Li Hao saw a mess in the horse thief camp through the telescope from afar, and couldn't help frowning, he originally planned to get closer and let the heavy people change to camels to approach quietly, and then sneak attack, but he didn't expect to be discovered ten miles away, it seems that this group of horse thieves is really not simple.

Now that the enemy has discovered it, Li Hao no longer hesitated, and shouted loudly: "Prepare a crossbow!" ”

The Thirty Steps untied the long leather bag around his waist while riding a horse, took out the wooden box from it, and then opened it, and the movements were uniform, there was no concept of robots in this era, otherwise they could be used to describe their neat movements.

These wooden boxes were designed by Li Hao, and the storage space has been designed in the most reasonable way, just enough to hold the disassembled repeater, just like the box that holds the assembled firearms in modern times.

Thirty steps took out the crossbow frame and crossbow arm, assembled, snapped the buttons, inserted the arrow box, and in only ten seconds, everyone's crossbows were ready.

Jin Li and the other brothers inadvertently looked back and saw their movements, they were shocked, seeing such a soldier beyond mortals, they suddenly felt that following Li Hao was simply too promising, can a person who can practice this kind of part be a mortal!

"Full speed ahead!" Li Hao shouted again, with the help of the dim moonlight, he could vaguely see the wind and sand rising in the desert, and if he looked down from the perspective of the sky, he could see a black shadow like a torrent rushing towards a camp.

Although the horse thieves in the camp panicked for a while at first, after all, they found out early, and they had gradually calmed down and prepared, at this moment all the braziers in the camp were extinguished, it was dark, and the ground in the middle of the camp was covered with a huge copper basin, Yuan Jinliang put his ear on the copper basin and said slowly: "The other party has thirty or forty people, the speed is extremely fast, coming from the east, three miles away!" ”

"Humph! Thirty or forty people? Looking for death? Luo Sanhei sneered, and then shouted, "Brothers, prepare the bow and arrow, due east!" ”

All the thieves tightened their bowstrings, and then came to stand in two groups, five feet apart, directly east of the camp.

Yuan Jinliang listened for a moment, and then said, "There is still one mile!" ”

"Open the bow!" Luo Sanhei shouted outside the camp, and all the horse thieves loaded their arrows and pulled their bows apart.

However, the east they were facing was still pitch black, and they couldn't see anything, because Li Hao didn't have torches at all, and in this dark and vast desert, if they attacked the enemy and still fired torches, they would simply become someone else's target.

Li Hao had been silently calculating the distance in his heart, and when he was about to enter the range of the bow and arrow, he suddenly shouted: "Stop!" ”

Everyone stopped, and Luo Sanhei hurriedly asked Yuan Jinliang: "Big brother, can you shoot arrows?" ”

Yuan Jinliang said in a loud voice: "No! Before they were in range, the enemy stopped! ”

Hearing this, Billy touched his crooked lips and beards, frowned, and said, "The person who came is not good, the other party seems to be a veteran!" ”

At this moment, there were still two hundred meters left from the enemy camp, outside the range of ordinary bows and arrows, and the enemy camp was also pitch black, nothing could be seen, and for a moment, there was silence in the vast dark night, and only the evening breeze mixed with sand and dust was heard whistling.

Li Hao took out the binoculars and looked at them, in front of the high-tech night vision binoculars, more than a hundred horse thieves were clearly exposed in front of Li Hao's eyes, just ten steps away from the camp, bending bows and arrows at them, ready to shoot at any time.

Li Hao smiled coldly, took out a homemade rattle arrow and put it on the crossbow, and then said in a low voice: "Sons, prepare for winding, calculate the direction of the wind." ”

The thirty special forces all fired their crossbows and arrows, ready to shoot, Li Hao's crossbow has a killing range of between two hundred and thirty meters and two hundred and fifty meters, if it is a projectile, then it will be farther, and now this distance is exactly at the distance where they can hit the enemy, and the enemy can't hit them.

Li Hao hid behind the soldier and lit the fuse of the arrow with a lighter, and then pulled the machine spring, with a soft sound, the arrow was shot, and a muffled snort came from the crowd opposite, as if someone had been hit by the arrow, and then, a "snap" sound came, and the arrow exploded.

Without Li Hao's order, thirty crossbows were fired together, and a rain of arrows struck, and the horse thieves suddenly screamed again and again, and immediately ten people fell to the ground after being hit by arrows.

"Oops! Exposed! Luo Sanhei shouted in fright, and hurriedly asked Yuan Jinliang in the camp, "Big brother, what should I do?" ”

"Get on your horse and attack!" Yuan Jinliang shouted, took the lead in turning over and getting on the horse, and rushed out with a scimitar.

I have to say that Yuan Jinliang still has a bit of a talent for fighting, and in this case, he can think of taking the initiative to attack and suppress the enemy with a numerical advantage, which is very good, but it is a pity that he picked the wrong enemy.

After Yuan Jinliang took more than a hundred horse thieves on the horse, he rushed into the vast darkness, but what surprised him was that after rushing forward for more than two hundred meters, he found that only a group of horses and a group of camels were wandering around here, and he didn't even see half a figure, and he immediately realized that it was not good.

"Shoot!" Li Hao's voice came, and another rain of arrows struck, fortunately, this time their personnel were more scattered, only five people fell from the horse with arrows, and before they saw the enemy's figure, fifteen people died, Yuan Jinliang had never encountered such a strange battle since he was a horse thief, and suddenly he had no fighting spirit, and shouted urgently: "Withdraw, withdraw quickly, the enemy has a crossbow!" ”

The crossbow is a very terrifying weapon in ancient times, basically already belongs to the same existence as the plug-in, the power of the crossbow is far more powerful than the bow and arrow, according to historical records, the most powerful crossbow in the Tang Dynasty can penetrate a centimeter thick iron plate, of course, this is a heavy crossbow, a person must not be able to play, but what is the concept of penetrating a centimeter thick iron plate, it is simply more bullish than a pistol.

And the accuracy of the crossbow is very high, a recruit wants to practice bows and arrows, it is difficult to achieve more than a year, crossbows are different, a recruit only needs to practice for three or five days, he can use the crossbow to kill the enemy on the battlefield, the most important thing is that the crossbow can be used when riding a horse, although the bow and arrow can also be used, but if you want to use a bow and arrow on horseback, you must be a skilled master of the bow and horse, otherwise you can't shoot it at all.

If you want to say what are the disadvantages of the crossbow, that is, the cost is too expensive, and the manufacturing speed is too slow, not to mention the complex structure, the wood selection and manufacturing process of the crossbow arm alone is a hundred times more complex than the bow tire, in Datang, it only takes two dollars to make a stone strong bow, and a craftsman can make it in three or four days, and to build a crossbow of almost the same grade, it takes at least seventy times, it takes a month and a half, no matter how many craftsmen are used to do it, it is so long, and it has nothing to do with the number of people, because there is a process that needs to soak the crossbow arm with special grease, After soaking, it takes five to seven days to air dry, and it takes five to seven days for each soaking and air drying, so it can be repeated many times, and it depends on luck to soak it, because many crossbow arms are easy to deform during the drying process, which leads to the low success rate of crossbow arm production, which is also the main reason for the high cost.

In this era, horse thieves can get bows and arrows, but they can never get crossbows, because in the Tang Dynasty, only very elite troops can be equipped with crossbows, and only one hundred of the five hundred right guards who escorted Li Hao this time are equipped with crossbows.

It is precisely because the crossbow is a perverted weapon, when Yuan Jinliang found out that the enemy had a crossbow, he was extremely shocked, of course, the main reason is because the enemy is in the dark, they are in the light, although they have an advantage in numbers, but now they have weak morale, he does not dare to take this risk, and it is safer to escape.

Yuan Jinliang fled with the horse thieves, Li Hao hurriedly led everyone to chase and shoot in the rear, and the three rounds of continuous shooting left the bodies of nearly thirty horse thieves, of course, some people were just injured and fell off the horse, but they also temporarily lost their mobility.

"Pursuit, no one is left!" Li Hao's voice was like a sentence from hell, and it was extremely cold.

Thirty special forces began to chase after them, and another volley fired, five horse thieves fell from their horses with arrows, and some horse thieves struggled to escape along the way, all of them were pierced by the spears of the special forces, and they fell weakly in the desert.

"Set fire to the camp! Those women are in the camp! Burn them" Yuan Jinliang knew that he might not be able to escape, so he deliberately shouted like this.

Li Hao was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Go to the camp to save people!" ”

However, countless torches had already been lit on the side of the horse thief camp, and then four or five tents were seen on fire at the same time, and it only took a dozen seconds for it to develop into a raging fire, and it began to spread to the surrounding tents.

"Rush over! Save! Li Hao couldn't keep calm anymore, and shouted suddenly, and the group of special forces gave up the pursuit of the enemy and began to look for people in various camps.

Seeing that they chose to save people instead of chasing, Yuan Jinliang knew that he had made the right bet, smiled proudly, and said loudly: "Take the camel and let's go!" With that, he took the group of camels loaded with gold and went away in a dashing manner.

"Find people! The housemothers are here! One of the special forces shouted, and the others rushed away, and in a matter of moments, the four women inside were rescued, but they were still unconscious.

Li Hao came over to take a look, there were only four people, and he couldn't help but ask urgently: "Why are there only four, and there is also a fat Di!" No, there are two more, and the silver fox is not here either! ”

The special forces who rescued people replied one after another: "Back to the master, when we came, there were only four master mothers inside, and no one else was found." ”

"Keep looking! Be sure to find out! Li Hao shouted the order.

"Yes!" Thirty special forces were busy again, and even if it was a tent that was still burning, they rushed in to find it with their heads wrapped in wet cloths.

After a while, the fire has developed into a fire, Li Hao stood outside the camp and was burned by the heat wave, one by one special forces rushed out of it one after another, some people were burned in their heads, some people were burned on their bodies, but fortunately, everyone came out, but their answers were very consistent and they were not found.

"Is it in the tent where the fire first started...... Burned? Li Hao muttered to himself in despair, he didn't want to accept this reality.

"Young Master." Lu Yun suddenly walked up to him and said, "Young Master, is it possible that he was taken away by the horse thief?" ”

"Yes, most likely!" Li Hao raised his head suddenly, he very much hoped that this was the result, because as long as people are alive, there is still hope.

"Shall we chase it, then?" Lu Yun asked.

Li Hao thought about it when he heard this, shook his head and said: "Don't chase first, hurry back and pack up the horses and camels, don't let them get lost, otherwise you won't be able to catch up with the horse thieves!" ”

So they went to gather the horses and camels, but fortunately, the horses and camels were very well-behaved, and they were there.

Next, Li Hao ordered everyone to rest, just rest by the fire, the night in the desert is colder, it is warmer here, and there will be no wolves to disturb, because wolves are afraid of fire.

After such a long journey, even the brutally trained special forces were a little tired, and soon, except for a few people who stayed on duty, everyone else fell asleep, but they didn't take off their armor when they slept, and everyone held their weapons in their arms, which they used to do often when they trained, and they were used to it.

After only two hours of sleep, the sky was already beginning to lighten, Li Hao ordered everyone to get up and go to the various burned tent sites to find out if there were any corpses, and the final result was that there were no corpses.

Li Hao was secretly happy, indicating that Fat Di was not dead, and decisively ordered to continue to pursue the horse thief!