07.2 million rode back to the south
Nearly 10,000 cattle, horses and animals in the pasture are gathered here, and the abundance of heavy grain and grass can be imagined. Moreover, the horse material is more dry, and there is no need for grease and other combustible materials, and once it is caused by a fire, the fire will rise to the sky.
Shen Mu and the others galloped around this huge camp, throwing the fire in all directions, although they were slightly blocked on the way, but it was just some hard labor that woke up in a dream and panicked, and they scattered as soon as they rushed, and they were not troubled at all.
Before long, the entire baggage camp was covered in raging fire, and thick smoke billowed up, forcing the people back for miles. At this time, Shen Mu and the others were already sleepy and lacking horses, especially many war horses were even out of strength and fell to the ground.
They rushed here, and although it was only a dozen miles, nearly half of them were overloaded with men and horses. If it weren't for Shen Mu's quick decision, he would have ordered to unload his armor halfway, but I was afraid that there would be no chance to rush in at all.
At this time, the fire was already booming, and the signal for the attack of the agreed departments had been released, but Shen Mu and the others had not completely turned safe. The barracks of the Karma Slave that they had broken through earlier was only one of the forts on the left. According to the information transmitted by Liu Di, there are at least three forts near here, and the garrisons range from hundreds to more than thousand.
"Abandon the horses, pick up the ordnance in the camp, and attack a stable camp near the shore first."
At this point, the manpower may still be able to hold on with willpower, but the horsepower is no longer available. Fortunately, he has rushed into the interior of the ranch now, and the most important thing in the left is the war horse.
After some rushing and killing, there were only more than 400 armored knights left who were still gathered around Shen Mu at this time, and most of the armor was discarded, and there were even more people who were already bare-chested and clean. If they abandon the horse again at this time, then they will really gamble on their wealth this time. Fortunately, the most dangerous time has passed, and the horses around him are roaring, and it is already chaotic to the extreme.
"It's a pity, if these materials can be transported back to Huainan......"
Looking at the heavy camp in the smoke of the fire, Shen Mu's eyes were full of regret and couldn't hide it, which could be described as extremely heart-wrenching. But it was too late to make more regrets, and dozens of slave cavalry had already rushed towards them under the organization of the commander of the army, and as for Ying Dan and other successors, they no longer knew where they were rushing in the turmoil.
At this time, the horsepower was exhausted, the people were exhausted, and more importantly, there was no armor and equipment. At present, if Shen Mu and the others are almost ready to be slaughtered, if they are rushed up by the slave soldiers, they will almost only be slaughtered. Fortunately, at this time, everyone had dismounted, and immediately made a decision, and a knife cut the horse's buttocks, and those without a knife directly ignited the horse's tail with fire. Hundreds of horses neighed and rushed forward, and immediately scattered the dozens of slave soldiers.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shen Mu and the others had already rushed into the nearby camp tent, and soon found a barracks where the ordnance was stored. When they came out of the camp again, they had already prepared bows, swords, and light armor, and fought and retreated with the slaves who rushed to hear the news.
At this time, the slave camp was already in chaos, and there were shouts and fights everywhere. When Shen Mu and his party rushed out of the area covered by the firelight, and when they reached the slightly darker place of the light, more than 100 slave soldiers rushed on the flanks.
The slave soldiers who had fought with Shen Mu and the others before should even split a part of the counterattack. Seeing this, Shen Mu and the others were even more confused, and simply joined forces with one of the teams to kill the other, and soon they couldn't tell who was who.
There were slave generals on the side who beat drums and gathered the crowd, and in the end, they simply ordered their respective commanders to restrain the soldiers, and each chose a direction to retreat in a hurry. And Shen Mu did not go deeper into the slave camp, but led the crowd straight to a stable camp, and ordered the soldiers to grab a nearby war horse and turn over. Because it was too fast, and the saddle in the stable was insufficient, there was no shortage of soldiers riding on the bare back of the war horse, and there were many inconveniences in driving.
At this time, Shen Mu saw that although a soldier was riding a naked horse, he seemed to be glued to the horse's back and was unusually stable, and he couldn't help but praise loudly, and the soldier even grinned and muttered nonsense. Shen Mu looked at it again, and when he waved his knife and slashed it away, he scolded: "Hu'er, who is an animal, dares to pretend to be a strong man of my Jinren!" ”
The Hu pawn was somehow coerced here, when he found that the left and near were all different, he was already frightened in his heart, and he didn't dare to speak out at all, and he was coerced all the way to this, but he was not found, and he was still rejoicing, and he was cut off the horse with a knife!
"Check your own points left and right, and if there are still slaves, kill them immediately!"
Shen Mu only had time to roughly count the soldiers at this time, and only then did he find that there was a fight, and the number of people was actually quite large, which showed how chaotic it was. At this time, there was a shout, and the left and near clubs all looked around, and there was no shortage of voices among the Hu Lu, and when they were still in doubt, they had all been cut off the horse. Although the slaves understood, they didn't have time to fight back and escape, and there were knives on the left.
After a purge of the purge the number of people decreased by a third. Shen Mu didn't have much joy at the moment, his department was already like this, it was conceivable that many armored knights should have been taken away by the slaves, and their life and death were uncertain.
However, at this moment, it was too late to think about these anymore, Shen Mu gritted his teeth, waved his hand and led the crowd to rush to and fro. At this moment, his task had been completed, and it was not his task to take advantage of the chaos to capture the horses and drive them south. Running back and forth at the moment is not to collect the equipment that was discarded earlier, and there is no need to count on it, it is the task of Yingsheng.
What Shen Mu was worried about was Liu Meng's life and death. He had nothing to do now, and the matter immediately tugged at his heartstrings. Liu Meng is a sincere old man in his family, and his kindness is even worse than that of some distant tribesmen, and even Shen Mu's bow and horse skills are taught by Liu Meng, if he doesn't care about the status of master and servant, he is still half of his master. Now that he doesn't know life and death, Shen Mu really can't let go, so he takes advantage of the chaos to go and search, so as to see people in life and corpses in death.
The whole ranch is dozens of miles in radius, from the city father to the nearby Zhuyi. At this time, with the heavy camp on the bank of Zhangshui as the center, turmoil broke out violently. After the fire signal was issued, as a large number of garrison slaves returned to defend and suppress it, the various rangers of the Huainan Army, who were originally scattered in Siye as a lure teacher, also rushed out one after another and went straight to the heart of the pasture to kill.
This time, it's really an out-and-out feast. Before leaving, the horses even had an order, and half of the war horses listed by each ministry were handed over, and half were returned to the department. In other words, if any one can hunt thousands of war horses, it will be able to accumulate merit and promotion, expand the public, and directly reach the position of being tied with Han Huang and other generals!
But there was only one thing that was not beautiful, and that was that the time was too short, and the time of their attack was to be counted from the time of the fire, and within half an hour, whatever they had gained, they had to withdraw from the pasture and move south. If it is overtime, there is no reward for the merit!
Because of this, the cavalry of all walks of life rushed forward desperately. Originally, on the periphery of the ranch, there were still some slave soldiers in the fort, and when they saw the coming attack, they naturally sent troops to stop it. Some of the slave soldiers had not yet been dispatched, and the Huainan army rangers were already whistling outside the fort. Some of them set up the fence to resist horses, but the opposite side seemed to be crazy, and they rushed directly with their horses, and there was no shortage of soldiers and horses who were knocked away, and the front line was instantly crushed!
When all the departments were competing for hunting skills, Xiao Yuandong's hundreds of horsemen could only be at the edge of a forest outside the pasture, and when he heard the neighing of people and horses in the four fields around him, Xiao Yuandong could be said to be burning. His subordinates stayed here to pick up Liu Di. But at present, Liu Di has not come out for a long time, but the various departments have begun to move, and there are even rangers driving a large group of horses to gallop towards the south retreat.
Although it was already stated when the horse explained this order, his merit did not lie in the number of horses hunted, but in introducing Liu Di to gain insight into the reality of the enemy camp, which was a great achievement in any case. But at the moment, all the subordinates are coaxing for war exploits, but he is independent, and his mood is really unstable.
The scouts visited several times to no avail, Xiao Yuandong really couldn't hold back, and when he ordered the soldiers to get on the horse, he rushed in the direction of the previous joint, ready to fight into it to find Liu Di. However, halfway through the run, there was a sudden earth shaking in front of me, as if there were thousands of horses galloping!
Xiao Yuandong's heart sank, when he led the crowd to rush up to the nearby high slope, with a little glimmer of light between heaven and earth, he soon saw a huge herd of horses rushing from the opposite side, and he couldn't see the edge at a glance.
"General Xiao! General Xiao Yuandong can be found in ......"
A shout in the night came from far and near, Xiao Yuandong immediately ordered someone to sound the gong as a trumpet, and not long after, more than a dozen horsemen rushed up the high slope, it was Liu Di and others who Xiao Yuandong couldn't wait for. And not far behind Liu Dima, on the other horse, there was a fat Hu man. Seeing this, Xiao Yuandong subconsciously wanted to shoot, so he heard Liu Di shouting: "General An, this is his own person!" ”
"Erlang, are these all the war horses you hunted?"
Seeing the herd of horses whizzing by under the slope, Xiao Yuandong couldn't help but widen his eyes.
Liu Di took He Laimiao's horse reins and walked along, and said with a smile: "This is all thanks to the strength of my brother, although my brother is a bearded body, but he has long admired Huaxia, committed to the slave camp Xiao Ren Ma Cheng, and now he has abandoned the evil and turned to the right, and donated 200 servants and more than 3,000 war horses under the stable, in order to dedicate the king to the master and help the horse to kill the slave!" ”
"More than 3,000 horses ......"
When Xiao Yuandong heard this number, his eyes couldn't help but widen. This time they raided, the time was in a hurry, and each person was either holding two or three, or driving hundreds, which was already the limit of manpower. But I didn't expect this short and fat bearded man and horse Cheng to come to vote, drive the horse with the servant, and the horses will not disperse, if they can really drive back to the town, it is really a great miracle!
They had already met with each other, and there was no time to greet each other at the moment, so the group joined forces and galloped south together.
In order to prepare for this battle, Shen Zhezi's preparation was also great, and he directly sank a boat to split wood and iron cables across the river at the whirlpool gulf stream dozens of miles away from the city father, and built a temporary pontoon bridge. To the south of the pontoon bridge is the retreat route from the south to the Huai, and to the north of the pontoon bridge, he personally led 3,000 troops to form a military chariot battle formation to respond. At the same time, the navy also went up the whirlpool, receiving the scattered soldiers along the way.
It wasn't until the morning light was faint that the faint sound of horses' hooves sounded in the distance, and this sound was like a signal, and suddenly it grew stronger.
"Looks like you've already got it!"
Hearing this voice, Lu Yong, who led his troops to the north to respond, was already happy, his mood became relaxed, and he turned to Shen Zhezi and said with a smile: "The horse can't take credit, no matter how shocking the world, I don't know how many horses the horse can estimate this time?" ”
"I'm overjoyed to have two thousand."
When Shen Zhezi heard this, he said with a smile, although the newspaper said that there were tens of thousands of horses gathered here, but the raid and hunting were already turbulent, and if he came south in a hurry, there would be a lot of losses, so he didn't dare to make too high hopes. The most important thing is to be able to break through this large camp, so that those cattle, horses and animal power can be scattered in the field again, and the slave soldiers will undoubtedly be twice as difficult as if they want to collect it.
As he spoke, the first ranger had returned, it was Xie Yi's department, he was too lucky this time, he went straight to the empty door, there was no obstruction, and the retreat was early, hundreds of people hugged the horses several times, all the way to transfer, and arrived first.
"Fortunately, I didn't disgrace ......"
Xie Yi stepped forward panting, Shen Zhezi was already full of relief, and waved his hand and said, "Quickly cross the bridge and rest!" ”
With a good start, the next division of troops returned one after another, each with a catch, more than hundreds, less than hundreds, none of them went empty. The current income alone has exceeded Shen Zhezi's expectations, reaching nearly three thousand war horses!
By the time thousands of horses galloped along the last road, the harvest had doubled! Whether it is Lu Yong or Shen Zhezi, their faces are already full of joy, and it is difficult to restrain them.
"There could have been more, but his subordinates were greedy for merit, and they were appeased and scattered along the way, but they were embellished by the slave army, and they had no choice but to abandon a little bit and divide their people."
Xiao Yuandong, who arrived at the end, had a lot of shame on his face, and said with a lot of worry: "The slave army is Shi Cong and his troops are here, and there are more than 5,000 people......"