Xie Ming

Chapter 397 Squatting
Bahana led his troops to pursue and suppress the bandits who attacked the camp, and marched southward, intending to directly capture the small cities in Pingyuan, Linyi and Gaotang to win credit!
Li Huchen led the remaining troops and retreated, luring the enemy into deeper areas!
On the way, they were worried about Yuan Ping's safety and were unable to feel happy.

Gao Hu saw the situation and made a plan. He said he would lead a small team to go north to look for him, but was stopped by De Huchen.

"Ugh!"

"Okay, okay!"

"You, don't bother looking for her!"

"It's hard to accomplish anything with too few people, but the target will be too big if we have too many people!"

"If we are not careful, we will be caught by the Tartar soldiers chasing us and misunderstand us. The situation will be ruined and it will be even more troublesome!"

"Life and death are left to fate!"

"This time, our attack from the north is to lure the enemy deep into our territory and lead the bandits southwards!"

"It's a war, there are no such thing as immortality!"

"We only have these numbers right now, and even if we add them all up, there are no more than a hundred!"

"We are still at least 40 to 50 miles from the scheduled ambush point to the plains!"

"The enemy cavalry is powerful, and we don't know what accidents we might encounter along the way!"

"No more trouble!"

"As for Brother Yuan Ping."

"With his kung fu skills, it won't be difficult for him to escape!"

Li Huchen calmed down and thought about the overall situation, and then he came up with the correct answer.

Gao Hu, who was standing nearby, heard this and also understood what was going on, so he said no more.

at this time!

Suddenly, a scout from the north came rushing over!
"Report——"

"Report!" The sentry dismounted from his horse and knelt on one knee with his hands clasped in front of his chest.

"General!"

"A large number of enemy cavalry were spotted two miles from the rear!"

"It's rushing towards us!" said the sentry.

Upon hearing the news, Li Huchen straightened his back and pulled the reins.

The big chestnut horse under his crotch neighed as it galloped!
"Okay! Wow!"

"Damn it, it finally bites me again!"

"I've been thinking about it for so long!"

"Gao Hu!" He turned around and greeted him promptly.

"Let's go! Pass the order down, gather all the troops and speed up, hook up these Tartar soldiers, and quickly head south!"

"Move toward the designated ambush circle in Pingyuan County!"

"Hurry! Go!" Hu Chen ordered urgently.

Upon hearing this, Deputy General Gao Hu immediately gave orders and the two riders hurried forward to get rid of the remaining cavalry of their own army!
In northern Shandong, the weather has been cloudy and sunny these days!

On the northern front, the situation is sometimes cloudy and sometimes sunny, with the enemy and us in a tug of war!
Wait until the evening of the 17th, around p.m.

Twenty miles north of Pingyuan County, the scorching sun hung for more than two hours in the afternoon and then disappeared into the thick cumulonimbus clouds on the horizon!
In this area, the east and west sides are gently sloping, the middle is slightly concave, and the two ends are high!
Within the boundaries of Shandong Prefecture, except for the towering mountains in the south of Jinan Prefecture, the rest of the land is plain.

Occasionally there are hills and slopes, which is rare!

So the ambush circle was set up twenty miles away from Pingyuan County. It was far-fetched to say that it was useful for ambushing and annihilating the enemy!

However, it is not easy to find a place in the northeast of this mountain that is large enough to hide the troops!

It’s now nineteen, the hour of You!
Xiao Jingchuan's troops had been ambushing on the east and west sides for more than half a day.

In this area, we have formed a pocket formation to wait for the enemy to fall into the trap!
At this moment, Xiao Jingchuan was lying on the gentle slope facing east, holding a piece of dry and hard biscuit in his hand.

When the rare opportunity of free time came, he raised his teeth and took a bite. With a pull, he tore off a piece and put it in his mouth, chewing it hard.

I chewed it left and pressed it right, and after a lot of trouble, the biscuit crumbs were still stuck in my mouth!

As a last resort, Xiao Lang hurriedly took out the water bag from his waist, tung tung!
He drank a few sips of water and then was able to swallow the biscuit down his throat.

"oops!"

"Oh my God!"

"This cake is hard. If you grind it left and right, it will be enough to chop people with it!"

Xiao Jingchuan stiffened his neck and choked twice before he caught his breath and spoke jokingly.

"Eh!"

"I said Changting!"

"Are you deliberately trying to trick me?!"

"You only give me these dry food that I carry with me?!"

"Are the food the soldiers eat also so hard?!" Xiao Lang complained in his heart and questioned.

"Ah! Yes, yes!" "General, this is what you asked for. You won't let me cook for you alone!"

"Why do we have to share the joys and sorrows with our brothers?"

"This time when we left Pingyuan County, most of the dry food we brought with us was this hard!"

"Military supplies will be reissued!" Chang Ting responded bluntly with rude words.

Hearing this, Xiao Jingchuan raised his eyebrows speechlessly.

"kindness?!"

“Minglu?!”

"I just saw it moving towards this side!"

"Where has he gone now?!"

"Minglu? Ma Minglu?!" Xiao Lang wanted to raise an army to hold him accountable, so he hurriedly called Minglu over.

"what?!"

“Here it is!”

"Commander-in-Chief, what do you want?!"

Hearing Xiao Lang's call, Ma Minglu, who was behind the nearby bend in the slope, rushed over here.

Behind him, Qi Gang had also returned to the camp and followed him back!

These two were part of the central army that had just rushed back northwards late last night along with two small logistics teams!

At this moment, because Xiao Jingchuan had given the order, we should march twenty miles north to ambush the enemy, so we followed here!
"Hey, Minglu!"

"What's going on with this pancake?!"

"Why do you have to make it so hard?"

"My teeth are relatively good! It's hard to chew and swallow!"

"If any soldier has poor articulation and eats the food you prepared, he might lose some of his teeth!" Xiao You complained, looking quite displeased.

"Hehehe!"

"Don't worry, General! Don't worry!"

"This, this subordinate just got back too!"

"I just reacted to this situation!"

"I also asked the quartermaster who was originally stationed in the central army."

"It was said that because of the heavy rains over the past few days, everywhere was muddy and wet, and they were afraid that the soldiers' rations would get wet and difficult to preserve, so they took the initiative to make these big hard cakes!"

"I think if we carry this on a march in the wild, the soldiers can survive for a few more days and won't starve due to spoiled rations!" Minglu said with relief.

However, Xiao Yi was not convinced and kept complaining to himself.

"Well, that does make some sense, but this... this thing..."

"No matter what, you shouldn't do this recklessly!"

"In order to ambush the Jiannu Tartars, all our troops are strictly prohibited from starting fires!"

"This biscuit is so dry and hard. Maybe it won't soften at all without soaking it in hot water," Xiao Reng argued.

"Haha, yes! Yes!"

"It was my negligence!"

"But now, since things have come to this, all we can do is wait until this ambush is over, and then I will collect them all and deal with them later!"

Minglu was also helpless. Seeing that it was the commander-in-chief who blamed him, he had to take the responsibility first and then talk about the successor!

Seeing that Minglu said so, Xiao Lang didn't know what to say.

"OK, fine!"

"You have your own plans!"

"That's why you came back!"

"Otherwise, I'll have nowhere to vent my complaints!" As he spoke, Xiao suddenly raised his head, and only then could he see Qi Gang behind Minglu.

"Hey, Qi Gang is here too?!" Sui Yan said.

"Ah, yes! Commander-in-Chief!" Qi Gang responded immediately.

"Well, you two must have worked hard running back all night!"

"I have been mobilizing troops all day and have not had time to rest and talk to you two!"

"How?!"

"How is the logistics and propaganda work in the various prefectures in southern Shandong going?!"

While the enemy was lying in ambush, Xiao Zi took a break and saw that it was Minglu and Qi Gang. They asked about their assignment in southern Shandong!

(End of this chapter)