Chapter 1165: Waiting for the Rabbit
Seeing that the Great Eclipse cavalry who broke through was about to rush to the front, the captain of the Western Qin army shouted: "Points-"
At the sound of an order, the cavalry of the Western Qin Army, which had originally blocked the road, retreated to both sides, leaving a wide passage in the middle.
"It's ??????" Berke, who was desperately sprinting on horseback, was stunned for a moment, thinking to himself, did these Western Qin troops intend to let us live?
Burke soon realized that he was wrong, although these Western Qin troops gave way to a wide passage, they still kept firing arrows, and when he and his soldiers and horses had entered this passage, the Western Qin cavalry on both sides quickly moved quickly and quickly to gallop parallel to them, always sandwiching him and his soldiers in the middle and constantly shooting with bows and arrows.
Berke wanted to cry without tears, he thought that this Western Qin cavalry was kind enough to let them live, but he didn't expect that this Western Qin cavalry was even more cunning, and he didn't resist them at all, sandwiching them in the middle and constantly releasing arrows, shooting his soldiers to death one by one, and he and his soldiers were helpless at all, they advanced first and lost their bows and arrows, and they couldn't fight back with bows and arrows at this time.
Run, run desperately, even if you run the horse to death, you have to escape! This is the only thought in Berke's heart at this time, he brandished the whip and whipped the horse's belly desperately, his war horse is a pure-blooded tall noble horse, not only sprinting fast, but also excellent endurance, he took the lead in rushing to meet at the most, everyone couldn't catch up with him, the Western Qin army on both sides saw that he escaped the range of the bow and arrow, and they all shot at him, who knew that the war horse was like a divine help, and it accelerated again, and the arrows that were shot back were thrown behind.
The battle lasted more than half an hour, and Berk and a dozen of his cronies escaped from the encirclement, but there was still a small force of Western Qin cavalry chasing after them.
After running for another half an hour, Berk suddenly pulled the reins and turned to the left, and the cronies and retinue who followed him had to turn one after another, and one of the soldiers asked: "General, why do you want to turn, aren't we going to Wolf's Head Mountain to join the other brothers?" ”
Burke gasped and rode his horse as he said: "There are still Western Qin cavalry chasing us behind, if we go to Wolf's Head Mountain like this, our destination will be exposed, and all the Western Qin cavalry will be lured over, we must take them in circles, and then dump them and go to Wolf's Head Mountain to join the other brothers!" ”
The cronies suddenly came to their senses. At this time, Berke turned his head again and saw that there were only twelve cronies left in the five hundred cavalry, and everyone else had not been able to escape, but at this time he was powerless, so he could only grit his teeth and leave.
At the exit of the basin of the battle, Erzhu Xianzhong rode on horseback and looked at a large commander of the Great Food Army who was escorted by the soldiers, he knew that this person was Berke's general, and asked, "Tell me, are you going to meet at Wolf's Head Mountain?" Lord, you tell me the answer, and I can spare you death! ”
Captain Eater had a look of astonishment on his face, and there was a look of anxiety and fear in his eyes, but he quickly concealed it, and without saying anything, he twisted his head to the side.
Although this person didn't say anything, Erzhu Xianzhong had already got the answer from his expression and eyes, and a flash of sword flashed, and the head of the Great Food Commander fell, and the other Great Food Captives next to him screamed and retreated, lest they would also be killed.
Erzhu Xianzhong took out a clean rag from his arms and carefully wiped the blood stains on the knife, then put the knife into the sheath, and gave an order with an expressionless face: "Kill them all, and leave no one!" ”
The soldiers of the Western Qin Army in the inner layer who received the order beckoned to the big food captives in front of them with knives and guns, and the cavalry of the Western Qin Army on the periphery kept shooting with bows and arrows, and in less than a moment, the more than 200 big food prisoners who were captured were killed cleanly.
The general reported to Erzhu Xianzhong: "General, all the prisoners have been killed!" ”
Erzhu Xianzhong immediately said: "Order the whole army to assemble and set off quickly, the target - Wolf Head Mountain!" ”
The scattered forces of the Great Eclipse cavalry are still wandering around, their task is to attract the cavalry of the Western Qin army, let the Western Qin cavalry divide the troops, but they waited left and right and waited without waiting for the Western Qin cavalry to catch up, and then sent people to check the town of Nabid, but did not see the figure of the Western Qin army, because they had already agreed on the place of convergence, they had to rush to Wolf's Head Mountain to join the other people and horses first, and then follow Berke's orders to see how to deal with the Western Qin cavalry, And they didn't know that Erzhu Xianzhong had already rushed to Wolf's Head Mountain with the cavalry of the Guards.
At dawn the next day, Erzhu Xianzhong, with the assistance of the compass and map, led the cavalry of the Guards to rush to the vicinity of Wolf's Head Mountain at the fastest speed, after the sun jumped out of the horizon, a continuous green mountain range appeared in the distance, Erzhu Xianzhong squinted his eyes and pointed at the green mountain range with a horsewhip: "Look, does the middle part of that mountain range look like a wolf's head?" It should be the Wolf's Head Mountain we're looking for! ”
But then the wind blew from the east, and a voice suddenly shouted: "Look, general, we are in trouble!" ”
Erzhu Xianzhong turned his head to look, only to see a huge black cloud set off on the horizon on the right, his face changed drastically, and he gasped: "Hiss-this is a sandstorm!" Quick, everyone rush to the bottom of Wolf's Head Mountain as fast as possible, run! ”
Everyone beat their horses and galloped towards the direction of Wolf's Head Mountain in the distance, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, the sandstorm was getting more and more ferocious, and the soldiers of the Western Qin Army were getting closer and closer, which was a race against time. Sandstorms are terrifying, but sometimes they can be used to defeat powerful enemies if used correctly.
When the sandstorm roared by, Erzhu Xianzhong finally led his generals to the foot of Wolf's Head Mountain and rushed into the mountain forest, avoiding the danger of being drowned and swept away by the sandstorm, but they were also exhausted at this time, and the war horses were foaming at the mouth.
Erzhu Xianzhong took a few breaths and began to set up guard posts and lookouts, and arranged for all the other soldiers to feed the horses with water and food, and also let them solve their own physiological needs.
During the day, Erzhu Xianzhong took the soldiers to hide in the mountains and forests and slept comfortably, in the afternoon he woke up very early, walked to the foot of the mountain and found the place to get water, here is the only place with water within a radius of hundreds of miles, so a large number of birds and beasts gathered nearby, but these birds and beasts were scattered after the arrival of the Western Qin army, and disappeared.
Huang Chen, the commander of the first battalion, walked up to Erzhu Xianzhong and asked; "Why did the general wake up so early and not sleep for a while?"
Erzhu Xianzhong poured a bag of water on the edge of the pool with a water bag, hung it on his waist and sighed: "I can't sleep, if we guess wrongly, Berke's soldiers and horses don't come here at all, but turn around to attack the main force of our army, then my sin will be great!" ”
Huang Chen thought for a while and said, "This possibility is not impossible, but it is not big. Otherwise, how can Berk's five hundred horsemen ambush our army on the way to this wolf's head mountain? The reason why he set up an ambush there was to eliminate the pursuing troops and erase the traces of their arrival at this Wolf's Head Mountain! ”
Erzhu Xianzhong nodded: "You have a point. By the way, the soldiers are still sleeping, right? ”
"Yes, the battles in the past two days have been too frequent, the combat intensity is high, and I was frightened by the sandstorm in the morning, this sandstorm came too suddenly, if we didn't run fast, I was afraid that many people would be swept away, and there are still many war horses that have not recovered!"
Erzhu Xianzhong said: "Although this sandstorm has made many of our war horses still not recover, it is not a bad thing, do you find it, it has cleared all the traces of our arrival!" If Berk's army did come here to join us, they would not have imagined that we would be here first and waiting for them here! ”
"What the general said is very true, the last general estimates that they may arrive one after another before dusk and nightfall, are we going to start arranging it now!"
Erzhu Xianzhong immediately instructed Huang Chen to arrange an ambush, and the two discussed it carefully, and then woke up the soldiers, let them eat and drink, and then nervously arranged the ambush.
After dusk came, Erzhu Xianzhong in the mountains and forests really noticed some black shadows on the horizon, and soon saw a black big food banner appear, and behind the banner were some big food cavalry.
"It's finally here!" Erzhu Xianzhong was greatly excited, and instructed Huang Chen: "Pass the order, let the brothers not make a sound, tie the horse's mouth, and wait for all the small groups of big food army cavalry to arrive before starting!" ”
"Understood, don't worry, general!"
When the sun set on the horizon, the last small group of the Great Eaters finally arrived, they had no tents, nothing but weapons, water bags, and food bags, and the tired Great Eaters were resting on the nearby grass after drinking by the waterhole, and Berk gathered several generals to discuss how to attack Erzhu's loyal cavalry next.
Erzhu Xianzhong, who was hiding in the shadows, saw that most of the Great Food Cavalry were lying down and resting, he knew that the time had come, and if he waited any longer, the sky would be completely dark, and it would be very inconvenient to do it again.
After making a gesture, all the cavalry of the Western Qin Army turned over and took out bows, arrows and weapons, and Erzhu Xianzhong immediately pulled out his waist knife and shouted: "Kill!" ”
"Kill-" The Western Qin cavalry rushed out of the mountains and forests under the leadership of Er Zhu Xianzhong, and the figures of the Western Qin cavalry were everywhere in the mountains, and the shouts of killing came far and wide.
The Berke and Great Eclipse generals near the waterhole were all shocked, and when they saw countless Western Qin cavalry rushing down from the mountain, they immediately panicked, and the clever people immediately turned on their horses and fled into the desert, and the panicked people didn't know what to do.
A large number of soldiers of the Great Food Army were hacked to death by the Western Qin army that rushed down before they could get on their horses, and Berke and the others were quickly overwhelmed by the Western Qin army.
It was already dark at the end of the battle, but many torches and fires were lit around, and a large number of prisoners were brought back, including Berk.
Erzhu Xianzhong looked at Berke, who was tied up with five flowers, and pointed a knife at him: "Kneel!" ”
Berke sneered: "If you want to kill, you will kill, the people of the Berke family will definitely not surrender and will not endure any humiliation!" ”
"Hmph, then you're going to die!" Erzhu drank and slashed down, and Berke's body fell to the sand.
Carrying a bloody sword, Erzhu Xianzhong pointed at the captured captives and shouted: "Kill them all!" ”
Huang Chen wanted to stop it, Erzhu Xianzhong had already killed prisoners twice, and he also killed important people such as Berke, in case someone joined him at the king's place, Erzhu Xianzhong's life would not be easy, but he hesitated and gave up, Erzhu Xianzhong is now angry, he can't stop it at all.