Volume 1: Looking to the Northwest, Shooting the Sirius Chapter 77: Rush Camp
Chaitino took the lead, followed by six cavalrymen running towards the northwest.
Although he had not slept for two days, his spirit was still strong and his body did not feel tired at all. If we apply the concept of Chaitino's previous life, it is that the higher the state, the closer it is to inhumanity.
Arriving at Shibali Fort, the group of seven people turned around and ran towards the east. The veteran looked at the cavalry that quickly disappeared and sighed softly:
"The river is roaring, how can our little pond withstand the coming stormy waves?"
With a slight bow of his head, the old soldier sat on the top of the city in silence.
"Chai Xiucai, how far is it to reach that settlement?"
A man with a long beard and a beautiful beard asked this question. Chai Tiannuo felt very comfortable in his heart. It had been a long time since anyone had called him a scholar. After thinking about it, this name still sounded good to him.
"Lord Lu, after passing Stone Mountain, we still have to run for about half an hour, and we are already approaching Shahe County."
Meishan Gong is the Zuolang General of the Border City Guard. Although his military force is not high, he is good at planning and planning, and he is a strategist-like presence in the Border City Guard.
He has many aides, and the five he brought out this time each have their own strengths, making them the best combination to find out the military situation.
"Can you please remind me when we are about to arrive? We still need to make the necessary preparations."
"Here."
Nodding lightly, the generals on the left and right of the Yiwei were really important people. Chai Tiannuo found that the officials he came into contact with were getting higher and higher these days, and he didn't know if he had the honor to go to visit the two husbands.
"Lord Lu, you can see the settlement after crossing the small slope five miles away."
Chai Tiannuo pointed to the front as a reminder, and Lu Xiulin waved his hand to stop the team. After all the horses' hooves were wrapped in cloth and he changed into the clothes of the herdsmen around him, he continued to move forward.
After crossing the slope, Lu Xiulin and the others all took a breath. What they heard from others and what they saw was a world of difference!
Lu Xiulin glanced at Chai Tiannuo and thought, no wonder Chai Xiucai said that there are as many as stars. At a glance, it feels really boundless.
"Mr. Qinghe, the number of Tatars in the grassland is truly astonishing!"
A doorman with gray hair and a smart suit, holding a telescope in his hand, was observing and reporting incomprehensible data.
The other four people each kept writing on a piece of thick cowhide with vertical and horizontal lines painted like a checkerboard. They were all weird symbols, and Chaitino was confused when he saw them.
A quarter of an hour later, Lu Xiulin saw the well-dressed doorman put away his binoculars and asked:
"Mr. Shanhe, how good are the results of the investigation?"
"Basically clear."
Mr. Shanhe carefully put the telescope into the wooden box, pointed at a piece of cowhide and said:
"The enemy camp has been divided into ninety-nine and eighty-one areas by us. After analysis, it can be divided into three parts."
Dragging over another piece of cowhide, Mr. Shanhe pointed to the symbols on it and continued:
"Part of them are Dahua people who surround the center. They only occupy one area, but their number is quite large. It is roughly estimated to be around 67,000 or 8,000."
"The other part is what the people call Kuldun Guard and Husang Guard."
"From the analysis of clothing, flags and different levels of camps, the number of military mansions belonging to these two guards is astonishing!"
"...The number is astonishing, but it far exceeds the previous Yinshan Guards?"
Lu Xiulin asked with a frown, Mr. Shanhe nodded heavily:
"good!"
"The Yinshan Guard has fifteen military mansions, with a strength of 45,000 to 45,000. The Heihe Guard after the change of defense is no more than the eighteenth military mansion, with a strength of about fifty-five thousand. But the Husang Guard has at least twenty-five military mansions."
"As for the Kuldun Guards, they reach about thirty military mansions."
"The total strength of the two guards is about 170,000. If we add the disabled Black River Guard, I'm afraid the number will exceed 200,000!"
Chai Tiannuo and Lu Xiulin were shocked at the same time. An army of 200,000 was twice the strength of the grassland royal court’s invasion of the frontier fortress three years ago!
The fight back then was extremely painful, could the current Northwest Frontier Army be able to stop it?
Looking at Lu Xiulin who was deep in thought, Mr. Shanhe continued:
"The third part is the largest group of grassland Tatars. They are divided into countless tribes, large and small. Their location is extremely chaotic. Their number cannot be accurately calculated, but it cannot be less than half a million!"
After saying that, Mr. Shanhe began to report on the personnel, equipment and other conditions. Lu Xiulin nodded frequently, but Chai Tiannuo didn't listen at all.
How can two hundred thousand official leather armors and five hundred thousand tribes be able to mobilize another two hundred thousand combatable steppe Tatars? Then the force will reach a terrifying four hundred thousand!
The northwest frontier army totals about 200,000 people. How can it withstand 400,000 cavalry?!
"Chai Xiucai, Chai Xiucai?"
Lu Xiulin shouted twice before Chai Tiannuo came back to his senses.
"I wonder if Chai Xiucai has a way to detect the combat strength of the two guards?"
"No less than a thousand soldiers of the royal court died in your hands. You have the most say in the entire northwest."
Lu Xiulin said seriously, and the five diners looked at Chai Tiannuo with emotion on their faces.
This is the undisputed second person in the border guard's military strength. Unfortunately, he is not from the northwest after all, and he will return to the capital in a few days.
"How difficult is this!"
Chaitino jumped onto the horse's back, shook the reins and jumped out.
"Master Lu, please wait a moment. I'll be back as soon as I go!"
The red rouge rabbit seemed to know how to hide its whereabouts. Without waiting for Chaitino's instructions, it ran elsewhere and made a large circle towards the settlement.
"... Mr. Qinghe, is this Chai Xiucai trying to break into the enemy camp alone?!"
Mr. Shanhe and the other four diners looked shocked. Lu Xiulin stroked his beard and said with a wry smile:
"Look, 80% of the time it is."
"This Chaitino's courage is truly unbelievable!"
After circling for twenty miles, Chai Tiannuo patted Minghong on his back, shook the lonely smoke of the desert on his hook, took out the Moon Rhinoceros from his bag, clamped five armor-piercing awls, and rushed towards the endless tents!
"The solitary smoke in the desert is straight. If someone gets the solitary smoke in the desert, then let's go straight and watch a certain rider charge into the camp. Fight him until the sky is dark and the earth is dark!"
Chai Tiannuo laughed, the rouge rabbit neighed, the cloth wrapping the feet was trampled to pieces, and the sound of intensive hooves was like thunder!
"Where did that come from?"
On the watchtower, a soldier from the royal court asked his colleagues next to him with a puzzled look on his face.
"I wonder, could it be the Black River Guard?"
"Impossible. How dare those guys come here on horseback after their courage was broken by the Dahua Barbarians?"
"Where will that come from?"
Seven or eight soldiers all looked at the figure that was getting closer and closer, and the man with excellent eyesight suddenly changed his expression:
"No, it's a Dahua barbarian!"
As soon as he finished speaking, five heavy armor-piercing cones fell accurately!
“Duh duh duh~”
Five people flew upside down at the same time, hitting the thick railing with their arms broken and falling. The remaining two people were frightened and beat drums and shouted:
"The barbarians of Dahua are coming, the barbarians of Dahua are coming!"
A captain quickly ran out of the camp, mounted his horse, and shouted:
"Which direction and how many troops?"
"Coming from the north, the troops are only one person strong."
"you"
Just as the captain was about to yell and curse, there were two bangs, and the last two sentries' heads exploded and they fell straight from the watchtower.
The drumming stopped, but the originally peaceful camp suddenly came alive.
Countless soldiers on duty took their positions, drew their long bows that were almost as tall as a man, nocked heavy arrows, aimed at Chai Tiannuo who was sixty or seventy meters away from the tent, and released them at an angle!
"Hey, there are actually long archers among the soldiers of the grassland royal court?"