Five or six miles away from the sand village in the canyon, everyone in the cavalry team was also watching the actions of the bandits in the sand village.
"The second leader of the sand bandits, 'Liu Sha', appeared on the wooden wall! He actually did not send troops to rescue him, but instead made people guard the gate of the village! It seems that he is also an old and cunning bandit! If they insist on guarding the village and cannot leave, it will be difficult for us."
Zhao Zhong looked at the cottage in the canyon in the distance. The bandits were all on guard. He was quite disappointed and couldn't help asking Ye Fan: "Brother Ye, what should we do now?"
The plan to attack Shazhai this time was almost all formulated by Ye Fan.
Battle tactics are all required courses in the "City Lord Department", one of the nine major departments of Shenwu. Ordinary martial arts masters would not learn it, but Ye Fan still took some time to practice it since he was awarded the apprenticeship of the City Lord by Jiang Tianpeng, the Lord of Luyang City.
With the guidance of various top-notch tactical books in the Book of Shang, he learned quickly.
Attacking a sand village where hundreds of bandits gathered is a low-level small battle, and the difficulty of tactical arrangement is very low.
Ye Fan deduced the strengths of both sides and formulated a plan to break the stronghold that convinced everyone.
Zhou Jushang hurriedly reminded: "They still have a big leader 'Ghost Face' who has not yet appeared. He is a very powerful ruthless character, far more powerful than the second leader 'Liusha' and the third leader 'Lynx'. I haven't seen him appear. Two Master Wu Zun, please be careful with this person."
Ye Fan said calmly: "Since the two leaders Liusha did not fall into the trap and came out to rescue people, there is no other way. Kill the lynx and attack the stronghold directly as planned! Drive the remaining sand bandits to the front and use them as cover. , rush up. We dispatched eight Martial Lords, stormed the gate of the village, broke through the gate in one go, and rushed in. The combined strength of the eight of you is enough to break through the village and capture Liusha, the second leader of the sand bandits. As for the big leader of the sand bandits, Gui Mian, If he appears, I will deal with him personally."
"good!"
Zhao Zhong nodded and whistled toward the battlefield in the distance.
Originally, Qin Yu'er, Feng Rufeng, and Hei, the three warriors, led the guards and surrounded Shan Mao, the third leader of the sand bandits, and a hundred sand bandit cavalry, pretending to besiege them, but they did not kill Shan Mao, trying to lure them. The bandits in the sand village came down from the mountain to rescue people.
But since the bandits in the sand village are not fooled and cannot escape, there is no value in keeping the lynx alive.
When Feng Rufeng heard the whistle signal from Zhao Zhong, he immediately hit the heart of the three leader Shanmao, who was protected by dozens of bandit cavalry, with an arrow.
The lynx suddenly screamed and died violently.
"Third Master is dead!"
"Brothers, run for your lives! Fight out!"
There were still thirty or forty bandit cavalrymen left. When they saw that the lynx was dead, they sadly gave up and fought hard with the cavalry guards. They broke out of the encirclement and rushed towards the mountain stronghold several miles away.
Qin Yu'er, Feng Rufeng and Hei Hei let the remnants of the soldiers flee. They led the warrior cavalry and chased after the remnants of the sand bandits. They used the remnants of the sand bandits as cover and rushed several miles away. The gate of Shazhai.
At this time, Zhao Zhong also rode out and joined them.
Ye Fan said to Mu Bing and Cao Youwen who were beside him, "You guys are going to attack the stronghold together. Be careful not to rush to the front!"
To deal with this kind of weak enemy, he tried his best not to take action, giving them a chance to practice and enhance their combat experience.
"good!"
"Brother Ye, let's go! You'll pick us up from behind!"
Mu Bing and Cao Youwen nodded and galloped out on horseback.
The last to be dispatched were Zhou Jushang's two Wu Zun guards. They were both newcomers who had just broken through to the Wu Zun realm, and were a little timid in the face of those powerful Wu Zun enemies.
But since there were six other Martial Lords charging forward, they became excited and took advantage of this chaotic battle to fight and gain experience.
A total of eight warriors from the cavalry were dispatched and rushed towards the sand village in the canyon.
...
Zhou Jushang stayed in the cavalry and watched the battle against Shazhai from afar with other large groups of wealthy merchants and businessmen.
So far, the attack has gone smoothly.
The bandits lost a third leader and nearly a hundred sand bandit cavalry, losing almost one-third of their troops.
On their cavalry side, only less than ten warrior guards were killed. The damage was almost minimal and their morale was greatly increased.
If we can capture this sand village, we can get a lot of the sand bandits' belongings. In the next ten to twenty years, no sand bandits will be able to form a force in this desert.
Ye Fan was worried about the safety of the three of them and followed Mu Bing, Cao Youwen and others on horseback. If he encounters danger, he can take action at any time.
...
On the canyon cottage.
About fifty ax and shield bandits and a hundred spear bandits nervously guarded a long wooden wall of the cottage, preparing for close combat.
Another fifty archers and bandits had already aimed at the soldiers and horses rushing towards the foot of the mountain in the distance, but they did not fire arrows.
"Second Master! There are dozens of our cavalry brothers below, what should we do? Should we let go of the arrows?"
"If I shoot an arrow, I'm afraid all the brothers below will be shot to death!"
The archers and bandits did not dare to shoot randomly, and they all looked longingly at Liusha, the second leader of the bandits.
"Asshole, there is someone who is proficient in tactics in this cavalry team! First, he used his beauty to trap the third child, and then tried to use the third child to lure us out to rescue him. When he failed to lure us out, he immediately used the remaining soldiers to attack the stronghold. This plan One plan after another, the calculation is really ruthless! Brothers can't be fooled! You must shoot arrows to stop them and avenge the death of the third master and brothers! "
Liusha, the second leader of the bandits, looked at the defeated cavalry of the bandits. At this time, his face became extremely gloomy and he said sternly.
"Fire the arrow——!"
Quicksha shouted sharply.
Suddenly, a large cloud of arrows burst out from the condescending mountain stronghold, and they were shot down with huge impact towards the oncoming cavalry crowd.
Still seventy or eighty feet away from the cottage, there was a scream and the sound of a falling horse.
The dozens of remnants of the sand bandits and some of the warrior guards who were at the front were hit by arrows and fell off their horses one after another, leaving no fewer than twenty dead or injured.
"Charge—! Rush into the sand village and destroy the bandits. There is countless gold and silver in the sand village. The first guard to rush in will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold! The rest will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold!"
Zhao Zhong lowered his head and lay on the horse, still riding fast and shouting loudly at the martial masters and hundreds of warrior guards.
All the guards gritted their teeth and rushed forward with all their strength.
When attacking a stronghold, there is no way to use tricks. We can only rely on human lives to fill the road and rush to the front to break through the stronghold. For gold, you have to risk everything.
"Nine beads scatter——!"
Feng Rufeng put on his bow and arrow on horseback, clasped nine iron arrows with his fingers, and shot them towards the wooden village at the same time. His Red Flame Bow is a powerful bow with a strength exceeding a thousand kilograms, and its range is far beyond that of ordinary bows and arrows.
As a martial arts master, his accuracy in archery skills is unparalleled by ordinary archers.
There was a sudden scream in the wooden village located at a height of 60 to 70 feet, and six or seven archer bandits were shot down in an instant. Each of them hit the vital point, and it was chilling to the core. Only a few bandits discovered and escaped in time and managed to escape.
"Nine-beaded divine archer——!"
"This divine archer is too powerful!"
The remaining forty or so archer bandits suddenly changed their faces with fear, and they hid under the bunker of the wooden village wall, not daring to show their heads.
Ordinary archers like them would be in complete disaster when meeting a divine archer. A divine archer in the martial realm can kill seven or eight of them with just one bow.
"Come on!"
The hundreds of cavalry escorts suddenly burst into cheers and galloped towards the mountain stronghold. Without the threat of the archer bandits, there was simply a plain in front of them.
Liusha, the second leader of the bandits, turned pale with anger when he saw that the archers and bandits were all blinded and did not dare to show their heads to shoot arrows.
The enemy had already approached the stronghold, and it only took the few warriors who rushed up to the stronghold wall a blink of an eye.
It was too late for him to force them to shoot arrows now, so he had to rely on himself.
I just hope that the big leader can arrive in time before they break the stronghold.
"Explosion trap——"
"Burning trap——!"
"Ice trap——!"
Liusha, the second leader of the sand bandits, pointed towards the front of the mountain village within a few dozen feet, shot three rays of vitality in the direction, and shouted loudly.
Boom——!
Suddenly, there was a loud noise in front of the mountain village, and an explosion trap with a radius of ten feet exploded, blowing away the twenty or thirty remaining bandits and more than a dozen guards who were rushing at the front.
Immediately afterwards, a pit with a sharp cone of ice within ten feet and a pit burning with flames were exposed, swallowing up many of the cavalry guards.
The dozens of people who rushed into the ice trap were stabbed to the core by countless sharp ice cones that emerged from the ground, including people and horses, and were frozen into towering ice sculptures.
The cavalry who rushed into the flame trap were swallowed up by large flames and burned to ashes tragically.
Zhao Zhong, Qin Yu'er and other four warriors led a large group of warrior guard cavalry to charge, but were completely blocked by these powerful traps in front of the village.
The Wu Zuns who rushed in front of them reacted the fastest. At the moment when the trap was activated, they realized something was wrong and escaped in time. But the other warrior cavalry were miserable.
Fortunately, they drove the remnants of the bandits to the front. If they had been in the center of the trap, they would have been killed on the spot.
"What kind of trap is this? Why is it so powerful?"
"The flames were so fierce that they even burned the bones!"
The cavalry guards were so frightened that they turned pale and did not dare to rush forward into the sand village.
"Damn it, this is a martial arts level trap technique. The second leader of the sand bandits, Liusha, is actually a trap master in the adventure department who specializes in trap techniques! My trap technique is much worse than his!"
Qin Yuer recognized it and said with a shocked expression.
The adventure department is a large department, and there are many subdivided departments, such as hunters, assassins, treasure hunters, trackers, trappers, etc., all of which fall into the category of adventure. There are not many people who specialize in Trap Technique, but this kind of minor skill is very powerful once it reaches a very high level.
"Trap Master?!"
"No wonder these traps are so scary!"
Everyone took a breath of cold air.
They were only fifty or sixty feet away from the stronghold, but they didn't know how many traps were waiting for them ahead.
Afterwards, Mu Bing, Cao Youwen and others caught up with them.
Except for Ye Fan, who was a little behind, all eight warriors in the cavalry team had already arrived in front of the stronghold. However, he was frightened by these three powerful traps and did not dare to move forward.
"Is this a vitality skill? This combat skill is so powerful. One person in Quicksand can probably destroy all of us!"
Mu Bing said in surprise.
"This is not a vitality skill, it is a trap set on the ground in advance. The person who sets the trap only needs to trigger it. These three traps are so powerful that at least a trap master can do it. But fortunately, he The trap must be preset in advance, and the trap is fixed. Otherwise, he would not be so capable of using such powerful combat skills. And where a trap has been detonated, he cannot detonate another trap. . On the plains, traps are of little use. But in such a narrow place at the mouth of a canyon, the trap technique is most effective. I am afraid that he alone is worth a group of us warriors!"
Qin Yuer explained with lingering fear.