Chapter 39: Ambush

A good night's sleep is really rare, although sleeping in the field is far less comfortable than at home, but basically people who are not blind have found the tension in the atmosphere, and a war in the coming day is almost predictable. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The next day, it was dark, everyone was called up, nervously burying the pot to cook, preparing to eat, and after eating, finally saw Miss Yang who took the lead. Xu Zhengze glanced at it, his face was not very good-looking, could it be that he was scolded by her old man, as soon as he thought of this possibility, Xu Zhengze couldn't help but want to gloat, alas, it really shouldn't be, he used to be a good boy who was quite sympathetic.

The personnel were assembled, and Yang Wan gave a lecture to everyone in a low voice, in short, it is all kinds of precautions, and no one is allowed to make a mistake and expose the team, otherwise, the military law will serve.

As soon as he heard the military law, even Xu Zhengze couldn't help but tremble, this damn thing, isn't it just a head, it seems that you want to ambush and attack someone today?

At the sound of the order, everyone began to pack up their things, and they were only given a quarter of an hour to clean up.

After a period of scramble, the team left the place where they had been last night, and the people were silent, and the horses were hidden, and they approached the official road again. In the end, I found a place with overgrown weeds in the south of the road, and all the people and horses were low, and if I didn't go in, I really couldn't see that there were so many people hiding here.

Xu Zhengze looked around, this is at the northern foot of Zhongtiao Mountain, the terrain is obviously a downhill road, only three or four hundred meters away from the avenue, with the speed of the cavalry, it will rush up in the blink of an eye.

Li Tianwang and the others really wanted to ambush, but they didn't know which unlucky child they were fanciing the prey.

In the morning, the grass is full of dew, people hide in it how uncomfortable it can be imagined, the whole body is wet, the wind blows, the whole body is cold and shivering, when the sun is high, the summer sun is scorching, the unobstructed can simply roast people, the taste of ice and fire, the taste of ice and fire, wonderful is simply not human suffering.

In this feeling of living like a year, time passed minute by minute, and the person Li Tianwang and the people they were waiting for still did not come.

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It's another group, looking at the riders who fled on horseback in the wilderness, Wang Jiang, who was about to rush to Puzhou City, only felt that the whole person was not good. These cavalrymen who harassed and investigated, since they advanced two days to understand the boundaries of the state, they did not stop for a day, and they came to spy every day, and they could not drive away or shake off, like maggots attached to the bones, which made people extremely painful.

He also organized manpower and chased after him several times, trying to beat this group of bold thieves hard and ruthlessly, so that they would lose the courage to harass again, but unfortunately they could not do so, but they suffered a lot of losses.

Since the outbreak of civil unrest in Shaanxi in the second year of Chongzhen, the local situation in nearby Shanxi has also suddenly become tense. Last year, because Shaanxi stepped up its extermination, the thieves over there ran to the boundary of Shanxi, and for a time the chaos in the south of Jinzhong became a pot of porridge, and the large and small groups of chaotic troops were like leeks, and they couldn't be suppressed.

It's not that he hasn't fought with Mo Nan's Tartars in the past, and he has been suppressing thieves for more than a year, and he has long been trained, but he still hasn't met such a tricky thief.

In the past few days, the confrontation has lost several elite nights, so that the king is always distressed, although there are also two thieves beheaded, but this transaction is also a loss. But none of this is important, the important thing is that he is sure that the gang of thieves on the other side is not easy to deal with, the other party must be waiting for him somewhere, and if he is negligent, their team will have to plant this.

The sound of hurried horses' hooves rushed back, and the king put the general above the horses, and looked at it from afar, and knew that it was the cavalry he had sent out, and counted them slightly, and there was one less person, and his expression was bitter, and the elite in the army was rare, and the elites he sent were all carefully selected, and these people were all taken into the house, and their own families took a lot of silver, and they were fed, and they lost one person, even with armor, horses, bows, crossbows, knives and guns, etc., and they lost hundreds of taels of silver, not to mention that if they were cronies, they folded a lot. I'm afraid it's not as good as farting.

Seeing that his own cavalry rushed back, the king gave an order, and the five hundred sergeants who were walking on the official road immediately stopped, and dozens of carts were followed in the team, carrying some things, in view of the rampant enemy cavalry, as soon as they stopped, these sergeants did not wait for the orders of the superiors, so they consciously surrounded the carts into a large circle, protected all the foot soldiers in it, and stopped to take a good breath, while a hundred or so cavalry, led the horses and scattered on the periphery, and farther away, there were also sentry scouts who did not collect the night, and before the enemy came, they could also react as much as they could.

"How's it going?" As soon as the cavalry who went out came back, they saluted first, and the king general, who was impatient to engage in these false texts, asked anxiously, the most important thing now is the situation of this gang of thieves.

"There are noticeably more snoopers." This sentry is a close confidant of the general king, skilled in martial arts, and replied quickly, "Skilled in riding, very slippery, very powerful in martial arts, close to each other, you can see that they are riding common Mongolian horses in the army, with complete armor and excellent equipment, and it is estimated that they are the elite of the thief army." ”

"Lao Sun went?"

"I was bitten by thieves, but I didn't escape, and I couldn't get my body back."

"Among the thieves, there are deserters from the border army, it's all a clichΓ©, but it's not news. It's just that this group of people has never dispersed, and it seems that they are eyeing us. Mr. Wang asked a few words about the situation, and then talked about the current situation, "This Li Tianwang has a big appetite, and he is not afraid of breaking his teeth." ”

The family didn't say anything, he felt that this group of thieves was very strong, but there was no need to make a fuss, at that time, all the thieves would contain the escaped border soldiers, and the elite and good at fighting should be. Judging from the experience of the officers and soldiers in suppressing the thieves in the past two years, two or three thousand elite officers and soldiers are enough to enter and exit the thieves in the big army, as if they were in a no-man's land -- the thieves' army is too chaotic and chaotic, and it has not put order in order, and although there are some elite soldiers, it cannot change its rabble nature.

"Why haven't the old Wangs sent to the front to explore the road come back yet, is something wrong?" Wang asked the general question, and when he saw his cronies shaking their heads, he couldn't help but sink a little more in his heart, and he hadn't come back yet, so it was probably because he was more than lucky.

"Scatter all the sentry spies, carefully keep an eye on the front and back, left and right, and the thieves estimate that they are also near this road." Judging from the intensity of the harassment of the thieves and cavalry, Wang General came to the conclusion that it would not be too far away, and he was convinced, "Let the big guy put all the tricks in the spotlight, but don't be attacked by the thieves." When I go to the city of Xizhou in the evening, I will pay five taels of silver per person, and Lao Tzu will find the most beautiful sisters in the city, and you can get it. ”

"It's soon, it's just ten miles away, and it's coming to the front." On the other side, Li Tianwang was also talking to his brothers, he came out this time, brought Ma Kui, Gao Chenghe, and Shiping several leaders, and let Zhao Shicheng guard the camp, as for Sun Zhuang, he was still lying in the dark room and sleeping.

"It's a pity that I can't catch him off guard, and I guess I have to attack strongly." Gao Chenghe sighed regretfully. An unexpected ambush is the most ideal battle, with great results and minimal cost, and it is also the battle they expect most, but unfortunately it cannot be achieved.

"Normal. can lead four or five hundred people, and the border army has been rolling for a few years, if he didn't have such any ability, the head of the leader would have been cut off by the Tartars and kicked as a ball. Li Tianwang said disapprerovingly, there are so many cheap things to do in the world, and it is already rare to be able to take advantage of the fact that this group of officials and troops is not in front of the village and behind the store, and when they are helpless, they can find an opportunity to annihilate them.

"When they come, take the cavalry and charge first, it's naturally good to rush down at one time." Li Tianwang instructed, "If the officers and soldiers are prepared, then find a way to capture it, there are still more than 20 miles from here to Jiezhou, and our two hundred cavalry will not fight hard, and the grinding will also grind him to death." ”

"I don't know if it's going to be soon." Xu Zhengze, who was lying on the grass basking in the sun, was lazy, he hid his head in the shadow of the weeds, thinking about things boringly, this was the first time he faced a large-scale battle, but it was not comparable to the previous kind of fighting like a family, his heart was hanging all the time, and he was so panicked that he was torturing the dead - it was better to come directly with a knife, whether it was dead or alive, it was all at once.

The team of five hundred men rose up again, the carts marched along the road, the foot soldiers walked in the middle, and the cavalry was scattered around, and they were scattered far away at night.

After traveling for several miles, suddenly, there was a large force of cavalry galloping in the distance, Wang Jiang's heart moved, and finally came, he counted slightly, forty or fifty people's fine horsemen, it was really bold enough, so many people dared to fight his idea, did he really eat the bear's heart and leopard gall?

Without orders, there were dozens of horsemen to intercept, the cavalry on both sides chased each other in the field, entangled more than once, but those thieves could not get close to the main force of the Chinese army, the thieves ran away from time to time, and the officers and soldiers never chased after them, but when they saw that the thieves had the intention of approaching, they took the initiative to drive forward, and did not rush to attack.

After watching it for a while, Wang Jiang didn't feel the need to make a fuss about these dozens of enemy cavalry, just let his own cavalry block it, thinking that the thief's head was still behind, he waved his hand, and the team that had stopped moved again. The officers and soldiers who were slowly advancing gradually pressed the dozens of enemy cavalry into a continuous retreat.

The main owner thought that it was about to be served, but he wanted to see who was the dish on the table.