"Childe, the other party really transferred the army and left." The scout general, who was instructed to keep an eye on the other party's situation at all times, pushed open the door of the military tent with an excited face and came to report. This made Hararuo, who had just fallen asleep, suddenly come out of the bed.

"Take me out and have a look." As soon as he fell asleep, Hara Ruochu dreamed that he had rushed across the West River, repelled the mercenaries, and approached the city of Shicheng. Who would have thought that dreams would come true so quickly?

He followed the scout general to the West River, and saw the scene of the enemy torch team leaving constantly. Although the number of torches was not large, the rest of the movement was very frequent, and in a short time, four or five groups of torch squads had already been seen leaving the barracks.

Hararuo, who had made a rough calculation in his heart, had a meaningful smile on his face. "These mercenaries are very cautious, but they think that I will not be able to detect your movements without leaving on a large scale? Hum! You underestimate the heroes of the world. ”

Seeing that this was the mercenary army using the departure of a small force to cover up the retreat of the large army, Hara Ruochu was even more firm in the fact that the other party had sent troops to aid Nanlin. Having made up his mind in his heart, Hara Ruo said to the scout general beside him: "Pass my general's order, the soldiers will get up on the fourth watch, eat on the fifth watch, and then cross the river with the whole army." This time we must be the first army to attack under the First Castle. ”

"Childe is wise." The scout with the same idea did not forget to pat himself on the back. This drew even more laughter.

He returned to the tent, but Hara Ruo was not sleepy anymore, so he sat down and looked forward to the dawn.

After a long time, the sky finally slowly brightened, and when there was still a morning mist on the West River, and it was impossible to see the real situation on the other side, the five thousand Tatar horsemen had already eaten breakfast, boarded the raft that had been prepared long ago, and crossed the river.

Maybe it's because of the river fog, or maybe the other party really withdrew its troops. Five thousand Tatar cavalry came to the other side of the West River without the slightest hindrance. As soon as he entered this place, Hara Ruo announced loudly the order to attack, and he wanted to launch a surprise attack while the other party was not ready, and achieve the result of victory.

As soon as the order was given, 5,000 Tatar cavalrymen mounted their horses and waved their swords, and rushed straight at the mercenary battalion three miles away. The shouts were already heard from a long distance, and they were swept by the wind.

What is a little surprising is that under such shouting, there is no movement at all in the military camp opposite, which is very unreasonable. Or panic, or out of the camp to face the battle, there must always be a rule, such a sense of ignorance is really a bit weird.

Rushing through the ranks, Hararuo's expression was full of doubts, but soon a thought came to his mind, that is, the mercenaries must have escaped by the darkness of last night. Maybe he knew that Nanlin couldn't hold it, and they had retreated to Shicheng, if this was the case, then he would take the army and rush straight to Shicheng, and the first credit should be his own.

"Hahaha." Thinking of the result, Hara burst out laughing, and his five thousand Tatar cavalry had already rushed to the front of the camp. Sure enough, there was still no movement, and it seemed that no one was inside. Many Tatar cavalrymen who were originally nervous also showed a relaxed look on their faces at this moment.

"Search to see if there's anything of value left." In any case, it was also an abandoned military camp, and the military tent left behind was worth some silver taels, and a Tatar cavalryman dismounted and rushed to the military tent with fierce eyes.

There are also some Tatar cavalry who took the initiative to start the alert mission, and it has to be said that the elite is the elite, and even if a big victory is imminent, they can maintain a formation without panic. And it was these people who obeyed the rules of war that allowed them to escape, but it was the Tatar cavalry who were desperate for the spoils of war, and the moment they stormed into the green tent, the Grim Reaper had already locked on them.

"Boom!"

Without warning, a loud explosion suddenly sounded in a military tent, and a Tatar cavalryman who had burrowed into the tent and five cavalrymen standing outside the tent were immediately sent into the sky with the powerful force of the explosion.

And that's just the beginning. Like a chain reaction, like dominoes that have been pushed down, the explosions are one after another at this moment, one after another, and the nearby military tent also began to explode continuously at this moment. But all those who had passed into the tent, those who had not entered but had already walked in front of the tent, and some Tatar cavalrymen who were staring at the tent and were very close to it, were now targeted, and in the constant sound of explosions, the people were swallowed up and plunged into a sea of fire.

"What's going on?" The continuous explosions shattered Hararuo's eardrums, but as the commander-in-chief, he still did not forget to shout loudly. Although his voice was nothing in the face of the powerful explosion, and no one could hear or hear it clearly, he kept shouting loudly.

No one was destined to answer his question, only the continuous explosions and the sudden shouts of killing around him.

At the moment of the explosion, a cavalry force of more than 5,000 people had surrounded the vicinity, and muskets appeared in the hands of these cavalry warriors, who were the main force of the independent regiment that had retreated here and then returned.

Except for the two musket battalions left in Nanlin, the remaining fourteen independent battalions were all gathered here, and the moment the arranged mines were detonated, they rushed out as planned, and quickly surrounded the Tatar cavalry who were panicked and in a chaotic formation.

The greatest damage of the explosions was not the psychological pressure on the Tatar cavalry, but the deterrence of the horses. Animals are most afraid of fire and powerful sound waves. And the exploding mines seem to occupy both of these points, and the war horses that have not passed through this formation are naturally afraid from the bottom of their hearts, and at this moment they are instinctively neighing, jumping, and even running wildly in the wrong direction, as if only by doing so can their fearful hearts become more relaxed.

The usually obedient war horse, suddenly jumped like crazy, completely disobeyed the order, many unsuspecting Tatar cavalry were thrown under the horse, even some cavalry with good riding skills, at the moment just lying on the horse and not being thrown down, if you want to command the war horse, it is completely impossible.

And it was at this time that the mercenaries appeared. At a distance, the bullets of the muskets whistled, and one after another shot was fired at the uncontrollable and unsuspecting Tatar cavalry, and blood splattered one after another, and one of the cavalrymen was either shot in the chest or in the body, and fell under the legs of their horses or fell directly to the ground, ending their still young lives.

"Enemy attack, counterattack, prepare to counterattack!" The sudden situation in front of him caused Hara Ruochu to short circuit for a short time, and then he seemed to be suddenly awakened and began to shout loudly. But it was only two shouts, and the whole person was thrown off the horse by the crazy war horse. The pain caused him to fall to the ground, and he couldn't make a sound for a long time.

It was not one or two people who had the same experience as Hara Ruode, but at least hundreds of horsemen. The other Tatar cavalry were either thrown out of their horses and wounded, or they still insisted on fighting the horses, or they were killed and wounded by the mercenaries' long-range muskets, and the Tatar cavalry that was really safe and sound, and still maintained a certain combat effectiveness, was less than a thousand horsemen.

But even these thousand horsemen were already frightened, seeing that the army had a sudden change, they pulled out their sabers, but soon saw the number of mercenaries around them, some smart people still obediently put down the saber in their hands, dismounted and surrendered.

Even the commander did not make a sound of resistance, and the other party was holding a repeating musket that could easily take people's lives hundreds of feet away. The morale is not as good as the people, the number is not as good as the people, and the weapons are not as good as the people, how can this battle be fought?

The most precious thing for people is life, surrender can live, resist must die, death is still so worthless, how to make a choice, as long as you are not a fool, of course you should know how to make a choice.

The soldiers of the Separate Regiment of the entire fourteen battalions rushed over like wolves. or holding a bar, or holding a longbow to be angry, and some simply holding a horse rope, approaching step by step with the battalion unit.

In the eyes of these determined-eyed soldiers of the Independent Regiment, there was a murderous aura, but if anyone wanted to continue to resist, they would not mind killing people at all.

It was this momentum that made the Tatar cavalry, who were still thinking about whether to resist, become extremely honest. After all, no one wants to joke with their lives, especially with the surging river behind them, and with no way out, it seems that surrender is the only way to survive.

Constantly advancing, in the process of constantly collecting prisoners, five thousand Tatar cavalry, under the sudden attack of the thunder, completely lost their morale, when the main general Hara Ruo was thrown off by the war horse and knocked out, they became ownerless people, were successfully incorporated by the independent regiment, one by one threw down the saber, jumped off the war horse, and was captured.

Poor Hara Ruochu was tied up when he was still unconscious, and he was betrayed by his subordinates, and became the object of the key "care" of the head of the Humang regiment.

"Deputy Commander Xin, take a good look at these people and bring them all back to Nu City. This person should be taken care of, I am afraid that it may come in handy in the next big war. Pointing to the still sleeping Hara Ruochu, Hu Mang laughed, and then left the West River with ten officers and men of the Independent Regiment, and walked straight in the direction of the northern slope.