Three Kingdoms: My Wife Is Diao Chan

Chapter 249 Lu Xun Knows the Severity

Chapter 250 Lu Xun Knows the Severity

After hearing this, Lu Xun smiled and said to Cao Chong: "Don't worry, young master, Lu Xun knows the seriousness!"

"The bandits want to go around to our camp from behind the mountain stream. The mountain road is not easy to walk at night. Even if they are familiar with the terrain, they will not arrive until midnight. I guess they will not attack the camp until dawn. After patrolling, I will also go to rest, and get up in the middle of the night to wait for the bandits to arrive." Lu Xun explained to Cao Chong.

As far as leading troops to fight, no matter how proficient the bandit leader is in military affairs, he is far from Lu Xun's opponent.

Cao Chong listened to Lu Xun's analysis and nodded. He camped out and rested first. His body couldn't stand the torment!
When Cao Chong woke up again, it was already dawn, and there was a lot of boiling outside the camp, and the sound of killing was loud!
Hearing Cao Chong get up, the guards outside the account came in and said to Cao Chong: "Young master, it's just a small group of bandits who have invaded and will be wiped out by our army soon. General Lu Xun has sent someone to tell you not to worry."

"That's good! I'll wash my face before going to the big tent!"

It was already dawn, Cao Chong didn't care about the attack of hundreds of bandits, Lu Xun brought more than 1000 people in the camp!

After Cao Chong rushed to the tent of the Chinese army, Lu Xun also came back.

"Young master, the bandit is running northwest. It looks like we're going to split up and pursue it."

"This wave of bandits is very smart. They knew that they could easily get out of the battle, and they waited until dawn to make their move, just in time to escape at dawn, so as not to get separated at night."

"This is the advantage of bandits. As long as they are not surrounded, they can follow the battle and flee around. Our army is not familiar with the terrain, so we can only march forward in groups." Lu Xun said helplessly.

"Isn't it like this when going into the mountains to suppress bandits, how about the casualties last night?" Cao Chong asked.

"There is a small loss. This wave of bandits is very fierce, and the bandits have more bows and arrows than expected, and the arrows are not crudely made, they are very sharp."

Regarding war, no matter how well prepared you are, it is impossible not to lose, so Cao Chong didn't ask any more questions.

"These bandits should have come from the rebellion of the regular army. It's normal to keep some of the army's crossbows and arrows." Cao Chong didn't care about it.

"No, young master, these arrows are newly made, and they are military standard arrows." Lu Xun said, and asked someone to take a feather arrow and hand it to Cao Chong.

The tail feathers of the arrows are scattered, obviously used, the arrows are shiny and sharp at first glance, the key is that there are still words on the shafts!
"Xingyang, Fourteen"

"Is this an arrow newly made by the Xingyang Ordnance Department last year?" Cao Chong was surprised when he saw the words on the shaft.

"Do bandits use arrows like this?"

"Only a part, most of them were crudely made by the bandits themselves. Those with words just found this one. I am ordering the soldiers to continue to collect the arrows left by the bandits. I should find some more."

Not every arrow manufactured by the Ordnance Department is engraved. Generally, there is only one inscription in thirty, which is used to mark the place of origin and date of production, so as to facilitate quality inspection. Thirty arrows are also the maximum amount a soldier can carry.

It is not difficult to make arrows, but it is more difficult to make arrows with high lethality. Not only skilled craftsmen are required, but also various high-quality raw materials are needed. Therefore, the lethality of bandits and bandits' bows and arrows is generally much lower than that of officers and soldiers. many.

But this wave of bandits has a lot of connections. They can get military standard arrows, which were newly made last year!

"Report! I found several feathered arrows with engraved characters."

As expected, the soldiers sent several more arrows with lettering on the shafts, some of which were broken and some were intact.

With a dark face, Cao Chong carefully inspected each arrow shaft. Not only were there new ones made by the Xingyang Ordnance Department last year, but also those made in the past few years.

The world has been fighting endlessly for years, and the high-consumption weapons such as arrows are never enough. Think about borrowing arrows from straw boats, one hundred thousand arrows can make Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang look like that!
Therefore, once the arrows are manufactured, they will be transported to the front line immediately. Not to mention that the bandits here have so many army arrows, they also have them every year, which shows that the Xingyang Ordnance Department has been secretly selling ordnance to the mountains for so many years. Thief!
Seven years of Jian'an!That was the time when Lao Caozheng and Yuan Shao were fighting desperately in Guandu, it was the year that would determine Lao Cao's life and death, and someone secretly sold arms behind his back!
Cao Chong reckoned that when he told Lao Cao about this, not many people would lose their heads!Not just the Xingyang Ordnance Department.

Lu Xun waited for Cao Chong to check the arrows. After reporting this matter to Cao Chong, he didn't need to talk too much. As for the follow-up matter, he should not worry about it!
Cao Chong made up his mind, let's talk about this matter, at present the most important thing is to encircle and suppress bandits.

"Are you sure there are still people ambushing in the mountain stream ahead?"

"Yes, the bandits don't know that we have a thousand-mile barrel, so it's not good to hide it before we get close!"

It is impossible for anyone to lie down in the grass for a long time, seeing that the officers and soldiers are far away from them, except for the sentinels outside the mountain stream, the bandits in the mountain stream thought that the officers and soldiers could not see them, so they all lazily rested on the grass and rocks, and were used by Lu Xun for thousands of miles. The barrel looks real.

"Lu Xun, go chase the bandits who fled to the northwest, 300 people are enough for me here."

"Young master, let me leave 500 people for you. The 300 people who will fight with Xiahouba will not suffer from bandits. We must be careful that the bandits who fled to the northwest will detour and come back to attack the young master. After all, we are far inferior They are familiar with the terrain in the mountains and forests."

Cao Chong thought for a while, nodded and agreed, anyway, this time the number of people will be used, so it's better to be safe.

Lu Xun and Cao Chong have already discussed and concluded that the plan of the bandits is to lead Cao Chong and others to surround Mang Mountain and then look for opportunities to strike, which is the essence of guerrilla warfare.

Cao Chong also followed his plan and prepared to fight back while he was circling with the bandit. With a thousand-mile barrel in his hand, the bandit's actions were easy to control.

Besides, the bandits won't be around for a few days, and they have to go back to save their lair. Guo He and thousands of people are searching the mountain for the bandits' stronghold.

"The troops are divided, the officers and the army are divided, and some of them have gone to the northwest." The bandits at the watch post reported to the leader who stayed in the mountain stream.

"How many are left?"

"I can't see clearly, maybe three to five hundred people."

Even if there are 500 people, if you think about the mountain stream, if you don't leave half of you, it will be a waste of me waiting here for you all night. The bandit leader is very confident.

"It's moving, it's moving! The remaining officers and soldiers are coming this way!"

"Brothers, hide everything well, don't let the officers and soldiers see the flaws, this time we must teach the officers and soldiers a lesson."

The bandits in the mountain stream hid on both sides of the mountain stream one after another.

Time passed slowly, it was almost noon, and no officers and soldiers came to the mountain stream.

"What's going on? Where are the officers and soldiers?" The bandit leader asked anxiously, feeling uncomfortable after lying in the bushes for a long time.

"Six masters, this group of officers and soldiers walked too slowly, they only walked two miles in an hour."

(End of this chapter)