(38) Back-up gun

Less than an hour after Bai Qi left, the Hun cavalry chased him in the town. The leader was Duanmu Ming, who suffered a great loss in the Qizhou ring. If you want to talk about how Duanmu Ming appeared here, it has to start with Bai Qi taking the initiative to attack.

Bai Qi took five thousand men and horses to take the initiative to enter the grassland to fight, which was far beyond the thinking habits of the Huns. The Central Plains army, which has always used infantry as the main force in combat, was a good player to defend on the plains, but when it comes to fighting in the vast grassland, it was not enough to be mobility first. Therefore, in the minds of the Huns, they were always the only one who could guerrillas into the Central Plains, and the Central Plains army would never dare to enter the desert. Of course, the beautiful attacks of General Ling of the Northern Qin general decades ago with 10,000 cavalrymen. How many General Ling were there in the Central Plains?

The Huns even deliberately forgot this painful memory in their memories. So when the Huns Khan learned that a Great Qi army had entered the desert, they were furious and determined to teach these ignorant Da Qi army a lesson. Coincidentally, Duanmuming was present at the time, so he volunteered to lead two thousand cavalry to find the troops pursuing Bai Qi. Duanmuming led his troops to travel for a day and a night, chasing south for more than a thousand miles, and finally caught up with Bai Qi's tail. Unfortunately, Bai Qi was moving fast enough and fled.

Considering the fatigue of the soldiers and after learning that Bai Qi had run for almost an hour, Duanmuming felt that there was no need to chase the disaster, so he could only let the troops enter the town to rest.

Seeing Duanmuye's mansion being demolished in a mess, Duanmuye hated the army of the Great Qi. On the way he came, Duanmuye was honored to admire the tragic situation of Duanmuye's corpse in the wilderness. Now he saw Duanmuye's home being overturned, but he hated that he was still late. When he heard that his sister was also taken away by the Great Qi army, Duanmuye was even more anxious.

Just as Duanmuno was standing in the yard and furious, a subordinate quickly came to report: "Your Majesty, please come and see here."

Duanmu Ming was stunned when he heard this, and followed his subordinates into the house. He found that there was a cellar in the house. Several women and children were emerging from the cellar. It turned out that these women and children were Duanmu Ye’s wife and children. When he saw Duanmu Ming, these women immediately cried and burst into tears. Perhaps they didn’t know that their husbands were killed. They kept talking about silver. Duanmu Ming heard it carefully and realized that Duanmu Ye was rich, and he actually hid million taels of silver in his family. He happened to be discovered by Bai Qi’s subordinates. Who would not be jealous of so much silver? Bai Qi was no exception. He moved them away without hesitation.

Duanmuye was not angry but happy when he heard this news. From here to Dingbiancheng, he had to pass through a river called Sumu. The river was usually shallow and could easily be passed by walking. However, in spring, the melting water of snow and snow in snow would increase the water level of this river, which greatly increased the difficulty of crossing the river. In addition, there were a few spring rains in this area a few days ago. It is estimated that the water level of the Sumu River must be not low now. If the Daqi army marched normally, it would take at most an hour to cross the river. However, now they have brought so much money and the marching speed must be very slow. Maybe they can catch up now and cut their tails down. Maybe they are lucky enough to grab their sister back.

Thinking about this, Duankino made a quick decision and immediately ordered the entire army to gather and continue to pursue.

I really guessed that Bai Qi's expression on his face was ugly enough when facing Sumuhe. More than one million taels of silver became a burden. The heavy silver box pressed the horse straight into the mud in the water. He could not throw away the silver he got. Bai Qi was thinking of a way, and the thick smoke rising from the distance made Bai Qi's expression even more ugly.

Bai Qi, who has always been cautious, was no exception this time. After leaving, he left a few people disguised as ordinary people. Their task was to stay and monitor the pursuers. Once they found that the pursuers were chasing them, they immediately released wolf smoke and called the police.

Looking at the wolf smoke in the distance, Bai Qi cursed fiercely: "Damn!" He was even more hated for these ghostly Huns. He had been running for an hour and they were still chasing him, which made him not know what to do with the money. There was no ferry on the bird river. When Bai Qi thought of him as he might have to throw the money, he felt so painful.

However, when Bai Qi found that there were only two swells of the rising wolf smoke, he changed his mind and smiled again on his face, and someone was going to be in trouble again.

Bai Qi called his brother Bai Yunshan and said, "Take people to the nearby woods and cut some wood and make more than a dozen rafts." Bai Yunshan was a little reluctant to command Bai Qi, but he still cooperated to agree at this moment. Then Bai Qi called Lei Shao and Dong Qiu again and muttered in their ears for a while.

Duanmu Ming, who was determined to pursue, did not relax his vigilance. Judging from his observation of the battlefield, this opponent was cunning. When ambushing Duanmu Ye, he cleverly used the terrain of the battlefield. Duanmu Ming had to guard against Bai Qi and gave him this trick.

Following the traces left by the Great Qi army, Duanmuming was carefully observing the terrain along the way. Looking at the hills that were constantly appearing in front of him, Duanmuming began to feel nervous. After all, he did not have many troops in his hands, so he had to be more careful.

Just when Duanmuming was planning to send several teams of horses to open the road in front, a commotion suddenly occurred in the troops in front. Duanmuming stopped the troops and went to see them by himself. Only then did he find that some of the goods discarded by the Daqi army, including the stolen clothes and some cloth appeared on the road ahead.

Duanmuye was happy when he saw it, which means that the opponent might not have gone far and he was completely likely to catch up. Then Duanmuye was worried again. Will the cunning opponent in front of him order the soldiers to throw away everything when he saw that the army was not marching fast? If this is the case, he would probably chase it in vain. But looking up at the terrain in the area, Duanmuye was wondering again that the terrain in this area was complex and there were many trees. It was not difficult to hide thousands of troops in the forest.

Duanmu Ming, who was worried about gains and losses, finally decided to send a team of 100 people to chase forward quickly, and he led the brigade to follow up slowly.

Soon, the news from the vanguard troops in front made Duanmu Ming regret, because the vanguard troops actually found boxes of abandoned silver. Perhaps they were too anxious to throw them away, and the silver was scattered everywhere, all along the way. If the other party threw all the silver, he would really chase them in vain. When he felt anxious, Duanmu Ming immediately ordered the whole army to speed up the pursuit. Now, from the signs, the opponent was really running away desperately, and he didn't even want the silver. He was a little too careful not to chase him.

During the next seven or eight miles of pursuit, Duanmu Ming really regretted his caution. His opponent didn't care about silver at all. He threw all the way. Duanmu Ming's soldiers' eyes were red when they saw the silver that kept appearing. If these silver were at Duanmu Ye's house, they would not dare to think about it, but now the silver is thrown on the road and secretly put it away.

Duanmu Ming, who was not confused, saw the silver light emitted from the soldiers' eyes and quickly ordered two hundred people to be left to pack up the property along the way, and the other troops pursued them themselves.

Under Duanmuming's repeated urging, the troops quickly chased the river. When Duanmuming arrived by the river, he watched the river flow silently, and the ground on the shore was in a mess, and the silver and clothes robbed by the Daqi army were thrown everywhere, Duanmuming couldn't help but hate his caution. Duanmuming, who was in a bad mood, found a higher place and looked at the other side of the river, and found smoke and dust rolling in the distance, and even could clearly see the unique yellow dragon flag of the Daqi army. Not to mention, the one who escaped across the river must have been the Daqi army that he had been chasing for a long time.

Duanmu Ming withdrew his gaze unwillingly. When he looked back, he was immediately angry and came. Before his subordinates could give orders, they all dismounted and began to rob the abandoned property and silver from the Daqi army on the shore.

Duanmu Ming originally wanted to stop them, but thinking about the hard work of these soldiers following him, these things and money would be rewarded for them. As for the amount of them, it depends on their own luck. If Duanmu Ming ordered everyone to concentrate the picked-up items and distribute them uniformly, he would not be defeated in this battle. It would be bad that Duanmu Ming was in extreme regret at this time. He was ruthless and was very careful for a moment. He was decisively dealt with by his opponent and lost the opportunity to snatch his sister back and eliminate his opponent.

Uneven distribution of spoils has always been the root cause of internal friction. Red eye disease, as long as it is a place where humans live in groups, will definitely exist, and the Huns are no exception in this issue.

Except for Duanmu Ming's own 500 guards who did not join the ranks of bee robbery, the other soldiers were already robbed on the shore in a mess. Although these property are now ownerless, it should be said that they should be fast and slow, but some people who are slow in starting will not eat this trick. If they can't grab the ones on the ground, they can just grab the ones on others. I'll watch why you get rich.

No one of them was willing to throw away the things they had with them, so the fight inevitably appeared. At first, there were only one or two people pulling each other, and then it quickly turned into a fist and kicking. Who had few relatives and friends, beggars and a few poor relatives, and soon a small-scale fight turned into a fight between more than a dozen people. When Duanmu Ming discovered this phenomenon, it was already difficult to stop it. Now the situation has developed into a fight between hundreds of people.

If you want to blame, you can only blame Duanmu Ming himself. Who told him to sigh just now that he ordered his personal guards to come forward to stop the fight between these soldiers, it was too late. Because at this time, a large number of cavalry from the Daqi army had already emerged from the woods several miles away nearby, and they were coming to the shore at a high speed. At a distance and at this speed, they could reach it in a short time.

The earth-shaking and dense sound of horse hooves made Duanmu Ming come to his senses. He looked up and couldn't help but complain.

"If there is an enemy attack, prepare for battle for me." Duanmu Ming never said that he had such great strength in his life, but even so, everything could not be saved, because all the troops were already in a mess. Before all the Huns soldiers boarded, Bai Qi, who was in charge, had already arrived with his troops.

Bai Qi has never been a generous person. If Bai Qi wants to throw away millions of taels of silver, it would be better to kill Bai Qi. He has to run away and take away the silver. Bai Qi has to have both fish and bear paws. The only way is to kill these pursuers, then pack up his luggage and cross the river in a swagger.

Just now, when he was ambushing in the woods, he watched the Huns fight for money. Bai Qi thanked Luo Guanzhong, an author in his previous life. It was because he read his "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that Bai Qi could only move the tricks Cao Cao used in the Battle of Guandu. Unfortunately, Bai Qi was not Guan Yu, and Duanmu Ming was not Yan Liang and Wen Chou. Bai Qi only saw silver in his eyes. He didn't pay attention to Duanmu Ming's big fish, and ran with his men and horses to kill the soldiers. He just wanted to kill these annoying guys quickly, grab the silver and run away.

Bai Qi did not notice Duanmu Ming, but Duanmu Ming did not forget Bai Qi, a guy who had a deep memory. When he saw that the person who led the team turned out to be Bai Qi, Duanmu Ming secretly complained. It seemed that his life was going to be explained here today. But Bai Qi did not come to him, but went directly to the soldiers who robbed money. Duanmu Ming secretly thanked Changshengtian, and didn't care about the damn soldiers at this time. Duanmu Ming took his personal guard and found a gap and killed him outside.

Bai Qi went for the silver, and the guys under him were no exception. The things were all snatched by him with hard work. Whoever wanted to snatch them was his biggest enemy. So the soldiers of the Daqi army chased the guys holding silver and property this time. As for Duanmuming and his personal guards who had nothing in their hands, they easily escaped.

It is true that people die for money and birds die for food. It is difficult for people to escape from it. Any Hun soldiers who have things on their hands are few willing to throw away their lives. The battlefield soon turned into a unilateral massacre. The soldiers of the Great Qi frantically chased the soldiers who were fleeing with things, and the Hun soldiers had already become in chaos and fled to their own lives.

Bai Qi's move to revive the horseback was beautiful. He first asked dozens of soldiers to cross the river, and then asked them to tie branches on the horsetails after crossing the river to create momentum, making Duanmu Ming think that Bai Qi had run away, and then he threw the silver and stolen things everywhere so that the Hun soldiers could rob them with confidence. When the Hun soldiers were happy, Bai Qi took his men and horses to kill him and revive the horseback.

After the battle, Bai Qi actually died at zero. More than 1,300 enemies were killed at the cost of more than 50 injuries. The only regret was that Bai Qi had only silver in his eyes at that time, and he let a bigger fish go. Fortunately, Bai Qi never knew that Duanmu Ming was still there, otherwise he would have hated him for a few days. How much ransom can a Duanmu Ming be exchanged for?

During the entire battle, the only person who was very unhappy was Duanmu Xiu. When Duanmu Ming saw Duanmu Ming appear, Duanmu Xiu really saw the hope of escaping and being rescued. After all, Duanmu Ming always thought that people were meticulous and probably would be difficult to fool Bai Qi. Who would have thought that such a result would be?
Chapter completed!