Dajin royal family

Chapter 291 Encounter

The Shandong area is mainly hilly.

At present, the Zichuan area where Qu Rang and Shan Ding are leading their troops is in the middle separated by Changbai Mountain.

From Kuiqiu to Zichuan, about 90 miles in between, the main composition of the rebel army is farmers, and there is no place in Shandong that produces a large number of horses, so it took them two days to march.

When they arrived near Zichuan, a problem lay before them.

To fight, or not to fight.

Qu Rang felt that there was no need to waste time for a small Zichuan. They should quickly pass through this area and attack Tingshan County. As long as Tingshan County is captured, Licheng is close at hand.

Shan Ding felt that he should rest overnight and lay down supplies in Zichuan first.

At this time, Shandong really complied with the saying 'the landlord's family has no food left'.

Because the imperial court conscripted civilian husbands from Shandong year after year, coupled with the unstoppable banditry, Shandong's grain production was severely damaged.

Take Shan Ding himself as an example, he took down Lu County, and only grabbed two thousand shi of grain from the official warehouse, and the ordinary people's families were even poorer than him.

Although he got funding from Li Fazhu, the group of 'insurgents' under him were eating every day. He was worried that it would not be a good choice to forcefully attack Tingshan County at this time.

So, the two quarreled all the way over this issue, and finally Qu asked himself to lead the troops towards Tingshan County.

"Brother, this Shan Ding is nothing more than a dog-killer. He doesn't dare to take such a small risk, and he still wants to compete with the elder brother for the leader. It's really beyond his control." Qu Yao rode on the horse, with a disdainful sarcasm on his face.

Although Qu Rang was noncommittal to what his younger brother said, the indifference on his face also showed the disdain in his heart at the moment.

It was already dark, and Qu Rangling's men lit torches, and the orange lights illuminated the road around him.

When the moonlight was at its peak, the team had already arrived at a relatively narrow mountain path.

"This section of road is more dangerous, please pay attention, we will be safe after passing this section." Qu Rang gave an order, and rode in front of the road.

Just at this moment, the sound of '咻咻咻' suddenly came from the dark night.

This is the sound of arrows!
"Everyone beware!"

Qu Rang yelled these words almost subconsciously, and the moment his voice fell, the arrow also landed in the dense crowd.There were screams one after another in an instant, and the team suddenly became panicked.

Immediately after the first round of arrows, the second round of arrows flew in. Similarly, Qu Rang's followers suffered a heavy blow.

When the third round of arrows came, Qu Rang barely managed to integrate his team, letting them either seek cover or raise their shields to defend.

"How come, how did they know we would go this way?"

Qu Yao asked his elder brother in surprise.

Qu Rang also wanted to know the answer, but now was not the time to search for the answer, because the other party had already killed him!
Directly in front of them, an army rushed towards them with torches held high.

Qu Rang immediately raised his sword and roared angrily: "Brothers, if you don't want to die, kill all these court dogs with me, and enter Licheng to eat meat, drink and play with women!"

The war broke out, and the two sides fought together.

Few people who dare to rebel are not ruthless, and Qu Rang is such a person.He took the lead and rushed directly into the enemy's formation with his personal guards, slashing wildly. Seeing Qu Rang's fierceness, the brothers behind him immediately screamed and followed to kill the enemy.

Of course, there are those who are not afraid of death, and there are those who are afraid of death. Many battlefield juniors fled back crying when they saw their comrades beheaded.

Qu Yao caught a deserter with a knife.

"Who the hell dares to escape, I will kill him first!"

After killing more than a dozen deserters in a row, Qu Rang's subordinates finally joined forces with Qi County's soldiers wholeheartedly.

In the beginning, the two sides fought back and forth, but the situation changed after an hour.

As mentioned earlier, the composition of the rebel army is all peasants. Although they are equipped and ruthless enough, they are facing well-trained government soldiers after all.

The decline started to show.

Qu Rang's 5 people had already lost a lot, and most of them started to back away while fighting.

Seeing this, Qu Rang couldn't help cursing inwardly, but he also knew that this was inevitable. Many people under his command were just refugees who didn't have enough to eat before, and it's normal for them to have no fighting power.

"Brother, the situation is not right." Qu Yao rushed to Qu Rang's side with blood on his face.

Qu Rang nodded, and ordered: "We will fight while retreating."

He is not a brainless leader, and fighting recklessly is not a good choice in this situation.

So, Qu Rang began to retreat slowly, and the soldiers stopped after chasing him for about three miles.

"General, why didn't you chase after him?"

A school lieutenant walked up to Wang Boju and asked.

Wang Boju, dressed in military uniform, looked at the departing rebel army and shook his head.

"We can't chase anymore. We only have 5000 people. We won the first place only after an ambush. If we continue to chase, the opponent will definitely go all out."

Wang Boju was very clear about his responsibilities, he was only responsible for guarding this area, and at the same time conveyed the news of the bandit soldiers back to the county governor Zhang Suguo.

Now that he has completed half of it, the thieves really chose to attack Licheng from Zichuan!
"Let's count the losses." Wang Boju sighed, the number of bandits exceeds ten thousand, next time he comes again, he will not be so easy to deal with.

Although Qu Rang was caught off guard this time, not only was he not discouraged, he sat on the ground and laughed.

Qu Yao felt that the elder brother was a little abnormal, and he couldn't understand why the elder brother was still laughing after losing the battle.

"Brother, are you okay?" Qu Yao asked cautiously.

Qu Rang shook his head and ordered: "Let everyone supplement immediately, and we will start to fight back at dawn!"

"But big brother?" Qu Yao hesitated to dissuade him.

But Qu Rang gave him a stern look, and the latter immediately obediently made arrangements.

Qu Rang thought very clearly that the loss in the first battle was not because of him, but because of the pussies under his hands. It might be okay for them to bully the unarmed ordinary people, but it will not work when they meet the prepared soldiers.

But now he felt that there was no problem, and they should have an adaptation process.

When the sun rose to noon, Qu Rang led his troops to defeat Wang Boju's soldiers.

The difference in numbers between the two sides was too great, and Wang Boju had no choice but to lead the remaining people to escape.

However, when he was escaping, Wang Boju played a trick and asked his soldiers to throw all the armor and dry food on the ground, creating a look of panic.

"Don't chase!"

Qu Rang chopped off the head of the brother who snatched the spoils with a knife, and shouted: "Everyone rests where they are, and whoever dares to pursue them will be executed on the spot!"

"Brother, why didn't you chase after him? The enemy will throw away his armor and armor, it's a good time to pursue him." Qu Yao's face was flushed, he fought this battle just now very happily.

"You also know that the enemy will drop his armor and take off his armor." Qu Rang gave Qu Yao a hard look, "Idiot, do you think there are only a few soldiers in Qi County's government, there must be people from Qi County in front, we can't be impulsive. "

Although he won the battle, it didn't mean that he was inflated. The county lieutenant of Qi County could guess that they were going this way, and set up an ambush in advance, which meant that there must be someone ahead.

"To be on the safe side, we have to call Shang Shan Ding and the others." Qu Rang thought for a while and said to Qu Yao.

He didn't know how many people were in front of him now, so he planned to wait for Shan Ding to come over to be on the safe side.

"Brother, you are too careful. In my opinion, there are so many people in Qi County, why call Shang Dan Ding and them." Qu Yao said disapprovingly.

He didn't want to stand alone.

"Not yet!" Qu Rang roared.

Qu Yao shrank his neck and hurried down.

Qu Rang snorted, he is not a fool, they are killing officials in Qi County and occupying the city, how could the imperial court let them go, maybe there is an army of the imperial court waiting for them in front of them.

If he had a bloody encounter with someone from the imperial court and was finally taken advantage of by Shan Ding, wouldn't he suffer a lot?

On the other side, Wang Boju held the reins, and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he saw the disappearing figure behind him.

He thought that those bandits would catch up, but he didn't expect that there were none.

Not easy to deal with!

At this moment, a general dressed in flying goose armor came on horseback.

"Bo Ju, how's it going?"

Wang Boju turned around to look at Qin Yujing, shook his head with an uneasy expression, "The situation is not good, the number of enemy troops is around [-], and we lost half of them in the battle just now."

(End of this chapter)