Chapter Seventy-Eight: Ambush
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Just when Li Chongjiu and his entourage were about to go up to Yiguan and take the Taihang Mountain Road.
Suddenly, the rangers who were scouting in the rear returned one after another, and a cavalryman reported to Li Chongjiu with sweat and said, "Less dart!" Less dart heads! The thieves caught up with him. ”
Li Chongjiu frowned slightly when he heard this, what he frowned on was not that there was a large army chasing behind him, but the amateur of his subordinates, a qualified scout, should accurately tell the main general, the approximate number of the enemy, the number of the enemy, and the location of the enemy, how far away from the army.
And the scout cavalry under his subordinates, although he is an old dart master in the Li family's dart bureau, the dart master has a good martial arts on the horse, but he is not a qualified soldier.
"Probe again, and report the details to me." Li Chongjiu said immediately, and at the same time immediately sent someone to inform the caravan that there was an enemy army chasing behind him.
However, after all the scouts were dispatched, Li Chongjiu summed up the investigation situation of each person and made a preliminary judgment.
The menacing rear is Chai Baochang's red turban thief, the team stretches for more than ten miles, and the strength should be about 20,000, and now the enemy's own forward has approached less than three miles of his own. Another point is that when the reconnaissance cavalry was scouting, no cavalry appeared in the opposing team, and no cavalry came out to expel their own cavalry, and they were obviously all foot soldiers.
At this time, the caravan stewards, Lin Dangfeng, and Sun Erniang heard that Chai Baochang actually dispatched 20,000 people to pursue them, and they couldn't help but be shocked. With the current women and children under Li Chongjiu, and a little force, not to mention 20,000 people to attack, two or three thousand people are enough to wipe out the caravan.
That's it, that's it, at this time, everyone showed a look of resignation. With an army of 20,000, one shock is enough to bury everyone here.
At this time, a merchant suddenly smiled and said, "I have a plan to keep everyone safe." ”
"Brother Zhou, talk quickly, talk quickly."
Everyone has expectations. The merchant surnamed Zhou said with a smile: "We can use the homeless people to confuse the sight of the thieves, even if the thieves kill, they can also block the back of the palace under the mountain for a while, as for everyone, they immediately pull their respective pack horses uphill, the mountain road is narrow and rugged, and it is expected that the other party will not be able to catch up." ”
"Brilliant plan!"
"Brilliant plan!"
All the businessmen clapped their hands and praised, and one said: "This can be described as a plan for a strong man to break his wrist and a golden cicada to get out of his shell." ”
Although this person said so, he did not have the grief of a strong man breaking his wrist, and he was resolute. That's right, it's just an outcast, it has nothing to do with itself, and if you die, you die, and you just want to sacrifice it.
All the businessmen made a unanimous decision at the moment, and they all glared at Li Chongjiu right now. Because they all knew that the homeless people were brought by Li Chongjiu, and if they wanted to be a strong man and break their wrists, Li Chongjiu would definitely not agree.
At this moment, they want to force this, force Li Chongjiu, and tell the matter to Guò. Li Chongjiu saw that the businessman's selfish face was in his eyes, and he sneered at the moment, and said: "A few stewards, you also know that the mountain road is narrow, we have more than 200 mules and horses here, and thousands of people are crowded forward, blocking the pass, how can we walk for a while." Who's going to come first? ”
As soon as all the businessmen heard this, they all changed color, and Li Chongjiu broke their conspiracy with a word, but who didn't want to take a step back at this time, so although everyone knew that Li Chongjiu was provoking, no one rose up to refute it.
"That young darthead, what do you have in mind, can we rely on our people to resist 20,000 thieves?" A businessman said sarcastically.
Li Chongjiu said: "Of course not, I won't do the thing of hitting a stone with an egg." ”
"What is the opinion of the young darthead?" The merchants asked in unison.
Li Chongjiu immediately said: "It's very simple, the only advantage we have now is that Chai Baochang doesn't know our reality and reality, which is why I abolished the other party's ranger in one go." Chai Baochang didn't know the truth, so he thought that I had 5,000 men and horses, and not most of them were old and weak women and children, so we relied on this to deal with Chai Baochang! ”
Lin Dangfeng said: "I support the opinion of the young darthead. ”
"You." When the caravan steward saw that Lin Dangfeng was actually on Li Chongjiu's side, he couldn't help but be angry for a while.
Li Chongjiu said immediately: "The matter has come to this point, my Li Mou's life has been hung on a line with everyone, how can I believe it." If everyone looks out for their own interests, I have nothing to say, but flee to the mountains. ”
"But these people may live, but most of them will die, and now that the enemy is pressing, we ourselves will fight first and chaos first, and we will run away from each other, and the thieves will think that we are cowardly, but we can boldly attack them."
Listening to Li Chongjiu's words, Sun Erniang clapped her hands and said: "Yes, now the thieves can't see our reality clearly, so they don't dare to attack rashly." Just do it according to Xiao Jiu's wishes, if someone leaves first, I will be the first to kill him. ”
Seeing that the two were so tough, coupled with Lin Dangfeng's support, the businessmen had no choice but to agree.
At that moment, the displaced people under Li Chongjiu's command were in several nearby forests, setting up ambushes and erecting flags. Then Li Chongjiu ordered the elite soldiers of the Cangtou army and the dart master of the Li Family Dart Bureau to lie in ambush in the forest and wait, and finally ordered the merchant to unload more than 200 mules and horses together, tie branches to the tail, and run in the distance, making sure to make the appearance of smoke and dust.
After that, Li Chongjiu took more than 30 horsemen, dismounted on the hill in front of him, took out the skin bag containing the wine, took out the dried meat, drank and munched on the hillside, and put the rest of the horses on the side of the hillside and let them eat the grass by themselves.
After settling this qiē, the drums in the distance beat like dark clouds, and the bottom of the eyes was black and oppressive.
The 20,000 thieves with red scarves on their heads arrived together and divided into four armies to form their own positions and hold their positions.
In the Chinese army on the other side, the big banner of firewood was slowly rolled out, and under the banner, more than ten people were riding tall horses and wearing armor, which seemed to be incompatible with the thieves with wooden sticks and ragged clothes all around.
Among the more than ten riders, the man with a rough appearance and a big beard is Chai Baochang, who was born as a sheep butcher.
These more than ten horsemen, staring at Li Chongjiu's more than thirty horsemen on the hillside, at this time, a general, loudly said: "Lord, the enemy army is small and so sluggish, please let me lead the army to come forward and capture it, and drink for the lord." ”
"Slow!" Chai Baochang snorted, took out his horsewhip and said, "Are you just staring at one part of the hill? You can see that in the dense forest behind you, there is dust flying in the distance, and it is obvious that there are ambushes hovering around the left and right. ”
"So I guess that the enemy deliberately put the rangers in front and looked defenseless, just to lure our army to attack, and when our army moves, they can ambush our troops in all directions, and then we will only be defeated."
Hearing Chai Baochang say this, all the generals were in a cold sweat, and the general who spoke before hurriedly said: "The lord is high! Takami! The subordinates are too presumptuous. ”
As soon as this person spoke, the generals on the side also opened their mouths and scolded, mostly because of the cunning words of thieves.
Chai Baochang nodded slightly, and said: "Those people in the Li Family Dart Bureau also have some skills, but unfortunately they can't hide it from me." ”
"My lord, what should we do now?"
Chai Baochang thought for a moment and said: "It's easy, since the enemy army is hiding in the forest, then we will set fire to burn them out!" ”