Nightfall Chapter 22: Get on horse as a thief (6)
Volume Two, Winter Lake, Chapter 22, Mounted as a Thief (6)
At a certain moment in the early morning, not a specific moment, the horse thief who had followed the food team for ten days finally launched an attack. It was not the horn sound that broke the darkness before dawn, but the sharp and stern arrows.
Hundreds of feather arrows drew arcs, thrown from the top of the meadow, tearing the cold air and the remaining sleepiness in the camp, and whizzing down.
Although everyone in the food team had been mentally and materially prepared for the attack, they were still in chaos. In the rain of arrows, people shouted in horror, hid in panic, and desperately drilled into the board around the team.
The sharp and icy clusters of arrows pierce the solid board and can no longer go deep, but there are some feather arrows that easily penetrate the torso and limbs of civilians and soldiers, bursting out **** flowers, and making a sound After a tragic cry of pain, in a flash, it caused great damage.
The Yanjun cavalry in the southernmost part of the low-lying land was not in the camp. They were attacked by arrows almost at the same time, but because of Ning Que’s advice last night, their reaction was relatively faster and they picked up simple circles. The shield stood in front of him, or leaned behind the rocks on the low ground, nervously watching the arrows flying above his head.
Yan Qi’s horses neighed and ran 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 Yan Qi to ignore the thinning arrow rain. Fold up the mount at the fastest speed.
"Everyone is on the horse, ready to sprint!"
Ning Que turned over and jumped onto the **** horse, looking up at the edge of the raised meadow in the northeast.
He is very familiar with horse thieves’ combat methods. These rogues without logistical supplies have no habit of carrying a large number of arrows with them. Even in this long-planned pursuit, the horse thieves still can’t just attack from a distance and give food. The team brought a fatal blow, and in the end the horse thief still needs to rush to the camp.
The edge of the raised meadow in the northeast seems to have suddenly grown a black forest. Hundreds of horseback riding thieves in leather armor and thick cloth appeared there, the machete in his hand was Under the first morning light on the horizon, it was extremely cold, and everyone's breathing in the low-lying land became much more serious.
Above the gentle **** of the meadow, a masked horse thief slowly raised his knife and issued an offensive command.
Ning Que noticed that the horse thief leader was not holding a scimitar, but a straight knife.
Hundreds of horseback thieves rushed down the meadow along the extension line pointed by the straight knife. At the beginning, there were some messy and slow hoof sounds. As the speed increased, they began to become denser and more orderly. More than a thousand strong and powerful horses stomped on the surface of the slightly hard meadow, making the whole earth It started to vibrate.
The wasteland in the early hours of the morning is like a boundless drum, and the neat sound of horseshoes is like a hammer that falls heavily on the drum surface. Every time it falls, the ground will vibrate for a minute, and the drum sounds like thunder and hoofs. The sound is thunderous.
The camp that has just experienced an arrow rain baptism has just calmed down from the chaos. The soldiers and civilians who are holding weapons and even wooden sticks guarding the back of the chariot are feeling the ground shaking from under their feet. Listening to the thundering hoofs, looking at the horse thieves who flooded like a black flood from above the meadow, they couldn't help but look desperate.
At this moment, more than a dozen disciples of Dahe Country Mochiyuan held the black wooden handle on their waists, drew out the slender Xiujian, stood up, shouting loudly for the soldiers and civilians beside them to lift up The weapon in his hand, walked behind the carriage board.
These Mochiyuan disciples are just teenage boys and girls. They received the temple's edict and were ordered by their teachers to come to the wasteland for trials. They had never seen such a dangerous and **** battlefield before. The Dahe people, who are deeply influenced by the temperament of the Tang Dynasty, are also persevering and do not know what fear is.
Looking at the horse thieves coming closer, looking at the hideous faces of the horse thieves, watching the sharp cutlass waving in the hands of the horse thieves, listening to the arrogant whistle of the horse thieves, the young and childish faces of the disciples of Mochi Garden There is no trace of tension, and no despair, because the calm and calmness is more resolute.
The calm and perseverance of the girls from Dahe Country infected the soldiers and civilians in the camp. They raised their crude wooden spears subconsciously. Although the hands holding the spears were still shaking uncontrollably, at least they Finally had the courage to face the bleak situation and those ferocious enemies.
The sound of hoofs is getting louder and the horse thief is getting closer, the smoke and dust in the slopes of the dawn meadow are getting thicker, the air is getting colder and the atmosphere is getting more and more tense, everyone in the camp has panic in their eyes. With the last trace of fluke hope, he breathed more and more quickly, waiting for the moment when the horse thief rushed to the front of the car formation.
Ning Que was also waiting, but he waited for a shorter time.
He glanced at the more than one hundred horse thieves that faintly appeared on the meadow in the northwest. These horse thieves did not know when they sneaked last night. They appeared on the meadow at this time, but they did not initiate a charge against Yanqi. Obviously the intention was I want to take advantage of the momentum to suppress these Yanqi, so as to ensure that the nearly five hundred horseback thieves over there can gather all their strength and succeed in the camp.
Ning Que won’t fight with the more than one hundred horseback thieves. He turned his head and watched the smoke on the gentle **** of the meadow in the north getting bigger and bigger, watching the hundreds of horseback thieves almost rushed down the gentle **** and entered the low-lying area. , He pressed down the hat on top of his head, drew Pudao from his back, and signaled that the two hundred Yanqi who followed him were ready to charge.
"Don't ask how to rush, follow my horse."
He looked at the nervous Yan Qi beside him, did not make any pre-war mobilization, and said the above sentence directly, then flipped his wrist and pointed it straight at the meadow on his right. , The legs are heavily clamped to the belly of the horse.
The **** horse whispered twice, kicked its feet violently, and rushed out like an arrow from the string!
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The five hundred horseback riding thieves, who are pressing like tides, are accelerating continuously by virtue of the terrain brought by the gentle **** of the meadow. Before breathing, they have washed down the meadow and came to 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 meters wide. The food brigade camp is located in the center. At the current speed of the horse thief group, from stepping on the low-lying land to rushing It doesn’t take much time to get to the camp. What’s even more frightening is that if there is no such thing as a stumbling pit to slow down the speed of the horse thieves, hundreds of horse thieves can easily wipe out the food camp with their speed.
There were no horses or pits. There were no obstacles on the flat and solid low-lying ground. The soldiers and civilians behind the convoy looked at the faces of the horse thieves, their bodies were cold, and their hands trembling with their spears. It is even more powerful than before. If you don't know that surrendering is death, it is also death to rout backwards. I am afraid that at this time, only someone needs to shout, and everyone will throw their weapons and collapse around.
The strength of the enemy and ourselves is very different. The food team camp is under the meadow, and the location is completely lost, and there is no preparation. How can it stop these wolves like tigers? It seems that there is no way to save the destiny of this food brigade. Although the two hundred Yanjun cavalry not far from the south have begun to ride their horses to this side, when they arrived, the horse thieves had already rushed into the camp. Massacre began.
What's more, the two hundred Yanjun cavalrymen didn't choose the nearest straight line to help. Instead, they ran very strangely to the gentle **** of the east meadow. What are they going to do? The cavalry slows down on the gentle **** and consumes much horsepower. Do they want to be the target of the horse thieves' arrows, or... they want to escape?
Remembering last night that Ning Que insisted on not stumbling horses and traps. At this time, she saw the two hundred yans riding to the east, and a very bad association flashed in Ju Zhihua’s heart. She did not want to admit that name. The academy brother is actually such a villain, but besides being greedy for life and fearing death, what else can explain his actions?
There is no time for Zhuo Zhihua and the girls of Dahe Country to feel sad and indignant. They can only use Yu Guangzhuo to glance at those Yanqi and the big dark horse in front of Yanqi that seem to be getting farther and farther, and they must take their spirits back. To the present.
The horse thieves swarmed in front of me like a black cloud, and thousands of hoofs lifted up thousands of black gravels.
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A heavy muffled sound.
The horse thief who rushed to the front suddenly fell heavily on the hard black gravel ground for unknown reasons. A cloud of smoke was splashed. The horse wailed and couldn't stand up again. The front hoof seemed to be Broken.
Soon after a heavy muffled sound, dozens of riders in the front of the horse thieves who charged wildly, like the front horse thieves, fell to the ground in a very miserable way, and there was chaos between the inclined valleys!
Juzhihua, who was holding Xiujian tightly, didn't know what was going on, her eyes showed a puzzled look, and then, the puzzlement in her eyes turned into ecstasy-more and more horse thieves fell On the seemingly hard black gravel ground.
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The horse thieves rush down from the gentle **** of the meadow, and when they rush to the low-lying land between the meadows, their speed has been raised to the highest. If it is a charge under normal conditions, this horse speed is undoubtedly the most perfect However, the problem is that this is not a charge under normal circumstances, because this low-lying land is not a normal ground.
In the barren wilderness, the low-lying land sandwiched between two oblique meadows is rare. This place was originally an extremely ancient river course, which dried up and disappeared tens of thousands of years ago. The remains of the riverbed are left. With the accumulation of wind and sand, the river channels are gradually no longer visible. The two banks have turned into frosty meadows in spring and winter, and the riverbed has become a seemingly solid black gravel land.
Even these horse thieves running across the wasteland didn’t know that this low-lying land was an ancient river, and Ning Que didn’t know, but he brought the food team here last night. When he set up camp, he discovered this low-lying land. The problem of the ground, under the thin sand, are all round pebbles that are still smooth.
The middle of the ancient river is deep, and the soil accumulated for thousands of years is also the thickest. When the corpse is covered with vegetation and grass, there are not many problems during the horse riding. However, it is close to the ancient river bank, which is now two meadows. The edge area is only covered with a very shallow layer of black soil and gravel. If you use a little bit more force, even if the wind blows more, you may touch or see the round pebbles below, as well as those irregularities. Natural potholes.
This is not a trap, it is not a trap that Haotian placed for these horse thieves, because if the speed is not too fast, even the heaviest Nanshan horse will not sink into the mud accumulated over the years with two people. In between, however, the horse thief took advantage of the gentle **** of the meadow to rush down, the speed increased too fast, and the relative impact force between the horseshoe and the ground was too great.
So the edge of the low-lying land under the gentle **** of the meadow became a trap for the horse thief by Haotian.
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Swimming quickly, almost bringing out the afterimage of the horse's hoof, and stepped heavily on the low-lying ground. The powerful horse's hoof was sunk deep in the mud, waiting to rise, but it slid away because the speed was too fast , The horse couldn't keep his balance at all, and he fell heavily with the horse thief on him.
There was a horseshoe kicking the black gravel away, but it happened to get stuck between the cobblestones under the ground. At such a high speed, the horse couldn't stop the downward thrust, and the heavy horse squatted across it with a click. The horseshoe was broken, revealing blood-colored muscle keys and white periosteum, which looked terrible.
The dozens of horse thieves rushing in the front fell. The horse thieves behind had already noticed the problem, but it was because of the **** reason—the speed was too fast—that they couldn’t pull the reins to stop the charge, one after another. In this way, the horse rushed into the edge of the low-lying land, and then repeatedly fell to the ground, making heavy muffled noises from time to time.
If hundreds of horseback thieves rushed down from the gentle **** of the meadow before, they were like black tides, then the seemingly ordinary black gravel ground outside the food brigade camp is like a subsidiary of the Kingdom of Xiling. In the famous breakwater along the coast of Song State, countless invisible circular stone pillars appeared, and the tides were broken hard and mercilessly.
The tide rushed in wave after wave, and wave after wave broke into foam, the first wave fell first, the next wave continued, the wave was higher than the wave, the wave crushed the wave, and the wave passed by. .
The pictures between the inclined valleys are extremely **** and cruel,
Countless horses with broken legs and skulls fell to the ground, countless horse thieves were thrown off, and their legs were broken by the heavy horse body. They pushed the horse body frantically in panic, but in vain. The lucky horse and the horse thief fainted or died directly, while the unfortunate horse and the horse thief were howling in pain, especially the horse thief at the end charged at a high speed but fell tragically. They were squeezed together in densely packed blood like fruit. It seeps out like a slurry and smears it on the ground in the morning light.
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The fighting power of the horse thief is much stronger than that of the food team camp. Although at least a hundred horse thief suffered heavy casualties in the previous assault, as long as they are given time to queue up, even if they abandoned their horses to charge on foot, they will be given to the camp. Land brings great pressure and danger.
If the hundreds of people in the food brigade camp are elite soldiers of the Tang Army who can conquer, even ordinary soldiers, they will rush out of the car array with their weapons and come back with a close counterattack, and they can kill with a single stabbing. If a horse thief is killed, perhaps the horse thief's first wave of charge may be repelled.
It’s a pity that most people in the camp are civilians. Under the protection of the large shields of the carriages, they may have the courage to defend with sticks and spears, but they don’t have the courage to rush out of the camp to kill the enemy. More importantly, the more than three hundred horseback thieves in the back managed to avoid the natural traps in the low-lying land after all. At this time, they held their bows and arrows in their hands and watched the movement of the camp vigilantly.
So, whether you can repel the horse thief's first attack, all hopes must be pinned on the two hundred Yanqi to the south. At this time, the people in the camp knew that the two hundred Yanqi abandoned the bottom of the valley and chose to climb onto the meadow, not to escape, but to avoid the traps that Haotian hid in the ancient river.
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Two hundred Yanqi started to start ahead of schedule, but because they rushed to the meadow in the opposite direction and consumed a lot of horsepower, the speed was not fast, especially when compared with the **** horse that looked like black lightning at the front.
Yan Qi moved, and over a hundred horse thieves who were monitoring and suppressing Yan Qi on the meadow on the left hand moved immediately. These horse thieves rushed down the meadow at the fastest speed, trying to take a lap from the diagonal stab. They intercepted Yanqi from the side, but they didn't expect that these Yanqi didn't walk along the center of the inclined valley, but instead drove up to the meadow.
Seeing that they could not catch up with Yanqi, the hundreds of horseback thieves waved their whip and whistled to accelerate their speed. The sound of their hoofs chased down the meadow like thunder, so they also suffered the same miserable experience as their counterparts in the north charge. .
The cold wasteland winter breeze hit his face, but his cheeks became a little hot. Ning Que listened to the screams coming from behind, knowing that the horse thieves would never catch up with him, so he felt calm and started to think about it. Very strange question.
——The cold wind can burn your face, is it because the wind is too friction and heat? But if it is for this reason, how thick and hard should one's face be?
There is calmness in every major event. This is to describe some human beings' excellent temperament, but temperament has always been cultivated. Ning Que has been accustomed to seeing life and death since he was a child, and he has experienced too much tempering. Whenever he encounters a major event involving life and death, he will habitually think about something that has nothing, and then return his mood to the ultimate peace.
As calm as his hands holding the boxwood hardwood bow at this time, even if he was blown by the wind, he didn't tremble a bit.
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Step on.
Straighten up.
Draw the bow.
The wrong point.
Twist the rope.
Release.
The arrow leaves the bowstring, like dew dripping from the leaf surface, slowly, and then slightly deformed. The center of the arrow body bulges outwards, accompanied by rotation, the bulge draws an arc in the air, the arrow is swaying, and the feather tail is swaying. , Following a complicated curve, but eventually becoming a straight line, tearing the air and flying into the distance.
The arrow touches the rough skin that has been tortured into dark black by the scorching sun and wild wind, like tearing the air, easily tearing the skin like paper, tearing the flesh and blood like floss, bringing out thick blood and broken bones like scum, until Deeply plunged into the depth of the throat bone, it stopped swaying, and the arrow feathers still swayed, but the speed became faster, trembling lightly.
Three horse thieves hit an arrow in their throats, and a **** flower burst out. Without shouting, they fell off their horses.
The hat was tied tightly by the rope. No matter how strong the winter wind on the wasteland, it did not blow off. Ning Que's eyes exposed outside the mask did not have a trace of emotion, just staring at the horse thieves who were getting closer and closer. .
Nearly two hundred horse thieves were trapped among the cobblestones on the edge of the low-lying land, in a panic. Three hundred horse thieves dragged behind and forced to close the frontier, but the formation was extremely chaotic, especially the side defenses were weak. If at this time a big knife was forcibly cut from the side of the horse thieves, I believe the horse thieves would be defeated.
He led two hundred Yan to ride diagonally from the meadow, just to make such a big sword.
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