Chapter 11: Respite
On the 10th day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, it was an unusually cold day.
By this time, the cold wave had lasted for nearly two days, and the heavy snow had never stopped since the cold wave came, so that the whole land was covered with thick ice and snow, and people would be out of their knees when they walked outside.
In such bad weather, almost everyone will hide in the house to keep out the cold.
However, there are some exceptions.
Just like now, Shangdi Beitong is two miles away from a town outside the city.
A large team... No less than 200 samurai braved the goose feathers on their heads and the howling cold wind, and trudged through the thick snow.
"My lord, there is a chaotic army camp ahead, and the news from my lord says that they are defenseless. "The one who spoke was a landlord priest, and the chaotic army in his mouth was of course referring to the coalition army of the secretaries and doctors headed by Cai Guojun in the north, and my lord was the landlord.
Shang Tongxing, the high-ranking samurai who led the team, leaned against a tree at this time to rest a little, and slightly recovered the strength consumed by the action in the heavy snow and severe cold.
Listening to the words of the landlord priest, he looked up at the sky, and the landlord priest said that my lord, the head of their Shang family, was flying high in the air at the moment, looking down on the whole below, and all the movements of the enemy army were well known, and they could be passed on to them through the landlord priest.
Such a battle, logically speaking, can be fought with great ease.
It's just a pity that the "chaotic army" led by the Wu clan is very powerful, and they can only take advantage of the heavy snow that makes the enemy army unable to attack the city normally before they have the opportunity to withdraw their hands and send a large number of warriors to solve the problem of surrounding the city and harassing the rear army.
Retracting his gaze, Shang Tongxing looked at the enemy camp in front of him again, and said in his heart that the enemy army was defenseless, which meant that they did not need to attack the village, and could directly enter the camp to kill people.
Thinking of this, he sneered and said to the landlord priest: "Report to the lord of the family for me, this army dares to attack our rear around the city, and today I will kill a river of blood and wipe out its entire army." ”
But the landlord priest said, "According to my lord's will, today is not a simple raid on the camp and killing. ”
"It's not a camp attack to kill people, so what are we going to do?" Shang Tongxing asked.
"It will do us no good to kill those warriors. The landlord priest said: "You only need to kill or force the warriors in the camp, without the warriors, the other warriors can not operate normally in this weather, can only let us slaughter, if you don't want to die, there is no other way but to surrender." ”
"This heavy snowfall, but it is God's help, which can send the rebel army to attack and harass the rear army, and turn them into our use one by one. ”
Shang Tongxing nodded and said, "The family master's plan is very good, I'll arrange it." ”
Immediately, he summoned the samurai, conveyed the thoughts of the landlord Shang Wenzhi, and explained: "In this operation, all the samurai must not be dispersed, once the war starts, against the enemy samurai, you should fight more and less, and if you can use a spear, you don't need a sword." ”
"Understood. The samurai's uneven response.
Shang Tongxing waved his right hand towards the enemy camp, and the samurai of the brigade went to the camp, easily climbing over the wooden wall of the camp one by one.
At this time, all the warriors and soldiers on the Cai side hid in the barracks to keep warm, and no one thought that there would be enemies in this weather, so no one noticed their movements, allowing the Shang warriors to easily enter the camp.
But after entering the camp, more than 200 people marched in the camp and stepped on the snow, and the momentum naturally could not be hidden.
"What people. "Who are you? "They are traitors, and the traitor warriors have attacked the camp. ”
The soldiers in the barracks everywhere shouted in horror one by one, but they could only scream twice, and most of them did not dare to rush out of the barracks to do anything.
Look at the thick snow on the ground, it is difficult for them to even move when they trample on it, let alone kill the enemy... The enemy was a powerful samurai who could move relatively freely in the snow, and only a few tried to fight, but they often took two steps, and naturally retreated when they saw no companions to follow them.
"Brush, brush!" a jumble of arrows shot at the marching samurai ranks.
The Shang warriors drew their swords one after another, and scattered the sparse arrows.
One of the warriors drew his spear and threw it at the place where he shot thirty paces away, killing the spearman who was taking the lead.
The surrounding warriors screamed and dodged in all directions, for fear that the warriors would continue to throw spears.
The spear-throwing warrior smiled smugly, and Shang Tongxing glanced at him coldly: "Don't care about these warriors who are not a threat to us, our current target is only the warriors in the battalion." ”
"Yes. The samurai bowed his head, ignoring other unthreatening harassments, and followed the procession as fast as he could, soon approaching the barracks where the samurai brigade of the camp were stationed.
Outside the barracks, because of the movement of the soldiers in the camp, when the Shang clan arrived, the enemy samurai had already prepared, and the samurai scattered everywhere did not dare to find this brigade before, and they also made a detour to arrive here, gathered in front of the barracks and waited solemnly.
Shang Tongxing held down the team and looked at the enemy warriors.
This group of samurai was less than half as many as them, and there was nervousness and fear on their faces, which was obviously brought about by the contrast between strength and weakness.
After a little look, according to the landlord's intentions, Shang Tongxing did not do it immediately, but only persuaded loudly: "Warriors, I believe that the current situation is clear to everyone, today your defeat has been decided, Lord Ben just didn't want to make more senseless killings, so he didn't attack, but if you insist on resisting, then you can only be wiped out here, I think you are samurai, you are all people with family business, you should be able to make the right choice." ”
"My lord, I am willing to surrender. Before he could finish his words, a samurai on the other side responded, and the samurai's response immediately triggered a cascading effect, and then the samurai of the brigade followed suit one by one, and almost no one was unwilling to surrender.
Seeing this, Dr. Duzhong, the commander of the army among the samurai, just sighed, but he didn't blame the samurai under his command.
The war of this era is like this, it is better if it is a national war, but this civil war, unless the other side wants to kill everything, or a certain family is facing annihilation, there is rarely a samurai who is loyal to someone with his life without any hope.
"Lord Shang, I, Doctor Duzhong, am willing to lead the whole army to surrender to the Shang clan, and I also ask your lord to treat all the samurai well according to the Cheng courtesy. ”
Looking at the scene below, above the camp, the landlord Shang Wen nodded with satisfaction, turned around and flew towards the north, with the speed of his flight, he returned to the frontline city soon after.
"My lord, what's the situation?" asked Shen Bu anxiously.
Shang Wen said with a smile: "One has been solved, and the other two places believe that news will come soon, after today, there should be no more chaotic troops in the rear of my Shangdi, and absorb the soldiers who surrendered to Cheng, and the soldiers who died in the defense of the city in recent days can also be replenished to a certain extent." ”
"Mr. Shen's strategy is really clever. ”
"It's not that I'm strategic, it's actually thanks to this heavy snowfall. Shen Bubu waved his hand.
Shang Wen said: "This is the heaven does not destroy my Shang clan, so it snowed heavily, giving me a chance to breathe, but just now I observed in the sky, this snow has not been falling for long, once the snow stops... It seems that the way out for my Shang clan is still in a meeting with the Snake Yu Gongzi, and I will set off for Huaixia later, but I don't know what Mr. Shen can teach me in this matter?" )