Chapter Thirty-Eight: Breaking the Siege of the City and Using Their Tricks (1)
Shi Jin tightened the reins of the horse, took out the coiled dragon stick stuck in the back, and said to Wu Yong: "Wu Yong, you take half of the people and horses to Aoshui Town first. I will resist in front." Waved and said: "Follow me,"
Wu Yong immediately led 200 men and horses towards Aoshui Town to look for Di Yan to rescue him, while Shi Jin led 300 men and horses in the direction of Tan Ma Lai to report.
After running up the hill, within a hundred steps, they met a small group of forbidden troops.
That group of Imperial Guards was the same group of soldiers and horses that besieged Zheng County. The few Imperial Guardsmen who were on guard just now accidentally saw people and horses walking on the hillside, so they informed the generals and sent 500 troops to find out what was going on.
At that moment, Shi Jin seized the direction of this group of people and waved the dragon-coiling stick in his hand to kill them. Those forbidden soldiers had never seen weapons like Shi Jin's. They roared like dragons roaring, and large dragon scales flew out from the shadow of the stick. Shi Jin's skills were extremely sharp, and his fancy stick skills often contained the most sinister and deadly killing moves.
Before the soldiers and horses captured by Shi Jin had time to lift up the weapons in their hands, Shi Jin had already launched countless killing moves, flurry of stabs, and immediately caught the oncoming Imperial Army off guard, and fell down with blood and flesh flying everywhere. Go, and the young general who led him was extremely unlucky. Shi Jin didn't take him seriously at all. He just regarded him as an ordinary forbidden soldier. He faced him with his handle and swung his knife, and in an instant he grabbed the young general's arm. Weakness, the handle was pointed at his heart and a shot was made, which immediately poked a hole in the man's heart. As the gun head was pulled out, a handful of blood suddenly spurted out, and his whole body also fell weightless. go.
Shi Jin, with the three hundred men behind him, pierced the ranks of the Forbidden Army like a bayonet, and cut a group of officers and soldiers from the middle, killing the group of officers and soldiers a little confused. Before he had time to turn around and pursue the pursuit, Shi Jin and his three hundred brothers had already taken advantage of their fast horses to make a half-circle and kill them from the side of the Forbidden Army, causing the Forbidden Army to be in chaos. After regaining his strength and counterattacking, Shi Jin saw that Wu Yong and others had already taken more than a thousand steps, and the Forbidden Army could not catch up, so he rushed through the chaotic ranks of the Forbidden Army, killed them, and immediately took his men with him. The soldiers and horses lined up and headed towards Aoshui Town.
When the imperial guards saw Shi Jin and others escaping, they quickly slapped their horses and gave chase.
Shi Jin originally thought that after killing these forbidden troops, they no longer had any fighting mechanism, but he did not expect that these forbidden troops were indeed different from ordinary officers and soldiers. Even if Shi Jin destroyed them like that, they could still unite together without the generals, and even if they were killed, their formations would be in chaos. They could regain their strength. Now this group of Imperial Guards saw clearly Shi Jin's disadvantage of having only 300 soldiers and horses, and immediately pursued him.
When Shi Jin saw how difficult the Forbidden Army was, he had to re-evaluate how to deal with such troops in the future. The tenacity and sharp combat effectiveness of the Forbidden Army were beyond the comparison of ordinary officers and soldiers. Shi Jin couldn't help but feel excited about going to Weinan. Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi, who came to the rescue, were comforted and worried.
Just when Shi Jin couldn't get rid of him and was about to fight back, two groups of people suddenly appeared from the dense forest on both sides of the road. Each of them held a bow and arrow and pointed in the direction where Shi Jin came from.
Looking at the densely packed flashing arrows, Shi Jin couldn't help but tremble all over. He was really frightened by the formation. But after their horses flashed past, they only heard a light scolding of "let go," just like the cry of a locust. The arrows flew toward the Imperial Army, and those who were hit by the arrows fell off their horses one by one, and screams could be heard endlessly.
Just when most of the Forbidden Army was killed by arrows, hundreds of men and horses suddenly came out from the forest. When they encountered the officers and soldiers, they cut down each other. It didn't take long before the Forbidden Army was defeated and fled. .
Shi Jin reined in his horse and led his brothers to fight back, killing the Forbidden Army to a pulp. Most of them were killed by swords and guns. Only a few of them were lucky enough to escape back to the Forbidden Army's barracks with serious injuries.
Shi Jin reined in his soldiers and horses, and the men and horses who had just been killed in the woods also gathered together. It was none other than Wu Yong. At this time, the archers hiding in the woods also came out, led by the ones stationed in Aoshui Town. Di Yan.
The three men gathered together with their soldiers and horses, and while they were talking, Shi Jin realized that after he and Wu Yong came out of Aoshui Town, Di Yan was sitting in the camp and felt uneasy, so he personally led a group of people away. Yuan followed, but after a meal, he saw Wu Yong withdrawing with his troops and horses. Di Yan went up to ask, only to find out that the forbidden army was aware of it, and he immediately listened to Wu Yong's arrangement. The two groups were hiding on both sides of the woods. Unexpectedly, they had just finished hiding. After a while, Shi Jin and his men and horses actually withdrew, and the scene just now happened.
Shi Jin and Wu Yong went back with Di Yan, and Di Yan returned to Aoshui Town to set up defenses. We won't mention it here for now. Let's say that Shi Jin and Wu Yong returned to Huayin County at high speed, and called their brothers to discuss countermeasures.
"I just took the risk to find out that the Forbidden Army's camp is very tight. From the outside, the layout is extremely rigorous, and the traffic inside is extremely smooth. There are anti-horse corners on all sides. I'm afraid it won't be easy to break in, even if it's If you can break in, you're afraid of falling into someone else's trap and being manipulated into someone else's hands." Wu Yong drew the Forbidden Army's camp on the table and explained: "Therefore, a forceful attack is absolutely impossible. Pick,"
"According to the military advisor, this Forbidden Army is a hedgehog. We have to find a way to get rid of him," Lin Chong said, "Although I don't know this formation, we don't have to be so afraid of him."
"It's not that there are no ways. There are ways to attack by force. However, now is the time to employ men. Head-on confrontation will only consume our troops." Wu Yong shook his head and said as if talking to himself: "In this way, Not a good deal,"
Shi Jin, who had been silent for the whole time, said, "I would also like to ask Military Advisor Wu to give me some advice."
Wu Yong stopped talking at that moment, took out a pen and paper, and drew out the terrain he had secretly memorized in his mind. As he drew, he said: "Although we cannot face a direct conflict with the Forbidden Army, we can take them out of the conflict." To lead out from the camp, we only need a force of 500 soldiers and horses with enough arrow feathers. The arrows are smeared with sulfur and other fire starters. When we run eighty steps to the Forbidden Army camp, we can reach the range of the bow and arrow. , when the time comes, light up the arrow feathers, run quickly around the camp, and shoot arrows into the camp, ignite the tent barracks inside, and then you can fight back," Wu Yong said here, using his hand He marked another troop of troops on the map with his pen and said: "When the fire breaks out, the Forbidden Army will definitely come out. We need a thousand men and horses to attack the officers and soldiers in front. When we encounter the Forbidden Army, they will fight for a while. So I quickly pretended to be defeated, discarded my armor, and returned along the original road. After passing the first mountain range here, when you come down the hillside, I have a small path for you to wait for."
Wu Yong said this, and drew a circle with emphasis on the hillside with his pen, and said: "In this small valley, we will set up a camp in advance. On the hillside just now, we have also dug out two feet in advance. Use a high trap, support it with branches, cover it with sand, and set up a knife-edged spear tip inside the trap," Wu Yong said, and drew a trail on the hillside on the paper, and on both sides were detailed One trap after another was laid.
"Previously, Pegasus shot down the cavalry in the Forbidden Army camp with rockets. After completing its mission, it returned to the barracks, loaded its bows with arrows, and lurked in the camp. The more than a thousand brothers who were used as baits safely retreated to the camp along the path and separated. Hidden on both sides behind the camp," Wu Yong said: "Those forbidden troops will definitely be destroyed in half in the trap. When some of them rush towards the camp from the path, the archers will take turns to fire volleys, shooting down a few waves of the forbidden troops. Pretend to flee and evacuate the camp quickly,"
"When the Imperial Guards break into the barracks and fight their way out through time, they will certainly not be willing to pay such a painful price and end up in vain. The more we tease them, the angrier they will be, and the more they will want to rely on their own fighting power. , they came to chase and kill them with bad intentions. When they reached this point, they were already not far from Aoshui Town. They definitely wanted to pursue them all the way and knock down Aoshui Town in one fell swoop, which would be considered a worthy achievement," Wu Yong After a pause, he continued: "When they come out of the camp, we will let them pass through the mountain road first. Then, the thousand brothers who were ambushing here suddenly came out from both sides, catching the officers and soldiers by surprise."
"Those forbidden troops feel that the momentum is not right, so they will definitely retreat back the same way," Lin Chong said: "In that case, they will retreat back to the camp, but what will we do? We have no troops behind them, and we hope that the troops from Zheng County will come out. If there is no chance, we might as well place troops and horses in ambush at the back, and when the officers and soldiers retreat, we will come out from halfway. Wouldn't it be a surprise to catch them off guard and put them in a dilemma?"
Wu Yong smiled and shook his feather fan and said: "I am Han Xin's order of troops. The more the better. However, not only must we preserve our effective strength, but also the existing troops are not enough for us to deploy another one. Brother Lin Chong's It’s not that I haven’t thought of ways to do it, but it’s just that I have more than enough intentions but not enough energy.”
"Then we still have to watch them escape and go back as a group?" Lin Chong was a little unwilling to let it go.
"Of course I won't let them escape so easily. We only need to fill the tents where the camp is set up in the valley with flammable materials such as hay and sulfur. We only need to wait until the officers and soldiers start to retreat. The archers who withdrew continued to use rockets to set our camp on fire. This way, the camp was filled with a sea of fire, which cut off their escape route without burning them to death."
"This is a good method. After the Forbidden Army is dealt with, the troops they left in the camp to put out the fire are still our opponents. With a thousand troops, we can sweep them across," Lin Chong said happily,