Most of the cavalry reinforcements were three-horsemen and carried enough war horses. Someone had previously suggested to the cavalry captain that they use war horses to clear the mines.
However, the extra horses were to be brought to the transport team to help carry supplies, so the cavalry captain rejected the proposal.
Now that the sky is burning with fire in the north, the cavalry captain is really anxious.
If something really goes wrong with the transport team, what else will they do to deal with it?
Under the command of the cavalry captain, the cavalry led the horse back several tens of meters, then whipped the horse wildly, driving the horse forward.
In fact, when the escorts planted landmines, the front and rear sections were relatively dense, and there were not many mines in the middle area. The war horse ran forward for nearly thirty meters before stepping on one. Then after the mine exploded, the war horse continued to move forward by inertia.
After running for dozens of meters, he hit two more landmines before finally falling to the ground!
However, the places where the horses' hoofs could hit were limited. In order to prevent landmines from being hit by the hoofs, the captain directly ordered more than a dozen horses to line up and run wildly.
Sure enough, two more landmines were found where the first war horse ran. Three war horses had their legs broken on the spot, and two more were injured.
But the other uninjured horses were frightened by the explosion and ran as fast as they could.
More than a dozen war horses ran forward for nearly two hundred meters before they were all killed. At this time, the ground was densely covered with horse hoof prints.
The cavalry captain arranged for people to step on the horse's hoof prints to drag the horse's body aside, and then drove a group of horses over.
Using war horses to clear the road is indeed several times faster than shoveling sand.
Although there were still missed mines, the number was very small and well within the acceptance range of the cavalry captain.
However, when we reached the last few hundred meters of the sandy road, the mines became denser again, and the horses would be blown up before they could run a few steps. The cavalry captain had no choice but to have people continue to shovel the sand.
After struggling for more than two hours, the cavalry finally walked out of the sandy area.
At the northernmost end of the sand road, they saw the bodies of the transportation team scouts and war horses.
In fact, if treated in time, there is a high probability that they could survive after being hit by a landmine. Unfortunately, they could only lie on the sand after being bombed. The blood loss from the wounds and the severe cold made them unable to bear it at all.
The cavalry captain ignored them. After leaving the sand, he immediately gathered his team and ran towards the north.
But by the time they arrived, the fire had finished burning, leaving only a pile of ashes.
Looking at the cattle and horses walking around randomly, as well as some unburned catapult parts on the ground, the cavalry captain still felt his eyes darkened even though he was mentally prepared.
He knew he was doomed!
Although he also had difficulties in this matter, with Li Lingrui's temper, he would definitely not let him go.
Now he no longer expects to live, he only hopes that Li Lingrui will not embarrass his tribe, and also hopes that Li Lingrui can give him a happy life and not torture him.
As if God heard his prayer, the next second, there was a whistling sound above his head.
Then the cavalry captain felt like he was flying up. When he landed on the ground, his limbs and chest felt extremely painful, and his ears were buzzing, but he couldn't hear anything.
The cavalry captain knew that he had been injured by a grenade. He wanted to lower his head to see the injury, but found that he could not do it and could only look at the sky helplessly.
Then he saw an airship.
The cavalry captain has been wondering about a problem before, that is, it is not easy to kill a huge transport team. In the cavalry captain's view, it will take at least several thousand people.
He couldn't figure out how thousands of people could sneak into Dangxiang without being discovered!
Now he knew he was wrong.
It turns out that the escort used an airship!
The moment he saw the airship, the cavalry captain knew that his team was doomed.
Because he knew that the transport team was carrying falcons, Li Lingrui did not let them take them again.
Facing the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau's airship and grenade combination, they had no room for resistance!
If they were in a grassland or desert, the cavalry could still rely on their speed to escape, but this was a valley, and as long as the bodyguards blocked both ends, they would have nowhere to run!
But these had nothing to do with the cavalry captain, and his consciousness gradually became blurred, eventually sinking into darkness.
Just like before, the musketeer company used hot air balloons and muskets to suppress the cavalry, and then shouted to persuade them to surrender.
Without a commander, the cavalry had no backbone. It was the first time they saw muskets. Like the transport team, they were suppressed and chose to surrender one after another.
It was only after the surrender that we discovered that only more than a hundred people from the musket company had come!
But it was too late for the cavalry to regret it at this time. Their weapons had been confiscated and their hands were tied up. Any further resistance would only lead to death. They could only follow the large army towards the east under the escort of the musketeer company!
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During Dangxiang's southern expedition to the camp, Li Lingrui was restless all day long and did not fall asleep in the latter half of the night.
I finally managed to get a little sleepy, and just when I was about to fall asleep, the deputy general's loud voice came from the door again: "Your Majesty, this is bad, something happened!"
Li Lingrui lost all sleep in an instant and sat up from the bed.
But as the coach, he couldn't let anyone see his panic. After sitting on the bed and forcing himself to calm down, Li Lingrui called the maid in to get dressed.
After getting dressed, Li Lingrui asked someone to open the tent curtain.
Waiting at the door were not only the deputy general, but also the person in charge of intelligence, both of whom looked very ugly.
"What's wrong?" Li Lingrui asked with a frown.
Seeing that the person in charge of the intelligence was silent, the deputy general said: "Your Majesty, the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau attacked the transport team, and our catapults and heavy crossbows were burned..."
"What?"
Li Lingrui could no longer pretend to be calm, his eyes widened!
What he was most worried about had happened!
Ever since he started transporting heavy crossbows and catapults, he had been on guard against ambushes, but he never expected that in the last few dozen miles before arriving at Xizhou, the transport team would still be attacked!
Li Lingrui forced himself to calm down and asked: "How many were burned?"
He had the same idea as the cavalry captain. The transport team was escorted by cavalry. If the enemy wanted to kill it, it would take at least several thousand people.
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What's more, he has sent people for reinforcements, so even if the transport team is attacked by surprise, the damage will not be too serious.
There are a lot of catapults and heavy crossbows in this batch. If not many are burned, it will not have a great impact on the war.
But after asking, Li Lingrui found that the head of the intelligence chief and the deputy general had lowered their heads.
Li Lingrui's heart suddenly sank to the bottom. He stared at the person in charge of the intelligence and asked again word for word: "I am asking you, how much was burned?!"