Chapter 601: Ambition Dies, Death Before Reward
About the end of the third watch, an army came from the east, lurking outside the king's large camp, condescendingly, inspecting the camp. To see the latest chapter of the book, please go here
However, seeing that Wang Ting's camp was well selected and the layout was reasonable, they were all shocked for a while, and some people said: "There are no less than three or four thousand people in the camp, and there are also one or two thousand outside the camp. ”
The leader of the team said: "Don't be impatient, the little general will be here soon." ”
After pacifying everyone and hiding down, after about a stick of incense, more than a dozen people came to the east, but the leader was the catcher and the general had a lot of money. When Li Mao heard that Wang Ting had abandoned the city and retreated to the west, he exclaimed: "This guy wants to go up the mountain, don't let him go." In his previous calculations, he didn't think that Wang Tingcao would go up the mountain to become a bandit, but he estimated this possibility very small.
Originally, he only hoped to use this letter to shake the trust of the royal court to the other party, so that he could do something during the siege of the city. But he didn't expect Wang Tingcuo and Fang Chuang to have such a temper, and the two of them who could be coaxed by a fake letter immediately started fighting in front of each other, and left no room for anything.
As a remedy, Li Mao immediately ordered the Fifth Division to pursue westward, and the Fifth Division was directly under the General Staff Office, which had the highest mobility and was most suitable for small-scale pursuit battles. After the Fifth Division was ordered to move westward, the generals were also informed of the news, and they had great autonomy and could make their own judgments and choices in response to changes in the battlefield situation.
Qian Duoduo waved his hand, and the department immediately pursued westward, encountering several strong enemies along the way, Qian Duoduo rose to the occasion and defeated the remnants of the enemy, but he did not fight, his goal was Wang Tingcuo, not these fallen rebels. To see the latest chapter of the book, please go here
In the last battle, Qian Duoduo's troops were scattered, he didn't have time to gather the people, only took his pro-army to follow Wang Tingcuo, and chased him to the foot of Taihang Mountain in one breath, only because he wanted to bury a few fallen comrades, so he delayed some time, and heard that Wang Tingcuo's camp was in front of him, Qian Duoduo was overjoyed, with the glimmer of the stars and moon, he looked at the camp under his feet, and judged that it was Wang Tingcuo himself, looked up at the sky, and ordered the soldiers with fast feet to go back to report the news, while greeting the department, Order the logo of the Youzhou Army to be removed and replaced with the logo of the Hengzhou Army.
The Chengde Army and the Youzhou Army were both Tang Dynasty officials, and their uniforms were roughly similar, and each town was only slightly modified in small places to show the difference. The Capture Army is responsible for battlefield reconnaissance, and for the convenience of reconnaissance, they all carry the opponent's identity mark with them.
In this way, a group of "Hengzhou soldiers" swaggered towards the camp, and the defeated soldiers gathered outside the camp were distressed that they could not enter the camp, who had the heart to care about their truth or falsehood
Qian Duoduo asked everyone: "Why don't you let us go into the city, we fought hard today, if we weren't in the back, they would still be able to live here, damn, they would have moved their heads." ”
These words won the hearts of everyone, and they were discussing a lot, when suddenly they saw a group of routs coming, and they tore their throats from afar and shouted in horror: "Whose family is that group of people and horses outside the mountain, lying there like ghosts, shouting and ignoring it." ”
The owl-like cry came in the middle of the night, which was really terrifying, and Qian Duoduo asked right and left: "The team behind the mountain is not the strange soldier that the doctor presupposed."
"The strange soldier set up by the doctor, that is not the strange soldier set up by the doctor" another person shouted, "Yes, Lao Tzu still thinks it is our own people, so who are they"
"Who are they?"
The crowd was immediately frightened, when there was already an army lurking on the other side of the mountain, and it was not their own
The panic spread dramatically, and a moment later, not only did the more than a thousand defeated troops who had been isolated outside the camp know that there was an unidentified army lurking on the other side of the mountain, but also the soldiers in the camp knew the news. After all, this place is still far from Taihang Mountain, and it is not far from Hengzhou City, and this army of unknown origin is not guaranteed to be sent by Li Mao.
"Saying that Captain Li's use of soldiers is simply unpredictable, I advise everyone to be careful."
After Qian Duoduo finished speaking, he took his brothers and brothers to separate the crowd and continue to the west, which was equivalent to sitting on the confirmation that there were indeed ambushes on the other side of the mountain, and it was very likely that it was Li Mao's people.
After hesitating for a while, the more than 1,000 defeated troops gathered outside the camp also began to retreat westward.
The atmosphere of panic spread to the camp, although the treatment of the soldiers in the camp was slightly better than that outside the camp, but there were also many unsatisfactory points, after the establishment was disrupted, in order to unify the order, Wang Tingcao temporarily organized the headquarters into his own personal barracks, the number of people in each team more than doubled, the contradiction between the veterans and the "new soldiers", "recruits" and "new soldiers" was acute and abnormal for a while, at the right time, I heard that the soldiers outside the camp had gone west, and when I inquired, it was said that there was an unknown army lying on the other side of the mountain.
The various departments suddenly became agitated, the "recruits" shouted to leave, and the veterans were ordered to severely suppress them, and the result was that there were fights in all the capitals and teams, first a group of veterans beat the "recruits", and then it became a group of veterans and a group of "recruits" to beat each other, and Wang Ting saw that the situation was in danger of getting out of control, and hurriedly ordered the brigade to leave.
At this moment, before dawn, the brigade had just left the camp, and I heard people shouting everywhere: "Lu Longjun is here"
In line with it, the drums and horns on the other side of the mountain sounded, and the sound of trumpets and cannons sounded faintly.
But I saw someone leave the team and rushed to the mountain, and the figure disappeared in a flash, and then someone left the team and ran towards the woods, and the figure disappeared in a flash, it was dark, the archers could not aim, and the shot was also in vain, seeing that someone left the team, seeing that the person who left the team was safe and sound, and hearing that the Youzhou army had been killed in front of him, Wang Tingcuo's brigade suddenly began to rout.
The defeat of the army is like a mountain, and once the situation of defeat is formed, there is no way to reverse it with manpower.
Wang Ting has been in the army for a long time, how can he not understand this, he gritted his teeth, decisively called the left and right guards, and rushed to the west on a bloody road.
Ran out of thirty miles in one breath, the sky was bright, and I saw that there were only eighteen heroes left around me, people were sleepy and tired, sweating and heavy armor.
Wang Tingcao glanced around and ordered to dismount and rest.
It doesn't matter if the soldiers run away, as long as they arrive at the destination safely and put up the flag, it won't be long before the cronies will come to gather righteousness, and the most important thing now is to save their lives, and leave Qingshan in order not to worry about running out of firewood, Qingshan has become a bald mountain, and there is still a fart head.
Wang Ting has been fighting horses for half his life, after strong winds and waves, he has suffered great hardships and suffered great crimes, and this small setback in front of him is nothing in his eyes. After he dismounted, he took off his heavy armor, took off his hood, squatted by the stream and took a handful of cool stream water, washed his face happily, took two sips of water to moisten his throat, and sat and admired the green mountains and green waters around him, curling in the morning mist.
A crossbow bolt "poofed" through his right temple and shot out of his left temple, as if two horns had suddenly grown on his head.
Wang Ting threw himself into the stream and never got up.
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