Section 154 Pursuit and counter-pursuit
There are thousands of truths in the world, which is clever and which is absurd, it does not depend on who has a big mouth, but only on the changes in the world that no one can predict and control. Therefore, regarding whether to kill Zhao Yue or not, it is difficult to say the different decisions of Tian Hu and the two high staff, who is smart and who is stupid.
Only time will tell.
Zhao Yue naturally didn't know about the dispute that happened in Tianhu Dazhai, and it was difficult to judge whether Tian Hu, who now had a think tank, would decisively send troops to chase and kill this team that was not strong in equipment and combat effectiveness, but he was in a cautious principle and still took active evasion within the strong range of Tian Hu's power.
Guerrilla warfare should have been the first to be subconsciously used by the nomads relying on the natural convenience of the scimitar, but it was the elites of Taizu's generation who summed up and carried it forward and brought its power to the extreme.
In the 21 st century, when science and technology are advanced, guerrilla warfare has still proved to be a good means.
The 16-character formula of "the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs us, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I pursue" has been vividly staged in various conflict areas around the world.
In this era, no one knows how to use guerrilla warfare better than Zhao Yue, who stands on the shoulders of giants.
Tian Bao and others came after with three hundred elite light cavalry with bows and arrows and javelins. Zhao Yue didn't know, but taking advantage of the time difference between Tianhu Cottage and this side, he led the team to eat and rest in the mountains during the warmest daytime period, and hurried away at other times.
In this way, not only can the team lacking tents rest well in the warmth and ease of vigilance, so that they will not be harassed and harmed by mosquitoes and insects at night, but they can also use the night to cover up their whereabouts, so that they can leave Qinzhou in time.
Subsequently. He did not rush south, but took advantage of the large bandits he had heard from the locals. rushed there to continue to raid and plunder the local tyrants and gentry who were secretly hated by the local people, and gradually equipped the tents. There are also more carriages and horses, which are more conducive to fast movement.
He did not have the slightest pattern in the east and west, circled to the south, and insisted on marching at night, but Tian Leopard's group of pursuers was miserable.
It took too much time to determine the whereabouts of the Shanshiqi Division, which caused the speed advantage of the light cavalry to not be able to play normally, and every time it always seemed to catch up, but it was never really pursued.
The crazy idea of killing again and again was frustrated, and Tian Leopard was so angry that he jumped like thunder. He swore again and again that he would kill a chicken and dog.
On the government side.
It is said that a group of people who migrated to the coastal open space, but because they had no money or food, and the government did not care, they had to commit murder and loot the victims who were rich and unkind.
This gang of gangsters is ruthless to those who resist and resist when looting, and does not wield a knife at the big families and all the women and children who honestly admit it, and it seems that kindness still exists.
In the end, they are helpless and have to arm themselves to help themselves, or bandits who have wandered from elsewhere. Whether it was Tian Hu's bureau that forced the favored big families to break through the danger and had to join the gang, or whether it was another inner line of pirates who stirred up the Great Song Dynasty, no one can say.
Later, I heard that Arita Hu's cavalry chased and killed the gang across the border. But he never caught up.
Whether it's really impossible to catch up, or pretending, it's hard to say.
This made the officials who were entrenched under the rule of the Youtian Tiger forces in various places suspicious. Mixed emotions and mixed reactions.
Heart to the court. On the surface, the officials who are weak and indifferent to the local gangsters are hoping that this gangster can kill them more ruthlessly. In order to completely eliminate the tyrants under his rule who suspected that it was the secret Tong Tian Hu who dared to wantonly disobey the government, and he couldn't figure out the situation, he learned that this gang of robbers was not stranded and would not continue to endanger the local area, so he pursued the iron law of the Great Song Dynasty as an official, and it was better to have more than less, so he simply habitually did not act.
A small number of officials who secretly took refuge in Tian Hu, and when they saw that it was Tian Hu's secret talent who was suffering, they had a general idea in their hearts, and they wanted to show Tian Hu diligently, so they actively sent troops to chase after them in the name of the official court discipline in the name of chasing and suppressing the Liukou.
However, Zhao Yue and their guerrilla raids and plundered, the target of the raid was single, and they quickly fled away when they succeeded, and their whereabouts were then unknown.
These officers and soldiers were frightened by the cavalry of Tian Bao's subordinate who passed by, and they returned to the city in a hurry.
This made a fuss, as if Tian Leopard was sweeping the tail and escorting Zhao Yue and his party.
It's just that Tian Leopard's straw bales are not aware of this.
He is like crazy now, he can't listen to anything, and he just wants to catch up and kill Zhao Er.
Shan Shiqi and the others never expected that only a thousand armed men would be able to run rampant on Hebei West Road so far.
Shi Gong sighed: "If the government is not so erosive and incompetent, how can Tian Hu quickly make a big fuss in Shanxi and make such a happy scene?" ”
Although the three of their cousins did not hear the boss explain that Cangzhao was not really loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, they saw that Zhao Yue, as a child of an official family, commanded them to wantonly trample on the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, and their thinking and behavior were more arrogant and ferocious than bandits, and they also guessed in their hearts what the new way out was.
Yuan Jingda, the son of Hanzi, suddenly had a heart, and said to Shan Shiqi in private: "Big brother, we are robbers, and Zhao Er in the Yanei is not all the way, if we continue to make trouble like this, we will be guilty of many crimes, and we can really continue to live a good life as good citizens when we arrive in Liangshan?" ”
When Shan Shiqi saw the rare serious thinking on the face of this loyal and brave brother, he couldn't help crying and laughing.
He wanted to tell his brother the truth, but he was afraid that this honest brother would accidentally say something, and there would be many people who would spread it and make Cangzhao suffer, so he could only pat Yuan Jingda's thick shoulder with relief and say: "Good brother, don't say anything if you believe in my brother, just work hard." ”
Hanzi said: "Of course I can trust the eldest brother." I just didn't feel at ease, I was afraid that my eldest brother would be deceived by the cunning Yanai. ”
"Don't worry."
Shan Shiqi smiled and comforted Hanzi: "Zhao Er said, when you arrive in Liangshan, he will match you with a mallet that best suits you." ”
These words diverted Hanzi's attention.
He muttered, "What does the gavel look like? "All I have left in my mind is the imagination of the mallet.
Yuan Jingda's father was a tenant farmer and a stonemason in the village. Yuan Jingda worked with his father when he was a child, practiced a good body of brute strength, liked to play with stones, and was also a stonemason. The stone mallet was made slowly by himself for a long time, and he was used to it easily, and he was used to it, and he was really reluctant to throw it away if he wanted to change it.
Tian Bao and his entourage chased after each other, and gradually gained experience, and the more they pressed, the tighter they became.
The pursuers were anxious and paralyzed, and it was time to fight back.
On this day, we arrived in a mountain forest far from the village. Zhao Yue asked Wang Nianjing to lead some people to ride away all the horses, and escorted the elderly, women, children and vehicles to continue to move forward quickly. The remaining seven or eight hundred people bypassed the mountain road, sneaked into the woods from other places, and lay in ambush on both sides of the mountain road. (To be continued.) )