Chapter 17: Night Raid(1/2)
The military camps of the Dragon Tribe are set up in two places, the infantry battalion and the cavalry battalion, respectively, in the north and south directions of Tianshan City.
These two places are also the two imports and exits of Tianshan City, with infantry garrisons and cavalry garrisons garrisons garrisons garrisons garrisons garrisons garrisons.
In the past six months, although no confrontation has been launched, the training has become more intense.
Infantry must perform long-distance hiking ten kilometers of weight every morning, and then conduct assassination and infantry combat formation training in the morning. After a full meal in the military camp at noon, you can leave.
Because in the afternoon, they had to help with farm work. Such high-intensity training and physical labor required a lot of meat and food consumption.
If it weren't for the fact that the Yin tribe had a large amount of surplus food, Han Chunming wouldn't have been able to support an army of 5,000 people.
Infantry is still half peasant and half soldier, while cavalry is professional soldiers. Their training intensity is greater and their consumption is greater.
More than 100,000 people support 5,000 troops, which is a bit unbearable. If you want to continue to develop, you can only continue to develop by fighting.
Han Chunming's original plan was to start conquering the surrounding small tribes after a year of rest. Within two years, the population of the Dragon Tribe would reach 200,000, and in five years, the population would exceed 500,000.
Even if the Tumaru Kingdom does not come, Han Chunming is ready to formulate a conquest plan.
But the plan is not as fast as the change. Tomaru Guo also gave Han Chunming a chance this time, a chance to swallow an elephant by a snake!
Han Chunming had just been in the war room and had a brief look at the situation in Tomaru Country, although he didn't know much about the basic situation of this country.
However, the geographical location of Tomaru Kingdom is very good. This country is located in a canyon plain, with towering snow-capped mountains on both sides, which is also a terrain that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The land of Tomaru has a rich water resources. The local cattle, sheep and horses are very famous around it, so many countries in the Western Regions are willing to go to Tomaru for transactions, and the local business is also very developed.
There are so many advantages, but there are naturally disadvantages. The Tumaru country borders two small countries, one of which is the Qiang branch, which is the ancestor of the same lineage as the Tumaru country.
The areas bordering the border of the Daqin border, including the Western Regions and the northern grasslands, are hundreds of countries of all sizes on this millions of square kilometers of land.
Most of these countries have a weak sense of existence, and even in the eyes of later generations, they are not even considered a country, because some countries only have tens of thousands of people, and are isolated from the world for hundreds of years.
Several famous races in history are probably the Huns, Donghu people, Yuezhi people, and Qiang people.
The most powerful Huns were killed, one after another, and unified the northern grasslands, and established a powerful Hun Empire. The territory of this country was larger than that of the current Qin Dynasty.
The Tuman Kingdom is a branch of the Qiang people. The Qiang people did not have a large unified country and did not have a reputation in history.
The most famous one is probably the establishment of the Later Qin Dynasty during the Five Barbarians' invasion of China, but it was just a flash in the pan.
But this does not deny the power of the Qiang people, especially for the current dragon tribe.
But Han Chunming was not afraid, just a small country, and his future goal was the entire Western Regions and even the entire northern grasslands.
Although the three thousand cavalry of the Tomaru Kingdom are only more than fifty miles away from Tianshan City, it is already dark and it is dark tonight, so the other party will never dare to launch a night attack.
The other party dared not launch a night attack, but Han Chunming dared. Of course, the real decisive battle will be tomorrow morning, and the battlefield tonight will be a battle of cavalry.
Han Chunming's plan is very simple. Tonight, he will lead the cavalry to harass him. Early tomorrow morning, the infantry will get up at three o'clock and arrive at the designated destination at six o'clock to assemble.
There are several Grand Canyons on the way to reach Tianshan City. These Grand Canyons are good places to ambush. Tomorrow the infantry will also choose a Grand Canyon for ambushing.
To complete this plan, tonight will be the most critical part. Whether it can be successful depends on tonight.
Tonight, it will be the first time that the Dragon Clan cavalry performs. Han Chunming selects 300 real elites from the 800 cavalry.
Even if they are all elites, Han Chunming dares not fight head-on. These are his family's assets and should not be defeated now. Tonight, their mission is mainly harassment.
In order to successfully complete the harassment operation this time, Han Chunming also prepared a lot of secret equipment for this.
The other party rushed for nearly 400 miles, and at least two days and two nights had not had a good rest. In this kind of weather tonight, they would definitely have a good rest for the night.
It takes only one hour to start an attack on Tianshan City.
Han Chunming naturally won't give them time to rest.
Although there was no light at all tonight, Han Chunming led 300 cavalrymen to attack, and in less than an hour, he arrived at the supply post thirty miles away.
There is a saying that a strong dragon does not suppress local snakes, but the dragon tribe within 50 miles of Tianshan City is a complete local snake.
On this land, every mountain, every water source, and even every small village are controlled by the Dragon Tribe.
At this moment, fifteen miles away, under several peaks, there was a flat ground two or three miles wide. On that flat ground, hundreds of tents were already erected, and countless torches were illuminated.
The three thousand cavalrymen of Tomaru Kingdom sat in groups of three or three, and countless bonfires rose in the open space, with the crowds of people and it was very lively.
The men took off their armor and their stinking leather boots, and prepared to start tonight's dinner while baking on fire.
In the middle of the tent, a banquet was being held. The one sitting at the top was Sanmaru, the king of Tomaru.
Sanmao was wearing a brown brocade dress, her hair was up to her waist, and every hair on her was shiny under the light.
Sanmao looked very young and looked a little childish on her thin face. Her mouth was gripping with a young beard, which made him look like a minor young man.
But at this moment, no one dared to underestimate him in the tent. Eight strong men sat on both sides of him, each showing his strong chest muscles and looking at their king with a respectful expression.
Sanmao picked up the wine bowl and shouted at everyone.
"The gods are here, bless us with all the best in this conquest! Come on! Do it!"
Everyone shouted "The God is above", picked up the wine bowl, and drank it all in one go.
Just after drinking a bowl of wine, a noise suddenly came from outside the tent.
The wine bowl that Sanmaozi picked up was stopped in the air, and the mustache on his face was beating a few times, obviously a little unhappy.
Those who are familiar with him will know that as long as Sanmao shows such an expression, someone will be in a bloody disaster.
Sanmao was originally very confident in this conquest, but for some reason, he always felt a sense of boredom in the past two days and it was not a good sign.
But Sanmao didn't have to think too much about the greed for glass and mirror.
He was afraid that when he was one step later, the tribe would have been snatched by others.
So he had to start the best. This time he brought the three thousand cavalrymen, all of whom were the most elite soldiers in the Tumaru Kingdom, and everyone had superb riding and shooting skills.
Not to mention just a small farming tribe with tens of thousands of people, or a small country with hundreds of thousands of people, these three thousand elites can defeat the other country.
Seeing Sanmao's expression, a big man hurriedly shouted outside the account.
"Guard, who is making noise outside the tent?"
A guard rushed in outside the tent and bowed and replied.
"The king, it was the tiger roar camp hunting a brown bear nearby, and everyone was cheering."
Hearing this answer, Sanmao's displeasure finally subsided a little, and he waved his hand and said.
"You retreat and let the Hu Xiao Camp deliver the bear gall to me!"
The guard quickly responded and then stepped down.
In this era, the military power is the most important thing, and the tiger roar camp can hunt brown bears, which is something worth showing off, and Sanmao naturally disappears.
He only felt stuffy and panic in his chest these two days. He heard that bear gall could be cured, and this happened to be ready. He picked up the wine bowl and drank it all in one go.
At this moment, in the south direction of the garrison, Han Chunming led dozens of cavalry to scatter the ends of his forehead by the cold wind in the dark. His eyes were like lightning, and he looked at the military camp tent in front of him and remained silent.
Until a long time, suddenly, a rocket shot out from the west peak into the sky, shooting in the sky like a meteor towards the military camp below.
This rocket seemed to be a signal, and dozens of rockets followed, shooting out from the peaks.
After these rockets were shot, they no longer had any figures, as if they had never existed.
These rockets are not strange things, they are just made of animal oil. They have no lethality to the thick tent, and they will not be like the hot camps in movies and TV dramas.
However, dozens of rockets suddenly emerged, causing the Sanqian Tuwan cavalry who were preparing for dinner to panic. Everyone panicked and put on their armor, rode their war horses, and began to rush to the west.
King Sanmao was quickly alarmed, and quickly put on his horse in a neat manner, and began to direct everyone to rush towards the west.
There was only a low mountain to the west. After the three thousand cavalry arrived here, they found that there was no shadow.
Sanmao quickly asked someone to investigate. It turned out that they had sent dozens of scouts to guard the surroundings, but those people had already been pulled out by Han Chunming.
Hundreds of cavalry held torches and dispersed around. Half an hour later, everyone came back to reply one after another.
There was no ghost around.
Sanmao was not calm now. Not only did he send a large number of scouts to investigate, but he also asked all three thousand cavalrymen to stand on the spot in armor.
But for local snakes, it is easy to hide 300 people in the vast mountains around them.
Han Chunming put a team of 300 into six groups, one for each fifty people, and each person harassed in one direction.
Rocket harassment is just a wave. In this dark night, it is simply a disaster for this group of outsiders.
With the right time and place, Han Chunming has all the land.
Sure enough, after an hour of tossing back and forth, Sanmao finally withdrew his troops and returned to the open space again.
Although the flat ground is not guarded on all sides, its advantage is that it is its spacious area and is not afraid of being attacked by others.
On the other hand, no one dared to launch a head-on attack on their three thousand cavalry, which is also one of the reasons why San Maruko is relieved.
Everyone was tired and hungry at this time. When they returned to the station, they didn't dare to unplug their armor. They could only wear thick leather armor and began to prepare for dinner.
Everyone wanted to eat something hot, but now they don’t care about anything else and can only eat a few bites of dry food.
Just as they were eating, a sudden sound of gongs sounded from the south.
Dozens of gongs rang out at the same time, and in the dark night, people and horses were frightened.
This time, the Tomaru cavalry was very neat. Everyone turned over the horses and raised the torch to chase them to the south.
To be continued...