Chapter 11 Fighting with the enemy and the system
Zhang Zhi overestimated the patience and tolerance of Mo Zhu and others. In fact, after leading the rebels to withdraw back to the camp with dejectedly, Mo Zhu, He Zhong and Lu Ji, the three rebel leaders, not only had the idea of retreating and returning to the camp early, but also planned to retreat with the army that day and retreated to the Mawei area to confront the Han army.
However, this is not surprising. After experiencing the siege war that day, the three tribe leaders of Wu Lian, who had always bullied the little surname Wu Lian, finally understood how difficult it was to attack a county-level city, and how fragile and powerless they used to attack other villages were in front of the rammed earth walls of Wu Lian County. They could not see any hope of breaking the city, and were reluctant to use precious population consumption. In addition, the food could not be supported for a few days, Mo Zhu and others naturally had the intention to withdraw their troops.
After some discussion, this plan quickly became a unified opinion. Mo Zhu, He Zhong and Lu Ji all thought there was no need to fight hard. They all thought that they should retreat as soon as possible to preserve their strength. When the troops sent troops to attack Wu Lian, they would bring rebels to help, take revenge and get the bargain, and then they began to discuss when to withdraw.
Mo Zhu once advocated that he would withdraw his troops and leave the city of Wulian on the same day. The reason was very simple and he had enough time. He immediately gave up the camp and retreated south with a small amount of military supplies. He walked out for about twenty miles that day and was far away from the city wall of Wulian on the same day. This would undoubtedly be more beneficial to the security of the rebels.
He Zhong and Lu Ji believed that they should rest overnight before leaving. The reason was also very simple. During the siege, the rebel soldiers under their command not only suffered serious physical strength and needed rest urgently, but also had many wounded soldiers who needed time to treat them. Leaving the wounded immediately would naturally increase the difficulty of the wounded soldiers. In addition, it would take a daytime journey from Wulian to Mawei. The next morning, and the next day, and back to Mawei in the evening, was stronger than sleeping on the road and walking again.
Perhaps it is really a bit of military talent. Although the proposals of He Zhong and Lu Ji are also very reasonable, Mo Zhu, who has read half of the book "The Art of War", always feels that some of them are inappropriate. For safety reasons, some people still want to insist on withdrawing the troops immediately and stay away from Wuguan's army as soon as possible. They also argued with He Zhong and Lu Ji for this.
As a result, at this moment, more than a dozen rebel prisoners who were forced to leave the city by Zhang Zhi happened to return to the rebel camp and return to the team.
More than a dozen prisoners were actually forced to return to the camp by the three better-dressed prisoners. After returning to the camp, the three prisoners who were close to Mo Zhu and He Zhong also reported all the situations of Zhang Zhi's request to return to the camp to instigate relatives and friends to surrender to the three major rebel leaders. After hearing this, Mo Zhu and others were naturally furious. In addition to snatching all the instant noodles received by the dozen prisoners, they also ordered them to close their mouths and threatened that if they dared to say half of the words that shake the morale of the army, they would cut off their hands and feet and throw them into the mountains to feed the wolf!
In addition, Mo Zhu naturally had to ask the three prisoners about other situations in the city. The three prisoners also reported truthfully, saying that they did not lend the people to help the Han army defend the city. The Han army had sufficient stones to defend the city and piled up like mountains inside the city walls. However, the Han army lacked military strength and equipment were not much different from the rebels, and it might even be even worse. During this period, a prisoner remembered an important thing and hurriedly said, "Clan leader, by the way, there is another thing. Zhang Zhi'er also issued an order to the official army to defend the city with all their might tonight, and no one was allowed to leave the city privately."
"Is there such a thing?" Mo Zhu became interested and hurriedly ordered: "Tell me specifically, what is the situation?"
The three prisoners reported truthfully, and passed by Zhang Zhi before and after the orders issued by them, and told Mo Zhu, He Zhong and others in detail. Mo Zhu quietly breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and then asked about other situations of Wu Lian's guards. Then he waved to the three prisoners and said, "Everyone will give you a pack of instant noodles, go back and rest."
"Only one pack?"
The three prisoners who thought they could save all instant noodles were all complaining, but they did not dare to disobey Mo Zhu's orders, so they had to curse Mo Zhu's stinginess and greed, and left dejectedly. As a result, they had just left, and He Zhong, who had previously advocated withdrawing the next day, said: "Brother Mo, is there no problem now? Zhang Zhi's son is afraid that we have too many soldiers and will not allow any official army to leave the city. We can rest here for a night of peace and retreat to Mawei tomorrow morning, right?"
"Yes, Brother Mo, let's leave tomorrow morning." Lu Ji also said: "We have too many wounded soldiers, and the soldiers participating in the war are very tired. Even if we leave now, we can't walk much far today. It's better to leave tomorrow morning and get home tomorrow afternoon, so that we can rest at night."
Seeing that two relatives and allies insisted, and seeing that Zhang Zhi was afraid of his own army's power, he issued an order to strictly prohibit the defenders from leaving the city, Mo Zhu changed his mind and nodded and said, "Okay, since both brothers think they should leave tomorrow, we will rest for a night before leaving. But I have to say first, and we must leave tomorrow morning, so we can no longer delay or waste time."
He Zhong and Lu Ji nodded together and said yes, and then quickly issued orders with Mo Zhu, asking the rebel soldiers who were in charge to load military supplies as early as possible, prepare for departure and retreat the next morning, and at the same time, they made every effort to treat the wounded and protect the population and labor force.
On the evening of that day, the three rebel giants gathered together for a full meal of instant noodles. While cursing the stubborn resistance of the Wulian Han army, they vowed to make a comeback and cooperate with the soldiers of the Jike County who had to go south to suppress the rebellion to attack Wulian County to take revenge. Then when it was dark, Mo Zhu and others returned to their simple tents to sleep. The rebel soldiers who had already learned the news of the retreat also rested with peace of mind and waited to set off to return to the village the next morning.
Of course, the Wulian Han army hoped that the rebels would sleep as much as possible. The second round was just halfway through. The south gate of Wulian, who had been closed for a long time, secretly opened. Under the leadership of a Han army's old governor, more than fifty carefully selected strong soldiers left the city first. They all had stones in their mouths, and each held sharp blades in their hands, and quietly assembled outside the city. Then there were two dissatisfied teams led by Zhu Xiang, and a new force led by Fu Gong. They all came out with stones and completed the assembly without turrets. A team led by Zhao Quan lined up in the moat and prepared for support and reinforcements.
After quietly completing the assembly, the Han army suicide squad set out to the south first. With the cover of the night, he carefully touched the vicinity of the rebel camp. As soon as he confirmed that the subsequent troops had been in place, he immediately dispatched people to step forward. He first secretly moved away several bamboo antlers in front of the rebel camp, and then touched the rebel camp gate, and tried his best to slash the simple bamboo gate of the rebel camp.
Finally, after the warriors of the Han army suicide squad broke the bamboo bolts at the camp gate, the rebel soldiers who were leaning against the bamboo gate were awakened and jumped up and shouted, "Someone! Someone outside!"
There was no suspense. The Han army suicide squad, who had eaten fried instant noodles, shouted at one after another, and knocked open the bamboo gate and raised his sword to enter the camp. First, he quickly cut down the rebel soldiers guarding the gate, and then shouted at the rebel soldiers sleeping on the ground in the open air, killing people when they saw them, and chopping the enemy when they saw them. Seeing that the surprise attack was successful, Zhao Quan, a veteran Han army general behind, quickly ordered the charge and led two dissatisfied teams to follow and kill into the enemy camp.
There was no suspense about the battle. It was originally a group of mobs, and was suddenly attacked by the Han army while sleeping soundly. The rebel soldiers who were seriously insufficient in the military tent stood up hurriedly. Of course, they could only shout and run away everywhere. During this period, they kept trampling on their companions who had no time to get up, so that some rebel soldiers who had a slow reaction were already injured and killed before they even had time to get up. The Han army suicide squad took the opportunity to slash and kill, and followed the leader's flag and rushed hard, causing chaos in the rebel camp.
Then, when Zhao Quan rushed into the rebel camp with his follow-up troops, the situation on the battlefield became a one-sided massacre. The Han soldiers who had replenished enough heat and salt were like tigers down the mountain. They waved hard until this afternoon to replenish enough simple iron weapons, chopping and stabbing the rebel soldiers in a mess one after another, and shouting and killing soared into the sky. When Fu Gong joined the battlefield with the second follow-up reinforcements, the rebel camp was not only completely in chaos, but the Han army suicide squad had also cut down the Wei flag in the center of the rebel camp and igniting the rebel's simple central tent.
At this moment, the three giants of the rebels completely exposed their greedy and fear of death. They were awakened by the shouts of killing. They rushed out of the tent barefoot and looked out. He Zhong, who usually shouted the most cruelly, immediately ordered his personal soldiers to bring him a war horse and were ready to get on the horse and escape at any time. Lu Ji was the same. Only Mo Zhu could barely remain calm and quickly ordered the backbone members of the Mo family to gather their troops and launch a counterattack against the Han army.
In addition, Mo Zhu naturally had to roar with crazy hysteria, "What's going on? Didn't Zhang Zhi'er order that the government troops were not allowed to leave the city? Why did so many government troops come? Could it be that those people who were released by Zhang Zhi'er today were all traitors? They were all traitors who helped Zhang Zhi'er lie to me?"
Mo Zhu's dying struggle was also destined to be useless. The elite rebels composed of members of the Mo clan and slaves had already suffered heavy casualties in the daytime siege battle and were exhausted seriously. Now they are gathering together in a hurry to fight. How can they stop the prepared Han army soldiers? So before Zhao Quan and the rear army led by Fu Gong took action, the Han army's suicide squad had already defeated the backbone of the Mo family who was hurrying to meet the enemy and ignited Mo Zhu's tent.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Mo Zhu could only ride a war horse and abandon the camp and flee south before the Han army approached. He Zhong and Lu Ji fled faster and earlier. The rebels with more than 1,500 people completely collapsed. They rushed out of the camp to escape. The soldiers of the Han army took the opportunity to chase and kill them with all their might. While desperately slashing the rebel soldiers who were trying to resist, they kept shouting slogans of surrender, "Surrender will not kill! Surrender will not kill! Surrender will be eaten with noodles!"
Seeing this situation from afar on the city wall and having initially ruled that the rebels had already fled in large numbers, Zhang Zhi also ordered Zhao Quan, who was ordered to lead the army to attack and join the pursuit team to expand the results of the battle. At the same time, he kept praying, "Don't have to be too big, don't have to be too big, and you must also catch many prisoners. What I lack most now is the soldiers and population. We must capture more prisoners."
The soldiers of the Han army and the rebel soldiers did not disappoint Zhang Zhi. During the pursuit, although many rebel soldiers were indeed fleeing south for various reasons and had no time to consider surrendering to save their lives, many rebel soldiers made wise choices. They knelt down and surrendered immediately as soon as they were caught by the Han army soldiers. There were even some rebel soldiers who had luckily tasted instant noodles. After escaping for a distance, they took the initiative to look for the Han army soldiers to surrender. The Han army soldiers also kept in mind Zhang Zhi's advice and did not kill any surrender soldiers. They also sent people to take over the prisoners while shouting, "Kneel, there will be instant noodles in a while! You dare to play tricks, behead you immediately!"
Finally, the Han soldiers chased for fifteen or sixteen miles in one breath until they completely killed all the rebels who could catch up, and then stopped the pursuit. Then they tried their best to capture the lost and lonely rebel soldiers, and took the captives back to the city happily. The torches were clear, and the loud cheers continued to sound.
When it was dawn, all the prisoners who could be caught were taken back to Wulian City, with at least five or six hundred people. At the same time, the Han army was also quite neat, and there were obviously few casualties in the battle last night. Of course, Zhang Zhi was extremely happy when he saw it, and he ordered Zhang Ju early on:
"Uncle Zhang, hurry up, organize the staff and boil more water immediately. I will give me double the instant noodles this morning, and give each of our soldiers four packs! And those prisoners, each of them will give a bowl of noodles first and calm their hearts first. The people in the city will give each person two packs of instant noodles today!"
Zhang Ju, who was in charge of logistics, agreed and said: "Ming Court, if the soldiers and the people distributed them twice as much, the instant noodles in the warehouse would probably not be enough."
"It's okay, I'll take it out immediately! You organize the manpower and prepare to move the noodles."
Zhang Zhi waved his hand and quickly led his personal soldiers down the city and came to a temporary requisition of people-free houses. He asked the personal soldiers to look at the residential courtyard and not allow outsiders to peep in. He entered the room and opened the space warehouse to prepare for the noodles. As a result, after opening the space warehouse, Zhang Zhicai found that the instant noodles that the system assisted him today had not yet chosen to collect, and was floating above the table in the space warehouse.
Subconsciously stretched out his hand to press the receiving button, but when he reached halfway through, Zhang Zhi suddenly remembered something and said in his heart: "System, can you change me to instant noodles? I only eat one instant noodles every day, and my soldiers will get tired of it sooner or later."
“Can be replaced.”
The system's voice rang directly in Zhang Zhi's mind, and he said mechanically: "According to the rules, the host can apply for random draws every three days to replace the instant noodles. Today is May 26, 2017, and it is also the eighth day after the host's first random draw. It can be requested to replace it. In addition, the types of random draws that the host can also apply to purchase from this system at any time in the future, without limiting the quantity."
“Can I change it every three days?”
Originally, I just wanted to try my luck, but I never expected to get such an answer. When I heard this, Zhang Zhi was of course shocked and couldn't help but yelling in his heart like a pig, "Then didn't you say it earlier? Let me waste two opportunities to change!"
"Because the host didn't ask." The system answered very directly, saying: "Also, this system must also consider the cost of assistance. If the host leaves Dog Xiangyun and randomly wins the Unified Manhan Feast or Master Kong's Suda Noodle Restaurant, wouldn't this system suffer heavy losses? So since the host has not asked, this system is certainly unwilling to remind him."
"You are cruel enough!" Zhang Zhi raised his middle finger helplessly, and then shouted in his heart: "Hurry, I will randomly draw and replace it today!"
"The time to test the host's character is coming, please randomly draw the host."
The words and buttons for receiving instant noodles aid disappeared, turning into a translucent screen, with a draw button below, and the system said: "I sincerely wish the host luck to draw the small raccoon noodles."
"Unified Manchu and Han Dinner! Master Kong's Suda Noodle Restaurant! It's also best to have a mixed taste!"
Zhang Zhi shouted in his heart, and then he pressed heavily on the randomly drawn button. The screen above the button also randomly popped up various instant noodles. During this period, Zhang Zhi also clearly saw that among the instant noodles aid he could randomly draw, there was actually a expensive unified Manchu and Han dinner - of course, there were also raccoon noodles weighing only 40 grams per pack.
At this moment, Zhang Zhi of course closed his palms and prayed, but praying was useless. After the types of instant noodles that were jumping rapidly on the screen suddenly stopped, the one that appeared in front of Zhang Zhi was just a pack of the most ordinary and oldest style - Master Kong braised beef noodles.
That's right, it's the kind of legend that manufacturers can't use a few beefs all year round - Master Kong braised beef noodles.
Seeing this result, Zhang Zhi was of course disappointed and whined: "Master Kong braised beef noodles? This instant noodles are just a little bit better than Huafeng Sanxian Yi noodles."
"If the host wants, this system can make an exception to open a backdoor for the host." The system said in Zhang Zhi's mind: "If you use the little raccoon noodles to replace Master Kong's braised beef noodles for free, or two packs of braised beef noodles to exchange for one pack of braised beef noodles."
"You think I'm stupid?" Zhang Zhi said angrily: "No matter how bad Master Kong's braised beef noodles are, it has a net content of 100 grams in a pack, as well as palm oil and dehydrated vegetables. The little raccoon simply doesn't even have a ingredient bag. Each pack weighs only forty grams. Not to mention changing two packs, I won't change three packs and one pack!"
The system was silent for a moment, and then said: "In view of the host's calculations being too smart and insisting on increasing the high aid costs of this system, the system now sincerely hopes that when the host fails to die suddenly, he will be lucky to encounter the most painful acute myocardial infarction in the death process. The longer the pain before death, the better!"
Zhang Zhi reluctantly raised his middle finger again, and then shouted: "Hurry, bring the braised beef noodles! My soldiers have just won the battle, and I want to reward them with great success!"
The sudden appearance of braised beef noodles quickly triggered a series of interesting stories. When a bag of newly emerging braised beef noodles was distributed to the Han army soldiers who returned to the city after returning to Triumph, many Han army soldiers protested because they didn't know what it was, "What's going on? Why is this instant noodles different from what we eat in the sky? Is this instant noodles delicious? Can it be eaten?"
"Yes, yes, I just want the original instant noodles!"
"Is your conscience black? We worked hard to kill the enemy and capture prisoners, so why do we still have to deduct our food and give us such strange things?"
"I won't change it! I only eat the original instant noodles!"
Then, Zhang Zhi personally came forward to comfort him and promised that he could replace the original Huafeng Sanxian Yi noodles immediately if he didn't taste delicious. The soldiers of the Han army tore all the three packs of ingredients in a doubt, poured them into a bowl of instant noodles, and then...
"Mom! It's so delicious! It's ten thousand times better than the instant noodles we used to eat!"
"So fragrant, so fresh! There is also oil! There is also vegetables! It is more fragrant and delicious than the original one!"
"Long live the Ming court! Ming court, as long as we let us eat this new instant noodles every day, you can do whatever you ask us to do!"
"Beef! There is really beef!"
A soldier even used chopsticks to pick up diced meat in the instant noodles, which was about the size of mung beans, and shouted excitedly, "It's really beef! I've eaten beef, and this really tastes beef--!"
Chapter completed!