Chapter 130: Sneaking Out on the Expedition

Last time, he said that Liu Hou was looking for the main general of the ambush mission, but he looked around at the generals around him, but sadly found that no one seemed to be able to take on such a heavy responsibility.

Zhao Yun's ability should be okay, but he is so old, Liu Hou habitually keeps him by his side, and generally does not let him lead the troops into battle unless he has to, and the others are all young people, and their experience and qualifications are not very sufficient, so it is really hard to say whether he can take on heavy responsibilities.

Discussion and discussion, and in the end, he had to let Bu Qi lead the troops as the main general to take charge of the ambush mission this time. Bu Qi is brave and strategic, and he has also had the task of leading a large army to fight, he can be said to be a general who can take charge alone.

Liu Hou was reluctant to lead the troops at first, the reason why he had not been allowed to lead the troops before but arranged for him to do civilian work was still worried about the problem of loyalty, after all, he was the general of Eastern Wu, and he was an important minister, his relatives and families were in Eastern Wu, and he rashly handed over the army to him, if he turned his back, the consequences would be unimaginable.

However, through the observation of this period of time, Liu Hou found that he was indeed helping himself wholeheartedly, and did not find any dissenting intentions, at most, when it came to the policy of Eastern Wu, he just kept silent, and now he is going to deal with the Wei State, I believe that he will not have a pimple in his heart.

What's more, this Hong army was built by Liu Hou, and from top to bottom they were all loyal to Liu Hou, even if Bu Qiu wanted to lead them to rebel, it was impossible, and no one would obey his order to rebel.

In this ambush team, Bu Qi was the main general, and the deputy generals were Vulture Gu and Zhong Tong, and in terms of soldiers and horses, he brought 10,000 rattan armor soldiers from the Second Division, as well as seven or eight thousand people from the entire Fifth Brigade, with a total number of more than 17,000.

Liu Hou believed that even if Sima Yi sent 50,000 troops to rescue Zhang Ling, with the combat effectiveness of this team, he would be able to leave them all behind.

Liu Hou personally sat in Maicheng, leaving behind two firearms units of the First Brigade and the Second Brigade and 15,000 rattan armor soldiers, with these rattan armor soldiers, Liu Hou was confident that even if Sima Yi poured his nest to attack, he could support it for a long time.

After deciding that you can't send troops right away, you have to do a lot of preparation work first. Then once the brigade of men and horses is dispatched, it is easy to be detected by the scouts of the Wei State, then the whole plan will be reduced to a joke. Therefore, the first to be dispatched was a large number of scouts, and their task was to strangle the scouts of the Wei army.

Having fought with the scouts of Soochow to fight each other, these scouts of the Hong army are now the elite of the elite. Their individual combat ability is super strong, and a small team of scouts is even stronger when they cooperate, not to mention the scout teams of Wei and Wu, even if they encounter a small group of enemies, they dare to rush forward, and use advanced equipment such as thunderbolts, fire guns, and hand # crossbows to beat the enemy all over the ground to find teeth.

Therefore, in terms of intelligence information, Hong has always suppressed the enemy in an all-round way. Now the same way, the scouts of the Wei army could not go out of their base camp 10 miles away at all. Since he planned to implement the sneak attack plan, Liu Hou sent additional scouts this time, intending to further compress the Wei army's scouts to within five miles.

However, this alone is not safe, and who knows if the enemy has disguised Xiaozuo lurking nearby? In the later life, there is a very handsome peer in this promising profession, his name is 007, and there are two (actually the same person) very funny peers named Ling Lingqi and Ling Lingfa.

The Chinese name of their later companions is spy, and the English name is spy, which is the same word as flies, which means that they are as pervasive as flies.

The scout is a neatly draped horse, which can be seen at a glance, but disguised as a fine work of various identities, scattered among the people, it is impossible to distinguish it lightly, maybe a hotel junior, maybe a vendor who sells baked cakes at your door, maybe a rich merchant who smiles all day long, or even a small official and official in the government may be a hidden fine work of the Wei State.

If you want to get rid of these people, even if you kill all the people in the neighborhood, it may not work, because you also have to worry about the people around you being bribed by the enemy.

Of course, Liu Hou would not do such a cruel thing. Since you can't kill all the fine works, you can only deceive them.

On the fifth day after the meeting, the preparations were all done, and Liu Hou personally sent Buqi out of the city gate, but Buqi led the army not to the north, but to the south. At the same time, it was announced that after receiving the allusion that the Eastern Wu army wanted to emulate the white-clothed crossing of the river, the emperor was worried that Jingzhou would be lost, so he sent troops back to reinforce Jingzhou.

Liu Hou also deliberately sent people to spread the news in the streets, telling the story of the attack of Eastern Wu in a clear way, so that the people in the city were convinced that the people of Eastern Wu really came to attack Jingzhou, and this army really went back to support Jingzhou.

In order to prevent leakage, the ultimate goal of this operation was only a few high-level generals who knew the inside story, and everyone else thought that it was really to go back to reinforce Jingzhou. The people in the city also witnessed this army moving south in the direction of Jingzhou, and naturally, all the Wei scouts got the news: this army was headed for Jingzhou.

No one noticed that the unit was all lightly armed, they did not carry long muskets, nor did they carry bulky cannons. Because these things are hard to hide. However, I brought a lot of thunderbolts, explosive # pill packs, explosive # pill barrels, etc.

Because these things can be disguised as luggage, everyone can take a little bit with them, or they can be mixed in the cart that transports heavy grain and grass.

Without fire # guns is equivalent to no long-range strike ability, which is very unfavorable to the Hong army who are accustomed to long-range strikes, so Liu Hou gave them all those left# rotor # guns dedicated to the personal guards, this thing is very short, can be hidden close to the body, not afraid of being discovered.

After these months of production and reserves, there are now a total of 300 left # wheeler # guns, although not much, but each one has six bullets, which can form a barrage of 1,800 rounds in an instant, which is also quite amazing.

And after six rounds, the reloading is also very fast, later Liu Hou has seen western cowboy films, those cowboys only take a few seconds to change bullets, although their own soldiers lack training in this area, the reloading time is not fast enough, but how is it faster than loading the pistol. Therefore, these 300 left# revolver# guns can play a more powerful role than 3,000 sui guns.

However, these left# revolver# guns also have a fatal weakness, one is that the range is much shorter than the rifle, if the enemy understands this and makes full use of this weakness, their own side will suffer a lot; Second, it is not easy to manufacture bullets, and the cost is also very expensive. So the ammunition now distributed is very limited, not enough to sustain a long battle.

Even if there was a left# rourfer# gun, the long-range weapons were still insufficient, and Liu Hou gritted his teeth and gave them all the horse crossbows in the # army. The making of horse crossbows is more complex, and each horse crossbow can be called a work of art, which is the pinnacle of the mechanics of this era. So it is even less numerous, only two hundred.

Although there are only 200 crossbows in the army now, this is a crossbow machine that can fire 50 rounds in a row, each horse crossbow is equivalent to a machine gun, it may be an exaggeration to say that it is a machine gun, because the range of the horse crossbow is too close, and the penetration is not strong enough, but at least it can be called a submachine gun or an automatic rifle.

Two hundred horse crossbows can fire 10,000 crossbow arrows in a short time, which can be called terrifying. In order to solve the problem of a long time to reload crossbow arrows, Ma Jun later improved the horse crossbow, so that the arrow magazine could be separated from the crossbow machine.

In this way, the auxiliary personnel can be responsible for reloading the crossbow arrows in the back, after the shooter finishes shooting the arrows, remove the empty arrow box, and hand it to the auxiliary personnel, and he takes the reloaded arrow box, mounted on the crossbow machine, and can continue to fire, the time of dismantling and installing the pause is very short, if there are two auxiliary personnel, respectively, the two arrow boxes can be reloaded, you can form an effect similar to a three-stage blow, so that the launch of the crossbow arrow only has a very short pause.

It is conceivable that when two hundred of these crossbow machines are activated at the same time, the crossbow arrows flying in the sky will continue to rain down on the enemy until all the arrows are used up, just like the scene of the locust plague.

Now that the entire Third Brigade of seven or eight thousand people is unable to carry fire # guns, and there are a lot of idle manpower, Liu Hou singled out six hundred people and asked them to operate horse crossbows in a group of three. Of the three, one of them is an archer, who wraps the crossbow in cloth and disguises it as a package and carries it on his back, and the other two are those who assist in reloading the receiver, each of whom hides a receiver and several arrows.

Of course, the consumption of crossbow arrows by this crossbow machine is also very staggering, and it is not enough to rely on these few people to transport them, and other people must help transport crossbow arrows. Seven or eight thousand people, some people have crossbow arrows on their bodies, some people have bullets on their bodies, some people have thunderbolts, explosives# medicine, etc., so once they get it down, Liu Hou still feels that the manpower is not very enough.

The reason why this ambush party did not carry a rifle and had to hide things secretly was because, after they had gone south for two days, they found an uninhabited mountain pass, took off their military uniforms, changed into civilian clothes, and dressed up as all kinds of characters.

There are landlords and old wealth, there are peddlers and pawns, there are farmers and woodcutters, there are beggars calling flowers, and of course, there are also scholars and literati. However, they have a common false identity, that is, displaced people, because they want to avoid the war, and they go north from Jingzhou to Cao Wei's territory to seek political refuge.

They hid the above-mentioned weapons and short knives under their clothes, or wrapped them in packages and carried them on their backs, and then divided into groups of three and five to disperse north, and finally gathered at a predetermined location. This concentration point is an uninhabited hill between the road from Xiangyang to Zhangling.

Of course, there are also ox carts, horse-drawn carts, donkey carts and even wheelbarrows and other means of transport transporting truckloads of goods, and these things disguised as goods are actually rattan armor and gun#powder of rattan armor soldiers, otherwise, such a large rattan armor would not be able to cover up no matter what.

Two days after the sneak attack force set off, E Huan set off with 5,000 rattan armor soldiers and went straight to Zhangling. Since there is no road leading directly to Zhangling in Maicheng, they need to cross mountains, cross rivers and wade through rivers, and walk many country roads to reach their destination.

The team did not go out openly, but went out day and night, acting as if they did not want to be known. However, their disguise did not help, and their whereabouts were soon discovered by the Wei State and sent the news back to Sima Yi in Xiangyang.

Liu Hou knew this, he actually deliberately wanted Sima Yi to know the whereabouts of this army, so he deliberately made this kind of move to cover up. This kind of fiction and reality can make Sima Yi more convinced that they really want to sneak attack and capture Zhangling.