Chapter 18: The Old Tune Again
The old man's surname is Wang, only he has a little grandson left in the family at the moment, one of the two sons was pulled by Xiao Butcher to be a minion, died last year in a fire with Zhao Datong, the second son went out to run errands the year before last, and as a result, he met the official army, and never came back, it is said that he was killed by the official army, cut off his head and brought it back to ask for help, the grandson in the family is the second son, after the son is gone, the daughter-in-law also returned to her mother's house, and only Wang Laohan and his little grandson are left.
Seeing that he couldn't survive anyway, Wang Laohan wanted to fight, if this group of foreign poles could destroy the Xiao butcher, he didn't want to be rich and noble, at least for his little grandson to find a way to live, and leave a root for their old Wang family.
Lotus Mountain is not as ordinary people see, only a road in front of the mountain can lead to the mountain, when the old man was young, he would often pick some herbs on the mountain behind Lotus Mountain, and then go to the city to sell them to the pharmacy to subsidize his family, so he is very familiar with the terrain in this area, and he just knows a path that can climb to the top of the mountain from the back mountain, since he has made up his mind, he will put all the treasures on the Xingtianjun.
Hearing Wang Laohan say that there was a secret path to go up the mountain in the back mountain, Xiao Tianjian and several of his subordinates suddenly came to their senses, because after seeing Xiao Butcher's cottage, they all knew that if they attacked head-on, although with their troops and weapons, they might not be able to fight the mountain, but the result of that would only be a miserable victory in the end, and the loss would definitely be very large.
In the future, they will not only face the thieves of Xiao Butcher, but also Zhao Datong and Feng Tiancheng in the local area, and these old books cannot be filled in on Lotus Mountain no matter what, so this is the reason why Xiao Tianjian personally led people to the surrounding area of Lotus Mountain to inquire about the news.
The hard work paid off, and this time they really met an old man who knew the situation of Lotus Mountain, so it would be much easier to attack Lotus Mountain.
At the same time, in order to win the support of the local people for the Xingtian Army, at least not let these ordinary people help Xiao Butcher, as soon as the Xingtian Army arrived, he passed down a military order, borrowing Yue Fei's military order to the Yue Family Army back then, and asked the subordinates of the Xingtian Army to "freeze to death and not demolish the house, starve to death and not take prisoners!" Otherwise, it will definitely be done by military law, and Xiao Tianjian also took out some silver and handed it over to the soldiers and generals who went out of the camp to his subordinates, so that they must pay according to the price of all the things they take from the local people, and they must not forcibly take the people's things.
In this way, although the local people are still afraid of such a pole of unknown origin all the way, but seeing that these new strongmen are very well-behaved and will never harm them, and heard that they are going to attack Lotus Mountain and destroy the Xiao butcher, the big guys hate this Xiao butcher, so many people began to secretly communicate with the Xingtian Army.
After Shi Ran's scouts arrived in the area of Lotus Mountain, they were dispersed, and set up roadblocks on the road leading to Feng Tiancheng and Zhao Datong, and monitored the situation there.
Because Yan Chongxi accidentally captured one of Xiao Changshan's subordinates, Xiao Tianjian learned that Xiao Changshan was going to invite two other local large poles in Yangcheng to come over to help in the battle, so after thinking about it, he decided to deal with these two poles first, and after defeating them, he would then seek to capture Lotus Mountain.
Otherwise, if they are attacked by two other poles during the attack, then the battle will not be easy to fight.
Therefore, when the Xingtian army completed the assembly in Lotus Mountain, Xiao Tianjian sent Yan Chongxi to lead his soldiers to the bottom of the mountain to scold the battle, asking Xiao Changshan to go down the mountain to fight, but he did not take the initiative to attack the mountain gate, and the main force was Chen Xiao Tianjian on the open ground under the mountain, set up the camp, and only waited for the two poles to lead the troops to come.
Zhao Datong and Feng Tiancheng did not disappoint Xiao Tianjian, and on the morning of the second day after the Xingtian Army completed its deployment, they each led a group of minions under their command to the area of Lotus Mountain and rushed towards the place where the Xingtian Army was stationed.
The scouts kept transmitting the situation of the enemy army to the barracks, and Xiao Tianjian and several of his generals gathered around a sketch of the local terrain, discussing how to deal with the two poles that came to help Xiao Butcher.
"There are not many people on these two poles, the guy surnamed Feng only brought five hundred people, and the one surnamed Zhao also brought about eight hundred people, with our strength, it is not a problem to eat them, the current problem is that it is best to keep all the men they brought here in this battle, and after we defeat the Lotus Mountain and destroy the Xiao butchers, it is more convenient to clean them up."
So in this battle, we are going to fight a war of annihilation, not a war of defeat, have you heard it clearly? ”
Xiao Tianjian told several of his generals about the enemy's situation, and put forward his requirements for this battle.
Zhao Erdonkey and the others all nodded to show that they understood, but Zhao Erdonkey also raised difficulties: "If we want to deal with this group of people, it shouldn't be a problem to defeat them, but if you want to eat them in one bite, I'm afraid it's not easy, their gang of people are far more familiar with the terrain than us in the local area, and if you want to fight them in an ambush battle, I'm afraid it's not easy!" ”
"That makes sense, and that's what I've been thinking about today! That's why I asked the big guys to think of a way to see how they could eat these two poles in one bite! Xiao Tianjian touched the beard on his chin and nodded.
Fu Deming clasped his hands and smiled: "This matter is easy to do, does the general still remember the battle of Dashiqiao?" It doesn't hurt to use it again! ”
After hearing this, everyone immediately nodded, and Feng Gouzi said, "This is a solution!" These two poles don't know our bottom line, and they are local snakes, if you give them some sweetness to taste first, maybe they can really eat these guys in one bite! ”
Xiao Tianjian also nodded again and again, the idea that Fu Deming gave him was very much to his liking, and at the moment, it seemed that this method might be the only effective way, so he nodded and agreed with Fu Deming's idea.
The mountains in winter are full of gloom, only some farmland, there are still some winter wheat with some green, there is a quiet between the heaven and the earth, but this tranquility was soon broken, there was a shout of killing on the road between the mountains, and soon a group of troops of the Heavenly Army appeared in the mountain pass, all of them looked panicked, each ran to throw away their armor, and the road behind them was full of all kinds of things, that is, there were cloths, and some copper coins, of course, Leng Buding would also drop a few silver bills, Naturally, some people even lost their knives and guns on the road.
And behind them, they shouted what shook the sky, and rushed out of the black pressure on a large group of people armed with swords, guns, swords, halberds, these people all looked murderous, and their mouths were also scolding and scolding the people of the Xingtian Army who were fleeing in front of them, and some people leaned over from the ground from time to time to pick up the abandoned property of the Xingtian Army, and from time to time they would fight with each other because of the silver bills on the ground.