Chapter Twenty-Four: The Night Banquet

The knights of Donghu galloped in a large circle, and Bayan stood at one end of the circle. The galloping knight took advantage of the speed of his horse and easily sent the arrow in his hand three hundred paces away. And most of them were tied to the bundled arrow targets, which made Yun Xiao very surprised.

The tactics used by the Arab knights in later generations were actually studied by the Donghu people without a teacher. But it's reasonable to think about it, the appearance of stirrups freed the knight's hands. And the requirements for riding skills are also greatly reduced, when there were no stirrups before. Controlling a horse is a difficult thing to do, and you want to attack the enemy with both hands free. It was an extremely dangerous thing to do, and the requirements for knights were very high. I haven't been on horseback for more than ten or twenty years, don't even think about it.

"Huh! Master Hou, this is a trick that children have researched. Last year, I fought against a rebellious tribe and used it well. The child dared to sacrifice ugliness, and the marquis smiled. Batu stroked his curly beard with pride. It seems that this old guy is not as simple as he said to be ugly. There was no lack of ostentation in the words, and it seemed that the battle must have been a great victory.

"This formation makes the most of the horse's speed and reduces the chance of enemy arrows hitting while running. However, this method of warfare is not very effective against cavalry, and it is estimated that the tribe is also dominated by foot soldiers. Yun Xiao smiled and pointed out the shortcomings of this formation, or rather, this is a cavalry move against infantry.

Saladin used this method of warfare against the Knights of Jerusalem, and the heavy cavalry and heavy infantry of Europe suffered enough in the face of this highly mobile method of warfare. However, this method of warfare against the Hun cavalry is estimated to have no good effect. If it is used to deal with the Han foot soldiers, it is a very good way.

Could it be that Lao Batu is also playing a ...... The idea? Yun Xiao glanced at Lao Batu and suddenly pondered.

"The old slave really admires Master Hou, this kind of arrow array is really not good for cavalry. In that battle, the enemy was also dominated by foot soldiers, and the Hou Ye expected things to be admired and admired by the old slave...... Belch! Batu was shocked. Stretch out your hand to push the clouds on the horse.

"Poof!" An arrow pierced Batuu's arm impartially, if it hadn't been for Batu's push Yun Xiao away. I am afraid that this arrow will shoot into Yun Xiao's back, and Yun Xiao is only wearing a brocade robe at this time. There is not even a piece of iron on his body, if he is shot by this arrow. It's no wonder if you don't get shot through the cold, Batu grows freely in the grassland. Although old, he is extremely sensitive to the sound of the bowstring. I could hear the sound of the bowstring. Push the clouds now. So that Yun Xiao escaped this catastrophe.

"In the trees over there," Batu said, ignoring the arrow wound in his arm. With a trembling hand, his elite guards rushed over like a wind. The arrows flew like locusts to the canopy, and the arrows shot by the boxwood bow at a distance of more than 100 paces fell to the ground. Of course, in the forks of the branches, there was a guy who had been hit by several arrows.

"Don't shoot arrows!" Balin was visibly late, and when he got under the tree, all he saw was a dying guy with blood bubbles in his mouth.

"Fuck! Who let you shoot arrows! Annoyed, Balin whipped his whip and slashed at the guards.

"Who are you? Who told you to do it? How many other accomplices do you have? Barin yelled and picked up the lying guy and asked, but all he answered was that he opened his mouth and gushed blood. Finished. This guy has severe internal bleeding, and it is estimated that he will only have less than a minute to live at most.

Sure enough, the guy's legs began to twitch unconsciously. Then his eyes widened, and his neck tilted to the side.

Bahrain was sprayed with blood all over his body, and saw that this guy was dead. Annoyed, he stood up and kicked a few times, feeling puzzled and hateful, and immediately drew his saber. Cutting at the corpse, a relatively intact corpse, after a while, the flesh and blood were blurred.

Yun Xiao looked at the corpse that had been chopped into eighteen pieces and was speechless. This thing is tall and big, and it is quite a father's legacy. But this thick line seems to be thicker than Batuu.

Searching for people with corpses. This is a commonly used method. Now that this guy has been harmed like this by you, I'm afraid he doesn't even recognize his mother. If it weren't for Yun Xiao's deep knowledge of the Batu family, he would even suspect that it was the assassination they directed.

The guards surrounded Yunxiao like an iron bucket, and with Yunxiao as the center of the circle, the shield stood like a wall. With the assassination of Little Bear, the Iron Guards have fully learned their lesson. Now their shields are much larger than others.

"Everyone stopped the drill and stood by the spot. Inspectors of various ministries. Qi Tie took someone to search for me. This guy definitely has accomplices, and he dug three feet into the ground and searched for Lao Tzu. Yun Xiao ordered with a cold face, just ambushing an archer. This is not scientific, since the enemy wants to assassinate himself. Categorically not just one person will be arranged.

Qi Tie received the order and immediately led the iron guards to search along this valley. You can search back and forth until it is dark. Not even a rabbit was found.

Yun Xiao was wrong, this was an assassination arranged by Suoerhan Chira. He used the best archery among the fifty people under his command. Knowing that Yun Xiao was going to inspect the Donghu Forbidden Army, Suoerhan Chira immediately asked someone to inquire about the location of the school.

A team of tens of thousands, this is something that cannot be kept secret. Suorkhan Chira came to the valley of the school overnight, and after some observation, he chose this big tree. I didn't expect him to be covered, if it weren't for the reaction that Batu had cultivated over the years. Maybe he'll get his hands on it.

Zoerhan Chira had already fled with his men, and he knew that whether this time was successful or not. Zhangye City will be the whole city, as an outsider. Many of his subordinates only spoke Xiongnu, and if they were discovered, there was only one way to die. As for the condor archer, it was just a dead man. If he succeeds, he will be a hero of the Huns. If it fails, it is to be expected. He is like a chess piece, a character who can be sacrificed at any time.

"Check it out to the palace immediately, but I can't find out why. You don't have to come back. Yin Yin's voice trembled eagerly. The sweetheart almost hung on his ground, and Yin Yin's face was extremely ugly. What's even more ugly is Yun Ao, Daddy finally came to see him. As a result, in just two days, he was almost shot to death.

The most ugly face was the commander of the forbidden army, who had already greeted the women of the assassin's family thousands of times in his heart at this moment.

"No! And then he will go and find out. The commander of the forbidden army ran out with a crawl, and it seemed that Zhang Yecheng was destined to jump tonight.

Watching the commander of the forbidden army walk out, Yun Xiao took a sip of tea and said, "He can't find anything." ”

"Why?" Yun Ao asked in surprise.

"It was the Huns who attacked the fathers." Yun Xiao took a sip of tea and said lightly.

"The Huns? How does my father know? Yun Ao was even more surprised, the corpse had already been eaten by the rampaging Bahrain. How did my father know? Could it be that as Batu said, his father is a fairy?

"The stirrup has been transmitted to Donghu for nearly ten years. And the Huns only learned to make this thing in the last two years, and this person has calluses on the inside of his legs. Apparently a frequent horseback rider, but his legs are not loopy. It proves that when he rode a horse, he did not have stirrups on his feet.

Riding horses from a young age without using stirrups. Besides, his hair is not the hair of the people of the Western Regions, all kinds of signs prove it. He is a Hun and is estimated to be a Hun spy. Knowing that I was coming, I was trying my luck. They almost succeeded, if it weren't for Batu. I'm afraid I'm going to lie in bed now and explain what happened! ”

Yun Xiao leaned back in the chair and smiled bitterly, the arrow on Lao Batu's arm had been removed. Yun Xiao sniffed carefully, but fortunately there was no fishy smell. It seems that the Huns prepared too hastily, and they did not even have special equipment for assassination, such as poisoned arrows. Otherwise, in this era of lack of antibiotics, Lao Batu is estimated to be finished after receiving this arrow.

"Today is a lucky day, prepare some wine banquets for our family to celebrate." Yun Xiao smiled at Yin Yin.

Hearing that Yun Xiao was assassinated, Yin Yin was frightened. Knowing that Yun Xiao was fine, he hurriedly sent his own guards to lead it. took her most trusted guards to escort Yun Xiao back to the city outside Zhangye City.

The Yun family's guards had already surrounded the palace three layers inside and three layers outside, and even because of the defense rights of this hall, they almost drew their swords against Yin Yin's head of the guards.

The atmosphere in Zhangye City, especially in this palace, was too tense. When people are nervous, they are prone to nervousness. I need a feast to relieve my nerves. Otherwise, the Yun family guards and these Donghu guards are not subordinate to each other. Coupled with the language barrier, it is easy to make trouble.

Zhangyecheng seemed to be calm, but in fact because of the assassination incident in the afternoon. has become unprecedentedly nervous, if someone secretly provokes underneath. It is easy to cause a monstrous disaster, and Yun Xiao wants to use a feast to dilute this tension and make everyone's mentality calmer.

The main hall sings and dances lightly, and the cups are staggered. Outside the main hall, there are many guards. One layer of Yun family guards, one layer of Donghu guards. Every dish has been tested repeatedly. Directly caused Yun Xiao to find that the amount of dishes tonight was obviously less.

"Yin, tell all your guards to withdraw and go to sleep. Qi Tie, let those boys also withdraw. Tonight is a feast of singing and dancing, if Ben Hou guessed correctly. The Huns must have fled far away, so there is no need to make such a noise. ”

Seeing that the tension was still there, Yun Xiao said to Yin Yin beside him.

There was a loud sound of iron armor outside the door. Obviously, the guards were retreating, and the atmosphere of the banquet eased a little.

"Batuu, tell me about it. What is the combat strength of the Huns over the years, and how is it stronger or weaker than that of Donghulai? Yun Xiao toasted Lao Batu with a wine glass and asked casually.

"The Huns, in recent years, have learned how to use stirrups. I don't even know where I learned the technique of making crossbow arrows from the Han family. However, they did not have a wire rope, and they could not build long-range weapons such as the iron-tired crossbow and boxwood bow. (To be continued......)