Chapter 181(1/2)
I was confused about the scribing and even forgot about the festival. It doesn’t matter if I forget about the festival, but I can’t forget to say Happy Holidays to my brothers~ I will present the 6,000-word seal. The little fish will continue to work hard on Labor Day and bring happiness to everyone with the strong soldiers.
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A fire broke out again?
It was completely subconscious that this thought flashed through Guan Hai's mind.
It’s not that he doesn’t have rich association power, but that the fires in the company camp have been too frequent recently, almost once every one or two days, and in the most deadly days, they will have to burn two or three times a day!
Guan Hai also tried to investigate the spies at first, but before he could investigate it for a long time, he found in despair that the difficulty of this matter was higher than breaking the Duchang City overnight.
Before attacking Zhu Xu, his troops had less than 10,000 people, and in just over a month, they increased by more than five times! Although the momentum and combat effectiveness both increased, but the management, which was not strictly managed, naturally became even more chaotic.
In fact, let alone a thief like Guan Hai, even a famous general like Xu Rong could not build the rapidly expanding army into a solid piece at the first time. Otherwise, Wang Yu would not have the opportunity to sneak in during the battle of the Yang people.
The members of Guan Hai's army come from all directions, and it's okay to have fellow villagers here, so they can prove their innocence, but the population turnover rate in this era is too poor. Many people only know the people in the village. It's like another world dozens of miles away. Where can I tell who is the spy and who is the real thief?
What's more, many people are simply wrapped in by Guan Hai, and they are unwilling to do so, so how can they cooperate with each other?
Therefore, although Guan Hai has always suspected that spies were in trouble, he had no choice but to strengthen the supervision of military supplies. However, the fire continued, even a clump of weeds would spontaneously ignite from time to time, and the situation was extremely strange.
Are spies who burn whatever they catch? Or is it the inherent flaw of the army being too large and management not keeping up?
Guan Hai was a little confused. He didn't need to understand the art of military affairs when he was robbed. When he had many people, he would fight. If he couldn't win, he would run into the mountains. When the opponent's defense was relaxed, he would take advantage of the loopholes. As long as he understood these, he would be a very amazing boss... he was Qu Shuai.
If he can't come up with conclusive evidence, even if he, the boss, cannot force his brothers to catch spies all day long. The brothers' protests make sense: don't burn food, supplies, and risk their lives to set fire to scare people. What's the point? Are the enemy's spies crazy or idiots who are desperate for life?
As a result, the series of fires under Duchang City gradually faded out of the thieves and became commonplace.
But Guan Hai soon discovered that the problem this time was very unusual, not the fire, but...
Guan Hai felt something flashing in his sight. When he looked up, he saw a meteor breaking through the night sky, burning into his camp with a bright trajectory, and landing not far from where the fire was ignited before!
One by one!
The meteors slid across the ink-black night sky and spread out over the camp, as gorgeous as the Nine Heavens Fairy blessing the mortals, sprinkling the petals in the Heavenly Palace one after another.
However, the magnificent scene does not bring blessings, but death and murderous intent!
Some of the petals hit the ground, jumped and went out in an instant. The other part of the orange-red petals were accurate, or unfortunately, they splashed on the curtain made of kudzu or linen, quickly causing a ball of fire.
"Enemy attack!"
The next moment, Guan Hai's heart-wrenching shouts penetrated the night: "Enemy attacks, men, get up and fight! Someone attacks the camp!"
That is not a ghost meteor or a celestial girl, but a rocket! Someone is attacking his military camp with rockets! Those who have this kind of equipment and are hostile to themselves can only be the official army!
"Damn Zhang Rao! He still couldn't block the road with 200,000 people, but he actually put the enemy in!" The moment he realized the reality, Guan Hai was furious and began to regret it.
I was too careless and thought that Zhang Rao's 200,000 troops were enough to block the Beihai Kingdom. In fact, this is true. Aren't the Youzhou army rushing from the Bohai Sea blocked the Le'an Kingdom?
Based on this inference, he also guessed the identity of the attacker: it was the Taishan Army and Wang Pengju. Only this person would have made such a bold and crazy plan!
Meteors followed one after another, as if it was a heavy rain. Yes, it was like rain, because there were also dull thunder sounds accompanied by the shooting stars!
In the doomsday scene, the flames of death are becoming increasingly dense and the scope of the impact is becoming increasingly larger.
Guan Hai's screams at the top of his lungs did not alarm too many people. The battalion was too big. Not to mention ten people, even a toad that was the same size as Guan Hai would not be able to yell so loudly, which would alarm the entire battalion.
The first thing that was alarmed was the bandits near the fire. They were either dressed in disheveled or naked from the tent, rubbing their sleepy eyes and cursing and cursing.
They didn't know what was going on. When they found themselves surrounded by raging fire, they instinctively let out a harsh scream. The screams alarmed more people. Soon, the shrill screams were connected into a group, gathering into a sang from purgatory, which was countless times louder than Guan Hai's roar alone.
However, the battalion was still not completely alarmed.
At this moment, Guan Hai had a clear understanding and finally knew the truth about the serial fire incident!
That's right, that's what spies did, spies from the Taishan Army. The purpose of these spies is not to burn their own food and supplies, they are coming to trample the surprise attacking troops!
Every fire incident will cause a certain degree of commotion. After frequent disturbances, the minions will become accustomed to it and will not react at the first time. Anyway, it is not burning around them and making trouble for themselves. Could it be that if they run fast, the boss will reward themselves?
Guan Hai did not do any defense. He arranged people to patrol the camp and arrange defense, and did not completely connect the battalions, but divided them into several relatively independent battalions. The most important thing was that he cleared all the obstacles over ten miles around the camp, and his vision was quite wide. Even if the cavalry attacked, there was enough warning time.
But the continuous fire incidents reduced the vigilance of the bandits. No matter what movements they heard or what strange things they found, they would not react immediately, even in this current situation, the same is true!
The fire in the camp began to spread, and the fire was reflected around it, but the darkness in the distance was so dark.
In the darkness, I don’t know if there is a monster. The low muffled thunder sounds like horse hooves hitting the ground, but it is a bit different. It is more dull, shorter, and thinner than the sound of horse hooves falling on the ground!
Just like a gust of wind blowing, the sound of muffled thunder rolled over the camp. Wherever you pass, countless new stars rose and suddenly fell down, igniting the tents one by one, sinking Guan Hai's camp into the sea of fire, and blowing fear to the depths of the souls of the bandits!
The fire spreads at an unimaginable speed. What spreads faster than the fire is fear, fear that penetrates deep into the bone marrow!
Wind and thunder intersect, and fires soar into the sky!
More and more minions escaped from the tent, regardless of their clothes and their bodies, and they had no time to pick up weapons. They just fled to the depths of the camp out of human survival instinct.
The continuous fires can be regarded as a warning of punishment from God. Now, the punishment of heaven has finally arrived. If you don’t want to die under the thunder and fire, you can only escape from a distance.
Even the people in the deep camp were alarmed, and fire was common, but no one was common in the chaos of hundreds of people running. People had herd mentality. When the turmoil occurred, no one would seriously think about it. Unless there were some more authoritative people or rules to guide them, most people would only join the collective ranks.
The fugitive team is expanding;
The fatal panic spreads;
Gradually, it affected the depths of the camp and caused more and greater chain effects.
"Stop, there are not many people in the Taishan Army. Don't escape. Kill all the invading thieves!" Guan Hai was anxious, and his roar became louder and louder.
He had no experience in dealing with this big scene. Unexpectedly, just because he was stunned for a while, the situation became out of control. But he knew that there would not be too many soldiers coming.
Zhang Rao's 200,000 troops were not decorations, and the Yellow Turbans everywhere that were gathering in Qi State were not blind. If the Taishan Army invaded the border, there would be no warning at all, and Zhang Rao would not just say without pain that there were a small group of cavalry active in the territory!
What's more, he also knew more accurate information. The Taishan Army returned from Luoyang was less than 10,000. Wang Pengju did not expand his army during this period. Even if Mount Tai came out in full swing, there were only a few thousand people, and his army had more than 50,000!
In fact, there may not be even thousands of people coming because they were cavalrymen, and Wang Pengju is not a real god. Can you turn thousands of war horses by waving your hand?
"Don't escape, pass on my general order and prepare to fight back. Those who violate the order will be killed!" Guan Hai kicked over a minion soldier who ran past him and grabbed another one.
He, the master of the family, cut out hard, and died under his sword, including the official army, the powerful, the people, and many fellow practitioners. Killing the official army is for resistance; killing the powerful is for revenge; killing the people is for plunder; killing the fellow practitioners is for self-protection and power struggle!
Therefore, he has always been very prestigious in the army. Not to mention the minions, even Zhang Rao's generous manners attach great importance to him. Not only did he promise a heavy reward to invite him to participate in the event, but he also shared a lot of confidential information with him.
But at the critical moment of life and death, who was still concerned about these things? No one paid attention to Guan Hai. Even the minion who was grabbed by him struggled hard, leaving his only coat to his boss or Qu Shuai. He ran into the depths of the darkness without looking back, with only his bare buttocks, slightly reflecting the firelight, like a flying firefly.
"Stop! I am your boss, your commander! Follow my orders and kill back! There are only 1,800 cavalry outside, and there are only a few cavalry of the Taishan Army! Kill them, Duchang will surrender. At that time, you can have fun in the city, and then let's conquer the world together and build a peaceful world that will never starve!"
Guan Hai roared like crazy, the sword in his hand was stained with blood, and several disobedient minions were buried under his knife. However, the escape did not end. The only effect of Guan Hai's actions was to clear a large piece around him, and at the same time, make the panic become real.
The defeated soldiers avoided the crazy-like killing god from afar. While fleeing, they shouted: "Wang Pengju is here, and it is Wang Pengju, who is here in Mount Tai!"
"A lot of cavalry came, like evil ghosts!"
"The bandits are finished, don't die with them!"
"Don't take weapons. Wang Junhou's troops are benevolent and righteous troops. They only kill bandits, not good people!"
"Run, run!"
Guan Hai felt a heat in his throat, and a bloody smell was circling in his throat. He finally remembered that the camp was filled with minions who had followed him for many years, and there were many ordinary people who had been brought in for a short time.
According to normal rules, these newly joined people were reluctant at first, but over time, these victims would become like the former perpetrators, adapting to looting, fighting, and massacre... People have strong adaptability.
However, Guan Hai's time to raise troops this time was too short, and the results were only Zhu Xu, the county town. The emotions of these victims were not very stable. They yearned for a peaceful life of day and night rest, rather than waving swords and guns to create a peaceful world.
There is no problem in normal times. These people are with their families and cannot escape far if they want to escape, and they cannot escape even if they escape. However, now, when the thief army with the Yellow Turban banner is facing a catastrophe, scattering and escaping is their only choice.
The most important thing is that there are also unknown spies among these people!
Damn Wang Pengju is so scheming. Before the surprise attack, he even arranged spies, which clearly does not give anyone a way to survive!
Guan Hai swallowed the blood that surged into his throat in one mouthful, turned over and returned to the tent. He had not lost yet, and he did not admit defeat!
He became the Yellow Turban since summer. Before that, he was a bandit, and once wandered between the bandits of Mount Tai and Qingzhou.
Many of his minions were the first group of victims who suffered disasters. After more than ten years of bandit career, they all changed from honest people and harmless people to killing bandits without blinking.
This team has 5,000 people!
Even if they were a little bit separated during the turmoil, the rest would be enough to fight with the Taishan cavalry! Guan Hai began to wear armor, and ordinary bandits certainly did not have such equipment, but Guan Hai was the leader and naturally had privileges.
Zhang Rao's intelligence source was very reliable. He was worried at first, and sent people to sneak into Xuzhou and Mount Tai to verify it. The intelligence showed that the Taishan Army had only a thousand cavalrymen, including five hundred white horses from Youzhou. Will these foreign troops fight to the death for others?
As long as you gather one or two thousand people and show enough fighting spirit, the Youzhou people, who are the guest soldiers, will be worried. No matter how powerful the Taishan soldiers are, Wang Pengju himself will not be able to appear here. What else is there to be scary?
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Guan Hai's intelligence source was indeed very accurate, and there were only more than 800 cavalrymen who launched the Battle of the Chao Camp.
During the battle between Yangren, Baima Yi did not suffer major casualties, but after a series of battles, the number of personnel was reduced by about 20%. Gongsun Yue originally intended to help Wang Yu make up for it, but for various reasons, Wang Yu did not accept it.
Then Wang Yu drew two hundred people from the cavalry of his team and planned to train them into cavalry. The process must be long and costly, but he still did this.
The heavy-armed cavalry has poor raiding ability. More importantly, this cavalry has not yet been formed and has not been taken out to fight. Therefore, the cavalry brought by Taishici was less than 900.
Nine hundred to fifty thousand, it doesn’t rely on the support of the city at all. This plan looks crazy, but Taishici is excited. If he wants to fight, he should fight such a big battle to be majestic and have great contributions.
In the ordinary army, the generals and schoolmen may have a lot of objections, but neither Wang Yu's direct lineage Fang Yue nor the guest general Qin Feng had the intention to object.
The Taishan Army is in this style. With a domineering lord, what kind of battle they dare not fight?
The 50,000 thieves? It was just a mob of local chickens and dogs. It was just a wave of hands and was leveled.
"Start the battle, don't give them a chance to regroup!" After observing for a while, Taishici could no longer hold back. He jumped on his horse and speared over the fence, and was the first to cross the fence.
To be continued...