I’m The King Chapter 513: : The big show begins
When the horse bandits appeared in front of the convoy again, Ma Li’s always confident face finally showed a trace of panic. Outside Li Xu, they were sizing up their food like wild wolves.
"General Cao!" Ma Li looked back at Cao Tianci eagerly.
"No!" Cao Tianci didn't even think about it, and directly rejected Ma Li, "Lieutenant Ma, we must not send any more manpower, if we send too few, this is to give away the opponent's head, if we send too many, Hmph, they are just hoping that we will be provoked and attack with the whole army!"
"You mean?" Marley asked.
"This is a trap." Cao Tianci said decisively: "Lieutenant Ma said earlier that this is likely to be a group of horse bandits fleeing from afar. Now it seems to be true. They must be short of food. , lack of body was given, so stared at us, even though we are a convoy escorted by the army, "
"There shouldn't be many of them!" Ma Li pondered.
"Not many. I estimate that they should be between fifty and one hundred. If it exceeds one hundred, they will attack by force instead of trying to lure us with some ghostly tricks." Cao Tianci nodded. Dao, without any scruples about Ma Li's embarrassing face, "They expect us to be provoked, and then the whole army will go out to chase them, and then, the people they hide will come to attack our convoy."
"We divide our troops into half and go out, we should have a fight with them!" Ma Ma said.
"No!" Cao Tianci shook his head and refused, "Lieutenant Ma, since these horse bandits have escaped all the way here from a distance, their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated. Besides, my task is to **** Mrs. Lu, not to kill them." The enemy built an attack and sent Mrs. Lu to Mr. Lu in Shannan County. I have completed the task. I don't want to cause trouble. Ignore them. Let's go. They should not be many. We can only use this kind of trick. As long as we get together Together, they will not talk at all."
"I killed 30 people, and you also died 30 people. You don't want to take revenge?" Ma Li wanted to try again. Of the dozens of horsemen and horses he brought with him, there were only ten left. If he went back like this, he would inevitably be punished by military law.
"No one can predict the casualties on the battlefield. Even if you want to take revenge, you can do it after you finish your mission." Having said this, Cao Tianci's tone has cooled down, "Lieutenant Ma, don't worry about it." Too much to say, when we arrive at Shannan County and finish the mission, I will take my brothers to the grasslands to find these horse bandits and kill them all for revenge." He glanced back at the convoy, shook his head and said: "Now , not the time."
Ma Li sighed, he knew Cao Tianci was right.
Dozens of horse bandits were watching from one side, and the speed of this advance can be imagined. It took half a day and he hadn't walked ten miles. As soon as his men and horses were dispatched, the horse bandits would retreat immediately, and when Cao Tianci withdrew his troops, they would approach again, sticking to the convoy like brown sugar.
With such a bandit on the side, everyone can only eat cold dry food for lunch, and swallow it with the snowflakes on the ground. After a short rest, they start their journey again. It seemed that they were a little absent-minded when they could no longer lure out the opponent's men, and finally began to slowly retreat into the distance.
"It seems that they saw that they had nothing to take advantage of, so they retreated!" Ma Li breathed a sigh of relief.
"Impossible!" Cao Tianci became even more worried, "Lieutenant Ma, I'm worried that they will gather people and horses to attack."
"Wouldn't that be better?" Ma Li said, "They came together, just to gather and annihilate them."
"I'm worried that we won't be able to beat them." Cao Tianci sighed, "We have to divide our minds into two things, one is to protect Mrs. Lu's safety, and the other is to fight the enemy. You know, the horse bandits don't care if Mrs. Lu is Death is life, and if something happens to Mrs. Lu, the two of us will win this battle, I'm afraid we won't survive? General Gao will kill me, and Mr. Lu will spare you?"
Ma Li's face changed slightly.
But something that made Ma Li even more terrified appeared an hour later. Just as Cao Tianci said, the horse bandits gathered together. From this distance, they could count the number of each other clearly, which exceeded one hundred and fifty Ten rides.
With a thud, Ma Li and Cao Tianci swallowed their saliva coincidentally, and looked at each other, both of them saw fear in each other's eyes, one hundred and fifty horse bandits, plus the fighting power shown by the previous horse bandits , this battle, I'm afraid it's not easy to fight. What's more, they have to divide their troops to protect Mrs. Lu.
"Why haven't they launched an attack yet?" Ma Li suppressed the panic in his heart, looked at Cao Tianci, and asked.
"I doubt they still have people." Cao Tianci's voice was very low and trembling. "There must be more than one horse bandit team eyeing us. The previous team wanted to eat alone, but found that we were a bit tricky, and refused to be fooled by them. There was nothing they could do. Now I'm afraid it's time to contact more people. "
"Then what should we do?" Ma Li also became afraid.
"Didn't you say earlier that your general He's troops are not far from here?" Cao Tianci asked: "If you go to rescue the soldiers quickly, how long will it take you to go back and forth?"
"I'm afraid it will take a day." Ma Ma said.
"One day at a time." Cao Tianci gritted his teeth and said, "Go immediately and go to General He to ask for help. You'd better hurry up, or we will collect the corpse for us!"
"Can you survive the day?"
"I will find a favorable place to camp and stay here."
"Can you hold it?"
"If you can't defend it, you have to defend it." Cao Tianci pointed to the carriages behind him, "There, we still carry some defensive equipment, and we were worried about encountering such a situation. Captain Ma, what do you think? ?”
"Okay, I'll go. The ten of me will also stay here to help you." Ma Li gritted his teeth.
"Forget it, ten more people or less than ten people won't help us much, Captain Ma, you think you can run to the rescue lightly and skillfully, the horse bandits will definitely stop you, take your brother with you " Cao Tianci said lightly: "Let them cover you, if you are all stopped by the horse bandits, then we are really finished."
"Okay, take care then!" Ma Li stretched out his hand and firmly held Cao Tianci's hand, "I'm begging you for everything."
More than a dozen Qin soldiers rushed out of the convoy, and rushed towards one side. As expected by Cao Tianci, those horse bandits immediately separated dozens of riders, bypassed the convoy, and headed towards Ma Li and his party Chase away.
Looking at Ma Li's disappearing figure, Cao Tianci snickered with a hey. "Go, speed up, go!"
I don’t know if it’s because the reinforcements from the horse bandits didn’t arrive. The horse bandits not far away didn’t launch an attack. In the distance, it was naturally impossible to set up tents in a leisurely manner. The crowd surrounded all the carriages, unloaded the horses, and connected all the carriages together to form a carriage formation.
Only one bonfire was lit in the car formation. Mrs. Lu and Lu Hong sat by the fire, looking worriedly at the horse bandits not far away. The strange laughter of the horse bandits came indistinctly.
Cao Tianci came over and sat by the fire with a heavy expression on his face.
"General Cao, is there any danger?" Lu Hong's voice was full of panic.
Cao Tianci bowed his head and thought for a moment, then raised his head, "Mrs. Lu, I dare not hide from you in the end. The situation is very bad. Now the bandits are no weaker than us. They have not attacked all this time, they are just waiting Reinforcements, if their accomplices come, we may not be able to stop them."
"What should I do?" Lu Hong exclaimed.
"There is only one way now!" Cao Tianci said: "Steward Lu, I will send ten of the best soldiers under your leadership. After two hours, we will leave here quietly. We stay here to attract the opponent's attention." In this way, there may be a way out."
"Ten people?" Lu Hong's eyes widened.
"At this time, it's not good if there are more people. Maybe it's better to escape if there are fewer people. Thinking that we are fish on their felt board, vigilance has been reduced to the minimum, if you still stay here, you will really die."
"We're leaving, what do you do?" Lu Hong looked at the other party, although the danger of absconding like this is great, but staying here, there is no way out.
"I guess, when their reinforcements arrive, they will launch an attack. We can delay them for as long as possible. If we are lucky, we can escape and come to you." Cao Tianci road.
"General Cao~IndoMTL.com~I'm the one who caused you trouble." Mrs. Lu had tears in her eyes. Cao Tianci was using these hundreds of lives to cover her escape, so he couldn't help but be grateful.
"Don't say that, Mrs. Lu, since we are being targeted by the horse bandits, we can't escape even if we want to." He looked at the carriages among the carriages, "It's these belongings, I'm afraid we won't be able to take them away .”
"Money is nothing but possessions outside the body." Madam Lu shook her head.
"That's it, I'll pick the ten best soldiers for Madam." Cao Tianci stood up and left Madam Lu.
At midnight, Madam Lu and Lu Hong were escorted by ten soldiers and stepped onto the horses. The horseshoes were covered with thick cloth and their mouths were strangled. People quietly left the camp, and left quietly towards the distance.
Seeing Mrs. Lu's figure disappear into the darkness, Cao Tianci breathed a sigh of relief. Of course Mrs. Lu is safe, no horse bandits will chase them.
"The big show has begun!" He laughed triumphantly. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to *** (***.***) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to m.* **.*** Read.)