Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 245 Fake Attack
After winning the first battle in Douzigang, Luo Cheng continued to lead the army in depth.

Not a single soldier was lost in this battle, but more than 300 rock salt were obtained, more than 100 salt people were captured, and more than [-] thieves were beheaded, which can be described as a full harvest.

Go deeper.

Zhao Gui divided his scout brigade Qingqi into several branches and scattered them out to ensure that the army would not fall into an ambush by mistake after entering the marsh.Luo Cheng didn't want to sound the horn, and then the scene of ambushes from all sides would appear.

Zhao Gui's scout brigade, with a hundred riders, went out to conduct reconnaissance within [-] miles of the main army. It not only scouted the way, but also prevented ambushes, and even took on the task of mopping up the enemy's scouts.

Lao Jia and Fatty Qi led a brigade of light cavalry, guarding the left and right sides.They are light cavalry, responsible for protecting the central army and preventing possible enemies on the two wings.

As for Siye, he was responsible for leading a brigade of Pu Dao soldiers as the forward of the team, and Cun Xiao led a brigade of Chang Lao soldiers as the rear.

The grain carts and the supply team lived in the central army. Luo Cheng took fifty cavalry directly under Qingqi as the reserve team of the whole army, and Du Fuwei and his assistant Gong Er were responsible for protecting the central army's supply of food and grass.

With such an arrangement, the quarters are evenly divided.

Basically, it is impossible to be caught halfway and caught off guard.

Even if the enemy is attacking, there is enough time to react, and quickly retract to face the enemy, so as not to be cut off from the end to the end and surrounded by divisions.This method of marching and forming an army was actually taught to Luo Cheng by Zhang Xutuo, and it was all his actual combat experience.

In Zhang Xutuo's words, a soldier and horse marching must be divided into scouts, jumpers, vanguards, middle soldiers, and palace soldiers. To protect in the middle and so on.

Although Douzigang is a large salt marsh of hundreds of miles away, it is not actually a barren land.

It's just that most of the land here is brine land, so most of them cannot grow crops and food, and of course they cannot live in large numbers in places that cannot produce food.However, this area of ​​hundreds of miles is very vast, and there are still some small areas where grain can be grown.Moreover, there are many lakes and water here, and the fishing and hunting resources are also rich.

Walking in the Zeli, you can see a small field and a few huts from time to time.

Even on the edge of some Yanze lakes, there will be fugitives who cook salt.Most of these are casual cookers, but the boiled salt is also sold to Liu Badao.

Those fugitives from Yanhu in twos and threes, when they saw the officers and soldiers with fluttering flags coming in, they all fled in all directions as if they saw a ghost.

Luo Cheng didn't have any ill intentions towards them, but the trade between Liu Zhenjiang and him included fugitives from salt households. Anyway, every living person could be sent to Liu Zhenjiang for ten shi of grain, and a head could be exchanged for five shi.

Although this price is not high, after all, a young and strong slave can be worth several horses, worth as much as twenty or thirty pennies.But after all, this is General Liu Zhen's territory, and Luo Cheng didn't have the time to send him back to Qi County, so the agreement was reached in the end.

Now in Luo Cheng's eyes, these people are piles of food.

Luo Cheng has always said that he wants to build a team of benevolent and righteous teachers who have no crimes, but only for his own people.And those fugitives from Yanhu were never among Luo Cheng's own people.

He called Lujiaoguan King's brigade commander and gave him a chance to redeem his crimes. He asked him to lead people to arrest those fugitives from Yanhu who were scattered on the marching road in twos and threes.

So Wang Lvshuai blushed and said that he must complete the task, turned around and went back, and took his remaining 80 people to arrest people. Luo Cheng ignored them and continued to move forward.

After advancing for about ten miles without incident, Zhao Gui sent scouts back to report that the second target point had appeared, and the enemy had not yet discovered that the official army was coming to suppress it.

It was a larger stockade than the previous workshop, and there were about [-] salt households cooking salt in it. It used to be a big stockade, and it was even a market for selling salt. The place where the salt sellers sell salt, he also specially stationed about [-] men here.

This is a salt village with basic fortifications, and there are quite a few guards.

"Are you going to make a surprise attack?" The fourth brother rode over and asked.

"It's so early in the morning, and this salt village is in a flat area, we can't approach it quietly. Forget it, anyway, it's only a village of two hundred bandits, let's go to the front."

After Zhao Gui received the reply, half of the people were left to stare outside the salt village, while the other half continued to move forward.

Luo Cheng arrived soon with his troops.

The flag fluttering high was also discovered by the guards in the village, so the tinkling bells sounded, and there was chaos in the village. The gate of the village was closed, and the bandits raised their knives and bows on the wall of the village, even boiling salt. All the salt households were also called to the wall to help defend.

Luo Cheng and his brothers rode a hundred steps closer to the gate of the village and stopped to observe.

A simple stockade, with a wall made of wooden piles, and a moat about ten feet wide outside, with running water in it, and only a suspension bridge leading to the gate of the stockade.

The wall of the village is about ten feet high.

"How to fight?" the fourth child asked.

There is still such a defense in the stockade. If there is a strong attack, it is estimated that there will be some casualties.

"Wang Lushuai, call him over." Luo Cheng said.

Wang Lvshuai worked hard to arrest the fugitives along the way just now, and he has already arrested hundreds of people.Hearing Luo Cheng call him, I thought it was a good thing.As a result, Luo Cheng's first sentence was to let him lead the battle with the remaining [-] people from Lujiao Pass.

"Luo Sima, there are a lot of thieves in this village. The walls are high, and there are ditches. There is only one gate, and the suspension bridge is pulled up. We can't take it down."

"I will send light cavalry to lead the formation, and I will also send crossbowmen to shoot arrows to suppress the thieves on the wall, and I will also draw a batch of shields for you."

"But, but."

"There's nothing wrong with it, it's a military order, let's go."

Wang Lvshuai looked ugly and stood there refusing to leave.

Luo Cheng snorted.

Wang Junkuo drew his sword out of its sheath, "The military order is like a mountain, and the military law is ruthless. Is Wang Lushuai going to disobey the military order?"

"I'm from Lujiaoguan." Wang Lvshuai poked his neck and said, he knew what kind of people he had under his command, and this attack on the stockade was probably going to die, so why would he go.

"Hahaha, although you are from Lujiaoguan, General Liu Zhen has entrusted you to my command, so you must obey my military orders. Now, I will give you another chance, should you go or not?"

Wang Lvshuai's face was uncertain, his eyes swept back and forth between Luo Cheng's and Wang Junkuo's knives, and finally turned his head away.

When Wang Lvshuai over there led the men to bite the bullet and prepare to attack, Luo Cheng called Du Fuwei and Fu Gong Er brothers, "Later, Wang Lushuai will attack from the front, and I will let Qingqi cooperate to create a The momentum attracts the attention of the thieves to the front. At that time, you two go around the back with swords and shields, and there will be scouts with bows and arrows covering you to seize the wall and enter the stronghold."

"Understand?"

Du Fuwei patted the scabbard and said excitedly, "Understood, the one surnamed Wang is a feint, and we are the real ones."

(End of this chapter)