably the Northwest Army, he was still taken aback when he heard him say it.
The village chief asked with some hesitation, "But General Chu is back?"
Knowing what he meant, the soldier said: "It's the general of Chu, yes, but he is no longer a hussar general, but a lieutenant general, Ding Xibo, that is, the son of the hussar general, General Xiao Chu." ”
As soon as he heard this, the village chief was relieved, and hurriedly called to the villagers, helped the wounded soldiers to treat their wounds, and helped them gather their horses and supplies.
This trip out, Chu Yujia strictly demanded that the things robbed by the common people should be returned, but the horses, knives and guns of the desert cavalry, and even the iron tools on their bodies must be left, of course, valuable things must also be left, either distributed to the people, or left by themselves.
The current Chu Yujia is short of money.
In fact, during this period of time, in addition to the first-aid kit project, Chu Yujia has done a lot of out-of-pocket things, and the biggest expense is Meng Feihang's so-called research.
The money for recruiting craftsmen was basically paid by himself, and he didn't report this matter to Zhao Kuan at all.
Because of this, he was not less defeated by Gong Limo, but he couldn't, the money was taken out, what else could he do, fortunately, after the last war, King Ye Zhao Yan gave a lot of rewards.
And he went to the capital of Qi for a while, and the more than 2,000 horses that followed him were full of money.
According to the rules, the soldiers had to hand over three-tenths of the way, and the rest was their own, Chu Yujia gave half of them to Ye Bian, and the rest remained in the army.
But during this time, Chu Yujia arranged a lot of things behind his back, most of the money had been dispersed, and Zhuang Jiade, who was in charge of the internal affairs of the army, had already told Chu Yujia more than once that the Northwest Army was about to run out of money.
However, Chu Yujia didn't care about this, because after he told Meng Feihang, Meng Feihang told him that if he was there, don't worry about the silver.
Chu Yujia also really believed in his evil.
It didn't take long for the two thousand five hundred cavalry led by Yan Tianrui to arrive.
Although the Northwest Army seems to have sloppy military discipline on weekdays, and even Yan Tianrui, the generals in the army, show a ruffian appearance, but they all learned from Chu Yujia, in wartime, this army is a huge war machine, and after the gears are turned, they are all rotated.
In the village, Yan Tianrui did not hesitate, and asked the soldiers under his tent to collect the war horses and iron weapons and other trophies, and sent a special person to escort them to the rear, and sent them to Zhuang Jiade, and then sent to check the number of fallen soldiers, and then counted three hundred horsemen in the queue, and went to chase Chu Yujia's team according to the marks left along the way.
Because their number is even much smaller than that of the desert tribes, but they are not without advantages, such as geographical advantages and people, of course, the most important point is that these desert cavalry like to disperse and fight, which also gives Chu Yujia the opportunity to break through one by one.
The team led by Chu Yujia is like an arrow shot out, and the two thousand five hundred and seven led by Yan Tianrui are arrows in the quiver, which are quickly replenished after the arrows are shot, and a certain amount of wealth is also given, so that the tired soldiers in Chu Yujia's team can be replaced and rest for a while.
In this way, although Chu Yujia has always led five hundred cavalry, they are actually five hundred cavalry with full combat power, so that the soldiers can be trained to find the feeling of fighting back then, and at the same time, they can always maintain extremely strong combat power.
And one of the most important things is that they fought all the way, and Yan Tianrui was collecting war horses all the way.
After the war horse was sent to Zhuang Jiade, Zhuang Jiade would select those who were veterans of the Northwest Army from the infantry army, and let them change to war horses to catch up with Yan Tianrui's team, so that Yan Tianrui's team became stronger and stronger.
This is actually a very significant advantage, and it is also the advantage that Chu Qianwen left to Chu Yujia back then.
The infantry troops in the Northwest Army were also proficient in horsemanship, although they were not as skilled as the cavalry included in the light cavalry, and were good at riding and shooting, but at least they were better than ordinary cavalry, because they were good at riding and shooting, and were better at hand-to-hand combat.
The gears of war have turned, and the Northwest Army is the indestructible spear that keeps moving forward.
At this time, it was dark, and even the light cavalry led by Chu Yujia had to slow down, which also allowed the three hundred cavalry who had caught up from behind to catch up with them.
Chu Yujia immediately did not hesitate, and let the two unformed queues that had been beaten stay together to rest, and the remaining five hundred horsemen continued to set off after a short period of repair.
This is an advantage that Chu Yujia must grasp, that is, to take advantage of the fact that the enemy army cannot be converted, to destroy the enemy army one by one, if the enemy army once formed a scale and launched a hedge on the plain with his own side, then it would be a great disadvantage for his own side.
Qi Zhong and Zuo Jinkai have been following Chu Yujia since the battle, and when they saw Chu Yujia's posture as if they were not dying, they couldn't help but secretly speak.
Although his soldiers worked hard, they could at least get a chance to rest, but Chu Yujia was completely sleepless, and even when he was eating, he was spilling scouts to probe everywhere.
Now in this team, the person in charge of reporting is the fifty-five people led by Qi Chong, and five of these fifty-five people are Chu Yujia's senior brothers, so it is just appropriate for them to be scouts, their combat power is higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and their reactions are faster than ordinary soldiers.
When he was about to arrive in the southern part of Shuiyun County, Chu Yujia asked Qi Zhong beside him, "How is the scout there?"
Qi Zhong has become more and more stable since he entered the army, and when he heard Chu Yujia's question, he immediately intervened: "The five groups of scouts have all been scattered, the farthest of which is ten miles away from us, and the closer ones are two or three miles away, if there is news, they will definitely come back as soon as possible to report it." ”
"That's fine. ”
Chu Yujia nodded, and then looked up at the sky, and it happened that a dark cloud was drifting in, covering the moonlight.
The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the night of murder is ......
The corners of Chu Yujia's mouth raised high: "As far as I know, the desert cavalry will not march at night, they will find a place to rest, maybe we can touch their large army this time......"