Chapter 598: Heaven and Earth
Seeing that the beggar army camp outside the city also had patrol soldiers attacked and killed, all the beggar army generals were dumbfounded, and Shi Min and Li Nong were even more surprised.
"King Wude, there were patrols of our army killed inside and outside the city at the same time, it seems that this matter is not so simple, someone must be doing ghosts." Li Nong said softly.
Shi Min nodded, he could tell from the wounds of the dead patrol soldier that the attacker was extraordinary, not an ordinary civilian, but a well-trained professional soldier.
"Pass the order, let the soldiers inside and outside the city be more vigilant, patrol at least ten soldiers at night, and send some more people to hide in the shadows to monitor every move in the city, this king will not believe it, one bright and one dark, and he will not be able to catch these hateful sneak attackers." Shi Min gave the order to strengthen the defense.
The generals were ordered to go back and prepare.
At noon, the general of the beggar army, who was responsible for searching the whole city, went to the palace to report the search to Shi Min, and after a full half a day of searching, no suspicious people were found in the streets and alleys of the city, which could not help but surprise Shi Min, and made up his mind to catch this group of sneak attackers.
After nightfall, the beggar patrols inside and outside the city strengthened their troops, and even sent a different number of secret sentinels to ambush in the shadows, in order to use a combination of light and darkness to find the people and horses who were attacking.
In order to have enough strength to catch the sneak attackers, several large patrols with a scale of 100 people were also stationed in the most important streets of Yecheng.
Due to the increased manpower and vigilance of the beggar patrols, in the first half of the night. Hou Ba and the Long Teng Dead Soldier under his command did not find a suitable opportunity, but in the second half of the night, because the beggar army patrol relaxed their vigilance, Hou Ba and the Long Teng Dead found an opportunity to start, and succeeded many times in a row, killing many patrols of the beggar army.
Although Houba and his dragon warriors were successful, their hunting behavior was discovered by the ambushed beggar outpost, who remembered their clothing and size.
Early the next morning. In the palace of Yecheng. The news that the patrols inside and outside the city had been hunted down again reached the ears of Shi Min and Li Nong.
Upon learning that the patrol had been hunted again, Shi Min and Li Nong were furious and immediately recalled all the outposts they had sent. And ask them what they saw.
The secret sentinels naturally told Shi Min and Li Nong what they had found. and said that the sneak attackers were all burly Hu people. Dressed in the clothes of the Hu people, due to the dark sky, the appearance of the sneak attacker. They can't see clearly.
Knowing that the attacker was a burly man wearing the clothes of ordinary Hu people, Shi Min and Li Nong were already sure that most of the attackers were Hu soldiers, and most of them were just driven out of Yecheng, and the resentful Longteng Guards, of course, could also be ordinary Hu people, because they hated the beggar army, so they took the action of sneak attack.
"King Wude, this group of people moves at night, mixed with ordinary Hu people during the day, and it is difficult to find out at all, so what can I do?" A beggar army general asked, frowning.
"Yes! If this continues, dozens of soldiers will be lost in one day, and in the long run, the consequences will be unimaginable. Another beggar general said.
In just two days, more than 100 begging soldiers were lost, Shi Min's heart was also very sad, he naturally understood that the cumulative effect of the day, the loss of 100 people a day, 3,000 men and horses in a month, and 30,000 or 40,000 horses a year, such a loss, the begging army will be wiped out.
"Order, all the soldiers of the Dead Battalion are assembled immediately." Shi Min gave the order to assemble the most elite men and horses under his command.
"Yes, King Wude." When the general heard the order, he turned around and went to give the order.
The troops that Shi Min wants to use are the beggar battalion of the dead, the most elite men and horses under his command, this force has just been formed by him, which includes both elite soldiers and fierce generals selected from various armies, and at the same time, it also includes the deaf and dumb warriors of the mysterious army under his command.
The reason why he wants to use this force is to eliminate these hateful sneak attackers, you know, inside and outside Yecheng, the beggar army in charge of patrolling are some ordinary soldiers and horses, and their combat effectiveness is very average, and it is okay to patrol the city and scare the people, but when they encounter a master like the Dragon Teng Dead Soldier, they will be slaughtered, and it is impossible to expect them to protect themselves, so naturally they can't catch the sneak attackers.
In order to eliminate these sneaky dragon dead soldiers, Shi Min was ruthless, used his personal guards, and made up his mind to kill the dragon dead soldiers who sneaked up at night in one fell swoop.
Soon, all the soldiers of the begging dead battalion were ordered to come and assemble, Shi Min let the deaf and dumb warriors in the dead battalion secretly ambush in the shadows, and let the rest of the elite men and horses in a group of ten, disguised as ordinary patrols, to replace the original patrol team in the city.
As soon as it was ready, Yecheng was covered with a net, and as long as Hou Ba and the dragon warriors under his command appeared, they would not be able to escape this big net.
At night, hundreds of deaf and dumb warriors, according to the order, have secretly ambushed in the shadows of Yecheng, and with weapons in hand, ready to kill at any time to support the people and horses who were attacked. Hundreds of beggar warriors patrolled the streets of Yecheng in teams of ten.
For two days in a row, dozens of beggar patrols were killed, and Hou Ba and his Longteng dead soldiers looked very proud, and decided to continue the operation and attack and kill more beggar patrols.
After entering the street, Hou Ba and his men hid in the dark, and carefully observed the movement of the street, seeing that the patrol of the beggar army was still a group of ten people, Hou Ba and all his subordinates laughed, in their opinion, these beggar army patrols are fat to the mouth.
Hou Ba made a gesture to his subordinates behind him, and then quickly rushed out, killing the patrolling beggar army with the captured rudimentary short weapon, and the dragon Teng dead soldier behind him followed, quickly jumped down from the roof of a house, raised the short weapon in his hand, and killed the beggar soldier.
The beggar warriors, who seemed to patrol normally, had long been paying attention to their surroundings, and the moment Hou Ba launched an attack, they felt threatened and immediately made defensive moves.
Seeing that the beggar army patrol quickly formed a defensive square circle formation and dodged his own fatal blow, Hou Ba was taken aback, and from the speed of reflection, he could judge that the beggar army patrol in front of him was different from the previous two days, it should be an elite team.
Hou Ba suddenly had a feeling of falling into a trap, but since the knife was unsheathed, there was no reason to take it back, besides, even if it was the most elite beggar soldiers, Hou Ba would not be afraid, in the entire Yecheng, except for Shi Min, who was unparalleled in the world in martial arts, there was no second person who could defeat him.
When the ten beggar warriors saw that each other had appeared and had already killed them, they shouted, "Soldiers, kill them and avenge the dead soldiers." ”
The "...... killing" beggar warriors, who are strong in martial arts, actually took the initiative to attack Hou Ba and others who were sneaking up.
And the reason for the yelling is naturally to attract the attention of neighboring patrols and thus get support.
"I don't think I'm going to die." Hou Ba was very disdainful, and led ten dragon warriors under his command to kill the beggar warriors.
Houba's martial arts are extremely high, even the most elite beggar warriors are not their opponents, and at the moment of fighting, the beggar warriors felt the strong strength of the other party, and their hearts were shocked.
And Hou Ba and the dragon warriors under his command, also felt the strong combat power of the begging warriors, the footsteps around them, made them nervous, in case more beggar warriors killed, they will have the danger of being surrounded and annihilated, for this reason, Hou Ba and the dragon warriors under his command, deep in the heart of the retreat, but retreat means timidity, besides, the opposite beggar warriors will not let them evacuate easily, for this reason, they can only hold their weapons tightly, face the beggar warriors head-on.
"Kill the ......" Hou Ba roared and took the lead in killing the beggar warriors, followed by his subordinates.
Two elite squads, on the streets of Yecheng, launched a desperate fight, the battle just began to enter the white-hot stage, not long after, both sides paid a lot of casualties, due to the high force of the Houba, the situation of the beggar warriors is worrying, more than half of them have been killed.
However, soon, the two patrols that rushed to the vicinity after hearing the news came over, bringing a lot of threats to Hou Ba and the others who were fighting.
Seeing that the beggar army reinforcements arrived, Hou Ba felt that he couldn't continue to be entangled like this, and he had to immediately open a bloody path, otherwise, his life would probably be lost here.
"Kill a bloody road and retreat." Houba gave the order to retreat.
However, at this time, the two reinforcements of the beggar warriors had already arrived, and both ends of the street were blocked, and it was not easy to retreat.
"General, you go first, we'll cover." The subordinates appear to be very loyal.
Hou Ba hesitated, turned over the wall, and fled along the roof into the distance, and it didn't take long for the screams of his subordinates to be heard behind him, this was obviously Hou Ba's subordinates, who were defeated by the beggar warriors on both sides, and were killed one by one.
Ten capable subordinates, none of them were spared, which made Hou Ba's heart angry and anxious, but the worse thing was still to come, on the retreat route of Hou Ba, there were actually ten deaf and dumb warriors ambushed.
These ten deaf and dumb warriors, in order to have a good sight, lay in ambush on the roof of a high-rise building, and they didn't want to catch the retreating Houba.
Seeing that the ten men in black blocked his way, Hou Ba was even more convinced that this was a trap, and he and his soldiers fell into this trap.
"If you don't want to die, get out of the way, otherwise, don't blame me for killing." Hou Ba opened his mouth and threatened.
Unexpectedly, the other party did not answer, but directly launched an attack on Hou Ba, Hou Ba's beastly nature was completely stimulated, and immediately raised the short weapon in his hand, and launched a desperate fight with ten black-clothed men who blocked the way. (To be continued......)