In the evening, the army continued to march.
A horse came back from a canter to inspect the sentry post.
The speed of the horse's running in the deep snow was greatly restricted.
By the time it reached Li Su, he was out of breath and covered in sweat.
Down.
"Hoo ho ho ho general, the enemy troops were found in a village fifteen miles ahead.
There are about ten thousand people.
The enemy troops have set up camps around the village with the village as the center.
The enemy troops are lax in their defense and vigilance.
At this time, they are making fires and cooking. , most of the enemies are lighting fires to keep warm.”
A lieutenant nearby heard this and said to Li Su: "General, why are these coalition forces so vigilant?
They have lost their men and are not afraid of our army chasing after them and killing them."
Li Su looked at the sentry and asked, "Have you searched the surrounding areas of the enemy camp?
Have you found any abnormalities?"
"The villain has explored the area within a few miles.
It is all fields.
There is no place for an ambush and no trace of human activity.
Although it is snowing now, it is not heavy.
It is impossible to do so in a short time.
Cover up all traces” Li Su sneered and said: "These people are really generous.
The people behind the scenes are so loose and vigilant.
It's no wonder.
We arrived in Sedika four days after they evacuated.
Their rear forces We haven’t found anyone pursuing them for several days, so we naturally assume that we are attacking Sedica and will not pursue them, but this also gives us the opportunity to make a surprise attack.”
After Li Su finished speaking, he looked up at the sky.
The sky was gloomy, with some snowflakes flying sparsely.
"Give me the order.
The whole army will camp and rest on the spot.
We will set up secret sentries around the area.
We will set out to raid the enemy's rear troops at Yin o'clock tomorrow morning."
"Yes, General" At around midnight the next morning, it was still dark.
Although the ground was covered with thick white snow, the visibility was still very low.
We could only see people and objects at close range, and the vision was blurry from a little further away.
The officers and soldiers of the Western Qin Army all opened their eyes at almost the same time.
No one made a sound.
Everyone silently held the snowflakes and wiped their faces to make themselves sober.
Stimulated by the cold snowflakes, their whole bodies were filled with excitement.
All energetic.
One by one, the soldiers walked up to the war horse and gently stroked the horse's mane.
With the other hand, he took out a dagger and scratched the blood vessel lightly.
A stream of horse blood with a strong smell of scarlet blood came out, and the war horse kicked in fear.
The horse hooves, but soon became quiet, and the soldier immediately put his mouth to drink the warm horse blood.
Horse blood is very hot.
If you drink horse blood when you are short of water, you will be thirstier.
However, horse blood is rich in nutrients and warm.
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In this cold weather, it can provide heat and warmth to soldiers fighting abroad.
Life-sustaining energy.
The soldiers who had drunk the horse's blood quickly pressed their hands on the bleeding port.
The automatic coagulation function allowed the horse's blood to quickly coagulate at the wound of the vein and block the wound.
No blood would flow out.
This kind of wilderness survival skill has been After training many times, the sergeants are all familiar with it.
After the torch that was used as an order was swayed twice with a cup of tea in between, everyone silently got on the horse.
The soldiers pulled down their masks and moved forward slowly with their legs lightly clamped on the horse's belly.
In this kind of weather, the front row cavalrymen who are opening the road have the hardest time.
They have to wade through the thick snow, but the people behind have it much easier, as the road has been paved out by their comrades in front. , they just need to sit on the horse and let the horse follow them.
It was almost midnight, and the army finally arrived near the village where the enemy army was located.
According to the reconnaissance of the sentry, the village was not big, with only 20 or 30 households, and there were not many houses.
The more than 10,000 people behind the enemy army must be Those who couldn't live had to camp around the village.
They found it troublesome, so they neither built a lookout post nor a fence, but the tents were set up neatly and orderly.
The cold and snowy weather brought inconvenience to the West Qin army's pursuit, but it also gave them the best cover.
No one among the coalition forces expected that in such severe cold weather, there would be a group of West Qin cavalry to resist.
They risked catching up in the wind and snow, so the defense in the camp was extremely lax.
Although they arranged soldiers to stand guard and patrol, these people had gone into hiding and dozed off last night and would not get up until dawn. .
A guard held a torch, and Li Su looked at the terrain around the enemy camp and the general layout of the camp drawn by the scout with a sentinel.
After looking at it for a while, he said to the surrounding captains: "The snow last night was not the same."
It's not big, and the enemy camp has been trampled down by them a long time ago.
Even if it snowed all night, I guess it won't be too deep. , up to the ankles, which does not affect the cavalry charge.
Most of the enemy camps are set up in the surrounding fields.
Although there are ravines, they should not be deep, and there will be no mud, because this is dry land, not paddy fields, otherwise They won't camp in this field.
The drainage ditches in the fields will definitely be blocked when they rush to kill them.
The speed of stabbing has some impact, but our officers and soldiers are all skilled in horsemanship.
This will not trouble us.
What we have to do is to rush into the camp as quickly as possible to cause them panic and confusion.
The more chaotic they are, the more chaotic they will be.
If there is no resistance, we will rush to kill and shoot arrows.
As long as the enemy troops gather and want to form a military formation, once you find out We need to lead troops to rush over and disperse them as soon as possible until they are all killed and flee.
Only then can we pursue them with confidence.
This is the main principle of this raid.
In a nutshell, our first task when rushing into the enemy camp is The first is to create chaos, and the second is to kill the enemy until the enemy completely loses resistance and flees, do you remember that?"
The captains nodded.
"Okay, I have sent people to the vicinity of the enemy camp.
As long as we get close to the sprint range, they will shoot the enemy sentries.
The first battalion takes the lead, and pay attention to arranging people with strong strength and superb riding skills to fight in front.
To prevent horses and roadblocks from entering the village, the other battalions followed me into the enemy camp."
As rows of black figures in the distance slowly approached the coalition camp, some slight archery sounds suddenly came one after another in the snow in front of the camp, but these sounds were covered up by the howling cold wind.
Along with some people who got up after hearing the movement The sentries kept falling to the ground, and the dozen coalition soldiers who entered the village were all shot down accurately by arrows.
Some snow-white figures suddenly emerged from the thick snow and rushed towards the village entrance.
The horses and roadblocks blocking the village entrance were all removed in an instant, and at this time, the rumble of horse hooves happened to be heard.
The war horses started at a trot and gradually accelerated, and soon they arrived at the entrance of the village.
Four columns of Xi Qin cavalry roared past the village entrance and rushed into the village.
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Then these four squadrons rushed towards the middle road of the village. .
The quiet military camp boiled instantly, and several sharp screams tore through the silence.
The Western Qin army that rushed into the camp divided into several groups and rushed to every corner of the camp.
The Western Qin cavalry threw the torches in their hands at everyone.
A tent and house.
Sharp arrows with a sharp sound were shot into the coalition soldiers who had just ran out of the houses and tents, shooting them down in the snow and unable to get up again.
Soon, the snow in the entire camp was covered with water.
It was dyed red, and there were disheveled, panicked and frightened coalition soldiers everywhere.
They ran in all directions, but could not avoid the charge and sharp arrows of the Western Qin cavalry.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the entire camp was ablaze with fire.
Almost more than two-thirds of the tents and houses were set alight.
Countless coalition soldiers who had not had time to escape were engulfed in the fire.
Some people were completely on fire and fled from the houses and tents.
He rushed out from inside and was burned until he screamed and rolled on the ground, but he was quickly burned to the point of losing his life.
Some coalition soldiers were organized by officers to resist the charge and shooting of the Western Qin cavalry, but they were quickly dispersed and killed by the Western Qin army.
After the scattered formations organized by the coalition soldiers were killed one after another, Everyone knew in their hearts that the situation was over and the defeat was irreversible.
They instinctively started to Fleeing to the west, but in this situation, how many people can escape safely?
They are disheveled, some people are still naked, have no food or anything to keep warm.
In order to escape, they have thrown away all their weapons and left with their bare hands.
What are the chances of surviving in a wilderness that is completely deserted within a radius of dozens of miles?
The coalition soldiers who could run on two legs were faster than those who fled on four legs.
They were quickly caught up by the Western Qin cavalry and killed one by one.
In addition to more than 4,000 of the more than 10,000-strong coalition forces who were behind and were captured and surrendered, the rest were not there.
Those who were killed during the raid meant that they were killed during the escape or froze to death and starved to death in the wild.
Only a handful of people rode horses to escape the pursuit of the Western Qin cavalry and caught up with the coalition forces in front.
The news reached the main force of the coalition forces and spread quickly.
The atmosphere of fear began to spread.
The coalition soldiers could not stay any longer.
They sped up their march in panic and retreated into Serbia.
This caused many people to fall behind and fall behind.
The main force was separated and froze and starved to death in the wild.
A generation of emperors such as Charles, who were both talented and resourceful, were unable to turn the tide.
After a day of rapid march, the coalition forces were exhausted and set up camp in a wasteland in the wild.
In the largest tent in the middle, Charlie and others sat by the fire with gray faces and drank wine.
Batannicus said angrily: "Who would have thought that these Western Qin people would be so crazy.
They would send cavalry to chase us in such a cold and snowy bad weather.
There has been no movement for four or five days.
They suddenly acted so coldly.
He came out and really caught us off guard."
Leo V said: "Everyone, the Western Qin people often make people unexpected when they fight.
It is not surprising that they will catch up.
What I am worried about is that their light cavalry catches up.
What does this mean that Sedica has fallen?
Otherwise They don't dare to send cavalry to pursue our main force.
Then they will do it next.
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Will the main force be pulled over to pursue us soon?
If so, then we will not even have time to rest and recuperate after entering Serbia.
We must immediately strengthen the city defense facilities at each pass and strengthen the defensive forces to try to keep the Western Qin people east of Serbia.
Give us enough time to gather strength”: