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Chapter 149 Making a Dumpling
"Report!!"

"Fifteen miles to the south of our army, an organized Jianzhou savage army appeared!"

"There are at least three to 5000 people!"

Sweating profusely, the scout rushing back to the camp was kneeling on one knee, panting loudly, reporting the latest situation on the front line to Penke.

The savage reinforcements that Zhenhai Camp has been waiting for for a long time have finally arrived!

Although only one tribe came.

But it was more to Penke's liking.

He wished that the two tribes would come to aid separately, instead of arriving at the same time.

In this way, he can still have time to defeat them one by one!

"From the south?"

"That looks like the Taye Tribe!"

"Finally waited."

Peng Ke smiled and nodded, waved the scouts back, and then said to the guards: "Go, let Wu Xuanshu and Lu Ming gather troops!"

"We have work to do!"

"Obey!" The guard also accepted the order with a smile.

Standing up, Penke turned to look at the map hanging on the wall.

To the south of the Rhona tribe is a virgin forest, and it is very vast, which is very unsuitable for the Ming army to fight in depth.

But between the forest and the Rhona tribe, there is still a flat land more than five miles long.

This should be a piece of open space that was forcibly cut down by the Rhona tribe after they settled here and cut down trees year after year.

This open space, which is five miles long and more than ten miles wide, is very suitable as a battleground for the two armies.

If he defeated the reinforcements from the Taye tribe, Penke didn't think it would be difficult.

But how to prevent them from escaping is not easy.

Once the two armies were at war, and they found out that the Rona tribe had already been captured by Daming, I am afraid that this group of savage reinforcements would not love to fight at all, and would simply retreat and run away.

If they fled back to the primeval forest, it would not be so easy to catch them back.

Touching his chin, Penke kept thinking about how to deploy his troops so that he could completely eat this batch of savage reinforcements.

"Meet the Admiral!"

"Meet the Admiral!"

While thinking about it, both Wu Xuanshu and Lu Ming came to Peng Ke's command post as ordered.

As soon as he entered the door, Lu Ming couldn't wait to ask: "Commander, are the savage reinforcements coming?"

"Here we are, just to the south, there are three to five thousand people." Peng Ke nodded and said with a smile on his face: "As long as the reinforcements from the Taye tribe are eaten up, there should be only three to five thousand soldiers left in their tribe." gone."

"In this way, the Taye tribe can be broken easily!"

Wu Xuanshu nodded calmly, and said with a still grim expression: "In this battle, my three mountain guards will be the main attackers. It's just three or five thousand savages. It's easy to attack."

"It's not difficult to defeat this group of savage reinforcements, but it's not so easy to capture them all." Penke shook his head and said very seriously: "Our goal in this battle is not to defeat, but to capture none of them." Let go!"

"I have to make a big dumpling for these savages!"

"In this battle, Sanshanwei will attack head-on!"

"Lu Ming, lead the [-] soldiers of the Tiger Roaring Guards to detour from the left to the southeast. After the savage reinforcements approach the Rona tribe for five miles, go around to their rear and block their retreat!"

"The remaining [-] soldiers of the Tiger Roaring Guard, led by the commander Tongzhi, circled from the right to the southwest, and when the enemy approached five miles away, they surrounded the rear!"

"Once the encirclement is formed, this group of savage reinforcements will become a turtle in an urn!"

Penke chuckled.

For the Jianzhou savages, there is really no need for any complicated schemes.

You can't expect these savages who usually fight with weapons at the village level to have advanced military skills.

So some of the simplest tactics are good enough.

This put Penke in a very good mood.

He was just leading the army at the time when he needed to be tempered. It was great to have such a group of junior training partners!
"Let's go prepare. It's more than ten miles away. If you hurry up, the enemy will arrive in half an hour."

"As ordered!"

Lu Ming and Wu Xuanshu didn't have any objections. After clasping their fists and saluting, they went down to carry out the military order.

Now there are nearly [-] soldiers stationed in the Zhenhai camp in the Luona tribe.

Except for [-] auxiliary soldiers and [-] main soldiers who are still guarding their homes in the beach camp, most of them are in the Rhona tribe.

Following an order from Peng Ke, the Zhenhai camp, which had rested for five days, moved again.

The footsteps are treading, and the military flag is waving.

The commander of the Tiger Roaring Guards, Lu Ming, and the commander, Tongzhi Ji Guangheng, each with [-] soldiers, detoured towards the southwest and southeast respectively.

The soldiers of Wuqian Sanshanwei, also under the leadership of Wu Xuanshu, made pre-war preparations.

Arranged on the artillery position behind the simple wall of the Rhone tribe, under the leadership of the artilleryman Qianhu Liu Chaosheng, the artillerymen are also using rags soaked in lubricating oil to wipe the gears and the gates on the howitzer that are prone to wear and jam. ...

Boxes of five-inch and eight-inch shells were carried out and placed next to the gun mounts, ready to go into battle at any time!

But the camouflage that should be done still needs to be done.

When transporting the prisoners of war away, Penke specifically kept more than 200 Rhona tribe members.

Now these tribesmen have been driven to the top of the wall, acting as "warning".

The soldiers of the Zhenhai camp also hid in the tribe, trying not to expose themselves.

Without telescopes and other equipment that can observe from a long distance, the reinforcements of the Taye tribe need to be at least one mile away from the Rhona tribe to see clearly the situation outside the tribe.

It's only when you get close to the range of 200 meters that something is wrong.

However, the Taye tribe's reinforcements should not have marched directly to a position so close to the Rhona tribe without notifying them.

After the restoration, the fence looked intact on the outside, and Penke was lying on it, holding a binoculars, observing the movements in the south.

"It's been two quarters of an hour, why haven't I seen the reinforcements from the Taye tribe!"

Penke pouted, feeling speechless at the marching speed of these savages.

I'm sighing.

On the far horizon in the south, dust billowed up.

A group of wildling warriors holding various bronze weapons and wearing leather clothes made of animal fur appeared in sight.

Peng Ke quickly raised the binoculars to look.

"There are at least four to 5000 people, which is a large force!"

"Order, the whole army is ready!"

The captives of the Rhona tribe standing on the top of the wall became nervous and couldn't help shaking.

Going to fight again!

About two miles away from the Rhona tribe, this group of reinforcements from the Taye tribe stopped.

The warrior leader who commanded the army walked quickly to the center of the army, and said to the priest sitting on the wooden chariot carried by five slaves who was resting with his eyes closed:
"Priest, it's the Rona tribe now. Let's send some envoys to follow the people of the Rona tribe to visit their high priest."

The priest glanced at him with half-opened eyes and nodded, agreeing to his suggestion.

They came to aid the Rhona tribe, not to plunder. Naturally, it is not suitable for a large army to drive directly in front of others.

A distance of two miles is safe.

Several envoys from the Taye tribe and a younger priest followed the envoys from the Rhona tribe, separated from the army, and rushed to the Rhona tribe.

All of this was seen by Pen Ke who was holding a telescope.

"Sure enough, the enemy stopped two miles away and sent a team of envoys!"

This group of messengers must not be allowed in.

Peng Ke took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, guessing that Lu Ming and the others should have made a detour to the rear.

"Delay a little longer!"

"The group of envoys approached to a distance of one mile, and the artillery immediately fired at the enemy's phalanx!"

(End of this chapter)