Chapter 24: The Burning of the Evil Tiger Ridge
What qualities does a good scout need?
Strong mobility, excellent horsemanship, martial arts and even archery, to do this is just a passing degree. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info: On the battlefield, scouts are the eyes of the army, and if they are gone, it is likely to affect the whole army.
His powerful infiltration ability can help him better detect the enemy's situation, and even escape at a critical moment; Combined with the basic skills of the scout, you can become an ace scout.
No one in the world knows that the most powerful class of troops is actually not trapped in the camp or Qingzhou soldiers at all, but scouts!
In modern terms, the special forces that were first formed in our country were selected from among the scouts and trained. In ancient times, scouts were also only available to the strongest in the army, and they were indeed rare, but they played a role on the battlefield that ordinary troops could not match.
Yang Lang is the best scout in the army, if it weren't for his previous personality and the deliberate suppression of the Yang family, he would have been unable to stay in the barracks for a long time. He didn't have much aversion to being a scout, after all, his identity was not suitable for going to the front of the scene, unless he could reach a height that the Yang family looked up to.
The height that can make the Yang family look up? That's Hongnong Yang's! Yang Lang is not stupid, he is delusional and categorically not!
As Zhu Cheng came to the tent, Yang Lang reported everything he had investigated. As for the reason why those soldiers were the first to come back, it was also explained, simply put, their ability was not enough to get closer to the cottage without attracting the attention of the sentry, and sometimes it was not good to have a lot of people to investigate this kind of thing.
"The key is that the other party is obviously not an ordinary bandit, and the other party's camp is very well arranged and has a very military atmosphere. There are not only open sentries but also dark sentries distributed all over the place, and it is not difficult to see from the appearance of the sentry that he is definitely not a mountain villager, he is completely a qualified soldier!
It's hard to imagine that a unit disguised as a bandit lurked in the Evil Tiger Ridge for two years. It is unknown what their purpose is, but if the commander needs it, he can find a way to sneak into the cottage tonight to investigate further. After Yang Lang told the general layout of the cottage and the specific distribution of the Ming Gang and the secret whistle, he asked Zhu Cheng for instructions.
"If this matter is reported, how much probability do you think it will be managed?" Zhu Cheng asked rhetorically.
"I don't think I care, this is just a lowly person's words, and it can't be true; Second, Evil Tiger Ridge has not really done anything rebellious, in line with the idea that more things are better than less, the above may not care. As for the captain guarding the Tiger Prison, that is, our superior, he is even more unlikely to care! Yang Lang replied with great certainty.
"Then do you think that the two hundred of us can finish off this cottage?" Zhu Cheng continued to ask, but in fact, he didn't know the bottom in his heart.
"To fight head-to-head is to find death! But it wouldn't be a problem if you found another way! Yang Lang gave an answer that he didn't expect, which couldn't help but make him curious.
"Say!" Where can Zhu Cheng wait, he shouted directly.
"It's the middle of winter, the weather is dry and the night wind is howling. Although the other party's sentries and secret sentinels are very professional, but their own troops do not have much vigilance, if you put a fire in the cottage, then the entire cottage will inevitably be engulfed by tongues of fire, our army only needs to wait on the way down the mountain, and the remnants will inevitably be captured in one fell swoop! Yang Lang replied truthfully.
"But if it causes a mountain fire...... Zhu Cheng couldn't help but have scruples.
"Which is more important than the career of a little forest and the chief?" Yang Lang asked incomprehensibly.
Only then did Zhu Cheng remember that there was no environmental protection law in those days, and the woods were luxuriant, and a large number of so-called hundred-year-old or even thousand-year-old trees could be found casually. People in these years have no awareness of environmental protection, let alone burning a forest, even if the entire Qinling Mountains are burned down, I am afraid that they will not blink an eye, as long as the benefits are big enough.
In the original time and space, Xu Shu (Zhuge Liang did it in the romance) burned Bowangpo, and the huge mountains and forests didn't say that they would burn? Not to mention that after that, he burned all the new fields! Throughout the history of human warfare, in order to get the greatest results at the lowest cost, the method used is basically to attack water with fire.
So Zhu Cheng's heart was moved, not to mention what the reaction would be to exterminate this cottage court, and to say that he could complete the main task of the system was the key. During this time, there has been no war breaking out, so that he can't collect energy points, and he also consumed 10 points because of relieving Zhu Jun.
"But I don't know if you can be sure to sneak into the enemy cottage and set such a fire?" Zhu Cheng finally made up his mind, and then asked Yang Lang.
"Humble and sure!" Yang Lang gave up his hand and replied confidently.
Things have become much simpler now, according to Zhu Cheng's meaning, this fire attack is mainly launched in the early morning when it is about to dawn, a time when most people are not awake, their senses will become very dull, not as good as three or four o'clock is certain, but it can also produce good results; Second, the sky will be bright, which is also convenient for the soldiers under his command to fight.
Yang Lang felt that this was also a good choice, and after receiving the order, he took more than a dozen bamboo tubes of oil and lurked in the enemy cottage at night. Zhu Cheng immediately gathered all the men of the four teams and took the guys out of the camp overnight.
He had already informed the lieutenant in advance that they were going to suppress the bandits, and no matter what the outcome would be after the war, he would be responsible, and the merit would naturally be indispensable to the lieutenant's wise command. The latter heard this, where can I find this kind of thing that does not require effort and is not responsible? So I agreed without thinking about it.
He didn't know that what Zhu Cheng was dealing with was not an ordinary little thief, but the well-known giant Evil Tiger Mountain!
After this period of exercise, coupled with adequate nutrition, the night blindness was well alleviated. The night march did bring them a lot of trouble, but they still came to the foot of the Evil Tiger Ridge without danger. What needs to wait now is Yang Lang's action, if he succeeds, then everything will be fine. If he misses, not to mention that the other party will be vigilant, only to say that if something happens to Yang Lang, it is difficult to say whether the Hongnong Yang family will trouble him.
Speaking of which, at this time, Yang Lang had already avoided the Minggang of the dark sentinels on the periphery and successfully infiltrated the cottage. Because of the sound of the oil drums colliding with each other behind him, his every move had to be light. I don't know how many times I've been terrified about this along the way.
It was rare that he had already lurked in, and Yang Lang carefully poured the soybean oil in the oil drum outside the thief barracks. It's not as burning as oil, but it can also be combustion. It is not easy for Zhu Cheng to get a few barrels of soybean oil, oil is a thing that can be met but not sought, where can he get it?
After pouring soybean oil, these tents became easier to burn, but Yang Lang's focus was not on the tents, but on the stables and granaries of the cottage! These two places were set on fire, not to mention that the dozen or so horses would run around in fright, and that the granary was burned down, even if this operation failed, it would drive these fake bandits crazy.
Since it is the key location of the cottage, it is naturally heavily guarded here. Fortunately, Yang Lang had already calculated the opponent's shift change time and defensive strength, which was the result of his reconnaissance during the day.
Two arrows burst through the air, almost simultaneously, and the two defenders were shot through the throat before they could react. Before the third one had time to shout, Yang Lang, who suddenly rushed out, waved the longbow in his hand and separated his head, and the sharp blades at both ends of Yang Lang's longbow were not ornaments!
After calculating the time, Yang Lang threw the body into the granary and cleaned up the blood stains with fine soil. According to his estimates, the next shift would come in about two quarters of an hour, so he had to hurry.
Fortunately, this was his last mission, and after spilling the soybean oil, he immediately lit the grain and grass with flint, and the fire spread rapidly after ignition. Seeing the fire, he ran towards the periphery of the cottage as soon as possible. The iron-tired bow on his body was too conspicuous to disguise himself as an enemy soldier to expand his victory.
Fortunately, the fire has begun to spread, and the thieves in the cottage have also begun to quickly rise up to put out the fire under the reminder of the sentry. Only by this time the fire had spread and was spreading towards the stables. The horses that were set on fire immediately turned into fire horses and galloped towards the surroundings, so they trampled several thieves to death.
They became the best arsonists, and quickly ran towards the surrounding camps, which were set on fire. Yang Lang had already sprinkled soybean oil in these tents, but once the fire was ignited, it spread rapidly.
The buildings in these years are mainly wooden, and the cottage is built by the mountain, and the logging construction is relatively simple, so most of the buildings are almost made of wood, which directly leads to the burning is really out of control.
The whole cottage was in chaos, and the owner of the village, Zhou Xing, knew that he couldn't continue to stay, otherwise the flames would further expand and the mountains and forests would be ignited, and they would really have nowhere to go.
So immediately commanded the children below, quickly moved down the mountain, it is not easy to find a way in the dense forest, fortunately there is a road, as long as there are enough torches to go down the mountain, it is not a problem. Besides, there is nothing if there are no torches, after all, the sky has already begun to light up!
Halfway up the mountain, Zhou Xing looked back and saw that the team of nearly 5,000 people was directly gone, and they were either burned to death or fled. Most of the remaining 2,000 people also have burn marks, they are not wearing leather armor, and only half of them have weapons.
"Well, how do I see my mentor now?" Zhou Xing couldn't help but sigh and said, how unfortunate it is that two years of preparation have come to naught!
"Don't talk about that, we still need to go down the mountain quickly!" Zhou Xing's side, a mysterious scribe urged.
"Yes, yes, what the little junior brother said is very true!" Zhou Xing nodded and ordered to go down and continue on his way.
When they were about to reach the bottom of the mountain, they did not encounter any ambush, and seeing that the foot of the mountain was in front of them, Zhou Xing and the others couldn't help but relax their vigilance. And Zhu Cheng was also waiting for this opportunity and immediately gave the order to shoot.
In this sortie, Zhu Cheng borrowed two hundred pairs of bows and arrows from the captain, although only fifty soldiers below could use this thing, and he didn't expect everyone to use it, as long as he could shoot arrows at the other party.
The arrows were fired directly at his command, and since most of the soldiers were not skilled, these arrows were also sparse, but they did hit the enemy and caused some casualties.
"Charge!" After a wave of shooting, Zhu Cheng shouted, and directly raised his knife to kill Zhou Xing.