Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 1071

After a journey of more than 200 miles, it took seven days to walk, and finally it was only a dozen miles away from the camp of Baturmu. No matter whether those people were real horse thieves or people from Xiangfu Kingdom, they were so close , will not attack too close to the main force of the wolf guards, the entire food and grass team can't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The five thousand wolf guards who escorted the food and grass were all light cavalry. Everyone carried a longbow and held a spear or a sword. They were the real elite, but they didn't have much protection against the cold, even though they grew up in the Western Regions. , I am used to the harsh weather here, but I still can't stop the cold wind from whistling down my neck, and my lips are blue from the cold. The wooden wheels of the simple and clumsy car are covered with a thick layer of mud. It seemed to weigh about ten catties, and the strong men recruited from the two tribes pushed the cart. They would have been tired and exhausted after such a long journey, not to mention the road conditions. The army will whip them down with a whip, and even kill them directly. They can't hold on anymore.

Five thousand wolf guards rode on war horses, brandishing whips and yelling at the people pushing the carts to hurry up. The strong men pushing the carts thought that this terrible job would be over soon, so they mustered up their last strength and tried their best to hurry on the road and fight for Arrive at the Wolf Guard camp before evening.None of them noticed a sea dongqing hovering high above the sky.

In Xiangfu Kingdom, each legion leader will have a sea dongqing, which is used to scout the enemy's situation and send emergency military situation at critical moments.The stone wolf wanted to sneak into the hinterland of the Xizhou Uighur country from Yuhe to make trouble, so Huang Dongqiu gave his Hai Dongqing to the stone wolf for use.

At this time, the horse thieves, who were divided into five teams of thousands by the stone wolf, determined the exact location of the Wolf Guard's food and grass team from Haidongqing's location, and then rushed towards the long dragon transporting food from five directions.

There were two thousand cavalry in front, two thousand cavalry on each side, and another thousand cavalry behind, outflanking them from all directions. When they were five miles away, the scouts sent by the wolf guards hurriedly warned the grain and grass troops. As soon as it was reported to the army, five cavalry came roaring from all directions, only two or three miles away from their target. There was a thunderous sound of hooves, and with the cold wind coming, the food transport team of the Wolf Guards suddenly became agitated.

Because the stone wolves wanted to pretend to be horse thieves, their attire was different from that of the Volunteer Army. Everyone wore gray wolfskin robes, sheepskin hats, and earmuffs. Only a pair of fierce eyes were exposed, and their hands were wrapped in In a layer of fur, only ten fingers were exposed, holding the steel knife tightly in his hand.

In the current situation, the Five Thousand Wolf Guards had experienced more than a dozen times along the way. It has to be said that they tried their best to protect the food and grass, but failed to let the stone wolf succeed every time.But the ten or so times of coming down made the five thousand wolf guards exhausted. In addition, they thought that they had reached their destination, near the camp, and these hateful horse thieves would not come again, so they relaxed a little. I was really exhausted, so my reaction was a little slow. Although I divided the troops into five parts to launch a countercharge against the incoming enemy in five directions as I did a dozen times before, to intercept the incoming enemy, but because they were given the distance to charge If it is too short, the speed of the cavalry will not increase, and the combat power will be greatly reduced.You must know that the cavalry charged at each other, just like two torrents rushing at each other. When the numbers are equal and the combat strength is equal, speed is crucial, not to mention that they are really tired.The final result is that they failed to intercept the stone wolf's charge in five directions this time. They were pierced through, which means that they suffered heavy casualties, but this is not important. The important thing is that the food and grass team was exposed to the In front of the five thousands of people from Stone Wolf's side.

Next to the grain cart were two thousand strong Uighurs who used to push the cart. These people were not ordinary people. They pulled out various weapons from the cart one after another, and then relied on the cart to form a defensive formation.

It's a pity that they were too tired because of the pushcarts being squeezed all the way, and they didn't have much strength on their bodies, so their movements involuntarily slowed down, but Shi Lang and the five thousand-man team had already reached the extreme speed. The three thousand elites had just formed a prototype relying on the grain truck defense formation, and Shi Lang's five thousand-man team had already led their men to twenty or thirty steps ahead, dismounted their horses and galloped like arrows, with four bursts of fast crossbows in their hands. They had already shot at these strong Uighurs with only simple leather robes on them. Each of the five thousand cavalrymen fired four crossbow arrows. Before the two thousand strong cavalrymen rushed to the front, nearly half of them were already dead. Quite a few also shot feather arrows in their hands, but they didn't have much strength. Not to mention, everyone on the stone wolf side had a horse shield, so only three or four people on the stone wolf side were hit by arrows and fell off the horse. The pace and speed of the five cavalry teams advanced Not affected in the slightest.

The five wolf guard cavalry who were left behind were anxious to die, but in the snow, the horses were very tired. In this case, it took a process to turn the horse's head and rush over.During this process, the five-way cavalry on the Stone Wolf side gave full play to the maneuverability of the cavalry, assembled quickly, outflanked, assaulted and interspersed, and cut and fought. After that, it quickly collapsed, and then many people from Shilang's party quickly picked up the light fuel oil they had prepared before and poured it on the grain truck. Xiangfu Guo used the newly invented match of gunpowder to easily ignite the grain truck, and Wuqian finally turned around. The wolf guards at the head watched the grain carts being set ablaze, and frantically chased after the stone wolves, but the stone wolves, relying on their horses' strength, were faster than the tired horses of the wolf guards, and quickly moved away from the battlefield. scattered away.

Seeing that the food and grass were burned, and it was too late to put out the fire, the general who led the five thousand wolf guards was also a ruthless character, and he knew that Baturmu would probably kill himself after returning, unless he could keep the five thousand hateful horse thieves behind , So he didn't order to put out the fire, but also divided into five cavalry and chased after the stone wolf.

It didn't take long before the five wolf guards and light cavalry were led into the minefields that had been planted in advance by the stone wolf side. The strong explosion caused the five chasing soldiers to fall into chaos, not to mention many casualties. At this time, they were chasing The cavalry on the side of the five stone wolves suddenly turned their horses and charged back at them.

Half an hour later, less than 500 of the [-] wolf guard light cavalry who escorted the food and grass escaped, and all the others were beheaded by the stone wolf.

The stone wolf spent more than ten days to turn the five thousand wolf guards into a tired army, and their combat power dropped a lot. They also used the latter to approach the slack heart of the camp, carried out a surprise attack, burned the food, and expected that the wolf guards who had fallen into madness He will desperately catch up, plant mines in advance, and lead the latter into the minefield, easily annihilating the enemy.This battle not only successfully burned the only food and grass that Baturmu could raise in a short period of time, but also wiped out nearly 300 enemies, while the stone wolf lost less than [-] people.

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In the middle camp of the Wolf Guards, generals above the commander-in-chief sat on both sides, and Batumu, whose face was so gloomy that he could drip water, sat on the head.The [-] or so remnant soldiers had fled back, and they naturally knew that the food and grass were burned, and the escorting food and grass were almost wiped out.

"Now it seems that the five thousand horse thieves who burned, killed and looted everywhere behind us are the stone wolves, the commander of the first brigade of the cavalry of the Volunteer Legion. When fighting on the plains and snow, we have to escort food and grass, so we can only be beaten passively. The stone wolves roam the grasslands. On the road, I continued to carry out fatigue tactics on my food delivery team. In the harassment attack, not only did my escorting food and grass troops exhausted, but in the end, taking advantage of the relaxation of the idiot Duo Rago's mind, I delivered a fatal blow. The idiot Duo Rago was worried about coming back He was punished by me, so he desperately chased after him, and fell into the trick of the other party."

Baturmu has a habit, every time he fails, he will analyze the reason and tell his subordinates.However, for so many years, he has rarely seen such a fiasco like these days. Even when he was fighting against the fierce Black Khanate, he had never lost more than 5000 people in such a tragic way these days. The opponent's casualties were only three or four hundred.

"The most important thing is, not to mention that it is difficult for our nearby tribes to raise food and grass in a short period of time. Even if we can raise food and grass, it will be difficult to transport food and grass with the stone wolf leading people behind. And now our troops have already less than the other party."

When Baturmu said this, he glanced over the silent generals, suppressed the overwhelming anger in his heart, sighed, and said: "I thought that as long as we let our son and the Volunteer Army fight head-on, with our battle He will be able to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop, but that Huang Dongqiu is extremely hateful, he just doesn’t come out of the camp to fight with us. Now it seems that his purpose is to fight us when we have no food and people are hungry. Right now There is no food for our 6000 troops, let alone a war, even if we just stay in this barracks, it will be difficult for us to survive for three days."

Speaking of this, Baturmu looked defeated, his eyes swept over his face one by one from the crowd, and said in a deep voice: "We have lost this battle, and now we can only retreat!"

All the generals breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

Baturmu's eyes became serious and solemn, and he murmured: "It's just that I'm worried that Huang Dongqiu's bastard... won't let us retreat smoothly. But during our retreat, if they come across that nasty big The battalion has caught up, and in a real field battle, we are not without a chance to turn defeat into victory."

At this moment, the sound of horseshoes came from outside, and then a cavalryman covered in blood was brought in. As soon as he entered, he knelt down in front of Baturmu and said, "General Qi, Yu He The country's [-] troops marched into the Heyang Valley, and the king has mobilized [-] troops to take precautions. In addition, it has been found that the [-] horse thieves sneaked into our country from the territory of Yuhe. Now fifteen tribes in our country have been captured by them. In the attack, five of them were wiped out, four were seriously injured, and other tribes also suffered losses. The king has mobilized [-] troops to surround them. In addition, Lie Kadongbu, who fled into the desert, brought back [-] rebels and killed them again. Your Majesty mobilized an army of [-] to deal with them."

(End of this chapter)