After successfully intercepting the Ming army's grain transport team twice, the confidence of a group of bandits in Huangzhushan was greatly increased. Butcher Chen even shouted that they could fight even if they encountered the main force of the Ming army.
In response to this, Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren responded with laughter!
Let’s just say this casually. If you really meet the main force of the Ming army, you should run as fast as you can. Let alone the main force of the Ming army with one or two thousand people, even if you meet the main force of three or four hundred people.
The regular Ming army had to turn around and run away.
After experiencing two grain-cutting battles, especially the previous grain-cutting battle, even Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren had to admit that their Tang Dynasty King Division could only defeat the Guards with less than a hundred people.
, although the standing army they led looked much better than before on the surface, in actual fighting it was still the same as before.
The previous disastrous defeat of the archers was still fresh in their memory!
If there had been no Guards at that time, the archers of the standing army might have been completely defeated, leading to the collapse of the entire army.
"Although our officers and men can defeat one against ten, we are outnumbered. There is no need for our army to waste time and energy on dealing with the enemy. We only need to attack the false grain transport team a few more times, and they will inevitably run out of food and grass.
Then, the pseudo-Ming Dynasty will definitely be in chaos!" Liu Bagou stroked his goatee and continued:
"The puppet army of the Ming Dynasty is weak in combat and has low morale. The soldiers who invaded our country in the Tang Dynasty were only forced to come by the officials and generals of the puppet Ming Dynasty. Once the food and grass are no longer available, there will be no need for our army of the King of the Tang Dynasty to attack, and the enemy army will have to retreat from the mountains!
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"Master Liu is right. We must not be impatient now. Now that we have cut off two batches of food and grass from the Ming army in succession, they must not have much food and grass left now. As long as we continue to block the food road in the future, even though the puppet Ming army is numerous,
, but I'm afraid I have no intention of fighting again. By then our army will be able to achieve a complete victory without any effort." Qian Mengjiu also agreed with Liu Bagou's words.
On the other hand, Butcher Chen was a little dissatisfied after hearing this, but he didn't say anything about going to the Ming army for a decisive battle.
As for Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, they have never spoken much. It's not that they don't want to speak, but that they don't know what to say when they speak.
Fight? Their standing army cannot fight. If they say no, they continue to attack the Ming army's grain transport team in such a sneaky way, and they look cowardly.
On the contrary, Wang Danxu, the commander of the Guards, said at this time: "In the past two days, there have been obviously a lot more spies from the Ming Army. They are looking for us. Although our current hiding place is secret, we will not be able to continue to attack if we remain hidden.
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As he spoke, he said to everyone: "I'm worried that the Ming army will take advantage of these two days to transport food and grass, so that our previous two efforts will be in vain!"
"We can't continue to hide like this, we must move. Even if they discover our traces, as long as we don't stay in one place for too long, the main force of the puppet Ming army will not be able to catch up with us!"
"And once we move, we can continue to look for opportunities to attack their food transport team!"
Everyone said something to each other, arguing about how to act in the future.
In the end, the method proposed by Wang Danxu received most approval, which was to continue wandering and look for opportunities for Ming army grain transport teams or even some small-scale troops to attack!
Early the next morning, the Huangzhushan bandits, which had swelled to more than 800 people, took action again. Among the more than 800 people, half were soldiers, used for fighting, and the remaining half were
Inside, nearly three hundred people were old and weak bandits, and more than a hundred were captured civilian husbands and county warriors.
It is worth noting that after Bai Yunqi and others were bewitched, more than 30 of the more than 100 people captured in the past few days expressed their willingness to join the Tang Dynasty King Master and serve Li Xuan, the sage who came out once a thousand years. The remaining
More than a hundred people continued to serve as civilian husbands, carrying the food and baggage that originally belonged to the Ming army and marching with the army.
However, in the following days, the Ming army seemed to be more cautious. The bandits in Huangzhushan failed to find any good opportunity to eat the Ming army's grain transport team for three consecutive days.
Today's Ming army seems to be smarter, and the size of the grain transport team has become larger. This scale does not mean that the size of the civilians has become larger, but that the size of the Ming army escorting the grain team has increased.
Huang Zhushan's spies finally found a grain team of the Ming army. They found that the number of civilians and county warriors in this grain team was only more than 200, but the number of Ming troops escorting them actually reached 300.
At that time, after Li Xuan, Wang Danxu and other Tang emperors and ministers discussed it, they hesitated for a long time but still did not dare to take action. In the end, the Ming army could only watch helplessly and once again received food supplies.
However, after the Ming army conducted two large-scale grain transportation operations in succession, no trace of the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain was found, and it seemed that normalcy had returned.
This situation made the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty who had been waiting for four or five days extremely happy!
The opportunity finally came again.
"Your Majesty, our army's spies have found out that this fake grain transport team has about 350 people, more than 200 of whom are civilians, and the remaining about 100 are guards and county warriors.
It’s about the same size as the last time we successfully intercepted the grain transport team!” Fang Dongquan said with excitement:
"We can definitely ambush them like last time and snatch this batch of food. Maybe we can capture another batch of people!"
After Fang Dongquan finished speaking, Wang Danxu on the side looked worried and said: "Your Majesty, it has been rainy these two days, which has a great impact on our musketeers' operations. Now the musketeers cannot go out to fight!"
Huang Xueren also said: "Not only will your muskets be useless when it rains, but the bows and arrows of our standing army will also be greatly affected!"
Wet and rainy days will have a huge impact on both muskets and bows!
Although there are few musketeers in the Guards now, they played an indispensable role in the last two battles.
Now when they heard Wang Danxu say that the Musketeers' muskets might not be usable due to the weather, several people frowned.
At this time, Fang Dongquan said: "Our muskets and bows cannot be used, but the fake Ming's bows and arrows cannot be used either. Our troops are more powerful than them. We have two hundred spearmen and nearly a hundred sword and shield men, which is enough to defeat them."
This grain transport team is here to stay!"
His words made other people react in time. Yes, due to the influence of the weather, their archers and musketeers could not play an effective role, but the Ming army's archers were also unable to play an effective role.
If the two sides fight hand-to-hand, Huangzhushan's side still has a good chance of winning. After all, their military strength far exceeds that of the escorting Ming army.
At this time, Li Xuan also made a decision: "In that case, let's prepare for war!"
Since there is an opportunity, it is natural not to let it go casually. If it continues like this, the food crisis of the Ming army will be alleviated, so that his previous two grain interception operations will be in vain.
Half a day later, in a Ming army team a few miles away, several Ming army military attachés were whispering to each other!
"Master Qianhu, do you think Mr. Wu's strategy is effective? Will those pseudo-Tang thieves be fooled?" A Baihu came to Diao Leixun and asked.
Diao Leixun said: "It's hard to say, those pseudo-Tang bandits are very cunning, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to find them for so long, but they are definitely nearby, and it is impossible to hide our whereabouts from them!"
"If we let them know that those peasants are disguised as our people, and that the baskets they carry are not food at all, but swords and weapons, they will naturally not come, but if they don't see it, hum!"
When Diao Leixun was talking, he glanced at the middle-aged scribe in front of him who was wearing a green robe. This Mr. Wu was the confidant of Lord Fu Zun. He personally brought dozens of people back from the front line a few days ago to assist him. Diao Leixun guarded the grain road.
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At the beginning, Diao Leixun personally led a large group of troops to escort a batch of grain into the mountain, which alleviated the food crisis of nearly two thousand Ming troops entering the mountain.
Later, Mr. Wu came up with a plan to lure the puppet Tang thief army to attack, inflicting heavy damage and even annihilating the main force of the puppet Tang thief army.
After Diao Leixun heard his detailed plan, he couldn't help but sigh, these scholars are really bad, all of them are full of evil, and they actually let them, the soldiers of the guard, disguise themselves as civilians, and play a trick of pretending to be pigs and eating tigers.
Diao Leixun could almost imagine how he would feel when the puppet Tang rebel army came to attack his 'food transport team' and found that his food transport team was all composed of guardsmen!
But, will those pseudo-Tang bandits be fooled and attack them?
Diao Leixun didn't know, and the several hundred households under him, and the officers of the general banner also didn't know.
After thinking about it, Diao Leixun took two steps forward and walked to Mr. Wu: "Mr. Wu, do you think they will come?"
Mr. Wu turned his head and glanced at Diao Leixun, his face still as calm and calm as usual: "General Diao, please be patient. If Wu's prediction is correct, the puppet Tang thief army will definitely come, but it's just
It’s just one day too late!”
Seeing Diao Leixun's puzzled look, Mr. Wu immediately said a few more words: "Why did the puppet Tang bandit army attack our army's food team?"
Diao Leixun said: "Why else? Of course they are here to steal our food!"
Mr. Wu smiled at this time, showing a look of 'you are still too young', and then said: "The reason why the puppet Tang rebels robbed our food team is not just to steal our food, they want to
Our army is in short supply of food and grass and is forced to withdraw from the mountains!"
"But in the past few days, Diao Qianhu, you have personally escorted the grain into the mountains. If there are smart people in the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty, they will definitely know that our food crisis is about to be alleviated. If they still want to force us
If they go out of the mountains, they must take action and continue to cut off our food routes, otherwise their efforts will be in vain."
"At this time, if they find a food team that they can attack, do you think they will do it?"
After hearing this, Diao Leixun said: "Our grain transport team was so big a few days ago, but now it has become smaller. Won't they guess that there is a scam in it?"
Mr. Wu said: "It doesn't matter if they don't fall for the trick. Since they don't dare to fight, we will deliver real and fake food from now on!"
While the two men were talking, several Ming soldiers in front suddenly stopped and ran back quickly, shouting at the same time: "Enemy attack!"
At this time, Mr. Wu said to Diao Leixun with a smile on his face: "Isn't this what happened?"