Chapter 171: Retreat
The thin monkey hurriedly asked people to cut down the corral according to what Liu Gouwa said, drove the cattle and sheep out of the pen, and pretended to rush out of the city. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Sure enough, the eunuch in the official warehouse saw that the emperor was in his body, and it was also a capital crime to lose those cattle and sheep, so he couldn't help but be anxious, and loudly scolded the forty or fifty officers and soldiers in the warehouse to come out and stop the cavalry under the thin monkey.
The cavalry under the thin monkey had been waiting for this moment for a long time, and when they saw that those officers and soldiers were lured out, they hurriedly turned their horses' heads and rushed to kill those officers and soldiers.
Seeing that the strength of the officers and soldiers in the warehouse had weakened by half, and those officers and soldiers were cowering in the warehouse and never dared to come out again, Liu Gouwa suddenly thought of a plan again, and was about to let people pick up some firewood and smoke all the officers and soldiers in the warehouse, only to see Wu Sangui running over in a hurry, and said breathlessly: "Brother, brother, the cavalry that Liu Zhiyuan greeted is back, withdraw quickly." ”
"What, Liu Zhiyuan actually sent someone back to receive the reward?" Hearing that Liu Zhiyuan sent the cavalry back, Liu Gouwa was surprised, and couldn't help but ask Wu Sangui in surprise.
"I should have heard that the reward of the imperial court has arrived in Xiao Song City, Liu Zhiyuan fought desperately with the Tang army in order to motivate the soldiers in front of him, and he was a little impatient because he was afraid that the reward was delayed." Wu Sangui guessed.
Liu Gouwa guessed that Liu Zhiyuan sent cavalry to rush back, and there should be only this possibility, but there must not be many cavalry they sent back, and he couldn't help but ask Wu Sangui again: "Then how many cavalry did they send back?" Where is it now? ”
"There are about 50 people, who are already five miles away from Xiao Song City, and they are rushing here when they see the warning beacon fire of Xiao Song City." Wu Sangui replied.
"What news do you have about the officers and soldiers in the direction of Songcheng and Hutou Mountain?" When Liu Gouwa heard that there were only more than fifty cavalrymen coming, she felt a little calmer, and then asked.
"Song Cheng received the beacon information, and also sent hundreds of cavalry, because there is an official road between the two cities, it has arrived more than ten miles away from Xiao Song City, and the officers and troops under Hutou Mountain have found out that they have been transferred to the tiger from the mountain, and they are also rushing back, but they are not too fast because of the rugged road, and they are still far away."
"Immediately tell the brothers to quickly withdraw to the mountains, the infantry team will go first, and the cavalry team will be cut behind." Liu Gouwa ordered Wu Sangui that the court reward for going down the mountain to rob Xiao Song City was flawless, and everything was estimated, but he killed Liu Zhiyuan's cavalry halfway, disrupting Liu Gouwa's robbery time, in order to prevent being stuck by Liu Zhiyuan's cavalry and not being able to get out, Liu Gouwa had to give up the original plan and immediately ordered a retreat.
"What about these cattle and sheep?" The thin monkey looked at the pieces of fat cattle and sheep, salivating, and asked Liu Gouwa with some reluctance.
"Give it all up." Liu Gouwa said resolutely, and then asked the thin monkey: "What about Li Feng, where have they gone?" ”
"When I entered the city just now, I chased after the deserters in the city." The skinny monkey replied.
"Send someone to inform them, tell them to withdraw from Xiao Song City, and hurry back to the mountain." Liu Gouwa ordered.
The thin monkey answered, and hurriedly sent two cavalrymen to find in the direction of Li Feng's horse. Liu Gouwa took three infantry teams out of the city first, this trip found nothing, everyone couldn't help but be angry, met a few high-ranking families, and wanted to take the sheep by the way, Liu Gouwa drank them, and now the time can not be delayed for a minute or a second.
Not long after Liu Gouwa came out of the city gate, the two cavalry teams of Thin Monkey and Li Feng also rushed out one after another. I saw Li Feng's cavalry team, carrying a small half bag of grain on horseback, and walked out of the city gate triumphantly.
When Lu Zhishen and the other infantry team saw it, they all cheered and jumped up, muttering that this trip was finally not in vain, and they returned empty-handed. It turned out that when Li Feng's cavalry team entered the city, they chased the deserters to the military warehouse of Xiao Song City, which was not as easy to defend and difficult to attack as the official warehouse.
When I returned to Hutou Mountain to count the number of people, I found that this time I went down the mountain to enter the city to rob, and no one was lost, but seven or eight people were wounded by some arrows, but there was no major problem. Huang San and Zhou Botong also returned to the mountain early, not only burned the military camp at the bottom of the mountain, but also grabbed a lot of military rations, but they killed and injured two mountain bandits and injured a few people, which can be said to be more than worth the loss.
Seeing that the fifth team of Radar and Huang Yaoshi had not yet returned, Liu Gouwa couldn't help but ask Wu Sangui: "Why haven't the two brothers, Radar and Huang Yaoshi, come back yet, and your scout team hasn't informed them?" ”
"Well, we are just responsible for investigating the enemy's situation, and we didn't send anyone to inform them to retreat, with Fourth Brother Li secretly answering over there, it should be fine." Wu Sangui obviously didn't expect that Liu Gouwa wanted his own scout team and doubled as a herald, and couldn't help but say with some surprise.
"Oh, it's all my negligence, in the future, we must set up a herald team, which doubles as a guard, and convey my intentions to the teams in a timely manner, otherwise, some people retreat, and some people continue to fight ignorantly, which is extremely dangerous." Seeing that Wu Sangui didn't realize his intentions, Liu Gouwa sent someone to inform Radar and Huang Yaoshi to withdraw, and knew that the rules of Hutou Mountain had not been perfected, and there were many mistakes and omissions, and there were only one by one.
"Otherwise, I'll pick them up." Lu Zhishen said with some concern.
"No need, there are many mountains on the eastern foothills, which are not suitable for cavalry maneuvers, and there are Li Si and others on the side of the mountain, secretly answering, as long as the radar and others do not leave that mountainous area, it will be fine." Liu Gouwa comforted.
Originally, Liu Gouwa only arranged the fifth team of the radar to be bait at the eastern foot of Hutou Mountain, but later I thought about it, the radar and others lured most of the officers and soldiers in Xiao Song City, and if they couldn't escape, they would be wiped out. In order to be foolproof, Liu Gouwa had to make a temporary decision to let Li Si's second team bring more bows and crossbows to the eastern foothills of Hutou Mountain to lurk secretly and meet the fifth team of the radar in case of accidents.
Soon, the people of the two teams of Radar and Li Si also returned to the Hutou Mountain Cottage, and when Radar saw Liu Gouwa, he laughed and said: "It's enjoyable, turn the group of those dog officers and soldiers under the mountain, let them go east and never west, chase, and can't catch up, don't chase, we're in front of us again, dangling, can't stop, haha." ”
The big black bull paced out, glanced at the excited radar with disdain, and said with a lack of interest: "What's so enjoyable, I haven't started the fight yet, they ran away, these cowards are very timid, but it's not enjoyable, it's not enjoyable." ”
Seeing that Da Niu was in opposition to himself, Lei Lei didn't care, and said with a smile: "Brother Da Niu, didn't your second team also shoot and wound several officers and soldiers, why is it not enjoyable?" ”
"Those are not killed by me, what is there to enjoy, I want to go up and kill for a while, but the four brothers Li refuse, today is busy in vain." Da Niu said unwillingly.