Chapter 334, Battle (2)
Huang Degong jumped off his horse and threw his helmet to one of his own soldiers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info just now he personally led people to launch a counter-assault under the city, and beheaded more than 20 levels, and then Zhang Thief's personal soldiers appeared, and quickly stabilized the situation, and launched a counterattack. After a little fighting between the two sides, Huang Degong retreated, and the other party did not seriously pursue because he was afraid of the firepower in the city.
This is Huang Degong's second attack in this day, and the performance of the Liukou side is still the same as before, only when he kills to the edge of the second trench will he encounter real strong resistance, and there will be elite thieves wearing good armor. And these thieves are obviously different from other thieves, not only are they well-equipped and brave in battle, but more importantly, they can advance and retreat in an orderly manner, as if they are more like officials and soldiers than the official army, that is, those of Huang Degong's family are not stronger than these thieves.
In the past two days, the thieves still came to attack the city twice a day, but they were all false stories, and they all retreated after two cannons were fired on the city. However, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo have increased the number of sorties in the past few days, originally they attacked once a day, but now, they have to attack twice a day.
"Go back and take a breath first, and then go over to see Liu Shuai attack!" Huang Degong shouted.
According to Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo's plan, they planned to probe the details of the thief army on the opposite side by increasing the number of battles, to see if Zhang Xianzhong had really taken away the elite troops, leaving only these consumables to drag themselves down. If Zhang Xianzhong really leaves, in order to drag himself down, most of them will still leave a little elite enough to deal with their daily small-scale counterattack. However, he must have kept people according to the needs of the intensity of the battle a few days ago. As long as the intensity of the battle is increased, the thief's side will definitely not be able to keep up. After the war of attrition in the past few days, Huang Degong felt that in the battle just now, the thief army seemed to be a little unable to keep up. Huang Degong believes that when Liu Liangzuo attacks again in a while, most of the thieves will be exposed.
Sure enough, half an hour later, when Liu Liangzuo sent people to lead the troops out, he actually killed the encirclement thoroughly, and he didn't encounter those elite thieves.
"Huang Shuai, it seems that the elite of the thief army has indeed left." Liu Liangzuo said to Huang Degong, "Yesterday there was news that the thief army was found in Zhongdu, and we are worried about whether the elite of the thief army has really arrived in Zhongdu." Now it seems that, at least, there are indeed not too many elites in this city. ”
"What does Liu Shuai think he should do now?" Huang Degong asked.
"Needless to say?" Liu Liangzuo laughed, "Huang Shuai, what do you see outside the city now?" ”
"What are they?"
"It's all heads! It's all the first credit! Liu Liangzuo said, "Judging from these days, there are no more than five or six hundred elite people in the thief army. Early tomorrow morning, Huang Shuai and I will attack in two directions at the same time, and we will definitely be able to break the enemy army in one fell swoop. I don't know what Huang Shuai thinks? ”
Huang Degong naturally didn't want such a credit sent to the door, so he said: "How about making rice on the fourth watch tomorrow and killing it on the fifth watch?" ”
"It's according to Huang Shuai's intentions." Liu Liangzuo also replied.
"In that case, I'll go back and get ready." Huang Degong stood up and bowed to Liu Liangzuo.
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After dark, Huang Degong had just fallen asleep, but he heard a commotion outside.
"What's going on? What's going on out there? Huang Degong asked as he reached out and touched the sword placed on the bedside. The soldiers guarding outside the door heard Huang Degong's voice and hurriedly pushed open the door and reported: "Dashuai, those thieves outside the city really want to run!" ”
"What?" Huang Degong jumped up from the bed all of a sudden, "Quick, come and help Ben put on his armor!" ”
Several guards hurriedly came over to help, and after a while, Huang Degong was neatly draped and went up to the city wall.
Going up to the city wall, before Huang Degong could walk to the battlement, he heard a noise from below, like a big pot of boiling water was boiling. Huang Degong hurried over, held on to the battlements and looked down, and saw that the barracks of the thieves under the city were full of torches. It's not just the barracks that are full of torches, but even everywhere you can see. These torches spread across the sky like stars in the sky, covering the dark ground below.
"These dog-day rogues actually play such tricks! It's really time to catch and kill a thousand knives one by one! Huang Degong couldn't help but scold. He knew that these rogues were running away, and he thought that there were also people who knew a little bit about the rogues, and most of them also saw the intention of increasing the number of sorties on their side in the past two days, and it was estimated that they would launch a large-scale counterattack early tomorrow morning. And they also knew that they couldn't beat it, so they simply started running away while it was dark.
Night marching is a very technical job for the army of this era, because the organization of the army of this era is inherently low, the vision at night is poor (and the proportion of people in this era who are blind at night is also high because of nutrition), and marching at night will almost certainly lead to organizational chaos, and in the end, most of the people will not necessarily go anywhere. And a large part of these rogues outside the city are improvised and run away at night, and they will eventually run there, God knows.
But this is not a good thing for Huang Degong, because he has determined that tomorrow he will be able to completely defeat these thieves outside the city, and now these fifty or sixty thousand thieves outside the city are completely the first level that can walk in his opinion. Although the imperial court is always not very simple when it comes to first-level silver, it can at least be regarded as credit, and there can be some silver more or less. And now it's only the second watch, if you let these thieves run around all night, by the time dawn comes, these thieves will definitely run everywhere, and when the time comes, it will be much more troublesome to find them and turn them into heads who can exchange money and merit.
"Not to mention 50,000 or 60,000 people, even if it is 50,000 or 60,000 pigs, if you run all over the mountains, you will definitely not be able to catch them in five or six days! This is really ......" Huang Degong couldn't help but want to go out of the city overnight to grab the first level, just like the little girls in the city, when they heard the sound of thunder, they wanted to run to the yard to collect their clothes.
Of course, this is just a thought. Huang Degong's army also lacked the ability to fight at night, and if it went out at night to cut people, it would definitely be messed up, and it would not be done well, and it would not be impossible for his own people and his own people to cut them down all night, and finally cut themselves down. And in case there is an ambush of the enemy, there is a conspiracy...... Therefore, although I know that if I catch up at dawn tomorrow, many of the leaders will not know where to go, but it is absolutely impossible for Huang Degong to take people out on such a dark night when there is no moon.
"Dog's day! These rogues are not honest things! I don't even want to cut my head honestly! Only when tomorrow dawn is chased by cavalry, I don't know how many heads I can chase in the end! Huang Degong thought so.
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Liu Liangzuo also scolded his mother all night, and the next morning, just after dawn, the two of them came out of the city with the army. However, those rogues probably feel that it is better to carry their heads with them, in order to avoid Huang Degong they catch up and cut their heads, when the day is about to dawn, the rogues put a fire in their camp, and now the fire is booming, Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo were blocked by this fire, and they couldn't chase them out for a while.
"Quick, you, move faster! And you! Don't spill the water! When Liu Liangzuo found Huang Degong, Huang Degong was busy directing the auxiliaries to fight the fire.
"Huang Shuai! How do you say? Liu Liangzuo went over and grabbed Huang Degong and said, "Our heads have all run away!" All gone! Thousands! ”
"Liu Shuai, how many cavalry do you have?" Huang Degong asked.
"There are more than five hundred real cavalrymen, and with the horses that pull the carts and the people who can ride them, they can pull out almost a thousand." Liu Liangzuo said, "Huang Shuai, how many do you have?" ”
"It's about the same as you." Huang Degong said, "There are five hundred real cavalry, and the mess adds up to about three or four hundred." After a while, the fire was extinguished, and it is estimated that the rogue ran away, and also ran away. Let's let the sons and daughters split up and work hard. Those fake cavalry were thrown at them so that they could easily capture their heads. We brought the elite cavalry and watched the situation, so that the gangsters who fought with us a few days ago would not cause trouble with us. If I spot an enemy elite, I'll light a pillar of smoke to notify you, and so will you! ”
Huang Degong knew that if the team was not dispersed, it would not be possible to catch a few heads, but if the team was dispersed, in case the hundreds of elite rogues who had been fighting with them in the past two days did not run away and suddenly came out in formation, I was afraid that my side would suffer a big loss. Therefore, Huang Degong has to make such an arrangement.
"Huang Shuai said yes." Liu Liangzuo said, "But I think that most of the tributary Kou Youma has gone now, and I don't know where to go." Of course, it's better to be careful when sailing a 10,000-year-old ship. ”
At this time, the fire gradually decreased......
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Everyone knows this about sailing carefully for ten thousand years, but it is not easy to do so. Indeed, those heads have all run away, and basically there is no ability to resist anymore, as long as they catch up, they can be cut. However, they ran for most of the night after all. And almost all the rogues know what the consequences will be if they are caught up by the officials and soldiers. Don't say that you are a rogue, that is, you are not a rogue, but a loose person who farms in the countryside and does not seek to be heard by the princes, and just wants to live in troubled times. "Therefore, although these coerced rogues do not necessarily have any loyalty to Zhang Xianzhong, they don't need to be supervised to run hard to Zhang Xianzhong's side now. In the middle of the night, they also ran a long way.
Originally, Huang Degong controlled the pursuers very well, especially the speed of the hundreds of cavalry in his hands, so as to avoid excessive consumption of horsepower. However......
"Dashuai, we're going to hurry." A family member pointed to Liu Liangzuo's team who was running happily over there, and said to Huang Degong, "Look, Liu Shuai and they ran ahead of us, if they let them run ahead, I don't know if there is more left for us......
Huang Degong squinted his eyes for a while, then spat and said, "Liu Liangzuo of the dog day is not a good person!" Let the brothers run too! ”