Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 52 Night Attack
When Liu Erleng said that he fell in love with Lao Ma's daughter, everyone laughed in their hearts.

He said in his heart: "Lao Ma's daughter is only liked by this stupid big man!"

Unexpectedly, Li Jing didn't make fun of Liu Er's idiot, but solemnly agreed to ask Ma Wu to help propose marriage, and these people were suddenly moved.

Know that it is natural to judge people by appearance, especially men to women.

Liu Erleng has a simple personality, and it is understandable that he doesn't care about women's appearance, but it is commendable that Li Jing doesn't care about women's appearance.

Then Li Jing asked them if there was a girl they were interested in, and everyone looked at Li Jing with a certain enthusiasm.

How many important things do you have to do every day?At this time, he had to fight with officers and soldiers, and he actually wanted to help his brothers start a family.Everyone thought in their hearts that even if they sold their lives to the head of the family, it would be worth it.

Li Jing chatted and laughed with everyone, and everyone's mentality changed continuously, which immediately diluted the nervousness before the battle.

After walking for more than an hour, he finally came out of the Red Mountain Range. Li Jing looked at the surrounding terrain and knew that he had reached Dongyao Town.

After finding a hidden place, Li Jing ordered everyone to stop and rest in place.At the same time, scouts were sent to investigate the itinerary of the officers and soldiers.

Li Jing's scouts were originally officers and soldiers from Zhengzhou, so they are familiar with the way of detecting the enemy's situation.

After more than half an hour, the first group of scouts reported that the vanguard of officers and soldiers had passed Yuankang Town and was heading towards Linqi Town.

Li Jingjing nodded, the marching speed of the officers and soldiers was almost exactly the same as Gao Qi analyzed a few days ago.

Looking up at the sky, Li Jing calculated the itinerary of the officers and soldiers.

The daytime in winter is very short, and the sky will be dark in less than an hour.Li Jing calculated the distance from Xiayuankang Town to Linqi Town, and estimated that the officers and soldiers might camp in Linqi Town tonight.

And Linqi Town was one of the places Li Jing planned to attack.

Let the scouts continue to monitor, and Li Jing began to close his eyes and rest.

After a while, the second group of scouts turned back and reported that there were about 1000 or 300 people in the vanguard of the proven officers and soldiers, and the distance from the logistics team was about ten miles, and the logistics team had about [-] people.

Li Jingjing nodded, and waved his hand to let the scout go down to rest.

As the scouts reported back one after another, Li Jing had a clearer grasp of the situation of the officers and soldiers.

As the sky darkened, the last group of scouts reported that the vanguard of officers and soldiers had set up a barracks outside Linqi Town, and they were burying pots and cooking.The distance between the supply troops and the leading troops was less than ten miles, and they had just set up camp at this time.

At the same time, he explained in detail the specific positions of the officers and soldiers and the nearby terrain.

Li Jing already knew the topography of Linqi Town very well.

In the past few days, Li Jing not only sent scouts to investigate the surrounding terrain of Linqi Town, but even went to investigate it himself.

From Linqi Town to Hongshanling, where the terrain is flat and where to hide and ambush, Li Jing knows it all.

While listening to the scouts' report, Li Jing drew the positions and terrain of the officers and soldiers.Then he ordered Liu Erleng and other captains to be summoned.

After a while, Liu Erlianzi and others came to Li Jing's side.

Seeing that everyone couldn't see the map he had just drawn clearly, Li Jing ordered someone to light a torch.

Then Li Jing picked up a branch and pointed to the map and said, "Look, this is Dahu Mountain, where the camps of the officers and soldiers' supply troops are laid."

Seeing Liu Erlian and others nodding, Li Jing continued: "The terrain of Dahu Mountain is surrounded by mountains in the west, and the terrain in the north, east and south is flat, so I decided that we will touch it from the west to carry out a surprise attack."

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "However, the vanguard of the officers and soldiers is only less than ten miles away from Dahu Mountain, and the road is clear. The reinforcements will arrive soon, so we must burn the food and grass of the officers and soldiers as quickly as possible. Baggage."

Seeing everyone nodding repeatedly, Li Jing continued: "Everyone must remember what our purpose is. We are not trying to kill many officers and soldiers, but to destroy their logistics supplies. Therefore, we must tell brothers that once the officers and soldiers are attacked Fleeing, don’t chase after him. If the mission is delayed because of chasing officers and soldiers, I will kill him with my own hands.”

After finishing speaking, Li Jing fixed his eyes on Liu Er's face.

Seeing Li Jing's sharp eyes staring at him, Liu Er stunned realized that Li Jing's last sentence was about him.

Liu Er shrank his neck in a daze, avoiding Li Jing's gaze, and muttered in a low voice: "I'm still waiting for my elder brother to help me find a wife, but I can't let you chop off my head with your own hands."

Hearing Liu Er's muttering, Li Jing knew that his words had calmed down this ignorant fool, so he smiled lightly at that moment, and then began to make arrangements.

As night fell, a waning moon hung obliquely in the sky.

Taking advantage of the moonlight, Li Jing and his men quietly sneaked into Dahu Mountain and touched the periphery of the officers and soldiers' camp.

There were still more than 100 steps away from the camp, Li Jing waved his hand to stop his men from moving on.

Ahead, a bonfire was burning at the gate of the barracks, and two sentries were warming their hands and talking around the bonfire, while a group of officers and soldiers patrolling the camp had just passed by not far away.

Li Jing watched the patrolling officers and soldiers drift away, and then silently counted the time.

After a stick of incense, the officers and soldiers patrolling the battalion circled back. Li Jing counted, and there were ten officers and soldiers in this team.

Li Jingjing nodded, then turned to look at Chen Erhu beside him.

"Er Hu, did you see the two sentries on duty in front?" Li Jing pointed to the front and said.

"En!" Chen Erhu nodded.

"Are you sure you can shoot the sentry on the left? You have to kill with one hit!" Li Jing said seriously.

Chen Erhu looked at the bow and arrow in his hand, calculated the distance to the officers and soldiers, nodded, and shook his head again.

"Brother, I'm a little nervous, I'm afraid I won't be able to shoot correctly!" Chen Erhu said.

Li Jing patted Chen Erhu's shoulder lightly, knowing that Chen Erhu was telling the truth.

Chen Erhu's archery skills are outstanding on the mountain. Under normal circumstances, with a distance of one hundred steps, Chen Erhu can basically hit a hundred shots.

But now it is actual combat. Once the officers and soldiers cannot be shot dead, the officers and soldiers will issue an alarm, and the sneak attack will become a strong attack.

Li Jing had limited troops, and it was impossible to suppress the officers and soldiers. A strong attack would definitely cause casualties, and Li Jing didn't want such a situation to happen.

"It doesn't matter, one hundred steps is not enough, let's get closer, how about eighty steps?" Li Jing said.

Seeing Li Jing's encouraging eyes, Chen Erhu's confidence surged, and he nodded immediately: "Success!"

"Okay! The captains listen to the order!" Li Jing shouted in a low voice.

"Yes!" Liu Erleng and the other six team leaders responded in a low voice.

"I ordered everyone to get ready! After Erhu and I shot the sentry, you quickly rushed to the ditch outside the camp. Liu Erlend led the [-]rd team to fire rockets to burn the vehicles carrying food and supplies. Wang Ermao led Team [-] is responsible for shooting and killing officers and soldiers who are blocking them!" Li Jing said in a deep voice.

"Yes!" Liu Erleng and the others nodded to accept the order, then turned around and went to give orders to his subordinates.

After Liu Erlen finished passing on his orders, Li Jing looked at the barracks in front of him, waited for the patrolling officers and soldiers to pass by again, and waved to Chen Erhu lightly, then lowered his body and crawled forward.

Although the grass and trees were dry in winter, Li Jing's movements were light and he didn't make a sound, while Chen Erhu next to him was a bit worse, and the grass and trees made swishing sounds from time to time.

Fortunately, the wind blows from time to time, and the sound of the withered grass did not attract the attention of the officers and sentries.

Seeing Li Jing's movements, Liu Erleng and others understood why Li Jing had trained them to crawl forward.

After climbing a distance of more than twenty steps, Li Jing stopped and turned to look at Chen Erhu.

Chen Erhu nodded, making an archery gesture.

Li Jingjing nodded and signaled Chen Erhu to shoot the sentry on the left, and he himself shot the sentry on the right.Then he untied the bow on his back, and took out a long arrow from the quiver and put it on the bow.

When Chen Erhu was ready, Li Jing suddenly straightened his upper body into a half-kneeling position.

"Shoot!" Li Jing shouted.

Immediately, the two sharp arrows left the string at the same time.

The so-called fast like a meteor, that is, like lightning!

The two sentinels never expected that the god of death had come.When they heard the strong wind blowing in their faces, it was too late to react, and the two sentries got arrows in their throats at the same time.

I saw the two of them covered their throats with their hands and fell down slowly.

Thinking about it, these two people didn't understand where the arrow came from until their death.

Seeing the two sentinels fell, Li Jing waved his hand, Liu Erleng and the others had already been waiting impatiently, jumped up from the ground, and rushed to the camp quickly.

But Li Jing took out the mask from his arms, put it on his face, waved to Chen Erhu, and ran quickly to the camp.

Seeing Li Jing wearing a hideous mask suddenly, Chen Erhu was startled, then came to his senses, and hurriedly ran forward with Li Jing.

When Liu Erlen and others rushed into the ditch, Li Jing shouted softly; "Raise the fire!"

"Tap! Tap! Tap!" A few flint knocks sounded, and then several torches were lit.

Everyone lit the arrows wrapped in oilcloth, and then shot at the cart parked in the middle of the camp.

The weather was dry and dry, and with the tarpaulins on the arrows to support the combustion, several fires were quickly ignited on the cart. When the rockets shot more and more, a gust of cold wind blew in. In an instant, the camp was full of flames.

"It's out of the water! It's out of the water!" The awakened soldier yelled while hurriedly getting dressed.

"Hurry up and put out the fire!" shouted a disheveled officer rushing out from the middle tent.

"My lord, there are people outside the camp..." A soldier suddenly rushed over and shouted in a panic.

Before the soldier finished speaking, a long arrow pierced his chest from behind.

The soldier saw a long arrow shoot out of his chest, he didn't understand why for a while, then he felt a sharp pain, and then fell to the ground.

This arrow was shot by Li Jing.

Li Jing wanted to shoot the officer, but he didn't want the soldier to appear in front of the officer suddenly, the arrow missed the target, but killed the unlucky guy.

Seeing the soldier suddenly fell to the ground dead, the officer was startled, rolled over and hid beside the tent.Then loudly and suddenly: "The enemy army is outside the tent, line up! Line up!"

Hearing the officer's loud yelling, Li Jing also admired the officer's calmness in the face of danger.

But admiration belongs to admiration, it should be killed or killed.

(End of this chapter)