stubborn thief

Chapter 263 The Orion Chief
The cave was pitch black, and Dan Bei Daiben sat silently in the shadows with his back against the damp mountain wall.

Opposite him, several Baili nobles who had lost the battle also had depressed expressions, and someone was slowly sharpening their knives on the stone.

In the dark corner of the entrance of the cave, Danbei’s servant lay on the ground and carefully observed the situation outside the cave. There was a little light in the deeper corner. Master Danba was slaughtering horses and roasting meat, and he was coughing and crying.

The victor on the battlefield is always full of order, while the defeated general will only feel chaotic and bewildered.

Master Su Mang walked out from the corner, holding his nose, glanced at his nephew who was roasting meat, and sighed in his heart.

Danba's life will be difficult in the future. The biggest loser in this battle is not Baili Wang Dunyue Duoji, but Danba.

He lost his land forever, and after burying King Baili's two thousand troops, even if the Danba territory was taken back by the Baili army, it would not be returned to him.

Su Mang walked up to Danbei Daiben and said, "Daiben, the slave who was caught told me that the Han army had 240 people, not an army, and their leader is the Grand Marshal."

Dan Bei Daiben lost the battle, but he was not angry because of it. The silence was only worried about the lord Bai Li, and the opponent was stronger than imagined.

He frowned in doubt at first, then got a little angry: "Not an army? Su Mang, I respect you very much."

The 240 men formed a horizontal formation casually, and none of them retreated in the face of the cavalry attack, but advanced two steps forward. Even the best infantry could hardly grasp the distance of the cavalry attack like they did.

These people put down their spears, took up their muskets and fired very coherently, reloaded and completed bursts of fire. King Bailey had [-] melee warriors who also practiced this, and they were not as proficient as them.

After the infantry phalanx was defeated, half of them stayed in the position to prevent the rout from charging, and the other half rode on horses and charged with their spears. When the spear was broken, they drew out the Yanling Saber, and swung the three-eyed blunderbuss without a knife. He became a skilled horseback warrior again.

They formed several cavalry teams of [-] or [-] cavalry, and stabbed or shot at each of the original teams from the flanks, especially when dealing with the Duokang cavalry. was crushed.

There were also 24 Han soldiers on horseback, who drove more than 300 people from one end of the battlefield to this. If he hadn't sent the tiger hero as his own soldier, the gang of lunatics would have continued to pursue them.

In the end, more than 300 wastes were saved, and instead of turning around to help, they just ran away with their heads down, and plunged their heads into the pockets of the Mongolian soldiers.

His sixty tiger heroes were all surrounded by a team of Han soldiers and horses twice as large as himself in the fight, and none of them came back.

It was supposed to be an evenly matched battle. Although the tiger heroes were few in number, the spears of the Han soldiers had already been broken in successive battles.

But the three-eyed gun, the three-eyed gun is a real dog.

One by one, the tiger heroes who made great contributions to King Baili rushed towards their enemies with their spears upright, taking seven or eight steps, just seven or eight steps, the distance of the horse raising its hoof.

There was a bang, and the black, ugly thing smoked.

Two or three lead pellets flew out of a pipe, either hitting the horse so hard that it kicked its hooves, or the tiger hero was injured and fell off the horse.

They will even circle around the fallen hero, leaving them alone when they die, and if they still want to stand up, they will shoot another shot at the head.

If it weren't for Danba, who is familiar with the territory, leading them into the mountain to escape the pursuers, Dan Beidai would have already eaten the hot meal prepared for the captives.

This kind of opponent, your master Su Mang said that he is not an army, Dan Bei asked Su Mang to explain to him, what the hell is an army?
Su Mang didn't know why, this Dan Bei's face changed so easily.

But he had nothing to do, and continued to explain: "They originally belonged to a centurion every 15 people. As the generalissimo's support for Basang, they were combined in a hurry, and they didn't even have officers."

Dan Bei turned his face to the side, put his hand on his chin and thought for a long time before turning his head: "There are no officers?"

He co-authored himself to call a group of stragglers to defeat him?

Su Mang probably guessed why Dan Bei changed his face, probably because reality severely hurt the veteran's self-esteem, and quickly added: "Yes, there are 21 officers."

With 21 officers in the stragglers, Dan Bei clicked his tongue and leaned back slightly: "That's right, let me just say, how come there are no officers... What's wrong?"

Seeing that Dan Bei was very relieved that the enemy had officers, Su Mang didn't know whether he should say the next thing or not.

Dan Bei urged him twice more, and Su Mang replied with erratic eyes: "That officer is a hunter leader. He was not on the battlefield during the war. He took a hundred hunters out the night before, and the captured slaves didn't know about it." Where is he."

The leader of the hunters he said was Dai Daozi. During the war here, because there were no roads in many places and it was necessary to climb high and look far, hunters were responsible for the investigation.

In the eyes of the slaves, Dai Daozi and Tang Bing, who always ran out without seeing anyone, were like a group of hunters.

Dan Bei was surprised: "Then who is holding the flag?"

"It's a recruit, it should be a recruit. Veterans always laugh at him."

Dan Bei closed his eyes in pain.

What is this called... The officer is not on the battlefield, and a group of stragglers are on the loose.

Any general who encountered such a situation with the enemy would laugh out loud in his dreams.

However, he was defeated by such a person, and twice.

Dan Bei didn't forget the black smoke rising from the valley on the other side. He guessed it was the good deed of the officer who ran out, and it was precisely because of the black smoke that he didn't escape to Su Mang's territory.

Just as Dan Bei Daiben was busy hanging his head down, Danba came over with roasted horse meat on a stone slab, and before he approached, his uncle pointed his eyes at him to indicate that he was not talking.

Danba put down the horse meat and stepped aside without saying a word.

His uncle had told him about the current situation, and King Baili would not be angry with him, but Danba's loss of territory was a foregone conclusion.

In this war, the entire Kham area is in turmoil. It is not yet known whether the Su Mang territory, which is the front line of the war, can survive. Uncle can't keep him for a lifetime.

Being in this cave is a good opportunity to please Dan Bei Daiben. If he can appreciate him, maybe Danba will have a chance to stand up in the future.

At this moment, the house slave lying motionless at the entrance of the cave ran to Daiben and shouted: "Master, the army, there are troops going to Danba Manor."

The dejected Dan Bei Daiben and several nobles got up quickly after hearing the words, and ran to the entrance of the cave to look out.

On the mountainous grassland where night fell, the brigade holding high torches spread out, spread out blurred fire snakes on the grass, and meandered towards Danba Manor.

They came from the direction of Nangqian, and it was the reinforcements of the Han people.

The main force of the Lion Army is marching.

At night, they were only a moment away from Danba Manor.

On the way, Liu Chengzong received a message from Dai Daozi that Bai Lijun had assembled more than [-] troops to attack Danba Manor, which made him aware that something was unusual.

Danba is a small territory, the manor is not worth much, and its geographical location is not a military center, so it is not worth laboring.

He didn't know why King Bai Li would send a substitute army here, but no matter what the reason behind it was, it was always a good thing to have a substitute army here.

King Baili's total army strength is limited, if there are two thousand more in this place, the other places will be two thousand less, saving his army from searching around in unfamiliar places.

For this reason, he sent Bai Yan to go west to take Qamdo, personally led a large army to support, and ordered Zhang Tianlin, the general manager of the cavalry battalion, to lead the army to help.

Unexpectedly, before Zhang Tianlin arrived, Dai Daozi had already brought the news of the frontline victory, and won two games, which made Liu Chengzong very excited.

Dai Daozi was specially ordered to come over and tell him about the battle process on the way.

After hearing it, um... Liu Chengzong didn't want to praise Daozi anymore.

Except for the general who did the work of the soldiers, and the soldiers who did the work of the general, his soldiers fought well.

Crooked Liangzi's performance made him overjoyed, but what Dai Daozi did was not bad. The results were very rich, and there were no casualties. He recruited more than 700 slave soldiers and robbed the enemy of more than 400 stone rations.

It can only be said that it is not the same as the choice of normal people.

Liu Chengzong rode in front and asked: "What do you think, leaving the army behind and running to the other side of the river to go deep behind the enemy's rear?"

Dai Daozi was half a step behind, and he was taken aback for a moment before answering: "Marshal, this is what I've always done."

"Yes, but you never thought that the order given to you is to lead the army to help Basang control the army?"

Dai Daozi scratched his face, he had many explanations for this question.

He discovered that the enemy was crossing the river during his investigation. He originally wanted to wait for an opportunity to attack from behind the enemy, but he saw a better opportunity before attacking the grain camp on the opposite bank.

What's more, his people don't understand the language, and it's not in the same system as military training, so staying in Danba Manor is of little practical use.

But Dai Daozi didn't say anything, he just agreed, saying that he would not go far in the future.

Originally, he had made meritorious deeds, and what he did was a good deed, and the Generalissimo's words were not harsh, maybe he just said it casually, but if he turned it into a bad thing because of his own talking back, it would be very bad.

Liu Chengzong did say casually that the war is too complicated.

Complicated to the same situation, different approaches, sometimes have the same end.

For the single problem of water sources for camping, some people disperse and camp according to the water sources, and lose; some people concentrate their forces away from the water sources, and they also lose.

A matter of life and death is the most complicated art in the world. With the same tactics, some people can win and others can lose. Even if the basic conditions are met, sometimes you can bite the bullet and rush upwards, and you can win.

The only eternal truth in war is to win. No matter what the war is, as long as you win, future generations will explain and learn from it.

If you win, you will be a famous player through the ages, and if you lose, you will be a negative teaching material.

But learning, learning always comes in handy.

Liu Chengzong flicked the reins on the horse's back: "Don't want to be the captain all the time, do you? After this battle is over, you will go to the Chinese military camp to stay for half a year and learn new things. I will find you a good place to go."

"Thank you, handsome!"

Dai Daozi was overjoyed on the horseback, clasped his fists and saluted, and asked: "The commander said we are crooked?"

"Yes, Crooked Liangzi fought the battle well, hey!"

Speaking of crooked beams, Liu Chengzong couldn't help showing a smile. This is a winner in life in the Lion Army, which made him very excited at that time.

Liu Shizi is in charge of the army and never does everything personally. He knows what the soldiers want. The Lion Army will undergo various changes in order to transition to a normal regime, and getting married and having children is one of them.

Some officers in the Chinese military battalion believe that the Lion Army is now in the most unencumbered state and has the most morale.

But Liu Shizi doesn't think so.

He believes that the morale is the ancient scholars, who are confidantes, and at the moment of choice between life and righteousness, they resolutely sacrifice for it and are not afraid of death.

He didn't want his lion soldiers to do the last four words, the starting point was because life was boring.

On the contrary, he believes that soldiers who are concerned, out of nostalgia for life, can burst out with greater faith and courage between life and death.

What Liu Shizi hopes to do most is to let his soldiers be responsible for fighting to the death for more important things. He is responsible for eliminating worries for the soldiers.

Crooked Liangzi stepped forward without an officer, providing strong support for his point of view.

Liu Chengzong didn't say much about this matter. It is a foregone conclusion that Dai Daozi and Wailiangzi will be selected for promotion. He just asked the guards to record the establishment of the merit examination system, and immediately raised his whip and asked: "Those nobles who are stubbornly resisting in the corner, did not catch them?" arrive?"

"We haven't caught them yet. We are not familiar with the mountain roads here. Only a monk who understands Chinese in Wailiangzi is a prisoner. It's inconvenient for Basang's slaves to search for them, and they can't be guided. We haven't been able to find them yet. "

After Dai Daozi finished speaking, Liu Chengzong reacted for a while before he realized the key point of this sentence: "What an inconvenience, what's the inconvenience?"

"Some of those nobles are the masters of Basang's slaves, so they can't be asked to find them by themselves." Dai Daozi shook his head and said, "I'm worried that someone will let them go, one of them is Danba, we must not tell him to run away. "

Danba?

Liu Chengzong knew that this territory was called Danba: "What did he do?"

"We occupied the manor, but he sneaked back and tortured a slave to death in the cave. His methods were extremely cruel."

Dai Daozi said firmly to Liu Chengzong: "Commander, I have someone to prove it. A woman named Bu Chi saw it with her own eyes. She was frightened and went wrong. She thought she was possessed by a ghost all day long."

Liu Chengzong narrowed his eyes and said slowly: "This is dissatisfaction with the confiscation of the territory, venting anger on the slaves... Looking for it, can you find out where they are hiding?"

"It should be on the mountain here. There is no road in the mountain. My Tangqi is short of manpower. I can only ask Xie Erhu's Mongolian soldiers to block the way out of the mountain and search bit by bit."

Dai Daozi shook his head and said, "I guess it will take a long time to find it."

"It will take a long time to find it."

Liu Chengzong showed an uneasy face, he was not afraid that others would hold grudges, but if he knew who would hold grudges against him, he had to do everything possible to get rid of him quickly: "Take a rest tonight, and tomorrow I will ask Mr. Zhang Qian to help you and lead the troops to search the mountains together."

Speaking of it, Zhang Tianlin was actually a great hero in this battle, he was a master of the Lion Army's cavalry charge.

Crooked Liangzi's training infantry battalion was able to advance and counterattack once in a frontal battle, and the enemy cavalry did not dare to charge a second time, thanks to Zhang Tianlin hitting the infantry again and again in the Juerwan camp exercise.

It was him who gave the infantry of the Lion Army great experience in dealing with shocks. They suffered more shocks in half a year than many troops suffered in a lifetime.

"This man has to be found out, it's a good example for the slaves to know what's right and what's wrong."

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)