Chapter 211
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Chapter 211: Burigude
The night passed quietly.
The next morning, Bai Ze stretched his stiff body from sleeping as he emerged from his tent.
It wasn’t yet light, probably around 5 o’clock in the morning, but he couldn’t sleep any longer.
This night’s sleep left him aching all over, truly uncomfortable.
Thinking of this, Bai Ze couldn’t help but let out a self-deprecating laugh, then walked towards the stables.
Personally caring for his beloved horse, White Dragon.
Every day was his habit, and also a daily task for members of the cavalry unit.
Luo Ji advocated for every cavalryman to personally care for their own warhorse, using this method to improve the tacit understanding between them.
Today, however, for some reason, White Dragon’s mood suddenly became agitated.
It started stomping its hooves non-stop, letting out neighs.
Facing this situation, Bai Ze couldn’t help but slightly furrow his brow.
Then, as if he’d realized something, he quickly lay down on the ground and listened for movement.
Immediately after, his entire expression changed.
“Though I knew you were an impatient sort, isn’t this a bit too eager?”
He didn’t even need to give a verbal warning.
The Wild Horse Tribe’s situation was unique, the initial labor had all been spent on building horse and cattle-sheep pastures.
This meant the military camp here was still quite rudimentary.
Everyone basically simply put up a tent, laid down an animal hide, and slept on the ground, so any slightly larger noise could be heard immediately!
“Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!”
All at once, the soldiers who had been sleeping soundly were startled awake by the commotion.
They quickly donned their leather armor while shouting and rushing out of their tents.
“Damn it, those sons of bitches, they attacked before dawn?”
Looking up at the sky where the moon hadn’t even set, the soldiers silently cursed their bad luck.
Every single one of them was furious.
Luo Yong was clearly no exception, and in fact, he was arguably the most furious among them all.
“Brothers, today we must ensure these horse bandits never return!!”
“Roar—”
The soldiers responded to Luo Yong with a roar, showing little panic.
Previously, in the new recruit training camp, they had a training exercise called emergency deployment.
The instructors loved to suddenly blow a whistle when they were fast asleep, sometimes even tormenting them several times back and forth.
At the time, they all thought the instructors and leader were deliberately making things difficult, but at this very moment, the training’s effectiveness was immediately apparent.
Although the situation was urgent, there was no chaos at all.
Each soldier quickly donned their protective gear, grabbed their weapons and equipment, leaped onto their horses, and charged out of the camp, demonstrating astonishing efficiency.
Meanwhile, at the edge of the horizon, a band of horse bandits swept towards the distant Wild Horse Tribe like a sandstorm.
The dense thundering of hooves broke the last traces of the stillness before sunrise.
The two sides quickly met face to face.
Burigude’s gaze immediately fell on Bai Ze.
Although the sky was still very dim at dawn, he recognized Bai Ze at a glance.
Immediately, a hint of killing intent flashed in his eyes, as sharp as a hawk’s.
Relying on his superb horsemanship, he allowed his warhorse to gallop wildly while directly releasing the reins with both hands.
He quickly took down the horned bow from his back and, with a flick of his wrist, shot an arrow towards Bai Ze in the distance!
In this dim environment, it was hard to clearly see the incoming arrow with just the naked eye.
However, Bai Ze clearly heard the sound of him drawing his bow.
After all, they were old opponents, familiar with each other’s methods, so how could he not be prepared?
His ears twitched slightly, and he used the method of discerning position by sound to pinpoint the incoming arrow’s trajectory.
Then, with a sweep of the long spear in his hand, he immediately swept the arrow away!
At the same time, he loudly reminded those behind him.
“Watch out for incoming arrows from the other side!”
“Charge straight in for close combat!!”
They couldn’t afford to get into a drawn-out fight with them, because they couldn’t outlast these grasslanders.
Each of the horse bandits under Burigude was equipped with a horned bow.
In long-range combat, the opponents were essentially a group of archers.
Relying on superb horsemanship, they could gallop wildly while simultaneously firing and drawing their bows, and their accuracy was astonishingly strong, far surpassing ordinary archers in mobility.
Furthermore, unlike the bows used by Luo Ji and his people, these grasslanders’ bows were made by combining two extremely long antelope horns.
The two antelope horns were joined and fixed together, essentially forming a recurve bow.
However, due to the materials, these were considered rare items, and not everyone could be equipped with one.
Bai Ze and Luo Yong led the cavalry unit behind them in fierce pursuit, while the unit under Burigude, relying on their mounted archery advantage, maintained distance and harassed them.
In Luo Ji’s in-game terminology, this was a typical kiting tactic, and also the greatest advantage of bow cavalry.
Luo Ji had, of course, considered the bow cavalry as a troop type, but unfortunately, the training requirements were too high.
Shooting arrows while on horseback wasn’t as easy as shooting from the ground.
It was simply too difficult to train a unit of bow cavalry skilled in both archery and horsemanship in a short period, so the establishment and training plan for this troop type had not yet been put on Luo Ji’s agenda.
However, even Luo Ji probably didn’t expect that bow cavalry would appear so early on these grasslands of this ancient era, did he?
It seemed this little butterfly’s wings had flapped a bit too fiercely.
Bai Ze, galloping wildly, quickly swept his long spear.
After deflecting yet another volley of arrows shot towards him, he loudly commanded.
“Everyone spread out!”
“Charge in a surrounding formation as small teams!”
The cavalry unit consisted of 10 people per small team.
Under Bai Ze’s command, the entire cavalry unit instantly divided into several groups, spreading out into a surrounding formation and charging towards Burigude and the others in the distance.
Facing this change in formation, Burigude’s bow cavalry couldn’t help but become somewhat disorganized.
Their numbers were limited, and their horned bows even more so.
Previously, when the enemy was concentrated in one place, they naturally only needed to aim and shoot their bows in that one direction.
But now that the formation had spread out, deciding which cavalry team to attack became a difficult problem for them to solve.
The situation on the battlefield changed rapidly.
Their moment of hesitation, however, became an opportunity for Bai Ze and the others.
The distance between the two sides was instantly closed.
Sensing the shift in the situation, Burigude gritted his teeth.
After shooting 2 more arrows towards Bai Ze, he resolutely switched his weapon to a bone spear.
“Brothers! Charge with me!!”
Within this tribe, Burigude clearly held considerable prestige.
A simple roar stabilized his side’s formation.
After charging with bone spears, the cavalry units of both sides suddenly collided!
A fight officially began at this moment!
