Chapter 102: Wolf Smoke
When Zhang Chong forced the three tribes to surrender, three Langya thieves' sentinels 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 from the grass, which directly planted 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 army.
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 hedgehog will be together. When you feel tired from walking ahead, take a rest on the ridge. After walking vigorously, he roared and rushed downhill.
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 dancing to folk songs, and they didn't look like they were going to war at all.
This is the Shanliao of Langya Mountain, where people sing generously and die bravely.
What is death? 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 what they want to be happy, even if the soul of the deceased arrives at Taishan Mansion, he will 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 beside him, and began to dance in the singing of his companion.
Although Wu Dun is short and stout, he is flexible and light when it comes to dancing. Sometimes he beats the ground and sometimes beats his chest while singing, showing a swaggering air. The rest of the companions began to be infected and danced along, and the morale of the Langya thieves was high.
Seeing that his morale was almost lifted, Wu Dun waved his hand and led the thieves on their way.
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 not far away, they knew they were near the enemy's stronghold.
Then they crept up the slope and 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. For a moment, he 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 to face the thieves, and shouted:
"Retreat, everyone retreat, let's retreat to the village."
After saying that, he pushed a few stunned companions. Everyone just woke up from a dream, shouted and ran back and forth. Some thieves found the halberds and spears in their hands too laborious, so they simply discarded them. Those who were wearing armor saw that they and others were running slower and slower, and they were so anxious that they took off their armor and kept up with the large army.
This is the tactics of thieves and bandits: fight if you can, and leave if you can't.
At this moment, it was obvious that he just couldn't fight.
Wu Dun ran and cursed:
"Hot lady, didn't Jiang Sheng say that the enemy was defeated? 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 none of the horses have returned so far.
Before, when black smoke billowed from the northeast, he had expected that the Taishan Army must be fighting. He was secretly wondering if the powerful soldiers invited by Wang Kuang had already fought with the Taishan soldiers.
He wasn't sure, so he immediately dispersed his few sentry horses.
But time flies, and there is 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, stop playing around and follow me out of the camp with a knife."
When the guards waiting below heard the order, they started shouting back and forth on the dock wall:
"Order: assemble the 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 with 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!
The Langya thieves like Zang Ba were better trained than Wu Dun's Langya soldiers. Although they had no military discipline, they had high morale and formed quickly. In just a moment, seven hundred soldiers lined up and came out of the wall. There are two waves of military formations not far away, and they are also listed separately. They all held the banner with the word Zang, and they gathered under Zang Ba's banner like hundreds of streams converging into the sea.
In this way, Zang Ba led all his old thieves and counted 2,100 people. With the determination to die, Zang Ba overwhelmingly pressed towards 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.
He saw a short, fat figure in front of him, shouting at him. But they were far away, so Zang Ba couldn't hear clearly, but when they ran in again, he saw this group of people dressed in colorful clothes, even women's clothes, and he knew they were Wu Dun and his Langya thieves.
He rode his horse forward, led Wu Dun into the formation, and ordered the defeated thieves to circle the formation to the east to reorganize.
"What's going on? Didn't I order you 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 the 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 collapsed immediately when they saw the Taishan bandit coming out."
Zang Baqi said:
"I've told you before, Mr. Jiang under your command is just a warlock and a talker, and you only believe it if you listen to it. Do you have the spirit of an undefeated army? What? You are the only one who lost." Wu Dun was unconvinced and was about to refute when he was Zang Ba waved his hand to stop, and Zang Ba asked:
"Did you see the enemy flag?"
Wu Dun felt confident this time and 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 depressed. Zang Ba was about to perform a scene, and he said boldly:
"I have heard for a long time that General Shi, the thief of Mount Tai, showed off his bravery and set up a fort 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 should defeat this thief and his fort will be destroyed."
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 air above the Taishan bandits is filled with the spirit of defeat."
Wu Dun grinned after hearing this, yes.
In this way, Zang Ba gathered Wu Dun's eight hundred thieves and continued to the northeast.
The advance of large formations has always been very slow, and they often have to stop and reorganize their troops before proceeding a hundred steps. So it took two moments before they climbed over a hillside.
Then he saw a horse riding towards him. Zang Ba in front of the formation knew this person. He was Wang Kuang's guard Wang Dang.
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 families 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, sentry scouting ahead to see if what the king said was true.
After a wave of dynasty, he ordered the newly attached Yilushan lao who had been stationed in the easternmost camp to join him here with two thousand troops.
A wave headed southwest, and the Sun brothers who were originally 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 in a hurry. 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 bandits are sharp. Without reinforcements, our army will collapse."
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Zang Ba narrowed his eyes and said nothing.
When Wang Dang wanted to speak, he was taken away by Zang Ba's army guards.
When Wang Dang was dragged away, he cursed in his heart:
"What a good Zang Ba. Like that Hu mother class, they both want to sit back and watch the success or failure of their friendly forces. They are all alike."
After a moment, the sentry horse in front reported:
"Report, there are two armies fighting on the slope in front. There is a vertical red flag, and the "Bao", "Wang", "Hu Mu", "Zhang" and "Wang" flags are flying."
Hearing that the sentinel confirmed Wang Dang's news, 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.
At this moment, there was a commotion from behind, and the Yilu Shanliao people from behind dared to come. After another moment, an army also came from the southwest, belonging to the Sun brothers.
For a moment, five thousand soldiers gathered on this slope, full of them.
Because the Sun brothers, the Wudun Langya bandits, and the Yilu Shanliao people all had no flags, Zang Ba could not command, but gave general orders to all his troops to charge and kill 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's 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. Next came the third formation of halberdiers, and finally the fifth formation of reserve soldiers.
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. Later, the Sun brothers deployed a thousand of their troops in the north of the slope, while the Yilu Mountain Laos were at the entrance of the two slopes behind Zang Ba's formation.
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."
Later, 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 streaks of 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 that something was not good.
(End of chapter)