I want to be emperor

Chapter 46 Smiles on the battlefield
Because he knew that there was a high probability of potential enemies ahead, Fei Bingqing didn't dare to underestimate and lead the army all the way forward in a stupid way. Instead, he sent multiple groups of sentries to investigate in advance to avoid being caught in an ambush.

After all, the more than 200 people he led actually didn't have many soldiers.

Huang Guangmao had only [-] main soldiers in total, how could it be possible for Fei Bingqing to lead too many soldiers here alone.

In fact, Fei Bingqing only had about fifty soldiers as warriors, another hundred or so were Lushan County braves, and dozens more were civilians who didn't even have weapons and were simply used to transport supplies. up.

If he really encountered an ambush by a large-scale bandit army, he would only be able to fight with more than 50 people under his command. If he failed, he might be finished.

Therefore, Fei Bingqing was extremely cautious and walked unhappily along the way, and sent out sentries to guard the surroundings, especially the front.

But, Fei Bingcai didn't know it at all. The spies from Sanshui Village had already found out about his team just as they set off.

When he led his troops northward, Luo Zhixue also led his troops into the location chosen yesterday to prepare for an ambush.

According to the traditional sense, the place he chose was not a very good ambush location. It was not a canyon like a line of sky, but just a seemingly ordinary valley.

In fact, most of the roads into the mountain belong to the roads in this kind of valley. After all, they have to cross Songshan Mountain, and it is impossible to really climb over the top of the mountain and turn over. They all go around the foot of the mountain and cross the valley.

After Luo Zhixue brought people to this place, some troops were deployed and hid directly in the forest about several hundred meters away on the right side of the mountain path, not directly approaching the mountain path. Naturally, it was impossible to launch an attack directly after the enemy arrived at the mountain path. .

But if it is too close to the mountain road, it will definitely be discovered by the enemy's sentry.

Luo Zhixue did this because of his own considerations.

From the traditional point of view, it is not suitable for ambushes, and the guards of officers and soldiers should not be too heavy. At least those sentries will not search carefully and repeatedly like passing through some dangerous areas.

In this way, there is a high probability that these sentries will search the sides of the mountain road at will, and it is unlikely that they will search too far away from the mountain road.

And when the scouts of these officers and soldiers searched this area and continued to advance, then Luo Zhixue's opportunity came.

At that time, he will approach quietly with his troops, and launch an ambush directly when the enemy troops pass by.

The whole plan is very simple, and the problem is that the officers and soldiers will not be too defensive against such ordinary terrain.

Taking a step back, if the guards of the officers and soldiers were really so strong, then Luo Zhixue could also give up the attack, retreat instead, and finally go to the predetermined place for defensive operations.

Luo Zhixue had already prepared a way out for himself from the very beginning, if the ambush failed, he would directly adopt a defensive operation, instead of insisting on some kind of ambush, once the ambush failed, it would be over.

As time passed bit by bit, Luo Zhixue got the report in the afternoon, and a sentry from the Ming army appeared ahead.

These sentries, in groups of two or three, continued to search both sides of the mountain road to prevent ambushes.

However, the scope of the search was not large, at least they did not run hundreds of meters away, so that Luo Zhi and the others could not be found.

However, Luo Zhixue and the others were not happy for a long time. When Luo Zhixue ordered the troops to approach, they discovered the second batch of sentries from officers and soldiers approaching.

As a result, the second batch of officers and soldiers' sentries simply discovered the thieves from Sanshui Village who had come out of the mountain forest and were about to ambush on the side of the mountain road.

After all the exclamations and shouts, the outposts of both sides were already fighting.

Well, it was directly exposed!
Although Luo Zhixue was a little unwilling about this, he still decisively ordered his troops to retreat directly.

If he didn't retreat, Luo Zhixue would not be sure that he would be able to block the attack of the officers and soldiers when the main force of the officers and soldiers came up later and the two sides fought a scuffle.

After all, the strength of his troops is just that, and there are not many who can fight, and many of them are old captives. Whether they can be relied on is another matter.

Seeing that the ambush was unsuccessful, Luo Zhixue simply withdrew his troops to the rear where he planned to defend the battle.

This place is more dangerous. It is purely a canyon-like terrain with steep cliffs on both sides, leaving only a few tens of meters in the middle to pass through.

After seeing Luo Zhixue and others coming back, Zhang Malin, the captain of the artillery team who was arranged by Luo Zhixue to deploy a defensive position here, quickly responded.

He didn't need to ask to know that the ambush led by Luo Zhixue himself must have failed, but looking at the people behind Luo Zhixue, there were not many people injured, and there were not many people missing, so he could guess that although the ambush was not successful, it should be fine. loss.

After taking a step forward, Zhang Malin said: "Following the master's instructions, I have already led people to set up the two light guns, and also simply arranged the distance horses and so on."

Luo Zhixue nodded slightly, and then stepped forward to check in person.

Their defensive position is directly deployed in the middle of the canyon, and at the same time, people will be temporarily sent to garrison on the hills on both sides of the canyon, so as to avoid a small group of enemies going directly through the dense forest to climb the mountain.

The canyon is about 40 meters wide, and if there are two artillery pieces, it is enough to cover it completely.

Not to mention they still have archers.

Luo Zhixue said: "Hide the cannons well, and the officers and soldiers must not let them find out before they make a big move."

Now Luo Zhixue is counting on these two [-]-jin cannons to give the officers and soldiers a hard time, and when the time comes, he will use the archers to shoot intensively. Scared.

Let the officers and soldiers have some scruples, and dare not directly send a brigade of troops to fight them up close.

That's right, Luo Zhixue still didn't think about fighting the officers and soldiers head-on, even if it was his own side that had taken over the power of the terrain.

There are only so few people under his command, and so little combat power, it really makes them fight head-on with the officers and soldiers. To be honest, Luo Zhixue has no idea.

For this reason, Luo Zhixue personally arranged for the defense. He wanted to come here to show the enemy a weakness, to attract officers and soldiers to directly charge into the canyon without much precaution, and to create an opportunity for his two cannons and dozens of archers to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop. Chance.

"Without my order, you must not fire!" Luo Zhixue ordered Zhang Malin very seriously.

Zhang Malin nodded yes.

Luo Zhixue could also tell that this person was a little scared now, and his expression was flustered.

Zhang Malin was not an officer or soldier. He was just an ordinary farmer before, and later he joined Sanshui Village as a bandit soldier for a bite to eat.

Because of the old-fashioned diligent training, he was promoted to corporal commander, and then he was selected to learn how to operate the artillery in the artillery team. He was the first gunner among a group of new artillerymen to learn to fully load and aim, so he was promoted to the chief of the artillery team.

After Luo Zhixue established the artillery team, he also became the captain of the artillery team, with 20 people under his command and two light cannons of two hundred catties.

After Luo Zhixue instructed Zhang Malin, he went to An Yongduo again, and asked him to lead his personal troops to prepare, and also absolutely not to bow and shoot arrows without his order.

And once Luo Zhixue gave the order, he had to bend his bow and shoot arrows in the shortest possible time.

The soldiers are all cavalry, but the cavalry is not very useful in this defensive battle. After all, the canyon is too small and seems to be tens of meters wide, but there are not many places where the platform can walk. In fact, there are still forests on both sides...

There are no bows and arrows for cavalry to fight on horseback.

This time they are still used as archers as before.

Not only them, Luo Zhixue also transferred out more than [-] other people who could shoot and equipped with bows and arrows, and temporarily handed them over to Er Yongduo for command.

The remaining people, mainly three infantry teams and a temporary old bandit team, acted as frontal defense forces.

One of Wang Bingqi's teams is used as a reserve team.

Luo Zhixue personally instructed everyone one by one, and reiterated their battle plan again and again.

That is to hide it well at the beginning, so as not to let the officers and soldiers find out.

Luo Zhixue was preparing to show his weakness to the enemy. In the beginning, there were only two teams of serious soldiers.

The purpose is to make the officers and soldiers feel that the bandit army defending this canyon is not strong enough to take it down in a single wave, and then send troops to rush up to fight. At that time, one's own side will use artillery and archers to kill a large number of opponents.

After Luo Zhixue and the others waited for more than two hours, they finally waited for the enemy.

It was still the enemy's sentry who appeared first.

Seeing the terrain, these sentinels of the Ming army immediately became vigilant, and instead of rushing towards the canyon rashly, they continued to investigate on both sides.

And after repeated searches several times, it was confirmed that there were no bandit soldiers on both sides of the front of the canyon, so they sent people cautiously into the valley.

And as soon as they entered the valley, they had already discovered the bandit army in the middle of the valley.

After all, Luo Zhixue and the others directly set up fortifications in the middle of the valley, temporarily forming a fortification with wooden stakes, distance horses and other objects.

The target is so obvious that the sentries of the Ming army can see it even if they are not blind.

However, they could only see the fortifications that Luo Zhixue wanted them to see and the five or sixty people on the surface.

Even in order to show the enemy's weakness, the performance is more realistic.

Luo Zhixue specially put three No. 40 recruits who had been trained for less than ten days into it, and arranged for some people who had been trained for a long time to sit in the town.

Ever since, what the sentries of the officers and soldiers saw were fifty or sixty terrified bandits...

It didn't take long before Fei Bingqing came to this canyon with his army. He looked at the nearby terrain and said to the left and right: "Send more sentries and expand the search area. Be sure to find out the surrounding situation!"

Fei Bingqing had already received the report, and he personally saw a group of trembling bandit soldiers ahead.

Although this place is dangerous, Huang Guangmao doesn't think that the fifty or sixty bandit soldiers on the opposite side can stop him.

He was just worried that when he was attacking the bandits in the valley, a large number of bandits would appear on both sides to ambush the bandits.

For this reason, he was very careful at the beginning, and repeatedly dispatched multiple groups of sentries, and finally confirmed that there were really no bandits ambushing on both sides.

Only then did he turn his attention to the bandit soldiers in the valley!

Not long after, I saw him order a few words to his generals, and then a group of five or sixty officers and soldiers rushed towards the valley.

Afterwards, Fei Bingqing saw the enemy's bandits panic for a while, followed by scattered arrows flying out.

Although not many arrows flew out, they still hit an officer and soldier. The officer and soldier did not die after being hit by the arrow, but was injured.

The officers and soldiers on the side saw that the other side was shooting arrows, and someone on their own side had been shot again, and they all began to stop.

And after this hesitation, the bandit army on the opposite side shot out some scattered arrows, and after killing two officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers panicked for a while, and retreated one by one in the next instant.

The officers and soldiers returned without success in their first attack, and lost three of them.

Seeing this scene, Fei Bingqing was not angry, but the corners of his mouth slightly curved to reveal a smile!
Unfortunately, Luo Zhixue on the other side also showed a smile!

(End of this chapter)