Aspirations for Nation and Beauty: Section 16 Encounter
While Soderma was worrying about her husband and son, Jeb, hundreds of miles away, couldn't feel his wife's concern at all. The long dragon advancing forward is indeed the army of Tanghe people. They are striding forward to the west. Zhebu silently counts the trucks passing by from a distance. The towering carriages are full of food and other supplies. It has already passed six cars, and they are still following up continuously, without seeing the end at a glance. It seems that the master is right. The people of Tanghe are really going to do a big job this time. They brought so much food and food. The supplies look like they are going to stay on the grassland for a long time.
Those guys are not slow to walk. The Zhebu team hiding on the flanks of the shallow hills are silently lying in ambush in this undulating and gentle ditch. The grass is a good place to hide. The scout team led by Zhebu hides here. Together with his son, there are ten people in total, which happens to be the full number of people in a scout team. With the help of the terrain, Jebe and his companions quietly observed the passing team. This was probably the Gaoyue army in the Northwest Tanghe army. Sure enough, they were walking very fast. Although they couldn't keep up with the carriage, they marched much faster than ordinary people. I heard that the stamina is also much better than ordinary people.
A figure quietly ran up from behind, "Father, there seems to be a scout from the Tanghe people on the left, coming out and heading towards us."
"Oh? Did you find us?" Jebu knew it was his eldest son Chishu, and asked with his head tilted.
"Not yet, but they came in this direction and searched very carefully. According to their current search speed, they may find us in a short time." Chi Shu just turned sixteen, with a childish face His face was full of excitement, it was his first time to participate in such a formal mission, and there was a trace of anticipation in his nervousness, looking forward to the first battle in his life.
"Well, don't worry, you continue to observe and let me know when you are two miles away from us." Zhebu looked at his son with encouraging eyes, and patted him heavily on the shoulder to encourage him, " The people of Tanghe are nothing special, even if they find us, they will not be able to catch up with us, our task this time is not to fight them face to face, their riding skills are still a bit weaker."
The person in charge of searching this area is a scout team of the brigade directly under the Tengger Army's First Division. More than 30 fast horses were divided into two search teams and moved forward in a fan shape. It was cold, but for the scouts who were used to performing this kind of night reconnaissance missions, it was nothing. They had survived countless times of ice and snow winter nights that were much more difficult than this.
Zawari skillfully tapped the horse's belly with his toes and took a few steps forward. A signal was sent from the left side to discover the situation. As the leader of the scout team, he had to go and see what was going on in person.
The two scouts had already lit the torches and were carefully observing the traces on the ground. Zavari got off his horse and leaned down to carefully observe the hoofprints on the ground by the light of the fire. The steps were messy, and there seemed to be no abnormality, but the experienced Zawari immediately saw the abnormality from the horseshoe nails in the horseshoe prints.
"Captain, it's Mott's cavalry. That's right. This kind of horseshoe is only used by Mott people. The front is thin and the rear is heavy, which is convenient for long-distance galloping. It is completely different from the horseshoe prints of merchants. You see, this dark pattern is Mott The well-known iron shop among the people—it is exclusive to the Rock’s iron shop, and it is said that almost all the Mott cavalry handle iron there.” A scout pointed to the hoof prints and grinned excitedly and reported to Zavari, licking The scout with thick lips seems to be imagining whether this discovery will give him a reward?
"Yes, Captain, there should be only about ten riders. A standard Mott scout team, judging by the freshness of these hoof prints, it should be a short time after stepping on them, no more than half a day at most. There are some complex terrain in the first three miles or so. Shallow ditches and low hills, will the scouts of the Mott people spy on the situation of our large army there?" Another scout asked the captain not to be outdone.
Zavari also agrees with his two subordinates that there is no possibility of a caravan passing by this place, and ordinary Mote herdsmen will not come out to graze at this time. It is the spring famine season, and most herdsmen stay The settlements are made up with stored hay, not to mention that the Motts have told all the herdsmen to migrate westward to avoid the war, it is even more impossible, there is only one possibility, and that is the Mott scouts, hehe, look Come to meet a colleague. Zawari couldn't help smiling when he thought of this, a team of ten scouts was just enough for his scout team to eat, it just depends on whether there is a chance.
"Well, it's very possible that what you two said is very likely. Immediately notify the other group that we have discovered the enemy situation. There are about ten enemies. Let them immediately outflank from the right and pay attention to concealment." Nodding his head and getting back on the horse, his right hand stroked the chilly saber hanging on the belt around his waist, while his left hand pressed against the side of the quiver obliquely inserted on the side of the saddle. A hard bow was waiting for the master's call, slightly dented A pair of falcon-like eyes in the eye sockets looked forward through the night, "Order them to follow up, put out the torches, each team is in a group, the first three and the last four, and each team keeps a distance of 50 meters to search forward."
Chiju looked nervously at the dark distance, and the fire that had just lit up made his heart skip a beat. Could it be that Tanghe's search team found something? But the flames were extinguished soon, and Chiju judged that the opponent was still three miles away, and would be coming soon. With the advantage of geographical location, Chiju can see traces one mile away, and if the sound of the enemy's horseshoes is two miles away, it can be heard in the ear, but if the opponent sends out his own traces, Will there be any other means to deal with myself? Thinking of this, Chi Zhu didn't dare to delay any longer, the cat stooped down the hill and ran along the bottom of the ditch to where his father and the others were hiding.
Chiju's subconscious vigilance saved Zhebu's scouting team. When Chishu went downhill, the scouts and search cavalry of three teams led by Zavari also appeared one mile away from the small **** where Chishu had just stayed. There, silently, quietly rushed towards this chaotic slope.
After identifying the target, the seasoned Zavari decisively ordered his subordinates to change into rubber hoof pads. In this wilderness, in the dead of night, the sound of horse hooves would be caught by keen hunters two miles away. And replacing the rubber hoof pads can greatly reduce the possibility of being discovered, making the possibility of a successful sneak attack much greater. This is a gadget that the War Preparedness Department has just begun to equip. First, it was equipped to various scout units. Zawari's unit was the first to equip it. At first, Zawari didn't believe in this thing, but he tried it. After a few times, Zavari had to admit that this thing is not only much more convenient than the leather pads and cotton pads used to reduce the sound of horseshoes, but also several times stronger in wear resistance and concealment. It is the granular pad that walks silently, as long as it is not a fast sprint, it is difficult for you to find it even when you are walking behind you. It is said that this thing is made of something called rubber, but no one knows where the rubber comes from.
After hearing his son's report, the sensitive Jebu immediately sensed that something was wrong. When the scouts came out to investigate, they hardly used torches, because this was undoubtedly to inform the enemies lurking around him of their position. Things like fire folds are just to observe quietly, but once a torch is used, it can only show that the enemy has made a major discovery and must use a lighting tool such as a torch that can take care of a large area, which also means that the enemy must have found his trace .
The danger was right in front of us, so Jebu didn't dare to be negligent and immediately called everyone to get on their horses and prepare for battle. Maybe the enemy would appear in front of him in the next moment. Fortunately, there were not many enemies. The party that is good for escape ~IndoMTL.com~ quietly went north along the small ditch, and Zhebu, who had experienced several battles, suddenly found himself so nervous. Let him feel the pressure even more.
The dark hillsides are like huge beasts crawling on both sides. This is a rare complex terrain area on the Tengger Grassland. You can enter the vast grassland two miles forward along this small ditch. Once you get to the prairie, you don’t have to worry about the threat of the enemy anymore. There, even hundreds of thousands of enemies can hardly intercept you in the dark. Jebu suppressed the tension in his heart and urged his companions to follow closely in a low voice. On the road, looking around vigilantly, the more you have to reach the finish line, the more likely you will go wrong, and Jeb has a personal experience of this.
Going around the hillside, Zavari guessed that the other group of people had already arrived at the designated place, so he stopped worrying about anything. He drew out the long knife in his waist with one hand, and whipped the whip on the horse's buttocks with the other hand. Raising hooves, he rushed out, and a large group of cavalry behind them saw the sudden acceleration of their superiors, and knew that it was a critical moment, so they all mustered up their spirits and stepped forward bravely.
Although he was on the move, Jeb, who had been keeping a high level of vigilance, immediately realized that something was wrong. The sound of rolling and impacting blocks and soil was obvious, and my heart suddenly tightened. The enemy came so fast, and they were forced to come here without the slightest notice.
How did they do it in such a close place? It's a pity that the commission is not the time to think about this issue at this time, and there is no time to think about it. While whipping the horse and urging the horse, Zhebu also roared: "Go! The enemy is chasing you, don't stop, rush out of the front ditch and go north!"