Chapter 77: This man must be saved

As Meng Hu finished speaking, hundreds of rockets had already swept into the air, dragging flames out of the air and landed in the direction where nearly ten thousand barbarian cavalry were located.

There was a continuous wailing sound in the barbarian formation. Dozens of barbarians were injured by arrows, but more rockets did not hit the target and fell to the ground one after another. The flames on the fire arrow quickly ignited the withered wormwood. As Meng Hu expected, the fire soon spread around at an astonishing speed.

The war horses were frightened and fled in all directions. In the chaos of war, more rockets continued to accumulate from the air.

The burning fire became more and more, and soon it became a piece. In less than a moment, a fire wall that was unknown whether it was long or wide was blocked Meng Hu's cavalry team into two parts inside and outside. Hundreds of barbarians were directly swallowed by the fire. The sad voice of the people and horses resounded through the sky, and they were frightened when they heard it.

He retreated to the sparse place of artemisia. After taking a look at it, Meng Hu found that more than a thousand light cavalry of the Tiger Division, seven or eight hundred cavalry of the Wild Wolf Tribe and more than two thousand cavalry of the Black Bear Tribe escaped by chance. The rest of the barbarian cavalry were blocked from the other side by the surging fire, and life and death were unknown.

"General, trap!"

Qi Diaozi came to Meng Hu in a panic and said tremblingly, "This must be a trap set up by Mingyue bandits in advance!"

"Please fall into the trap!" Meng Hu said with a stern expression and gritted his teeth, "It's worthy of being Situ Rui. I'm a good move to ask you to fall into the trap!"

Meng Hu is not wrong. Although there is no Sun Tzu's Art of War in Middle Earth, and there is no such thing as asking you to fall into the trap, this is indeed the most typical example of asking you to fall into the trap!

As early as half a month ago, after Qin Qi's cavalry division suffered a loss, Situ Rui had already begun to consider how to deal with the barbarian cavalry in Meng Hu's hands. The Sanjiang Plain was vast and it was difficult to ambush. Unless the army was hidden underground, it would require the excavation of a huge military pit, with a huge project and time would not allow it.

So Situ Rui decided to attack the fire and started to arrange the arrangement ten days ago. In order not to reveal flaws, Situ Rui did not build a large-scale construction, but dug a "u"-shaped trench with the official road as the center line. The "u"-shaped trench covers a large range, which is several miles deep, and is more than enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of barbarians.

The trench is not deep, but it is nearly a hundred steps wide. The trench is filled with dry firewood, the hay is also full of dead branches and leaves, and a large amount of tincture is poured on it. Finally, a large amount of artemisia is "transplanted" on the surface to cover up all traces. Just a little bit of Mars, the yellow artemisia will be ignited, and then the dry firewood in the trench will also ignite.

Once the fire is ignited, it will last for two hours and remain unused. The fire will produce a lot of thick smoke. It will take less than half an hour. The trapped people will not be choked to death by the thick smoke, but will also be roasted to death by the fire. It is impossible to escape through the sea of ​​fire that is nearly a hundred steps wide!

According to Situ Rui and Yan Ting's idea, first use the grain transport team to lure the Manqi into the "u"-shaped ambush circle, and then the five hundred archers who ambushed the ground on both sides suddenly appeared, igniting the "u"-shaped combustion zone with rockets, cutting off the retreat path of the Manqi and the way to escape to both sides. The trapped Manqi will only have one way to go, that is, breaking forward from the gap at the front end of the "u"-shaped.

Situ Rui was originally unwilling to leave this gap. He was more willing to lay enough dry firewood into the ground in the entire ambush circle and pour enough tinder oil on it. Unfortunately, he did not have so much dry firewood and tinder oil, because if he wanted to wrap all the Wanmanqi in, the ambush circle must be large enough, but the dry firewood and tinder oil they can raise was limited.

Fortunately, once the fire is ignited, the trapped Manqi loses his maneuver advantage and the gap left behind is easily blocked.

Once the fire was ignited, the five thousand heavy infantry hiding in the food truck would suddenly come out, and the five thousand heavy infantry exposed in the open formed a dense spear formation and slowly crushed inward from the "u"-shaped gap. In the end, the nearly ten thousand trapped barbarian cavalry either died under the spear of Mingyue's heavy army or were driven into the burning sea of ​​fire.

Even if the Manqi could step through the sea of ​​fire by chance, he would have only one dead end. In less than half an hour, 20,000 Mingyue Light Cavalry, hidden in a low-lying land more than ten miles away, could arrive here. Under the pursuit of Mingyue Light Cavalry with absolute advantage, a small number of Barbarians who escaped from the sea of ​​fire by chance would have no chance of winning. In the end, even if there were sporadic barbarians who escaped from the sea of ​​fire escaped, they would not pose any threat to the Mingyue Empire Army's grain transport team.

But war is not an act after all, and no matter how skilled the commander is, he cannot make the war proceed according to the plan he sets!

Situ Rui was already cautious enough, Yan Ting was already careful enough, and the entire ambush plan could be called perfect, leaving almost no flaws, but Meng Hu caught a trace of impossibly possible flaws. Just as the group of people was about to completely enter the ambush circle, he suddenly gave the order to stop chasing!

Yan Ting was forced to launch an attack in advance.

In the end, more than 6,000 barbarian cavalry were trapped in the "u"-shaped combustion zone, but more than 4,000 cavalry escaped, which left unpredictable variables for this carefully planned ambush.

The seven or eight hundred barbarians of the Wild Wolf tribe began to get restless, and seemed to want to rush into the sea of ​​fire to meet the tribe.

The more than a thousand cavalry of the Tiger Division seemed calm, and they looked cold and looked like we were too lazy to pay attention to the sky falling.

Qi Diaozi swallowed and said to Meng Hu: "General, I don't know what the situation is going on now. Since the Mingyue bandits carefully planned such an ambush, there are even more powerful people in the future. Maybe there are a large number of ambushes around, so... it's better... let's withdraw our troops quickly, right?"

"Bastard, can't withdraw troops? Half of our tribe members are trapped inside, how can we leave them behind?"

The Wolf of the Wild Wolf Tribe was furious when she heard this. She roared in Middle Earth language first, and then turned around in barbarian words to yell at the barbarians of the Wild Wolf Tribe behind her. The hundreds of barbarians suddenly became extremely excited. Many of them had drawn out sharp swords and seemed to be ready to snatch up and cut off Qi Diaozi at any time.

After hearing the roar of the wolf, the barbarians of the Black Bear Tribe also cast contempt and angry eyes at Qi Diaozi. In the Great Wilderness, leaving their tribesmen to escape alone is a coward's behavior and will be despised by everyone!

Meng Hu was solemn in his heart. He knew that Qi Diaozi was not exaggerating!

Situ Rui carefully set up such a gorgeous trap, and there will definitely be a more powerful back. Staying behind and trying to save people is undoubtedly quite dangerous. Moreover, the fire is so fierce, it is hard to say whether the trapped barbarians can be rescued. But if the trapped barbarians are abandoned in this way, the remaining more than 3,000 barbarians will definitely lose their morale and may even betray their oath, and the consequences will be serious!

The barbarians were filled with anger, staring at Qi Diaozi with murderous eyes.

Qi Diaozi ignored the barbarian's screams and just looked at Meng Hu nervously.

Here, only one person has the power to determine the fate and life and death of everyone, and he is Meng Hu!

The fire was raging and the heat was rising. Meng Hu had no time to hesitate and made a decision in an instant.

Of course, it was awful to be caught in Situ Rui's tricks, but crises often hide turning points! Situ Rui's trap did make Meng Hu in trouble, but it also created an excellent opportunity for Meng Hu to win people's hearts. Meng Hu only needs a little use to make the surviving barbarians return to their hearts after this battle!

Meng Hu urgently needs an army that is completely loyal to himself!

Meng Hu has already keenly foresaw that no matter whether Situ Rui can capture Xiling this time, the Guanghui Empire will launch a large-scale counterattack. Within two months at most, a shocking war will inevitably break out between the two empires. It doesn't matter who wins and who will lose in the end, and it doesn't matter who will win or lose in the end. Meng Hu is too lazy to care at all.

Meng Hu only cares about one thing, after this battle, both empires will be greatly damaged!

Just waiting for the two empires to be severely damaged, Meng Hu's chance to be independent with troops.

Meng Hu promised Lei Ming to take good care of Zhao Qinghan and the people of the west, but never promised Lei Ming to be a lackey for the Guanghui Empire. There are many ways to take care of Zhao Qinghan. Wouldn't she be much better than the duke? And the people of the west, let them get rid of the double exploitation of the Holy See and the empire, and let them own their own land to live a life of full food and clothing. Wouldn't it be more worthy of Lei Ming's instructions before his death?

If you want to have troops and become independent, Meng Hu must have an army, an army that is absolutely loyal!

The loyalty of the Tigers was absolutely fine. Meng Hu believed that even if he rebelled immediately, they would follow him without hesitation. However, it was far from enough that only these more than a thousand elite soldiers. Meng Hu needed more loyal troops to his army, and these barbarians were undoubtedly the ideal choice.

Meng Hu promised these barbarians to let them return to the Great Wilderness after defeating the invading Mingyue Empire Army. The man made a promise. Meng Hu never thought of treason. But if these barbarians were willing to stay and swear allegiance to him, it would not be considered Meng Hu's treason.

Even if these barbarians were still unwilling to stay in the end, Meng Hu and them had formed a friendship. After these barbarians returned to the Great Wilderness, they would inevitably bring the friendship between Meng Hu and the barbarians back to the Great Wilderness. Things are unpredictable. Who knows whether they will fight with the barbarians on the Great Wilderness in the future?

As my mind turned around, Meng Hu had already made a decision that the trapped barbarians must be saved!

Even if you only snatch a burnt corpse in the end, even if you get more barbarians, or even get all the more than a thousand elite soldiers of the Tiger Regiment. From the moment you see, it may not be worth it, but in the long run, it is very beneficial to do so. If the soldiers are gone, you can practice again, and if the soul of an army is gone, it is difficult to find it again!

Slowly raised the spear in his hand, Meng Hu's eyes fell on the barbarian in front of him like a wolf.

"Although you are barbarians, you are fighting for me now. You are all my soldiers. I, Meng Hu, will never leave my soldiers on the battlefield!"

Qi Diaozi was moved in a terrifying and heard Meng Hu’s words to save the barbarians trapped in the fire.

The few barbarians who could understand the Middle Earth language were excited, and Xiong Batian and Langhao were even more excited to use barbarians to translate Meng Hu's words to more barbarians. When they heard this, the barbarians screamed excitedly.

"Everyone took off their pants!"

Meng Hu flew coldly across the faces of the soldiers in the army and shouted sternly, "Piece the legs of the pants, fill the soil and put out the fire. If you don't have enough pants, use a battle robe. If you don't have enough battle robe, use armor. Even if you fill it with your body, you must fill a way out in the sea of ​​fire. You must save the brothers trapped inside at all costs!"
Chapter completed!