Feng Xiu squatted next to Lin Ye. Lin Ye's breathing was still a little heavy, but he didn't even dare to breathe out, as if he was afraid of delaying Lin Ye's breathing.
Lin Ye only said the word "tired", but Feng Xiu, as a soldier and a martial arts practitioner, knew how much meaning this word contained.
After a long time, seeing that Lin Ye's breathing had gradually calmed down, Feng Xiu dared to speak.
"How about General?"
Lin Ye said: "No injuries."
Feng Xiu finally breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the corpses on the ground again, his eyes still filled with disbelief.
Those were not ordinary people, they were all thieves who killed without blinking an eye. They were all fierce, but hundreds of them were killed by General Lin alone.
He couldn't imagine what it was like last night, and what kind of method General Lin used to retreat while fighting.
Lin Ye stood up and seemed to have recovered. He looked at the corpses around him and said, "Instruct people to cut off the ears of the corpse and take them back. All military merits, big and small, will be distributed among the soldiers."
Feng Xiu was startled.
Killing hundreds of enemies and reporting such events, even if Lin Ye cannot be promoted to another level immediately, he can still accumulate honors and transfers.
This was not a formal battle required by the imperial court, so the military merit might not be that great, but it was still a few hundred heads.
"In fact, if I rush back after killing them all, I will probably be over there in the depression by now."
Lin Ye said something while walking.
Feng Xiu was curious: "Then...why didn't the general go back in a hurry?"
Lin Ye said: "The first is to rest for a while, and the second is to wait."
He walked and said without even looking back: "I have killed so many horse thieves, I have to wait for someone to come and take a look."
Feng Xiu: "..."
Wouldn't it be boring to pretend to be such a big dick without being seen?
Feng Xiu followed Lin Ye: "General, how did you do it?"
Lin Ye: "Rely on your hands."
Feng Xiu: "..."
He did not give up because this was not a matter of killing a few or dozens of people, but hundreds of people, and they were also cavalry.
Even those masters who have entered the Wuyue realm will not choose to face hundreds of cavalry casually.
Lin Ye said: "You saw it all the way here, think about it for yourself."
Feng Xiu saw it. He was too anxious when he came and didn't think carefully.
At this time, Lin Ye deliberately kept it secret, and Feng Xiu also knew that Lin Ye was testing his ability.
The corpses encountered on the road at the beginning were obviously killed by General Lin while riding his horse while chasing General Lin.
General Lin should be carrying enough equipment, such as double-shot crossbows, bows and arrows, and other things.
Although Feng Xiu scanned them all when he came, he also saw that there were no arrows on some of the corpses, and the wounds did not look like they were caused by arrows.
The first hundred or so corpses were probably flown to death as if Lin Ye was flying a kite. Lin Ye was running in front and the horse thief was chasing after him. He must have deliberately controlled the distance.
General Lin's strength is greater than those of the horse thieves, and the range of his arrows will be farther than that of the horse thieves.
One was running in front, and a group was chasing behind. Lin Ye fired his arrows to face the horse thieves, while the horse thieves fired their arrows to chase Lin Ye.
So as long as the distance is controlled, Lin Ye will always be killing the pursuers behind him, but the pursuers behind him cannot hurt him.
It sounds easy to talk about it, but how difficult is it to actually do it?
Feng Xiu thought that the corpses he encountered later were in the same location, and judging from the shape of the corpses, they were not killed during a horse fight.
He thought carefully and realized it after a moment.
Those horse thieves chased General Lin, but they were flown like kites and killed hundreds of people.
They probably got scared or tired of chasing after them and didn't want to chase anymore, so they stopped there to rest. There were traces of bonfires in that area, so they wanted to rest for a while and then go back, because they were really tired after chasing all the way.
In addition, the horse thieves had fought in the depression before.
They must not have planned to rest for long, they just took a breather and then went back to join the group.
But while they were resting, General Lin attacked them secretly.
It was a close-quarters battle. General Lin killed nearly a hundred people by himself and still escaped unharmed. Feng Xiu went through the scene in his mind, and he was sure that he could not do it.
The enraged horse thief started chasing Lin Ye again, and Lin Ye brought them here. He must have laid an ambush in Gaopo.
Yes, a man ambushed almost two hundred horse thieves who were chasing him.
At this point, Feng Xiu was sure that he still couldn't do it.
He told Lin Ye what he was thinking, and Lin Ye nodded, with the meaning on his face... Even if he misses the mark, he's not far off.
Because Feng Xiu didn't know that Lin Ye knew how to use poison, and they were the most lethal poisons.
He had guessed the whole process, but he couldn't guess why Lin Ye was able to kill so many horse thieves.
But there was one thing he was absolutely certain of. If he had done this, let alone sit down and take a rest like General Lin, and wait for others to see this and pretend to be cool, he even felt that
I should pretend to be playing gongs and drums.
If no one comes, then go back and bring them over for a look.
The soldiers who followed buried the horse thief's body, cut off the ears and put it in a bag.
This is war, so blood and cruelty are nothing, they are an inevitable part of war.
On the way back, Lin Ye asked: "Have all the horse thieves in the depression been dealt with?"
Feng Xiu replied: "Ninety percent, probably. A very small part escaped. I was worried that something might happen to the general, so I didn't let anyone chase those horse thieves."
Lin Ye said calmly: "I expected it."
Feng Xiu asked: "The general said that he expected it. Does the general think that it would be more useful for us to put some people back? We can track the horse thieves' lair, or let the living horse thieves go back to report the news and lead a larger team of horse thieves out.
For revenge, we can still fight again."
Lin Ye: "I expected you guys to be bad at your job, so you can't kill them all beautifully."
Feng Xiu: "..."
Lin Ye said: "Putting some people back will do us no good at all. They will not come out for revenge again, because we are Dayu's soldiers, and they have seen the scale of our troops."
Feng Xiu's face turned slightly red.
But you really can't blame him for this. If you want to blame it, blame Lin Ye. Why did you have to run out by yourself?
If they weren't looking for Lin Ye, those horse thieves would probably be able to deal with them. After all, they had already taken advantage of the right time and place.
Lin Ye said: "If the matter is not settled, I will punish you to find a way to find the lair of the horse thieves."
Feng Xiu: "Really looking for it?"
Lin Ye nodded: "Really looking for it."
Feng Xiu: "But the horse thieves are in the mountains, and even the large-scale encirclement and suppression by Dongbo's border troops cannot succeed. We..."
Lin Ye glanced at him and Feng Xiu stopped talking.
Lin Ye said: "Have you seen those burnt cattle and sheep?"
Feng Xiu said: "I saw it. There are corpses at the bottom of the pit, and many of them are burnt. It's a pity."
Lin Ye asked: "More."
Feng Xiu: "More!"
Lin Ye: "I got them all on credit."
Feng Xiu: "Ah?"
Lin Ye said: "I haven't paid for all the cattle and sheep. I can't find the lair of the horse thieves. I can't find the gold and silver treasures. I can settle the money for buying cattle and sheep with others. I will keep you all as compensation and work as shepherds."
Slave."
Feng Xiu: "Not good..."
Lin Ye: "It's not all bad. The customs here are good. By next year, you may all have a big fat boy."
Feng Xiu: "..." Returning to the depression, when the people at Qi Barracks saw Lin Ye coming back, they burst into cheers from a distance.
Lieutenant Qirige of the Dongbo Military Academy came over quickly and gave Lin Ye a Dongbo military salute.
"General Lin, I am convinced."
He said it sincerely.
Lin Ye felt it was a pity. If he had known there was such a show, he should have made some bet with Qi Rige at that time. Even if he won just a few taels of silver, he would still win. Who would think that a small piece of meat is not meat?
Lin Ye is already extremely rich, but he is not stingy about thanking others for the three melons and two dates they lost to him.
Lin Ye said: "I can't give you all the horses of the horse thieves, but you can take away all the weapons and armor of the horse thieves."
"this......"
His face looked grim.
Although Dayu is the main country and Dongbo is a vassal country of Dayu, the Dongbo court strictly prohibits trading with jade people such as war horses.
He looked at Lin Ye: "It's hard to take the war horse back."
Lin Ye: "I'm not discussing this with you."
Its grid: "..."
He said in embarrassment: "But how should I report this matter?"
Lin Ye: "You can report it however you want. You can say I'm unreasonable, or you can even say I took it away from you."
Qi Rige: "That's definitely not possible. Of course I reported the results of this battle truthfully. It's just that it's really not easy to let them go when they get to the border."
Lin Yewen: "Is your frontier general arriving soon?"
Qirige nodded: "It's almost time. I expect to be here in the afternoon."
Lin Ye said: "Go and greet us now, and tell your general that when he comes, you have to work with me to wipe out the nest of horse thieves at Xingyue Lake."
His eyes widened.
Lin Ye said: "Either you turn around and go back, pretending you don't know anything. But since you want to pretend you don't know anything, then you'd better pretend you don't know anything about what we took with us when we returned to Dayu."
For a moment, I didn't know what to say.
Lin Ye said with a professional smirk: "If your general is willing to come, after wiping out the horse thieves, I will only have enough gold and silver to give people money for cattle and sheep. The war horses will belong to me, and the rest will belong to you."
Qi Rige thought for a moment, nodded and said: "Then I will go meet the general and discuss it with him. In the end, it is the general who has to make the decision."
Lin Ye: "Go ahead, I won't leave you for lunch."
Its grid: "..."
Speaking of lunch, everyone is really hungry. There was a fight last night, and most of them haven't had a bite of food yet.
Pang Dahai approached Lin Ye: "General, how about we also eat sheep?"
Lin Ye nodded: "Of course I eat sheep."
Pang Panghai smiled, his face was darkened by smoke, and he grinned, revealing two rows of big white teeth.
Lin Ye said: "Go to the bottom of the pit and look at those who were burned to death. Pick up the edible ones and drag them back to eat. Don't waste them."
Pang Panghai stopped laughing.
Lin Ye said: "Go quickly and start running."
Pang Dahai: "Oh..."
He turned around and reluctantly ran to the bottom of the pit to check.
They were fighting here last night, and no one knew better than them the smell of burning cattle and sheep.
So when Lin Ye said eating this thing, Pang Panghai really had no appetite. He was originally hungry. After walking around the bottom of the pit, he was not only full, but also able to vomit two more mouthfuls.
After Lin Ye scanned the battlefield again, he slowly exhaled.
This battle not only captured many war horses and killed many horse thieves, the most important thing was to give the people in the Qi Barracks confidence.
When he glanced around, he saw that the soldiers were also looking at him, and there was light in everyone's eyes.