Chapter 195
The first thing Dongmei did when she came here was similar to what Chunlan did, which was to place her in these teams and get them cleared according to the list. Fortunately, the people who led the troops this time were Wang Hunt's cronies, otherwise things would really not be good.
30,000 horses were divided by her and Qiu Ju, one led 12,000 men and horses, and joined the 4,000 men and horses on the two grain transportation routes, in order to cut off all the grain and grass in the Southern Tang Dynasty on the road, and 6,000 men and horses were brought to the Canglan Road by Wang Yu.
Although the little lady didn't say a reason, she and Qiu Ju could roughly guess that if the grain and grass were transported from these two roads, then there was another road to transport soldiers. If the Southern Tang Dynasty wants to provoke a war, it is impossible to do anything just by relying on the Western Army guarding the Western Xinjiang City, so there should be soldiers to replenish, and the rapid expansion of the Western Army of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the past two days is the best example.
And on these roads, Lancang Road is the road that Qin Shuang guessed to replenish the troops, but even as members of the dark warbler, Dongmei and Qiu Ju don't know where this news came from. It is estimated that Miss Xiao is based on the fact that only Canglan City has soldiers who can fight now, after all, the Southern Tang Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, and many soldiers are the same as the Western Qin side, reduced to ordinary civilians who can only farm, and it is impossible to form combat effectiveness in a short time.
"What else do you have to order, my lord?" asked a red-faced guard.
He is the person in charge of the grain interception in Lancang Dao, and the 4,000 men and horses should have been handed over to him for control, but now they are completely disarmed. There is no military power or anything at all, and he still knows the totems on these people, these people can point fingers at the master and reprimand him, not to mention that he is a small guard, not even a green onion. So the first time he saw Dongmei, he understood what he should do and what position he should stand in.
"Be careful when you rush down, these people are not easy to deal with. Dongmei remembered Qin Shuang's prompt and said.
"My lord, please rest assured, although the people in the hands are not elite soldiers, but they are also first-class soldiers, let them deal with those Nantang who are full of food and drink and wait for death, it is simply ......" The guard just wanted to brag, and immediately remembered the identity of the person in front of him.
"What I asked you to be careful about is not these townsmen who hunt fast and fast, but the elite of the Western Army of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Yuwen pro-army of Yuwen Ye, or the Modao Battalion. Dongmei said with some hatred, "Your intelligence network has been leaked to this extent, do you still need me to remind you that what you are doing now has been known by the Southern Tang Western Army in Western Frontier City?"
The guard's face froze, if he didn't know that there were still 12,000 people in front and behind, just knowing that his intelligence was leaked, then he would have plans to retreat.
What are you kidding, this is the hinterland of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and I looted the grain and grass of the Southern Tang army here, and the information was leaked in advance, this is also a hammer, if you don't want to wash your head and wrap it in a layer of quicklime, as a part of other people's military merits, a quick retreat is the wisest choice, okay?
Dongmei did not continue to speak, but observed the direction of the movement of the army below.
With her eyesight, it is not difficult to see that the army below is marching according to the original plan. There was no tension at all about the fact that they would be attacked in advance, and the shipment was also genuine grain, it seems that even if the Western Xinjiang side got the news, they had not yet had time to inform these soldiers, which had to be said to be good news. But it is not excluded that these guys are acting like each other, just to deceive themselves and others.
After thinking about it for a while, she still ordered to prepare for the march.
In the next second, 2,000 cavalry out of 4,000 men and horses rushed down from the top of the hill, and the archers behind released rockets in succession. The cost of these rockets is extremely high, these archers were not going to use it, and Wang Hunt asked them to loot the grain and grass, and what to do with it after the looting of the grain and grass is their business.
These soldiers had long planned to sell the grain and grass to the civilians of the Southern Tang Dynasty after they had plundered it. Although it is true that the Southern Tang Dynasty is a little richer, it does not mean that there are no hungry civilians in the Southern Tang Dynasty, if these grains are sold at a very low price, some people on the Southern Tang side buy them. When the grain and grass reach the hands of the people, especially the hungry, it is still a question of how much they can collect.
At that time, even if these grains are to be re-collected, it will be a test for the people's will on the border of the Southern Tang Dynasty. As for the money...... Although it is a little less, but with the military salary promised by Wang Hunt, it is also a big temptation for these veteran soldiers.
In the first wave of charges, these townsmen and catchers were completely stunned, when had they seen such a battle, they were only tasked with escorting grain and grass, when did they think that they would face these tiger and wolf armies?
For the hinterland of the Southern Tang Dynasty, even if it is to suppress bandits, it is two or three thousand people against four or five hundred, and it is completely crushed by the advantage of numbers, and there is still the possibility of failure. What's more, in the face of the Western Qin army, which completely gained the upper hand in quality and numbers, in an instant, the formation was scattered, and at this time, no one cared about the matter of escorting the car, it was important to flee quickly, if there was no life, then what ideals were there to talk about.
If you don't escape, it will definitely be a dead end. So these people have not resisted at all, or rather, they have given up the courage to live in the sun in the open.
A small part of the grain and grass was ignited in an instant, and just as the cavalry was about to shake off the bottles of fire oil on their bodies, suddenly the sound of horses' hooves was heard from the opposite end of the road, followed by a group of the same cavalry charging over. And from a distance, you can see that these people are under the banner of Yuwen's pro-army, and you don't have to think about it, they are definitely Yuwenye's army in the border city of the Western Frontier of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
This is a straight road, where the brave wins. But now, luck is not on the side of the Western Qin army at all, they have rushed to the grain transportation team, and now the donkey carts and ox carts of these grain transportation teams have become the biggest obstacle to their regrouping.
"Everyone, turn the donkey cart and ox cart in the right direction, and pour fire oil on the beasts and carts!" Dongmei looked at the cavalry rushing over, not panicking at all, "Then light it for me, and let these beasts rush towards the army of Western Qin." The disobedient ones were shot directly, and then they seized the time and regrouped the army. "Hundred plating, the latest chapter of "Chaos Craftsman Fairy Claw Book House" is free to read for the first time.