Chapter 189: The Pseudo-Tang Thief Army has been killed
To prepare an ambush, and it is not the kind of small fight that was before, just to kill and injure single-digit enemies and create a certain psychological deterrent to the Ming army, it is necessary to prepare carefully.
After all, this time Li Xuan and the others plan to do a heavy blow to the forward troops of the Ming army, there are more than 100 people, it is easy to fight, but it is also absolutely difficult to say that it is difficult.
It's not that they can be ambushed casually, and the Ming army is not stupid, but they won't stupidly run headlong into the guns of the bandits in Huangzhushan, and they will also send spies to carefully investigate and avoid being hit.
Especially after being ambushed once in the morning, Ying Tianhu was more careful in the next pursuit, and appropriately widened the distance between the two.
Diao Leixun Although they asked Ying Tianhu to stick it and even entangle the pseudo-Tang thief army, Ying Tianhu would not do it so stupidly, the pseudo-Tang thief army is in front, whoever likes to fight will fight, anyway, he will not take the initiative to go up and fight with the pseudo-Tang thief army, at most he will follow behind.
Ying Tianhu's cautious pursuit at the back also made it difficult for Li Xuan and them to ambush the Ming army for the second time.
At noon, Li Xuan and the others deliberately made a small flaw, engaged in a small-scale division of troops, and left a long spearman who seemed to be a weak chicken behind, just to attract the Ming army to take the initiative to fight.
At the closest distance, the Ming army's forward was only three or four hundred meters away from the Datang New Army's spear team acting as a decoy in front.
But Ying Tianhu just won't be fooled!
Letting the puppet Tang thief army dress up in a fancy, his clothes were half-undone, leaning on the side of the bed and shouting: "Come here, the slave family is waiting for you!" ”
But Ying Tianhu just didn't go over, let alone the past, people didn't even look at Fang Dongquan and them, they looked like a decent man and a gentleman from beginning to end: If you don't say it's hard, it's not hard, no matter how hard you tempt Lao Tzu, it's still not hard......
Fang Dongquan, who was acting as a bait in the back, was quite depressed, and a little annoyed and angry in the depression, this mentality is like a woman stripped naked and asked you to go to bed, but if you can't live or die, the woman will be furious in her heart: The old lady is lying on the ***, you are not paralyzed, and you are still not a man!
But there is no way to be angry, the Ming army can't come, Fang Dongquan and they can't run back to fight a battle by themselves, so it won't be an ambush, but a stupid run in the direction of the main force of the Ming army.
The failure of the ambush at noon made Li Xuan and them depressed for a few hours, but depression turned into depression, this life had to continue, and the escape had to continue, this ambush had to come again.
Li Xuan didn't believe it, these Ming soldiers could not be fooled every time!
And the facts also prove Li Xuan's conjecture, as long as the woman is active enough, as long as the seduced man has a normal sexual orientation, few men can stop hooking up again and again.
As the afternoon approached evening, the bandits in Huangzhushan seemed to camp again to rest as usual, and Ying Tianhu and the others behind them also decisively rested on the spot two miles away, that is, they maintained the surveillance of the puppet Tang thief army, and at the same time avoided the danger of being ambushed too closely.
But this time, Li Xuan and the others planned to take the initiative!
In the evening, the puppet Tang thief army seemed to be cooking on a fire, and everything was calm, but at this time, more than a hundred bandits from Wang Danxu began to make a detour.
Since it is not foolish to set up an ambush on the road, then they simply use the illusion of camping to play an active sneak attack.
Half of the people left behind were fanfare, disguised as more than 300 people, and in order to better confuse the enemy army, there were also a large number of musketeers among the remaining half.
After all, now everyone knows that the musketeers are the core and main force in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, especially after these musketeers also ambushed the Ming army once, these Ming troops will pay more attention to the movements of these musketeers, if they suddenly find that a large number of musketeers are not in sight at this time, it is estimated that they will be alert immediately.
In order to confuse the enemy army and ensure that the sneak attack troops could be spared smoothly, Li Xuan simply left the two musketeers behind.
The new army of the Tang Dynasty, which made a sneak attack on the road, was centered on Chen Butcher's heavily armored sword and shield soldiers, and also had archers and some spearmen as auxiliaries, with a total number of about 130 people.
In terms of troops, these people are already equal to the number of pursuing Ming army forwards, and they also have more advantages in terms of force structure.
In the pursuit of these two days, Li Xuan and they can naturally observe the specific situation of the Ming army, among the more than 100 Ming troops who pursued, there are not too many archers and heavy armor units, most of them are some sword soldiers and spearmen, and it is estimated that there are only some officers and a very small number of personal soldiers in armor, adding up to more than a dozen people, and these people are also part-time archers.
If a sneak attack can be successfully launched, then the Huangzhushan bandits, who can use a larger number of archers, to launch a long-range attack first, and then directly throw in Butcher Chen's heavy armor sword and shield to attack the enemy formation, striving to break through the enemy's camp in the shortest possible time and cause chaos.
When the enemy army collapses, the cavalry squad will go straight to the reaper heads!
This sneak attack, because of the type of troops, was commanded by Fang Dongquan, with Butcher Chen as his deputy, as for Wang Danxu, who had played an important role in several battles in the past, because the musketeers did not fight, he could only watch the play later.
However, they are also secretly preparing, once the sneak attack does not go well, Wang Danxu and the others will have to lead the musketeers to come over to pick up Fang Dongquan and Chen Butcher.
Just when Fang Dongquan and Butcher Chen were sneaking around from the dense forests on both sides of the mountain road with their people, Ying Tianhu was also looking at the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of him.
After seeing that the puppet Tang thieves had begun to make a fire to cook, Ying Tianhu was also relieved, they had been running for most of the day, but they were very tired, and now since the puppet Tang thieves in front of them have already made a fire to cook, then today's march is also in the past, and he has to let people start making a fire to cook.
When he asked his subordinates to start a fire and cook, he also arranged for people to arrange sentry spies, on the one hand, to monitor those pseudo-Tang thieves overnight, so as not to let them sneak away, and on the other hand, to prevent these pseudo-Tang thieves from attacking at night.
After all, the distance between the two sides is only more than two miles, if it is in a flat place, it will not take long for the other party to rush over, even if this place is deep in the mountains and dense forests, the roads are rugged paths, and it is difficult for large troops to pass quickly, but if the pseudo-Tang thief army wants to kill it, it will not take two quarters of an hour.
What's more, he still has to guard against the puppet Tang thief army from sneaking up on a small group of troops to attack and disturb him.
If they can successfully harass them by letting a few random people come over at night, then they don't have to sleep tonight, and they won't be able to rest well, and they won't be able to continue to pursue these pseudo-Tang thieves tomorrow.
Therefore, in terms of sentinels, Ying Tianhu still arranged it more carefully, and he was confident that there would be no more accidents like the one who was ambushed this morning.
But as soon as the sentry was arranged, less than two quarters of an hour, there was a scream from the left direction, the scream was quite loud, Ying Tianhu heard it at once, and the first moment he heard this scream, he noticed it, and there might be someone from the pseudo-Tang thief army sneaking over.
However, he expected that it should be just a few scouts of the pseudo-Tang thief army or something, and when he was about to arrange a few good soldiers to expel him in front, a person dressed as a Ming army in front of him ran back in a panic, and shouted: "Thief army...... The thieves are here! ”
As soon as the words fell, Ying Tianhu saw many figures in front of him, and after a closer look, who else could this be the pseudo-Tang thief army!
Although the puppet Tang thief army in front of him did not play any banner, let alone a unified military uniform, Ying Tianhu still recognized it at a glance, these people were the puppet Tang thief army.
The reason why Ying Tianhu was able to instantly affirm that these people were pseudo-Tang thief army was not because there could be no other large-scale people in this vicinity except for the Ming army or the pseudo-Tang thief army, but because these pseudo-Tang thief army was too easy to recognize.
These people are dressed in messy clothes, most of them are dressed in short robes, just by looking at the clothes, you can know that these people are not ordinary homeless, but green forest people.
But they were holding unified standard weapons, especially those swords and shields, which were typical of the Ming army's standard waist knife and round shield, and at the same time they lined up in a neat queue similar to the regular army.
This contradiction is combined, and then it creates an extremely special group in the mountains: the pseudo-Tang thief army!
Inside and outside the mountains, even within a radius of hundreds of miles, there is only the pseudo-Tang thief army so weird.
Therefore, anyone who has some understanding of the pseudo-Tang thief army can recognize them at a glance without looking at the banner, they are the pseudo-Tang thief army.
How did the puppet Tang thief army suddenly appear?
Could it be that these pseudo-Tang thieves secretly made a detour again? Or is it simply an ambush here in the first place, ready to attack?
But why didn't the scouts who explored the path before find them, and the spies he sent to monitor the puppet Tang thief army didn't find any unusual movement in the puppet Tang thief army that was camping more than two miles away.
Could it be that the puppet Tang thief army is still hiding a support here?
In just a short moment, a series of thoughts popped up in Ying Tianhu's heart, he didn't expect that he would take thousands of precautions along the way, not only being cautious when pursuing, but also sending many spies to monitor the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of him at any time.
But this still didn't notice that these pseudo-Tang thieves were sneaking over.
He hates!
Why did he chase these pseudo-Tang thieves in the mountains?
It's because of Diao Leixun, if it weren't for Diao Leixun who kept forcing himself to pursue, how could he risk chasing into the mountains alone? And then into such a dangerous situation!
If it is outside the mountain with a wide field of vision and no deep mountains and dense forests, let alone want to sneak up to a hundred steps away, even if it is within five miles, it is impossible for them to sneak over.
But now, it doesn't matter whether it's complaining about Diao Leixun's stupid hat or wondering how these pseudo-Tang thieves slipped over.
The most important thing now is that those pseudo-Tang thieves have been killed!