Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Enemy's Stratagem
This chieftain, a colonel under the command of Shandu Junfeng, was wounded on the battlefield, and one hand was discarded, and he was no longer fit for marching and fighting. Through the activities of relatives and friends, he found this position under the command of Shandu Junfeng, named Dusk Shilan.
The mine he is in charge of, although it is in the deep mountains, the Li family has been operating for many years, and secondly, he has a large number of subordinates.
No, his abdomen, which was originally with distinct abdominal muscles, is now round and slightly convex. After a long period of comfortable life, Twilight Shilan has lost his sensitivity to the enemy situation in the past.
After losing several squads in a row, he still didn't pay attention.
Later, some soldiers were reluctant to carry out squad assignments, preferring to be caned rather than receive squad assignments.
Moreover, those people of the Black Dragon Gang even found all kinds of excuses to shirk the task of following the Dazhu people's squad.
After all, it is not the men and horses who command the battle, the military discipline must be looser, and the military regulations of disobedience on the battlefield cannot be killed.
Twilight Shilan was as good as a stream, and the number of the team sent was at least forty people. This is equivalent to doubling the number of expatriate personnel to perform various tasks.
After increasing the number of people, they were basically not attacked by those two people.
However, new problems have arisen.
Although there are many people in the mines of Dusk Shilan, there are many things that cannot stand the mines that are controlled by the army and let the locals open the mines. After doubling the number of expatriate staff, Twilight quickly felt that he was running out of manpower.
Twilight Shilan felt that he couldn't hold on, so he told the mountain capital about the situation.
Originally, he didn't want to tell the truth. Because, he felt that just because of the attack of two teenagers, he would be ridiculed and reprimanded if he had to ask his boss for help.
However, after Twilight Shilan told him about this, Shandu Junfeng did not reprimand him.
On the contrary, he said that he was timely. This surprised Twilight Stoneland.
It turned out that after Shandu Junfeng received the report, he realized that the two rabbit cubs had run deeper into the mountains, and his subordinates who had sent him to search in the area where the two of them often haunted were in vain.
According to the situation of Twilight Shilan's report, the mountain capital Junfeng made a plan and let Twilight Shilan follow the plan.
Chen De and the others found that the number of people in and out of the Li family iron mine recently was at least 40 people. Obviously, not an opportunity for an ambush.
Because when the opponent has more people, there are more archers and shield soldiers. After they make a move, the threat of the opponent's counterattack increases much more.
Many days later, on this day, the weather was good, sunny and warm.
The two finally found that there was a team of Dazhu people on the mountain road, and there were only a dozen of them. Zhang Zhiliang, who was in charge of watching on this day, found out and told Chen De. The two immediately rushed to the intended ambush site.
After the Dazhu people entered the ambush range, Chen De, as before, shot three arrows at the enemy in a row.
Surprisingly, only one arrow wounded one person, while the other two dodged the arrow.
This is very different from what it used to be. The two of them chuckled in their hearts.
Chen De continued to pour arrows at the Dazhu people.
However, the martial arts of this group of Dazhu soldiers are obviously higher, and the scene of almost no arrows in the past has not appeared.
It was far from achieving the ambush effect that the two wanted.
Chen De felt that things were a little bad. Zhang Zhiliang also saw that he didn't kill him soon after the strings sounded as before.
The two were hesitating, should they continue the attack, or should they retreat?
When the two hesitated, the Dazhu people had already rushed towards Chen De. It is only a dozen zhang away from Chen De.
Zhang Zhiliang no longer hesitated and killed with a knife.
Da Zhu Bing seemed to have been prepared, and immediately separated the three of them to outflank Zhang Zhiliang.
Looking at the Dazhu soldiers who were getting closer and closer, Chen De gritted his teeth and shot a few arrows faster.
Two or three people were wounded. Then turn around and run.
At this time, the nearest Dazhu soldier was only five or six zhang away.
Chen De was in a higher position, and as soon as he turned around, he ran up the mountain.
Zhang Zhiliang, who was about to be surrounded, heard the shout of Chen De when he ran up the mountain, he roared, and slashed at the nearest Dazhu soldier, and after forcing the other party back, he turned around and ran up the mountain as soon as he turned around.
The two of them didn't run long before they heard a lot more shouting behind them than before.
It turned out that there were squads of dozens of people in the front and rear directions of their ambush. If it weren't for the fact that the two of them saw that the situation was not good and ran in time, I am afraid that they would be surrounded by the two teams of Dazhu soldiers who came later.
Both teams of Dazhu soldiers brought the hounds they were tracking, and after letting the hounds sniff the two of them in ambush, they followed the hounds and chased after them.
Chen De and Zhang Zhiliang had already chosen the route of retreat before the ambush. Therefore, after the two turned to run away, it didn't take long for the two to run to the same route one after the other.
The Dazhu people who were chasing behind him were also happy when they saw the two running together.
Because of this, these two teenagers can't escape their pursuit. If they were separated, it would be possible for one of them to escape.
After Chen De and Zhang Zhiliang crossed the ridge, they rushed down the mountain. They are flexible, smaller than the Dazhu soldiers behind them, and the obstacles of the mountains and rocks are much smaller, and after rushing down the mountain, the distance between them and the Dazhu people is widened.
This time, among the Dazhu soldiers who came to encircle and suppress them, there were obviously more archers.
The archers stood still on high ground, and with their bows and arrows, they fired arrows at the backs below.
But they had all just climbed the mountain, and when they stood still, they were all out of breath, and the arrows were not as accurate as they usually were when they were fired. The sound of the whistle was endless, but none of them hit.
The Dazhu soldiers who were running in front heard the roar of arrows behind them, and they didn't dare to rush down, for fear of being shot by their own people. This time, the distance between the two of them is even farther away.
When the captain who led the team saw it, he immediately told the archers to stop shooting arrows, and he himself took the lead in following the hounds and rushed down.
After running for a while, Chen De and Zhang Zhiliang were completely unfamiliar with the environment in front of them. According to their experience, the two of them drilled wherever they saw trees and vegetation.
However, the two tried their best, and they didn't know how long they ran, but they couldn't get rid of the pursuers behind them.
As long as the two of them stayed for a moment, they could hear the movement of the pursuers behind them. This time of running for their lives, many wounds were added to the two of them as before.
fled until night, and when night fell, Chen De and Zhang Zhiliang thought they could escape by taking advantage of the night.
After running for most of the night, the exhausted two fled to a leeward dry place, and after devouring some barbecue, they fell asleep.
However, the two didn't sleep for long, and in the haze, they heard a noise not far away.
Both of them said in their hearts: It's not good, they both got up with a bone.
The large number of soldiers who encircled and suppressed them also had the disadvantage of being too numerous: the more people, the louder the noise made during the march, which woke up their target.
The sleepy-eyed two had no choice but to continue to flee for their lives without knowing the direction.
After the two men stopped to rest, they heard shouts and shouts and the sound of more than a hundred people marching in the direction they had walked, and it was the pursuers who were following them coming.
The two had no choice but to keep running with their spirits.
They ran and stopped, and after noon, the two still did not escape their pursuers.
It seems that this time the Dazhu soldiers are determined to catch up with them.
Chen De knew that in order to get rid of the pursuers, he had to shoot the hounds.
Once, when he ran to a terrain that was conducive to turning around and shooting hounds, he turned around and wanted to shoot hounds. However, he only wounded one of the hounds, and the arrows that the archers of the Dazhu soldiers shot at him were like drops, so that he did not even have a chance to probe it.
Moreover, the cooperation of the Dazhu soldiers was much more tacit, and while the archers suppressed, the other sergeants continued to quickly approach Chen De. Chen De had no choice but to continue to run wildly with Zhang Zhiliang.
Because the two people who fled for their lives saw a dense forest and fled there, invisibly, their direction gradually went deeper into the mountains.
Gradually, past the deepest part of the hunters hunting in the Bailong Mountain, the surrounding forests became denser and taller, and the forest became more and more vast and primitive. It is becoming more and more difficult to march.
Escaped for more than a day. The food on the two of them was basically depleted.
In order to make the pursuers have some scruples, Chen De often turned around and shot the hounds and Dazhu soldiers when the pursuers were close to the firing range.
The hounds had shot one, but three more.
Da Zhu Bing was more concerned about the protection of the hounds, and Chen De had no better chance.
There were more than 20 Dazhu soldiers who shot and wounded. Therefore, when Chen De and Zhang Zhiliang were on higher ground, as soon as Chen De turned around, the pursuers were much more careful.
However, after many arrow shots at the pursuers, Chen De's arrow pouch ran out of arrows.
When Chen De and Zhang Zhiliang were fleeing for their lives, they once waded through several streams, although the hound temporarily lost the breath of the two, but the stream was not wide enough and not deep. After crossing the shore, after sniffing upstream and downstream, a few hounds were soon able to retrace them on the other side.
The sleepless escape made both of them physically and mentally exhausted. For the hope of survival, let them grit their teeth and force themselves to move whenever their pursuers approached.
The two of them were in a daze, and they didn't know how long they had been escaping.
Suddenly, they heard the sound of a river rushing nearby, and the two of them lifted their spirits and walked in the direction from which the sound came, and they could no longer run.
The closer they got to the river, the louder the sound became, and the pace of the two couldn't help but quicken.
Because both of them grew up by the river, and both are good at water. The wider the river and the faster the water, the better their chances of escaping.
The voices of the pursuers behind them were getting closer and closer to them.
Looking at the wide river surface and the turbulent river in front of them, the two did not hesitate, regardless of the height of three or four zhang from the river surface, they jumped from the rock to the river.
"Plop" twice, the two fell into the water one after another, and were stirred by the cold water underwater, they cleared their minds a lot, and after they floated, they struggled to swim to the opposite shore.
In a few moments, the rushing water pushed them far downstream.
Chen De and Zhang Zhiliang only swam a few feet away from the shore, and the Dazhu soldiers chased them to the river.
Fortunately, the river has pushed them further downstream. Otherwise, they would now be a good target for dozens of archers on the shore.
As soon as the captain who led the team arrived at the shore, he cried out in his heart: Oh no!
Because, his own water nature is not good, and the water nature of more than 100 people under him is different, and some of them don't even know water. If you go down to the river to pursue, after being pushed by the turbulent river, the whole team will definitely be scattered when it lands on the shore, and I am afraid that it will not be able to retract.
Moreover, the hounds certainly cannot continue to track each other.
It is obviously unwise to go into the water and pursue.
However, Shandu Junfeng has already given a death order, and after he returns, he will at least be beaten with a military stick, which is inevitable no matter what.
He no longer hesitated, and ordered: "Chase downstream, the archers release their arrows!"
His men understood what he meant. The archers, in particular, shot arrows at the two men in the water as they ran downstream.
For a while, dozens of arrows roared towards Chen De and Zhang Zhiliang.
The further downstream he runs, the closer the archer will be to his target in the water.