When Zhang Chong forced the three tribes to surrender, three Langya bandit sentry scouts on a slope not far away were crouching and watching everything.
After a while, the three of them slowly retreated down the slope and ran towards the sentry horses grazing down the slope to prepare to send the message back.
As soon as the three of them reached the slope, a burst of crossbow arrows suddenly shot out from the grass, turning the three of them into a hornet's nest. After a while, Meng Ju, the general of the Feijun camp, came out with the Feijun scouts.
Meng Ju kicked the three of them, and when he saw that they were completely dead, he led the three horses beside him and disappeared on the slope with the flying troops.
Not far away, Wu Dun and Pan Da led eight hundred Langya thieves to climb the slopes. The weapons of these eight hundred Langya thieves looked sophisticated, including knives, spears, halberds, and armor, but they were not restricted by the art of war.
The whole group of hedgehogs will be together. When the front is tired, they will take a rest on the ridge. When the back is energetic, they will rush downhill with a roar.
Wu Dun and Pan Da had no intention of reorganizing the army. They were singing their Langya Mountain folk songs and clapping with everyone. A few people nearby were even dancing to the folk songs, and they didn't look like they were going to the battlefield at all.
This is the mountain hut in Langya Mountain, where people sing generously and die bravely.
What does death mean? Twenty years of life are full of suffering. If you can live happily today, why not be afraid of going to Mount Tai.
This is their idea, they want to be happy, even if the soul of the dead arrives at Taishan Mansion, they still want to have fun.
Here Wu Dun saw his companion starting to dance, and he also became excited. He handed the ring-shou knife to the companion aside and began to dance in the singing of his companion.
Although Wu Dun is short and stout, he can dance with flexibility and lightness. Sometimes he beats the ground and sometimes beats his chest while singing, showing a arrogant air. The rest of the companions started to get infected and also danced with him, and the morale of the Langya thieves was high.
Seeing that his morale was almost lifted, Wu Dun waved his hand and continued on his way with the thieves.
This is Wu Dun's method of inspiring energy.
The thieves climbed over another hill amidst laughter and laughter. Looking at the black smoke curling up not far away, they knew they had arrived near the enemy's stronghold.
Then they crept up the slope, and when they looked down, they saw soldiers in armor and flags hunting in the sun, and an enemy soldier came slowly like a dark cloud.
Langya Thief stopped laughing or singing, and for a moment just stared blankly at the dark clouds in the distance, silent.
Wu Dun wanted to swallow, but found that there was no foam in his mouth. He was so stiff that he raised his right arm, turned around and shouted to the thieves:
"Retreat, everyone, retreat, let's retreat to the village."
After saying that, he pushed a few stunned companions. Everyone woke up as if from a dream, and they all ran back and forth. Some thieves felt that the halberds and spears in their hands were too hard, so they just threw them away.
Seeing that he and others were running slower and slower, A was so anxious that he took off his armor and kept up with the large army.
This is the tactics of bandits and bandits: fight if you can, and leave if you can't.
At this moment, it is obvious that he cannot fight.
Wu Dun ran and cursed:
"Hot lady, didn't Jiang Sheng say that the enemy on the other side is in a state of defeat? How could I be defeated thousands of miles away?"
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At this time, at a dock wall five miles away, Zang Ba was looking anxiously to the northeast. He was waiting for the sentry horse to report back, but no one has returned yet.
Previously, when black smoke billowed from the northeast, he had expected that the Taishan Army must be fighting. He secretly wondered if the powerful soldiers invited by Wang Kuang had already fought with the Taishan Army.
He was unsure, so he immediately dispersed his few sentry horses.
But time flew by, and there was no trace of the sentry horse.
Unable to wait any longer, Zang Ba remembered his father's teachings and acted decisively as a general.
He shouted at the soldiers inside the dock wall:
"Brothers, please stop playing around and follow me out of the camp with your sword."
The guards waiting below heard the order and began shouting back and forth on the wall of the dock:
"Order: Assemble your troops and attack."
Then bursts of women's wails and curses suddenly came from each house, and then thieves kept running out with their belts tied and cursing, followed by several thieves, all armed with knives covered in blood.
This is the custom of Langya thieves: "Fight in front of the battle, leaving no women behind."
Poor women, these thieves killed their fathers, husbands, sons, and nephews, and were toyed with by these beasts. In the end, they couldn't escape the knife.
What a shame!
Zang Ba and these Langya thieves were better trained than Wu Dun's Langya soldiers. Although they had no military discipline, their morale was high and they formed quickly. In just a moment, seven hundred soldiers lined up and came out of the wall. There were two waves of soldiers not far away.
, were also listed separately. They all held the banner with the character Zang, like hundreds of streams converging into the sea, gathering under Zang Ba's banner.
In this way, Zang Ba led all his old thieves and counted 2,100 people, and with the determination to die, they pressed overwhelmingly toward the northeast.
After walking no more than two miles, Zang Ba suddenly saw a wave of defeated troops fleeing across the mountains and plains. He was about to order them to be strangled.
They saw a short and fat figure in front of them, shouting to him. But they were far away, so Zang Ba couldn't hear clearly. But when they ran in again, they saw this group of people wearing colorful clothes, even women's clothes.
, he knew it was Wu Dun and his Langya thief.
He rode his horse forward, led Wu Dun into the formation, and ordered the defeated bandits to circle around the formation and reorganize to the east.
"What's going on? Weren't you ordered to stick to the west camp?"
As soon as he returned to the formation, Zang Ba hurriedly asked Wu Dun.
Wu Dun wiped his sweat and gasped:
"Before, there was black smoke billowing from the northeast. Jiang Sheng, my subordinate, said that this was the spirit of defeat. I was eager to win, so I led my troops to come."
"Then why did we collapse like this again? We were defeated by the Taishan bandits."
Wu Dun's dark face turned red for a rare moment, and he murmured:
"There was no fight. The brothers were instantly defeated when they saw the Taishan bandits coming out of battle."
Zang Baqi said:
"I told you earlier that Mr. Jiang under your command is just a warlock and a talker, but you just listen to him and believe him. Do you have the spirit of an invincible army? What? You are the only one who lost."
Wu Dun was unconvinced and was about to refute when Zang Ba stopped him with a wave of his hand. Zang Ba asked:
"Did you see the enemy flag?"
Wu Dun felt confident this time, and he nodded:
"Well, I saw it clearly, it's the Chongzi flag. It's the Taishan thief. He didn't run away."
After Wu Dun's defeat, he felt a little frustrated. Zang Ba was about to perform a scene, and he said boldly:
"I have heard for a long time that the Taishan thief, General Shi, showed off his bravery and set up a fortress with a strong wall. I was still troubled by it, but now he has led to his own death and separated his troops from the wall. I will defeat this thief and the fortress will collapse on its own."
Afterwards, Zang Ba ordered Wu Dun to return to his troops and form an army to fight alongside him.
Finally, Zang Ba also asked Wu Dun:
"Are you sure what Jiang Sheng said? The sky above the Taishan bandits is filled with the aura of defeat."
When Wu Dun heard this, he grinned, "Yeah."
In this way, Zang Ba gathered Wu Dun's eight hundred thieves and continued heading northeast.
The advance of the formation was always very slow, and they would often stop and start again after only a hundred steps. So it took two moments before they climbed over a hillside.
Then he saw a horse riding towards him. Zang Ba, who was in front of the formation, knew this person. He was Wang Dang, Wang Kuang's guard.
Wang Dang stopped his horse in front of the formation, kicked his horse and reported to Zang Ba:
"Zang Qu, our powerful troops from the five Taishan clans have sent out troops and are fighting fiercely with the Taishan thieves on the slope in front. Please Zang Qu attack them quickly."
Zang Ba was overjoyed when he heard that, and immediately ordered the remaining exploring horses to attack in three waves.
A wave of people came forward and sent out sentries to check whether what the king said was true.
After a wave of dynasties, he ordered the newly attached Yilushan laos who were stationed in the easternmost camp to join him here with two thousand troops.
A wave headed southwest, and the Sun brothers who were stationed in the north were ordered to raise a thousand troops and join him.
He, Zang Ba, wanted to gather all his troops here to fight to the death against the Taishan bandits.
Wang Dang was very anxious. He saw that Zang Ba had no intention of continuing to march. How could he complete the task assigned to him by Zhang Chong, so he hurriedly said:
"Please Zang Qu send troops quickly. The Taishan bandit soldiers are sharp. Without reinforcements, our army will collapse."
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Zang Ba narrowed his eyes and said nothing.
When Wang Dang continued to speak, he was taken away by Zang Ba's bodyguards.
When Wang Dang was dragged away, he cursed in his heart:
"What a Zang Ba. Just like Hu Muban, he wants to just sit back and watch the success or failure of his friendly forces. He's the same raccoon dog."
After a moment, the scout horse in front of the sentinel reported:
"Report, there are two armies fighting on the slope in front. There is a vertical red flag, and the flags of "Bao", "Wang", "Hu Mu", "Zhang" and "Wang" are flying."
Hearing that the sentry confirmed the news about Wang Dang, Zang Ba stood up excitedly.
Okay, God help me, otherwise I would have arrived just in time.
In this way, Zang Ba endured his anxiety and listened to the constant fighting in the northeast as time passed by.
Just at this moment, there was a noise from the rear, and the Yilu Shanliao people from the rear dared to arrive. After another moment, an army came from the southwest, and it was the Sun brothers.
For a time, five thousand soldiers gathered on this slope, full of them.
Because the Sun brothers, the Wudun Langya bandits, and the Yilu Mountains all had no flags, Zang Ba could not command them, but gave general orders to all his troops to charge and kill them according to the position of his banner.
Just like that, Zang Ba, who was standing on his horse under the banner, waved his whip and led two thousand old thieves towards the battlefield ahead.
Zang Ba said that his two thousand old thieves formed a total of ten small formations. These ten small formations formed a sharp arrow formation. The first two formations were sharp soldiers holding ring-headed knives. Behind them were three formations of Ge Ji. Soldiers, and finally the reserve soldiers of the fifth formation.
Then the Sun brothers and the Yilu Shanliao people were now on the left behind Zang Ba's formation, and the other on the right behind Zang Ba's formation, and they all moved with Zang Ba's banner.
As for Wu Dun's eight hundred Langya bandits, they have moved forward to the right front of the formation, ready to outflank the rear of Taishan bandits at any time.
Zang Ba's army bypassed the slope and reached the plain behind, where they saw two formations of interlaced roars in front of them.
Perhaps when they saw the reinforcements arriving, the formation on the left slowly moved back, approaching Zang Ba's army.
Zang Ba ignored them, and only ordered his ten formations to move forward a hundred steps, and then formed the formation. Then the Sun brothers deployed a thousand of their troops on the north side of the slope, while the Yilu Mountain soldiers stayed behind Zang Ba's formation.
The two slopes.
At the same time, Zhang Chong in the opposite formation looked at Zang Babing, laughed, turned to his subordinates and said:
"The enemy has entered our nest."
Subsequently, Zhang Chong ordered his soldiers to wave the red flag to the hillside behind.
When several Taishan soldiers on the back slope saw the flag, they immediately started to raise three wolf smoke.
Just like this, just when Zang Ba was taking some time off and preparing to relax and wait for work, three wolf smoke suddenly rose from the high slope opposite and shot straight into the sky.
Zang Ba's heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly felt something was not good.