Chapter 134 Bandit Hunting (1/2)
Chapter 134 – Bandit Hunting
5 PM.
The messenger, who rushed back from Ganling city, galloped his horse back to Zhang Liao and proceeded to give Tong's order.
”FBI tactic again? What about the hostages?”
Zhang Liao was skeptical about this tactic in this situation. Should not he rescue the kidnapped people first to take away the bandit's bargain chips?
While he was deep in thought, a blue gate appeared and Tong stepped out of the gate.
Zhang Liao had experienced the gate before in Jinyang, he was not surprised anymore.
”My Lord?”
”Zhang Liao, all hostages have been rescued by me and Feihong. You're clear to attack the village.”
Zhang Liao raised his eyebrows in astonishment and a faint smile appeared on his face for a second. The efficiency of his new Lord impressed him.
”Understood, my lord.”
Tong stepped back and allowed his men to perform their roles while he monitored his radar map to scan for the hidden otherworlder.
As for the leadership and command ability of Zhang Liao, Tong did not worry the slightest.
…
Unlike Zhang He, who was a late bloomer, Zhang Liao was talented at combat from the beginning. Ding Yuan scouted him personally and made him an assistant officer. Zhang Liao became acquainted with Lu Bu as he had to accompany the son of his boss into the battles many times.
In the history, after the assassination of Dong Zhuo, Zhang Liao followed Lu Bu to all over the central plains and northern plains. He and Gao Shun did their best to cover the flaws of Lu Bu. Because Lu Bu was impulsive and had ill temperament from constraint backstabbing and politics, he did not utilize Zhang Liao to the fullest.
Zhang Liao surrendered to Cao Cao after the battle at Xia Pi in the year 198. Later in the year 202 to 207, he accompanied Cao Cao in various campaigns against the sons of Yuan Shao.
In 214, his true abilities shone in the battle at Hefei Castle where he drove back Sun Quan Army of 100,000 men with just 800 men.
During the famous fight of the history, Zhang Liao force was surrounded by the Sun Quan troops, yet he fought valiantly and rescued his men back into the castle. He managed to outlast the siege for several days before Sun Quan gave up trying to take Hefei Castle and signaled his troops to retreat.
While Sun Quan was retreating, Zhang Liao launched a counter-attack ambush on the retreating force, which he almost got his hands on Sun Quan during the battle.
Since that battle, he earned a new legend among the peasants. They said that a baby would stop crying if it heard the name of Zhang Liao.
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15,000 Cavalries and 10,000 infantries surrounded the village. With a signal, all of them shouted.
”FBI, YOU ARE SURROUNDED! COME OUT AND SURRENDER!”
”FBI, YOU ARE SURROUNDED! COME OUT AND SURRENDER!”
”FBI, YOU ARE SURROUNDED! COME OUT AND SURRENDER!”
The soldiers repeated the script. At first, their voice did not synchronize. But after a few shouts, they were in sync as if they were part of the choirs in the modern church.
Amused by the chorus of the soldiers, Li Feihong sang inside his private world. He forgot that Zhao Yun and the hostage girls were still there.
”EEF-BEE ~ AND AIIIIIIIIIIEIIIIII~ ~ Will always surround you-huuu-ALWAYS surround YUHUUUU~ ~”
The girls and Zhao Yun had to cover their ears as the song and the tunes were piercing their eardrums.
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The two hundred thousand voice echoed and disturbed the bandits in the village. They gathered on the village square to standby for the order of their boss.
Meanwhile, Zhang Yan was anxious by the noise and the current situation.
The moment he heard the scout report that an army had surrounded them, he planned to use the kidnapped girls as their bargain chips. He wanted to bribe the leading commander of the army by giving those hostage girls to the commander as the side perk of this operation so that Zhang Yan could coax the commander into letting him go.
From his knowledge and experiences with all government officials he came across, he believed that there would be no official that would refuse this offer as the girls in Zhang Yan's warehouses were the best-looking girls in Ganling City. The commanding officers would gladly take them in as their concubines or their toys in secret for sure.
But before he could make use of his plan, the hostages disappeared from his warehouses. Even the assigned guards were also disappeared.
Now, Zhang Yan had no idea how to break this situation without a bribe.
'Damn it! If that bastard Jiang Man were here, we could have killed all of these imperial force already!'
The mysterious boss of his abandoned him and his bandit gang on the day that they were hunting down Zhao Yun. Zhang Yan had not been able to contact him ever since.
'They were shouting for us to surrender. Maybe I still have a chance to survive.'
Being optimistic, Zhang Yan walked out of his building toward the panicking bandits in the middle of the village. He gave them an order to the bandits.
”Lay down your weapons. They are warning us to surrender, so we will surrender to them.”
”Boss Zhang Yan, what about boss Jiang?”
”That bastard abandoned all of us a long time ago! Never mention him in front of me again!”
”I-I'm sorry, boss.”
All bandits threw away their weapons. They scrapped white clothes to make a white flag. The bandits slowly walked out of the village while they were waving white flags.
”WE SURRENDER! PLEASE DON'T KILL US!”
The slowly approached the formation line in front of the village entrance where Zhang Liao was stationing.
The frontline was a line of infantries. They planted their tower shield into the ground and knelt down on one knee while the second line soldiers pointed the repeating crossbows toward the bandits.
”WE SURRENDER! PLEASE DON'T KILL US!”
The bandits repeated their words again as they were getting closer.
Meanwhile, the surrounding troops did not stop shouting the script. They ignored the incoming bandits and shouted.
”FBI, YOU ARE SURROUNDED! COME OUT AND SURRENDER!”
”FBI, YOU ARE SURROUNDED! COME OUT AND SURRENDER!”