Chapter 65: The Eve
There will be big things to do!
As soon as he heard this, Lu Da felt bad.
The Northwest Army is fighting on the front line, and five or six thousand war horses are hidden in the rear, if one day, the front line encounters a critical battle, and the rear is suddenly collided, what will be the consequences?
And the source of these war horses is unknown, and the transportation route is unknown, I always feel like a hole has been opened in the rear of the Northwest Army, and if the hole is not blocked, sooner or later it will cause a big disaster!
Lu Da glanced at Twilight, fortunately he came to this village tonight after listening to this kid's words, fortunately he came out to bring her this time, otherwise I don't know when such a big thing will be discovered. The Northwest Army has 100,000 fine horsemen, and there are only five or six thousand war horses in the horse village, he believes that this must not be the number that the other party wants, if he doesn't find it tonight, these war horses should still be transported to the stockade, maybe one day there will be a big disaster!
This kid saved the Northwest Army again!
Lu Da pinched the horse bandit's jaw, "How many of you are there?" Where is the secret mouth of the underground stockade? ”
"Know! Know! There are many secret passages, and one of them he knows is hidden under the yellow rock under the lookout post of the stockade, and the secret door is so clever that it is generally impossible to find, "There are now more than 5,000 brothers in the stockade." ”
Lu Da nodded, his face was closer, so that the horse bandit could see the killing intent in his eyes, and asked, "The last question, are those who were caught by you still alive?" ”
The horse bandit grunted in his throat, "Live, live!" Except for a few people who died of exhaustion, most of them were, all alive! And the women, old and young, were also locked up in the stockade. ”
That was the only relief tonight.
The four horse bandits didn't know what to do with them, and they all had fear in their eyes, but there was a glimmer of life. He asked the secret door, presumably it would save their lives.
Lu Da showed a solemn smile to them, and as soon as he raised his hand, he knocked people out one by one.
"Change your clothes with them, and we'll ride their horses!" Lu Boulevard. There were people at the lookout posts outside the village, and if they wanted to gallop back to the camp where the army was stationed, they had to pretend to be horse bandits, and put them on their horses as passers-by who had been captured from the village.
"However, if we don't enter the village, we will be found out that something is wrong, there are many horse bandits, what should we do if we go out of the village to chase after us?" Old Bear asked.
"You can only throw the two dead off the horse, Lao Tzu and Lao Xiong take the two dead ones, and when the time comes, the two of us are light horses, blocking a horse bandit behind, you go ahead, be sure to promise Lao Tzu to bring these live horse bandits back!" These horses are war horses, and they have good foot strength, and they can return to the camp in a day and night after a five-hundred-mile journey! "Lu Avenue.
"The idea is good, but ......" At this time, Zhang Tong, who was guarding the door, spoke out and looked at Han Qichu, "At the beginning, can you ride a horse?" ”
Han Qichu coughed, his face embarrassed, "No." ”
He was a man of letters, and he only studied at home before joining the army, where did he ever ride a horse?
When Lu Da heard this, his face sank, and his heart sank. It was the best way for them to get back to the camp, but he forgot to consider the fact that someone could not ride a horse.
"Neither will I." At this moment, someone spoke again.
Several people followed the prestige, and they were all stunned.
Twilight!
Along the march, Twilight saved the new army several times, and everyone thought she was omnipotent, and they were a little stunned for a while when they heard her say that she couldn't ride a horse. But if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to understand that she was a servant before joining the army, and it is normal that she can't ride a horse.
Zhang Tong looked at her and knew in his heart that she was a woman, so naturally she had never touched a horse.
Twilight has actually touched horses, but she only rides them for walks. In her previous life, her friend Gu Nishang was superb in equestrianism, and she would pull her to ride a horse in her spare time. And that was in her previous life, she hadn't been on horseback for sixteen years now, and she might not even be familiar with riding a horse and walking, so how could she avoid horse bandits all the way and ride a horse to the barracks?
Six people, two people can't ride horses, Lu Da's idea is not feasible.
It is the easiest way to exchange identities with horse bandits, get out of the village openly, and then run all the way back to the barracks. Now that this method is not feasible, there seems to be no better way.
The room was silent for a while, and the old man under the window stared at the two horse bandit corpses on the ground, already frightened, and when he heard Lu Da and the others speak, his cloudy eyes gradually gathered their brilliance, but when he spoke, he trembled like a leaf in the wind, "A few generals, you, you...... To go, to go? ”
Lu Da glanced over, his eyes were heavy and frightening.
The old man was so frightened that he shrank back, like a frightened old bird, and the young man boldly asked, "Then, what about our village?" After the generals are gone, those horse bandits will come to slaughter the village! ”
They originally thought that Lu Da and the others dared to come to the village, and they should be followed by the army, just like the bandits a few years ago. How did Cheng think about listening to the meaning of their words, but there were only six people coming! Now that they have inquired about the news, killed the horse bandits and left, what will happen to the village? They are the Northwest Army, with strong martial arts, and the horse bandits can't catch them, so they will only vent their anger with the villagers.
"Generals, generals, even if those horse bandits don't slaughter the village, they won't let our family go. We are forced to do all this, and if we don't agree to them, the whole family will die! My baby is only five years old,......" the young man cried bitterly, with despair in his eyes, but with a glimmer of life.
The Northwest Army is a hero in the eyes of the people at the border gates, and they will not leave the people alone.
Seeing that Lu Da frowned fiercely, his fists clenched, the previous moment the horse bandits were ruthless and cruel, at this moment he only looked like iron, glanced at Lao Xiong, Zhang Tong and Yue Kill, and said: "A person rushed out, went back to the camp to report the news, and brought the army here." The rest of the people are waiting for backup in the village, Lao Tzu brought you out, Lao Tzu stayed! Only the three of you can ride a horse, who will go back? ”
He has dealt with horse bandits, and knows the viciousness of these people, they are not even afraid of the Northwest Army, killing a common person and slaughtering a village is just a matter of drawing a knife. The smuggling of war horses is a conspiracy, they conspire to do this, and once it is leaked, it will be a capital crime. Since these people dare to do this, they are already outlaws, and if they don't go back, they will definitely come to check, and this old man's family is bound to be slaughtered. The father and son are not guilty, the woman and the child in his family are innocent after all.
For the sake of today's plan, only one person can be sent to return the letter, and the rest will be stuck in the village.
"Those who go back to report the news will not go back to the barracks! Take the Lao Tzu soldier talisman and go to Gezhou City to transfer a thousand elite cavalry! "Lu Avenue.
Just now he thought that the six of them would be able to run back to the camp tent of the army, so he said to go back. But now there are people to stay and defend the village, the place where the army is camped is far away from 500 miles, the horses gallop for a day and night, return to the camp and gather the soldiers and horses back, and there will be a fierce battle against the horse bandits on the road, and the backup will arrive in three days at the earliest!
It was too difficult for the remaining five people to hold on to the fierce battle for three days.
Only by going to Gezhou City for help, Gezhou City is three hundred miles away, and they come and go for two days, so that the five of them and the people in this village can have a little more life.
The general of Gezhou City left 20,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, and his soldiers can transfer half of the troops, but the troops of Gezhou City cannot be mobilized too much, and those horse bandits don't know what they are plotting, and the troops in the city should not be moved. The elite cavalry of the Northwest Army are all sharpened knives in the desert, and there will be no problem to save them with one as ten or one thousand elite cavalry!
But the problem is that the five people who are left to defend the village are bound to be a bloody battle for two days and nights! It is very likely that if they can't wait for reinforcements, their blood and their lives will remain in this village and turn into wind and sand in the northwest.
It is possible that the people who go to Gezhou City to report the news will survive, and there is only one chance of life for those who are left to defend the village.
"I'm not leaving!" Zhang Tong said suddenly, looking at the twilight green, the depth contained in that glance was buried in the darkness of the room, and it was not real.
Why is she a woman? Why don't you ride a horse? Otherwise, she can go......
"I'm not leaving!" Yue Kill said coldly, and also looked at Twilight, the Lord's order is to protect her at any cost!
Both of them looked at Lao Xiong, and Lao Xiong scolded, "Damn! If you two don't go, will Lao Tzu go? Lao Tzu is a veteran of the Northwest Army, and he has killed too many Hu people and bandits to count, how can he be like you two boys, rookie eggs, no blood on the knife! Defending the village for two days of bloody battles, you are better than killing people? Don't be soft then! The two of you go one, Lao Tzu stays! ”
Lu Da nodded, he also thought so, keeping a veteran is more important than keeping a new soldier.
Moon Kill sneered, didn't he have blood on his knife? Yes, he didn't get bloody, because he didn't use a knife. But the lives in his hands have been countless, compared to assassination, no one has been more accurate than him, it takes too much effort to cut people with a knife, and he can kill ten people with the work of cutting a human head in the Northwest Army.
Yue Kill looked at Zhang Tong and said, "If you want to go, he should go." ”
Zhang Tong laughed angrily, "Do you want to fight, see blood, see who is soft?" ”
Moon Kill looked at him coldly, seeing blood? The blood on his hands was all corpses!
The two of them began to argue when they saw it, and suddenly heard someone speak, "Yue Ci go!" ”
The moon kill followed the prestige, and when he saw that it was twilight, the temperature at the bottom of his cold eyes suddenly dropped into ice. She told him to go? He goes, leaving this kid with her? This kid has either seen that she is a woman, or he has a habit of breaking sleeves, in short, he has bad intentions for her!
Zhang Tong raised his eyebrows, glanced at the moon kill defiantly, and showed a victor's smile, but there was a complicated look in his eyes. She chose him, and although she chose him to stay and die, she rejoiced in her heart for some reason.
Moon Kill takes a look at Zhang Tong, look? This boy is very happy, and the blind can see that he has bad intentions! Can't this woman see it? Can she be smarter in anything other than solving cases?
Twilight didn't seem to see the frost on Moon Slayer's face, she only looked at him deeply, and said, "Think about your family." ”
Lu Da and the others are stunned, family? Which of the people present is unconcerned? Why did she just remind Yue Ci?
It sounds a little weird, but it's not too weird. On the night of the round-up of Hu Yanhao, she and Yue Ci were behind, Xu is Yue Ci told her about family affairs, and Xu is that he has a reason not to die.
Twilight didn't care what others guessed, she just looked at Moon Kill deeply, hoping that he would understand.
Think of your family – think of your master!
If Moon Kill stays in the village to fight bloodily, he will definitely show his skills to protect her! He is a shadow guard, he is practicing assassination skills, and when his skills are revealed, Lu will not be able to see it? If he is found out and his identity is revealed, what will happen to Bu Xihuan? The Northwest Army is the descendant of the Yuan family, Bu Xihuan is not on good terms with the Yuan family, the Yuan family has controlled the government for many years, if he knows that he has installed a shadow guard in the Northwest Army, what situation will he face?
The candle flame flickered, jumping into the young man's eyes, but he couldn't shake the firmness and depth in his eyes, and the firmness was as firm as a rock, shattering the ice under the eyes of the moon killer, so that he didn't speak for a long time.
It seemed that after a long time of getting to know her again, he asked, "What about you?" Your family ......."
She joined the army in the northwest, isn't it just to avenge her father? Leaving her life here, how can she avenge her father?
"So I'm not going to give up my life lightly." At this moment, it seems to be trusting, as if entrusting, "My vitality is in your hands, so you go and return quickly." ”
There was no sound in the house for a long time, Zhang Tong looked at Twilight Qing and Moon Kill, they ...... Familiar?
But, before he could think about it, Moon Kill opened his mouth, "Okay! ”
Just one word, he agreed, and he would not go back.
Lu Dashen glanced at Du Qing, and he also saw that these two boys had a good relationship, but no matter what personal relationship they had, it would be good if the candidate was confirmed. The six bandits had been in the village for some time, and there was no more time for them to quarrel and argue.
"Next!" Lu raised his hand, and a talisman was thrown towards the moon kill, "Qin Fei, the guard of Gezhou City, and He Cheng, the commander of the fine cavalry, ordered He Cheng to bring a thousand fine cavalry to rescue, Gezhou City is under martial law during the war, and there must be no mistake!" ”
The moon kill was answered, and the order was given, and he ran out of the yard when he opened the door, and heard the neighing of a war horse at the door, and the sound of horses' hooves, and stepped through the night!
The sound of horses' hooves has not yet passed, the food on the table in the house has been swept to the ground, a piece of paper is spread on the table, and Han Qichu has drawn a simple map of the village. Before they entered the village, they had looked at the whole village at the entrance of the village, a small village of two or three hundred households, and there were only two intersections in and out of the village, which they could remember at a glance.
Han Qichu was a literati, he didn't know martial arts, he marched and practiced all the way, he just practiced his body, stayed, he couldn't help much, but he could talk about the art of war and tactics.
"The lookout post of the horse bandits knew that six of us had entered the village, and Yue Ci had broken out, and there were five of us left. The horse bandits did not know who we were, and we were few of us, so they would certainly be inferior at first, and the first group of people would never exceed fifty in the village, and they would break in through the entrance of the village. Brother Zhou and I can't ride horses, but we can set up a hidden rope at the entrance of the village, and kill them quickly after tripping a group of people. But if you are not good at martial arts, it is a little difficult to quickly kill the horse bandits who have tripped by Brother Zhou, so you have to ask Brother Zhang to abandon the horse battle and do it with Brother Zhou! ”
Zhang Tong nodded, he had no opinion, he killed the enemy under the horse with her, and he could protect her!
Twilight Qing has no opinion, she doesn't understand the art of war, but from a psychological point of view, Han Qichu's analysis is correct. The horse bandits will certainly look down on their numbers, and the arrogant mentality of underestimating the enemy will make them the first to come, and they will swagger out of the village entrance, and will never consider other ways to enter the village.
"After killing these horse bandits, you still need to kill the war horses!"
"Kill the warhorse?" Lu Da furrowed his brows. These Huma are tall and strong, quite a divine horse, and now in the time of war, it is better to pay them for military use, and it is distressing to kill them!
"Kill!" Han Qichu said, the gentle and elegant literati in the past, at this moment, with a sharp eye, writing a little bit of the road at the entrance of the village, "If these people don't go back, the horse bandits will definitely be angered, and this time they come back, there will be no less than two or three hundred." Relying on the troops, they will still go to the entrance of the village, but two or three hundred cavalry is no longer something that the four generals can handle, and they must kill the horses! The road in this village is narrow, fifty horse bandits, fifty war horses, enough to block the village road. ”
"This village, there is a half-wall outside the village, and behind the village is Xia Yu Village. Horse bandits cannot enter the village, and they must choose a bypass. They will not gallop to Xiayu Village, and then enter the village from Xiayu, they will definitely enter from here! Han Qichu pointed to the earthen wall outside the village, that around most of the village when the earthen wall came to everyone had seen, the loess was piled up, the wall was already low, and there were a few collapses, it was easy to ride a horse into the village.
"It's a good place to attack! Pouring oil, igniting fire, controlling the enemy's war horses, trapping the enemy in the sea of fire, two or three hundred horsemen can be taken lightly! Han Qichu patted the map on the table, glanced at a few people, the candle flame shone on his eyes, there seemed to be a sea of fire and sword light, the night battle had not started, it seemed that people had heard the neighing of the war horse, and had seen the sea of fire.
"Good boy! Okay! Lu Da patted Han Qichu on the shoulder, and he still felt sorry for those war horses, and there was only light in his eyes at this moment.
The collision force of the war horse is too strong, and since ancient times, the battle between the cavalry and the infantry has not been a war, but a slaughter. Two or three hundred infantry met two or three hundred cavalry, and they only had the fate of being crushed to death, not to mention that they only had five people? If you want to win, you can only rely on tactics. I have to say that Han Qichu has the ability to be a military advisor!
Lu Da's praise only made Han Qichu smile bitterly, his ambition was to be a military advisor in the world, and the temple was high, but his ambition was not realized, and he encountered this situation. Perhaps, this will be the only and last time in his life that he will be able to strategize.
But it doesn't matter! If you can guard the people of a village, you will not live up to it in this life!
"If this group of people is killed by us again, the horse bandits will no longer enter the village at will. If the guess is correct, they should also attack with fire. Fire oil, rockets, the village will be a sea of fire! The only thing that can be relieved is that there are many earthen houses in the village, and fire attacks may not kill people, but they can cause chaos. At this time, the village wall has become a sea of fire, people and horses are not allowed to enter, and horse bandits can only enter from the village entrance. Horses can't enter the village, they won't have any more horses this time, but there will be a lot of people, at least five or six hundred. At this time, I can change into the clothes of the horse bandits in the house, and blend into the crowd to get out of the cold knife. But it will always be discovered, then...... Alas! I can only fight hard. Han Qichu sighed, according to their numbers and the terrain in the village, there were only these tactics he could formulate.
If it is good, it should be early in the morning when the third group of people enters the village.
The two groups of horse bandits at night, with proper tactics and tacit cooperation, should not be too tired. The real tiredness is from the early morning, there are no tactics, only deathmatch! After two days and one night, whether they can survive and wait for reinforcements depends on the destiny of heaven!
Lu Da patted Han Qichu on the shoulder, picked up the horse bandit's knife from the ground in the house and handed it to him, "You just watch these people in this house, and leave it to us outside!" ”
Han Qichu bowed, he wouldn't be able to go out to help, he wouldn't know martial arts, and going out would only become a burden to them.
Everyone had no opinion on the tactics formulated by Han Qichu, so he untied the ropes of several horse bandits, stripped off the clothes on their bodies, and tied them back together.
The five of them were in no hurry to change into the clothes of the horse bandits, because after all, there were few people, and there were two battles at the entrance and wall of the village, and they did not dare to guarantee that there would be no horse bandits who escaped the net and fled back to the village to report the news. If you wear the clothes of a bandit at this time, it will not be easy for the bandit to blend in when he enters the village.
Han Qichu stayed in the house, and Lu Da, Lao Xiong, Du Qing and Zhang Tong went out with the knife of the horse bandit.
As soon as I arrived at the entrance of the village, I heard the sound of rumbling horses in the night————
Off topic –
It's fun to look at the question, let's announce the answer to yesterday's question:
It was Lu Da who opened the door
(Tip 1: The person who opens the door is quite strong.) Tip 2: "Transporting horses? Lu Da narrowed his eyes, remembering the six strong horses he saw outside when he opened the door. )
In the carriage were Twilight and Old Bear
(Tip 1: A cold light shoots out and stabs the man's wrist, which is Qingqing's scalpel.) Tip 2: Suddenly another person jumped out of the carriage, quite tall, and threw one into the courtyard with one in one hand. In addition to Lu Da, only Lao Xiong, who is tall and has such a big strength. )
Therefore, the elimination method, the two behind the door are Zhang Tong and Yue Kill.
(Two thin figures, reaching out and pulling together, the two were dragged into the courtyard.) Compared with Lu Da and Lao Xiong, Zhang Tong and Yue Kill are relatively thin. Han Qichu is also thin, but he doesn't know martial arts. If you have the strength to drag the horse bandits into the courtyard, you must have the skill. )