The convoy slowed down as it continued to charge forward.
Although the treads of the armored vehicles were not significantly affected, and the pickup trucks could still travel normally, pulled by the armored vehicles on both sides.
However, the sight of corpses crushed under the wheels was enough to make the people inside unbearable.
Even Fang Er couldn't handle it anymore. Li Shimin took over driving, while he himself held a wooden box of bullets and vomited profusely.
The sourness was so intense that the bumper cars of later generations would be mere trifles compared to this!
Ba Le Menggan was overjoyed: "These strange things can't run anymore. Follow me, capture the people inside, and present them to the Great Khan!"
But before they could rejoice, they found shadows obscuring the sun above their heads!
Looking up, they saw ten round things with baskets hanging underneath, swaying overhead.
And at this moment, they were throwing dark, round objects towards them!
This time, it wasn't oil pots and dynamite packs, but round hand grenades!
"Retreat! Retreat quickly!"
Ba Le Mengwa, before he could even get fierce, was already scared soft. He quickly yelled at his subordinates to scatter and flee.
"Damn it, this is unfightable. Not only can we not cut the iron things in front, but we're also thrown away by collisions at close range.
And now these things have appeared overhead.
Gu Rouxianglian had the same reaction. The soldiers of the two tribes were also in a panic. Their retreat directly turned into a rout!
When Jieli saw the ten hot air balloons, he couldn't even care about the Tiele and Pugu tribes on the battlefield.
"Damn it, it was these things that took my left foot!"
"Bring me my bow!"
A long bow was handed to his left hand.
Jieli extended his right hand.
"Arrows!"
A wolf-tooth arrow was delivered by a guard.
Jieli held the bow and arrow, squeezed the horse's belly with his legs, and the warhorse charged out of the formation towards the nearest hot air balloon.
When he got close, Jieli took a deep breath.
He nocked the arrow and drew the bow. The giant bow, which could only be drawn to seventy percent, was pulled to its full extent by his rage buff!
He released his hand, and with a "swoosh," the wolf-tooth arrow flew towards the hot air balloon.
For judging distance, one could rely on the size of reference objects on the ground.
But there were no reference objects in the sky for Jieli to use!
He only felt it was close, but the hot air balloon was actually more than two hundred meters high!
The arrow, still dozens of meters away from the hot air balloon, turned and plummeted down, spinning.
Jieli was stunned. Couldn't he shoot it down last night? He had even heard someone on that thing scream.
He looked at the hot air balloon.
The people on the hot air balloon were also looking at him.
Zhang Tian was lying on the edge of the hot air balloon basket, using binoculars to find the person who had shot him yesterday.
He didn't know who it was, but anyone who could shoot that high was probably rare in all of the Turkic tribes, right?
As expected, after a brief scan, he saw Jieli charge out of the army formation with a bow, and he shot another arrow at him.
"Damn it, this is too much!"
Zhang Tian grabbed the Yun Er style he had placed aside, aimed through the scope, and put Jieli in the crosshairs.
"Damn you for shooting my butt!"
With a bang, he fired the shot. The bullet flew downwards at an angle towards Jieli.
*Pfft*
*Hee-hee-hee~~~!*
The bullet was slightly deflected by the wind and hit the butt of Jieli's warhorse.
The warhorse, in pain, sat down.
Immediately after, Zhang Tian fired the second shot.
*Pfft*
This shot was supposed to hit Jieli, but as the warhorse sat down, the bullet hit the horse's head.
*Bang!*
The warhorse collapsed, crushing one of Jieli's legs beneath it.
As if by some cruel twist of fate, it was his right leg that was pinned.
Jieli could hear the sound of his own shinbone cracking.
"Great Khan!"
"Great Khan!"
"Quickly, pull out the Great Khan!"
The four personal guards who had charged out of the formation with him were instantly panicked.
"One, two, three, pull!"
*Crack~~!*
"Ah!!!"
Jieli cried out at the top of his lungs in pain.
It was just a hairline fracture, but with the brute force of the four men pulling, the cracked shinbone was directly broken!
Broken!
But the personal guards didn't have time to worry about whether he was broken or not, because Zhang Tian above was still shooting at them one after another.
*Pfft, pfft, pfft~*
Bullet craters were formed in the dirt around Jieli.
Even two of the four personal guards fell.
One was shot in the head, and the other was shot through the body.
The remaining two personal guards, carrying Jieli, ran back towards the formation.
Jieli's two legs dragged on the ground. His left boot was removed, and his right leg was bent unnaturally. He had already fainted from the pain.
"Ma Baoguo! Chase after them!"
Zhang Tian turned his head and shouted to Ma Baoguo, who was operating the burner.
"Ten thousand Heavenly Venerables! Hold on tight, boss!"
Ma Baoguo quickly adjusted the speed and firepower, looking for a suitable wind direction.
After ascending for a while, he felt the south wind blowing towards him and responded to Zhang Tian.
The hot air balloon, pushed by the south wind, floated towards the Turkic army formation to the north.
The two personal guards, dragging Jieli and running frantically, inadvertently looked back and were instantly terrified.
"My God, that thing in the sky is chasing us!"
"Guard! Guard! That thing in the sky is trying to assassinate the Great Khan!"
The personal guards shouted as they ran.
A Baci and He Yijike were the leaders of the Aba and He Yi tribes respectively, and both were staunch supporters of Jieli.
Seeing this, they rushed over.
"Hand the Great Khan over to me for safekeeping!"
A Baci, without any preamble, snatched Jieli from the personal guards.
He Yijike cooperated with him, holding Jieli on either side, and walked towards the formation.
The two personal guards followed them, not at ease.
"My lords, that thing in the sky has been chasing the Great Khan. We must find a way quickly."
"Yes, my lords. Either shoot that thing down or hide the Great Khan."
"Hide? Hide where?"
Although the Tang army on the opposite side had only brought out strange vehicles and spheres in the sky, this was still a confrontation between two armies!
There were no tents, no houses, where could they hide?
PS: Fourth update