Chapter 104: Conquering the Thief Camp
On this day, the weather was rare and cloudless. The sun rises lazily and hangs in the sky, reflecting the silver-clad world below.
Wen Chou's army, the whole army is neatly clothed, just waiting to set off.
The knife mountain robs the forest, the clothes and armor are distinct, everyone has a wooden shield, and there is a ladder for seven or eight people, which can be described as neatly equipped! In this way, an army of more than 8,000 people marched steadily towards the camp of thieves.
It had snowed a few days in the past few days, and now the snow was more than a foot thick, making the march even more difficult. But it couldn't stop the Wen Choujun's eagerness to exterminate the thieves and return with all their success. Seeing that the New Year is coming, they don't want to spend the New Year in this wilderness!
And the feints that have come several times have been confirmed, and the captives located in the camp of the thieves have successfully rebelled against a small number of thieves and the old and weak! Just wait for the Wen Chou army to come to the general attack, and come to the inside and outside, and fight back. Now the Wenchou army has prepared all kinds of equipment and protective gear! When will it be better to attack at this time?
Wen Chou had already issued an order to start the army at the third watch and the fifth watch tonight. Although you don't necessarily have to be caught off guard by the Black Mountain Bandits, you must also have enough time to prepare outside the bandits' camp! We do not repeat the last retirement incident.
The army marched for more than an hour, and then walked through the snow to the outside of the camp of the thieves. As far as the eye can see, I saw that above the camp, there were crowds of people, densely packed, similar to the personnel configuration at the time of the feint attack in the past, about 17,800 people. Among them, there are only about 2,000 thieves, maybe less.
This is the result of these feints, and the thieves have a little slack. And it is different from the first day of the attack of the Wenchou army, so that the 4,000 elites of the thieves are exhausted, and 20,000 old and weak are guarded together!
It's just that at this time, the entire thief camp is in a panic. Because the 8,000 men and horses of the Wenchou army outside the camp are neatly equipped and all of them are here! Obviously, it was not as in the past, only three or four thousand people came to attack and harass. This is a general attack! At that moment, a horn sounded, and it spread throughout the entire thief camp!
The panic in the camp of thieves, Wen Chou and others naturally saw it! He didn't make repairs at the moment, so he led the army to attack! wants to take advantage of the thieves to deploy troops to attack the camp.
At that moment, a thief and general were on top of the camp, and they saw that Wen Chou's five or six thousand troops were holding shields and steel knives, and rushed up in unison, followed by two or three thousand strong people carrying more than a thousand cloud ladders! It's terrifying.
If more than 1,000 ladders are allowed to set up the camp, then it is not, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers will be able to board the camp at once! Then the numerical superiority on which they relied would no longer exist. couldn't help but be anxious, and in a panic, he assigned all the thieves to guard the camp forward. I only hope that other elites, old and weak can come to help in time!
The army of Wen Chou doesn't care how the thieves panic and deal with it! Just blindly hold the shield and rush forward! Even the original archers have already put away their bows and arrows and rushed forward with the large army! And with the defense of the wooden shield, it also made the less than 1,000 archers of the thieves shoot, with little effect.
In the blink of an eye, two arrows away, we came to the camp. All the soldiers and the strong ones set up ladders one after another, and wanted to climb them, but the archers were already under the cover of the strong ones, and they shot at the thieves and archers.
At this time, the small number of thieves who were captured and rebelled against the old and weak played a big role! Because when the elite of the thieves ordered to guard the camp, they rushed forward and came to the front line of the camp, but not to prevent the Wenchou army from climbing to the camp, but to guard the ladder to prevent other thieves from sabotaging!
This made the other thieves and elites shocked and panicked. After that, they came up one after another, showing a chaotic killing trend. And the Wen Chou army took this opportunity and successfully boarded the camp without much damage in the first climbing attack and defense battle! After that, the army was under their protection, and they boarded the camp one after another.
In a short time, there were as many as four or five thousand people! And the Taolinsai elite, who first boarded the camp, also relaxed the heart that has been nervous since boarding the camp! After all, they couldn't be sure if these thieves were really successfully plotted against them, or if they were deliberately set up by the thieves.
But now, most of the Wen Chou army has climbed up, even if the thieves deliberately set a trap for them to climb the camp, they are not afraid.
At this time, most of the Wen Chou army boarded, and the old and weak thieves who had been rebelled against showed the black cloth on their arms, which was the symbol of Wen Chou's formation of Shahe Township Yong. And the Wen Chou army had been notified before it was launched. You won't be injured or killed by mistake.
Soon, five or six thousand Wen Chou troops and three or four thousand thieves with black cloth wrapped in their arms converged! In this way, the thief army is weaker by one point, and the Wen Chou army is stronger by one point.
The six or seven hundred thieves who were originally on the first front line had been slaughtered by the Wen Chou army, while the remaining more than 1,000 thieves retreated to the rear, commanding and monitoring the more than 10,000 thieves and the weak, and stepped forward to block the momentum of the Wen Chou army's attack.
These thieves were the opponents of the Wen Chou Army, which was spearheaded by the elite of Taolinsai, and in just a few moments, a thousand people were killed. Yes, the thieves and the old and weak were shocked, and their expressions were gloomy, as if they had lost their lives.
Seeing this, Wen Chou knew that the time had come, so he immediately used a knife to hold the spear of a thief, and shouted loudly: "Surrender or kill!" ”
When many sergeants on Wen Chou's side heard this, they also shouted: "Surrender and don't kill!" ”
"Surrender or kill!"
"Surrender or kill!"
"Surrender or kill!"
Soon, the sound spread throughout the camp.
Those thieves, the old and weak, had already lost their hope of life, but now they suddenly heard this, and their eyes lit up! After looking at each other, some of the old and weak on the front line laid down their weapons and squatted on the ground. Someone started, and soon, the sound of weapons landing was endless! Five or six thousand of the thieves chose to surrender!
The elite thieves in the rear, seeing this, were in a hurry, and shouted loudly: "Whoever surrenders, kill the whole family!" "Who dares to surrender!? "What you don't plant, quickly give Lao Tzu a weapon to kill him!" ”
Seeing this, Wen Chou asked the elite behind him to put away the thief's blade, and then made them slowly retreat to the rear, approaching the thief's elite little by little! Wherever the elite of Wen Chou went, there were thieves who laid down their weapons and automatically walked to the rear of the Wen Chou army! Even if the thieves screamed, they didn't see those thieves hesitate for a moment!
Soon, those elite thieves saw that the original more than 10,000 thieves were old and weak, and as many as seven or eight thousand people had surrendered. And the three or four thousand thieves in front of him, if he hadn't been afraid that they would be embarrassed and kill him on the spot, I'm afraid he would have laid down his weapons and ran behind Wen Chou's army! Seeing that the general trend has gone, I also have the intention of surrendering.
At this time, Liu Min and the others had already driven five or six thousand thieves, and the old and weak had already arrived. I see this situation! I couldn't help but be furious.
Just as he was about to open his mouth to give the order to attack, among the five or six thousand thieves and the old and weak who were driven in front of him, there were more than a thousand people, who had already risen up one after another, and slaughtered the elite of the thieves who were still hesitant! I saw it running all the way, revealing the black fabric on its arms all the way! It is the other part of the thieves who have been rebelled.
Seeing this, Wen Chou shouted: "Surrender and don't kill!" "And go to the elite!
The other Wen Chou armies knew what they meant, and shouted one after another: "Surrender and don't kill!" "But the man has already rushed forward with a sharp sword!
made these thieves elite, who were still hesitant, settle down at once. Seeing that Liu Min, the commander of his canal, could not save them from fire and water, they all laid down their weapons and chose to surrender before the Wen Chou army arrived. And at this time, the other part of the thieves who had rebelled had already come before them.
Seeing this, Liu Min's original desire to fight again was quickly shattered. At that moment, he led the two or three thousand thieves who were still in shock, and fled the way they came, and he couldn't care about the remaining thieves who were old and weak.
Wen Chou saw from afar that after Liu Min's army broke and fled, he ordered the county lieutenant of Gaoyi and Tie Qian to lead more than 5,000 people from various counties and townships to assist the army Sima Jiang Xuan and Shuzuo Chen Ning to pacify and collect the surrendered thieves! He led nearly 2,000 elites to chase after him, including Qu Chang Dong Jiang, Tun Chang Yan Liang, and Wen Ba.
Not to mention how Jiang Xuan and Chen Ning appeased and detained the thieves who surrendered. It is only said that Wen Chou, Yan Liang, Dong Jiang and others led people to pursue the thief Kou Qushuai, Liu Min and others!
After Liu Min and the others broke and fled, they first came to their settlement, packed all the gold and silver softly, and then each found his own family, and wanted to go over the mountain. As for the other able-bodied family members, they followed those who were willing to follow, and those who did not want to follow did not force them, but there was no one who had no conscience to kill them all.
But he has already accepted the fact of defeat, and no matter how much he kills these old and weak, it will not help. It's better to save time and run away! So they just hurriedly picked up some of the packages that had been prepared. After all, there are still Wen Chou's army in the rear, and no one knows how long it will take them to arrive.
Under the guidance of several thieves, Wen Chou and them came to the residence of the thieves in a short time. I saw that the houses in it were dilapidated, scattered and scattered, and it was even more desolate in the cold winter and the wax moon. Thousands of other old and weak people were already waiting outside the scattered houses, trembling.
Wen Chou didn't say much, but people inquired about it, and learned that those elites had gone over the mountain under the leadership of Qu Shuai Liu Min. Wen Chou frowned, and did not give any more orders to pursue. After all, these thieves are already running away.
Moreover, their team of men and horses has been fighting for a long time, and the elite of the thieves have not yet fought, and their strength and state are naturally much better than those led by Wen Chou. It's just to catch up, and if you want to take them all, it will cost you a lot of money! None of this is what Wen Chou wants.
Moreover, Wen Chou has another thought.