In the blazing flames, the helpless warriors uttered miserable cries. Their bodies were covered with flames, and they fell off their horses and fell into the sea of flames. In an instant, they were burnt to charcoal.
The flames burned the green grass and brought up thick smoke, which made people suffocate.
Even the steed, which was a green clam horse, became panicked when it was attacked by flames and thick smoke one after another. In the thick smoke, the war horses ran around like headless flies, without a sense of direction, and the dense formation made it easy for the war horses to collide with their companions, often causing both sides to suffer.
At the moment when the flames ignited, Lakshin's face turned pale. He already had a premonition that the enemy facing him was definitely not a rogue. A huge conspiracy hangs over the Tianji tribe.
At the critical moment, he had to take responsibility and try to bring the sons out of the flames and bring them back to the base camp of the Tianji tribe.
Lakshin was riding a leader-level green clam horse, an existence beyond the purple-gold level, like a divine beast. The green clam horse neighed and rushed out of the circle of flames first.
The other green clam horses followed the leader's cry and rushed out together.
The moment Lakshin rushed out, he was desperate again.
The cunning of the enemy was simply beyond his imagination.
Outside the flames, the enemy's 2,000 cavalry were waiting in formation. At this moment, their faces no longer had the exaggerated arrogance or embarrassment before, but expressionless and stern expressions.
In an instant, Lakshin guessed that the opponent was a regular army just like them.
As soon as Lakshin raised his head, there was a rain of arrows. The dense rain of arrows ruthlessly harvested the lucky ones who rushed out of the flames.
They originally thought that getting rid of the flames meant getting rid of hell. It didn't happen, it was just escaping from one hell to another.
The successive blows drained the morale and courage of the soldiers in the west of the town.
The lucky ones who escaped the rain of arrows did not dare to think otherwise, and fled in embarrassment without any fighting spirit. Even Lakshin, who had escaped again with the leader-level green clam horse, never thought about organizing an army to fight the enemy on the opposite side. He just rode a green clam horse, and quickly fled towards Shenjuan Lake.
The cavalry of Shanhai County did not pursue the last lucky one. The trapped beasts will still fight, and the poor will not chase after them. The group of people who survived will explode with unimaginable power in order to survive.
Ouyang Shuo didn't want to touch this group of wounded beasts after he achieved his goal when he had the upper hand, so as to increase his own casualties for nothing.
In the end, out of the 5,000 soldiers in the west of the town, less than 1,000 survived.
Ouyang Shuo no longer cared about the flames that were still burning, and led his troops around the area of flames, heading straight for the camp in the west of the town to harvest his spoils.
At this time, the remaining guards of the camp had already fled.
The elite cavalry of nomadic tribes are usually equipped with three horses, two war horses and one pack horse. Pack horses are specially used to carry things. The two horses are used in rotation to enhance the mobility of the cavalry.
Because the war horse consumes a lot of energy when it is under heavy load, it is easy to lose weight, so it is very expensive. Generally speaking, when a war horse runs 20 kilometers, it has to rest for a while. At this time, if there are two horses in rotation, it will naturally be possible to achieve continuous and fast marching.
Shanhai County has not yet conducted ultra-long-distance combat, so the cavalry is only equipped with one horse. At most, it is like the first battalion of the Pioneer Battalion. Since it is equipped with green clam horses, the horses given by the system when changing jobs can be used as spare horses or as draft horses.
The mixed brigade cavalry battalion, because they were transferred from rogue cavalry, even if they were not equipped with green clam horses, they still had two war horses. And like the newly established Second Battalion of the Pioneer Battalion and the Yushui County Cavalry Battalion, there is only one horse donated by the system.
Generally speaking, compared with the nomadic tribes, the cavalry in Shanhai County is still too shabby.
Strictly speaking, the cavalry needs to be equipped with at least two auxiliary soldiers, one for raising horses and one for carrying bags.
In order to simplify the game, there is no need for auxiliary soldiers by default, and the cavalry can handle it all by themselves.
The spoils that Ouyang Shuo was referring to were the war horses left in the camp in the western part of the town for rotation. Sure enough, in the stables of Daying, there were 5,000 green clam horses and 5,000 ordinary pack horses.
In addition, when cleaning the battlefield, a thousand green clam horses were collected. In this battle, a total of 6,000 green clam horses were seized, which was simply a huge fortune.
Based on the calculation of 5 gold coins for a green clam horse, it is 30,000 gold coins, plus the pack horse, the total value exceeds 40,000 gold coins. The point is, these green clam horses are still priceless.
Apart from this, Ouyang Shuo also found 5,000 composite bows in the camp arsenal. With this batch of bows, Ouyang Shuo wants to achieve 100% bow equipment rate for the Shanhai County army.
After this battle, the horse gap in Shanhai County will be greatly blocked. The price paid was the death of one hundred and fifty cavalrymen. Because of the long-distance attack, Ouyang Shuo had no choice but to order the dead soldiers to be buried on the spot.
The Tiandu tribe has become a place of right and wrong, so it is not suitable to stay for a long time.
The troops put on green clam horses, drove the rest of the horses, and withdrew westward.
The direction of evacuation has been determined long ago. The troops could not withdraw to the south, which would easily expose the location of Shanhai County; nor could they withdraw to the north, otherwise it would lead to disasters to Mulan Town; let alone withdraw to the east, because the eastern part of the town of the Tianji tribe was still stationed in the east. Therefore, the only option is to evacuate to the west.
The mighty herd of horses couldn't hide their whereabouts at all. The only way to rely on the speed of the green clam horse was to quickly evacuate the grassland before the Tiandu tribe and other tribes reacted.
Because each cavalry has two green clam horses in rotation, the troops marched more than 80 kilometers before dark. Compared with the speed when it came, it has directly increased by an order of magnitude.
The next day, at five o'clock in the morning, the troops set out again. After a whole day of rapid marching, he walked directly for more than 100 kilometers, completely out of the grassland area occupied by nomadic tribes, and into the wilderness.
At this moment, Ouyang Shuo finally felt relieved. When marching during the day, I once encountered a patrol of nomadic tribes, and they were directly solved by them.
However, the location of their retreat was also exposed, which just happened to set up doubts.
On the third day, the troops turned south and finally arrived at the upper reaches of the Friendship River before dark. At this time, the North Sea Fleet had already been waiting here for a long time.
The reason why the Beihai Fleet can accurately grasp the retreat position of the troops lies in the hummingbird of the Military Intelligence Department. These little guys provided by the Xuanniao tribe may look inconspicuous, but they are actually very useful.
With the help of the North Sea Fleet, the troops successfully crossed the Friendship River. At this time, they were finally completely safe. To the south of the Friendship River, there is still no force that can threaten them.
No matter what size the bandit battalion was, it couldn't stand up to Shanhai County's huge cavalry troops. As for those players' territories, if Ouyang Shuo didn't provoke them, they should burn incense and worship Buddha, so how dare they come out to find trouble.
After crossing the river, the Beihai Fleet will rest overnight on the bank of the river. Tomorrow morning, they will go down the river and return to Beihai Port. Recently, Pei Donglai is stepping up training troops, planning to counterattack Yue'er Island.
After crossing the Friendship River, the troops walked for another two days before returning to Shanhai County at 5:30 pm on August 2. Calculated, this wildfire operation took a total of one week before and after. It is really not easy to travel far.
After returning, the Pioneer Battalion had no time to rest and was driven back to the North Camp by Ouyang Shuo to take over the two battalions of the Mixed Brigade. On the way back, he didn't know how much change this wildfire operation had caused in the grassland, so Ouyang Shuo was really worried about the camp in the north of the city.
When the Pioneer Battalion returned, they did not take a single green clam horse with them.
Of the 6,000 green clam horses, 500 were left for the Mixed Brigade Cavalry Battalion, and 500 were taken away by the Yushui County Cavalry Battalion. The remaining 5,000 horses, 3,000 horses are temporarily stocked in the pasture in the west of the city, and the last 2,000 horses will be sent to the Gale Valley Army Horse Farm to expand the breeding scale of the Army Horse Farm.
Ouyang Shuo is not yet so extravagant that he can equip a cavalryman with two green clam horses. He planned that the green clam horses were mainly used for charging, and the cavalry would still ride the original war horses in normal times.
As for the 5,000 pack horses, Ouyang Shuo was going to hand them over to the Chariot and Horse Division. Horse-drawn carriages have been manufactured long ago, but without horse-drawn carriages, it is in vain. For this matter, Zheng Shanpao, chief officer of the Chariot and Horse Division, did not hesitate to torment Ouyang Shuo.
It's all right now, help him solve it in one go.
With the establishment of the county seat, it is a full five kilometers away from the Lord's Mansion to the North Gate, and it will take an hour to walk. Therefore, the development of urban public transport, that is, horse-drawn carriages, is imperative. With this batch of pack horses, the chariot and horse department can consider setting up a chariot and horse dealership in the city to completely solve these problems.
After returning, Ouyang Shuo went to the arsenal first and stored five thousand compound bows in it. As for the equipment and distribution of compound bows, the Military Affairs Department is naturally in charge, so he doesn't need to worry about it.
Back to the Lord's Mansion, it was already six o'clock. Ouyang Shuo didn't go back to the office at all, and walked towards the backyard by himself.
"Brother, you are back!"
Bing'er has sharp eyes, she saw Ouyang Shuo at a glance, and was about to run over to let Ouyang Shuo hug her.
This can be regarded as the longest time that Ouyang Shuo has been away from Bing'er in recent years, so the little girl naturally misses her very much, nagging every day when her brother will come back.
After going out for a week, Ouyang Shuo was covered in dust and dirty. Although the blood had been wiped dry, he definitely smelled bad. In such a state, how could he dare to hug Binger, and hurriedly stopped him, saying: "Honey, my brother is too dirty. Let me go to wash up and have dinner with you, okay?"
Bing'er leaned over and smelled it, and it really had a strange smell, and said crisply: "Smelly."
Ouyang Shuo smiled wryly, and suddenly stretched out his hand, and pinched her fair and tender face, leaving a stain immediately, before Binger could react, he turned and ran away.