Li Hao was looking at the ancient city in a daze, only to see the main gate of the ancient city suddenly sand and dust flying, take a closer look, there was a large number of horse thieves galloping out of the horse, rushing towards them, Li Hao hurriedly shouted: "Withdraw!" ”

The group hurriedly turned around, drove the camel to flee for their lives, the horse thief rode a horse, the speed was naturally faster than the camel, the distance between the two sides continued to shorten, and after chasing seven or eight miles, they were about to catch up with Li Hao and them.

When Li Hao saw the horse thief approaching, he shouted: "Ride and shoot!" After saying that, he took the lead in turning around, raising the crossbow is an arrow, shooting over a horse thief, Lu Yun and the rest of the special forces also turned around to shoot, a wave of crossbow shots actually killed nearly twenty horse thieves, the power of the crossbow arrow is really extraordinary.

The leader of the horse thieves was Yuan Jinliang, he saw Li Hao and their wave of crossbow shooting finished, and thought that this was a good opportunity, because although the crossbow shooting on horseback was more accurate than the bow, the loading speed was slower, so he shouted: "Chase!" ”

However, as soon as the horse thieves urged the horses to come, Li Hao and their second wave of crossbow shooting came again, after all, they used repeating crossbows, they didn't need to load arrows, they just needed to wind them, these special forces have undergone particularly severe strength training, and it is not difficult to wind up on horseback.

The second wave of crossbow shots took away more than 20 horse thieves, and almost shot Yuan Jinliang to death, fortunately he was wearing heart guards, otherwise he would have been shot through the chest a long time ago, Yuan Jinliang was a little confused, he still knew a little about crossbows, but Li Hao's crossbows were beyond the scope of his cognition.

Soon, Li Hao and the others carried out a third wave of crossbow shooting, this time the horse thieves were a little far away, and only shot a dozen people, but the horse thieves were completely suppressed, no one dared to chase too close, and after chasing for a while, Yuan Jinliang suddenly raised his hand and shouted: "Stop!" ”

All the horse thieves stopped, and Yuan Jinliang looked at Li Hao and the others who were away with a gloomy face, gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Count their fate!" Let's go back! ”

"Big brother? Don't chase it? Luo Sanhei was very unhappy, he was about to catch up, why did he give up.

Only Yuan Jinliang knows that they can't catch up, after all, the opponent's crossbow is too powerful, and the enemy rides a camel, and they themselves ride a horse, the horse has an advantage in the first ten miles, but the camel is better than endurance, and when their horses are all lacking, then the enemy is likely to counterattack, and then the enemy can attack with crossbows, retreat and escape, and be completely invincible, even if there are more people on their side, they will be slowly eaten away and die, it is better to retreat as soon as possible and scare them away.

Li Hao fled for more than ten miles, looked back with a telescope, and found that the horse thief had returned to the ancient city of Loulan, so he ordered to turn back, this time he stopped behind the sand dunes eight miles away from the ancient city of Loulan, and secretly observed the ancient city here should not be discovered.

Li Hao crawled on the sand dunes and observed with a telescope for a long time, the sun was already westward, at this time thirty special forces had set up a temporary camp, he came down from the sand dunes, and asked Jin Li: "Jin Shopkeeper, you know more about horse thieves, according to you, how many horse thieves are there in this Loulan City?" ”

Jin Li replied: "My lord, horse thieves are divided into four specifications according to the number of people: large, medium, small, and scattered, if there are less than ten people, it is called a loose horse thief, more than ten people, less than fifty people, it is called a small horse thief gang, more than fifty people, less than two hundred and fifty people, it is called a medium-sized horse thief group, and more than two hundred and fifty people, it is called a large horse thief group. ”

Li Hao frowned and said, "I'm asking you how many people there are, and I also saw the three hundred people just now." ”

Jin Li said unhurriedly: "My lord, no matter how big the horse thief group is, there are generally no more than five hundred people. ”

"Oh?" Li Hao looked at him puzzled, "Why is this?" ”

Jin Li explained: "Although the horse thief gang is stronger and stronger with more people, but the more people, the more mouths to eat, the desert is easy to obtain gold and silver, water and food are difficult to get, if a horse thief group has more than 500 people, eating and drinking will become a big problem." ”

"That makes a lot of sense." Li Hao nodded and groaned, "Although people can create value, they also consume food, and at the same time, although horse thieves have no capital to buy, but money is not blown by the wind, the more people, the more people will share the money." ”

"That's it." Jin Li gave Li Hao a thumbs up.

"Now that you know the enemy's strength, it's easy to do." After Li Hao finished speaking, he walked to the main account, and said as he walked, "Bayonet team alert, flying eagle team, sand table!" ”

The ten people of the Flying Eagle Special Combat Team immediately took out pieces of broken wooden planks and put them together in the main tent, and soon formed a large square wooden plate, Lu Yun and the brothers of the golden shopkeeper were stunned for a while, and they didn't know what Li Hao was going to do.

Then I saw the people of the Flying Eagle Special Combat Team scooping up yellow sand with an iron pot and pouring it into a wooden plate, one pot per person, exactly ten pots.

Li Hao stood in front of the sand table and closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then slowly opened his eyes: "The next thing is the moment to witness the miracle!" ”

As he spoke, he began to stir with the yellow sand with a wooden plank in his hand, which was so fast that it was dazzling, like a painting.

Soon, everyone's eyes began to become surprised, and gradually changed from surprise to shock, because a small Loulan Ancient City actually appeared in the sand table, and Li Hao was still continuing, he was creating the terrain around the Loulan Ancient City.

After another ten minutes, Li Hao shouted: "It's done!" ”

Seeing the ancient city of Loulan and the surrounding terrain in the sand table immediately presented in front of everyone's eyes, Lu Yun's eyes were about to fall in shock, and he was dumbfounded for a long time, he had to give a thumbs up and praise: "It's amazing, it's amazing!" ”

"Don't be a sycophant." Li Hao said lightly and instructed Captain Feiying, "Next, let's discuss the matter and let Captain Bayonet come in!" ”

Captain Eagle went in and called the captain of the Bayonet Special Team.

Li Hao began to speak: "Raise troops for a thousand days, use soldiers for a while, sons, the time has come to prove your value, the sand table in front of me is the ancient city of Loulan, the nest of horse thieves, and the surrounding terrain, I decided to attack the ancient city of Loulan at night tonight, now, let's formulate a tactical ......"

By the time they had formulated their tactics, the sun had already set, Li Hao had let everyone eat and drink to their heart's content, Lu Yun stayed behind to protect the four female dependents, and he took the others to change into dark clothes and set off at night to the ancient city of Loulan.

Watching Li Hao disappear into the night with everyone, Qin Su finally couldn't help it, his nose was sour, and crystal tears fell.

More than 30 people sneaked up on the lair of four or five hundred horse thieves, it was a life of nine deaths, Li Hao resolutely did it, without a trace of hesitation, just for the woman he called Fat Di, how Qin Su hoped that it was herself who was trapped in Loulan City, because in this way, even if she was killed by the horse thief, she also knew that Li Hao's love for her was so vigorous and so unhesitating, but unfortunately all this had nothing to do with herself.

Qin Su was also afraid, afraid that Li Hao would never come back, thinking of such a terrible result, she couldn't stop trembling all over, and soon, she had made up her mind in her heart, if Li Hao really died tragically under the knife of the horse thief, she would never steal her life.

When they were still five miles away from the ancient city of Loulan, Li Hao and the others were divided into four groups, Li Hao took Jin Li and others around to the east, the bayonet special combat team went around to the west, the Cheetah special combat team went to the north, and as for the Flying Eagle special combat team, they stood still and waited on their camels.

Li Hao and the others arrived outside the eastern wall of the ancient city, walked forward along the dilapidated city wall for a while, and suddenly heard a voice above, they immediately stood close to the corner of the wall, and the two footsteps on the city wall staggered and walked away.

They waited here for a while, the footsteps came back, and they staggered again, and after they walked away, Li Hao looked at his watch and said softly: "Go to the wall, we only have one minute." When they were formulating tactics, Li Hao popularized the concept of minutes and seconds with everyone, after all, the ancient timekeeping method was not very accurate, and special operations were a race against seconds, and there was no room for error in time.

Li Hao threw out the rope hook as he spoke, hooked it firmly on the city wall, and then went up the rope, the city wall was not high, he quickly climbed the city wall, and at the same time as the city wall, the silent crossbow was already in his hand.

The silent crossbow is not really without sound, but the sound is very small, because the general crossbow will have a bowstring sound after shooting, and the bowstring of the silent crossbow is a special material, which is very rare, so rare that even if he uses 100,000 taels of gold, Li Hao refuses to sell it, because this material is his slingshot leather rope.

Li Hao, as a professional slingshot player, his slingshot rope is privately ordered by a merchant, and the quality must be nothing to say, but this time he also brought thirteen spare slingshot ropes over, and four of them were used to make this silent crossbow, with Datang's current technology, it is impossible to produce this kind of high-elasticity slingshot rope, so this thing is an out-of-print product with one less one.

If you use a slingshot rope as a crossbowstring, there will be no bowstring sound after firing, which is the key to a silent crossbow.

There were two patrol horse thieves on the city wall, and neither of them had torches, because if they were lit, they would not only have little illumination effect, but would also become a target for the enemy.

Li Hao took out the binoculars and looked at it after the silent crossbow was wound, and found that the patrol horse thief on the left was closer to him through the night vision function, raised the crossbow to aim, and there was a muffled sound of "poof", the sound was very low, like the sound of spitting and foaming, a small arrow had already shot through the head of the patrol horse thief, and he didn't even have time to hum, and fell to the ground and died.

The horse thief made a noise when he fell to the ground, and the horse thief on the other side heard the voice and immediately shouted: "Zhao Si!" ”

"Huh?" Li Hao suppressed his voice and echoed, and at the same time quickly wound up.

"What was the sound just now?" The remaining thieves did not notice that their companion was dead, and strode towards him.

At this moment, Jin Li was climbing along the rope hook, and was already about to go up the city wall, when he heard the footsteps of the horse thief approaching, he hurriedly stopped, and his heart was so nervous that his heart was about to jump out of his mouth.

Although the crossbow is fast, it takes three to four seconds at the earliest, and in order to gain this time or two, Li Hao has to suppress his voice again and answers: "It's nothing." ”

"What's wrong with your voice?" The thief seemed to hear something wrong.

"Nothing." Li Hao finished winding, raised the crossbow and pulled the trigger, and there was another muffled sound, and the crossbow arrow pierced the throat of the horse thief, taking away the vitality in his body.

Li Hao finally exhaled, then came to the city wall and said to Jin Li below: "Okay, come up." ”

Jin Li and the others climbed the city wall one after another, and Li Hao said in a low voice: "Qin Wei, Yu Zhongping, the two of you put on the clothes of these two horse thieves, and pretend to be patrol horse thieves here, if you find that there is chaos below, you will go down to support." ”

"Yes." The two replied in a deep voice, each looking for the body of a horse thief and began to change clothes.

Li Hao led the others to slide down the city wall with rope hooks and smoothly entered the city.