Chapter 54: Small things become big things, big things become big things [Please read]

"Leizi, why are you going through so much trouble?"

Pan Lin raised his mace and waved it: "Wouldn't it be easy to tell whether these soldiers are made of clay after a battle?"

"If my lord gives an order, I will be in charge outside!" After becoming the commander-in-chief, Gong Lei became different from his previous dull self, but his words were still brief.

"Then you make the decision." Pan Lin pointed his mace at the county town at the foot of the mountain: "In less than two days, they will send troops!"

Gong Lei scratched his head. The more than a thousand soldiers at the foot of the mountain were all wearing armor and were much better equipped than them. Judging from their hard power alone, they were not able to deal with them.

"When the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy is stationed, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue."

Gong Lei silently recited the sixteen-word formula, which was the key to the battle that Jin Mao had specially taught him before he left.

"The enemy is stationed here to disturb us?"

"Have it!"

With Pan Lin, the former Shanyue leader, around, the second team of 300 people found a place that was easy to defend but difficult to attack to set up camp.

It is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with only a short shallow canyon in and out.

Soon, the second team was divided into two parts. One part with 200 people was led by Pan Lin and ambushed on both sides of the canyon.

Another group of 100 people was led by Gong Lei. Each of them held two wooden sticks. They would run out when the soldiers were resting and knock the sticks to make a noise, creating the illusion that there were many people.

The first time, the captain's soldiers were having lunch and were so frightened that they almost blew up the camp.

After more than an hour of panic and dozens of soldiers injured, the Southern Commandery finally calmed down.

Seeing that the effect was very good, Gong Lei did it again in the evening.

Unfortunately, this time the Southern Commander was well prepared and sent people to chase and kill them.

Fortunately, it was too dark and Gong Lei and others did not light torches, so they stopped moving when they were chased out.

The southern commander returned in vain, cursing.

The third time, the Southern Commander finally caught up with the enemy, but when he saw them disappear into the woods, he dared not chase them anymore.

At the same time, the Southern Commander believed that the number of Shanyue people should not be large and the threat was not great.

So, the fourth and fifth time, the Southern Commander ignored it.

The more the other party ignored him, the bolder Gong Lei became.

The sixth time, Gong Lei and Pan Lin led all 300 people, divided into two groups, and harassed outside the military camp.

But Gong Lei never expected that Pan Lin, seeing that the other party was indifferent, would be so bold as to charge into the camp.

A harassment turned into a night raid, and neither side expected this outcome.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Pan Lin was extremely excited and unstoppable.

This is a regular army. Pan Lin believes that if he can defeat this army, his chance to become famous has come.

It was a dark and windy night, and Gong Lei had no time to stop it. He had no choice but to lead his men to attack the camp from the other side.

The troops under the Southern Commandery were not mentally prepared in the first place, and they were considered elite if they could be stabilized by Pan Linchong. They did not expect that there was an enemy behind them.

"The Yamane have rebelled!"

"Gather! Gather!"

This time the camp was really blown up.

Since half of the second team was wearing armor, in the chaos more than a thousand regular soldiers could not distinguish between friend and foe, and they hacked at each other, resulting in countless casualties.

The second team wasn't much better.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Gong Lei withdrew in time, and more than 20 people among the 100 people behind him were killed.

Pan Lin was in even worse situation. When he ran out, there were less than half the number of people behind him.

This time, things got serious.

In the morning, as soon as the two of them returned to the base to reunite, Gong Lei was furious: "Pan Lin, look at what you have done!"

"You disobeyed orders and caused heavy casualties among your subordinates. How will you explain this to the Lord God when you return?"

In fact, Pan Lin had already thought of a solution, but now he didn't have enough men, so he wanted to drag Gong Lei into it.

"Leizi, you are the commander-in-chief. Even if I am beheaded, you will not be any better off!"

"You!" Gong Lei was so angry that he was about to draw his sword on the spot.

Pan Lin immediately jumped back two steps and yelled, "The Lord of Gods has ordered that we must not use knives against our fellow soldiers!"

Gong Lei was gritting his teeth, wondering why he hadn't noticed that Pan Lin had become so difficult to deal with before. He couldn't have learned it from Ming Gong.

Sure enough, Pan Lin came forward with a shameless face and did the "fly rubbing hands" move, which was exactly the same as Jin Mao's.

"Leizi, I have a good idea. It will ensure that we not only pass the test but also achieve great success!" "Speak!"

Pan Lin was overjoyed: "Look, these more than a thousand people are all wearing armor. Isn't iron armor the favorite of the God Lord?"

"If we can get these more than a thousand sets of iron armor..." Pan Lin's eyebrows almost jumped, as if he had a pair of charming eyes.

Gong Lei thought so too. That was more than a thousand sets of iron armor. If he could get them, even if the Second Team was wiped out, Lord Ming would be happy.

After a discussion, the two of them, with more than 160 people, did not rest and launched a counterattack.

After a night of chaos, less than 200 troops from the Southern Commandery returned to the camp in the morning.

Before these people had time to calm down, they were attacked again. They fled in all directions like frightened birds, not caring about military discipline at all.

Therefore, Gong Lei, Pan Lin and others easily occupied the military camp and had a good meal first. Fortunately, Pan Lin did not dare to drink again.

Finally, we completed the seizure and left before dark.

There were a hundred war horses, nearly a thousand pieces of iron armor, and more than a thousand standard weapons, including two hundred sets of horse armor, two hundred bows, a hundred crossbows, and countless food and supplies.

What’s even more amazing is that when the two men led the team back to the base, nearly a hundred people actually ran back on their own.

It turned out that these people were not dead, but had gotten lost.

Everyone is happy, great achievement!
Gong Lei didn't think much about it, but instead breathed a sigh of relief.

Pan Lin has already begun to imagine what kind of reward he will get this time. At the very least, he will have to be a general of a thousand men, right?

However, things are much more complicated than imagined.

Three days later, the body began to decompose.

Only then did the officers under the Southern Commandery dare to collect the bodies, and then something terrible happened.

"The Southern Commander was killed in battle!"

"The Shanyue rebel again!"

"Quickly report to the court, the Shanyue are invading with tens of thousands of troops, the Southern Commander of Kuaiji is outnumbered, and the two thousand soldiers are exhausted..."

No one cares about the facts, everyone only cares about how to shirk responsibility.

Soon, the matter was reported up the chain of command and finally reached the hands of Tang Mao, the prefect of Kuaiji County.

“Tens of thousands of Shanyue?!”

Tang Mao was suspicious and said, "Could it be that boy who did it?"

Tang Mao's first suspect was Jin Mao, because this guy had a really powerful subordinate named Wan Shanyue.

"It's impossible. It doesn't make sense."

Tang Mao didn't think that Jin Mao's newly trained soldiers could kill all of the Southern Commander's 2,000 soldiers.

That's the regular army!

Just like Zhu Jun, Huang Pusong and others, he fought ten enemies at once and slaughtered the regular army of the Yellow Turban rebels!
"Could it be that the Minyue in Ye County broke out and joined forces with Ouyue to rebel?"

The nearby Shanyue were either incorporated into Jinmao or only existed in Ye County, thousands of miles away.

It couldn't be that the Wuxi barbarians crossed the Jinmao territory and killed these two thousand people without anyone noticing, right?

In short, this matter is beyond Tang Mao's knowledge and authority.

He simply added his own guess and reported it to Chen Yi (yi), the governor of Yangzhou.

Chen Yi didn't dare to make a decision and continued to report it.

The news was reported to higher levels, and by the time Emperor Ling of Han received it, the Shanyue had already numbered 100,000 people, and it seemed that the entire south was in chaos.

Luoyang, Western Garden of the Imperial Palace.

At this time, Emperor Ling of Han was in no mood to have fun. He was furious: "How dare the barbarians be so presumptuous!"

"Xuan You Charioteer Zhu Jun and Zhu Gongwei come to see the emperor."

Zhao Zhong, one of the Ten Eunuchs, stepped forward and reported: "Reporting to the emperor, Zhu Jun has resigned and returned home due to his mother's death."

Liu Hong frowned: "Who else can be sent to Kuaiji County to quell the rebellion?"

Zhang Rang, one of the Ten Eunuchs, saw this and suggested: "Zhu Jun is still in Luoyang. Why doesn't the country allow Zhu Jun to return to his post and go to quell the rebellion?"

"Firstly, Zhu Jun's hometown is in Kuaiji County. This will be a good thing for Zhu Jun, and it will also help him fulfill his wish of being both loyal and filial."

"Secondly, it will also allow Zhu Jun to pay another appointment fee."

Liu Hong was overjoyed: "As expected of you, my father. Let's do it!"

　Thanks to Ma Xiaotiao for his monthly ticket

　　
　
(End of this chapter)