Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 151 Chapter 155: Desert Enemy
In order to allow the injured special forces to recuperate, Li Hao ordered to rest in Loulan City for twelve days, and waited until many seriously injured special forces were able to ride camels before setting out on the road.

Before setting off on the road, Li Hao only realized after looking at the map that the pursuit of horse thieves actually sped up their itinerary. Originally, according to his itinerary, he had to cross Yumen Pass from Dunhuang, then supply supplies through Yizhou, go to Xizhou, and finally go back to Xizhou. To Tingzhou.

But in order to chase the horse thief, they actually traveled more than 1000 miles in nine days and came to the ancient city of Loulan. He could not have imagined such a speed before, but under the motivation of saving people, they just realized it. .

Tingzhou is just north of the ancient city of Loulan. As long as you travel northward for more than 1000 miles from the ancient city of Loulan, you will reach Xizhou, and then go northward for more than 400 miles from Xizhou to Tingzhou.

But Li Hao knew that this road was not as easy as it appeared on the surface, because before entering Xizhou, he would enter the Gaochang State District, and if he wanted to bypass Gaochang, he would have to pass through the legendary Flame Mountain. If you want to bypass the Huoyan Mountain, you will have to travel more than 2000 miles just to go around.

Li Hao set off with everyone, all the way to the north. After four days, he traveled more than 250 miles. He left the desert and entered the Gobi area. After another six days, he traveled more than 400 miles. After the Gobi area ended, he entered the desert area again. I took a look at the map and found that I couldn't go further north, because the frontier was the border of Gaochang.

For Gaochang, Li Hao was really a little afraid, so from that day on, he turned around and headed northeast, bypassing Gaochang, and every ten miles he would take out the binoculars to look around, in case he encountered Gaochang's scouts.

Just turning eastward for a day, Li Hao discovered through the binoculars that there were people twenty miles away in the afternoon, but he turned around and left after only appearing for a while. He observed once, and when it was almost evening, he found a man riding a horse wandering for a while and then ran away.

Seeing this, Li Hao's eyebrows gradually frowned, and he called out loudly: "Peng Hai!"

Peng Hai drove his horse to Li Hao's side: "My lord, what's your order?"

"I saw Gaochang visiting the horse." Li Hao looked at him with a serious face, Peng Hai was stunned when he heard this, he didn't know how to answer.

"Why don't we go back to Chang'an." Li Hao suddenly brought up the old story again. Peng Hai almost fell off his horse. Is this the bloody man from the Tang Dynasty who brought 30 people to fight against [-] horse thieves? He looks like a softie no matter what. Cowardly, the style of painting is too different.

Lu Yun on the side frowned and said, "It's all here, how can I go back?"

Li Yuanzhong also chimed in: "Poetry Maniac, don't disturb the morale of the army."

Li Hao frowned and said: "This place is only a hundred miles away from Gaochang, if Gaochang's army attacks, what should we do?"

Peng Hai thought for a while, and said: "My lord, we can send horse scouts to investigate ahead. Once we find Gaochang attacking, we will attack a small group of enemies head-on, and turn around and run away when encountering a large group. It's cavalry, and it's impossible for them to catch up with us."

Li Hao frowned and thought for a long time, then nodded and said: "That's the only way to go. If Gao Chang really sent a large army to attack, it would be obvious that I would tear myself apart. Then I can go to the court and ask for reinforcements."

"That's true." Peng Hai nodded and said, "So, my lord, what we need to do now is to be vigilant day and night and be careful."

Li Hao was silent for a long time when he heard the words, and sighed helplessly: "I haven't arrived in Tingzhou yet, I'm just so troubled. If I arrive in Tingzhou, I don't know what kind of life I will live. Alas...why is my life so miserable..."

Peng Hai didn't bother to listen to his complaints anymore, he went back to the rear and began to appoint horse scouts to guard a radius of twenty miles.

As twilight was approaching, Li Hao ordered the army to stop and set up camp, and to bury pots for cooking. That night, he ordered twice as many sentries to patrol, and then he asked the Huotou army to bring two copper basins, one to sleep on his own pillow, and the other to give Lu Yun slept on his pillow, and the scouts at night can only patrol ten miles away. If it is any farther, it is easy to get lost in the dark desert. Ten miles seems to be a long way, but Li Hao knows that this is not a very safe distance. So you still have to be cautious, after all, he is still very afraid of death.

As night fell, all the soldiers went to the camp to rest after dinner. A round and a half moon was covered by white clouds, and a little light was weakly shed, and the vast desert seemed to be covered with a layer of veil.

In the middle of the night, the clouds in the sky were gradually thickening, covering layers of the moonlight, and the vast desert was once again plunged into darkness.

After another hour or so, it was almost the last night, and it was also the time when people slept the most. A huge black shadow appeared in the pitch-black desert, crawling like a giant beast, and headed straight for the direction where Li Hao and his camp were located. go.

The seven scouts sent by Peng Hai were patrolling a sand dune ten miles away from the camp. Suddenly, he felt a pain in his throat. A feather arrow had pierced his throat.

A man in a black night suit slowly climbed up the sand dunes, looking at the camp of Xiaowei on the right, with a sly smile on his lips.

At the same time, in other places, all the You Xiaowei scouts were assassinated. These assassins were all wearing night clothes and came on foot, lurking in the dark all the time, so the You Xiaowei scouts couldn't find them at all. Just in response to the saying that it is easy to hide a hidden arrow but difficult to defend against it.

After a long time, a large group of horse thieves arrived, densely packed, more than 1000 people. The assassin hurried forward and knelt down to greet him: "General, all the enemy scouts have been killed."

The first person wearing a scarlet cloak snorted coldly: "Pay attention to your words, we are horse thieves now."

The assassin hurriedly changed his words: "Yes, the villain deserves to die, the master!"

"Give me an order..." the leader said in a deep voice, "Closer slowly to the enemy camp, Zhang Gao, take 500 people to the west, flank me back and forth, kill everyone and then rob the property."

"Yes!" A middle-aged man took the order and left the brigade with 500 people, heading northwest.

The leader led a large group of troops slowly approaching Li Hao's barracks. The reason why they were so slow was to approach quietly and then catch the opponent by surprise. This is a common tactic for attacking enemy camps at night.

However, in general, night raids on enemy camps are done with fewer attacks. After all, the fewer people there are, the less likely it is to be exposed. Using 1000 people for a sneak attack is a bit too many. Fortunately, this is a desert, and the ground’s ability to transmit earthquakes is poor. There are so many horses walking on the land, even if they are not galloping, they will be discovered within eight miles.

This leader also decided to use so many troops to attack at night because of the desert terrain. But he never expected that because Li Hao spotted their scouts during the day, he was now extremely vigilant, even sleeping. With a copper basin, what is the use of the copper basin? In fact, the effect is similar to that of a stethoscope. As long as the ground vibrates slightly and resonates through the copper basin, a louder sound can be produced. The larger the copper basin, the better the effect.

Li Hao and Lu Yun slept in the same tent, and their copper basin made a slight sound, although the sound was very small, but their ears were pressed against the copper basin, so it was hard not to hear it.The two woke up at the same time, looked at each other, got up and shouted together: "Enemy attack!"

"Drip filter——" Li Hao's tent whistled clear and crisp, and the sound was heard three or four miles away. Everyone rushed out of the tent with weapons in their hands. The guards on the right went to ride horses. behind.

"Enemy attack, everyone is ready for battle!" Li Hao shouted after walking out of the tent, then raised his binoculars, looked towards the north, and after only one glance, he was shocked and blurted out, "Oh Cao! "

Lu Yun hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?"

"Thousands of horse thieves!" Li Hao exclaimed, and suddenly shook his head again, "No, these are not horse thieves. When they marched on horseback, they lined up in an orderly manner, more like an army! Could it be Gao Chang's army?"

Lu Yun's expression changed, and he frowned and asked, "Is that fight or flight?"

Li Hao turned his head to look at Peng Hai, and asked solemnly, "Five hundred beats one thousand, do you have confidence?"

Peng Hai proudly said: "My Tang cavalry is invincible in the world!"

"Okay!" Li Hao suddenly became proud when he heard the words, and said coldly, "Everyone listen to the order and put out half of the braziers in the camp!"

With Li Hao's order, half of all the braziers in the camp were extinguished in a short time, and the whole camp became dim, and it was barely possible to see.Li Hao looked at the enemy with the binoculars again. The range measurement of the binoculars showed that the enemy was 4000 meters away, that is, eight miles, and seeing that they were still moving forward slowly, it seemed that they hadn't noticed any movement from their side. No wonder, they could There was no night-vision binoculars, and the warning signal just now was a whistle blown by Li Hao. The whistle was sharp and had poor transmission ability. It should not be heard six miles away.

"If you dare to sneak attack us, then I will invite you into the urn." Li Hao snorted coldly and waved, "Everyone follow me to the back of the sand dunes."

There is a sand dune more than a mile southeast of their camp. Relying on the sand dune to camp can effectively resist the wind and sand blown by the southeast wind. This is common sense in desert marches. Li Hao is going to hide behind the sand dune to counter-attack the enemy.

They had just crossed the sand dunes when Li Hao suddenly noticed something was wrong. He picked up the binoculars and looked into the distance. He was shocked again when he saw another group of people approaching from the west, eight miles away from here. He hurriedly climbed to the At the top of the sand dune, he looked around for fear that there would be other people. After confirming that there were only these two people, Li Hao walked down the sand dune, pointed at the dark night, and said, "There is also a group of people coming towards us from eight miles west. , about 500 people, if my guess is correct, they should be with the group from the north."

Peng Hai was startled when he heard the words: "Are they planning to attack the two armies?"

"Yes, they are very intelligent." Li Hao said, "Now it seems that they have a total of 500 people. Since they are divided into attacks, we will attack them one by one. We will deal with the 500 people in the west first. What does General Peng think?"

"Yes." Peng Hai nodded.

"Then attack." Li Hao said, "Try not to let the thousand-man team in the north find out."

Li Hao and the others rushed westward quickly, and after five miles in a hurry, they began to slow down. At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than two miles away. Li Hao ordered all the soldiers to line up on the spot, ready their bows and wait for the attack.

The 500 people led by Zhang Gao didn't notice any movement ahead, and continued to move forward. The distance between the two teams was less than 200 meters. Li Hao shouted: "Shoot!"

The five hundred guards all raised their bows and threw them towards the sky at 45 degrees. With the power of the southeast wind, the arrows fell into the local crowd like a torrential rain. The sound of people turning their backs came from the opposite side. Zhang Gao, the leader of the team, was shocked and hurriedly ordered: fight back!"

Hearing this order, Li Hao smiled coldly, whistled suddenly, and all the cavalry put away their bows and arrows and rushed out.

In the case of a long distance, archers are very good at defeating cavalry, but at this moment Li Hao and the others took the lead. After being attacked by the arrow rain and causing confusion, the opponent actually wanted to fight back with bows and arrows. At this time, Li Hao ordered the cavalry to attack, and the opponent probably prepared their bows and arrows. , The cavalry has rushed to the front.

(End of this chapter)