Xiao Ding divided his troops overnight and sent generals to set up an ambush on the road between Dingchang County and Longxing County to block and kill Da Chunlu's troops.

Early the next morning, he himself took the only fifty or sixty old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers in the city to intercept Da Chunlu. Only an empty city in Shao County was left.

The place where Xiao Ding went to intercept was an abandoned tea shed on the way to Longxing County. The original owner of the tea shed may have sold tea here to make money, after all, this is the only way for Dingchang County and Shao County to go to Longxing County, and it is not far from Longxing County, so it is very possible for pedestrians along the way to rest here, which can be seen that the original owner of the tea shed is also very good at choosing a place to do business.

It was only because of the war or other reasons that the original owner abandoned this tea shed. Xiao Ding felt that the remnants of the army waiting for Da Chunlu here were the most suitable. Anyway, I didn't plan to ambush here, but I planned to block the road and rob it openly. It is enough to let the fifty or sixty old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers rest here, and wait for work to intercept the remnants of Da Chunlu's defeated generals, and the chance of victory is still very great.

It was almost noon, the weather was even hotter, and the blazing sun shone on the white flowers on the ground, as if the ground could be roasted.

Da Chunlu rode on a horse, led the army, and was heading in the direction of Longxing County. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, picked up the water bag hanging from his neck, unscrewed the lid, raised his head and drank a few sips of water, then wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and shouted: "Let's go faster, hold on for a while, and when we arrive in Longxing County, we will rest again!" ”

His soldiers heard the order and once again stepped up their pace.

At this moment, a scout came to report: "Back to the general, five miles ahead is the old bowl, and after the old bowl, you can reach Longxing County after thirty or forty miles." ”

Da Chunlu nodded and said, "Okay, got it." I heard that the terrain near Laowankou is dangerous, so you can go and investigate again to see if there are any enemy ambushes. ”

"Yes, General!" The scouts turned and rode away.

Da Chunlu shouted loudly again: "Everyone, be in good spirits, we will reach Longxing County in another forty miles, and we can rest in the county!" ”

When the soldiers heard this, they also became energetic. Immediately wiped the sweat from his face, then cheered up and quickened his pace.

When Da Chunlu's army came to the outskirts of Lao Wankou, he didn't see the scouts he had just sent out to reply.

I don't know where the scouts have gone to find out. In order to hurry up and rush to Longxing County to rest early, Da Chunlu didn't wait for the scout to reply to the message, gave an order, and continued to move forward.

So the army followed the official road, crossed the mountain beam, and walked into the old bowl.

At this time, Da Chunlu didn't know that the scouts he sent out before were discovered by the Han brothers when they were exploring the old bowl, and in order not to leak the news, the Han brothers immediately ordered the scouts to be shot to death, and then hid the bodies in the grass.

At this time, Da Chunlu was slowly walking into the ambush circle of the Han brothers in the old bowl. But he didn't notice it at all.

The army was walking unhurriedly in front, and suddenly in the thatched bushes on both sides, a cannon sounded, and then the war drums rumbled, and ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and the target was the 30,000 army of Da Chunlu.

Da Chunlu was taken aback, he was suddenly attacked, he had been in battle for a long time, but he didn't panic much, and hurriedly ordered: shield cover, bow and arrow counterattack!

However, he underestimated the power of the Han brothers' 10,000 forbidden soldiers. How could the power of the ballista and the medium-sized crossbow be something that an ordinary shield could resist? Moreover, the bows and arrows of those soldiers under his command could not reach the location of the ambush of the Han brothers' army!

As a result, it didn't take long for Da Chunlu's troops to suffer heavy losses.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Da Chunlu could not resist the opponent's crossbow arrows at all, and the counterattack did not have any effect at all, so he ordered again: The army marches quickly and rushes out of the encirclement!

The idea is plump, but the reality is skinny.

Da Chunlu led the troops to rush forward, and arrows were still raining down in the thatched bushes on both sides.

The army of 30,000 people, just like that, was completely shrouded in a rain of arrows. The Han brothers specially arranged hundreds of soldiers to focus on firing crossbow arrows at the position where the vanguard troops were rushing to kill, so as to block the advance route of Da Chunlu's troops.

For a while, inside Da Chunlu's troops, ghosts cried wolves, and the screams resounded through the sky! 30,000 troops are rapidly being attributioned.

Da Chunlu was dumbfounded at this time, his troops are currently only beaten, and fighting back will not work at all, if you want to rush out, but you are blocked by the key points, and you want to rush into the grass to fight the enemy hand-to-hand, it is not a wise choice, in that case, you need to rush up against the crossbow arrows, and the losses will be incalculable.

Da Chun Lu waved the big knife in his hand while thinking about the way, thinking about it, and felt that the only way to keep most of his strength at the moment was to continue to rush forward, break out of the encirclement, and leave this ghost place. Otherwise, if we continue to struggle and resist here, we will be in danger of total annihilation.

So, despite the power of the crossbow bolts blocking the forward route, he still took the lead and led his troops forward.

As Xiao Ding guessed, the soldiers in the front and middle of the troops, because they were facing the threat of death, had to fight with their lives to follow Da Chunlu forward with crossbow arrows. The troops in the rear, seeing the fierce firepower of the opponent's crossbow arrows in front, had the heart to retreat, and instead of advancing, they retreated, and retreated towards the way they came.

It's all at this time, and it's the most important thing to escape, who cares whether Da Chunlu's order is to march forward or backward!

So, Da Chunlu led about seven or eight thousand people, armed with crossbow arrows, and rushed forward to kill, and finally broke out of the attack range of the Han brothers' encirclement. And the five or six thousand people who were at the back of the line retreated backwards, and they were also out of the encirclement of the Han brothers. They didn't dare to move forward, so they had to follow the road they came and plan to return to Dingchang County.

In a round of ambushes, Da Chunlu's 30,000-strong army was killed or wounded more than half at once, and 17,800 people were killed or wounded, losing their combat effectiveness.

Although Da Chunlu was heartbroken, he didn't dare to delay, because he found that the soldiers in ambush in the rear seemed to have followed and chased after him.

led seven or eight thousand defeated soldiers, along the official road, and continued to flee in the direction of Longxing County.

As soon as he crossed the mountain beam on the edge of the old bowl, suddenly a cannon rang out again. The ambush army led by Yang Yueling's sister and brother rushed out, but it was still the first round of arrow rain. Thousands of people in Da Chunlu's troops were immediately knocked to the ground.

Then the feathered arrows continued to fire at the troops. In Da Chunlu's troops, the voices of crying fathers and mothers again arose, and the wailing and screaming continued.

The 5,000-chamber army led by Yang Yueling's sister and brother was equipped with a small number of crossbow carts and medium-sized Lianzhu crossbows, and most of them were ordinary bows and arrows. Therefore, the troops were much closer to the soldiers of Da Chunlu.

At this moment, the troops of the Han brothers, who were following the pursuit, also caught up, and they fired crossbow arrows from behind. Again, like cutting leeks, shoot down a large number of soldiers who have reached the pure law.

Da Chunlu had already felt at this time that today was a catastrophe. He had no choice but to lead the troops to continue to rush forward, and if he continued to delay, the longer the time, the greater the losses.

Even so, his soldiers were rapidly dwindling. People are constantly being shot by crossbow arrows, killed or wounded, and after falling to the ground, they are no longer combative.

Before today, Da Chunlu had never seen such a powerful crossbow arrow in the Great Song Kingdom, which was simply shocking. Under these powerful crossbow arrows, the shields of his soldiers were as fragile as eggshells, and they were not vulnerable to attack.

There is no defense at all, and the counterattack range cannot reach other people's camps, so here there is only the share of being slaughtered and killed. He had no choice but to flee for his life. Escaping from the ambush and blockade of the other party has a chance to survive.

So, Da Chunlu fought hard, took the lead, rushed to the front, brandished a broadsword, and fired crossbow arrows. He believed that if he didn't get the spears and crossbow bolts that were fired at him in time, they might shoot straight through his armor.

After a burst of death-defying killing, Da Chunlu's body, which was already sweating profusely, sweated like rain again, and the clothes in the battle armor were already soaked with sweat. He looked back at the soldiers behind him who had rushed out with him, and there were about a hundred or so in all.

The other seven or eight thousand soldiers were besieged in the middle by the other side and slaughtered.

Da Chunlu knew that even if he rushed back to rescue at this moment, it would be a drop in the bucket, it would be useless, and if he didn't get it right, he would put his life on the line. So he sighed, although he was a little unbearable, but there was no way, so he had no choice but to take the hundred or so people and continue to flee towards Longxing County.

The five or six thousand soldiers who fled from Laowankou to the road thought that they would be able to return to Dingchang County safely, but they did not expect that they had just walked a short distance when they heard a cannon shot, and in the thatched grass on both sides of the road, arrows rained down. These people have once again become live targets for the opponent's bow and crossbow.

Naturally, it was Luo Sikou and Gao Hongxiu's troops who were intercepting here. They had been hearing the sound of fighting and the sound of war drums in the mouth of the old bowl for a long time. Just wait for a deserter to return from here.

Xiao Ding had already explained to them that when Da Chunlu came over, he didn't need to deal with them first, but after they were ambushed, some soldiers retreated according to the original way, so they stopped them and killed them all.

Therefore, they waited all morning, and they had been looking forward to this moment, just waiting for the other party to be defeated, and after stopping here, they would beat the water dogs.

This is also called "taking advantage of your illness to kill you"! It is always much easier to fall into the well and intercept the defeated army than to face the new army head-on.

Therefore, these unlucky deserters thought that they would be safe and sound if they escaped from the old bowl, but they didn't expect to kill halfway to bite the gold, this round of arrow rain, who can stand it!

Originally, they were already frightened by the ambush army in the old bowl before, but they didn't expect that there would be an ambush army on the way they came.

They had already become frightened birds, and there was no commander to command them at this time, and they were all frightened when they saw so many crossbow arrows being fired, and among them was a low-ranking officer in the position of the commander, who shouted loudly: "Since we have no way to live, we might as well surrender!" ”

With his encouragement, there were immediately many soldiers to support him, and seeing that he was ambushed again, no one was willing to send him to death, of course, the only way to survive was to surrender.

Luo Sikou and Gao Hongxiu were directing the soldiers to shoot arrows, and suddenly saw many soldiers in the enemy army, holding up the white flags, or white plackets, towels, and the like with their weapons, and then, they fell to their knees at once, and they threw all the weapons in their hands on the ground, and then shouted: "We are willing to surrender!" ”

Luo Sikou and Gao Hongxiu immediately ordered to stop firing arrows.

Then he sent someone to talk to him, and after asking about the other party's intentions, Luo Sikou and Gao Hongxiu were very happy. It doesn't take much effort to recruit so many soldiers, which is not a small gain.

The other side originally had five or six thousand soldiers, but just now there was a rain of arrows, and more than 1,000 people had been killed and wounded, and now more than 4,000 people have surrendered, and the soldiers brought by Luo Sikou and Gao Hongxiu this time are only 3,000.

Such a record is worth being proud of for a lifetime.

The two hurriedly asked people to collect all the weapons used to surrender the army. Prevent them from going back on halfway. Then all the officers on the other side were put under heavy care, and without the command of the officers, ordinary soldiers would not be able to make any waves.

Luo Sikou and Gao Hongxiu won a big victory here, but Da Chunlu fled listlessly towards Longxing County like a frosted eggplant.

The 30,000 army was taken away by him all at once, what kind of face will he have to see the second son and the king of Jiaozhou in the future? As he was walking towards the front with his head down, he suddenly heard a voice say, "Great stupid donkey, have you been able to escape today?" ”

Da Chun was shocked......