Huang Guangmao was not surprised by Wang Jida's behavior. Each of these civil servants had more rules than the last, and they were even more exaggerated than Wang Jida. Huang Guangmao had seen all the officials who went out with the army with hundreds of slaves of all kinds to serve them. Wang Jida This is just trivial.
After Wang Jida arrived at Huang Guangmao's side in a sedan, he said: "The main force of the bandit army has appeared in front. It's not in vain for us to pursue the bandits for several days. General Huang, when will we attack the bandits?"
Although Wang Jida has been suppressing Huang Guangmao and chasing him, now he wants to lead his army to kill him, kill him by a thousand levels, and then rise to the top.
However, Wang Jida still did not forget that Huang Guangmao was not his subordinate, and even though Wang Jida was familiar with the books of sages, he was not proficient in the art of military art.
Huang Guangmao still needs to handle such mundane chores as dispatching troops and generals.
As for him, he can just stay back and sit back.
After hearing Wang Jida's words, Huang Guangmao did not show any disdain or dissatisfaction towards Wang Jida, just like before, but said respectfully: "Your Majesty, Huang County, I have sent sentries to investigate carefully. After the investigation is clear, , we can march into the army when we are ready."
What this means is, take a moment and check the situation before proceeding. If the thief's army is average, then it's okay to fight. If the thief's army is strong, then don't fight.
Huang Guangmao and Wang Jida had been together for several days, and he knew some of Wang Jida's thoughts. This man just wanted to kill thieves as capital for promotion, and he didn't care about the lives of their generals and soldiers at all.
This person attaches great importance to these things. If he rashly says that the thieves' army is powerful and cannot be attacked lightly, this person will probably go crazy again.
Even if Wang Jida can't do anything about Huang Guangmao for a while and can't kill him in front of the battle, impeachment and pressure will definitely be indispensable.
In order to avoid subsequent trouble, Huang Guangmao still patiently spoke as tactfully as possible.
Wang Jida was not an idiot. He naturally understood the meaning of Huang Guangmao's words, but this time Wang Jida did not refute, but nodded slightly and said: "This is the way to be cautious, yes!"
After all, although Wang Jida wants to kill thieves as a reward for promotion, he will not forcefully attack the main force of thousands of thieves. If he accidentally loses the battle, of course the responsibility for the defeat can be shied away. Go to Huang Guangmao, but he himself will also be punished.
Anyway, the bandit army is ahead and won't be able to escape for a while, so it's not impossible for Huang Guangmao to investigate in detail.
In the afternoon of the same day, the sentinels sent by Huang Guangmao returned one after another. This time, these sentries brought back more detailed information. Among the more than 2,000 bandit troops in front, there were about a hundred old thieves, carrying more than a hundred mules and horses, and wearing armor. About twenty or thirty.
Except for more than a hundred old thieves, all were young and strong, and less than 30% of the young and strong were armed with weapons, and none of them had armor.
After listening to the reports from many sentry detectives, Huang Guangmao made some calculations in his mind. The more than 100 old thieves should be the elite cavalry of the thieves army that he had been chasing before. Now these elite cavalry soldiers have returned to the team to rendezvous. together.
If there are only more than a hundred old thieves, I am not afraid. Even if the opponent has too many mules and horses to annihilate them, it is still not a problem to defeat them.
What Huang Guangmao was afraid of before was that there were hundreds of old thieves on the opposite side, causing him to capsize in the gutter.
It looked like it could take a dozen.
Of course, even if Huang Guangmao were to defeat Huang Guangmao, he would not expect to directly annihilate this group of thieves. This is impossible. Seeing that the opportunity is not good, the more than a hundred old thieves on the other side will probably mount mules and horses to escape. Although our own side There are also some mules and horses for riding, but there are not many, and it is extremely difficult to chase them.
However, Huang Guangmao's purpose is not that. What he wants is to defeat this group of bandits. The more than a hundred old bandits cannot be killed, but it is good to kill the more than 2,000 ordinary bandits. This can be considered Something has been gained.
More importantly, Huang Guangmao also learned from the whistleblower that this bandit carried a large amount of baggage, probably carrying a large amount of food.
Huang Guangmao didn't care where the food came from, but he knew that if he could seize this batch of food, he would not only be able to make up for the shortfall in food consumption, but also make a lot of money.
Food, this is a good thing, especially for a general like Huang Guangmao who has hundreds of officers and soldiers under his command. Food and weapons are among the most important strategic materials.
Naturally, I would not miss this opportunity to grab a vote.
After Huang Guangmao had some concerns in his mind, he discussed it with several close subordinates before finally going to see Wang Jida to discuss military affairs.
Finally, under Wang Jida's repeated requests, Huang Guangmao reluctantly agreed to send troops, but he also secured the agreement that if anything could be captured, the captured grain and weapons would belong to Huang Guangmao.
Wang Jida didn't care about the seizure of these grains. He didn't have to support an army of hundreds of people and didn't need so much grain.
Now the five hundred guardsmen and young men who are following him on the expedition have all prepared their own dry food. He, Wang Jida, does not have to give out a grain of food.
What he wants is military glory and his head!
Therefore, he readily agreed to Huang Guangmao.
After obtaining Wang Jida's commitment, Huang Guangmao also officially took action.
Huang Guangmao continued to send sentries to monitor the bandit army. That night, Huang Guangmao also let his soldiers have a good rest. At the same time, he selected 200 people from Wang Jida's guard soldiers and county warriors who had weapons. They seemed to be barely able to fight, and prepared When the time comes, let these people pretend to be pretentious and start beating them.
As for the main force in the battle, they are naturally the three hundred soldiers under his command!
Early the next morning, Huang Guangmao and Wang Jida led the army and set off early. Without stopping along the way, they attacked the bandits who were only seven or eight miles ahead.
But Ta Tianhu and others who were seven or eight miles away didn't know that they had become the targets of the officers and soldiers.
Ta Tianhu has been in a good mood these past two days. Since entering Funiu Mountain, he feels that his luck is really good. He has met several villages in a row, gained a lot of food and many young men, and he belongs to I also captured some pretty purple women and presented them to him.
Now he feels more and more that this place is really a treasure.
It seems that the mountains are high and the forests are dense, but after all, this area is just a mountainous area outside Funiu Mountain. It is mostly hills and there are not many real mountains. Therefore, there are many places for farming and many mountain people gather there.
And these have now become his source of food and troops.
After he and his people swept across Funiu Mountain, and obtained more food and young men, he could go back out of the mountain and bring another wave. The scale of ten thousand people would not be a dream.
He was already thinking about attacking that city when his team expanded to ten thousand people.
Well, Lushan County in the east is good, it's close, and I heard there aren't many officers and soldiers there.
But Ta Tianhu's good mood did not last long, because at noon, the sentry he sent to the perimeter to be vigilant finally discovered the officers and soldiers arriving.
"Officers and soldiers? There are at least a thousand people?" Ta Tianhu felt that he was a little out of his mind.
This is in the mountains. According to common sense, there will not be any officers and soldiers, let alone thousands of officers and soldiers.
Not to mention, these officers and soldiers are still going straight to his group?
Could it be that the officers and soldiers of Nanyang Mansion had been chasing him, and then arrived in front of him in advance to ambush him?
That’s not quite right either.
After breaking through several times, he only had more than a hundred remaining soldiers under his command. Later, he avoided the officers and soldiers all the way. Logically speaking, he should not be targeted by the officers and soldiers.
After all, the officers and soldiers in Nanyang Mansion also had limited strength, and there were several other groups of thousands or even tens of thousands of rebels active in Nanyang Mansion at that time. There was no reason for the officers and soldiers to continue to bite the remnants of more than a hundred of them. .
Even if they insist on not letting go, the officers and soldiers cannot run all the way in front of them and finally ambush themselves in Funiu Mountain. If the officers and soldiers are willing, they can kill him with more than a hundred people directly outside the mountains, even in Nanzhao County. The remaining soldiers were wiped out.
There's no need to go to Funiu Mountain to ambush!
But why are there still officers and soldiers ambushing us ahead?
Ta Tianhu didn't even know that the officers and soldiers in front were not the officers and soldiers chasing from Nanyang Mansion, but the officers and soldiers from Ruzhou in the east.
And the original target of these officers and soldiers was not them, but Sun Chengli and others.
It's just that Sun Chengli and the others originally led the officers and soldiers to the west. At first, they thought of leading the officers and soldiers to the mountainous area to the west. They happened to find Ta Tianhu and the others on the way, so they simply diverted the trouble to the west and led the officers and soldiers directly to Ta Tianhu and the others. Come.
Finally, this scene appeared in front of me.
Unknowingly, Ta Tianhu and the others encountered officers and soldiers who were bent on chasing the Funiu Mountain bandits.
What happened next was as Huang Guangmao expected. He commanded 300 soldiers and 200 auxiliary soldiers to attack directly in three directions. Although the Sky Tigers and others had more than 2,000 people, they could actually fight only a hundred. What an old thief.
At first, the Skywalkers were reluctant to part with the more than 2,000 cannon fodder young men and a large amount of food that they had managed to bundle up. At one time, they tried to resist with more than a hundred old thieves as their backbone.
But after the officers and soldiers who rushed up killed more than 20 old thieves, Ta Tianhu immediately knew that it was inevitable, and he didn't know if there were more officers and soldiers behind him.
Seeing this, Tiantianhu finally gritted his teeth and ordered the cannon fodder he had brought to resist desperately, while he began to retreat with the remaining more than a hundred old thieves.
In this way, there is no suspense in the battle between the officers and soldiers and the bandits.
Huang Guangmao won a great victory. He defeated more than 2,000 bandits in one battle, killed and wounded more than 200 bandits, captured nearly 2,000 people, and also seized a large amount of grain.
The Sky-Taking Tiger, on the other hand, led more than a hundred old thieves towards the depths of the mountain.
But not long after, Ta Tianhu and the others found themselves in an extremely desperate situation!
Not only were they short of food, they were also lost!
