Chapter 20 When Amateur Horse Bandits Meet Professionals

As soon as Li De rushed outside the master's tent, he directly opened the door and rushed inside, and the old doctor Sun had not slept tonight and was meditating with his eyes closed. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info opened his eyes when he heard the movement, as if he had expected Li Deyi to come, and asked directly: "It's a big night, hurry to the teacher, what's the matter with you?" Li Deyi stood there first and breathed for breath, then he said his annoyance to the master, walked up to the master, and began to talk to the master in a low voice.

After listening to the apprentice's words, Old Medical Officer Sun turned around and groped for a while, took out an object, and said, "The iron nail you are talking about, but this thing?" Li Deyi's eyes widened and carefully looked at the 'iron nail' in his master's hand, this 'iron nail' was the thickness of a finger, and because it had been shelved for a long time, it had grown rust, and it was impossible to use it when he looked at it.

"This nail was originally produced by the Royal Iron and Steel Authority, but it is an old thing from twenty years ago. Since my Weibei Camp went to Dashuai Di, I have never been able to apply for this kind of thing. The Royal Iron and Steel Bureau was originally created by the Taizu of this dynasty, but unfortunately it has long been in vain today, and the quality of the knives and guns produced is even inferior to that made by folk blacksmiths. Most of our Weibei battalions re-melt the knives and guns issued by the imperial court, so that the blacksmiths in their own army can be rebuilt, so that they can be used. Old Medical Officer Sun talked to Li Deyi in a slightly heavy tone.

"Master, what the disciple said ......," Li Deyi asked worriedly. Old Medical Officer Sun thought for a long time, nodded and said: "What you said is easy to manufacture, even if it is damaged, it is extremely easy to repair, although there are no iron nails now, and it can be used by using wooden tenon riveting." Wait for the teacher to let someone try to make one tomorrow, and then you can see how effective it is. It's late tonight, so go back and rest. Li Deyi agreed, turned around and went back.

On the second day, after Li De got out of bed, he finished his morning class as usual, and after finishing the original qi, he hurriedly went out. After walking a few steps, he heard the sound of clanging in the camp, and followed the sound to find it. I saw dozens of soldiers and a few craftsmen carrying wood back and forth, and a leader saw Li Deyi coming over, so he came over and talked: "But Officer Li? Li Deyi hurriedly replied: "I'm not a medical officer, I'm not good at what I do, and I'm far away from my senior brother." I didn't want this leader to say: "You are the disciple of Old Doctor Sun, and you are the little doctor." I'm Yang Ergui from our Weibei battalion in charge of the logistics battalion, I don't know what the little medical officer has to teach here? ”

Li Deyi hurriedly said: "You are too polite, I don't have anything to teach, just to see if the wheels are enough." When Yang Ergui heard this, he led Li Deyi to a military tent, opened the door and walked in with Li Deyi.

As soon as he entered the door, Li Deyi smelled a stale smell, and at a glance, it was full of all kinds of dilapidated carriage parts, and there were dozens of wheels. Then Yang Ergui began to nag, "Our grandma in Weibeiying has not hurt for many years, and my uncle has not loved it." There are nobles in the capital who are pressing us, and the battles sent to the death are not less for our Weibei Battalion to fight, and the military exploits are basically exhausted, and none of the soldiers are supplemented by our Weibei Battalion. In the end, there was really no way, so we had to find our own way. Although there are nobles pressing us above, but at the bottom, it is still those who are specifically in charge of materials, and the stewards and scribes have the final say, so the county officials are not as good as the current ones. Those nobles in the capital refused to bow down to personally check the number, so we made more money on these stewards and reported the loss, and there were always some supplies that could be shipped, and we had saved a lot of possessions over the years. ”

As soon as Li De heard this, he also understood in his heart why Yang Ergui was in charge of the material camp, this person spoke kindly, always with a smile on his face, and he was particularly able to nag, he was the best candidate to deal with Shangfeng and grind supplies. Roughly glanced at the number of wheels, nearly a hundred were there, enough to make. As soon as Li De came out, he took a closer look at the soldiers who were busy working for a while, and found that these people were also very skilled in carpentry work, and he couldn't help but be surprised.

Yang Ergui next to him looked at Li Deyi's expression, and hurriedly said: "This is all thanks to our Sun Junshi, he was an old man with foresight back then. In order to live the life of our Weibei Camp, we sent many brothers to learn a hundred arts, such as carpenters, blacksmiths, pig slaughterers, masons, winemaking, well drilling, stonemasons, etc. The villain was born with no strength, but he didn't know a few words, but he was good at playing Taizu's abacus, so he was assigned to the logistics battalion. The brothers of our Weibei Battalion are the first elite soldiers and strong generals to go into battle during the war, and they are also good hands in all walks of life after removing their armor. ”

When Li De heard this, he couldn't help but admire that the master really had a plan, and only with such a desperate plan could the master withstand the pressure from all sides and maintain the Weibei camp so hard. However, today, it is almost at the limit, and the Weibei battalion now has less than a thousand soldiers, and the highest commander in the battalion is the three commanders. Thinking of this, Li Deyi also understood why the master had entered the transcendent realm, but he was still full of gray hair and looked extremely old, which was really because he had spent too much effort for the Weibei camp over the years.

Five days passed in a flash, and although Li Deyi was anxious in his heart, he could only count the days in his heart, patiently waiting for Han Jiang and others to come back from the grassland. At noon on the sixth day, Li Deyi was listening to the story of the past at his master's place when he suddenly heard someone outside the tent report that there was an emergency military situation.

Old Medical Officer Sun didn't wait for Li Deyi to get up from the chair, he actually walked outside in person to take the military report, hurriedly glanced at it, looked up and said to Li Deyi: "Now go and call your senior brother, take the things from our wounded barracks, and go to the village in Qingyuan Mountain." Li Deyi was just about to go out, when the old doctor Sun instructed: "Time is pressing, you don't have to bring too many things, just tell your senior brother to just pick up the important ones and bring them." ”

Li Deyi and Doctor Xiao Liu hurriedly picked up some things, followed Doctor Sun, took a dozen soldiers, and the group entered Qingyuan Mountain. Along the path, in the middle of the night, the group finally arrived outside the newly repaired village. For safety and seclusion, there are no open fires in this village at night.

The old doctor Sun personally stepped forward and gave the password, and led the group into the village. As soon as he entered the gate, Mr. Li personally led people to greet him, and pulled the old doctor Sun directly into a dug cellar. Li Deyi and Xiao Liu first settled in the dark and settled the medicines and other utensils they brought, and then went to the cellar to find Mr. Li to meet.

When he entered the cellar, there was a light in front of him, and Li Jiang shouted to the two people who were dazzled by the sudden light: "Close the door quickly, don't leave the light." The old doctor Sun said to the two apprentices: "The more secret this village is, the more beneficial it will be for our next troops to the grassland, so the lights are strictly forbidden at night, and the lights are only lit in the cellar dug underground." Li De nodded again and again to show that he understood.

Mr. Li continued: "I have personally observed the terrain of the grassland north of the forest, and at this time the grassland in the north is a flat river, and the white expanse is covered with snow, and I can't find a suitable terrain for ambush. The people sent by Han said that they were accompanied by a group of horse bandits, numbering about three hundred, and they were going to attack when Han sent the caravan away. Old Medical Officer Sun pondered for a long time and asked, "When will Mr. Han go back?" "It's reported that we will leave at noon today." Li handed the military report sent back by General Han to the old medical officer Sun.

After reading the military report, the old medical officer Sun said to General Li: "You can tell me the terrain in detail about the north again." After listening attentively to General Li's words, the old medical officer Sun frowned and said: "Those who dare to pretend to be horse bandits on the grassland at this time must be cavalrymen from the big tribes near the lower reaches of the Jinshui River. There are no horses in our cottage now, and there are no cavalry available at present, if we don't ambush, I'm afraid we won't be able to keep these 300 cavalry. But now there is no place to ambush in the northern grassland, I am afraid that this time we can only ambush in the forest, and finally answer the general Han and his party, and it is impossible to leave this cavalry. ”

Doctor Xiao Liu next to him said: "In this way, wouldn't it be very dangerous for Mr. Han and his party?" In case they are caught up by this group of cavalry pretending to be horse bandits, I am afraid it will be difficult to escape, and if we ......can't catch up at that time," said the old medical officer Sun with a sigh, "Then it depends on the strength of this cavalry. If they are fierce, even if we line up to respond, I am afraid it will be difficult to successfully rescue Han General and his party. And at that time, we also leaked under the noses of the Tuliao people, and I am afraid that this village will not be able to keep. "Is there no other way?" Mr. Li couldn't help but ask more.

Li Deyi said beside him at this time: "There is still a way to ambush some people, but it can only ambush dozens of people." When the three people in the cellar heard this, they all turned their heads to stare at Li Deyi, and Li Deyi was directly stared at and his face turned red. In the end, it was the old doctor Sun who opened his mouth first to relieve his little apprentice, "What is your best plan, apprentice?" Speak up and listen to it for the teacher. ”

Scratching his head, Li Deyi said, "We can dig a pit in the snow in the north, and the ambushers will squat in the pit and wait." Old Mediator Sun shook his head and said: "If you dig a pit in the snow, if it is too close, it will be easy to be discovered, and if it is too far, it will be difficult to play a role, and it will not be able to surround the Tuliao cavalry." What's more, in this vast grassland, how can you know in advance which side the Tuliao cavalry came from. Li Deyi raised his voice and said, "I have a way!" I brought a lot of bandages with me this time, all of them white. If a soldier is allowed to squat in a snow pit and cover his head with a white bandage, he should be able to blend with the white snow, so that the Tuliao people will not notice it. As for letting the Tuliao cavalry enter our ambush, we need the cooperation of General Han. Master, I see that some soldiers in our Weibei battalion have waved flags, and when the time comes, we can send flags to General Han and ask him to lead the Tuliao cavalry into our ambush range. ”

Mr. Li clapped his hands and smiled: "Wow, Master Sun, your apprentice is really not in vain, looking young, I didn't expect that there are really a lot of ghost ideas in my head, more than ordinary adult ideas." I will send someone to dig a pit in the north at night. Li Deyi seemed to have received encouragement by Mr. Li's praise, and then said: "When Mr. Han sets off, he will set off from the edge of this forest, and he can rush to the Jinshui River in one day's work, and he will be calculated according to this." If Mr. Han is in a hurry, we should be able to see Mr. Han and the others at noon tomorrow. ”

Old Medical Officer Sun thought for a while and asked, "Apprentice, how many people are the bandages you brought?" Li Deyi replied: "If you save a little envoy, twenty people are enough." "Lao Li, you sent people out of the forest overnight and dug twenty snow pits ten miles north of the grassland. Twenty elites will be selected early tomorrow morning, and those who are well fed, one person with two crossbows, all wrapped in oilcloth, and take spears to ambush in the snow pits. ”

Mr. Li nodded in response, "I'll go and choose someone." Old Medical Officer Sun continued: "There are still more than 300 soldiers in the camp this time, and they will have dinner an hour before noon tomorrow, and then they will all go to the grassland to line up. At that time, the soldiers were divided into three formations, the first row was standing, and the last two rows were to squat low, so that the Tuliao people could not see them. When the Tuliao people rushed to the front, they stood up together to meet the enemy. ”

Mr. Li said: "There are only 55 bows and 32 crossbows in this village, is it also a point." Old Medical Officer Sun nodded, "Bring all the crossbows to the soldiers who went to ambush, try to match one person with two crossbows, and when the trumpet sounded tomorrow, you must quickly finish shooting two crossbow arrows, no need to wind them again, just hold a gun to protect yourself." In front, the bows were distributed to the soldiers in the first row, and when the horn sounded, they only opened their bows and fired two rounds, and then they rushed forward together to entangle the Tuliao cavalry. The soldiers of the second platoon all chose the one who could throw the spear, and waited for tomorrow, and as soon as the two rounds of arrows were fired, they just rushed forward and approached to disrupt the enemy formation. The soldiers of the third platoon were all arranged as sword and shield bearers, and followed to cut the legs of the horses. You will send these soldiers overnight, and you must set out on time tomorrow. ”

Doctor Xiao Liu listened to the puzzled face next to him, and felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the master's arrangement, and it was not the usual tactics of the Weibei Battalion against the cavalry. Seeing his apprentice's puzzled face, the old medical officer Sun explained to him: "The Tuliao people are just a small group of men and horses coming out to plunder this time, although they are pretending to be cavalry of the big tribe, but their war horses have passed through the severe cold of this winter, and the snow on the grassland has not yet melted at this time, and the war horses are the most thin and weak. By the time they arrived at us, they had been chasing them for a day and a night, and there must have been little horsepower left. All we need to do is snipe them head-on with our elite archers to frustrate their spirits, and then we can crush them in one fell swoop with a surprise attack from behind, and then we only need to rush forward and cut off the heads of those who have been shot down. We don't have horses in our village, and we can only use this method to keep this Tuliao cavalry. ”

Speaking of this, Old Doctor Sun couldn't help but let out a violent cough, and Doctor Liu quickly took out a pill and gave it to Master to take before suppressing the cough. Closing his eyes, Old Medical Officer Sun waved his hand to the two apprentices tiredly: "Hurry up and rest, tomorrow will be busy." ”

As soon as Doctor Xiao Liu pulled Li Deyi, the two of them quietly walked out and went to rest. At dawn the next day, Dr. Xiao Liu got up to pick up the white bandages he brought, and Li Deyi also got up early, so excited that he wanted to help, but was ordered by Dr. Xiao Liu to repair the original qi first. Li De drooped his little head, and honestly went back to do what he should do.

Doctor Liu hurried slowly, and finally made all the white bandages into cloth curtains before the soldiers finished breakfast and left, and each of the twenty soldiers wore cloth curtains made of white bandages on their heads, and prepared to set off to dig a pit in the northern snowfield. There is such a soldier who likes to joke in the back and laughed that this battle is to bury the Tuliao people who are the first batch of white hemp to live for the funeral, and at the same time dig a pit to bury the dead.

Li ordered more than 300 soldiers, distributed bows, crossbows, swords, shields, spears and other weapons, and then set off with the team, walked to the grassland five or six miles away from the forest to stand by, arranged for the formation here to meet the soldiers of the Tuliao people head-on, and Li Jiang personally took the 20 soldiers to dig a pit ten miles to the north. In this battle, Li Deyi was too young, and his current ability was not good, so he did not go into battle to meet the enemy, so he could only stand on the wall and watch from afar. Seeing that it was noon, Han Jiang and his party had not yet appeared, and Li Deyi waited more and more anxiously, and his head was sweating in the cold weather. Doctor Xiao Liu couldn't see it below, and shouted to Li Deyi: "Instead of hanging on the wall and worrying, you should hurry up and repair the original qi, practice to the qi strength one day earlier, and go into battle one day earlier to kill the Tuliao people." ”

Hearing these words, Li Deyi actually jumped off the wall honestly, walked back to the tent and began to sit there to cultivate the original qi. After an hour, a figure finally appeared on the distant horizon.

Doctor Sun also came to the wall at this time, and Xiao Liu looked at the gray hair that the master was blown up by the cold wind, and said worriedly: "Master, it's windy here, you ...... it" "It's okay, if the teacher doesn't come out to take a look, I really can't let go of it." Now the Weibei battalion can not afford any losses. Go and ask your junior brother to come out and watch the battle, and see more about what is going on in the battle formation, which will be good for him. ”

On the grassland in the north, Han Jiang and his party hurried to the road, and when they saw Qingyuan Mountain from afar, the group couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Han Jiang shouted loudly: "Let's work harder, the forest of Qingyuan Mountain is in front of us, and we will be safe when we enter the forest." So saying, he took the lead and ran, and the soldiers who were driving the pack horses behind also whipped their buttocks, and trotted with all their might.

The Tuliao people and bandits who were trailing all the way behind no longer cared for horsepower, and chased after them with all their might. Han turned his head and glanced back, knowing that his group would be caught up in less than two miles, and shouted loudly: "Wang Zhuangbiao, you are broken!" Feng Deyong, the seriously injured brother on your back will go first. The rest of the people who have hung up the lottery will drive the pack horses and goods first, and the rest can still fight with me and prepare to meet the enemy! ”

The group was all elite, and when they knew that this was not nonsense, they each started to act according to the military order. Li Jiang, who was waiting for the enemy in the distance, got a soldier to report, "General Han has come back with people, and the Tuliao dog thieves are biting tightly, I'm afraid I'm going to be caught." After hearing this, Mr. Li immediately stood up: "Niang Xipi! The situation has changed in front, and Han Jiang is always in difficulty, I'm afraid that he won't be able to get here, so I'll send him a flag message immediately! Brothers, we come forward to answer Mr. Han! After speaking, he trotted over with more than 300 people.

Han General always led people to fight and retreat, this group of Tuliao horse bandits was also a ghost, just riding a horse and hanging behind, constantly shooting Han General and his party with arrows, and did not step forward to engage in the battle, trying to shoot and injure Han General and his party to the greatest extent first. Wang Zhuangbiao waved the last iron pot left in his hand, covering the arrows that were shot, and his mouth was still empty: "Thanks to the Sprinkler family's clever move, this iron pot was smashed, so it was not sold, so I left this last mouthful, and now I can have a cover." He wielded an iron pot in his hand, but only blocked the arrows that were shot at his brothers, and did not dodge the arrows that were shot at him, but he did not let them shoot at his body, but strangely enough, he stuck a dozen arrows in his body, but not a drop of blood flowed out.

Han Jiang saw that if he continued like this, he would be consumed to death before he could rush into the forest, so he gritted his teeth and said: "Give Wang Zhuangbiao all the spears and let him kill the Tuliao dog." As if he remembered something, he said to Wang Zhuangbiao: "You can save a little effort, we don't have many iron guns in the Weibei camp." Wang Zhuangbiao held five iron guns in one hand, and threw out the other hand, but the first iron gun flew out horizontally. All these years in vain!? I didn't want to say that as soon as the words fell, the iron spear that flew out horizontally actually knocked down the two Tuliao dog thieves who were close together. Mr. Han jumped up happily: "What a fat man, I really have you, okay, it's a family heirloom." Wang Zhuangbiao laughed, "Just take these heads to exchange for new iron guns." With this smile, the dozen or so arrows stuck in his body also trembled together, which really had its own majesty.

Mr. Li, who caught up from behind, was not afraid of leakage at this time, and ordered the soldiers on the left and right to shout together: "Mr. Han, don't fall in love with the war, retreat quickly!" We're here to meet you! Mr. Han heard the shout and laughed: "Lao Li is here to answer us, and we are told to retreat over there quickly!" Come with me, brethren! Don't talk too much about these Tuliao dog thieves. ”

When the Tuliao horse bandits chased after them at this time, they also folded some people and horses, obviously not wanting to let go of this group easily. Therefore, he didn't care about maintaining his horsepower, so he whipped the war horse fiercely and accelerated to catch up. Seeing that the chase was getting closer and closer, there was a sudden sound of crossbow firing on both sides, and then I saw that the first few Tuliao people were directly shot off their horses. Then he saw twenty people suddenly rush out of the snow on his faces, grabbed the spears buried in the snow and rushed up.

Han Jiang always jumped to his feet and shouted: "Don't shoot horses, don't shoot horses, those are all good horses." "Mr. Han, take your people and lie down!" Li shouted.

Han Jiang didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly shouted: "Get down." "As soon as I got to the ground, an arrow flew over my head with the sound of the wind. Poof, poof, poof, the dull sound of arrows entering the flesh was heard. At this time, it was seen that this group of Tuliao horse bandits was indeed a Tuliao cavalry pretending, and their riding skills were very exquisite. They were able to fire arrows back as they retreated, and a few daring Tuliao cavalry even tried to take away the empty horses that had shot down their riders.

Mr. Li and Mr. Han shouted at the same time: "Rush up, don't let them take the horses away!" Mr. Li added: "We must keep those horses!" Whoever retains it will be the cavalry of our Weibei Battalion in the future! As soon as the soldiers brought in heard this, their eyes turned red, and they rushed forward with a whimper.

Li Jiang always supported Han Jiang, who was out of breath, and said stupidly: "It's so dangerous, but at this time, the Tuliao people and horses are too thin to drive, and they don't dare to risk rushing over, otherwise we don't know how many dead and wounded." ”

Later, the old medical officer Sun, who was watching the battle in the stockade, saw that the Tuliao people retreated in a panic, and he also breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and instructed Li Deyi: "Beckon someone to bring the things you invented, come forward to pick up people, we will win." ”