Chapter 13: Ambush and steal the enemy
Long Yi laughed and said: "The enemy is 150,000 people, and its ordinary homeless people still have at least nearly 100,000 combat strength, of which the elite thief army has at least 70,000 or 80,000, and our army is less than 20,000. ”
Li Xin nodded and said, "Brother Yi is reasonable. ”
Tian Bang saw Long Yi and said easily: "Could it be that the general has a plan?" ”
Yu Zhong suddenly smiled and said, "The general wants to outwit?" ”
"We need to draw up a battle plan, not only to outwit but also not to entangle too much with the enemy, so as to ensure that our casualties are minimized." Long Yi pointed to the map of Shouyang County and said: "I mean to set up an ambush in the necessary places of Shouyang City and Qiangtian County first, and destroy part of the enemy first, the remnants of the enemy will inevitably flee in chaos, and our light cavalry will follow behind to chase and destroy the thieves, and strive to annihilate the enemy in Shouyang County." ”
"Brilliant plan! I knew there was a place to set up an ambush. Tian Bang pointed to a hillside on the map: "This place is 'Little Wolf Slope', there is a small valley under the slope, but it is not so steep, and the valley road is the only way for Qiangtian County to come to Shouyang City."
"Okay, let's fight a beautiful ambush battle there, it doesn't matter if the 'Little Wolf Valley' is not steep, it just enough to paralyze the enemy." Long Yi analyzed: "Our army still has to release the news, after the last battle, the Shouyang army suffered heavy casualties, the reinforcements have not arrived for a long time, and the Shouyang army is basically unable to fight again." ”
Li Xin laughed when he heard this: "In this way, the enemy will not believe it, otherwise he will fall for our army's plan." ”
The 'Little Wolf Slope' is indeed not a precipitous place as Tian Bang said, but the trees are vigorous, and it is not easy to find them in ambush. Today the weather was very clear, and there was no sign of the killing. The Shouyang army put bamboo cages on their mouths, soldiers bit bamboo strips, and 20,000 soldiers lay on the 'little wolf slope' without making a sound. Cicadas are chirping, birds are chirping. Passers-by walked down the slope and never dreamed that there were nearly 10,000 troops hidden in the forest.
At noon, the thieves of the six towns slowly entered the 'Little Wolf Valley', and a burly general stopped his mount and carefully inspected the valley. A general next to him asked, "Why did General Lei stop his horse?" The burly general replied, "General Ge, I am afraid that there will be an enemy ambush in the valley. "The burly man is the Tiger General of the Six Towns Army, Lei Gong, and that General Ge is Ge Yuanxiong, the younger brother of Ge Yuandong. The two led the front army of the thieves in the six towns, the eighth brother led the middle army, and Ge Yuantong personally commanded the rear army to press and transport grain and grass.
Ge Yuanxiong laughed a few times: "General Lei is thinking too much, thinking that there are 20,000 in the Shouyang Military Region, and he dares to fight with our 300,000 army, and now he must be staying in Shouyang City to fight the trapped beasts." ”
"It's always good to be careful." Lei Gong really has the demeanor of a general, and he marches cautiously. It is worthy of being called the Tiger General of the Six Towns. Lei Gong only entered Ge Rong's army when he was a few years old, and Ge Rong liked him very much, and when Yuwentai surrendered to Er Zhurong, he was ready to call him, but he read the kindness of the Ge family and did not agree. Lei Gong carefully checked the movement in the valley, and saw that everything in the valley was as usual, birds were flying, and cicadas were singing, and said to Ge Yuanxiong: "You can pass with peace of mind." ”
Ge Yuan Kumamoto was unimpressed by his actions, pursed his mouth contemptuously, and beat his horse away. Lei Gong was not angry and slowly followed.
Lei Gong's actions fell into Long Yi's eyes, and he said to Zong Zhao beside him: "This person is a good general, and Zong Zhao will definitely capture him alive." Zong Zhao bowed down and agreed.
Half an hour later, the front of the thief army all entered the valley, and part of the Chinese army also marched in. Long Yi took out the horned vine bow and used his strength to stretch the bow full, and said, "It's time." An iron arrow flashed away.
Lei Gongxing suddenly felt a strong uneasiness when he entered the valley, a light and shadow flashed, Ge Yuanxiong left the horse in response, took out seven or eight steps away and knocked over three or four people and was nailed to the ground dead. Lei Gong has led his troops to fight for many years, and he has never seen such a divine shot, if the target of this arrow is himself, I am afraid that this life is already on the Huangquan Road, even if he is a veteran who gallops on the battlefield, he can't help but be frightened in his heart. Before the thieves could come to their senses, thousands of arrows and seedlings came overwhelmingly, and all of a sudden, the thieves army of the six towns fell in a large area. The thief army in the valley was in chaos, Lei Gong couldn't organize effective resistance even if he killed a few people, and some of the few personal soldiers gathered around him in a panic to search for the enemy's shadow, and Lei Gong felt completely desperate for the first time.
After another scene of arrow rain, the Six Towns Army cried for their father and mother, dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender. After all, over the years, the Six Towns Army has been robbing everywhere, not fighting against the main regular army, and has developed the habit of robbers, and immediately knelt on the ground and begged for mercy when they saw that something was wrong.
Long Yi said to Meng Yanchi and Po Liuhan Heishan: "Xiao Chi rode heavily in front, Montenegro light cavalry protected the wings, and the 'Snow Wolf Cavalry' attacked the middle army of the thieves in the six towns, and charged all the way down to the enemy's rear army to seize its grain and grass." ”
"Huh-" The two of them led the snow wolf to ride over the river and the sea and pounced on the enemy who was still resisting.
Zong Zhao led the infantry to accept the surrender. Five or six cronies followed Lei Gong to prepare to retreat quietly, and suddenly heard a piercing wolf howl, a snow wolf with steel thorns all over his body, a huge snow wolf like a tiger and a lion soared into the air, and in the blink of an eye, the two pro-soldiers were swept off their horses by a pair of steel wolf claws and died, and the horror of the death frightened another pro-soldier next to him to faint. Lei Gong was angry and shouted: "You brute also came to deceive me." "Swing your sword and slash at the wolf. The Snow Wolf King jumped up and down, with unusual agility, and occasionally howled a few provocative teases, which stimulated the big knife in Lei Gong's hand to become more and more disorganized. Instead, the Snow Wolf King took the opportunity to grab a deep blood groove on the belly of his mount, and Lei Gong's mount fell to the ground with two wails. Lei Gong was very sad when he heard his beloved horse neighing sadly, and then saw the evil wolf shaking his head proudly in his own place, and suddenly all thoughts were discouraged: "That's it, that's it, I can't imagine that I, Lei Gong, have been galloping on the battlefield for many years, but today I am humiliated by a bad wolf." Lift the knife down your throat. Zong Zhao saw it squarely, picked up a steel knife and threw it at Lei Gong, and with a "snap", Lei Gong's big knife was knocked to the ground.
Lei Gong gritted his teeth and shouted, "What do you want? ”
Zong Zhao walked over and said, "General Lei is rare and brave, why can't you think about it like this." ”
"That is, General Lei should not be like this wolf." A few horses galloped in front of him, and Lei Gong saw that although he was young, he behaved calmly, with a peaceful attitude, fine connotation, and no domineering atmosphere in his body, which made people feel like a spring breeze. Obediently, this person sat down and rode the back of a tiger-bellied dragon, his whole body was jet black, and his divine horse was extraordinary. Lei Gong turned his head and saw that the neighing of his beloved horse was getting smaller and smaller, and his heart was sad, and his eyes were full of tears. Long Yi saw it clearly, took out a packet of wound medicine from his arms and pasted it on the blood groove of Lei Gongma, tore off the corner of his robe and bandaged it, and said to Lei Gong: "General Lei, don't worry, your horse will be healed after a few days of rest." ”
The corners of Lei Gong's eyes turned crimson, and he suddenly knelt on one foot: "The general is benevolent and righteous, there is no need to say more, I, Lei Mou, am willing to be a pawn under my command, and I have reported the kindness of the general." "In the Han and Jin dynasties, the most important relationship between respect and inferiority, and in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was a little relaxed, but Lei Gong saw that Long Yi did not have the slightest stand for the generals of the defeated army, treated people sincerely, and personally applied medicine to the defeated generals and horses.
Long Yi took Lei Gong's hand and said happily: "It is my Long Yi's great luck to have Lei Gong's help." ”
In fact, Lei Gong was defeated so easily by the Snow Wolf King because the army led by Lei Gong suddenly faced a devastating blow, which caused strong fear and despair in his heart, so when the Snow Wolf King attacked him, he was completely out of control, and his martial arts did not use half a point at all. It's really not that he can't do it.
The generals gathered in the tent, and said in unison that there was another general in the Shouyang army, and the army Bo offered a thin plan, and the 40,000 people in the front army of the six town thieves were killed 10,000, and the remaining 30,000 all surrendered, and the Chinese army was scattered by the 'snow wolf horse' because of the collapse of the former army, and the enemy killed 12,000 enemies and surrendered 40,000 enemies, and the enemy general Zhang Bage led the remnants of the Chinese army to escape with 50,000, and wanted to immediately withdraw to Qiangtian County and was bitten by the light cavalry of the Black Mountain of the Six Koreas, exhausted, and camped thirty miles away. The 10,000 men in the rear of the thief army saw our army's heavy cavalry, and they all threw down their grain and grass and fled. Our troops lost 134 killed and 320 wounded, and several of them were wounded by heavy knights who chased the enemy too quickly and fell off their horses.
Long Yi stared at Meng Yanchi, and Meng Yanchi's cheeks were crimson. "The generals performed very well in this battle, and they will be rewarded for their merits when they go back. 70,000 soldiers selected their elite to serve and handed them over to the command of Lei Gong. The rest were sent back to Shouyang County, where they cultivated their fields and settled down to buy homes. ”
"Whoa." All will respond.
"By the way, the enemy's food and grass can be stolen."
Zong Zhao bowed down and replied: "All of them were robbed, but there were too many moves that made the brothers soft." ”
Lei Gong said: "This is all because the thief army of the six towns attacked all the way from Gaochang, and the grain and grass in the prefectures and counties were swept away, so the army of the six towns has a huge amount of food. ”
"Haha, how can there be a reason to think that there is too much grain and grass, calculate, leave enough of our army and ask Han Chong to transport it to the nearest Little Wolf Village to hoard it, now our army has limited strength and cannot transport the grain back to Shouyang City." Long Yi was overjoyed and explained to everyone.
After listening to Lei Gong's story, the thief army soldier knew that there were so many benefits of being a soldier in Shouyang, and of course these benefits were formulated after careful discussion between Long Yi and Tian Bang. Being a soldier in Shouyang not only has three meals a day, but also military salaries, although the current military salary is still very small, but it is better than nothing; All those who serve as soldiers do not have to pay taxes if their families are in Shouyang County, and the families of those who died in heroic battles are provided by the government, and their children and grandchildren are given priority in joining the army. After listening to the reading, the soldiers asked to serve, and Lei Gong chose his sturdy and capable men to stay according to Long Yi's instructions, and handed over the rest to Han Chong, the grain transport officer, to take back to Shouyang City. In the end, there were 20,000 elite left. The soldiers who were not selected were discouraged, but they were overjoyed to hear that as long as they went back and worked hard, Shouyang City could basically ensure that everyone had food to eat, and everyone had a house to live in, which was ten hundred times better than in the Six Towns Army.