The intelligence is correct, the enemy transport team has indeed appeared!
This time, Ye Yong was finally smart. He did not attack rashly, but calmly waited for all the enemy troops to get into the ambush site.
After the enemy's last grain carriage entered the ambush point, Ye Yong suddenly shouted, "Kill me!" He then jumped down with his trident, followed closely by Xu Lei.
Immediately afterwards, shouts of killing suddenly erupted from both sides of the valley, and dense ambush troops poured in from both sides toward the transport team.
As soon as the battle began, the enemy troops gave up resistance, abandoned their supplies and fled, wailing as they were killed.
Soon, Ye Yong's flawed troop deployment showed its shortcomings. Since he did not consider blocking the opponent's escape route in advance, and the opponent simply ran away without resisting, the effect was full of loopholes and ineffective.
The effect of total annihilation.
"Chasing me, don't let go of any enemy!" Ye Yong waved the trident in his hand with a heroic look. He was not aware of the loopholes in his tactical deployment and frantically pursued the remaining enemy soldiers. Xu
Lei followed Ye Yong with the demon knife in hand, but looked at Ye Yong's teeth and claws, as if he was watching a joke like a clown.
Not letting anyone go? Leaving such a large intersection without barriers and saying not to let anyone go? Don't the soldiers of the Newer Empire have long legs and will they stand there and let you chop off their heads one by one?
At this time, Ye Yong was completely immersed in the thrill of chasing the remnant bandits. His heart had already drifted to the illusory clouds, and it was drifting faster and faster. The fragile rope holding his feet was about to break!
They have been chasing from morning until dark, and more than half of the enemy troops are still fleeing. The soldiers of the Yas Empire who are responsible for the pursuit are already panting. One side is trying to escape, and the other side is trying to kill a few more to collect rewards.
The potential is naturally very different.
"Sir, are you still chasing me?" A soldier who was panting from exhaustion asked Ye Yong, who was also breathing heavily.
Ye Yong frowned and did not reply. He watched from a distance as the enemy troops, whose retreating speed continued unabated, got further and further away from his sight, and finally disappeared.
Although Ye Yong was a little arrogant, he was not stupid enough to be an idiot. He knew that his own soldiers were exhausted at this time, and the terrain ahead was complex. Even if he caught up with the enemy, he might not be able to win. Moreover, the complex terrain was extremely prone to ambushes.
Just when Ye Yong was hesitant, Xu Lei suddenly reminded him: "Sir Ye Yong, we issued a military order before we set off. If we cannot completely annihilate this transport unit, we may be sent to the Military Law Office when we return. According to military regulations,
, if you fail to complete the military order, you will be beheaded!"
Ye Yong gritted his teeth and said, "Continue to pursue!"
"Yes!" Xu Lei shouted loudly, taking the lead to rush forward.
After chasing all the way into the undulating and complex terrain ahead, they moved forward for a while, and indeed they caught up with the enemy transport team that was resting on the spot. However, in addition to this transport team, there were also a large number of enemy ambushes.
The swords and soldiers are like a forest, the arrows are like locusts, and the cry of killing shakes the sky!
The Yasi Empire's pursuers, who were confident just now, instantly turned into deserters running hastily. However, the person who deployed the ambush did not make the same mistake as Ye Yong. When the pursuers entered the ambush site, their retreat had been blocked.
The ambush of the Newer Empire quietly blocked.
The soldiers surrounded by the ambush suddenly became turtles in an urn, instantly falling apart in the face of an enemy that was several times their size.
"Xu Lei! What to do!" Ye Yong waved his trident and struggled to resist the enemy soldiers who were constantly coming towards him. He had already been decorated with several colors. When he found that he was the only one left, he shouted Xu Lei's
Name, and then he recalled that many of his ideas since entering the army were the ideas of his follower. Only then did he realize how important the follower named Xu Lei was to him. His interpersonal relationships in the army,
Almost all of his achievements in the battle were Xu Lei's ideas.
It's just that this time he was disappointed. The follower Xu Lei who always followed him closely and would appear immediately when he called out did not appear again this time.
Pounce! Another knife was slashed on the back, and the bones were visible. Ye Yong felt pain in his back. He gritted his teeth and swept the trident out. He barely resolved the crisis, but what followed was more...
Soldiers coming like a tide.
Ye Yong would never have dreamed at this time that Xu Lei was standing on a hilltop not far from him, watching all this quietly. Next to him, there was an officer from the Newer Empire!
"Haha, yes, the ambush tactic you deployed is really useful." The officer of the Newer Empire looked at the enemy army fighting to the last man at the foot of the mountain with satisfaction, and said to Xu Lei, who was silent at the side: "
You might as well join our Newer Empire, talents like you will definitely be reused!"
A sneer appeared on Xu Lei's lips, "No third person knows about this."
The officer said: "You and I are the only ones in the world who know about this."
Xu Lei smiled with satisfaction, "Where is what I want?"
The officer smiled and took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Xu Lei, "Don't worry, I keep my word. It has the seal of our army on it and it is genuine."
Xu Lei opened the envelope and opened it a few times. After seeing nothing strange, he carefully put the envelope away.
"Where's what I want?" the officer said.
Xu Lei turned his head and looked at the officer with a half-smile, and said: "I gave you such a big gift this time. After wiping out a whole battalion, you will definitely be able to receive a large bounty after you return."
, now you still want something from me, isn’t it too greedy?”
When the officer heard this, his smiling face suddenly collapsed, and he glared at Xu Lei and said: "This is what we agreed in advance. As long as I provide you with the things you want, you promise to give me a thousand gold coins. As for annihilating all of you,
Although the tactics of a battalion were deployed by you, they were earned with the blood of my soldiers. Do you want to go back on your word?" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to sacrifice his fighting spirit.
Xu Lei suddenly laughed, patted the officer on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "I'm just kidding you, don't be so nervous, I've already prepared the gold coins."
The officer then relaxed and laughed loudly: "You kid, you are still joking at this time."
At this moment, cheers from the soldiers came from the foot of the mountain. Ye Yong's body had now turned into fragments. The soldiers were scrambling for these fragments. According to regulations, he took the rank of captain of the enemy camp.
An officer is worth ten gold coins for an arm, twenty gold coins for a leg, and fifty gold coins for a head!
The soldiers who snatched the pieces of Ye Yong's body cheered immensely. These pieces of meat could receive a reward that was several times more than their monthly military pay.
Xu Lei looked at all this with an expressionless face. He had been looking forward to this scene almost every night before. When he faced Ye Yong's wanton insult in the classroom, he had been thinking about Ye Yong being cut to pieces with a thousand knives.
that day.
Now that this day has come, Xu Lei is surprisingly calm.
"You have to promise me something." Xu Lei suddenly said.
The officer patted his chest generously and said, "Say it, as long as I can do it."
Xu Lei said: "You must promise me to keep this secret forever."
The officer was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "Aren't you talking nonsense? Don't worry, it won't be good for me if I tell it. I will definitely keep it a secret. About the gold coin...see if you are..."
Xu Lei smiled and pointed behind the officer, "That's what's in those boxes."
The officer instinctively turned his head, but felt a faint flash of black light, and then found that he suddenly floated upwards. He seemed to see his body still standing on the ground in mid-air, and then he knew nothing.
A head fell heavily from mid-air to the ground, rolling right at Xu Lei's feet.
"This time, I believe you will keep this secret." Xu Lei looked at the head at his feet that still had greed in its eyes, smiled softly, and then turned and left.
What was supposed to be a foolproof ambush ended in the annihilation of an entire battalion, and the commander of the Yas Empire army was furious.
At this moment, Xu Lei, who was "covered with bruises", "luckily" escaped, crying so hard that he couldn't speak. He just handed over a blood-stained letter that he "accidentally" obtained
The letter was given to the coach.
The commander looked at the letter with the seal of the imperial army. After a brief glance, Lei Lei became furious and immediately ordered that everyone in the Ye family be arrested immediately, regardless of gender, regardless of age or sex, and all beheaded in the square for public display!
The content of the letter was a letter of appointment from the enemy, appointing Ye Yong as a special agent of the Newer Empire stationed in the Yas Empire, responsible for carrying out undercover and intelligence gathering tasks. At the bottom was a seal that was confirmed to be from the Newer Empire's army.
The payment date was exactly one week before the ambush mission.
Under the "irrefutable evidence", the "conspiracy" of the Yas Empire's loss of an integrated battalion this time also clearly surfaced, from intercepting the information about the grain transport team to Ye Yong's self-recommendation for the ambush mission, to an entire battalion.
The team deliberately entered the enemy's ambush and was completely wiped out. Everything was done by Ye Yong, a shameless collaborator and treason!
According to the laws of the Yas Empire, those who collaborate with the enemy and treason will be punished by Lingchi torture and the nine tribes will be exterminated!
Xu Lei, who was not afraid of coercion and inducement and risked his life to kill traitors, suddenly became the top officer of another battalion of the imperial army and was responsible for personally supervising the execution of the Ye family!
The Ye family has been entrenched in the Yas Empire for a long time and has a large population. Although the forces are intertwined, if the Yas Empire under military control is guilty of collaborating with the enemy and treason, then even the relationship with one hand covering the sky will be of no avail.
On the day when Ye Yong's nine tribesmen were executed, a dense crowd of onlookers gathered in the square. They all craned their necks curiously to look at these people who used to walk sideways in Yasi City, but now they were all wearing prison uniforms and kneeling in several rows.
, the number of people is probably hundreds, including many old people and children. Behind each person stands a shirtless and burly executioner, with a machete in his hand that reflects the chilling atmosphere.
Xu Lei sat expressionless on the execution platform. Occasionally, the sobs of a child and a woman made his heart soften, but he was instantly covered by Ye Yong's hateful face. His mind was filled with thoughts of the other party's plans for him and that day in the classroom.
It was a hellish night.
The huge disc timepiece erected in the center of the square recorded the passage of time bit by bit. Finally, the hands pointed at the noon mark.
The time has come!
Xu Lei held the token with the power of life and death between his two fingers and seemed to be playing with it carelessly. He narrowed his eyes slightly and leaned on the large seat with a lazy look, but did not give the order for a long time.
.
Just when everyone began to think that something had happened, Xu Lei opened his eyes suddenly and threw the token in his hand into the air.
"Execution!" A cold voice sounded like it came from hell.
The executioner who had been prepared raised the machete at the same time, with neat and uniform movements, and he chopped it down skillfully. He raised and lowered the knife without any hesitation. The whole scene seemed to be emptied of sound, and there was only a dense and intense sound.
A shocking dull sound.
The famous Ye family of the Yas Empire has now become a broken memory of this empire forever.