stubborn thief

Chapter 92 Whereabouts
Guerrilla general Lu Cheng arrived at Jingjiagou at night.

His unit failed to dispatch scouts to report the situation on time. According to the prior agreement, it was an accident.

Standing in the drying yard with General Su Rong, more than 400 officers and soldiers under his command kept silent on foot and horse.

The other general took off his armor and knelt shirtless beside him. More than [-] soldiers under his command were scattered in the village, looking for possible traces.

They all knew that the general was angry.

The village was eerily quiet, and the courtyard walls still had holes punched by lead shot and arrows under the reflection of the torches.

Lu Cheng, who was wearing a helmet and armor, had an expressionless face, standing in the sunbathing field under the darkness of night.

There is a compacted shallow pit under his feet, which is the mark of the tiger squatting gun fired and sitting behind the gun.

Not far from this mark, there are wrecked cars and bloodstains covered in loess.

It seems that the corpse was taken away, the thief walked in a hurry, and the trace was buried hastily.

Soon, someone ran out of the compound and shouted, "General, found it!"

Lu Cheng glanced at the boss who was kneeling beside him, with a bad expression: "Why are you still kneeling here, go and see your soldiers!"

Guerrilla general Lu Cheng was actually not very angry with his subordinates.

The order to let more than 800 subordinates eat in four villages was personally issued by him.

It's not that the two generals and eight generals under his command acted without authorization.

When he gave the order, he knew that making such a decision would easily be attacked and defeated by the thieves one by one.

But is there a way?

According to the regulations of the imperial court, the officers and troops were only able to get supplies at the news site the next day after the deployment of troops.

Secondly, even if the Yanchuan County Government wanted to provide them with supplies, it would not be able to do so.

Ten days ago, Lu Cheng led his troops into Yanchuan, and his rations were eaten up. He even thought that Yanchuan County had fallen to the hands of thieves, and all the inns beside the official road were robbed.

The courier shop was also burnt down.

His soldiers ran back after three days of starvation and had enough food for a few days before crossing Anding County via the Qing River.

As a general, Lu Cheng knew best what kind of people his soldiers were.

Jingbian Fort was also unable to provide them with rations, so it took three days to collect six meals of dry rations.

These six meals of dry food are for pursuit and encirclement, and cannot be eaten.

Qin Bing is a hero, the most able to endure hunger, and any orders to him are never compromised.

Lu Cheng ordered not to eat, and his soldiers would never eat a bite until they starved to death.

To suppress the bandits, to feed the soldiers, Yanchuan is poor, the common people are eating grass roots, and there is not even a big village that can feed them.

What can he do?
We can only let the soldiers scare the people away, and let the soldiers eat whatever is left.

That's all, the subordinates have to be dispersed. If they don't disperse, it's a trivial matter for a village to not get enough to eat. They have to leave something for the people, right?

If you are attacked or not, you can only resign yourself to fate.

Some roads are known to be impossible, so they can only bite the bullet.

"General, President Wang Bai is still alive."

Helpless and helpless, Lu Cheng would get angry again when he heard that his subordinate Bai Zong was still alive, stepped into the back house of the compound, glanced at it, and went out again.

To the left and right: "Get them some water, motherfucker."

The scene in the back house of the compound is very irritating. There are a lot of frontier soldiers, their mouths are stuffed, their hands and feet are tied, their bodies are stripped naked, and they are lying on the ground one by one.

The thieves were also afraid that they would freeze to death, so they kindly brought quilts from the village and covered them evenly.

Head to head, foot to foot, four people make a bed, everyone is warm.

When Lu Cheng walked out of the yard, Mr. Qi on the other side also ran over and reported, "General, the body of Paoze is over there."

"Let President Wang Bai get dressed and come to see me."

The corpses of the officers were laid out in two courtyards, neatly arranged, and the armor, weapons, and carrying objects were gone.

After a while, the weak Wang Baizong wore the commoner found in the village and knelt down: "General, incompetent, attacked by thieves..."

"Where did the thieves come from, how many were there, how did they fight, and where did they go?"

Lu Cheng patrolled the corpses with a blank face, covered the eyes of his subordinates who couldn't rest, and asked four questions in a row.

When he came to a corpse, he stopped, and he recognized that it was another Hundred Chiefs under his command, and lifted the blood-stained list attached to his body, and the blood on his chest had changed color.

The spearhead without the wooden pole is still on the body.

Lu Cheng narrowed his eyes, and the anger brewing in his chest could no longer hold back. He turned his head and glared at President Wang Bai and said, "How could his soldiers let the enemy get close to him and kill him? The whole team should be damned!"

Wang Baizong kowtowed to the ground and said in a very fast voice: "The thieves came from nowhere, there were more than [-], and they came roaring with light cavalry, arrows like rain.

I stood guard in the courtyard and attacked with flying cannons. The thieves were mixed together, and they had already been routed by our troops with flying cannons, so President Qi Bai led the army out.

Unexpectedly, the thief's head was unusually brave. He hid in the stirrup and rode out of the formation. He threw the spear to death, and even opened the bow to the left and right to kill several of our troops.

The thieves were so excited, the horse team regrouped, and the two flanks attacked, and we were outnumbered..."

"And then surrendered to the thieves?"

Lu Cheng didn't see any joy or anger on his face, he glanced at Mr. Wang Baizong with drooping eyelids: "There is not even a single injury on his body, he was stripped clean and white, like a live pig."

Wang Baizong had nothing to say, and then kowtowed to the ground.

Lu Cheng didn't say much about this matter. He had seen many enemies surrender after the general trend had passed, and he asked angrily, "What about the thief's head?"

There are many brave people in this world.

It is only in the rabble that individual bravery can restore the decline.

Because the rabble does not understand combat, does not understand war.

Once the cannon is fired, it can be scattered and flee, and a brave man can regroup.

Dispersion and gathering are just a form of expression of the rabble being defeated.

They should neither disperse nor gather, they just need to stick to their posts and move like a mountain.

"Northern Army helmet, two-petaled, red frontier army armor, cavalry, and... and that horse." Wang Baizong raised his head and said eagerly, "Northern horse with red mane and miscellaneous flowers."

Lu Cheng suddenly realized that this thief was a deserter leader.

The armor of the northern army, and the skillful bow and horse, destroyed all the express shops and post stations from Yan'an Prefecture to Yanchuan.

All of them can be matched, it should be Liu Chengzong who entered Yan'an Mansion a while ago.

"It saves us time to come out on our own."

Lu Cheng nodded slowly.

When he received the order from the General's House on the Yansui Middle Road, he was worried that the brothers Liu Chengzu and Liu Chengzong, who had entered the Yan'an House to rob the prison, had served as frontier troops, and their father was a junior official.

This family knows the frontier troops very well, and they may have been hidden long ago, so it is difficult to catch them.

For this reason, they specially sent someone to Yuhebao to ask them about their situation, and mentioned that Liu Chengzong had a red-haired horse that was over-dyed.

Unexpectedly, they were so bold that instead of running away, they dared to intercept the officers.

Thinking of this, Lu Cheng's mood improved again: "Do you know where they went?"

"Piece, I heard someone from outside the hospital whispering about Shanxi."

Shanxi, Shanxi... Lu Cheng thought about it, and suddenly looked stern: "It's broken, they robbed you of your military uniforms and armor, and they became a frontier army, I'm afraid they are going to deceive Yanshuiguan!
Hurry, gather all the ministries to help Yanshui Pass! "

In Jingjiagou at night, the officers lit torches like fire dragons winding through the mountain plateau, crossed the county seat of Yanchuan, and headed for Yanshui Pass, which is forty miles away.

(End of this chapter)