Chapter 30: Pulling the Monster
readx;?“ This is no longer possible! The king shook his head and said to Liuluyan, he was holding a bowl of porridge made from wild vegetables in his hand, his bowl was relatively viscous, and there were a lot of rice and unknown potato pieces in it, he brought the bowl that had broken a corner to his mouth and took a sip and continued, "You and I only have a chance to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the people, and wait for them to enter the valley." Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info but at this time, the people have long been familiar with our movements, and there are wooden birds in the air that can attack us, and the lethality is amazing. Our subordinates have long been frightened, and at this time there is no advantage over the convoy of the people, so it is better to give up. ”
As the wise general in this gang, how could Liuluyan not see this situation? He just sat there silently, also holding a bowl of porridge in his hand, looking at the green leaves floating in the porridge. He wasn't thinking about what the Broken Village King was talking about, and for him, the series of actions he had made now was far beyond his cognition. It stands to reason that his arrangement should be considered watertight, and from the time he received a private message from the governor in Beihai, he counted the time, and only began the pursuit a day after the departure of the people. During the pursuit, he sent his men to follow him, trying not to let his team follow too closely and be detected by the people.
This ambush location was also carefully selected by himself, and he specially took a shortcut to shorten the time of about a day to overtake the front of the man, and specially used it to arrange the ambush circle. However, instead of swaggering into the ambush circle as he had envisioned, the man attacked his observation post on the top of the hill at night. There must be something wrong in the middle, but what's the problem? He couldn't figure it out, to say that he had a mole inside? That's absolutely impossible, although these bandits have not engaged in political audit and other means, but most of them have been tested many times in previous battles, and they are definitely politically strong goods, besides, with the rabble of these bandits, even if there is information, how can it be left to the people to know? Therefore, it is impossible to be a mole.
So how do they know? The Six Paths didn't think about it for long, and the birds that attacked his men just now told him the answer almost at the same time, the beard man had already mastered the secret of being able to soar into the sky, and he would definitely have nowhere to hide from the ground from the air, and now the beard man should have known everything about his own deployment or something. Although his bandits still occupy the mountain pass with a certain geographical advantage, if they continue to defend it...... He glanced at the gruel in his bowl, for his men did not carry enough food and grass for five days because of the hasty march of the pursuing thieves. Originally, it was planned to end the battle during the day today, but it turned out that he was caught off guard by the people from the morning, and at the end of the day, he didn't even touch the hair of the people, but killed and wounded more than 100 people, and escaped more than 90 people, and lost more than 200 people together. Although it is possible to reduce the consumption of food to a certain extent, who knows how long such a thing will be consumed? If it drags on like this, there will be no need for thieves to fight at all, and these bandits will starve themselves to death if they are hungry.
"This matter is not to be done," Liulu thought for a while, then looked at the King of the Broken Village and said, "But you and I can't escape." As he spoke, he also took a sip of porridge, which contained a lot of wild vegetables, and tasted a little bitter, which made his nose and eyebrows come together.
After a while, Liuluyan relieved himself, spit out a few pieces of bitter wild vegetables in his mouth, and said, "I'm already at a disadvantage at this time, if I leave now, what if I leave now, what if the people chase after me?" ”
The king of the broken village couldn't help but nodded, saying that he had won a lot of battles, but he had more defeats, so he naturally knew the true meaning of the defeated army not daring to speak bravely. If they retreat now, the Beard will find out and pursue them, which will inevitably cause panic among their own men. What the army is most afraid of is panic, panic among bandits can spread, once they are frightened and start to flee, a few people can run all over the field with thousands of defeated troops, he doesn't want to see such a situation.
"Besides, the people should have a secret method to monitor our actions," Liuluyan frowned again and took a sip of porridge, "But it shouldn't be possible to monitor at night, so I might as well withdraw all the people on the other side of the crossing tonight, ambush them in the mountain pass, and after dawn tomorrow, the whole army will assault." ”
The King of the Broken Village nodded, "Clever plan!" As he spoke, he drank all the porridge in the bowl in one gulp, "The people of the bowl have won a big victory today, and they will definitely relax their vigilance against us, and we will hold a banquet to celebrate if we are not even, and we will gather at night, even if there will be some lost and lost men, but we can concentrate the main force in front of the mountain pass, and rush forward after dawn tomorrow, and the thieves will be caught off guard, so that we may still have the ability to win a big victory." ”
"If you want to say that at the beginning, I thought that this battle was a turning point of fate, but now it has come to decide the battle of life and death between you and me." Liulu Eye sighed, "We have already regarded the Beard Man as an important opponent, but we are still at a disadvantage, and we have to use such a frontal assault method, if tomorrow's battle fails to work, you and I may die without a place to be buried." ”
The king of the broken village was speechless for a long time, he did not expect that the situation would fall into such a field as it is now, the initial complacency has long been thrown out of the clouds, and now the only hope is to be able to survive this battle and seize some benefits, otherwise, it is really a dead end.
By the time the sky showed the first rays of light, the bandits had almost already woken up, not because they woke up early, but because they hadn't slept much at all. With the experience of the hill observation post the day before to slaughter a clean grits for the elite soldiers of the skulls at night, they have already been rumored to be soldiers of all the grass and trees, as long as there is a little wind and grass, they will be scared to get up, and this group of bandits can't sleep at night all night, at most they can count as sleep in the blink of an eye.
The bandit in charge of the lookout didn't sleep all night, and kept an honest stare at the man in the distance, but unexpectedly the man didn't move at all night, and there was no movement all night. A few of the better-eyed lookouts could see that the thieves there had lit two fires, and had been sitting there all night, except for a few patrolling men walking back and forth every once in a while.
The bandits had withdrawn the people on the other side of the pass last night, and then under the cover of night, they had advanced three or four miles in the direction of the men, hiding on the edge of a wood, and the camp was already visible six miles away, and there were many fences on the outside of the camp. Inside the fence were rows of wooden boxes of supplies, and they could see from a distance that many soldiers in the camp were walking around from time to time, and they also took advantage of last night's bonfire to see a lot of people sleeping in the air raid between the supplies, and they didn't come out until now.
The bandits had no food in their stomachs, and they were dizzy with hunger - they had eaten a porridge last night, and it was a real porridge, and in it was a soup that could be seen in the shadows, and on it there were two wild vegetable leaves and a few boiled "swollen" grains of rice. Because of the proximity to the mountain roads, animals are relatively scarce in this area, so even if they hunt, they can't catch anything, and in the end they can only rely on eating wild vegetables to coax their stomachs. The belly can coax people, but people can't coax, this group of dizzy bandits sit or stand weakly, all leaning against the side of the tree, waiting for if they launch an attack, they need to go at least six miles forward, this distance is no less difficult for them than climbing to the sky.
The Six Paths knew that it was impossible for such bandits to be driven to war, and that their appetites must be satisfied if they were to die one after another. They eat two meals, one at noon and one at night, and generally choose not to eat in the morning in order to save food. But it's not okay to make such a fuss now, and the next thing is to fight. He had no choice but to call a few bandits who were good at archery skills to hunt some game in the nearby mountains and forests, and as for what he could hit, he was purely resigned to fate.
"Big shopkeeper!" The king of the broken village himself was so hungry that he heard someone calling him, so he hurriedly opened his eyes and looked over, and a small bandit over there ran over with a bow and arrow in one hand and two rabbits in the other, "It's hit!" Hit! ”
The bandits next to him immediately surrounded him, and some people immediately skinned the rabbits, and more gathered around and waited for a share of food.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" Someone shouted, "It's not baked yet!" Do you want to eat raw? ”
"You cut it for me, I'll bake it myself!" There are also people shouting, and more people don't speak, and there is a burst of snatching when they bow their heads, and there is a lot of noise for a while.
"That ball is out again!" Someone suddenly shouted, and everyone turned their heads in the direction where the man was, and sure enough, the hot air balloon that had been hanging in the sky yesterday rose again, and because they were much closer, they could vaguely see that there seemed to be a figure shaking under the hot air balloon's hanging basket.
"There's someone up there! Look! "That is, what is the use of people going there? Is it possible to fly like this? ”
"Someone's coming!" As someone shouted, the bandits who were still fighting for rabbits before fell silent. In the distance, there was a strange car on the road, this car was in a trapezoidal shape, large at the bottom and small at the top, with four wheels below, and the whole body was wrapped in iron sheets, and there was no one in sight. After a while, someone suddenly spoke, "This isn't a demon car, right?" ”
The cart was not small, about two zhang long and one zhang wide, but it was not towed by mules and horses, and it only walked on its own. The bandits are uneducated, even if they are "educated" talented children and even the prime minister of the current dynasty, they all listen to novels such as ghosts and strange stories, and now this self-contained vehicle makes them sincerely afraid.
"What pulled this car?" "That is, how can I not see cows and horses?" "yes, maybe this thing is driving away ghosts?" "Definitely, yes, or the spirits of cows and horses." "Yes, how else are they going to keep going?"
Of course, this car is a Rolls-Royce, and there are three special detectives sitting on the reconnaissance-type off-road Rolls-Royce, and the one in charge of driving is Yang Muqin, and his task today is to bring this group of bandits to the camp.
Curiosity is the best stimulant for human beings, and when they saw this car, the bandits forgot about the hunger in their stomachs, their heads were no longer dizzy, and their eyes were no longer dazzled, and they all rushed forward, wanting to see the "demon car" of the people. They had also heard of the vehicles that were not towed by oxen and horses in the country legends—according to legend, they were all towed by imps, or by cows and horses from the underworld. But the difference from the front is that the legendary demon cars only appear at night, and there is a ghost fire in front of them to guide the way, but the demon car in front of them appears in broad daylight, which is completely different from their cognition.
The curious bandits crowded forward, trying to get closer and see what was going on, not noticing that they had come out of the bushes.
Of course, Yang Muqin had seen this group of bandits from the beginning - even though this group of bandits thought that they were well hidden in the woods, the clothes worn by these bandits who didn't know how to hide at all were completely different from the surrounding environment, and they could be seen at a glance without binoculars. In addition, they didn't have any sound control, and the noise just now could be heard clearly from a kilometer away, and there were several cooking smoke rising from the woods in the distance, and they must have been making breakfast, so it was extremely difficult to see them in such a situation.
Soon a few bandits took the lead in rushing over, and the vehicles had to drive along the road, otherwise it would be difficult to drive, and these robbers knew this very well. The machine gunner on the roof of the car looked depressed, his order was not to fire heavily at these enemies, only one shot at a time, a maximum of four rounds per minute, and absolutely no bursts. In order to let the bandits have no scruples and boldly pursue, if the machine guns are fired, this predicted annihilation battle will be turned into a crushing battle, which is meaningless for the northbound detachment, if you want to fight, you must fight a fine light, and do not leave a large number of bandits to harm others.
Naturally, the bandits rushed up, and the machine gunners on the roof didn't bother to aim, just switched the machine gun to a single shot, and then pulled the trigger at the crowd. "Bang!" An unlucky bandit fell in response, although all the bandits present were frightened, but this kind of firepower could not achieve the deterrent effect at all. "Bang!" The Heavy takes down a bandit again. Yang Muqin hurriedly tugged at the machine gunner's feet, "Don't fight too fast, you have to lure them over!" ”
With a look of grievance on the heavy's face, he nodded, "Okay, chief." With that, he held the machine gun in his hand and looked at the bandits who were surging in front of him.
Yang Muqin turned the front of the car off one by one without hurry, and then turned around and drove towards the camp at a speed of six kilometers per hour, such a speed is basically the speed of a person's walking, of course, the bandits behind will pursue, but it is impossible to run for so long, especially if he has not finished breakfast, he only needs to fly a kite and let the machine gunner shoot back from time to time to continue to ** the enemy's hatred is enough. **
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