Three Kingdoms Eschatology

There is a sparse pine forest beside the river, and the animals that can survive here have already nested in their nests and began to hibernate in this severe cold season.The entire pine forest was dead silent, but the snow in the pine forest clearing was full of traces of some kind of object being crushed.

Here, there was suddenly the sound of some kind of cloven-hoofed animal trampling on the snow, and there were figures of objects rubbing against the ice and snow.A sleigh was drawn by two reindeer into a clearing in a pine forest.

The reindeer was driven by a man wearing a mask, and he stopped the reindeer. "We are here to guard. I heard that the Liang army also has sleds, but their sleds are not pulled by reindeer. They are going to attack our camp. This glacier is the fastest way. We are here to guard. You can find their tracks."

When the man spoke, he exhaled puffy white steam, which quickly formed ice crystals on his mask. From a distance, he seemed to have grown a big snow-white beard.

At this time, there was a faint sound of dog barking in the distance.The three Avenk exchanged glances with each other in horror. After hiding the reindeer and the sled in the pine forest, they buried their bodies in the snowdrifts, observing the situation on the river with only two eyes exposed.

Not long after, the sound of friction between the bamboo and the ice surface came.A sled came galloping across the river, and there were three people on the sled.One is controlling the dog, the other is holding a bow to guard the surroundings, and the other is holding a contradiction.The dog sled was moving fast, passing through this sparse pine forest in the blink of an eye.

"This should be Liang Jun's scouts. Their large troops should be behind. We need to notify Khan immediately to take precautions!" said the leader of the three.

When they brought the reindeer and the sled out of the pine forest again, and loaded it.An arrow shot towards them.It turned out that the dog sledding ride that had just passed had returned the same way for some reason.After spotting them, the archers on the sled immediately fired their bows and arrows.The arrow hit an Avenk's head impartially, and he let out a muffled grunt, then threw himself down straight.

The other two men who were already on the sled didn't even have time to pick up his body, they whipped the deer, and the reindeer flew out pulling the sled like an arrow, directly onto the river,

They were on the river, and saw a long team coming towards them in the distance.The team was all on dog sleds.They frantically whipped their whips and beat the reindeer pulling the sled, and fled like lightning, heading towards Horsang's camp.

Liang Jun's three scouts were chasing after them in a sled, but the speed of the dog sled was much slower than that of the reindeer. After a while, the target disappeared from their sight.Lu Bu and Pang Tong, who were marching with the army, soon found out about this.

Lu Bu said to himself: "I didn't expect that the reindeer of the Avenk people are also cold-resistant livestock that can keep moving in the severe winter. I also didn't expect that Horsan also has sleds. Moreover, their sleds are obviously faster than our dogs. Pull the sled."

Pang Tong on the side was silent for a long time, and then suddenly laughed. "Shi Yuan, why are you laughing?" Lu Bu asked in surprise.Pang Tong replied: "Qi Jiedu, although the sleds pulled by reindeer are faster than dog sleds, they also have shortcomings. If we can make good use of this shortcoming, we can have a surprising effect!"

Chapter 361

Horsang summoned the leaders of the various ministries to his hut and barracks, and everyone on the other side said: "Just now, two of our scouts came to report that Liang Jun's army was attacking our camp on thousands of sledges. Come on. We have been preparing for many days, it is time to make a conclusion!"

With high fighting spirit, everyone drew out their sabers and shouted in unison.Then, according to the deployment they had made long ago, they left the camp with their respective soldiers.

Horsang's camp is half surrounded by mountains and half by rivers.But now the river was frozen solid, not only lost its defensive function, but also provided convenient transportation for the attacker.Therefore, Horsang's decision was to stick to the camp first, forcing the enemy to temporarily station troops on the snowy field on the other side of the river.

After losing their spirit, they used their own reindeer sleds, and the mammoth cavalry wiped out the enemy on the snowy field.The snow was originally a grassland with a flat terrain and a wide space. There are only some sparse tall pine trees in it, which is very convenient for the movement and rush of reindeer sleds and mammoths.

Half an hour later, Lu Bu's army arrived here.Sure enough, all their dog sleds stopped on the snow field on the other side of the river.

The winter days here are very short, and the sun will set in just three or four hours.Lu Bu's army set off at dawn, and spent nearly two hours on the road, and now there are only two hours left before dark.

In the severe winter here, if the army sets up tents and camps in the open air at night, there is a high probability of encountering a blizzard, causing a large number of people and livestock to freeze to death and frostbite, causing the entire army to lose its combat effectiveness.

So now, Lu Bu must either return to the camp immediately after the decisive battle regardless of the outcome, or use the remaining two hours to seize the opponent's camp, otherwise there will be such a risk.

Lu Bu looked at the other side's camp in the distance, and the wall of Horsang's camp had become a wall of ice as high as two battles.Apparently, the Avenk also know how to use ice and snow to strengthen their walls.It is impossible to climb such an ice wall with bare hands.

Pang Tong whispered a few words into Lv Bu's ear, and Lv Bu nodded and said, "Just do as you say!".

Soon, a large number of scouts in the Liang army led Dingling people to spread around. They were going to search for the ambush of Horsang in Xueyuan.They searched carefully from near to far, stabbing suspicious places on the snow with spears from time to time.

Hawthorne, standing on the watchtower in the camp, was a little worried to see them doing this, for his ambushes were lying around on the other side of the river.Although it was still far away from Liang Jun's position, but the opponent's scouts searched so extensively that they would eventually find the heavy troops they had deployed outside.That would completely mess up his plans.

Halthorne was worrying about whether he should attack now.Apart from the scouts and Dingling who were searching, Liang Jun's ballista soldiers were not idle either. They were loading ammunition on the ballista.

The first batch of "fireballs" and stone bullets were fired at Khorsang's camp as promised. Khorsang had heard about the strength of the other party's "fireballs", so he quickly called on the soldiers in the camp to get ready.There was a loud noise, and a stone bomb hit the ice wall, but it only caused a dent in the hard ice wall, without any real effect.

Immediately afterwards, with a bang and cracking sound, a "fireball" just landed on the top of the hard ice wall, but it did not burst into flames as high as people expected.The burning fireball rolled on the snow a few times before being extinguished.

"What's going on? Did you run into a low-quality empty ammunition?" A ballista leader screamed.

Another ballista player responded: "It shouldn't be empty bombs. This batch has not exploded. It can't be all empty bombs."

Another ballista player took out a hot bomb from the ammunition basket, fiddled with it in his hand and observed it.He suddenly shouted loudly: "I know what's going on!", and the crossbowmen stretched out their heads to look...

Lu Bu in the distance didn't see Lie Yan (raging flames) rising into the sky in the enemy camp, so he hurried to the ballista position and asked angrily, "Why haven't you fired the explosive bomb?"

The leader of the ballista hastily kowtowed and replied: "To the Jiedushi, it should be because the weather is too cold. The naphtha in this explosive bomb has been frozen into blocks, so it can't burn."

Lu Bu frowned, and thought of an idea: "Quickly set up a big pot, boil snow water, and use warm water to thaw these explosive bombs!"

While Liang Jun's crossbowmen boiled the explosive bombs with water, the solid bullets still did not stop bombarding the enemy camp.It's just that a small amount of stone bombs was quickly used up, and ice bombs were used next.This was Pang Tong's idea. In order to save transportation capacity, Pang Tong made some molds and used melted water to make ice balls instead of stone bombs.

All of a sudden, the ice wall of Horsang camp was pitted and scarred by countless stone bullets and ice bullets, but the wall was as solid as gold and remained motionless.

After several rounds of test firing, the crossbowmen had estimated the shooting angle and landing point, and the ice bombs continued to hit the camp.From time to time, the Chinese New Year at Horsang Camp made loud noises, the sound of ice bullets piercing through the roof of the shack.

Horsang beat his feet and chest, regretting that he had done a foolish thing earlier. He should not have asked the soldiers to remove the snow from the roofs of the huts early because he was afraid that the snow would crush the huts in the camp.If the snow is not removed or only half a layer is removed, then the ice blocks will not have such a destructive effect.

After this bombardment lasted for a few sticks of incense, the "fireball" came again.This time, after the fiery bomb clay pot that fell to the ground shattered, it ignited a skyrocketing flame.

A fiery bomb fell on a pile of wood, and the naphtha in the can seeped into the wood pile with flames.Although the fire-proof snow was deliberately piled up by the Avenk soldiers on the top of the firewood, the whole firewood was still burning from the inside.

There was also a fiery bomb that was unbiased and entered the shack through a large hole opened by the ice bomb, and a fire quickly ignited in the shack.Heart-piercing shouts came from the shack.

Horsang saw that if things went on like this, if he hadn't confronted the opponent yet, the opponent's ice and fireballs could completely destroy his camp.So he resolutely gave up his previous plan-wait for the opponent's attack on the camp to be frustrated, and then let the surrounding ambushes cover up and kill them.

There were bursts of long horn sounds from the Horsan camp. In addition to the sound of the horn, there were also loud arrows rushing into the air with trails of smoke and dust.Horsang issued an offensive order to the ambushes pre-arranged around the perimeter in advance.

On the other side of the river, the sound of the Avenk horns was heard in the distance of the snow field, and then the surroundings began to be noisy, the shouts of the crowd, the sound of a large number of reindeer running on the snow, and the friction between the sleds and the snow. .If you listen carefully, there is also the sound of the chirping and howling of the giant mammoth.

Lu Bu and Pang Tong looked at each other tacitly, and they finally drew Horsang's ambush soldiers out as they wished.The scouts and Ding Ling who participated in the search before returned to the team one after another, and Liang Jun all got on the sled, even the ballistas and ballistas were no exception.They were divided into hundreds of teams, and they were waiting in full force.

Chapter 362

The Avenk, Sakha, and Yakut people in Khorsang rode on sleds pulled by reindeer, and mammoth war elephants approached Liang Jun from different directions.

Liang Jun's ballista troops quickly evacuated along the frozen river.The rest of the Liang army rode dog sleds to meet the enemy.Most of Liang Jun's sleds are configured by three people, drivers, longbowmen, and spear shield soldiers.

Two reindeer were pulling a sled and galloping, and the driver of the sled still had an extra arrow shaft on his head.The whole person jumped out of the sled, and the sled without the driver also lost control.The two reindeer started running aimlessly.

Another Saha on the sled tried to re-harness the two reindeer, but it was too late.They were already running towards a pine tree, and they dodged easily by themselves, but let the sled hit the tree trunk, and the whole sled suddenly flew into the air, and the remaining three people on the sled were also thrown to the tree trunk, and their brains burst suddenly and died.

If you observe the battlefield carefully, you will find that Liang Jun's dog sleds try their best to avoid close combat with the opponent's sleds, always trying to keep a distance.But they can't do it with every sledge ride.

A reindeer sled passed by a dog sled.The people on the sled stabbed at each other with long-handled weapons.

The spear and shield soldiers on Liang Jun's sledge used their large shields to resist the stabbing of a spear from the opponent, and at the same time threw the spear in their hands, piercing the chest of one of the opponents, but then they were swept by the opponent's long knife , suddenly decapitated.The headless body fell out of the sled, but the head fell into the cabin of the sled.

Lu Bu himself rode on a sled, brandishing a big halberd, slashing left and right. His sled was pulled by eight big dogs, and it glides like flying on the snow. beheaded.

At this time, Lu Bu saw another enemy sleigh approaching in front of him, he shouted loudly, Fang Tian drew a halberd in the air, and the halberd blade cut off the four galloping deer legs in an instant.The two reindeer immediately stumbled and fell forward amidst screaming.The occupants of the sled rolled out and were thrown into a coma.

Before they could stand up, another Liang Jun sleigh came from behind. Big dogs jumped over them, and the sled hit them. crashed.The people on Liang Jun's sled were almost thrown out because of inertia.

When Lu Bu was fighting, he suddenly saw a huge monster like a hill approaching him in front of him. It was the other party's mammoth.The mammoth flicked its nose and picked its teeth, and overturned two Liang Jun's sleds back and forth, and the soldiers on the sleds were trampled to death by the mammoth.

Lu Bu saw that the opponent's reindeer sleighs gathered more and more, dozens of mammoth war elephants were about to enter the battle group, and Horsang also led the soldiers and horses in the camp to fight out from the camp.

He ordered in a loud voice: "Let the arrows go! Act according to the plan!".

As soon as he finished speaking, the longbowman beside him took out a loud arrow and shot it into the air. When the arrow rose with a scream and red tail smoke, Liang Jun's sleds turned around one after another, and they all retreated towards the southeast of the snowfield. , where the pine forest is slightly denser, and it is also the upper reaches of the frozen river.

When Horsang saw the opponent retreating, he thought Liang Jun had already retreated. The southeast direction was the direction Liang Jun came from. In order to prevent Liang Jun from alerting, no ambush was arranged in that direction.But Horsang didn't care about this. As long as the Liang army fled, their Xianbei dogs couldn't run away from their reindeer.

With a wave of Horsang's hand, the mammoths rushed towards his sled.The sleds on both sides chased after each other, raising waves of snow and fog on the snow.

A sled pulled by two reindeer was running fast, less than forty battles away from the Liangjun dog sled in front of it. When it got closer, the archers on the sled opened their bows and released their arrows. The heavy arrow with incomparable power pierced the chest of the Archer of Ikewen.

The other three on the reindeer sleigh were so angry that their faces were ashen. The reindeer whipped a few times and chased each other at the fastest speed.The remaining two raised their shields to provide cover for the three.At this time, the rest of the chasing Avenk sleds also suffered kite-like shooting from the opponent.

The range of Liang Jun's longbow is much greater than that of the opponent. If the speed of the sled was not slower than the opponent, he could completely torture the opponent on the open snow field.

Phew, another heavy arrow came.The Avenk people suffered a loss, so they were naturally more vigilant. Xun Sheng used his shield to block, and then blocked the heavy arrow.But the heavy arrow, which was like a small spear, was so powerful that it still shot through the shield and pierced the shield bearer's flesh, causing him to grin his teeth in pain.

A sleigh drawn by four reindeer whizzed past them, kicking up a cloud of snow.The four-deer sleigh is at least the tribal leader in the tribes such as Aikewen, Yakut, and Saha, and only famous warriors can ride it.There was a man on this sled who was an archer among the Akwen people.

This person knows that the range of the opponent's longbow is much greater than the range of his bow and arrow.Therefore, if you want to shoot and kill the opponent, you can only lean up at the fastest speed, so that the distance between the two parties can be shortened to within your own range.

On the Liang Jun sleigh that was being chased ahead, the longbowman just put an arrow on the bow again, when the driver shouted: "Get down!" The longbowman quickly fell down.It took a long time to sit up again.

The marksman was very surprised to see this scene, but in this ever-changing battlefield, he didn't have time to think carefully, he just bent his bow and set up an arrow to aim, and only when the distance was shortened to within the range of his own bow and arrow, he shot the arrow to hurt people.

An incredible picture suddenly appeared in his vision, the four reindeer suddenly screamed, and blood spouted from their necks.He felt a shock in his body, and he also flew out. When he fell, his whole head plunged into the snow, and then hit the solid ice, and he split his skull and died.Not only this reindeer sleigh was like this, many Avenk reindeer sleighs capsized to the ground for no apparent reason.

In this part of the snowfield, if one with good eyesight can look closely, there is an imperceptible thin line between the many pines.Those were the wires that Liang Jun had removed with fishing nets. These wires were as thick as grass stalks and had great toughness.

Earlier, Lu Bu ordered people to search around. Apart from defending against the possibility of the enemy's ambush under the snow, another purpose was to cover up the "traps" that the soldiers had set up here.

The height of these lines is just the average shoulder height of a reindeer, and higher than the height of a Xianbei dog running on its back.Therefore, as long as Liang Jun's sled soldiers lower their bodies, they can escape these "traps".But relatively tall reindeer can't do it, they can't drill through it, and they can't jump when they find it.

The speeding reindeer sleighs overturned one after another, and the fleeing Liang Jun sleigh slowed down when they saw that the other party had been tricked...

Chapter 363

On the sled, Horsang saw his reindeer sled overturned one after another with his own eyes. Only then did he realize that the other party had set a trap.He hurriedly yelled loudly: "All the sleds retreat! Wait until the mammoth behind rushes to the front!".

His method is good. Those mammoth war elephants have rough skin and thick flesh, and their speed is much slower than that of reindeer sleds, and they are also covered with thick leather armor.The ropes of those fishing nets should have little effect on them.

It's just that it was a bit late for him to issue this military order.When the military order was conveyed, many reindeer sleds were either tripped over by the net rope or killed on the spot by the longbowmen who turned their heads and shot.

The reindeer turned around one after another and retreated.At this moment, there was a sudden barking of dogs.Hundreds of giant Xianbei dogs rushed towards the reindeer panting heavily.

The two reindeer who had just turned around were about to start running faster, when a giant Xianbei dog rushed up and bit one of the reindeer's necks.The Avenk spearman on the sled reacted immediately, raised his spear and stabbed fiercely at the giant dog, piercing the giant dog's body in one fell swoop.

However, the reindeer had been killed, and the remaining reindeer could not pull the entire sled plus a carcass.Others on the sled frantically tried to untangle the reindeer carcass from the sled.But the sound of arrows piercing through the air was already heard, and the heavy arrows shot by several longbows pierced through their bodies mercilessly...

As soon as Aiwenke's sled was withdrawn, Liang Jun's dog sled came up again, and the longbowmen on the sled kept firing heavy arrows.The whole situation of the battle is likely to be reversed.

Horsang became anxious and roared, "Why hasn't the mammoth come up yet!".A reindeer sled can move faster than a mammoth can run.Over time, the war mammoth will naturally be pulled far away, and it is impossible to say that it will catch up.

But at this time, the fastest mammoth finally rushed over. It was not afraid of those rope traps, and under the command of the driver, it rushed forward bravely.

The Liang Jun sleds around it avoided one after another, but the heavy arrows and flying spears and javelins continued to greet it.Although the Avenk war mammoths were covered with thick leather armor, they could not withstand such a fierce attack.Especially the javelin throwing spear thrown at close range.

The archers on the mammoth opened their bows and arrows, and the spearmen also stabbed and stabbed Liang Jun who was close to the mammoth with six-foot-long spears.With the muffled sound of the spear blade piercing into the flesh, the driver on the sled was stabbed and fell to the ground.But at the same time, the spear and shield soldiers on Liang Jun's sled exhausted all their strength and threw their last flying spear.

When the mammoth sensed someone nearby and was about to squeeze to the side of its body, the spear pierced through the thick leather armor on its body in an instant and pierced into its body.This flying spear was the last straw that broke the camel's back. The mammoth, which had already lost too much blood, could no longer hold on, and let out a long muffled grunt.The huge body fell to one side.

When the mammoth fell, Liang Jun soldiers on the sled could clearly feel the ground tremble slightly.A few or three Avenk men from the mammoth saddle fell out, and they landed on the side of Liang Jun's sleigh. Without saying a word, Liang Bing on the sled raised his steel knife, one knife at a time, and killed them in the blink of an eye.

Although the mammoth fell down, the mammoths behind rushed up in groups. Those Avenk reindeer sleighs that survived and escaped turned their heads again, and followed them The back of the Mammoth.

In dealing with a mammoth just now, many Liang Army sled soldiers spent a lot of money and energy to wipe it out. Now, if the hundreds of mammoths are only relying on Liang Jun's dog sled and hand-to-hand combat in circles, it will be very difficult Hard to get cheap.

Lu Bu immediately waved his hand as a signal, and the soldiers on the sledge fired arrows into the air again, but this time the smoke from the arrows was green.Hundreds and thousands of Liang Jun's sledges invariably withdrew to the southeast again.

Those mammoths ran wildly in the rear and chased after them.The dog sled itself is not as fast as the sled pulled by the reindeer, and just now one or two hounds were released to chase the reindeer for each sled ride, so now the speed is even slower, a little slower than the mammoth.

A running mammoth suddenly screamed and screamed, and circled on the snow like crazy.In the saddle on its back, two people were thrown out of the saddle by surprise.The two fell half dead, and before they could get up from the ground, they were trampled by the mammoth, and the two corpses seemed to be embedded in the hard shell of ice and snow.

More mammoths went crazy like this one after another. The Avenk in the saddle was knocked off the back of the elephant, either trampled to death by the mammoth, or shot to death by the longbowmen on the sledge of the Liang army in the distance.

A mammoth running wildly even knocked its own sled behind, followed by two dull sounds from Pengpeng.The two reindeer pulling the sled were smashed into meatloaf in an instant.The sled was also overturned by the mammoth, rolling twice in the air.The Avenk in the sled couldn't survive.

Seeing this scene, Horsang in the rear was shocked and said: "Could it be that the enemy army can do magic? Are our mammoths cursed by the enemy army?".He had the courage to ask the reindeer soldiers to move the sled closer to him to see what was going on.

When he got close enough, he noticed the clues, there were obvious bloodstains in the footprints of those mad mammoths.He immediately thought - there is something hidden under the snow!He guessed right, Liang Jun had buried barbed caltrops under the snow to deal with mammoths.

The ends of these caltrops are blunt and buried deep, so they are ineffective against reindeer, because first, reindeer will not step on such a deep hole on the hard ice and snow surface, and second, with the weight of reindeer, such blunt caltrops It couldn't get into the deer's hooves either.It is even more ineffective for the Xianbei dogs pulling Liang Jun's sleds.But these mammoths are one step at a time.

Ai Wenke's mammoth team was in chaos, and Liang Jun took the opportunity to fight back with thousands of sleds.Those mammoths who were stabbed by the caltrops showed a state of exhaustion after the madness.Only Liang Jun who was driving a dog sled was "surrounded and beaten".

At this time, although Horsang still retained some reindeer sleds and uninjured mammoth war elephants, Liang Jun already had an absolute advantage in numbers.In the chaotic fighting on the snow field, more and more soldiers and horses of Horsang Army were wiped out.

Their morale finally broke, and some of the Avenk, or Sakha Yakut, began to sneak out of the field on sleds and mammoths.There are more and more people like this. Seeing that the situation is over, Horsang also quietly fled northward...

Chapter 364 Two Ways to Die

Halthorne failed to escape when his sled collided with a mammoth that was also fleeing, and the tusks of the mammoth pierced both reindeer.The sled immediately flipped over, pinning the other two reindeer underneath.

The Horsan also flew out, and luckily he was caught on the branch of a pine tree when he fell through the air, avoiding the fate of being trampled by the mammoth...

Two hours later, it was completely dark.Horsang's camp had already been breached and occupied by Liang Jun.The Liang army in Beifu had no time to withdraw to the camp on the north shore of Beihai, so they could only stay here temporarily.

Horsang was taken alone to a hut, ironically, this hut was still his own residence, and by the bright light of a turpentine lamp, he found a general about forty years old sitting in front of him.

"You are Horsang?" the other party asked slowly.

Horsang did not answer directly, but instead asked, "Who are you? If I guess correctly, you are the main general of Liang Jun's expedition this time."

"Yes, I am Lu Bu!"

Horsang felt a throbbing in his heart. He never thought that Lu Bu, the King of the Northern Territory, would personally lead the troops sent to the Beifu.

Lu Bu continued to say in a cold voice: "Horsang, you should know the rules on the grassland, and you should also know the rules of our Beifu."

"Of course I know that the rules of your Beifu are the rules of the grassland. For those who do not surrender, the men of their clan will be slaughtered and their children will be taken as slaves."

"Then are you going to surrender or not?"

Horsang suddenly burst out laughing: "Do you think we Avenk people are afraid of death? Since we have raised our troops to fight Liang Guo as an enemy, we have already planned to fail."