The fifty-fourth chapter of the king's ambition (twelve)
Diliwa and Maoshipu have always been firmly controlled by Yangshan Village. These two villages are adjacent to Yangshan Village, so it is most convenient to recruit people. There are many young people in the village, and the person in charge is the same as Zheng Ze.
The old people in Songling mobilized very quickly. When Zheng Renwang and Zhao Qiandao arrived at the two villages respectively, the alarm gongs in the village immediately rang, and the young men from every household returned to their houses to collect troops.
They had swords, horizontal knives, wooden spears, or short axes. There were also some hunter boys carrying hunting bows and arrow pots, and soon they gathered in the open space outside the village.
King Zheng Renwang and Zhao Qiandao each selected two hundred people, and each of them brought the food they had prepared and rushed to the fish shop. By evening, the fish shop was already full of soldiers and horses, except for those from Diliwa and Maoshipu.
In addition to the 400 people, a hundred elite dead soldiers from Yangshan Village, led by King Zheng Tian, had already arrived here. Together with the 60 villagers selected from the fish shop, more than 560 people had gathered here.
After all, the three Zheng brothers have some family knowledge, especially King Zheng Tian and King Zheng. They had seen their father send troops to fight in the early years, and had competed with Zhangjiabao for many years, so they had rich experience in leading armies. After gathering the villagers, they immediately started to arrange what
People blocked the mountain road, who went out to investigate, and who set up sentries, it looked pretty decent.
After asking a few clever brothers to follow Chu Da to contact the Chu family in the village, the three Zheng brothers gathered their confidants in one place to discuss how to attack Shidan Village. After long discussions, they finally made a preliminary plan and prepared
The third oldest brother, Zheng Renwang, led a frontal attack with two hundred brothers. Zhao Qiandao led two hundred brothers from the hill to the north of the village to launch a side attack. Zheng Tianwang led the remaining brothers as backup reinforcements. For this reason, Zheng Tianwang specially ordered Zhao Qiandao
, when attacking from the side, you must be decisive and quick, inserting directly behind the Khitans to prevent the Khitans from escaping on horseback. After all, I got the news from Chu Da that the Khitans in Shidan Village have dozens of war horses. If they flee along the river valley, they will
It's hard to chase.
It was still dark. The fish shop was like a pot. More than 500 people got up and cleaned up in a hurry. After breakfast, they walked out of the fish shop and went straight to Shidan Village. Shidan Village is a few meters away from the fish shop.
Five miles away, there is a green mountain in the middle. It takes more than an hour to climb. The three Zheng brothers led their troops to climb over the green mountain. After descending to the river valley, the sky was already bright, but the mist rising from the river had not yet dispersed.
, the line of sight is no more than thirty steps away, which plays an excellent role in concealing the march.
When there was still a few miles away from Shidan Village, King Zheng Tian was about to divide his troops according to the plan, and prepare to lead Zhao Qiandao to climb the hill to the north of the village, but he heard a noise coming from the front. King Zheng Tian was furious, and the place was separated from Shidan.
Dancun was already very close. Wouldn't such noise reveal his whereabouts? He hurried over to stop it, but saw several figures running towards him in the thick fog. It was Chu Da and others who had been sent out to contact him.
King Zheng Di was next to King Zheng Tian. When he saw Chu Da and others looking flustered, he had a premonition that the situation had changed. It was just as he expected. Chu Da said anxiously: "Several village leaders, the Khitan people are about to run away.
Kill him quickly."
King Zheng came forward to ask, and Chu Da told the story in a few words. But it turned out that he had sneaked back home last night and had discussed it with his elders. He just waited for the Yangshanzhai army to come. He would take advantage of the Khitan people to
The general took action when he was sleeping. But somehow, just a moment ago, more than a hundred Khitan people stationed in Shidan Village hurriedly packed their bags and seemed to be about to run away. Chu Dada quickly took advantage of the chaos and came out.
General knowledge.
King Zheng was very surprised and asked carefully: "Do the Khitans know the news about the arrival of a certain group of people? Are they going to flee back to Liujiatun? How did the news leak out? Have you read it carefully? Is there any fraud?"
Chu Da was so anxious that he stamped his feet and said: "Second Village Master, there is no way of cheating. The Khitan people were in a panic. Many people ran out of the house in a hurry without even taking their armor and weapons. Someone must have got the news, but
I don’t know how the news leaked. Go quickly, otherwise it will be too late.”
When King Zheng Tian heard this, he was also very anxious. The original plan would definitely not be realized. He did not divide his troops for a side attack. He just called on his brothers to speed up. More than 500 people shouted and rushed towards Shidan Village. In a moment,
Then he rushed into the village.
At this time, the thick fog gradually dissipated and the sky gradually brightened. The Chu family were waiting for the soldiers from Yangshan Village at the entrance of the village. Mr. Chu and the three Zheng brothers had been dealing with each other for many years and were very familiar with each other. When they saw King Zheng Tian, they hurriedly
He went up to them and said, "Master of Dazhai, hurry up, the Khitans have run away and are heading towards Liujiatun along the river valley."
King Zheng Tian asked hurriedly: "How long have you been running?"
Mr. Chu took the lead and led the way to the back of the village. As he walked, he said: "Those who walk from the back of the village can't run fast enough for a cup of tea. They don't have enough horses."
King Zheng Di wanted to ask a few more questions, but unexpectedly the third son, King Zheng Renwang, shouted: "Brothers, come with me, don't let the Khitan people escape." He had already greeted the brothers first and chased them in the direction directed by Mr. Chu.
, there were shouts and shouts of killing, causing chaos in the village. King Zheng Di wanted to grab his Sanlang, but he couldn't catch him in time. Not only did he fail to grab King Zheng Ren, but King Zheng Tian also commanded his team to rush out, so he had to
He followed helplessly.
After the soldiers of Yangshanzhai chased out of Shidan Village, they followed the river valley and bypassed a river beach. The river in front of them was straight and the field of vision was wide. From a distance, they could see more than a hundred Khitan people running in disorder in front of them. Many swords, guns and leather helmets were discarded on the road.
Twenty or thirty of those Khitan people were riding horses. When they turned around and saw the pursuing troops from Yangshan Village, they also stepped up their calls to the Khitan deserters to run faster. There were hundreds of steps between the two sides, one chasing and the other fleeing, and the shouts of killing shook the valley.
After chasing for more than a mile, the running speed of the Khitan deserters dropped significantly. King Zheng Ren was secretly happy, thinking that these barbarians really couldn't walk after getting off their horses. Although he and others were also tired, after all, they had been running all year round.
Walking in the valley in the mountains, he was far superior to his opponent in terms of physical strength and endurance. Seeing that the Khitan people in front were getting closer and closer, he turned around and shouted loudly: "Brothers, work harder. If you catch up, you will be rewarded."
The Khitans were overtaken at the very moment. The twenty or thirty cavalrymen at the front didn't even care about the infantry behind them. They whipped up their horses and fled away, leaving only seventy or eighty infantrymen suffering behind.
Ku fled, and the two sides were only a hundred steps away.
There was another bend in the river ahead. The Khitan infantry crossed the bend and continued to escape. King Zheng Ren also urged his soldiers to follow closely. When he turned the bend in the river, he suddenly took a breath of cold air and felt deep in his heart.
There was an inexplicable chill in my eyes. On the open land on the river beach in front of me, there was an infantry phalanx neatly arranged hundreds of steps away. It was arranged vertically and horizontally, so neatly that it could block the open space above the river beach. Those were
The Khitan deserters rushed to the front of the phalanx, immediately divided into two groups, went around and reunited behind the phalanx, received the swords, guns and other weapons handed over by their companions, mounted the horses that had been prepared, and lined up a cavalry group diagonally behind the phalanx.
Array.
King Zheng Ren wanted to stop his brothers and shouted: "Stop, stop." The soldiers around him saw the enemy formation in front of them and stopped one after another. But at this moment, they were at the bend of the river.
The villagers in the rear group could not see what was going on in front of them and were still crowding forward. Zheng Renwang shouted several times but could not stop himself. He himself was also crowded and kept moving forward. Several villagers were crowded.
The crowd squeezed down to the river. Fortunately, the water was not deep. They quickly climbed up the river bank, but they were already in a panic. It was not until more than 500 people had turned the bend of the river that the team finally stopped. Several hundred people were breathing heavily.
, staring dumbfounded at the military formation blocking the way by the river beach in front of him.
King Zheng Tian and King Zheng Di both squeezed to the front and stood side by side with King Zheng Ren. The three Zheng brothers carefully looked at the military formation in front, and their mouths became dry involuntarily. The military formation was very solemn, with three rows of spears in front and three rows of spears in the rear.
The densely arranged array can't be seen clearly what kind of weapons they are. To put it roughly, there are about three hundred people. The soldiers in the military array are wearing yellow cloth military uniforms lined with leather armor.
In the scorching heat of summer, a cold chill emanated from the military formation. In addition, the Khitan people who had just been chased and fled in embarrassment also formed a neat cavalry formation diagonally behind the military formation, with everyone on horseback, each drawing a sword, and wearing armor and war horses.
Apparently they have all been completely re-equipped.
Both square formations were silent and motionless, with only the flags in the formations fluttering lightly in the morning wind. In the front formation were two large flags, and the square flag in the middle had a big "李" written on it. Carefully,
It can be seen that there are two lines of small characters on both sides of the word "Li", which read "Guerrilla General Lulong of the Tang Dynasty" and "Liucheng Army Envoy, Yan County Guard Capture Envoy" respectively. The other big flag has the word "Zhang" written on it.
On both sides are "Yingzhou Army Yihui Xiaowei" and "Yuhou Sidu Yuhou".
The three Zheng brothers stood there for a long time, and King Zheng muttered: "I fell into a trap... He is not from the Khitan, but from the imperial court, and his surname is Li..."
King Zheng Tianwang looked bitter and said with dry lips: "Erlang, what should we do?"
King Zheng Ren regained his composure and gritted his teeth and said: "Dalang, I will lead a group of people to charge into the formation. There are only more than 400 people on the other side. We have more than 500 people and we have to fight hard. I don't believe that I can't break through." Even so,
, but seeing the opponent's bright armor and strict formation, I couldn't help but feel guilty.
King Zheng called Zhao Qian Dao behind him: "Old Zhao, look to see if there are any enemy troops behind you."
Zhao Qiandao squeezed back and replied after a moment: "There is no one behind you."
King Zheng Di said to King Zheng Tian: "Dalang, what I mean is that you should lead a hundred people to guard the retreat for our brothers."
King Zheng Tian knew Erlang's intentions. In addition to guarding his retreat, he also wanted to protect himself. Seeing the opponent's tight formation, this battle was probably not going to be easy. If he lost, he could escape first. He was a capable person.
The one who was responsible, but refused to escape for his own life, immediately said: "Second brother, you go to the back and guard the way back. Someone cannot leave here. If someone leaves, the brothers will be separated, and the battle will not be fought. If there is an emergency
, the Zheng family depends on you."
King Zheng Di tried to persuade him a few more times, but King Zheng Tian just refused. At this time of crisis, he could not persuade him any more. The Zheng family always wanted to leave one person behind for the future, so he said no more and squeezed into the back.
Go and order a hundred people to guard the back road behind the bend of the river.
The Yingzhou military formation was solemn for a moment, and an officer came out and said loudly: "Listen to the bandits in front, Zhang Duyu of a certain family has something to say: Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will be spared death, and those who stubbornly resist will be killed within half an hour. If it is too late, there will be no blame for the massacre by the army. "
King Zheng Tian took two steps forward and said loudly: "This, so-and-so is King Zheng. Please tell me that so-and-so is from the former department of the Governor's Mansion of Guying Prefecture..." He only said a few words, but the officer ignored him. Ignoring it, he turned around and returned to the formation, leaving King Zheng Tian in front of the two armies. His face was red and he was extremely embarrassed. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!