Chapter XVII

For 10 consecutive days, the 200 people led by Zhang Yunwen burned down a granary in Liuzhuang and killed five teams of grain convoys, killing a total of 704 Xia soldiers at the cost of 11 killed, 8 seriously wounded, and 21 slightly injured.

In the past ten days, it has not been easy for the reconnaissance battalion of more than 100 people. They often endure mosquito bites at night, resting in the woods with their clothes, and do not even dare to burn a bonfire. During the day, they had to cruise along several roads to transport grain, waiting for an opportunity to find a convoy of grain that could be eaten, and then kill people and set fires, and flee without a trace. When Xia Jun came, he could only see corpses all over the ground and the sky-high fire.

In the camp of the Xia army, Dou Jiande slammed the letter in his hand on the big tent: "It's already the fifth grain transportation team!" It's really a rice bucket, and those who escort the grain are rice buckets! ”

There was silence under the tent.

After a long time, Zhang Qingte, the military general under the tent, said: "King Xia, the minister is willing to lead the elite rangers to attack and exterminate the rats who attacked my grain road!" ”

Dou Jiande said with a dark face: "Qingte, the enemy's whereabouts are strange, how can you track his whereabouts and exterminate them?" ”

Zhang Qingte said confidently: "Although the group of micro-ministers is extremely strong, there are still traces of its laws. Although they were fighting in the east and robbing in the west, a closer look at their movements showed that they were plundering along the grain transportation road! ”

Dou Jiande glanced at Zhang Qingte and asked lightly, "Who taught you these words?" ”

"Mr. Ling Celing!" Zhang Qingte blurted out. After saying this, he covered his mouth and looked at a white-clothed strategist in the big tent embarrassedly.

Seeing this, Ling Ce reluctantly stepped forward and said, "Don't blame the king! Let's listen to the students. The students thought that ** had sent elite horsemen to attack my grain and grass, and his ambition was not small. If we blindly increase the number of escort troops, it is not a way to draw salaries. The king should knock with all his might, and don't delay! As for these rats who attacked the grain road, I believe that General Zhang swept them away. ”

Dou Jiande stared at Ling Ce dissatisfied, disapproving. When Wang Shichong sent a messenger to ask for help, Ling Ce said that it was better to save now than later, and he sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight. Dou Jiande immediately listened, and only after Li **'s team besieged the city for eight months did he send troops south.

And when a letter from Li Shimin came, Dou Jiande had many doubts and did not dare to act rashly, but Ling Ce sang the opposite tune with him, advocating an all-out attack on the tiger prison. Considering the casualties of the soldiers, Dou Jiande did not adopt it.

Now, due to the problem of the grain road, this Ling Ce proposed to knock on the customs with all his might, or use Zhang Qingte, which made Dou Jiande a little dissatisfied.

"You stand down, I have my own considerations!" Dou Jiande said, "Zhang Qingte listens to the order. Let you get up 500 fine horsemen, check along the road, and if there are suspicious people, there will be no forgiveness! ”

"Whoa!" Zhang Qingte hugged his fists.

At this time, Zhang Yunwen and his subordinates didn't know that the Xia army was dispatching elite cavalry at this moment, and the target was them.

Sit around a campfire and roast the fresh rabbit on your hand. Dripping grease fell on the campfire, "creaking".

"Boss, isn't it time to go back!" Li Yang asked.

Beside Zhang Yunwen, there was a circle of team members and vice-presidents, each of whom put the prey in his hand on the fire and roasted it. Because the sun was full at this time, there was no fire to attract the Xia army.

"Well, almost! When His Royal Highness King Qin assigned the task, he did not clearly state the duration of the mission and the scope of the attack. I estimate that after this attack on us, the morale of the Xia army has dropped a lot. Even if Dou Jiande wants to knock on the level, I'm afraid he will give up his thoughts because of morale problems! Zhang Yunwen kept flipping the rabbit meat in his hand.

"By the way, how did I ask you to weave the rattan net?" Zhang Yunwen suddenly remembered the rattan net that these soldiers had woven a few days ago, and suddenly asked.

"Halfway through, but will be available! But what do you want us to weave that stuff for? ”

"It's so useful! Usually you can hang it between trees as a bed, and if you lie on it, you will not be afraid of mosquito bites on the ground. When fighting, you can cast the net on the enemy's dense place to restrict their movement, and when the time comes, we will shoot with a bow and crossbow outside, hehe......" After saying that, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help laughing, which made the soldiers beside him suddenly stand on end.

"Okay, take a break, do another ticket today, and we'll go home at night while it's dark!"

"Okay!" When the soldier heard that he could go home, he was immediately excited.

At this moment, suddenly a soldier galloped over on horseback. Zhang Yunwen immediately recognized that this person was one of the rangers sent out to sentry.

"There is a situation, everyone prepares for war!" The roast rabbit that had bitten two bites in his hand was thrown on the ground, drew his long sword, and turned over on his horse.

The soldiers also gathered up their food, took up their weapons, and turned on their horses.

Sure enough, behind the soldier, a dark red cavalry was chasing after him. Look at the number of people, but twenty or thirty. Xia Jun was dressed in red.

However, the soldier did not dare to be careless, and while galloping on his horse, he suddenly turned sideways and snapped the bracket on the crossbow machine in his left hand. A Xia cavalry company fell to the ground with a horse.

"It's Mingdi!" When Zhang Yunwen heard this, he immediately knew that it was not good, and shouted: "Go-"

This Ming Di arrow is Zhang Yunwen's imitation of the Ming Dun Shan Yu of the Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty, and its function is to warn. If the Ranger encounters three times the number of enemy horses and is rushing towards you, he will fire a warning sound. It can be said that this chirp is the highest warning of the reconnaissance battalion.

"Take that rattan net!" Zhang Yunwen ran back first, and ordered the soldiers.

So, in this small forest, hundreds of cavalry started a chase race.

The non-commissioned officers of the reconnaissance battalion kept turning around and shooting, shooting down seven or eight summer soldiers. Behind them, there were more and more Xia troops, and in the end, there were nearly 400 cavalry. A general in black iron armor took the lead and pursued the reconnaissance battalion behind.

"Let's go, into the forest!" After Zhang Yunwen let out a loud roar, he took the reconnaissance battalion soldiers to a mountain forest. Behind them, Xia Jun followed closely.

Zhang Qingte, who was chasing wildly, was very excited, he didn't expect his luck to be so good, he came out with five hundred elite soldiers, and sent a hundred people as scouts to search, and the remaining four hundred people actually saw nearly two hundred ** soldiers on the side of a road close to Renli Village.

However, before the ** formed an encirclement, it was discovered by the ** rangers, and as a result, an originally expected annihilation battle turned into a chase battle.

Seeing that there were soldiers around him who were constantly falling, Zhang Qingte couldn't wait to immediately rush behind those ** and kill them. I really don't know where this ** is sacred, and it is all equipped with hand crossbows. You know, that thing is very expensive, and a hand crossbow is almost as good as three horned bows.

After chasing for a while, I saw these ** running towards a mountain forest, and I couldn't help but laugh at the stupid mountains and forests of the ** generals are not as good as flat land, the terrain is steep, and there are many trees, so it is difficult to gallop the horses, so I have to get off the horse and escape into the forest.

Although the forest is very well hidden, it is difficult to escape. If there are few people in his own country, this trick is still useful, but there are four hundred people on his side, and ** is only two hundred people at best, and there are many wounded people who can't even ride horses, seeing this, Zhang Qingte couldn't help but let out a smug laugh of "hehe" on the horse.

led the four hundred Xia troops and followed these ** to the mountains and forests.

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