Chapter 252 Battle Thirteen
"Boss, this army is not simple. One 10 steps, one post, and a team of patrols will be patrolled by one arrow. The patrols on the periphery are even more stringent, with one person in five steps, and a team of cavalry in the middle as a mobile phone. Whenever there is any movement, the cavalry will immediately come out." A tall man wearing animal skin as a clothes, covered in thick and muscles, and with an axe on his back, he said to a handsome man.
All around the men were full of such a big man, and the handsome man was Zhan Shisan, who had been away from Xiliang for a long time, just like Tian Yinke...
After hearing the news, Zhan Shisan frowned: "It seems difficult to deal with. Have the people sent to find the Xiliang horse thief back?"
"Boss, I've just left for a while."
In fact, Zhan Shisan and seven thousand Han roamed around in Xiliang. On the one hand, they were attacking the enemy's army, and on the other hand, they were going to raid the enemy's rear. Unfortunately, they found an army of about 300,000 here. It looked like it was definitely not the Western Liang army. Apart from the Western Liang army, Xiliang horse bandits, alien cavalry and Guan Shanyue's army, there was no other force in Xiliang. The elite army in front of them was very different from the alien cavalry. All alien cavalry were one man and one horse, and there were no infantry, so this army was probably the rear army of Guan Shanyue.
But no matter what, since Zhan Shisan encountered it, they had to cause some trouble. However, it was impossible to confront the enemy's army with seven thousand people head-on.
"So, do you have any other discoveries?" Indeed, Zhan Shisan also knew that he was a little anxious to tell the news that would definitely be boring for them.
"Boss, their army is very interesting. They all carry a thick-backed ghost-headed knife, and each of them has a small crossbow and a bag of crossbow arrows around their waists, and only the cavalry holds long weapons."
"What?" Zhan Shisan felt a little strange the more he heard it, but he couldn't tell what was strange.
"Boss, are there any problems?"
"You said that infantry use short crossbow arrows, and cavalry are all long weapons?" Zhan Shisan asked with doubt.
"Yes." The big man didn't know what Zhan Shisan was thinking, so he nodded in response.
"How many cavalry do they have?"
"It's probably not more than 20,000."
"Strange, what kind of army is this? There are so many infantry? There are only less than 20,000 cavalry?" Zhan Shisan still couldn't figure out what it was, but he was thinking about other things, just to cause some trouble for this army.
"Get the map." Zhan Shisan shouted.
Soon a big man was spread on a stone with a map drawn from the animal skin.
"Mark their locations."
Hearing Zhan Shisan's words and the man who came back searched for it, searched on the map, and then picked up a stone and placed it on the map: "Boss, it's here."
"Half a month's journey..." Zhan Shisan held his chin and looked at the map in a daze.
Several big men in front of Zhan Shisan looked at each other, and then whispered: "Boss..." Seeing that Zhan Shisan did not respond, he shouted a few more words: "Boss...Boss..."
"Oh!" Zhan Shisan came to his senses and said, "Is the Xiliang horse thief brought it?"
After being asked by Zhan Shisan, several big men were stunned and shook their heads and said, "No." They forgot what they were going to say for a moment.
"What are you calling me?" Zhan Shisan asked inexplicably.
"This..." The man looked confused and couldn't remember what he was going to say at all. He asked to his companion around him: "What am I going to say just now?"
"It seems...it seems to be half a month?"
"Half a month?" Zhan Shisan was stunned. What a half month? He immediately understood: "Oh, did I just say that they were only half a month away from Xiliang City?"
"Yes, yes, that's it." The big man slapped his head and said.
Zhan Shisan looked at the map and asked, "Is there any problem?"
"Boss, of course there is a problem."
Buzzing...
Zhan Shisan stared at his eyes, his ears were full of buzzing, and said, "How many times have I told you, can you stop making such a fuss and yelling around?"
The man looked apologetic. He spoke in a hurry and said loudly, "Boss, I'm sorry, I won't dare to..."
Zhan Shisan rubbed his ears and finally heard what he was saying behind him. He waved his hand: "Don't always give it to me next time, I don't know how many times you have."
"It's really not next time. Boss, please forgive me this time..." Seeing Zhan Shisan's impatient look, the man was so scared that he was almost crying.
Seeing this, Zhan Shisan hurriedly said, "Forgive me, how can you not forgive you..." Later, Zhan Shisan didn't say it. You guys could bear it by crying, but I couldn't bear it.
The big man was happy and returned to the main topic: "Boss, I just wanted to say that you were wrong in half a month."
"Oh." Zhan Shisan looked at the map with a focused look on his face.
"They are all light and simple. I guess if they march at full speed, they can reach Xiliang City in about seven or eight days."
Zhan Shisan suddenly raised his head. Although he was focusing on the map, he was also careful to listen to what the man said. He was shocked and shortened half of the time?
"really?"
"Boss, how dare we lie to you?"
"What are you doing? The boss is in a hurry."
"We don't think about it either. Who knows that these horse thieves are so difficult to find. You can catch dozens of them just by walking around. Today, we brothers ran for more than ten laps before seeing three."
At this time, Zhan Shisan heard the noisy sounds outside and knew that he had sent someone to find Xiliang horse thieves back.
Zhan Shisan looked at the three horse thieves in front of him with a warm look on his face, and said in a bad tone: "What have you done? Why are you all in this area not seen in your people?" It is related to Xiliang City, and Xiliang horse thieves were originally everywhere, but they searched for so long to find it, which made Zhan Shisan very suspicious whether the Xiliang horse thieves were doing their best to do business for Xiliang City.
"This sir, this is what happened, but the day before yesterday our brigade escorted the villagers in the city to the desert. The maximum number of people who stayed here was no more than a thousand people." The Xiliang horse thief did not dare to be afraid because of Zhan Shisan's anger, but instead looked at it for granted.
"Go to the desert? What's going on?" After all, Zhan Shisan was completely unaware of the migration of Loulan.
When the Xiliang horse thief wanted to explain, Zhan Shisan immediately interrupted them. Since everyone had moved, it was absolutely boring that they agreed to this matter. Do you know whether they knew it was the same? It was still important to have a big deal: "Now you three people immediately pass what I said back to Xiliang City, and they must be conveyed in person to the generals or the city lords in the city. Do you know?"
"I understand, little." The three horse thieves responded.
After seeing off the Xiliang horse thief, Zhan Shisan felt worried, but the Xiliang horse thief was still at work in conveying the news, so he could only believe them.
Of course, after hearing the news, the three horse thieves in Xiliang were also shocked and did not dare to neglect. They finally saw that the environment in Xiliang had improved, and the villagers gradually lived a good life. This is great. When they encountered a military disaster, their families lived in Xiliang for generations. How could they tolerate outsiders destroying their homes?
What's more, the horse thieves who stayed in Xiliang were all determined to live and die with Xiliang City, and had already left their personal life and death aside.
However, after knowing that this army had such marching speed, Zhan Shisan took two people to investigate in person. It was not that he did not believe the words of his subordinates, but that Zhan Shisan had to observe carefully. He always felt that this army was not simple. Guan Shanyue was waiting for this army to not march towards Xiliang City. Although the number of 300,000 people was more than the number of people, it should be more than the number of people, and there were other things.
Zhan Shisan saw, as his subordinates said before, with strict garage and no gap was found at all, but gradually, Zhan Shisan saw something.
This army did not wear tents or other materials, and there was not even a baggage truck. One out of ten people carried the marching blame. In addition, each carrying a bag of things. If it was not wrong, it should be food.
No wonder the marching speed can be so fast. It turns out that except weapons, we only carry enough rations and don’t bring any extra things. We even save the sleeping tent. It’s really not easy.
Of course, the most important purpose of Zhan Shisan coming here to observe is to see if there is any place to break through, disturb the enemy, so that they dare not march easily, but there is no way to take advantage of it, Zhan Shisan had to give up this idea.
However, when leaving, Zhan Shisan smiled badly.
When the big men saw their boss' expression, they knew that the boss had an idea and couldn't help asking curiously: "Boss, what are you going to do?"
"This...hey, you all go find a lot of hay for me and get it wet, but don't be too wet to work." Some things should be told clearly to these rude men, otherwise they will soak the hay in water and make it all wet.
Not long after, everything was ready.
Then, Zhan Shisan pointed to the map and said, "You bring a hundred brothers to lead the enemy to me here. You can lead me as much as you have. It is best to run faster, otherwise I will not care about burying it if I die."
"Wow, the boss is so cruel... he actually wants to lead them to the mountains to ambush them, so let's go here."
"Okay, you guys look at Shichen..." Halfway through, Zhan Shisan quickly changed his words: "You are hungry, so go and induce them to know?"
"Oh, listen to your boss."
If they were asked to see the time, they would probably not know what time it was when it was dark...
Then, Zhan Shisan led thousands of people to run quickly towards the designated mountains with a slightly wet hay, and their destination was the Wild Wolf Valley.
Although the Snow Wolf King followed the Desert King to the desert, his wild wolf clan was still in the Wild Wolf Valley. After this period of investigation, Zhan Shisan learned from the Xiliang Horse Thief that there were countless wild wolves in the Wild Wolf Valley. He asked Zhan Shisan to be careful and it would be better not to go there.
Zhan Shisan still has some understanding of the combat power of wild wolves, and he just uses wild wolves to deal with the enemy.
Chapter completed!