Volume Two, The Lake of Winter, Chapter 22, Mounted as a Thief (6)
Volume 2: Winter Lake, Chapter 22: Become a Thief (6)
At a certain moment in the early morning, but not at a specific moment, the horse thieves who had been following the grain team for more than ten days finally launched an attack. The first thing that broke through the darkness before dawn was not the sound of horns, but the sharp and shrill sound of arrows.
Hundreds of feathered arrows drew arcs and were thrown from above the meadow, tearing through the cold air and the remaining sleepiness in the camp, whizzing down.
Although everyone in the grain team had been mentally and materially prepared for the attack, they still fell into chaos. Under the rain of arrows, people shouted in fear, hid in panic, and tried their best to get into the carriages around the convoy.
Sharp and cold arrow clusters pierced the solid carriage board and could no longer penetrate deeper. However, there were still some feathered arrows that easily penetrated the torso and limbs of the civilians and soldiers, spurting out a stream of blood and causing a tragic sound.
Howling in pain, it caused great damage in an instant.
The Yan Army cavalry in the southernmost part of the low-lying area was not in the camp. They were attacked by arrows almost at the same time. However, due to Ning Que's instructions last night, their reaction was relatively faster, and they all picked up simple round shields to block the attack.
In front of him, or lying behind the rocks on the low ground, he nervously watched the arrows flying overhead.
The horses of the Yan Cavalry were neighing and running wildly in the low-lying land. Several horses could not bear the arrow wounds on their bodies and fell heavily to the ground. Ning Que ordered all the Yan Cavalry horses to ignore the thinning arrow rain and use their fastest speed.
Close the mount.
"Everyone mount up and prepare to sprint!"
Ning Que turned over and jumped onto the big black horse, looking up at the edge of the sloping meadow in the northeast.
He is very familiar with the fighting methods of horse thieves. These bandits without logistical supplies do not have the habit of carrying a large number of arrows with them. Even though this pursuit has been planned for a long time, the horse thieves still cannot bring trouble to the grain team just by attacking from a long distance.
A fatal blow, the horse thief still needs to rush to camp in the end.
A black forest suddenly grew up on the edge of the ridged meadow in the northeast. Hundreds of horse-riding thieves wearing leather armor and thick cloth appeared there, silently controlling the reins, and the scimitars in their hands were the first to appear on the horizon.
It looked extremely cold under the morning light, so cold that everyone in the low-lying land was breathing heavily.
On the gentle slope of the meadow, a masked horse thief at the front slowly raised the knife in his hand and gave the order to attack.
Ning Que noticed that the leader of the horse thieves was not holding a scimitar, but a straight knife.
Hundreds of horse thieves ran wildly toward the bottom of the meadow along the extended line pointed by the straight knife. At first, there was some chaotic and slow sound of hooves, but as the speed increased, it began to become more and more dense and orderly.
, more than a thousand strong and powerful horse hooves trampled heavily on the slightly hard surface of the meadow, causing the entire earth to begin to shake.
In the early morning, the wasteland is like a drum without borders. The neat sound of horse hooves is like a heavy hammer falling heavily on the drum. Every time it falls, the ground will vibrate. The sound of drums is like thunder, and the sound of hoofs is like thunder.
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The camp that had just experienced a baptism of arrows had just calmed down a little from the chaos. The soldiers and civilians who were guarding the rear of the car formation with weapons and even wooden sticks felt the earth shaking under their feet and listened to the shaking.
Hearing the thunderous sound of hoofbeats, looking at the group of horse thieves coming from above the meadow like a black flood, I couldn't help but look desperate.
At this moment, more than a dozen disciples of Mochiyuan of Dahe Kingdom grasped the black wooden handles at their waists, drew out their slender swords, stood up, and shouted loudly to the soldiers and civilians beside them to raise their weapons.
, walked behind the carriage board.
These disciples of Mochiyuan are just teenage boys and girls. Now they have received the edict of the temple and come to the wilderness to test under the orders of their master. They have never seen such a dangerous and bloody battlefield before, but they are deeply affected by it.
The people of Dahe country influenced by the Tang temperament are also stoic and do not know what fear is.
Looking at the group of horse thieves getting closer and closer, looking at the ferocious faces of those horse thieves, looking at the sharp scimitars wielded in the hands of the horse thieves, and listening to the arrogant whistles of the horse thieves, the young and childlike faces of the Mochiyuan disciples were actually filled with
There is no trace of tension, let alone despair, because calmness and calmness make it more resolute and resolute.
The calm perseverance of the girls from the River Kingdom infected the soldiers and civilians in the camp. They subconsciously raised the crude wooden spears in their hands. Although the hands holding the spears were still shaking uncontrollably, at least they finally had the courage.
Faced with the bleak situation and those ferocious enemies.
The sound of hoofbeats is getting louder and louder, the horse thieves are getting closer and closer, the smoke and dust on the slopes of the dawn meadow are getting thicker and thicker, the air is getting colder and colder, and the atmosphere is getting more and more tense. Everyone in the camp has panic in their eyes, and only a hint of fear.
With the slightest hope of luck, his breathing became more and more rapid, waiting for the moment when the horse thief rushed to the car formation.
Ning Que was also waiting, but his waiting time was relatively shorter.
He glanced at the more than a hundred horse thieves who loomed on the meadow in the northwest. These horse thieves sneaked in at some unknown time last night and appeared above the meadow. However, they did not charge towards Yan Qi. It was obvious that they wanted to take advantage of the situation.
Suppress this group of Yanqi to ensure that the nearly five hundred horseback thieves over there can gather all their strength and successfully charge into the camp in one go.
Ning Que would not fight with these hundreds of horse thieves. He turned his head and watched the smoke and dust on the gentle slope of the meadow to the north getting bigger and bigger. Seeing that the hundreds of horse thieves were about to rush down the gentle slope and enter the low-lying area, he
He lowered the hat on his head, pulled out his sword from behind, and signaled the two hundred Yanqi following him to prepare for a charge.
"Don't ask how to rush, just follow my horse and rush."
He looked at the nervous Yan Qi beside him. He said the above sentence without doing any pre-war mobilization. Then he turned his wrist and pointed the plain knife directly at the meadow on the right, his legs.
He pinched the horse's belly hard.
The big black horse whistled twice, kicked hard with its hoofs and feet, and ran out like an arrow from the string!
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The five hundred horse thieves, as black as a tide, kept accelerating by relying on the gentle slope of the meadow, and rushed down the meadow in a matter of breaths, arriving at the low-lying area between the two meadows.
This low-lying area is covered with black soil and coarse gravel. It looks quite solid and is about tens of feet wide. The food team camp is stationed in the center. At the current speed of the horse thieves, from setting foot on the low-lying area to rushing to the camp
, it doesn’t take much time at all, and what’s even more frightening is that if there are no traps or other traps to slow down the group of horse thieves, hundreds of horse thieves can easily overwhelm the food team’s camp with their speed.
There were no snagging ropes, no pits, and no obstacles on the flat, solid low-lying ground. The soldiers and civilians behind the convoy, looking at the extremely clear faces of the horse thieves, felt their bodies become cold, and the hands holding their spears were shaking even more than before.
It's amazing. If you didn't know that surrendering is death, fleeing backwards is also death. I'm afraid that all it takes is one person to shout, and everyone will drop their weapons and collapse in all directions.
There is a huge disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves. The camp of the grain team is located below the meadow, with no good location and no preparations. How can we stop these wolf-like horse thieves? It seems that there is no way to save the fate of this grain team, although the south
The two hundred Yan Army cavalry not far away had already begun to gallop towards this side on horseback, but by the time they arrived, the horse thieves had already rushed into the camp and started massacring them.
What's more, the two hundred Yan Army cavalry did not choose the nearest straight line to come to the rescue. Instead, they ran up the gentle slope of the meadow to the east in a very weird way. What on earth did they want to do? The cavalry went up the gentle slope at a sudden speed and consumed a lot of horsepower.
, do they want to become the target of the horse thieves' arrows, or... do they want to escape?
Thinking of Ning Que's insistence on not setting up snagging ropes and traps last night, and seeing the two hundred Yanqi running towards the east, a very bad thought flashed through Zhizhihua's heart. She was unwilling to admit that the academy senior brother had actually
He is such a villain, but apart from being greedy for life and afraid of death, what else can explain his actions?
There was no time for Zui Zhihua and the girls from the River Country to feel sad and angry. They could only glance at the Yan Qi and the big black horse at the front of the Yan Qi that seemed to be getting farther and farther out of the corner of their eyes, and then they had to withdraw their energy before their eyes.
The horse thieves swarmed in front of me like black clouds, and their thousands of hooves stirred up thousands of black gravels and dust.
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There was a heavy muffled sound.
The horse thief who was rushing at the front suddenly fell heavily on the hard black gravel ground for some unknown reason. A cloud of smoke and dust was thrown up. The horse howled twice and could no longer stand up. Its front hooves seemed to be broken.
Then there were heavy and muffled sounds one after another, and the dozens of riders at the front of the group of horse thieves who were charging madly fell to the ground one after another in an extremely miserable manner just like the horse thieves at the front. There was chaos in the sloping valley!
Zhui Zhihua, who was holding the sword tightly, didn't know what was happening, and there was a look of confusion in his eyes. Then, the confusion in his eyes turned into ecstasy - more and more horse thieves fell on the seemingly
On the hard black gravel ground.
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The group of horse thieves rushed down the gentle slope of the meadow. When they rushed to the low-lying land between the meadows, their speed had already been increased to the highest level. If it were a charge under normal circumstances, this horse speed would undoubtedly be the most perfect. However, there was a problem.
The thing is, this is not a charge under normal circumstances, because this low-lying land is not normal ground.
In the desolate and cold wilderness, low-lying land sandwiched between two long sloping meadows is rare. This place was originally an ancient river, but it dried up and disappeared tens of thousands of years ago, leaving only the river bed.
The remains of the river gradually disappeared as the wind and sand invaded and accumulated. The two banks turned into green meadows in spring and white in winter, and the river bed turned into seemingly solid black gravel land.
Even these horse thieves running rampant in the wilderness didn't know that this low-lying land was an ancient river, and Ning Que didn't know either. But when he brought the grain team here last night and set up camp, he discovered the problem with this low-lying land.
, under the thin layer of sand, there are still smooth round pebbles.
The middle of the ancient river channel is deeper, and has the thickest soil accumulated over thousands of years. It is also covered with the corpses of vegetation and grass, and horses can walk there without much problem. However, against the ancient river bank, which is now the edge of the two meadows,
But it is only covered with a very shallow layer of black soil and gravel. If you use a little more force, or even if the wind blows harder, you may touch or see the round pebbles and irregular natural pits below.
Hole.
This is not a trap, it is not a trap set by Haotian for these horse thieves, because if the speed is not too fast, even the heaviest Nanshan horse carrying two people will not get stuck between the mud and gravel accumulated over the years.
However, the horse thief took advantage of the gentle slope of the meadow to rush down. His speed increased too quickly, and the relative impact force between the horse's hooves and the ground was too great.
So the edge of the low-lying land under the gentle slope of the meadow became a trap laid by Haotian for the horse thieves.
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The horse's hooves moved quickly, almost leaving the afterimage, and stepped heavily on the low-lying ground. The powerful horse's hooves sank deeply into the gravel. They tried to get up, but they slipped away because the speed was too fast. The horse itself
Unable to maintain balance at all, he fell heavily with the horse thief on his body.
A horse's hoof kicked away the black gravel, but it happened to get stuck between the boulders under the ground. At such a high speed, the war horse could not stop its downward momentum. The heavy body of the horse pressed across it. There was a "click" and the horse's hoof died tragically.
When broken, the bloody muscle keys and white periosteum were exposed, which looked terrible.
Dozens of horse thieves who were charging at the front fell down. The large army of horse thieves behind them had already noticed the problem. However, because of that damn reason - the speed was too fast - they could not pull the reins to stop the charge. One horse after another
It rushed into the edge of the low-lying land, and then fell heavily to the ground, making heavy muffled sounds from time to time.
If the hundreds of horse thieves rushing down the gentle slope of the meadow were like a black tide, then the seemingly ordinary black gravel ground outside the grain team camp was like the coast of the Song Dynasty affiliated with the Xiling Kingdom.
Countless invisible round stone pillars appeared on the famous breakwater beside it, crushing all the tides hard and ruthlessly.
The tide comes in wave after wave, and then breaks into foam wave after wave. The first wave falls first, and the next wave continues. One wave is higher than the other, one wave suppresses the other, and each wave is more miserable than the other.
The scenes between the sloping valleys are extremely bloody and cruel,
Countless horses fell to the ground with broken legs and skulls. Countless horse thieves were thrown down and their legs were broken under the weight of the heavy horse body. They pushed the horses wildly in fear, but it was in vain. The lucky horses and horse thieves fell unconscious or died.
, the unfortunate horses and horse thieves were howling in pain, especially the horse thieves at the rear who charged at high speed but fell miserably. They were densely squeezed together, and the blood seeped out like fruit pulp and was smeared in the morning light.
on the land.
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The fighting power of the horse thieves is much stronger than that of the grain team camp. Although at least more than a hundred horse thieves suffered heavy casualties in the previous charge, as long as they are given time to reorganize their queues, even if they abandon their horses and charge on foot, it will bring extreme consequences to the camp.
Great pressure and danger.
If the hundreds of people in the grain team camp are elite soldiers of the Tang army who are good at fighting, even ordinary soldiers, if they rush out of the car formation with weapons at this time and make a close counterattack, they can kill a horse thief with a casual poke.
, perhaps the first wave of charge by the horse thieves may be repelled.
It is a pity that most of the people in the camp are civilians. Under the protection of the wooden carriages and large shields of the car array, they may have the courage to defend with wooden sticks and spears, but they do not have the courage to rush out of the camp to kill the enemy. More importantly, they
Yes, the more than three hundred horseback thieves behind them finally managed to avoid the natural trap in the low-lying land. At this time, they were holding bows and arrows and watching the movements of the camp vigilantly.
Therefore, whether the first attack of the horse thieves can be repelled, all hopes must be pinned on the two hundred Yanqi in the south. At this time, the people in the camp already understood that the two hundred Yanqi abandoned the valley bottom and chose to climb onto the grass.
Dian, not because he wanted to escape, but because he wanted to avoid the traps Haotian had hidden in the ancient rivers.
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The two hundred Yanqi started to start early, but because they rushed up the meadow in the opposite direction, which consumed a lot of horsepower, they were not very fast, especially compared with the big black horse at the front that looked like black lightning.
As soon as Yan Qi moved, the more than a hundred horse thieves who were watching and suppressing Yan Qi on the meadow on the left immediately moved. These horse thieves rushed down the meadow at the fastest speed, trying to make a circle from the diagonal stab and cut them from the side.
Killing the Yanqi, however, they did not expect that these Yanqi did not go along the center of the sloping valley, but headed towards the meadow.
Seeing that they could not catch up with Yan Qi, these more than a hundred horse-riding thieves waved their whips, whistled continuously and sped up. Their hooves sounded like thunder as they chased down the meadow. As a result, they also suffered the same miserable experience as their charging companions from the north.
The cold winter wind in the wilderness hit his face, but it made it a little hot. Ning Que listened to the screams from behind and knew that the horse thieves could no longer catch up with him. After he calmed down, he began to think about something strange.
question.
——The cold wind can burn your face. Is it because the strong wind causes friction and heat? But if this is the reason, then how thick and hard should your face be?
Being calm when faced with major events is a description of the excellent temperament of some human beings, but temperament has always been acquired. Ning Que has been accustomed to seeing life and death since he was a child, and has gone through many hardships. Whenever he encounters major events involving life and death, he will get used to it.
Think about some random things, and then bring your mood to ultimate peace.
Just like his hands holding the boxwood bow were so calm at this moment, even if they were blown by the wind, they did not tremble at all.
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Tread.
Straight body.
Draw the bow.
Wrong pointing.
Twist the rope.
put.
The arrow leaves the bowstring, like dew dripping from the leaf, slowly, and then deforms slightly. The center of the arrow body bulges outwards, and with the rotation, the bulge draws an arc in the air. The arrow is swaying, and the feather tail is swaying along the
A complicated curve eventually turned into a straight line, tearing through the air and flying into the distance.
The arrow lightly touched the rough skin that had been tortured by the scorching sun and wild wind, and it was like tearing through the air. It easily tore the skin like paper, tore apart the strands of flesh and blood, bringing out thick blood and broken bones like slag, until it penetrated deeply.
After entering deep into the throat bone, it stopped swaying, and the arrow feathers were still swaying, but the speed became faster, trembling slightly and making a buzzing sound.
Three horse thieves were hit by arrows in their throats one after another, causing a spray of blood to fly out. They fell off their horses without even making a sound.
The hat was tied extremely tightly with a rope, and no matter how strong the winter wind in the wilderness was, it did not blow off. Ning Que's eyes exposed outside the mask showed no emotion at all, and he just stared intently at the group of horse thieves who were getting closer and closer.
Nearly two hundred horse thieves were trapped among the boulders on the edge of the low-lying land, in a state of panic. Three hundred horse thieves were dragged behind and forced to close the territory. However, the formation was extremely chaotic, especially the defense on the sides was even weaker. If there was someone at this time,
If you force the sword to cut down the side of the horse thieves, I believe the horse thieves will be defeated.
He led two hundred Yan cavalry to rush diagonally from the meadow, just to make such a big sword.