Chapter 272: Cannon Fodder
When the two of them came to Chen Zhang's face, they wiped the sweat from their foreheads after dismounting, and their tones became quite excited
"My lord, Qingfeng County, which has been attacked by the rogues, has been occupied by the rogues"
"Slow down, you guys already know it, here you can see the fire and the sound of killing in Qingfeng County, it is obvious that it should be a rogue attacking the city, but there are some strange things, which rogue actually attacked Qingfeng County"
Chen Zhang nodded slightly.
"It's a wide-eyed rogue, one of the four major rogues"
The scout spoke hurriedly
What, wide-eyed rookie!
Chen Zhang was stunned for a moment.
There are many kinds of things he has thought about, and he may not have thought that it would be one of the four major rogues.
"How is this possible? Why did this wide-eyed rogue attack Qingfeng County, and what the hell is going on? ”
Chen Zhang showed a wry smile, he really didn't expect that because of his existence, history would change.
Thinking of this, he shook his head with a wry smile. Take a deep breath
"Got it, since that's the case, let's start gathering troops to leave here, and when the dust settles here, we will go to Ninghai County."
Chen Zhang knew very well that even if the Liukou Guangmu Heavenly King captured Fengqing County, it would not be possible to occupy it for too long.
You must know that there is an essential difference between a rogue and a sitting.
If you are a rogue, the government will turn a blind eye, suppress it if it can, let you go if it can't, and slowly consume it."
Anyway, it is the people below who suffer after all.
But if you are a coward, it will be completely different, even if the government is unwilling, he will gather a large army to eliminate you.
The essential difference between a rogue and a sitting coward is very carefully handled by the government.
To put it bluntly, if you are a rogue, no matter how many troops you have, they will have nothing to fear, after all, you are rootless water. You have to eat and drink, and dragging can drag your army to death.
But once you become a sitter, it's troublesome
Chen Zhang can bet that no matter how good the Wide-eyed Heavenly King in front of him is, he will not be able to become a sitter, at least Qingfeng County is not a good geographical location.
Although it relies on Ninghai County, there is no way back from the continuous sea, and if you want to take Qingfeng County as the foundation to seize the world, you can only give two words.
Dream!
Therefore, Chen Zhang can be sure that although he doesn't know why the Guangmu Heavenly King attacked Qingfeng County, it is definitely not for this Qingfeng County, sooner or later they will leave."
In that case, why should you let yourself collide with them head-on?
There is no need for anything.
Qian Ruxue nodded slightly, although she has some strength now, but compared with the big people who have tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, the gap between them is still very large.
King Tota doesn't count, after all, he is dead, he wants to attack the capital, it is okay to attack the capital, grab a wave and you leave, but he also wants to attack the palace and be killed alive, it can only be said that he is looking for death.
Chen Zhang had just made a decision, suddenly
saw a few scouts next to him running over quickly, with a hint of solemnity on their faces
"My lord, we have found a group of rogues not far away, and they are coming towards us."
What, found a bunch of rogues?
Chen Zhang was shocked in his heart, and raised his head suddenly, his brows furrowed deeply, he still felt strange.
How could there be rogues arriving here, shouldn't they burn and loot in Qingfeng County?
Why did they appear here, could it be that they were eyeing us?
Chen Zhang was shocked and felt something strange
"I don't know, I don't know, what should we do now?"
Chen Zhang raised his head in a slight thought
"Since the other party is coming, then let's face it, I'm afraid there will be some difficulties if we retreat now."
Turning his head to look at his own barbarian army, the number of regular soldiers has now reached more than 300 people, plus nearly seven or eight hundred musket battalions and the personnel of the logistics department recruited from behind, the number of people adds up to a thousand people who want to transfer at the end of the month, which is simply a difficult thing to do, or it is impossible to transfer quickly.
Rather than doing this, it is better to attack it head-on.
Chen Zhang knew very well that when he was transferred, if he was attacked by the enemy, the consequences would be really unimaginable.
"No, the rogues attacked you, do you still want to attack head-on?"
Daoist Sun Mao's face changed instantly, and his eyes widened with a look of obscurity.
The current situation was far beyond his expectations, and he quickly opened his mouth and said cautiously
。 Didn't you say you wanted to attack head-on? This is too dangerous, don't you think about it, these rogues must be attacking the Guangmu Heavenly King of Qingfeng County Once they fight with them, they will definitely attract the attention of the Guangmu Heavenly King, and when the time comes, hundreds of thousands of soldiers will be overwhelmed, and we will definitely die, I think we should flee now, as many as we can escape."
Daoist Sun Mao thought about it very clearly, if he couldn't beat it, he would escape, this was a very simple matter.
As for the slowest runner, it must be the logistics personnel who were left behind, but there is no way to do it, abandoning the horse to protect the commander is what any general should do.
Not to mention Chen Zhang, even if he is a rogue, he will run rampantly once he encounters danger, and those who stay slow will become cannon fodder.
"Dao Chief, don't worry so much, the Wide-Eyed Heavenly King is indeed very powerful, and there are a large number of people, but we are not vegetarians."
Chen Zhang chuckled and looked at the scout
"How many enemies are there?"
The scout nodded
"About the last 1,000 people"
"A thousand?"
Chen Zhang lowered his head and thought.
Daoist Sun Mao jumped up all of a sudden, and hurriedly said
"Escape, we should retreat to the other side as soon as possible, but there are about a thousand people, although I see that you also have more than 1,000 people here, but some of them belong to the old, weak, sick and disabled, and some of them belong to auxiliary soldiers, not the number of soldiers at all, at most four or five hundred, that is to say, 1,000 to four or five hundred troops are at an absolute disadvantage, this can't be beaten at all, retreat quickly, retreat quickly,"
Daoist Sun Mao was anxious. He knew the horror of the rogue.
If these rogues were in a bad environment, they would definitely run rampantly, but if they were fighting a good fight, these rogues would be like gods, and it would be too dangerous to deal with them with half of their troops.
Looking at Daoist Sun Mao's excited appearance, Chen Zhang rolled his eyes
"Although there are more than 1,000 people on the other side, I think we can still have the strength to fight, but the most important thing is to see your Liefeng Battalion, I don't know if the Liefeng Battalion has confidence, you must know that this battle is definitely a tough battle. The difference in numbers is a sign of double the price to win."
Chen Zhang looked at Qian Ruxue and asked word by word
Qian Ruxue's expression changed slightly, and she hesitated slightly.
Obviously, her brain was also spinning rapidly, and after a while, she raised her head and said word by word
"There is no problem, the current Liefeng Battalion has gone through several battles and has formed a certain combat power, and there will no longer be the appearance of fleeing after firing a shot, but in the case of gunpowder and guns have not improved, it is still quite difficult to form continuous shooting."
"Haha, that's fine, the other party is just a rogue, and it's not a regular army, I don't believe that their fighting spirit will be stronger than ours?"
Chen Zhang laughed.
Sometimes it's as simple as that, and what combat is about a sense of battle and combat effectiveness.
The reason why the rabble is called a rabble is that they are not afraid of life and death at all, and once they encounter danger, they will run rampant as soon as possible.
Of course, if they find out that you are a soft-footed shrimp, they will also fight bravely, and the rogue can be said to know better than anyone else.
"Crazy, crazy, completely crazy, you have to fight against the rogues, and there are still few people, you are looking for death, I want to leave here, I want to leave here"
Daoist Sun Mao jumped up immediately.
Originally, he was reluctant to stay here, but now he wants to escape when he finds an opportunity.
Before he finished speaking, he saw two people behind him coming over and holding down Daoist Sun Mao to death.
Although he didn't speak, his expression said it all,
"I'm sorry, Daoist Sun Mao, you are an important talent, you can't leave until the gunpowder is improved, so let's take Daoist Sun Mao to the back, let the logistics department manage it, and let him bring it over after our Daoist Sun Mao calms down."
There is something that goes into the mouth, how can it be spit out again? Daoist Sun Mao had already entered the barbarian army no matter what, and it was not easy to leave.
But this is enough to show that Sun Mao Daochang does not trust the barbarian army in a certain way.
Superiority in numbers is often intuitively determined by the outcome of a war, and the greater the number of people, the greater the chance of victory.
It was the two barbarians who nodded heavily, and quickly escorted Daoist Sun Mao down.
The two Dao boys were frightened, they didn't dare to say anything at all, and obediently followed behind Sun Mao, really having a feeling that they had just come out of the tiger's den and entered the wolf's mouth
Sun Yuntao rode his horse with an excited look on his face, leading many soldiers to gallop, while constantly asking questions to his scouts
"Can you be sure? The group of grain merchants bought a lot of grain and didn't go far, but stayed in the woods, you are sure you read that right."
No wonder Sun Yuntao was so surprised, in other words, he bought a large amount of grain, and he should have shipped it back as soon as possible, after all, it is too dangerous to be in chaos.
But in the current situation, the time of a day and a night was not transported, but roosted nearby, no matter how you think about it, it is a very wrong place.
But this weirdness made Sun Yuntao quickly and reflexively ignore it.
In any case, the most important thing was to be able to find this caravan that had purchased a large amount of grain from the entire Qingfeng County.
He secretly calculated that as long as he could rob this caravan successfully, according to the news he received, the large amount of food in this caravan should be enough to satisfy the Hiromu Heavenly King, and he would be able to show his face in front of the Hiromu Heavenly King again, which was a great credit.
Thinking of this, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he unconsciously sneered at the other drossiers in Qingfeng County.
You can burn and loot in Qingfeng County, what can you grab, where is the most important thing like me catching a fat sheep, a fat sheep can earn everything back.
As for failure, it certainly can't be!
How could more than 1,000 brave and skilled rogues lose to a caravan?
Although there will be bodyguards and guards, they are just ordinary people after all, and they can easily kill them in front of their more than 1,000 rogues.
Sun Yuntao has such self-confidence.
As he spoke, he led many rogues to roar.
Suddenly, his eyes contracted slightly, and after crossing a hillside, he saw that the caravan on the opposite side had not only not fled, but had formed a formation, as if waiting for their arrival. "Haha, it seems that I really underestimated this caravan a little too much, and I didn't run away, but wanted to confront it head-on?"
"Interesting. I'd like to see who it is in your caravan that gives you such confidence? ”
Sun Yuntao laughed angrily, and even felt quite ridiculous."
In his impression, the group of caravans in front of him should be rampantly fleeing, and then you were chased and slashed by your own army, and you gained a lot, but he didn't admit that the other party actually wanted to have a head-on confrontation with him, I have to say that this was really unexpected by him.
Sun Yuntao rode his horse and slowly stopped, since the other party was going to confront him head-on, he didn't have to be so anxious, with a wave of his hand, many rogues stopped
"Brothers, I didn't expect the caravan on the other side to be waiting for us, haha, they really underestimate us, since that's the case, then we have to give them a little bit of color"
"Many of the brothers took a break and then ate something to replenish their strength. When we have rested, we will defeat them in one fell swoop, and all the women, money, and food in the caravan will be ours. ”
Sun Yuntao is very good at how to improve morale, and he also knows very well what the temperament of his brothers is.
Tell them some high-sounding big words, saying that everything is false for the sake of the Wide-eyed Heavenly King, and it is useful to say that it is practical.
Of course, isn't it just for money, for women, for being able to eat?
"Good, good"
The many rogues behind him shouted, and they didn't seem to want to hide at all, and they appeared in front of the caravan in such a bright light.
That was undoubtedly telling the caravan that we were indeed here, what can you do with us?
Do you still want to escape?
Run, but do you have the ability to escape?
Sun Yuntao nodded with satisfaction, looked at the caravan and showed a sarcastic look,
"If you had escaped earlier, if you had left here earlier, there would have been no such thing. But now that you're stuck here, you're out of luck."
meanwhile
Chen Zhang, Qian Ruxue, Zhao Dachun and others were also at the front of the caravan, looking at the rogue in front of them, their eyes were a little dignified
"My lord. There are thousands of these rogues at the end of the month, and I took a look, and most of them are young and middle-aged, and it seems that they should also be the elite of the rogues. ”
Zhao Dachun has also been mixed with the rogues, so he knows very well that some rogues seem to have an army of tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people in Haocun, but in fact, there are only thousands of people who can really fight, and most of them are some old and weak women and children.
Commonly known as cannon fodder.