No matter day or night, there are scouts stationed five to twenty miles away for warning.
The incident happened suddenly, and Xiao Yi didn't know what was going on. He only knew that Tan Ma ran back, waving torches to signal the enemy to attack.
Tanma is a team of six people and two people, walking in three directions to avoid being chased by the enemy and unable to report the news.
The three groups of people all came back, all waving torches, but they could not determine how many enemies there were. They could only roughly judge that there were thousands, at least several thousand. As for one thousand or nine thousand, they could not be sure, because when they saw the light of the fire, At that time, it was impossible to determine the number of enemies. I could only put my ears to the ground and guess that there were at least two to three thousand people.
Tan Ma reported the news in time, and the wolf-catching army quickly ran out of the camp. In response to the surprise battle, there was no way to quickly organize the herdsmen. In fact, when Tan Ma discovered the enemy, the enemy also discovered Tan Ma and followed him. Come.
However, when Tan Ma returned to the pasture, the enemy did not pursue him. Not only did they not pursue him, they turned around and ran away.
Fighting on the grassland is just annoying, especially at night. You don't know how many enemies there are. It would be better if you meet on a narrow road. You can get close, test, and roughly judge the number and equipment of the enemy. If you can beat it, fight it. If you can't beat Sayazi, Just run.
But the water grass pasture is now regarded as a camp for the wolf-catching army. If it escapes, the herdsmen will suffer.
Originally, the wolf-catching army could ignore these herdsmen. The problem is that things are different now. If the wolf-catching army simply ran away and allowed the herdsmen to be slaughtered by others, who would dare to join the Chang Dynasty in the future?
We are the first to bully, and the first to run away when the enemy comes. Who would follow such a big brother?
Lin Hu got on his horse and shouted: "Get on your horse, get out of camp, disperse!"
Sheng Zhaojun was obviously a war maniac. He was looking for a horse everywhere. Chu Qing, who got on the horse, quickly shouted: "Go back to the Divine Grass Department quickly, take everyone to the water grass pasture, and guard here."
Sheng Zhaojun likes to fight, but he is not stupid.
Although the enemy's situation is unknown, the number of people will never exceed 10,000. If you want to defend this pasture in a short time, you still have to rely on the more than 4,000 grassland street runners of the Shencao Department.
Tao Shaozhang calls himself a lucky general, not without reason, and he also has a way of motivating people.
"General Sheng, if we lose the battle, if we all die in the battle, our bodies are separated, our bones are gone, and our deaths are miserable, then we will take the herdsmen to the border."
Everyone stared angrily, and Chu Qing cursed: "Shut up!"
They were all well-trained professional soldiers. All the wolf-catching troops were on horseback. There were four teams, divided into four directions, with less than 200 people in each team.
This is also a tactic commonly used by the wolf-catching army. When cavalry confront each other, they are like two giant mouths devouring each other. They push each other with their fangs and big mouths. You offend me and I offend you. Generally, who has the bigger mouth, that is Whoever has more people will win and "devour" the other side.
Therefore, the wolf-catching army will avoid the large number of cavalry directly in front, but wander to both sides, trying to "pull" the enemy formation as large and dispersed as possible, so as to defeat them one by one and facilitate their escape.
It's funny to say that the wolf-catching army is so aggressive on the grassland, but they rarely fight head-on. Most of the time, they are "running" and run away when they see the enemy. Anyway, they never fight head-on.
This tactic is also commonly used by cavalry. To give a very simple example, there are 500 people on the left and 1,000 people on the right. If the 500 people on the left are dispersed into multiple squads, the enemy can be continuously dispersed and the enemy can be defeated. Just fight, and if you can't beat them, run away. But if you hit them all at once, if you're not lucky, the entire army will be wiped out in an instant.
But for now, there is no need to fight, because Tan Ma said that these "pursuers" turned around when they reached the outside of the water grass pasture.
After running out of the camp, Chu Qing hurriedly shouted: "We will fight after you see clearly, especially those from our frontier army!"
Lao Ma had mentioned his plan before. The wolf-catching army went to the grassland to cause trouble, while Lao Ma led three teams to the grassland to draw a map.
The four teams began to spread out. Lin Kui led one team, Xiao Yi led one team, Tong Gui led one team, and the remaining team was led by Chu Qing.
In fact, normally speaking, even if there are only more than a hundred people, Chu Qing should not be the leader.
In terms of qualifications, Xiao Yi and Tong Gui are both veteran frontier soldiers, and both of them have official positions. They can be regarded as high-level military commanders. It is not that their qualifications are older than the veterans, but that military commanders are military commanders. In terms of command, , including strategic and tactical arrangements and battle formation contingency, etc., all have some characteristics that ordinary soldiers do not have.
As for Chu Qing, he is not a military general, but he has a father who is the leader of the wolf-catching army, and he is also the leader of the wolf-catching army that he reorganized. He can lead a team to fight alone regardless of emotions and reasons, whether he is an old soldier or a new soldier. Follow his instructions.
Furthermore, there are also many "professionals" in Chu Qing's team, including the Fu family's second idiot who seems to have very strong theoretical knowledge, and Nangong Ping who really has very strong theoretical knowledge, not to mention the experienced people. The third brother who fought.
Four directions, all on the two wings, front and back, pursuing, or tracing.
According to everyone's opinion, there were at least two to three thousand people on the other side, not too many, not too few. They may have followed Tan Ma to the aquatic pasture and did not dare to go deeper.
What everyone wants to do now is not necessarily to fight, but to find out the situation. They are all speeding up their horses, eager to know where the opponent is coming from. Is it someone from other small tribes, a noble tribe, or a six-member border army? The men and horses of the camp.
At the same time, the grassland folk who were singing and dancing happily in the pasture were no longer happy. Some were looking for weapons, and others were mounting their horses. They all followed them out without knowing what they were thinking.
Although they don't know what happened, they feel that they have lost their home once. This time, no matter how many people come or who comes, they must defend this place to the death, and no one can rob their home again. , no one can do it unless they can't beat it.
It is worth mentioning that when these herdsmen saw the wolf-catching army chasing them away, they were quite moved, thinking that the wolf-catching army was fighting to protect their homeland.
Only the bodyguards led by Hua Wenwu did not move. They watched over little Zaza and came to the outside of the water grass pasture. The war horses were also led out and they were waiting for danger.
They knew what to do without Chu Qing's instructions. If anything unexpected happened, they would kill Tu Fei Yuan with a single blow.
Seeing that the herdsmen were also stupid and chased them on horseback. There were at least two thousand people, and the bodyguards were itching.
The current situation is like this. In the dark night, no one can see anyone. The light can identify the general direction. The wolf-catching army is divided into four groups, leading the team to pursue the unknown enemy, while the herdsmen of various small tribes are chasing. To catch the wolf army.
The pursuit on the grassland is not like what is shown on TV, chasing after the buttocks and shouting "Geneva, why don't you run away if you have the guts", but chasing in a general direction, spreading out the hands, and the distance between the two sides can be maintained. It's very far, even more than ten kilometers away. It depends on when the opponent slows down, or thinks he has left the enemy behind and dismounts to rest.
While riding his horse, Chu Qing turned around and shouted at the second fool of the Fu family: "My uncle raised a flag just now. If nothing goes wrong, he may be killed. If there is a fight, you don't have to worry about anything. You must protect him!" "
The second idiot of the Fu family didn't know whether they heard it or not. They were riding a horse or riding a road race, ready to corner and overtake at any time, but they didn't reply.
Tao Shaozhang, who was riding on the horse, turned to Fu San and shouted, "What does my brother-in-law mean by Fulaige?"
Fu San's face was stern: "Master Tao, from now on, you are not allowed to say a word, not a word!"
Tao Shaozhang: "Oh."
Nangong Ping yelled: "Shut up, not a single word!"
Tao Shaozhang turned to look at Nangong Ping again, very surprised.
What's wrong? Why don't you let me speak?
