Chapter 284 The trembling grassland under the iron hoof
Sixty-eight people ran in all directions under the cover of night, and were invincible.
kill!
kill!
kill!
The sixty-eight people were already red-blooded. No matter how big the tribe was, they rushed in directly. There was no reason, no mercy, and destruction became their only purpose.
As long as there is resistance, they will become the target of their killing.
Any camp where a large number of bows, arrows and swords are stored will be burned.
Thousands of herdsmen fell under their iron hooves, and the grasslands and people were in panic.
This elite force has become the devil of the grassland. They appear and disappear on the grassland like ghosts. They have no fixed direction and no definite target. They attack day and night without any plan.
Countless tribes formed cavalry groups to chase and intercept them on the grassland. However, in the vast grassland, trying to find sixty-eight masters who came and went like lightning was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Occasionally, you would encounter them.
When he arrived, he was shot and killed by Zhao Yuan's miraculous archery skills and his armor was thrown away.
Soon, the herdsmen on the grassland were killed by Zhao Yuan and were frightened by the news.
Zhao Yuan's notoriety spread like a plague across the grasslands and deserts.
Thirty-seven days!
This is already the thirty-seventh day since Zhao Yuan and the others came out of Tieling.
In these thirty-seven days, Zhao Yuan and the others destroyed eighty-eight camps, burned countless bows, arrows, and strategic materials, and killed more than three thousand herdsmen, including countless masters who stayed behind.
During these thirty-seven days, Zhao Yuan and the others never stayed in one place for more than two hours. They came and went like the wind. As long as there was the slightest disturbance, they would immediately flee. If they found the target, they would pounce like hungry wolves.
Go up and bite like crazy.
Of course, in fact the situation is not as tragic as outsiders imagine.
At the beginning, every time Zhao Yuan and the others captured a tribe, they encountered fierce and high-intensity resistance. However, as Zhao Yuan's reputation spread and the message that he would not be killed unless he resisted with weapons was passed on, the elite team encountered
The resistance there was getting smaller and smaller. When we got to the back, people often rushed into the tribe in a gust of wind, but no one took out their bows and arrows to resist. Some people even put down their weapons as a sign of goodwill.
Zhao Yuan's high-pressure policy took immediate effect in the grasslands.
The grassland herdsmen were frightened to death by Zhao Yuan.
In addition to not taking up arms to fight, some herdsmen also cooperated with Zhao Yuan to destroy some strategic materials such as bows and arrows.
Zhao Yuan didn't know what effect he was doing in Heishui City. In fact, Heishui City was now involved in a fierce siege battle. Hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded Heishui City and attacked day and night. The intensity
The cruelty is unbearable to watch.
In Blackwater City, several large military camps finally calmed down and began to send out large-scale cavalry to pursue and intercept them across the vast land.
The Cinu cavalry that penetrated deep into the hinterland of Blackwater City were extremely tenacious. They came and went like the wind in the dense forest, appearing and disappearing. Although they were brutally suppressed, they still possessed extremely strong combat effectiveness and contained at least two-thirds of the three major barracks.
of military strength.
Of course, containment is not of great significance to Blackwater City, because Blackwater City is steep and easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even tens of thousands of people can easily defend the fortress. The problem is that the initial sneak attack by the assassins' rangers
, burned all the strategic materials in Jiudaowan Barracks, and Jiudaowan Barracks was located on the waterway and was the barracks with the richest military supplies reserves. This caused an extremely serious blow to Blackwater City.
Now, Blackwater City is almost out of ammunition and food.
Although the three major barracks have recovered their vitality, the not-so-distant material transportation channel has become a natural chasm. Countless slave rangers are active in the wilderness. They specialize in harassing the convoys escorting the use of materials. They suddenly become
Soldiers with strict military disciplines charge into battle with incomparable ferocity, but more often than not, they are like a mob, harassing and then dispersing...
The rangers who could not be exterminated for a long time not only caused great trouble to Blackwater City, but also brought nightmares to the local residents, because those rangers did not have much supplies at all and relied entirely on robbing, and in the robbing
At this time, General Wu's arrangements at the Tieling training camp began to show results. Hundreds of elite trainees, led by Xiao Mazi, began to fight tit for tat. Rangers similar to the Ci Nu Cavalry began to pursue and hunt the Ci Nu Rangers in the vast hinterland of Blackwater City.
, amidst the siege and interception, countless heroic stories emerged.
It has to be said that the appearance of Xiao Mazi and others greatly eased the pressure on the three major barracks and Blackwater City, and caused panic to the Slave Rangers. After all, Xiao Mazi and the others were the elites of Blackwater City, and they were also the worst.
Winner of the one-star combat merit badge.
However, the four hundred elite rangers of the Great Qin Empire were unable to contain the nearly twenty thousand rangers. Although Xiao Mazi and the others fought bravely, due to the complex terrain in the hinterland of Heishui City, the lush forests, and the trails extending in all directions, their hunting was only limited to the assassination of the rangers.
He didn't dare to be so unscrupulous and blatant, but he was unable to reverse the trend, let alone protect the scattered residents of the empire.
There were widespread complaints among the people.
In the imperial capital, Long Yan was even more furious. He issued decrees one after another, sternly ordering the Great Hammer God to exterminate the Slave Rangers as soon as possible and restore social order at the border.
Above the court, there were countless memorials to impeach the Great Hammer God. If the army of Chang Kong, who had been in seclusion for a long time, had not come out to speak, the Great Hammer God would have been taken to the capital long ago. However, it was General Chang Kong who came out to speak, and the Great Hammer God's
The power was still greatly weakened. The supervisory officer Wu Eunuch began to blatantly interfere in the affairs of Blackwater City. Some fence-sitters also realized that the Great Hammer God was about to lose power and began to lean towards Eunuch Wu.
The Great Hammer God stood worriedly on the city wall. Looking from a distance, you could see the camp of Cinu that seemed to stretch to the sky.
The daily consumption of Blackwater City is extremely staggering.
You can think about it, Blackwater City consumes up to 100,000 arrows and feathers every day, countless longbows and armors are damaged, and countless defensive equipment needs to be repaired, and these losses need to be replenished by the three barracks.
It’s not just the wear and tear of weapons that need to be replenished.
Medicines for the wounded, as well as food for tens of thousands of people, and the daily consumption of tens of thousands of people are also huge, and they all need to be delivered from the three major barracks, especially Jiudaowan Barracks, and it happened that Jiudaowan Barracks was the first to suffer heavy losses.
It was burned to the ground and almost razed to the ground. Although order was restored, it did not have enough strength to send the military supplies transported by water to Heishui City.
The current Blackwater City is nominally a majestic fortress with three large barracks guarding it, but in fact, it is attacked from both sides. Not only are supplies unable to be delivered in time, but there are also problems with the delivery of military orders.
In fact, when the assassins launched their sneak attack on the first day, the Great Hammer God lost control of the three barracks, and the rights of the Great Hammer God were seriously emptied.
The three barracks fought independently. Under the instruction of Eunuch Wu, the generals were waiting and watching to conserve their strength and avoid excessive losses and being held accountable by the imperial capital.
On the twentieth day, the Great Hammer God already understood that he had fallen into a huge trap, and the target of this trap was him.
In twenty days, the three barracks should have recovered. However, the barracks that recovered did not provide timely military support to Blackwater City. They only symbolically escorted some military supplies, and these military supplies were far away.
