The behavior of the bandits made the officers and soldiers miserable. They worked for a whole day. Not only did they not build many roads, but even the places that were originally intact were damaged a lot.
In desperation, Zeng Yi had to send some soldiers. While protecting the personnel who maintain the plank road, they also drive away the bandits who destroy the plank road.
However, Zeng Yi completely underestimated the determination of the bandits. For the Flying Eagle Society bandits, if the officers and soldiers built the plank road, the mountain stronghold would be destroyed sooner or later. For the lives of themselves and their families, they would sabotage the maintenance work of the officers and soldiers on the plank road, even if they risked their lives.
With this idea in mind, the bandits sent out a large number of men. Some of them tried their best to resist the attacks of the officers and soldiers, while others seized the time to carry out sabotage, making it impossible for the officers and soldiers to repair the plank road smoothly.
At the end of the development, Zeng Yi became anxious. He used all the catapults, crossbows, and even carts in the camp, advancing step by step, and using large troops to protect the maintenance of the plank road. As a result, the speed of the project was much slower, but the bandits were finally prevented from destroying it.
In this way, the officers and soldiers spent five days. Finally, they succeeded in advancing the plank road to the second fortress of the Flying Eagle Bandits. After some desperate resistance, the Flying Eagle Bandits had to withdraw from the second line of defense and retreat behind the third and final line of defense.
Finally breaking through the enemy's second line of defense, Zeng Yi was not happy at all. The Mad Lion Army, one of Daning's three major iron armies, used 30,000 people. It actually took nearly a month to defeat even one person. The bandit's stronghold has not been captured yet. If you say this, you will definitely be ridiculed.
Therefore, Zeng Yi quickly gave his order and moved forward as quickly as possible without giving these hateful bandits a chance to breathe. At the same time, Zeng Yi also carefully arranged the defense line, allowing people to guard every road down the mountain. This time, not only did he have to capture the stronghold, but he also couldn't let any of the bandits leave Fuhu Mountain alive.
However, the army did not launch an attack in accordance with Zeng Yi's order, because the soldiers in front discovered that the road leading to the third line of defense had been destroyed by bandits again, and this time it was more completely destroyed.
In desperation, the officers and soldiers had to start the road construction project again, because this time the mountain road was too damaged. It would take at least three to five days to build a new road that would allow the trucks to continue moving forward. .
The officers and soldiers were busy repairing the road, and the bandits of the Flying Eagle Society were not at peace. Everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before the officers and soldiers repaired the damaged section of the road. Judging from the current situation, it would be a matter of time before they attacked and returned to the stronghold. things.
In the Juyi Hall of the Flying Eagle Club, hundreds of leaders gathered here. Everyone had a sad look on their faces. The purpose of their coming here today was to discuss countermeasures. However, facing these well-equipped and brave officers and soldiers, how could they be defeated? How easy is it for them to retreat?
Everyone sat here for an hour or two and came up with many ideas. After some deduction, they found that none of these ideas could solve the current situation.
"I have also consulted many military books. In the past, there were indeed many ways to defeat the strong with the weak. Most of them were fire attacks or water attacks. But our current village is most lacking in water. This plan is definitely not feasible. To be honest, As for the fire attack, it is still possible if there are more dead branches and leaves in autumn and winter, but now it is approaching summer and the trees are lush and green, how can the fire be ignited?" White Tiger Military Advisor Jiang Jin stood up and said with a frown.
"Can we retreat to the mountains behind us? Can we come back after the officers and soldiers leave?" the leader Youtong said.
"But these tens of thousands of people have to eat, drink, and live in the mountains, and we can't last more than a month at the longest." Ge Shun, who is in charge of logistics, understands the problems here best. He said with a sad look on his face. said.
This conversation between the two made all the leaders present feel even more desperate.
"Damn it, let's just break out with all our strength and rush out one by one." The leader Zhu Dian put down his pipe and said fiercely.
"We can't take this step unless we have to, let alone whether we can break out? There are so many old people and children in the village. They can't rush out with the big team anyway." This time it was Qinglong Military Advisor Ge Yuncai who spoke.
"If possible, rush out with your children. We old guys won't live long, so let the officers and soldiers kill them." This time the speaker was an old man in charge of logistics, and his statement also represented a lot of things. The meaning of the old man.
"Mom, we have a big mountain here. If it were in the water, the big guys like the officers and soldiers wouldn't be needed, and we wouldn't be so passive." A leader stood up and said.
"Old Geng, aren't you talking nonsense? What we are considering now is how to solve the current situation." After hearing what this leader said, another leader of the Suzaku Army said.
"Brother Geng Shi, can you explain your words a little more clearly?" At this time, someone suddenly asked from above. Everyone looked up and saw that it was the leader Ye Ying. They couldn't help looking at the leader named Geng Shi strangely. .
"I...I mean, if we were in the water, their catapults, crossbows, and those two-story strange vehicles would be useless..." Geng Shi also knew this idea. Unreliable. Seeing the leader ask, he stuttered a little.
"No, Brother Geng said it very well. I seem to have some clues." Ye Ying looked at the simple combat map on the wall and said thoughtfully.
"What does the master mean..." Upon hearing Ye Ying's words, Zhuge Ying's eyes immediately lit up and he immediately looked at a location on the map without explaining the words.
"I just have an idea. In this way, everyone should go back to their posts and be careful to prevent anyone from escaping down the mountain. I will consider this plan again." Ye Ying understood what Zhuge Ying meant and immediately said to everyone.
In front of the leaders, Ye Ying did not tell everyone what he was thinking, and Zhuge Ying also guessed what Ye Ying was thinking, but did not clarify it. The village is currently in crisis, and many people are confused. In recent days, many bandits have begun to sneak down the mountain. In this case, it is necessary to prevent anyone from leaking the secret.
That night, Ye Ying and Zhuge Ying, the two most powerful people in the village, gathered together and discussed until midnight, finally forming a workable plan.
However, in this situation, if you want to successfully implement this plan, there are too many variables, so you can only hold the idea that it depends on people and God.
At dawn, a gray pigeon suddenly flew past Ye Ying's house. Gan Xiang, who had gotten up early, spotted the pigeon and skillfully walked over to catch it, then took off a thin needle from its foot. bamboo pipe.
The paper was quickly handed to Ye Ying's hand. Ye Ying pulled out a piece of paper from the bamboo tube. After unfolding it and looking at it, a smile appeared on his face, and then he burned the paper with fire.
In the military camp of officers and soldiers, a strange thing happened that night. Wang Sidao, the commander of the Shanshan camp, quietly left the barracks with dozens of his men in the middle of the night.
The military discipline of the Mad Lion Army is very strict, and no one is allowed to go out privately on weekdays. What's more, it is now during the war between the two armies. Once discovered, they will definitely be severely punished by military law.
But I don’t know why, Wang Sidao still did this, but he also knew that the consequences would be serious, so he chose the soldiers of Shanshan Camp to stay on duty until going out at night. In Wang Sidao’s view, as long as he could return before handing over to his post, he would be magical at this time. Unconsciously.
However, Wang Sidao was very unlucky, because when he returned to the military camp, he was actually caught by Guangwei General Zeng Yi, who had been guarding there early. Accompanying him were more than 80 soldiers under Wang Sidao, but strangely, what they held in their hands were not weapons, but hoes and shovels.
Later, Wang Sidao found out that it was another officer in the camp who "accidentally" discovered his whereabouts while going to the toilet at night.
The dignified camp commander actually led people to leave the camp in violation of regulations. Zeng Yi was very angry and immediately launched an interrogation of Wang Sidao.
Finally, I got an explanation that made everyone laugh. When Wang Sidao was patrolling in the camp a few days ago, he happened to hear some veterans talking in the camp, saying that they accidentally picked up an antique while building roads, and guessed that there was an ancient tomb nearby.
This was a good opportunity to make a fortune. Wang Sidao immediately asked people to quietly arrest these veterans. Sure enough, a wine flask was found on one of them. Wang Sidao was very knowledgeable about antiquities and immediately discovered that it was a wine bottle. A valuable antique.
After Wang Sidao's secret interrogation, several veterans finally revealed the location of the wine pot, so Wang Sidao took people out of the camp in the middle of the night to dig up the ancient tomb privately. But what frustrated Wang Sidao was that not only did he not find any ancient tombs, but he was also caught in the act by Zeng Yi.
But what is strange is that when Zeng Yi asked someone to pick up those veterans, the veterans who were originally detained by Wang Sidao disappeared.
This scene made Zeng Yi full of doubts, but with the war now imminent, he did not have time to investigate the matter carefully, and then asked someone to temporarily imprison Wang Sidao until the war was over before handling the matter.
After several days of hard work, the officers and soldiers finally built the road up the mountain and began to attack the third fortress and the last pass of Feiyinghui Village.
But what the officers and soldiers didn't expect was that this time the bandits did not defend the fortress, but took the initiative to attack the officers and soldiers. The bandits sent a large number of men and tried desperately to kill the officers and soldiers crowding on the mountain road. The officers and soldiers were caught off guard for a while. They had to retreat in defeat.
"I'm thinking of breaking out now, I'm afraid it's too late!" Zeng Yi said coldly, looking at the bandits rushing down like crazy. This group of bandits actually blocked the officers and soldiers for so long and killed so many of their own men. This time they will definitely kill them all, even if they surrender, no one will be spared.
All the bandits probably didn't know that in this short moment, the top commander of this group of officers and soldiers had already regarded the tens of thousands of people in Feiyinghui's village as dead.
Guangwei General Zeng Yi personally stood on a high ground in the rear, waving his arms to beat a big drum in front of him. When all the soldiers in the Mad Lion Army heard the sound of the war drums, they rushed out together, shouting and killing the bandits in front of them.
One side desperately wanted to carve out a bloody road, and the other side refused to retreat. On the hillside of Fuhu Mountain, officers and soldiers and bandits began a life-and-death fight.
This battle was very fierce. The bandits seemed to know that if they failed, they would be dead. In the face of this life and death, they showed their amazing potential and actually forced the officers and soldiers to retreat to the rear.
But the Mad Lion Army, as one of Daning's three major iron armies, was not in vain. It didn't take long for them to stabilize their position, and even began to slowly approach the front.
The bandits held their breath and fought desperately with the officers and soldiers. After a long time, they could not break through the encirclement of the officers and soldiers. The brothers around them fell one after another. In the end, the morale they had finally mustered up was finally exhausted, and the war started. It was starting to get one-sided.
