Chapter 21: The Confrontation of Spear and Shield
Around noon, Dong Hong was waiting for news from his subordinates in the house, and he sent someone to deliver a letter to Pei Yuanshao to tell him about the situation here.
It didn't take long for him to receive a report from his subordinates that Pei Yuanshao's men and horses were two miles away, and they would arrive here in less than an hour.
Dong Hong asked the soldiers to prepare meals, originally people at this time did not have the habit of eating lunch, but he thought that he might directly enter the battle next, Pei Yuanshao's team was all marching from afar, and they needed to replenish their strength. In addition, there is still food here in the camp, so I will prepare it for them, so that Pei Yuanshao and they can also take the opportunity to repair it.
He asked some others to pack up their weapons and be ready to go. They have also been repairing here for two days, and this time they must follow them up the mountain to attack Jinniuzhai. As for those prisoners, when the time comes, when Pei Yuanshao's men and horses arrive, ask him to arrange some guards for them.
Just after noon, close to two o'clock in the afternoon, Pei Yuanshao came to the camp with a large group of people. Dong Hong hurriedly went out to greet him.
"Okay, you Dong Hong, I didn't expect your vanguard team to be able to attack the mountain directly, it was really beyond my Lao Pei's expectations, and when I returned to the cottage, I would definitely ask for credit for you."
Pei Yuanshao hammered Dong Hong's chest, he was also happy, originally this attack on Jinniuzhai, he and Zhou Cang did not report much hope. After all, although the number of people in Jinniu Village is similar to theirs, the terrain is dangerous, and their strategic goal this time was just to take a breath and let all the nearby cottages know that they are not easy to mess with.
"Brother Pei, you have won the award, I just followed behind Wang Xianxian, and I didn't do anything, if you want to say the credit, you must give it to Wang Xianxian." Dong Hong and Pei Yuanshao are old acquaintances, and when he heard that Pei Yuanshao was going to ask for credit for him, he hurriedly excused himself and said, after all, the current record is mainly won by Wang Qing, and he only charged once on the side of the camp.
"Rest assured, everyone has a share of the credit." Pei Yuanshao patted Dong Hong's shoulder.
"Brother Pei, I asked the brothers to prepare a meal, everyone will eat first, and when they are full, we will go directly to the mountain to meet the pioneer."
"Good. Lesser ones, eat and drink first, and then you will kill a few more enemies for me. ”
Pei Yuanshao asked the soldiers to eat, and he himself asked Dong Hong to lead the way and walk to his house, he needed to know the details of their attack, as for the food, naturally someone brought it to him.
"Dong Hong, you and I will tell you in detail, how did Ziwu do it, he was only a hundred people, and he was able to attack the camp on the top of the mountain of Jinniuzhai without the other party noticing. When I first heard the news from you, I thought you were lying to me. As soon as Pei Yuanshao sat down on the main seat, he couldn't wait to ask Dong Hong, he asked himself if he would definitely not be able to do this, so he was both curious and sincerely admired Wang Qing.
"I don't know the specifics, but I heard Liu Cheng, Wang Xianxian's personal soldier, say that it was through the capture of the card that the card was opened and closed, and then the pioneer lord relied on his personal bravery to kill the other party's leader, and then take the level." Dong Hong didn't know the specific story very clearly, he asked Liu Cheng before, and Liu Cheng only said it briefly, and because Liu Cheng admired Wang Qing, he mainly talked about how Wang Qing fought against ten with one, and he didn't talk much about how to attack.
"Hearing you say this, it seems that Ziwu's strength is still above me, but it's a pity that his time in the cottage is too short, and I didn't find a chance to learn from him."
Pei Yuanshao said with a pity on his face, originally he wanted to find time to learn from him after Wang Qing and them went up the mountain. But because Wang Qing was preparing for the expedition, he needed to train his team and try to familiarize them with his command. Second, Zeng Yu knew that Wang Qing's strength must have reached the standard of a first-class military general in this era, and Pei Yuanshao was only at the level of a second-rate military general. After all, they were new to the city at that time, and it was necessary to seize this vanguard, but it would be too late to be in the limelight, so Zeng Yu asked Wang Qing to shirk Pei Yuanshao's request for discussion.
"Yes, that night we attacked the camp of this mountain pass, Wang Xianfeng and he singled out the other two centurions, and the two of them were killed by his move." Dong Hong was still amazed by Wang Qing's performance at that time.
"Okay, Ziwu is really powerful, hearing you say this, I am more confident in the next attack." When Pei Yuanshao heard this, he patted his thigh and applauded.
"Brother Pei, come, eat something first, you guys march all the way, we have prepared some meals, they are all in stock in this camp, we will help them solve them."
At this time, some soldiers sent the food in, in addition to ordinary vegetables and soup, there was also a bowl of pork, which was specially left today, and it was originally raised by the people of Jinniu Village, but the camp was breached, so it was naturally cheaper Pei Yuanshao and them.
After being full of wine and food, Pei Yuanshao, at Dong Hong's request, arranged for fifty people to guard the prisoners here in the camp, mainly the older ones and some younger ones, the older ones were experienced, and led the younger ones. After two days of detention, these captives are now more obedient and will not have any major problems, so only fifty people are left here.
Pei Yuanshao led the other horses, a total of a thousand people, led by Liu Cheng and the three of them, and walked towards Canglong Ridge. At this time, the camp located behind Canglong Ridge was indeed slaughtered. It turned out that after Wang Qing and the others rearranged the camp, they found that there seemed to be other people haunting the camp, but when the patrolling soldiers approached, the other party was gone.
The soldier hurriedly reported to Wang Qing, and when Wang Qing heard the news, his brows furrowed. In the vicinity of Canglong Ridge, only the people and horses of Jinniuzhai can appear. And the other party didn't come directly to the camp, he must have found something. The person who appeared was estimated to be the person sent by Jinniuzhai to investigate the news, and since the other party sent someone over, he must have found that the people in the camp at this time were not his own people. Next, Jinniuzhai will not just send people to investigate, but to send people to attack.
Wang Qing knew that the next battle was not like the previous few times, first, they couldn't use fraud to gain the trust of the other party, and secondly, there was a huge disparity in strength, and it was impossible for them to eliminate the other party in one go, this was a tough battle.
Sure enough, soon, there was a noisy sound in front of me, and it didn't take long to see a large group of people coming down from the mountain road, led by two big men, both holding huge maces, and one of them had a scar on his face, which was connected from the left eye to the corner of his mouth, giving people a vicious aura. Looking at their faces carefully, they are somewhat similar to Lu Wei, Wang Qing guessed that they were Lu Meng, the big boss of Jinniu Village, and Lu Zhong, the second leader.
When the other party came to a stop about a hundred meters in front of the camp, one of them asked, "Who are you, why are you here, and where is my third brother?" ”
"Who are you, why did you come to us to find your third brother?" Wang Qing asked rhetorically, he wanted to delay some time, and since the other party didn't attack immediately, he was also happy to talk to many parties.
"I am Lu Zhong, the second master of Jinniu Village, and my third brother is Lu Wei, and the place where you stay is where my third brother is stationed." Sure enough, these two people are Lu Meng and Lu Zhong, and the person who spoke was Lu Zhong, and he was the one with a scar on his face.
This scar was cut by the other party when they were fighting for goods with another cottage before, but he was cut at the time and did not flinch, and he was even more ferocious when his face was covered with blood, hacking the other party to death, not even letting go of the corpse, and dug out the other party's heart and ate it raw. It can be seen that he is cruel, in the cottage, everyone else is extremely afraid of Lu Zhong, but he and his eldest brother Lu Meng are very concerned about their third brother.
The three brothers were originally orphans, and their dependence on each other when they were children not only cultivated their murderous character, but also cultivated the feelings of the three brothers, so after the two of them heard that the people and horses in the camp in Canglongling were strangers, they hurriedly brought all the horses and horses over.
"Oh~, it turns out that you are talking about that big man, he couldn't think about it last night, so he insisted on giving us this camp, and then led the men and horses to jump off the cliff himself, you go to the bottom of the cliff now, I guess you can find them." Wang Qing teased.
"Bastard, let your mother's stinky fart, how could my third brother give up the camp to you. Let him go for me, or I'll make you regret coming into this world. When Lu Zhong heard this, he really didn't know that the other party was fooling him, but he still had a trace of illusion and hoped that he was still alive.
"Okay, I'll show you, is he what you want?" It turned out that after Gude killed Lu Wei last night, he cut off his head, which was all military merit and evidence of his meritorious service, so he stayed and brought it back to the camp. As for Lu Wei's other subordinates, Wang Qing was afraid of trouble, and there was an inaccessible cliff below, so they let them throw the corpse down directly.
When Lu Meng and Lu Zhong saw the human head, they immediately recognized that this was their third brother, thinking that the little brother who had depended on them before had been killed like this, and his head had been cut off, and the two of them were angry.
"Little ones, kill me, kill them all, and I'll break them into pieces." The two yelled.
"Kill~, avenge the three masters~"
The people of Jinniuzhai rushed up like a swarm, just rushed out a few steps, the people and horses in front fell to the ground, suddenly, there were several rows of arrows on both sides of the shooting, and a few people fell down at once, it turned out that they triggered the trap set by Wu Qin and their people.
"Who are you, and why are you attacking here?" Lu Meng saw that there was still a trap, and he was shocked all of a sudden.
Lu Meng just started to see Wang Qing and them, and he was also suspicious of Wang Qing's identity, the ordinary cottages in the vicinity would not attack them, the only hated big Woniu cottage, the leader was in Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao, he had seen it, Wang Qing was obviously not one of these two. If it wasn't from Woniu Cottage, who would it be, could it be the official army, but there are people in the government, and it is impossible for them to be attacked by the government without receiving any news.
"Okay, uncle, I'll tell you that I'm Wang Qing, the newly appointed pioneer of Woniu Cottage, and this attack will avenge the brother you killed a month ago. Didn't you just say that you third brother will take revenge, I'll wait here, and if you have a kind, let the horse come. Wang Qing didn't hide it from them, and directly told his identity, after all, it was useless to hide it at this time, so it was better to let the other party understand.
"Okay, it turned out to be Zhou Cang's subordinates, when I kill you, I will go to Woniu Cottage to find him for revenge. You Woniu Cottage has offended Huanglongzhai, don't beg us to help you intercede, and even dare to attack us, I will let you know the consequences. ”
After Lu Meng finished speaking, he personally took the lead and rushed forward, and Lu Zhong led the men and horses to follow closely behind. Lu Meng and his two brothers have lived in the mountains and forests since they were children, and they are also very familiar with traps, so the traps set by Wu Qin and them were quickly destroyed by the two. The distance of more than 100 meters was quickly rushed, at this time, the two brothers Lu Meng had already led people to attack the gate of the camp, whether they could hold it or not depends on the defense of the camp and Wang Qing's death.
Wang Qing saw that the trap didn't work, and he knew that there was no way to do it, no wonder Wu Qin and them, after all, the time was too short. What he can only hope for now is that the fortifications of the camp can hold out for a little longer, and he can only hold on to the fortifications in the camp, and he doesn't know how long it can last.
The only thing they can hope for now is that Pei Yuanshao's men and horses can arrive in time, otherwise, not only the previous efforts will be in vain, but even these brothers who attacked here with him may not be able to say how many are left, and they can kill them, but the others are estimated to be not, and even the three brothers of the Gu De and Wu clans, who are small in Qianlong Village, they are not as brave as themselves, in case the camp is surrounded after the break, they don't know if they can survive.