I want to be emperor

Chapter 39 The Battle Between Officials and Thieves
Huang Guangmao is not surprised by Wang Jida's behavior. These civil servants have more rules than each other, and they are more exaggerated than Wang Jida. This is just trivial.

After Wang Jida arrived at Huang Guangmao's side in a sedan chair, he said, "The main force of the bandit army has been revealed ahead. It's worth waiting for me to chase them all the way for several days. General Huang, when shall we attack the bandit army?"

Although Wang Jida has been pressing Huang Guangmao to pursue him, now he can't wait to lead the army directly to kill him, to behead a thousand ranks and become a great success.

But Wang Jida still didn't forget that Huang Guangmao was not his subordinate, and even though he, Wang Jida, was familiar with the books of sages and sages, he was not proficient in the art of war.

Huang Guangmao still needs to handle vulgar matters such as dispatching troops and generals.

For himself, just stay behind and sit in charge.

Hearing Wang Jida's words, Huang Guangmao, like before, did not express any disdain or dissatisfaction with Wang Jida, but respectfully said: "Report to Mr. Huang Xianzun, I have sent a sentry to investigate carefully. , we can enter the army as soon as we are ready."

What this means is, take it easy and check the situation first. If the bandit army is average, then it’s okay to fight. If the bandit army is strong, then don’t fight.

Huang Guangmao and Wang Jida had also stayed together for several days, and he knew some of Wang Jida's thoughts. This person just wanted the heads of thieves as capital for promotion, and he didn't care about the lives of these generals and soldiers at all.

This person attaches great importance to these things. If he rashly said that the bandit army is too powerful to be attacked lightly, he would probably lose his temper again.

Even if Wang Jida couldn't do anything to Huang Guangmao for a while, and couldn't come to the top of the battle, impeachment and pressure would definitely be indispensable.

In order to avoid subsequent troubles, Huang Guangmao patiently tried to be as tactful as possible.

Wang Jida is not an idiot either, he naturally understood the meaning of Huang Guangmao's words, but this time Wang Jida did not refute, but nodded slightly: "This is the way to be cautious, yes!"

After all, although Wang Jida wanted the head of the bandit as a means of promotion, he would not say that he would forcefully attack the main force of thousands of bandits. Go to Huang Guangmao, but he will also be punished himself.

Anyway, the bandit army is ahead, and they won't be able to escape for a while, so it is 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 2000 bandit troops ahead, there were about a hundred old bandits, with more than a hundred mules and horses. Twenty thirty.

Except for a hundred old thieves, they are all young and strong, and less than [-]% of the young and strong armed forces are without armor.

After listening to the reports from several scouts, Huang Guangmao calculated in his mind that the more than 100 old thieves should be the elite cavalry of the thief army that he had been chasing before. Together.

If there are only more than 100 old thieves, I am not afraid. Even if the opponent has too many mules and horses to gather and wipe them out, it is still not a problem to defeat them.

What Huang Guangmao was afraid of was that there were hundreds of old thieves on the opposite side, and he capsized in the gutter.

From the looks of it, it seems that it can be beaten by a dozen.

Of course, even if you fight Huang Guangmao, you don't expect to wipe out this group of thieves directly. This is impossible. There are also some mules and horses available for riding, but there are not many, and it is extremely difficult to chase them.

However, Huang Guangmao's purpose is not here. What he wants is to defeat this group of thieves. The 100 old thieves cannot be killed, but it is good to kill the 2000 ordinary thieves. Got it.

More importantly, Huang Guangmao also learned from the sentry that this branch of thieves carried a large amount of luggage, which was estimated to be a large amount of food.

Huang Guangmao didn't care where the food came from, but he knew that if he could capture this batch of food, his trip would not only make up for the shortage of food and grass 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, like weapons, is the most important strategic material.

This opportunity to grab a vote will naturally not be missed.

After thinking about it, Huang Guangmao consulted with a few of his confidantes, and finally went to see Wang Jida to discuss military affairs.

In the end, under Wang Jida's repeated requests, Huang Guangmao reluctantly agreed to send troops, but he also won that if something could be captured, the captured food and weapons would belong to Huang Guangmao.

Wang Jida didn't care about the food seized, and he didn't have to support an army of hundreds of people under his command, so he didn't need so much food.

Now the five hundred guardsmen and young men who followed him on the expedition all had their own dry food, and he, Wang Jida, did not need to provide a grain of food.

What he wants is military merit, what he wants is the head!

Therefore, Huang Guangmao readily agreed.

After receiving Wang Jida's promise, Huang Guangmao also officially took action.

Continue to send sentries to monitor the bandit army, and that night Huang Guangmao also let his soldiers rest well, and at the same time selected 200 people with weapons from Wang Jida's guards and county soldiers, who seemed to be barely capable of fighting. When the time comes, let these people pretend to be prestigious and beat them down.

As for the main force of the battle, it is 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 went straight to the bandits who were only seven or eight miles away.

But Tatianhu and others seven or eight miles away didn't know that they had become the targets of officers and soldiers.

Tatianhu has been in a good mood these two days. Since entering Funiu Mountain, he feels that his luck is really good. He has encountered several villages in a row, obtained a lot of food and also gained many young adults, and he belongs to He also captured a few beautiful purple women and dedicated them to him.

Now he feels more and more that this place is really a treasure.

It looks like high mountains and dense forests, but after all, this area is only a mountainous area outside Funiu Mountain. Most of them are hills, and there are not many real mountains. Therefore, there are many places that can be cultivated, and there are also many mountain people gathered.

And these have now become his source of food and soldiers.

After I led people to sweep Funiu Mountain once, I got more food and young people, and I went back out of the mountain to take another wave. The scale of [-] people is not a dream.

He was already imagining that after his team expanded to a size of ten thousand people, he would attack that city.

Well, Lushan County in the east is not bad, the distance is short, and I heard that there are not many officers and soldiers there.

But Tatianhu's good mood didn't last long, because at noon, the sentry he sent to the periphery to be vigilant finally found the officers and soldiers who were coming.

"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 still went straight to their own group?

Could it be that the officers and soldiers of Nanyang Mansion have been chasing him, and then rushed to the front of him ahead of time to ambush him?

Not quite right either.

After he broke through the siege several times, there were only more than a hundred remnants of his soldiers left, and he continued to hide from 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 were also limited in strength, and at that time, there were several other rebel armies with a scale of thousands or even tens of thousands active in Nanyang Mansion. It was unreasonable for the officers and soldiers to continue to bite their own remnants of more than a hundred people. .

Even if he insisted, the officers and soldiers would not be able to run all the way ahead of him, and finally ambush him in Funiu Mountain. If the officers and soldiers wanted to, they could go directly outside the mountain, even in Nanzhao County. The remnant soldiers were wiped out.

There is no need to go to Funiu Mountain to ambush!

But why are there still officers and soldiers ambushing ahead?

Ta Tianhu didn't know at all 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 in the west. They happened to find Tatianhu and the others on the way, so they simply led the officers and soldiers to Tatianhu and the others directly. Come.

Finally, the scene in front of him appeared.

Unknowingly, Ta Tianhu and the others encountered officers and soldiers who came wholeheartedly chasing the bandits from Funiu Mountain.

What happened next was as Huang Guangmao expected. He commanded 2000 soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers to attack directly in three ways. Although Ta Tianhu and the others had more than [-] people, they could actually fight with more than a hundred old thief.

At the beginning, Tatianhu was reluctant to part with the more than 2000 cannon fodder youths and a large amount of food that had finally been coerced, and once tried to take more than a hundred old thieves as the backbone to try to resist.

But after the officers and soldiers who rushed up killed and wounded more than 20 old thieves, Ta Tianhu immediately knew that it was necessary, and he didn't know if there were more officers and soldiers behind.

Seeing this, Stepping Tiger finally gritted his teeth, and while ordering the cannon fodder to resist desperately, he started to retreat with the remaining [-] old thieves.

In this way, there will be no suspense in this battle between officers and soldiers and thieves.

Huang Guangmao won a complete victory. He defeated more than 2000 rebel troops in the First World War, among which more than 2000 rebel soldiers were killed and nearly [-] were captured, and a large amount of food was also seized by the way.

Ta Tianhu ran towards the depths of the mountain with more than a hundred old thieves.

But it didn't take long for Tatianhu and the others to find themselves in a desperate situation!

Not only are they short of food, but they're also lost!

(End of this chapter)