Just as Zuo Liangyu was gritting his teeth, only one soldier galloped to the front and said, "General Zuo, I found a piece of wood in the middle of the road ahead, and a line of words was written on it. ”

Zuo Liangyu said: "What is written?"

The soldier said, "That is written...... That one...... It's unbearable, so let's go and see for myself!"

Seeing that the soldier Zhiwu couldn't speak clearly, Zuo Liangyu glared at him, snorted coldly and lifted the horse forward, came to the front team, and sure enough, he saw that in the middle of the road, there was a thick log erected, the bark on one side had been peeled off, and on the trunk of the white flower, a line of words was written in red paint:

"The first fierce general, it's not as good as bullshit, there are many soldiers and defeated, I'm extremely incompetent, send you a skirt and change it home"

And the end is the leader of the horse thief "Chu Short Stage", under this log, there are also two fat skirts, colorful and green, which is exactly the style of the obscene clothes worn by the old aunt.

Zuo Liangyu's eyes were about to split, he turned his hand and pulled out the nine-ring broadsword hanging on the weapon ring, and slashed it horizontally, only to hear a "click", and cut the big log that was surrounded by one person in two!

"All the armies obey the order, line up to pursue, and must not let go of that gang of horse thieves!" Zuo Liangyu's order was almost roaring.

Separated by a hundred zhang, no matter how loud the roar under the valley is, it can't be heard on the top of the mountain, but Zuo Liangyu's action of pulling out a knife and chopping wood, Hua Bushi, Yang Sichang and others can see it clearly.

Afterwards, I saw that the cavalry of the official army quickly assembled into a charging formation, and Zuo Liangyu took the lead and led the army to pursue the direction in which the horse thieves of the "Chu Short Tai" had fled.

"Mr. Sichang's clever plan really worked, and Zuo Liangyu has already entered the palace. "Hua Bushi Road.

Yang Sichang said: "Although Zuo Liangyu has been provoked, after all, he has a lot of experience in battle, and he only led the front army and the middle army to chase the enemy, but left the rear army to protect the grain and grass. ”

Hua Bushi said with a smile: "You can rest assured in this section, as long as most of Zuo Liangyu's men and horses are led away, the remaining few hundred cavalry are not worried." However, in the future, when Mr. Yang re-entered the court as an official and was a minister in the same hall as Zuo Liangyu, if he knew that today's plan was made by Mr., he was afraid that it would be difficult to stop. ”

Yang Sichang said: "Most of the generals in today's court are not good at fighting, Zuo Liangyu is a rare general, but he is too arrogant, and there are still flaws in his character. As for him later learning that he blamed me, this was originally a battle between each and her own master, but Sichang was not afraid of him. ”

Listening to Yang Sichang's words, Hua Bushi's heart couldn't help but move. Yang Sichang was originally a person who was dismissed from office and was idle at home, but this time he came to Wangwushan with Hua Bushi, a man from the rivers and lakes, and he was so enthusiastic to contribute to deal with Zuo Liangyu's people, it should not be just to thank Hua Bushi for borrowing the house.

This Mr. Yang was originally a member of the "Five Kings Party", and the "Donglin Party" behind Zuo Liangyu and Fugui Villa is a mortal enemy. Without the covert support of the "Five Kings Party", even if Yang Sichang's official position was not low in the past, he is now unofficial and unofficed, how could he make the officials of all prefectures and counties obey orders with just a few letters?

Hua Bushi's inner thoughts turned, but he didn't show half a smile on his face.

Chu Yiyi said: "Childe, the time has come, should we start it?"

Hua Bushi looked into the canyon and saw that Zuo Liangyu led more than 1,000 men and horses to chase away, and there were only 500 cavalry in the valley, and 50 or 60 caravans carrying grain and grass. He immediately said: "Okay, give the order to launch an ambush and burn the grain cart in one fell swoop!"

An arrow came with a "roar" and stuck in front of the grain cart in the valley.

The officers and cavalry guarding the grain cart looked up, but saw that from behind the woods on the hillside, one or two hundred bandits had come out at some point. Just drove away, and immediately another group came, this ghost place in the barren mountains and mountains is really full of thieves!

But seeing that this group of new bandits were also masked in black scarves, they were all sturdy, with long knives at their waists, and long cowhide covers on their backs, neatly equipped, and looked much stronger than the previous group of guys with broken armor.

These bandits were all disciples of the Perak camp, just because they wanted to hide in the dense forest, because they did not ride horses, but on foot.

The cavalry of the official army reacted immediately, and the five hundred men moved quickly, surrounding the caravan in the middle, and the fireworks signal was also released into the air, informing Zuo Liangyu of the attack. The general who commanded the rear team acted quite cautiously, and in the face of these two bandits, although the five hundred cavalry had a numerical advantage, he did not plan to take the initiative to attack, but first protected the grain and grass, and waited until Zuo Liangyu's brigade came back to make plans.

This was a foolproof way to deal with it, Zuo Liangyu led the army to chase and kill the gang of horse thieves, and it was not too far away, and he should be able to come back soon to rescue. No matter how powerful this gang of bandits is, it is absolutely impossible to break through the defense of 500 cavalry and capture the grain cart in this moment.

It's just that this kind of stubborn strategy has long been expected by Hua Bushi, and he has already thought of a way to deal with it.

There was only a "boom" sound, and the bandits dragged out a dozen catapults from the woods, and brought out many clay pots the size of wine jars, lit the fuses, and projected them.

These catapults and fire pots, which were originally prepared to deal with Chu Changting's underworld water bandits, were not used up on the Yellow River, and they came in handy here.

The range of the catapult was fifty feet, and it was placed on the hillside, just enough to throw the grain cart from the hillside, and after one round of projection, four or five grain carts had been hit and burned, and a few fire cans were not thrown into the caravan, but they were smashed on the ground and ignited a fire!

The officers and soldiers were shocked, and many soldiers hurriedly ran to the caravan to put out the fire. But the black oil in those clay pots is extremely flammable, and there is no water in this valley, so how can a fire be extinguished so easily when it is already burning?

A second round of fire canisters was fired, and several more grain trucks caught fire. Under the order, the officers and cavalry had already ridden their horses and climbed up the hillside.

This is a last resort. If they were to defend the fire again and let the catapults on the hillside fire pots, the soldiers would not be able to put out the fire as fast as the bandits could set fire, and the grain and grass would surely be burned out. The commander of the officer must have understood this, and immediately ordered the cavalry to attack the bandits on the slope.

When the bandits saw the cavalry attacking, they immediately took out the contents of the cowhide holsters they were carrying behind them, and they were all shiny muskets. A burst of "crackling" gunfire rang out, bursts of white gunpowder smoke rose on the hillside, and a large number of officers and soldiers and horses under the slope suddenly fell!

If it is on flat ground, the cavalry can rush to the distance of tens of zhang in just a few breaths, but there is a hillside in front of them, although it is not very steep, the horses cannot charge, they can only slowly climb up, and the cavalry of the brigade has become a live target for the opponent's shooting.

The bandits on the slope were all daylong, and after one round of firing they reloaded, and after the second round of gunfire, thirty or forty horsemen fell from their horses.

The general who commanded the officers and troops under the slope was a six-rank thousand general, and he was dumbfounded at the moment, stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes vigorously, almost unable to believe that what he saw in front of him was true. The catapult is just that, the other side has so many muskets! Since when did the bandits have such sophisticated weapons, much stronger than the equipment of the regular official army!

Firearms have been used in the army of the Ming Dynasty, and they are not considered to be rare, but the firearms in most of the armies are very crude, and the power is not as good as ordinary bows and crossbows, which are basically chicken ribs. The troops that are really equipped with high-grade firearms are only the Shenji Battalion in the Ming Army, and the Shenji Battalion has been stationed in Beijing for a long time, which belongs to the Imperial Forest Army of the current emperor, and the muskets they are equipped with are all purchased from Western countries, and they cost a huge amount of silver.

Also belonging to the soldiers and horses stationed in Gyeonggi, this thousand generals naturally knew about the Shenji Battalion, and had seen their equipment, but in his opinion, it was the musket of the Shenji Battalion, and the range and power did not seem to be as good as those held by these bandits!

Dozens of feet away, the bullets fired can easily penetrate the heavy armor and kill the officers and knights, is this still a bandit!

At this point, there is no other way but to storm the hillside!

After all, the elite of the officers and soldiers under the command of Zuo Liangyu braved the rain of bullets to climb under the order, and after four rounds of musket volleys, they paid the price of more than 100 horses, and finally attacked the front of the bandits, and the distance between them and the more than ten catapults was only ten zhang.

However, this ten zhang distance is out of reach.

The bandits armed with muskets quickly retreated, but forty or fifty thieves dressed in green clothes and armed with long swords burst out from behind, and immediately engaged the official cavalry.

They were masked with green cloth, they couldn't see their faces, and they formed a group of seven to form jianzhen, who else would there be besides Qingyunwei?

The power of "Qingyun Jianzhen" is difficult for a top master like Chu Changting to break through, if hundreds of officers and soldiers charge in formation on the plain, they may be able to pose some threats to Jianzhen, but now climbing on the slope of the mountain, the advantage of the mount can not be played at all, and it is really difficult to rush past the resistance of Qingyunwei.

Jianzhen Yicheng, forty-nine Qingyunwei jumped through and jumped, and what they used was the "Xingluo style" that was the best at group attack in the formation, and in just a moment, the officers and cavalry who rushed into the formation were stabbed and slashed forty or fifty people, and the rest did not dare to step forward again.

Even elite soldiers are afraid of death, rushing into such a strict jianzhen is really nine deaths, and no matter how brave the soldiers are, they will inevitably be afraid.

On the top of the mountain a hundred zhang away, Yang Sichang looked at the progress of the battle on the hillside, and sighed: "Young Master Hua's disciples are really extraordinary, with these dozens of disciples forming a formation, it is enough to be worthy of the power of a thousand people!"

Hua Bushi smiled slightly, and said: "Mr. Si Chang has won the award, this formation can block the heavy cavalry, but with the help of the terrain, if you really go to the battlefield of thousands of troops and horses, this hundred and ten disciples is still not worth mentioning." ”

He glanced down the mountain and said, "The battle situation has been decided, after Zuo Liangyu came back, he found that the grain and grass were burned, and most of them would search the mountain on a large scale, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's go first!"