Chapter 20: Counterattack

At the beginning of the hour, Bai Fei led his men to a small forest about half a mile away from the "Flying Dragon Village" camp. While he asked the minions to keep quiet and rest in place in the woods, he summoned all the leaders, including Qin Guangfeng, the deputy owner of the village, to his side, and prepared to teach them face-to-face.

Bai Fei led the leaders to the edge of the woods and observed for a while in the faint moonlight. But seeing that it was dark inside the "Flying Dragon Village" camp, only two fires were lit at the gate of the camp, and there seemed to be guards dangling at the door. In addition, because the light was too dim and the distance was relatively far, they could not tell whether there was anyone on the watchtower in the other camp's camp for a while. However, judging from the fact that there was no light on the watchtower, it is likely that there were no sentinels on it. Bai Fei and the others observed for a while, and then returned to the woods.

When everyone came to the center of the grove, Qin Guangfeng said to Bai Fei: "Lord of the big village, it seems that the 'Feilong Village' camp is not very heavily guarded, not only does it not look like there are people on the watchtower, but the guards at the gate of the camp are also loose and straddling, and there are not even a few more fires. If you quietly touch it, your subordinates are completely sure that they will kill the guards at the door without alarming the enemy soldiers in the camp. ”

Bai Fei nodded when he heard this, he was also full of confidence at this time. When I came, I was a little irritable because of Liu Jinxiu's words, and my slightly worried mood was also swept away. However, although Qin Guangfeng actively asked for battle, out of the consideration of "not afraid of 10,000, just in case", in the end, Bai Fei did not send this brave henchman to take the lead. He turned to a leader surnamed Cheng and said, "Leader Cheng, you will be the vanguard of this stealing camp, and lead a hundred minions from the headquarters to take the lead. After you kill the guards and rush into the enemy camp, if the other party is defenseless, you will sound the arrows to signal, and the owner of the village will lead a large group of men and horses to kill into the camp. If the enemy is already prepared, then you should quickly withdraw from the enemy camp, and the owner of the village will lead his troops to respond. ”

The leader surnamed Cheng couldn't help but tremble in his heart when he saw that the owner of Dazhai had made himself a pioneer as soon as he came up. Because as an intermediate leader, he was also present when Liu Jinxiu and Bai Fei were arguing in the afternoon. Moreover, from the bottom of his heart, he was very supportive of Liu Jinxiu's suggestion, and at the same time, he was also quite afraid of the soldiers and horses of this "Flying Dragon Village" - in his opinion, since the other party dared to attack the "Hundred Flower Village" with only 400 minions in the open, it showed that the people were quite confident in their own strength.

It's just that in the face of a leader like Bai Fei, he neither dared to express his opinion, nor did he dare to openly disobey the other party's orders. Therefore, after Bai Fei's order was issued, he did not say anything unwilling to go, but also behaved very abrasively, with a mournful look on his face.

Bai Fei naturally understood the meaning of his expression, although he was very unhappy with Leader Cheng's war-fearing thoughts, but considering that the war was about to start now, it was very unlucky to kill the generals before the battle, so he did not reprimand, but encouraged: "Leader Cheng just take people forward, and the master of this village will lead the troops to arrive later." Even if the other party is prepared, as long as the brigade of the owner of the village arrives, we will fight more and less, and the leaders of Cheng and the brothers who fight the vanguard will be fine.

Moreover, according to our spies, although the other party is dressed strangely and behaves strangely, the weapon in his hand is mediocre. They did not have a bow or a crossbow in their hands, except for long knives and iron rods. Therefore, even if you are found before you reach the other party's camp, there is no need to worry, unless they rush out of the camp to fight with you face to face, it is impossible to hurt you in the slightest. ”

Bai Fei's comfort made the Cheng leader feel a little calm, and while he pretended to show his determination and loyalty to Bai Fei, he secretly prayed in his heart that he would be discovered by the other party's guards before he approached the other party's camp, so that he and his brothers could turn around and run back to seek shelter from the brigade.

After sending the leader Cheng to the whole team, Bai Fei turned to a leader surnamed Li, and also gave him a hundred men, and ordered him to serve as a flank cover, and when the main brigade was fighting with the "Feilong Village", he was responsible for monitoring the movements in Qiulin Village, so as to prevent these villagers from taking advantage of the fire to loot and pose a threat to the flank of the main force.

It is far easier to monitor the Zhuang Ding and the people of Qiulinzhuang than to be a pioneer to steal the camp, so this Li leader was secretly happy in his heart, and on the other hand, he happily accepted the order, and went to the whole team very happily.

After sending the first two groups of people, Bai Fei assigned their respective tasks to other leaders, including Qin Guangfeng, the deputy owner of the village, and decided on how to deal with unexpected situations, and then ordered the remaining minions to stand by outside the woods. ,

Outside the woods, the leader surnamed Li led the order but set off in front, the leader surnamed Cheng had not yet put the team in order, he had already led a hundred of his soldiers to Qiulinzhuang quietly.

Seeing that his companions had set off, the leader surnamed Cheng had to speed up, hurriedly gathered his minions, and bravely touched the "Flying Dragon Village" camp.

After the leader surnamed Cheng led the team out of more than 100 steps, Bai Fei had already led the remaining leaders and minions out of the woods, and organized the team, just waiting for the leader surnamed Cheng to start fighting, they could move according to the situation, or attack, or retreat.

The leader surnamed Cheng led his hundred minions to tiptoe out of the grove, at the beginning, he was unusually cautious, while staring at the movement of the guards at the gate of the "Flying Dragon Village" camp, while walking slowly and lightly, his speed was not much faster than the turtle crawling.

However, as they got closer and closer to the other camp, the figures of the guards at the gate of the other camp became more and more clear, and the heart that Cheng Leader had originally carried gradually relaxed. Because by the light of the fire at the camp gate, he found that the other party's defense was very lax, and the two guards guarding the door were holding weapons that they didn't know whether they were guns or sticks, and they were dangling listlessly at the camp gate with their heads down, looking very slack.

This performance of the other party greatly increased the confidence of the leader Cheng, and he quietly ordered his minions to pay attention to their feet and not make a sound, while secretly speeding up the march. But just when he was still more than a hundred steps away from the other party's camp gate, the two guards who were dangling there suddenly stopped. The other party's move really scared Cheng Boss, thinking that the other party had found something unusual. Therefore, he hurriedly signaled all the minions to stop their advance, and fell on the ground, nervously observing the movements of the opposing guards.

Fortunately, soon Cheng Boss found out that he was booed. The two guards did not notice themselves, and the reason why they did not move was because they had already sat on the ground leaning against the pillars on either side of the camp gate. It looks like I'm tired of walking and want to sit down and rest for a while.

This situation made Cheng Boss very happy, and he even thought that God was helping him and wanted to give himself a great opportunity to make meritorious contributions to the cottage. As the saying goes, "the opportunity must not be lost, the time will not come again", "do not move now, let alone when". So, he hurriedly signaled his minions to move on, and he himself had already drawn his sword out of its sheath and walked in the front.

When Cheng Boss was full of joy to achieve his "first achievement", he suddenly heard a slight whistling sound. The sound passed over his head and went behind him. This strange sound caught the attention of the seed leader, who subconsciously raised it to the sky. But he saw nothing but the dark night sky and the dotted stars.

However, this fleeting abnormal noise can only be regarded as an insignificant episode, and at this time, the leader of Cheng, who was bent on meritorious service, did not think much about it and continued to lead the team forward. However, before he could take two steps, there was a loud thunderous sound behind him, followed by the screams of people. In the silence of the night, the sound was unusually clear. If the leader of Cheng couldn't care about the slight whistling sound above his head just now, now he had to figure out what was going on with this loud noise. Therefore, he hurriedly stopped his minions from moving forward, and then turned his head to look back.

As a result, an unbelievable scene came into the eyes of Cheng Tou. I saw that by the edge of the forest where they had set out, a small tree was burning for no reason, and by the light of the fire, several people on the edge of their main brigade could be seen lying on the ground, either motionless, or rolling and wailing.

However, although the change came suddenly, Cheng Tou's mind became extremely clear at this time. Although he didn't know where the loud noise came from, one thing he knew very well was that it was impossible to sneak attack the "Flying Dragon Village" camp this time. It's impossible not to attract the attention of the other party with such a loud noise, and if you continue to move forward, I'm afraid there will be only a dead end. Therefore, he immediately ordered his minions to change from the front to the rear and retreat as quickly as possible.

But as soon as he gave the order to retreat, before he and his subordinates turned around, countless torches were lit in the camp of the "Flying Dragon Village" opposite. Immediately afterward, on the parapet walls on both sides of the camp gate, two clouds of white smoke and two explosions erupted almost simultaneously. With this white smoke and explosion came a strong wind carrying countless impurities. It's just that, unlike ordinary winds mixed with sand and stones, which at most hurt people's faces, this strong wind is full of iron nails, iron sheets, and iron arrow clusters. These metal impurities will not only make people's faces painful, but also burrow into the flesh and even break bones and tendons. ,

Therefore, when this "metal storm" blew through the hundred-person team led by Cheng Leader, more than 30 people, including Cheng Leader, fell to the ground. Cheng Leader and more than a dozen brothers died on the spot, and the other soldiers who fell to the ground wailed.

This situation frightened the rest of the minions one by one, and after a moment of sluggishness, I don't know who shouted, and everyone turned around and ran away with a shout. It's a pity that their reaction is still half a beat slower. Before the surviving minions had taken two steps, a dense, bean-popping roar came from behind them. Although this kind of roar is not as loud as the two explosions that harvested more than a dozen of their lives just now, this kind of roar is continuous and does not stop at all.

And with this dense roar, the surviving vanguard minions fell to the ground one by one as if they had been suddenly pointed, except for a few who were still struggling to crawl forward, most of them had a few convulsions and then stopped moving.

Of course, there are people who are lucky enough to be super-haode at any time, and there is no shortage of such lucky ones in this hundred-strong minion squad. While one by one his companions fell to the ground and died, seven or eight of the fastest minions survived. These soldiers who escaped death had only one thought at this time, and that was to use all their strength to escape back to the woods where the brigade was located as quickly as possible, and to join up with the other brothers, maybe there would be a glimmer of life.

However, after a few sharp steps, they realized how unrealistic their idea was, because the situation of the main team of minions was not much better than that of the vanguard team at this time. By the light of the burned trees, they saw that the main force was in disarray, and that their brothers were falling to the ground in pieces. And as clouds of smoke and loud noises continued to burst through the crowd, many more brothers continued to fall.

The front and back were purgatory-like deaths, and the surviving minions were a little overwhelmed for a while, not knowing which direction to run in the right direction.

Just when these lucky ones stood there, not knowing where to live. From behind them came the cries of their companions and the roar of horses stamping the ground. Several surviving minions hurriedly turned their heads to look, only to find that the team of minions sent by the owner of the village to monitor Qiulinzhuang was running in their direction without their lives. Behind them, there was a black shadow. The occasional cold light reflected in the dark shadows indicated that it was a cavalry.

Seeing this, the surviving minions cursed in their hearts the unsightly companions, blaming them for not being able to run anywhere in such a big place, and for running to where they were standing. While turning around, at a ninety degree angle to the direction of these companions, he fled to a very dense forest next to Qiulin Village, and was once again very lucky to avoid the pursuit of the cavalry of the "Flying Dragon Village".

However, the lucky ones are in the minority. Compared with the seven or eight survivors of Leader Cheng's vanguard team, Leader Li's surveillance team ended up even more miserable. Although the leader of Li was very vigilant and rushed back with all his men after the first bang, they didn't have to run far before they were caught up by the ranger squad that had killed from Qiulin Village.

This situation of cavalry chasing the infantry was basically a one-sided massacre, and Li Leader and most of his minions died between Qiulinzhuang and the nameless river. After crossing the small river, a small number of minions were stopped by the soldiers of the Wyvern Pioneer Battalion who had been killed from the large camp, and after a short battle, except for the three minions who surrendered, none of them survived.

Seeing that the remnants of this "Baihuazhai" division were stopped by their own people, Zeng Zhilin and Muter, who led the ranger squad, ignored it, turned their horses' heads, and led the rangers to rush towards the main force of the chaotic "Baihuazhai". Behind them, fifty Zhuang Ding of Qiulin Village also joined the soldiers of the Wyvern Pioneer Battalion across the river, and rushed behind the Ranger squad.

The face-to-face battle between the two sides did not last long, and the "Baihuazhai" minions, who had been stunned by the previous firearms attack, only resisted slightly, and then completely dispersed. However, considering that his soldiers were not familiar with the terrain and the roads in the mountains were very difficult to walk at night, after defeating the enemy, Qian Yuanshan ordered to blow the trumpet and withdraw the troops. And Zeng Zhilin and Muttle, who rushed to the front, also stopped their steps in time and led the rangers team back to their own camp.

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