Angry Banana
Chapter 411: Rising Evil Intentions (5)
The cries of killing were hoarse, the smoke of war was bleak. This battle at Duling Ridge seemed to have escalated to a fierce climax, without any warning, on this afternoon that no one had expected. Search: \(¨Complete¨Book¨God¨Station¨) to read high-quality literature for free.
The battlefield was chaotic. Wu Yong hurried to the main tent only to learn that Song Jiang had already ordered several leaders to go to the rescue. They rushed off, making a great show of force.
After a little inquiry, he learned that a short while ago, Luan Tingyu had deliberately feigned defeat to lure Suo Chao. Several Zhu Family Village teams relied on their familiarity with the terrain to lure away several Liangshan teams. Then, taking advantage of the time difference, they encircled them with superior forces, blocking the road. More than forty crossbows fired in rotation. On the winding mountain paths of Duling Ridge, these crossbows appeared suddenly, providing a great advantage. The Zhu Family Village had deployed almost all of its elite forces. Lin Chong and others subsequently went to the rescue and were already engaged in a fierce battle on the road.
Before this matter was finished, new news arrived again. Luan Tingyu was determined to intercept Lin Chong and others on the road. Over a thousand people surrounded Suo Chao and captured him along with his three hundred men, and were now transferring them to Zhu Family Village. In such a battle, capturing people and transferring them would cause significant losses to the Zhu Family Village even if they had the advantage. For several days, they had never dared to fight to the death, but now, capturing people like this made Wu Yong frown, realizing that something was wrong.
This sudden change of events was rapid. Normally, even if Suo Chao was captured, Wu Yong would consider it a common occurrence. The impression that Ning Yi had created about the “named ones” was only an impression caused by the Water Margin of later generations. In reality, when the two sides fought, Zhu Family Village, apart from Luan Tingyu and the Zhu brothers, naturally had other skilled villagers and instructors. In the back-and-forth battles, as long as they also injured the other side's forces, someone being captured was not strange.
However, the combination of these strange events that had occurred since this afternoon seemed to reveal something. Wu Yong did not believe that anything could shake the current battle situation, but the various statements he had heard this afternoon floated to the surface of his mind: the two interrogations in Zhu Family Village, the instructions of the task, the release of the prisoners, and the fact that someone had reported the encirclement of Suo Chao. No matter what they had done, things could not have taken effect so quickly.
But if the other party was not desperately grasping at straws in a moment of panic, but methodically doing something, the situation might be different… The possibility of some things began to tease the dangerous line in his mind.
"Mixed Thunder Hand Lei Feng..." He whispered this suddenly emerging name once, and then suddenly made a decision.
"Brother Gongming, tell the brothers to prepare, from this moment on, launch a full-scale attack on Zhu Family Village!"
Because of his order, the battle situation at Duling Ridge suddenly reached a peak that it had never reached in the past seven days!
Vaguely, he remembered that person saying: "You have to accept it whether you want to or not..."
If it's really you doing this, I'll see how you accept it…
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The soldiers surged like a tide.
Liangshan’s side, after Wu Yong’s sudden and decisive judgment, surged forth, also causing terror and chaos on the Zhu Family Village's side.
After Luan Tingyu, Zhu Biao, and others retreated back into the village, the gathering of Liangshan's leaders and their posture of seizing positions really startled the people in the village. The various fortifications and traps on Duling Ridge had been almost completely destroyed, with only some remnants remaining near the village. The reason why Liangshan had not yet launched a full-scale attack was because the losses would be too great. But now, it seemed that capturing an extra leader had suddenly made the other side explode as if they had feathers stuck to them, and everyone was stunned.
Even Ning Yi, who was standing on the outer wall of the village at this time, pretending to be strategizing, narrowed his eyes and looked at this scene, somewhat puzzled: "What's wrong with them?"
In just a moment, the villagers swarmed towards the walls, preparing for a formal defense under the shouts of Zhu Long and others. Luan Tingyu and Zhu Biao had just returned from the outside, injured. At this time, they rushed to the walls of the village, also somewhat surprised. If Liangshan really went crazy, the Zhu and Hu families would definitely not be able to hold out in the end. They had just been happy about capturing three hundred people. At this time, Zhu Biao, holding a steel spear, looked at Ning Yi's side: "This is all your doing. They're going to launch a full-scale attack!"
"Third Young Master, don't talk nonsense!" Luan Tingyu glanced at Ning Yi. "We just captured people, and the other side's reaction is so great, which shows that Young Master Lei's plan is effective. They're scared! This is a good thing!"
"Is it a good thing if the village falls two days earlier?"
"It's better than waiting to die like before!" Luan Tingyu laughed, cupped his fist towards Ning Yi. "Young Master Lei, do you have any other plans? If not, I'll defend according to the general situation."
Ning Yi was still looking around at the gathering of the Liangshan people. At this time, he looked at Luan Tingyu: "If there's no plan, how long can Instructor Luan defend?"
"If Hu Family Village is willing to help, there should be no problem defending until the day after tomorrow. They will have to pay several times the price if they want to break into the village. We can only resist hard and make the Liangshan people unable to bear this loss. Maybe they will retreat."
Luan Tingyu's original idea was this. If Duling Ridge fought hard to resist, Liangshan might preserve itself when it was unwilling to bear the losses. Unfortunately, the days of hard fighting did not make the other side shrink back. His attitude towards Ning Yi before was still lukewarm, but at this time, seeing the changes in Liangshan, he was obviously much more cordial. Ning Yi smiled, "Then I still have some ideas."
He told Luan Tingyu and Zhu Biao the methods. After the two left, Zhu Chaofeng and Zhu Long and others came over, and he asked Zhu Long to prepare to bring the Liangshan leaders such as Suo Chao and Qin Ming: "If things are not going well, and the other side has to attack, please Brother Zhu push these leaders to the front of the formation and chop them one by one if they dare attack."
Entrusting the change of the situation to the other party's loyalty may not work. When Zhu Long went down, Zhu Chaofeng said: "Did Young Master Lei expect them to attack?"
Ning Yi shook his head and smiled: "How could I guess this? I haven't fought against that Wu Yong yet. These days, I've seen that his style is steady, and he's obviously a righteous person. I really didn't expect this." He hid behind a large shield and looked outside. "Let's watch slowly what will happen next..."
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The setting sun was like fire, and the drums were beaten.
Wu Yong's decision just now was undeniably decisive. At this time, in the fiery setting sun, the military camp had already been prepared to go all out. Wu Yong and Song Jiang looked at the front line from outside the camp. In fact, Wu Yong was also waiting for new information to arrive in his heart.
After his order, he had been weighing the gains and losses of the situation, whether it was worth doing this because of these miscellaneous things that had appeared today. But there was no need to modify the order yet. Before the army was ready, the sound of killing rang out on the Zhu Family Village's side. The other party moved first! Wu Yong's eyes stared at that side. After a moment, someone came to report the situation.
"Luan Tingyu, Zhu Biao, and others led the team to harass, and then... they seem to be releasing people..."
"What?" Song Jiang asked, and the scout had to say it again. The other side was running while fighting, occasionally releasing two or three captured brothers from their side, making the leaders in front hesitant, not knowing what the other party was up to, so they had to come back and ask.
Song Jiang looked at Wu Yong. Wu Yong opened his mouth, and after a moment, a complicated smile appeared on his face. He gritted his teeth and said, "A conspiracy... Lei Feng?"
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Boom! Boom! Boom!
In the fiery setting sun, the drums sounded, and the Liangshan soldiers spread out and gathered. There was a surge of people on the Zhu Family Village, and the harassment of Luan Tingyu and others in the distance continued, and the sounds of fighting came over. This evening, the atmosphere of confrontation finally rose. Everyone's heartstrings were tense, and both sides of the battle formation were waiting solemnly.
On the roads and hills one arrow's distance away from Zhu Family Village, soldiers gathered in groups, and the generals rode on war horses, and the atmosphere was bleak and awe-inspiring. The dominance of the war was obviously in their hands. Bows and crossbows were set up on the walls of the courtyard, and people gritted their teeth, their hearts uneasy. At this moment, no one could predict the direction of the development of things, and even the person in charge of the leading party in the incident was fighting in his heart.
The dull confrontation lasted for about a quarter of an hour…
The drums stopped without warning.
In the distant camp behind Liangshan, a man named Wu Yong put down his hand: "Today... let's withdraw our troops for the time being."
"They... withdrew their troops?" On the city wall, listening to the sound of retreat being blown in the Liangshan army formation, and then the Liangshan generals gradually spread out and returned, everyone was a little dumbfounded, but then some exclaimed in surprise.
Even Luan Tingyu and others, who were already exhausted from the battle, suddenly saw this scene, first were stunned, then blinked their eyes, and were dazed and relieved.
No one had expected that on the eighth day of the Duling Ridge battle, when the Liangshan army had launched a full-scale attack, it would become their first day to withdraw their troops before the arrival of the night.
Not many people could understand all the reasons for such a strange scene.
"Let them linger for another day..." In the Liangshan army camp, Wu Yong said to everyone. In terms of the battle situation, Liangshan was still strong and had hardly changed.
And over here, Ning Yi exhaled, looked at the sky, and smiled: "Congratulations everyone, you've lived another day..." Then he sighed to the people around him, "Did you see that? It's really amazing. The Liangshan army comes and goes, doing everything by order. Although I don't know much about fighting, being able to withdraw all the people like this after issuing a full-scale attack order shows that Boss Song has a strong control over his subordinates. This kind of vitality is really like the sun in the sky..."
Wang Shanyue looked at him for a long time: "Actually... you have spies over there..."
"Shhh." Wang Shanyue's voice was very low, but Ning Yi, who was still looking towards the outside of the village, also gently raised his finger, and said in a low and solemn voice, "Of course there are, that's the real controllable arrangement."
"So many smoke screens have been released. If it is well controlled, it is really possible to consider killing Song Jiang..." Wang Shanyue whispered softly. Ning Yi glanced at him.
"Why kill Song Jiang?"
He laughed, but this sentence made Wang Shanyue frown: "What are you going to do then?"
Ning Yi pointed to the outside of the village. In the setting sun, the Liangshan army was retreating: "Look, their soldiers are strong and their horses are strong, and they do everything by order. Is it because Song Jiang is benevolent enough or black enough?"
"..." Wang Shanyue was not yet accustomed to Ning Yi's modern banter and didn't know how to answer for a while.
"They want to rebel, they are strong enough, they can grab more things, and they know very well that we can't beat them, so they don't care about temporary gains and losses. The entire army is domineering, and if the Wu Rui camp encounters them outside, I'm afraid they will be leveled in one wave. Killing Song Jiang will lead to small-scale disputes, and then a new leader will come up. At least until they are roughly satisfied and expand to the extent of Fang La last year, they will not stop."
Ning Yi's eyes were serious: "Even if the best result is that Song Jiang dies, and everyone breaks up due to uneven distribution of spoils, people who have tasted sweetness will no longer be willing to be small bandits as before. The disaster in Shandong can be solved temporarily, but after a while, I am afraid that there will be bandits everywhere, and it will become more troublesome at that time. Moreover, someone will always try to integrate this force... If things are to be solved, most of them have to die, and I also have personal reasons to do this."
"...You have to be able to do it."
"It seems a little difficult to think about it, but man proposes, God disposes." Ning Yi smiled, seeing Zhu Chaofeng, Zhu Long, Zhu Biao, Luan Tingyu and others coming over, and was still speaking in a low voice, but he didn't avoid everyone.
"The current Liangshan is the strongest on the outside, but on the inside, they have countless factions. Loyalty and awareness are stricter than military discipline, and people's hearts are separated by their stomachs. There will be suspicion between three people. Whether to report things, whether to report them first, whether to wait and see, there will be all kinds of ideas. Where there are ideas, there are differences. Two hundred people are released, one-third will be quarantined, one-third will follow their original leader, and even if something happens, the leader will cover them. Another third will be truly protected."
"There is no shortage of smart people anywhere, especially those who can be the boss. My brothers were released, and I know their innocence. Do I want to confess? After confessing, even if the higher-ups are magnanimous, they will definitely be guarded against this time. As long as you see this, hesitate, or think that it doesn't matter if you don't confess, you will have to hide people in the future. For the sake of a little bit of immediate benefit, thinking that I am in the general trend, what I do doesn't matter, this is the so-called hypocrisy, the thief of virtue."
"Of the people who go out to confess, those who have not confessed can naturally be magnanimous, but do you confess and tell the higher-ups whether they believe you? Of those who have confessed, in a small room, no one sees whether he will say that he is a tough guy or say the content he has confessed and insist that he is a tough guy. If he has secrets in his heart and confesses completely, he will have shame and knots in his heart. Then, the people who come out to confess, see those who have not confessed but are unwilling to come out, and recognize them, what will they do? Then, how do the people who have not been arrested view these people who come back, especially the tasks I gave them include things like cutting off the heads of their companions while they are sleeping. After it spreads, even if the higher-ups don't pursue it, what will everyone think... If they have ghosts in their hearts, they can make a fuss..."
"Of the two hundred people released, maybe only thirty or forty people will be truly hidden in the end, and there may be even fewer people who are willing to do small things for us because their identities are recognized. Most people will choose to wait and see. Who are these people, who does what and who doesn't, even I don't know, and I don't care. As long as there is more or less of them, that's enough."
"A dozen or perhaps a few people sneaking in is not a big deal. Tonight... or perhaps now, they have completely understood what I have done. I don't mind them knowing what I have done, and I will lay it out to them completely. The first question has been asked, and next, let's see how that Mr. Jialiang solves it. Maybe there really is a dragon and a phoenix among people, but... at the best time, they may have been a step behind..."
At this time, the Zhu family members were all listening nearby. Ning Yi smiled, then clapped his hands: "But what they do is their business. Brother Wang, Brother Xinhan, things are not over yet. Two hundred people have left, and three hundred more have been added here. The workload is too great, and I can't do it alone. I still have to ask you two to help me tonight. In addition, I hope the Zhu family brothers will negotiate with Hu Family Village and bring the soldiers and generals they have captured here as well. If the questions for two hundred people are not enough, let's add a few hundred more. Please also send some well-informed and reliable people from the village to recognize the people. As long as their names are written down, the families of these people will all be tied to the rope."
After saying this, Zhu Long and others responded excitedly. Even if they didn't understand such complex plans, they felt that it was really too cunning and full of bad ideas. Zhu Chaofeng, Luan Tingyu, Wang Shanyue and others were still chewing on the truth in it. Ning Yi turned his head and looked in the direction of the Liangshan army camp.
What he can think of now is that, in fact, perhaps for a moment, that Wu Yong vaguely sensed the crisis in this game. That was the premonition of a smart person, and perhaps that was why, at that moment, he would suddenly choose to have the entire Liangshan army prepare to attack Zhu Family Village. That moment was even somewhat unexpected by Ning Yi.
If such an idea could really be carried out forcefully, there would really not be much room for Ning Yi to maneuver. Perhaps next, he would only be able to choose to persuade the Zhu and Hu families to break through with all their strength to preserve their strength. If it came to this point, he would really be embarrassed.
Unfortunately, smart people are always smart people. When time passes, he can calm down and rationally judge the overall situation. Compared to the previous several times the losses, plus the possibility that the people who are released will cause changes in the most chaotic battle situation and further increase the losses, plus the fact that his name from the court should also remind him of the possibility that the Wu Rui camp will benefit, he still rationally chose to withdraw his troops.
As long as he rectifies the military discipline and eliminates these hidden dangers, Liangshan's advantage remains the same. Anyway, Zhu Family Village is already in his pocket… He should be thinking this way, but unfortunately, external injuries are easy to remove, but cancer cells will spread rapidly…
The place where smart people are easier to guess than idiots is here.
He shook his head, waving away the little lingering fear in his heart. The Zhu family was already tired soldiers, and things had just begun. Liangshan was strong and the time may not be sufficient, so things were not optimistic. He never underestimated anyone in tactics. If there were any geniuses over there, or if any accidents happened that could break the game, he could understand. Psychological pressure always adds up bit by bit, and before the last string of trust breaks, he still has to do it step by step.
Next, let's see how they solve the problem...
The night wind blew.
As Ning Yi said, the questions have already been asked. By the time it got dark, almost all the generals in the Liangshan camp knew about the situation that had occurred. The situation was clearly laid out in front of everyone. This was really a conspiracy that had to be accepted whether they wanted to or not. And the name "Mixed Thunder Hand" Lei Feng had spread throughout the camp in a short period of time, making everyone wonder what kind of person this was.
The bonfire was burning, and in the dim light, Guan Sheng, who had always had an upright image, slammed the wine bowl on the table.
"A ghost came out!"
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