Chapter 50: Ringing the Death Knell of the Huang Family (I)
The next day, under Jiang Qin's repeated requests, Ye Teng and Zhou Tai allowed Jiang Qin to accompany him.
At sunset, the three returned to Zhou Tai's residence, and that night the three discussed a revenge plan.
Seeing Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai's generous and tragic looks, Ye Teng talked and laughed easily, and calmly analyzed the pros and cons of this battle for them:
Although our side is at a disadvantage in terms of overall strength, Ye Teng is a prefecture-level general, Zhou Tai (88 in force) and Jiang Qin (86 in force) are Xuan-level generals, and we will definitely win in terms of cutting-edge force;
We have nearly 800 intermediate-level special troops, and we are completely victorious in terms of the elite of our soldiers;
Ye Teng has equipment that can collect and release soldiers at any time, and we are completely victorious in terms of flexibility;
The enemy is bright and I am dark, and suddenly we are completely victorious;
Therefore, the key to this battle is not whether it can win or not, but how to minimize the losses of the Beiwei army as much as possible. This requires not only the right strategy and tactics, but most importantly, patience.
After giving the two of them a detailed explanation of their top secret, the equipment that can store living things, the Divine Stone Space, Ye Teng's words made Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin's faces turn from heavy to relaxed, and they all said that only Ye Teng's orders were obeyed.
Then, Ye Teng analyzed the tactics of dealing with the Huang family for the two.
If you want to kill the head of the Huang family, you must break the Huang family castle, but the Huang family castle is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is heavily guarded. At the same time, it also loses the advantage of the enemy's light and my darkness.
As for the Huang County Lieutenant, when the Huangjia Castle outside the city was attacked, he must lead the troops out of the city to rescue and retaliate, although there is a flat river between the Cheng and the Huangjia Castle in Xia Cai County, and it can only be fought in the field, but it is much less difficult than the siege.
Therefore, how to eliminate part of the living force of the Huang Family Castle in advance to facilitate the next attack on the city is the key to this battle.
Although in this battle, Ye Teng will inevitably face tens of thousands of private troops of the Huang family and the regular army of the imperial court, Ye Teng is ready to sacrifice a large number of people in the back army, but if he does not use some strategies, it is estimated that even if Ye Teng pays the price of the annihilation of the whole army, he may not be able to achieve the goal of avenging Zhou Tai.
Fortunately, as a local of Xia Cai and an enemy of the Huang family, Zhou Tai has not been a fool in vain in recent years, and his understanding of the Huang family is probably second only to the Huang family itself.
Huangjia Castle covers an area of more than 4 square kilometers, located in the east of Xia Cai County 50 miles, the north gate of the castle is adjacent to the official road, the south is Huaishui, the east leads to Jiujiang County, and the west is Xia Cai County.
The people who live in the castle are divided into three main groups:
1. The main family members of the Huang family and the servants attached to them are close to 10,000;
2. The private army, mainly composed of third-order arms, exceeds 20,000 people;
3. There are more than 2,000 craftsmen and their apprentices, including the shipbuilders in the shipyard south of the castle that Ye Teng coveted.
In addition, the Huang family castle also has caravans that walk between the county and the county every day, bringing huge wealth to the Huang family.
In this regard, after Ye Teng discussed with Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, he decided to plan it step by step and in order.
The first step is to disguise themselves as bandits, plunder the Huang family's caravan, and then eliminate the Huang family's army that went out of the city to support, so as to achieve the goal of eliminating the living force of the Huang family's private army.
The second step is to break through the Huang family's castle after the main force of the Huang family's private army is destroyed;
The third step is to eliminate the officers and troops led by Huang County Lieutenant, who went out of the city to support.
In this process, Ye Teng's identity cannot be exposed, so as not to be wanted by the authorities, which will affect the territory of Tianma Town.
The next day, Ye Teng, Zhou Tai, and Jiang Qin traveled about 20 miles east of Huangjia Castle to find a suitable location for robbery.
Ye Teng originally planned to let the three of them act separately to find a place where they could temporarily station troops, but Zhou Tai was worthy of being a local, shook his head with a relaxed face and said, pointing to the northeast and said: "General, please come with me, the north side of this official road is full of lofty mountains and mountains, overlooking the official road." There is a small valley in front, on the official road, not far from the official road, the location is hidden, it is not easy to be found, and the scenery is beautiful, the water source is abundant, enough to garrison thousands of soldiers! ”
"Just according to what Youping said!" Ye Teng stretched out his hand, Zhou Tai led the way, and he and Jiang Qin followed.
After walking for less than half an hour, I found a small valley with a path leading to the official road below. The surrounding mountains of the valley are steep and forested, and the valley is full of flowers and clear springs.
Although Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai have not yet taken refuge, Ye Teng no longer treats them as outsiders, and releases 100 infantry soldiers and 100 archers of the Weiwei Army in front of them, and explains that Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai each lead 50 foot soldiers and 50 archers, and Zhou Tai is responsible for reconnoitering the surrounding situation and exploring the movements of the Huang family's caravan; Jiang Qin was in charge of setting up camp.
At dusk, the troops were encamped, and Jiang Qin even led the team to hunt enough prey for dinner, but the traces of the Huang family's caravan, Zhou Tai had not yet detected them.
Seeing that Zhou Tai looked a little depressed, Ye Teng smiled and said, "Didn't we know in advance that only one team of the Huang family's caravan would travel in three or five days?" There's no need to rush, what we have is time. I would like to give you a special explanation, when you rob, you must pretend to be a bandit, and I will not come forward as a last resort, and you will take the lead in carrying out all actions to avoid my identity being exposed as much as possible. ”
"Yes, General!" Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin said in unison.
In this way, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin patiently lurked, and except for the necessary scout work, everything seemed to be in a static state. It wasn't until the morning of the third day that the first caravan of the Huang family came, hundreds of grain trucks, more than 200 people, and more than 100 private troops, transporting a large amount of grain from the Huang family castle to the east to the county town.
Ye Teng ordered Zhou Tai to lead 100 Beiwei troops, kill all the private troops, let go of all the people, and intercept this batch of grain. Ye Teng didn't make a move, just acted as a mobile warehouse, taking advantage of the absence of outsiders, and put all the grain and grain carts into the Shenshi space.
Judging that the Huang family would not give up, Ye Teng released another 300 back troops from the space, and let Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai lead 200 people respectively, and he led 100 people as a reserve.
At noon, the Huang family was led by a senior military general to lead 1,000 private troops to take revenge, Ye Teng instructed Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai to hide their strength, and each led 200 back troops to attack the Huang family's vengeful private army.
In accordance with Ye Teng's instructions to hide his strength, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin let the troops only show the strength of the primary special troops, and under the leadership of the "yellow-level generals" Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, they only paid the price of more than a dozen serious injuries to the Huang family's private army, and only escaped back to the Huang family castle with less than 50 people.
After simply cleaning up the battlefield, in addition to leaving the necessary scouts, Ye Teng received all the trophies, prisoners, Beiwei Army, Zhou Tai, and Jiang Qin into the Shenshi space, and immediately left the scene, returned to Xiacai County alone, stayed in a hotel, and after explaining Xiao Er not to disturb, he hid in the Shenshi space and practiced exercises and martial arts with Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, and others.
Although, even if the Huang family sends 10,000 troops to Ye Teng next, he can eat it, but after all, it is difficult to avoid a large number of casualties of the Beiwei army, and it may also startle the snake, so that the county lieutenant Huang Xi does not dare to go out of the city, and the Huang family castle is more heavily guarded.
At this time, the city did not receive warnings or requests for help from the Huang family, and everything was as usual in the city.
Five days later, according to the report of the scout, Ye Teng went out of the city again, ambushed the Huang family's caravan again, wiped out nearly 2,000 Huang family's elite private army, and then fled the scene cleanly.
In this way, in the whole month after that, Ye Teng used guerrilla tactics and only paid a small price to destroy more than 10,000 elite private troops of the Huang family.
Seeing that the Huang family's vigilance is getting higher and higher, and even the county lieutenant Huang Xi has led the troops in the city out of the city from time to time to support and encircle and suppress, Ye Teng knows that the day of the decisive battle is not far away.