Bai Sunizhi looked at the fire, as if he had forgotten what Li Hong had just asked him. After a long while, Bai Sunizhi looked at Li Hong and said sincerely: "I hope His Highness can take good care of her, but it is hers to follow His Highness." What a blessing."
"What you say is what you mean..." Li Hong's whole body felt so comfortable as he was roasted by the fire, and he stretched out.
The ground suddenly began to vibrate as if he had touched something while stretching.
"What's the sound?" Zeluo Gulu suddenly stood up and looked at the night in the distance.
From his actions just now, there was no trace of fatigue at all. Not only that, he even looked a little excited.
Bai Sunizhi's eyes also lit up, a glimmer of hope flashed through his eyes, and he couldn't help but look behind him as the earth shook.
Li Hong's expression turned cold. No one needed to know that this was the tremor caused by the camel's tread on the earth after it ran.
At this moment, even Xiao Lang Bai Qi looked alert, his bright eyes moving around, staring closely at the night ahead.
The whistle suddenly sounded over the camp, followed by a calm cold shout: "Alert...!"
Two hundred personal guards appeared silently and fully armored around Li Hong, holding crossbows and swords on their waists and hips. Their black armor shone coldly under the firelight.
The chilling aura soaring into the sky shocked Bai Sunizhi and Zeluo at the same time. These two hundred people must not be underestimated. Looking at each person's calm and fearless face and cold and ruthless eyes, one knew that these two hundred people must not be underestimated. He is an iron-blooded warrior.
From the beginning to now, Li Hong has not even glanced in the direction of the source of the sound. But at some point, Li Hong had a horizontal knife in his hand. At this moment, he was slowly pulling out the sheath, and the cold blade flickered. There was a cold light, which was particularly bright under the firelight.
"It is said that there is a group of camel-riding bandits in the desert. Because they have been robbing passing merchants along the banks of the Peacock River, they are called the Peacock Bandits by the merchants. Could it be that they are the ones we encountered today?" Li Hong was very worried. Calm and calm beyond his years.
This made Bai Sunizhi's eyes, which were originally full of light, suddenly turn a little gloomy.
Zeluo looked at Li Hong blankly. He didn't believe that this prince of the Tang Dynasty, who was only a teenager, actually knew everything about the Western Regions. The Peacock Bandits were the most mysterious thieves in the Western Regions, and few people knew their details until now.
"Should... that's right. They come and go without a trace, and they are vicious. Not only do they rob merchants' goods, but sometimes they also kill all the merchants together. So although their names are beautiful, they are not at all It's so annoying, Your Highness, please run away and leave it to me." Zeluo's tone became more and more excited as he listened to the deafening sound getting closer and closer.
He knows better than anyone else that the reason why this group of thieves can come and go without a trace is because Loulan City and Tubo have been secretly protecting them, and the goods they receive must be shared equally with Loulan or Tubo. .
"Just you?" Li Hong glanced at him sideways.
Zeluo looked at Li Hong's casual glance, as if he was afraid that his thoughts would be seen, so he quickly changed his gaze and said: "Your Highness, they are not only ruthless, but more importantly, their number is huge, two thousand people."
Zeluo was so excited that he forgot why he knew so clearly. The Peacock Bandits were a mysterious group of thieves in the Western Region, but he knew it so clearly that it was difficult for people not to doubt it.
"Why do you know so clearly?" Li Hong stood up. Xia Zhi and Xiaoxue took out Li Hong's armor and were helping Li Hong take off his fur and put on the armor.
Everyone's expressions, including Xiaoxue's, were calm and natural, showing no concern.
It seemed that no one took the camel caravan that could already see its shadow seriously.
The scabbard in Li Hong's hand was slung on his left waist, and then he took the crossbow handed over by Ban Mei and slung it on his right waist.
When Li Hong had just prepared himself, Hua Meng and Mang Zhong appeared next to Li Hong fully armed, and then the four Xia Zhi girls disappeared into the tent.
"Loulan has always been under their own jurisdiction and management. The wind is not strong tonight. I just want to go in and take a look. Tell Lawless to fight quickly." Li Hong glanced at Bai Sunizhi, then looked at Zeluo who didn't know why, and smiled. He smiled and continued: "The peacock is very beautiful, but it is just this river. As for the thieves, they will tarnish such a beautiful name as the Peacock River, so there is no need for them to exist."
"Do you think you can kill all the Peacock Bandits?" Zeluo looked disbelieving, and his expression was full of contempt at the moment.
Even Bai Sunizhi stood up slowly, and his family hurriedly ran out of the tent, looking at the huge hazy black clouds with panicked expressions.
The speed of the camel caravan is not fast, but if a full two thousand camels run at full speed, the overwhelming power will be daunting and a powerful oppressive force, like a black cloud pressing down on the environment, making people breathless.
"Zero, your wishful thinking is about to come true. And you, Bai Sunizhi, don't think I don't know. Both of you hope that this camel team can save you. But Bai Sunizhi, you don't even think about it. If you were rescued by the Peacock Bandits, will you really be able to return to your country? Water from afar can't quench your thirst." Li Hong took the reins from Mang Zhong and got on his horse.
At this time, the four Xia Zhi girls in the tent also walked out of the tent fully armed. Each of them was equipped with the same equipment as Li Hong. They were equipped with horizontal knives and bows and crossbows, but they were not equipped with the equipment that the Tang Dynasty had always equipped. Ma Shu.
"Ah... ah..." Screams suddenly sounded in the empty night sky, and Li Hong's cavalry had not yet been dispatched.
"This is..." Zeluo's face turned pale. He was also an expert in fighting. When he heard this voice and the noisy footsteps of the camel team, which started to become chaotic, he knew that the camel team had been ambushed.
Li Hong's Iron Buddha is not the Iron Buddha in the true sense, but it is named after someone else. In fact, it has always been composed of 7,000 light cavalry.
The weapons and equipment are no different from Li Hong's. They are also composed of horizontal knives and crossbows. Only a small number of people are equipped with horse spears for impact.
In the real sense, this cavalry actually refers to the combat equipment of the Mongolian cavalry.
When the cavalry of a thousand people set up camp, a hundred of them were already quietly hiding in the Haloxylon bushes on both sides of the river. This was already designed by Li Hong when he was training the Tiefu Tu. Everything was done to deal with the enemy. When attacking a camp, a small number of people can be used to stop the enemy's attack and buy time for the soldiers in the camp.
As the screams came out one after another, the empty night suddenly became a little creepy, and the pungent smell of blood began to spread in the air.
"Prepare to attack." The helpless voice seemed very abrupt in the night sky filled with screams.
But it was more like a thunder explosion. The iron pagoda, which had already been fully armed, was now in a triangular formation. About five breaths after the helpless voice fell, it suddenly bloomed in the night sky like thunder: "Kill!"
Suddenly, arrows rained down from the night sky not far in front of Li Hong and others. The arrows pierced the night sky and made a piercing sound. It sounded extremely weird at the moment.
As arrows rained down on the camel caravan, the panicked thieves on the camel caravan began to draw their bows and arrows. The range of their bows and arrows was far inferior to the crossbows in the hands of the Iron Buddha soldiers.
When the second wave of shooting at the Iron Pagoda in the dark night had ended, the arrows from the camel team fell weakly on the ground in front of the front row of soldiers at the Iron Pagoda.
"Shoot... impact." As a sharp knife in a triangle formation, Wutian's eyes flashed with frightening killing intent. As soon as the word impact came out of his mouth, he immediately raised the crossbow in his hand and started fighting with the other three rows behind him. The cavalrymen pulled the trigger of their crossbows, and then immediately rushed towards the camel team like lightning.
The departure of Wutian and others made space and distance for the cavalry behind them to shoot. The crossbows were aimed at the camel caravan again, and there was another burst of shooting. Then, like Wutian just now, they immediately rushed towards the camel caravan in two directions.
As they approached the camel caravan, just like the Mongolian cavalry, relying on their flexible mobility, they instantly surrounded the chaotic camel caravan in the center. The war horses followed the chaos of the camel caravan, wandering around. The crossbow is like having eyes, it only shoots the person in the middle of the hump, not the camel.
Each person in Tiefu Tu was equipped with sixty arrows, and the nine hundred people wandered around the camel caravan. They did not engage in close combat with them, but kept walking and shooting. As the people on the camel's hump fell to the ground, the camel's hooves Like a heavy hammer, it trampled on his master's body wantonly.
The screams and wailings made the open space of Kongquehe seem to have suddenly turned into a territory. As the people in the camel caravan rushed out on their camels, they had not had time to get close to the iron pagoda crossbowmen who were wandering around. , he was holding a horse spear behind him, and with lightning speed, he flew out from behind the crossbowmen, instantly piercing the heart of Master Humpback.
The tacit tactics, clean movements, elusive arrows, and ruthless and bloodthirsty horses, as a combat method summed up in actual combat on the grassland, caused the two thousand camel team to suddenly lose its combat effectiveness.
Lawless looked at the camel team surrounded in the center. At this time, they were too distracted and scattered. Then he quickly hung the crossbow on the right side of the horse's back. The redesigned horizontal sword in his hand, the moment it was unsheathed, It began to flash with a murderous aura.
"kill!"
As Noble and Wutian roared in response to each other, it was as if there was another thunderbolt in the night sky, and the wolf-like Iron Buddha suddenly rushed into the camel caravan.
If you look carefully at the horizontal knife in your hand, you will find that it has a little more curvature and is more resilient than before. Every time the knife cuts through the air, it will bring out a handful of blood flowers, as if snowflakes are floating on a cold winter night.
(End of chapter)