Chapter 1972: Divine Soldiers Like Ghosts
When the barbarian army calmed down, it had already retreated several miles, and the soldiers who were stoned to death by the stones thrown by the stone-throwing cart were actually three or four hundred people, which made the barbarian army shocked and annoyed.
Although he did not fight with any of the soldiers of the Northwest Army, under such circumstances, six or seven hundred people were killed and wounded, which was of course a big blow.
The cold wind was like a knife, and Eevee's face was pale.
When the troops were dispatched, they thought that this would be an easy battle, if not a massacre, but the reality was far beyond everyone's expectations.
"The people of the Central Plains are really cunning." One of the generals turned slightly pale, "They used a trench to stop us from approaching, and attacked us with a catapult, so why did we just watch them tease us?" ”
"Eevee, we already know the location of the trench, don't think too much, let's just cross the trench and rush to their camp." Another hot-tempered barbarian said in a deep voice: "No matter how big the price is, let's let these southern barbarians know that we are powerful, as long as we rush over, their catapults will have no effect at all, and those southern barbarians can only become our souls under the sword." ”
Ibu had a calm face, he didn't answer, but looked at the mountains in the distance, the herringbone mountains were very conspicuous under the sky, pondering for a while, Ibu finally raised his hand, and pointed forward with a horsewhip in his hand, "Look there, the two mountain ranges are separated outward, and there are at least ten miles to the left and right, could it be that the Northwest Army dug such a long trench in front?" ”
"What do you mean?"
"We were negligent and fell into their trap, because they might have guessed that we were preparing to attack directly from the front." Ibu said with a cold face: "I don't believe that there will be such a long trench ahead, if I am not mistaken, in the direction of the two flanks, it is likely that there will be gaps, to rush to their camp, it is not necessary to attack from the front, we can go around to the two flanks and launch an offensive from both sides." ”
"Whether there is a trench or not, it is better to send someone to find out first." The barbarian next to him.
Ibu bowed his head slightly, and whispered: "As long as there are roads on both sides, we can be in a row of five people, and even the long dragon rushes over, even if there is a trap in front of us, we don't rush up, and the loss will be very small." As long as we rush to the tent, they will have nothing to do. ”
Everyone else nodded.
Ibu did not delay in doing his work, and immediately sent his cavalry to detour to both sides to investigate, and it was not long before the cavalry sent out immediately returned. "How's it going?" Ibrahimovic can't wait.
The cavalry reported: "We went around to the foot of the hill and approached the northwest barracks along the foothills, and there were no traps. ”
Ibu's eyes shone brightly, and he clapped his hands and said happily: "I knew that it was impossible for the Northwest Army to dig such a long trench. We marched day and night, and they knew our whereabouts, and it must have been because the rangers they sent out discovered our tracks halfway through, so even if they knew that we were coming, they were in a hurry, and they didn't have much time to dig trenches. ”
Listening to Ibu's analysis, everyone nodded, thinking that Ibu had contact with the Northwest Army, and it seemed that the one who knew the Northwest Army best was Ibu.
"In that case, let's divide our troops and detour from both sides now." Immediately, a general suggested.
Yi Bu looked at the Northwest Army camp in the distance, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, since we want to catch them all, we should be patient." With that, he looked up at the sky.
"Patience?" Someone wondered, "What does this mean?" ”
Yi Bu said softly: "The people of the Central Plains are scheming, and we must also let them know our resourcefulness." Let's not rush to attack now, wait until after dark, let's see and send two troops and horses to bypass from the left and right, they must be watching us now, we let them watch, when the army is divided at night, we still leave a part of the soldiers and horses here to confuse them, so that they think that we are helpless, so that the cavalry on both sides will be killed, they must be defenseless. ”
Everyone immediately understood what Eevee meant, and nodded their heads one after another, thinking that Ibu should be the commander of this army and horses, and sure enough, he didn't choose the wrong person, since the people of the Central Plains can use tricks, we can naturally set up a maze.
At that moment, Ibrahimovic ordered the whole army to rest in place, but still sent a small number of rangers to cruise nearby, in case the Northwest Army suddenly rushed out of the camp.
Fortunately, the Northwest Army seemed to know that it was invincible, and the Northwest Army battalion never moved.
After dark, Ibu divided his troops into three ways, leaving some soldiers and horses still in the same place, as a disguise, but in addition, he divided two lines of soldiers and horses, left and right around, in order not to let the Northwest Army find out, Ibu did not hesitate to open the distance, around a big circle, and personally led a road of soldiers and horses from the left side.
The winter night was cold, and it was dark in all directions, Ibu led six or seven thousand soldiers and horses to quietly go around to the foot of the mountain, just in case, but still sent a small number of rangers to explore the road, and the large group of men and horses followed behind.
Ibu was suddenly in high spirits, faintly found that there was a little fire in front of him, the fire was very sparse, Ibu knew that there was the camp of the Northwest Army, and then did not hesitate, holding the knife in his hand, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and the horse rushed towards the camp like lightning, and thousands of soldiers and horses behind him were like wolves and tigers, and they rushed violently with the momentum of overwhelming mountains and seas, and the cold sabers were already out of their sheaths and swirling in the air.
Approaching the camp, he heard the sound of shouting and killing from the opposite side, it was the sound of soldiers and horses from the other road, Ibu was in good spirits, knowing that the other line of soldiers and horses had also arrived in time, and shouted: "Children, all give me the courage to kill the enemy, and go back with your head to ask for credit!" "The horses were in the lead, and the horses were like lightning, and they had rushed to the edge of the camp.
The shouts and killings of the barbarian cavalry on both sides shook the mountains, but there was a dead silence in the camp of the Northwest Army, and it seemed that they had all fallen asleep.
Ibu put his horse and rushed into the camp, raised his scimitar, and had already taken the lead in rushing into a tent, and was about to raise his knife to slash and kill, but after entering the tent, he found that the tent was empty, and there was no Northwest soldier's figure, so he suddenly frowned, turned his horse's head and went out of the tent, only to see that in the night, the Northwest Army camp was full of barbarian cavalry charging forward, and many cavalry rushed into the tent, but there was no sound of fighting at all.
"No one, no one in the tent!" Someone shouted loudly, and soon the sound became loud.
"What about people?"
"Where did the Northwest Army go, there is no one in the tent!"
Ebu suddenly felt that something was wrong, and urged his horse to rush to the barracks, where thousands of tents were scattered and undulating, but in the entire camp, no trace of the Northwest Army was found, and tens of thousands of Northwest troops seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
Of course, Ibu didn't believe that this was an empty camp, during the day, he saw more than a dozen Northwest Rangers return to the camp, and from the Northwest Camp there were boulders thrown out, based on the situation at the time, the other party was at least dozens of stone-throwing vehicles launched together, when attacking Wuping Mansion City, the barbarians used stone-throwing vehicles, he knew that to operate a stone-throwing truck, at least seven or eight people were needed before and after, and dozens of stone-throwing vehicles would require hundreds of people to operate.
But now in the camp of the Northwest Army, only the shouting of the barbarian cavalry is heard everywhere, but the slightest movement of the Northwest Army is not heard at all.
The tens of thousands of barbarian horsemen who rushed over with anger were all mixed in the Northwest Army camp at this time, and they were about to drink the blood of the Northwest Army with their sabers, but when they reached the camp, they found that their enemy was gone.
Ibu was riding on a horse, scanning around, and suddenly looked up at the mountains behind the camp, his brows locked, and secretly wondered if the Northwest Army actually knew that the barbarian cavalry would raid the camp tonight, and they all hid in the mountains? Not only were there no soldiers in this large battalion, but even the supplies such as grain, grass, and stone-throwing carts were missing, and it was a bit unbelievable that so many supplies and men and horses could be transported to the steep mountain in just one afternoon.
I was wondering to myself, and suddenly I smelled a strange smell on the tip of my nose, the smell was quite pungent, I was bent on finding the Northwest Army, and I didn't care, but when I calmed down a little, the smell became more and more obvious.
He was curious to himself, and at this moment, he heard the rumbling drum suddenly sounded, the drum sounded extremely suddenly, the barbarian cavalry in the camp shouted and screamed noisyly, but it was still covered by the low drum sound, hearing the drum sound, Ibu's whole body was shaken, and a pair of eyes like bull's eyes stared at the gloomy mountain range, he could naturally hear that the rumbling war drum was coming from the mountain.
In the sound of war drums, Ibu suddenly found that the originally dark canopy of heaven was suddenly bright, and the night seemed to turn into day in an instant.
All the arrows were clusters of arrows with flames, and the rockets came out like locusts.
Eevee only felt that his hands and feet were cold, and he didn't react for a while, just staring blankly at the overwhelming rockets falling from the sky, but at this time he finally understood in his mind, the rather pungent smell, obviously the smell of fuel.
He finally understood that the tricks of the Northwest Army were one move after another.
Hundreds of cavalry were killed in the trenches, but it was only a small prelude, and the distance at which the trenches were dug was the easiest distance for the catapults, for which the barbarians lost their troops.
But everything was just an appetizer, when Ibu was glad that the Northwest Army didn't have time to dig too long trenches and pits, and sneakily came from both sides along the foot of the mountain, this was the real trap laid by Chu Huan, and he was now sure that the brute cavalry could smoothly bypass and rush to the camp of the Northwest Army, which was exactly what Chu Huan was willing to see, and this camp was part of the trap.
He is not stupid, but at this critical moment, his head has become brighter than ever.
He now finally understands that the Northwest Army battalion has been silent, just because the Northwest Army Brigade has already been ambushed on the mountain, and if the stones hit by the stone-throwing trucks, I am afraid that the Northwest Army battalion at that time only left the rock-throwing trucks, and in half a day, it is not difficult for the Northwest Army to transport dozens of stone-throwing vehicles to the mountain.
What Chu Huan left for the barbarian cavalry was an empty barracks, and this barracks was originally to wait for the arrival of the brute cavalry.
Rockets poured down like locusts, it was at this time, many barbarian cavalry soldiers had not yet understood, although they felt that something was wrong, but they did not expect that it was already a catastrophe, although the rockets poured down like a torrential rain, but these barbarian cavalrymen on horses, jumped high and low, and used sabers to block the arrows that were fired, and even some soldiers drew their horsewhips and shot down the rockets.
Barbarian is aggressive in nature, a horsewhip is as flexible as an arm, the whip flashes up and down, like a spiritual snake, and it seems to be a strange shield, with a whip to hit the arrow, but it is also a good skill of many people.
It's just that the purpose of the rocket is not to shoot the barbarians, but to set it up on top of the endless tents.
Of course, many rockets hit the barbarian horsemen, but more rockets were shot on the tent, and the tent burned instantly, just in the blink of an eye, it formed a fire ball, and countless fire balls were blazing, and many barbarian soldiers did not expect such a scene at all, and they were all stunned, and when they came back to their senses, they found that there were flames in all directions.
"Run!" A rocket shot towards Ibu, Ibu waved his knife to block it, his heart had sunk to the bottom, knowing that tonight's sneak attack was already a fool's errand, a bad one, the soldiers and horses who entered the camp were only afraid that the whole army would be annihilated, and shouted sharply: "Hurry up, get out of here, they attack with fire!" ”
It's just that in the barracks at this moment, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are crowded together, chaotic, and there are already raging fires in all directions, many barbarians have lost their direction, although they all know that they want to escape from this sea of fire at this time, but they don't know where to go for a while, there are cavalry scurrying everywhere, many cavalry even collide together, people turn over on their backs, and more people are surrounded by the sea of fire, and they can't rush out at all.
Ibu looked around, but also found that he had been wrapped in the sea of fire, although it was a cold winter night, but the surrounding fire, but the temperature in the air rose rapidly, Rao is the barbarian's skin rough, but at this time it was also unable to endure the high temperature of the fire, some soldiers were unwilling to be burned alive in the fire, gritted their teeth and slapped their horses, wanted to break out of the fire net, but were quickly engulfed by the flames.
In the bitter winter night, the screams were incessant, heartbreaking, like the desperate howls of a wild beast dying in death.
Ibu rushed to several places in succession, but he was blocked by the raging fire and could not get out, and he was anxious and angry, but at this moment, he heard a terrible cry: "Stone! ”
Before Ibu could react, he heard a loud "coaxing" sound around him, turned his head to look, only to find a boulder falling from the sky, smashing a cavalryman into flesh in an instant.
Ibrahimovic was desperate at this point.
The other party not only laid down a flame array, but also obviously wanted to kill the barbarian cavalry, just the fire barbecue seemed to be not enough, and the Northwest Army actually used the stone-throwing cart again.
The stone-throwing cart started from the mountain, condescendingly, and Ibu knew that since the other party had even carefully calculated the distance of the trench, the stones that were knocked down from the mountain at this time had obviously been calculated long ago.
The brute riders who were already surrounded by fire were in chaos and trampled on each other, and at this time, the boulders that fell from the sky made the brute horses scatter, and countless brute horses were smashed into flesh by the boulders that were knocked down from the mountain.
Ibu knew that if he couldn't break out of the fire net, under the double blow of the flame array and the boulder, he would inevitably die, he didn't care about others at this time, gritted his teeth, but he desperately broke through in one direction and broke into the flames, Ibu only felt as if he had broken into hell, and the horse he stepped down hissed sadly, but Ibu closed his eyes and desperately urged the horse.
Soon, he felt the clothes on his body burn.
Most of the barbarians are fur suits, such clothes, although hardy, but they are also easily burned by the fire, and many barbarian horsemen are ignited by the fire precisely because of the fur suits on their bodies.
Eevee felt his skin begin to tear like pain, but he closed his eyes tightly, desperate, but after a while, he found that the temperature around him had dropped slightly, and when he opened his eyes, he found that he had drilled out a fire net, but there was a fire burning all over his body, Ibu didn't say a word, jumped off the horse, rolled on the spot, and wanted to extinguish the flames on his body.
This method is not bad, but the snow on the ground is melting, not yet completely melted, but he doesn't know that his body was burned by the flames, and then stimulated by the ice and snow, the damage to the body is even greater, rolling on the ground a few times, but the flames on the body are extinguished, but the skin on the body is more uncomfortable than the knife slowly tearing it, and the chest is suffocated, dizzy, and even breathless for a while.
"Bang!"
With a sound, a boulder fell a stone's throw away beside Ibu, Ibu was heartbroken, knowing that he was still within the strike range of the Northwest Army, he endured the unbearable pain of ordinary people, and stood up, but found that his war horse had no trace, and his heart was surprised, at this time, there was no war horse, almost with death, just caught a glimpse of a panicked brute next to him, and did not hesitate, rushed forward, reached out and grabbed the soldier, and pulled it hard, tearing the soldier off the horse, Then he turned over and got on the horse, patted the horse and left.
There is still a sea of fire all around, Ibu turned left and right, and there are panicked figures of barbarians everywhere, although most of the barbarian horsemen are trapped in the sea of fire, but there are still many barbarian horsemen who did not go deep into the camp, and they escaped a catastrophe, Ibu finally rushed to the outside of the camp, saw the overwhelmed barbarian horsemen, and shouted loudly: "Run!" Without further ado, Pegasus left.
Although he was in a panic, Ibu was not completely confused, knowing that there were still pits and trenches in front of him all the way to the east, and if he was not careful, he was afraid that he would fall into a trap, and finally escaped from the sea of fire, so he naturally could not die in the trench, so he turned his horse's head and ran south, which was to escape along the road he came.
The horse galloped, but Eevee felt that the flesh and skin on his body were getting more and more painful, he was a brave barbarian, but the pain was a little unbearable even for him, and he raised his arm, but found that the sleeves of his hand were burned, revealing the arm that had been blackened, and at some point, the flesh on the arm had been torn open, and the torn flesh was spilling blood outward.
Ibu is not without the energy of defeat, in the early years he was chased and fought by Feng Yuanpo's Hexi army on the grassland, at that time he was very embarrassed, and not long ago he was beaten by the Northwest Army in Qiufengyuan, but no matter when he was defeated, Ibu was never as embarrassed and desperate as now, and the previous spirit had long since disappeared, and his heart was full of horror at this time.
The horse galloped, he tossed on the horse's back, and his body hurt with the bump for a while, but the pain in his heart made him unbearable.
With an army of 15,000, how strong the soldiers are, in his vision, he not only wants to wipe out the Northwest Army in one fell swoop, but also to pick Chu Huan's head on the blade he gets, and bring him back to show off his might.
But how funny it is when I think about it now.
Not only did he kill a Northwest soldier with his own hands, but he didn't even see Chu Huan's shadow, the tens of thousands of troops were already in a desperate situation, he didn't know how many people could escape from the camp of the Northwest Army, but he knew that this time it was a complete failure, even if someone was lucky enough to escape from the flame array, I was afraid that no one would dare to fight with the Northwest Army again.
His body was hot and cold, and Ibu even wondered if he was going to die soon, he barely turned around, there was not much sound of horses' hooves behind him, far less than the momentum when he led tens of thousands of cavalry before, but he vaguely saw that the sparse cavalry behind him was only a few hundred at most.
A wry smile appeared on his lips, thinking that if he went back like this, Tushi Khan would definitely not be spared, he did not die under the knife of the Northwest Army, and he would still die under the knife of Tushi Khan when he went back.
He was thinking about whether to meet with the soldiers and horses left on the east side of the trench, but suddenly he heard a sound of horses' hooves coming from the front, he looked up, and in the darkness, he found that the cavalry was rushing towards him, and the black pressure was overwhelming, and the sound of hooves was like thunder, and he was rushing towards him like thunder and lightning.
Yi Bu couldn't help but sigh in his heart, knowing that maybe it was the more than 2,000 soldiers and horses who stayed there to confuse the Northwest Army who saw the fire here and knew that something had happened, so they ran to reinforce it.
At this point, these two thousand reinforcements are no longer of any use.
He slowed his horse slightly, barely raised his hand, and was about to beckon the oncoming cavalry to stop, but when the opposite cavalry approached, Eevee realized that something was wrong.
The other party is indeed a wolf-like cavalry, but they are not the fur suits of brute horses, they are all armor, like black ghosts suddenly coming from hell.
Of course, there are people in the barbarian army who wear armor, but the number is very small, and they are all noble people in the tribe can have it, and there is never such a large number of soldiers wearing armor in front of him.
"Is it the Northwest Cavalry?" Looking at the oncoming black oppressive cavalry, Ibu was desperate and frightened, he really couldn't understand, didn't the northwest cavalry all go to the grassland, why did there still be so many northwest cavalry in front of him?
He began to wonder if he was dazzled by the pain, but at this moment, the cavalry on the opposite side had already rushed up, and they had already raised their sabers, and one of the first cavalrymen had already rushed in front of Ibu, and the saber in his hand did not hesitate to slash down on Ibu.
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