Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 142 Chapter 146: Night Attack on the Ancient City
Li Hao was staring at the ancient city in a daze when he saw dust flying suddenly from the main gate of the ancient city. Looking carefully, he saw a large number of horse thieves galloping out towards them. Li Hao hurriedly ordered: "Get out!"

A group of people hurriedly turned around and drove the camels to flee for their lives. The horse thief rode a horse, and the speed was naturally faster than the camels.

Seeing the horse thief approaching, Li Hao yelled: "Riding and shooting!" After speaking, he turned around first, raised the crossbow and shot an arrow, and shot down a horse thief. Killed nearly [-] horse thieves, the power of the crossbow arrows is really extraordinary.

The leader of the horse thief was Yuan Jinliang. Seeing that Li Hao and the others had finished their crossbow shooting, he thought it was a good opportunity, because although shooting a crossbow on a horse was more accurate than shooting with a bow, it was slower to load the arrow, so he shouted loudly: " Hurry up!"

However, just as the horse thieves arrived, Li Hao's second wave of crossbow shots came again. After all, they used continuous crossbows, which didn't need to be loaded with arrows, but only needed to be wound. These special forces had undergone particularly severe strength training. , Riding the wind is not difficult.

The second wave of crossbow shooting took away more than 20 horse thieves, and almost shot Yuan Jinliang to death. Fortunately, he was wearing a heart shield, otherwise he would have been shot through the chest by an arrow. Yuan Jinliang was a little confused. Somewhat understood, but Li Hao and their crossbows were beyond his cognition.

Soon, Li Hao and the others carried out the third wave of crossbow shooting. This time the horse thieves were a little far away, only a dozen people were shot dead, but the horse thieves were completely suppressed, no one dared to chase too close, and they chased for a while , Yuan Jinliang suddenly raised his hand and shouted: "Stop!"

All the horse thieves stopped, and Yuan Jinliang looked at Li Hao and the others who fled away with a gloomy face, gritted his teeth and said angrily: "It's their fate! Let's go back!"

"Brother? Don't you want to chase?" Luo Sanhei was very upset, he was almost there, why did he give up.

Only Yuan Jinliang knew that they couldn't catch up. After all, the opponent's crossbow was too powerful, and the enemy rode camels, while they rode horses. For the first ten miles or so, horses had the upper hand, but camels were better than stamina. Their horses are all exhausted, so the enemy is likely to counterattack. At that time, the enemy can attack with crossbows, retreat or escape, and they will be completely invincible. No matter how many people are on their side, they will be slowly eaten away. It's better to retreat as soon as possible and scare them away.

Li Hao fled for more than ten miles, looked back with a telescope, and found that the horse thief had returned to the ancient city of Loulan, so he ordered to turn back, this time he stopped behind the sand dunes eight miles away from the ancient city of Loulan, and secretly observed the ancient city here. be found.

Li Hao prostrated himself on the sand dune and watched with binoculars for a long time. The sun was already in the west. At this time, [-] special forces had set up temporary tents. He came down from the sand dune and asked Jin Li, "Treasurer Jin, you know horse thieves better. Look, how many horse thieves are there in Loulan City?"

Jin Li replied: "My lord, horse thieves are divided into four types according to the number of people: large, medium, small, and loose. If there are less than ten people, they are called loose horse thieves. If there are more than ten people and less than 50 people, they are called small horse thieves gangs. More than 50 people and less than 250 people are called medium-sized horse thief groups, and more than 250 people are called large-scale horse thief groups. Obviously, the one in Loulan City is a large-scale horse thief group, and there are nearly 300 people chasing us just now."

Li Hao frowned and said, "I was asking you how many people there are. I also saw the 300 people just now."

Jin Li said calmly, "My lord, no matter how big a horse bandit is, there are usually no more than 500 people."

"Oh?" Li Hao looked at him puzzled, "Why?"

Jin Li explained: "Although a horse bandit gang is stronger with more people, but with more people, there will be more mouths to eat. Gold and silver are easy to get in the desert, but water and food are difficult to get. If a horse bandit gang exceeds 500 people, eating and drinking will be difficult. become a big problem.”

"That's quite reasonable." Li Hao nodded and pondered, "Although people can create value, they also consume food. At the same time, although horse thieves trade without money, money doesn't come from strong winds. There will be more people with money.”

"That's the reason." Jin Li praised Li Hao.

"Now that we know the enemy's strength, it's easy to handle." Li Hao went to the main account after speaking, and said as he walked, "The bayonet team is alert, the flying eagle team, set up the sand table!"

Ten members of the Flying Eagle Special Forces immediately took out pieces of broken wood boards and put them together in the main tent, and soon formed a large square wooden plate. What is Li Hao going to do?

Then I saw people from the Flying Eagle Special Forces scoop up yellow sand from an iron pot and pour it into a wooden plate, one pot for each person, exactly ten pots.

Standing in front of the sand table, Li Hao closed his eyes and thought about it for a moment, then slowly opened his eyes: "Next is the moment to witness the miracle!"

He said that he held a wooden board and began to fiddle with the yellow sand. The speed was so fast that it dazzled people, just like painting.

Soon, everyone's eyes became surprised, and gradually turned from surprise to shock, because a small Loulan ancient city appeared in the sand table. Li Hao continued to create the terrain around the Loulan ancient city.

After another ten minutes, Li Hao shouted, "You're done!"

Seeing the ancient city of Loulan in the sand table and the surrounding terrain immediately presented in front of everyone, Lu Yun's eyeballs almost fell out of shock. He was dumbfounded for a long time, and he had to give a thumbs up and praised: "It's amazing! , Amazing skill!"

"Don't flatter." Li Hao said lightly, and ordered Captain Feiying, "Let's discuss business and let Captain Bayonet come in!"

Captain Flying Eagle went in and called in the captain of the bayonet special team.

Li Hao began to speak: "Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use them for a while, boys, it's time to prove your worth. The sand table in front of you shows the ancient city of Loulan, the horse thief's lair, and the surrounding terrain. I decided to attack the ancient city of Loulan tonight. Now , let's formulate a strategy..."

By the time they worked out their tactics, the sun had already set. Li Hao made everyone eat and drink enough. Lu Yun stayed behind to protect the four female relatives. He took the others into dark clothes and set off in the dark to the ancient city of Loulan.

Watching Li Hao disappear into the night with everyone, Qin Su finally couldn't help it, her nose was sore, and crystal clear tears fell down.

More than 30 people sneaked into the lair of four or five hundred horse thieves, and it was almost a narrow escape. Li Hao did it resolutely, without any hesitation, just for the woman he called Xiaodi. How much Qin Su wished to be trapped in Loulan City Because of this, even if she was killed by a horse thief, she still knew that Li Hao's love for her was so vigorous and relentless, but it was a pity that all of this had nothing to do with her.

Qin Su was also afraid, afraid that Li Hao would never come back after this trip. Thinking of such a terrible result, she couldn't stop shaking. Soon, she had a decision in her heart. If Li Hao really died tragically under the knife of a horse thief, She will never steal her life.

When they were still five miles away from the ancient city of Loulan, Li Hao and the others divided into four groups. Li Hao led Jin Li and others to circle to the east, the Bayonet Special Forces circled to the west, the Cheetah Special Forces circled to the north, and the Flying Eagle Special Forces, Standing still, riding a camel and waiting in place.

Li Hao and the others arrived outside the east wall of the ancient city, and walked along the dilapidated city wall for a while, when they suddenly heard voices from above, they immediately stood close to the corner of the wall, and the two footsteps on the city wall walked past alternately, gradually drifting away.

They waited here for a while, the sound of footsteps came back, and they staggered again. After they walked away, Li Hao looked at his watch and said softly: "We only have one minute to go up the wall." At that time, Li Hao popularized the concept of minutes and seconds with everyone. After all, ancient timekeeping methods were not very accurate, and every second counts in special operations, and there is no room for error in time.

Li Hao threw out the rope hook as he spoke, hooked it firmly on the city wall, and then climbed up along the rope. The city wall was not high, so he quickly climbed onto the city wall. At the same time as he climbed the city wall, the silent crossbow was already in his hand inside.

The silent crossbow doesn't really have no sound, but the sound is very small, because the general crossbow will have a bowstring sound after shooting, the bowstring of the silent crossbow is made of special material, this material is very rare, so rare that even if you use 10 taels of gold, Li Hao He refused to sell it, because the material was his slingshot leather cord.

Li Hao is a professional slingshot player. His slingshot ropes are custom-made by a merchant. The quality is definitely nothing to say. However, he brought [-] spare slingshot ropes for this crossing. They will be used up for this silent crossbow. Four, with Datang's current technology, it is impossible to produce this kind of high-elastic slingshot rope, so this thing is an out-of-print item with one less.

If the slingshot string is used as the bowstring, there will be no sound of the bowstring after shooting, which is the key to the silent crossbow.

There were two patrolling horse thieves on the city wall. Neither of these two horse thieves lit torches, because lighting torches would not provide much lighting effect, but would also become a target for the enemy.

Li Hao took out his binoculars after he wound up his silent crossbow, and found that the patrolling horse thief on the left was relatively close to him through the night vision function. With a loud sound, a tiny arrow had already shot through the skull of the patrolling horse thief, and before he even had time to hum, he fell to the ground and died.

The horse thief made a sound when he fell to the ground, and the horse thief on the other side yelled immediately when he heard the sound: "Zhao Si!"

"Huh?" Li Hao echoed with a deep voice, and at the same time quickly wound up.

"What was the sound just now?" The remaining horse thieves didn't realize that their companion was dead, and strode towards this side.

At this moment, Jin Li was climbing along the rope hook, and was about to reach the city wall, when he heard the footsteps of the horse thief approaching, he stopped quickly, so nervous that his heart almost jumped out of his mouth.

Although the winding crossbow is fast, it takes three to four seconds at the fastest. In order to buy this two seconds, Li Hao had to answer in a low voice again: "It's nothing."

"What's wrong with your voice?" The horse thief seemed to hear that the voice was wrong.

"It's nothing." After Li Hao finished winding, he lifted the crossbow and pulled the trigger. There was another muffled sound. The crossbow arrow pierced the horse thief's throat, taking away the vitality in his body.

Li Hao finally breathed a sigh of relief, then came to the side of the city wall, and said to Jin Li below: "Okay, come up."

Jin Li and others climbed up the city wall one after another, Li Hao said in a low voice: "Qin Wei, Yu Zhongping, you two put on the clothes of these two horse thieves, and pretend to be patrolling horse thieves here, if you find chaos below, you can go down to support. "

"Yes." The two replied in a deep voice, each looking for the corpse of a horse thief and began to change their clothes.

Li Hao led the others to slide down the city wall with a rope hook and entered the city smoothly.

(End of this chapter)