"My dear sir, I have a kind heart. I would like to thank you for your kindness on behalf of the two officers!" Li Dan bowed deeply and said, "I will definitely discuss this with you two carefully. Sir, please rest assured!"
"That's very good!" Seeing that Li Dan understood what he was thinking, Fan Xianzun also let out a sigh of relief. "So, what are your plans for Boss Dong in the future?" he asked.
"I think let him change his name and send him to Shangrao to serve as a subordinate of General Sheng or Sheng Guoji."
"That's fine!" After chatting for a while about defense, personnel, food and other arrangements, Mr. Fan stood up to leave and whispered to Li Dan as he walked out:
"You also need to properly arrange the remnants of the two hundred officers and soldiers. Don't let people talk too much and leak them..." Li Dan agreed one by one and sent him straight out to the car. He turned around when the car left.
It seems that you need to be more careful when doing things. Li Dan learned a lesson today.
He offended his uncle, then took charge of team training, fought across state capitals, accommodated the remnants of the army, etc. It seems that some people's interests have been touched. There is no guarantee that they will not dig out the notebook and settle accounts with him when necessary. How should he deal with it then? ?
As he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the sound of rapid footsteps behind him, and when he looked back, it turned out to be a black flag messenger.
"Report...! Your Majesty, I'm here to report my victory under the inspection order:
This morning, Sanhu Fort ambushed the enemy's 600 thieves from Maotaigong in the rain, killing and capturing more than half of them. The thief's young commander, Green Skin Shrimp Luo Ziqun, was decapitated, and the leader, Liu Tiaohuang, and four others were captured...
Now the enemy has retreated and Sanhu Fort is safe! "
"Okay, great!" Li Dan was overjoyed.
It has been raining since yesterday. It is not heavy today, but it is as fine as smoke, shrouding the entire Leijiawan in mystery.
Leijiawan is full of water, and water vapor is evaporating all year round in rivers, ditches, and ponds, so that the stones on the shore are covered with moss and are so slippery that people will knock their knees if they are not careful.
A foot wearing a straw sandal stayed on the stone for a moment. Its owner did not know whether he was worried or deliberately made himself more stable. He leaned down and grabbed a bush above, and then took the second step.
The person behind him wanted to imitate him, but he slipped and fell. The pain and embarrassment made him curse, and immediately a hand slapped him on the head! "Damn it, you want to find a place where no one is around to die!"
The man who fell immediately fell silent and climbed up the bank awkwardly using his hands and feet.
When I got to the shore, I saw that it was a causeway about ten steps wide. The river looked like a long snake snaking from the other side of the embankment and disappearing behind the trees and bamboo forest.
"What the hell, are we going to walk in from this embankment?" Someone asked in a low voice, "There won't be an ambush here, right?"
"Yes, if there is a jam at both ends, all the gentlemen will have no choice but to jump into the river and become bastards!" Another echoed in a low voice.
"Who is talking depressingly? Shut up!" A leader came over and yelled fiercely.
"Huangtou, the terrain isn't very good, isn't it?" An experienced man pulled him and said softly.
"Everyone, don't panic. It's raining like this. They won't expect us to come. How can there be an ambush? Think about it, at this moment, the country warriors are not allowed to go back and hug their wives to sleep. Who has the leisure to go out and get caught in the rain?"
When the leader surnamed Huang said this, many people nodded frequently. "Don't panic! Line up two or three people. Let's rush through this section quickly and occupy the opposite entrance to let the group in. The rest will be easy to explain."
As soon as Touhuang finished speaking, he saw tall and thin men carrying swords and bending over like shrimps coming from the front. When they saw him, they asked in a low voice: "Liu Tiaohuang, your team will go first, can you make it?" ?」
"Just go up and ask if it's possible?" Willow Huang glared at the other party impatiently: "You guys have to catch up with the Green Skin Shrimp. If you hesitate to follow us when we go in, I won't be able to finish looking for you!"
"Don't worry, you go, you go!" Qingpi Xia waved his hand: "Remember, the Three Lakes Fort is directly opposite, and the small village is over here." He couldn't tell the left and right, so he raised his right hand and pointed.
"It's up to you to take care of it!" Liu Tiehuang said, but he still bowed his hands to him, and then ran forward with his people.
Green-skinned shrimp Luo Ziqun sighed secretly
, the other party is Mao Taigong's subordinate, so it is expected that he will not accept it. He looked back at the river bank. Behind the grass and trees there were soldiers ashore everywhere, which made him feel reassured.
Sixty percent of these people are his subordinates, so it would be easier to use them. Looking up at the river, the bamboo rafts carrying them across the river were leaving the shore one after another. They were going back to transport the last group of people.
Looking back at the front, Willow Huang and his hundreds of men were cautiously approaching the other end of the embankment.
The team stopped and took shelter against the trees on the left, and then ten spearheads ran forward and quickly disappeared behind the trees.
After a while, someone ran back and waved to them, and the rear group continued to move forward.
"It's our turn, follow us!" Green-skinned shrimp greeted in a low voice. Several of his leaders drove everyone out from behind the grass and trees. Everyone followed the wicker-yellow team and walked about fifty steps forward.
Seeing Willow Huang and his men disappear behind the trees in front of them, Green-skinned Shrimp felt something in his heart that made him stop immediately. "What's wrong, boss?" one of his confidants asked him.
The green-skinned shrimp looked at the river water on both sides. He felt a little confused. Yes, what happened to you? What are you worried about?
But..., he looked behind the woods, and suddenly he seemed to hear shouts and exclamations. "What sound?" he asked.
While the words were still on his lips, he saw three black dots rushing toward him from the sky out of the corner of his eye. "Get down!" he yelled, throwing himself into the muddy water.
This is the best way they've found these days to avoid catapults. If you lie down, your target will be smaller. If you still get hit, you'll be damned, but it's better than standing still.
However, these three stone bullets were obviously not coming towards them. Instead, they flew over everyone's heads and headed directly towards the bamboo rafts with the "click" sound of branches being broken.
The densely packed rafts on the river had no idea what was happening on them and did not dodge at all. Two of them were hit in an instant, and another one knocked two sailors into the water.
"There's an ambush!" someone shouted at the top of his lungs.
This sentence was like an order, and everyone ran back. At this time, another batch of stone bullets flew in, and there was another sound of the bamboo raft being hit and people falling into the water.
The remaining rafts either left the river bank in panic, or the sailors jumped into the water to escape.
Green Skin Shrimp's head was buzzing, and he knew something was wrong! If a stone bullet hits you, at most the whole team will collapse. But they smashed the bamboo rafts in the river because they didn't want these hundreds of people to go back!
"Go down to the river, quickly! Swim back!" he shouted. At this time, the wicker yellow was already forgotten by him.
Hundreds of people were pushing and shoving to get out first. It was inevitable that some would roll down, fall into the water, and even be trampled, adding to the chaos.
Swimming back is easy. Although they are all lake bandits, not everyone is so good at water.
Besides, the place where they landed was the narrowest in this section. In other places, the river banks were either high or the river was wider. The water flow was fast and turbid after the rain in the past two days.
Everyone wanted to go back to the place where they landed, but after walking a few steps, a shout suddenly broke out from the rice field next to them.
This rice field has been harvested, but the bare poles have not been cut down.
Green Skin Shrimp had already noticed it when he came ashore just now. He thought that the strong walls and clear fields in the village did not allow him to harvest the rice straw. Now he just woke up like a dream, and it turned out that there was a conspiracy inside!
Hundreds of Xiangyong in green clothes and hats armed with spears attacked from behind.
These people wore rice leaves in their hats and coir raincoats on their bodies. Many of them even had bamboo braided into armor around their chests, arms and legs. No wonder I didn't notice it just now. They were disguised from head to toe!
The green-skinned shrimp was horrified, because at this time half of his people had already descended the embankment, and the other half was facing away from the opponent's spearhead. They were completely caught off guard, and those who had already gone down had no time to return.
When he raised his head, he saw a group of people in Tsing Yi rushing towards this direction from the direction where the Willow Yellow man disappeared just now. In front of him, people in Tsing Yi also jumped out from behind the rice fields and Shui Chu Chun (cun, for rice shelling). figure.
It's over, I'm surrounded! As soon as this thought came to his mind, the green-skinned shrimp decided to break out.
He had no time to think about "why" and "how could it happen", so he rushed south with a roar and a dozen of his trusted men. He believes that side is the opponent's weakest point.
This seems to be the case. The green-skinned shrimp rushed more than 400 steps easily, and the local warriors couldn't stop him at all.
On the way that day, when he looked back at the bustling battlefield behind him, he couldn't help but sigh and said, "It took eight years for the team to be assembled, but I didn't expect that it would all be lost here!"
"Master, don't be discouraged. As long as people are here, it's fine. If we escape, we still have a chance..." The person in front stopped abruptly when he said this, because his head and body were separated. The corpse ran two more steps before falling to the ground.
The green-skinned shrimp stopped in time, and the two or three people in front of him were too late, so they had to draw their swords and move forward, but they were all chopped down in the blink of an eye.
"Who are you?" Green Skin Shrimp asked in surprise.
The man in front of him is not tall, but quite strong. He is wearing ordinary short brown clothes, a pair of straw sandals on his feet, and a hat on his head.
It seemed that he was not with the people in green clothes, but why did he stop him? He looked up and down at the other party in confusion.
"I am Wang Xi, the deputy general under General Huang Yan."
"Oh? General Wang, I have long admired you! I am Qingpi Xialuo Ziqun, the leader of Lingjia Village in Dushan, east of Hudong."
"Master Luo," Wang Xi said with a strange smile, "The battlefield is ahead. I wonder where Master Luo is going?"
"Someone was ambushed and was about to move reinforcements." Qingpi Xia said awkwardly, not daring to say that he escaped from the battlefield.
"Oh, that's not necessary."
"Uh, what do you mean, General?"
"Because I am about to go to Sanhu Castle and I need to use your head as a meeting gift!"
"Discourteous! You general, come and die!" The guards were shocked and angry after hearing this. They knew that they would probably pass this level. There is no way out today, so why don't we all go together!
Looking at each other, four or five generals were left to protect them, and the rest rushed forward.
Wang Xi sneered, shook his head and said, "If you don't do good things, you will be a ghost if you don't know how to praise!"
The simple knife in his hand swung away a shot from the side, he lifted the knife and knocked away another knife. In a blink of an eye, he came to the back of the sword and shield man in the middle and cut off half of his head with his hand.
The whole movement is done in one go. It has neither beauty nor graceful posture. Just look at the wide opening and closing of the movements and you can learn from them in actual combat.
Immediately afterwards, one person's legs were cut off and he fell to the ground screaming. Everyone was shocked and wanted to retreat quickly, but Wang Xi had already stepped forward, broke into the crowd, and knocked down two people one after another. In a blink of an eye, he was at the Green Skin Shrimp.
Seeing the ferocity of his attack, the green-skinned shrimp hurriedly drew his sword to parry. Unexpectedly, one of his arms was cut off in just two rounds, and he fell crookedly into the muddy water.
He trembled and looked around, and saw a dozen men in Tsing Yi jumping out from behind Wang Xi. His subordinates had either been captured or killed.
He said bitterly: "Since you said you are the captain of Yin Tuo under Lou Shuai, why bother to harm me?"
Wang Xi stood beside him with a knife in his hand and said expressionlessly: "Without your head, how can I clear my name and win people's trust? This is the only good thing you have done in your life!" After saying this, he raised the knife and dropped it!
Without looking at the bloody head, he let the rain wet the knife again, then rubbed it on the body and told his subordinates:
"Leave the head and the prisoner to Mr. Ma Jiu. I'll go to the front to see if there's anything I can do to help." After saying that, he put the knife on his shoulder, and as he walked, he disliked that the knife was not as good as his original one.
As he walked, he saw He Wei smiling with his hands on his hips, weighing a sharp knife with his other hand.
When he saw him coming, he waved and said, "Brother Yidou (Wang Xi's nickname is Yidou), you are a good swordsman. Come on, let's see what I just got."
Wang Xi took it, tried the edge, and looked at the condition of the blade. He weighed it and nodded and said, "It's a good knife, but it's too light for me to use."
He Wei smiled bitterly and pointed to his simple sword: "I searched Yu Gan, and this sword is the heaviest, but you said it was light. Alas! It seems that I have to talk to the patrol inspector and give you a special one!"
Wan noticed the blood stains on his body and said:
"How about it? Master Jiu said there must be fish over there. Is he right?"
"I didn't expect it to happen, but...those boys were too inexperienced, and it was over before they had enough fun!" Wang Xi smacked his lips.
"Deputy inspector, it's not that simple." Xiang Yong, who was holding a bunch of heads with a bamboo spear, said with his thumb, "Big fish, he's a handsome young man in charge. What's his name?"
"Hey, isn't this a meritorious service?" He Wei was overjoyed and patted his arm hard:
"Okay, okay, we'll have a drink in the evening. We'll lie down in the rice fields all night with nothing else. We'll catch a few baskets of fish, shrimps, and frogs, as many as we want...!" These words drew cheers from the surrounding area.
"Hey, King Mao is coming from the other side. He steps forward every three steps and his feet are weak. The day before yesterday, he was afraid of my strongman's attack. Yesterday, he was too tired of the rain. Today, he is kneeling in the mud!"
Folk songs accompanied by happy laughter filled the air with joy. The local warriors stripped off the clothes and armor from the corpses, collected the prisoners' belongings, put their weapons on the carriages, and returned to Sanhu Fort happily.
This battle made Mao Taigong furious. He planned carefully for a long time and finally found such a rainy day.
Unexpectedly, he wanted to catch his opponent off guard, but instead he was ambushed and lost a lot of his troops, and even the green-skinned shrimp who volunteered for help lost his life.
In anger, he sent someone to look for Lu Jiulai. No one would know where he had gone, even if he searched the military camp, even his companion A Bing was missing!
Knowing that there was a ghost here, Mao Taigong was so angry that one Buddha was born and two Buddhas ascended to heaven. He threw pots and bowls in his camp, scaring everyone around his tent for fear of being offended.
The next day, Liaohuazi's troops crossed Luhuangang and arrived at Xubu. Mao Taigong bravely went to Liaohuazi to report the battle and plead guilty, but Liaohuazi only asked him to plead guilty and perform meritorious service.
As for the punishment, I didn't say anything. Just one sentence: Don't participate in the fight against Yu ***.
The reason is very simple. Your troops have just suffered a setback, so just stay and surround Leijiawan, preventing those inside from getting out and not daring to leave. Although Taigong Mao was depressed, he had no choice but to come down.
