The artillery battle on the official road lasted from Zishi to Choushi.
After both sides exhausted their gunpowder and artillery shells, the infantry under the command of guerrilla general Lu Cheng finally took a detour and reached the mountain ridge. Under the cover of flying cannons, they started fighting with the enemy force that ambushed them.
Both teams believe that the other is a thief, so they have a huge psychological advantage and are not afraid even if they get into a tough fight.
The battle was hard-fought, and in the end Lu Cheng even climbed the mountain to supervise the battle. Finally, relying on his superior strength, he completed the encirclement on the mountain ridge. The three groups of officers and soldiers attacked twice, completely defeating the enemy.
The results of the battle were not bad. Countless armor and weapons were captured, as well as nine medium-sized artillery pieces and three useless cannons.
What's more, capturing the thief's leader will determine the merits of this battle.
As long as they have this, the family members of the fallen soldiers can wait for the court to allocate pensions.
Thinking of this, Lu Cheng was in a good mood. The shoulder that was hit by the lead shot was bandaged with medicine and it no longer hurt. Even Mr. Bai, who saw the survivors in Jingjiagou, was a little pleased.
He patted Mr. Bai on the shoulder and said with emotion: "I blamed you wrongly before. The Xiao Xiaoxiao led by Liu Chengzong are very vicious and their formation is tight and they will fight to the death.
If you ask them to attack with 200 troops, it is not easy to save your life."
Mr. Bai vaguely felt that something was wrong.
In Jingjiagou during the day, the bandit leaders were very fierce, but the bandits were far less ferocious.
The gang of thieves fled in all directions as soon as they were blasted with flying cannons. What's more, it was easier to disperse in the middle of the night. However, like this, the attack became more fierce after being blown up by flying cannons.
Besides, where did the thieves get so many cannons?
But listening to what the commander meant, he didn’t seem to care about the blame for the previous defeat. This is the most important thing to Mr. Bai.
Officers at all levels reported the casualties under their command, and Lu Cheng secretly expressed his gratitude.
His soldiers were not seriously injured, but more than one-third were killed. In addition to the deaths of his men in Jingjiagou during the day, the losses were close to half.
This battle was more dangerous than he imagined, and it was almost entirely down to the soldiers' spirit and gritted their teeth to endure it.
When officers and soldiers kill thieves, they have a strong psychological advantage.
Only then will they have enough morale to support them in winning.
The captured thief leader kept yelling and cursing, and the guerrilla general took off the shawl that was holding the wound and put a short robe on his right shoulder.
As he walked towards the prisoner, he was still counting on his fingers on the way. The thief was in his early 400s. If he calculated his merits, many of his subordinates could become officials.
"Liu Chengzong! You have a very bad temper. When you were captured, you cursed and called me a thief. You must have become a soldier in Yuhe Fort because you were confused. Look who I am!"
Lu Cheng went over and grabbed the captive thief's hair with his left hand and pulled it up. When he saw the thief's face, he was stunned.
Reach out and press your head down again.
He looked left and right, rubbed his temples with a suspicious look on his face, and then stretched out his hand to pull up the thief's head.
Damn it, why is it still the same face?
He knew this face, Mr. Bao from Yanshuiguan. The year before last, he had been promoted and held a banquet, and even came to have a drink.
Mr. Bao, who kept scolding, was stunned. The curse words stuck in his throat stopped abruptly. He couldn't turn around in his mind for a while and could only stare at him blankly.
Lu Cheng wondered: "Why are you a bastard?"
"Lu, General Lu? Why did you join the bandits?"
"You just surrendered to the fucking thieves. Instead of resting peacefully at Yanshui Pass, you went to the fucking mountain to bombard your grandfather!"
Lu Cheng was so angry that he felt the fire in his heart crawling up his trachea, until his head almost exploded: "Thief, thief, thief, you motherfucker is a thief!"
Mr. Bao Bao was not a temperless clay figurine, not to mention that his troops were almost wiped out in the battle. For a while, he was holding his neck and scolding Lu Cheng.
The two mid-level military attaches, one standing and the other kneeling, were yelling at each other, which made the soldiers around them uncomfortable... They were tired and sleepy, and just wanted to find a place to sleep.
After a long time, the two of them calmed down, reviewed what happened today, and finally came to a conclusion.
They were fooled.
Cunning.
So cunning.
So cunning that Lu Cheng felt discouraged. During the time they were fighting, Liu Chengzong must have escaped dozens of miles south.
With more than 200 wounded soldiers, he could not catch him even in the Year of the Monkey and the Moon.
"The thieves have to sleep, and the soldiers are tired. Let's go to your Yanshui Pass first."
Lu Cheng and Bao Bao always look at each other with disgust, but there is really no other way. Yanshui Pass is ten miles away, and his soldiers need a place to rest.
He had the defenders of Yanshui Pass loosened and said: "After collecting the bodies, we will go to the pass to have a sleep. The wounded soldiers will stay in the pass tomorrow, and the remaining people will continue to chase the thief with me." p>
Compared to Lu Cheng, who was so angry that he almost broke his teeth, Bao Bang was always desperate.
Most of his sergeants were killed in this battle. He still doesn't know how to report this matter to the court. For now, he can only listen to Lu Cheng.
Looking back at the defeated soldiers collecting their corpses in the dark night, a dozen artillery pieces and the dejected brothers, Bao Bao always cursed all the curse words in his life.
I rushed out of the customs in a hurry, hoping to gain some merit so that my superiors could allocate more food and wealth. Who would have thought that I would get such a result in exchange?
Baobao, who used to be a top soldier, always felt that the most disgusting thing in the world was lack of pay.
Later he learned that there were many things more disgusting than being owed pay, such as no military rations and no reward for meritorious service.
Now he really feels what it feels like to open the door to Nausea.
If you fight against your own people, and if you lose and are captured, the most important thing is to fire first.
Disgusting things come together!
A group of soldiers who had stayed awake for half the night, marched and fought, had to transport 17 artillery pieces and more than 300 corpses, and it took an hour to walk six miles.
When we reached Yanshui Pass, the moonlight had faded.
When he came to the pass, looking at the pass that looked like a giant beast lying in the darkness, Lu Cheng's heart suddenly suddenly jumped for no reason.
He said to Mr. Bao Ba: "Could the thieves seize Yanshui Pass while we are fighting?"
General Bao gave him a blank look, thinking that the general didn't think what happened tonight was disgusting enough.
But thinking about it carefully, he was also afraid that this would happen. If Yanshui Pass was lost again, he could just kill himself in front of the pass.
"Well, send two people over to see if Guan Guan is one of ours."
After a while, the soldier who went to find out the truth came back and reported with an embarrassed look: "General, Li Laosi's artillerymen are in the city and asked me how his brother is doing."
"Alas."
Mr. Bao Bao sighed, waved his hand to order his subordinates to return, and then said to the guerrillas: "Li Laosi's brother is also an artilleryman, so you can kill him."
What could Lu Cheng say? He didn't say anything, and his heart finally relaxed. This long day is a great test for anyone's spirit.
He just wanted to find a cleaner bed and sleep for a few hours.
After walking another four or five hundred steps, they could already see the figures closing the city gate. They suddenly found that the door was not open.
Someone on the city shouted loudly: "General Lu, it's been a hard journey!"
"Your soldiers are quite knowledgeable..." Lu Cheng was mid-sentence when he was suddenly startled: "How did they know I was coming?"
The man at the top of the city drew his sword and swung it forward, and his voice reached Lu Cheng's ears: "Liu Chengzong is here. He has been waiting for a long time. This road is blocked!"
Amidst the roar, fire burst out from the top of the city.
Four general cannons exploded at the top of the city one after another. The cannonballs smashed through the military formation with a shrieking sound, plowing out four bloody paths with scattered limbs and broken arms.
