Chapter 63 Prepare food
Early the next morning, after Qu Mao woke up, Wang Ping, Su Yan, and Sunan all followed. Zhao Pan and Zhang Da also followed their own teams and stood on the main road of Mingang Village, waiting for Qu Mao. The command.
Wang Ping stepped out and said, "My lord, 20 second-tier archers, 10 second-tier halberd soldiers, 7 second-tier hunters, 10 second-tier throwing ax fighters, 3 second-tier stone throwers, 20 first-tier knives The shield soldiers, 10 Tier 1 spearmen, 10 Tier 1 fighters, and 6 Tier 1 ax and shield soldiers have assembled."
Qu Mao was stunned for a moment, and said, "Didn't you say that there were about 80 people? Why did you prepare so many troops and didn't send troops from Yi Village?"
Wang Ping said: "My lord, no troops were transferred from Yi Village. They are all soldiers from Mingang Village."
Qu Mao shook his head and said, "Seven second-tier hunters stay here, and organize other fighters to divide into three teams to hunt in other directions. We will bring 10 second-tier archers, 10 second-tier halberd soldiers, and 10 second-tier flying axes." Soldiers, 20 Tier 1 Sword and Shield Soldiers, 20 Tier 1 Spear Soldiers, and 10 Tier 1 Martial Arts Soldiers will do. Don’t bring Tier 1 Ax and Shield Soldiers if you don’t have enough for a small team.
Don't worry, there are enough troops, otherwise you think I will bring Su Yan and Sunan with me? "
Wang Ping had no choice but to re-select troops. For safety reasons, Wang Ping gathered a team of first-tier fighters and led 90 people to follow Qu Mao to the northeast of Mingang Village.
Counting Qu Mao, Wang Ping, Su Yan and Sunan, a total of 94 people walked slowly towards the northeast of the forest. The army walked for an hour and a half to reach a valley in a short distance of about six kilometers.
Qu Mao personally stepped forward to investigate and found that the herd of elephants had not left, so he called the troops to circle a large circle and began to surround the valley from a very large range, and then lurked forward, slowly compressing the encirclement.
When we got close to the elephant herd about 300 meters away, we could clearly see the elephants eating the leaves leisurely.
Wang Ping suddenly approached Qu Mao and said, "Sir, shall we withdraw our troops? My subordinates counted them carefully. There are 13 elephants in this herd, and there are no young elephants. They are all adult elephants. This kind of elephant herd has 13 elephants. The increased strength is not just three more heads, please think twice, my lord."
Qu Mao waved his hand to stop Wang Ping. He was not in a hurry, let alone afraid, but continued to command the troops with a total of 90 people in all directions to slowly compress the encirclement.
When the radius of the encirclement was reduced to only about 100 meters, some elephants in the herd became alert, as if they were aware of Qu Mao's actions.
Continuing to press down 20 meters, Qu Mao began to take out the bamboo from his backpack, and used the terrain to arrange complex bamboo horses to prevent the possibility of elephants directly contacting the army.
Wang Ping smiled bitterly and said: "My lord, with a bamboo horse of this level, it is possible to block black bears and tigers, but the trunk of an elephant will be completely destroyed by flicking it, and the bamboo of a bamboo horse may stab us in turn. Soldier."
Qu Mao greeted Sunan, Zhang Da, and Zhao Pan to arrange together, and said: "Talk is better than nothing, it will give the soldiers a little confidence and sense of security, and it is enough to stop the elephant once.
Even if it can't stop the elephant, it can at least slow down the charging speed of the elephant. "
Su Nan, Zhang Da, and Zhao Pan almost all had the experience of using bamboo repelling horses. When Qu Mao went to steal the silver treasure box, Sunan took Zhang Da and Zhao Pan to meet him, and Zhao Pan was seriously injured by the tiger's tail.
When the black bear chased after him again, Qu Mao cooperated with Sunan to set up a bamboo horse to block the black bear in just 20 seconds, so that the four escaped back to the lord's hut alive.
Now there is no urgent time to urge, from the 300-meter encirclement to the 80-meter encirclement, Qu Mao has enough patience to spend nearly an hour.
But 80 meters is indeed a bit close, and elephants may be spotted anytime and anywhere, and cause the elephant herd to charge.
Qu Mao made another adjustment according to the terrain, giving up the area where other elephants could not pass, and only laying an ambush at a valley mouth about 30 meters wide.
After the bamboo horse was ready, Qu Mao waved his hand to let the second-level archer draw the monster with his bow.
The feather arrow hit one of the elephants, and immediately slid to the ground without even breaking through the elephant's defenses. Although the elephants were not injured, they felt that their dignity had been challenged, and immediately rushed over screaming. .
Wang Ping hurriedly directed the long-range shooters to attack freely according to their range.
When the elephant was 30 meters away from the bamboo horse, Qu Mao summoned A Ke.
Familiar background music, familiar cold female voice "You are all dead", in just 0.5 seconds, Ake flashed by and directly killed seven elephants, and they were the tallest and most powerful elephants in the herd , the seven elephants that pose the greatest threat to Qu Mao's army.
The brief change did not attract enough attention from the elephant herd, and the remaining six elephants continued to charge.
The feathered arrows of the second-tier archers kept falling on the elephants, but most of them fell to the ground. The elephant's skin is thick and rough, and it is difficult for the second-tier archers to shoot at close range within 30 meters. Elephants do damage.
However, after the elephant rushed into the 20-meter range, it ushered in the most serious setback since the charge, because the second-level flying ax fighters took out their hatchets and threw them at the elephant one after another.
Elephants are huge, and there is no chance of missing them. Almost all of the remaining six elephants were wounded. At a distance of 20 meters, the second-level flying ax warrior threw all the six hatchets he was carrying with him.
Bamboo horses did not stop the elephants, but swordsmen, pikemen, halberd soldiers, and combat soldiers showed their special abilities. The long weapons of the halberd soldiers and spearmen specifically attacked the weaker nose, mouth, eyes and ears of elephants.
The elephant, which was already **** and **** from the flying ax of the second-level flying ax warrior, rushed to the bamboo horse and swung its nose to clean up the bamboo horse. struck.
After finally destroying the bamboo horse, when trying to kill the second-tier archer, the second-tier archer was guarded by the first-tier sword and shield soldiers, and the first-tier fighters turned over and climbed on the back of the elephant to make trouble.
The battle only lasted for about half an hour, and the six elephants fell to the ground full of holes, wailing endlessly.
Qu Mao asked the second-tier archers to make up their swords one by one, and then put all the elephant corpses into the backpack. There were about 15 first-tier sword and shield soldiers, 18 first-tier spearmen, 6 second-tier halberd soldiers, and 5 first-tier soldiers. The combat soldier was injured in the battle, but fortunately, it was not so serious that he was in a near-death state.
There were not a single casualty soldier.
Back in the small village of Mingang, the wounded soldiers were sent to the medical room. Qu Mao decomposed all the elephant carcasses and obtained nearly 40,000 pieces of fresh elephant meat, of which 28,000 pieces were handed over to Wang Ping, who asked Wang Ping to return home tomorrow. Take it back when you go to Yi Village.
Su Nan began to prepare sailors and sailors overnight, and was ready to set sail tomorrow.
(end of this chapter)