Turbulent Times Chapter 305: Pursuit (1)

You just need to aim at the place with the most enemy troops and shoot the rocket out, regardless of whether it hits or not, and you don't have to worry about whether the rocket can pierce the armor. The opponents, like a group of lambs, ran, howled, and lay down in the snow and pretended to be dead, but no one launched any counterattack.

"The master... Uh! Lord Lieutenant! I caught a prisoner in the humble position, and I just tortured him. The prisoner said that Lord Hou had performed witchcraft, causing epidemics in their army. Nearly half of the army fell ill, and their morale was low. Not much left." The former leader of Feihuzhai, now the leader of the regiment, Wang Fei, ran over with a group of people holding a prisoner in one hand.

Everyone was shocked when they heard the words, and they couldn't help thinking of the five thousand Turkic Silver Wolf King Cavalry who were burned to death and the army led by the ten thousand Li Fengyun who were all brought down by the poisonous smoke nearly a month ago. Is this still a human being?

"The guy named Zhou Hu in Gaotai City probably brought people here, and Lord Hou should be catching up soon. These Turkic people have been scared out of their wits. To confer a high position, you will have to report to the imperial military department later. Lao Tzu, the captain, needs the approval of the emperor, so if we don't have the military exploits, we won't be able to sit in this position for long, so everyone catches up and let go of the kill. The more the better, those who can use arrows don't need knives, but we can't be alone, we are small in number after all, don't let the Turkic thieves come back."

Since the enemy army scattered and ran away, Shangguan Hu gave an order to divide the 3,000 cavalry into groups of 100 men, and chased after him. He himself only brought a hundred soldiers.

The number of enemy troops is several times that of their own. Although they have lost their courage now, they have rich combat experience, so they are not eager to fight hand-to-hand. Instead, alternately interspersed from the side, seized favorable terrain, and kept causing casualties to the opponent with feathered arrows.

The advantage of doing this is that it can minimize the loss of one's own side. From the beginning of the war to the present, the number of casualties of 3,000 people brought by Shangguan Hu has remained in single digits. But the disadvantages are equally obvious. Although the enemy army was frightened out of their wits, the rate of personnel reduction was very slow. Some experienced Turkic fighters have slowly recovered from their panic. Around the commanders and chieftains, there were no longer only their direct relatives left. Many rout soldiers instinctively approached them on the way to flee for their lives, preparing to huddle together like sand chickens in winter to keep warm.

Swoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—

Shangguanhu led a hundred soldiers to take a shortcut to seize a hillside, and shot a row of heavy arrows at the enemy army at the corner of the mountain road.

More than a dozen Xue Yantuo soldiers were shot and fell in a pool of blood, screaming again and again. Most of the other soldiers bent down quickly, using the nearby rocks as a cover, and forced their way through. And a tribal leader wearing a black sable fur in the defeated army formed a small group with his own soldiers, and tried to fight back with a curved bow while covering the feathered arrows with a shield.

"Don't shoot separately, concentrate the bows and arrows to deal with the gorgeously dressed ones first!" Shangguan Hu frowned and ordered loudly to his side. These Turkic people are indeed rich in combat experience, and their combat quality is quite good. If the morale of the soldiers under his command had not completely collapsed, and he had lost trust in the leader Xue Qiluo, the Sui army might not have won so easily.

"Your Majesty has an order, concentrate on shooting those in gorgeous clothes, concentrate on shooting those in gorgeous clothes!" Several soldiers ran away separately, and spread the latest order to the ears of a hundred soldiers at the fastest speed. .

"Got it!"

"Understood!"

"Catch the thief first!"

Shangguan Hu's troops are relatively mixed, nearly one-third of them are green forest bandits from the original Feihuzhai, and nearly half of the officers are. All his personal soldiers are his former confidants in Feihuzhai. At this time, it seemed a little messy, and he agreed in a hurry, but the movements of his hands were unambiguous, and he quickly turned the bow arm to find the target again.

Facts have proved that Shangguan Hu's order was correct. Dozens of armor-piercing cones focused on the headman in sable fur at the corner of the mountain road.

The guy in the sable fur had four or five eagle feathers inserted into his body in an instant, and with a scream, he fell on his back.

"The leader, the leader..." There was a mournful cry on the mountain road. More than a hundred guys dressed as soldiers stopped running for their lives, laid down the body of Commander Diaoqiu, turned and climbed up the hillside.

According to the regulations of the various Turkic tribes, if a headman or chieftain dies in battle, even if the soldiers can escape with his body, they will be killed, unless they can bring back the murderer's head, and the merits and crimes will be offset. Therefore, at this moment, the more than one hundred soldiers had no choice but to fight to the death.

A row of armor-piercing cones flew head-on, knocking down a third of this group of soldiers in an instant. Not letting them back down, the remaining nearly a hundred people let out a growl, separated from each other, and continued to pounce upwards against the mountain like mad dogs.

"Whoosh, whoosh—" Shangguanhu's soldiers shot out the third row of armor-piercing cones, knocking down half of the desperate guys. The remaining 50 or so Turkic people rolled nimbly on the snow, and with the help of the cover of the rocks, they approached the Sui army at a faster speed. Seeing that the distance between the two sides was less than ten steps, the Sui army would be powerless to protect themselves after shooting feather arrows. Shangguan Hu sneered and said: "I just got itchy hands, follow me and kill them all."

Before he finished speaking, Shangguan Hu rushed forward with a machete in hand, and a hundred soldiers who followed Shangguan Hu roared and followed closely. Unwilling to back down, in a blink of an eye, four Turks and one Sui soldier died in battle. In terms of individual quality, these Turks are not weaker than Shangguanhu's side at all, but the Sui army has Shangguanhu who has made great achievements. The team is led by a master, and the number of people is already dominant at this time, so the final outcome is already doomed. After more than 30 breaths, more than 50 Turkic people were all killed, and seven of Shangguanhu's personal soldiers also died.

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"Don't get close, keep shooting, and keep calling them with armor-piercing cones!" Shangguanhu found a steady stream of Turkic people passing by the corner at the bottom of the mountain, so he decided to continue to wait here, waving machetes and shouting orders. "Aim at this corner, one shot counts as one!"

A hundred soldiers around Shangguan Hu were re-divided into three rows at the front and back according to the habits cultivated in the usual training. Arrows rained down on the corner of the mountain road in turn.

The corner of the mountain road is facing a valley, which is not too deep, but in such cold weather, if anyone accidentally falls, he will definitely have no chance to climb out again. If the Turkic soldiers wanted to escape, they had to go through this turning point on the mountain road, and at the same time faced the risk of shooting random arrows and slipping down the valley.