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Chapter 127 Fishing in Troubled Waters (1)

The spring is steep and the night is getting deeper, but people are not quiet. The huge area of ​​the Bianminist Army camp is still brightly lit, and a large number of bonfires are burning. The continuous Bianminist Army camps are full of stars, as dense as stars. Next to each bonfire, there are many ragged soldiers in the armored Bianminist Army soldiers gather in a circle, chatting in a low voice, roasting fire to keep warm, and using the temperature of their companions to keep warm. The weapons are placed under their feet and can be picked up and fight at any time.

The Militia Army has not had tents to rest with the wind and rain. In fact, after several months of wandering around and robbing everyone, these Militia Army troops have accumulated a large number of camping tents. Although most of them are broken, they can barely cover the rain and snow. On the early spring night when the snow has not yet melted, they are definitely a hundred times better than sleeping outside. However, these Militia soldiers still refuse to return the tent. The grassroots generals also count the number of people from time to time to see if anyone is lazy and wandering away.

Of course, these soldiers of the militia army were not self-destructive. The reason why they couldn't rest in the tent was because they dared not. Before it was dark, the two strongest bosses of the militia army, Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao, had already spoken out, asking their teams to be divided into two groups, taking turns to serve in the first and second half of the night, and always beware of accidents. After discovering that Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao's teams did this, other thieves who were voluntarily or forced to gather together did not dare to neglect them. They also ordered their teams to act in accordance with the rules and strengthen their vigilance, so as not to know how to die if they suddenly get into trouble.

Of course, no one is surprised why King Du and King Miao made such arrangements. No one is not asking about the news without drilling mountains and holes. If it were in the regular army, these situations would be better. The general could basically calm the scene without asking a lot of questions. Unfortunately, this is a militant army, a typical mob. Most of them were still a bandit team of ordinary people not long ago. During the chatting and chatting, countless reliable and unreliable rumors naturally flew everywhere.

King Du and King Miao turned against each other and were about to split up. This is the most reliable rumor.

King Miao and the Yongcheng official army secretly colluded and were discovered by King Du, so King Du was preparing to destroy King Miao and completely annex King Miao's team. This is a rumor that is relatively non-stop.

King Miao is preparing to destroy King Du and become the chief manager himself, which is also an unreliable rumor.

King Miao and the dog official of Yongcheng, Chen Yingliang, are good friends. The dog official of Chen Gou wanted to persuade King Miao to surrender. King Du was preparing to destroy King Miao to avoid more traitors. This is an insider rumor.

King Du fell in love with King Miao's concubine, but King Miao refused to give it to him, so both sides were ready for war, which was the most absurd rumor.

Regardless of whether these various rumors and rumors are reliable or absurd, the impact on the morale of the army is the same. When they look at each other with vigilant eyes, most of the soldiers of the militia have completely forgotten the Yongcheng official army fifteen miles away to the west. In fact, the big thieves such as Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao are almost forgetting the direct threat of the Yongcheng official army. When they are guarding against each other, they have made the worst plans - if the situation is wrong, they will immediately drop the other party.

In fact, Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao also don't understand that their relationship with each other suddenly deteriorates to this point. Miao Haichao is a little better. He knows that Du Fuwei is suspicious and suspicious of himself, and is worried about colluding with the government army to sell him. He just doesn't understand why Du Fuwei is so petty, because of trivial matters, he regards himself as an enemy? But Du Fuwei is different. Du Fuwei is now completely unable to judge whether Miao Haichao has secretly colluded with Chen Yingliang and whether he will suddenly stab himself in the black knife. Therefore, Du Fuwei can only prepare himself for protection now, so he will not be colluded with Miao Haichao and Chen Yingliang suddenly, and completely killed himself. The response and alert measures that Miao Haichao team was forced to take also made Du Fuwei feel that he must do this and must be careful to prevent Miao Haichao.

In fact, at this point, even Du Fuwei's think tank Fu Gonghu could not tell whether Miao Haichao really colluded with the official army, so Fu Gonghu had to agree with Du Fuwei's preparations. In addition, it was just to persuade Du Fuwei to act cautiously and never turn against each other until the last moment. It would be better to wait until the next morning to go to Yongcheng to collect protection fees. Du Fuwei also agreed to Fu Gonghu, saying that as long as Miao Haichao did not take action first, he would never take action first, but if Miao Haichao dared to play any tricks, he would never be polite.

The main focus of the Bianmin Army turned to the internal, and the prevention of external threats was naturally seriously insufficient. As a result, this also gave the night attack team led by Zhu Can and Zhang Di a good opportunity. Using the cover of the night and the familiarity of the terrain, the six new regiments led by Zhu Can and Zhang Di lost two Bianmin Army patrol fire teams, and they touched the surroundings of the Bianmin Army camp without knowing it. The bold Zhu Can was a little worried, fearing that this was a trap set by the enemy, and waited for his own team to fall into the trap and then surrounded and annihilate.

Not to mention, the current camp of the Bianminist military is really like a trap. There is only a circle of thin fences around the camp, and the camp is still bright and the bonfires are everywhere. From a distance, you can see that the bonfires are surrounded by the Bianminist military soldiers sitting on the ground. Seeing this, not to mention the new soldiers of Qiao County who were fighting for the first time, everyone was trembling in their hearts. Even Zhang Di, a regular army deputy sent by Chen Yingliang to Zhu Can, couldn't help but be worried and said to Zhu Can in a low voice: "Brother Zhu, the enemy seems to be prepared, what should I do?"

"Ask me, who will I ask?" Zhu Can, who was born in the yamen runners and had less experience in the battlefield than Zhang Di, muttered in his heart, but it was unlikely that he would turn back. At the same time, the blood of unwillingness to be put on the other side was also burning on Zhu Can. Considering that he was very sure to fight out even if he encountered an ambush, Zhu Can did not hesitate and immediately replied in a low voice: "As long as it was originally planned, it is Chen Tongshou's order to sneak attack on Du Fuwei's camp. No matter how dangerous it is, it must be implemented."

Zhang Di nodded and spread the order to the team in a low voice. He also explained: "Remember, after rushing in, you must shout 'Please kill Du Fuwei by the order of King Miao. This slogan, don't expose our identity as an official army."

By the way, the reason why Zhang Di ordered this was because the six new army teams brought by Zhu Can and Zhang Di were not wearing military uniforms from top to bottom, and were all wearing tattered clothes stolen from the bandits' dens, and were dressed no differently from the bandits' refugees.

After everything was arranged, Zhu Can whispered to God's blessing, then waved his hand and took the lead in touching Du Fuwei's camp in front with a gun. Zhang Di led the team to follow with fear, and the new army behind them were all trembling and carefully following with caution. Many people were ready to run away if the situation was wrong.

Out of confidence in the number of troops in his own army, the battalion defense fortifications of Du Fuwei's army were outrageously simple. Apart from a thin fence, he was too lazy to dig a trench, let alone a trench. As a result, this was cheaper again. Zhu Can and Zhang Di's night attack team, easily touched the fence and hid behind a fence with few bonfires. Then, the new army soldiers who had no way to retreat quietly stepped forward, tied several ropes to the fence, and then pulled together with all their hands and feet, and a long short fence lay down. Then, the new army soldiers caught the fence and placed it silently on the ground, opening a section of the camp.

The time to decide success or failure has come. Under the leadership of Zhu Can and Zhang Di, the soldiers of the new army rushed into the camp quietly like ghosts and quickly assembled into a team in Du Fuwei's camp. However, just as the soldiers of the new army were about to enter the camp, a Du army soldier who noticed the abnormal noise suddenly came to Zhu Can and others with a torch. When the light of the torch illuminated the dark heads of Zhu Can and Zhang Di's team, the Du army soldier also opened his mouth so that he could stuff a few eggs into it. In extreme shock, he forgot to shout.

With a shout, Zhu Can, who was the fastest and best at the same time, rushed forward with a quick arrow, stabbed out like lightning in his hand, and pierced the chest of the transformed militia soldier with one shot, causing the enemy soldier to lie down with an incredible look, then snatched the torch from the enemy soldier's hand, turned to Zhang Di and shouted: "Give the firecracker that Chen Tongshou said"

Zhang Di quickly took out a bottle full of gunpowder. Zhu Can took it, first lit the lead, and then threw it hard to a bunch of bonfires surrounded by the soldiers of the militia in the distance. Driven by Zhu Can's divine power, the bottle flew out sixty or seventy meters with a curling blue smoke. Then it exploded violently in the sky, bursting out a ball of fire and making a loud noise, "Boom"

Chen Yingliang asked Zhu Can and Zhang Di to use gunpowder bottles, of course, not to expect such a pitiful primitive grenade to kill the enemy, but just to create this thunderous sound. The result was just as Chen Yingliang expected and expected. After the huge explosion sounded in the middle of the night, it immediately resounded throughout the entire civilian camp. It not only alarmed Du Fuwei's camp, but also alarmed Miao Haichao's camp and other rioters camps, which surprised everyone, rushing to raise their heads and looking in horror.

"Kill," Zhu Can raised his gun and yelled, "King Miao has an order to kill the brothers Du Fuwei, kill me."

"King Miao has an order to kill Du Fuwei," the new army roared in a mess, as if afraid that the enemy would not know that he was Miao Haichao's team. Then he followed Zhu Can and Zhang Di, and rushed to the place where the bonfire was relatively scarce, and rushed to the militia soldiers who were still sitting around the bonfire and frightened.

"Kill--"

The incident of Zhu Can, Zhang Di and all the new army soldiers falling from their chins happened. After they deliberately made a loud noise, before they could really fight with the enemy, Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao's camp sounded like a tide of killing at the same time. Then, countless torches surged, and Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao's team started a fire directly. They were still very prepared and organized to quickly push down the camp fence and rushed directly to the other camp, killing people when they saw them, stabbing people when they saw them. In the blink of an eye, the torches were already shrouded in the handover area between the Du and Miao armies, and the sound of killing was shocking.

During the battle, Miao Haichao's team, which had been full of anger at Du Fuwei's team, rushed very fiercely, and defeated Du Fuwei's team with poor morale and fighting spirit, and was soon forced to retreat into the camp. Du Fuwei, who heard the loud noise, quickly commanded the team to rescue the front battlefield with all his might. He did not pay enough attention to Zhu Can and Zhang Di, who were not very loud, and only sent a small number of troops to fight the new army. In this way, the new army team also gained the opportunity to train and hone the first place on the battlefield, and was able to fight with the enemy when the troops were disparate.

This of course also gave Zhu Can a chance to show off his skills. In order to make a name for himself, and for the high-ranking officials and beautiful wives and concubines he had always dreamed of, Zhu Can, who was unwilling to be defeated, performed his gun skills at this time. A good steel gun was danced like Piao Ruixue in his hands. The enemy on the opposite side was almost no match for him. He was stabbed one after another and killed the enemy on the opposite side and fled in a frightened manner. The new army soldiers behind Zhu Can increased their confidence and followed Zhu Can to cut guns and scored a lot of results. At the same time, they deliberately set fire, kicked over and overturned the surrounding bonfires, and threw the burning wooden strips into the ruined tent in the camp. Du Fuwei's camp didn't take much time, but the fire was everywhere and thick smoke soared into the sky.

Seeing this scene, Du Fuwei, who was in the middle command, was of course furious. While ordering Yu's son Kan Jiao, Ximen Junyi led an army to the new army of the enemy. While personally leading the main force to fight to the front battlefield, he also sent a messenger to contact other leaders of the rioters who independently commanded the troops, and made a Zhongnuo to ask them to attack Miao Haichao's camp. On the other hand, Miao Haichao, who had also personally put on the battlefield, did not know why the situation suddenly worsened, in order to protect himself, Miao Haichao, who did not want to wait for death, led the entire army to fight with Du Fuwei's troops, and sent people to contact other leaders of the rioters, and also made Zhongnuo to ask them to attack Du Fuwei's camp.

"As long as Miao Haichao (Du Fuwei), 70% of the things you grab will be from them." This is what Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao shouted almost at the same time.

The battle situation continued to change rapidly, and the time to test Zhu Can and Zhang Di's ability to adapt to the situation was here. First, Zhang Di carefully discovered through the number of torches in the melee. Du Fuwei's army rushed toward the Miao Haichao camp, while the number of torches was significantly smaller in the direction of his team, and the number was less than one-third of the main battlefield. Then Zhang Di immediately reminded Zhu Can of this situation. Zhu Can was of course very happy after seeing this and said, "Okay, the enemy has begun to have a big internal strife. We haven't regarded us as our main opponents. We are just taking advantage of the troubled waters."

"Brother Zhu, I think we should be smarter." Zhang Di, who had a little trick, suggested: "We should not fight hard with the enemy, take them around and take the opportunity to get in touch with other thieves, so that they can completely fight infight. This way, it will not only be easy, but also gain more."

"Miscellaneous Plan" The future warlord Zhu Can almost knew by intuition that Zhang Di's response plan was far stronger than the original plan. He immediately waved his spear and pointed to the vast area in the north and shouted: "Brothers, follow me to the bannerman, hit the flag, follow me, and let the brothers know the direction."

The new army agreed, and the bannerman quickly lit a big white flag that was very eye-catching in the darkness, followed Zhu Can closely, allowing his companions to follow with goals. Under the leadership of Zhu Can, more than a thousand people fought to the open space where the enemy was less, leading the reinforcements sent by Du Fuwei to spread the war and also burned the war in the internal strife of the militia.

I have never seen a bloody army that is always a new recruit. Zhang Di's opportunistic suggestion is certainly not conducive to the tempering and growth of the new army in Qiao County. But in fact, Zhang Di's scheming idea made the new army unintentionally avoid a fierce battle, because the Yu son Kan Xue was sent by Du Fuwei, who was also a ruthless character from the late Sui and early Tang dynasties. He was good at using a double-edged sword that was ten feet long and killed several people at every turn. Li Xiaogong of Lingyan Pavilion suffered a loss in front of him. Zhu Can, who was also a ruthless character, really had no certainty to win if he met him.

Unintentionally avoided the tough battle with the fierce man Kan Jiao. Zhu Can, who was also a fierce man, went down the mountain like a fish in water on other local battlefields. When the steel guns were dancing, all the soldiers of the militia who were blocking the road were frightened and fled in a panic. The new army was full of morale, and they drove forward and continued to break into the empty area of ​​Du Fuwei's camp, ignited more tents, and created more chaos. The strong man Kan Jiao roared behind the sky, but because of the distance, he could not catch up with the new army in Qiao County in a fight.

At this moment, the situation on the main battlefield where Du Fuwei's troops fought with Miao Haichao's troops was gradually in a stalemate. Although Du Fuwei's troops were large in numbers, they suffered a loss because their morale was not as good as the other party. In the camp, Zhu Can and Zhang Di's team killed people and set fire to make trouble everywhere. They had to be distracted and favored the rear. They could not use their military advantage to gain the upper hand for a while. Miao Haichao's team was defeated because of their high morale. The Miao army soldiers who had been furious had fought hard, killing the enemy for a long time, and their cohesion was also relatively strong. Especially when Miao Haichao raised its troops, the tenants who followed the kiln workers and tenants who were sacrificing their lives to charge around Miao Haichao, but the losses were that they had fewer troops and the number of powerful generals was not as good as Du Fuwei's army, so they could not gain the upper hand. They could only fight hard with Du Fuwei's army like meat grinders.
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