"The enemies on the oasis are still far away, so don't worry yet."
Tie Le was a little anxious: "On the contrary, the more than 2,000 vanguard troops in the west have been sending people around to search for our traces. What should we do?"
Ren Ning turned to look at Lei Er.
Lei Er then told what he had observed the past few days.
"Last time we killed fifty of them silently, so now the Beixiong people are very vigilant. If anything goes wrong, they will swarm them and will hardly disperse their actions."
"Yes." Tie Le let out a long sigh, "Their number is almost double that of ours. There is a saying in Yun Chui's art of war that if the number is doubled, it will be divided. I also wanted to divide and annihilate them, but the other side kept gathering together and never separated.
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"So it's very difficult to handle."
"How about," Tie Le looked at Ren Ning hesitantly: "Let's avoid his edge first?"
"You can't avoid it, you can't avoid it." Ren Ning shook his head, "Let's not talk about where to avoid it. The sky is huge now, but no place is absolutely safe."
"And if we continue to avoid it, Duke Langston in the oasis will go south. By then, we will not only face these 2,000-odd vanguard troops, but a total of 42,000 people."
That would be even more difficult.
"That's right!" Everyone nodded.
Since you can't retreat, you can only face the difficulty.
One word: fight!
"It's indeed a bit difficult if they don't separate." Ren Ning smiled slightly and said confidently: "But we are not without the strength to fight."
The next day, Gu Datou and his party led more than 600 warriors from the Kailun tribe to continue practicing riding horses.
Almost everyone, including the herdsmen who were out grazing, gave up what they were doing.
Those who killed cattle and sheep killed cattle and sheep, those who used cowhide to make slingshots made slingshots, and those who used sheepskin to pack them made packaging.
The whole tribe was in full swing everywhere.
Tie Le looked at the bulging sheepskin bag in front of him, a little surprised.
Ren Ning ordered some large slingshots to be made, but not crossbows. Is it really useful to pack these things?
But no one answered.
Everyone knows that the tribe is at its most critical moment, and they must work harder, otherwise Luo Xi will be their fate.
If other tribes in Xiliang attack, if they cannot defeat them, they may live as slaves.
But the bright heads on the ruins of Luoxi said everything.
If they cannot defeat them, there is only one outcome: death!
Therefore, everyone worked hard day and night.
Three days passed in a flash.
Ren Ning looked at Lei Er again.
"The training time of the herdsmen is a bit short, and they are a little bit mature." Lei Er shrugged: "But the main charge is still Datou and the others. It doesn't matter."
Ren Ning nodded and breathed a sigh of relief silently.
It is said that people should not be judged by their appearance, so it is most suitable for Lei Er.
When he has nothing to do, he always likes to put something in his mouth and chew it non-stop, which seems very irregular. But in fact, Lei Er completes all the tasks given to him with perfection.
Since he felt that Kailun's cavalry training had become somewhat successful, their growth was absolutely satisfactory.
"Is there anything strange?" The two instructors, Gu Datou and Lu Youtian, came over hehey.
"These herdsmen have been training before, but they are not as demanding and standard as the fortress. So they are not very powerful in our eyes. But they still have the foundation."
"Now we have adjusted it a little bit, and it will look decent soon."
Ren Ning was determined.
He turned around again, checked all the preparations, and nodded with satisfaction.
Summon Tiele and others to the big tent.
A large map had been hung in front of him for some time.
"This..." Tiele was stunned and quickly recognized the map.
"This is the terrain map south of the Desert of No Return. When did you draw it?"
cough!
Ren Ning coughed and did not answer this stupid question.
"The war is about to begin. Are you ready?"
Everyone was refreshed, Wu Xia thought about it again, and all responded: "Ready."
Ren Ning nodded with satisfaction and casually clicked a spot about twenty miles south of the Luoxi tribe.
"This place is the burial place of Archduke Langston's vanguard."
Buzz!
Ren Ning didn't talk much, and everyone in Kailun didn't know why.
They were itchy but didn't dare to ask any more questions.
Everyone could only stare at the map and almost couldn't see the flowers in that place.
"Set off!"
Although Ren Ning said he was going to set off, the group of people was divided into three parts.
He, Lei Er and others left first.
Gu Datou, Lu Youtian and Alen Youmeng led eight hundred cavalry in the middle. Behind each horse were slingshots and packages that had been made day and night.
Finally, the herdsmen followed behind with their large herds of cattle.
To the west, the ruins of Luoxi.
Archduke Langston's soldiers frowned and pushed their captains towards the vanguard's tent.
The location Ximo chose is good.
Although the stream at the bottom of the valley is not big, it is definitely enough for the people and animals of the small tribe to drink.
The views to the east and west are wide. To the south is a hill, which blocks the hot sunshine when the sun is at its strongest at noon.
But at this time, there were unburied corpses everywhere on the ruins, and the entire small depression already had a stench that was nauseating.
Even Beixiong's soldiers, who always had a strong body odor, couldn't bear it.
"Your Majesty the Viscount, the soldiers are all dizzy from the smell of corpses, and they are also worried about the outbreak of the plague. So everyone wants to leave this ghost place as soon as possible."
Andre was wiping his gorgeous sword, and his eyes widened when he heard this.
"Let's go. Don't I want to go?"
Didn't he smell the stench of corpses rising to the sky?
Over the past few days, my nose has almost been twisted to the point of losing its function.
It's just that as more than two thousand people arrived in this unfamiliar grassland for the first time, they had to be cautious in everything, otherwise they would die silently outside like the fifty people before.
However, if two thousand people move together in a group, food and grass are okay, but drinking water is a problem.
"Have the spies found a new water source? And have the mysterious people found any traces?"
Several subordinates looked at each other.
If water sources were so easy to find, this place wouldn't be called the Desert of No Return, but should be called Jiangnan Beyond the Great Wall.
The most important thing is that the spies are not allowed to disperse and act alone under repeated orders. In this way, they can only search an area as big as a palm in one day.
Therefore, it is estimated that it will take some time to find the water source and the group of enemies.
The captains murmured for a while and finally returned in dismay.
In the evening, the sound of horse hooves sounded.
Report!
A messenger hurried back, "Your Majesty the Viscount, the three teams searching westward all lost their traces thirty miles away. Their lives and deaths are unknown."
Andre stood up in a hurry and looked towards the west with burning eyes.
There are thirty people in three teams. Is the hiding place of the unknown enemy originally in the west?
"What about the teams in other directions?"
"There is no return for the time being."
"Go check it out right away." Andre roared angrily, "Give me the order and everyone will immediately pack up their equipment and prepare for battle."
After a while, the entire Luoxi ruins were surrounded by commotion.
The well-fed Beixiong soldiers polished their weapons and waited quietly for the next order.