Great Han Arrow God

Chapter 648 Trap
"Push it out and cut it!" Doros was furious and roared repeatedly.

Several personal guards came up and knocked the disobedient knights to the ground, but they didn't drag them down. They looked hesitant, as if they were waiting for something.

Liang Xiao didn't say a word, and looked at Doros quietly, with an inexplicable smile hanging from the corner of his mouth.Duo Luoqi felt even more ashamed, pushed away the guards, drew out his saber, pointed at a armored cavalry and shouted: "Did you understand my order?"

Jiaqi lowered his head. "understood."

"Did you hear the order to retreat?"

"heard it."

"Should I kill someone who violated the order on the battlefield?"

Jiaqi hesitated for a while, then said in a low voice, "Should...should be killed!"

"Okay! You still have some ambition. Don't worry, I will take care of your family." After Doros finished speaking, he raised his knife and chopped off the armored cavalry's head.

Everyone was shocked, and their faces changed drastically.

With a cold face, Doros chopped off more than a dozen heads in one go.These are all warriors who have followed him for many years. They have outstanding military exploits and the oldest qualifications, but now they died under the sword of Doros because they could not strictly follow orders during training. Not only the armored cavalry were shocked, but Doros himself was also heartbroken. .But he also knew that if he didn't use harsh methods, it would be useless for him to practice for a long time, and he would always miss his last breath.

Compassion does not command soldiers, and can only be ruthless when necessary.

Doros ordered people to pick more than a dozen heads on the spear, patrolled around, and then ordered another drill.

The people were still the same people, and the formation was still the same, but this time it was a bit more murderous, with more than a dozen bloody heads in front, no one dared to take it seriously.They controlled the horses, walked silently, trotted, charged, turned, and retreated in unison.

Doros let out a sigh of relief, and turned to look at Liang Xiao. "how?"

"If it can be like this every time, it's barely doable." Liang Xiao nodded. "Hurry up and practice again. We must engrave these lessons in their hearts and let them follow orders."

"Okay!" Doros grinned, with a reluctant expression.

Liang Xiao got on his horse, took two steps, reined in the rein, and turned to look at Doros. "Have you ever heard of the barrel principle?"

Doros shook his head blankly.

"How much water a barrel can hold does not depend on the longest board, but on the shortest board."

Doros blinked.Liang Xiao smiled, kicked his mount lightly, and galloped away surrounded by Tu Niuer and others.Doros thought for a moment, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and turned to look at the knight galloping in the valley.Seeing his expression, the guards all felt chills running down their backs.

They had a premonition that Doros wanted to kill someone, and someone would die for violating the order.

Liang Xiao went down the slope, and after walking northward not too far, a member of the Yue clan chased him up and stopped Liang Xiao.Liang Xiao was a little strange, but he was not nervous.He made an appointment with Ashana that if there was an emergency, he would directly announce it by sounding a horn instead of sending someone.

Send someone to explain that the problem is not serious.

But after listening to the Yuezhi people's explanation, Liang Xiao felt that the problem was very serious.He immediately turned the horse's head and rushed back to the mouth of the gorge.As soon as he arrived at the stone formation, he jumped off his mount, ran up to the shooting platform, took out his clairvoyance, and checked the position outside the mouth of the gorge.

The gorge was empty, and no one could be seen.The Wusun people left.

Ajina caught up and said with a wry smile, "General, isn't it a bit weird?"

Liang Xiao raised his eyebrows, and after a while, he slowly calmed down again. "It's really weird. Where did Lie Jiaomi go? Did he really leave, or did he lure us out?"

Ashina shook her head with a wry smile. "I can't guess." After a while, he said, "It's all possible."

Liang Xiao thought for a while, and asked to call over a dozen shrewd and capable Cypriots, and let them go out to investigate the situation.Hearing this, the Sai people took off their armor, put on herdsmen's clothes, left the gorge, and disappeared into the vast grassland.

Liang Xiao also left the stone formation, but he didn't go far. He walked around the place where Lie Jiaomi was camped for a long time. He carefully checked the traces left by the Wusun people's camp, and speculated on the deployment of Lie Jiaomi's camp.

"Your Majesty, what are you looking at?" Alexander approached.

Liang Xiao glanced at him and pointed to the old camp site in front of him. "Can you see Lie Jiaomi's arrangement when he set up camp, and where is Lie Jiaomi's camp?"

Alexander was silent for a moment, recalling the place he had just passed, and finally turned his gaze back to his eyes. "This should be the big tent of the Chinese army. The turf around here has been trampled, and it should be the place where people walk the most. From the perspective of the entire camp, this is also the central point. No matter which direction you attack from, it is difficult to directly attack this place. Camp."

Liang Xiao nodded appreciatively.After several years of fighting, Alexander has made the most obvious progress.He is not only the absolute main force in every charge, but also willing to use his brain and good at thinking.In contrast, Paris doesn't work so hard, and puts more attention on hunting beauty, and even his favorite archery is not outstanding.

"Why do you think the Wusun people left?"

Alexander was a little nervous.He rubbed his hands and thought for a while. "I think he saw that our position was strong and he thought it was impossible to break through, so he simply withdrew. If we went out of the gorge to fight in the field, it would be tantamount to giving up the favorable terrain of the gorge. If we didn't leave the gorge, he could attack the Cypriots , and plunder cattle and sheep to prepare for the winter."

Liang Xiao's heart skipped a beat, and he felt that what Alexander said was reasonable.Lie Jiaomi left here, it may also be because the Sai people made a lot of noise, and he led the main force to suppress it.This shows that the previous decision to arrange the Cypriots to go out of the gorge worked, but the Cypriots are scattered, and I am afraid they are not the opponents of Lie Jiaomi.After Lie Jiaomi suppressed the Cypriots, he not only got supplies, but also caught cannon fodder. What if he came to attack again?
There are still hundreds of Cypriots in the valley. These Cypriots have now integrated into the team, shepherding sheep, cutting trees, making weapons, and doing everything except picking up weapons and fighting together.If Lie Jiaomi bet on thousands of Cypriots as cannon fodder, they might change again.

We can't sit idly by, no matter whether we can save the Cypriots or not, we must at least make a gesture of rescue.

Liang Xiao made some calculations and felt that his troops were insufficient. After several battles, the total strength of the troops now was only over 5000 cavalry, and even including the Cypriots, it was less than [-].If the troops are further divided, the strength will be too weak. Once they meet the main force of Lie Jiaomi, they will not be able to fight at all.

No matter how ingenious the tactics are, in the end it still depends on strength to achieve them.It is only in stories that one can overcome the weak and the strong with an idea.

Liang Xiao suddenly thought of a question: Why hasn't old Andrew arrived yet?Even if the mountain road is difficult, he should be there.Did he encounter an unexpected situation, or did Lie Jiaomi leave to intercept him?
Liang Xiao's heart skipped a beat, and he didn't dare to be negligent, so he immediately called Jian Mi and asked him to arrange for someone to go west to inquire about the news.After hearing Liang Xiao's analysis, Jian Mi also felt that the possibility was quite high, so he immediately arranged powerful scouts, one person and two horses, to investigate the situation.

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The mouth of the gorge was three hundred miles to the east, and Lie Jiaomi immediately climbed up a low slope, watching the Wusun people chasing the Sai people like a pack of wolves, but his mind had already flown back to the mouth of the gorge.

It was not his purpose to hunt down the Cypriots. The Cypriots were just a mob, and there was no need for him to do it himself.He left the gorge because after looking at the gorge's position, he felt that he had no chance to break through Liang Xiao's position, so he had no choice but to retreat voluntarily.

Withdrawing is not the same as giving up. Rather, it is a trap.If Liang Xiao chased him out, then he wouldn't even think about going back.

Because King Youxian of the Huns has led [-] cavalry into the Ili River Valley, just a hundred miles away from the mouth of the gorge.As soon as Liang Xiao exited the gorge and left his carefully arranged position, King Youxian would immediately cut off his retreat, leaving him nowhere to escape but to fight in the field.

No matter how good Liang Xiao was at fighting, under the attack of Wusun and the Huns with a total of [-] cavalry, he would undoubtedly be defeated.In fact, as long as he left the Xiakou position, even without the support of the Huns, Lie Jiaomi had enough confidence to defeat him.

However, the foundation of all this is based on Liang Xiao leaving the gorge, so Lie Jiaomi's mind at this moment is not on the battlefield in front of him at all, but on the gorge three hundred miles away.

Will Liang Xiao play?

A knight galloped down the mountain, rushed to Lie Jiaomi, and said loudly, "Kunmo, is it still the same as before?"

Lie Jiaomi nodded, turned the horse's head, and looked west.

The knight galloped away, spreading the order of Lie Jiaomi to all the ministries.The Wusun people who were chasing and killing the Cypriots sounded their horns one after another, driving the defeated Cypriots westward.Seeing that there was a gap in the Wusun people's siege, the Sai people immediately broke through the siege and ran westward regardless of the direction.

Lie Jiaomi twisted his mouth, smiled without saying a word.

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Liang Xiao soon knew Lie Jiaomi's location.

The Sai people who fled in panic fell down in front of Liang Xiao, begging Liang Xiao to send troops for help.Lie Jiaomi went all the way to the east, retaliating against the Sai people. If Liang Xiao didn't help, the Sai people would be killed by Lie Jiaomi.At that time, Lie Jiaomi will eat the Sai people's cattle and sheep, drive the Sai people to Liang Xiao's position, and use the Sai people's corpses to fill up the stone formation.

Liang Xiao thought it was reasonable, but he didn't leave immediately. He just appeased the Cypriots and promised to avenge them.

He was waiting for news from old Andrew.

In two or three days, nearly a thousand Cypriots fled to the gorge one after another, and the rhetoric was basically the same. Lie Jiaomi was chasing and killing the Cypriots.Even Jian Mi couldn't hold back, and wanted to plead with Liang Xiao several times to take the lead in attacking Lie Jiaomi and rescue the Cypriots.

But Liang Xiao refused.

The more Cypriots came, the more he felt something was wrong.Lie Jiaomi has an army of more than 3. He went all out to hunt down the Cypriots. How could he allow so many Cypriots to escape here?Dozens, hundreds, that's understandable.Nearly a thousand people, isn't that too much?
If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!Liang Xiao questioned all the Cypriots carefully, and after careful analysis, he became more and more sure of his intuition.

This is a trap: it is false that Lie Jiaomi chased and killed the Cypriot, but it is true to lure him out of the valley.He didn't win in the offensive, so he wanted to win in the field.

Liang Xiao waited patiently for another two days, and finally got the answer. The result surprised him: the Huns were hiding in a valley more than a hundred miles west of the mouth of the gorge, and the number was unknown.Judging from the marks left by the horseshoes trampled on the ground and the Huns' alert range, there were quite a number of people, at least [-].

What made Liang Xiao even more worried was that old Andrew was blocked in the valley by the Huns, but they occupied a favorable terrain, and the Huns couldn't move them for a while, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

Liang Xiao suddenly understood Lie Jiaomi's sinister intentions.No wonder Lie Jiaomi retreated for three hundred miles. This was to create a distance so that the Huns could cut off his retreat.If this was intercepted by the Huns, he could no longer retreat into the canyon, and faced with the ten times the force of the Huns and Wusun, he would have no way to survive.

Certainly dead.

Liang Xiao immediately consulted with Jian Mi, Azhena and Doros. Old Andrew was trapped and had to be rescued, otherwise Old Andrew and the others wouldn't last long.But to save Andrew, he must face the danger of the Wusun people coming back and cutting off the way back.

How to do?
When they heard that old Andrew and others were trapped by the Huns, not only were they anxious, Paris, Alexander and others were also anxious.Many of those Greek soldiers were their ancestors, fathers, or at least clan relations. They were trapped by the Huns, so how could they not be rescued.

Faced with the begging of Jian Mi, Paris and others, Liang Xiao almost agreed to them, but in the end he still controlled his impulse, calmed down, and repeatedly deduced the possible results.

It seemed most appropriate to attack the Huns first.Firstly, the Huns are close, and secondly, with the help of old Andrew and others, they can attack the Huns inside and outside, and the chances of winning are greater.Thirdly, Lie Jiaomi was relatively far away, and it would take at least three days for him to rush back after receiving the news. By the time he arrived, the possibility that the Huns had already been defeated was extremely high, and Liang Xiao could calmly fight back against Lie Jiaomi.

But after Liang Xiao pondered over it, he felt that it would be better to hunt Jiaomi first.

Azhena and the others were very surprised, saying that they could not understand why Liang Xiao did this.Facing the questions from Azhena and others, Liang Xiao said: "I want to ask you a question: If we attack the Huns, will Lie Jiaomi sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight?"

Azhena, Jianmi and the others looked at each other and shook their heads. "No, Lie Jiaomi will definitely take this opportunity to join forces with the Huns to attack us."

"Then we attack Liejiaomi, is it possible for the Huns to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight?"

Ah Zena stroked his beard, thought for a while, and patted his thigh. "It's entirely possible! The worse Lie Jiaomi is beaten by us, the more he needs the help of the Huns. At that time, the Huns can ask for benefits from Lie Jiaomi. If Lie Jiaomi is killed by us, or both sides suffer, the Huns People happened to occupy this pasture. The Huns are cruel, and they may turn their backs on them and kill the Wusun people together."

"That's it." Liang Xiao clapped his hands and grinned. "Then we'll kill Lie Jiaomi first, and then we'll have a showdown with the Huns. He wants to drive away the wolf, so let's let him see who is the tiger."

"General, our troops are limited. If we want to defeat Lie Jiaomi, I'm afraid the loss will not be small."

"There are still Cypriots here." Liang Xiao raised his eyebrows. "I think the Cypriots should be very interested in the siege of Liaomi."
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(End of this chapter)