Chapter 56: Gathering on the Coast
The cavalry galloped all the way and arrived at Wanghai Peak to join Liang Teng's soldiers and horses.
Knowing that Liu Bao had led his troops to chase after him, Liang Teng immediately raised a flag to inform the army ambushing the peak and the forest.
Seeing the flag, the two troops immediately entered a state of readiness.
After waiting for a long time, Liu Bao finally led the troops to kill and appeared near Wanghai Peak.
When he saw the Liangzi flag fluttering behind Wanghai Peak, he immediately ordered the whole army to charge.
Liu Bao's army soon entered the range of Wanghai Peak.
On the top of the peak, Liang Jing and Liang Yun were sweating profusely, quietly waiting for the opportunity, and did not dare to do it easily.
In the jungle, Ning Ze also made a gesture to ask everyone not to make a sound.
Liang Teng and Liang Shun father and son led their troops to stand in front, blocking the horse with a fence.
"Liang Teng puff dares to deceive me," Liu Baozong immediately stepped forward and raised his knife and shouted, "Today is your death!"
"Thief Liu, when I'm afraid of you?" Liang Teng raised his gun and said angrily, "There is a kind of coming over to fight for three hundred rounds!"
"Am I stupid?" Liu Bao sneered, "The whole army will assault, and those who surrender will not die!"
"Kill ——!!" Liu Bao's army quickly charged towards Liang Teng's army.
As soon as Liang Teng gave the order, a large number of crossbowmen stepped forward and used bamboo crossbows to quickly design.
"Suddenly!" The crossbow arrows were dense, and countless Liu Bao soldiers were killed on the spot.
"Archer!" Liu Bao immediately ordered, and the archers in the rear drew their bows and shot from a distance.
Although the crossbowmen are powerful, the range is not as far as that of the bow and arrow, which is a disadvantage.
Obviously, Liang Teng had already expected it: "Sword and shield soldiers, raise shields!"
"Whew!" Infantry immediately appeared behind the crossbowmen, raising wooden shields to protect their allies.
Most of the "tuk-tuk-tuk...... arrows were nailed to the surface of the wooden shields, and some unlucky soldiers were killed.
"Cavalry charge!" Yin Li ordered loudly, and the cavalry team quickly charged.
"Spearmen array!" Liang Teng did not show weakness, and with an order, the sword and shield guards and crossbowmen scattered, and the pikemen in the rear appeared, leaning on the fence to raise their guns.
The cavalry could not get closer, and was fired by a burst of crossbowmen and hurriedly retreated.
"Shoot them!" Liu Bao roared, and the archers rained down arrows again.
The two armies clashed and soon entered a fierce battle mode.
Liang Teng successfully attracted Liu Bao's attention and led the entire enemy army to the heart of Wanghai Peak.
Seeing that the enemy was trapped, Liang Teng immediately ordered the drums to be beaten.
"Knock, knock, knock......" The drum sounded, and an army of 3,000 immediately appeared on the top of Wanghai Peak, lined up. Countless stones fell from the sky and smashed into the dense Liu Bao army.
With such a dense queue, any stone thrown down can hit with your eyes closed. What's more, the rockfall rain prepared by thousands of people in advance has simply become the biggest killer.
Liu Baojun was stoned to death countless times, the originally neat army was instantly chaotic, countless soldiers fled in a hurry regardless of the order, and even a serious stampede occurred.
Liu Bao was also frightened, and Yin next to him immediately reminded: "There is an enemy ambush on the peak! Quickly divide the troops to attack it, and you can break the ambush!"
So Liu Bao immediately ordered the division of troops, and while quickly retreating to avoid falling rocks, he asked the soldiers to make a detour to the peak to deal with the enemy above.
The army entered the forest, charged all the way up, and soon entered the trap area.
"Whoosh!" the first unlucky guy stepped on the lasso trap and was directly hung upside down, shouting in a panic.
Immediately after the second, the third...... The mighty army rushed up, and nearly a hundred people were caught in the trap in a short time. There was also good luck, the trap was not launched or damaged because of poor craftsmanship, but it was not happy for too long, because countless crossbowmen suddenly appeared in the forest, and they fired a salvo under the command of Ning Ze.
The group that was hung up by the trap died the fastest, and those who rushed up behind were also hit, and the generals who led the team quickly turned around and summoned the army to retreat.
"Take advantage of the victory and pursue!" Ning Ze gave an order, and the ambush soldiers were exhausted, chasing after him and constantly using crossbow arrows to harvest.
"Damn!" Halfway through the run, the enemy general turned around and found that the opponent's strength was not too much, so he immediately turned back and "killed ——!!"
The army turned around again and rushed towards the ambush troops.
"Withdraw!" is to bully the other party for not bringing long-range troops, Ning Ze immediately ordered the whole army to retreat and lure the enemy army deeper.
The enemy chased after him for a while, and when he arrived at the trap area, another batch of unlucky eggs were hit, and countless crossbow arrows were ushered in.
When they turned around and evacuated, Ning Ze led his troops to chase after him and harvested with long-range soldiers.
This kind of fighting style makes people feel aggrieved, and there is no damage to Ning Ze's side several times, but the enemy army has suffered heavy casualties.
There is no way, they still stand on the terrain advantage, condescending.
It's easy to shoot an arrow from above, but it's hard to rush up and kill someone from below, not to mention that you don't know where there are traps waiting for you.
Liu Bao led his troops to charge Liang Teng's army formation, but failed several times. As a result, in the attack of Liang Teng's crossbowmen, falling rocks and ambush attacks, thousands of soldiers and horses were lost, and the morale of the whole army was low.
"Brother Bao, you can't do anything, withdraw quickly!" Yin Li knew that the loss would be heavier if he continued to fight, so he hurriedly reminded him.
Liu Bao was very unwilling, but the other party had a geographical advantage, and there was really no way. So he could only turn around and retreat with the whole army very unwillingly.
Liang Teng's troops quickly converged and pursued from behind for a while, capturing countless weapons and armor, and capturing a large number of Huajun soldiers.
After winning for a while, I didn't get carried away, just like the so-called poor Kou Mo chasing.
The four brothers of the Liang family were in charge of counting the battlefield, and Liang Teng found Ning Ze: "The arsenal order is really a good strategy, what should I do next?"
"Don't be in a hurry!" Ning Ze said with a smile, "Now that Liu Baozhong has lost a large number of soldiers and horses, he will definitely flee back to Huajun City." Immediately give the order and send 500 private soldiers to change into enemy armor and follow into the city. The enemy troops fled in a panic, and they certainly didn't have time to check them all. As long as 500 private soldiers enter the city, they will be able to make a surprise attack tonight and take the city in one sentence!"
"Okay!" Liang Teng immediately mobilized 500 of the most loyal Liang family's private soldiers, all of whom were replaced with Liu Baojun's armor, and let them follow the defeated army into the city.
Before that, Ning Ze secretly handed the leader a bamboo stick with a mark on it, and asked him to use this sign to find any beggar in the temple after entering the city.
When the private soldiers caught up with the defeated army of Huajun and mixed in, and ran wildly all the way, Liang Teng asked suspiciously: "What is the use of the bamboo sticks?"
"Do you remember the post governor?" Ning Ze said with a smile, "Xia Guan once had dealings with the wealthy merchants and gentry of Huajun, and he had a good relationship. And because he usually accumulates virtues, he has helped many beggars and homeless. So I thought that maybe I could get more internal responses and help our army successfully take the city! Those rich merchants and gentry also had close contacts with the Liang family, and they had a large number of private soldiers in their hands, if they could help, Liu Bao would be defeated!"
"If only it could have succeeded!" Liang Teng sighed.
"By the way, please also ask the superintendent to send someone to the coast of Binaqiu and light three piles of wolf smoke. No more, no less, there must be three piles. ”
"Why?"
"Xia Guan also needs some helpers, as long as they light up the wolf smoke, they will appear. This was a signal that Ning Ze had prepared in advance, and he had already ordered Wang Wei to send people to stay on the coast, and when he saw three piles of wolf smoke, he would immediately come over to converge.
Liang Teng followed what Ning Ze said, and immediately sent people to the coast to light three piles of wolf smoke.
Not long after, there was a quick report: "There are two more puffs of wolf smoke on the north side of the coast!"
"This is the connector signal!" Ning Ze said, "It means to meet on the coast in two hours." ”
Two hours, in modern times, is four hours, quite a long time.
But it's normal, after all, it's at least two hours to take a boat trip from the wasteland.
Anyway, Liu Bao was defeated and returned, and he definitely didn't dare to fight again. It's just noon, and there's still time before the evening, so I'm not in a hurry.
Liang Teng and his son simply followed Ning Ze to the coast and waited, during which they discussed the night attack on Huajun with a simple sand table.
Two hours passed unconsciously, and several huge merchant ships finally appeared on the sea, heading towards this direction.
When the merchant ships docked, the first to come down were Liang Wu and Wang Wei.
Finding that Ning Ze was followed by Liang Teng's father and son, Wang Wei did not speak, reached out and touched the mask to make sure that there was no problem.
Liang Wu quickly came over: "Meet the superintendent, meet the eldest son, the second son, the third son, and the fourth son!"
Then he turned to Ning Ze: "Arsenal Order, are you back?"
In front of the Liang family, he didn't show too familiarity.
"Hmm!" Ning Ze nodded and looked at Wang Wei, "Ghost Face, how has it been in the past few months?"
"According to your orders, with the cooperation of the merchants of Huajun, more than 2,000 people have been recruited, all of whom have been trained and can go to the battlefield!" replied Wang Wei.
"There are only more than 2,000 people?" Ning Ze asked suspiciously, "Aren't there quite a lot of displaced people in Huajun?"
After all, at that time, he deliberately polled all the displaced people in the surrounding counties.
"That's right!" Liang Wu said, "When the king of Lingnan came to Huajun, he issued an order to distribute all the land seized by our Liang family to the people in the city. It also issued a housing order, so that the homeless and beggars could be supported, and the homeless had their own houses and the cultivators had their fields. It is completely to be generous with our Liang family's things and capture the hearts of the people. There is also Liu Baoqiang who conscripts displaced people as soldiers, and in contrast, the number of soldiers that we can recruit through merchants is very small. ”
"Is there such a thing?" Ning Ze was stunned, turned his head to look at Liang Teng's father and son, and found that they were only slightly stunned when they heard that the fields were divided, and there was no greater reaction.
It is estimated that Liang Chun's death and the pain of exterminating the clan made them a little numb to these, and they only had the word revenge in their hearts.
"That's right!" Liang Wu turned to Liang Teng, "Mrs. Cai and the little boy are on the boat......"
"What did you say?!" Liang Teng was shocked when he heard this, and immediately reached out and grabbed Liang Wu's shoulder.
The four brothers of Liang Kai also recovered their spirits in an instant, and quickly gathered over: "Mother and little brother are still alive?"
"The Liang clan in Huajun City is all there, but the other counties have been slaughtered, and the Liang family's property has also fallen into Liu Bao's hands. Liang Wu replied.
"Madame!" Liang Teng let go of Liang Wu and hurriedly ran to the dock, shouting loudly.
On one of the merchant ships, sure enough, the figures of the Cai family and the little son Liang Yi appeared, followed by the Liang family.
Seeing Liang Teng, Cai's face was also full of joy, and he took his youngest son to wave vigorously on the deck.
"Mother, little brother!" Liang Kai, Liang Jing, Liang Yun, and Liang Shun followed and ran towards the merchant ship, so excited that they couldn't do it. I thought that all my family members were killed, but I didn't expect that the closest people would escape.
When Liang Teng's father and son were reunited with their families, Ning Ze looked at Liang Wu suspiciously: "What's the matter?"
"Big brother, I'm sorry!" Liang Wu bowed his head and said, "I made my own decision to leave Mrs. Cai and the Liang clan together." I was adopted by the Liang family since I was a child, and I can't repay my kindness without repaying it......"
"Forget it! That's good. Ning Ze said, "At least it can make Liang Teng's father and son raise their spirits, which is more conducive to capturing Huajun." ”