After Tianxing's messenger arrived at Bluestone City, Duke Xilin immediately sent the entire news to the kingdom. Redbeard's harm to the duke's territory was much greater than the harm to the Star territory. However, several encirclement and suppression campaigns not only failed to wipe out this group of horse thieves, but also suffered heavy losses, because
The horse thieves were too mobile and Duke Xilin's many encirclement and suppression campaigns failed.
After receiving Tianxing's request, Duke Xilin handed over the problem to the kingdom, which is why it took so long. After receiving the order from the kingdom, Duke Xilin immediately sent a messenger to the fortress. The kingdom's meaning was simple. Due to another crisis in Xiaguan,
The kingdom did not have the extra troops to suppress the bandits, so the Duke was asked to form local armed forces to exterminate the bandits. The Duke handed over the entire task to Tianxing.
The Duke's order is very simple. By promoting Tianxing to Baron, he can form one battalion of regular troops and three battalions of militia. He orders Tianxing to exterminate these horse thieves within a month. If he fails, he will be deprived of the qualifications for the territory. The Duke's move can be said to be
It's very insidious. If Tianxing succeeds in suppressing the bandits, then the duke will get the credit. If it fails, the blame will of course go to Tianxing.
At the same time, using the army to suppress bandits will naturally consume a lot of manpower and financial resources. The Duke just used his authority to upgrade Tianxing to two levels to avoid countless troubles. Tianxing saw through the Duke's conspiracy at a glance after receiving this order, but there is no way.
No, there is no other way except to accept the order.
"Everyone! I just received the order from the Duke, and our territory is responsible for exterminating the rampant horse thieves. Do you have any good ideas now?"
Looking at all the officers under his command, Tianxing asked.
"Sir! Horse thieves are actually not that scary. The main reason is that their agitation ability has increased. Even if we can find their location, we can't destroy them. If we can't defeat them, they will retreat immediately. We lack horses and can't catch up.
Horse thieves. Unless we also have a lot of horses."
An officer expressed his opinion. It is true that the capital of the horse thieves' rampage is their familiarity with the terrain and their extremely strong mobility. As long as the mobility of these horse thieves is restricted, it is still possible to eliminate them. In the end, all the horse thieves, including Qiu,
None of the officers found an effective way to exterminate this group of horse thieves.
"Beasts may not necessarily be faster than their prey, but they are good at camouflage, so they can often catch prey that is much larger and faster than them. We humans have higher intelligence than wild beasts, and speed is only the most primitive part.
It’s just an ability.”
Tianxing's words pointed out the way for everyone, and then Tianxing opened the curtain behind him, and a detailed regional map appeared behind the curtain.
"There is a big river here that crosses the east and west. Due to the terrain, it has formed a depression. As long as we drive the horse thieves into this area, we can limit their speed. As long as we eliminate this highly mobile horse thieves, we can completely wipe out the remaining ones.
of horse thieves and bandits.”
Tianxing pointed at the map and expressed his thoughts, then handed over the remaining tasks to all the officers and asked them to come up with a detailed plan. Then the entire territory began to get busy. The Star Corps was officially established, and Qiu was named Xingchen by the Tianxing people.
The first commander of the Corps.
The team of the Star Corps was established based on the five brigades of Tianxing. In addition, recruits from seven brigades were recruited in the territory. After a short period of training, two brigades were left to defend Qingshui and the back of the Star Fortress. The Star Corps
Soldiers from a battalion left the territory and rushed to the expected location with three days of dry food.
In the early morning, a huge caravan left Qingshui and headed for Qingshi City. This was the largest caravan in the past two months. As soon as the caravan left Qingshui, Red Beard got the information. In the past two months, due to
Red Beard's caravans are getting fewer and fewer. It's not that Red Beard doesn't want to fatten up the caravans and slowly kill them, but Red Beard's development is too fast.
The huge gang and family members have become a burden, and this area is too poor. In order to obtain enough funds to support the huge population, Red Beard has to do this, although he also knows that this will keep the caravans away from here, and ultimately
He no longer has a caravan to rob. But the consumption of tens of thousands of gang members and family members is very staggering. In fact, he can be regarded as a poor leader.
After getting the news, Red Beard immediately led his men and set off. When approaching Qinghe, Red Beard finally saw this huge caravan. This caravan obviously knew of his existence and came here far away from the trade route, hoping to avoid him.
, Redbeard was excited when he saw the huge caravan. Capturing this caravan would at least be enough for his men not to worry about food for a few months.
It was obvious that when Red Beard discovered the caravan, the caravan also discovered him. The caravan hurriedly drove the animals to speed up to get rid of the pursuit of the horse thieves. Red Beard showed a cruel smile and looked at the prey in front of him, seeing them running in a hurry.
Heading towards a depression, Red Beard knew that it was a dead place.
Therefore, he was not anxious at all, but slowly led his men to follow the caravan and drove them towards the depression. Red Beard liked this feeling very much. When he saw the frightened and desperate eyes of the merchants, Red Beard was
Beard is always very excited. He has been bullied since he was a child. When he became stronger, he developed this special hobby.
In the end, the entire caravan was driven into the depression by horse thieves. Redbeard left dozens of horse thieves behind and led most of the horse thieves into the depression. When he thought that these merchants were simply seeking death, thousands of horse thieves roared towards the caravan.
, they kept running around the caravan, shouting threats.
The horse thieves who stayed behind to guard all looked at the brothers in the depression with excitement on their faces. They did not notice the sudden appearance of the army behind them. In their impression, including the Duke's team, they were all vulnerable and were tricked by them.
The red beard in the area is the emperor, and no one with any strength dares to attract their attention.
Unfortunately, they were destined to be disappointed today. Gou Sheng led a squadron of soldiers and slowly approached the horse thieves who were staying behind. A large group of archers were all ready to carry out precise strikes as soon as these horse thieves reacted. Gou Sheng led a squadron of soldiers.
One brigade of soldiers quietly approached the remaining horse thieves, and the remaining three brigade soldiers served as mobile troops.
Gou Sheng led the most powerful first brigade under Tianxing. The soldiers of the first brigade quietly approached these horse thieves in pairs and immediately launched an attack. The sharp spears instantly penetrated each of the horse thieves. The lucky horse thieves
After dodging the spear attack, he was quickly chopped down by the sword that followed.
A lucky horse thief escaped two waves of attacks and ran away. Unfortunately, the horse was shot down by a sharp arrow after it had only rushed five meters away. All fifty horse thieves died in just a few seconds, and fifty horses were killed.
The Lord's war horse was quickly controlled by the soldiers. Immediately all the soldiers took over from the horse thieves and blocked the exit.
Redbeard watched excitedly as his horse thieves kept putting pressure on the caravan. Suddenly his expression froze, and a shower of arrows suddenly flew out from the caravan. The fact that the caravan actually had archers made him famous. Beard’s surprise. The kingdom’s management of bows and arrows was very strict. There were actually archers in the entire caravan. Red Beard immediately felt that he had fallen into a trap.
A shower of arrows completely blinded all the horse thieves, and they were strongly attacked by war horses for the first time. In the past, those caravans were all like lambs to be slaughtered, and the guards were all huddled behind the caravan's carriage and shivering. Shivering, the arrow rain that suddenly appeared today made these rampant horse thieves pay a heavy price. Dozens of horse thieves were instantly thrown off their horses and their lives were unknown. Some were even trampled to pieces by the galloping horses.
"kill!"
Countless soldiers suddenly appeared in the surrounding grass. They threw out the spears in their hands. Countless horse thieves were pierced by the spears and fell off their horses. Nearly a thousand horse thieves lost 30% in an instant. Redbeard turned and looked at the exit behind him, where All the men left behind were missing and probably died in the battle. All he saw now were bows full of moons.
"There's an ambush! Retreat!"
The sudden change made Redbeard fearful. It was obvious that this was a premeditated ambush. The only possibility for it to continue would be to annihilate the entire army. Redbeard immediately summoned his men to prepare for a breakout. Some of the remaining several hundred horse thieves had not yet recovered from panic. After the attack, the only ones who followed Red Beard to break out were the more than two hundred most loyal men around him.