Chapter 12: Surrender or Die
Just after Pei Yuanshao left, Pei Qing quickly led the crowd to the dense forest not far ahead to prepare for the ambush.
Because the number of his own side is not large, and he has never participated in a battle before, and his experience is seriously insufficient, so in order to ensure that he is sure, Pei Qing is fully prepared for this ambush, he first ordered someone to dig a trap in the middle of the dense forest, and the pit is also full of sharpened branches and other things, as long as he falls into it, he will definitely be injured by the branches, and in serious cases, he may die.
In addition, in order to make up for the lack of feather arrows, Pei Qing also ordered someone to find stones and sharpened branches, the stones were thrown directly, and they would hurt if they hit people, and the sharpened branches were shot directly when the feather arrows were insufficient.
Just when they were almost busy, they suddenly heard the spies report that Huang Shao's team had returned.
Pei Qing was overjoyed when he heard the news, and immediately ordered to do a good job of lurking, waiting for orders, and not to attack without an order.
At this time, Huang Shao had actually learned the news that the cottage was attacked, of course this was not the news from his cottage, Pei Qing analyzed it, and felt that even if someone from the cottage could run out, when they went to inform Huang Shao, it was estimated that it would be midnight, and at that time Huang Shao was willing to return to the rescue immediately It is still a mystery, in case they rest in the middle of the night and then go to the rescue, then they will become a tired teacher, plus there are few people, the final outcome is not easy to say.
Therefore, it is better to send his own people to disguise themselves as people from Erlong Mountain, go there to report the news, and let Huang Shao withdraw as soon as possible.
So Pei Qing discussed with Zhou Cang and asked Zhou Cang to select a few shrewd and clever warriors and was ordered to go to the city to report the news to Huang Shao.
Huang Shao was really anxious after learning the news, and immediately ordered the troops to be collected, and ordered his subordinates to return to the cottage with the looted property and hundreds of strong, this time they robbed a lot of food, and it was no problem to feed hundreds of more people, although these people wanted to waste food, but they could add hundreds of people to the cottage, it was still cost-effective, as for their disobedience? That's easy to do, just kill it.
"I really didn't expect this He Yi to dare to be so bold and take advantage of the emptiness of our army to enter my cottage, today I must teach him a good lesson!"
Huang Shao's heart was extremely angry, since he tore his face, then he had no scruples, he went back to kill him today, although He Yi's strength was indeed stronger than his own cottage, but when he attacked other people's cottages, he always had to guard against other people's attacks, right? So the cottage must be guarded by some people, right? In this case, it is not certain who will win and who will lose? In other words, if you are really absolutely sure, why did He Yi engage in a shameless sneak attack? Obviously, I wasn't absolutely sure when I was fighting head-on.
Due to his anger, Huang Shao ordered the army to move forward at full speed when he returned, and he didn't expect to encounter an ambush on the road, but when the horse he rode came to the middle of the path in the middle of the dense forest where Pei Qing and them were hiding, he directly stepped into the trap that Pei Qing had already dug up.
Before Huang Shao could react, he fell into the trap with more than a dozen little minions behind him.
However, it can be regarded as Huang Shao's fate, when he hugged the horse's neck tightly, but when the war horse fell in, the war horse was directly stabbed to death by sharpened branches, but he was lucky to escape, and he was not even injured.
However, the dozen or so little minions behind him were miserable, they didn't have a war horse to the bottom, they fell directly to the sharpened branches, were pierced through the stomach, and some died on the spot, and those who didn't die were also injured and screamed loudly, which made Huang Shao even more frightened.
And Huang Shao didn't know that the soldiers on the ground were also very sad now, and before they could react, they found that the big boss was gone.
At the same time, I heard the sound of breaking wind in the dense forest, feather arrows and stones intertwined and flew over, these minions were not living well, and they were not wearing armor, so after the feather arrows and stones flew in, they could only use their own bodies and the bodies of their comrades to resist, and it didn't take long for dozens of people to be killed by random arrows, and many people were smashed by stones and their noses and faces were swollen.
In this case, they themselves were panicked, and the dragons were leaderless, so they had no will to resist, so they had to choose to flee.
However, in the process of escaping, there were problems, some people ran desperately forward, others ran backwards, and the result was naturally trampled on each other, and many people were not killed by bows and arrows, nor stoned, but trampled to death by their own people.
Those who fled forward but survived were also troublesome, because they finally squeezed to the front, but suddenly found that there was a big pit in front of them, this pit was very wide, and it was impossible to jump over, and there was no bottom in it, how dare they go forward again, so they had to turn around and flee backwards, but they encountered many comrades who ran from behind without knowing the situation, and as a result, some fell into the pit, and some were trampled underfoot......
And even this was not the end, because those who fled did not escape, and just as they wanted to go, they saw a procession blocking their way, and a big black man led a lot of men and horses to block their retreat, and all those who tried to pass by here were beaten back, and these people who were beaten back were either killed or seriously injured.
At this time, I only heard the last group of people shouting: "All heroes and heroes, we are not thieves, we are captured by them, we are all people of good families, we are willing to surrender to the heroes, please spare our lives, and when we go home, we will definitely be rewarded heavily!" ”
The big black man is naturally Zhou Cang, he had already been instructed before, and after hearing this, he immediately laughed and said: "Anyone who is really willing to surrender, just put down his weapons and stand behind me obediently, we will never hurt you, but no matter who it is, we need to let the master of the village fall first, as for whether you can go home or not, that is our master of the village, I can't make a decision." ”
After listening to Zhou Cang's words, many people were suddenly speechless, this Zhou Cang's martial arts are so strong, even if more than a dozen people go together, it is impossible for him to be his opponent, and he is not even the master of the big village, so how powerful should the master of the big village be? I'm afraid that even those first-class generals who are famous all over the world are nothing more than that, right?
Although Zhou Cang couldn't guarantee that he would release these captured people, at least he could save his life, so these people were still very happy to come behind him and consciously accept the care of the little minions behind him.
The minions who had been guarding the captives did not dare to stop them now, and many of them even abandoned their weapons and surrendered, because in their opinion, there was no hope of survival except surrender.
Of course, there were also a few fierce soldiers among them, who wanted to assassinate that Zhou Cang, and then took the opportunity to escape, but they were all killed on the spot without exception, and although Zhou Cang was a little injured, he looked more brave after a simple bandage, and he stood in front of everyone like an iron tower, which made people fearful.
At this time, Pei Qing came to Zhou Cang's front and said coldly: "Don't be polite to them, whoever is willing to surrender will immediately drop his weapon and squat on the spot, and if he is unwilling to surrender, he will be executed immediately!" ”
"No!" Zhou Cang agreed, and then said loudly: "Have you heard what our boss said?" Surrender or die, choose your own path. ”