Chapter Forty-Seven: Tossing and Turning (II)
Drizzling with drizzle, the air is filled with a unique humidity and freshness of the mountain forest. The tender green of early spring also seems to blend into this hazy drizzle, bursting with a unique vitality of this season.
In the mountains and forests in the distance, the mist was filled, and the scene two miles away was completely submerged in the mist. The mountains one after another, one mountain after another, the vast mountains in the east of Fengxian County that are connected to the Qinling Mountains, it is so easy and simple to hide a team of hundreds of people.
Not to mention that Liu Xian held the virtual map in his hand, and it was Ren Chen Bo and other locals who were born and raised in Si to lead the way, and it was also difficult for the Taiping army to find their hiding place in this stretching mountain.
Liu Xian doesn't have the ability to see the rain of heaven, although Chen Bo and the others are all natives of Feng County, they don't have that ability, and they are not even as good as an old farmer at this point. The clothes of the group were drenched, and their faces were white, so they finally touched the mountain in front of them and hid in several connected caves on the mountainside.
After entering the cave, the team divided into four parts was almost disbanded, except for the people who were attached to the police, the rest couldn't wait to light a fire and sit around it.
The fuel is the half-wet and half-dry fallen leaves and dead branches in the forest, which are ignited by some dry firewood already in the cave, and even dried animal droppings.
Don't be surprised that there is a lot of dry wood or traces of human activity in a cave deep in the forest. Because there are many mountain hunters in this place, no matter how deep the forest is, there will be human footprints to step into, and those natural caves are the best camps for mountain hunters. It's normal to have dry firewood in the cave, but it's not normal to have no dry firewood!
Taking the opportunity to rest, Liu Xian opened the virtual map in a small cave in the deepest part of the cave, and looked at the enemy's location displayed on the map, he smiled.
The two chasing troops sent by Ma Ronghe were originally one west and one southeast, and they were outflanked by two roads. But now??
The Taiping army, which had advanced from the southeast to the north to intercept its own rear road, had unconsciously run to its west in two days' circle, and although it was only seven miles away from Liu Xian in a straight line, the direction of the march was far from the north, and there was no threat at all.
The Taiping army, which came from west to east, was still fifteen miles away. Fifteen miles of mountain roads, this is not flat land!
Liu Xian is waiting for them here, and the Taiping army has found the right direction, and it will take at least half a day to rush here.
Wangshan ran a dead horse. I'm not kidding.
This sudden spring rain put a pause in the chase that had lasted for many days. Liu Xian was no longer worried about the two Taiping armies chasing the soldiers, but his eyes were still on Fengxian for a long time.
It stands to reason that he has created a great convenience for the Fengxian defenders, swallowing and containing half of Ma Ronghe's combat power. The Taiping Army camp outside Fengxian County, even though it seems that there are still a lot of people, how many young adults are left inside?
With a few hundred rabbles to abolish half of the Taiping army's fighting power, Liu Xian has reached the point where no one has anything to say.
To go further, you must help at the right time, in the right place.
Not to mention the stable Liu Xian army, go to see the two Taiping army chasing soldiers.
Peng Chun also held back the soldiers and horses at this time, and the whole army scattered and hid under the mountains.
The sloping mountains and the big rocks held up have become places for the Taiping soldiers to take refuge at this moment. As for the only few caves, they naturally belong to the high-level leaders such as Peng Chun and Guan Hongjie.
Looking at the simple map in his hand, Peng Chun's eyes stayed on the area swept by the soldiers and horses for a long time, there were too many mistakes and holes to drill. If Liu Xian is really hiding somewhere.
The lack of troops was the biggest shortcoming of the Taiping army.
In this kind of mountain chase battle, the army must be a strong young man, and none of the old and weak women and children who have made up the number can be found from the two Taiping army pursuers.
"We should send more people to this area. Valleys, ravines and caves that can hide from hundreds or thousands of people. Demarcate a reconnaissance area for them, and if they can't touch it, forget it, if they do, whether they come back alive or not, we can all know. ”
Drizzle wet clothes, cold frozen people. Not a team can still walk around the mountains and forests now.
Peng Chun decided to take advantage of this time and this opportunity to re-check some of the omissions in the places that had been filtered behind him.
The longer the time dragged on, the more pressure there was on him.
Coincidentally, just when Peng Chun's Taiping army scattered more than 30 elites and scattered them into the mountains behind him, another Taiping army fifteen miles away from Liu Xian also sent dozens of elites, scattered separately, and swooped towards the east like a net.
Liu Xian in the cave looked at it for a while!
It is really worthy of the Taiping Army that entered southern Shaanxi from the Huai River, and this experience is very rich. But how do you deal with it?
You can't kill all the Taiping soldiers who come into the cave, because this is not self-defeating. But the Taiping army cannot be allowed to recklessly investigate......
Tapping his fingers on the bluestone, Liu Xian's eyes rolled and turned, and then stared at the virtual map carefully, and it took a long time before he stood up violently. "Tell Chen Bo to come to see me—"
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"Your mission is to slaughter all the hairy scouts that break in this area, within this area. If there is a long hairy incoming—"
Liu Xian pointed to a standard map of the Qing Dynasty, and the virtual map had already been put away. His fingers drew and drew in an area, and Chen Boren nodded his head to indicate that he knew.
Then stroke horizontally to the east, straight into the Shizui ditch -
"As soon as you take out the hairy scouts, they'll know there's something wrong with this territory. You immediately take people east to Shizuigou, and leave more traces along the way. Let the chasing long-haired army find out!
It's just to bluff, dozens of people make the appearance of everyone, and lead the long hair to the side.
The longhair has gone to the east, and the west has room for our activities. ”
Liu Xian suddenly felt that the time and place were on his side, and the rest depended on the people, to see if Chen Bo's quality could take on the big responsibility.
The plan was implemented very smoothly, Chen Bo took dozens of people all the way east, and the two Taiping army pursuers chased after them urgently.
Liu Xian led the 500 people who had finished resting through the mountains and mountains to the county seat of Fengxian County.
Yes, now he has deducted the dozens of people brought by Chen Bo, and after deducting the hundred combat forces left behind in the old camp in the depths of the mountains, the strength that his subordinates can use is still five hundred.
Because of his several victories since entering Feng County, and because of the attractive blank in his hand, many ethnic elders in the mountain villages in the eastern part of Feng County will not put all their capital on him, but they will more or less send a few soldiers to join Liu Xian's team.
Within a few days, Liu Xian's men and horses increased by two or three hundred. He is still young and strong, and he has a lot of knives, forks, bows and guns.