Chapter 1031: Success in the East and Success in the West (Twenty-Four)

Li Xin did not wait for Yan Haibo, but what he waited for was an opponent he had never expected.

Under the dim moonlight, two figures crawled through the grass like ghosts, and went straight to the fence of the Qin army's barracks. They made a few gestures, took out the short knives from their arms, and gently touched the fence. After a few moves on the ground, several horizontal baffles were taken down and pressed against the ground, the two of them climbed into the Qin army's camp.

This is where a branch of the Qin Army is located, with about 3,000 people. It is already the third watch, and except for the lights on the towering sentry towers and some bonfires, the camp has fallen into darkness. .

Two black figures reached under the sentry tower. One looked at the wind, and the other climbed up like an ape along the bowl-thick log that supported the sentry tower. Through the gap between the bottom boards, a Qin soldier held a hand. The spear stood in front of the railing, staring forward, while on the ground on one side, another Qin soldier sat on the ground holding a spear, his head hanging on his chest, and he was already asleep.

The black shadow gently took off the short knife from his waist, visually measured the distance, and slowly approached the gap in the wooden board. He accelerated sharply, and the short knife penetrated deeply into the dung door of the Qin soldier sitting on the ground. With a twist of his wrist, his intestines were torn into pieces in an instant. The Qin soldier sitting on the ground raised his head suddenly, opened his mouth wide and wanted to cry out, but nothing came out except a mouthful of blood, and his head tilted. , has tilted to the ground.

The Qin soldier with his back turned to him heard the cry, turned around, and was shocked. As soon as he opened his mouth, a blowgun flew up from the gap and pierced straight into his mouth. , the man looked up to the sky and fell backwards. The black shadow under the floor turned over with great dexterity, rushed up, supported Qin Bing who was falling towards the railing, and gently placed him on the floor.

After making a few downward gestures, the other black figure immediately left the place and headed towards another sentry tower not far away.

The black shadow slid down from the sentry tower, took off the rope from his waist, tied one end to the fence, and the other end to the log of the sentry tower, then took out a short knife, and slowly moved on the log. Slowly cut deep cuts.

After doing all this, the shadow took a deep breath, took out the crossbow from his arms, loaded it with a special crossbow arrow, raised his hand abruptly, and the crossbow arrow shot straight into the sky with a sharp whistling sound, accompanied by The sharp whistling sound was the sound of cavalry's hooves from far away and as fast as thunder.

The sound of horse hooves had just sounded, and the Qin Army's barracks was already boiling. Countless Qin troops rushed out of the barracks and swarmed in the direction of the sound of horse hooves. Look at the black figure lying under the sentry tower. Seeing the reaction of the Qin soldiers, I couldn't help but be secretly shocked. These Qin soldiers didn't even take off their armor when sleeping. Moreover, when they encountered the attack, they reacted quickly and correctly, which is amazing.

The cavalry came very quickly. When they reached only a hundred steps away from the fence, the swarming Qin army was already only a dozen steps away from the fence. As long as these infantrymen were allowed to get in front of the fence, put up their spears through the fence, and the soldiers behind them would If you set up your crossbow again, this sneak attack will end in vain.

Two black figures suddenly jumped up from the shadows under the watchtower, brandishing the swords in their hands, and struck the logs with a thud that only had a small section of connected logs left, causing the watchtower to shake a few times. , suddenly fell over, and the toppled main trunk of the sentry tower drove the rope. Amidst the rumbling sound, a section of the fence about forty or fifty meters was uprooted and overturned.

In the exclamation of the Qin soldiers, the cavalry outside rushed in with strange screams, and faster than them were the feather arrows they shot. The Qin soldiers were still in shock when the fence suddenly fell, and they did not react. When the arrows arrived, they immediately knocked down a large number of them. After a round of arrows were fired, the cavalrymen drew out their scimitars beside their saddles and rushed straight into the camp amidst the strange roaring sounds.

The burning bonfire was picked up by a scimitar and fell on the tent. A raging fire was ignited in the camp. In the fire, war horses came and went, hacking at the Qin soldiers who were in chaos.

When infantry and cavalry meet, when the infantry cannot prevent effective defense and long-range weapon attacks, the infantry will become lambs to be slaughtered in front of the cavalry, leaving little room for resistance.

The cavalry rushed back and forth several times before they galloped away amidst bursts of whistles, leaving the remaining Qin army with a camp that had been burned to ruins and corpses all over the ground.

With a bang, Li Xin punched the big case in front of him. Within three days, several units of the Qin army's peripheral troops were attacked. There were not many cavalry who came to attack. The largest group had two. There were more than a thousand cavalry, and the least was only two or three hundred cavalry, but they came and went like the wind, and they ran away when they hit. After three days, the Qin soldiers' losses reached an astonishing more than 3,000 people.

"General, these are not regular cavalry of the Han army, but all Xiongnu herdsmen." Dan Yu also frowned tightly, "We captured an injured Huns who was alone. According to his confession, the Xiongnu congratulated The elders of the Lan tribe, He Lankang and He Lanjie, issued a recruitment order, calling on all Xiongnu people who could mount their horses to gather to rescue He Lanxiong. Now on the prairie, there are probably dozens of large and small Xiongnu teams as many as ten thousand. People, and there are also Huns from farther away, including many Huns who moved to western Liaoning, are also coming here, and the total number is expected to reach an astonishing 30,000 horses."

"Thirty thousand cavalry!" Li Xin said coldly: "I was not afraid of the Huns' 100,000 cavalry back then, and they were not defeated by us. Now, how can the 30,000 rabble defeat me?"

"General, I'm afraid that the enemy is really a mob. They are a group of hundreds of people, coming and going like the wind, and their attacks are irregular. They have no connection with each other. Often, one group of Huns will leave after a group of Huns attack, and another group will come. Yesterday, one of our troops suffered such a loss. We just dealt with a group of Huns' night attack and were cleaning up the battlefield when the second wave came. We beat back the second wave and hadn't caught our breath yet, and the third wave came. In the end, no one in our army survived." But Yu said.

Li Xin frowned deeply. As the saying goes, a random punch can kill a master. These Huns herdsmen have no tactics and don't know what to do. He didn't have any combat skills, and he attacked the Qin army with all his courage. There was no overall organization, and it was a mess. But the more he thought so, the more difficult it was.

"General, why don't we shrink our forces and ignore these small waves of attacks, or find a way to attract them to attack us, so that we can gather them together and annihilate them." But Yu said.

"It's not impossible to shrink our forces, but in this case, what about the Aguyala Grand Canyon? These Huns attacked us frantically, and their purpose was nothing more than to rescue Helan Xiong. If we shrink our forces, they will have the opportunity to attack the Aguyala Grand Canyon. It's not easy to trap Helan Xiong. If he escapes again, wouldn't the whole attack be in vain?"

"What should we do?" Dan Yu said with a bitter face. "They attack day and night like this, the soldiers can't rest at all, and we can't set an ambush to destroy them, because after so much effort, we may only catch the smallest group of them, and more Huns will follow us, we can't afford to waste time with them!"

"Want to deal with me with a chaotic battle?" Li Xin thought for a moment, "Dan Yu, you go and command in person, bring 10,000 cavalry, divide and attack, and wipe them out one by one."

"Fight chaos with chaos?" Dan Yu asked.

"You are not a mob in the Qin army. "The crowd!" Li Xin said with a serious face: "Coordinate the troops in your hands, separate and gather, disperse when you need to attack, and gather when you need to concentrate. Do I need to teach you this?" "I understand!" Dan Yu clasped his fists and saluted Li Xin, then turned and walked out of the big tent. Looking at Dan Yu's back, Li Xin frowned even more tightly. This attack was not smooth from the beginning. After Wang Xiao tricked Feng Fayong in Shannan County and successfully destroyed the main force of Feng's army of 20,000, he still suffered a bloody defeat in Shannan County. In the end, the Han army in Shannan County took the initiative to retreat. Although it seemed that the Qin army had conquered Dai County and occupied Shannan County, the grand strategic goal set in advance was It didn't reach the target, and Helan Xiong's main force escaped.

Now he finally caught Helan Xiong's main force and trapped him, but Yan Haibo in Jishi City ignored his old boss, and a group of rabble came to stir up trouble. Deep in his heart, Li Xin suddenly lost confidence in this war. The heavily guarded Jishi City might not be opened by human power.

If Jishi City is like this, can Dayan City in the Hetao area be easily taken? These two cities were built by Guo Quan, the Minister of Works of the Han Dynasty. If something unexpected happens, Wang Xiao's experience might be more sad than his own, because he has entered the prairie too deep.

Now only The only hope is that Lu Chao and Meng Tian's road, as well as the Chu army, will go smoothly, so that Gao Yuan can't take care of both ends, giving himself more time.

Deep in the prairie, next to a puddle, Guli was swallowing dry biscuits in big mouthfuls, with blood stains on her leather armor. After eating the dry biscuits, she picked up the helmet from the side, washed the blood stains on the helmet with the water in the puddle, wiped it clean, and put it back on her head.

"Guli!" Topler walked to Guli's side. In several sneak attacks, Guli's military talent made Topler automatically give up the position of commander. Most of their troops came from Baiyang Village, and they gathered on the way. In addition to the Xiongnu who came from other places, they also absorbed some stragglers defeated by the Qin army. The team has swelled to more than a thousand cavalry. "Just received news that the Qin army's 10,000 cavalrymen were divided into more than ten troops and have destroyed four or five of our troops on the prairie. We lost more than 2,000 cavalry." "Do you know their location?" Guli asked. Topler dug some mud balls from the puddle and placed them down. Looking at these mud balls, Guli took a deep breath and said, "Retreat, retreat to the prairie. At the same time, inform other tribesmen to keep a greater distance between each other and try to keep the interval between the Qin army as far as possible, so that It takes longer for them to respond to each other. The opponent is a regular army, and their coordination is not comparable to ours. Only by making them farther apart can we have a chance."

Topler nodded, looked at Guli, and suddenly said: "Guli, who are you?"

Guli looked at Topler and smiled, "Brother Topler, who do you care who I was before? No matter who I was before, I am Guli now, the wife of He Dayou, and I don't want to mention the past."

"Understood!" Topler turned and left.

After an incense stick of time, this cavalry team of more than a thousand people re-mounted and set off, rushing towards the depths of the prairie. (To be continued)