Chapter 51: Ringing the Death Knell of the Huang Family (Part II)
At this time, the Huang family was already angry.
For a month, the caravan continued to suffer losses, and more than half of the elite private troops were killed and wounded, but they didn't even see a single corpse of the enemy.
According to the accounts of the survivors who were robbed and attacked no less than ten times, the main members of the Huang family held many meetings and analyzed, and basically determined that the elite bandits other than Xia Cai were introduced by hostile forces, and it was completed under the guidance and cooperation of locals who were very familiar with the Huang family and the terrain and landforms of Xia Cai.
The main messenger of the enemy can basically be determined as a powerful enemy or competitor. The strength is basically judged to be two yellow-level generals leading 200 and 300 junior special troops.
Since neither the Xia Cai official nor the other families of Xia Cai have any special troops, according to this situation, if you want to destroy the other party, you need to dispatch at least 10,000 third-order elite troops at the same time to achieve it.
Due to the heavy casualties of the private army in the Huang Family Castle, the Huang family had to let the Huang family's descendants, Huang Xi, the lieutenant of Xia Cai County, lead 10,000 city guards to garrison the Huang Family Castle in the name of suppressing bandits, so as to ensure the superiority of the troops, in order to destroy the other party at one time.
Family members gathered, soldiers gathered, and the Huang family could no longer tolerate this kind of loss of almost daily bloodletting, so the Huang family decided to find the main force of the bandits for a decisive battle, and strive to destroy them in one battle.
Huang Xi, as the person with the highest position in the Huang family at present, usually has a lot of experience in leading troops to suppress bandits and arrest roads, so the Huang family decided that Huang Xi would be in charge of the "suppression of bandits" in a unified manner.
Huang Xi decided to send a huge Huang family caravan as bait again, sent 1,000 private soldiers to escort them, and 1,000 people were also disguised by private troops, and 2,000 of the most courageous elite private soldiers were hidden in the carriage's goods, and the Huang family scouts hung behind them every three miles, waiting for the "bandits" to rob them.
Once the "bandits" took the bait, they immediately lit the beacon fire, and the 4,000 elites of the caravan were responsible for containing the "bandits" and preventing them from slipping away, and the 10,000 city guards and 1,000 cavalry of the Huang family's private army who were waiting for the battle immediately set off to support.
Since the planned combat radius was up to 30 li, and the beacon fires were lit along the road, it was expected that the 2,000 cavalry and 1,000 cavalry of the Huang family's private army in the city guard were expected to arrive at the battlefield within one hour of the caravan being attacked.
Although the other city guards are not cavalry, the Huang family has also turned them into infantry on horseback in order to hurry, and it is expected that they can also arrive at the battlefield within the next 20 minutes.
After spending so much effort, it is expected to make a big sacrifice, and the Huang family is full of confidence in this battle: it is not a problem to complete the task to exterminate the bandits, the problem is that the army cannot sacrifice too much, especially if the city guards sacrifice too much, it is difficult to explain to the other two families, according to the previous rules, the Huang family will inevitably make greater concessions in interests.
This nasty bandit has brought a lot of trouble to the Huang family, and it already hurts a bit.
At the same time, the movements of the Huang family did not completely hide from the scouts of the Wei Army.
Ye Teng also realized that when the time for the decisive battle came, the Huang family was absolutely unwilling to drag it out and let themselves continue to lose blood; And Ye Teng's own Tianma Town did not allow Ye Teng to leave for too long, so even if he lost some of his back army, it was better than dragging it for a long time, not to mention, this was also the price that must be paid to complete the task of subduing Zhou Tai.
Less than half an hour after the Huang family caravan set off, Ye Teng, Jiang Qin, and Zhou Tai were under a big tree near the official road when they received a report from the scout team leader:
"General, the Huang family caravan has set off half an hour ago, the scale is huge, there are more than 300 carriages, and there are thousands of private soldiers and thousands of people, according to the observation of our scout team, the people are also disguised by private soldiers!"
"Continue to scout, and report the new situation in time!"
"Yes."
Looking at the back of the scout who turned to leave, Jiang Qin said thoughtfully: "General, the army on the other side's face has reached 2,000 people, and if there is still an ambush, it may be more." Once the war starts, the main purpose of these troops will definitely be to hold us down and wait for follow-up support troops, and once the opponent's support troops arrive on time, it will definitely be difficult for us to retreat with all our bodies, forcing us to confront the opponent's superior forces head-on, and the losses will be heavy. ”
"So, the key to this battle is how to eat the caravan before the opponent's main force arrives, and then leave the battlefield!" Zhou Tai's face was resolute and his tone was powerful.
is worthy of being a famous general of Dongwu in the future, although he has not experienced many battle formations, he can be regarded as a rookie on the battlefield, but what he has seen is already good, but Ye Teng's idea of this battle is even more ambitious.
"You have a point, but I want to solve the problem at once;
"In this battle, my opinion is that Zhou Tai led 200 Beiwei troops, dragged the main force of the enemy, fought and retreated, fought guerrilla attacks with the other party, and let the other party encircle and suppress you all over the mountains;
"Jiang Qin led 100 troops and roamed near the battlefield, the main goal was to meet Zhou Tai, so as to avoid Zhou Tai being difficult to break out of the encirclement, resulting in the annihilation of the whole army;
"The key to cooperation between you is to agree in advance on a few points for Yuping to retreat and Gong Yi to respond, so that Gong Yi can make preparations in advance in these places, take advantage of the favorable terrain, and wait for Youping to retreat, and immediately take various measures, such as destroying roads, rolling stones, beating wood, arson, archery, etc., to hinder the pursuit of enemy troops.
"And I took the main force of the Wei army, wandered around the Huang Family Castle, entered the Huang Family Castle, and strived to break through the Huang Family Castle tonight, and complete all the combat tasks in the fort before dawn tomorrow.
"Tomorrow morning, I will turn back to join you, try to kill Huang Xi by force, and then flee to Shouchun, take your family, and fly away, how about it?"
"Obey the general's orders!" Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin promised to do so.
"Then go your separate ways." With that, Ye Teng patted Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin on the shoulders and turned to leave.
At noon, when the Huang caravan traveled east to about 25 miles away from the Huang family castle, it was attacked by Zhou Tai.
Zhou Tai ordered 100 archers to ambush the slope of the north side of the official road, which was more than 20 meters higher than the official road, and kept shooting at the caravan, while he personally led the foot soldiers, taking advantage of the narrow terrain, as a village, and sniping head-on.
The caravan immediately lit the beacon fire that had been prepared for a long time, and at the same time, the ambush in the convoy was exhausted, fully carrying out the target of entangled the enemy, and took the initiative to attack.
The caravan relied on its superior strength to launch waves of attacks, but for nearly half an hour, at the cost of nearly a thousand casualties, it still failed to break through Zhou Tai's humble camp.
But at this time, the caravan's strategy of taking advantage of the superior forces to attack Zhou Tai by detouring the northern slope and the low-lying places in the south began to work, and when Zhou Tai was about to fall into a heavy siege and the archers on the northern slope were also retreating while shooting, Jiang Qin launched a fierce attack from the back of the caravan.
Seeing this situation, Zhou Tai also led the team and launched a counterattack from the front.
At this time, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin no longer hid their strength, and the Xuan-level martial arts were attacking arrows, supplemented by senior generals of the Beiwei Army, and at the same time, the power of the middle-level special troops of the Beiwei Army was also in full bloom, only to kill the opponent by surprise and the head was rolling.
As an intermediate special class, compared to the third-order ordinary troops, the Beiwei Army could have been one enemy and one hundred, and it was only to do its best to avoid casualties, which did not mean that the hundreds of Beiwei troops could not even defeat thousands of third-order soldiers.
Although the Huang family's private army was elite, it was only a third-order ordinary army after all, and the underestimation of the enemy's strength caused considerable confusion under the all-out attack of the Beiwei army, and some soldiers began to flee.
At this time, a high-ranking military general happened to be beheaded by Jiang Qin, causing even greater confusion, and the second half of the caravan was completely routed. And the rout in the rear also affected the morale of all troops, and the number of people involved in the escape was increasing.
Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, as famous generals with great potential in the future, will certainly not waste this great opportunity, and the shouts of "surrender and not kill" resounded throughout the battlefield.