On August 20, in an unnamed forest forty miles northwest of Luocheng, a dozen Jiejiao cavalrymen were nervously observing their surroundings, trying to find out who attacked them from the dense vegetation shrouded in darkness.
murderer.
Maybe it's a ferocious beast, or maybe it's a person as ferocious as a ferocious beast.
"ah!"
"ah!"
In the forest, screams could be heard one after another.
The dozens of Jiejiao cavalrymen were shocked, and there was a hint of fear in their eyes.
They began to regret that they should not have chased that terrifying Wei army into this dense forest around dusk yesterday.
They couldn't figure it out. The Wei people who were clearly being hunted by them before came to this forest, but they seemed to transform into terrifying stalkers, like the ghosts in ghost legends who specialize in harvesting the lives of living people, killing them one by one.
Kill one by one.
"(In Shen language) I can't stand it anymore...I can't stand it anymore..."
Among the dozens of Jiejiao cavalry, a young man muttered a few words to himself as if he was suffering from a disease, and desperately took out the torch and flint prepared earlier from one of the two horses accompanying him.
He tried to use flint to light the torch.
When he heard the sound of flints being struck, another Jiejiao cavalry lowered his voice and said in horror: "(In Shen language) are you crazy?! Hurry..."
Just as he said this, his voice stopped suddenly.
Because of the brief light produced by the flint and steel, he was horrified to see that the companion who was using the flint and steel to light the torch had been hit in the chest by a short spear at some point.
"puff--"
The corpse fell to the ground, and the sound of the landing made the already tensed nerves of the dozens of cavalrymen tremble suddenly as if they had been struck by something.
Where?
Where is the Wei army that is as scary as a ghost... hiding?
The dozen or so Jiejiao cavalrymen held their breath and did not dare to move. They only dared to look around with their eyes.
At this moment, the war horse beside them snorted several times.
In an instant, dozens of crossbow bolts were fired from the surrounding dark forest, killing several Jiejiao cavalrymen in one fell swoop.
"(In Shen language) I can't stand it anymore!"
Under the torture of wandering on the edge of life and death, a Jiejiao cavalry shouted, got on his horse, and ignored the other two mounts, running desperately towards the path he came from in his memory.
At this moment, a spear suddenly flew out of the forest and accurately pierced the neck of the Jiejiao cavalryman. Moreover, the strong force actually took his entire body off the horse and pinned him to the side.
On a tree.
"ah--"
"ah!"
After a burst of screams, the dozens of Jiejiao cavalry were all killed.
The moonlight shines on the forest. With the hazy moonlight, you can vaguely see a tall man, riding a horse with four hooves wrapped in thick leather cloth, quietly and slowly coming out from behind a tree.
, came to the body of the Jiejiao Cavalry who was nailed to the tree with an iron spear.
A few rays of moonlight shone on the man, who turned out to be the general of the Dangshan Army, Sima An.
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Glancing coldly at the corpse of the enemy soldier that he had nailed to the tree trunk, Sima An pulled out his iron gun, flicked away the blood on the gun, and scanned the area with his eyes like those of a ferocious beast hunting.
One glance at the dim surroundings, and immediately disappeared into the forest again.
Waiting for the sky to clear up, more than 12,000 Dangshan troops slowly walked out of the forest.
I remember that around dusk yesterday, more than ten thousand Jiejiao cavalry chased this army into this inaccessible forest. But now, the Dangshan army, which originally had more infantry than cavalry, now all have mounts. This can already explain the problem.
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For a whole night, the more than 10,000 Jiejiao cavalry were slaughtered by the Dangshan Army, a Wei mountain army accustomed to fighting in the mountains and forests in dark environments, like a hunter hunting prey.
"The Jie people who live on horseback are nothing more than that."
With slightly tired eyes open, Dangshan Army General Bai Fangming glanced at the clear sky and said jokingly.
Before he finished speaking, another general came out from behind and saw the latter straightening his hair and combs, and said slowly: "It was the Jiejiao people who were stupid and were killed by our army... They are not good at it.
They were fighting in the mountains and forests, but they were foolishly lured into the forest by our army, so that their acclaimed horseback archery skills were completely useless in this forest, so they suffered this disaster."
"Yes, yes, your plan to cheat defeat is very exciting." Bai Fangming laughed and said perfunctorily to Wen Xu, his colleague. Immediately, he rode forward, came to Sima An's side, and asked: "General, come on.
What shall we do when we come down?"
Sima An drove his mount and slowly came to a slope, climbed up and looked towards the direction of Luocheng.
In fact, due to the far distance between the two places, he could not see the situation in Luocheng at all. It only served as a psychological comfort.
"Support Luocheng?" Bai Fangming asked tentatively after noticing Sima An's actions.
Sima An shook his head and said calmly: "No!...His Royal Highness King Su has entrusted our army with another task." After that, he drove his horse slowly towards the west and said lightly: "It has been thrown away.
Now that the tail is gone, it’s time for us to take action... follow His Highness King Su’s wish and go straight to the tribal camp in Jiejiao!”
Having said this, Sima An's lips slowly turned into a cold and strange smile.
It was as if there was a voice in the dark saying: The beast of war, loyal to victory and killing, has been released.
It has to be said that the Dangshan Army was originally a mixture of infantry and cavalry, and Zhao Hongrun was amazed by the distance it traveled every day. But now, the Dangshan Army has captured more than 10,000 Jiejiao cavalry mounts, and its daily marching speed is even more incredible.
I believe that in just one day, they marched hundreds of miles westward and arrived at the hinterland of Sanchuan where the Jie people live.
When it was getting close to dusk, more than 10,000 mounted Dangshan troops came to a grassland where sheep were grazing. They saw the dozen young men responsible for grazing the sheep, gaping at the army that had come from nowhere, and trembling with fear.
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With only a distance of more than ten feet apart, Sima An took out the map of Sanchuan drawn by Zhu Hai, the general of the Chenggao Army, and added notes by the tribal chiefs in Luocheng City, and compared it with his own.
Location, trying to find a tribal camp very close to you from the hostile targets on the map.
However, after a while, Sima An let out a breath, put away the map, hid it in his arms, and then drove his war horse slowly past the dozen or so young men grazing.
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"Aren't you going to attack?"
Bai Fangming, who was riding his horse to catch up, glanced at the unsuspecting tribal camp in the distance and asked intentionally or unintentionally.
Sima An shook his head and said calmly: "If you go astray, it's not the tribes like Black Sheep, Wujiao, and Gray Horn... don't do unnecessary things."
Don't do unnecessary things...?
Bai Fangming flattened his mouth and followed with a chuckle. When he passed by the dozen or so stunned young herders, he glanced at each other, with deep meaning in his eyes: You are really lucky, little guys, if it were half a month ago,
hehe……
The mighty Dangshan soldiers with more than 10,000 horses, under the astonished and puzzled gazes of the dozen or so young herders, bypassed the unknown tribal camp in front of them, changed direction, and continued heading west.
Perhaps they heard the noise outside the tribe's camp. Dozens of people from Sanchuan poured out of the tribe's camp. They stared dumbfoundedly at a cavalry force of more than 10,000 people passing by their tribe.
"(In Shen language) Who...are they?"
"(In the Yi language) the black armor...is the cavalry of the Wei people?"
"(In the language of the Yi people) Are you stupid? Jiejiao is fighting with the Wei people. If those cavalry are really Wei's cavalry, how could they just pass by our tribe's camp?"
"(In the language of the Yi people) That's true...but that army in black armor really looks like the rumored Wei army..."
"(In Shen language) Well..."
One day later, Sima An led the Dangshan Army and found the tribal camp of the Wujiao Tribe of the Jie Tribe along the map.
The tribal flags of the Jie tribe are easy to recognize. Generally speaking, those tribal flags with huge sheep horns are most likely to be from the Jie tribe.
After confirming the tribal battle flag of the tribal camp in front of him, Sima An issued the order for the entire army to attack without saying a word.
Since most of the warriors in the Wujiao tribe followed Bitatu, the chief of the Jiejiao tribe, to attack Luocheng, the Dangshan army captured the tribal camp almost effortlessly.
After the cavalry passed, corpses were everywhere, and all the tribal warriors who stood in front of the Dangshan army were killed.
"Anyone holding a sharp blade is considered an enemy pawn and must be killed!"
After issuing this general order, the Dangshan army massacred the residents in this tribal camp.
However, due to the promise made to Zhao Hongrun, the Dangshan Army obviously had to restrain themselves from the massacre this time. They only killed those strong men with sharp blades. Sima An was rarely merciful to the elderly, children, and women in the tribe.
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But as a warning, Sima An ordered the soldiers to pick up the dead rebels and use their spears and spears to poke their corpses upright on the ground. From a distance, it looked like a "forest of corpses".
"(In Shen language) Why? Why do you want to massacre the warriors of our tribe? Who are you?!"
An old man on crutches walked tremblingly in front of Sima An and asked angrily.
However, Sima An ignored him, bent down and tore off a piece of cloth from the clothes of a corpse, dipped it in the blood on the ground, and wrote a line of words in Wei seal on the outside of the tribal chief's felt tent.
After finishing writing this line, Sima An threw away the blood cloth in his hand and got on his horse.
More than ten thousand soldiers riding in Dangshan rode away without saying a word, astride their mounts.
The old man looked angrily at the destruction that this terrible army had brought to their tribe, and then his eyes fell on the line of bloody words left by Sima An.
It was Wei Zhuan. The old man couldn't understand it, but he instinctively felt that the words above were murderous.