Chapter 0496 The enemy is outnumbered and I am outnumbered?
What's under the snowy mountains?
What could enable Kebi to walk out of Crook Lake and live under the snow-capped mountains?
The answer is food!
Only food can enable this old horse thief with a legendary life to walk out of Crook Lake and live under the snow-capped mountains.
A small amount of food can allow this old horse thief to spend the winter comfortably in the snowy winter.
A large amount of food allows this old horse thief to take advantage of the snowy winter to recruit troops and make a comeback.
This old horse thief must be very old.
But his ambition seems not to have been erased by time.
It's just that he absolutely shouldn't and shouldn't provoke the evil star Kou Ji.
If it was an ordinary Song Dynasty baggage transport team, and he threatened it, maybe the grain inspector would hand over the grain to buy peace.
But Kou Ji won't.
Kou Ji will not compromise with anyone who is weaker than himself.
Nor will I accept any threats.
"It should be for food..."
Kou Ji sat on the horse and spoke slowly, clearing An Ziluo's doubts.
An Ziluo volunteered and said, "I will lead people to destroy him right now."
Kou Ji smiled calmly, "No need...Brother An is the general of Qingtang. To deal with Ke Bineng is like killing a chicken with an ox's knife, which is not advisable."
An Ziluo opened his mouth to predict.
Kou Ji had already turned his head and ordered the leader of the patrolling horse guards beside him.
"You take someone with you and go with Liu Heng."
The leader of the horse guards crossed his fists and led the other men of the horse guards to mount their horses and put on their armor.
After a while.
The familiar armor appeared in front of people again.
Although this was the second time they witnessed the appearance of heavy armored cavalry, many people still looked at the heavy armored cavalry with fear in their eyes.
When Liu Heng patrolled the horse guards to put on their armor, he selected a thousand Japanese soldiers and ordered them to take off their heavy armor, put on light armor, and ride on horseback.
After everything is prepared.
Liu Heng took a thousand Japanese soldiers, two hundred patrolling horse guards, and a hundred imperial city spies to break away from the team escorting the grain and grass.
A blink of an eye.
Liu Heng and his party disappeared under the snow-capped mountains.
The breakaway army.
Liu Heng planned to send spies escorting the Imperial City Division to investigate Kebineng's stronghold.
But the leader of the patrol horse guard stopped him.
"You don't have to be so troublesome about Mr. Liu, just follow our brothers. Our brothers will quickly dig out the stronghold of the bandit leader."
The leader of the patrolling horse guards led Liu Heng and his party to follow the traces of horse dung, and soon found the traces of Ke Bineng.
When a Uighur man wearing yellow clothes and a yellow scarf appeared in front of Liu Heng, Liu Heng was stunned for a long time.
Liu Heng looked sideways at the leader of the patrolling horse guards in astonishment, "You can find traces of the thief just by looking at horse dung... Have you ever been on the grassland?"
The leader of the patrol horse guard gave Liu Heng a bright smile and said, "You don't need to ask more about Liu Heng's business. The young master won't let you talk about it."
Liu Heng glanced at the leader of the patrolling horse guards, "Then I won't ask..."
The leader of the patrolling horse guards smiled and said: "The young master said that no one will be left alive except me from the Song Dynasty. The number of horse thieves in front of me is less than thirty. They should be the spies of the horse thieves. A large group of horse thieves should be entrenched nearby.
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Should we rush forward and kill them, or should we drive them away and let them lead us to find the large group of horse thieves?"
Liu Heng muttered: "You seem to be very experienced in dealing with horse thieves?"
The leader of the patrolling horse guards laughed in a low voice: "A little bit..."
Liu Heng asked: "What do you think we should do?"
The leader of the patrol horse guards said seriously: "Drive them away and let them lead us to find the large group of horse thieves."
Liu Heng frowned slightly.
"The other party has three thousand..."
The leader of the patrolling horse guard looked back at the Qian Peng Japanese soldiers following behind him and said with a smile: "We have the elite of Qian Peng Japanese army."
Gao Yi, the captain of the Japanese military academy, heard what the two men said, rode his horse forward, and solemnly said: "I agree to drive them away to find the large group of horse thieves, gather them and annihilate them."
Liu Heng hesitated and said: "The other party has more people than us."
Gao Yi said seriously: "It's just a bunch of rabble. We are the most elite imperial army of the Song Dynasty."
Gao Yi glanced at the leader of the patrolling horse guards and said to Liu Heng: "Compared to them, we may be inferior. But compared to those rabble, we are more than a little stronger.
Besides, our main task this time is to escort grain and grass to Shazhou City, and we don't have extra time to waste time on the grassland with these horse thieves.
Therefore, gathering together and annihilating them is the most appropriate and fastest way."
Liu Heng's eyes lingered on the leader of the patrolling horse guards, Gao Yi, and he said in a deep voice: "As long as you are sure..."
Liu Heng looked not far away and saw the horse thieves who had already spotted them and were about to flee, and gave a solemn order.
"Kill it..."
Liu Heng took the lead in urging the war horse under his crotch to kill him.
The leader of the patrolling horse guards, Gao Yi, followed closely behind with his men.
When Liu Heng and his party launched a charge, the horse thieves dispersed in an instant, divided into several groups, and fled in all directions.
Horse thieves are not stupid either.
After discovering the huge team of Liu Heng and his party, they knew they were unable to defeat them, so they decisively chose to leave.
Years of experience as thieves told them.
When escaping, you must not flee to one place in a swarm.
Instead, they have to escape separately.
If the enemy separates their forces, they have the opportunity to reunite and cannibalize each other.
If the enemy only pursues one group, the others who have escaped can also go back to bring in reinforcements.
However.
They are inferior to the enemy's strength.
While they were running away separately.
The enemies in iron armor raised iron cylinders while running.
"Pa..."
The iron cylinder spurted out flames, causing the horse thieves to escape. In an instant, some fell off their horses and died.
There was also a horse thief who was shot but did not die.
Before they could continue to escape, the sound of firecrackers sounded again.
He ran hundreds of feet all the way.
Four firecrackers were fired.
Among the horse thieves who were divided into three groups, two groups died under the sound of firecrackers.
There was only one left behind, running wildly on the grassland.
The horse thief who survived realized that he had encountered a powerful enemy.
I have the intention to divide the troops again, but I am afraid that the enemy's firecrackers will sound again.
"Go to the big leader..."
The enemy clearly has the strength to annihilate them in one fell swoop, yet they keep chasing them. The horse thieves have already guessed what their purpose is.
The enemy wanted to force them to find their leader.
The horse thieves felt that the enemy was a little arrogant.
Although the enemy has weapons they have never seen before, the number of enemies is only over a thousand.
But under their leader's tent, there were more than 4,000 people.
Using a heap of people can also kill the enemy.
If they can obtain the enemy's armor and weapons, their strength can be further improved.
The horse thieves rushed all the way to the bottom of a low hill, then suddenly turned around and ran along the east side of the low hill.
Liu Heng and his entourage pursued him relentlessly.
Bypassed the low hill.
What comes into view is a pasture.
Tens of thousands of cattle and sheep are looking for food on the withered yellow grass, chewing dead leaves and digging at grass roots.
Horses gallop wildly among the herds of cattle and sheep.
At the foot of the low hill, nearly a thousand tents were pitched.
The horse thief in the tent had already appeared outside the tent when he heard the sound of a large number of horse hooves.
When Liu Heng led the people to the edge of the pasture, he happened to meet their eyes.
Liu Heng suddenly reined in his horse and his pupils shrank slightly.
"Nearly four thousand people?!"
The number of horse thieves exceeded the number known from An Ziluo's mouth.
Liu Heng decided to quit.
But I heard the leader of the patrolling horse guards chuckle, his eyes shining with excitement, "What's wrong with more than four thousand people? Kill them without fail!"
Liu Heng said solemnly: "There are three times more people than us, so we are invincible."
The leader of the patrol horse guards looked at Liu Heng and laughed and said: "Mr. Liu probably has never seen the strength of our brothers."
Liu Heng said in a deep voice: "I know you are very strong, but there are so many people on the opposite side, we can't take risks."
The leader of the patrolling horse guards said decisively: "The young master has an order not to leave anyone alive. We must obey it. Let alone 4,000, even 40,000, our brothers will rush forward."
Liu Heng stared, "Are you crazy?!"
When the leader of the patrol horse guards heard this, he thought about it seriously and said, "If you think we are, then we are."
"You raid the formation! We charge!"
"Brothers!"
"Draw the sword!"
A long-handled scimitar appeared in the hands of the patrolling horse guards.
The men on the horse patrol excitedly held their knives and rushed out.
The horse thief who escaped from the tiger's mouth has rushed into the pasture and fought with other horse thieves.
After learning that the enemy was coming, the horse thieves who came out of the tent all got on their horses.
The old Kebi Neng was surrounded by a group of horse thieves, staring gloomily at the rushing horse guard men.
At the first sight of the enemy, Ke Bineng was determined to retreat.
The enemy is obviously a regular army.
It is far beyond what the rabble under his command can compare with.
But after he saw that the enemy had only dispatched two hundred cavalry, he felt angry in his heart.
"Two hundred people dare to make 4,000 enemies of me?!"
"Arrogant!"
"Brothers, mount your horse and fight us."
"Whoever kills them, I will reward them with their armor!"
"..."
After receiving the order, the horse thieves waved their scimitars and roared at the man patrolling the horse guard.
"Bang!"
The two forces collided, and the first thing that sounded was a dull collision sound.
The men on patrol, wearing heavy armor, bravely ran into the group of horse thieves.
The swords of the horse thieves did not leave any marks on the men who patrolled the horse guards.
However, he was knocked off his horse by the men on patrol.
The iron hooves roared by, leaving behind mutilated corpses.
The tyranny of the patrolling horse guards far exceeded the imagination of everyone present.
They were like an iron awl, piercing hard into a mass of flesh, bringing out countless blood and pieces of flesh.
Just one charge.
Kebineng realized that the opponent was not a match for him.
It's a pity that he can't escape the battlefield for the time being.
The horse guards rushed from east to west, blocking his way to escape westward.
After the patrolling horse guards rushed out, Liu Heng led his people to rush over and blocked the east side.
There are hills to the south and a broad river to the north.
He can't escape.
"kill!"
Kebineng turned the horse's head and charged at the patrolling horse guard.
Naturally, the men on the horse patrol will not be timid.
Holding a knife dripping with blood, he stepped forward to meet him.
After another collision, a hundred corpses were left behind.
Kebineng never looked back.
He led his horse thieves and fled to the west.
Seeing this, the leader of the patrol horse guard laughed and shouted: "Change the horse!"
The men of the horse patrol all put on their unarmored horses and chased him out.
If you miss a hit, you will be able to escape a thousand miles.
This is the method used by horse thieves to run rampant on the grassland.
It's just that they used their methods at the wrong time and picked the wrong target.
The men who were replaced by patrolling horse guards without armored horses were no slower in pursuit than the horse thieves.
The musket became a weapon used to harvest the lives of horse thieves.
The men on the horse guard don't need to deliberately aim.
All you need to do is stare at the backs of the dark group of people and shoot like crazy.
From one end of the low hill, he fled to the other end of the low hill.
The horse thieves paid more than 200 lives.
Kebineng's heart was bleeding.
The more than a thousand horse thieves he finally recruited will probably be exhausted after this battle.
And he sent people to plunder grain, gold, silver, cattle and sheep.
It also became a trophy for the enemy.
But he did not dare to stop fighting head-on with the enemy.
Because he fought hard.
Not an opponent.
Far from being a rival.
"After passing Geshen Hill, there is a dense forest ahead. When we reach the dense forest, we can get rid of them..."
Kebineng roared and shouted at the horse thieves.
The horse thieves naturally understood what Ke Bineng meant.
The reason why horse thieves can continue to thrive in the Western Regions relies on their familiarity with the terrain.
After provoking a strong enemy, they can rely on their familiarity with the terrain to easily get rid of the strong enemy and escape thousands of miles away.
The reason why Kebineng chose to station beside the short hill was because there was a dense forest not far from the short hill that allowed them to escape easily.
This is why he dared to send a threatening letter even though he knew that Song's baggage transport team was escorted by An Ziluo.
"Hahaha……"
Led by Ke Bineng, the horse thieves rushed into the dense forest and laughed crazily after taking advantage of the terrain to escape the pursuit of the powerful enemies behind them.
Once again, they relied on their terrain advantage to get rid of their powerful enemies.
Kebineng's loyal slaves came to Kebineng's side and gritted their teeth and said: "Big leader, we were deceived by Tuoba Wu. We should not have listened to him and come out from Koruk Lake to provoke the Song people."
Ke Bineng said angrily: "That traitor Tuobawu must have taken refuge in Naye. Naye wants to get rid of us with the help of the Song people."
The Tuobawu mentioned by Kebineng was a minor nobleman in Huangtou Huihe.
And that is the yellow-headed Huihe Khan.
"We must take revenge!"
"Yes! Revenge!"
"..."
Amidst the shouts of his subordinates, Kebineng gritted his teeth and said: "After we leave the dense forest, we will go to Keluke Lake. We will kill Tuoba Wu's tribe first, and then settle the accounts with Naye."
"Namir, you lead the way..."
Namir is a middle-aged Qingtang man, but Kebi Neng is different.
Kebineng and his party were all dressed in yellow clothes, their heads were wrapped in yellow cloth, and their beards were also yellow.
Namir, on the other hand, was dressed in black and had a black beard.
It was Ke Bineng who recruited people from Qingtang after he arrived in the Snowy Mountains.
Namir heard Kebineng's instructions and led Kebineng and his party through the dense forest.
Soon after, a group of people appeared on the west side of the dense forest.
Then.
They all froze on the spot.
They saw the cavalry they had gotten rid of, smiling and waiting for them outside the dense forest.