Chapter 58: Long Hejun (4)
Long Yuandong was furious and said, "You get up! I, Long Yuandong, will not accept the surrender troops! Kill me!"
Dugu Wen's waist reached out and grabbed the handle of Long Yuandong's gun, and shouted: "Long Shovel!
Long Yuandong's momentum was hindered, and he waved his hand to stop the one-sided slaughter of Long He's army.
At this time, there were only more than 300 people left in the grass mountain army in the mountain col.
Dugu Wen said: "Once the name of killing prisoners spreads, no enemy army will dare to surrender to us in the future, and it will also anger the enemy army, and every battle that the Longhe army will fight in the future will be a vicious and bitter battle!"
Long Yuandong said angrily: "Fighting a vicious and bitter battle, are we still fighting less? The two armies face off, either you die or I die." A moment of a woman's kindness will cost the whole army their lives! You shouldn't stop me!"
Dugu Wenjiao was born in the Crescent Moon Empire's fast hunting family, and his parents died because of the revenge of the prisoner when he was a teenager. At a young age, he chased the murderer for thousands of miles, and was fortunate to get Wu Zudao's help, and killed the murderer together to avenge the great revenge. Then wandered to the Tuhao Empire alone, lived at the bottom of the society for a long time, and knew that most of the disciples in the Five Elements Sect were oppressed civilians, so he was somewhat sympathetic to the rebellion of the Five Elements Sect.
He whispered, "Since the enemy has surrendered, why do we disarm them?"
Long Yuandong sneered: "Disarmed? So do you want to take them in, or let them go? Co-opt them, who knows if they will be the first to be the first to harbor evil intentions? And I am not uncommon for this kind of eggless soldier, incompetent in battle, and first-class in escaping." Let them go, turn around, and they will pick up their weapons and deal with us! Since they dare to rebel, they should have the consciousness of dying in battle! Death at my hands is not unjust at all!"
Dugu Wenyun felt that Long Yuandong's murderous intent was too heavy, but he couldn't refute it, so he could only sigh heavily, looking at the eyes of those captives, the same as looking at the dead, there was no difference.
Long Yuandong saw it in his eyes, and with a turn of thought in his heart, he casually picked out six thin people from the captives, and said, "You six, leave weapons and food, and get out of me immediately." Remember, the lives of the six of you were saved by this Dugu general!"
Dugu Wenyin was puzzled: "Why are you doing this?" Long Yuandong smiled and did not answer.
Six captives, you look at me, I look at you, half-convinced and walked a few steps, seeing that no one was stopping, his heart was pounding, and the joy of picking up his life was full of heart, and at the same time he was even more afraid of Long Yuandong's cat play mouse, he turned his face and regretted it at any time, and walked out a dozen steps in fear, and suddenly let out a shout, and ran towards the woods.
The captives were originally trembling, fearing that Long Yuandong would slaughter all of them under the thought of slaughtering them, but when they saw that he had really let go of the six people, a glimmer of hope ignited in their hearts, and their hands were raised even harder, and their heads were lowered more reverently.
Long Yuandong smiled and watched the six captives go away, turned around, and suddenly shouted: "Cut them all down for me!"
The Long He Army, who had been waiting on the side for a long time, did not hesitate to raise their guns and slash indiscriminately, killing the three hundred Caoshan troops who were surrounded in the center and gave up resistance.
The two leaders who had reached the fifth order of cultivation tried to resist, but Long Yuandong shot like lightning, stringing the two of them together with a single shot.
Dugu Wen couldn't bear to look at it more, so he didn't look over, and ordered the rest of the soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield and prepare to retreat.
Long Yuandong said: "Are you wondering why I let go of six more people since I want to kill the prisoners?"
Dugu Wen was stunned and angry: "Don't talk to Lao Tzu!"
Long Yuandong said with a smile: "I let them go back to report the news, so that the people of the Five Elements Sect know that against my Longhe army, there is only one way to die! My purpose is to completely dispel their contempt for the Longhe army, at least don't be so ignorant, and send a group of scum to harass us every once in a while! You must know that the prestige of the army is piled up by human lives! Only the more ruthlessly we kill them, the more afraid they will be! The more afraid they are, the more nourishing we can be!"
Dugu Wenjiao couldn't agree with this crooked reasoning at all, but Long Yuandong was the chief officer of the Long He Army, and everyone had already been killed, so it was useless for him to say more.
Without saying a word, he led the warriors to climb the mountain.
The mountains in Cheongyang County are undulating and undulating, but not all of them are continuous, and there are sometimes deep valleys in between, cutting off the road.
Although the Long He army was afraid of being ambushed, it was impossible to make a detour every time they encountered a valley, which would not allow it regardless of physical strength and time, so from time to time there was also a large section of road through the valley.
It is also strange to say that since the slaughter of the three hundred captives captured by General Long Yuandong, in the past two days, there has not been a single enemy attack, nor has there been any trace of a small group of enemy troops.
Dugu Wenjiao naturally didn't think that this was Long Yuandong's act of killing prisoners, which had a deterrent effect on the enemy.
In the evening of this day, Long He's army came to a cliff again, and Long Yuandong ordered to temporarily stay on the top of the mountain, and sent several sentinels on the left and right to explore the road.
An hour later, the sentinels came to report that the cliff was to the left, and the woodland was deep and was the Thang Long Valley, and to the right of the cliff, there was a huge mountain crack, winding to the southwest, and the stream flowing in the crack was the Broken Dragon Gorge marked on the map.
Long Yuandong carefully watched the terrain with a telescope, studied it against the map for a long time, summoned He Dali and Dugu Wenwei, and said: "Go to the left, pass through the Shenglong Valley, enter Matai County, and there are border guards from Nanjin Pass in the east. Go to the right, go west along the Broken Dragon Gorge, and then it will merge with the Luosha River, and to the south is the Sand Lake, which is the general lair of the bandit army of the Five Elements Sect. Whether we will go to Shenglong Valley or Broken Dragon Gorge, you can also talk about your views. ”
He vigorously said: "Isn't this obvious, one is a rising dragon, the other is a broken dragon, although your dragon shovel is not a dragon son and grandson, after all, the surname is Long, of course, it is to go to Shenglong Valley, maybe you will be promoted to make a fortune, just rely on this." ”
"What are you messing with?
Long Yuandong knew very well that after the enemy army disappeared for two days, the main force should have completed the assembly, perhaps in a certain place where the Long He army was about to walk, set up an ambush array with wings that was difficult to fly, and was quietly waiting for him to enter the army.
Therefore, the choice of the direction of this march is likely to be related to the life and death of the Long He army. Once you make a mistake, the end will be the annihilation of the whole army, and it will be too late to regret it.
At this time, how could he be in the mood to joke?
Dugu Wen put down the binoculars and said, "Don't believe it, what He Dali said is very reasonable." As the saying goes, the big officials talk about feng shui, and the generals avoid place names. Shenglong Valley and Broken Dragon Gorge, two place names are a lifetime and a death, if I want to choose, of course, choose an auspicious road. ”
Long Yuandong pointed his finger rhythmically on the map and said: "The name of the place is not enough to rely on. I don't know that the enemy army will not anticipate my taboo and deliberately set up an ambush in the Thang Long Valley? If I go to the Thang Long Valley, it may be a dead end, and if I go to the Thang Long Gorge, it will be a bright road. ”
Dugu Wen's waist shook the grass thorns on his sleeves, and said, "Then put aside the taboo of place names." Judging from our contacts with the rebels of the Five Elements Sect during this period, I think their strategic intention is to do everything possible to force us to a dead end, and then take advantage of the right time and place to concentrate superior forces and annihilate us in one fell swoop. Because only by completely annihilating us can we free up our hands to deal with the more powerful forbidden army and border guards.
We don't die for a day, and they don't rest assured for a day. In other words, we do not go to the left or to the right, but just go around in the mountains, which is what the enemy is most worried about. ”