Chapter Seventy-Seven: Strike Again
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"General Liu Lang, the rebel vanguard has traveled less than ten miles away from here." A sergeant of the special training team quickly ran to Liu Feng, who was holding a telescope and leaning against a large rock on the hillside to observe the situation, and reported the situation in a low voice.
With the efforts of Yang Xi, the special training team was also officially incorporated into the Tongguan Town Army, and Liu Feng and Li Han, who were originally only lieutenants, were both promoted to generals, with Li Han as the main officer of the special training team and Liu Feng as the deputy.
Today, after successfully attacking the rebel camp, they are once again preparing to attack the rebels.
Five days had passed since the last attack, and after resting, the rebels had moved out again, and Li Han and Liu Feng decided to take another action after synthesizing the information they had received and analyzing the nearby terrain. They will lay in ambush in this gentle valley, which is lined with woods on both sides and only one avenue in between, ready to deal another crushing blow to the rebels.
Sun Xiaozhe, who was destined to be big, was almost fine, and the unlucky commander, who was afraid of being punished by An Lushan, concealed the attack and did not report it in full, but also ordered the whole army to continue to march.
He could not ride a horse, was carried by guards, or rode in a carriage.
After this attack, Sun Xiaozhe also dealt with many people, and how many of his own guards were unlucky, and a lieutenant general who was on duty that day in charge of patrolling the barracks was beheaded by him. The lieutenant general, who is responsible for the safety of grain and grass, was also beheaded by him. But this still can't make Sun Xiaozhe vent his hatred, he very much wants to go to Shaanxi County as soon as possible and fight to the death with Yang Xi, who likes to make small moves, in order to vent his evil anger. But Sun Xiaozhe didn't know that Yang Xi's men and horses continued to make small moves to deal with his army, and his army would be unlucky again and again.
After finding that the rebel vanguard was only ten miles away from them, Li Han and Liu Feng decisively ordered all the men and horses of the special training team to hide themselves and prepare for battle.
All sergeants are dressed in a very similar way to their surroundings. If you don't get closer and distinguish carefully, you can't tell whether it is a person, a mountain, or a tree. Although they had checked each other and could not see any flaws, many were still worried that rebel scouts would soon pass by to reconnoiter the surrounding situation. Whether it can be done without being discovered by the rebel scouts, no one knows.
If you are discovered by the rebel scouts first, although you will not suffer heavy losses, you can calmly escape after killing the rebel scouts and hide in a temporary camp in a nearby valley. Then they fled on horseback from the other side of the mountain, but today's plan failed, they could not make the rebels suffer heavy losses, and it would also affect the subsequent arrangements, which Li Han and Liu Feng did not want to see.
In the midst of many people's apprehension, the first group of rebel scouts arrived, and everyone held their breath to see the situation through the tiny cracks in disguise.
Fortunately, the rebel sergeant was at this point. I slowed down and searched carefully, but I didn't find anything unusual. It's not a good place to ambush, there's not much to hide. No general would choose to ambush his opponent in this place, and the rebel scouts continued on their way after noticing anything unusual.
This relieved the sergeant of the lurking special training team, and then the second and third teams of scouts followed. No sign of lurking has been found.
Everyone expected that after the three teams of scouts, it should be the rebels' brigade.
Sure enough. After the third group of scouts, the rebel forward battalion drove over.
The forward battalion had about 300 men, marching in front of the whole team, about half a mile away from the brigade behind.
Listening to the chaotic sound of horses' hooves coming from far and near, the hearts of all the sergeants that had just been put down were lifted again.
There were only a dozen or twenty people in each team of scouts in front, and now there were three or four hundred forward battalions, if they were discovered by the other side, it would be basically impossible to retreat with their whole body, and all the sergeants hoped that their hidden clothes could confuse the rebel forward battalion and not be discovered.
In the fear of all the soldiers, the rebel forward battalion passed.
Fortunately, it has not been found.
The rebel brigade behind is about to come, and the battle will begin.
When deciding to ambush the rebels, Li Han and Liu Feng chose the location and the weather. Today is a cloudy day, the sun has not shown its face at all, the sky and the earth look a little gloomy, in this valley with trees, the vision is even more unclear, the camouflage of the special training team members is very good, coupled with such gloomy weather, the vision is very unclear, and it is reasonable that the rebel forward battalion, who did not pay special attention, did not find the special training camp sergeant lurking near the road they were traveling.
The sergeants who have stayed in the army know that in general, there will always be a relatively major general leading the army at the front of the marching queue, so as to respond to the emergency situation, and the purpose of the special training team's attack today is to attack the men and horses led by this main general, and at the same time inflict heavy casualties on the rebels, it will cause greater confusion among the rebels, so that they will not dare to march any further, or even retreat a certain distance.
During the march of the army, it was not a dense follow-up between the front and rear troops, and there was always a gap between the sergeants of each battalion, and the interval was a good time to prepare for the attack. Hundreds of rebel front soldiers had already ridden over, and just as the latter group was about to arrive, Li Han calmly gave the order to attack. With the sound of the fire breaker igniting, hundreds of improvised grenades were quickly ignited.
In a line of firelight, the simple grenade made by the Tongguan "Arsenal" flew into the rebel display that had started a rebellion, and soon the grenade exploded in the rebel array, and the continuous huge sound blew up the rebel sergeant who was ready to attack or wanted to resist, many of the sergeants who happened to be bombed screamed and fell, or were blown away, some of the war horses were also seriously injured by the explosion, and the war horses ridden by other soldiers were also frightened because of the huge explosion sound, and kept raising their hooves and neighing, and even some sergeants were dismounted by their own mounts.
But this was only the beginning, as several relatively thick flames quickly burned in the pile of leaves, dozens of explosive bags buried in the middle of the road were ignited one after another, and hundreds of catties of gunpowder exploded one after another, producing a huge impact that blew countless rebel sergeants away, countless severed limbs and stumps flew everywhere, and even some war horses were blown up and overturned. The sound of screams, screams, and the neighing of people and horses mingled and spread far away.
Yang Xi has always wanted to make mines, but with the current nature and technical conditions of gunpowder, it is quite difficult to develop them. It can only be killed by using the primitive method of burying explosives in the ground and igniting them with fire breakers.
This method can only be effective when the enemy is defenseless, otherwise it will not be easy to succeed, and it will even cause heavy losses to one's own side.
In the explosion of continuous explosive packets, countless rebel soldiers were killed or wounded, and the originally neat rebel army column was already in chaos, and it was impossible to organize a formation to resist.
Taking advantage of the chaos after the explosion, the members of the special training team took advantage of the black smoke that rose into the sky after the explosion, threw out dozens of subsequent grenades, and calmly climbed the nearby mountain with the climbing rope, climbed into the neighboring valley, and drove away. (To be continued......)