The reactions of the horse thieves were more intense than Wang Xiao imagined.

At dusk, the horse thieves hidden opposite were experiencing no movement to cross the river on Wang Xiao's side, and soon became commotion.

Wang Xiao, who was squatting on the hill, could see clearly that many horse thieves had already begun to cut down trees and prepare to build rafts.

If you want to ask why you don’t go upstream or downstream to cross the river, it is because the geographical environment of this era is still very primitive, and there are not many places suitable for crossing the river. Because they are horse thieves, they bring many horses.

Another thing is that there are rolling hills on the north shore, which are not high but are dense forests.

Not to mention the danger of traveling through this kind of dense forest, the speed of the march alone is enough to make people desperate.

Therefore, the horse thieves on the other side had no choice but to ambush Wang Xiao to take the initiative to cross the river to carry Wang Xiao's attack and force the cross.

"Sister-in-law Sun, what should I do now?"

Facing Wu Zhuo's inquiry, Wang Xiao clapped his hands and stood up, "What should I do? Let's have to do it. They built a raft and came over again. They had to wait for tomorrow. Tonight, they would just keep their energy."

"Here."

In film and television dramas, walking in the wild not only has spacious and flat roads, but also can easily get prey, and even various seasonings are used to make delicious barbecue.

In fact, this kind of thing is almost impossible.

If you don’t talk much about the road, even the official road is bumpy and twisted.

When the army set off, the vanguard army said that it was to open a road across mountains and build a bridge across water. This was not just a statement, it was really necessary to go all the way.

As for prey, wild creatures are actually afraid of humans and will hide early when they smell the breath.

Those who actively attack either are hungry or face a single or a few people.

After hundreds of people, even tigers and wolves will retreat as far as they go. This is their instinct engraved in genes after being expelled and hunted by humans from generation to generation.

Even those sophisticated hunters actually set up traps to catch prey when hunting, and it is rare to actually kill prey face to face.

If you want to find a large number of prey in the dense forest and wild ridge, you can only think about it.

Like Wang Xiao’s team of hundreds of people, they eat dry food and bacon shipped in the convoy.

Make some wild vegetables, mix dry food and jerky, and cook them in a large pot, then sprinkle salt and make a delicious meal.

Wang Xiao has eaten these things and can eat them.

But if there is conditions, there is naturally no need to compromise yourself.

So, after Wang Xiao got off the hill, he went to prepare the ingredients for supper.

As the saying goes, rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to eat the water.

There was a big river in front of me, so Wang Xiao was naturally preparing to get some river fresh.

There are not only river fish in the river water, but many other creatures.

Such as turtles, old turtles, grass shrimps, river crabs, frogs, water birds, snails, river clams, etc.

Taking off his clothes, Wang Xiao walked into the river. He first caught two old turtles, and then picked up more than twenty large river clams.

Although many fish swam around him from time to time, Wang Xiao turned a blind eye. Today he wanted to change his taste.

Wang Xiao returned to the camp and began to skillfully dispose of the ingredients.

The old turtle naturally needs to be cooked into the old turtle soup, which is a great tonic.

As for the river clam Wang Xiao, he chose to bake half of it and cook half of it.

River mussels contain not low zinc content, and shellfish have always been the most zinc-containing thing. And the important ingredient of a man's billions of troops is zinc.

If you have enough stuff, you will understand it if you don’t say it.

After preparing supper, Wang Xiao brought his works into Zhao Qian's tent.

Many people saw this scene, but everyone chose to ignore it.

Because this matter has nothing to do with them, they don't care.

The only one who was angry was Shaoyuan Jun who was still recovering from his injuries. What he was angry was that he was not as good as Wang Xiao? Zhao Qian, this XX, actually injured himself, but fell into Wang Xiao's arms.

That night, Wang Xiao, who had eaten the great tonic, was full of energy and stood firm until the distant horizon gradually turned white, and he was still calm and calm.

Unexpectedly, horse thieves on the other side began to cross the river on a large scale.

The reason why we are not crossing the river at night is that night battles are a major problem that is difficult to solve in any era.

If it is not a well-trained elite force, it is difficult to fight night battles. It is obvious that there is no connection between the horse thieves and the elite force.

If you cross the river at night, most horse thieves were drowned in the river without touching the other side.

At this moment, the only thing the horse thieves could rely on was that their number was far greater than that of Wang Xiao.

Dozens of rafts were carefully paddled over, and the front row was a horse thief holding a shield, always guarding against Zhao's rain of arrows.

In the military camp, several hundred generals looked at Wang Xiao.

"There are almost three hundred people, and then I will stop shooting sixty."

Wang Xiao's orders made it difficult for everyone to understand, why didn't they all shoot and kill them?

After docking, the horse thieves moved the shield hands forward and then concentrated the horses on the river beach.

At this time, the Zhao army hiding in the camp began to shoot arrows. Under the fierce rain of arrows, many horse thieves kept falling to the ground.

When the horse thieves suffered more than 20% of the casualties, the Zhao army's rain of arrows stopped.

The leader of the horse thief on the other side, and Wang Xiao's former old acquaintance, Hui Hu, was puzzled by this. However, reality forced him to launch a second crossing of the river after the raft group came back.

Just like last time, I still stopped shooting 20% ​​after killing.

After several times, when more than a thousand horse thieves came, they had already lost two hundred people.

Grey Hu commanded the horse thieves to get on the horse and prepare to attack the camp.

At this time, the Zhao army's rain of arrows became dense again, and it was endless and without any intention of stopping.

The horse thief who had been stolen from the horse, quickly struggled to move in front of the horse pit, stumbled on the horse, and refused to fight the horse.

After finally passing these obstacles, when they arrived in front of the camp, the bravest horse thieves who rushed to the front suddenly screamed and fell into the deep pit with their men and horses.

Before Wang Xiao had supper last night, he arranged for people to dig a trench in front of the camp and covered it with weeds and soil.

Seeing this scene, the horse thieves no longer had the intention of rushing to the military camp and turned their horses to start running to the river.

It’s not that they don’t fight back, but that they can’t rush into the camp, their counterattack can only be done with soft bows.

Zhao Jun basically stood behind the fence and shield players, and the lethality caused by those riding bows was minimal.

At the same time, Wang Xiao instilled a brand new shooting method to the Zhao army's archers along the way.

That is, taking Wu Shi as a unit, Yi Wu Shi's men are aiming at a target under the command of Wu Changshi. This method greatly improves the hit rate.

The horse thieves are not elite soldiers. They are at the limit of casualties, and they are only 20% or 30% of them.

The dull drum sounded, the Zhao army camp opened the door, and teams of fully armed Zhao army walked out.

Their movements are not fast, but the distance from the camp to the shore is actually very close, which is just the limit range of infantry crossbows.

When hundreds of Zhao troops formed a battle formation, they pressed towards the river bank like a tight piece of iron stone, the horse thieves who had lost their morale and fighting spirit immediately collapsed.

Most people choose to grab those rafts, and even draw their swords to face each other for this.

Some people were also hiking towards the mountains and forests on both sides, although they could temporarily escape the heavens. However, it was quite difficult to survive in such a primeval forest.

As the Zhao army got closer and closer, the horse thieves blocked by the river became more and more crazy, and some even jumped into the river without hesitation.

The terrain here has been mentioned before, this is a not-so-spacious valley.

On both sides are hills that are not tall but lush, and Wang Xiao's camp is blocked directly by the river.

The horse thieves crossed the river with a large number of horses, and were oppressed on the bank of the river at this time, which was naturally very chaotic.

Hei Hu, who noticed the catastrophe, immediately took a few confidants to kill many of his younger brothers, grabbed a raft and rushed towards the other side.

Wang Xiao, who was not far away, looked at his gradually moving away figure and slowly lowered the bow and arrow in his hand.

In this battle, Wang Xiao fought against more than 500 horse thieves with more than 1,000 horse thieves, and only dozens of casualties were killed, but he killed more than 800 horse thieves in the formation.

There is no doubt that this is a huge victory. At least for this team of only a few hundred people.

Wang Xiao didn't make a single shot from beginning to end. He won by relying on his command ability, rather than relying on his strong strength to sweep the battlefield alone.

Achieving such a brilliant victory, hundreds of horses and the wealth carried by many horse thieves were seized. Their own casualties were so low. When cleaning the battlefield after the war, the soldiers of Zhao looked at Wang Xiao with unconcealed admiration.

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The hundreds of generals under Wang Xiao even boasted that, "If it were Wang Xiao who was in command of the Battle of Changping, we might not have been able to win the battle."

Although this is a flattery, Wang Xiao nodded repeatedly after hearing this. These people are honest people and like to tell the truth.

Prisoners of war or something, basically there is no need for prisoners of war to treat bandits and bandits.

They are bandits, not regular soldiers, and even if they are regular soldiers, the standard operating procedures of this era will be directly killed.

Therefore, many horse thieves who were injured and caught or failed to escape were destined to end up.

In fact, the horse thief could have escaped more, leaving behind strong deployment to resist for a period of time. If others were on the raft in an orderly manner without horses, they would have been able to escape hundreds of people.

Unfortunately, the horse thief is a horse thief after all, and he is not capable of being on the table.

After explaining the matter, Wang Xiao came to Zhao Qian's tent.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhao Qian rushed into his arms.

"You are a great hero, so awesome."

It is obvious that Zhao Qian is talking about the previous battle on the riverside.

"You woman."

Wang Xiao raised his hand and pinched Zhao Qian's nose, "I really like to tell the truth."

"And if I am powerful or not, haven't you known it long ago?"

Zhao Qian blushed and raised her hand to knock on Wang Xiao, "You are so bad."
Chapter completed!