72. Ambush
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After Deng Ji led the team to leave, the Zhenggu army outside Zhongqiu County attacked for a few more days, but it still couldn't break the city.
To tell the truth, he really laughed at Liu Shi secretly at the beginning, and the small county town defended by hundreds of county soldiers, and there was no foreign aid, could his team of nearly 10,000 people be bloodied? is also a mountain thief in Taihang, which is really embarrassing.
Who is not selfish in this world? He was clearly appeased by Liu Shi, and shouted to come to avenge him, not thinking about raising his reputation after winning Zhongqiu, so that he could not only overpower Liu Shi from now on, but also gain and supplement, who would not want to do this good thing of killing two birds with one stone?
But who knows that this Zhongqiu is actually a difficult bone to gnaw, seeing that many lives are filled under the city wall every day, and the city is still far away, but the loss has made his own heart beat, I am afraid that I will have to follow in the footsteps of Liu Shi, this is really unwilling!
For Zhenggu, now some tigers are difficult to ride and can't stop, but after the famine, the strength of his command is less than half of what it used to be, and if it continues to be damaged like this, it will not be a matter of jokes, and maybe he will be removed from Taihang from now on.
With all this, for a while, let the anger start from the heart, and the evil is born from the side of the guts, thinking that this time the loss is not small, Zhongqiu can't take it, it is better to change the object to do the ticket ruthlessly, and Lao Tzu will find another way out.
He thought about it, and the object of his vote was Deng Pimple.
A few days ago, I saw with my own eyes that Xiao'er had already led the elite to Zhang Yan to help in the war, the defense in the old nest must be empty, if the left and right are rich, Deng Pimple is stronger than the average small county, not to mention the remaining more than 100,000 stone grains in his valley, the tens of thousands of livestock in the valley alone are worth selling.
The child sees it really, what reputation and popularity in the troubled times are false, only the soldiers are strong and the food is enough, in this regard, I feel that my family is not as good as the pimple child!
After pausing the siege, since the thought of this thought, he couldn't sit still left and right, and after thinking about it, he still gathered the generals under his command, and said what he planned to do in his heart, so that everyone could sum it up.
"General, I'm afraid that this move is inappropriate, Deng Pimple Black Mountain Banner is still there, if I don't care about attacking his department, but Zhang Ping will be embarrassed, and I want to be the enemy of Montenegro!"
This is an expected problem, Zheng Gu has already had a countermeasure, he sneered: "Not only is we short of food, the population is much smaller, Zhang Pingnan is not as good as before now, haven't you seen the help of a child like Deng Ji to attack a county seat?" ”
The generals looked at each other, Zhang Yan asked others to help in the war, it was to deal with the officers and soldiers of Julu County and Zhongshan Kingdom, and General Wei's words were a little unfair.
Su Gu also knew that his words were a bit exaggerated, so he had to say again: "I have been benevolent in Taihang for several years, and I have made friends boldly, but now my prestige is not as good as a child, and Zhongqiu City is broken, and if I don't do anything, I am afraid that there will be no place in this world, and you will be willing to follow me for a few years?" ”
Speaking of which, this is also a word, his word is "white rabbit", if in later generations, a man takes this word, most of them want to make people laugh, but at this time the white rabbit is a kind of rui beast in the eyes of people, it is not surprising to take it as a word.
Although Qu Shuai and White Rabbit have made up their minds, the awe of the generals below for Zhang Pingnan has gone deep into the bone marrow, and he still doesn't dare to make a sound even if his tongue is like a flower.
"Besides, after robbing that child, we will no longer be thieves in Taihang, what can Zhang Ping do?" For Zhang Yan's prestige, he can't say whether he is envious or jealous, but he can't do it now, so he has to throw out the biggest secret matter, and first solve the confusion for his subordinates: "After the imperial court promised to recruit An, Shangdang Zhang Taishou was afraid that the Huns and white wave thieves would attack, and he sent envoys to call me several times, but it was difficult to decide for a while. ”
Hearing him say this, the subordinate generals had to understand why Qu Shuai, who has always been a good person, dared to offend Zhang Yan this time, but everyone has long been used to being thieves, how can they say that they will recruit An?
Zheng Gu is Qu Shuai, he has made up his mind, he wants to recruit an official, and he has to make a big ticket before leaving, and others don't dare to say much, but that night, two military marquis led Jingzhuang to leave the team and go to Taixing.
People have their own ambitions, there are people in the team who want to be officers and soldiers, and naturally there is no shortage of people who want to be bandits, and they don't force it, and now it's the key to retreat carefully and leave Zhongqiu, otherwise a careless, and then like Liu Shi, the officers and soldiers in the city will be chased and killed in the back rank, and it is really a joke to throw away the armor.
The army retreated neatly, and the officers and soldiers of Zhongqiu did not dare to attack, and when the team was brought out, they thought that no matter whether they succeeded this time or not, they would not be mixed in Taihang again, and they had to walk cleanly.
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When Zhang Ping was difficult to ascend, Deng Ji knew that in addition to his own family and Yu Zhenggen, there were still two elites of bitter cockroach and green bull horn that were summoned this time.
Zhang Yan's strategy was to directly besiege Lunu County, the seat of Zhongshan State, and first cut off the way for this group of officers and soldiers to go out of the city.
This is what later generations said about "encircling the point to send reinforcements", Deng Ji and the others had no opinions, and followed the order.
So, Zhang Yan ordered 20,000 horses to go out of the mountain, and the entourage still had 2,000 in the root of the car, more than 1,000 in the bitter cockroach department, 800 in the green ox horn department, and 400 in the Deng pimple department, plus 4,000 foot soldiers led by his own Du Chang, Sun Qing led 1,000 heavy armored horses, and the elite among the thieves was nearly 10,000.
Changshan country is like Zhang Yan's own home, the army all the way to the east, within a few days to besiege Lunu, Zhang Yan left his own ten thousand strong siege city, the remaining four and Du Chang, Sun Qing and other elites are sent out, in the periphery to find opportunities, while scouting around, just waiting for the giant deer officers and soldiers to rescue.
The Black Mountain thieves surrounded the three queyi, only let go of the north gate, and on the same day, several horsemen galloped out of the city, presumably to ask for reinforcements.
The name of Lunu County, but because there is a pond in the city, the water is black and does not flow, the water black is called "Lu", not flowing is called "slave", collectively called Lunu, but the south of the city leads to the giant deer is all the endless Jizhou Plain, although the plan is good, it is not easy to set up an ambush, and can only rely on the long distance to attack.
It is absolutely difficult to predict where the other party is coming from on the plains, and it is necessary to rely on scouts to detect and the commander to make decisions on the spot. If the officers and soldiers of Julu rode in heavy armor, the scouts on the left and right would come to report, Deng Ji, Sun Qing, and Ku Gu brought the heavy armored cavalry into a forest more than 20 miles south of Lu Nu to hide and wait, and the rest of Du Chang, Yu Zhenggen, and Qingniujiao were also scattered into the dense forest to hide.
In order to prevent exposure, no fireworks could be lit in the forest, so everyone had to eat dry food and sleep with the dew, so after three days, the scouts finally came to report, and found that the officers and soldiers of Julu came from the southeast, and now they are almost to Hanchang.
To ambush the heavy cavalry in the plains, the cavalry is greater, and the foot soldiers are worse, and only Sun Qing, Deng Ji, and Kushu are heavy armored cavalry under the command of the elite.
The three of them got together, and Sun Qingyi took out a piece of brocade silk from his arms and spread it out, it turned out to be a marching map, which was rare, and Deng Ji and the bitter cockroach blushed.
The origin of geography in China is earlier, far in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the state has set up officials in charge of the national library chronicles, but the biggest role of the map at this time is the war, resulting in the people can not see its traces at all, even if the government is not well drawn, there are many errors and omissions, until after the Three Kingdoms, the map drawing began to advance by leaps and bounds, the most famous figure is Pei Xiu in the late period of the Three Kingdoms, it was he who created the ancient cartography of our country, and was called "the father of Chinese scientific cartography" by Westerners.
But at this time, these marching maps with a lot of mistakes and omissions are treasures, and Deng Ji and Bitter Cockroaches can't be blamed for their greed, it's really a rare thing that the bandits have been mixed up in the past few years, and they only rely on memory and guides to march and fight.
Sun Qing didn't show off this map, after spreading it out, I saw him compare and contrast with the point that marked Hanchang: "The officers and soldiers of Julu are here," and pointed to a clearing in the northwest: "This is where we are, Du Chang, Yu Yigen and others are also near here, now we must allocate their respective attack and killing locations, be sure to close the siege, don't let them escape back!" ”
Deng Ji rarely saw the bitter cockleard speak, so he had to pick up and say: "Let the foot soldiers get close to the past first, and when we wait for the attack to be entangled, they will come up again!" ”