To prepare an ambush, and it is not a small-scale ambush like before, just to kill single-digit enemies and create a certain psychological deterrent for the Ming army, it requires careful preparation.
After all, what Li Xuan and the others planned to do this time was to severely damage the Ming army's forward force, which consisted of more than a hundred people. It would be easy to fight, but it would also be absolutely difficult to say it was difficult.
It doesn't mean that they can successfully ambush casually. The Ming army is not a fool. They will not stupidly run into the guns of the Huangzhushan bandits. They will also send spies to investigate carefully to avoid being attacked.
Especially after being ambushed once in the morning, Ying Tianhu became even more careful in the subsequent pursuit and appropriately increased the distance between the two.
Although Diao Leixun and the others asked Ying Tianhu to stick up and even entangle the puppet Tang thief army, Ying Tianhu would not do it so foolishly. The puppet Tang thief army was in front, and they would fight whoever wanted to fight. Anyway, he would not take the initiative to go up.
Those who fight against the puppet Tang rebels will at most just follow behind.
Ying Tianhu's careful pursuit from behind also made it more difficult for Li Xuan and others to ambush the Ming army for the second time.
At noon, Li Xuan and the others deliberately made a small loophole and carried out a small-scale division of troops to advance, and also left behind a group of spearmen who looked like weaklings, just to attract the Ming army to come up for a fight.
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At the closest distance, the forward of the Ming army was only three to four hundred meters away from the spear team of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, which was acting as a bait.
But Ying Tianhu just won’t be fooled!
No matter how fancy the puppet Tang bandits were, with half-undressed clothes, they leaned on the bed and shouted: "Come here, the slave family is waiting for you!"
But Ying Tianhu just couldn't go through, let alone pass. He didn't even look at Fang Dongquan and the others. From the beginning to the end, he acted like a gentleman: If you say you are not tough, you will not be tough. No matter how you tempt me, I will still not be tough...
Fang Dongquan and the others, who were acting as bait in the background, were quite depressed, and even a little bit angry in their depression. This mentality was like a woman taking off her clothes and asking you to go to bed, but if you can't survive, the woman will be furious in her heart: I'm lying here.
Now that I’m having sex, you’re still not a man even though you’re paralyzed!
But there is nothing you can do if you are angry. The Ming army cannot come, and Fang Dongquan and the others cannot run back to fight on their own. That would not be an ambush, but stupidly running towards the main force of the Ming army.
The ambush failed at noon, leaving Li Xuan and the others depressed for several hours. But it was depression, life had to go on, escape had to continue, and the ambush had to happen again.
Li Xuan didn't believe it. These Ming soldiers could not be fooled every time!
And the facts also proved Li Xuan's conjecture. As long as a woman is proactive enough and as long as the man she seduces has a normal sexual orientation, there are not many men who can stop her from seducing her again and again.
As the afternoon approached evening, the bandits in Huangzhushan seemed to have camped and rested again as usual. Ying Tianhu and the others behind them also decisively rested on the spot two miles away, maintaining surveillance on the puppet Tang bandits.
This also avoids the risk of being ambushed by getting too close.
But this time, Li Xuan and the others plan to take the initiative!
In the evening, the puppet Tang bandits seemed to be making a fire to cook, and everything seemed calm. However, at this time, more than a hundred bandits led by Wang Shanxu began to take a detour.
Since the Ming army would not be fooled by setting up an ambush on the road, they might as well take advantage of the illusion of setting up camp and conduct an active sneak attack.
The remaining half of the people made a big show of pretending to be more than 300 people. In order to better confuse the enemy, the remaining half of the people also included a large number of musketeers.
After all, everyone now knows that the musketeers are the core force of the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Especially after these musketeers ambushed the Ming army before, the Ming army will pay more attention to the movements of these musketeers. If they suddenly find out at this time
A large number of musketeers are out of sight, so they will probably be alert immediately.
In order to confuse the enemy and ensure that the sneak attack troops could move smoothly, Li Xuan simply kept the two musketeers behind.
The Tang Dynasty's new army, which took a detour and made a sneak attack, was composed of Chen Tufu's heavy armored sword and shield soldiers as the core, and there were also archers and some spearmen as assistants, with a total number of about one hundred and thirty people.
In terms of military strength, these people were already equal in number to the pursuing Ming army forwards, and they also had an advantage in terms of force structure.
During the two days of pursuit, Li Xuan and the others were naturally able to observe the specific situation of the Ming army. Among the more than 100 Ming troops who pursued them, there were not many archers and heavy armor units. Most of them were swordsmen.
Among the spearmen, there are probably only some officers and a very small number of soldiers wearing armor, totaling about ten people, and these people also work part-time as archers.
If a sneak attack can be successfully launched, then the Huangzhushan bandits can use a larger number of archers to launch a long-range attack first, and then directly use Chen Tufu's heavy-armored sword-shielders to attack the enemy's formation, trying to break through the enemy's camp in the shortest possible time and cause chaos.
After the enemy army collapses, the cavalry squad will directly pursue and harvest the heads!
Due to the different types of troops, this sneak attack was commanded by Fang Dongquan, with Chen Tufu as his deputy. As for Wang Shanxu, who had played an important role in several battles in the past, because the musketeers did not participate in the battle, he could only watch the show from behind.
However, they were secretly prepared. If the sneak attack did not go smoothly, Wang Shanxu and the others would have to lead the musketeers to rescue Fang Dongquan and Chen Butcher.
While Fang Dongquan, Chen Tufu and others were sneaking around through the dense forests on both sides of the mountain road, Ying Tianhu was also looking at the puppet Tang rebel army in front.
After seeing that the pseudo-Tang rebels had started to light a fire to cook, Ying Tianhu also breathed a sigh of relief. They had been running for most of the day, but they were very tired. Now that the pseudo-Tang rebels in front had already made a fire to cook.
, then today’s march is over, and I have to let people start making fires for cooking.
When he asked his men to start lighting fires and cooking, he also arranged for people to set up sentries. On the one hand, he was to monitor the pseudo-Tang thieves overnight to prevent them from sneaking away. On the other hand, he was also to prevent these pseudo-Tang thieves from
The army came and attacked at night.
After all, the distance between the two sides is only more than two miles. If it is in a flat place, it will not take long for the other party to rush over. Even if this place is deep in the mountains and dense forests, the roads are rugged and small, making it difficult for large troops to pass quickly, but the puppet Tang rebels want to kill
It won't take more than two quarters of an hour to get here.
What's more, he had to guard against the puppet Tang bandit army secretly arranging small-scale troops to attack.
If they can successfully harass them by letting them come over at random in the middle of the night, then they won't have to sleep tonight and won't have a good rest, and they won't be able to continue to pursue these pseudo-Tang rebels tomorrow.
Therefore, Ying Tianhu made more careful arrangements for the sentinels. He was confident that there would be no chance of an accident like the one being ambushed this morning.
But the sentry had just arranged to go out. In less than two quarters of an hour, a scream came from the left direction. The scream was quite loud. Ying Tianhu heard it at once. Who heard the scream?
At the first moment, he realized that someone from the Puppet Tang Thief Army might have sneaked over.
However, he expected that they were just a few scouts of the puppet Tang rebel army. When he was about to arrange for a few skilled soldiers to drive them away, a man dressed as a Ming army man in front ran back in a panic and said,
He also shouted: "The thieves...the thieves are coming to kill us!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ying Tianhu saw many figures appearing in front of him. If he took a closer look, who else could he be if he wasn't a traitor from the Tang Dynasty?
Although the pseudo-Tang rebels at the front did not display any banners and did not have any uniforms, Ying Tianhu still recognized them at a glance. These people were the pseudo-Tang rebels.
The reason why Ying Tianhu was able to instantly confirm that these people were the puppet Tang rebels was not because other than the Ming army, which was the puppet Tang rebels, there could not be any other large-scale troops nearby, but because these puppet Tang rebels were really
So recognisable.
These people were wearing messy clothes, and most of them were dressed in short robes. Just by looking at their clothes, you could tell that these people were not ordinary refugees, but people from the green forest.
However, they happened to carry uniform standard weapons, especially those swords and shields, which were the typical Ming army standard waist knives and round shields. At the same time, they lined up in an orderly queue similar to that of the regular army.
The combination of these contradictions creates an extremely special group in the mountains: the Puppet Tang Bandit Army!
Inside and outside the mountains, or even within a radius of hundreds of miles, only the puppet Tang bandits were so weird.
Therefore, anyone who knows something about the Puppet Tang Bandit Army can recognize them at a glance without looking at the flags. They are the Puppet Tang Bandit Army.
How did the puppet Tang bandits suddenly appear?
Could it be that these pseudo-Tang thieves came here secretly? Or were they simply lying in wait here to prepare for a sneak attack?
But why didn't the scouts who scouted the road find them before? Moreover, the spies I sent to monitor the puppet Tang rebel army didn't find any unusual movement in the puppet Tang rebel army that was camping more than two miles away.
Could it be that the puppet Tang rebel army also hid a supporting force here?
In just a short moment, a series of thoughts came to Ying Tianhu's mind. He did not expect that he would take all precautions along the way. Not only was he careful when pursuing, but he also sent many spies to monitor the pseudo-Tang thief army ahead at any time.
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But this still failed to notice that these pseudo-Tang thieves were sneaking over.
He hates it!
Why is he chasing these puppet Tang bandits in the mountains?
It was because of Diao Leixun. If it hadn't been for Diao Leixun who had been forcing him to pursue, how could he have taken the risk and chased into the mountains alone? And then fell into such danger!
If it is outside a mountain with a wide view and no deep mountains and dense forests, let alone the other party trying to sneak a hundred steps away, they will not be able to sneak over even within five miles.
But now it is no longer important whether we are complaining about that idiot Diao Leixun or wondering how these pseudo-Tang thieves slipped over.
The most important thing now is: those puppet Tang bandits are coming!