46. The army was defeated like a mountain

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On the night of the fourth day of the war, after a series of sieges during the day, Liu Jinbao also ordered his officers and soldiers and villagers to go back to rest as soon as possible.

After dinner, the entire camp where the officers and soldiers and the villagers were located became quiet, and no one else could be seen except for the night guard left by Liu Jinbao.

In the White Snake Village, Li Zixiao was quietly holding a pledge meeting, and tonight he would personally lead three teams of soldiers to attack the camp of officers and soldiers outside the village at night.

At this time, Li Zixiao ordered the soldiers to have a good meal, and the soldiers under him were even more fierce, so they would go out tonight to have a good killing.

During the daytime battle, Li Zixiao was only handed over to Zhou Dazhu's team of soldiers and the recruit battalion to be responsible, while Liu Chong's three teams of soldiers rested during the day.

"Everyone knows what we're going to do tonight, when the night attack comes, everyone will follow your respective captains, don't be left alone.

Once we succeed in the night attack tonight and enter the official army camp, our previous battle formation will not be good, and there will inevitably be a scuffle at that time.

You have to form a squad, and under the leadership of your respective captains, you will cut down all those damned officers and soldiers and village warriors. ”

Li Zixiao was making the final pre-war mobilization for his soldiers, in fact, he mainly told these people that only mobilization was not necessary at all, and he didn't see that at this time, these people under him were all gearing up, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Needless to say, Liu Chong's soldiers of the three teams rested during the day, and tonight can be described as full of energy, waiting for them to rush out and kill the Quartet one by one.

And the soldiers of the first team under Zhou Dazhu, although they experienced the battle of guarding the village during the day, they still took the opportunity to rest for a while.

I just don't want to miss tonight's killing feast, and I have red eyes at this time, although my spirit is a little tired, but I am still very excited.

As for the new barracks, the performance in the past two days has been very good, they have always been the main force to resist the wall, in the battle between the officers and soldiers and the villagers, they have completed the transformation from a recruit to a veteran.

Li Zixiao is already preparing to turn all of them into soldiers after the war, and is ready to form a fourth team of soldiers, and even the captain has been selected, which is Luo Chao.

Luo Chao has been fighting with these recruits for the past four days, and the recruits have long regarded Luo Chao as their captain, and Luo Chao has also formed a life-and-death friendship with these recruits.

At this moment, Li Zixiao is at least ninety percent sure that Luo Chao should not leave after the war, and he will be used by him.

On the fourth day, the weather was already gloomy during the day, and Li Zixiao combined with the weather and meteorological knowledge of later generations to predict that it should rain tonight, which was an excellent opportunity for them to attack at night.

As soon as it rains, the firearms in the hands of officers and men are basically scrapped, but in fact, launching an attack at night is enough to greatly reduce the usefulness of firearms in the hands of officers and men, and then they will have to rely entirely on bayonets to see the red.

Whoa......

At the beginning, the sparse light rain gradually became heavier and heavier, Li Zixiao had already prepared, and prepared a coat for each of his subordinates who attacked at night, and the sound of the rain would cover up the movements made by their night attack.

And as long as the 500 officers and soldiers in his hands are not chaotic, even if these villagers flee in defeat, he will quickly reassemble, regroup, and fight again one day, and the officers and soldiers in his hands are the most important.

"Archers, musketeers, block them for Lao Tzu, release arrows, and fire."

At this time, Liu Jinbao saw that the defeated villagers didn't listen to his shouts at all, so Li Zixiao had no choice but to use tough means to keep the last 500 officers and soldiers in his hands.

Whoosh ...... Bang Bang Bang ......

The archers and musketeers under Liu Jinbao really fulfilled Li Zixiao's order, and directly shot at the villagers who rushed over from their location, and fired arrows.

Ahh......hh

The townspeople who were shot or shot fell to the ground screaming and wailing, which frightened all the villagers who rushed behind them into a spirit, and then quickly fled in the direction of both sides.

"It's a pity that I missed a great opportunity."

Li Zixiao also followed his two teams of soldiers out of the gate of the village, and when he saw that Liu Jinbao did not hesitate to let the archers and bird gunners shoot those villagers, he sighed and said.

If those villagers could disperse the 500 officers and soldiers just now, he would not hesitate to immediately lead people to follow and kill, and this battle would be finished in advance.

Now, Li Zixiao saw that Liu Jinbao did not hesitate to let his archers and musketeers shoot those villagers who rushed to him, and insisted on keeping the lineup of 500 officers and soldiers under him.

As long as there are these 500 officers and soldiers standing there, it is a kind of deterrent to the bandits, Li Zixiao has not yet taken people out of the village and Liu Jinbao to fight in the field, after watching all the officers and soldiers and Xiangyong withdraw from the cottage, he also took people back to the cottage.

"Haha, this battle was fought happily, this time we left nearly two hundred officers and soldiers at one time, and the remaining officers and soldiers are only five hundred, as for those villagers, they have already been frightened by us, so they are not afraid."

After Li Zixiao returned to the cottage, he laughed out loud and said.

"Big boss, I think we might as well go out in one go now, we will definitely be able to kill those hundreds of officers and soldiers to the point of losing their armor, and then the crisis of our cottage will be automatically lifted."

Zhou Dazhu still wanted to continue to lead people out, but was rejected by Li Zixiao, who could see that the remaining more than 500 officers and soldiers under Liu Jinbao were all rare elites.

In addition, fighting outside, they need to face the threat of firearms from officers and soldiers, and even if they win, it will be a miserable victory, which is not the result Li Zixiao wants.

Li Zixiao was very happy that the battle on the first day of the battle could be fought like this, and he also saw the skills of these villagers and officers and soldiers, and he was even more confident in defending the cottage and defeating these officers and soldiers this time.

Now is not the best time to take the initiative, he still needs to wait patiently, and at the same time, Li Zixiao has not forgotten that he is still showing a secret hand in the mountains outside.

Liu Jinbao was also overjoyed to see that the bandits in the cottage did not take the opportunity to chase them out, to be honest, he didn't figure out how Liang Dong was defeated when he rushed into the cottage, and he really didn't want to fight Li Zixiao.

Next, there are many things that need Liu Jinbao to be busy, such as reorganizing the people, improving the morale of the soldiers, figuring out how Liang Dong was defeated after entering the cottage gate, and so on.

Defeated again this time, Liu Jinbao had no energy to organize an attack, the sky gradually darkened, and when night fell, he could not continue to attack.

Liu Jinbao hurriedly ordered to return to the temporary camp they had set up to rest, but at this time, the villagers of the villages were worried about the fact that Li Zixiao ordered the archers and musketeers to shoot and release arrows at them during the day.

Liu Jinbao also felt the change in the attitude of those villagers towards them, and knew that he was afraid that he had offended these villagers, but he didn't care.

He is an official soldier, these people are just township warriors, even if these people are dissatisfied with him, they dare not do anything, let him be a thousand household adults, and apologize to these mud-legged township warriors, how can Liu Jinbao do it.

As a result, the rift between the officers and troops represented by Liu Jinbao and the villagers and villagers further widened.

This night, Liu Jinbao was worried about Li Zixiao's sneak attack, so he carefully arranged the sentry posts around his camp at night, as for those Xiangyong, he also gave an order, as for whether those people listened or not, he couldn't control it.

This night, Liu Jinbao didn't sleep well, he was worried that the bandits in the cottage would sneak attack them at night, Liu Jinbao really felt that this bandit was too evil, and he had never seen such a difficult bandit.

At this time, he no longer had the confidence he had when he first came, and he also saw the difference of Li Zixiao's bandits, and even at that moment, Liu Jinbao had the idea of retreating.

"Damn, if the official had known that this bandit was so evil, how could the official have to find a way to push off this errand, if he has time to come out and suffer this, the official might as well be comfortable guarding his own one-third of an acre.

It's really not easy to get the credit of suppressing bandits, hey, it's too late to say anything now, it's all here, if you can't exterminate this bandit, how can this official's face be saved!

However, after the continuous failure of the attack during the day today, it is no longer suitable to continue to storm the cottage, and now I can only hope to rest for two days, so that my officers and soldiers and those villagers can regain some morale and fight again. ”

Liu Jinbao lay in his tent, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, thinking in his heart.

Fortunately, the night was spent without danger, and the next day Liu Jinbao ordered to send a part of the villagers to the mountains and forests to cut down trees and build new siege equipment, and Liu Jinbao also knew that there was not much time left for him.

Liu Jinbao is now completely free of the contempt for Li Zixiao's bandits when he came before, and yesterday's attack failure made him have to treat this group of bandits carefully, and he is ready to attack the village for a long time.

Because Liu Jinbao is not stupid, he can also see why the bandits in the White Snake Village dare not come out of the village for a long time, and even gave up such a good opportunity yesterday.

Liu Jinbao estimated that firstly, because the number of bandits in this group was not large, and secondly, they were afraid of the artillery in their hands, and I have to say that Liu Jinbao really guessed correctly this time.

But Liu Jinbao asked those villagers to cut down trees, but these guys disobeyed, and the speed of cutting down trees was really not as good as that of the old woman.

Liu Jinbao also knew that these people were deliberate, and he still had a grudge against him in his heart, but it didn't matter, he had a way to deal with these guys.

Subsequently, Liu Jinbao issued a new order, the village that cut down more trees in the morning, the village at noon food with meat, the village with the least cut down trees, lunch halved.

I have to say that Liu Jinbao's hand is enough, and the food is in his hands, this is how he handles these villagers.

Sure enough, as soon as his order was issued, the speed at which those villagers cut down trees increased significantly.

"Big boss, now the enemy's morale is in a low period, otherwise let me take the scout team out and mix and mix for them, I can't let them swagger there to cut down trees and build siege equipment so easily!"

Zhou Dazhu accompanied Li Zixiao to stand on the wall, looking at Liu Jinbao in the distance and sending people to cut down trees everywhere to build offensive equipment, Zhou Dazhu said unwillingly.

"Dazhu, don't worry, it's not time yet, when the time comes, I will let you take someone out to kill you, did Wei Hong send a message back." Li Zixiao appeased Zhou Dazhu, and then asked.

"Brother Wei Hong just came over this morning, and they have been lurking in the mountains and forests ten miles to the southwest, near the road into the mountain, and have found the grain we have hidden there in advance.

Yesterday, when they sneaked out of the city in disguise, they were chased and killed by those officers and soldiers and cavalry, but fortunately, the large number of homeless people provided cover for them, and the number of officers and soldiers and cavalry was small, but they lost three people.

Now they are lurking there, guarding the only passage into the mountain, and they can intercept the Cai family's grain transport team entering the mountain at any time. ”

"Well, Wei Hong did a good job, the loss of three people is still acceptable, as long as Wei acts according to the plan. We can't afford to lose this battle, so it's right to be cautious. ”

Li Zixiao said calmly, he only wants the word 'stability' in this battle, and he doesn't want to see his family wealth accumulated so hard in this winter being lost in this battle.

In the next two days, Liu Jinbao and Li Zixiao's White Snake Village seemed to have a tacit understanding with each other, Liu Jinbao would send people to launch several waves of large-scale attacks on the cottage during the day, and Li Zixiao also sent people to beat gongs and drums to carry out several night attacks at night.

This time, Liu Jinbao learned to be obedient and attacked the village step by step, but unfortunately the strong attack for two consecutive days was beaten back, and dozens of Xiangyong and more than a dozen officers and soldiers were killed and wounded in vain.

Of course, on the other hand, Li Zixiao's night attack was actually fake, that is, the officers and soldiers who deliberately disturbed the villagers couldn't sleep, and it was true that they would have no energy to attack the village tomorrow.

In fact, Li Zixiao has another thought, that is, he deliberately sent people out of the village for two consecutive nights to attack, that is, just beating gongs and drums, and the movement was quite big, but no one was seen to attack.

On the evening of the third day, when Li Zixiao sent people out to beat gongs and drums, every officer and soldier and villager in Liu Jinbao's camp paid attention to it, and this trick of 'the wolf is coming' has been seen through by Liu Jinbao and them.

During the day on the third day, on this day, Liu Jinbao brought out artillery, muskets, and archers to suppress the fire on the wall of the cottage, and once let his officers and soldiers and Xiangyong almost occupy the wall.

In the end, Zhou Dazhu took his team of soldiers to personally support the wall, and only then did he repel the enemy's attack.

On this day, Li Zixiao's recruits lost more than 30 people, and the soldiers lost three dead and six wounded, which can be said to be the worst day of casualties in the four days since the war began.

However, Liu Jinbao's side was not comfortable, and the continuous attacks made his officers and soldiers suffer a lot of losses, and the villagers of those villages suffered heavy casualties, and even many of the housekeepers of each village had already given birth to the intention of retreating.

And Li Zixiao suffered such a big loss, of course he wanted to take revenge, he was planning to launch a night attack to completely defeat this group of officers and soldiers and Xiangyong, which is why he staged the story of 'the wolf is coming'.

It was to relax Liu Jinbao's vigilance, and the time of the night attack was set on the night of the fourth day, and the reason why this day was chosen was also particular.

In addition to Li Zixiao's use of the 'wolf coming' method to make Liu Jinbao and other officers and soldiers relax their vigilance, more importantly, there would be rain that night, and the enemy's artillery and muskets could not be used.

In addition to Li Zixiao's use of the 'wolf coming' method to make Liu Jinbao and other officers and soldiers relax their vigilance, more importantly, there would be rain that night, and the enemy's artillery and muskets could not be used.