467 Sneak Attack (for Alliance Leader Bai Lan Tianji 3/11)
In early February of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong secretly completed the mobilization of the main force. There were a total of 20,000 troops. These were elites and they were all his capital.
Obviously, since Zhang Xianzhong has decided to fight, he will naturally go all out to defeat Liu Liangzuo. If he escapes the blockade of the imperial army, the remaining miscellaneous cards will be gone. With these main forces as the foundation, it will be like
Just like before, it will come back soon.
Zhang Xianzhong's decisiveness has never been lacking.
Because he thought very clearly that, relatively speaking, Ma Shiying's troops on the eastern front were weaker than Sun Chuanting's troops on the western front; not to mention, as a coach, Sun Chuanting was definitely stronger than Ma Shiying.
It is impossible to break through the blockade on the Western Front. After all, Sun Chuanting is cunning and cunning. If you are not careful, you will fall into Sun Chuanting's trap.
Originally, Ma Shiying's side was unlikely. But now, the resentment of Nanjing nobles and local gentry towards Ma Shiying gave him this opportunity. If they missed this opportunity, once Ma Shiying rectified the surrounding areas of Yingtian Mansion, they would
They will attack again and drive Zhang Xianzhong south, and the chance of returning north will become increasingly slim.
In this way, Zhang Xianzhong gave it a try.
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On this day, on the official road outside Liu Liangzuo's military camp, a group of officers and soldiers came swaggeringly. It seemed that they were escorting food and grass.
According to the usual practice, this is indeed the time when food and grass are sent from the local government.
Just like this, people who saw it didn't take it seriously. The farmland on both sides of the official road were busy with spring plowing, and no one had the time to care about this kind of thing.
However, if a careful person looks carefully, he will find that there are more grain trucks in this grain delivery team than before, and the traces of grain trucks behind them are on the ground that has not completely dried up shortly after the rain.
Leave a relatively deep mark.
When Liu Liangzuo's military camp could be seen from a distance, Ye Bushou, who was patrolling the surrounding area, stopped him, conducted an interrogation as usual, and checked the official documents: "What's going on? Where is Qianhu who led the team several times last time?"
"I'm sick, so I changed my officer to lead the team!"
There were no problems with the cross-examination and official documents, and the food delivery team was quickly relieved.
Watching the food delivery team continue to go towards the military camp, one night said with a smile: "It seems that this Qianhu is much stronger than the last one, and the soldiers under him look much stronger!"
"No, at first glance these are all capable of being beaten. Unlike the ones from the last few times, they don't have any murderous aura in them. They are almost like a farmer!"
"..."
When the food delivery team was approaching the gate of the military camp, they were stopped by the sentry at the gate. They also wanted to interrogate and check the official documents. Of course, these were just routine tasks.
Originally, at this time, a food delivery team was coming, and it was still quite far away from the vanguard position of the bandits. They had always been the ones attacking forward, while the bandits fled south, and they were used to it.
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Naturally, after cross-examination and checking the official documents, there was still no problem. The leading Baihu at the guard post ordered: "Go and send it to the supply camp!"
"Okay!" Qianhu, the leader, agreed, waved to the team, and continued walking into the military camp.
Just as the team passed the gate of the military camp, suddenly, the Baihu came to his senses, and immediately went over to stop the leading Qianhu and asked, "Where are you from?"
When Qianhu, the leader, heard this, he immediately said with a smile: "Who else could we be from? Of course we are natives of Nanjing!"
After hearing this, the gatekeeper Baihu's face changed a little. He waved his hand and shouted to his men: "Come on, search the grain truck for me!"
Unlike the people outside who don't collect money at night, this gatekeeper has been given instructions by Liu Liangzuo, and he is even more sensitive to details.
Although the cross-examination just now, the verification of official documents, and the time of delivery of food and grass were all correct, there was something wrong with this person.
Logically speaking, the person who delivers food and grass must be from the local health station, and he will naturally speak the local dialect, at least the southern dialect. However, the accent of the leader is a northern accent, which is a bit abnormal.
Of course, if Liu Liangzuo hadn't told him, he wouldn't have investigated in detail. After all, it's possible that this person's parents may be from the north, so it's not necessarily a Northern accent.
"This brother? What are you doing?" Qianhu, the leader of the team, changed his face when he saw it and said, "We are all here, don't delay our brothers' mission!"
As soon as he heard this, the gatekeepers felt that something was even more wrong. At least the officers who delivered food in Nanjing in the past few times were not brothers. They spoke in an official tone and were even a little hostile towards them. How could they accompany them like this?
With a smile and a mouthful of brothers!
At this time, he was no longer polite to the team leader Qian Hu, his expression turned cold, and he personally supervised his men's inspection of the grain truck.
Seeing the guard soldiers getting closer and closer to the grain truck, the leader Qianhu suddenly showed a fierce expression. He turned around and looked around the military camp. He found that there was nothing special, so he pulled out his sword and pounced on the soldier.
Hundreds of people guarding the gate shouted loudly at the same time: "Kill!"
His men had been watching him for a long time, and upon hearing his words, they all drew their swords and rushed towards the dozen or so soldiers guarding the gate.
The gatekeepers had been on guard for a long time. They immediately saw something was wrong and immediately ran away. At the same time, they shouted loudly: "Enemy attack, enemy attack..."
After shouting a few times, a sharp arrow hit his back. The arrow was so powerful that he fell forward.
It can be seen from this that this arrow at close range must have been shot by a hard bow.
However, what is unexpected is that this Baihu was not dead. The arrow was hung on his back. He got up and ran away, while continuing to shout: "Enemy attack, enemy attack..."
This scene made the people transporting food a little dumbfounded. This gatekeeper was actually wearing strong armor? Didn't you see it?
The leader who was escorting Qianhu was actually played by Zhang Nengqi. He was the sharpshooter of Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates. However, at this time, he could no longer care about the escaped Baihu. He immediately ordered his subordinates hurriedly: "Quick, separate and set fire to the rest."
Everyone, let me grab the boat!"
Behind Liu Liangzuo's military camp is the dock of a tributary of the Yangtze River. According to information from Nanjing nobles, a fleet of ships happened to be resting here in the past few days.
Zhang Nengqi's men had obviously realized what they had arranged. When they saw some thieves, they immediately opened the grain trucks in front one by one, and saw that they were all filled with arson items prepared in advance, and the grain trucks in the back were all filled with arson objects.
In the car, after opening it, thieves jumped out one after another.
According to the plan here, as long as this team of grain trucks sneaks into the military camp, sets fire to it and seizes the dock, even in Liu Liangzuo's military camp, it will inevitably create greater chaos, leaving them no time to react, and the probability of success is very high.
When Zhang Xianzhong led the rest of the army to attack, even if Liu Liangzuo finally organized an army to counterattack, it would be useless.
Then the next step is to hold the dock until the captured ships can transport all the troops to the other side and out of the attack range of Liu Liangzuo or Huang Degong's reinforcements. Then it will be easy to cross the Yangtze River north.
"kill……"
These selected bandits are all the elites among the elites. Including those hidden in the grain trucks, there are about 1,500 people in total. At Liu Liangzuo's military camp, according to the information provided by Nanjing Xungui, there are only eight
About a thousand people.
If you are not prepared, this strategy has a very high success rate!
At this time, these bandits also knew that success or failure depended on this, and every one of them had to risk their lives.
Those who set fire set fire, and those who gathered together were ready to make a big fuss in Princess Iron Fan's belly.
However, what Zhang Nengqi never expected was that just when he dared to start taking action, he saw groups of imperial officers and soldiers appearing around him. They were not the ones who responded in a panic, but were organized to form a siege!
"Dang, clang, clang..." Under the rapid sound of the police gong, more and more imperial officers and soldiers heard the sound and rushed over.
"Bah, bah, bah..."
The sound of flintlock gunshots rang out one after another. The shields on the bandits' side were useless at all, and they fell to the ground screaming one by one.
Zhang Nengqi led his men and fired arrows to fight back, while looking at this scene with some disbelief.
What is going on?
Was it an ambush? Otherwise, how could Liu Liangzuo's men react so quickly?
But, it doesn’t make sense!
The news has been verified. Those Nanjing nobles and local squires really hated Ma Shiying to their core. How could they help Ma Shiying set up a trap?
However, if it were not a trap, and unless Liu Liangzuo's army was a very elite army, would it be able to respond so quickly?
However, it's not like they haven't dealt with Liu Liangzuo before, so they all know how powerful his men are!
Damn it, what the hell is going on?
Zhang Nengqi looked at the battle situation in front of him, and his heart skipped a beat.
Only a few camps were burned, but the men who set fire to them were either beaten to death by the imperial officers or soldiers, or were forced back. It was already impossible to set fire to other camps.
Moreover, with these few tents, there is no way to create a big chaos and burn down other tents.
More and more troops from the imperial court appeared between the camps, and the contrast in combat power between the two sides would soon become larger and larger. If Zhang Xianzhong's main force did not quickly reinforce him, he would be annihilated here.
Already.
When thinking of this, Zhang Nengqi suddenly remembered a word: a sheep entering a tiger's mouth!
However, he quickly comforted himself that it was all agreed in advance, and the reinforcements from his adoptive father would arrive soon, as long as he persisted. When the time came, Liu Liangzuo's troops would be defeated even faster when attacked from both inside and outside!
At this time, he did not realize that Liu Liangzuo had already arrived after hearing the news. Looking at the bandits pretending to be a food delivery team in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "Sure enough, as expected by the Governor, the bandits really want to break out of the encirclement.
, but what I didn’t expect was that I would choose my own side to break out of the encirclement!”