The soldiers came to the city, the flags covered the sun, the flag with the word "Shuai" was hung high, and the letter "Dou" was big with the word "Mo".
Cheng Dalei stood on the observation deck and saw this scene through a monocular telescope. Mo Mingmi camped on land, about five miles away from Toad Village. Judging from the opponent's tents and flags, the number of people should be more than 10,000.
This was not the first time he had faced this situation, and Cheng Dalei was not as flustered as he had been the first time. When he was admiring the opponent's camp, he did not forget to point out his commanders.
"Look at the location where they camped. The water source problem was solved by being near the shore. They camped on high ground and had a wide view. Once someone attacks the camp, they can be discovered immediately." Cheng Dalei said with approval: "This Mo Mingmi is an expert."
"Master, how should we guard it?" Xu Shenji said.
"Ah... Well, actually, I haven't thought about it yet."
It is true that Cheng Dalei does not have clear tactics yet. At present, his biggest disadvantage is that there are too few people. The ratio of troops between the two sides is almost ten to one. Although it does not take too many people to defend the city, Cheng Dalei has done something like defeating a large number with a small number.
However, the terrains of Qinchuan and Qingniu Mountain are different. The mountains are not suitable for large forces to advance at the same time. At that time, as long as they guarded the valley gate, they could be invincible.
But now there is no high wall built on the island. The original plan was to use the surrounding surging river water to stop the soldiers, but Cheng Dalei did not expect that the river would actually freeze.
At present, Cheng Dalei doesn't know how Mo Mingmi plans to attack. All he can do is to wait and see, see how the opponent attacks, and then decide how to defend.
At this moment, Toad Village has entered a fighting state, with swords unsheathed and bows strung. They are just waiting for the army to attack, and then unleash the murderous intent they deserve.
Cheng Dalei is very satisfied with the current morale. Even when facing an enemy that is more than ten times more powerful, the brothers are only nervous but not afraid. In this way, the training in the past few days is not in vain.
He looked at the movement of Mo Mingmi's camp opposite through the monocular telescope. The camp was set up last night, but why hasn't it been attacked yet?
I saw a general ordering platform built with earth in the center of the camp. Someone was beating drums. Mo Mingmi was standing on the general ordering platform and was talking about something.
This must have been mobilization before the war.
In wars in this era, it is actually very troublesome before sending out troops. You have to offer sacrifices to heaven, earth, and the common people, and talk about how the other side has committed a heinous crime and how you have upheld justice for heaven.
Then, Cheng Dalei saw someone being pulled to the general stand, and Mo Mingmi personally swung his sword and chopped off the other person's head.
"Uh...what is this?"
"Kill someone to sacrifice the flag?" Xu Shenji said matter-of-factly: "This is an old rule. I guess the person who was killed was a death row prisoner or something."
"Quick, let everyone prepare for defense, we are probably going to attack." Cheng Dalei said immediately.
Cheng Dalei stared closely at the camp opposite, and saw a black horse coming out of the camp gate, with a person sitting on the horse, looking in the direction coming this way.
"What's wrong? You dare to attack us just by sending one person. You really don't take me, the Toad King, seriously." Cheng Dalei.
"It seems they are not here to fight us..." Xu Shenji also looked confused.
I saw the man riding a black horse slowly approaching Toad Village and stopped when he approached the lookout.
"Hey, the thieves from Toad Village are waiting. I am General Qinchuan's guard. Let Cheng Dalei come forward and answer."
Cheng Dalei ignored him at all. It was Xu Shenji who rushed down and said, "My village leader is very busy and has no time to see you. If you have anything to say to me, it's the same thing."
The man straightened his robe, suddenly drew his bow and nocked an arrow, and shot a letter onto the observation deck.
Cheng Dalei and Xu Shenji got together and opened the letter.
"Qinchuan is a place with outstanding people, beautiful mountains and beautiful waters, and endless blessings..."
The man in the audience shouted loudly, which was exactly the same as the content of the letter.
Only then did Cheng Dalei realize that this was a letter of challenge. The content was probably about how Cheng Dalei had committed many evil deeds, including peeping at people taking baths when he was three years old, and raping girls when he was eight years old. He also talked about how magnanimous and tolerant Mo Mingmi was.
, in the end, he really couldn’t bear to see the beasts living in the human world, so he sent troops to attack him. Of course, God has good intentions. As long as everyone hands over Cheng Dalei and raises their hands to surrender, General Mo can forget about it.
"What nonsense!" Xu Shenji said angrily: "How can they slander the great master like this?"
"Okay, okay. What's the use of being angry now? Now that we have drawn a clear path, I leave it to Military Advisor Xu to decide how to meet the enemy." Cheng Dalei said: "They have written a letter of war, so you might as well write a magnificent one.
Make a statement and scare them out of their wits."
"This... that..." Xu Shenji stammered.
"Okay, okay." Cheng Dalei also knew that with the little ink in Xu Shenji's belly, it would be difficult to draw a black Go chess piece, let alone write a message. He slapped the table and stood up, rushing down and saying: "Hey
, your Grandpa Cheng is here, tell Mo, now that your Grandpa Cheng is here, this Qinchuan area is not his decision, if you want to fight, fight, don't talk nonsense."
After hearing this, the man who delivered the letter of war to Mo Mingmi rode his horse to leave. Cheng Dalei stared at his back and said, "Come here, leave him alone for me."
Zhao Zilong stood on the archery tower. After hearing this, he drew his bow and nocked an arrow. He heard a whoosh and the arrow hit the black horse. The black horse neighed loudly and threw the man on the horse to the ground.
When the brothers in Toad Village saw this scene, they burst out laughing. The man got up in panic and rolled on the ice, but he didn't even dare to look back.
This man fled all the way back to the camp and reported the news to Mo Mingmi. Mo Mingmi was not angry when he found out, after all, he had expected all this.
Mo Mingmi waved her hand: "Send troops."
Cheng Dalei was waiting at Toad Village, thinking that an attack would come now, but in fact, even though Mo Mingmi said he would send troops, he did not attack immediately.
Cheng Dalei only saw that the camp opposite was crowded with people, but no one was attacking. Cheng Dalei's patience in waiting was almost exhausted. Could this be Mo Mingmi's plan?
It wasn't until noon the next day that I saw the army on the opposite side coming out of camp, forming a neat square formation, and running towards this side.
Cheng Dalei breathed a sigh of relief, what was supposed to come was finally coming.
It has to be said that the empire's military organizational capabilities are low. From setting up camp to sending troops, three or four days have passed before the attack finally came. You said that you, Mo Mingmi, were originally a bandit, so just do your job as a bandit.
Isn't it good to have a promising job? Why should we learn to be as corrupt and backward as the Imperial Military?
Now that the opponent has attacked, what he can do is to block it with soldiers and cover it with water and soil. Currently, there are only more than a thousand people in the stronghold. Cheng Dalei can actually do it like an arm and a finger, but he deliberately deprived Qin of some power.
Man, Zhao Zilong, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Gao Feibao each take charge of the defense of one side of the island.