Not long after Lin Yi's 6,000 troops left the city, they were discovered by the scouts released by Chu Qing, and the information quickly returned to Samoko and Lan Yuan.
The Zhanren soldiers were familiar with the terrain and wore simple and light rattan armor. They were originally marching faster than Samoko, but they seemed to be deliberately slowing down their pace. Finally, they encountered Samoko's attack forty miles northeast of the capital of Linyi. Wuxi barbarians.
"Your Majesty, it's them who will finally ask for a fight." Fan Shanbao was eager to give it a try.
Ou Jin thought for a moment, frowned and nodded, saying, "Take two thousand soldiers and try it. If you find anything wrong, withdraw immediately."
"As ordered." Fan Shanbao clasped his fists.
The Wuxi barbarians did not have the same armor as the trapped troops, and they did not dare to fight against enemies ten times their own. Shamoko immediately followed Lan Yuan's order and ordered the barbarians to retreat as soon as the battle began. Fan Shanbao had just chased him two miles away. Was stopped by Ou Jin.
"Your Majesty, the general is about to kill the enemy, why did you call me back?" Fan Shanbao was dejected.
Ou Jin frowned and said, "It is said that one alien race can defeat ten, but now they are defeated at the first touch. Don't you find it strange, General Leopard?"
Fan Shanbao shook his head, "Xu Shi's brother was killed in front of the battle, which seriously affected the morale of the army. Otherwise, how could the army in the capital of Linyi be so unbearable? It is common sense for the foreigners to not dare to fight head-on when they see that we have a large number of people."
"Really? General Leopard just led his army in pursuit. How many defeated soldiers were killed?"
"Uh... I haven't counted yet, so I'll go right away..."
Ou Jin replied coldly: "I don't see the need to check. I saw that they retreated in an orderly manner. Maybe not many people were killed."
"No way?" Fan Shanbao scratched his head in disbelief.
At this time, the king's captain of the guard came back to report: "The encounter just now has been accounted for. General Leopard's troops suffered 70 casualties, and only two people were killed..."
"How is that possible?" Fan Shanbao was stunned after hearing this. He had just been focused on fighting Samoko and didn't even notice there were so many casualties.
Ou Jin frowned and analyzed: "These hundreds of foreign races are terrifyingly powerful. If Lin Yi's army pursues them a few more times, they may gradually become equal to the opponent's strength..."
Fan Shanbao was sweating coldly, and he hurriedly asked helplessly: "What should I do?"
"I think the costumes of these people should be very good at hunting. That's why they dare to go deep into our country. They are so strong that I can't bear to fight with soldiers. Let's slowly advance northward and wait for the war elephants and poisonous snakes of the Van brothers to come to help." As the king of Linyi, Ou Jin knows how to preserve his strength better than others. If there are no soldiers loyal to him, driving away the foreigners will also destabilize the throne.
"If they escape into Nanheng Mountain..." Fan Shanbao reminded.
"I will send some soldiers. After detouring through the jungle on the left, I will never let them leave. General Leopard, you are responsible for holding them back. It doesn't matter if you expose some flaws." Ou Jin ordered.
"I will obey your orders." Fan Shanbao beat his chest and nodded.
When Lin Yi's army was sixty miles away from the capital, the Wuxi barbarians who were fighting and fleeing suddenly stopped retreating. Fan Shanbao said in his heart, can you finally run away? He gave the order to blow the trumpet and attack.
Unexpectedly, Samoko made a big move, and all the barbarians hiding nearby stood up. Their number was comparable to that of the Linyi King's army. They had been ambushing here for a long time, and the sixty-mile-long strategic depth they retreated was for Keep the Zhan army in the wild as much as possible.
Shamoko commanded the barbarians to launch a massive counterattack. The two thousand men in front of Fan Shanbao had already fallen into the pocket formation. They hurriedly ran back in the middle of the charge, only regretting that their parents had given them two fewer legs.
After Wuxi Man had been seduced for two days, he was finally able to fight happily. Shamoke took the lead and rushed to the front. Wherever the iron caltrop bones touched, there was the sound of bones breaking.
Fan Shanbao's horse was not as fast as Shamoke's horse, and was finally smashed into a ball of flesh by the iron caltrops Guduo, including his horse and man. Seeing this, the Zhan soldiers worshiped Shamoke as a ghost, and the main force heading towards the area retreated crying.
When Ou Jin heard that there were four to five thousand foreigners and Fan Shanbao's two thousand vanguard were almost completely wiped out, he almost fell off his horse.
"Your Majesty, the aliens are too strong, we should retreat to the capital..." the guard suggested anxiously.
"Okay..." Ou Jin was in a state of confusion and was immediately escorted back by the guards.
From early morning to dusk, the Wuxi barbarians were chasing after them like crazy. The slow-running Zhan people gradually fell down. Finally, twenty miles northeast of the royal capital, the Wuxi barbarians finally stopped because a giant monster appeared in front of them. .
Fifty or sixty elephants, under the command of the mahout Fanxi, stood neatly in front of the people, defending a moving city wall and protecting the people behind the wall.
These barbarians from Wuling didn't know much. There were no elephants in Jingnan or even the Central Plains, so they didn't know this unknown beast. Such a huge figure made the barbarian soldiers instinctively frightened.
"General, what should we do?" asked one of the assistant generals.
Shamoko frowned: "We have almost reached the capital city of Linyi, how could we give up because of these wild beasts? Everyone took sharp weapons and rushed behind me. Let's try it first with a hail of arrows. "
"only."
A hail of arrows was fired, touching the rough skin of the elephant as if it were scratching an itch.
Seeing that the monsters were actually invulnerable, the barbarian soldiers began to beat drums in their hearts. Then a strange horn sound sounded, and the giant beasts screamed and shook the ground, and rushed towards Samoko's team.
Moo moo...
Seeing that the situation was not right, Shamoko immediately ordered the barbarians to retreat. Those seemingly bulky elephants actually ran faster than people. The originally tall and powerful barbarian soldiers were as fragile as babies in front of the elephants.
Knocked down, thrown away, trampled...
The originally frightened Zhan Ren instantly changed his identity and began to counterattack under the cover of the war elephants. The situation on the battlefield was suddenly reversed.
Ou Jin saw the aliens being defeated miserably at his own hands, and felt an inexplicable sense of accomplishment and satisfaction in his heart. Seeing that Samoko could no longer escape unscathed, he could only restrain his team and evacuate as much as possible to reduce casualties.
What is gratifying is that the sun has already sunk into the western mountains at this time, and the night will fade away in a while. Shamoko believes that these domesticated beasts will lose their fighting power in the dark night.
During the day, the Wuxi barbarians pursued and killed the Cham people. In the evening, the Cham people began to fight back under the cover of war elephants.
After Shamoko got rid of the pursuers, he began to gather his troops and count the number of people. He found that the barbarians had suffered thousands of casualties, and there was only a simple confrontation.
This is the first time since following Lan Tian that such horrific battle losses occurred.
Samoko was defeated and walked for twenty miles. Finally, with the support of the reconnaissance battalion, he went to the seaside stronghold to join the main force. The encounters of the Wuxi barbarians were also reported to Lanyuan and Gao Shun.
"I still underestimated the Linyi monkeys. They actually called wild beasts to help. Do you know what those giant beasts are?" Shamoko looked frustrated.
Lan Yuan dipped his fingers in water and drew the mark of an elephant on the table. Shamoko pointed at the puddle of water and exclaimed: "The Major General actually knows such an unlucky beast?"
"I heard my father say that this is the largest beast on land, and its name is Elephant." Lan Yuan frowned.
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