Chapter 44: Watching birds and finding people fall into traps
Sanjie led the villagers to chase and kill here, and saw that there were many officers and soldiers here, and this place was like the nest of officers and soldiers, so the second Fan Yibao saw that the officers and soldiers were chased into the nest, so he suggested that he should evacuate immediately, for fear that the officers and soldiers and cavalry would come to chase again, which would bring serious casualties to the villagers.
The officers and soldiers who were chased and fled into the officer and soldier camp in embarrassment, as soon as they entered the camp and saw those officers and soldiers who were all curious to see their current appearance, they cried in horror and told how they were chased and killed.
As soon as Liu Sheng saw their appearance, before he could speak, they knelt down and cried, and the crying Liu Sheng stared at the strange eyes and rolled around, and saw that their faces were all like little ghosts that were burned by smoke and fire, and then they knelt down and cried even more ugly, it looked like a group of little ghosts were crying here, crying so embarrassed, so he said: "Take them down to wash their faces first, and then come to see me after washing their faces." β
So they all dragged them down to wash their faces, and after washing their faces, they were dragged back again, and as soon as the officers and soldiers were dragged back, they cried together, but this time it was not so ugly, and their faces were not so dark. Liu Sheng said: "What are you crying about? What's going on? What are you all crying about?"
Those officers and soldiers said in unison: " We were going to kill that village, and there were three people in that village, and they killed more than 500 of us first, and the general led us to kill them, and those three people did not come out of the village, and the general lined up a hundred people into the village to attract them out, but they didn't come out for a day, and the hundred people didn't come out again, so we thought about going into the village the next day to kill them, but we slept until midnight, and suddenly a fire broke out in the camp, and there was more firewood and grass in our camp and burned there, and many of us were burned to death, so we escaped from our few people, and they chased and killed them, and there was nowhere to escape, so we fled hereγ β
Liu Sheng said: "What about your general?"
The soldier said: "It must be dead, we haven't seen the general again." β
Liu Sheng said: "How many of you were killed like this by them?"
The soldier said, "Of the 1,800 people, we are the only ones left." β
Liu Sheng said, "Do you know that village?"
The soldier said, "Yes." β
Liu Shengjian said, "How many people can there be in a village? Men can fight only 18,000 people, so they used fire attack, it seems that they are not strong, and a general in my platoon can lead 3,000 people to wipe them out, so I ordered General Li Tingfang to enter the commander's tent to listen to the order."
After a while, Li Tingfang was rumored in, this Li Tingfang is the fifth tiger of Liu Sheng's Eight Tiger Generals, as soon as Li Tingfang entered the account, he stepped forward and saluted: "The last general Li Tingfang sees the marshal, I don't know what the marshal will order in the future." Liu Sheng said: "Not far from here, there is a village, last night with fire to burn my 2,000 officers and soldiers, I order you to follow these soldiers who fled back, lead 3,000 men and horses, to raze this village, and never let go of one, do you understand?" After the bulldozing, bring the heads of the three leaders to see me, Ben Shuai wants to see what kind of people these three are, and there is such wisdom, go, go back immediately to order the army to eat, bring these people back to eat quickly, go back quickly after the meal, come back immediately after the bulldozing, I am still here to employ people. β
Li Tingfang listened and said: "I have an order, the last general will come when he goes, and immediately bring the heads of those three people to the marshal." As he spoke, he led the commander and ordered the sergeant to have breakfast quickly, and then ordered the three thousand men and horses of the headquarters, led the three generals, and under the guidance of the defeated soldiers, came out of the Hongjiazhuang camp and ran towards Mengzhuang, wanting to come to the bloody Mengzhuang.
At this time, after Sanjie returned to the village, he was leading the people of the whole village, immersed in the grief of the living mourning for the dead, and was burying the villagers who were killed by the officers and soldiers when they slaughtered the village, Li Zheng's daughter guarded the grave of her father and sister and cried to death, the villagers were bitter and tearful to persuade each other, Li Zheng's daughter cried and cried and fainted on the ground, and after being rescued, she cried again, and her voice was heartbreaking: "Daddy, mother, you are all gone like this, how can you live after you flash your daughter? It's better to let your daughter go with you." Crying and hitting a tree to kill himself, fortunately Fan Yishi eyes are fast, a pull her back, tearfully persuaded forward, the village patriarch saw that Fan Yishi and Li Zheng's daughter were of the same age, so they said collusion, and Li Zheng's daughter was promised to Fan Yishi, Li Zheng's daughter was temporarily taken care of by Fan Yishi, and after the father and mother passed five or seven in the future, they would choose a day to get married, so that the girl was persuaded to want to commit suicide. But the whole village still looks like it's crying, and the whole village looks like it's mourning for the dead relatives everywhere.
Li Tingfang led 3,000 men and horses, walked for more than an hour, in the middle of the morning, under the guidance of the defeated soldiers, this came to Mengzhuang, but seeing that Mengzhuang looked quiet, it seemed that there was no one in the village, Li Tingfang said: "Kill me, after entering the village, kill people when you see them, and not leave any of them, kill them all." Then he said to his three generals: "Follow me to the three leaders, cut off their heads, and the marshal will see the heads of the three of them." So the 3,000 officers and soldiers, under the command of the four Ming generals, frantically pounced on Mengzhuang.
But after they entered the village, they saw that the village was already empty, and there was no one to be found, Li Tingfang laughed when he saw it: "It seems that they are scared, they still know that they have already gone to hide? They must have gone to hide outside the village, follow me to find people, see where they can hide again, what about the birds? Look for the birds again, and then follow the birds to find people." So the officers and soldiers looked for the birds, but they were those hateful birds, and when they suddenly saw the murderous officers and soldiers coming again, they were all frightened and turned around and fled, so those officers and soldiers laughed and laughed and danced, and followed the birds to find people, and some officers and soldiers shouted: "These killable villagers, even the birds don't let them live, and the birds show us the way, what a good bird." β
So, while looking up at the birds, they ran forward with the birds, and they were all over the mountains and fields, and when they saw that they were all officers and soldiers, they shouted like a bunch of madmen. The four generals on horseback also looked very conspicuous among the officers and soldiers all over the mountains. When they saw that the villagers had hidden in advance, they became even more fearless, and they all thought that these villagers were afraid of them, and since these villagers were already afraid that they were all hiding, what else did they have to worry about? So they shouted wildly, and ran forward with the bird's head up, and there was no longer any defensiveness or fear in their hearts.
But they didn't know that Fan Yibao, one of the three heroes, was a well-known person who would drill into the air and have a lot of eyes, after the officers and soldiers were defeated, he saw that he no longer caught up with those officers and soldiers who fled, and when he saw that those officers and soldiers were defeated and returned to the lair of the officers and soldiers, he said in his heart:" If the officers and soldiers directly fight in the village, I am afraid that they will hurt the innocent villagers again, and now the village has no wall to defend, and the officers and soldiers can enter the village at any time when they come, and how can the more than 600 people in the village who can go into battle to kill the enemy be able to resist more officers and soldiers of the brigade? On the one hand, he arranged for the people in the village to mourn in order to cover the ears and eyes of the officers and soldiers, and on the other hand, he took advantage of the mourning to transfer the villagers and let them all go to the mountains in the wilderness to hide, and then they led the 600 villagers who could go into battle to kill the enemy, first took advantage of the mourning to bury the dead, set a trap in the field, and deliberately exposed the target there, so as to attract the birds to fly here, so that they could attract the officers and soldiers to enter the trap. Those officers and soldiers really hit the plan, and saw those officers and soldiers looking up at the birds, chasing and chasing, and they all fell into the trap at once, and instantly they were all stuck in the trap with wooden sticks, and their death was grinning, and the death was very hideous, and it looked very terrible, and the officers and soldiers who looked up at the birds behind heard the noise and screams, and when they looked down, they saw that the officers and soldiers in front of them were gone, and then they saw that those officers and soldiers had fallen into the trap and died, and hurriedly ran to both sides, and some were so frightened that they didn't dare to move anymore, and they fell into the trap for fear of moving, and some shouted: "There's a trap here, and the birds led us into the trap. Then some said: "Now those birds are so hateful, their hearts are bad, they are hateful, they lead us into a trap, and even the birds have become bad birds, don't be fooled by the birds." β
The four Ming generals in the crowd of officers and soldiers heard that the Ming army in front of them had fallen into the trap, so they hurriedly urged their horses to catch up, and when they saw that there were many officers and soldiers who had fallen into the trap, and the traps made by these villagers looked very special, and many people fell into each trap at once, and those who fell into it were all inserted to death, so they felt frightened and strange in their hearts, Li Tingfang dismounted and watched carefully, and said: "Why do so many people fall into each trap? Is it possible that one person will not fall into it? β
So, Li Tingfang ordered one person to go forward, and sure enough, it was as if there was no trap in front of him, and no one fell into the trap. So all the officers and soldiers went through the trap area, and only four Ming generals were left, who did not dare to cross because of horses, Li Tingfang said: " Hit the horse first, to see if the horse will fall into the trap, so let go of a horse forward, because the horse is heavier than the person, the horse ran forward and the landing force is large, sure enough, the horse fell into the trap, but after the horse was fell into the trap, because the horse's legs are relatively long, the wooden stick can not be inserted into the horse's body, the horse fell into the trap to know that it is not good, so a scream and jumped out, jumped out of the trap, and then ran forward, and fell into another trap, and then because the horse's momentum was too strong, it was a head into the trap, so after the horse fell in, he did not get up, and he screamed twice there, and died insideγ
Li Tingfang and the three Ming generals saw each other, Qi was very frightened, in this case, they had no choice but to abandon their horses and move forward. So the four of them had no choice but to abandon their horses, and each one walked forward on foot very carefully and cautiously.
The four Ming generals abandoned their horses, which weakened them by half of their combat effectiveness. In ancient times, the horse was the general's leg, and the general had no horse, just like he had no legs, and in this case, they went into battle to meet the enemy, could this still work? So Li Tingfang walked forward, thinking that this would not work, and in case of a strong enemy, what should he do? So he ordered him to withdraw again, to withdraw to the village, and not to follow the birds to find people, not to be fooled again, to wait in the village, to see if the villagers could never come back? So they withdrew to the village and settled down in the village, as if they were about to leave.