Three-five-two, go around in the dark

led the troops out of the thief camp and planned to surround the leaders of the rebel army at the north and west gates, one was called the sweeping king, and the other was called the Taiping king. The strength of the sweeping king is relatively strong, with 20,000 people, and the Taiping king is relatively weak, with only 10,000 people. Of course, although their subordinates seem to be very remarkable when they say that they are 120,000 or something, in fact, they are just like all the Liukou army, their army is very large, take the Taiping King as an example, although he has 10,000 troops, but there are only more than 3,000 young people who can really fight, and the other 7,000 are all made up.

As for the King of Sweeping, the situation is similar to that of the Taiping King, only 7,000 of the 20,000 people can fight, and the other 13,000 are used to create momentum and save face.

The biggest difference between them and Zhu Yuanzhang's army is that there is no base area, and all the old, weak, sick and disabled have to act with the home team, otherwise the young and strong military spirit will be unstable! In this kind of war in exile, the young and strong in the exiles are absolutely unwilling to be separated from the old fathers and mothers or young sons, wives and daughters at home, because once separated, it is often life and death, and it is impossible to see each other again in a lifetime.

It's the same tonight, it's obviously an important nocturnal transfer, and it stands to reason that it should be done lightly and quietly, but neither the King of Sweeper nor the King of Peace can do this, their army marches very slowly in the dark, and it is not secretive enough, there are always people who can't help but whisper, or someone who falls to the ground and makes a loud noise.

If it weren't for the fact that the residents of all the nearby villages were relocated to Huaxian County by Zhu Yuanzhang, the King of Sweeping and the King of Taiping would have been discovered by the common people a long time ago. Both of them secretly called it a fluke, and this time the evacuation of the officers and soldiers actually covered for them, which was an unexpected surprise. They didn't know that this kind of slow and cumbersome troops had long been discovered by Zhu Yuanzhang's scouts.

In the dark, the King of Sweeping and the King of Taiping got together, and as they walked, they chatted in a low voice: "This time, we even easily took an important place like Tongguan, but I didn't expect it to be blocked in Xiaoxiaohua County." ”

"Yes! Tongguan is a thousand officers and soldiers, here is a group of chaotic Xiang Yong on the defense, I didn't expect Xiang Yong to be able to fight better than officers and soldiers, what a fucking hell. ”

"By the way, I've heard of Huaxian, and the west is Xi'an Mansion, are we planning to capture Xi'an?" When King Taiping said this, his heart was a little terrified. Xi'an is not a place that can be captured casually, don't look at them There are 100,000 thieves, but if you give them ten more guts, you don't dare to touch Xi'an's tiger buttocks.

"I shouldn't be able to fight Xi'an." The Sweeping King frowned: "I don't know what other leaders think, I won't go anyway!" After conquering Huaxian, I plan to go north to Pucheng and then north to Baishui...... Then follow the Luochuan line and return to northern Shaanxi. That's where I come from, and when I go back, I can at least get tens of thousands of horses. ”

Last year, Hong Chengchou extinguished all the large streams of gangsters in western Shaanxi, so that the sparks of the uprising here were all dimmed, but since August of the sixth year of Chongzhen, the great drought swept again, and northern Shaanxi was also the hardest hit area, I don't know how many peasants are looking forward to the rebel army to turn around and join it...... Therefore, the idea of sweeping the king is very good, if he can return to northern Shaanxi, he can really expand the army by tens of thousands of people immediately.

"I wish I could go back!" King Taiping nodded.

The two led the army to touch the darkness for a while, and turned left and right with the mountain road, and after turning for a while, suddenly the ground in front of them began to rise, and then a small hill appeared in the moonlight, and this mountain was not high, and the slope was not very steep, but ...... By the light of the moon, the two of them clearly saw that there was actually an army lined up on the hillside, this army was very neat, the soldiers were dressed in very uniform cotton clothes, and carried wooden poles and iron-tipped spears of almost the same length and thickness in their hands, some of them had knives hanging from their waists, and some of them had bows on their backs...... The number of people could not be seen clearly, because the view could not be far in the moonlight, but from the thickness of the entire military formation, it was so large that it could be guessed that there were at least a few thousand people.

"Silk, are you an officer and soldier?" The King of Taiping was taken aback.

"It's not officers and soldiers, no matter how bad the officers and soldiers are, they also have mandarin duck battle jackets to wear, and these people wearing cotton clothes should be village warriors." The sweeping king hurriedly said.

"However, their weapons are more neat than those of officers and soldiers." The Taiping King sensed that something was wrong.

"I understand, they are in the same group as the Xiangyong in Huaxian...... That gang of Xiangyong all have crossbows, how can ordinary Xiangyong be like this? The sweeping king's face sank: "Forget it, no matter how many of them, since the other party wants to block us, let's rush away!" There are not many people to see them, what is there to be afraid of. ”

"Don't, Brother Sweeping King, I always think the atmosphere here is weird......" King Taiping was timid.

"Cowardice, you don't dare to go up, Lao Tzu!" The sweeping king stretched out his hand and pointed to the hill and roared angrily: "Damn, the brothers rushed up for me and cut off all the gangs and townspeople." ”

His shout spread far away in the quiet night, and the effect was no less than a snare drum, and the 20,000 thieves who followed him spit out the copper coins in their mouths, of course, not to the ground, but to the palms of their hands, and carefully hid them, then they took out their swords, guns, swords, and halberds, roared wildly, and rushed towards the hillside.

"Kill!"

"**They!"

Such bold words continued to burst out from the mouths of the thieves, who could not sleep in the middle of the night, and marched cautiously with a copper coin in their mouths, and they had accumulated great dissatisfaction, and now they all wanted to vent on the enemy in front of them.

However, the townspeople on the hillside were not polite, and while the thieves were roaring and screaming, they also shouted: "Hey, ha! Hey, ha! ”

With a neat shout, the spears were raised in a very rhythmic manner, and the soldiers slowly pressed forward according to the rhythm of hey out their left foot and pulling out their right foot.

"There are few of them, but they are not afraid of us, and they take the initiative to meet us...... Brother Sweeping King, there's a problem! King Taiping reminded loudly.

Where is the sweeping king willing to listen: "Rush! ”

"Rush!" At the same time as the thieves shouted the slogan of the charge, almost the same roar suddenly shouted from the ravine to the south, and an army suddenly appeared in the moonlight......

"Huh? There were actually ambush soldiers...... "The sweeping king and the Taiping king were surprised."

"Kill!" Shouts rang out from behind the hillside to the northeast, and another army of several thousand men poured out.

It's the same with the northwest side of "Kill".

The warrior army of Silu Township, clothed in the shape of a pocket, pressed over from three sides to the part of the sweeping king and the king of peace.

When the thief army saw this posture, they immediately panicked!

In the middle of the night, the field of vision is not far away, and the thief army is not good at using "night does not collect", and the night reconnaissance ability is almost zero, and suddenly he was ambushed in the middle of the night, who is the enemy? I don't know! How many enemies are there? I don't know! The enemy's troops, weapons, and elite level are not known.

I don't know these things, how to meet the enemy? Of course, I don't know!

Listening to the shouts of killing coming from three sides getting closer and closer, and they were about to be slapped on their faces, the thieves were panicked and didn't know what to do. The timid ones have already begun to retreat, or find a dark ditch to lie in, while the bold ones gather around the King of Sweeping and the King of Taiping, and roar urgently: "Big brother, what should I do?" ”

The King of Sweepers and the King of Peace couldn't help but laugh and cry: What do you ask me to do? I want to ask you!

In short, there are no more than two ways, the first is to meet the enemy, and the second is to escape.

Choose one of the two...... Simple, isn't it?

The King of Taiping was the first to shout: "Zhongfu, the whole army retreats!" ”

"Huh? You have to quit before you hit? The sweeping king was anxious: "How can this be?" ”

King Taiping flattened his mouth: "It's pitch black, how can you fight this?" ”

"You have to see if the enemy is strong, right?"

"If you want to try, brother will go first." The king of peace ran away.

"Oops!" The sweeping king didn't want to run, but as soon as the Taiping King ran away, he also ran with his army, which caused a very bad impact, and the thieves only saw that there was an army running away in the dark, and it was a friendly army running, and they couldn't figure out whether it was the Taiping King or the sweeping king's department that was running, in short, they knew that it was their own people...... In this way, the situation is chaotic.

The Sweeper didn't give the order to flee, but his men began to run too! Women run, men run, the old and the weak, the young and the strong run, and those who run away in the chaos have to find their wives and children, young and old, parents and brothers to run together...... It's really lively.

Waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang, Miao Mei, and Xue Hongqi to return to the bottom of the hill from several roads, the sweeping king and the Taiping king all ran away without a shadow, and there were only a few people left in the range of vision in front of them who couldn't run fast, and they were still screaming in horror.

In the dark, they can only rely on moonlight vision, how dangerous it is to run in the dark, and tens of thousands of people run together, along small ravines, hills, paths, thorns, bushes, in short, how to run the fastest, how they run, completely regardless of what formation, queues, and other messy attention, obviously Zhu Yuanzhang's army has stopped and can't chase, they are still running around lifelessly, and I don't know how many people were injured in the dark.

It wasn't until they ran out of two miles and looked back to see that no enemy had caught up with them, that these thieves who were scurrying all over the mountains and fields were frightened for a moment and moved back in the direction of the camp in their memory.

On the side of the camp, the leaders of Mantianxing, Yidougu, and Rampant Wolf were still chatting excitedly, discussing that they would attack from three sides at dawn tomorrow and copy Huaxian County to the bottom or something, and suddenly heard someone report: "Oh no, the two leaders of the sweeping king and the Taiping king have retreated...... They fell into an enemy ambush. ”

"What?" Man Tianxing and the others were shocked, and soon, they saw the sweeping king and the Taiping king running in in embarrassment, these two people were chased by Zhu Yuanzhang in the dark, obviously they didn't really fight, so they fell and suffered heavy losses, how can this kind of embarrassing thing be embarrassed to say? Seeing the other leaders, the two tacitly agreed, and said in unison: "We bumped into the elite officers and soldiers in the dark, tore them up and escaped, and the losses were extremely heavy, oops...... The plan to go around to the north and west was not working. (To be continued.)

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