stubborn thief

Chapter 270 Three Wings
On the night of June 24th in the fourth year of Chongzhen.

In the ruins of the River Valley Manor, rappers sang about King Gesar, and young nobles sat around the bonfire, drinking barley wine and laughing loudly.

The young nobles gathered together and laughed loudly at their colleague, Dorje Gapbon.

People said that the slave boy who ran away from his family became a lord.

Dorjejia was so angry that he whipped his whip and stopped sitting with them. He was very angry and blamed Basang in his heart.

Linka Daiben put down the letter from afar while singing, and his Wang Dunyue Dorji ordered the left-wing army to arrive at the bank of the Jinsha River to complete the encirclement two days later.

He looked at the young nobles who were still laughing loudly by the bonfire, smiled, got up and walked around the bonfire, and walked towards the shadow where Dorji Jiaben was hiding.

No one in the Baili territory knows that Linka Daiben, the leader of the horse bandit who was recruited by King Baili, was born in the Langsheng family.

With a background like his, the highest official position in law is to lead more than [-] people.

But there are no absolutes in the world. In the 20-year war in Kham, he was the final version of the leader, the leader of the bandits in the mountains, was granted a manor, and killed his own lord.

His identities kept changing, and even Linka Daiben almost forgot that he was born as a slave of Langsheng.

Linka has defected to many leaders. He once believed that war is an opportunity to break everything.

Now, he doesn't need to break anything anymore.

King Baili recruited him in the most bandit-infested area in Margao and gave him that area as his territory. He annexed all the robbers and horse bandits, and ordered people not to rob temples, manors and passers-by.

He was content with all that, but the war would never stop.

Only strength can keep what he has, so he is happy to see someone isolated.

Those who are isolated are the easiest to win over.

Hearing footsteps behind him, Duoji turned his head to recognize the approaching figure, and got up quickly: "Daiben."

Linka waved his hand, sat down with him, and said, "Don't pay attention to their ridicule. It's his good fortune that your son was captured and became a master again."

"Do you think so too?"

A little smile finally appeared on Duoji's embarrassed face: "He is my favorite Langsheng, but he is a Langsheng after all, very stupid."

Linka frowned slightly when he heard this, and asked, "If you catch him, what do you want to do?"

Dorje shook his head: "I don't know."

He is not a strict father, nor does he think that Basang has become a nobleman of King Nangqian, which is a shame to the Dorje family.

Blame Basang for being stupid because the idiot didn't hide his identity well.

It's like losing a puppy, just run away, why do you want everyone to know that you are a cub of Dorji's family after biting something in someone else's house!
If it wasn't for this, Master Duoji would not have been sent to the battlefield by his father at all. This is a disgrace to the family. They want to atone for their sins so that King Baili will not blame him in the future.

"He didn't want to escape to Nangsuoqian. Your Majesty ordered our left wing to encircle the Jinsha River. It's not a road."

Linka Daiben finished speaking, looked at the relaxed look on Duoji's face, and said with a smile: "But after this battle is over, we will go to Nangqian after all. I hope you can persuade him to surrender, and I will protect his life and men and horses."

Duoji was overjoyed, and stood up to thank him: "It would be great if Daiben could protect him. I'll send someone to deliver a message to him right away, and I will definitely find him!"

With a relaxed smile on his face, Linka Daiben patted Dorje on the shoulder, got up and walked to the military tent. Halfway through, he turned his head and looked at Dorje in the shadow who was clenching his fists excitedly.

He shook his head.

This silly boy has no idea how powerful the slave boy who ran out of his house is.

Nobles are idiots, and these idiots make the people they rule even more idiots.

Thousands of slaves are enough for him to grow food in the mountains and forests and become the most powerful nobleman under King Bai Li.

This would be his best reward in this battle, and when the next war started, he would be able to kick King Bailey and fall to the other side.

Linka Daiben asked his Langsheng to serve hot buttered tea, patrolled the camp before it was completely dark, and asked his subordinate Ruben to do a good job of defense at night. It won't be long before the left-wing army can sleep.

They are still forty miles away from the Jinsha River. King Baili said that there are [-] enemy troops trapped on the west bank of the Jinsha River by the chain bridge. They returned to Shichangdu to deal with the Mongols.

However, just as the sky was about to be completely dark, the empty echo of muskets came from the distant valley.

The sound of muskets was like a signal, followed by gunshots from all directions. In a blink of an eye, there were only a few scattered sounds of gunshots, like a burst of sun rain that came and went quickly.

But these gunshots made the whole camp tense.

Linka Daiben was even more vigilant, because the directions where the gunshots sounded were all the guard posts he had set up.

In a blink of an eye, the figures of the Han army holding the flag appeared at the end of the mountain, the foot of the mountain and the valley in all directions.

The whole camp was in chaos immediately. Linka Daiben's slaves overturned the buttered tea. People took up weapons and formed formations in the camp, but the enemy cavalry were not in a hurry to attack, they just stood a mile away from them.

No matter which direction you look, the distance is not far or near, three hundred steps away, there must be Han cavalry waving the flag, as if casting a spell on the camp as a mandala.

Panic spread in the army, and people said that the Han army had a great curse master.

Linka Daiben scoffed at this, he had seen many Han people, and had never heard of any great curse master.

But this kind of scene also made his spine tingle, because he had seen it before.

As early as when he was a horse thief, he led his troops to plunder the tribal leaders near Songpan, and those leaders came to the Han army in Songpan City. At that time, such a scene appeared.

The only difference is that the soldiers who appeared in Songpan were infantry, while the ones here are cavalry.

At that time, it was only the Han soldiers from all directions, which frightened his horse bandit team to collapse.

He had to stop this emotion, and then sent out the Duokang horse team in all directions to drive out these enemy cavalry from all directions.

But his cavalry advanced, and the enemy's cavalry retreated. Once advancing and retreating, the two cavalry soon disappeared from the field of vision.

Until the sound of musket guns sounded like a shower in the open valley in the distance. In the distance, a Dokang cavalry ran back with a few horses, and fell down a hundred steps away from the camp, without leaving the stirrups. , was dragged for a few steps, leaving a striking bloodstain on the grass.

The Han soldier came back again, still a lone cavalry soldier, put away the hammer with three pipes, and slowly waved the five-color flag three hundred paces away.

Linka Daiben knew that he was surrounded.

Dai Daozi looked at his masterpiece from a distance, and said to Tang Qi next to him, "Tell the commander, the enemy on the left is afraid to move."

Tang Qi led the order to report, and Dai Daozi rubbed his hands excitedly, which was really exciting.

As early as this army was still twenty miles away, it had come into direct contact with Tangqi, but at that time Dai Daozi did not dare to go forward because Liu Chengzong's main force was still sixty miles away.

He could only let the enemy hunters go northeast until they found the ruins of the manor.

When the enemy army arrived at the manor to set up camp and set up guard posts around, Dai Daozi still didn't dare to move.

It wasn't until it was getting dark that Liu Chengzong's order came from the camp ten miles away, asking him to pull out all the guard posts to facilitate tomorrow's attack.

The most difficult part of this matter is how to prevent the enemy from breaking through.

Dai Daozi has nothing to do. The density of Tangqi is four people per square mile. He has no ability to restrict the enemy's movement. He can only make the enemy dare not move and miss the best time to break through.

Fortunately, the enemy generals only sent more than [-] cavalry to drive away Tangqi from the north and south directions, which created an opportunity for Tangqi to surround the enemy cavalry in depth.

It's easy to drive one rider, but there are three riders behind each rider and in the left and right directions. The deeper they drive, the more riders around.

Protruding for three or five miles, the surging Tang cavalry has already formed an advantage in number. In a melee, who can beat the cavalry with a gunpowder pipe?
Not to mention they have three gunpowder tubes.

The enemy army ten miles away was tied up, and the crisis was lifted for Liu Chengzong's camp. They could have a good sleep and recharge their batteries for tomorrow's battle.

Liu Chengzong drank a cup of hot milk and looked at the map hanging in the handsome tent for the last time. The situation was perfect.

Within a radius of forty miles of him, there are two enemy troops, the left wing and the right wing. The left wing has been trapped by layers of Tangqi, while the right wing enemy army is still thirty miles away and can't get news. Watch out for them. Tang Qi reported that the enemy army had camped and rested.

The strength of the two enemy armies is more than 7000, and the combined Chinese army is [-].

The Chinese army... The Chinese army temporarily disappeared from his vision.

But this is not his tactical deployment error, but from the uncontrollability of the enemy.

This afternoon, Zhang Tianlin, who was wandering on the outer line, wanted to pass through the gap between the central army and the right wing, but she made a mistake and was spotted by the enemy's central army. get moving.

Then the entire Chinese army drove Zhang Tianlin westward, and Liu Chengzong couldn't explain this behavior. He could only say that the enemy army thought Zhang Tianlin was easy to bully.

This kind of accident is not good or bad for Liu Chengzong. He temporarily lost an outside cavalry with a scale of 200 people, but the good thing is that there are only two of the three enemy troops left, and there is a gap of [-] miles in between. .

After reviewing the situation for the last time, Liu Chengzong got into bed and closed his eyes comfortably. The battle to annihilate the main force of the enemy army will be tomorrow, and King Baili's territory will soon fall under his control.

Linkadai couldn't sleep at all.

For Liu Chengzong, the situation was extremely clear, but for him it was a fog.

In the deep night, countless enemy troops were hidden, surrounding him. He didn't know which direction the enemy would attack from, nor how many enemy troops were around.

The night made him dare not act rashly, so he could only send a second wave of five hunters to look for the traces of the central army and the right wing.

The reason is the second wave, because the first wave of hunters died.

They lit the torches and sent themselves to Tang Qi's side almost blatantly, before being shot to death with a single shot.

But the luck of the second wave of hunters was not much better, because they were all hunters from their hometown in Baili.

Two people fell off the cliff, one of them died very silently; the other cried out for help, was rescued by Tang Qi, received good medical treatment, and was tightly tied up as a prisoner.

Two other people walked together, overcame difficulties and obstacles to climb up the mountain, and saw the camp that was dimly bright in the darkness in the distance, and walked down without hesitation.

They walked all the way to Liu Chengzong's camp and became prisoners very well.

There is also the last hunter who knows a lot. He knows that the Chinese army is chasing an enemy with a size of more than a thousand cavalry to the west, so he dodges one Tang cavalry after another and walks farther and farther.

He completed the mission entrusted to him by Linka Daiben, and saw the Chinese army that even Liu Chengzong couldn't find.

It's a pity that there are two armies nearby, one is heavily defended and the other is relaxed.

He believed that the size of the Chinese army was larger than that of the enemy army, and he should not be so nervous when dealing with the enemy army with more than a thousand riders, so he walked into the camp where he relaxed his vigilance.

Then he met the owner of that camp——Zhang Tianlin.

Of course, he was tied up to see him. Zhang Tianlin punched the hunter who woke her up and tied him up.

In the endless darkness, Rinka Daiben never waited for a response from the two battalions of friendly troops. His army did not dare to sleep all night, and was always on guard against night attacks by the enemy.

But no one attacked him at night.

In the middle of the night, Linka Daiben finally realized that the enemy planned to wait until daytime to attack him, but his army stayed up all night and was unable to resist the attack during the day, so he planned to break out.

After the breakout troops assembled, they learned the lesson of the first team of hunters and walked a hundred steps outside the camp without lighting torches. They found that it was too dark, and then gave up.

Later, when they tried to light a torch, a Tangqi hidden in the dark fired three shots in a row, and the others ran back to the camp with a clatter.

Not long after, shouts of wounded soldiers came from outside the camp.

Someone wanted to go back to save others, but was hit by a gun from a distance, curbing this idea.

The wounded soldier yelled for a long time, but found that no one came to rescue him. As soon as he started to crawl back, he was kicked by the rushing Tang Qi, threw him on the horse and took him away.

The Tang riders used their war horses alternately to send him to the back where Dai Daozi was. Under the light of the bonfire, Dai Daozi found that there were no wounds on the man's body from the three-eyed bludgeon, but there were quite a few big footprints on his body, and his legs were broken , so I can't move.

Dai Daozi squinted his eyes angrily and took out the officer's notebook, and gave Fang Tongtang Qi a bad marksmanship.

Tang Qi was very wronged. He released three guns and shot nine lead pellets from a distance, actually hitting six enemies.

It's just that the six enemies didn't know that they were hit. The lead pellets were either stuck to the armor or embedded in the leather jacket. Only one of them had his hand broken. He ran back to the camp thinking he had rubbed someone else's weapon.

The listless Rincadai may never have known that on this chaotic night he was confronting an imaginary army.

Because with the sunlight shining from the east, a flag fluttering with the character of Liu appeared on the horizon, and helmets and spears raised high up and down with the back of the horse. Liu Chengzong rode a war horse and led the army in front of his eyes.

　good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)