Chapter 122: Targeted by Bandits

Yang Xiaoqi, the temporary scout captain, came over with a serious expression: "Lord Captain, our scouts are about five miles ahead, and they found a group of sneaky people, as if they were investigating something, looking at their dress, they should be bandits." ”

"Did they spot our people?"

"It shouldn't be not, it was our people who discovered them first, because the situation is unknown, in order not to alarm them, I asked our scouts to pause the search and come back to report first."

Qin Zhen pondered: "We are not familiar with the geomorphological environment of Longshan, so it is right to be careful." In this way, you pick a few shrewd and capable scouts, sneak up on them, grab one or two lone tongues first, and ask what the situation is. ”

As he spoke, Qin Zhen ordered: "The troops will stop advancing first, and be on alert within a mile." ”

Xue Yuan asked Qin Zhen for instructions: "I will also go over with Xiao Qi, so that I can grasp it a little bigger." ”

Qin Zhen nodded in agreement, and Xue Yuan and Yang Xiaoqi hurried forward.

Half an hour later, Xue Yuan and Yang Xiaoqi came back, taking the bandits who had been tied up.

"Caught two tongues, the situation has been roughly understood, they are indeed coming for us, the main ones targeting us are two bandit forces, namely Heilongzhai and Erlongshan, the two bandit forces together are about two hundred people, and their leaders are Heilong and Huang Dajiang." Xue Yuan reported.

"According to these two tongues, they have been investigating whether a batch of war horses have passed by in Longshan since yesterday, and depending on the situation, this group of bandits is very clear about the time of our war horse transaction." Yang Xiaoqi added.

As soon as Yang Xiaoqi finished speaking, the faces of several people present changed, the time of this war horse transaction was only known to Qin Zhen and Tong Kan, even if Tong Kan returned to Fengxiang Mansion to report, it was also reported to Fengxiang's high-level officials, so how did this group of bandits know? It is impossible for Weizhou to leak it to these bandits, and there is no chance to leak it, so there is only Fengxiang Mansion, could it be that Fengxiang Mansion colluded with these bandits and wanted to rob these war horses? If that's the case, then things are in trouble.

Qin Zhen pondered for a moment and comforted everyone: "Don't worry, everyone, I think it should be impossible for such a big Fengxiang Mansion to collude with bandits for a mere two thousand five hundred taels of silver." Guo Duwei told me that Fengxiang Jie Du made Li Congcao loyal, and although his first strategist Qiu Weiran was full of wisdom, he was also very bottom-line, and it was impossible to make this kind of conspiracy that could not be put on the table, which was too cheap for him. And most of us have seen Tong Kan, who is quite upright, and he should not be the kind of perfidious person. I think there are some hidden secrets in this that we don't know. ”

Xue Yuan said in a deep voice: "I don't know my heart, after all, we are in contact with Fengxiang Mansion for the first time, we don't know anything about what they think, I think it's better to be careful." ”

Qin Zhen nodded: "That's right, no matter what time it is, it's always not wrong to be careful." ”

Immediately, Qin Zhen's expression was a little fierce: "However, no matter who targets us this time, they want to eat us with two or three hundred bandits, are they looking down on us too much?" I'm going to have to break a few of his teeth first. ”

"Captain Qin, what should we do next?" Wang Zhu asked.

Qin Zhen pondered: "It's not difficult to defeat these bandits, but it's difficult to hit them hard, they are in this Longshan Mountain all the year round, and they are quite familiar with the terrain here, and if the situation is not right, they will immediately scatter and flee." And keeping these bandits is a huge hidden danger, even if we defeat them this time, their strength is not damaged, so what will our caravan do in the future? There are only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves. The best way is to take advantage of today's opportunity to uproot these bandits and completely eliminate them so as to prevent future troubles. If there is no one behind these bandits, it will be fine, if someone instructs, I want to see, I will pull out their minions, see if they still show their faces, if there are really people who can't be provoked, it's a big deal that we go back to Weizhou and continue to nest. ”

Xue Yuan smiled: "It seems that you have already figured out a way to deal with these bandits." ”

Qin Zhen said with a smile: "Isn't their purpose to snatch our war horses, then we will use the war horses as bait to lure them to the bait, and when they take the bait, we will come to the center to blossom and close the door to beat the dogs." ”

Xue Yuan, Wang Zhu and the others' eyes lit up, and Qin Zhen continued to arrange specific tactics: "I will lead the four teams to continue to move forward, as their bait, to attract them to besiege us, and to be responsible for dragging them down; One team stayed behind in concealment, and after joining up with the rear team Meng Xuan, they saw the opportunity to surround them, and then annihilated them in one fell swoop. Qin Zhen shook his fist and slammed it down.

"Our team is basically all veterans, and we have relatively more combat experience, so I'll leave it to our team to be a decoy; The four teams are all new recruits, and the first time they go to the battlefield, they have to face four or five times the enemy as themselves, and I am afraid that they will not be able to adapt to it, and I think it is better for the four teams to stay. And now that you are the commander in the army, how can you be in danger? It is better to stay and wait for Meng Xuan. Wang Zhu objected.

"I don't like to hear what you say, what's wrong with our four teams being all recruits, it's no worse than your team in real fighting, Lord Captain, I am willing to make a military order, if these bandits dare to come, my four teams will definitely drag them until the rear army surrounds them all. However, Team Wang Zheng has a sentence that is quite right, you can't go to Captain Qin, who is a bait, just take someone up. Xue Yuan asked.

Qin Zhen chuckled and said, "If a gang of bandits comes, I have to hide behind, then when the party army comes, do I need to hide in the city and not come out to be safe?" Don't worry, we have dealt with so many party troops, can't we deal with some bandits? That's it. And from now on, our scouts should not be too far away, just compress to within a mile of the team. ”

Seeing that Qin Zhen had made up his mind, Xue Yuan and Wang Zhu didn't say anything anymore. Qin Zhen continued to advance with four teams, while one team hid in place, waiting for the rear army led by Meng Xuan.

"Lord Captain, there are about twenty miles to Fengge Ridge." The soldiers who had followed Chen Luosheng to Fengxiang Mansion reported to Qin Zhen.

"Recently, they have been visiting us more frequently on this journey, but they seem to be afraid of alarming us, and they are far away from us." Xue Yuan frowned and said.

"I guess they'll be going to do it to us soon." Qin Zhen nodded.

"Lord Captain, there is a relatively open forest in front, and further on, there is a relatively steep uphill road, we find that the jungle there is extremely quiet, there is not even the sound of insects and birds, I suspect that there are a large number of ambushes, Deputy Yang is asking me to ask Lord Captain, should we continue to search forward, to be sure?". A scout came back and reported to Qin Zhen.

"There's no need to search forward for the time being, tell Yang Xiaoqi to let all the scouts stay put." Qin Zhen ordered.

Qin Zhen pointed to the narrower road under their feet, and muttered: "I didn't expect that there are also high-ranking people among these bandits, you see that the road we are passing through now is extremely narrow, and then it is open again in front, and then there is a relatively steep uphill road ahead, do you think it looks like something?" ”

Xue Yuan thought for a moment, and his eyes lit up: "You mean like a bottle?" ”

Qin Zhen nodded: "Yes, it's just a bottle, what we are under our feet now is the bottleneck, the front is the bottle is the stomach, and then the uphill road in front is the bottom of the bottle, they will put the bottom of the bottle, and then wait for us to pass, and then block the bottleneck, and we will be completely trapped in the belly of this bottle." If there were only 50 of us, we might have been trapped here by them if we had accidentally slipped into their ambush circle, but now, this bottle belly has become our best defensive buffer. ”

Xue Yuan smiled: "Are you going to bait in the belly of the bottle?" ”

Qin Zhen sneered: "Didn't they ambush a large number of people on the bottom of the bottle, so I just didn't touch it, just stopped in the belly of the bottle, and spent it with them, to see who consumed whom?" ”

On the steep slope at the bottom of the bottle in Qin Zhen's mouth, Huang Dajiang's watcher Shi Shiran entered the Qin Zhen group in their encirclement, and smiled at the black dragon beside him: "Captain He's intelligence is really accurate, these fifty war horses seem to have reached the middle of you and me, looking at their appearance, it is estimated that they don't know that they are surrounded, and I don't know if we will suddenly kill them later, and we will be shocked by this so-called Zhichong Mansion army." ”

The black dragon looked serious: "We must not underestimate the enemy, looking at their march and the equipment on their bodies, they are not as unbearable as Captain He said, although their combat effectiveness should be much worse than the army on the side of Fengxiang Mansion, but it should not be underestimated." ”

Huang Dajiang didn't care at all: "You're just too careful, even if their combat effectiveness is stronger than we expected, what can you do?" There are only fifty of them, and they have penetrated into the encirclement we have set up, not to mention them, even if they are replaced by Fengxiang's government army, they can let them finish the game. ”

The black dragon said softly, "It's always right to be careful. Tell everyone to take cover and not let them know before they attack. ”

Just as Hei Long and Huang Dajiang were waiting for this piece of fat to hit their mouths, the team in front of them suddenly stopped in this open field, and all the soldiers dismounted and began to rest.

At first, Heilong and Huang Dajiang thought that this group of people could set off after a short rest, but after waiting for two quarters of an hour, they still had no intention of continuing their journey.

"What's the situation?" Black Dragon and Huang Dajiang looked at each other.

"Did they find out about our ambush?" Huang Dajiang asked uncertainly.

"No, look at their soldiers sitting casually like this, not guarded at all, besides, if they find our ambush, they should turn around and retreat, how can they still rest in place?" The black dragon said in a deep voice.