Chapter 190: Deal with it calmly
According to Chen Xiaoshan's instructions, Guo Tai led more than 40 cavalry and five carriages to hurry on his way, and finally arrived at the foot of Scorpion Mountain.
From Dengzhou to here, this official road naturally has a fork. Following the official road and going eastward, you will directly reach Yantai, the easternmost end of Shandong; and turning right along the official road and walking southward, you will pass Longkou and enter the meeting place agreed by Chen Xiaoshan and Liu Rongsheng Zhaoyuan.
Guo Taile's horse slowly stopped the horse's speed and said loudly to Niu'er and the soldiers of the hunting enemy, "Brothers, please stop for the time being, waiting for Chentouer and the brothers who come to help the Zhenshan Camp."
Most of the soldiers of the enemy hunting personnel were tenacious and silent people. Knowing that they might face the pursuit of the officers and soldiers from Dengzhou camp, they took this opportunity to jump off the war horses, unload the food bags from the horses, and grabbed a large handful of soybeans to feed the war horses. They patted the war horses' foreheads from time to time, and fed the soldiers' arms intimately, and then lowered their heads to continue eating the soybeans in the hands of the soldiers of the enemy hunting personnel.
Guo Tai and Niu Er still jumped off the war horses and fed their respective war horses. Both of them looked a little anxious, and their eyes glanced at the way they came from time to time, waiting for the arrival of Chen Xiaoshan and the soldiers of Zhenshan Camp.
Starting from the foot of Scorpion Mountain on the south side of the intersection of this official road, black pine, larch and other trees are covered with trees. The entire Scorpion Mountain is covered with pine forests. Hundreds or thousands of people hide in this forest area. It is difficult to find passing outside!
The bird gun soldiers in Zhenshan camp were more than one mile away from Guo Tai and others to rest. Chen Xiaoshan rode his horse and quickly returned to the team of the enemy hunting department. Guo Tai and Niu Er immediately surrounded him.
Chen Xiaoshan jumped off the war horse and handed the reins to the soldiers of the hunting enemy soldiers beside him, and he helped feed the war horses.
Chen Xiaoshan looked at Guo Tai who was surrounding him with a calm face. Niu Er said: "We are most worried about the Dengzhou Camp sending troops to pursue him. Now it seems that this situation is still inevitable. Although the commander sent the bird gun soldiers of Zhenshan Camp to support him, the Dengzhou Camp will send many soldiers and what kind of troops to chase him. We don't know, but we can't wait for the other party to come to us before retaliating. We must start retaliating from now on."
Guo Tai and Niu Er were all confused when they heard it. The officers and soldiers of Dengzhou Camp had not appeared yet, so how could they fight back!
Chen Xiaoshan explained: "It is better to fight back than to wait until the enemy comes. We know that the other party is coming to pursue, so we can set up obstacles on the road that the opponent must pass, such as scattering the caltrops prepared by our enemy hunting department on the official road, and we can walk on some small pits. In this way, no matter whether the officers and soldiers who are chasing are cavalry or infantry, they can cause some damage to them. Delaying the pursuit time is all our enemy hunting department's specialty."
Guo Tai clapped his hands and said, "That's what it should be. No matter where the officers and soldiers dare to challenge our Huluyan, I will not let him have a good time! Boss, leave this matter to me, Lao Guo, to ensure that I will teach you an unforgettable lesson to the people who are pursuing our Dengzhou camp."
Chen Xiaoshan said, "Leave this matter to Niu'er. Niu'er, please bring a few brothers to the back of the official road to meet Jiang Yu, and Lao Wu handle the matter. Remember to find the traces of the other party's pursuers, come back and report immediately, go quickly!"
Send Niu'er away, and turn to Guo Tai and say, "Old Guo, what you said to foreign craftsmen just now reminded me. These foreign craftsmen are all stubborn. In order to bring them back to Huluyan smoothly, they have to aggrieved them!"
Guo Tai was thinking quickly and said, "The head means to abandon the carriage in order to speed up the speed of progress, and let these foreign craftsmen follow us on horseback!"
Feng Jian nodded and said, "To be precise, put these foreigners on the back of the horse. Wait until we get out of danger before letting them sit back on the carriage."
Guo Tai is not a kind-hearted person, and he doesn't think anything wrong with Chen Xiaoshan's decision. He doesn't care about how much resentment these foreign craftsmen will have towards them in the future, and of course he won't feel sorry for how much hardship these foreign craftsmen will suffer when they are tied up on horseback!
Guo Tai turned his eyes and said, "Now there is a fork on the official road. One goes straight toward Yantai, one turns right toward Longkou, and Zhaoyuan. The leader asks foreign craftsmen to follow the war horses. Could it be that they want to use these vacant carriages?"
Chen Xiaoshan said: "Yes, I just use these vacant carriages to lead the pursuers astray and force them to separate their troops here."
Chen Xiaoshan looked at the soldiers hunting enemy Si who were feeding war horses and continued: "I plan to divide the troops into two groups, one by twenty brothers, one by the five carriages leading straight and continue to move towards Yantai. The other by twenty brothers riding horses and carrying fifteen foreign craftsmen turned right, heading towards Longkou, and Zhaoyuan. When the pursuers arrived here, they would definitely not guess where we were carrying foreign craftsmen, so it was inevitable that they would be able to divide the troops and chase them."
Guo Tai rolled his eyes and asked, "The carriage is moving slowly. The officers and soldiers of Dengzhou camp who are chasing will soon find that they are deceived and will inevitably turn around and chase back. What should we do then?"
Chen Xiaoshan said: "Have you forgotten that there are the bird gun soldiers in Zhenshan camp? I am going to ask the bird gun soldiers in Zhenshan camp to ambush this pine forest. The Dengzhou soldiers who were chasing towards Yantai found that they were deceived and must return along the original road. When the official army of this route passed through the pine forest at the foot of Scorpion Mountain again, the bird gun soldiers in Zhenshan camp hid in the forest to launch a raid. Taking advantage of the panic of the Dengzhou soldiers, the twenty brothers who led the carriage to go through Yantai immediately covered the enemy and killed them from behind, and tried to disrupt the deployment of the Dengzhou soldiers, and asked them to send people to recall the pursuers in Longkou and Zhaoyuan. When the officers and soldiers of this route returned to the rescue, our enemy hunting officers and soldiers in the rescue can play the advantages of their own cavalry and counterattack the officers and soldiers returning to the rescue, and cover the brothers of the enemy hunting officers and soldiers in Longkou and Zhaoyuan in the pine forest to evacuate."
Guo Tai said: "What should we do if the Dengzhou military camp sent too many people?"
"If the Dengzhou military camp sends a large number of troops to pursue, then we can only turn around and flee, and the bird gun soldiers in Zhenshan camp can only hide in the pine forest and cannot act rashly. However, I think the Dengzhou camp is mainly guarding against Kong Youde's rebellion soldiers now, and there is little possibility of a large number of troops chasing them."
After saying this, Guo Tai and Chen Xiaoshan said to Chen Xiaoshan with a rare serious expression: "Boss, this time I will hand over the mission of leading the carriage to lure the enemy. I won't say much. I just want Chen Tie to know that Guo Tai is not the one who winces when he was mowing the mountain."
Chen Xiaoshan said: "I know that after you, Lao Guo, joined my enemy hunting department, is no longer the person who is hesitant and afraid of death when encountering problems. However, your and Niu'er's task is to supervise the fifteen foreign craftsmen and properly escort them to Huluyan. Leave the task of seducing the enemy here to complete."
Seeing that Guo Tai was tampering with his neck and still having to argue, Chen Xiaoshan said heavily: "Old Guo, the first priority of our discipline in the hunting of enemies is to obey orders. Now is the time of crisis, don't argue!"
Guo Tai immediately turned around and said, "How dare Guo Tai not follow the discipline of the enemy hunting department, let alone the orders of the cuckold."
"Okay, start preparing now!"
The two had just discussed it, and Yang Bashi led the bird gun soldiers in Zhenshan Camp to the intersection. Chen Xiaoshan briefly explained the plan agreed upon to Yang Bashi.
Yang Bashi asked in detail about the countermeasures that the bird gun soldiers in Zhenshan camp should take when facing the enemy, as well as the methods to echo Chen Xiaoshan's hunting officer.
Yang Bashi did not immediately lead the 100 bird gun soldiers under Li to hide into the pine forest, but stood on the official road and walked back and forth, visualizing the distance from the opposite pine forest to the official road.
Yang Bashi walked back and forth on the official road, muttering something, and soon said to Chen Xiaoshan: "Master Chen, the official road here is between ninety and one hundred steps away from the opposite pine forest. The invading official army is about five hundred steps away from entering to leaving the range of my bird gun soldiers. If the cavalry passes by, my bird gun soldiers can probably carry three rounds. If the soldiers pass by here, my bird gun soldiers can carry at least five rounds. Because there is no cover from the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen, the evacuation time will be left after the promotion is completed, so my bird gun soldiers will be powerless to do anything in the subsequent battle!"
Chen Xiaoshan looked at Yang Bashi. He was like himself. The farmers who only knew how to dig food in the field more than a year ago have become the best in their own fields after just over a year. Everything seems like a dream!
Yang Bashi coughed and woke up Chen Xiaoshan who was a little tragic. "What else does Director Chen have to explain? Bashi is ready to lead his bird gun soldiers to find a place to hide."
Chen Xiaoshan thought about what Yang Bashi said just now, and felt that Yang Bashi had already thought about the advance and retreat of the bird gun soldiers very thoughtfully and meticulously, and there was no need for him to give any instructions.
Chen Xiaoshan looked at Yang Bashi and said, "How to arrange the internal tactics of the Eighty Brothers Bird Gunsmen, it is up to you to decide. I only ask for one thing, that is, to kill as much as possible invading enemies!"
Seeing Yang Bashi nodding, he continued to instruct: "Don't leave traces between the pine forest and the official road. You take a detour into the pine forest and ambush to avoid arousing suspicion of the pursuers in Dengzhou!"
Chen Xiaoshan nodded and said, "Don't worry about this, Manager Chen, I have made a decision."
He pointed his hand at the official road towards Longkou Zhaoyuan and said to Chen Xiaoshan: "My Zhenshan Camp Bird Gunsmen plan to walk along this official road and enter the pine forest. Doing so will not attract the attention of pursuers chasing Yantai. Enter the pine forest and then turn to the fork direction."
Chen Xiaoshan, Guo Tai, and Yang Bashi made a plan, and Yang Bashi took the lead in leading the bird gun soldiers in Zhenshan camp to disappear from everyone's sight.
Immediately after a burst of shouting, threatening and cursing, fifteen foreign craftsmen were taken out of their carriages and placed on the horses of the fifteen soldiers hunting the enemy and tied them with ropes. As Guo Tai shouted, he quickly headed towards the dragon's mouth and Zhaoyuan's official road.
A soldier from the Hunting Office went to inform Niu'er, Jiang Yu and others. The remaining more than 20 soldiers from the Hunting Office led and drove five carriages straight towards Yantai.
Chapter completed!