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"Agu!" Aping turned around and called loudly.
Agu rushed over from behind: "Master Aping?"
"How far behind you is Gao? Why hasn't he come yet?"
"It should be here now..." Agu scratched his head, he himself didn't quite understand what happened.
Aping frowned and thought carefully for a moment. Suddenly he remembered something and asked urgently: "Why is the direction so far off? How did you lure the enemy? Tell me quickly!"
Agu said: "The one named Gao went in the wrong direction. I adjusted several times in succession before leading them back."
When Aping heard this, he immediately said angrily: "Idiot! Why didn't you tell me earlier!"
Agu was so frightened that he trembled all over. He didn't dare to say anything, but he felt very aggrieved: I was just about to say something, but you didn't let me speak either.
At this moment, the rangers sent by the Chitai and Wenjin armies who were ambushing on both sides arrived almost at the same time and asked Aping what happened.
A Ping angrily asked the two armies to stand by, and he urged the army to remount their horses and rushed in the direction where Agu lured the enemy.
A Ping's hundreds of nearly a thousand horsemen marched side by side, forming a thin long line, searching all the way. After traveling for six or seven miles, they passed a low hill. The cavalry on the left immediately shouted.
A Ping quickly turned his horse's head and ran over. He saw several leaders leading the team on the left pointing to the messy horse hoof marks on the ground and saying: "Sir A Ping, there are traces here, there are probably hundreds of horses, and they turned to the southeast.
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A Ping suppressed his anger and calmed down a lot. He secretly thought that the man named Gao was indeed as slippery as the rumors said. He thought about it and ordered: "Let the Chitai Army pursue ten miles to the southeast and then change direction."
South, let Wen Jin's army pursue ten miles due south and then change to the southeast. Tell them that I will lead the troops in the center and go south, follow the enemy's traces and take the middle road, and contact them every five miles!"
The four messengers rode in two directions and flew away. A Ping urged the army to follow the horse's hoof prints and pursue them. After chasing for half an hour, the few knights in front slowed down their horses.
After walking in a circle around a piece of grass, one of the riders on the horse bent down, drew out his saber, shoveled it on the grass, put the blade of the saber to the tip of his nose, sniffed, and then ran towards Aping.
"Sir Aping, the enemy has rested here for a while. The horse dung is still wet and hot. They should not be able to run more than ten miles."
A Ping came to the grassland and carefully looked at the crushed grass stems and a few horse dung. Without further ado, he chased down the messy horse hoof prints. After chasing half a mile, he saw the horse hoofs.
Yin turned to the southwest.
"Tell Chitai that the enemy troops are fleeing to the southwest, and let Chitai lead his troops closer to our army. Tell Wen Jin that the man named Gao has gone to his side, and let him spread the cavalry net to a wider area and be more cautious.
!" Following A Ping's order, another two groups of riders galloped away.
After walking for a while, news came from the rangers in front that hundreds of enemy troops had been discovered!
A Ping regained his energy and followed the guidance of the ranger and chased after him. The opponent obviously did not expect the pursuit of him, and his running speed was not fast, so A Ping easily led his army to catch up to the enemy two miles behind.
At this time, the enemy army finally began to exert force and speed up, and Aping was not in a hurry. He ordered the cavalry to spread its wings, forming a pursuit surface more than a mile wide, and followed the enemy army up.
Once the enemy is captured, Aping is accustomed to casting a net to form a wide pursuit surface. This can ensure that the trace of the escaper will not be easily lost. No matter how the escaper changes direction, he can easily be caught by any of the pursuers.
The more frequent the escapers become, the more horsepower is wasted.
After the runaways in front changed directions three times in a row, they were finally caught up by A Ping. A single cavalryman from the Huayue Allied Forces kept falling behind, and then was overwhelmed by A Ping's chasing army like a tidal wave.
It didn't turn up either.
After chasing for more than an hour, the last officer leading the team was finally captured. The officer rushed left and right but could not escape the trap of Aping's army. Under the gaze of countless arrows, swords and guns, he could only surrender and be captured.
The results of the torture made Aping quite disappointed. Although the captured cavalry general also belonged to the temporary second cavalry battalion of the Huaiyue coalition, and although he was also a descendant of the Bohai Gao family, he did not have a general flag and was not the Huaiyue he was pursuing.
The general named Gao Mingxun in the coalition. This Duhuaiyo coalition cavalry was purely unlucky. They bumped into A Ping inexplicably, and then were chased by a large group of Khitan cavalry who appeared out of nowhere for a whole afternoon.
Eventually the entire army was wiped out.
In anger, A Ping slashed the head of the Dutou with a knife and flew away more than three feet. Then he immediately turned around and looked for the way he came. It was not until the stars rose that he returned to the place where he first discovered this group of Waiyo coalition cavalry. However,
It was completely dark, so Aping had no choice but to order the army to camp on the spot and wait for dawn before pursuing them.
After Gao Mingxun led the Jiadu cavalry to rest for a time, they turned to the southwest and ran for five miles. Then they suddenly changed direction, and after another five miles, they changed direction again. Hundreds of cavalry moved from southwest to southeast, and then from southeast to due east.
While escaping, Gao Mingxun sent out rangers in four directions: left front, right front, left rear, and right rear. The four rangers were one mile away from the brigade to ensure that his own field of vision would be wider.
Along the way, Gao Mingxun took advantage of the gentle hills and dense groves to avoid several groups of Khitan rangers flying on the grassland. These rangers came and went in a hurry. Although they did not seem to be searching for him, they
Every time he encountered it, he was frightened.
Gao Mingxun didn't know how many enemy troops were behind him. He wasn't even sure if there were really enemy troops chasing him. The only thing he could be sure of was that the dozen or so Khitan cavalry were carrying out a strategy to lure the enemy. They wanted to
He lured himself into an unknown ambush. Gao Mingxun, who had been chased and beaten countless times by the Khitans on the grassland, was like a frightened rabbit. As long as there was the slightest disturbance, he would immediately run away. This time, he relied on his super sensitivity
With his sense of smell, he once again avoided the fate of being ambushed, but he was not sure whether the Khitans would pursue him or not.
From the frequent exchanges of Khitan Rangers, Gao Mingxun guessed that he might be in a place where the Khitan army was densely packed. There might be a large group of Khitan Cavalry in an unknown direction around him, so he was very cautious along the way for fear of being discovered by the Khitan Rangers.
His traces soon led to the siege of the Khitan army.
At dusk, Gao Mingxun dodged another group of Khitan cavalry. After making a large circle on the grassland, Gao Mingxun felt much safer, so he chose a depression under the hills and let the Jiadu cavalry again.
Dismount and rest.
Not a moment later, the sentinels posted on the hills hurriedly came down to report that a large group of Khitan cavalry had come from the north and were heading south. Gao Mingxun was startled and quickly climbed up the hills, leaned down and took a closer look.
Thousands of cavalrymen arrived in a dark and overwhelming force. They traveled more than a mile below the hills and suddenly stopped.
Gao Mingxun quickly sent an order to his hundreds of cavalrymen to lie down on their horses and not make any sound. Then in the dim sky, he watched with fear as these Khitan cavalrymen dismounted one after another and rested on the spot, eating or drinking.
Gao Mingxun held his breath nervously and secretly prayed to God, hoping that these Khitan cavalry would not notice him and that he could sneak away with his troops after waiting for a while until the sky became completely dark.
Gao Mingxun's prayers had no effect at all, and the situation worsened. In just a short while, several cavalry squads rushed out of the Khitan camp and headed in several directions. One team continued to go south, and the other team continued to go south.
Towards the small woods on the southeast side, there is another team, heading straight for the hills!
Gao Mingxun's scalp was numb and his blood was cold. His thoughts changed rapidly, and he immediately ordered Jiadu to mount his horse. In the blink of an eye, he had already decided on the direction of his escape, heading due north, then northeast, and the end of the escape route was
Fuyu is more than 300 miles away. This section of the road requires a day and two nights of running. It is expected to be a very difficult escape journey, but Gao Mingxun can't care about it. He doesn't dare to stay on the grassland any longer. He has already fainted.
He had a premonition that there seemed to be a big net covering him.
Just when Gao Mingxun was about to turn around and run back from the hill to mount his horse and escape, something happened suddenly. A cavalry force suddenly burst out from the grove where the Khitan cavalry team went to investigate and pounced directly on the resting group of Khitan cavalry.
.The first cavalry commander was wearing fine scale cavalry armor, with a lance flying up and down in his palm, knocking the leading Khitan cavalry off his horse with one shot, and then rushed into the Khitan brigade without looking back, following him.
The flag-bearing soldier behind him held a large flag with a big "Zhao" character on it.
The Khitan cavalry shouted in confusion, and many of them were knocked to the ground by the cavalry before they could get back on their horses. The cavalry general led the cavalry to roar past, and all the Khitan cavalry in front were trampled on.
Under the horse, hundreds of cavalrymen wielded swords and guns simultaneously, and killed one of them without any hindrance, killing the Khitan people into chaos.
After the cavalry general surnamed Zhao penetrated the Khitan brigade, he turned the horse's head a hundred steps away and took advantage of the Khitan's chaos to kill back again. He penetrated again and led out a bloody alley.
After panicking, the Khitan people finally organized a counterattack. Several Khitan leaders each gathered several groups of Khitan cavalry and followed the cavalry general surnamed Zhao. The cavalry general surnamed Zhao made some adjustments in the distance and led a hundred cavalrymen to row.
With an arc, he threw away several groups of Khitan cavalry who came out to block them, and continued to rush into the chaotic Khitan camp from another direction.
The ownerless war horses ran wildly on the grass, the injured Khitan people were wailing on the ground, and the Khitan cavalry in hot pursuit cursed angrily from behind. Sparse arrows flew feebly, and everyone looked up to their horses and neighed.
During the chaotic battle, the cavalry general took a moment to glance at where Gao Mingxun was lying on the hill, with a half-smile on his face.