Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 123 A burst of gongs sounded

Not to mention how Zhu Wei designed the battlefield, but Ling Cao got the message from Zhu Wei, and led two thousand vanguard soldiers to rush towards the mountain where Zulang's army came.

This side has already left the territory of Lingyang County, and the local people have already known the news that Shulang Zulang, the commander of Shanyue Zong in Jing County, came with an army of tens of thousands, so there are not many idle people left in many villages, even the houses of the local rich and powerful. No one dared to stay, and most of them fled to the county seat.

Only the Wubao of some big clans gathered clan soldiers, and they were still prepared to guard against it.

But Ling Cao had Zhu Wei's pointing direction, so he didn't need to detour, he went straight to the mountain from the official road, and found a place with open terrain and waited.

It was already half a day later, around mid-afternoon (between one and three in the afternoon).

The place Ling Cao chose to set up a temporary camp was in a wild forest on a small slope by the side of a mountain. Ling Cao ambushed all his soldiers in the wild forest. There was a mountain not far from the small slope. The passage out of it is also the place of separation between the two mountains.

From within the woods, you can already see the messy-dressed bandits in the mountains in the distance, walking quickly through the woods on the mountains.

These Shanyue bandit soldiers basically have disheveled hair and beards all over their faces. Some wear cloth clothes, some seem to wear rattan armor, some wrap their heads with cloth, some wear bamboo hats, and some wear hats on their feet. Most of them are straw sandals, and they all have packages on their backs, which should be food or the like.

The weapons they held in their hands were also messy, some were holding knives, some were holding axes, some were holding sticks, and some were holding bamboo poles. They really looked like wild bandits.

However, they all looked like strong men in their 20s and 30s. Although the weapons in their hands and the armor on their bodies were mixed, they could still see a bit of ferocity.

They didn't have any formation at all among the mountains, they just formed small groups and moved quickly towards Lingyang.

Their footsteps walking among the mountains were very brisk. A huge number of figures moved among the trees and weeds in the mountains, like gray mice moving fast.

Judging by the size and quantity, it is probably three or four thousand, and it should also be the forward team of the Zulang Mountain Yue Bandit Army.

With the rapid movement of the chaotic Shanyue bandits, more than a thousand people ran out of the mountain and stopped at the concave slope at the junction of the two mountains.

Obviously, these Shanyue bandit soldiers were a little tired from running, and many people sat down here one after another, waiting for their follow-up companions to follow.

These Shanyue bandit soldiers who were also familiar with each other gathered together and chatted casually with each other. Many people even took out food from the packages they were carrying and started eating here.

Not long after, more and more bandits gathered here, and the number soon reached as many as three thousand. Then a bandit who looked like a leader appeared on this concave slope under the guard of a dozen people.

The leader of this Shanyue bandit soldier looks to be about forty years old, with a burly figure, cloth strips are tied on his feet, and he is also wearing a rattan armor. He holds a hand ax in his right hand and a large rattan shield in his left hand. The beard on the face, the complexion is dark, and the appearance looks very fierce.

After arriving at this concave slope, the leader of the Shanyue Bandits walked among those Shanyue bandits who were sitting in a mess, and these bandit soldiers who seemed to have a bit of a fierce look gave way for him. Location.

The leader of the Shanyue bandit soldiers was also unprepared. He shouted a few times around him, then found an open space and sat down with his big shield on his buttocks.

Afterwards, the personal guards around him brought him wine and meat or something, but he also had a mouthful of meat and wine over there, eating very wildly.

Not long after, bandits from the mountains filled the concave slope. Everyone must have driven a lot of mountain roads. After eating and drinking, they also slapped their calves to relax their muscles.

These Shanyue thieves were completely unprepared, and they didn't send anyone out to guard at all. They didn't seem to think that someone could ambush them here.

As the vanguard of Zulang's Shanyue bandit army, this group of Shanyue bandit soldiers also opened a distance from Zulang's army in the rear.

Continue to look at the mountains behind where they came. About ten kilometers away from the mountain road, you can still see many mountain birds flying in the mountains, and the warning signs of wild beasts running wildly, indicating that there are still people in the mountains behind. More Shanyue bandit soldiers are coming here.

Just when the vanguards of this group of Shanyue bandits were resting in disorder, there was a sound of bamboo clappers in the wild woods on the hillside ahead, and then Ling Cao rushed out with two thousand vanguard soldiers in ambush.

Ling Cao charged forward alone, but with a hard bow in his hand, he aimed his arrow at the vanguard commander of the Shanyue bandits over there. There were more than a dozen archers beside Ling Cao who aimed their arrows at the bandit leader. .

Behind them are more than 500 archers. Under the protection of other sword and shield players, they also put up hard bows and bowed their heads.

Things developed so fast that the mountain vietnamese soldiers over there didn't even have a chance to react.

Many people were hit by arrows dropped from the air, and immediately screamed in pain. Some people were unlucky enough to be hit in the vital part, and fell to the ground with food in their mouths.

Seeing this, the forward leader of the Shanyue bandits stood up immediately, and he didn't seem to be panicking, and shouted loudly to the surrounding Shanyue bandits to prepare for the battle.

At the same time, he picked up the long-handled hatchet in one hand, and bent down to pick up his vine wooden shield, preparing to organize the mountain vietnamese bandits under him to fight back.

But Ling Cao and a dozen archers had already set his sights on him, and not long after they ran out of the wild forest, the bowstrings in the hands of the dozen people were loosened, and more than a dozen feathered arrows flew towards the forward leader of the Shanyue bandits.

Although there seemed to be a few guards who stood up to protect the forward commander of the Shanyue Bandit Soldier, but a feathered arrow was nailed to the thick man's forehead, and there were seven or eight nails among the other ten or so feathered arrows. On his body and arms, a round of arrows took his life away.

This seemingly powerful Shanyue bandit forward commander, with these feather arrows pierced on his body, fell to the ground upside down. Without the command of this forward commander, these seemingly strong Shanyue bandit forward army would naturally be completely chaotic.

While Ling Cao led his men to charge towards the concave slope where they were, round after round of feathered arrows covered them. After just a few steps, more than a thousand Mountain Ranger soldiers were shot down on the ground, and thousands of them were injured. many people.

Few of these bandit soldiers wore leather armor, only a few of them wore homemade rattan armor, and most of them wore ragged clothes. Many of them were cut by branches and thorns when they were rushing through the mountains. It makes them look more like beggars.

Many Shanyue bandit soldiers just wear rabbit skins, mouse skins and the like on their arms and calves, which can be regarded as their private arm and leg guards.

But no matter what kind of personal equipment, these mountain bandits who look like beggars really lack the ability to defend against bows and arrows...

(End of this chapter)