Chapter 316: Taking the Initiative
Attacking Yangshi County, Luo City thought that there was no chance, even if the city wall of Yangshi County was not too strong and strong, but they did come lightly, only thinking about sneaking up on Yangshi County, and they didn't carry any siege equipment at all.
Under such circumstances, Luo Shi believed that Liulin Village, on the other side of the river in the south of Yangshi County, was the place they wanted to plunder. Liulin Village does not have any city walls, as long as you cross the river, then you can directly kill the village and town.
However, if you want to loot Liulin Village, you have to cross the river first, and he has a plan with a frown.
The big river in the south of Yang's county, there will definitely be boats or bamboo rafts and the like, and now they have suddenly killed, although this Yang's county closed the city gate in time, so that their raid plan failed, but he thought that the river must not know yet, if there are boats or those bamboo rafts and other means of crossing the river by the river, it should not have time to drive away.
He hurriedly said to the left and right: "Hurry up, lead two thousand men and horses to the river, collect boats, and be fast!" ”
"Search the ship? General Luo, this is ......"
The deputy generals, personal generals and others around Luo City didn't understand for a while, and they were a little puzzled.
Luo Shi rolled his eyes, glared coldly at the pro-general who asked the question, and shouted in a low voice: "Idiot! The plan to raid Yang's County failed, this time our vanguard army went out to rob grain not only in vain but also in success, when the big leader came, how can we explain to him? In this case, it is better for me to cross the river to Liulin Village first, and rob Liulin Village first. Do you understand? ”
"That's right! In any case, the money and food we have grabbed are our own. If we can't make a contribution, we will all be treated coldly by others when we return to Montenegro in the future. The last general understood, and the last general immediately went to collect the ships. ”
"As fast as possible, not only fast, but also to collect as many boats as possible, if not, then quickly cut down trees, find a way to get some bamboo rafts, if you can, you can hurry up and build a pontoon bridge." Luo Shi will confess again.
The vanguard army, opening roads in the mountains and building bridges in the water, these things are their duty. I didn't bring many siege tools and equipment, but I still had plenty of tools to open roads and build bridges. And among their Yellow Turban vanguard army, there are naturally many technical soldiers who specialize in building pontoon bridges.
As soon as the general received the order, he ordered two thousand men and horses, hurried to the river, and began to collect boats.
Luo Shi watched his personal general lead his men and horses to the river, and he said to a deputy general: "Send someone to report to the big leader, just say that the official officers and soldiers of Yangshi County have already prepared, and our vanguard army's surprise attack plan has failed." There is no point in the big leader's army marching in concealment, so please ask the big leader to speed up the army, and the army will surround Yangshi County and forcibly attack the city. Remind the Great Leader that we have about three days to attack the city, and if we fail to capture it within three days, then we will have to withdraw our troops. In addition, it is said that Ben Qushuai is worried that there will be changes in Liulin Village, and that the people of Liufu in Liulin Village will destroy the grain and flee when they learn that our army has been killed. Therefore, the commander of Benqu personally led the vanguard army to cross the river first and seize the money and grain of Liulin Village. ”
"Subordinates take orders!" The lieutenant immediately responded and turned away.
Luo Shi knew that he didn't have much say in the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro. The attack on Liulin Village had actually been arranged for a long time, and it was not his turn to do it. Doing so now is tantamount to making a self-assertion, and he is worried that Zhang Niujiao will punish him for this unauthorized action afterwards, so he still has to ask the prophet to open his horns.
Their vanguard army was not too far away from the large army led by Zhang Niujiao, and it was believed that Zhang Niujiao's army would soon be killed. Luo Shi now hopes that he can quickly cross the river and loot Liulin Village before Zhang Niujiao arrives. In any case, make a contribution before you say it.
At this time, the generals he sent had already arrived in Yang's county town to call for battle.
However, at this time, the officers and soldiers of Yangshi County would definitely ignore them, and it would be impossible for them to go out of the city to fight.
Calling the formation, that is, scolding the formation, the generals are single-handed, and they shout whatever is ugly, hoping to stimulate the generals among the officers and soldiers of the government, and they can't help but go out of the city to fight. As long as they go out of the city, then they must open the city gate, and if the city gate is opened, then they will definitely kill the city gate as soon as possible, and take the opportunity to kill into the city.
Such an agitated general called the battle, and only when his brain was caught by the door would he go out of the city to fight. At the head of the city, Wang Bao had already ordered that the sergeants were not allowed to answer, and only needed to prepare to defend the city.
At the same time, one or two hundred archers were gathered at the head of the city, and as long as the Yellow Turban army under the city dared to enter the range of bows and arrows, then a random number of arrows would shoot over and force them back.
Yang's County is actually equivalent to Liu Xian's power territory. Liu Xian will have to raise troops sooner or later to stand on his own, so the logistics ordnance department of Yangshi County has not stopped building ordnance in the past few months. Mainly to build weapons, swords, guns, swords, halberds, these are to be built first, in addition to these, but also to create a large number of arrows, made a large number of arrows.
Therefore, now in Yangshi County, there may not be many other weapons, but this arrow has accumulated a lot.
Therefore, there are not many archers now, they don't have to think about saving their bows and arrows, as long as they can threaten the enemy, then they can shoot desperately, as long as they still have the strength to shoot arrows, then they can keep shooting bows and arrows.
In this way, at this time, the city head of Yangshi County will shoot a mess of arrows from time to time, and some soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army, if they dare to advance within the range of bows and arrows, then they may be killed by random arrows.
Luo Shi knew that his thousands of vanguard troops would not be able to capture Yang's County, but he still let his people take turns to harass him, attracting the officials and soldiers at the head of the city to shoot bows and arrows. He did this because he wanted Zhang Niujiao and others who came to see that it was not that he was ineffective in Luo City and failed to attack Yang County, but that they had indeed made preparations. If they didn't believe it, they came to see the bows and arrows stuck in the ground under the Yang County, and saw the corpses of individual soldiers who didn't have time to retreat, and they understood that Yang County was indeed prepared and couldn't attack it, so they couldn't blame him.
Not long after, the general who led 2,000 men and horses to the river to collect boats returned with a happy face.
"General Luo! God bless us the Yellow Turbans, we rushed to the river, and found that there were some simple ferries along the river, but those people found us and immediately fled in their boats and rafts into the river. When we arrived, we only caught a wooden boat that had not had time to escape, and upon interrogation, it turned out that they still had a lot of tools to cross the river in the large river downstream. We rushed to search, and sure enough, we found about 100 rafts. ”
"Oh? Hundreds? What are they doing in those places where they hide so many rafts? Luo Shi was also happy when he heard this, but he was also a little puzzled, after all, there are hundreds of rafts, what are ordinary people doing in the river with so many rafts?
"General Luo, these have also been interrogated clearly. Those rafts were actually from Liu Xian of Liu Mansion in Liulin Village. They had very frequent contacts with Yangshi County, and it is said that they also set up a Liufu caravan, which was used by Liufu caravans to transport goods between Liulin Village and Yangshi County. In addition, we also interrogated and found out that most of Liu Xian's money and grain were hidden in Liulin Village, and many people saw that those rafts were used to transport grain to Liulin Village. ”
"I see, good! You've made a great contribution this time, so what are you waiting for? Hurry up and cross the river to loot Liulin Village. By the way, how many people can sit on a raft? ”
Luo Shi estimated that the large army led by Zhang Niujiao would be killed soon, and it was really not suitable for him to meet Zhang Niujiao for the time being.
"Each raft can seat about 10 people, and of course, a few more. However, for the sake of safety, it is advisable to sit on a raft for 10 people. Also, these hundreds of rafts can be used to build a pontoon bridge, but it will definitely take some time. ”
"No, you can't build a pontoon bridge, where is the time to build a pontoon bridge now? The big leader is coming soon, and we have to take the lead and loot Liulin Village first. Let's go, leaving two thousand men and horses here to feign a siege, and we will cross the river. ”
Luo Shi rejected the proposal to build a pontoon bridge. What's the joke about? Not to mention whether there is still time to build a pontoon bridge, even if the pontoon bridge can be built before Zhang Niujiao's army arrives, Luo Shi will not do it. Because once the pontoon bridge is built, then the Yellow Turban army behind it will also be able to cross the river through the pontoon bridge.
Luo Shi also has his own selfishness. Seeing the benefits and credits, he will definitely not give them away. Anyway, if it's just his own people who go to plunder, then he will definitely take a part of what he obtains first, and then he will not have the final say on how much will be handed over to Zhang Niujiao?
The real headquarters of Luo City is actually only a few hundred people, and these thousands of vanguard troops are all temporarily cobbled together for him. If he wants to completely subdue these thousands of centaurs and make them return to him, then he must let them gain some benefits. Use the facts to tell the military horses below, look, follow me Luo City, it is beneficial.
Hundreds of rafts can only allow about 1,000 people to cross the river at a time.
But Luo Shi didn't realize what danger would be at this time. He thought that even if only 1,000 people crossed the river, he could still completely control Liulin Village.
Luo Shi himself first led a thousand men and horses to cross the river, and after crossing the river, he asked people to carry the raft back to the north bank, and then transported a thousand men and horses. He planned that he would only transport about 3,000 men and horses, and after the third group of men and horses crossed the river, they would let people carry rafts down the river to the outside of Liulin Village, and hide those rafts first. He didn't want the big army behind him to use the rafts to cross the river.
At the same time, they also sent people to inform the 2,000 men and horses who had stayed behind to feint and attack Yangshi County, and confronted the government officers and soldiers in Yangshi County, and after the arrival of the Yellow Turban army, they moved to the river and asked them to cut down rafts and trees, pretending to be building pontoon bridges. Luo Shi did this in order to avoid that when the Yellow Turban army arrived and wanted to forcibly attack the city, he would be ordered by Zhang Niujiao to be the vanguard of the siege.
The men and horses of Luo City are these thousands of people, and if they suffer heavy casualties in the siege battle, this is also a loss for Luo City.
In fact, it can also be seen from Doro City that although the current Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army has achieved nominal unification, the leaders among them have their own careful thoughts, and they can't talk about anything unified.
If everything is smooth, then it's okay to say, but once an accident happens, they will definitely take care of their own interests first.
After Luo Shi crossed the river, he did not wait for the second group of people to cross the river and then kill Liulin Village together, but immediately took more than 1,000 people and horses to Liulin Village like a pack of wolves.
They crossed the river from the upper reaches of the Qingshui River outside Liulin Village, about five miles upstream from Liulin Village.
Five miles, this is indeed not too far, running, that is, you can arrive in half an hour.
"Hurry up, Liulin Village is different from Yang's County, it is equivalent to a large village with no defense at all, and it is said that it was quite prosperous before. There is a big mansion in the village, that is, Liu's mansion, that Liu Xian is a relative of the Han family, in fact, it is equivalent to a prince's mansion, inside, not only a large amount of grain is piled up, but also a lot of gold, silver and jewelry and some calligraphy and paintings that are more expensive than gold. These are not counted, the point is that there are many beautiful maids in the house. Hey hey ......"
"Okay, don't think about those beautiful women in Liu's mansion. Those who naturally have to be left to our General Luo, as well as those big leaders in the back. After all, we can't eat alone, can we? ”
"Hey, let me tell you, we don't have to think about Liu Mansion, but do you know? Now Liulin Village, I heard that there are tens of thousands of people, most of whom are women. Unbelief? Haven't you heard that Liu Xian dispatched 2,000 women to transport goods for his caravan at once? ”
While the Yellow Turban Army is rushing to Liulin Village, they are looking forward to the beauty of killing and plundering Liulin Village.
They didn't know that everything they had was in Liu Xian's calculations.
The raft hidden in the river was specially left by Liu Xian. Otherwise, Liu Xian learned the news that their Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army was coming to plunder a day or two in advance, how could they still have boats and rafts for them to cross the river?
Liu Xian left those rafts in order to let these Yellow Turban troops plunder Liulin Village first when they saw that there was no hope of directly attacking Yangshi County. In this way, a part of the Yellow Turban Army can cross the river first.
A hundred rafts can only cross about 1,000 people at a time.
Those Yellow Turban soldiers must not have realized that there were more than 2,000 horses in Liulin Village, so as long as they crossed the river, then it was equivalent to pronouncing their death sentence.
By now, Liu Xian has actually completely grasped the initiative, at least compared to these Yellow Turban troops who crossed the river, Liu Xian can destroy them as much as he wants.