Dynasty Conquest

Chapter 176 Enemy Attack!

In the wilderness north of Keluo City, the Third Banner Regiment of the First Corps of the Nanchuan Army was trudging on a muddy road. The melted snow made the road muddy, and the soldiers stepped on the mud with one foot deep and one foot shallow. , The curses continued.

Suddenly the whole procession stopped, and the soldiers stretched their necks, looking forward to see what was going on.

Ye Fei, head of the banner, waved his whip and ran forward.

"What's going on! Why is the road blocked?!" Ye Fei quickly rushed to the front of the team and asked loudly.

"Sir, the wheels are stuck in a mud puddle." The soldier with a face full of mud said helplessly, pointing at the cart stuck in the mud puddle.

Ye Fei frowned and asked, "What's in the cart?"

"Sir, it's our crossbow."

Ye Fei said impatiently: "Come here, push the car into the ditch, don't block the road and affect the advance of the troops."

"Sir, don't throw it away, we transported it all the way from Mucheng—" The crossbowmen regarded the crossbow as their life, and hurriedly knelt down and begged.

The guards following Ye Fei got off their horses, ignored the pleas of the crossbowmen, shouted, and overturned the cart with the crossbow in the ditch beside the road.

Ye Fei shouted loudly towards the team: "Speed ​​up! Camp in Jiuyuan City tonight!"

The continuous victories have made the Ye Feiqi regiment pervade a sense of arrogance and belittle the enemy from top to bottom. In the past week, they captured eight cities and advanced thousands of miles. This is something they have never done before. victory.

Both Ye Fei and the officers and soldiers believe that they only need to keep moving forward, and their enemies will be defeated without a fight, but this is indeed the case.

Because the Ye Feiqi regiment was advancing so fast that the messengers sent by Lin Chuan could not catch up with them and lost the last chance to save them.

Liu Erhu, who had already served as the commander of the scout battalion of the Second Banner Regiment, smelled an unusual smell in the air from clues.

In a village full of gunpowder, they saw such a scene. All the local residents were killed, blood stained the streets, and the corpses of the residents were hanging on the big trees at the entrance of the village, which looked particularly horrifying.

As a scout commander, Liu Erhu couldn't figure out why the retreating Dynasty army would do this, why would they kill all these residents?Is it a demonstration?Liu Erhu shook his head.

"Go to the village and look for any survivors—" Liu Erhu got off his horse and ordered to the scout soldiers behind him.

Soon, the scout soldiers came out of the village with a crazy woman.

"Horse...horse..." The woman was insane, facing Liu Erhu's interrogation, her lips and teeth were slurred, but Liu Erhu still heard the horse in her mouth.

Liu Erhu suddenly turned his head and told the scout cavalry behind him: "Search around carefully to see if there are any horses or horseshoe marks! Hurry up!"

The scouts had never seen Liu Erhu so nervous, they had long been used to Liu Erhu's calmness, but this did not prevent them from obeying orders resolutely.

Soon, the panicked scout cavalry rushed to report: "I found a large number of horseshoe prints to the east of the village."

Liu Erhu hurriedly got on his horse and went to investigate in person. When he saw the dense horseshoe prints on the muddy field, Liu Erhu's face turned pale.

"Quick! Quick! Go back!" Liu Erhu shouted hastily.

As an experienced scout, Liu Erhu could tell from the horseshoe prints that at least tens of thousands of cavalry had trampled on it. Even thinking of the village that had just been attacked, Liu Erhu's back was drenched in cold sweat.

All the information points to the fact that there is a cavalry force of tens of thousands hidden nearby.

Now there is only the Second Banner Regiment of the Nanchuan Army within a hundred miles, and the Second Banner Regiment only has a thousand-man cavalry. Liu Erhu has learned the cruel fact that this cavalry is the enemy.

They slaughtered villages just to hide their whereabouts, and Liu Erhu was 80.00% sure that this enemy cavalry was heading for the Second Banner Regiment.

On the muddy field, Liu Erhu was in a state of anxiety, whipping his horse continuously, and galloped towards the marching column of the Second Banner Regiment. The scout soldiers behind him also looked solemn. They knew what would happen if the infantry in the fast march met the cavalry .

After an hour of galloping at extreme speed, when Liu Erhu jumped off his horse, tears flashed in his eyes. The horse accompanying him let out a mournful cry and foamed at the mouth.

The Second Banner Regiment had camped, and in the entire camp, except for the soldiers on duty, everyone else had already crawled into the military tent and fell asleep.

The one-week continuous forced march had exhausted the soldiers of the Second Banner Regiment to the limit. Commander Ye Fei finally had to delay the speed of advance and ordered to rest for one night.

"Captain Liu Qian, you're back." The soldiers guarding the camp greeted Liu Erhu with a smile as usual.

But Liu Erhu couldn't care less about answering, and hurriedly walked straight to the tent of the regiment commander Ye Feiqi, and he wanted to report the news that he found out as soon as possible.

In Ye Fei's camp, a small military meeting was being held. They were discussing how to attack Jiuyuan City, the capital of Jiuyuan Province. After all, the Second Banner Regiment only had 1 people, and a strong attack would cause many casualties.

"Brother, please inform me that I have something important to report." Liu Erhu said anxiously to the guard.

The guard squinted at an iron eagle badge on Liu Erhu's collar badge, and said disdainfully, "Just wait, your lord is holding a meeting."

"I have a major enemy report, so please forgive me."

The guard's face turned cold: "I told you everything, my lord is holding a meeting, why are you a little thousand-man leader here?"

The surrounding guards all looked at this side mockingly. Now Ye Fei is the majestic banner leader. Even those banner battalion commanders have to respectfully give gifts to the guards if they want to see him. understand this.

Liu Erhu saw that the guard was determined not to let him in, so he gritted his teeth, took advantage of the guard's daze, pushed the guard away, and broke in.

"My lord, I have something important to report to you." Liu Erhu shouted loudly.

More than a dozen generals in the military tent all turned their heads to look at Liu Erhu, and the meeting was interrupted.

Ye Fei's face darkened, and he asked: "Liu Qian, don't you know that we are holding a confidential meeting? Or did you mean it on purpose?!"

Regardless of Ye Fei's questioning, Liu Erhu said anxiously: "My lord, we found a large number of horseshoe prints thirty miles to the east, and there is an enemy cavalry of tens of thousands of people active nearby."

Sergeant Major Li Ke sneered: "Major Liu Qian, have you seen the enemy cavalry with your own eyes?"

Liu Erhu shook his head: "It's my judgment. There must be cavalry around us ready to attack us. We can't move forward. I suggest to move closer to the Chinese army immediately."

Ye Fei sneered: "Captain Liu Qian, I guess you must be delusional. Our road is like a broken bamboo. The enemy fled, and half of the enemy's shadow was not seen. Now you come to say that tens of thousands of cavalry are ready Don't you think it's a joke to attack us?"

"But..." Liu Erhu opened his mouth, but was interrupted by Ye Fei waving his hand.

"Captain Liu Qian, you have just been transferred from the First Banner Regiment. We can understand your desire to make meritorious service, but you must not indiscriminately report military information. You must know the consequences of lying about military information." Ye Fei's subsequent words were already a warning up.

"Come on, send Chief Liu Qian back to rest, he is too tired." Before Liu Erhu could speak, Ye Fei had already ordered.

Several wolf-like guards escorted Liu Erhu out.Liu Erhu was so angry that his seven orifices were full of smoke, but for the safety of the Second Banner Regiment, Liu Erhu made a bold decision.

(End of this chapter)