Chapter 9 The First Campaign
Ten days passed in a flash.
In the early morning, the golden sunlight shone on the ground through the cracks in the tent.
However, in Woniu Village, everyone had already gotten up at this time, and they were all in a hurry. At this time, two pairs of 100 people have assembled in the school field.
It turned out that today was the day of the expedition, led by Wang Qing and another centurion Dong Hong, with Wang Qing as the leader and Dong Hong as the auxiliary, as the vanguard to attack the Golden Bull Village. Pei Yuanshao will lead a thousand people as a backup, because the location of the Golden Bull Village is located on the mountain, there is only one mountain road to go up, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if there are more people to rush up, it is not conducive to attack, so the strategy of dividing the troops is adopted.
The goal of Wang Qing and Dong Hong's first attack this time was to reach the mountainside from the path of attacking the mountain, and establish a stronghold for the follow-up troops. After Pei Yuanshao's men and horses arrived, they attacked from the mountains and forests together and surrounded Jinniuzhai.
Because the vanguard needs to fight more with less, the selected soldiers are all elites in the cottage, all of them are more than seven feet tall, with big shoulders and round waists, which is also the reason why Liu Li wants to grab this centurion. At that time, he could control the hundred-man team, and then his own team was controlled by his cronies, and his power more than doubled at once.
But now it's cheaper for Wang Qing, this time the three Wu brothers and Gude went with Wang Qing, and the four of them were the leaders of the hundred-person pair, each leading two teams of five people, so as to cooperate with Wang Qing's command. Originally, Qin Fen and Xiang Zhi also wanted to come over, but Wang Qing was worried about Zeng Yu's safety, so the two of them stayed in the cottage and obeyed Zeng Yu's command. As for the three Wu brothers, this time it may be a mountain and forest battle, they are better at it, and Gude is Zeng Yu sees that he has potential and wants him to exercise more through actual combat.
When Zeng Yu accompanied Wang Qing and them to the school field, Dong Hong had already arrived, he was a fellow villager of Zhou Cang, and he was also his cronies.
Dong Hong saw Zeng Yu and them coming, and called Brother Ziwu and walked up, and his voice directly overpowered everyone under him.
"Ziwu, you're here, your brothers have all gathered, and you can set off when the big boss comes."
"Brother Dong, I hope you will cooperate more on this expedition, and how to kill happily when the time comes." Wang Qing also replied.
Wang Qing looked at the hundred people he belonged to, Gude and they were already inside, and with their maintenance, the order of the team was much better than Dong Hong's. Looking at Dong Hong's team, one by one they just gathered together, standing or standing, and three or five people gathered together to talk abound, which was in stark contrast to his own pair of 100 people.
While speaking, Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao also walked over, and everyone clasped their fists and saluted, and Zeng Yu was no exception.
Zhou Cang saw that Zeng Yu was also there, and walked up to him, "Zirui, you are here to see off Ziwu." ”
"The big boss guessed right, this is my brother's first expedition, and I, as a big brother, should see him off." Zeng Yu replied.
"We all have Ziwu's skills, and this expedition will definitely go well. If it weren't for the eldest brother asking me to lead the centaurs as the second echelon, I would also want to act as a pioneer with Ziwu. At this time, Pei Yuanshao said suddenly.
"Lao Pei, you can bring this thousand-person team, let me bring it, but you have to stay and guard the cottage." Zhou Cang knew that Pei Yuanshao liked to charge into battle, and he preferred to act as a pioneer, but there were people in the cottage who wanted to stay, and if Pei Yuanshao didn't bring this thousand-person team, he could only bring it himself, and at the same time, Pei Yuanshao had to stay in the cottage.
"Don't, big brother, don't, I listen to you, I'm just talking, you just wait for my good news at home!" Pei Yuanshao hurriedly refused, for fear that he would not even have the opportunity to go on the expedition.
When they heard this, they burst out laughing.
"Laugh at anything, and when you laugh back, I'll train him alone." Pei Yuanshao saw that everyone laughed at him, and he became angry.
"Alright, the hour has come, it's time for the brothers to go, I'm waiting for your good news at home." Zhou Cang pressed his hands and said to them.
"No!" Wang Qing and Dong Hong clasped their fists and saluted and replied.
Wang Qing held a gun in his right hand, and his left hand clenched into a fist and stood proudly, and the whole person was like a sharp sword out of the sheath, with a sharp edge.
"Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use them for a while. Today, it is time for you to go to war. Wang Qing's expression was serious, his eyes were like lightning, he glanced at the soldiers below, and said slowly: "Jinniuzhai has never taken us seriously, and usually provokes everywhere, and even killed seven brothers in our cottage a month ago, is it tolerable or unbearable, do you say we have to endure it?" ”
Wang Qing clenched his fists and continued to shout: "I know that some of you used to farm at home, and they never held a sword, and they were forced to go to the cottage, and they really wanted to lay down their weapons, find a peaceful place, find a mother-in-law, have a child, and live a good life." But have you ever thought about it, who is not forced to fall into the grass, today we do not avenge the brothers who were killed, in the future we will be bullied, there will be no brothers to avenge us, and there will even be officers and soldiers to suppress the bandits? In this case, 'the revenge of King Xiang Fu IX, the great spring and autumn period', the eldest husband is alive, he should have grace and revenge. ”
"Well, there is kindness to repay kindness, and there is revenge to revenge......"
Among the soldiers, there were bursts of shouts, as if they were killed by their own relatives, and they were all horrified.
Wang Qing glanced at the soldiers and continued: "Besides, the attack is smooth, and when the cottage grows, we will have a good life, and our mother-in-law and children will also have it, and we will be able to return to our own hometown." ”
"Fight."
"Desperately."
"Only by working hard can we have no worries about food and clothing!"
"We have no way out, we have no choice but to show the steel knife in our hand."
Wang Qing's eyes were red, and his whole person was like a crazy tiger and leopard, roaring loudly, he looked at the soldiers standing neatly in the team and clenched their steel knives, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
In the Woniu cottage, most of them are homeless people and ordinary people who put down their hoes and turned into soldiers.
What these people care about most is to be able to fill their stomachs and have a stable living environment.
Living a good life is what the Yellow Turban soldiers care about the most.
Wang Qing's words moved all the soldiers, because they didn't want to be like this all the time, they didn't want to be bullied and no one came out, and they didn't want to live blindly like this all the time, so Wang Qing's words hit the weakness in the hearts of the Yellow Turban soldiers in one fell swoop, so that they had to pick up the weapons in their hands to fight and defend their happiness.
"Kill~" Wang Qing looked up to the sky and roared, his hair fluttered, the war knife on his waist came out of the sheath with a sonorous sound, and the cold war knife shone in the golden sun, dazzling.
"Kill~"
"Kill~"
Two hundred soldiers raised their swords one after another and responded violently, and the sound that rushed into the sky resounded like thunder in the school field, making the soldiers who were training in the school field look sideways, and their eyes showed surprise and admiration.
Wang Qing ignored the gazes of the soldiers around him, and said coldly: "Check whether you have all the leather armor, bows and arrows, javelins, and dry food, and prepare to go." ”
This time, Zhou Cang was bleeding profusely, and all the weapons and food of the soldiers under the command of Wang Qing and Dong Hong's 100-man team were completely equipped.
Leather armor, one set per person
Bows and arrows, a hundred for a soldier.
Javelin, a soldier with eight handles.
Dry food, prepared for two days per person, and there was jerky.
It can be said that this time Wang Qing's soldiers are fully equipped with all the weapons they should have, except for the war horses.
It is an indisputable fact that they lack horses, and mountain warfare is not conducive to horseriding, so although Wang Qing is equipped with his own horses, he did not ride them on this expedition.
Moreover, the soldiers in the cottage are all foot soldiers and are not good at firing volleys. Instead of equipping the war horses, the soldiers are nondescript and staggering without rules, it is better to be all infantry, Wang Qing can still do the order and prohibition, and the order is the same.
After all the soldiers were ready, Wang Qing gave an order: "Go!" ”
Footsteps sounded, and a black torrent rushed out of the school yard and galloped away.
After turning around and walking towards the hundred people, Wang Qing forgot to glance at everyone, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly: "Go!" ”
After sending Wang Qing and them off, they went back to their house, thinking of telling Sun Hao about their current situation and reassuring them, but when they sent someone down the mountain, they had to talk to Zhou Cang to avoid misunderstandings.
He came to Zhou Cang's house and told Zhou Cang's guards that he had something to look for him, and the guards hurriedly went in to tell him, and soon came out to invite Zeng Yu in.
"I don't know what Zi Ruici is talking about?" Zhou Cang asked after seeing Zeng Yu come in and sit down.
"Don't hide it from the big boss, I still have a few brothers in the county below, because one of them is sick, when we went to join the army, we let him treat the disease in the county first, leaving two brothers to take care of him. I agreed with them to come to Sili to find us, but now that I have come to the cottage, I want to pick them up. ”
"Oh, I don't know what their names are, I'll send someone to ask them to come up." Zhou Cang saw that Zeng Yu was suddenly going to the county seat, and he was also a little worried that he had other ideas.
"There's no need to worry about the big bosses, and the people in the cottage don't know my brothers, so I'd better go by myself." Zeng Yu just wanted to tell Sun Hao about his own situation, where is the real pick-up, in case the people from the cottage really go to Sun Hao and them, he doesn't know what will happen, and when he heard Zhou Cang's suggestion, he hurriedly refused.
"Otherwise, you let Qin Fen bring a few people from the cottage and pick up some together, I think Zirui is also a talented person, I just want to ask you for more advice." Zhou Cang thought that Zeng Yu was there, and he looked at Zeng Yu's temperament, just like having poetry and books in his belly, and he really wanted to ask Zeng Yu what he thought of the cottage.
"Then thank you to the big boss." Zeng Yu knew that it was impossible for Qin Fen to go down alone, and when he heard Zhou Cang say this, he agreed.
After coming back, Zeng Yu asked Qin Fen to go to the bottom of the mountain to find Sun Hao, inform him of the mutual situation, and also asked him to pay attention to the subordinates who went down the mountain together, and try to avoid exposure at present, lest Zhou Cang think that they are undercover agents of the government, and it will be troublesome. The people who come down the mountain will send messages regularly, if they are all right, after you see it, remember to add a sentence "Brother Zirui rest assured" in the message sent up, so that I will know, don't say anything else.
Qin Fen listened to Zeng Yu's instructions, and took the three people designated by Zhou Cang to the county seat together.