Chapter 400: Encirclement and Suppression 6
That night, Gu Quan and Zheng Xiaoer's men began to break through under Peng Yong's deliberate arrangement.
Zheng Xiaoer and Gu Quan were arrested, and those disciples didn't know about it, and they thought that the two hall masters were really sent by Tang Sai'er to do big things. The few backbones who dared to doubt had to choose to give in under Peng Yong's coercion and temptation.
The White Lotus taught the horsemen and soldiers to break through in seven ways.
In this way, the combat effectiveness was weakened to a great extent, and the eight or nine thousand White Lotus Sect disciples, excluding Peng Yong's descendants and some people who were on the sidelines, were at most five thousand elites.
And these 5,000 people also divided into seven ways to attack down the mountain, facing an army that is very likely to be thousands or even tens of thousands of imperial courts. Such an arrangement, in a sense, is Peng Yong borrowing a knife to kill people.
Jiang Wei, who was guarding the intersection, still had nothing to do every day, and when he had nothing to do, he called a few henchmen to run to the camp tent to fight crickets. The soldiers were also extremely scattered, and even with weapons in their hands, their steps were sloppy.
But if you look closely, you can see that this team of about 3,000 people, every way seems to maintain an amazing tacit understanding.
Due to the topography of Jiming Mountain, the distance between each other is not very far, as long as one party has something, ride the horse and whip, only half a cup of tea, and other people can be rescued quickly.
And there was a lot of fresh earth on the wasteland at the foot of the mountain, which seemed to have been dug out from some place, but there was no trace of manual excavation on those paths.
After agreeing on the time, the people and horses on the mountain took advantage of the night to quickly intersperse from the mountain trail, intending to surprise the imperial army, and then seize the horse and flee away.
However, when they were about to engage with the imperial army, Peng Yong, who had already estimated the time on the mountain, made people light fireworks.
The white fireworks stand out in the dark night.
At the foot of the mountain, a group of 'bandits' with scattered military planes saw the white fireworks, and the entire military appearance immediately underwent earth-shaking changes.
One by one, the soldiers straightened their bodies in an instant, their hands grasped their weapons lightly and heavily, and the horses in the stables uneasily scraped the dirt on the ground with their front hooves.
Ten breaths of time, just ten breaths of time, all the combatants got on their horses, their halberds in their hands were unanimous, and they stared at the road that was not too wide with solemn faces.
A dark shadow on the mountain path suddenly jumped down from a ridge about seven feet high, landed and rolled, and then stared around.
After a while, without finding anything suspicious, the man turned over on the ridge, and when he reappeared, he was followed by a large group of people.
The vigilance of these White Lotus Sect rebels is already high, but it is a pity that they underestimate the hiding ability of the Jinyi Guard. The Ming Dynasty is huge, if you want to talk about hiding kung fu, Jinyiwei is the ancestor of everyone.
The commander of the imperial court did not immediately give the order to attack, but waited until the large group of men and horses had basically entered the encirclement, and then suddenly made a whistle.
The sharp whistle touched the minds of the White Lotus Rebels, and the first few chaotic parties stumbled under their feet, and they actually fell directly to the ground.
"Whoosh!"
Sharp arrows fly sideways, harvesting human lives in the dark night.
The leader of the White Lotus Sect roared loudly: "Damn, we have fallen into a trap, brothers, hurry up!" ”
However, at this time, the White Lotus Rebellion has become a mess, where can anyone still hear the call of the leader, everyone only cares about fleeing for their lives, and they don't care about the lives of their companions at all.
"Whoosh!"
Another round of arrows flew by, and dozens of people fell on the spot in the White Lotus Rebellion.
Under the volley of arrows, few people can stay calm in this dark night, and few people can accurately avoid the arrows that do not know where they will fly.
The attack on Jinyiwei's side was originally an indiscriminate attack, not aimed at anyone, just a random arrow. On the one hand, this can disrupt the formation of the White Lotus bandits, and on the other hand, it can also bring some damage to the enemy.
Three thousand to five thousand, there are not enough people on the side of the court, if you are still stupid to fight with the White Lotus Rebellion, it is estimated that Jiang Wei's men and horses will all have to fold in this ghost place.
The instinctive reaction of people cannot be underestimated, and after three rounds of arrow rain after three rounds of arrows, some people gradually began to realize that only by rushing forward could they find a way to survive.
Without anyone speaking, there were already people who were not afraid of death and began to charge forward desperately.
At this moment, the imperial army of only a few hundred people began to panic a little, after all, they are also mortal in the flesh, once the enemy is close, these people are likely to fold here.
After killing and wounding some of the enemy, the sprinting enemy caused a brief panic in the imperial army, but this panic was quickly transferred to the White Lotus bandits.
When they saw the panic on the faces of the imperial army and showed a hideous smile, their feet suddenly became weak, and deep pits the size of baskets suddenly appeared under their feet.
The top of the pit is covered with turf, and even in the daytime, it is difficult to detect the clues if you are not a skilled trap maker. What's more, on a dark night, except for the few torches in the hands of the Xiangjin Yiwei over there, he couldn't see anything clearly.
Inside the pit are sharp spikes, all of which are made of local materials and sharpened from tree branches.
This kind of weapon, which could not play any role in some wars, achieved unexpected results in this confrontation between the White Lotus Sect and the imperial court.
Sharp spikes pierced the chests of those men, and the desire to survive kept them reaching out for help, but no one could help them. Everyone is too busy to take care of themselves, and no one cares whether the people below are dead or alive. Some people who are not so pure in heart even want to die more so that they don't have to face those sharp spikes.
By the time the corpses filled in the large and small holes, there were no more than a hundred people who could stand and meet the Jinyi guards.
Here are the Jinyi guards who are ready to go, and over there are the members of the White Lotus Sect who have just experienced several life and death atmospheres and dare not come out.
In the first confrontation, the two sides made a judgment.
The final result was nothing more than those White Lotus Sect members being brutally slaughtered by the Jinyi Guard.
Leave no one alive, this is an order given by Jiang Wei before the war began. He was not afraid that these people would still have the courage to go against the imperial court if they were alive, but he was afraid that these people would kill the traitors of the White Lotus Sect that Zhang Ruming said he would stay.
Hatred is the most powerful driving force.
This kind of thing happened on every passage, and as long as it was a White Lotus Sect disciple who came down the mountain, they basically fell into a trap.
After the torture and killing, more than 3,000 Jinyi guards successfully killed 5,000 White Lotus Sect members with the record of 30 wounded and 9 killed.
The rest of the matter became simple, Jiang Wei put on the armor of the imperial court justifiably, and then ordered people to light all the torches, so that the people on the mountain could see the movement below.
About half an hour later, Peng Yong and Luo Sheng took the rest of the people down to surrender and accept the imperial court's recruitment.
Tang Sai'er, an old woman in her last years, didn't reveal anything about the list, Rao is Luo Sheng and Peng Yong went into battle repeatedly, foaming at the mouth, and they couldn't let Tang Sai'er, who had few teeth, loosen his mouth.
The old woman behaved extremely plainly, and only when she saw Su Qiqi when she was sent to the sedan chair, she showed a smile, and the rest of the time, she basically kept her face strained.
"Good work!" Jiang Wei raised his hand and patted Luo Sheng's shoulder and said with a smile.
Luo Sheng said lightly: "Jiang Qianhu is polite, it's just to take what they need, and there is nothing hard or hard." I hope that Jiang Qianhu will be able to say a few more kind words in front of Zhang Shuai after he goes back, so that Zhang Shuai can fulfill his promise as soon as possible. ”
Jiang Wei said with a smile: "It's not a problem, Zhang Shuai has already ordered that as soon as the list of the White Lotus Sect comes out, Luo Menghong will be able to preach openly and honestly in the territory of Daming." ”
Peng Yong on the side said suddenly: "I'm really sorry, Lord Jiang, the list couldn't be asked from the old woman's mouth." ”
Jiang Wei raised his eyebrows and said, "There are so many of you, and you haven't even been able to ask?" ”
Luo Sheng shook his head gloomily: "She has lived for such an age, she has seen many things, coercion and temptation, it is of no use to her at all." Even Sister Qiqi helped persuade her, but the old woman still didn't say a word. ”
Although Tang Sai'er in the sedan chair is old, her sense of hearing is very sensitive, and after hearing the conversation of outsiders, she opened her mouth and said: "Take the old body to see Zhang Wenxuan, if you don't see him, the old body will not say it if you die." ”
When the three of them heard this, they were immediately overjoyed, especially Luo Sheng and Peng Yong, their eyes widened, and they couldn't believe that this was what they had heard with their own ears.
Tang Sai'er repeated again: "Take the old body to see Zhang Wenxuan." ”
At this time, Jiang Wei made a move, he rushed to the door of the sedan chair with an arrow, and directly instructed the sedan chair man: "Send Mrs. Tang to the Datong Thousand Households Station immediately." ”
In this way, the elite first escorted Tang Sai'er out of Jiming Mountain, Jiang Wei took the rest of the people to clean up Jiming Mountain, and the other people from the White Lotus Sect joined forces with the imperial army to search the mountain together.
This search of the mountains has found a lot of fish that have slipped through the net.
Jiang Wei's attitude towards dealing with these fish that slipped through the net is extremely resolute, anyway, no matter how old or young, whether men, women or children, as long as they are discovered, there is only one word: kill!
The work of encircling and suppressing the main altar of the White Lotus Sect was completely completed after a day and a night, and the chickens and dogs on Jiming Mountain were not left, and the living left with the imperial army, and the dead were buried on the spot.
It's just that there are no people around, so there won't be any accidents.
Over there, Su Qiqi left with Tang Sai'er, and the two did not communicate throughout the whole process.
Su Qiqi thought that she couldn't live with Tang Sai'er, and what Tang Sai'er thought in her heart, no one knew except herself.
Perhaps, she will confide in Zhang Ru after seeing Zhang Ru, and perhaps, she will take all the secrets she knows underground.