Qian Song

Chapter 24 Ambush
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Linjiadian is in the southwest of Qixian Village.

It turned out to be a big river here.

Due to successive years of drought, it has dried up into a north-south road.

The road is covered with fine stones and gravel, and on both sides of the road are long slopes, and on the slopes are large pine forests.

In the dark night, under the moonlight, nearly ten thousand Tiger Ben troops came to Linjiadian in the dark.

For the sake of secrecy, the Huben Army did not light torches, and the soldiers of the Huben Army marched hard on the rugged gravel road.

"Zi Hou, the road is difficult, and several people have been injured. How about lighting a few torches to illuminate the road ahead?" Zhang Shi said to Li Cun.

If you light a torch and you can see it from a long distance, then why lay an ambush?
So Li Cun flatly refused and said, "You can't die if you fall a few times, but if I can't beat Yu Yancheng to ambush, and ask Yu Yancheng to beat me to ambush, then people will die—innumerable people!"

Li Cun then ordered: "Pro-guard battalion, follow me to the front!"

After speaking, Li Cun walked in front of everyone with the best and most loyal [-] Guards Battalion selected from nearly [-] Huben Army.

With Li Cun and the personal guard camp leading by example, what else can others say, they can only follow along obediently.

At about Yin time, the Huben army had only traveled twenty li across the river and arrived at the ambush site.

At this time, everyone was exhausted enough, but fortunately no one was left behind.

The ambush site Li Cun chose was a relatively narrow river course with a relatively flat middle, with an S-shaped bend about 200 meters in the direction of Qixian Village.

Li Cun said to Fang Baihua and Zhang Shi: "You two must remember that you must wait until all of Yu Yancheng's troops have passed this narrow road before launching an attack."

Fang Baihua replied calmly, "No!"

On the other hand, Zhang Shi was very nervous, and even responded to Li Cun, only after hearing Fang Baihua's response, he hurriedly said "No".

To be honest, if there were other options, Li Cun would definitely not let Zhang Shi, who was obviously not suitable for leading the army, lead the army.

But for one thing, Li Cun really didn't have a single talent in his hands, Niu Meng, the only one who was qualified enough, had to lead the horse army to undertake the pursuit mission.

Secondly, after all, Zhang Shi is the nominal second leader of the Huben Army. If he is not allowed to prove himself, he will not give up completely. Li Cun is ruthless and ungrateful.

Thirdly, Zhang Shi's mission this time is not important, the main thing is to scare Yu Yancheng's people, let Yu Yancheng's people run forward, and lead [-] recruits with Fang Baihua to break the rear.

Seeing that Zhang Shi was already nervous to such an extent before the enemy came, Li Cun specifically instructed Zhang Shi: "If you feel that something cannot be done, light the two thunderbolts I handed over to you, and then call you The leading soldiers shouted to kill Yu Yancheng, they don't need to rush down."

The so-called Hongtianlei were made by Li Cun's craftsmen selling fireworks and firecrackers in Qixian Village. Since Li Cun didn't have the time and materials to make gunpowder, he had to use the craftsmen who sold fireworks and firecrackers to provide them. There are too many impurities in the gunpowder, and the ratio is not standard. It will definitely not kill people, but it is not a problem to scare the enemy, especially the enemy's war horse.

Hearing what Li Cun told him, Zhang Shi felt ashamed and flustered, and he quickly assured Li Cun, "Don't worry, Zihou, I will not miss your big deal!"

Li Cun didn't say anything, but let Fang Baihua and Zhang Shi each lead [-] recruits to ambush in the Qianqian pine forest on both sides of the road.

At the same time, Li Cun also led the remaining [-] people to ambush behind the S-shaped river.

Not to mention how Li Cun set up his formation.

It only said that after Zhang Shi and his men had ambushed, they waited for possible enemies.

On a night in late autumn, the mountain wind blew chills, and the continuous march made the recruits of the Huben Army exhausted, and many of them just lay there and fell asleep.

"Zhang Xianggong, will Yu Yancheng really come here?" After waiting for more than half an hour, anxiety began to spread among the recruits of Huben Army, Zhang Shi's messenger quietly asked Zhang Shi.

"Naturally, Zihou already has accurate information." Zhang Shi's tone was more like cheering up, cheering up both his messengers and himself.

Deep drowsiness hit him in bursts, and Zhang Shi couldn't help dozing off for a while, his head drooped, his body tilted, and he almost fell.

"Wake up, wake up, don't sleep, you will fall ill if you sleep like that."

After waking up the people around him one by one, Zhang Shi and other officers went down to each battalion separately to wake up the whole army.

"Why don't you come, but the general's information is wrong?" Su Dong looked at the dark forest and muttered in a low voice.

At this moment, a sharp-eyed person suddenly said in surprise: "Look, torch!"

"It's finally here, hurry up and report to Mr. Zhang!" Su Dong couldn't help standing up.

The news of the enemy's arrival immediately spread throughout the army, and all anxiety and anxiety were swept away.

When the Venus star loomed in the sky, Yu Yancheng's vanguard, a cavalry team with [-] horses, under the leadership of Yu Yancheng, passed under the eyes of the recruits of the Huben army led by Fang Baihua and Zhang Shi with torches.

Then came the big army - a thousand elite infantrymen with sharp weapons and wearing paper armor or even leather armor.

From time to time, the officer riding on the horse shouted orders: "Hurry up, Mr. Yu has strict orders from outside, you must arrive at Shangxiandu before dawn!"

Noisy footsteps, cursing, panting, and collisions broke the silence of the river.

After the large army passed, the enemy's supply troops arrived, and a large number of peasants drove slowly along the river in mules and carts, which were full of grain, grass, tents and other things.

Seeing the enemy's situation clearly, and estimating the distance between Yu Yancheng's vanguard and the river where Li Cun and the others were ambushing, Su Dong quickly and silently touched Zhang Shi's side, and said to Zhang Shi: "Mr. Zhang, we can't wait for all the civilians to pass by." , otherwise it will definitely miss the opportunity to fight.”

Zhang Shi, who was already very nervous, became even more nervous when he heard what Su Dong said. He subconsciously said, "But...Zihou told me not to attack rashly..."

Zhang Shi was so anxious that his head was sweating!

Fortunately-

At this moment, two loud noises resounded in the opposite Qianqian pine forest.

These two loud noises frightened the mules and horses in the river neighing, and people were in a turmoil!

Immediately afterwards, there was a shout of killing in the opposite money pine forest, and then a large number of black shadows rushed down the river from the opposite money pine forest...

When Zhang Shi saw it, he quickly ordered: "Quick, fire the cannon!"

Hearing the words, the two gunners quickly took out the fire twister and ignited the Thunderbolt.

One of the gunners gave Zhang Shi's order too hastily. After lighting the Thunderbolt, he forgot to throw it out, and his fingers were injured.

Seeing Zhang Shi, he was even more flustered, and even more at a loss!
Seeing this, Su Dong didn't care about Chao Yue, and shouted: "Mr. Zhang has an order, follow me to kill the enemy!", and then rushed out first with a bamboo spear.

Seeing this, the rest of the generals rushed into the river with the recruits they led.

When everyone was almost done rushing, Zhang Shicai staggered into the river while hanging behind others in a trance...

In the silent river, there was a loud bang like heaven and earth, and the cowardly people were instantly scattered and confused.

Taking advantage of the enemy's chaos, Fang Baihua decisively led his men to charge.

Then there were two loud bangs like heaven and earth, and countless figures also rushed out of the Qianjin pine forest on the other side.

The civilian husbands who were ambushed were all frightened and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy.

Yu Yancheng, who was at the front, saw that he was ambushed by the enemy. After observing the terrain for a while, he judged that if they fled back at this moment, the cumbersome supply troops would be at the front, the infantry would be in the middle, and the cavalry would be at the end. The narrow road they had passed before.

At that time, as long as there is an army coming up from behind them, they will be lambs to be slaughtered.

Yu Yancheng became ruthless, and ordered decisively: "Don't worry about the rear team, follow me and charge forward!"

Following Yu Yancheng's order, the three hundred cavalry mounted their horses one after another, gathered the elite infantry behind them, and rushed forward together.

Originally, Yu Yancheng wanted the cavalry to run, and then they could give full play to the cavalry's greatest advantages.

But here is an S-shaped river, and the horse team can't speed up here at all.

Seeing this, Yu Yancheng's heart tightened: "There must be an ambush ahead!"

When Yu Yancheng passed through this S-shaped river, he could see at a glance that there was indeed an army ambushing ahead.

There are about three to four thousand people in this army. Each of them has their legs tied, carry a grain bag, and a bamboo tube for water on their waist. The attire looks very strange.

Taking a closer look, the three thousand people in the middle are all holding very long spears, a bit like the spearmen of the Qin Dynasty recorded in the history books.

On the left side of the pikemen is a cavalry team of less than [-]. They have reserved ample acceleration runway, but unfortunately this runway is only enough for two horses to run side by side, and the front is blocked by a specially assigned pikeman. died.

On the right side are infantrymen with all kinds of weapons arranged in a mess, and Yu Yancheng even saw a lot of moso bamboo among them.

Seeing that the enemy had three to four thousand people, Yu Yancheng's sweat burst out all at once.

Fortunately, the enemies were almost all infantry, which gave Yu Yancheng a glimmer of hope to defeat the enemy.

Of course Yu Yancheng hoped that he could sort out the battle formation, and then fight a decisive battle with the Tiger Army in front.

But as soon as Yu Yancheng and the others showed up, Li Cun, who was opposite, ordered loudly: "Come in!"

Following Li Cun's order, three or four thousand troops marched in unison.

Yu Yancheng knew that he couldn't wait any longer. If they didn't launch a counterattack, they would definitely not even have the runway to accelerate. At that time, their [-] cavalry, which couldn't run, would have to be slaughtered by the opponent.

And if their 1000-horse team couldn't break through the enemy's battle formation, then most of the more than [-] infantrymen behind them who were spelled out by various landlords and who were not under each other's control would also be here.

Yu Yancheng secretly said: "Meeting on a narrow road, the brave wins!" Then he raised the saber in his hand and shouted loudly: "The thief on the other side is blocking our way of life, if we don't defeat him, we will all die here, anyone who doesn't want to die, follow me Go live!"

After speaking, Yu Yancheng took the lead and killed him.

The situation is indeed as Yu Yancheng said, so the 1000 cavalry who wanted to survive could only rush out with Yu Yancheng, and the more than [-] infantry behind the [-] cavalry saw that the cavalry had all launched a charge. I can only charge with the cavalry!
Under Li Cun's deliberate control, the straight-line distance between the two sides was very close.

So, in an instant, the two sides fought hand to hand...

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(End of this chapter)