Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 129

In Zu Lang's eyes, the state of the officers and soldiers in the officer camp was too chaotic.

Since these officers and soldiers discovered the situation on the east bank of the Baicang River, they made all kinds of messy reactions and actions. An experienced old thief like Zu Lang can see through their essence at a glance.

Zu Lang was sure that these officers and soldiers should be recruits who had just been recruited. They had no combat experience at all, and they hadn't even been trained much. They could be said to be weak chickens with no combat effectiveness at all.

This kind of situation immediately made Zu Lang feel hot, maybe the officer army who came to ambush him was the most elite officer army in Lingyang County.

Originally, this official army wanted to slow down their marching speed through ambush, so as to buy more time for Lingyang County to gather troops and train recruits.

Perhaps all the main forces of the army were sent out, so only these recruits stayed in this camp.

Zu Lang still doesn't understand how the officers and soldiers discovered his traces. He can't help but speculate whether the officers and soldiers sent a team of elite officers and soldiers to ambush on many routes into Lingyang, so that they happened to guard his tracks.

Uh, as far as this point is concerned, Zu Lang's guess is almost the truth, but he didn't expect Zhu Wei to pass through the eyes of those scouts waiting for a rabbit, and after discovering Zu Lang's trace at the first time, he asked Ling Cao to lead the troops over .

Instead of dividing the troops to wait as Zu Lang thought, there are more than 2000 officers and soldiers ambushing in every place.

But now Zu Lang's misunderstanding made him more and more feel that his guess was justified, so now that this army is ambushing and hindering his march, it should also send messages to other scattered army to summon the officers Let the elite soldiers of the army come to encircle and suppress yourself.

It's just that the officer didn't expect that Zu Lang could design an anti-ambush. As a result, before the other officers arrived, he chased the elite of this officer and fled back to the unsuspecting army camp.

Now that he has chased down the elite of the official army, and the other elite officers who may exist have not returned, and the new recruits who stay in the official army camp have no combat effectiveness, then this official army camp is not It can be taken down easily.

If Zu Lang can take down this official army camp, then all the logistics and supply problems existing on Zu Lang's side can be solved immediately, and maybe a large amount of official army weapons and ordnance can be obtained, so that the Shanyue bandits under Zu Lang The combat effectiveness of soldiers can also be improved a lot.

At that time, after the officers and soldiers of Lingyang County lost this camp, they had no food, grass and supplies, and were blocked by Zu Lang on the east bank of the Baicang River. Wouldn't they be defeated without fighting?

"If you don't take the gift from God, it's not worth it!"

The more Zu Lang thought about it, the more excited he became. If this is true, his attack on Lingyang this time would be no more difficult.

Although Zu Lang now knew that the Shanyue bandit soldiers under him were also in a state of exhaustion, he had already made up his mind to lead his troops to take advantage of the emptiness to seize this official army camp.

If the rest of the soldiers and horses of the official army returned, the battle would be a little more difficult to fight.

So Zu Lang immediately issued an order to let the Shanyue bandit soldiers who fell behind step up and follow up with the whole team, and at the same time guard against possible officers and troops in the rear. He himself began to gather the Shanyue bandit soldiers in the central area where he was, and accelerated to the direction of the Baicang River. .

Of course, the Shanyue thieves who were still chasing Ling Cao's deceitfully defeated soldiers were also ordered by Zu Lang to continue to pursue them. Ling Cao's soldiers and the Shanyue thieves must not be separated too far, lest the officers and soldiers cross the river, There is a chance to destroy the five pontoon bridges on the Baicang River.

In Zu Lang's view, time is now the key to winning the war.

In this way, the more than 6000 Shanyue bandit soldiers commanded by Zu Lang were also mobilized, and rushed towards the Baicang River at high speed, shouting loudly in their mouths, "Cross the river, cross the river, seize the camp, seize the camp!"

The tide-like shouts spread forward, which frightened the defeated soldiers on Ling Cao's side to also speed up and run away.

At this moment, Ling Cao's troops who were running in front and the Zulang Mountain Yue soldiers who were chasing behind them all sped up a little bit as if they had been given blood. Soon Ling Cao had led his men to the pontoon bridge on the Baicang River and began to cross. The floating bridge withdrew to his camp on the other side of the river.

However, the Han army who came out of this Han army camp to meet Ling Cao's army, heard the shouts of the Zulang Mountain Yue bandits on the other side of the river like waves, but their expressions changed drastically, and many people turned around and ran away.

In fact, the more than 5000 Han soldiers in this Han army camp were pretended to be the five thousand men who were recruited in Lingyang County before. Naturally, as Zu Lang saw, they were not qualified soldiers at all. They had never been trained. Common people.

Although they knew that they were just pretending to be the bait of the Han army, and knew that they didn't need to fight in battle, there were also some real Han army chiefs and military marquises commanding them so that they could get out of the ranks of the army. .

But a husband is a husband, and without training, there is no psychological preparation for facing the battlefield. When I saw the Shanyue bandits coming from the other side of the river like a sea, I was already panicked and overwhelmed. I forgot all the orders I gave them before. .

Many servants dropped their weapons in panic, turned around and fled to the west gate of the Han army camp, and then fled all the way west.

It can be said that these husbands and servants in the Han army camp collapsed before Zulang's Shanyue bandit soldiers crossed the river. They just fled for their lives in the direction of Lingyang County, thinking of fleeing back home.

This made Ling Cao's soldiers who pretended to be defeated also stunned. They thought it would be safe to escape to their own camp, but why the people here ran faster than them.

At this moment, the soldiers who were still a bit of a feint, really collapsed, and one by one, they joined the ranks of fleeing for their lives like those slaves pretending to be Han soldiers.

Of course, these ordinary soldiers didn't know what was going on, but Ling Cao already knew the plan of Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan in his heart, so he was not surprised by the situation here.

Ling Cao just greeted in his mouth like pushing a boat with the current, "Quickly retreat, quickly retreat, retreat to Lingyang City, retreat, retreat!"

Therefore, after the more than 2000 falsely defeated soldiers brought by Ling Cao crossed the river along the pontoon bridge, they did not stay in this Han army camp, and continued to flee westward with those collapsed husbands, seeming to be really planning to flee all the way back to the mausoleum. Yang County.

In this way, Zulang's Shanyue bandit soldiers followed them across the Baicang River almost without bloodshed, and then followed them into the official army camp with its doors wide open and without any defenses.

But after occupying the camp of the Han army, Zu Lang's Shanyue bandit soldiers no longer had the intention to continue chasing Ling Cao's soldiers. After all, they really couldn't take it anymore.

So a chasing marathon finally came to an end.

The Han army voluntarily abandoned the camp, but Zulang's Shanyue bandits easily occupied a camp, including the Han army's food, grass and supplies stored in the camp.

Everything seemed to be according to Zu Lang's wishes, his strategy of raiding Lingyang this time was really smooth.

However, there should be rules for the Shanyue bandit soldiers, so the Zulang Shanyue bandit soldiers who entered the Han army camp just searched the camp, arrested some so-called officers who failed to escape for various reasons, and then sent troops to guard them. I went to the granaries and arsenals in the Han army camp, but didn't go in to count and check them immediately.

They had to wait for the Chinese army led by Zu Lang to come before they could enter the granary and arsenal to order supplies, otherwise they would only be held accountable, so they didn't find anything suspicious about this Han army camp...

(End of this chapter)