Chapter Forty-Four: The Tree Falls and Scatters
Shi Song and the other captured minions were imprisoned in a small area enclosed by wooden fences and barbed wire not far from the Chinese military tent - the barbed wire fence was specially prepared by the material team for the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" to camp and defend, but the brothers in the forward command felt that the "Purple Stone Village" minions were a limited threat and that these "high-level equipment" were not needed to defend against their attacks, so they did not use them when camping. At this time, many prisoners were captured, and in order to be more guarded, the brothers of the logistics team moved this thing out, and together with the felled branches, they erected a fence and used it as a wall.
Since Shi Song was the lord of a village and was seriously injured, his treatment was better than that of other minions who could only sit in the open air. Qian Yuanshan specially ordered someone to set up a tent for him, and assigned two prisoners of minions to serve on the side.
When Liu Xiaoliu and Li Fu entered the tent, Shi Song was having dinner with the help of his minions. When he saw that the person who came in was his former colleague and current enemy, he immediately slammed into the flames, pushed away the minions who were helping him to eat, and struggled to get up. It's a pity that Muttle's gun was smashed hard, and Shi Song couldn't support his body at this time, and he struggled for a while and couldn't get out of bed. Although his body was unable to move because of his injuries, Shi Song still glared at each other fiercely with his eyes wide open. If eyes could kill, Liu Xiaoliu and Li Fu were afraid that they would have been cut by him a thousand times.
In this state of the stone pine, it is naturally impossible to achieve anything from the subsequent persuasion work. Facing Liu Xiaoliu and Li Fu, two old acquaintances, Shi Song scolded them for being ungrateful, and did not take revenge on Wei Da's big revenge, but colluded with the enemy to calculate his brother and his fellow Lu Lin, and did not give these two people a chance to persuade him at all.
However, although Liu Xiaoliu and Li Fu were scolded by Shi Song, they did not move. Because, the more Shi Song scolded, the worse he lost. Now Shi Song, the only thing that can be done is to scold, as the victors, Liu Xiaoliu and Li Fu will naturally not deal with this subordinate defeat. When they were tired of Shi Song's scolding, they left the tent, and before leaving, they ordered the two prisoners who were in charge of serving Shi Song to be well served, and to come to themselves if they needed anything - this was both a sign of care for an old acquaintance and a pity for the loser.
Although Shi Song's persuasion efforts ended in failure, this result was also expected by Qian Yuanshan. The reason why he still sent Liu Xiaoliu and Li Fu to see Shi Song was just to try his luck. As Shi Song refused to surrender, the only way to deal with the "Purple Stone Village" Dazhai was to attack it. In this regard, Zeng Zhilin and others have already formulated a corresponding plan and will start implementing it the next day.
In the early morning of the 18th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, all the soldiers of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" got up early to prepare for the upcoming attack on the "Zishi Village" Dazhai. The members of the forward command were no exception, everyone came to the Zhongjun tent early, waiting for Qian Yuanshan to assign tasks to everyone.
To say that the upcoming offensive is very simple, it is just a copy of the battle to break through the "Baihuazhai". Therefore, Qian Yuanshan's task assignment is also very concise, but it is assigned in a few words. Just when everyone finished receiving the task and was about to leave the Chinese military tent to carry out the order, the sentry at the gate of the camp suddenly came to report, saying that a team of more than 100 people appeared on the other side of the Zishi River, and it seemed that it should be the part of the minions left behind by the "Zishi Village". The leader is not very old, and it may be the stone beam of the "Purple Stone Village".
Hearing that Shi Liang led the troops to come, Qian Yuanshan and the others felt a little surprised. On the one hand, the minions of yesterday's battle "Zishi Village" were surrounded and annihilated, and judging by the number of enemies destroyed, no one should have fled back to report the news. On the other hand, even if a very small number of fish that slipped through the net went back to report the news, based on the current comparison between the two sides, Shiliang's correct approach should be to defend the village, rather than take the initiative to challenge.
However, no matter what the other party thinks, since he is here, the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" can't let him go again. Therefore, on the one hand, Qian Yuanshan ordered everyone to immediately change the combat deployment and change the battle into an encirclement and annihilation battle. On the other hand, he sent Liu Xiaoliu to the wall to take a closer look to see if the other party was leading the team to see if it was the stone beam.
And they received the commandment, and went out of their tents to prepare. There was not much time, and Liu Xiaoliu came back to report that the leader of the opposite team was indeed that Shi Liang. Moreover, judging from their formation, they should have come with the determination to die - the minions on the other side of the river were all filial piety, and the leading Shi Liang was even more filial piety, and even the gun in his hand was replaced with white, this was a complete mourning soldier. ,
After listening to Liu Xiaoliu's report, Qian Yuanshan and the others also understood that Shi Liang was planning to fight with him here. Although as the saying goes, "the mourning soldiers will win", judging from the current comparison between the two sides, Qian Yuanshan does not think that the other party will have any chance of winning. However, out of consideration for not carrying out senseless killings, after pondering for a while, Qian Yuanshan still ordered Liu Xiaoliu to immediately take a few people out of the camp, try to contact Shi Liang, and persuade the other party to give up the idea of fighting to the death - after all, although Shi Song was captured, he had no worries about his life. Shi Liang is wearing filial piety now, and it is really early.
Liu Xiaoliu took the order and left. At the same time, Qian Yuanshan also asked Muttel to lead the ranger squad to ambush in the nearby woods, in case the stone beam was unfavorable to Liu Xiaoliu.
Facts have proved that Qian Yuanshan's arrangement is very necessary. After Liu Xiaoliu led his people to the Zishi River, Shi Liang behaved relatively well-behaved at first, following the convention of "the two countries exchange troops and do not behead them". Not only did he send someone to show Liu Xiaoliu and the others the passage through which they could wade through the Zishi River, but he also only brought a few soldiers with him when talking to Liu Xiaoliu. However, when he learned from Liu Xiaoliu's mouth that his father was not dead, but was captured alive by the life of "Feilong Village", he immediately started to use his brains and planned to design to capture Liu Xiaoliu and others, and use them to exchange for his father.
It's a pity that although Shi Liang thinks very well, as a "second generation of bandits" who is not yet twenty years old, has been living under his father's halo before, and basically has no actual experience in the green forest, his little flower intestines have long been clearly seen by Liu Xiaoliu, who is experienced in the green forest and has experienced many life and death tests. Therefore, in the face of Shi Liang's clumsy deception tricks, Liu Xiaoliu prevaricated perfunctorily, and quickly saw the river crossing channel when he came, and took advantage of Shi Liang's unpreparedness to lead a few of his subordinates to turn around and leave. Shi Liang saw that Liu Xiaoliu was going to run, and he didn't care about acting anymore, so he hurriedly led his subordinates to chase after him closely, and chased after him all the way across the Zishi River.
After wading through the Zishi River, Liu Xiaoliu and others, who were riding horses, hurriedly urged their mounts and rushed to their own camp. Although there were many people on Shiliang's side, they were limited to extremely limited horses, and except for Shiliang and a few small leaders, the other minions could only run on two legs. Therefore, after crossing the river, he gradually opened a certain distance from the leaders such as Shi Liang who ran in front.
Liu Xiaoliu hurriedly ran back, naturally attracting the attention of Mutel, who was ambushed in the nearby woods. After seeing that it was Shi Liang who was leading the men to chase after him, Muttel immediately led the Ranger squad out of the woods.
The rangers who burst out of the woods immediately split into two groups, one surrounded the buttocks of the few horse-owned minions in an arcing line, and the other slashed at the minions who were chasing their leader on foot.
This was a battle without any suspense, Liu Xiaoliu saw that his ambush had come out, and immediately pulled out his horse's head, and together with the rangers who were attacking from behind, surrounded Shi Liang and his few leaders of the minions with horses. After a brief fight, all but one of the minions was killed, and the other three, including Shi Liang, were captured alive. The situation was far worse for the foot minions who were left behind, and they were not even able to fight back against the roaring rangers. Except for a few minions who ran back to the other side of the Purple Rock River, or ran into the woods to escape by taking advantage of their familiarity with the terrain, most of the remaining minions were either killed by the Rangers or drowned in the Purple Stone River in a panic and went to the wrong place. Only a few people with active minds chose to surrender on their knees when the rangers rushed over, which was considered to have chosen a life.
After getting the news that Shiliang was captured alive and most of the remaining minions of the "Zishi Village" were annihilated, Qian Yuanshan immediately made a decision and ordered all the troops to immediately take action in accordance with the previously formulated siege of the village, and directly attacked the "Zishi Village" main village, which should have been guarded by a few minions.
Facts have proved that Qian Yuanshan's judgment of the situation in the "Zishi Village" was very correct, and his decisive order to take action was very timely. After yesterday's battle of Zishitan ended, there were indeed three or four minions lying on the ground pretending to be dead who had slipped through the net, and they took advantage of the fact that the main force of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" had returned to the camp, and the soldiers in charge of cleaning the battlefield had not yet left the camp, so they were lucky enough to cross the Zishi River and escape back to the "Zishi Village." These escaped minions thought that their Dazhai master would definitely die if he fell into the hands of the enemy, so when they reported the battle situation to Shiliang, they directly said that the Dazhai master had died in front of the two armies.
When Shi Liang heard such a report, he was naturally both sad and angry. After setting up a mourning hall for his father in the "Juyi Hall" and keeping watch in it all night, he was full of filial piety before dawn today, and led more than 100 minions who also wanted to avenge the old village owner down the mountain to find the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" desperately. Moreover, before leaving the cottage, Shi Liang also confessed to the remaining minions that if he did not come back before the evening of the same day, the people left behind would divide their belongings, burn the cottage, and flee for their lives.
After being taken away by Shiliang more than 100 people, there were less than 30 minions left in the big village of "Zishi Village" who could fight. In the face of the soldiers of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" who came much faster than expected, these "Zishi Village" soldiers who stayed in the cottage were immediately panicked, and despite the fact that they had not yet carried out the order to burn the village left by Shi Liang before leaving, they scattered with some of the property they had snatched from the storehouse, and fled for their lives.
As a result, the soldiers of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" who were responsible for attacking the village occupied the "Purple Stone Village" with only some old and weak women and children left, and there was a mess everywhere.
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