Chapter 490 There is one ahead (please vote and subscribe)
At this moment, the same thing is still happening on the edge of the forest. Although it does not cause any effective damage to the totem warriors every time, it still makes them unbearable.
A group of cavalrymen threw stones and ran away. They wanted to chase but couldn't catch up. If they didn't chase, the sound of horse hooves would not go away. It always echoed around them, like a nightmare, making the totem warriors gradually angry.
The cavalry of the Han tribe didn't have to worry about food and drink. They had enough food to eat, and there were even cooks behind them. They could walk around the edge of the forest and go back to have hot meals. But the totem warriors were different. They were harassed all day today, which was equivalent to doing nothing. Not only did they not catch a few rabbits, but they also wasted a day's food in vain.
At this time, they couldn't continue to endure it, but prepared to wait until the next morning to start moving out and deal with this wave of incompetent cavalry first. But what they didn't expect was that they thought the cavalry would not come again after dark at night. After all, it was so dark in the woods, and didn't that group of people need to rest?
However, the Han tribe cavalrymen who held the same idea as them had to bear the fatigue and move again after receiving a new order from the leader.
That night, just when the totem warriors were about to rest, a series of horse hoof sounds rang out again from the surroundings, making the totem warriors who had finally fallen asleep furious. They picked up their weapons and were ready to fight the cavalrymen at any time.
However, the Han tribe cavalrymen still did not launch a surprise attack, but continued to harass.
The horse hoof sounds were getting closer and closer. The next moment, the totem warriors hiding behind the trees saw several light circles floating in the low sky suddenly floating in the distance.
"What the hell is this?!"
Seeing such a weird scene, a group of people couldn't help but stick out their heads from behind the trees to watch.
However, at this moment, when they felt the horse hoof sounds passing by not far away, the light circles floating in the low sky immediately turned into comets, dragging long flaming tails, and fell to their side.
It turned out that it was a flying stone wrapped in a layer of oilcloth. The cavalrymen set fire to it and waved it on horseback. In this way, the flying stone with flames really looked like a circle of light. However, when it was thrown out, it instantly turned into a meteor dragging flames and hit the camp of the totem warriors mercilessly.
In an instant, the edge of the entire forest was ablaze with flames, adding a touch of weird color to the dark night.
Here we have to talk about the camp of the cannibal totem warriors. Why did it catch fire so quickly? This season is the time when there is a shortage of grass. The grass and trees in spring have just recovered and there is a lot of rain, so it will not ignite the forest so quickly.
The key point is that there is a lot of hay in their camp.
As we all know, rabbits survive by eating grass, and they live in caves. Another habit is to collect hay.
Well, of course, it's not for eating, but for putting in the nest to make beds. Moreover, the hay in the rabbit hole has a characteristic, that is, even if it rains, their holes will not get wet, so those who like to sleep outdoors, if they can't find dry fire starters on rainy days, might as well find a rabbit hole to try their luck.
The same is true for those totem warriors. The ground in the forest is full of rotten leaves, and some insects and poisonous snakes can emerge from time to time. In this case, the wet ground is not suitable for sleeping, but fortunately, they have dug rabbit nests for a few days and accumulated a lot of hay for making beds. Unexpectedly, at this moment, the hay on the ground has become their nightmare.
Whoosh, whoosh,
whoosh - the next moment, there was a whoosh, and the haystacks covered with tung oil suddenly caught fire. Among them, there were many unlucky people who were sleeping soundly on the haystacks. The next moment, the whole person was swallowed by the flames.
For a moment, the flames, smoke, and shrill howls suddenly covered the entire area around the forest.
About an hour later, the situation did not improve, but became worse.
The fires at the edge of the forest were faintly connected in a line due to the wind and the piles of rotten leaves on the ground. Not only that, although the wildfire was not very big, there were not many open flames due to the wet rotten leaves everywhere, but the smoke was very large. When the strong wind blew again, the whole forest was suddenly covered with thick smoke.
At this time, nearly 2,000 totem warriors in the forest were in chaos. Many people lost their way in the darkness and smoke, and were suffocated and shocked by the thick smoke in confusion. There were even many teams fighting with their fellow tribesmen inexplicably in the thick smoke.
Chaos, chaos, the whole Dark Forest was in chaos.
However, just when they thought they might never get out of this forest, they suddenly heard thunder-like sounds not far away, as if the Thunder God in the sky sensed their call and used thunder to guide them to a way to escape to heaven.
"Hurry up, hit faster, use some force, make the drum louder, don't stop, if you get tired, change someone." Wuyun rode on his yellow horse, holding a torch in his hand and said to several four-wheeled carriages with big drums.
"Yes."
"General Flag Officer, but will this really work? Will the enemies really come here by following the sound?" A small flag officer under Wuyun asked in disbelief.
"You ask me, who should I ask? This is the leader's idea. We just need to work. By the way, let your small flags light torches. It will definitely not work if we just rely on sound. We will definitely need your torches to lead the way. Go and get ready." Wuyun ordered his men loudly.
"Yes, General Flag Officer."
When the small flag officers heard that it was the leader's idea, they no longer hesitated and immediately prepared separately according to the order.
The next moment, just as the Han tribe cavalrymen had prepared torches, a large group of people jumped out of the smoke-filled forest. These people ran wildly along the drum sound. Just when their lungs were about to explode, they finally rushed out of the encirclement of the smoke and breathed in the fresh air greedily in the evening breeze.
Many people collapsed on the ground and coughed violently. Some people rubbed their eyes painfully. The two eyeballs smoked by the smoke were blood red and extremely uncomfortable. Some people even wanted to dig their eyeballs out.
However, as more and more people rushed out from behind, the people in front began to recover. The temporarily blind people began to recover their vision and turned their heads to the place where the drum sound came from. They could vaguely see a lot of erratic flames over there. There were the Han tribe cavalrymen holding torches. Not long
after, as more and more people escaped from the smoke, Wuyun also began to discover this situation.
"General, General, those man-eating barbarians have really come out, but they are all gathered at the edge of the forest. What should we do now?"
"What should we do? Of course we should rush up and do it. Go and call your people, throw the flint again from a distance, don't get too close, it doesn't matter if you miss it, the important thing is to attract them all over, and don't run too fast, let them see you, but not catch up, but also let them feel that they may catch up, you can control the distance yourself, and then lead them to the main road." Wuyun saw that the strategy worked, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and explained to his men.
"Yes, sir."
"Listen carefully, the leader said that this time as long as we can lead all the enemies over, everyone can be promoted one level."
After arranging the battle plan, Wuyun shouted loudly again the reward promised by the leader to boost morale.
At this time, the cavalry soldiers who had been exhausted for a day suddenly became energetic, riding their mounts, waving the torches in their hands, and rushed to the edge of the forest like wolves and tigers.
Next, as the cavalrymen frantically drew hatred in front of the enemy, and with the guidance of drums and torches, the cannibal warriors who were full of anger during the day and almost suffocated to death in the forest at night, seeing that the Han tribe cavalry was still provoking them, all looked like they could not bear it anymore, and chased after them waving stone axes and javelins.
As time went by, the enemy's team went from being sparse at the beginning to gradually forming a long dragon at the end. Many totem warriors in groups of three or two finally rushed out of the thick smoke. They couldn't find their own team at first, but seeing that the large army in front of them was running forward, they didn't want to be left alone, and finally they all ran after the large army.
The cavalrymen in front, listening to the whistling stone axes and javelins behind them, dodged the snake skin, and kept counterattacking with flying stones at the back, thus keeping a distance from the enemy behind them and gradually leading them to the road under the mountain.
Moreover, after receiving the new order from Wuyun, the cavalrymen who were "leading the way" in front of them dropped their torches from time to time, howling and speeding up their running. It was as if they were afraid of the large group of infantrymen behind them, and they were so scared that they even dropped their torches.
The enemies behind them immediately became eager to fight, thinking, "So what if you can tame beasts? You are just a few people. You will be scared to turn around and run away when you see so many of us." Then they picked up the torches dropped by the cavalrymen without hesitation and continued to chase after them.
Not long after, the torches in the hands of the enemies behind them also increased, and finally they actually pulled out a rather spectacular "fire dragon" on the road. In this way, while making it convenient for the enemy, the cavalrymen of the Han tribe also observed the enemy's team more clearly in the dark.
Thousands of people ran on the road at such a speed, which was actually very fast, especially when one side was "fleeing" and the other side was "chasing" behind, the two sides who were originally at the edge of the forest ran to the bank of the Ruyang River without knowing it.
The next scene shocked the Totem Warriors behind them. They had heard the sound of water flowing and knew that they were close to the river. They could finally stop the cavalrymen of the Han tribe. Even if your people can swim, the four-legged beasts they ride on may not be able to swim. Now let's see where you can run.
But when thousands of them chased to the river, they were stunned because they saw the cavalrymen of the Han tribe riding four-legged beasts and running directly across the river.
How did they do that? Could their mounts fly? !
But the next moment, the Totem Warriors who finally caught up to the river suddenly saw that a bridge floating on the river had been built at some point, and the cavalrymen of the Han tribe had obviously crossed here.
This was of course Luo Chong's arrangement. On the dark river, four three-meter-wide wooden boats floated side by side on the water, with a thick layer of wooden boards on top. They had actually built a six-meter-wide floating bridge on the river.
Seeing that there was a "road" that led directly to the other side, the Totem Warriors behind them also became excited. Although they had swam across the river directly at first, who would be stupid enough to swim across when there was a way that didn't involve falling into the water? Especially when they saw the Han cavalrymen who had just crossed the river, they were "tired and stopped to rest not far away". In an instant, the Totem Warriors on the east bank of the river seemed to see the dawn of victory. They rushed to the other side of the floating bridge with torches and their weapons, and then continued to attack the Han cavalrymen who were "tired and gasping".
But after they crossed the bridge, the Han cavalrymen seemed to be "fearful" and began to make their "last dying struggle", and then continued to lead this large army of thousands of people to the northwest.
After a long while, the Totem Warriors who were left at the back passed the floating bridge in a sparse manner. After waiting for a while, seeing that no one was following, dozens of figures suddenly jumped down from the treetops on the shore, and then quietly loaded all the wooden boards onto the boat. Then several people pulled out the bamboo poles stuck in the water, untied the ropes tied to the trees, and then rowed four small boats all the way south, heading towards Ruyang County in the south.
At the same time, two men with horses came out of the woods next to them. The two looked at each other, nodded to each other, turned over and rode in different directions.
At the same time, in the northwest of this place, a drama of life and death pursuit of thousands of people continued, but this was not a solution. After all, two legs could not outrun four legs. Just when the cannibal warriors behind were exhausted and thousands of people were about to vomit, suddenly they saw something bright.
I saw a patch of fire and smoke in the undulating hills and grasslands ahead. The air was filled with the smell of food and a chaotic shouting.
It seemed that a small tribe had appeared ahead
. The cannibal army, which was almost exhausted from running, immediately became energetic and rushed forward like mad dogs.
(End of this chapter)
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