Episode 296. The bait should be appetizing (1)
It was Jangsu Lee Eom who was leading the vanguard of Ryu Pyo’s army.
He knew that there was a monster in the reconnaissance team that started first.
“Really… What do soldiers do to join the reconnaissance team?”
If this reconnaissance had been a mission to go deep into enemy lines, Eom himself would have stopped him even with a knife. However, this reconnaissance is at the level of checking the enemy’s movement route and the amount of troops. So, the troops were all made up of cavalry, and the group was divided into several groups.
If you do, no big deal will happen.
“uh?”
Eom, who was leading the advance party, widened his eyes slightly.
In the distance, a scouting party could be seen being pursued by enemy cavalry.
It was running in this direction, but it looked like the horses were tired and would soon catch up.
“Damn it, the monster is over there! We have to rescue the reconnaissance team somehow. Follow me.”
Eom Lee took the lead and ran on horseback, and his subordinates and cavalry followed.
As the advance party ran, the distance with the reconnaissance team quickly grew closer.
“Ah, the enemy in front too.”
Rumble…..
“What a fool! It’s not an enemy, it’s an ally, it’s an ally!”
When the scouting party suddenly turned to the side and ran away, Lee Eom made an absurd expression.
He shouted loudly that he was not an enemy, but apparently he didn’t understand.
The scouting party had to run right past them so that they could face the enemy soldiers, but they ran away and the enemy soldiers chased after them, so Lee Eom had no choice but to chase after the enemy soldiers.
‘uh? Are you more desperate than you think?’
Janggoe, who succeeded in luring the enemy vanguard, turned his head slightly backwards and felt a sense of wonder when he saw the enemy chasing him at terrifying speed.
Of course, it was expected that they were deceived and followed because they were acting as chasing the scouts. However, even so, there is no reason to follow the lions when 3,000 cavalrymen died in order to save a scouting party of less than 50 men.
Moreover, the troops he leads are only three hundred.
Even sending a thousand men is a sufficient threat.
‘her! That monster from earlier must have been a pretty great person.’
According to common sense, if he was that great, he wouldn’t join the reconnaissance team…
Jang-goe was a bit puzzled, but the enemies soon fell into the trap they had dug. You’ll soon find out why it’s making such a fuss. I had no intention of thinking more deeply.
But if it’s a problem…
‘It’s a trap I made with about 1,000 in mind, but 3,000… I guess I’ll have to use the next trap!’
Awesome!
A grinding sound came from Emmy’s mouth.
Obviously, the enemy cavalrymen passed through the bush, but the moment they passed, it turned into a field of snares.
In an instant, hundreds of horses caught in the snare were entangled and entangled with each other, and troopers fell off their horses and died or were injured. And arrows rained down on their heads.
By this point, even a fool could tell he had fallen into a trap.
In an instant, about 30% of the advance party, either dead or injured, escaped the trap and pursued the archers who were shooting arrows. Soon after, I was able to meet the enemy soldiers who had initially fled and those whom I thought were our scouts.
Unexpectedly, those who thought they were allied scouts were shooting arrows at them.
‘Deception!’
Anger boiled over and he fought relentlessly, and soon he was able to seize the victory. Although they lost close to 1,000 troops, there are still 2,000 left.
“The enemy is only a thousand. Push it away at once!”
At Eom’s command, the cavalrymen began to calmly organize their ranks.
After a while, the enemy soldiers started to run away, probably thinking that the fight was unfavorable, and Eom desperately pursued them to get revenge.
And then, what they were greeted with was about 5,000 ambushes hiding everywhere.
Complete encirclement with no room for either side to escape.
Eom tried to break through the retreat while blocking the rain of arrows.
“Yeah man! I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ll take your cunning head off your neck!”
Eom swung the spear as hard as he could at the enemy commander who had lured him so far.
Kkaang Kakakkang…..
‘Huh!’
The moment the spears collided with each other, Lee Eom unknowingly swallowed the wind. Far from attacking, he was also in a hurry to block the spears of enemies flying in succession.
‘How can you change so much in an instant… Could it be that you concealed your skills earlier?’
Lee Eom found out that he was completely fooled by the enemy general.
I’m sure I had fought with this guy before Ban Gak…
Didn’t he manage to escape with the help of his subordinates in just three rounds?
But now, his hand, which was blocking the window, was trembling.
In this situation, he had to help his subordinates in order to escape, but even his subordinates were already fighting frantically against other generals, so such an opportunity did not arise.
‘I have to escape somehow and let the enemy know that they have already set countless traps in the path the main force will pass through!’
Eom was worried about his life and death, but he was more worried about the main unit falling into this trap.
The pitfalls he was experiencing were only a taste of his long experience on the battlefield.
Caang.
“Keugh!”
The moment words crossed words and spears crossed spears, a pain surged through his shoulder as if he had been on fire.
Eom continued to speak.
If you want to continue the fight, turn around and aim for the opponent’s back, and the opponent will do the same, but you run as it is.
“Is this general general running away, leaving his subordinates behind?”
The sound of the enemy commander’s shout hit my ears, but I didn’t even look back and I flattened the horse’s back and urged the horse.
He could hear the constant screams of his subordinates, but he gritted his teeth.
How long did he run while slashing and dodging enemy soldiers?
The pursuers disappeared for a moment, and after running a little more, they were able to escape the forest.
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“Hey, this is Dokgang Naruto! You must have escaped to the enemy camp! But they are…”
Eom muttered to himself, and suddenly thought of another advance team that started at the same time as the reconnaissance team.
An advance party of 5,000 went with the mission of occupying the Dokgang Ferry and the port near Dokhyeon and securing the ship.
The generals leading them were Kwak Jun and a female worker.
“It seems that General Kwak and General Ye also fell into the enemy’s trap!”
Eom managed to get out by himself, but it seemed that they were fighting each other, so he rode his horse and ran to help at least a little.
As he got closer to the place where they were fighting, Eom’s eyes shook anxiously.
From a distance, it looked like an equal fight, but when I got closer, I could see that the soldiers led by Guo Jun and Yeo Gong were surrounded and dying.
I don’t know since when so many ships came to Dokgang ferry, but anyway, archers were shooting arrows from the ships, and Kwak Jun and the soldiers of Yeo Gong flocked to the dock and were hit by arrows from the ships in the back, and from now on, it seems that there are about 10,000 people surrounding them. He was under attack from the Yeju army.
“Yes, didn’t Yeju-gun say 20,000? How could so many soldiers… be deceived? I see! You have been tricked!”
Eom hurriedly turned around when he saw that there were probably 5,000 people shooting arrows from the boat.
I couldn’t even meet the enemy’s headquarters, but in half a day, I had already suffered 20,000 enemy soldiers.
‘Somehow, you have to inform the governor of this fact. This is a fight that can never be won!’
The mountains and fields are full of pitfalls, and the rivers are already occupied by the enemy.
“Hahaha, you ran away like a rat, and then you only came here?”
At that time, a group of soldiers came out of the forest and blocked Lee Eom.
The enemy commander who fought earlier led his subordinates and followed him.
“Damn me! Is the sky abandoning the jugong?”
Eom unconsciously looked up at the sky. It was a clear, clear autumn sky without a single cloud.
Haap!
Eom Lee realized that today’s spear would be the last spear in his life and swung it at the enemy commander with all his might.
hooked
“Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrbb… Damn it!”
The thick armor was easily pierced by the spears of enemy soldiers.
* * *
As he was heading for Dokhyeon, Yu-Pyo heard news like thunder from the sky.
The news that the reconnaissance team and two vanguards encountered the enemy’s main force and were annihilated.
All together, there are close to 10,000 troops, but 10% of the troops have disappeared without even seeing the enemy’s main unit.
“What a fool! Why did the reconnaissance team fight the enemy’s main force? And the advance party isn’t empty-headed, so why jump in to save such a reconnaissance team?”
Liu Biao’s anger poured out on the scout who reported. The skirmisher said nothing and hung his head.
Yu Pyo spoke again.
“Then where is the enemy now?”
“After fighting the advance party, we are hastily returning to Boksan.”
“what! Return! Are you running away after picking and eating my babies like persimmons from a persimmon tree?”
“yes.”
“Hello!”
As Liu Biao raised his voice, the general and the counselors lowered their heads in unison.
“Your master.”
“Hwangjo and Gamyeong lead 10,000 cavalry each and chase the enemy fleeing to Boksan.”
“I take orders.”
“Move now.”
“yes.”
Hwangjo and Gamyeong ran to the place where the cavalrymen were, and Liu Pyo’s orders continued.
“Chaemo, Chaejung, Chaehwa, you guys will give you 10,000 infantrymen, so take military food and follow the main army.”
“I accept the order of the governor.”
“Lead Sobi Dong, Wenbing, lead 20,000 foot soldiers and follow Hwangjo and Gamyeong.”
“I accept the order of the governor.”
“The soldiers and secretaries lead the rest of the troops and advance into the enemy camp with me. Increase your advance speed as much as possible.”
Yu-Pyo decided to pursue Ye-Joo-gun and annihilate them all.
* * *
“The plan to catch the advance party with the scout and catch the main force with the advance party came from those in Dokhyun?”
The painter looked at Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Kun with a slightly surprised expression.
“yes. I used Heo Heo-sil-sil’s tactics, but I didn’t even think of an inducement plan, but they told me about deception and lure tactics and applied them.”
“Hehe, I thought it was more ingenious than when I fought Yuan Shu’s army, but it was a plan that came from their brain! These are the talents that must be recruited at any cost!”
“Everyone has been friends since Master’s time, so my older brother and I have a special relationship. And even if it isn’t, they will want to come into the arms of the governor.”
“That’s something I don’t know. I want to take it somehow By the way, if we pretend to run away like this, will Liu Biao’s army really come straight ahead without sending a separate reconnaissance team?”
“We have lost 10,000 troops, but if you come leisurely, you are no longer qualified as a feudal lord. In order not to lose the trust of the generals and soldiers, I will fight hard and come after them.”
Hwabu stopped the retreat after a while and ordered the march again.
It was a leisurely return for about half a day, so the actual distance traveled was not long. Perhaps tonight, we will face Liu Biao’s main unit.
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