Zhu Chaoshi smiled slightly and said: "This demon thief from Yingjiu's headquarters has been very high-profile and arrogant since they first entered Jiangzhou, and even before in Yuzhou and when they set off from Liyang. They beat the demon thief all the way. Under the banner of vanguard, they are naming names to eliminate the Yu family's guerrilla army in Jiangzhou. You tell me, why are they doing this?"
Wang Jingjiu sneered and said: "They are sure that Yu Yue and those nephews are timid and cowardly. As soon as they hear the main force of demon thieves coming, they will run away in fear and no longer dare to fight against them. However, They ignored Brother Shitou."
Yu Lesheng nodded: "Yes, with three thousand elite Jingzhou troops coming to help, plus a generation of famous generals like Brother Shitou, they would never have dreamed of it. It's just that this Yingjiu is used to being arrogant, and he was set up by us." Trap, lead into an ambush all the way, that’s all!”
Zhu Chaoshi shook his head: "The demon thieves are cunning and will not rush in so easily after Jiankang's defeat. Moreover, Yingjiu came all the way and did not even join the demon thieves' county guards along the way. He directly I just chased them, which is unusual. I think they had another purpose."
Wang Jingjiu was surprised: "What other purpose could they have? The Yu family's army was scared away. I think they just want to quickly open the Jiangzhou passage and find a direct passage to Changsha for the following monster thieves."
Yu Lesheng shook his head at this moment: "Jingjiu, I think that's not necessarily the case. If you want to get to Changsha, the best way is to take the water route. The demon thief himself has a powerful fleet, but he travels from this land. This unusual."
Wang Jingjiu frowned: "That's something I didn't expect. Is it really what Brother Shitou said, that there is a large army lurking behind the demon thief, following up, trying to eat us troops surrounding the enemy camp? "
Zhu Chaoshi said calmly: "This is what I have been guarding against, so I deliberately left an empty camp for Yingjiu. In this camp, I placed a lot of hay and firewood. These are things that can ignite fires. Yingjiu If Jiu was a prudent person and if troops really followed up, he would have left his troops to guard the empty camp while pursuing the pursuit to meet the follow-up troops. But he didn't. He pursued directly. I believe that these demon thieves really entered with little force. There were no reinforcements in their follow-up. Maybe this force was just to test whether the counties along the way were still loyal to the demon thieves. On the other hand, it was also We need to test the strength of our Jin forces in Jiangzhou. After all, if a large army comes and is ambushed on the way, there will be no chance of a comeback."
Yu Lesheng laughed: "They were afraid of being ambushed like Brother Xile, so they sent this army to test, but they became scapegoats. Isn't that right, Brother Shitou?"
Zhu Chaoshi smiled slightly: "That's probably the case. If they follow up, they will leave troops in the camp to support them. On the other hand, when they are attacked by us in the front, they will not evacuate quickly, but will occupy the terrain. The only way to resist is to resist at all levels. Therefore, I am determined to eliminate all these demon thieves and leave no one behind."
Wang Jingjiu nodded: "You didn't intercept them in the dense forest because you were afraid that if they were intercepted directly like this, they would all collapse, and the demon thieves in the rear army would disperse into small groups and not even enter the main camp. You just ran away?"
Zhu Chaoshi sneered and said: "That's it. The demon thieves are fierce and cunning. If the road is completely cut off and surrounded, they will fight to the death with us even in the wilderness. They mainly use short soldiers and will fight in the field. Concentrate our forces to attack us in one direction. We only have five or six thousand troops. It is quite difficult to surround more than two thousand demon thieves on three sides. In addition, the troops have recently been merged and mixed, and the combat effectiveness of each team is also different. Except for Except for the 1,500 Beifu veterans, the others are not heavily armed troops with heavy armor and shields, and they lack cavalry. If the demon thieves really risk their lives to attack like this, I am afraid that not only will they not be able to eliminate them, but they will also open a hole."
A trace of panic flashed in Wang Jingjiu's eyes: "Oh, after Brother Shitou's analysis, this is really what happened. The demon thieves are fierce, and these are old thieves. Even if they are fighting like this now, they have not let go of the war. If those who surrendered were to fight with them like this on the plains, and they were not surrounded in the camp and started fires everywhere, but their impact was limited, then the outcome of the battle is really hard to say."
Yu Lesheng also nodded and said: "Yes, being trapped in this camp seems safe and has fortifications, but it also restricts them from rushing out like this. The demon thieves are fierce and good at attacking but not good at defending. Now, they can make progress. In order to survive, we no longer have to fight on the plains, and the dense forest also gave small groups of demon thieves the opportunity to make a desperate assault and sneak into the forest. Our ambush troops at the time were only about a thousand people, and we gave them such a desperate breakthrough. It’s really hard to say.”
Zhu Chaoshi smiled and said: "Give the enemy hope, surround three and one missing, so that they can escape into the camp before nightfall yesterday. They finally have a defensive site in the dark, so naturally they don't want to move forward." , In this way, our troops encircling on three sides, including the navy originally used to block the river, can be in place, and after the third watch, we can launch a general attack on them from all four sides."
Wang Jingjiu laughed loudly: "Brother Shitou really knows the enemy like a god. When attacking, he placed more torches in every direction and made loud noises with drums and horns. When the enemy was first surrounded, he didn't know how many troops were outside, or even In order to prevent our attack, they also took the initiative to drag the baggage vehicles, horses and other items in the camp to the fence to help defend, and took the initiative to block the camp gate. It was only after the fifth watch that they discovered something was wrong. Fires broke out everywhere in the camp. If they try to move these things and break out, they're going to die."
Yu Lesheng clapped his hands and said, "Yes, we only need two to three hundred crossbowmen at each gate. When they move the baggage trucks and open the camp gates to break out, because the fire inside is bright, every move will be visible. We had it under our control, and our archers could fire to their heart's content from behind their shields, killing so many of them with almost no casualties or losses."
Speaking of this, Yu Lesheng pointed to the river: "There are hundreds of demon thieves who panicked and chose to jump into the river. Huh, in the dark night, the wind and waves are high here, and the shore is covered with rocks. How could they escape from the waterway?" Where is the chance to escape? Either they will be shot by our warships with random arrows, or they will be caught in the river with fishing nets and slaughtered one by one like fish. Ah ha, and also, they themselves will be shot from behind on the archery tower. He killed many of his companions who jumped into the river." (End of Chapter)
