Fan Feng was obviously a little scared, and this was normal. If he hadn't hidden in the valley in advance, more than 20 cavalry in his family would have been caught up with by this military horse. At that time, the situation would be no different from a sheep entering the tiger's mouth.
Iron armor is an important strategic material at present. A soldier with a knife and armor is enough to defeat more than ten soldiers with the same training level but not armor. However, the iron armor is made in complex, difficult to maintain, and the damage rate in battle is extremely high. Lei Yuan vaguely remembers that Yuan Shao, the overlord of Hebei, ruled hundreds of thousands of people in the four states, and the iron armor it possessed was only ten thousand leaders. Cao Gong, who occupied Yanzhou at that time, was only "twenty leaders of the great armor" in his hand. If this cavalry team does have many iron armor cavalry, the power of the storm on the battlefield will be enough to defeat dozens of times the enemy. And what strength and scale will the army that can equip the scout cavalry with a large amount of iron armor?
Don’t say that Fan Feng is afraid, Lei Yuan himself is afraid.
He suddenly thought that he had a huge omission in his judgment of the situation. Because Zhang Xi had led a thousand cavalry to rescue him before, when he was guessing the number of the second batch of reinforcements, he subconsciously used one thousand cavalry as the benchmark: maybe three thousand? five thousand? But... what if more? What if Cao Gong waved to Huainan this time was a real heavy punch that was enough to hit Wu Hou? He didn't care about thinking about it and turned around suddenly: "The enemy's reconnaissance cavalry is like this, which shows that its headquarters is extremely large. Even if we take risks, we have to leave as soon as possible, otherwise we will be trapped in the marching ranks of the Cao army's large army, and there will be big trouble!"
Turning around, he saw Fan Hong holding his ears on the ground again. Fan Feng looked at his brother nervously.
After a while, Fan Hong stood up: "Another cavalry came to the southwest!"
The second group of cavalry should have followed the road at the junction of the southern mountainous areas and the plains, and went east. The route was far from Xiaogu, so they could not see at all in the dim sky in the early morning, and only the sound of low horse hooves came faintly.
"Let's go!" He speeded up and prepared to evacuate as soon as possible.
The number of Cao's army was much larger than expected, and it really couldn't be delayed.
Fan Hong followed him a few steps and suddenly said in a stern voice: "Little Langjun, it seems that another team of cavalry is coming, the third team... it is still coming to our direction."
What kind of ghost luck is this! Lei Yuanqing couldn't help but complain.
The cavalry team was indeed heading towards Xiaogu. In the blink of an eye, even Lei Yuan could hear the heavy sound of iron hooves on the ground!
"You go and pass my orders, be careful to hide, people will kill people, and horses will kill horses!" Lei Yuan said sternly to Fan Feng.
Fan Feng ran to the depths of the dense forest.
Lei Yuan and Fan Hong walked tightly to the other side of the slope covered by the woods for a while, and their eyes gradually became widening. They hid behind a rock and looked out.
The figures of the cavalry gradually approached.
Their number was more than the previous two cavalry, about 500. Due to the complex road conditions, the cavalry did not march in columns, but moved at the same time along multiple parallel roads in the east and west directions, spreading a wide front nearly two miles.
As the distance got closer, Lei Yuan could clearly see that these cavalrymen were wearing black beast-faced croakers, black fish-scale iron armor, and the armor reflected the moonlight, emitting a dark luster. Their war horses were also wearing unified horse armor, and were painted with hideous tiger and leopard patterns on the face curtain and on their chests. Even their riding movements with one hand were surprisingly similar. Although the war horses ran quickly, the knights were calm. There was no doubt that these knights were all truly elites who could ride and shoot, circulate and retreat, and chasing the enemy and chasing the masses. When hundreds of them advanced neatly and in one person, this calmness naturally produced a strong sense of ferociousness and solemnity.
Get closer, the cavalry were roughly divided into two routes, north and south, bypassing the platform and forest where the valley was located, and continuing to go east. At the closest time, these cavalry were only more than ten feet away from the giant rock where Lei Yuan was hiding. You can see that there were often one or two or more black circular objects hanging on both sides of their saddles.
Lei Yuan took a deep breath.
He saw clearly that those black round objects were all heads.
Some are blue-black, and the heads that begin to twist and deform due to blood stasis; some are dripping with dirty blood, and the heads that have just been cut off; some are the heads of the elderly; some are the heads of children.
There were five hundred cavalrymen, each with heads hanging under his saddle, which was thousands or even more lives.
Lei Yuan could be sure that, including the troops directly under Lei Xu, no one dared to challenge the elite troops in front of him. He knew better that there was no established military organization within a radius of hundreds of miles. So, where did these heads come from? Who was killed by these cavalry?
Fan Hong suddenly cursed.
Lei Yuan saw a strong depression and annoyance in his eyes.
So he also thought of it in an instant. He stretched out his hand and wanted to pat Fan Hong on the shoulder as comfort, but found that his hand was trembling slightly.
Obviously, these heads are from the residents of the village and community who have not yet been evacuated.
Lei Yuan could imagine that when Cao's army came from west to east and entered the sphere of influence of the heroes in Huainan, they began to massacre and burn in an orderly manner. Including the five villages that were burned yesterday, perhaps more villages did not escape the butcher knives of these cavalrymen.
How many people are there in those villages? Five hundred or one thousand? How many people are almost bound to be caught up by Cao's army on the way? Two thousand or more?
These people were all people who appeared alive in front of Lei Yuan two days ago, and were the people Lei Yuan and others who worked hard for several days to save! But now it seems that these unarmed Qianli Cao people have all died under the sword of Cao Jun.
This large-scale massacre is not atrocities caused by some soldiers' emotions being out of control, nor is it atrocities on the battlefield to maximize the killing of the enemy. This must be an order from top to bottom, an organized and efficient action. This action is a terrifying intimidation to all those who dare to fight against the Cao army, or even those who have fought against the Cao army!
Anger mixed with chill, rushed straight to Lei Yuan's Tianlinggu. Lei Yuan had heard of Cao's cruelty. He had heard of the water surface where Cao's army passed, blocking a whole Sishui River. He had heard of the city in the hinterland of Xuzhou where corpses were everywhere, and only wild dogs eating human flesh were caring; but those were just rumors, stories that happened in distant places. Only when he witnessed these heads with his own eyes could he truly burst out from the depths of his heart.
He suddenly realized that what kind of talented politician, military strategist who used wars like a god, and passionate poet was the evaluation given by people who lived in a peaceful and comfortable environment thousands of years later. However, how can the evil deeds of wanton massacre of innocent people be washed away? How can the bones of those innocent people be ignored?
How could a tyrannical demon be able to shape such an inhuman army? And how could an inhuman beast be at the top of a brutal regime and enjoy wealth and glory with peace of mind? Perhaps countless people in the world have questioned in their hearts, and some even questioned at the cost of their lives... However, countless questions turned into powder under the increasing cruelty, and the only ones that could remain in the history books were cold and unpainable words.
As the cavalry gradually faded away, Lei Yuan stood up and slowly said: "These cavalry should be Cao Cao's personal guards, tiger and leopard cavalry. It is said that these people are all brave and always serve as vanguards in the battle. If there is any loss, a hundred people who are good at fighting will be selected from hundreds of thousands of troops to supplement them."
"Cao Gong's personal guard cavalry? Could it be..." Fan Hong thought about it and was suddenly shocked.
Lei Yuan had already gone to the valley.
When he jumped down the gap in the rock formation when he came, Guo was already arranged to feed the war horses. Everyone knew that there would be a long-distance running, so someone simply broke his dry food and fed it to the horses. At this time, the state of the horse can directly determine the life and death of a person, so ensuring the horse's spirit is more important than anything else.
"Little Langjun, what's the situation?" Fan Feng asked.
"The past few cavalry groups were not ordinary scouts, but tiger and leopard cavalry. The scale of the enemy was beyond imagination. I'm afraid that Mr. Cao had already led his troops here in person." Lei Yuan saw his subordinates' surprise expression, but did not lose his composure, so he continued: "Everyone sorted out a little, and we will leave immediately."
In an instant, the group had finished their stop.
Lei Yuan came out first, and then more than 20 people led horses to leave Xiaogu. Under the shade of forests, Lei Yuan greeted them one by one and sometimes patted them on the shoulders. He had enough social experience, had a very good grasp of his subordinates, and maintained a state of being both friendly and respectable.
Everyone is in good condition. Although they are a little tired, they are still energetic. Horses have been used a little hard these days and generally have lost weight. Fortunately, their foundation is very good. In late autumn, it is the time when the horses are strongest, so it is not a big problem to run a few more distances.
He looked up at the distance. To the east, the end of the dark sky slowly shone brightly, which was the rising sun that was about to burst out; and to the west... Although he couldn't see any scene clearly, everyone felt the earth shaking.
This vibration was completely different from when the cavalry passed by. It was much more violent, and it gradually strengthened without stopping. The defeated leaves in the forest fell one by one, and the brave crows flew up noisy, and they didn't know where to go for a while. It seemed as if something that made the air stagnant came from the west. Lei Yuan saw Guo Jing's lips twitching, wanting to say something, but he couldn't hear it clearly. He turned around and saw the uncontrollable panic expression of his subordinates. Seeing that the panic atmosphere was like waves, sweeping everyone in an instant.
He looked west again.
Somewhere the mountains and beams intersect with the sky, countless figures, like black waves, have grown from small to large, vague and clear.
It was tens of thousands of cavalry that were endless and surging. They were surging, rolling, spreading across the wild land, spreading over the undulating valleys and hills, and spreading countless broad or narrow, winding roads. The black, red and yellow military flags they held were fluttering in the wind in the wind, as if the sea of ​​clouds was storming. Their armor and helmets rose and fell with the galloping of countless war horses, emitting a cold and cold light, just like the incredible dragon and snake that were scattering. As they advanced, they were the sound of iron hooves treading the ground, the sound of horses neighing, the sound of armor hitting, the sound of soldiers calling and shouting, all kinds of sounds mixed into a deafening roar, as if ancient beasts roared, and their power was enough to shake the world!
Chapter completed!