Chapter 34: Journey to Shiva (8) Pearlescent Sword Shadow
Qitade's head is facing the stream. Just one or two miles ahead is a mountain pass. At this time, the grassland is full of addictive pearl lights, and the other side of the mountain pass is also.
If it were an ordinary person, he would think that the light and shadow in the distance were no different from the near, but Qitade was a time traveler, and his natural sixth sense made him break free from his intoxication.
That light and shadow seem to be bigger than near!
Qitade took out his telescope, and the light and shadow in the lens became more obvious. This is not counting. If he guessed well, there would be shadows there!
His mood only turbulently in a moment, and then returned to calm.
He pulled the camera closer, from far to near, and nothing happened. There was even a hare quietly foraging on the grassland in the camera, but when he placed the camera closest, his hand stopped.
Just across the stream, there was a person hiding!
The man was hiding well, wearing black clothes and a black scarf on his face, and he was hiding in the grass covered by night!
However, the knife in his hand exposed him.
A shiny sword light!
Qitad put away the telescope as if nothing had happened, and then whispered to Turando's ears: "Don't say anything, there are people on the opposite side, probably the spy of the horse thief, there are still many in the distance. After you get off the landblock, you can walk to the camp at the normal speed"
"What about you?"
It is worthy of being Turando. Turando, who has never forgotten to avenge his family and tribe members in the Kungler environment, can also accurately find the person who has confided to Qitad.
When ordinary people hear this, they are scared to death, but Turando is obviously not. Although Qitad could sense her sudden increase in heartbeat, she just said softly when she learned about it.
"I will walk behind you, remember, don't look back"
The two of them got off the earthblock, and Turando was indeed obedient and walked quietly in front of him, until the camp turned around.
Qitad did not come!
She was stunned now, but she did not run back, but quickly told Techina.
Techina was not panicked, but said lightly: "If I guess correctly, there are only one or two enemy spies, and they are preparing to approach our camp to spy on the situation. If there are only one or two people, you don't have to worry about Qitad"
"You..."
While Techi woke everyone up, he did not forget to tell them not to make too much noise. He said, "Tell you the truth, we are not from the Xiaoyuzi tribe, but from the Turkuts, Qitade, the Huntaiji of the tribe, second only to the existence of the Khan"
"There is a huge pasture in the south of the tribe. Qitade's men have eight thousand standing troops. They, including me, were trained by Qitade. Of course, he not only trained us, but also taught us, teaching Mongolian and Chinese"
Turandot couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Turgut, she naturally knew that it was a powerful tribe from the East. At one time, her father Khan was preparing to move to them from Sarekamesh Lake, but because the Kazakhs were separated by the middle, they had to give up.
"Don't run around"
Techina did not send anyone to inform the caravan camp, because he knew that once he sent people, the caravan would be in chaos, and the enemy in the secret would change from secret attack to open attack. In that case, with such a small number of people, it would be difficult to repel them.
The best way is to use darkness to darkness and then suddenly come out and catch them off guard.
As for the life and death of the caravan, he didn't care about it.
If it were Qitad here, he wouldn't have done this. The caravan has a hundred guards, which is just a helper, because you don't know how many troops the enemy has.
Qitad in the distance only got up after seeing Tolando enter the camp. On the way, he had already taken out the flintlock gun from the wooden box beside him. After thinking about it, he put it in again, and finally held the military sect that had been hanging beside him in his hand.
Halfway through the journey, he suddenly squatted down and disappeared.
At this time, if you look at the camp in the distance, you will only find Qitad alone before. At this time, even his figure has disappeared.
Turando's nervous palms were sweating. In an instant, she actually got up and ran out of the camp to pick up Qitad. However, Su Wenyu stayed quietly by her side, making her give up this idea.
Slowly, another figure appeared on the grassland in the distance. Qitade liked white. Even at night, the whiteness was particularly prominent, but this figure that appeared again was obviously not his.
Turandot's heart tightened even tighter, and she slowly moved to the side of the low wall.
Su Wenyu grabbed him, and at the same time, he also had a telescope in his hand.
"Don't panic, it's someone else who appears, and Quitad is hiding somewhere"
He handed the telescope to Turando, who had also seen this object. As the daughter of the Great Khan of Sarekamesh tribe, he was the only woman in the tribe who had seen the telescope, and was given to her by the person who discovered lead ore from Europe.
In the camera, the black figure was still there. At this time, the man did not walk forward, but was spinning around...
At this moment, a white figure suddenly appeared behind the white figure, and then the black figure fell down.
The earth is still quiet, as if this has never happened.
After about a quarter of an hour, just as everyone was watching nervously, Qitad came back!
He made everyone squat down.
"It's the spy of the horse thief. After I captured the man, I forced him to tell me how to contact the distance, which is to raise the Uz's steel knife and wave it a few times."
"There are three groups of horse thieves, except for one side of the backing, there are three other sides, with about fifty people in each place"
"I asked him where he came from, and he said he was a horse thief from the Kazakh grassland. I saw that time was tight, so I killed him with one knife"
"I waved my steel knife when I approached the camp, and they should set off at this time"
Qitade spoke it in a relaxed and freehand tone, as if he had just killed someone, it was as easy to eat and sleep.
"Prepare!"
Everyone quickly lowered their bodies, and only a piece of black felt hat was exposed outside the low wall.
As Qitade expected, figures appeared in all three places, all riding horses, but they obviously all put on horseback, and most of the horses were dark, and they would not find them in the dark night without a telescope or not paying attention.
Looking at the caravan camp in the distant valley, it is still quiet.
"A such a big battle, is it just for the caravan's stuff?"
Looking at the figure of the horse thief gradually approaching, Qitade couldn't help but feel a little confused.
"The ruby blanks carried by Rasim's ten camels last time were much more valuable than these goods and property. Although they were not finished products, since people like Rasim existed, they would not have to worry about sales."
As the horse thief approaches, Qitad's doubts are even more serious.
"Most horse thieves come toward themselves, and only a small number of them go to the caravan camp. Did they come specifically for us? But why? Is our whereabouts exposed?"
"Even if the Kazakhs want to deal with us, they will succeed. Once Lash knows, they will definitely attack with all their troops. What are the benefits of doing this?"
"Maybe they were following us in the daytime and determined that although we were small in number, our combat power was far above the caravan guards, so they fought to solve us first and then deal with the caravan's thoughts?"
Just as I was thinking about it, the horse thief on the opposite side was clearly visible!
They all rode tall horses, all covered in black robes, with black turbans on their heads, and black turbans on their faces. The horses were all black or dark red. When they approached the low wall, they removed the horse's chews and made a deafening sound and rushed over.
At this time, except for Qitad and Tolando, all the rest were ambushed behind the low wall and waiting for it. Almost at the same time as they made a sound to attract people's hearts, there was also a roar in the low wall.
"Boom..."
It turned out that on the way to come, the four long boxes that Arslan stared at were actually holding a 100-pound short-barrel cannon!
The gun was placed at the end of the cannon, which easily fooled Arslan, while the rest of the wooden boxes contained ammunition and grenades!
A small position with a circular shape of only about 30 square meters is suitable for people with only one squad size in Qitade and others. One squad has four cannons and it is still firing grape bullets. This scene was unexpected by the horse thieves.
At the same time, the roar of artillery also reminded the caravan that there were fewer horse thieves there, and I believe they would not capture the camp if they met.
Four cannons fired at the same time. Although they were only a short-barrel cannon weighing 100 kilograms, their caliber was not small and they could load a pack of ammunition weighing up to two kilograms. As mentioned earlier, Truchen's ammunition was fixed, and the leads of the most suitable length could be prepared according to different situations.
In such a tense situation, the shortest lead is naturally used.
After a cannon's grape shell ejected out, although its effective range is only twenty or thirty meters, it can form a barrage of almost the same distance in front of the cannon!
In an instant, a large number of people and horses appeared in front of the low wall. However, these horse thieves seemed to be prepared. Although the horse thieves who rushed to the front fell, the remaining horse thieves only paused for a moment and then continued to rush forward!
Although fixed ammunition and short leads are used, it is too late to complete the loading again in a very short time.
However, they still have grenades in their hands!
Large pieces of grenades flew out with sparks in the night!
Although muskets were widely used in Central Asia at this time, and grenades also appeared in some Khanate countries, for horse thieves, there is nothing else except a mere rope gun and a sabre. Their ordinary targets are obviously no artillery or grenades.
So, after suffering two consecutive rounds of firearms they had never seen before, even the brave horse thief was scared.
So, behind the horse thieves brigade, there seemed to be several horsemen pressing the formation. They shouted loudly in Turkic language, as if urging the horse thieves to continue attacking.
At this moment, Qitad's cannon was loaded again.
"Boom..."
There was another roar, and the horse thief who was hesitating in front fell down again!
A thirty square meter position, up to a hundred horse thieves came, and they needed to surround them from all sides. After the three-wheeled firearms attacked, there were obviously not many people left.
At this time, Qitad had ordered someone to replace the grenades they rarely use.
The grenade is not fixed. There is a layer of wooden board between the gunpowder and the projectile. When the induction drug ignites the launch drug, the launch drug will produce a huge chamber pressure in the barrel. Because it is separated by the wooden board, it will be pushed out of the barrel from the moment the wooden board that has been instantly turned into ashes.
Therefore, there is no possibility that the lead of the grenade will be ignited in advance and then exploded in the barrel.
But it can only be used effectively in short-barrel cannons. If used in cannons, the length of the lead, the thickness of the board, and the amount of the emitted medicine need to be tested and calculated for a long time.
Since Truchen became an army, Qitad had never tried to place grenades on long-barrel cannons. Due to the reality of his large number of cavalry, he could only focus on light short-barrel cannons.
Chapter completed!