Chapter Forty-Six: The Garrison Leaves the Camp
Zhu Gang is not stupid, on the contrary, he is an extremely shrewd person, if he resists at this moment, he is very likely to die at the hands of Sun Lin immediately. Even if he escapes by chance, regardless of whether Yuji's plan can be carried out smoothly, I believe that with Yuji's heart, it will be difficult for him to survive to the end. Sun Lin is the Zhonglang general of the military department, if he fights back at this moment to help Sun Lin finally kill Yuji, it can be regarded as a meritorious service, and there will be Zhonglang as a guarantee in the future, I believe he will still survive. So at the moment when the sergeants stormed the tent, he had already made a decision.
When the sergeant heard Zhu Gang's voice, he stopped in place, only to see Zhu Gang slowly stand up and say to Sun Lin, "I'm with you." After saying that, he turned to face the sergeant who had rushed into the camp, waved his hand, signaled both sides to stop, and put away his blades.
Yuan Mutou glanced at Zhu Gang with great disdain, and let go of the officer who was restrained, and Feng Xunzhi did the same.
The officers asked Zhu Gang: "General, what's going on?" ”
"I said earlier, I want to take everyone out of here, get out of here alive, now that Wankou is sealed, I have been wrong once, I didn't expect Yuji and his gang to be so demonic, at this moment we will work with Zhonglang General, for ourselves, for survival, fight with them, and we will leave here if we win." As soon as Zhu said this, an officer immediately asked, "What if you lose?" ”
Zhu Gang knew that these sergeants were greedy for life and afraid of death, and said with some indignation: "If you lose, you will die, if you don't fight, you will die, if you fight, you may have a chance to leave this ghost place, if you don't want to, leave here immediately, find a place to hide, and pray that those living dead will not find the door." ”
Listening to Zhu Gang's words, several officers and sergeants felt that there was some truth, if they didn't fight, they would wait for death, and if they fought hard, they might still have a chance. Seeing that everyone agreed, he ordered his retinue to call the rest of the important officers in the army. Now there are less than 2,000 people left in the garrison, and there are less than 10 commanders in charge of the various departments.
Zhu Gang waited for everyone to arrive, and explained the truth just now, and everyone thought about it for a long time, and finally reached an agreement and fought hard.
Although Sun Lin was a lieutenant general in the military department, he had never led troops to the battlefield. Feng Xunzhi was a disciple of the martial arts sect and knew nothing about marching and fighting. Although Zhu Gang is the chief general of the Wankou garrison, he has only been a gangster for many years, and he is not good at military operations at all.
Although Yuan Mutou has a lot of complaints about these sergeants who have a loose style and no morale, there is nothing else he can do at this moment, he can only hope that these sergeants still have some military backbone in their hearts, and they can arouse morale when they really fight against the enemy.
Although the number of troops in Anhui is small, as a military supply place for Misukou and Jiujiang Port, there are a large number of ordnance in the warehouse. Zhu Gang was also caught by Yuji because of the sale of these ordnance.
Yuan Mutou asked the garrison sergeants to equip each of them with heavy shields, bows and crossbows, and slashing weapons, and then divided two hundred people into two hundred people to prepare fire oil, firewood, wood, and stumbling ropes, the more the better. Then three teams of sergeants went to patrol in turn near the government office, keeping an eye on the movements of Yuji and his gang, and finally selected twenty bold soldiers to observe near the blood curse puppet, and returned to the camp as soon as there was any abnormality. At first, the sergeants thought that this sallow young man was just a better martial artist, but after listening to his orders, they found that this person's deployment was not leaky, and it was by no means simple. These garrisons would never have imagined that at this moment, it was the escort leader of the Western Wei military battalion who commanded them.
After arranging everything, the night was already dark, and the Blood Curse Puppet had been walking in the city last night, Sun Lin was worried that it would be the same tonight, and he and Feng Xunzhi were going to take advantage of the night to go to the city.
Yuan Mutou and Zhu Gang were to stay in the barracks, and Yu Ji would soon know about the changes in the garrison, and they only had one night to prepare.
According to what Zhu Gang knew, Yu Ji should have nearly seven hundred or so blood curse puppets, Zhang Da had been killed, Shi Yu was seriously injured, and Yu San, Yu Si, Shi Jin and more than ten troupe subordinates were beside Yu Ji. According to Yuan Mutou's plan, early tomorrow morning, while the daytime, the movement of the blood curse puppet was restricted, and the troops were divided into two routes. Surrounded the puppet tent all the way, used a large amount of fire oil, firewood, and horses to prevent the puppet from coming out. The other way is to directly attack the Wankou Mansion and confront Yuji head-on, Yuan Mutou believes that as long as Yuji is restrained, then there will definitely be a way to break the soul devouring maze outside Wankou City.
Sun Lin and Feng Xunzhi came to the city, and Yu San and Shi Jin led a group of puppets to walk around the city. After Yuji and the Blood Curse puppet entered the city last night, the people of Wankou rarely appeared on the streets, and the streets of Wankou at this moment were empty and desolate. Sun Lin first saw a group of puppets coming, he and Feng Xunzhi hurriedly hid on the side, the puppets tonight were different from yesterday, they were all neatly arranged, depending on the march outside the city. Sun Lin and Feng Xunzhi watched a paragraph and found that there were nearly five hundred puppets in action, Shi Jin walked in the forefront, and after Yu San broke off, the two suddenly felt that the situation was not good. Sun Lin estimated that these puppets were going out of the city, and the target was very likely to be the surrounding cities, but it should be difficult for these five hundred puppets to capture a city, unless there was a response. Thinking of this, Sun Lin asked Senior Brother Feng to follow these puppets, and he hurried back to the barracks, it seems that he can't wait until tomorrow, and there must be action tonight. Feng Xunzhi's figure flashed immediately, and he followed.
Sun Lin rushed all the way back to the barracks, the barracks were quite busy tonight, the sergeants of the garrison were preparing the equipment and ordnance for tomorrow morning's battle, and Yuan Mutou and Zhu Gang were in the main camp tent, repeatedly calculating the various situations that might arise, and making sure countermeasures. Yuan Mutou saw Sun Lin coming back in a hurry, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?" ”
"The puppets of the brigade are going in the direction of the exit of the city, and I estimate that they are going to leave the city." Sun Lin said breathlessly.
When Zhu Gang heard Sun Lin's words, he was very surprised and said, "Out of the city? ”
"Most likely, the puppets are lined up in a neat line, like a march." As soon as Sun Lin finished speaking, Yuan Mutou's head slammed, and then asked Zhu Gang: "Where is the nearest garrison to Wankou?" ”
"Lincheng, east of Anhuikou." Zhu Gang's face also changed.
When Sun Lin heard that it was to the east, he said with great certainty: "The puppet is the exit to the east. ”
"They want to use puppets to take Lincheng? This is absolutely impossible. Zhu Gang's tone was extremely affirmative.
"It's very likely, didn't you say before that Yuji and they want to subvert Dongyue, and there are still their people in Jianye, it seems that not only Jianye, but also people from Jiuli in Lincheng." Yuan Mutou frowned, in fact, he wanted to say that since Jiuli can win over you Zhu Gang, it is very likely that he will also win over the generals in Lincheng.
Tonight, he could only act in advance, and Yuan Mutou made up his mind to let Zhu Gang gather the garrison sergeants and set off immediately.
Zhu Gang couldn't understand that since the puppet had gone out of the city, the pressure on the puppet had suddenly lightened, and they had a better chance of escaping from the puppet, why did they have to stop the puppet at this time, this was not to let the sergeant die in vain.
Yuan Mutou was annoyed, how could there be such a cowardly general, he yelled at Zhu Gang: "Once Yuji and them take Lincheng, the war will be raging together, and Dongyue will inevitably send a large army to encircle and suppress, do you think you still have a chance to survive, and now you have a chance to stop them, but you are shrinking back, are you a soldier or not." ”
Sun Lin was also extremely disappointed in Zhu Gang, originally thought that he had made up his mind to defeat Yuji and his gang together and relieve the siege of Wankou, but he didn't expect that he would retreat again when the matter came.
Zhu Gang was said by Yuan Mutou without saying a word, he hesitated a little, but he still left the camp tent and ordered the sergeants to gather.
The sergeants were all preparing for a battle tomorrow morning, and when they suddenly heard that they were going to assemble and set off, they were all a little embarrassed, and hurried to meet in front of the main camp.
Yuan Mutou and Sun Lin looked at the sergeants below, they were really worried, as far as these lazy people were concerned, they had to face the evil puppets to fight, although they were superior in numbers, but it was really difficult to win. At this point, we can only fight with all our might.
Zhu Gang roughly said that the purpose of the gathering was to stop the five hundred blood curse puppets that were leaving the city. There was a sudden commotion in the crowd of sergeants, the original plan was only for some sergeants to surround the puppet camp, and the rest to follow Sun Lin and the three to kill Yuji, but at this moment, suddenly the sergeants were asked to fight with the puppets head-on, everyone was afraid of the evil puppets, and they complained constantly, Zhu Gang wanted to try his best to appease, and Yuan Mutou on the side said loudly: "You have been in the army for some years, and you must all understand that the soldiers are to keep one side safe, at this moment everyone is trapped in Anhuikou, I believe that there are also many family members in this city, We are fighting this war not only for our own lives, but also for our families and people, once we let Yu Ji and his gang provoke a war, I believe that you will have no place to live in East Vietnam, and I don't want you to go to give your lives, those who are willing to go will go with us, and those who are not willing to go will stay. ”
Yuan Mutou's words repeatedly emphasized the duty of the sergeant and comforted himself and his family, and the crowd was quiet for a while. A few of the slightly bloody sergeants raised their swords and shouted, "I'll go and kill those evil ones." "I'm going too, my wife, wife and children are all in Anhui, and I'm going to kill those evil spirits." "Go, go together, my brother has been turned into a puppet by those evil spirits, and I want to avenge him."
The voices of the sergeants who were going to kill the evil spirits sounded one after another, and Yuan Mutou looked at these sergeants with a firm gaze. Then with a wave of their swords, the sergeants set out to the east and out of the city. I didn't expect Yuan Mutou's simple words to arouse the bloodiness of these garrisons, and the result was unexpected.
The Blood Curse Golem was stiff and slower, reaching the eastern exit of the city. Shi Jin and Yu San led this team of puppets to Lincheng, they planned to march at night, about three days to arrive, there are Jiuli hidden piles in Lincheng, as long as the puppets enter the city to cause chaos, and then cooperate with the Lincheng garrison controlled by the hidden piles in the city, the inside should be combined with the outside, and there should be no problem in taking Lincheng. In this way, the city echoes each other, and then integrates the military strength of the two cities, chooses the opportunity to send troops, and further expands its power. Yu Ji's plan for this step was very accurate, but he still underestimated Zhu Gang, and he didn't expect Zhu Gang to fight back. Under the leadership of Sun Lin, Yuan Mutou, and Zhu Gang, the garrison of Hukou had arrived in a hurry.
Feng Xunzhi had been following these puppets, and when he saw that the puppets were approaching the entrance out of the city, but the garrison still hadn't come, he was very anxious. After thinking about it, he quickly made a detour, preparing to block it at the exit of the city for a while.