I want to be emperor

Chapter 40

When the officers and soldiers attacked Tatianhu and his party, the officers and soldiers adopted the method of advancing secretly and making a quick assault.

They killed Tatianhu and his party in no time, so that Tatianhu and the others didn't have enough time to prepare, so they were attacked by surprise during the march.

After being raided by the officers and soldiers, Ta Tianhu once wanted to resist the first wave of attacks by the officers and soldiers, so as to stabilize his position before counterattacking or retreating.

But he underestimated the combat power of the officers and soldiers led by Huang Guangmao. After Huang Guangmao personally led [-] soldiers to charge up directly, Tatianhu and his party were completely powerless and forced to flee.

Because the incident happened suddenly, although Ta Tianhu forced the young and strong cannon fodder to come forward to resist and buy time for the retreat of the hundreds of old thieves, but in fact those young and strong people let alone resisted. After escaping, all of them ran away with their feet loose, and they didn't give Tatianhu and the others a breakup at all.

In desperation, Tatianhu and the others could only run away in embarrassment. They didn't even have time to bring food, mules and horses and other supplies, and one by one couldn't wait to get into the mountain forest to escape for their lives.

After all, the officers and soldiers were right in front of them at that time, and they ran away in order to escape. They didn't care about so much at all. Some people even felt that the weapons and armor were too heavy, so they threw away the weapons and armor in order to escape.

After turning over a mountain, when Ta Tianhu gathered up and counted the soldiers, he found that there were only a hundred or so old thieves left under him.

More importantly, they fled too quickly and failed to bring the food and luggage behind them.

Without food, they could only slaughter the few mules and horses they brought out, thinking that they could survive by slaughtering mules and horses.

But they didn't expect that the mountains are high and densely forested, and the deeper the mountain is, the more difficult it is to walk. Moreover, they are not familiar with this place, and they have not been able to find the mountain hunter Orion to guide them.

So, after wandering around in the mountains for a few days, they managed to get lost in the mountains...

Going around in the mountains, I couldn't find the way out of the mountain.

Looking at the endless mountains ahead, these 100 old thieves are all desperate!

Even Tatianhu, who has been constantly boosting morale, is full of despair.

With great difficulty, he gathered more than 2000 people and got a batch of food, but a sudden encounter turned his efforts into nothing.

Not only that, but the backbone old thief under his hands killed or injured another 30 people, leaving only about 50 [-] people.

It doesn't matter if their strength is damaged if they try hard to turn into nothingness, what's more terrible is that they got lost in the mountains.

After they ate up all the mules and horses, they could only continue to climb mountains and ridges hungry, instead of looking for those mountain trails, they went straight through the dense forest and headed east.

After all, it must be Ruzhou to the east, and if you keep walking to the east, you will definitely be able to get out.

When this group of hungry old thieves with their chests stuck to their backs and who couldn't even walk steadily wandered around the mountains for seven or eight days, they finally saw the hope of survival!

After they drilled out of a dense forest, they saw an open space ahead, and a large house could be seen not far from the open space.

This is a village, and it is still a populated village.

Already hungry and dizzy, the old thief saw this scene, and his face showed ecstasy: There is no unparalleled road, as long as they rob this village, they can survive, and maybe they can make a comeback.

But their nascent hopes were dashed before they lasted.

Because they soon saw more than a hundred archers armed with swords and spears coming out of the village in front of them, and seven or eight cavalrymen rushed up and shot arrows...

Seeing this scene, Tatianhu, who was already dizzy from hunger, murmured: It's over...

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Luo Zhixue from Sanshui Village was also very surprised when he saw this group of thieves coming out of the forest in the west.

To be honest, Luo Zhixue didn't expect these thieves to come out of the forest and walk to the edge of Sanshui Village.

Because of this kind of thing, no normal person would do it.

This place is not a densely populated place, but deep in the mountains with few people, high mountains and dense forests. If you don't take the path opened before, if you go directly through the mountains and forests, you need to open a road all the way forward, which is very difficult. big.

However, just half a day ago, Luo Zhixue arranged for an emergency report from the guard post on the top of the mountain to the west, saying that a group of thieves had appeared in the forest to the west.

At first, Luo Zhixue thought that these thieves marched from the mountain road to the east first, and evaded or simply killed the sentries deployed on the mountain road by their side. Then they reached the edge of Sanshui Village, and in order to bypass Wuliguan And the special big circle ran to the west mountain forest.

Well, Sanshui Village set up guard posts on the mountains on the three sides of the south, west, and north to prevent this kind of situation.

But, Luo Zhixue still didn't think that these people didn't detour from the east, but ran all the way from the west through the mountains.

Although Luo Zhixue didn't understand this kind of foolish behavior, he was still very vigilant and immediately ordered his supply battalion to gather for battle.

After he assembled his troops, he didn't directly rush into the forest to intercept him. Instead, he waited for work and waited for the opponent to emerge from the forest by himself before intercepting him.

The follow-up situation was not too surprising. After a group of ragged thieves finally got out of the forest, they encountered dozens of people from the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang camp led by Luo Zhixue.

On one side is a ruffian who is exhausted and hungry, with his chest stuck to his back and who can't even walk steadily.

On the other side is the supply battalion that has been prepared a few hours in advance, armed with spears, knives and shields.

Among them were seven elite cavalry, these seven elite cavalry were actually the four personal soldiers under Luo Zhixue's command, that is, the gunners dispatched by Sun Chengli before, and Luo Zhixue temporarily summoned them to form a cavalry squad. Cooperate with the sixty infantry of the supply battalion to fight.

Ta Tianhu and his party had no power to resist at all. Although Ta Tianhu tried his best to resist with a few confidants, but after Ta Tianhu was shot dead by Zhao Hongshu with an arrow, this bandit of hundreds of people I simply surrendered...

The reason why these people surrendered so simply.

On the one hand, it was because the leader, Tatianhu, died.

On the other hand, they also found that the people on the opposite side were not officers and soldiers, and judging by their formation and cavalry, they were unlikely to be ordinary bandits and bandits, so they thought that these people had a high probability of being the same as Like himself, he is a rebel army.

In that case, they felt that their lives should be saved, and at worst they would just go to the group of rebels in front of them.

Furthermore, there is another important reason that led to their surrender.

It can also be said to be the most important reason.

That is they are starving to death...

If they turned around and fled back to the mountains, they didn't think they could survive.

And there are quite a few smart people who can think of this, so after Ta Tianhu died, many people under him simply chose to throw down their swords, and then fell on the ground and shouted:
"Forgive me!"

"I surrender"

At this time, in fact, the sixty infantrymen of the supply battalion hadn't had time to rush up yet.

This small-scale battle was handled purely by the seven cavalrymen in the cavalry squad.

In fact, the members of the cavalry squad didn't do anything, they didn't even rush to fight, they just rode their horses and shot a few waves of bows and arrows, causing seven or eight casualties to the opponent.

But just like that, the opponents surrendered one after another.

Seeing that the opponent surrendered, Luo Zhixue did not dare to relax.

"Let everyone on the other side throw away their weapons and armor, and raise their hands in batches."

"Send someone up and tie them up."

"Keep vigilant, if the opponent resists, kill immediately."

Luo Zhixue didn't want to see him pretending to surrender and then launching another wave of counter-kills, so he immediately asked the opponent to throw away their weapons and armor.

And sent people to bind these captives into strings one by one.

After the surrendered thieves were tied up one by one, Luo Zhixue roughly cleaned the battlefield, mainly collecting the weapons and armor abandoned by the other party.

After everything was done, An Yongduo came up with a look of excitement: "Sir, we have achieved a lot this time. We have seized 53 intact knives, eighteen pairs of strong bows, and five pairs of armor."

Luo Zhixue didn't look at ordinary swords, bows and arrows, but turned his attention to the five sets of armor.

Four of them are ordinary cloth-covered iron armor. This kind of armor looks like there are many dense copper nails on the outside. At first glance, it seems to be just an army coat with copper nails inlaid on the clothes.

But if you look at it, you can see that there are pieces of iron on the inner layer of the fabric.

This kind of cloth-covered iron armor is a standard armor that is very commonly used by the contemporary Ming army. It is also commonly used by major rebels and even Dong captives. It can be regarded as a very common armor in contemporary East Asia.

Luo Zhixue's personal soldiers originally had two sets of iron armor, and later modified several sets of cotton iron armor with cotton armor, which is actually this kind of cloth armor.

There are good and bad things like cloth-faced iron armor. The outer layer of some good quality is usually cloth, the middle layer is thicker iron sheet, and the inner layer is multi-layered strong cotton, which can act as a double layer of defense and take into account the cold The protection of weapons and firearms, and it can also be used as a warm coat in winter...

However, there are not many such good cloth armors. Most of the cloth armors are just thin iron sheets nailed on the cloth surface. In order to save costs, the inner armor is at most just casually made on the chest. , its defense capability can be seen.

Cloth-faced iron armor is good or bad for defense, it just depends on whether you are willing to spend money.

If you are willing to spend money, the defense is not bad if the quality is improved.

If you are not willing to spend money, then it is basically no different from a military coat...

In addition to these four sets of cloth armor, there is also a set of fish scale armor.

This set of fish-scale armor is relatively well-made, and the helmet and other parts are also complete. Generally speaking, this kind of high-quality fish-scale armor is worn by officers, and ordinary soldiers, even small officers, cannot afford this kind of thing.

Getting these five sets of armor put Luo Zhixue in a good mood.

It's not easy to get a good set of armor these days, no matter if you want to capture it or make it yourself. Now that a wave of thieves came and got him five sets of armor, Luo Zhixue is naturally in a good mood.

Luo Zhixue was in a good mood, so he didn't treat these thieves who appeared out of nowhere too harshly, and seeing them faint from hunger, he even ordered someone to cook a pot of porridge, so that these people would not starve to death.

Anyway, it's free labor, isn't it!

At the same time, people are asked to ask questions, at least to find out the origin of these thieves.

Watching the porridge being distributed, these rogue prisoners of war scrambled to tell all the things they knew in order to be able to drink porridge.

(End of this chapter)