Chapter 680: The Wisdom and the Brave Win
"Don't worry about any food, exit the valley first!"
The screaming shouts of more than a hundred people were still very obvious. They suppressed the messy screams around them, which made the civilians stunned. When they looked carefully, they found that the officers and soldiers around had begun to retreat to the rear, and the soldiers behind them even formed defensive formations in an orderly manner, obviously to protect the team to retreat.
At this moment, the sentiment of self-rescue had already overwhelmed the panic, which made the people decisively choose to obey the orders and retreat. If Li Ling had ordered them to organize the formation on the spot to defend or fight back the bandits killed, these people would probably not listen at all, and they would not have the ability. However, when he shouted that he had withdrawn from the valley, the people who had already been brave were very obedient, rushing to the front and running back in panic.
After running, he actually set a distance between the rushing enemy and the rushing down. At the same time, under the orders of several officers, the officers and soldiers finally showed their bows and arrows and kept shooting at the rushing bandits. Even if they could not kill many enemies, they could at least stop them and create time for themselves to exit the canyon.
Faced with the reactions of the officers and soldiers, the impact of the bandits really slowed down. They came to seize food and grass, but now the government army gave up food and grass before resisting, which is naturally the best result for them. As for chasing, they will leave the desperate things to do.
Therefore, with the tacit cooperation between the enemy and us, the grain transport team that left all the food and supplies, finally retreated out of the canyon in a mess. Although there were many losses, most of the people died. The casualties of the imperial guards and Fengzhou soldiers were only 20 or 30, but the combat power was saved.
"Sir..." But even so, everyone was still worried. This battle was too cowardly, especially for the imperial guards, they had never suffered such a loss.
Li Ling's expression was also very bad. He immediately glanced at him and found several generals: "Everyone, hurry up and reorganize the team, form a battle formation, and then fight back!"
"Ah..." These officers were stunned. Since they still had to fight, why bother to abandon everyone and withdraw?
Only Yang Chen and a few others suddenly had a flash of eyes and figured out the key. Sure enough, they heard Li Ling say: "Our team was completely in chaos just now, and there were still people to hinder it. There was only one dead end to stay in the canyon. But now it is different. The chaos is that they are. As long as we seize the opportunity to fight back, the situation will be reversed!"
As he said, when everyone looked into the canyon, even at night, they could see the valley in chaos, with shadows full of thieves robbing food and livestock, and there was no rules at all.
This is exactly where Li Ling dared to give up everything and retreat first. Although the food becomes a burden when it is in his own hands, once it is thrown out and falls into the hands of the enemy, isn’t it also a burden?
After all, these bandits are not regular troops that are prohibited by orders. For them, they are so risky to rob the official army today, just to make a fortune. Moreover, it is obvious that these thieves of thousands of people cannot come from the same village. They may be able to cooperate closely at the beginning, but once they are about to grab the benefits, the fragile alliance will collapse instantly.
Sure enough, after seeing the government army give up the food, the bandits who were killed were not at ease to continue chasing out of the valley, and rushed to the grain truck on the spot. Some went to unload the grain, some tried to push the grain truck that was struggling or overturned, and some even started fighting for food.
What is a mob? The sudden change in the canyon completely reveals these four words.
Seeing this scene, the officials and soldiers still didn't understand what they knew. They responded loudly and urged to complete the team. Then, under the leadership of several officers and the Yang brothers, they shouted and rushed back to the canyon again.
Among them, the Fengzhou soldiers rushed to the forefront. They wanted to take revenge and exert their anger. More importantly, their generals in front were still fighting with the enemy, and they wanted to come forward to support them.
Seeing the officers and soldiers suddenly turned around and came to kill, the bandits realized that the situation was not good. The leaders shouted: "Hurry up, don't worry about the food, defeat the official army first and kill them!"
The bandits and bandits understood, but more were still in a state of chaos. Only a few of them left their food and turned to fight, while more people were stunned.
But the official army would not give them a chance to adjust. With a shout, they rushed to the front. Yang Zhen, who was ahead, shouted violently, and he was like a tiger going down the mountain. With a squeak, he had already cut off a standing enemy who had not moved. Then he kept stabbing him with a knife and stabbed him into the head.
"Kill!" Other soldiers followed closely, waving steel knives, spears and other weapons like flying, and they kept slashing and stabbing, slapping in like waves, killing the enemy in front of them like harvesting wheat.
It was not until the screams were screaming and blood splattered on his face that the bandits completely reacted, screaming one by one, wanting to fight back. However, in order to compete for the food, many people threw their weapons aside. When they encountered such a fierce impact, they waved their empty hands to deal with it. For a moment, they fell down again.
Those who were left could only scream and turn back. Thousands of bandits had become a mess, and were killed by less than 800 troops, and they could only escape.
However, behind them, a team of bandits with only more than 200 people could still fight head-on with the official army without losing their disadvantage. With the fierce leadership of their commander, they fought with Chen Daoshou's men. Although some people fell down from time to time, they refused to take a step back and killed the corpse all over the ground, blood splattered all over the body.
Then at this moment, the ambushers on both sides who should have been completely crushed were completely defeated and rushed towards them like a betrayal dog. Someone called the names of familiar brothers to ask for help, which immediately hit their morale to the end.
In a blink of an eye, the defeated soldiers from the rear rushed to the scene. The official army quickly dodged under the command of Chen Daoshou, and actually took advantage of the attack of the defeated soldiers to rush the bandit formation in front of them.
Then, when Yang Zhen and the others came to chase him, they naturally slashed and slashed together. After a series of pursuit, the team of nearly 3,000 people was completely defeated. After leaving the body of the ground, they fled out of the canyon and then spread all over the mountains, making it difficult for the officers and soldiers to divide their troops to chase him.
It was also until this time that a tinging sound of gold sounds came from behind, but Li Ling decisively issued a military order to stop pursuing. As the saying goes, do not pursue the enemy, and for the sake of safety, it is better to stop it when you see it.
At this time, it was already midnight. The sudden battle lasted for two or three hours, and finally ended with the great victory of the official army. At least tonight, it would be impossible for those bandits to attack again.
Looking at the corpses and wounded people coming out of the land, Li Ling finally breathed a sigh of relief. A famous general of our army, the great commander of the Battle of Ping'angele, and a handsome young man who was once a village in all directions, Li Yunlong said it was indeed true. When we meet on a narrow road, only the brave can win.
No, Li Ling then shook his head again. Not only is the brave, but also has wisdom. If he had not used his strategy in time, led his troops to give up food, quit the canyon, and led the bandits to fight for food and grass, he would have to pay a heavier price to win this battle.
Therefore, when we meet on a narrow road, the wise and brave ones should win!
However, Li Ling was not too proud, and the results in front of him could not make him feel proud. Although he won a great victory in one battle and killed hundreds of enemies, his own casualties were quite large. More than a hundred people died, and more than two hundred injured people, and more than one hundred casualties of officers and soldiers, most of whom were Fengzhou soldiers.
When the relevant casualties were reported to him, the smile on Li Ling's face disappeared completely: "The supplies we transported should be injured. Take some out to heal everyone. Also, let's camp be stationed at the entrance of the valley for a while, rest and wait until everyone recovers, repair the car before continuing north."
Chen Daoshou agreed and settled his troops. The imperial guards on the other side began to camp on the spot. As for the people, although everyone was still unable to calm down and there was still sadness and panic on their faces, they were at least willing to obey orders.
When the fourth anniversary of the year was about to begin, except for some people guarding the valley and watching the food and supplies, everyone else had already set up camp on the spot. The entire camp quickly fell into silence, with only a few bonfires shining, reflecting the stars in the sky, and dozens of soldiers watching the night walked around from time to time.
But this scene fell into the eyes on the mountain. In fact, including the battle just now, everything was seen by these guys who were still hiding in the high places of the mountains and forests. At this time, their expressions were so vigilant that one of them said softly: "I underestimated the combat power of this grain transport officer and soldier, especially the quick counterattack after abandoning the grain and leaving the valley is really a ban on orders, and it is like thunder."
"Yes, although the Vietnamese court is not worthy, the border troops are still quite powerful, so we can't make too much noise in the northern border with this little green forest. And once they are targeted, we can be destroyed in an instant." Another person sighed sincerely.
"Fortunately, our real killer move is not this. Maybe after this battle, they will relax their vigilance and think that they will still face such unbearable minions in the future."
"Haha. By the way, how are the arrangements there?"
"Everything is in place, just wait for them to fall into the trap, then...hehe!" As he said, the man's eyes flashed, his hand opened, and he clenched his fists, as if he wanted to grasp the entire camp below.
Chapter completed!