Chapter 36: Ambush
"Young master, Chen Ming is walking in our direction with a few carts of boxes and five hundred guards."
Liu Qi was sent to reconnoiter along the way, and Ye Chen already knew that the other party had a conspiracy, so he set up sentry posts around Bald Ridge.
"yes, got it."
Ye Chen was surrounded by a guard camp of five hundred inner armor and black clothes, with Tai Shi Ci and Hu Tou on both sides.
"Report" A sentry ran over and knelt down in front of Ye Chen to salute.
"Say"
"Report to the young master, Wang Tianhammer is here to report, two thousand troops came out of the city, coming to Bald Ridge, and the leader is Captain Zhu Ming."
"Liu Qi, monitor the officers and soldiers leaving the city along the way, report their location at any time and calculate the distance from Chen Ming's team."
"Yes, young master."
Liu Qi took the order and left.
"Big brother, I guess the other party wants to have a praying mantis to catch cicadas, use Chen Ming in the front, and the officers and soldiers in the back, in order to eliminate us and others, in your estimation, if you eliminate Chen Ming's team, can you run."
"It is enough to kill five hundred of them in one charge, if you want to destroy them on the spot, it will take two quarters of an hour, but if you want to bring a few carts of things, I estimate that it will take nearly an hour."
This team has been trained by Tai Shi Ci recently, and he knows its combat power best, and he has a lot of confidence in this team.
One hour, this time is a bit tight, according to Ye Chen's estimate, the officers and soldiers who go out of the city will not close the distance.
However, the news that soon came back to Chen Ming was that the distance between Chen Ming and the officers and men who came out of the city was very wide, and Balduling was seven or eight miles away from the city, half of which were difficult mountain roads, and according to the current speed and distance of the officers and men, it would take an hour to arrive.
Ye Chen didn't understand why they would arrange it like this, but since the other party's plan had such a big loophole, then he himself would not be polite.
"Pass the order, wait for the other party to get closer, don't talk nonsense, attack immediately, and annihilate the other party."
Ye Chen didn't care what conspiracy the other party had, although he only had five hundred people, and the other party also had five hundred, but his side had undergone strict training and often conducted night combat training, and it was easy to deal with the other party.
Strategically, you can despise the other party, but tactically you have to pay attention to it, Ye Chen asked Tai Shici and Li Ren to take a hundred people each to ambush or so, and he and the tiger head attacked head-on.
The mountain wind blew, bringing a chill, and Chen Ming didn't know that he was slowly walking into the abyss of death with his team.
"Kill"
As Ye Chen shouted, five hundred black-clothed masked men rushed out of the jungle.
"Kill!"
Tai Shi Ci shouted, and a barrel of spears made an extra hole in one of the enemies in front of him.
The tiger head is more direct, and the big gun smashes people out as soon as they smash them. Although his martial arts are average, his brute strength is very large, and he was originally going to play the one-eyed dragon, but now that his plans have changed, there is no need to talk nonsense with them at all.
Li Ren saw the opportunity and led people to kill them in the back, blocking their retreat.
Ye Chen also had a gun in his hand, he was the first to rush out, although he did not have Tai Shici's bravery, but it could be regarded as a flock of tigers, and the other party had no enemies.
Chen Ming saw that the other party didn't follow the routine, and they attacked the other party before they could answer as soon as they arrived.
"Your Majesty, please stop first, and discuss something below."
Chen Ming shouted in a hurry, his own side was not organized, he was attacked by the other party on three sides, and he had already broken up, in order to save his life, Chen Ming used all his strength to scream.
"I knew why I had to do it today." Not long after, Ye Chen had already rushed in front of Chen Ming, and the tiger head had been guarding left and right.
"Who are you, you're not a one-eyed dragon."
Although Chen Ming was panicked, he could hear that Ye Chen was not very old, and his voice was somewhat familiar.
"Hmph, go to hell to repent, don't be evil in the next life."
After speaking, Ye Chen's hand waved the spear, a flash of silver light, and an extra line of blood appeared on Chen Ming's neck, and a large amount of blood came out of his neck.
Chen Ming's eyes widened, he wanted to speak but couldn't say it, until now he didn't know why this happened, it can be said that his death was unknown.
"Puff"
The battalion of five hundred guards was silent, the blades in their hands pierced into the enemy's body, their movements were swift and effective, and they worked closely together, while the opponent did not even know where the enemy was in the dark.
One-sided slaughter, without any resistance, these people have never been on the battlefield, they were completely disrupted by a single charge from the other side, and there was no resistance organized at all.
"Young master, the enemy has all been eliminated, and none of them have escaped." The tiger head shook off the blood stains on the spear in his hand, and then said to Ye Chen.
"There are casualties among the brothers."
Ye Chen took the weapon in his hand to a guard battalion soldier next to him and walked to the side of a few carts of boxes.
"Back to the young master, only a few brothers have been slightly injured, and they are out of the way." Li Ren sorted out the team and stepped forward to answer Ye Chen's question.
Ye Chen motioned to the soldiers to open several carts of boxes. Ye Chen carefully checked the situation of the box and found that in addition to the copper coin on the top layer, the bottom was counterfeited with sand and stone. Others checked the other chests and found that several of them were the same.
"It seems that the other party really wants to use these boxes as bait, and then let the officers and soldiers behind surround Qingfeng Village."
Ye Chen came to Chen Ming's corpse again, kicked him twice and said.
"Young master, the other party is too hateful, why don't we give them an ambush and extinguish their prestige."
Tiger Head felt that he was not addicted at all just now, and it was over without killing a few people, and besides, he wanted to protect Ye Chen from killing that he didn't dare to let go.
"There's no need to make a fuss, let's take a detour back." Although he failed to issue a single payment, at least Chen Ming's death can be regarded as a part of his revenge.
Along the way, Ye Chen felt that things would not be so simple, the other party's plan was definitely to exterminate Qingfeng Village, but the cooperation between the two sides was not very close, as if Chen Ming did not know that there was a team of officers and soldiers behind.
Moreover, the team behind was completely cut off from the team in front, and no one was sent to contact them. If Qingfeng Village is to be exterminated, then Chen Ming's team will definitely be prepared.
But when Ye Chen launched a charge, he found that the other party was completely unprepared, and he was killed in front of him, without the power to resist, and the team had no commander.
How could such a team entangle Ye Chen and them, and how could they provide time for the team behind them to be annihilated.
So Ye Chen couldn't figure it out, if Chen Ming didn't know that there was a team behind him, then he would definitely not dare to bring a few cars of fake money, because once they were discovered, then they would definitely have only a dead end.
Unable to figure it out and unable to do it, Ye Chen led the team to quickly disappear in the night.
More than 500 corpses lay quietly in the forest, under the cover of the night, if it weren't for the smell of blood, it seemed that nothing had happened here at all.
Zhu Ming led the team to move forward slowly, and he collected five million, and the request was to exterminate Qingfeng Village.
He has done this work, and if he wants to come to Qingfengzhai and his gang, he will definitely not be his opponent, and he will not fight with the other party at all, he will fight if he can, and if he can't fight, he will leave, and no one wants him to take out the money that has entered his pocket.
"Where are we?" Zhu Ming rode on his horse and said to his subordinates.
"My lord, there's Bald Ridge ahead."
A soldier in front hurriedly turned to Zhu Ming and replied.
"Well, tell the brothers, when I saw the thieves in Qingfeng Village giving me a fatal greeting, I didn't leave any of them, and I took my head back to ask for credit."
Zhu Ming is also a soldier no matter how he says it, although he doesn't want to fight to the death with the other party, but he knows that the team in front of him has sent five hundred people, and when the two sides are fighting, he suddenly leads his troops to kill, and he will definitely be able to pick up the cheap.
"Strange, why is there no movement, have the five hundred people in front been wiped out?"
Approaching Bald Ridge, Zhu Ming also felt that the atmosphere was strange, but he still didn't know who the person in front of him was, only that there were five hundred people in front of him to act as bait.
Zhu Ming's plan is to wait for the two sides to fight almost over, and he is picking up the bargain by entering the field, if the thieves in Qingfeng Village have fled, then he will come for nothing. It can't be said that he came for nothing, at least he collected money.
"Big, sir, front, front..."
A soldier ran to Zhu Ming in a panic, stammering indistinctly, and his legs seemed to tremble again.
"What does it look like to panic, tell me clearly, what's going on in front."
"My lord, the front, a large number of corpses were found in the front."
"What, there is an ambush, pay attention to vigilance." Zhu Ming was startled and quickly jumped off the horse.
Because he was frightened, he almost fell when he turned over and dismounted, his helmet was crooked, and the knife on his waist was halfway drawn and he couldn't pull it out.
Over the years, Zhu Ming has been enjoying himself and being nostalgic for the Qinglou, he has not trained at all, and he has gained a lot of weight, and he has long lost the demeanor of a military general.
The soldiers took out their weapons one after another, guarding all directions, and they were all frightened.
The mountain wind whistled through the woods, and the leaves rustled, and for a long time there was no enemy at all, and there was no movement.
"You, go ahead and have a look." Zhu Ming pushed a soldier beside him and asked him to go to the front to check.
After a while, the soldier came running back as fast as he could.
"My lord, except for the corpses all over the ground, there is no figure in front of me."
"Could it be that the first five hundred people have all been annihilated?"
With questions, Zhu Ming led all the soldiers to check.
The torches were full of corpses, and the bodies of five hundred men were all over the ground.
The more Zhu Ming looked at it, the more frightened he became, the other party was five hundred people, how could they all be wiped out in a short time, then the other party might have four or five thousand people, and he only had two thousand people, so he might not be an opponent when he fought.
Zhu Ming, who was afraid of death, thought that the other party's strength was very strong, so his legs began to tremble, and he was unwilling to stay longer.
"Retreat." Zhu Ming turned over and got on the horse, this time the action was fast and in one go.
After getting on the horse, Zhu Ming waved his whip and ran back.
When these soldiers saw the corpses all over the ground, they were already frightened, and when they heard that the general said that they could retreat, a group of people hurriedly followed.
Zhu Ming led the team and ran all the way, slow when he came, and extremely fast when he returned, hating himself for missing two legs.
In the darkness some people fell, some people lost their weapons and armor, and when they returned to the city, they were all disheveled, and half of them lost their weapons or armor.
Zhu Ming is not much better, and he doesn't know when he lost his helmet.