Chapter 209: Out of nowhere, the grass and trees are all soldiers
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Chen Sanlang and Xu Jun soon went out of the tent, and saw that the officials outside had already consciously held weapons and formed a cordon.
These officials are sloppy in kung fu, but they are also selected, and they are a little timid. He also thought that there were three hundred regular officers and soldiers who stood up to him in everything, and they were not afraid.
Among them, Crab He is the most calm one, holding a small grass in his mouth and holding his chest with both hands, as if he is watching the lively mentality: the officers and soldiers are on their toes, and he is already holding his breath in his heart.
Looking back, he said, "Oh, Childe, why did you come out?" ”
"Less nonsense!"
At such a time, but he was not in the mood to joke, Chen Sanlang asked, "What's the situation?"
A clever official replied, "My lord, two strongmen attacked and killed the officers and soldiers. ”
"Oh, what about the casualties?"
"It's not clear, but there should be no more than three people. ”
Chen Sanlang nodded, Tan Gao had previously ordered his subordinates to set up camp, quite orderly, the thieves attacked at night, the number of people who came was small, and it was difficult to cause large-scale killing.
Sure enough, the sound of the fight quickly subsided. The two thieves retreated with one blow, and did not dare to fight. The officers and soldiers were under Tan Gao's restraint, and they did not blindly pursue.
Chen Sanlang went to see Tan Gao and saw that his face was ugly - he didn't expect the strongman of Heifeng Village to be so bold and dare to attack. really responded to the old saying: the master of art is bold.
"Commander Tan, this should be a thief's harassment technique. There is no need to move and mess up the plan. ”
Tan Gao glanced at him: "Lord Chen is too worried." The end will have its own measure. ”
The implication is that Chen Sanlang is still regarded as an outsider who can't help.
Chen Sanlang didn't care either, and asked, "The face of a thief." Can you see clearly?"
Tan Gao shook his head: "They are dressed in strong suits, covered with black scarves, and only show their eyes. ”
This kind of outfit belongs to the standard attire of night walkers, and the people of Heifeng Village are also vulgar.
Chen Sanlang asked again: "After fighting, do you know the details of martial arts?"
"Light skills are good, and he is indeed a family of Jianghu practitioners. ”
Tan Gao replied.
Ordinary people gather in the mountains and forests, and they don't have much ability. That's the thief, the rabble. Such a team depends only on a large number of people. They rush up, but they are best dealt with, and they are crushed at the first blow, and there are some one-legged thieves, who come and go like the wind. Although he is strong, he is alone and easy to be besieged.
The most difficult thing for officers and soldiers to deal with is a group like Heifeng Village, there are quite a few people, and all of them are practitioners, and when they gather together, they should not be underestimated.
Get off the wrong foot. Before he could even see the face of the strongman, he killed two officers and soldiers and wounded two. This made Tan Gao very angry. He has served as a leader for so many years, and he has never encountered such rampant thieves. The soldier is a cat, the thief is a mouse, and it has always been a mouse that can't avoid a cat when it sees it, where can a mouse dare to touch a cat's whiskers?
"This thief will be struck by a thousand knives!"
His eyes burst out with a strong murderous intent, but as Chen Sanlang said. At the moment, I can't move, and I'm in a mess. So he gave three orders in a row. Let the officers and soldiers be on alert, and have their crossbows wound up, ready to kill sneak attackers at any time. Although it is said that a strongman comes once, he usually does not come a second time, but who can guarantee it?
Soldiers, treacherous.
Of course, the bandits of Black Wind Village cannot be called "soldiers", and because of this, they are even more elusive. People in the rivers and lakes have always been capricious in their behavior, but they act according to their temperament.
Back in the tent, Chen Sanlang put his hands on the pillow, stunned.
Xu Jun came in, thought about it, and suddenly said, "Why don't I go to the mountains?"
Chen Sanlang understood what she meant, and hurriedly said, "Absolutely not." ”
Just kidding, it's a den of thieves, and if you fall into it, the consequences will be unimaginable. It's also a bit weird to say, this group of strongmen doesn't know where they came from, and every case they do is extremely fierce, ruthless, and unscrupulous.
How daring!
You know, it's not a chaotic time.
In fact, there are not many intelligence materials in hand now, so Xu Jun has the intention of taking risks alone.
Chen Sanlang said slowly: "Tomorrow, the officers and soldiers will enter the mountain, and they will be able to see the difference between the short and short soldiers, and there is no need to go up the mountain now." ”
Xu Jun thought about it, and then stopped insisting.
After this incident, Chen Sanlang didn't have that kind of thought, hugged Xu Jun, and slowly fell asleep. I didn't sleep well, I was dazed, and I woke up suddenly, and it was dark in the tent. As soon as he moved, Xu Jun in his arms also woke up, and asked softly, "Is it dawn?"
Chen Sanlang said: "I will find out when I go out to see." ”
The concept of time in this world is quite vague and sometimes inconvenient. He thought of the novelty of another world in his memory, something he wore on his wrist. There is a piece where the grasp of time is very clear.
Putting aside some nonsense, I walked outside the tent and saw that the morning light was faint, and it was just dawn.
"Childe!"
Crab and very dedicatedly shook over, he was fine at all, only closed his eyes to recuperate, but he was in good spirits and did not feel tired.
In the distance, the officers and men also woke up one after another and began to pack up and prepare. After breakfast, they began to go into the mountains to suppress bandits.
Looking at the shadows of the mountains with blurred outlines in the distance, this shadow seems to be cast on my heart, with a touch of indescribable meaning, lingering.
The mountains are high and the forests are dense, and there is no place where the sun is open and open, so the officers and men cannot display their talents, and their combat strength is inherently reduced.
No wonder the strongmen of Black Wind Village are so rampant and fearless, probably because they have recognized the geographical situation.
"If I were them, I would have ambushed all the way, waiting for the opportunity to move, and constantly attacking. The officers and soldiers wanted to surround and kill them, and they went the opposite way, dividing them and killing them. ”
The more I thought about it, the more worried I became, and I told Tan Gao about this idea.
Tan Gao was noncommittal: "Lord Chen, I have considered everything you said. But to be honest, I'm just afraid that they will be shrunken turtles, and I don't dare to show up. As long as they come, they will be taught that they will not return. ”
Full of confidence.
The source of faith, in addition to the guarantee of troops, is also those crossbow arrows. Crossbow arrows are terrifying, especially at close range, and can wear leather armor once shot.
It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that martial arts masters can fly eaves and walk on walls, but no matter how light the light skill is, it is no faster than the crossbow arrow; no matter how deep the internal strength is, as long as the tips are exposed, they will be pierced by the crossbow arrows.
Tan Gao had ordered that all the arrows of the crossbow arrows be smeared with a drug called "Ma Ji San". This medicine is between poison and anesthetic, and has a dual effect. The medicinal power can flow with the blood, through the meridians, and the harder you try, the faster it will pour.
Maji is not rare, it can be mass-produced and widely used in the army.
In fact, there are many strategic weapons in the dynasty army, and there are many swords, guns and arrows specially developed to kill monks and demons, which are extremely powerful.
These are the fundamentals of maintaining the rule of the dynasty. In a world where there are demons, demons and monsters and 6 immortals, if there is no guarantee of life in the mortal world, it will be fragile. If the demon monk can easily enter the palace and kill the emperor, then the world will change the dynasty, everything will be endless, and it will be child's play, not a normal world.
Tan Gao came prepared, and paid enough attention to the suppression of bandits, but he never thought that his side would fail.
About half an hour, the army went out of the mountain: since Heifeng Village did not set up a steep pass, there was no need to attack the fortifications, and a lot of things were saved, so it was enough to kill directly.
"Lord Chen, if you feel dangerous, you will be in the army, and we will protect you. ”
The crab on the side listened, his eyes widened, and he almost shouted: I look down on people too much......
Chen Sanlang groaned slightly and said, "Then thank you." ”
did not refuse the other party's offer.
Tan Gao's strategy was to divide the 300 officers and men into three major units and form a "man-shaped" formation, with the forward being the arrows and plunging straight into the mountain, and the two rear units, faintly forming a tendency to play at the corners, echoing each other and providing assistance to the vanguard as soon as possible.
The mountain roads are rugged and difficult to navigate, and in some places there is a need for manpower to cut down trees and cut out the way.
With such complex terrain, it is too difficult to start a frontal battle.
It took more than an hour for the team to advance halfway up the mountain, and many people were tired and sweating.
The forward team suddenly stood still and made an uproar. It turned out that on a large bluestone in the col in front, a person suddenly flashed.
The man was tall, well-dressed, with a black cloak fluttering in the wind behind his back, and the sound of hunting. He wore a mask on his face, a mask of face, outlined in pen and ink, black and white, and looked hideous and gloomy.
The thief of the Black Wind Village!
Because only thieves wear masks.
The thief was condescending, looking coldly at the dense officers and soldiers below, like looking at countless cattle and sheep rushing to the slaughterhouse.
"Shoot!"
The forward team was giving an order, and the arrows broke through the air like rain, and they shot over in a concentrated manner.
Call!
A gust of wind blew, and the thieves on the bluestone disappeared out of thin air, and all the arrows lost their targets, some of them shot into the air, and finally landed, and some of them hit the trunk of the tree behind them, making a meaningless "poof" sound.
Call!
The wind in the mountains seemed to get stronger, "Ah!" The next moment, a terrible scream rang out, not from the forward, but from the right flank behind.
I saw a black shadow, like a ghost flashing, and it swept by with great agility.
"The thieves are there!"
"There's it too!"
"Watch out for the back!"
The officers and soldiers shouted loudly for warning, and the thieves they were attacking now came from all directions, and there were two or three people in each place. Some of them fell from the sky, but they had already laid an ambush on the canopy of the trees, and they went down vertically, killing people with knives; while others came out of the ground with a cold edge in their hands, and assassinated the nearest officers and soldiers as soon as they looked at them.
Before going up the mountain, Tan Gao had repeatedly emphasized that if he was attacked, he asked everyone not to panic and deal with it calmly. But discipline is one thing, human heart is another. The thieves came out of nowhere, and the formation was disrupted all of a sudden, and many officers and soldiers fell into a situation of fighting on their own. Some of them were in a hurry, with crossbows and arrows, and even injured their own people.
At this time, Chen Sanlang and his entourage, who were in the center of the formation, were the safest. However, when the officials listened to the screams that kept shouting around them, and saw the blood splashing out under the edge, they felt their hearts and lungs tighten for a while, their faces were pale, and their hands and feet were weak.
Before fighting, he was cowardly, and his heart was cold. (To be continued)