Chapter 195: Evacuation
In the raging flames, the helpless warriors let out a terrible cry. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info They were covered with flames, fell from their horses, fell into the flames, and in an instant, they were burned to charcoal.
The flames burned the grass and suffocated the smoke billowing with it.
Even the steed with the frog horse became panicked when it was attacked by flames and smoke one after another. In the thick smoke, the war horse is like a headless fly, colliding everywhere, without a sense of direction, and the dense formation makes it easy for the war horse to collide with its companions, often losing both.
At the moment when the flames ignited, Rakshen's face turned pale, and he already had a premonition that the enemy on the other side was definitely not a rogue. A huge conspiracy looms over the Heavenly Terrain tribe.
At the critical moment, he has to take responsibility and bring his sons out of the flames as much as possible and bring them back to the base camp of the Tianyan tribe.
What Laxin is riding, but the leader-level green worm horse, is a existence beyond the purple gold level, just like a divine beast. The frog horse neighed and was the first to burst out of the circle of flames.
The other frog horses, following the leader's call, rushed out after him.
The moment Rakshin rushed out, he was desperate again.
The cunning of the enemy is simply beyond his imagination.
Outside the flames, the enemy's 2,000 cavalry was waiting for them. At this moment, their faces no longer had the exaggerated arrogance or embarrassment they had before, but expressionless and grim expressions.
In an instant, Laxin guessed that the other party, like them, was a regular army.
As soon as Lakshin probed, he was greeted by a rain of arrows. A dense rain of arrows mercilessly harvested the lucky ones who rushed out of the flames.
They thought that to be free from the flames was to get out of hell. It didn't work out, but it was just an escape from one hell to another.
The successive blows depleted the morale and courage of the soldiers in the western part of the town.
The lucky one who escaped the rain of arrows didn't dare to do anything else, and fled in embarrassment, without any will to fight. Even Lakshin, who escaped again with his leader-level frog horse, never thought about organizing troops to fight the enemy on the opposite side. He just rode the frog horse and quickly fled towards the lake of the gods.
The cavalry of Shanhai County did not pursue the last lucky one. The trapped beast is still fighting, and the poor are not chasing. The group of people who survived, in order to survive, will burst out with unimaginable power.
Ouyang Shuo didn't want to touch this group of injured beasts after achieving his goal in an advantageous situation, and increase his own casualties in general.
In the end, there were 5,000 soldiers in the west of the town, and less than 1,000 escaped.
Ouyang Shuo no longer cared about the flames that were still burning, and led his troops to bypass the flame area and go straight to the camp in the west of the town to harvest his spoils.
At this time, the remaining guards of the camp had already fled.
The elite cavalry of the nomadic tribe is generally equipped with 3 horses, 2 war horses, and 1 pack horse. Pack horses are used specifically for camels. The two horses were used for rotation to enhance the mobility of the cavalry unit.
Because war horses are very physically demanding in the case of heavy loading, they are easy to lose weight, so they are very expensive. Generally speaking, when a war horse runs 20 kilometers, it has to rest for a while. At this time, if there are two horses in rotation, it is natural to achieve a continuous and rapid march.
Shanhai County has not yet carried out ultra-long-distance operations, so the cavalry is only equipped with one war horse. At most, just like the first battalion of the pioneer battalion, because it is equipped with frog horses, the horses given by the system can be used as spare horses or as pack horses when changing classes.
The mixed brigade cavalry battalion, because it was transferred from the rogue cavalry, even if it was not equipped with frog horses, they still had two war horses. For example, the second battalion of the pioneer battalion and the cavalry battalion of Yushui County, which have not been formed for a long time, only have a war horse given by the system.
Overall, compared with the nomadic tribes, the cavalry of Shanhai County still looks too shabby.
Strictly speaking, the cavalry needs to be equipped with at least two auxiliaries, one with horses and one with bags.
In order to simplify the game, there is no need for auxiliaries by default, and the cavalry will do it all by themselves.
The trophies that Ouyang Shuo was referring to were the war horses left in the camp in the west of the town for rotation. Sure enough, in the stables of the big camp, there were 5,000 green worm horses and 5,000 ordinary pack horses.
plus the 1,000 frog horses that were collected when cleaning the battlefield. In this battle, a total of 6,000 frog horses were captured, which is simply a great fortune.
According to the calculation of 5 gold coins for a frog horse, it is 30,000 gold coins, plus the pack horse, the total value is more than 40,000 gold coins. The point is, these frog horses are still priceless.
In addition to this, in the arsenal of the big camp, Ouyang Shuo also looted five thousand compound bows. With this batch of bows, Ouyang Shuo wants to realize the Shanhai County army, and the equipment rate of the bows will reach 100%.
After this battle, it will greatly plug the gap of war horses in Shanhai County. The price paid was the death of one hundred and fifty cavalrymen. Because of the long-distance attack, Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to order the dead soldiers to be buried on the spot.
The Tianyan tribe has become a land of right and wrong, and it is not suitable to stay for a long time.
The troops replaced the frog horses, drove the remaining horses, and withdrew to the west.
The location of the evacuation has been determined a long time ago. The troops could not retreat south, and the location of Shanhai County was easily exposed; You can't retreat north, otherwise you will lead the water to Mulan Town; It is even more impossible to retreat to the east, because the eastern part of the town of the Tianyan tribe is still stationed in the east. Therefore, the only way to evacuate is to the west.
The vast herd of horses could not hide their whereabouts at all. It can only rely on the speed of the green worm horse to quickly evacuate the grassland before the Tianyan tribe and other tribes can react.
Because each cavalryman had two frog horses in rotation, the troops marched more than 80 kilometers before dark. Compared with the speed when it came, it was directly increased by an order of magnitude.
The next day, at five o'clock in the morning, the troops set off again. After a whole day's rapid march, I walked more than 100 kilometers directly, completely out of the grassland area occupied by the nomadic tribes, and into the wilderness.
At this time, Ouyang Shuo finally felt at ease. During the daytime march, I once encountered the patrol troops of the nomadic tribes, and they were directly destroyed by them.
However, the direction of their retreat was also exposed, and they just set up a suspicious formation.
On the third day, the troops turned south and finally reached the upper reaches of the Friendship River before dark. And at this time, the North Sea Fleet had been waiting here for a long time.
The secret of the North Sea Fleet's ability to accurately grasp the direction of the retreat of troops lies in the hummingbird of the Military Intelligence Department. These little guys provided by the Xuanniao tribe look inconspicuous, but they actually have a great effect.
With the help of the North Sea Fleet, the troops successfully crossed the Friendship River, and at this time, it was finally completely safe. To the south of the Friendship River, there are no forces that can threaten them.
No matter what size the Liukou battalion is, it can't withstand it in front of the huge cavalry force in Shanhai County. As for those player territories, if Ouyang Shuo doesn't provoke them, they should burn incense and worship the Buddha, where do they dare to come out to make trouble.
After crossing the river, the North Sea Fleet will rest overnight on the riverbank, and tomorrow morning, it will go down the river and return to the North Sea Port station. Recently, Pei Donglai is stepping up the training of troops and plans to counterattack Wol'er Island.
After crossing the Youyi River, the troops walked for two more days before returning to Shanhai County at 5:30 p.m. on 2 August. After all, this wildfire operation took a total of a week before and after, and it was really not easy to travel far away.
After returning, the pioneer battalion did not have time to rest, so it was driven back to the north camp of the city by Ouyang Shuo to take over the two battalions of the mixed brigade. On the way back, he didn't know how much change this wildfire operation had caused in the grassland, and Ouyang Shuo really didn't worry about the camp in the north of the city.
When the pioneer battalion returned, it did not take a single frog horse with them.
Of the 6,000 frog horses, 500 were left for the cavalry battalion of the mixed brigade, and 500 were taken away from the cavalry battalion of Yushui County. Of the remaining 5,000 horses, 3,000 are temporarily stocked in the pasture west of the city, and the last 2,000 horses will be sent to the Swift Wind Valley Military Horse Farm to expand the breeding scale of the military horse farm.
Ouyang Shuo is not yet extravagant enough to match a cavalryman with two frog horses. He planned that the green worm horse was mainly used to charge, and in peacetime, the cavalry still rode the original war horse.
As for the five thousand pack horses, Ouyang Shuo was ready to hand them over to the chariot and horse division. The carriage has been made a long time ago, but it is in vain if there is no horse-drawn carriage. For this matter, Zheng Shancano, the chief officer of the Che Ma Division, did not grind Ouyang Shuo.
Now it's okay, help him solve it in one go.
With the landing of the county seat, it is a full five kilometers from the lord's mansion to the north gate, and it takes an hour to walk. Therefore, it is imperative to develop urban public transport, that is, horse-drawn carriages. With this batch of pack horses, the chariot and horse division can consider the matter of forming a chariot and horse shop in the city to completely solve these problems.
After returning, Ouyang Shuo first went to the arsenal and deposited five thousand compound bows in it. As for the equipping and distribution of compound bows, the Military Affairs Administration is naturally responsible, and he does not need to worry about it.
Back at the Lord's Palace, it was already six o'clock. Ouyang Shuo didn't go back to the office at all, and walked towards the backyard by himself.
"Brother, you're back!"
Bing'er's eyes were sharp, and when she saw Ouyang Shuo at a glance, she was about to run over and let Ouyang Shuo hug her.
This can be regarded as the longest period of time that Ouyang Shuo has been away from Bing'er in recent years, and the little girl naturally misses it tightly, thinking every day, when will my brother come back.
After going out for a week, Ouyang Shuo was covered in dust and dirty, although the blood stains had been wiped dry, but the smell was definitely uncomfortable. In such a state, where did he dare to hug Bing'er, he hurriedly stopped him and said, "Baby, my brother is too dirty." Let my brother go and freshen up first, and then accompany you to dinner, okay? ”
Bing'er came up, smelled it, and sure enough, there was a peculiar smell, and said crisply: "It stinks." ”
Ouyang Shuo smiled bitterly, suddenly stretched out his hand, pinched it on her white and tender face, and immediately left a stain, and without waiting for Bing'er to react, he turned around and ran. (To be continued.) )