"Looks like we came at the right time."
A Turkic man with a thick beard peeked out from behind the bushes, and the corners of his lips curled up into a sinister smile that left one's hair standing on end.
"They still have a fire to cook! It looks like they aren't prepared at all! "
Another man with thick arms and bulging muscles also popped his head out from behind the bushes and brambles. He had a squarish face, but he was a pure Han.
"Indeed. How could the military advisor's strategy possibly be wrong? Hehehe, the military advisor told us to circle to the rear and lure them over when they attack the soldiers from the front. After which, we'll launch a pincer attack from the front and the back, cutting off their path of retreat and annihilating them. However, I suddenly have a better idea. "
The bearded Turk looked down at the roiling smoke and gave a savage chuckle, a cruel and callous expression on his face.
"Perhaps, we can catch them off guard while they are cooking and ambush them. No matter how formidable they are, they won't expect us to descend from the sky. As long as we can kill half of their men in an instant, the rest won't pose a threat. "
"Hu Lang, are you out of your mind?"
The muscular man beside him was shocked to hear those words. He widened his eyes and stared at Hu Lang.
"Are you intending to change the military advisor's plan?"
"Hehehe, Chang Dao, you haven't been to the north, so you don't know how fearsome the wolves are. When they hunt, they will hide in the bushes, boulders, and bushes to slowly approach their prey. Then, when their prey is caught off guard, they will suddenly pounce out from their backs and launch a vicious attack. It's rare for prey to escape from such an attack. "
"There are only forty of them, and at least half of them have put down their weapons and gotten off their steeds. This is the moment when they are least prepared, so there's no better opportunity to attack them. On the grasslands, if our Turkic army were to encounter such an opportunity, they would definitely not let it slip by. "
"The military advisor isn't aware of what we are seeing at the moment, but if he knew, he would surely agree to our plan."
Hu Lang sneered savagely. He licked his lips, and his crimson tongue curled up to the tip of his nose.
The muscular man with thick arms had a gloomy expression on his face.
"At the very least, we should inform the military advisor and ask for his opinion before making a decision, right?"
After struggling for a long time, the muscular man finally spoke.
He respected the military counselor very much. Almost instinctively, he did not want to ruin the military counselor's plan.
"Hehe, the military advisor is a Han, so I can understand why you agree with him. In fact, I have a lot of respect for the Military Advisor. He is a man of wisdom. However, you have to think this through. These soldiers will only need the time it takes for a few incense sticks to burn to cook. Send a message from here. The terrain is complex and difficult to traverse. You need to make a big detour. Going back and forth, they had already missed the timing. — Unless you run straight from here and tell the counselor. "
"But if we do that, we will definitely be discovered by the soldiers on the hillside. As long as they call out, they'll be prepared, and our efforts will be in vain. At that time, our whereabouts will be exposed, and it will be even easier for these people to escape. "
Hu Lang said. He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a beastly glint gleamed in them.
The Turks on the grassland weren't as cultured as the Han, and they weren't as meticulous in their thinking.
But the Turks weren't fools, especially when it came to war.
In fact, Hu Lang was one of the few Turks who possessed exceptional intelligence in war. Even the bandit leader Iron Cloak Li had nothing but praise for him.
If it weren't for the fact that he was favored and valued, he wouldn't have been chosen as the leader of this mission, leading his brothers to carry out the mission of outflanking the rear.
In fact, in the Iron Cloak Highwayman, other than Iron Cloak Li and Zhou An, he was undoubtedly the third in command.
Regardless of whether it was his valiance, bravery, or his ability to grasp opportunities, he was highly respected by his brothers.
"Chang Dao, you have two choices at the moment. The first is for us to circle to their rear and cut off their escape route. Just as the military advisor said, we'll wait for an opportunity to surround them and cut off their escape route. This way, we'll be safe, but we won't be able to launch a surprise attack. By then, they'll already be fighting with our brothers, and our role will only be to surround them. "
"By then, all of the soldiers will be dead. But our brothers will also suffer heavy losses. For the military advisor to instruct us to circle around their rear and take such a huge detour, it's a testament to their fighting prowess. "
"The second choice is for us to launch an attack right now. You can send a signal to the military advisor and have him attack together with us. On top of that, in order to prevent the other scattered soldiers from escaping, I'll send a group of thirty soldiers to the rear. I can specially select a team of thirty people to go around to the back and guard the official road, cutting off their escape route. As soon as any soldiers appear, we'll immediately shoot them down. This is the safest choice we have at the moment. "
"This way, we'll suffer the least casualties. They'll suffer the greatest blow. However, we'll defy the military advisor's orders. Chang Dao, make your choice! "
Hu Lang turned to the burly man beside him.
Regardless of whether they were to fight or not, they had to be on the same page before any operation could be carried out.
This was the rule of the Iron Cloak Highwayman.
The burly man didn't say a word, but a myriad of emotions flickered across his face. The military advisor's orders and the golden opportunity before him flashed through his mind. Finally, he gritted his teeth and made his decision.
"Let's do as you say."
Even though he was defying the military advisor's orders, there was one thing that Hu Lang wasn't wrong about. The soldiers were indeed at their weakest at the moment.
Attacking them at this time, from a high vantage point, and with the warhorses at their best speed, was indeed the way to pay the smallest price.
"Hehe, Chang Dao, congratulations on making the wisest decision!"
Hu Lang chuckled, as though he had expected Chang Dao to make such a decision. Pulling on the reins, Hu Lang turned around and retreated to the back of the thorny bush.
"Brothers, prepare yourselves …"
Behind the dense thistles and thorns were numerous stallions, and mounted on the backs of these stallions were highwaymen. Each and every one of them had a ferocious expression on their faces and powerful auras, and the veins on their temples were bulging out. Beneath their steeds were rings of True Martial realm halos.
"Kill! — — "
A moment later, the earth trembled, the forest howled, and the horses galloped. Seventy to eighty True Martial realm highwaymen leaped down from the peak of the mountain like ferocious tigers.
The steep slope maximized the speed of the steeds. In just a short twenty to thirty zhang, the steeds were able to reach an astonishing speed.
Hong long long, a cloud of dust billowed, and the ground trembled under the hooves of the steeds.
Fifty zhang, seventy zhang …
In just an instant, the highwaymen had already covered more than half of the distance, and their speed was still increasing. At the same time, the Tang dynasty soldiers at the foot of the mountain couldn't even react in time.
"Brothers, kill them all!"
"The military advisor said that they still have several million taels of gold on them!"
"Don't let them escape!"
"Kill them! — — "
… …
A cloud of dust, mixed with fallen leaves and grass, soared into the clouds. The highwaymen howled and shrieked in excitement at the prospect of an intense battle.
Wang Chong was able to use his steed to charge forward and forward on the main road, maximizing the might of the Tang dynasty's cavalry to its limits, and the highwaymen were able to do the same as well.
When the highwaymen, whose speed was stacked to the maximum, charged down, even if there was a boulder in front of them, they would still be able to smash it apart, needless to say, the bodies of flesh and blood at the bottom of the mountain.
From the very start of the battle, the highwaymen were already standing on the side of victory.
… …
"Reporting, we've discovered that those bandits are cooking on the main road."
At the same time, far away behind the highwaymen and highwaymen, a burly highwayman scout walked through the crowd and reported to the military advisor, Zhou An.
"Reporting! Lord Hu Lang and Lord Chang Dao have sent word that they've discovered that the enemy is cooking on the fire, and they are preparing to launch a surprise attack to defeat them! We hope that the military advisor can cooperate with us. "
At this moment, the other highwayman leaped down from his steed and appeared before Iron Cloak Li and Zhou An.
The two reports arrived almost at the same time, one after the other.
"What?"
Upon hearing the news, Zhou An's face immediately warped in horror. This wasn't the order that he had relayed. However, before he could react, he heard an earth-shattering battle cry. The sound was so deafening that it could be heard even from far away.
For a moment, Zhou An was dumbfounded.
Too fast!
Everything had happened too quickly!
And it wasn't in his plans at all.
"Zhou An, what should we do next?"
Iron Cloak Li was also taken aback. He had heard of the military advisor's plans, but the sight before him was clearly different from what the military advisor had told him.
Hu Lang and Chang Dao had clearly disrupted his tempo.
But Hu Lang and Chang Dao were his old subordinates, and he believed that they had their own reasons for doing so.
Time seemed to have stopped at this moment, and Zhou An's mind was in turmoil. Without a doubt, a variable had appeared.
The enemy was cooking on the fire!
It was precisely because Hu Lang and Chang Dao noticed this that they changed their plans. Even Zhou An couldn't blame them for launching a surprise attack while the enemy was cooking on the fire.
"Let me ask you, when you were scouting ahead, did you smell the scent of food?"
Zhou An suddenly asked.
"Ah?"
The highwayman scout was taken aback. He didn't expect the military advisor to ask such a question.
"This … I didn't get too close, so I didn't smell anything."
"This is bad! That lad is too cunning! Hu Lang and the others have fallen for his trap! "
Hearing those words, Zhou An's face turned ashen.
"Chief, we need to hurry up and lead our men to attack them, or else it'll be too late. The rest of you, surround the soldiers on the slope. Whether we can help Hu Lang and the others or not will depend on this! "
Zhou An said anxiously.
"What?"
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