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Ding Sheng and others crouched under the grass and waited for an hour and a half. During this period, everyone couldn't make a fire to cook, so they ate some millet balls prepared in advance by the baggage camp. But there is one thing to say, this millet dumpling is more delicious if it is roasted over fire.
At this moment, Jin Quan was chewing millet balls, moved over, and whispered to Ding Sheng:
"Dingtou, are these Mou County soldiers not coming?"
As soon as Jin Quan spoke, Ding Sheng became afraid. This was a person more sinister than him. Ding Sheng hurriedly spat at him and said:
"What are you saying? Hurry back and take your soldiers. The enemy soldiers will be here soon."
Jin Quan didn't understand why Ding Tou was so angry. He asked for trouble and went back.
At this moment, a puff of smoke suddenly rolled up from the south.
Ding Sheng was overjoyed, knowing that troops were coming, and hurriedly called on his troops to cheer up, and after a while he heard the sound of drums and drums to charge.
Yu Jin also saw smoke and dust over there. Like Ding Sheng, Yu Jin was obviously anxious after waiting for more than an hour, but unlike Ding Sheng, he was reflecting on the problems of this ambush.
There was obviously a big flaw in their ambush, which was that they just waited and didn't know how to keep their eyes and ears open. If they had placed their eyes and ears outside the Mou County city from the beginning, they would have been able to obtain accurate information as soon as the Mou County soldiers left the city, instead of sitting around at the ambush point and wasting the opportunity to fight.
In addition, he also found that the choice of the ambush point was not ideal. Although this Quetou Ridge can hide troops, it does not have the environment to block the enemy. The official road in front of the ridge is unobstructed. Even if they suddenly ambush them, they can still stand out as long as the waves of Mou County soldiers run wild.
But Yu Jin also knows that the best time is now, and everything is never ready in advance. He believed that with his brothers, even a hasty ambush could be accomplished.
But things went wrong in the blink of an eye, and the group of Mou County soldiers coming from the west stopped.
What's going on.
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"Ren Ba, what's wrong with you? Who told you to stop?"
Zhang He, the magistrate of Mou County, who came from behind the team, rushed to the camp of Mou County in anger. The camp general's name was Ren Ba. It was quite rude for Zhang He to call him by his name directly, but it also showed Zhang He's anger.
Can Zhang He not be angry?
He discovered that the battalion general named Ren Ba was really as timid as a chicken. He had to station troops to watch every time he encountered mountains, rivers, and valleys along the way. He said he was afraid of encountering an ambush, but in fact he was just holding back. Walking and stopping along the way, half an hour has passed, and we have only reached this point now.
He had urged Ren Ba several times before to speed up the march, but Ren Ba always said yes, but he still went his own way. Okay, then this time Zhang He will come in person to see what else this person has to say.
Ren Ba was not annoyed when he was called by his first name, he smiled and said to Zhang He:
"County Lord, you are not wrong to be careful. Think about it, we reinforcements are the easiest to be ambushed. If someone attacks my rescue, as long as they are not stupid, they will probably ambush us. I will also treat my brothers. Be responsible.”
Zhang He did not accept this trick at all, he said:
"Don't come here. What you said in a few places before made some sense, so I let you search it, but what's the result? Isn't there still no ambush? Then you are looking at this place, just take a look at this short slope. Looking at the end, what kind of soldiers can be hidden? I see, the Botai Mountain bandits are just a bunch of bandits, they don't know how to fight. Stop messing around and keep going. It's too late to go to Changshaowu. ”
Ren Ba continued to smile:
"Are you paralyzed?"
Unexpectedly, when Zhang He heard this, he replied:
"Are you swearing?"
Then, Zhang He said:
"I don't care what you say, I order you to withdraw your troops quickly."
Ren Ba stopped laughing at this moment. He looked at Zhang He and said:
"You either kill me or I will still search this mountain."
Then, Ren Ba's throat was slit. His neck was bleeding, and he couldn't believe that Zhang He dared to kill him here.
Ren Ba's soldiers were also stunned. Looking at Zhang He who was holding a knife and his face covered with blood, he subconsciously pulled out the knife.
"I wonder who dares to move. I've already punished Ren Ba for delaying the military plane. I wonder which of you wants to be an accomplice?"
At this moment, Zhang He was ready to risk his life. He drew his sword and pointed it at the soldiers in front of him. Did he expect that these soldiers would not dare to fight him?
Sure enough, the guards who pulled out their swords impulsively looked at each other and lowered their heads. Yes, they did not dare to attack Zhang He.
Just because they are camp soldiers. Their relationship with the general Ren Ba was just that of colleagues, and there was no need to provoke the wrath of a 600-ton county magistrate for the sake of a dead person.
This is also the reason why Zhang He killed Ren Ba. Whenever Ren Ba brought his own tribe soldiers or clan soldiers, Zhang He did not dare to move because those people were too attached to Ren Ba. powerful. As for the Ying soldiers, they were the administrative divisions of the imperial court raised by Mou County, and they did not dare to attack a 600-ton official. As soon as Ren Ba died, Zhang He took over the command of Mou County Camp, and then accelerated through the mountains with two 700 soldiers.
At this time, the drums sounded loudly behind the ridge, and then countless enemy soldiers jumped out from the grass beside the road.
Zhang He was shocked and hurriedly scolded the generals to prepare their formations. However, these generals had just been beheaded and had no trust in Zhang He at this moment. Two of the generals did not even think about it at the time and took their troops to retreat.
When the soldiers in the camp who originally wanted to resist saw Pao Ze running away, they followed him with a crash. Zhang He was in a panic there, but it was useless. He came to the Mou County camp alone and had no soldiers to act as a law enforcement team. No matter how hard he tried, he could not save the situation.
Seeing that the battle was hopeless, Zhang He had no choice but to withdraw in order to save his life. He also made a move on his side and followed the flow of the defeated troops to retreat.
But he didn't know that just when he turned the horse's head and left its back to Ren Ba's guards, several of the guards looked at each other, and then in tacit agreement, they cut off the horse's legs with their swords.
The horse under Zhang He's crotch hit the ground directly, but Zhang He was unprepared, and half of his body was directly crushed by the horse. Zhang He panicked and immediately screamed for the soldiers to come and pull him.
But the soldiers turned a deaf ear and just followed the flow of people and ran over Zhang He. Countless straw sandals stepped on Zhang He's body, and no one paid attention to the screams and wails under his feet until finally there was no sound anymore.
The magistrate Mou County, who came from the Anding Zhang family, was trampled to death by his own people in Quetou Ridge.
Over there, Ding Sheng and Yu Jin panicked as they looked at the swarm of soldiers in Mou County. Of course they knew that Qu Kuai's intention in asking them to ambush the Mou County soldiers was to annihilate rather than defeat them. Although they have defeated the soldiers of Mou County now, these soldiers are fleeing and fleeing all the way back to Mou County, but they still cannot achieve the goal of annihilating the effective forces of Mou County.
At this moment, Taishan soldiers were running like crazy, shouting all the way:
"Kneel down and surrender, no killing."
But no one paid any attention to me. Who can escape will surrender?
The soldiers withdrew first, but the Mou County soldiers behind them did not move because the county magistrate Zhang He had gone to the front. They were leaderless and had no idea what was going on, so they did not move.
As a result, the camp soldiers found that the road ahead was blocked when they were halfway through the retreat. The defeated soldiers at the back didn't know that there was a blockage in front of them, so they pushed forward one after another, and for a while they were rubbing shoulders one after another, and the blockage was tight.
Ding Sheng's men were the bravest in charging. They showed no mercy to the enemies who had their backs left to them. They hammered, chopped, chopped, and stabbed, and slaughtered these defeated soldiers to their heart's content.
Some of the angry soldiers among the defeated troops on the periphery saw that they could not run away, so they turned around and shouted to their subordinates:
"Gentlemen, let us die here. I would rather die on my chest than behind my back."
As soon as he finished speaking, an arrow hit his neck and he died. It was Ding Sheng's general Zhao Rong who took the target.
But the officer's words finally aroused the resistance of the soldiers in the camp.
To be honest, the structure of the Mou County camp was intact, and the military officers at all levels were not injured. They were just unwilling to work for the Mou County magistrate at the beginning, so they had no fighting spirit. But at this moment, they were seeking survival for themselves, so under the command of military officials at all levels, they gradually formed several small formations and struggled to resist the Taishan soldiers.
Jin Quan, who was making arrows in front, keenly felt the changes in the battlefield situation. At this moment, he was holding the spear in his left hand and swinging the ring sword with his right hand, constantly stabbing and killing the defeated soldiers in front. Originally, he only had to face the front of his back, dig it in, pull it out, and dig it in again, killing the enemy like chopping wood.
But something was wrong now. Four or five battalions were attacking Jin Quan and others under the command of their respective corps commanders. Seeing that his men were beginning to suffer casualties, Jin Quan decisively selected a garrison general and asked him to lead a hundred men through a small ditch on the roadside to flank the Mou County soldiers in front.
To be honest, judging from Jin Quan's response, he has really experienced it. This kind of battle formation awareness is not necessarily found in a general, not to mention that Jin Quan is just a general leading 200 people.
This also benefits from Zhang Chong’s training. In this era of scarcity, what is lacking is not only material but also spiritual. When materials are scarce, it is even more delusional to breed a brilliant knowledge society.
The development of society has always been that the more deprived people are, the more they will cherish themselves and treat the little bit of knowledge as a symbol of status. Just like the military books and strategies circulated in this world, are they useful? Nature is useful. Because those generals' children who want to master the military formation consciousness in peacetime can only rely on these military books besides the words and deeds of their elders who have been through the war.
But military books are not that useful, because war is a practice after all. Compared to experiencing the war in person, the words on those slips seemed too thin. And because of the text carrier, the words in the military books are too subtle and important, which often makes some people who are already famous generals not sure that they can understand the military books.
What Zhang Chong brought from later generations was his immense knowledge and his true attitude of teaching without distinction. Famous generals in this world will only carefully cultivate the children of their families, but what about Zhang Chong? This is how he trained generals.
Before each battle, Zhang Chong would strategize the army, and then after each battle, he would discuss the gains and losses of the battle. He would also let the generals listen to the participating generals' personal reflections, and then ask the generals to record their war gains and losses in writing, so that they could practice calligraphy and improve their tactical literacy.
It can be said that the combination of actual combat and martial arts training has resulted in the emergence of excellent tactical talents in the Taishan Army.
Just like Jin Quan, the bypass tactic he subconsciously used at the moment was the first tactical point he recorded in his notes:
"All infantrymen are most afraid of being stabbed in the waist, oh, and there are also buttocks"
But the situation on the battlefield changed too quickly. As soon as Jin Quan gave his order, a new situation appeared over there.
(End of chapter)