Chapter 78: Chasing Soldiers Appear
When the horse thief heard what he said, his face turned pale with fright, his whole body was covered with cold sweat, and he kept yelling, "Don't! Don't! This old man, the little one can say everything, everything..."
Then he told everything he knew as quickly as possible. They even told how many women their big boss had the most nights with.
As expected, the whereabouts of Huangfu Chaobo and his party were followed by a group of horse thieves. This group of horse thieves is a relatively large group of horse thieves outside the Shanggu Great Wall. There are about three or four hundred people. They started to pay attention to Huangfu Chaobo two days ago When they came, they had wanted to do it a long time ago, but seeing that they had fifty or sixty horses, they thought that there should still be masters, otherwise they would not dare to walk outside the Great Wall with dozens of horses so blatantly. If you do it on the grassland, the horse is likely to run away. So there has been no action. Looking at them, it seems that they want to enter the Great Wall from Shanggu, so they set up an ambush in a valley more than 20 miles ahead. Originally, a dozen of them came to monitor Huangfu Chaobo. Unexpectedly, eight horse thieves and cavalry met each other. The four of them were killed by Chen Jing, and only two of them ran back.
After understanding the situation clearly, Huangfu Chaobo killed the horse thief without saying a word. While listening to Hu Yandu talking about the surrounding geographical conditions, he was thinking about what to do.
The place mentioned by the horse thief is indeed a valley about tens of miles long. After passing through that valley, you will reach the Great Wall on the border of Shanggu in Youzhou. Ordinarily, if there were no horse thieves blocking there, Huangfu Chaobo originally planned to enter Youzhou from here. After all, he now has fifty or sixty horses, and the most important thing is that he has a horse trainer who can train horses . Ordinarily, the most important thing now is to send my party and horses back to Youzhou, but if there are nearly 400 horse thieves waiting there, my party will definitely not be able to reach Shanggu safely, let alone horses or people. Maybe there will be a few off here, but if you don't enter Youzhou from here, you still need to go east for another five or six hundred miles, and you can enter the Great Wall at the border of Youbeiping. According to their current speed, it will take at least four or five days to arrive, but no one knows what else will happen ahead. Thinking about it, Huangfu Chaobo slowly raised his head and looked up to the sky, wondering how to get there.
Suddenly, Huangfu Chaobo, who inadvertently looked up to the sky, saw a big eagle in the sky, and couldn't help saying: "Hey! Look, there is an eagle up there."
Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, a big eagle was flying in the sky.
"Not good...Master, that's not an eagle..." Hu Yandu suddenly yelled; "Master, we must leave immediately. It's an eagle, a golden eagle."
"Golden Eagle, why did you leave when you saw the Golden Eagle? It can't fly down to catch us...Golden Eagle...You said it was a Golden Eagle..." Huangfu Chaobo suddenly came to his senses.
"Yes, master, that is the golden eagle of the Xianbei King's Court Golden Eagle Tribe. Since it has appeared, it means that there are a large number of Xianbei cavalry within three hundred miles behind."
I rely on the airborne early warning aircraft of the nomads. . .
"Everyone get on their horses, let's go to that valley first..." Huangfu Chaobo didn't say much. Immediately ordered.
Although the other people were confused, they had never seen Huangfu Chaobo so anxious before, and they all got on their horses and ran in the direction Huangfu Chaobo said. After Hu Yandu's explanation along the way, everyone knew what was going on. Now everyone is in a hurry. According to what Hu Yandu said, once the golden eagles come out, it means that there will be at least two to three thousand-man cavalry behind them. Think about two or three thousand people. It means that there are at least nearly 10,000 horses. Thinking about the tens of thousands of horses galloping towards him behind him, anyone will feel scared. Let alone 10,000 horses are killed by cavalry, they just pass directly over him. There are also no bones left.
If Huangfu Chaobo hadn't accidentally looked up and saw the golden eagle,
Then they might not know until the Xianbei cavalry arrived behind, but they guessed wrong about the number of people behind.
After the four thousand Xianbei cavalry set off from Wangting, they arrived at the place where they fought last time in a few days. Several thousand commanders reconfirmed that there were Han people to support Huyandu and them. So they decided to divide their troops into three groups to find them. Among them, the road in the middle to the south is the road they think is the most likely, so it also has the most people. There are two thousand-man teams, and the other two thousand-man teams are divided into two roads to go east and west. search. As for the north, even those Chinese dogs would not have the guts to enter the hinterland of the prairie. It took a few days for the Xianbei cavalry to come and go, so although Huangfu Chaobo and the others have not walked fast these days, they are still five or six hundred miles away from the battle site, so the distance between the several teams of Xianbei cavalry is also several. day's journey. However, although there was only a group of people coming to them, it was not something Huangfu Chaobo could handle, not to mention there were hundreds of horse thieves blocking the way.
While running, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly had an idea in his mind, and said to Huang Zhong: "Brother, you said that if we pass through that valley but don't enter the valley, but go east, will those horse thieves come after us? "
Huang Zhong was taken aback for a moment, but he immediately came to his senses. "Young master, what do you mean..."
"Yes, our horses should be slightly faster than those of the horse thieves, and the horses of the Xianbei cavalry should be faster than ours. If we draw the horse thieves out, it means that they happen to be between us and the Xianbei cavalry. In this case, They should be able to block it for a while."
"Okay. Let's do this..."
The journey of more than twenty miles arrived in a blink of an eye.
In the valley, more than 300 horse thieves were waiting in formation. Just waiting for the big fish to enter the net. Thinking of those dozens of war horses, the head of the horse thief couldn't help but his eyes lit up. There were more than 50 war horses. Thinking that he had more than 300 war horses and less than 200 war horses. Everyone else used to ride horses. He estimated There should be a few good horses in it. If it is true, his strength can be raised to a higher level.
"It's worth it..."
A sound of hoofbeats came from outside the valley.
"Boss, here we come, the fat sheep is coming to the valley..."
"Okay, let's get ready, everyone, today we took these Maben bosses and rewarded them a lot..."
Just as the horse thieves were waiting eagerly, another horse ran in from the valley entrance, "Big leader, the fat sheep... the fat sheep... stopped at the valley entrance, put down the two horses, turned eastward and walked straight away. ..."
"Ah..." All the horse thieves were dumbfounded when they heard this, and no one spoke for a long time.
"No, big boss, they found us, let's chase..."
"Yes, let's go after them. These are fifty or sixty war horses. Even if they run away a little, it's better than nothing..."
When the big boss heard it, yes, it is better to have a few horses than none. He gritted his teeth and stomped his feet. "Chase!!!"