The cold spring is steep, the night is getting darker, but the people are not quiet. The huge camp of the Mutant Army is still brightly lit, and piles of bonfires are burning, everywhere in the camp of the Mutant Army. , as dense as stars, and beside each bonfire, there are many mutated militia soldiers in tattered armor gathered in a circle, chatting in low voices, warming themselves by the fire, and also borrowing the body temperature of their companions to keep warm. able to take up combat.
It is not that the militiamen do not have tents that can shelter them from the wind and rain. In fact, after months of running around and robbing everyone, these militia teams have accumulated a large number of camping tents, although most of them are tattered. , but it can barely cover the rain and snow. In the early spring night when the snow has not yet melted, sleeping in these shabby tents is definitely a hundred times better than sleeping outside, but these soldiers still refuse to pay back their bills , the grassroots generals also counted the number of people from time to time to see if anyone was lazy and deserted.
Of course, these soldiers of the mutated militia are not masochistic. The reason why they don’t know how to rest in tents is because they dare not. The subordinate team is divided into two groups, which take turns to be on duty in the first half of the night and the second half of the night, always on guard against accidents. And after discovering that Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao's team did this, other big and small thieves who voluntarily or were forced to join together did not dare to neglect. Know how to die.
Of course, no one is not surprised why King Du and King Miao made such an arrangement, and no one is not digging holes and sharpening their heads to inquire about news? If it was changed to a regular army team, these situations would be better. The general can basically calm down the situation with just one sentence of execution order and not many questions. Unfortunately, this is a converted civilian army team, a typical mob. Most of them were ordinary not long ago. The rogue ranks of the common people, chatting and chatting with nothing to do, countless reliable and unreliable rumors and rumors will soon be flying all over the sky.
King Du and King Miao have turned their faces and are about to separate. This is the most reliable rumor.
King Miao secretly colluded with the Yongcheng government army and was discovered by King Du, so King Du planned to kill King Miao and completely annex King Miao's team. This is a relatively unreliable rumor.
King Miao is going to kill King Du and become the chief executive himself, which is also an unreliable rumor.
King Miao and Yongcheng Dog Officer Chen Yingliang are good friends. Chen Dog Officer wants to persuade King Miao to surrender, and King Du is going to kill King Miao to avoid more traitors. This is an insider rumor.
King Du fell in love with King Miao's concubine, but King Miao refused to give it up, so the two sides were preparing to fight. This is the most absurd rumor.
Regardless of whether these various rumors are reliable or absurd, the effect on the morale of the army is the same. Looking at the friendly camp next to each other with vigilant eyes, most of the soldiers of the turned militia have completely forgotten the Facing the Yongcheng government army fifteen miles away. In fact, Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao and other big thieves almost forgot the direct threat of Yongcheng officers and soldiers. When they were on guard against each other, they were prepared for the worst-if the situation was wrong, kill each other immediately!
In fact, Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao also didn't understand that their relationship with each other would suddenly deteriorate to such a point. Miao Haichao was better, knowing that Du Fuwei was suspicious and suspicious of himself, and worried about colluding with the government and the army to betray him. It's just that I don't understand why Du Fuwei is so small-minded, because he regards himself as an enemy because of some trivial things? But Du Fuwei is different. Now Du Fuwei is completely unable to judge whether Miao Haichao has secretly conspired with Chen Yingliang, whether he will suddenly stab himself with a black knife, so Du Fuwei can only prepare for self-protection now. In case Miao Haichao and Chen Yingliang suddenly colluded with each other inside and outside, completely killing myself! And the contingency precautions that Miao Haichao's team was forced to take also made Du Fuwei feel that he had to do this, and must be careful to guard against Miao Haichao!
In fact, at this point in the matter, even Du Fuwei's think tank, Fu Gong Er, could not judge whether Miao Haichao really colluded with the government and the army, so Fu Gong Er had no choice but to agree with Du Fuwei's preparations for war. It's just to persuade Du Fuwei to act cautiously, and not to turn his face until the last moment. It's best to wait until the next morning to go to Yongcheng to collect the protection fee. Du Fuwei also promised Fugong Er, saying that as long as Miao Haichao didn't strike first, he would never strike first, but if Miao Haichao dared to play tricks, he would never be polite!
The main attention of the militia turned to the inside, and the protection against external threats was naturally seriously insufficient. As a result, this also gave the night attack team led by Zhu Can and Zhang Di a god-sent opportunity to use the cover of night and the awareness of the terrain to attack the enemy. Familiar with each other, Zhu Can and Zhang Di led six regiments of new troops, only to kill two mutated militia patrol fire teams, and then they touched the surrounding area of mutated militia army camp without anyone noticing, and it was so smooth that even the daring Zhu Can A little nervous, afraid that this is a trap set by the enemy, just wait for your team to fall into the trap, and then surround and wipe them out!
Not to mention, the current mutated militia camp looks like a trap. There is only a fence around the camp that is so thin that it can be pushed down. The camp is still brightly lit, with bonfires everywhere. From a distance, it can be seen faintly Beside the bonfire, there were also soldiers of the Mutant Militia sitting on the ground. Seeing this scene, not to mention the trembling hearts of the new soldiers from Qiao County who went to battle for the first time, even Zhang Di, the deputy Chen Yingliang sent to Zhu Can and who was born in the regular army, couldn't help feeling nervous, and said to Zhu Can in a low voice: " Brother Zhu, the enemy seems to be preparing, what should we do?"
"You ask me, who should I ask?" Zhu Can, who was a yamen servant and had less battlefield experience than Zhang Di, murmured in his heart. The blood was also burning on Zhu Can's body. Considering that even if he encountered an ambush, he would be sure to get out, Zhu Can didn't hesitate much, and immediately replied in a low voice: "According to the original plan, sneak attack on Du Fuwei's camp! Chen Tongshou's order must be carried out no matter how dangerous it is!"
Zhang Di nodded, conveyed the order to the team in a low voice, and explained by the way: "Remember, after rushing in, you must shout the slogan 'By the order of King Miao, kill Du Fuwei', don't forget to kill Du Fuwei." Don't expose our identity as an official army!"
By the way, the reason why Zhang Di ordered this is because the six new army teams brought by Zhu Can and Zhang Di did not wear military uniforms from top to bottom, but all wore tattered clothes that they had snatched from the bandit den. Clothes, dressed in the same way as the team of bandits and refugees.
After everything was arranged, Zhu Can whispered a word of God's blessing, then waved his hand, took the lead and quietly touched the Du Fuwei camp in front with his gun in hand. Zhang Di led the team to keep up with fear, and the new army team behind Everyone was trembling, biting the bullet and keeping up carefully, and many people were already prepared to run for their lives if the situation went wrong.
Out of confidence in the number of troops of our own army, the fortifications of Du Fuwei's troops were shockingly crude. Except for a thin fence, they didn't even bother to dig a trench, let alone antlers to resist horses and ropes. This also made it easy for Zhu Can and Zhang Di's night attack team to easily reach the fence and hide behind a fence with few bonfires. Then, the soldiers of the new army who had no way to retreat quietly stepped forward, tied a few ropes to the fence, and then pulled it together with all their hands and feet, and a section of the fence that was not short was laid down. The army soldiers caught the fence, put it on the ground silently, and opened a section of the road to enter the camp.
The time to decide success or failure has come. Under the leadership of Zhu Can and Zhang Di, the soldiers of the new army, like ghosts, rushed into the camp silently and quickly assembled in Du Fuwei's camp. When all the soldiers of the new army were about to enter the camp, a soldier of the Du Army who noticed the abnormal noise suddenly came to Zhu Can and the others with a torch. At that moment, the Du Jun soldier also opened his mouth wide enough to stuff a few eggs in, and he even forgot to shout under the extreme shock.
With a cry, Zhu Can, who had the quickest response and the best skill, rushed forward with a stride. The spear in his hand shot out like lightning, and pierced the chest of the soldier who turned into a militia, causing the enemy soldier to feel unbelievable. Lying down with his eyes down, he snatched the torch from the enemy soldier, turned to Zhang Di and shouted, "Bring the cannonball that Chen Tongshou said!"
Zhang Di quickly took out a wine bottle full of gunpowder, Zhu Can took it, first lit the fuse, and then threw it to a pile of bonfires surrounded by militia soldiers in the distance, driven by Zhu Can's divine power , the wine bottle flew sixty to seventy meters with the curling green smoke, and then it exploded violently in the sky, bursting into a burst of flames and making a loud noise, "Boom!"
Chen Yingliang asked Zhu Can and Zhang Di to use the gunpowder bottle, of course not hoping that this primitive grenade with pitifully small power could kill the enemy, but just to make this thunderous noise, and the result was exactly as Chen Yingliang expected and expected , After the huge explosion sounded in the middle of the night, it immediately rang through the entire camp of the Mutant Army, not only alarming the camp of Du Fuwei's team, but also the camp of Miao Haichao's team and other thieves' teams! Everyone was taken aback, they scrambled to raise their heads, and looked in the direction of the loud noise in horror.
"Kill!" Zhu Can raised his gun and shouted, "King Miao has an order to kill Du Fuwei! Brothers, kill me!"
"King Miao has an order to kill Du Fuwei! Kill!" The new army team shouted chaotically, as if they were afraid that the enemy would not know that they were Miao Haichao's team, and then followed behind Zhu Can and Zhang Di , rushed towards the place where the bonfires were rare, and rushed towards the terrified militia soldiers who were still sitting around the bonfire.
"Kill!"
What happened made Zhu Can, Zhang Di and all the soldiers of the new army startled. After they deliberately made a loud noise, before they could actually fight the enemy, Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao's camp unexpectedly rang at the same time. There was a sound of shouting and killing like a shocking tide, and immediately after that, countless torches surged, and Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao's team actually started a big fire, and they were very prepared and organized to quickly push down the camp fence and rush towards each other In the camp, everyone was killed and stabbed. In the blink of an eye, the area where Du and Miao's two armies met was already lit with torches, and the sound of killing was loud.
During the battle, Miao Haichao's team, who had long held back their anger against Du Fuwei's team, charged fiercely, and defeated Du Fuwei's team with poor morale and fighting spirit, and was soon forced to retreat into the camp , and forced Du Fuwei, who heard the loud noise to go out of the account, to rush to command the team to rescue the frontal battlefield with all its strength, but did not pay enough attention to Zhu Can and Zhang Di, who were not loud, and only sent a small number of troops to meet the new army. In this way, the new army team also got the opportunity to temper and sharpen when they first entered the battlefield, and they were able to fight and fight the enemy with little difference in troop strength.
Of course, this also gave Zhu Can the opportunity to show his talents. In order to get ahead, and also for the high-ranking official, rich salary and beautiful wife and beautiful concubine he coveted, Zhu Can, who was unwilling to be inferior to others, showed his marksmanship and martial arts at a super level this time. The good steel gun was danced in his hands like a fluttering snow, and the enemy on the opposite side was almost invincible in front of him. He stabbed and stabbed him one after another, killing the enemy on the other side in terror, screaming and fleeing. The soldiers of the new army, on the other hand, were more confident. They followed Zhu Can with knives and spears, and gained a lot. At the same time, they deliberately set fire, kicked over the surrounding bonfires, and threw the burning sticks into the camp. On the tattered tent, Du Fuwei's camp didn't take much time before the flames burst out and the smoke rose into the sky.
Seeing this situation, Du Fuwei, who was in command in the center, was of course furious. While ordering his godsons Kan Leng and Ximen Junyi to lead an army to the enemy's new army, he personally led the main force to the frontal battlefield, and at the same time sent messengers to contact the new army. The leaders of the other independent bandits made a heavy promise to send troops to attack Miao Haichao's camp. On the other side, although Miao Haichao, who has also personally put on his clothes, is not quite sure why the situation has suddenly deteriorated to this point, but in order to protect himself, Miao Haichao, who does not want to wait for death, still leads the entire army to a decisive battle with Du Fuwei's troops, while sending people to contact other people. The leader of the rebels also made a big promise to ask them to attack Du Fuwei's camp!
"As long as Miao Haichao (Du Fuwei) is killed, 70% of the stolen items will belong to them!" This is what Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao shouted almost at the same time.
The battle situation continued to change rapidly, and it was time to test Zhu Can and Zhang Di's ability to adapt to battle. First, Zhang Di carefully discovered through the number of torches in the melee that Du Fuwei's army rushed towards the direction of Miao Haichao's camp. The number of torches in the direction is obviously too small, and the number is not even one-third of the main battlefield! Then Zhang Di immediately reminded Zhu Can of this situation, and Zhu Can was of course overjoyed when he saw it, and said, "Okay, the enemy has already started a big internal strife, and they haven't regarded us as the main opponent yet, so we just fished in troubled waters."
"Brother Zhu, I think we should fight smarter." Zhang Di, who had some dark ideas, suggested: "We should not fight the enemy head-on, take them around, and take the opportunity to involve other thieves, let us They completely fought among themselves, and this way of fighting is not only easier, but also gains more."
"Brilliant plan!" Zhu Can, the future warlord, knew almost intuitively that Zhang Di's contingency plan was far stronger than the original plan, and immediately waved his spear, pointed at the open space in the north and shouted: "Brothers, Follow me! Flag bearer, fly out the flag, follow me, and let the brothers know the direction!"
The new army team agreed abruptly, and the banner bearer quickly unfurled a big white flag that was very eye-catching in the dark night, and followed Zhu Can closely, so that his companions had a target to follow. More than a thousand people, led by Zhu Can, fought with all their strength To an open place with fewer enemies, the reinforcements sent by Du Fuwei were led to spread and expand the war, and the flames of the internal strife and melee of the mutated militia army became wider and wider.
I have never seen a bloody army that is always a recruit. Zhang Di's opportunistic suggestion is of course not conducive to the sharpening and growth of the new army in Qiao County. A fierce battle was avoided, because the son Kan Leng sent by Du Fuwei was also a ruthless character in the late Sui Dynasty and early Tang Dynasty. He was good at wielding a ten-foot-long double-edged sword. , Lingyan Pavilion Li Xiaogong had suffered in front of him. Zhu Can, who is also a ruthless character, is really not sure of winning if he really wants to meet him.
Unintentionally avoiding the tough battle with the fierce Kan Leng, Zhu Can, who is also a fierce man, is like a fish in water and a tiger descending the mountain in other local battlefields. With the steel gun dancing, all the invincibles are invincible, killing the mutinous militiamen blocking the way The soldiers were terrified and ran away with their heads in their arms. The new army was full of morale and drove forward all the way, constantly breaking into the empty area of Du Fuwei's camp, setting fire to more tents and causing more chaos. The fierce man Kan Ling roared behind him. Zhentian, but because of the distance, he will not be able to catch up with the Qiaojun new army for a while.
At this moment, on the main battlefield where Du Fuwei's troops and Miao Haichao's troops are fighting, the situation has gradually fallen into a stalemate. Although Du Fuwei's team has a large number of people, it suffers from inferior morale, and there are Zhu Can and Zhang Di in the camp The team killed people and set fire to make trouble everywhere, so they had to be distracted to take care of the rear, and couldn't use their strength advantage to gain the upper hand for a while. Miao Haichao's team wins because of their high morale. The Miao army soldiers who have been suffocating for a long time are all fighting hard, killing the enemy with their lives, and their cohesion is relatively strong, especially those kiln workers who followed Miao Haichao when he raised his troops. The tenants, even risking their lives, followed Miao Haichao and charged into battle, but they suffered from the small number of troops, and at the same time, the number of fierce generals was not as good as Du Fuwei's army, so they also could not gain the upper hand, and could only fight with Du Fuwei's army. Caught in a stalemate like a meat grinder.
The key to the victory or defeat has become several other rogue teams that formed their own armies. Basically, whoever they fall to, that side has a stable chance of winning. The friendly army, Du Fuwei and Miao Haichao issued an order almost at the same time, "Go and tell Zhang Dabaozi in Teng County, Wang Liu in Baodu Mountain, and Lu Mazi in Xushan and Xiaqiu Xia Dachong, as long as they help me get rid of them." Du Fuwei (Miao Haichao), it’s all theirs to steal, we only want Du Fuwei’s (Miao Haichao) head!!”