Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 377
The white clouds in the sky were torn into countless scales by the east wind, and the sun in the blue sky gently irradiated everything on the earth.

On the grassland, reflecting the early summer sun, there are large and small puddles, smooth leaves, dewdrops hidden under the grass leaves, and densely packed swords.

The Allied Forces of the Eighteen Divisions of Yunbei successfully gained the upper hand. The eyes of all people, young and old, were extremely firm. Everyone's hands did not tremble with old swords and long poles of herding horses, and they wore the thickest leather at home.

Ancient and boundless songs echoed on the grassland, and wizards of various tribes also chanted to the sky and the sun with sharpened wooden sticks.The hands of the old and the young were raised above their heads, and they prayed to the gods, the sun and the ancestors as the wizards chanted.

The horses under the seat were wandering restlessly, and the old people on the horses were faintly singing and praising the gods and ancestors. Their eyes did not fluctuate, as if they were just going to a wedding at an old friend's house in the next moment.

The three thousand cavalry of the Beibei people spread out like wild goose wings two miles away from the coalition army.

The war horses of these Beibei people kicked their hooves easily, and the swords and lances of the warriors on the horses were quietly left on the scabbards and saddles.The Beibei people are smiling and watching their opponents praying, and they don't care about it.

Let them pray to their heart's content, even if they are given the upper hand, these experienced cavalrymen seem to be at ease.

When the horns of the tribal coalition began to sound, and more than 2000 war horses began to gallop, there was still no movement from the Beibei people, but among the war horses of all the Beibei people, the fine-tuning of positions began naturally, and the wild goose wings extended to the left and right. hundreds of steps.

When the cavalry confronted each other, losing speed was extremely terrifying. After the cavalry of the coalition army crossed a distance of one mile, formed a front arrow formation, and entered the stage of sprinting with all their strength, the Beibei cavalry slowly began to run.

The leading row of Beibei cavalry accelerated quickly. They easily bypassed the "Feng Shi" coming at high speed, and led the Beibei cavalry behind them to start galloping towards the two wings of the coalition army.

The two armies crossed each other almost perfectly.

When the coalition cavalry reined in their horses, both men and horses began to turn around in a panic, breathing heavily.

The Beibei cavalry has easily occupied the upper air position.

At the moment when the coalition forces were about to complete the turn, the Beibei people who had completed the turn ahead of time began to charge from the upper wind.

There was some confusion among the coalition forces.

Seeing that the Beibei people who had begun to charge also formed a relatively loose front line, the commander of the coalition army began to greet his troops loudly.

"Go around from both sides!" They shouted loudly, ready to learn from the Beibei people.

The coalition forces dragged their feet and divided into two teams of different numbers, and began to bypass the two wings of the Beibei people.

But at this moment, at the forefront of the loose "Feng Shi" of the Beibei people, Mo Bahu and his deputy Chi Wuba's horses came out more and more, and the two sneered and ran towards a coalition cavalry.

Under the leadership of the two men, the three thousand Beibei cavalry were divided into two small front arrows like clouds and flowing water, and chopped down at the two coalition forces who only cared about circling the sides.

The middle section of the two coalition cavalry was easily cut off by the Beibei people, and the coalition army was dispersed by the Beibei people almost instantly, and they could only fight with the Beibei people with bravery and instinct.

The Beibei people's riding battles are very methodical.

For example, after the 500 people led by Mo Bahu broke through the middle of a coalition force, thousands of people roared past, while the 500 people behind were divided into more than ten groups and fought together with the coalition forces who dared to stop and resist.

Any coalition forces that dare to pursue Mo Bahu's ass will be stopped by these small cavalry.

Therefore, Mo Bahu's thousand-man team easily completed the turn again without any interference, and the entire thousand-man team turned around and rushed over again.

The coalition forces that had just shown signs of gathering were dispersed again, and the remaining five hundred Beibei cavalry also took the opportunity to leave the battlefield with the brigade's charge.

The unreconciled leaders prepared to gather their hands to chase after Mo Bahu's tail, but at this moment, Chiwuba on the other end, like Mo Bahu, had just smashed another coalition army again, and the other end was facing this way without any slowdown. The battlefield is coming.

Mo Bahu and Chiwuba successfully completed the battlefield exchange, completely breaking up the coalition forces that had gathered again.

From the time the coalition forces began to charge until now, only a stick of incense has passed.

The successive casualties and passivity wiped out the little trust among the tribal coalition forces.They can only greet their scattered clansmen nearby, but often only a few people gather, and they will be easily defeated by the Beibei centurions.

At this moment, the outcome on the battlefield has been divided.

In the temporary camp behind the coalition forces, the priests began to chant mournfully again, and tents were set ablaze by those left behind.

Thick smoke rushed into the sky, and soon a column of smoke was ignited ten miles away.

The meaning of the smoke column is to warn the women and children of various ministries who are evacuating westward in the distance, "Don't look back!"

At an altitude of 600 meters, a dark shadow hovered over the battlefield.

The scene of the battlefield was transmitted to the terminal more than ten miles away through Wu Renji.

The coalition forces had almost collapsed, and Zhang Zhe also felt a little terrified by the strong combat power of the Beibei people.

A few days earlier, he brought [-] cavalry and [-] horses to the vicinity of the Beibei people.

In the past few days, he has learned a lot from the Beibei people.

For example, when Mo Bahu was marching, his scouting detection range covered twenty li, front, back, left, and right, and almost no one could sneak attack him.

Even when they were fighting against the coalition forces, there were still several Beibei reconnaissance cavalry wandering within ten miles around the battlefield.

Through Wu Renji's observation, Zhang Zhe found that these reconnaissance cavalry were the best among Beibei people.

Each of the scouts had another horse with them, and the horse they didn't ride was obviously better than the horse the scouts were riding now.Zhang Zhe guessed that after discovering the enemy's situation, these scouts would immediately switch to another vigorous and faster horse to return.

Zhang Zhe wrote down all these details in a notebook.

The reason why he only brought 600 people with him was because even with Wu Renji's warning, he was still 600 miles away from the Beibei people. If he wanted to avoid being discovered by the Beibei people in advance, the [-] people had already reached the upper limit.

If there are more, the mobility of the troops will become worse, increasing the possibility of being discovered in advance by the Beibei people.

"Lang Jun, these Beibei people are very powerful!"

Zhang Zhe and Zhang Sanqi hid alone on a mountain bag, watching the live broadcast of the battlefield.The 600 people and [-] horses led by Gao Deshu rested at the foot of the mountain.

"That's why we are still a bit young to play horse battles with the Beibei people. Even if the armored cavalry confronts them, it will be useless if they can't catch up with them."

Zhang Zhe didn't mean to be discouraged. There was no word "force it" in his tactics.

Manipulating Wu Renji again, zooming in on the camera, and looking at the corpses of some Beibei people who died in battle for a long time, Zhang Zhe finally made up his mind.

"It's almost there," Zhang Zhe stood up and waved his hand at the foot of the mountain, "It's time for Gao Deshu to do his work."

Gao Deshu at the foot of the mountain saw the prefect beckoning, and immediately led five hundred cavalry to drive the other three hundred horses around to the northeast.

Only one hundred cavalry were left to continue guarding the prefect.

To the northeast is the temporary camp of Beibei people!
After Gao Deshu's troops entered the eight-mile range of the battlefield at high speed, the Beibei scouts discovered them.

The three scouts immediately switched to another horse and galloped towards the battlefield. The other seven or eight people circled around Gao Deshu with bows and arrows, preparing to slow down Gao Deshu's actions.

It's a pity that the range of their bows and arrows is too touching. Before they could enter their range, with the sound of a crossbow, hundreds of crossbows covered the seven or eight scouts.

Only three reconnaissance cavalry rushed past the cover of the ballista by chance, and they still rushed to the vicinity of Gao Deshu without fear, ready to draw their bows and shoot.There was another burst of crossbow bolts, and fifty crossbow arrows once again covered the three scouts.

Zhang Zhe strengthened all the hand crossbows imitated by Xu Jidao, a total of 150, to Gao Deshu's five hundred cavalry.The crossbow bodies of these hand crossbows are all made of cloud steel, and the bow strings are all modern high-strength steel wires. The range and lethality are more than double that of the Beibei people's riding bows.

Gao Deshu didn't encounter any obstacles, and quickly approached the temporary camp of the Beibei people.

The fifty Beibei cavalry who stayed behind in the camp had quickly lined up outside the camp.

But the next moment, the leading Beibei Centurion's expression changed drastically.

Those cavalrymen of unknown forces who came to attack suddenly slowed down, and covered the eyes of their horses with blindfolds, allowing hundreds of empty horses with unknown pockets to run ahead.Then these shameless guys held up torches and lit the tails of these hundreds of empty horses.

The three hundred fire horses neighed angrily, and under the stimulation of the flames, they increased their speed to the fastest speed in their lives, leaving a trail of fire shadows on the grassland.

The war horses of the Beibei people also became frightened and manic, making it impossible for the Beibei people to control these frightened war horses.

Even if the Beibei people poked the buttocks of the horses with knives, or tried to appease their ears and manes desperately, they could not stop these horses from escaping the route of the galloping fire horses.

Witnessing the tragic situation of the same kind with their own eyes, all the Beibei warhorses fell into extreme panic.

The fire horses rushed past the original position of the Beibei cavalry, knocked down the fragile fence, and rushed into the temporary camp of the Beibei people.

Gao Deshu led five hundred cavalrymen waving torches, and as the fire horses rushed into the camp, they wanted to light something they could see.

"Food!" Zhang Zhe told Zhang Sanqi categorically from a distance, "Gao Deshu must burn all the food of the Beibei people! I found out before that when they went to battle, they only carried a small bag with them, and the bag contained about One day's rations. The ministries in Yunnan have already moved westward, and there was not much food in the camps of the ministries, and now they are burned into a sea of ​​flames. Only if we can burn the baggage of the Beibei people can we gain the initiative in this battle."

"Lang Jun wants to starve them to death?"

"They won't die from starvation," Zhang Zhe was well aware of the combat capabilities of these elite prairie cavalry. "Although there is a dogma in the Beibei people's teachings that they don't eat horse meat, when they are really hungry, they can eat horse meat even by drinking horse blood." Can retreat to where supplies are available."

"With the destruction of their logistics, and the fact that all ministries in Yunnan have moved westward, they can only put their hope of obtaining food in Yunshang County, which cannot be moved. It will take them at least six days to return to the Beibei people's own territory, and go south to Yunshang County , it only takes more than a day."

"Gao Deshu has succeeded," Zhang Zhe immediately jumped on his horse when he saw that the camp of Beibei people on the screen quickly turned into a sea of ​​flames, and Gao Deshu's troops also rushed out from the other side, " Let's go."

Hundreds of cavalry immediately surrounded Zhang Zhe and galloped towards the south quickly.

Zhang Sanqi ran beside Zhang Zhe on horseback.

"Sir, let's go back to defend the city?"

"No!" Zhang Zhe smiled, "Let's wait for them by the Banjiang River!"

Before Gao Deshu rushed into the Beibei people's temporary camp, Mo Bahu got a warning from the scouts.

Mo Ba, who has been through battle for a long time, immediately guessed what Gao Deshu was going to do.

He didn't care about continuing to encircle and annihilate the remaining coalition forces, and hastily mobilized two centurions to follow him all the way to the camp.But when he was just starting, thick smoke was already rising from the Beibei temporary camp.

Staying at the camp were fifty elite riders under Mo Bahu who were second only to scouts, but they didn't delay the enemy's charge, not even for a breath!

When Gao Deshu burned Mo Bahu's camp into a flaming mountain, and then slipped away non-stop, Mo Bahu's return troops only ran more than half of the way.

Looking at the sea of ​​flames in front of him, sparks almost burst out in Mo Bahu's eyes.But most of their horsepower has been consumed in the battle, and even if he wants to use high morality, he will definitely not be able to catch up.

Great!
Mo Ba couldn't believe that under the search of his cavalry, there were still hundreds of cavalry hiding around the battlefield.

"My lord, it's those Central Plains people!" The centurion who stayed in the camp left the only clue for Mo Bahu before he knew himself.

The battle started in the morning and ended before noon. Both sides had no sense of joy whether they won or lost.

Relying on the interference of Gao Deshu's fire, more than 400 coalition cavalry finally escaped successfully.

In this battle, Mo Bahu only got more than 300 prisoners and more than 100 horses in the end, as well as three to four hundred corpses of Yunnan people.

That fire demoralized the Beibei people and gave the coalition soldiers the courage to resist.It was precisely because of the withdrawal of the cavalry of the coalition forces that the horses who had lost their owners also ran away after the horses.

Chiuba angrily chopped off the head of a prisoner, and his men were slaughtering all the prisoners.

They didn't have enough food, so they simply killed all the captives, which was also a means for Mo Bahu to gather the morale of the army.

Wiping off the blood on his face, Chiwuba came to Mo Bahu's side panting heavily.

"My lord, we only have more than one day's ration left, what should we do now?"

Mo Bahu threw away the grass roots in his mouth, and grinned coldly at the south.

"Those cowardly people from the Central Plains, they think that if we burn our food, we can only retreat. This is forcing my lord to clean up this group of rabbits first! Let the warriors only drink horses from today to tomorrow morning Blood, save the food until the end. Let's go south immediately and drive those Central Plains people out from behind the high wall, and then hang them one by one!"

"Yes, my lord!"

After performing in front of his subordinates, Mo Bahu immediately pulled Chi Uba and bit his ear.

"You immediately choose 300 people, one person and two horses, bring most of the dry food, catch up with the Central Plains people for me, kill them, and then take their food and grass! Chiuba, listen, if you fail , you have to turn your head and leave. By tomorrow morning, I still won’t get the news of your success. I will take my people back. I’m just telling you that the Central Plains people with the city walls can’t be solved in a day or two. !"

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