Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 140 Chapter 144: Chasing the horse thief

Li Hao saw the chaos in the horse thief camp through the binoculars from a long distance away, and couldn't help frowning. He originally planned to let heavy men change to camels to approach quietly, and then sneaked up on him, but he didn't expect to be discovered ten miles away. It is really not easy to come to this group of horse thieves.

Now that the enemy had discovered it, Li Hao no longer hesitated, and shouted: "Prepare the crossbow!"

While riding the horse, Thirty Parts untied the long leather bag around the waist, took out the wooden box from inside, and opened it, with uniform movements. There is no concept of robots in this era, otherwise they could be described as robots.

These wooden boxes were designed by Li Hao, and the storage space was designed in the most reasonable way, just enough to hold the disassembled crossbow, just like the modern boxes for assembled firearms.

Thirty steps took out the crossbow frame and crossbow arm, assembled, snapped the buckle, inserted the arrow box, and in just ten seconds, everyone's crossbow was ready.

Jin Li and the other brothers inadvertently saw their movements behind them, and they were extremely shocked. Seeing such soldiers who surpassed ordinary people, they suddenly felt that following Li Hao was simply too promising. Can a person who can practice this kind of movement be an ordinary person? !

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

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

"Hmph! Three or forty people? Are you looking for death?" Luo Sanhei sneered, and then shouted, "Brothers, prepare bows and arrows, go straight to the east!"

All the horse thieves tightened their bowstrings, and then came to the east of the camp and stood in two teams, with a distance of five feet between the front and the back.

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

"Open the bow!" Luo Sanhei shouted towards the outside of the camp, and all the horse thieves shot their arrows and pulled the bows away.

However, the east they were facing was still pitch black, and they couldn't see anything, because Li Hao and the others didn't have torches at all. In this dark desert, if they sneaked into the enemy and lit torches, they would become a target for others. .

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 reined in their horses and stopped, Luo Sanhei hurriedly asked Yuan Jinliang: "Brother, can you shoot arrows?"

Yuan Jinliang said loudly: "No! The enemy has stopped before entering the range!"

Gejobilly at the side touched his curved mustache and said with a frown, "The visitor is not kind, the other party seems to be an old hand too!"

At this moment, there are still 200 meters away from the enemy's camp, which is beyond the range of ordinary bows and arrows, and the enemy's camp is also completely dark, and nothing can be seen. Dust was blowing loudly.

Li Hao took out the binoculars and took a look. In front of the high-tech night vision binoculars, more than 100 horse thieves clearly appeared in front of Li Hao's eyes. They were just ten steps away from the camp, pointing at them with bows and arrows. Ready to shoot.

Li Hao smiled coldly, took out a homemade sounding arrow and put it on the crossbow, and then said in a low voice: "Boys, get ready to string and calculate the direction of the wind."

Thirty special forces all opened their crossbows and got ready to shoot. Li Hao's crossbow has a lethal range of 230 meters to 250 meters. If it is thrown, it will be farther. Now this distance is just at the distance where they can hit the enemy, the enemy Can't reach their distance.

Li Hao hid behind the soldiers and lit the lead wire of the arrow with a lighter, and then pulled the spring, and there was a soft whizzing sound, and the arrow shot out, and there was a muffled groan from the crowd on the opposite side, as if someone had been hit by an arrow, and then, there was a "snap" There was a sound, and the arrow exploded.

Without Li Hao's order, the thirty crossbows fired at once, and a rain of arrows hit. The crowd of horse thieves screamed again and again, and ten people fell to the ground immediately.

"Oops! It's been exposed!" Luo Sanhei yelled in panic, and hurriedly asked Yuan Jinliang Xiangying, "Brother, what should I do?"

"Get on the horse and attack!" Yuan Jinliang shouted loudly, got on the horse first, and rushed out with the scimitar in hand.

It has to be said that Yuan Jinliang still has a bit of talent for fighting. In this situation, he can immediately 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 got on his horse with more than 100 horse thieves, he charged forward into the vast darkness. However, what surprised him was that after rushing forward for more than 200 meters, he found that there were only a group of horses and camels wandering here, not even half a person. He didn't even see it, and he immediately realized that it was not good.

"Shoot!" Li Hao's voice came, and another rain of arrows hit. Fortunately, their personnel were scattered this time, and only five people fell from their horses. They died before seeing the enemy's figure. Man, Yuan Jinliang has never encountered such a strange battle since he was a horse thief, and suddenly lost all fighting spirit, he shouted anxiously: "Retreat, retreat quickly, the enemy has a crossbow!"

The crossbow was a very terrifying weapon in ancient times. It basically belonged to the existence of a plug-in. The power of the crossbow far surpassed that of a bow and arrow. According to historical records, the most powerful crossbow in the Tang Dynasty could penetrate a one-centimeter-thick iron plate. Of course, this is A heavy-duty crossbow can't be used by one person, but what is the concept of penetrating a one-centimeter-thick iron plate? It's even better than a pistol.

Moreover, the accuracy of the crossbow is very high. If a recruit wants to practice bow and arrow, it is difficult to achieve success without more than one year. The crossbow is different. A recruit can use the crossbow to kill the enemy on the battlefield after only three or five days of training. The key point is that the crossbow can be used while riding a horse. Although bows and arrows can also be used, but if you want to shoot with a bow and arrow on horseback, you must be a master of bows and horses, otherwise you will not be able to shoot at all.

If there are any disadvantages of the crossbow, it is that the cost is too expensive and the manufacturing speed is too slow. Let alone the complicated structure, the selection of wood and the manufacturing process of the crossbow arm alone are a hundred times more complicated than that of the bow tire. Zhang Yishi’s strong bow only costs two pennies, and a craftsman can make it in three or four days. However, it takes at least seventy pennies to make a crossbow of similar grade, which takes one and a half months. No matter how many craftsmen are used to make it, it still takes so long The time has nothing to do with the number of people, because there is a craft that soaks the crossbow arm with special oil, and then air-dries it after soaking. It takes five to seven days for each soaking and air-drying, so it can be repeated many times, and it depends on luck , because many crossbow arms are easily deformed during the air-drying process, which leads to a 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 only very elite troops in the Tang Dynasty can be equipped with crossbows, and only 100 of the [-] guards who escorted Li Hao this time were equipped with crossbows. crossbow.

Just because the crossbow is a perverted weapon, Yuan Jinliang was shocked when he found out that the enemy had a crossbow. Of course, the main reason was because the enemy was in the dark and they were in the light. Although they had an advantage in numbers, they were now weak Morale, he didn't dare to take the risk, it was safer to escape.

Yuan Jinliang led all the horse thieves back and fled. Li Hao hurriedly led the crowd to chase and shoot at the rear. Three rounds of continuous shooting left nearly [-] horse thieves dead. Of course, some people were only injured and fell off the horse, but they also temporarily lost their ability to move. .

"Pursue, leave no one behind!" Li Hao's voice was like a sentence from hell, extremely cold.

Thirty special soldiers got on their horses and started chasing after another round of salvo. Five horse thieves fell off their horses with arrows. Some horse thieves were struggling to escape along the way, but they were all pierced by the special soldiers' spears and fell powerlessly in the desert. .

"Set fire to the camp! Those women are in the camp! Burn them to death!" Yuan Jinliang yelled deliberately, knowing that he might not be able to escape.

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

However, countless torches were already lit at the horse thief camp, and four or five tents were seen on fire at the same time, and it developed into a raging fire in just a dozen seconds, and began to spread to the surrounding tents.

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

Seeing that they chose to save people instead of chasing them, Yuan Jinliang knew that he had made the right bet, so he smiled triumphantly and said loudly: "Take the camels, let's go!" After speaking, he took the group of camels laden with gold and left gracefully.

"Found someone! The mistresses are here!" A special soldier yelled, and other people rushed away after hearing the sound. After only a moment, they rescued the four women inside, but they were still in a coma.

Li Hao came over to see that there were only four people, and he couldn't help but asked anxiously: "Why are there only four, and there is one Xiao Di! No, there are two more, and Silver Fox is not here either!"

The rescuers replied one after another: "Master, when we came, there were only four mistresses inside, and no one else was found."

"Keep looking! You must find it!" Li Hao ordered loudly.

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

After a while, the fire had grown into a raging fire. Standing outside the camp, Li Hao was scorching his face from the heat wave. Special soldiers rushed out one after another. , but fortunately, everyone came out, but their answers were very consistent and they were not found.

"Could it be that he was burned to death in the tent that caught fire first?" Li Hao murmured to himself in despair, he was unwilling to accept this reality.

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

"Yes, it's very possible!" Li Hao raised his head suddenly. He very much hoped for this result, because as long as people are still alive, there is still hope.

"Then shall we go after him?" Lu Yun asked.

Hearing this, Li Hao thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "Don't rush to chase, go back and pack up the horses and camels, don't let them get lost, or you will definitely not be able to catch up with the horse thief!"

So everyone went to collect the horses and camels one after another. Fortunately, the horses and camels were very good and they were all there.

Next, Li Hao ordered everyone to rest, and they rested by the fire. The night in the desert is colder, but it is warmer here, and there will be no wolves to harass them, because wolves are afraid of fire.

After driving for such a long time, even the brutally trained special forces were a little tired. 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. Everyone held their weapons in their arms. They used to do this when they were training, and they were used to it.

After only sleeping for two hours, the sky was already getting dark, Li Hao ordered everyone to get up, and went to the burned tents to look for corpses, but in the end there were no corpses.

Li Hao was secretly happy, explaining that Xiao Di was not dead yet, he ordered decisively to continue chasing the horse thief!
(End of this chapter)