254 Confused
It's impossible, Governor Chen Qiyu found something, right? Zuo Liangyu was at a loss in his heart, and checked the ambush situation again, but still found no abnormality.
Just when he was puzzled, suddenly, he heard the officers and soldiers shouting in unison: "Wait for the thief, the tail is exposed, and you want to ambush us, hurry up and arrest you, so as not to die!" ”
Hearing this, almost all the thieves were stunned, they had been in ambush for so long, and it seemed that they had been discovered by the official army!
When Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other bandit leaders heard this, they were surprised, could it be that their subordinates didn't want Zuo Liangyu to be proud, so they deliberately exposed their traces, right? Otherwise, it wasn't like there had been an ambush before, so how could it be discovered?
Zuo Liangyu was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly ordered: "The governor is cunning, don't be tricked out by him!" ”
He thought that after checking a few times, Chen Qiyu would find out for no reason. Therefore, there is only one possibility, Chen Qiyu is tempting.
Thanks to Zuo Liangyu's official background, he is used to fighting, and the command system is very smooth, and his military orders were immediately passed down. When the thieves who were in ambush heard this, they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Damn, Chen Qiyu, this dog official, is too cunning, he was almost tricked out by him!
To tell the truth, even the officials and soldiers themselves actually thought so, and after shouting in unison according to the military order, they stared at the mountains in front of them with wide eyes to see if there would be thieves coming out.
But what they didn't expect was that after shouting a few times, the mountain was still quiet and there was no movement.
In this way, they thought, or maybe the Governor was too careful, and felt that there would be an ambush of thieves in this mountain. In this way, there are still some thieves who have been run away by them, and they can't be wiped out!
And the remnants of Daniel Zhang, who had fled into the valley, were all shocked. However, if the officers and soldiers don't chase after them, they can breathe a sigh of relief, which is always a good thing. However, Daniel Zhang knew that there was an ambush here, and the loss of his men and horses was to lure the governor into being fooled and take the Yongwei camp to the pit!
But now, the officials and soldiers didn't chase him, and where he was shouting, he was strange, he hadn't told anyone, it didn't make sense that Chen Qiyu would find anything, right?
If Chen Qiyu doesn't continue to chase, then he will really lose a lot, as the ancients said, if he loses his wife and soldiers, he will let himself meet!
Daniel Zhang wanted to run over and say, come, there is no ambush here, you continue to chase!
However, if you really do this, it will be unreasonable, and it will arouse Chen Qiyu's suspicion!
All of a sudden, he was in a dilemma!
Outside the mountain, a general said to Chen Qiyu: "Lord Governor, there should be no thieves, and the last general is willing to lead the people of his headquarters to continue to pursue those thieves and rescue Nanyang City!" ”
Chen Qiyu glanced at him, but he smiled in his heart, he got a message sent by Liu Guoneng, and he could make it clear that there would be an ambush!
Thinking so, he suddenly ordered: "The whole army will be rerouted and find another way to help Nanyang City!" ”
As soon as his order was issued, the officers and soldiers began to turn from the rear guard to the forward with a little regret, and prepared to leave.
In this way, Zuo Liangyu is stupid, Chen Qiyu, a dog official, why doesn't he play cards according to common sense? Could it be that his suspicion is too serious, and he is still pretending to test himself?
Seeing that the officers and soldiers had completed their turn, they began to leave. Zuo Liangyu panicked. What if I do leave? Could it be that Daniel Zhang's team was sent away by himself in vain?
Suddenly, he thought of a possibility, that is, Chen Qiyu knew that the emperor was not in Nanyang City at all, so he had been unhurried to rescue Nanyang, which could be explained. When he encounters a suspected ambush, he has enough patience to test it, or simply take a detour.
When he thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more likely it became. Damn, saying that the emperor is in Nanyang City is nine times out of ten is a lie!
In a hurry, he walked back quickly, and when he arrived in front of Li Zicheng, he slapped over, and "snapped", which stunned Li Zicheng.
"What's the situation?" The other bandit leaders were also a little stunned, and couldn't help but wonder in their hearts. Could it be that Zuo Liangyu couldn't ambush himself, so he used them to vent his anger?
Li Zicheng came back to his senses, and immediately became angry, he was a king anyway, he didn't hit people in the face, this dog thief actually hit his ear scraper in public, how could he have his face?
When he was about to go crazy, he heard Zuo Liangyu shout angrily: "The emperor is not in Nanyang City at all, you have made this handsome miserable!" ”
After finishing speaking, he didn't care about Li Zicheng anymore, and immediately turned around and ordered: "Don't let the governor run away, chase after Ben Shuai!" ”
Behind him, Li Zicheng and other thief leaders were stunned again: The Dog Emperor was not in Nanyang City? Didn't you say that someone saw someone wearing a dragon robe? Isn't that person a fake? The officials and soldiers of the imperial court actually used fake emperor tactics? Isn't that too daring?
Suddenly, Cao Cao and Luo Ru came to his senses, and couldn't help but say in surprise: "Could it be, this is the dog emperor's plan, right?" ”
In the world, no one dares to use the trick of pretending to be the emperor without the permission of the emperor!
Thinking about it this way, everyone is a little stupid, hasn't the Dog Emperor never been out of the Forbidden City? Why are they so treacherous, people use such tricks without showing up, causing them to be fundamentally wrong, for this reason, they can't wait to start plotting with each other, and finally cheapen Zuo Liangyu, a dog thief!
They were thinking like this, Zuo Liangyu's military order had been passed down. Suddenly, thieves appeared all over the mountains and fields, shouting and chasing after the officers and soldiers. And Zuo Liangyu's command of the Chinese army naturally has to go down the mountain, at least on the top of the mountain closer to the army, so that it is convenient to command.
At this moment, those officers and soldiers who were turning, when they saw these thieves coming out, they immediately admired the governor in their hearts. It turns out that there are really thieves in ambush here!
Watching countless thieves come out, to be honest, the officers and soldiers are a little afraid, if they recklessly enter the ambush circle, so many thieves come out, the army must be in turmoil, and it is likely that the morale of the soldiers will be gone.
But now, it was expected by the Governor. Just the two armies are going head-to-head, with such an elite army as the Yongwei Battalion, so what's there to be afraid of!
In fact, because Chen Qiyu saw through it, it proved his foresight, but it invisibly improved the morale of the officers and soldiers.
Chen Qiyu had already expected it, and immediately ordered the deployment of the defensive combat posture of the whole army, preparing to meet the thieves who were chasing after him.
A large-scale war is on the verge of breaking out.
And in this, there are still a lot of hidden actions.
For example, Liu Guoneng has already issued a military order to ask his subordinates to tie the white ribbon that had been sent down before to his left arm.
And Li Guo, with some of his most elite subordinates, not only did not rush to the front, but took advantage of the chaos to lurk on the side of the Chinese army command. On the other side, Zhang Kewang, Zhang Dingguo and others also led the most elite subordinates and also touched the side of the Chinese army command.
Obviously, all of them wanted to take advantage of this battle to rescue their leader.
Outside Wollongong, countless thieves couldn't stand still, so they dispersed, and the dense crowd was like a bloody mouth, ready to eat the official army in front of them.
100,000 vs. 30,000, just in terms of numbers, there is still a huge disparity.
Then, on the side of the Ming army, Huang Degong and Zhou Yuji led their subordinates, fighting each other, and they were not afraid of the thieves in front of them at all, but they were just waiting for each other.
Seeing that the thieves were getting closer and closer, the local armies other than the Yongwei battalion, such as the men and horses under the deputy general of Hubei, felt the pressure and became a little nervous. After all, although the Yongwei Battalion is elite, it only has 10,000 horses, can it beat so many thieves in front of him?
At this moment, from the side of the Chinese army, a herald rode to the front of the army and sent an order: "Among the thieves, there are friendly soldiers, with a white belt tied to their left arm, attack inside and outside, and annihilate the thieves!" ”
When those soldiers who were under pressure heard this, they were all overjoyed, it turned out that there were friendly troops among the thieves, and they wanted to attack inside and outside, so wouldn't this battle have a great chance of winning?
In this way, the morale of the Ming army rose again.
However, Chen Qiyu's opponent this time is Zuo Liangyu, the scum of the official army, of course, he is more familiar with the inside affairs of the official army than the thief.
After he saw the defensive formation of the Ming army, he sneered and said: "I really think that with the Yongwei battalion, I will definitely be able to win this commander!" ”
Looking back at the leaders of the thieves, he said with disdain on his face: "Let me show you your vision today, even if you don't have to ambush, with this force, you can defeat the Governor, you are optimistic!" ”
His tone and demeanor seemed to be teaching his younger brother as the boss. This feeling makes these thieves very unhappy. Among them, Zhang Xianzhong sneered and responded: "It seems that you think your subordinates have too many troops, so you will throw your subordinates first and let Chen Qiyu's dog thief eat them?" ”
Obviously, he was referring to Daniel Zhang's department.
When Zuo Liangyu heard this, his face immediately turned red, and he was a little annoyed and angry, walked over, and suddenly slapped Zhang Xianzhong in the face, and then said coldly: "Close your beak and watch how Ben Shuai uses his soldiers!" ”
Zhang Xianzhong was slapped in the face, his face suddenly turned the color of pig liver, his hands were tied, but he hit Zuo Liangyu with his head, a little crazy, obviously trying to fight with Zuo Liangyu.
Zuo Liangyu was also mixed up by a small soldier in the army, and his own courage was also okay, but he avoided it on one side. However, while avoiding it, he stretched out his foot and stumbled, tripped Zhang Xianzhong to the ground, and then walked over and stepped on Zhang Xianzhong's head, and said coldly with a hideous face: "Lao Tzu wants to beat you if he wants to hit you, and his mother Lao Tzu has long wanted to trample you under his feet!" ”
The other bandit leaders, looking at this scene, were awe-inspiring in their hearts, they understood that Zuo Liangyu was so unscrupulous at this time, which means that Zuo Liangyu would definitely not let them go!
After Zuo Liangyu stepped on it a few times, he sneered again, and went to give the order, and was busy with the battle in front of him first.
He didn't know that in the distant forest, someone wanted to rush over desperately, but he was held down by his companion: "Dingguo, it's not right now, if you can't rush over, you will kill your father-in-law!" ”
At the foot of the mountain, as the new military order was handed down, the thieves had a new movement.
I saw those miscellaneous thieves rushing to the side of the Yongwei camp, screaming as if they wanted to rush up at any moment. However, when they got closer, they hurried to run, not daring to formally engage the Yongwei Battalion.
Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Hui Dengxiang, and Li Zicheng's subordinates bypassed the Yongwei camp and launched an attack on the other Ming troops.
Although the thieves' attacks did not have any formation, they just rushed frantically because of the large number of people.
Obviously, Zuo Liangyu knew that the local army of the Ming army would not be able to have those combat effectiveness, so he specially asked the elite of the thieves to attack these armies first, and at the same time let the miscellaneous cards among the thieves drag the Yongwei battalion. He has a lot of troops, so he can use this strategy of horse racing.
And so the war began.
When Chen Qiyu saw this, he couldn't help but look a little ugly. This Zuo Liangyu really has a hand in the war. The loss is that there is Liu Guoneng as the internal response. Otherwise, I am afraid that there will be no chance of winning this battle.
The biggest reason why this is the case is that the 100,000 thieves have unified their orders, and they are commanded by Zuo Liangyu, who knows the details of the official army. And he doesn't feel heartache at all about the casualties of the thieves, and he catches those elite old thieves to attack the weak strategy of the Ming army.
Zuo Liangyu is indeed an old and cunning thief, and he knows that other thieves are forced to obey his command. Therefore, here in his Chinese army, it is also heavily guarded. Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates, who hid and wanted to sneak attack the Chinese army, couldn't find a chance to get close at all, even if Zuo Liangyu's Chinese army moved to a hill not far in front of the battle, they still couldn't find a suitable opportunity to shoot, which made them very aggrieved, and at the same time, they also felt the urgency of time. Once the war is over, there is no chance.
In fact, Liu Guoneng actually wanted to directly attack Zuo Liangyu's army, which caused the greatest chaos.
However, or because he was also born as a thief, Zuo Liangyu did not let this part of his troops be used for the purpose of guarding the Chinese army, but only used him as a reserve to supervise the war against other thieves.
Liu Yue, who was beside Liu Guoneng, saw that the two armies were fighting, so he was anxious, and hurriedly said to Liu Guoneng: "It can't be delayed any longer, otherwise." The Governor will be in danger, and the officers and soldiers will be in danger! ”
Of course, Liu Guoneng also knew that he was also in a hurry, looking at the hill behind, it was all Zuo Liangyu's headquarters defending. He turned his head to look at the battlefield where he was fighting, weighed it in his heart, and had to make a choice: "Immediately defeat the thieves in front of the Yongwei Battalion, so that the Yongwei Battalion can free up their hands to kill the thieves!" On Zuo Liangyu's side, even if we attack it, we won't be able to change the situation of the battle. ”
In fact, he is not sure about such a choice. After all, if the other Ming troops outside the Yongwei Battalion collapsed first, they would definitely not be able to win this battle with just more than 10,000 people in the Yongwei Battalion. Unless the other Ming troops can hold out until the Yongwei battalion is free.
However, Liu Guoneng was not optimistic about this, because Zuo Liangyu obviously knew this, and even sent the cavalry among the thieves to deal with the other Ming troops, and regardless of casualties, he wanted to break through the Ming army formation, so that other thieves could attack it.
"Brothers......" Liu Guoneng drew his sword in his hand, and just shouted to his subordinates, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, so he stopped talking, but listened carefully.
His subordinates didn't know what their eldest brother was going to say, but when they turned their heads to look at him, they noticed that his expression was a little strange, and when they were about to ask, they also felt something unusual, so they also looked north.
Not only them, but also Zuo Liangyu and the others on the hill naturally heard the movement, just like the thunder at the end of the sky, dull but unstoppable. At the same time, they felt as if the earth was shaking faintly.
Looking up to the north, the dust was billowing and a dragon was rapidly approaching this direction.