Chapter 1294

Another ten miles or so, a wave of bows and arrows hit. But this time, the prepared Kazakh cavalry were not in a panic. In addition to being killed and wounded by bows and arrows, other cavalry rushed up the canyon quickly and drove the five-star army away again.

After two consecutive victories, the Kazakh sergeant was very energetic and his forward speed seemed to have improved a lot. However, ten miles later, there was another wave of bow and arrow attacks, which forced them to slow down.

So, when it gets dark, there are five waves of bow and arrow attacks. The distance of the attack also changed from the first ten miles to the later five miles.

Fortunately, such an attack did not cause any great losses to the Kazakh vanguard army, which was less than a thousand horses. This is also due to the loss of six or seven hundred horses during the first attack.

Considering the poor sight in dark, in order to prevent being trapped by the other party, bota had to order the army to stop and rest. Bota, who was lying in the temporary tent, was still excited. Today, he fully defeated the five-star army's five wave attack and captured 2000 sets of strong bows, which was a great record.

With such a satisfied smile, Boba slept until dawn. To his regret, the five-star army did not come to harass him that night, which made his 4000 cavalry ambushed outside the camp useless. It was somewhat disappointing. But does this also indicate that the five-star army has no ability to sneak attack themselves, and they have gone far away?

After the army had breakfast, general bota with Ah Q spirit gave the order to move forward at full speed. And this walk was a full twenty miles. Sure enough, there was no harassment and attack, which made bota more sure of his idea. The five-star army must have escaped. Then he can finally move forward at full speed. Soon after his order was issued, that is, after more than three miles, when the formation of the army began to become scattered, a burst of bow and arrow attacks disappeared and appeared again.

There are more bow and arrow attacks in the dense forest than ever before. After only one wave of attack, hundreds of riders were hit by arrows, whining and swearing one after another. The sudden counterattack was completely unexpected. The Kazakh cavalry who had lowered their vigilance lost a lot. However, what's more deadly is that these five-star armies rushed out after two waves of bows and arrows were shot, waved sabers and killed the enemy. Suddenly, blood splashed out one after another and dyed the clothes of the five-star army red.

"Don't mess, counterattack, counterattack!" seeing that the army couldn't help falling from the battle horse under this wave of raid, bota roared and organized counterattack with the cavalry around him.

However, the cavalry of the five-star army came quickly and left faster. Without giving bota a a chance to fight back, they disappeared from the dense forests on both sides. When only the Sark army pursued here, they had long disappeared.

It was clearly a premeditated raid. Based on the idea of shooting and running, it can be called coming without a trace. When they left and counted the war damage, general bota sadly found that in less than half an hour, he lost more than 1000 war horses and nearly 1000 wounded soldiers.

This kind of loss has hurt the bones and muscles of Boba. Before he had a formal battle with his opponent, he lost nearly 30% of his strength, so that he had to be vigilant in his next advance, sending scouts into the dense forest as much as possible to ensure the safety of the vanguard army.

The advantage of doing so is that the possibility of being raided can be minimized, but the marching speed of the team has to be slowed down.

Ke Lu, the division commander of the first riding division of the new three services, 15 miles away, is waiting for news here with the main force. After seeing a regiment return in time, Ke Lu, as the division commander, breathed a sigh of relief. Especially when he saw how bloody these returning soldiers were, he expected that the harvest would not be too small.

"Shizuo, according to the assigned task, the scouts returned, and the other party has slowed down the pace of marching." the dark faced regimental commander Wu Ba smiled with pride on his face. In this battle, he took the whole regiment of 2000 cavalry, which reached the ratio of hurting the enemy to killing the enemy nearly one to one, while his cavalry only lost less than 50 cavalry. This result can be called very perfect.

Listening to Wu BA's report, Ke Lu nodded with satisfaction, "well, this time I'll make a contribution to your regiment. Next, we'll continue to harass. In this way, we'll take the company as a unit. In short, we must delay each other's forward speed. 80 miles behind us is botiangang, which will be the end of our retreat."

There are still three days before the main force can complete the siege, that is to say, he must persist in three days. The 80 mile journey is only a few hours for the elite cavalry. We can imagine how much pressure he will have.

As the head of the regiment, Wu Ba, of course, knew their task of riding the first division. His face immediately converged. "Please rest assured, master, we can complete the task. Even if we spell out all our brothers, we will persist in three days."

"Yes, even if we run out of the first division this time, we can't let the enemy pass through Botian gang." Mr. Ke Lu, who has always advocated the smallest price in exchange for the greatest victory, has also changed his previous style and a frame that wants to go out.

If we say that we can only lose one of them and one division, we can leave 100000 Kazakh cavalry here. It's worth it anyway. When Ke Lu received this task, he knew it was a bad battle. Although he didn't like this way of fighting, as soldiers, it was their bounden duty to obey orders. For a great victory, even if they lost all their lives here, what was it?

General bota naturally didn't know Ke Lu's plan. Because he was attacked again and again, he became a lot more cautious. When the army was moving, the distance between cavalry and cavalry was closer, and the number of scouts was increasing. In the next time, although the five-star army would engage in a harassment war, most of them were defeated by him, and the army suffered no loss. The price of doing so was that the marching speed was so slow that at noon the next day, general keliyi behind him and the main Chinese Army caught up with them.

After seeing that the vanguard army was walking so slowly, keleyi naturally looked dissatisfied and asked his own soldiers to call bota over, which was a burst of abuse.

Botha also knew that the march was too slow, so he didn't defend it. After seeing that cleyi was tired of scolding, he put forward his own requirements. He needed more troops and horses. Only by increasing the number of scouts and cavalry can we ensure the forward speed of the army.

For bota, cleyi still attaches great importance to him, otherwise he would not be arranged to be a pioneer general. That is, the other party said so, naturally with his consideration and difficulties, and clei quickly approved the request. At present, a full 5000 cavalry were pulled out as scouts for the vanguard army. With the addition of these new cavalry, once there were dense forests on both sides of the road, teams of cavalry often rushed into the ride, looking for any unsafe factors.

Also because of this move, several five-star army companies that had been in ambush were found. One of them was surrounded by these Kazakh cavalry scouts because of the slow retreat. After half an hour of hard struggle, the whole company was destroyed.

After the news came back to the rear and reached the ears of division commander Ke Lu, his face became very dignified. It will take two days for the main force to complete the encirclement, and the speed and response of the Kazakh cavalry far exceeded his previous expectations. In this way, if the main force is not dispatched, I'm afraid it won't last until that time.

"Order the second regiment to attack with the battalion as the unit. In short, the main task is to delay the progress speed of the other party. If you can fight, you can, and if you can drag, you can drag." Ke Lu, who gave the order with a painful expression, couldn't help tears in his eyes when he looked at the back of the second regiment head leaving with the soldiers of the second regiment. He knew it best, but it was good to have 20% of the people back.

"They are all heroes." looking at the back of the second regiment, Wu Ba, head of the first regiment, said so. Then when he turned to Ke Lu, he stood at attention and asked for war: "shizuo, the first regiment asks for orders and attack after the second regiment."

"No! The regiment will stay and fight for the last." Ke Lu shook his head. In terms of combat power, the regiment is naturally the strongest. That is, of course, good steel should be used on the blade. At that time, he will work with the regiment as the last barrier to prevent the Kazakh army from moving forward.

As time went by, the three regiments of the fourth Lu Division responsible for the waist blocking task and the two thousand black riding dragon guards led by Yang Chendong arrived at the designated position three hours ahead of schedule. Looking from them, Shier could vaguely hear the sound of killing from time to time.

"Young master, our soldiers are looking for suitable ones to hide." Yang Er returned to Yang Chendong after patrolling the army. He reported to him with a trace of worry on his face.

Yang Chendong knows what Yang Er is worried about. Not long ago, Su He, commander of the new three services, sent a telegram. After getting rid of the tracking scouts sent by the Kazakh army, they are coming to the exit of botiangang at this time. In other words, the main force of the new three services has not arrived, and now the only thing to fight with the enemy is the first cavalry division that stayed here in advance.

A division only has more than 8000 people, but it has to stop 100000 iron cavalry. We can imagine how arduous it is. Even if Yang Er leads the team, he can't guarantee that he can complete the task.

After hearing the report, Yang Chendong kept his face unchanged, put away the military telescope in his hand, and said without turning his head: "go and ask where the first division of the world cavalry has arrived and how long it will take to reach the designated position."