Chapter VII: The Bloody Battle on the Beachhead

Wu Damu's real name is Wu Si, a villager in the mountains of Taishan Feiguo. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoSix years ago, during the Red Turban Rebellion, because the war affected the country, he was inexplicably coerced into the Red Turban team. Because he had served in the northern border, he could understand the command of the banner, and he was strong and quite powerful, so he served as the commander of a hundred-person tun in the red scarf team, which was generally dominated by peasants. Later, the imperial court sent troops to encircle and suppress the red scarves, and the red scarves on Mount Tai suffered defeats, Wu Si saw the opportunity early, and fled back to the mountains of Mount Tai early with dozens of fellow villagers. When the red scarf was extinguished and the limelight passed, he didn't dare to go down the mountain and return to his hometown, so he simply assumed the name Wu Damu and pulled the flag on the mountain to be the king of the mountain. The Taishan Mountains stretch for thousands of miles, the roads are rugged and difficult to travel, and the government does not have the energy to chase down bandits like rabbits like him, so although the life has been embarrassing, it is still quite comfortable.

Unexpectedly, ten days ago, a man who claimed to be the new envoy of the Eastern Thai side came to the door, contacted him to raise the banner of righteousness, participated in the grand event, and promised the position of a captain, promising to lead a thousand troops. After all, everyone knows that the group of thieves in Mount Tai is rampant, and most of the merchants try to avoid passing under Mount Tai, so they see that the source of food and clothing is drying up day by day, and the next meal is worrying. At this time, a great opportunity suddenly fell from the sky, and you can rely on the banner of the red scarf to go down the mountain to loot those rich places, why not like it? As for whether the Red Turban Army can succeed, this is not in his consideration at all. Of course, it's good, if it doesn't, it's a big deal to run back to Mount Tai and continue to be your own mountain king, what's so difficult?

Wait until you come down the mountain to the Red Turban Camp to take a look, yo! There are some familiar faces all around, and basically the thieves on Mount Tai have arrived! Except for the general Tianpeng who doesn't know the details, this is almost the Taishan Thief Alliance! But in this way, I won't have a chance to come out at all! With this habitual thief, how can he still have his own meat to eat when he loots? No, you have to stay away from them. Therefore, after the Red Turban Army succeeded in the sneak attack on Feiguo County, Wu Damu took the initiative to apply for the defense of the back road for the Qu general, and ran to Yiting with a thousand people, where he was stationed.

However, after all, the time for joining the gang was too short, and General Qu was not worried that he was in charge of the army alone, so in addition to giving him a share of 1,000 soldiers, he also shoehorned two hundred personal guards under Wu Damu, called protection, in fact, to monitor him and prevent him from running away without permission. Wu Damu was depressed in his heart, with these pro-soldiers watching, it was really inconvenient for him to go to the countryside to get a vote, so he kept thinking about how to break up these nasty guys.

Just after noon on this day, I suddenly received a report that there was a rout of the army, and when Captain Jingsu led a team to check the merchants, he encountered unidentified officers and soldiers at Broken Gut Beach, and Captain Jingsu was killed in battle, and all his troops were defeated. Wu Damu was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly called the defeated soldiers to interrogate the specific situation in detail, only then did he know that the other party was less than 100 people at most, but because Captain Jingsu was rash in the enemy, he was knocked down by an arrow first, and the army was defeated like a mountain. Wu Damu pursed his lips secretly, and said in his heart that Xu Chu was really a waste, originally the errand of checking the goods dealer was a fat shortage, and Lao Tzu couldn't even think of it, Xu Chu relied on his own reading to deal with people, so he was assigned this fat difference by General Tianpeng. Who knew such a simple thing, with hundreds of people being chased and beaten by dozens of people, and losing his life, what is not waste?

He is stationed in Yiting, and he is the closest team to the Broken Gut Beach, and if he does not destroy the enemy in front of him, he will be guilty of dereliction of duty. It seems that he has to attack with troops, but although the other party is not numerous, after all, he can defeat Xu Chu's team, and his combat effectiveness is not weak, so it is not cost-effective if he loses his troops. At this time, Wu Damu's eyes rolled, why not pull the two hundred guards who were in the way to fight, and lead the team to follow behind, no matter whether the guards win or lose, they can consume the strength of these people, and they can just follow behind to pick up the cheap.

Wu Damu immediately called the leader of the pro-guard team and told him about the situation, of course, emphasizing that the enemy was only a few dozen people, and did not mention the strength of the other party at all, only saying that the captain of Jingsu was killed by the opponent with an arrow, so he was defeated. Now I will give you a chance to make meritorious contributions. The leader didn't want to go at first, but he couldn't stand Wu Damu's repeated persuasion, after all, he was the nominal commander, and the leader was still quite confident in the combat effectiveness of his two hundred people, so in the end, he was still half-pushed.

Assemble the troops, reorganize the armament, and march for more than an hour, and when you reach the place, you will have already entered Shen, and if you don't hurry up, you will even miss the evening meal. The leader walks at the front of the queue, take a look, yo! It's quite professional, and the defensive positions are all arranged. But what's going on here?

I saw that the entire defensive position was arranged with a lot of antlers, but I had never seen a cloth like this! According to the antlers, the antlers are crossed into a "" shape with two sharpened heads, and then a horizontal log strings ten "" together is a standard deer. Usually, the role of the antlers is to block the advance of the enemy's array, and play the role of dividing the team and chaotic formation. Generally, they are arranged in groups of three on the main roads according to the terrain, leaving only a small path for a few people to pass through. But what's this thing in front of you? Not to mention the chaos and irregularity, the passage in the middle is also strangely shaped, wide and narrow, and even more excessively, on the side close to the opponent's position, there is a large open space! Moreover, the distance between this clearing and the other party is not close, it is completely enough for you to assemble your team in the open space after passing through the antler array, and then defeat the opponent in one go!

Looking up at the back of the position, although the enemy had completed the formation and was ready for battle, there were only a few dozen people after all. The road in this place is not spacious, but it is not much of a problem to narrow it and put ten people side by side, so in order to ensure a certain depth, the battle formation on the opposite side looks sparse, and the thickness is not enough to see at all! As long as you line up in a cone formation on your side, you may be able to kill it with a single charge!

The leader also noticed a guy in a Confucian shirt shrunk in the back column of the opponent, standing out among the crowd of soldiers. Needless to say, it must be the leader of the other party! Since that person is in the middle of the queue, when the time comes, even if he can't cut through the enemy formation, as long as he kills this leading guy, it is equivalent to victory!

Seeing this, the leader no longer hesitated. In order not to give the other party time to react, even the formation still maintained the marching column, and with a direct wave of his hand, two hundred people shouted and rushed straight to the defensive position! Now it's pointless to assemble a formation, it will break up if you enter the antler formation, so it's better to rush to that open space and line up again, and you can save some time.

Rushing into the antler formation, as he expected, it didn't play a role in blocking it at all, at most it only slowed down. Soon, two hundred men rushed to the empty space behind the formation, and under the loud shouts of the leader, they began to form a formation.

At this moment, a general stood in front of the opposite formation, holding a big bow, bending the bow and arrows, shouting, and then an arrow shot this way! To say that an arrow is not a big deal, but the point is that this arrow is not an ordinary arrow, but a rocket with flames burning on it!

In the face of a team of two hundred people, what to do with a rocket? No need to ask, there must be a conspiracy! The leader chuckled in his heart, and before he could react, he saw the arrow blaze over his head, through his array, and fell behind him. As the arrow hit the ground, more than three feet of flames sprang up in the ground, and the flames spread rapidly, and in just a few blinks of an eye, the flames turned into raging flames, completely blocking their back path!

The leader was surprised inexplicably, but at this time the retreat was broken, and the only way to fight forward was to fight. immediately shouted, and didn't care if the queue was assembled or not, so he led everyone to the opposite side.

At this time, there are still about fifty paces between the two sides, and it will only take a few breaths to sprint with all your might. As the distance gradually closes, the faces of the other party are also clearly visible. The leader's eyes are good, and he can see the expression on the other side, not nervous or afraid, but an expression of contempt or even pity!

The leader inexplicably felt a panic welling up in his heart, and he couldn't help but slow down. He was supposed to be at the forefront of the line, but with such a slow effort, several soldiers rushed ahead of him. At this time, I suddenly heard a loud "plop" accompanied by several screams of "ah", and a cloud of smoke and dust suddenly rose in front of my eyes, and I was blurry in front of my eyes in an instant, and I couldn't see anything clearly!

However, the smoke and dust quickly dissipated, and what appeared in front of the leader was a chasm that stretched across the current chasm! This ditch is eight zhang wide, but not more than zhang xu, and there are a lot of sharpened wooden branches and thorns inserted horizontally and vertically in the ditch. The ditch cut the road completely, and it was neither deep nor wide, so it was not too difficult for an adult to climb over it. The question is, will the enemy give themselves a chance to climb over calmly? The leader's heart sank to the bottom, especially when the soldiers on the opposite side pulled out a strong crossbow from behind him, and all that was left in his heart was despair.

At this time, the man in the Confucian shirt on the opposite side separated from the queue, walked to the ditch, and shouted: "You and others are now dead, but I do not want to kill more." Within ten breaths, put down the blade and turn over the ditch naked, I can save your life. Otherwise," he said, glancing left and right, the surrounding soldiers raised the strong crossbow in their hands knowingly, and the Confucian man continued: "This is the place where you are buried!" ”

This person is, of course, Zhao Min. He didn't mean to wear a Confucian shirt and pretend to be a scribe, after all, there are no eyes on the battlefield, and who knows when a cold arrow will come and kill him. The problem is that all he carries in his ring is the armor of the guards themselves, a radish and a pit, how can there be more for him? Besides, even if there are many, he can't wear Zhao Min's small body that has not yet been fully bred! I had to just shake my original clothes, trying to shrink myself in the crowd and not show my head, until now that the overall situation has been decided, I have not stood up.

Everything that happened to the two hundred elites of the red scarf was arranged by Zhao Min. After learning the news from Xu Chu, he was in a hurry to discuss countermeasures with Zhang Han. It's a pity that Zhang Han is a pure military man, it's no problem for him to charge and kill the enemy, but it's too difficult for him to come up with an idea! As a last resort, Zhao Min had to rack his brains and think hard about countermeasures.

Zhao Min doesn't know much about the war in the era of cold weapons, and the only thing he is familiar with is the fragment in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. But even when I read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms back then, I was just looking at the plot of the war, where would I pay attention to the specific details? Now that the enemy is strong and we are weak, what are the examples of defeating the strong with the weak? If you want to say who is the best at using tricks in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is naturally Zhuge Kongming! What about Kong Ming's most famous example? Burn Bowang, burn Chibi, burn right! You can use the fire meter! In early spring, the weather is dry and dry, just in time for arson!

Fortunately, there are a lot of miscellaneous things in Zhao Min's storage ring, including a whole jar of fire oil. But a jar of fire oil is enough! At most, it can only ignite a range of twenty or thirty meters, but there are thousands of people on the other side! Then the fire meter can only be used to trap the enemy's path. But even if you trap the enemy, it's not enough to ignite like this! Then think of some auxiliary methods, such as digging a pit!

For this reason, he mobilized all his personal guards, and dug a large ditch two zhang wide and one zhang deep behind the position arranged by the antlers, and filled the ditch with thorn trees and thorns. Then put thin branches on the pit, cover the surface with thatch, and sprinkle a thin layer of soil to camouflage. Due to lack of time, the camouflage is very crude, and if you look closely, it will definitely reveal flaws. Then it's just a matter of diverting the enemy's attention! So he ordered the antlers to be messed up, so that the enemy would surely attack in a hurry when he saw an opportunity. As long as they cross the base deer formation, come to the gap between the ignition and the chasm, and then let Zhang Han use a rocket to ignite the ignition, at this time, they are not afraid of the enemy's disguise!

Everything is ready to stop, and the soldiers are tired to death, and they will make all the arrangements before the red scarf comes. However, what Zhao Min didn't calculate was that he was preparing a gluttonous meal for thousands of people, why did he wait for two hundred people?

But the arrow has to be on the bow, even if the other party only has two hundred people, it must be moved, otherwise all the earlier arrangements will not be in vain? Because of this, there was the previous scene.

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