I want to be emperor

Chapter 58 The thief who is more like an officer than an officer
Whether Huang Guangmao or Wang Jida had been watching the large-scale attack of the Ming army just now.

The more they looked at it, the more they frowned.

"These thieves are not easy to deal with!" Huang Guangmao seemed to be talking to himself, but he actually said this to Wang Jida who was next to him.

Although the front attack failed, Huang Guangmao was very saddened by the loss of the twenty soldiers, but now Huang Guangmao was even more afraid that Wang Jida would ignore him and continue to force him to attack.

If he really wanted to do this, the soldiers under his hands would suffer a lot of casualties.

However, to Huang Guangmao's surprise, Wang Jida did not rush to urge Huang Guangmao to launch the next round of attack.

Wang Jida is not a fool either, he almost forced Huang Guangmao to launch an attack before, although there was a factor of not caring about the lives of the soldiers, but he also thought that although the rogue on the other side was not simple, the possibility of being an old thief was very high, but He firmly believed that as long as his own officers and soldiers rushed up, even the elite old thieves on the opposite side should not be able to resist.

After all, what Wang Jida wanted was victory, even if it was just a miserable victory.

But he didn't want to see his side lose.

Of course he won't be responsible for the defeat, but the credit is gone, which is also tantamount to a big loss.

The large-scale attack arranged by Huang Guangmao before can be regarded as a general attack, and at least [-] county warriors and a hundred or so soldiers were invested.

The attack was still launched from three directions at the same time, and finally on the left hillside, the soldiers still launched the attack after the county brave died and wounded, and finally lost a third of the army before being defeated.

Even if Wang Jida didn't know anything about military affairs, he knew that Huang Guangmao didn't deliberately slacken the fight.

However, if he still suffered heavy losses and was unable to fight without intentionally slacking off, then Wang Jida had to consider that the gangsters in front of him were really not easy to chew on.

After thinking about it a lot in his mind, Wang Jida frowned slightly and said, "These thieves are indeed unusual."

He doesn't know much about military affairs, but he has seen quite a few bandit troops. He personally experienced the ambush of Ta Tianhu's bandits a while ago, so he can tell how strong or weak the bandit army is.

"Huang Dusi, in your opinion, how can we bring down this Songshan Mountain?"

After hearing this, Huang Guangmao withdrew the store and burst into tears...

Nima, you finally remembered that I was a professional fighter, so I thought of asking for my opinion instead of directly forcing me to launch a strong attack.

Huang Guangmao, who had a lot of feelings in his heart, said: "The Songshan bandit army is well defended, not only with artillery to help out, but also a large number of archers. If we continue to attack head-on, I'm afraid it will fail."

"The only plan for now is to suspend the frontal attack. I'm going to send people to make a detour to see if we can find other trails into the mountain. As long as we find other trails and detour to go in, we can make them suffer from the enemy!"

"At that time, let none of them run away."

Huang Guangmao still remembered what Wang Jida was most concerned about. This person just wanted the head of the Songshan thief on the opposite side. It was impossible to satisfy this person by simply repelling the opposite thief.

But if you can double-team the opposite bandit army, you will be able to keep most of the bandit army with a high probability, so you can get a lot of thief heads.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Wang Jida relaxed his frown.

"That's what Huang Dusi said."

Huang Guangmao was naturally happy with Wang Jida's attitude.

As long as Wang Jida doesn't interfere with his command of operations, Huang Guangmao is willing to pretend to be submissive, and will even take as many thieves' heads as possible in the future to Wang Jida as capital for promotion.

In any case, the Wang Jida in front of him is the honor of a county who was born as a Jinshi of the Eight Classics, and he may continue to be promoted in the future.

If such a person is not absolutely necessary, he should not offend him if he can, and on the contrary, he still wants to please one or two.

Without Wang Jida's interference, Huang Guangmao also showed the basic qualities of a battle-hardened veteran general.

They also asked people to arrange a second round of strong attack. Instead, they sent people to the surrounding area to cut trees to prepare for the deployment of camps. At the same time, they sent people into the mountain from both sides to find possible paths into the mountain.

During the period, he also commanded the Ming army to fight a wave of small counterattacks.

That is to say, Luo Zhixue ordered Lin Dongsheng to try to snatch back the three cannons left by the Ming army on the battlefield. After Huang Guangmao noticed this situation, he decisively arranged for the archers to rush forward, and carried out the shooting outside the range of the cannons of Baoxiangying. Projectile attack.

The right army led by Lin Dongsheng himself killed or injured five or six people, and failed to bring back the three cannons. The artillery carriages of the two artillery pieces fell apart directly.

Now it's all right, no one can take these three cannons back and use them under the threat of the opponent's long-range firepower.

Except for this small-scale battle, there were no new battles between the two sides that day.

Until the evening, Luo Zhixue got a report from the sentry, saying that there were many small-scale enemy troops going to the two sides, and it seemed that they wanted to search for other ways to enter the mountain.

"It seems that these Ming soldiers are still determined!" After Luo Zhixue learned of this situation, he immediately called Wang Xiazi: "You arrange a small team to go there and hunt down these Ming army sentries one by one."

Seeing that the frontal attack was unsuccessful, the enemy wanted to take a detour, which was also within Luo Zhixue's previous prediction.

In fact, several surrounding roads suitable for small-scale enemies to enter the mountain are already under their control, and checkpoints have also been set up in some critical places.

It is not much more difficult for the enemy's small-scale troops to come from these places than to attack frontally. As for large-scale troops, it is impossible.

There are high mountains and dense forests on both sides, and small-scale enemies can still walk, but hundreds of thousands of troops can't walk these roads at all.

Ever since, in the next few days, Wang Xiazi arranged several groups of elite teams to hunt and kill the small-scale troops of the Ming army who entered the mountain one by one.

On the third day, Wang Xiazi personally led a team to ambush a group of more than 20 Ming soldiers, killing and wounding more than ten Ming soldiers on the spot during the ambush.

After several small-scale battles, the Ming army still failed to find a trail suitable for entering the mountain, but the sentry sent out was ambushed many times, resulting in a lot of casualties.

"In the past few days, more than 30 people have been killed or injured, and the number of casualties is already more than that of the frontal attack on the first day."

Huang Guangmao's confidant said with a worried look: "Now the enemy is in the dark and we are in the dark, so that they frequently ambushes our people, Du Si, we can't go on like this."

Hearing what his confidant said, Huang Guangmao was also very helpless.

The rogues at the front were harder to fight than they had imagined. It didn't matter that the front line of defense was strong, but there were still a large number of elite soldiers ambushing the team he sent out to try to take a detour into the mountain.

And no matter from the strong attack on the first day or the small-scale battles in the next few days, I dare not use bows and arrows to ambush or close combat. Smoother than these officers and soldiers.

For example, when Wang Xiazi personally led the team to ambush the Ming army's entering the mountain team, they used the formal mandarin duck formation in close combat. On the contrary, the officers and soldiers panicked when they were approached, and they fought without any rules. And then suffered heavy casualties.

People who don't know this saw it, and thought it was officers and soldiers fighting thieves... the ones on the opposite side were officers and soldiers...

"Damn, where did these thieves come from?" Huang Guangmao was in a very upset mood now, and he was even more puzzled.

He has seen a lot of rogues, but he has never seen a rogue who is so elite, and whose various tactics are smoother than officers and soldiers...

He didn't know at all that the gang of thieves in Songshan had more than 60 Yulin frontier cavalry at their core.

These Yulin frontier army cavalry were considered first-class elites in the battle order of the Ming army before, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than Huang Guangmao's battalion sentry in the hinterland.

Later, even if they mutinied and became rebels, and now they are entrenched in Funiu Mountain, these people still retain the same set of things as the frontier army at that time, not only the cavalry from the original 60th multilateral army, but also their follow-up recruitment. The soldiers of the mountain people also trained and fought according to this set of things.

After all, Sun Jiancheng, Wang Xiazi, Lin Dongsheng, Wang Dazhuang, Xu He and others were originally from the Yulin Frontier Army. Whether they were fighting or training, they knew how to play officers and soldiers.

You really let them play serious thieves, they don't know how to...

And after they settled in Sanshui Village, Funiu Mountain, because the food was relatively sufficient, and Luo Zhixue paid more attention to daily training such as physical fitness and formation, the overall training intensity of the Baoxiang Camp was actually higher than that of the frontier army.

In this way, the scene Huang Guangmao saw appeared.

I always feel that I don't play like a thief...

And it made him think for a while that the ones fighting him were not some thieves, but officers and soldiers, and they were the elite of the officers and soldiers...

Although he was helpless and puzzled, Huang Guangmao had no other good solution but to suspend the dispatch of the team and take a detour.

The team of other thieves is more elite than their own, and the enemy is in the dark, and they continue to send teams to try to detour into the mountains to continue delivering food.

If he didn't send a team to attack and try to detour, and didn't fight head-on, but just stayed in the camp every day, Wang Jida would have a problem.

Since the failure of the first general attack, Wang Jida kept his mouth shut for several consecutive days, never questioning Huang Guangmao's formation, let alone objecting.

Originally, Wang Jida thought that after Huang Guangmao used this series of tricks, it would not take long to cut off the enemy's retreat and double-team the bandit army.

But I didn't expect that three days had passed, not only did the detour succeed in double-teaming, but also killed or injured 30 people on our side.

The most important thing is that Huang Guangmao stopped all actions and stayed in the camp.

In Wang Jida's view, it doesn't matter how you fight, if you want to fight anyway, how can you just hide in the camp without doing anything.

Damn it, winter is coming soon, is it possible that the official will accompany you to watch the snow in the mountains...

(End of this chapter)