Chapter Twenty-Eight: Annihilation of the Pursuers
"Now the brothers of Pingyuan County Taiping Road are taking advantage of the main force of the Han army to go north and are preparing to attack the county seat, and they are waiting for us to join." Zhang Luo turned his head and said to the village chief, "How?" Do you want to join. If you join us at this time, everyone will follow us to the plains. Conquering Plains City is much more than laying down one or two local tyrant forts! ”
In this world, such a small village can actually survive around the manor, it is impossible to do without force, they naturally cannot go out in vain, after each sortie, they will naturally have to share the money of the dispatch, and there is also a reward for the battle after the battle. In a sense, the people in this gang are running around like "mercenaries".
The village chief thought for a while and said, "But I don't know how to divide it?" Divide it first, or just divide it? ”
This is the special rhetoric of the real heroes from all walks of life, "divide first" means to determine the reward first, and "divide casually" refers to how much everyone robs when the arson loots, and gives half to the leader, and the remaining half belongs to the trooper.
"Then let's divide it first." Zhang Luo replied.
After some bargaining between the two sides, it was finally determined that these villagers could go out together with the whole village, men, women and children, and those who could fight would be given 10,000 yuan for ten days of participation, and those who could not fight would be given 100,000 yuan for ten days.
By the time we were done, it was already dark. The village chief asked Zhang Luo and the others to rest first, and he still had to discuss the matter with the people in the village.
Zhang Luo asked to borrow the wheat straw and door panels from the village. Everyone has been walking for so long, and it is difficult to rest in the village, and they don't want to continue to sleep on the ground, but have something underneath to sleep well.
After a night of silence, as soon as he woke up the next day, Zhang Luo ordered the sergeants who were resting outside the village to tie up the straw and put it on the door panel for the villagers to carry back. It is a small matter to have to do things from beginning to end, to re-tie up the straw and to put the door panels on the people. However, the dealings between Taiping Dao and the people now are completely these trivial matters. Such small things are 100% contact between Taiping Dao and the people.
Sure enough, seeing Zhang Luo and others doing this, the people in the village became closer to Taiping Dao. When Zhang led the team to install all the departmental boards and the wheat stalks were also put in place, the village chief said: "This autumn harvest is almost over, and I have to grab the crops." If we go, we won't be able to go to many people, so we won't go to this plain this time. I hope this Brother Zhang will forgive me! ”
Zhang Luo didn't force it, and took his brothers to breakfast, and the team waved goodbye to the people and headed south.
From morning to noon, a few young men suddenly came from behind, and the scouts in the rear team immediately stopped them, but they were people from the village. After being stopped, the young man immediately knelt down for Zhang Luo and the others, "Everyone, after you left, the official army arrived, saying that our village is Taiping Road!" Then they started to grab things in the village, and I ask you to go back and save us. ”
After finishing speaking, the sweaty young men were afraid that Zhang Luo and the others would not go back, so they lay on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly. Some honest young people knocked their heads down, and blood marks appeared on their heads.
Zhang Luo had no expression on his face, but he was overjoyed in his heart. This group of officers and soldiers finally showed their true colors and began to help Zhang Luo recruit soldiers.
The troops left behind their baggage and then marched forward with elite light equipment, and the training of these days showed results. Even if the young man who led the team was anxious and ran fast at first, but after only running five or six miles, the young man could not keep up with the speed of the team.
Zhang Luo's troops had scouts in front to explore the road and lead the way. The troops marched without distractions, and although the trotting looked unhappy, the troops maintained a relatively scientific march. Take a break for a few minutes at each other and tidy up your sandals. After more than ten miles, the villagers who had been left at the front of the line had been pulled behind, trying their best to keep up with the speed of the team.
When they arrived at Lijia Village, the scouts had already sent back information. There were more than 200 people in the official army and Xiangyong, and a team of Xiangyong was blocking the fleeing villagers in the valley, but the villagers used the terrain to block them out of the valley. Another team of more than 50 people was wreaking havoc in the village.
The general staff immediately came up with a battle plan around the map, first using swords, shields, and archers to block the retreat of the officers and soldiers who attacked the valley, and the main force to solve the village first.
Sima Ju was also a member of the General Staff, and he was a little puzzled, with the current strength of the troops, there was no pressure to divide the troops into two ways and destroy the Han army attacking the valley at the same time.
Zhang Luo explained: "Concentrate forces, fight more and fight less, and fight a war of annihilation!" As the saying goes, it's better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten fingers. You do the math, we're here for two hundred. Send out 50 men to contain the enemy's 150-man team, and the remaining 150 of our side beat the enemy's 50 men, which is three to one. After killing fifty enemy troops, our two hundred men beat the enemy one hundred and fifty, and our numbers still had a big advantage. We have to fight one by one, even if the village is poor, seeing that the number of people on both sides is about the same, they will not be afraid of us. When there is a fight, there must be a small number of people and a fear of many people. ”
"Then at the beginning, 5o brothers fought 15o officers and soldiers, wouldn't they be afraid of us?" As soon as Sima Ju finished speaking, he also knew that he was wrong. Since they are ready to annihilate the officers and soldiers in two parts, the 15o officers and soldiers are not afraid of the 5o brothers of Taiping Dao, so that they will not escape. When the officers and soldiers found that their forces were at a disadvantage, it was too late to run.
After the planning was completed, the troops immediately divided into two teams. The group attacking the valley took a detour to the direction of the valley under the leadership of local youths, and Zhang Luo led 15o brothers straight to the officers and soldiers in the village.
The officers and soldiers did not know that the destruction was imminent, and they were still wreaking havoc on the village. The chickens in the village have been killed, and a few have been hung on the fire to roast, and there are a few large mud bags in the fire. There are also pigs killed, and the pigs are pressed down after the neighing of life. They laughed and discussed how to eat pork after killing the pigs.
Because they didn't expect the villagers to really be able to call back to rescue the soldiers, the officers and soldiers didn't even carry weapons with them, and some of the officers and soldiers who didn't cook went in and out of the villages, and they had to get some household goods out after each entry. The officers and soldiers naturally put it away when they felt it was valuable, and when they felt it was useless, they threw it on the ground and continued to search for other homes. If you find something that you think is more valuable, you can't help but shout with joy.
Just when the officers and soldiers were looting, the sound of the horn suddenly sounded, and after Zhang Luo's department, who avoided the road of the village, came out of the woods at the edge of the village, these officers and soldiers never expected to suddenly encounter Taiping Road, and they were all dumbfounded.
From the panicked cries of the officers and soldiers, Zhang Luo determined that the group of officers and soldiers who attacked Lijia Village were the pursuing Han troops under Liu Qing, who were not completely annihilated by Zhang Luo. As soon as this group of Han soldiers opened their mouths, the Jizhou dialect came out.
It was useless for them to shout, the spear team led by Pei Yuanshao drove them from the south of the village to the north of the village like a chicken, and just ran to the north of the village, a team of Taiping Dao men and horses rushed out of the bamboo forest, and the archers released a round of shooting at the official army at a distance of about thirty paces. In front of the archers were sword and shield soldiers, rushing up and slashing at the officers and soldiers, and after a while, except for more than a dozen kneeling and begging for mercy, all the other thirty people were killed.
First of all, the officers and soldiers were tied up, and two soldiers were left to take care of them. The rest of the troops went straight to the direction of the valley, and the direction of the valley was also a killing sound at this time. After Zhang Luo arrived, it was clear that the villagers had already built a hiding place near the valley. The place occupied a high slope, and when the officials and troops attacked from the back, the villagers threw stones down from the high slope, and relied on very primitive methods to block the attack of the officials and troops. There was no other way out behind the high slope, and the villagers were holding on to it.
This valley is a valley of broken heads, fifty brothers of Taiping Dao copied from the back, with bows and arrows to block the retreat of the official army, the original chasing villagers of the official army found that there was no way forward, no way to retreat, but became a turtle in the urn. After Zhang Luo and his brothers converged, several rounds of shooting completely disrupted the ranks of the officers and soldiers, and the spears were completely annihilated in the valley by the white-knuckle battles that had destroyed the withered officers and soldiers.
rescued the people of Lijia Village, and the village chief looked at the corpses all over the ground, and his lips began to tremble. Although there are many battles with local tyrants, they are civil struggles after all, and the goal is to grab water, land, tenants, and rent. Although there are often armed fights of 10,000 people, they are only to injure people and not to kill people, and the large-scale battles of more than 10,000 people are defeated, and the number of dead people is controlled to a dozen people.