Chapter 21: The Vulnerable Guards
The sun was shining brightly outside, and the snoring in the forest shook the sky.
More than 2,000 men hid in the shady forest, and they slept very well, and most of them chose to sleep under a big tree, spread hay and turn their heads down.
Only the Qin leader enjoyed it the most, cut some rattans, and weaved a simple hammock between the two trees, and slept so much that all the harass flowed down.
Under the tree on the side, the mother and daughter who snuggled together were also stunned.
Isn't it all life and death to fight?
Why are all these thieves acting like they're all right?
Maybe it's because they're always vigilant, or maybe it's because the mosquitoes and grass around them are too hard, and the two girls just can't sleep.
"Mother, why don't we learn from Brother Xiaoyu to make a swing!"
"We can't do it, Wan'er, you better sleep for a while, with your mother watching, don't worry."
"Mother, I can't sleep, I'm afraid..." Li Wan'er hugged Mrs. Li tightly at the thought of waiting for a war.
"Don't be afraid, didn't Childe say that he would win this time?" Mrs. Li comforted, in fact, she was also nervous.
At this time, Li Dingguo stepped on the leaves and brushed over and pushed Qin Yu.
"Xiao Yu, don't sleep, the officers and soldiers are about to reach the valley in front."
"Damn, it's finally here."
Qin Yu stretched out and yawned.
"You eat something first, and I'll wake up the brothers." As Li Dingguo spoke, he put a kettle made of bamboo tubes and a few flatbreads on the hammock.
"Madame, why haven't you slept?" Qin Yu jumped out of the hammock, came to the two girls with something, and found that the eyes of the mother and daughter were red and red.
"Brother Xiaoyu, can we really win?" Li Wan'er asked weakly.
Mrs. Li hurriedly covered her mouth, for fear that she would say the wrong thing again and make Qin Yu angry.
"Don't worry, you can definitely win, I promise!"
Qin Yu handed over the kettle with a smile, he didn't say nonsense, almost all of Li Dingguo's more than 2,000 horses were real guys, all of them were tall and big.
It can be seen how partial Zhang Xianzhong is, with ten battalions under his command, Sun Kewang's battalion has the most people, Li Dingguo's battalion is the best equipped, and the remaining two righteous sons would have led the camp alone if they were not young.
"Hmm!"
Li Wan'er took the kettle and took a sip, feeling a lot more steady.
Qin Yu handed over two more flatbreads and said, "Wait a minute, I'll leave two people to protect you, go and sleep in the hammock for a while, I don't know if I have to walk at night today." ”
After speaking, he beckoned, called two teenagers over, gave some orders, and walked forward.
The mother and daughter really couldn't hold it anymore, each ate half a flatbread, drank some water, and then lay down in the hammock and fell asleep together.
Meanwhile.
Seven or eight miles away on the official road, dusty and noisy, like a huge vegetable market, a Ming soldier named like Hanako walked and chatted.
"Commander, the front is the Luoma Slope, do you want to send a team of people to investigate first?"
"Hey! The corpses of those thieves who were killed by General Zuo's soldiers in Jiangbei yesterday are all over the field, and even if they don't flee today, they will retreat in the city, is it possible that they dare to ambush us? ”
Commander Lu, who was riding on the horse, smiled, and then nodded: "But the terrain here is indeed dangerous, for the generals must not be overlooked, send a team of people to investigate quickly, do not delay!" ”
"Yes!"
After a family member on the side agreed, he galloped away into the valley with a few horses, and returned in a short time.
"Report to your lord, there is nothing abnormal in the valley."
"Okay, pass the order, speed up the march, and tell the brothers that when we get to Gucheng, there are some beautiful women with money and food, if we are preempted by those guys and the left army in Xiangyang, then we will only have to drink soup."
Sure enough, after hearing this, all the sergeants were as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and they were not as dragging as before.
More than 5,000 people sparsely pulled and soon passed through the valley, and the birds in the forest on the left side flew one after another.
In the chaotic bird calls, a unique bird call was particularly harsh, but this did not attract the attention of the officers and soldiers.
In the woods, two thousand men nervously clenched their blades, and more than three hundred teenagers carried sharpened wooden sticks.
"Xiaoyu, what's going on?"
Li Dingguo saw that he had waited for a long time without moving, and couldn't help but look at Qin Yu.
"Damn, they must be asleep! Ay! Why didn't you think of this..."
Qin Yu slapped his forehead, and jumped straight to his feet in a hurry.
"Blow quickly, keep blowing, blow hard for Lao Tzu!"
The monkey on the side, bent his fingers into his mouth, blushed, and blew hard.
And the four teenagers in the small pit next to the official road were indeed asleep, and their saliva was dripping all over the ground.
Fortunately, the movement of the officers and soldiers was too great, and the four of them were woken up one after another, and they were immediately half frightened to death, and quickly took out the fire fold and blew it to ignite the fuse.
"Boom!"
Just when Li Dingguo couldn't help but take people out, a soy sauce jar on the official road was finally detonated.
A huge cloud of black smoke rose into the air, and several officers and soldiers were directly blown into the sky, followed by countless flying sand and rocks, and some even fell into the forest.
After the explosion, the officers and soldiers on the official road panicked, and people shouted and neighed, one after another.
Before the commander who could lead the team and the other thousands of households could react, three loud noises came again one after another.
"Brothers, kill me and get out..."
Qin Yu pulled out his waist knife and roared angrily.
"Kill!"
"Rush!"
Only then did Li Dingguo and the others wake up from the shock and rushed out with a howl.
More than 2,000 people, like wild boars out of the forest, roared like an official road arched up.
"Big... My lord, we have been ambushed. ”
"Lao Tzu is not blind, damn, quickly, withdraw..."
Commander Lu flicked the horse's head, which was a fierce whip, and rushed towards the valley with hundreds of family members, trampling to death many of his own men along the way.
And the rest of the thousands of households also ran backwards under the protection of their own families.
The movements of ordinary military households were also not slow, and they threw away their blades and fled from the official road as soon as possible, and some of them were wearing broken cotton armor, and they untied the cotton armor and threw it away while running.
Throughout, no one thought of meeting the enemy.
"Haha, kill Lao Tzu!"
Qin Yu took three hundred teenagers, chasing the buttocks of the rout, and he still didn't stop chasing Xiaohe, and the waist knife in his hand had already hacked no less than three people to death.
As for what poor people don't chase, to hell with it!
Li Dingguo also took the lead and chased along the valley, killing countless Ming soldiers along the way.
"Stop, stop, stop, don't chase, don't chase."
After chasing for several miles, seeing that the Ming army had completely dispersed and drilled into the mountains, Qin Yu shouted at the top of his throat.
The boys stopped out of breath, but the big men with sharp blades didn't listen at all, and still pursued them.
Qin Yu didn't care about these people, and began to return along the road, collecting the fallen weapons and armor and the corpses of the wounded of the Ming army.