Chapter 778: Burning Crouching Tiger Mountain
In fact, Longhu Cottage is like a great enemy, and the Ma garrison is not idle, Ma Wencai has not only been running around in Changzhou in the past month, but also mobilized his soldiers and horses to be stationed in various important places in Changzhou.
On this day, his younger brother Ma Juncai was called back, but he heard his brother say: "You prepare, and destroy the Crouching Tiger Mountain Cottage for me within three days." ”
Ma Juncai was puzzled: "Big brother, didn't you say that you were drying them for ten days and half a month?
Ma Wencai's actions in the past month, all the nobles can see clearly, the bandits are fake, and it is true to take the opportunity to swallow Changzhou, originally as a local small scholar, it doesn't matter who comes to their heads in troubled times, so there are also many defectors, but more are waiting to see the results, of course, there are also thorns in the disobedience.
In a month's time, Ma Wencai has sorted out the general situation in Changzhou, and also took the opportunity to find out the general strength of Wohu Mountain and Wulonggou, Wohu Mountain is a group of displaced people are not enough to worry about, but this Wulonggou is different, whether it is the composition of combat power and the looted materials, it all means that they are a very organized and powerful military force. Ma Wencai also often wondered how this place could have such power.
So he didn't want to do anything to Wulonggou for the time being, and in Wohu Mountain, Ma Wencai wanted to use or simply pretend to be them, eliminate all the thorns in Changzhou that disobeyed him, and then exterminate Wohu Mountain, so that he could not only get a lot of property, but also increase a wave of prestige, which was beneficial to completely taking over Changzhou. That's why I'm going to let Ma Juncai and the others rest for another half a month.
Ma Wencai explained to his younger brother: "Just now the news was passed on from the family in Youcheng, and a great change occurred in the capital, and the edict ordered to collect 50,000 troops to march to the capital, which was used to conquer the three-way army in the three states, and each way divided 5,000 troops to join the army. ”
"Beijing, what's wrong with the capital?" Ma Juncai said puzzled.
"I'll tell you again when I go back, Wohu Mountain can't stay, otherwise we will take away half of the soldiers, and they will make a fuss, then the prestige we have established in Changzhou these days will be gone. ”
"What about Oolonggou?"
"Their situation is more complicated, let's not move for the time being, and deal with the bandits, I'm afraid these nobles will no longer need us, and it will be good for us to leave some crises for them." When the time comes, I will lead 2,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry to converge, and you will lead the rest of the men and horses to set up defenses according to these strongholds, and do not take the initiative to provoke them, and wait for us to come back and take care of them. ”
Ma Juncai looked at the red dot marked by his brother on the map, which was the main road to enter Dabai Mountain in Changzhou, and then saw that the other two surrounding states also had the same defense, and he immediately asked: "Big brother wants to besiege them? What if they rush out?"
Ma Wencai nodded and said, "Yes, our three-way soldiers and horses commanders have made an appointment to surround them." But you can't push them into a hurry, as long as it's not a large-scale dispatch, you don't have to worry about it, the local nobles just ask and behave. ”
After that, the two brothers made another plan, and that night a noble family was looted, and the whole family was killed, leaving behind the name of Crouching Tiger Mountain. On the second night, it was the same again, for two days in a row, the scholars were wiped out, and the people in Changzhou were panicked, and many people asked Ma Wencai if he didn't come to suppress the bandits? How could this kind of thing still happen?
Ma Wencai also responded heartbrokenly, during this time, he had already arranged his troops, and Crouching Tiger Mountain did not dare to come out to loot again because of the threat, who would have expected them to be so desperate and frenzied to destroy people, and their Ma family would never let go of this gang of villains, and immediately sent Ma Juncai to lead a thousand people to prepare to exterminate the bandits in Crouching Tiger Mountain.
This affectionate confession made his reputation rise a lot, and all the people did not expect that these two murder cases were done by them, and the wealth of the two nobles naturally became a subsidy for the army.
Everyone on Crouching Tiger Mountain got the news, and they were all about to scold their mothers. Crouching Tiger Mountain tries not to kill people every time it acts, and he has ever done something that kills people. Two days ago, they received a secret report from Wulonggou, saying that there was a change in the capital and that Wohu Mountain should be on guard.
Huangfu Yan and Geng Chang believed that Ji Ya and the others would not be untargeted, and the changes in the capital would definitely prompt the people of the Ma family to take action, but in the past three days, only two cases of marrying the blame came. Then came the news that Ma Juncai was preparing to attack.
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When Ma Juncai's 1,000 men and horses arrived at Crouching Tiger Mountain, the news had already been transmitted back to the secret whistle, and after finding out the strength of the opponent, Geng Chang said: "How about it? Go out and ambush it?"
Huangfu Yan shook his head: "We are here to attract their attention, and by the way, test their strength, if we beat them hard, it will inevitably form a mortal enemy, don't want it for the time being." ”
Xiongyi didn't express his opinion, but silently held a grudge in his heart, and Huangfu Yan saw that he was silent, and understood what he meant, so he said: "Okay, don't be angry with them, it's not worth it." As long as you don't mess around on the battlefield, I promise you can teach them a lesson with your own hands. ”
Ruan Yu had told Xiong Yi before, although they were given military training, the time was still too short, let him stay in time not to be impulsive, listen more, watch more, and learn more, the two people in front of him are veterans. In fact, even Ruan Yu did not expect that the Beichen Army Kuizi Banner and the Holy Warrior of the Worship Lady Sect, to the two groups of people who were mortal enemies at the beginning, actually cooperated one day.
Xiong Yi said, "I see. ”
On the other side, Ma Juncai also stopped to rest for a while, this time it was to attack the cottage, the road was rugged, so he didn't bring cavalry, a thousand infantry plus thirty or so Ma family children were enough.
Ma Juncai called a teenager: "After you throw firearms over the cottage for a while, immediately circle around, don't let anyone escape from the cottage." ”
The young man nodded yes, this was also arranged in advance by the group, the two nobles who disobeyed the discipline were killed, and their belongings were also collected by Ma Wencai. If one person escapes from Crouching Tiger Mountain today and spreads the truth, then their prestige will not be preserved.
According to the general process, the army of the bandits has to shout two sentences no matter what they say, or send a messenger to see if there is any possibility of persuasion to surrender, and there are also those who attack directly, just when the people in the cottage were thinking about how the Ma family would act, five huge shadows flew in the sky, and when they got closer, Huangfu Yan recognized that it was the war eagle of the Bird Country.
The five war eagles galloped over, and when they reached the top of the cottage and threw something down, Huangfu Yan shouted in time: "Scattered stars!" All the holy warriors who were preparing for a battle immediately dispersed.
The war eagle sprinkled a special explosive incendiary bomb, which placed the refined explosive oil and the proportional explosive powder in a special clay pot, and ignited the cotton yarn used to ignite the fire outside the clay pot when used, and threw it out to shatter, which could not only cause a fire, but also set off an explosion and splash the oil fire everywhere.
As a flying monster, the war eagle itself is not very easy to subdue, so few people in the Ma family can use this as a combat force, and this time they can bring five attacking cottages, and they also have the intention of destroying all of them without leaving a living mouth.
The holy warriors had been on the battlefield for a long time and immediately dispersed, and the entire cottage exploded and burned everywhere. Xiongyi's eyes were split when he saw this. Originally, I was worried that the cottage would be involved in the battle, so I moved most of the people in advance, but it has been quiet for a month, and Xiong Yi is also wondering if he is too worried, maybe those sons and brothers of the Ma family, the official master, may not take them in their eyes.
As a result, today they didn't say a word, they directly bombed a wave first, and the whole cottage fell into a sea of fire with the sound of explosions, Xiong Yi was glad that people left, otherwise the children who ran around, the men who worked, and the women who chatted while being a female celebrity would be buried in this sea of fire, and Xiongyi's hatred for the Ma family reached its peak for a while.
To deal with a small cottage, of course, there is no need to waste too much, throw a few clay pots, most of the wooden structures of the cottage have been burned, even the defense of the gate has collapsed, and the five war eagles are ready to retreat.
Huangfu Yan, who had been dodging, looked at it clearly, and wanted to run away for a while, and he rushed out, drew arrows, and shot a war eagle with a bow.
In order to better control the war eagle, each of them made a royal hand, this war eagle was shot down suddenly, and the children of the Ma family who drove it also fell heavily to the ground, and coincidentally fell in front of Xiongyi, how could Xiongyi, who was full of anger, spare him, and dragged it up is an old fist, poor Ma family elite, who was thrown all over the body, was beaten to death without showing any strength.
Seeing this, the royal hands of several other war eagles were ready to attack Huangfu Yan, but Huangfu Yan's Seven Glows Divine Arrow was not in vain. As a result, he was shot down by Huangfu Yan, and the remaining three people were immediately alert, the war eagle was not an ordinary bird, and it couldn't be shot down by just one archer, and the bandit on the ground was by no means an ordinary person, and he couldn't take this risk, so he quickly withdrew.
Seeing the war eagle leaving, the rest of the people immediately came out, this time the explosion killed and injured seven or eight holy warriors, Huangfu Yan knew that the next wave of attacks was coming, and immediately shouted: "Spotlight!"
All the holy warriors formed a phalanx with guns in one hand and shields in the other. In the elite troops of the Cult of the Holy Virgin, there will be long and short orders. Short order is a word, for example, 'royal' is defense, and 'force' is to slowly press in formation. 'Rushing' is the whole charge, etc., which belong to the actions of individuals. And the long order is a collective action, just now in the face of bombing, Huangfu Yan ordered 'scattered stars', in fact, it is dispersed. The current 'spotlight' is a flat phalanx, in addition to the arc-shaped 'arc moon', the arrow-like 'rushing arrow', and so on.
"Drink~" With an order, all the warriors quickly lined up in a phalanx, the shield in their hands was neatly blocked in front of them, and the spear was raised and rushed forward. The sound of the shield breaking through the air, the sound of the spear shaking, and the sound of the warriors calling for harmony were almost all made at the same time, and the degree of uniformity made Xiong Yi surprised, and he secretly wondered when the White Tiger Wind would be able to behave like this.
Ma Jun at the foot of the mountain saw the war eagle returning, but there were two missing, and after careful questioning, he learned that there was a marksman in the cottage and shot down two war eagles. However, the whole cottage fell into a sea of fire, and they didn't care about their dying struggle. In the end, you don't need a knife to kill chickens, and besides, the mountain road can't open everyone, Ma Juncai ordered three hundred scimitar soldiers to rush over and exterminate the remaining bandits in Crouching Tiger Mountain.