stubborn thief

Chapter 119 Weaknesses
At dusk, the loess mountain road.

The tired frontier soldier sat on the ground and drank two sips of water, loosened his calves and rested.

He looked at the sun and was about to rest for a while, when he suddenly heard someone greeting behind him.

Turning around, there was a young man in red cotton armor and an iron bowl on his head. His face was flushed from the long journey, and he asked as he walked forward, "Are you also behind?"

Walking closer, the young frontier soldier looked at his uniform and helmet flag and said with a smile: "Third team, you look familiar."

"Hey, we're not all like this. We were transferred from General Liu to General Li's subordinates, and the soldiers have only had enough to eat for a few days. I really don't have the strength. You should go first."

"Don't, I heard that your management team has a bad temper, and it will be dark after a while."

The young man smiled and stretched out his hand: "Come on, I'll pull you up, let's find the general together so we can have a companion."

It seems that the temper of the third team is really bad. The frontier soldier sitting on the ground shook his head, helplessly lowered his head and tied his calf tightly, raised his head and grabbed the hand, stood up with the other hand supporting the ground, and asked casually : "Are you from Team Nine? How many of my colleagues in Team Nine..."

At this moment, the young man stretched his hand halfway, and pushed back violently, the light of the knife flashed, and when the frontier soldier lowered his head, he touched the back waist and released his wrist, and the knife had already slashed his throat.

The frontier soldier held his throat on the ground and struggled for his life, and let out the sound of "hoho" in his mouth. Liu Chengzong took off his helmet and sat down beside the slope.

This is the fourth laggard officer who died at his hands.

Not long after, Wei Qian'er and the Han brothers came from the mountain road behind, and Liu Chengzong praised: "It's very good, they didn't make a sound, and Tang Bing continued to move forward."

Liu Chengzong's headquarters is the most effective one among the combined army leaders, and it is also the only team that can compete with the official army in terms of professional level and organizational ability of officers at all levels.

They are basically frontier soldiers, whether they fight alone or in a team, they are no different from the frontier army.

But he still couldn't fight a large-scale battle with the official army. The problem was not in the headquarters, but in other departments.

Even if they are properly dispatched, the brains of the rest of the team cannot keep up with their logic, they do not have their habits, and they cannot cooperate with them like the officers and soldiers.

If you want to eat the other divisions of this army, you can only come from the headquarters.

However, Liu Chengzong's headquarters still has a weakness, Tang Bing.

This kind of work should have been done by the Tang soldiers, but his Tang soldiers are a group of postmen and shop commanders. It is okay to watch the enemy's situation and wave the flag, and go into battle to fill up the horsemen, but they can't do this kind of thing.

Tang Bing passed by the slope and saluted the three gods of war on the slope with his eyes.

With laggard officers and soldiers in front, the brigade could not pass through, and only a few people pretended to be laggard soldiers, sneaked in a close-up sneak attack, and killed the officers and soldiers before they shouted, without missing a chance.

From noon to evening, they marched for 37 miles across mountains and mountains in three hours. Liu Chengzong and the Han brothers had already killed 27 lagging officers and soldiers.

There are some winding paths in the mountains, going uphill and downhill for a while, which is almost the fastest speed they can walk out.

That's why he was able to bite Li Bei's tail at the other side of the mountain.

The two teams entered the mountain one after the other. The timing of the march was not very good for the officers and soldiers. If they set off an hour earlier, they could walk out of the mountain road and reach the open land on the south bank of the Yanhe River before the sky darkened.

But this time was very good for Liu Chengzong. It was getting dark, and most of this army would spend the night in the mountains.

Not long after, Wei Qian'er ran back quickly: "General, they have set up camp."

He pointed to the mountain top in the distance and said to Liu Chengzong: "That mountain can see them."

Liu Chengzong tugged at his collar at last, without mules following him, he was about to die of heat even in autumn, he got up and said, "Great, call Chief Wang, let's go and have a look... so many stragglers are missing, Liu Guozhen should react quickly to what's going on."

The post commander Wang is Wang Wenxiu, who was the infantry chief of the Guyuan Battalion earlier, and joined him in Yanchang County with Yang Yao.

Wang Wenxiu's team was at the back, and when he received the news, he brought the two of them over. This guy walked through mountains and rivers like he was walking on flat ground. He didn't blush or breathe when he walked such a long mountain road, and he spoke in a low voice: "General, what's wrong?"

"The officers and soldiers have set up camp ahead, let the brothers take a break first, gather up the laggards, let's go to that mountain and have a look."

Liu Chengzong looked up and saw that this Pingliang man had just eaten fried noodles and drank water, and his beard was covered with fried flour all over, and it was all bearded.

He laughed and said to Wang Wenxiu: "Thanks to their camping, if Heavenly Monkey hadn't sealed off the mountain pass, these people won't be able to find them when they go out."

There were still six or seven miles away from the mountain pass. Liu Chengzong took a small path to climb up the mountain and saw the camp of the officers and soldiers.

It was an abandoned deserted village built on the hillside, the sky had already darkened, and the situation in the village could not be seen clearly, only officers and soldiers could be seen setting fires on several roads leading to the entrance of the village, and a dozen people were digging narrow trenches outside.

Liu Chengzong didn't know whether the people in the village were unarmored or not, but most of the people outside were wearing armor.

Soon, before dark, all the officers and soldiers put on their armor.

Wang Wenxiu was happy, he smiled at Liu Chengzong: "General, General Manager Liu will not be able to sleep well tonight."

Obviously, they were still wearing armor at night, probably because the officers and soldiers found that the soldiers who had left behind failed to return after they were stationed in the camp.

Liu Chengzong waved his hands and said to the left and right: "Can this make them sleep? Shi Pan Shiyou, the fire is thirty steps away from the village entrance, and no one else can do this. You two have something to eat and go to sleep, and shoot the gatekeeper to death at night." .”

The brothers of the Han family nodded in response, and Han Shipan asked: "General, do you get up at night and shoot an arrow and go back to sleep, or do you get up at night and steal the camp?"

"Night attack is too dangerous, they are prepared, just get up and shoot a few arrows."

Han Shipan nodded and said, "Okay, this is close, we will sleep here."

The two brothers were not picky about their living conditions, so they found a rock sheltered from the wind, took off their cotton armor and put them under their bodies, covered them with two battle jackets, and lay down side by side to sleep.

Since the prolongation of the war the day before yesterday, people were all nervous, and few of them could sleep well.

On the contrary, today, they were all exhausted. Not long after, Liu Chengzong arranged for the branch of the Four Posts to camp on a nearby hill to rest. When they came back, the two brothers were already snoring like thunder.

"Is the general still asleep?"

Liu Chengzong was sitting by the rocks on the cliff looking at the bonfire of the military camp, lost in thought, when he heard a voice behind him, he turned his head to see the bearded Wang Wenxiu.

He asked: "Is the general worried about Jia Pao Mountain? It's okay. They won't fight today. Since Li Bei divides his troops, he will wait for news from here before advancing. After fighting for several days, his men have to rest." .”

"I'm not worried about that side, I'm just a little unhappy... If there is no Li Bei's side, this one alone, I think the best time to start the war is tomorrow afternoon."

What really kept Liu Chengzong awake was the war.

But not this battle, but the war that will take place in the years to come.

This was the first time he considered a problem from the perspective of a battle commander, and it felt like another military game in his memory.

The two sides put down the buckled chess pieces, and only when they are opened can they know who is eaten.

He has a lot of chess pieces, but they are all small pieces, and he dare not lift any of them, so that he is passive everywhere.

Wang Wenxiu didn't know what was going on in his mind, but she just looked towards the officer's camp and said, "Don't let them sleep well tonight, after noon tomorrow, they will be so sleepy that they will be dizzy and dizzy, and don't want to do anything."

Unfortunately, time does not allow.

They want to wipe out this official army as soon as possible, and turn back to surround Li Bei.

Liu Chengzong looked to the southeast, and the mountains rose and fell in the darkness. He said slowly, "When we attack them tomorrow morning, Li Bei will also attack my troops."

The officers and soldiers here were defeated, and the bandit soldiers over there were also defeated. He still had a chance of winning.

If the official army here is defeated and the bandit soldiers over there resist the attack in the morning, their chances of winning will be great.

Just as Liu Chengzong was thinking this way, his eyes crossed the mountain village, and the winding mountain roads in the north lit up. The crowd divided into several lanes, holding up the torches to form several fire snakes, meandering towards the village where the officers and soldiers were stationed.

"This……"

A noisy voice came from a distance, and Wang Wenxiu was dumbfounded: "The man who is a monkey in the sky, just sticks to it like this?"

Too bold, without the slightest intention of hiding his whereabouts, the bright torches illuminated the valley and surrounded the village overwhelmingly.

"Hey, let's not talk about it, Heavenly Monkey can do it. Look at his teams. Although they walk in a haphazard manner and don't hide their tracks, the teams don't interfere with each other. Some are procrastinating forward, and some are outflanking. "

Liu Chengzong clapped his hands and said to Wang Wenxiu, "It's okay!"

The brothers of the Han family had just fallen asleep, and they would be woken up. The two of them were furious, and they ran over with their bows in their hands without wearing any jackets and armor, and asked, "General, is the son of a bitch here?"

"My own people, the monkey from the sky is going to attack at night, you put on your clothes quickly, you won't be able to sleep at night, so just destroy this village."

Shangtian Hou didn't mean to hide his whereabouts, and completely beat up the village's local owner, Tuweizi, and sent someone to surrender. As a result, the man was shot to death by an arrow from the village officer, and the night battle started.

Then the two sides came and went, the monkeys in the sky were in the light, the officers and soldiers were in the dark, and the feathers and arrows shot back and forth.

How could Liu Chengzong see this? Just in time, the post chiefs stationed in the three surrounding mountains sent people to inquire about the situation. He immediately gathered his subordinates and sent Han Shipan to search for Shangtian Monkey to connect the two departments together.

The Monkey Man of Heaven was outside the village, standing on a big rock, with no fire around him, watching the battle ahead with relish, and sending people to send messages to each team from time to time.

This afternoon, after receiving the news from Liu Chengzong, he urged his subordinates to sleep on the spot, and lie down if they couldn't sleep.

Later, they took the looted money to the carrier, bought a few live pigs, and slaughtered them together when the leading troops and the last troops arrived, and had a comfortable meal, and then sent people into the mountain at dusk to search for pigs. Traces of officers and soldiers.

Not only did they not find it, but those sent into the mountains got lost.

It wasn't until dark that I saw the torches lit by the officers and soldiers in the village. At that time, the whole army of monkeys had already pulled out their camp and entered the mountain.

It's okay if you don't go in, the meat is eaten, and if you don't let your hands move, they should all be sleepy.

Fortunately, there are a few bonfires in the position of the officers and soldiers, which are really conspicuous.

Shangtianhou's plan is very simple. More than [-] people are divided into three brigades, each occupying the entrance and exit of the village, and a team of hundreds will attack in turn.

Charge from the front and shoot from the rear. If you can't get in, you will retreat to the whole team, and continue to charge from the rear.

When to break open the fortification at the entrance of the village and drive straight in, it will be considered a success.

This is also an unavoidable solution. God’s monkey’s decision to set off in the evening and fight at night is not out of his mind. He has carefully planned before going out. Only under such conditions, the gap between his people and the officers and soldiers is the smallest.

If it is left in the valley during the day, this battle cannot be fought, but can only be fought at night.

But even if it was fighting at night, the village where Chong's officers and soldiers were stationed was still very different from the soil surrounding Chong's landlord's house.

Not long after, Han Shipan came back: "Shangtian Monkey was so happy that he asked the general what order he had, but his men couldn't get in."

Liu Chengzong waved his hand and said: "What are you afraid of if you can't fight in, let him transfer the people from the east and attack twice from the north and south."

"The general wants to encircle three people?"

"What are the three gates around? Dogs won't be fooled." Liu Chengzong laughed and said: "Gather our people, let's not raise fire, and attack from that gate, cut off their north and south sides, and then go to the sky monkey If someone pours it in again, it will accomplish such a big thing!"

Surrounding divisions must be quelled is a very common and very effective tactic, but it does not leave a gap and others run away, but everyone knows that the gap left is a trap.

It is effective, and it is effective when the psychological defense line of the besieged people has been defeated. Even if they know it is a trap, they still want to try their luck.

Can the gang of Shangtianhou beat the officers and soldiers to the point of mental breakdown?Yes, as long as the battle lasts for an hour or two, and hits twelve or three times in an hour, it will definitely collapse.

But it must be the Heavenly Monkey who collapses first.

Liu Chengzong's idea was that the officers and soldiers knew the trap and would never jump, but the officers and soldiers might not have expected him to enter it.

People's attention is attracted by the torches.

After all, Liu Chengzong stopped Han Shipan, who was about to send a letter, and said: "Wait a minute, you should be careful in the past, the black lights are blind and the fire is piercing through the border armor, don't let the monkey people beat you up as an official."

Han Shipan laughed when he heard the words, waved his hands and said: "Don't be joking, general, the monkey in the sky didn't raise the fire. I just sneaked in and looked for it for a long time. I just touched it after seeing other people raising fire to send messages there. No one outside knew about it." I went."

Hearing this, Liu Chengzong nodded and told Han Shipan to be careful again. He thought in his heart that after this battle was over, he must let the Monkey to protect himself. How vigilant are the people around him?

That is to say, the officers and soldiers in the village were worried about their death. If those who were left behind on the road did not return, Liu Chengzong estimated that the officers and soldiers in the village would have already killed them.

The four whistles gathered in the mountains carrying the banner of Marshal Sifang, and walked towards the valley to the east of the village without raising fire or making a sound.

The fighting on both sides of the north and south is still going on, with Wei Qian'er's Tang soldiers clearing the way ahead, and the heavenly monkey Liu Jiusi also sent a team to help, so as to prevent his subordinates from being frightened.

Soon, they arrived at the millet field in the east of the village, and the monkey came running over to remind them: "General, be careful, the officers and soldiers dug three narrow trenches at the entrance of the village, one foot wide and one foot deep, specially designed to trip people's legs. Many of my brothers were tripped and some had broken legs."

This news is very important, Liu Chengzong immediately asked the sentries to convey this situation, and then separated the village for more than [-] steps, waiting for the Heavenly Monkey Department to create opportunities on the north and south sides.

The three centurions in the north charged twice with torches and weapons. The mountain road on the right was narrow enough to allow only two centurions to attack, and each time they rushed to the entrance of the village and were blocked back.

The three spaced ditches were of little use during the day, but at night, especially for the mob under Liu Jiusi, with just a moment of hesitation, a centurion was shot down by five or six people, and the team retreated.

But even so, Liu Chengzong's plan was effective. In order to deal with more people rushing up, the officers and soldiers gradually dispersed the troops guarding the east to the two sides.

The opportunity is here.

Liu Chengzong held his bow and arrow, and the four sentry infantry lined up to the left and right, and walked out of the darkness silently.

　Good morning!It will be on shelves tomorrow!I also hope that everyone will support and subscribe!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)