Chapter 334: Mid-August
The Green Forest Thief was once again repelled by the Black Tiger Thief to the south bank of the Sand River, which was of great significance.
And the main result of this is that the brigade wolf cubs have sharpened their minions and become more and more cunning.
Hao Shun is one of them.
On the first day of August, he was still secretly evaluated by Xu Bai as "too reckless" and "not knowing how to lead the team", and he also paid the price for this, on the night of the fourth day of August, Hao Shun and the brigade wolves led by him were ambushed when they attacked a group of green forest thieves, and finally paid a heavy price for injuring 28 people and killing 16 people.
A team of only fifty people suffered such a huge loss, and Hao Shun was disillusioned at that time.
At that time, he even thought about escaping back to the cottage and flying away with his family, because he didn't know what the village would do with him and how the big leader would punish him.
But in the end, he still didn't dare to escape, and honestly returned to Kunyang County with the few remaining men, and asked to see the big leader Zhou Hu in fear, saying that he was willing to accept the punishment and be removed from the position of the team leader.
However, Zhao Yu did not remove Hao Shun's position.
In Zhao Yu's view, this kind of 'paying tuition' is inevitable, after all, most of these team leaders are just ordinary people, they have not been involved in any military books at all, and they don't know how to strategy at all, even if they change to others, they may not do better than Hao Shun - the reason why people like Xu Bai, Wang Ping, Lexing and others have lost less is because these people have experience in leading the team, unlike Hao Shun, who was directly promoted from the village.
In order to show the majesty of the big leader, and also to motivate and encourage Hao Shun, Zhao Yu deliberately intimidated: "You have caused so many brothers to lose in the village, do you think that just revoking your position as the head of the team can be revealed?" ”
Hearing this, even Hao Shun was full of horror at that time, and couldn't help but think of the person who was in the cottage, and secretly thought that the person who didn't like to talk was probably going to be a widow......
Unexpectedly, Zhao Yu changed his words and deliberately said angrily: "It's not so cheap!" You make up for me right now, and get back to where you need to be! …… During this period, I thought about why there was such a loss! ”
At that time, Hao Shun was simply stunned, looking at Zhao Yu in disbelief, but he didn't dare to ask anything in person, 'You don't punish me?' This kind of stupid talk bowed his head and retired.
Knowing this, Chen Mo and Wang Qing also felt very surprised, and during a free time, Chen Mo asked Zhao Yu about this matter and asked why Zhao Yu did not punish Hao Shun.
Zhao Yu explained with a smile: "Most of the brothers in the village are illiterate, illiterate in military literature, and do not understand strategy, if Hao Shun is replaced because of a failure, who can guarantee that the person who succeeds him will not make the same mistake?" Rather than this, it is better to continue to call this Hao Shun as the team leader, at least he has already tasted the taste of being ambushed once, and he will definitely be more cautious in the future, and will not easily make similar mistakes again......"
"I see."
Chen Mo and Wang Qing suddenly realized.
Yes, when implementing the 'wolf pack tactic', Zhao Yu was ready to bear the loss.
Don't look at the world's admiration for those famous generals who have won a hundred battles, but most of the generals in the world must learn from the experience of failure again and again, and the more defeats, the more relevant experience they have, and they will not make similar mistakes in the future.
In short, an experienced general is fed by a large number of soldiers who died for his mistakes.
If the generals who led the troops were killed because they made a mistake, there would be few generals in the sky.
The same is true for those teams in the brigade camp, since Zhao Yu wants to cultivate the ability of these teams to make independent judgments, he must be prepared to bear losses.
Although it is not enough to live with those who were trapped, this is to reduce greater and more casualties in the future.
It was with this in mind that Zhao Yu tolerated the loss of Hao Shun's trade behavior, hoping that he could learn from his failures and quickly grow into a qualified and cunning head wolf.
Not only Hao Shun, but also Zhao Yu was also tolerant of several other team leaders who had suffered huge losses, and after the good students encouraged them and told them to replenish their numbers, they would go out of the city again to compete with those green forest thieves, so as not to miss the opportunity to continue to sharpen their minions.
As Zhao Yu believes, after a few defeats, those teams are becoming more and more cunning, and they are gradually figuring out something similar to tactics - although these people can learn these experiences by watching military parades if they are literate, Zhao Yu is still very satisfied.
The Green Forest Thieves were beaten back to the south bank of the Sand River by the Black Tiger Thieves, and it was the turn of those rebel soldiers to often pack wolf tactics.
Around 13 August, more than a dozen wolf packs, nearly 1,000 black tiger thieves, crossed the Shahe River again, and peeked into the camp of the rebel general Huang Kang.
However, this time, there was no green forest thief to share the pressure for Huang Kang, after all, the green forest thief led by Zhang Tai had already paid heavy casualties a few days ago, and there were only more than 1,500 people left, and even Zhang Tai himself was injured a few days ago.
In desperation, Huang Kang secretly scolded these green forest thieves for their incompetence, and at the same time sent his corporal to ambush those black tiger thieves.
At this time, the previous experience of fighting with the green forest thieves was reflected, and in the face of the ambush of the rebels, the leading wolves of the brigade wolf almost had no plan.
And Xu Bai, the only one who seemed to take the initiative to jump into the trap, even played a trick to lure the enemy deeper, contacted six wolves with a wolf howl, and besieged the hundreds of rebels who pursued them, so that their entire army was wiped out, and few people escaped.
After learning about this, Huang Kang scolded angrily, scolding the group of guys in the Green Forest Thieves, instead of getting rid of those black scarf soldiers, he fed a group of people who were better at harassing and sneaking up at night.
But he could scold and scold, and he had nothing to do about the current situation, so he could only order the guards of the camp to be strengthened.
Fortunately, he had already built the camp by this time, at least the surrounding camp fence had been built, so he didn't need to worry too much about those black tiger thieves killing into the village.
But he didn't expect that those black tiger thieves who were wandering around, although they really didn't dare to attack his camp easily, began to hunt down the soldiers he sent out to patrol and watch at night.
Many black tiger thieves were ambushed outside the rebel camp, and while the patrolling rebel soldiers were defenseless, they either broke out or secretly released cold arrows, so that in just two nights, Huang Kang's men lost more than 300 soldiers.
Huang Kang was so angry that when he ordered his generals to lead his troops to clean up those black tiger thieves, the other party had already disappeared.
And when those generals returned to the camp with their troops, and as soon as they fell asleep, the annoying group of black tiger thieves returned.
"No! We have to find a way to get rid of these annoying guys!'
Huang Kang thought secretly and discussed strategies with his generals.
Song Zan, a general, discussed: "You might as well reduce the guards outside the camp, lure the black turban thieves to attack the camp, and at the same time wait for us to ambush heavy soldiers in the camp, as long as the black turban thieves enter the camp, we will close the door and kill the thief, first cut off his back road, and then surround and kill on all sides!" ”
"Hmm."
Huang Kang nodded, thinking that this was a good idea.
So, that day, Huang Kang deliberately relaxed the guards at the east camp gate, and at the same time ambushed a serious illness in the camp.
But he didn't expect that no group of black tiger thieves would be fooled.
In this regard, the Black Tiger Thieves Zheng Bao Xin explained to his brothers: "As long as we launch an attack, we will be ambushed by the rebels; On the other hand, as long as we don't make a move, there will be no flaws. ”
Indeed, for black tiger thieves like Bao Xin who led the team to wander around the rebel camp and ran away with only a few noises, Huang Kang had no way to take them.
Bao Xin was content to harass the rebels in this way, making the rebel soldiers uneasy at night.
Of course, a guy like Bao Xin who is so cautious that he is almost cowardly is indeed a rare alternative in the Black Tiger Village, and most of the Black Tiger Thieves are still very aggressive, including Hao Shun.
But the major defeat a few days ago gave this reckless guy an extra heart.
Although he ambitiously attacked the seemingly weakly defended East Camp Gate of the rebel camp, he refused to go deeper, and only fought around the camp gate, devoting himself to setting fire to the nearby camp fence and the shacks that served as military tents.
Song Zan, the rebel general who was ambushed in the camp, couldn't hold back anymore, and led his corporal to kill, and Hao Shun fled with his brothers without saying a word.
Of course, the rebel general Song Zan would not easily let go of this group of black tiger thieves, and chased after him with his soldiers, but he was ambushed by Xu Bai, Wang Ping, Le Xing and others halfway, this group of despicable guys, first hid in the shadows and released cold arrows far away, and when the rebels under Song Zan's command were in chaos, this group was killed in all directions, just like a wolf pack hunting, if the rebels pursued the brothers of other teams, they took the opportunity to attack behind them; If the rebels turn around and attack them, they immediately retreat, creating an opportunity for the other team's brothers.
Song Zan personally led hundreds of rebel soldiers for ambushes, simply could not adapt to this tactic, advance and retreat, under the coordinated attack of those black tiger thieves, it was difficult to take care of one or the other, and finally was destroyed, even Song Zan, a general under Huang Kang, was also seriously wounded, under the desperate protection of several guards, this broke through and fled back to the camp.
Soon after, Yang Ding, the county commander of Yexian County, learned the news and learned that the rebel general Huang Kang had been disturbed by nearly a thousand black tiger thieves.
Seeing that Kunyang County had no reaction a while ago, he thought that Zhou Hu was perfunctory to him, but he didn't expect the black tiger thief to do even better than he expected.
Surprised, he discussed with Wei Dong, Wei Chi, Wang Yan, and Gao Chun: "Thanks to the Black Tiger Thief, now Huang Kang is shrinking into his camp, and he is disturbed by the Black Tiger Thief every night, presumably most of his subordinates are tired, let's try to attack the camp and take a look......"
Wei Chi, Wang Yan, and Gao Chun nodded in support.
On the night of August 16, Wei Chi and Wang Yan led 3,000 Nanyang soldiers to attack the camp of the Huangkang rebels at night.
Although there was a bright full moon in the night sky at that time, none of the rebel soldiers under Huang Kang's command were wary of this army in Ye County—their entire minds were on those damned black turban thieves.
That night, Wei Chi and Wang Yan broke the rebels under Huang Kang, and when the whole camp was in chaos, Huang Kang couldn't hold the camp at all, so he had to abandon the camp and break through.
However, on the way to abandon the camp, he was ambushed by the black tiger thieves, and suffered countless losses, and in the end, he could only take the few remaining troops and retreat to Dingling County.
After learning of his defeat from Huang Kang, Guan Shuo, the commander of the Changsha army, was furious.
But in the end, he did not blame Huang Kang, but sent someone to urge Liu De, another general who was attacking Zhaoling County, and ordered him to step up the attack on Zhaoling, which was about to break the city.
On August 22, Zhaoling County, which had been besieged by tens of thousands of rebels for two months, fell.
The fall of Zhaoling County means that Guan Shuo can finally move his strategic focus north to Yexian and Kunyang without any worries, and it also means that Yexian and Kunyang counties are about to face the most serious threat to date.