Chapter 349: Operation Decapitation
In the vast night, dozens of young people dressed in black are walking through the hills and fields of Fuping County. They are cautious but also fast, and often take advantage of the terrain to hide their bodies in the dark. Although dozens of people marched together, there was no sound, not even a single cough.
They are Zhu Youzhen's newly built special combat team, that is, special forces. The captain is the hero Yan Ling, the vice captain is Xie Sheng, and ten of the members are veterans of the Qi family army with strong martial arts, and the remaining forty are also one of the best in the Qin soldiers.
Due to the special nature of the mission, their equipment was significantly different from that of ordinary Qin soldiers. They did not have war horses, because horses, although they were highly mobile, were also prone to show their tracks; They were also not equipped with firearms, as none of the guns in this time and space had a silencing function; They don't even have leather armor, because they will never fight the enemy head-on, and any armor is a burden!
Their standard equipment consisted of a night suit, a single knife painted black on a scabbard, a sharp dagger in his arms, and a short bow and ten short arrows. Such equipment obviously does not play much role on the frontal battlefield, and it is not as good as a spear. But for the task that the special forces are going to perform, these equipment are perfectly suitable.
Tonight they have only one mission, which is to "decapitate", that is, to attack and kill the enemy generals!
Soon, they quietly approached Meijiaping Town, where Gao Jie was originally stationed. Sure enough, as Zhu Youzhen expected, another group of thieves had reoccupied the town, led by a general named Ma Shiyao, who was a partial general under Li Zicheng.
It turned out that although Gao Jie didn't say hello and directly parted ways with Li Zi, the thieves under him were not all with him. Some of them were closer to Li Zicheng, so they deliberately fell behind and hurriedly returned to Fuping County to report the news.
Li Zicheng was really furious when he heard the report, and deeply regretted that he did not start early and cut Gao Jie to the roots. As for the report that several members of Gao Jie's troops would be defeated by unknown officers and soldiers, Li Zicheng was angry and didn't take it to heart, thinking that Gao Jie did it on purpose, just to find an excuse to break out of the camp.
Anyone who is cuckolded will not be happy, and this is even more true of the generation of heroes Li Zicheng. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, first stripped Xing naked and beat him half to death, and then immediately gathered his generals, planning to raise troops to pursue Gao Jie overnight.
But the generals had their own ideas. Like Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Hao Shaoqi, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Fangliang and others, they all know that Gao Jie's combat effectiveness is very strong, and he ranks first in the camp. If Li Zicheng sent himself to chase after him, he might not be able to defeat Gao Jie, and if he didn't do it, he would use up his strength, so he was silent.
And Li Guo and Gao Yigong, who are Li Zicheng's descendants, are actually related to Gao Jie, and their subordinates on both sides are also inextricably linked, so they are not willing to fight for their lives.
Li Zicheng saw that these generals were in a state of interest, so he had no choice but to order the inferior generals to go on the expedition. These generals include Gu Kecheng, Ma Shiyao, Liu Tichun, Liu Rukui, Li You, etc., and each of them has three or four hundred people who can fight.
These people are very active, because Gao Jie is arrogant and domineering in the camp on weekdays, and often bullies them as partial generals, and everyone has long been very dissatisfied with him. And they don't have a high status in the camp now, and they are a big step behind Liu Zongmin and other generals; If Gao Jie can be captured this time, it will be a great achievement, and maybe he will be on an equal footing with those generals.
Therefore, everyone was ordered to immediately gather their troops and horses and kill in the northwest direction. But they didn't know exactly where Gao Jie was going, so they only scored a few roads, hundreds of people on each road, separated by miles from each other, to conduct a dragnet investigation.
But because of the rapid nightfall, most of the people of this age were blind due to malnutrition, and these thieves were no exception. I couldn't even see the road, and how could I pursue and fight, so all the generals found a village to rest, intending to wait for dawn to continue the pursuit.
Among them, Ma Shiyao is the most clever and occupies the largest Meijiaping Town. Although this place has been looted by Gao Jie once, after all, the population is large, Ma Shiyao looted it again, and captured a lot of gold and silver, and he couldn't help but smile with joy.
After eating and drinking, Ma Shiyao spent the night at the house of the richest man in the town. The rich man had already been killed by Gao Jie, leaving only his wife and daughter who had been raped many times. Ma Shiyao was also polite and pulled them to bed again. The soldiers who were letting off the wind outside listened to the movements inside, and no one coveted it, so they also went to the houses to commit crimes. Only the thieves who were in charge of guarding outside the town did not dare to leave their posts without permission, so they had to secretly call them unlucky.
At this moment, Zhu Youzhen's special combat team approached Meijiaping unconsciously. It was silent now, the lights in the town had been extinguished, except for the occasional woman's cry wafting from a certain room.
Yan Ling and Xie Sheng observed carefully, and found that there were only seven or eight thieves guarding the west end of the town, and two of them were sitting around the campfire, chatting with each other; The rest of them lay down on the ground and fell asleep, and there were no fixed or mobile posts nearby.
Yan Ling saw that there was an opportunity, and immediately waved his hand at Xie Sheng, which meant: "Action!" ”
Xie Shenghui immediately led seven or eight special combat team members, unloaded the excess equipment on their bodies, only pouted with daggers, and began to crawl forward from the stealth place. Since the bonfire could only illuminate a small part of the vicinity, and the place that could not be illuminated would appear darker due to the contrast of light, the two rogues did not notice it at all.
The distance between the special combat team members and the thieves is getting closer and closer, and the speed of Xie Sheng and the others is getting slower and slower. It wasn't until they were less than ten paces away that they jumped up and rushed towards the thieves like lightning.
"Ahh And the sleeping thieves, before they could react, were stuffed with rags in their mouths and tied up firmly.
Xie Sheng succeeded in the blow, and immediately ordered several special combat team members to pretend to be thieves and chat there. Even if a thief could see it from a distance, he couldn't see anything unusual here.
The rest of the team took a few prisoners and returned to Yan Ling's side. Yan Ling immediately interrogated them separately, and asked only one question: Where is the bandit leader in the house?
Several thieves dared to be stubborn at this time, and confessed one after another. But four of them were talking about the same house, and the other two were still playing tricks and talking about a different place. The confessions of several people are a pair, and it is clear that those four people are telling the truth.
At this time, the two lying thieves knew that they couldn't help but look like ashes. And the four relatively honest thieves secretly rejoiced, thinking that if they confessed truthfully, they would have to be treated slightly better than those two.
Unexpectedly, Yan Ling didn't have any expression at all, just gestured with his hand on his neck. The special combat team members understood and immediately covered the mouths of the six thieves. The cold light is over, the blood is spraying wildly, whether it is telling the truth or not, it will be reimbursed together!
After dealing with these people, Yan Ling simply said neatly: "Xie Sheng, you lead the second group to guard in place and prepare to respond; One group, follow me into town! ”