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At the suggestion of Zhao Yu, Chen Mo, Wang Qing, Niu Heng and others led the brothers in the cottage to tie up the mountain trees with bamboo strips and vines, and set up layers of isolation and defense between the woods in the mountains.

At that time, these inconspicuous isolation belts successfully played the role of dividing the officers and soldiers, and created an opportunity for the Black Tiger Village to concentrate its forces to attack a small group of lone officers and soldiers, so that the officers and soldiers under the command of Ma Gai lost hundreds of men in a single attack on the mountain, and the casualties were almost more than half of the total number of officers and men.

In the end, Ma Gai set fire to the mountain, burning the trees on the hillside on this side of the Black Tiger Village in one fell swoop, and also burned the isolation defense built by the black tiger thieves with bamboo strips and vines.

In view of Ma Gai's fire, even after nearly two years, the slopes on this side of Yingshan are still bare, which is very unfavorable to resist the attack of a large number of men and horses, so there is a narrow passage of cobwebs.

In Zhao Yu's expectation, the spider web narrow road should be spread all over the southeast, east, southwest and other directions of the hill where the main village of the Black Tiger is located, with the help of the ups and downs of the mountain, according to local conditions, if necessary, to build the city wall with bricks and stones, the original slope is not steep, into a 'zigzag' complex mountain road, which can not only lengthen the enemy's line, delay the enemy's attack on the mountain, but also strengthen their own resistance, and even can surprise when the enemy attacks the mountain, making it difficult for the enemy to take care of the head and tail.

All in all, the narrow path of the spider web can be regarded as a powerful version of Zhao Yu's strategy last year, and it can be regarded as the mountain guarding array of the Black Tiger Village.

Compared with repairing the main village, this is a big project, in recent months, the main village of the black tiger to Xiang Village, Feng Village and other nearby Xiang villages to hire young people, mainly to build this cobweb narrow road.

But unfortunately, as of that day, this project has still only completed a small piece, only the southeast side of the Black Tiger main village is barely completed, and it is still far from completing Zhao Yu's expectations.

Fortunately, the newcomer Nanyang Army didn't know the mystery and crashed in.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! ”

"Whoosh-"

Only on a zigzag mountain road, Wang Qing stepped on a stone on the side of the road, pointed the tip of the knife in his hand to the mountain road below, laughed wildly with a slightly hideous expression, and at the same time gave an order to the bandits around him: "Hahaha, shoot hard at Lao Tzu!" ”

Under his order, the nearby black tiger thieves shot arrows at the Nanyang soldiers on the mountain road below, although the bows and crossbows in the hands of the black tiger thieves were of different systems, and the power was far from strong, but in the case of only two or three zhang drop, it still caused some casualties to the Nanyang soldiers on the mountain road below.

There were even bandits who raised stones and mud with their heads and smashed them down, so that the Nanyang soldiers below were panicked and avoided.

It's okay to be hit by a mud block, but if you are hit by that rock, can that person still live?

"Fight back! Counterattack! ”

An uncle surnamed Xu shouted angrily.

However, even if the Nanyang soldiers on the mountain road below stood on tiptoe and raised the spears in their hands, they could not touch the bandits on the mountain road above, and could only be attacked by the other party condescending and in vain.

Seeing the group of Nanyang soldiers below raising their spears and trying to attack them but couldn't reach them, not only Wang Qing laughed wildly, but even the rest of the bandits laughed.

Seeing this, the Xu Bo grew up angry, held the spear in his hand with his right hand, and threw it at the bandit above like a spear.

But at the sound of a scream, a thief, who was still laughing, was caught off guard by this spear and shot in the left chest, only to see him snort and take two steps back while covering his wounds.

When the rest of the Nanyang soldiers saw it, they followed suit and threw the spears in their hands as throwing spears at the mountain road above.

Seeing this, even if it was Wang Qing, he changed color, and hurriedly beckoned everyone: "Get down!" Get down! ”

In fact, there was no need for him to greet them, and those discerning black tiger thieves had already hid on the inner side of the mountain road, dodging the spears that crackled and fell from the air in a panic.

For a time, the casualties of the black tiger thief ...... Very little.

Think about it, the Nanyang soldiers are at the bottom of the zigzag mountain road, and the black tiger thieves are above, although they are only a few zhang high, but as long as the black tiger thieves have the heart to dodge, the Nanyang soldiers have no angle to hurt the people above, and they almost just lose their weapons in vain.

If you lose your weapon, what will you do to fight those bandits? By the one-inch short sword that was distributed to each person?

Therefore, the chief quickly realized this, and immediately shouted: "Stop! Stop it! ”

But he was still too late, because in that moment, dozens of soldiers had already followed his example and thrown away their weapons.

It may be that seeing that there was no movement below, Wang Qing glanced at it carefully, and immediately ordered another attack.

Or one of his thieves picked up a spear from the ground and said, "Boss, shall we drop these spears?" At such a close distance, he will definitely be able to kill many of the soldiers below. ”

Wang Qing snatched the spear from his hand and tapped it, then glanced at his subordinate like a fool, and scolded: "Are you as stupid as the people below? Such a good weapon, of course, is to keep it and use it slowly! ”

may have heard the conversation of the group of bandits above, and the Nanyang soldiers below looked embarrassed one by one, and looked at the uncle at a loss, as if to say: Uncle, you lost it first......

The uncle glared at the surroundings hatefully, and then shouted urgently: "Haven't the brothers in front gone around yet?" ”

The voice fell, and there was no response.

Seeing this, he glanced hatefully at the group of bandits above his head.

He had never encountered such a despicable bandit, and besides, the mountain road was also lacking in virtue, and the people above could attack them in vain with bows and arrows, throwing stones, etc., but they lacked the means to fight back, and even if the spear in his hand was raised, it could not reach the top.

It felt like a siege.

Yes, yes, their situation at the moment is as passive as the besieging side.

Seeing that the group of bandits on the top attacked them again with bows, crossbows, stones and other objects, Xu Bochang gritted his teeth and ordered: "I can't wait, build a ladder for me and climb up!" ”

"Yes!"

At the sound of the order, the nearby Nanyang soldiers immediately set up a human ladder and used their backs and shoulders to top a famous robe.

"Huh?"

Seeing this scene, Wang Qing and the other black tiger thieves were stunned: There is still this trick?

However, this also made those Nanyang soldiers become targets in the eyes of the black tiger thieves, only to see that under Wang Qing's order, the black tiger thieves on the mountain road above picked up the high-quality spears of the Nanyang soldiers and poked them hard at the soldiers who tried to climb up below, so that this scene seemed to be like a siege battle at first glance.

"Ah——!h

"Ah——!h

In a scream, those soldiers who tried to climb up were mercilessly stabbed by the black tiger thieves, and they fell down one by one.

Seeing this, Xu Bochang hammered the mountain wall fiercely: "Damn, it would be nice if there was a long ladder!" ”

The so-called long ladder, that is, the long ladder used for siege, in Xu Bochang's opinion, if they have a long ladder in hand at this moment, how can they tolerate such arrogance and arrogance of that bandit?

Of course, he just thought so, after all, they didn't have a long ladder in their army - who would have thought that the encirclement and suppression of a group of bandits would actually use a long ladder for siege?

"These shameless bandits!"

Xu Bochang scolded angrily, but it didn't help the situation at all.

I have to say that the Nanyang soldiers are worthy of being regular troops, although they have suffered a big loss from the terrain difference, but their morale can not be discharged, they quickly set up a human ladder to climb up, Rao is Wang Qing and other bandits struggled to block, and it is difficult to suppress back.

Seeing this, Wang Qing waved his hand decisively and said, "Withdraw, withdraw, brothers, withdraw!" ”

With an order, all the black tiger thieves picked up the spears of the Nanyang Army on the ground, and retreated along the mountain road one after another, disappearing in a few blinks.

At this time, Xu Bochang also climbed the mountain road above with all the soldiers.

They were about to pursue the fleeing bandits, when they suddenly saw their robes running briskly from the mountain road on the left.

"Huh? You ......"

The head of the uncle, Liu Qiao, looked at Uncle Xu in amazement: "Xu Zang, why are you in front of me?" ”

After that, he glanced at the right side of the mountain road and saw that there were still a lot of robes climbing up by hitting the ladder, and he suddenly realized.

At this time, Xu Zang and Xu Bochang held back his anger and asked Liu Qiao: "Liu Qiao, why is it so slow?" ”

Glancing at the mountain road below, Liu Qiao saw a lot of corpses lying on the ground, he immediately understood something, and explained kindly: "Blame this damn mountain road, taking me around in a big circle...... What about the bandits? ”

Xu Zang endured his unhappiness and pointed in the direction where Wang Qing and the others had fled, and said in a muffled voice: "Escaped along this mountain road......"

After some totaling, Xu Zang and Liu Qiao joined forces and pursued Wang Qing and others along the mountain road.

I saw that Wang Qing stepped on a stone on the side of the road with one foot, smiling at them, as if a hungry beast had seen its prey, and licked his lips.

"Again?!"

Xu Zang, who had already suffered a big loss, immediately shouted to stop the soldiers behind him and did not dare to move forward.

He thought for a while and said, "Liu Qiao, you are here, I will go to see Qu Hou, the road in this mountain is treacherous......

"Good!"

After Liu Qiao nodded in agreement, Xu Zang immediately squeezed through the crowd and walked towards the location of Quhou Hou Wu.

After meeting Hou Wu, Xu Zang told the latter about his experience: "Qu Hou, the road in this mountain is treacherous, and the thieves always shoot arrows at our soldiers at high places, and even throw mud and stones, but our soldiers rarely have the means to fight back......"

While listening to Xu Zang's narration, Hou Wu frowned and looked up at the mountain road above.

I still remember that before entering the mountain, when he first saw the smooth mountain road, he was still making fun of this group of bandits, laughing at these bandits who didn't know whether they were alive or dead, and actually built a road in front of their home, isn't it convenient for the officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress them?

But now he didn't think that way anymore.

The mountain roads built by this group of bandits seem stupid, but in fact they are traps set for the officers and soldiers who come to encircle and suppress, these mountain roads that are on average one zhang wide and the widest part are only two carriages in parallel, which invisibly stretches the battle line of their Nanyang soldiers, so that when the bandits suddenly appear in one place and attack the Nanyang soldiers in one section, the Nanyang soldiers on the other sections of the mountain road have almost no way to help.

As Xu Zang stated, a group of bandits with only a few dozen people dared to ambush them with the help of the terrain gap, but the annoying thing is that this group of bandits actually succeeded, causing more casualties to his Nanyang soldiers than their number, on the other hand, the gang of bandits only killed and wounded.

As Xu Zang said, this mountain road is so strange that his 500 Nanyang soldiers can hardly exert their due strength, and they are wantonly attacked by dozens of bandits.

"No, if this continues, even if we suffer heavy casualties, we will not be able to inflict any actual casualties on this group of bandits."

Thinking of this, Hou Wu decisively ordered the withdrawal of troops.

Under his order, the Nanyang soldiers took Tong Ze's body and slowly retreated along the way they came.

Seeing this scene, Wang Qing patted his thigh and smiled: "Want to go? It's not that easy! …… Brothers, if the officers and soldiers are going to flee, let's kill him again! ”

With an order, Wang Qing led the dozens of bandits to chase after him.

He didn't chase the ground too closely, because of the zigzag mountain road, when it was decided that when the Nanyang army retreated along the mountain road, it would inevitably pass through the road below, so Wang Qing only had to wait for the road above.

"Kill!"

Under his command, the black tiger thieves who occupied the high terrain fired crossbow arrows again, throwing mud and stones, and smashed the Nanyang soldiers under the ground, and they could only block their heads and other vital positions with their hands, and they were beaten in vain.

This is not counting, taking advantage of the withdrawal of the Nanyang army, Chen Mo, Chu Yan and others also appeared at the cliff and other high places with terrain advantages, shooting arrows at the soldiers below, shooting those Nanyang soldiers holding their heads and running away, and some people even lost the weapons in their hands when they were in a panic.

"Hahaha-"

"Hahahaha-"

For a while, the arrogant laughter of the black tiger thieves resounded in the entire mountain, and Quhou Hou Wu, who looked back angrily, turned pale.

After retreating to the bottom of the mountain, before Hou Wu could catch his breath, he saw a herald coming quickly, clasping his fists and saying, "Qu Hou, the general orders you to see him immediately!" ”

Of course, Hou Wu understood that he was definitely going to be trained, and he couldn't help but turn pale.

After he had no choice, after instructing his uncles to count the battle losses, he immediately went to see the partial general Ji Rong.

Sure enough, when Ji Rong saw Hou Wu, his face was really a little unsightly, and he frowned and scolded: "Hou Wu, what the hell are you doing?" ”

He had a lot of opinions about Hou Wu, after all, in his opinion, Hou Wu first led his troops around the mountains, and then withdrew his troops without permission regardless of the military order, but for the sake of Hou Wu being his brave subordinate, Ji Rongcai did not immediately punish him, but wanted to listen to Hou Wu's explanation first.

Hou Wu obviously also guessed that this general Ji was in a bad mood, and he didn't dare to slack off, so he immediately made an explanation for withdrawing troops without authorization: "Partial general, the road in this mountain is treacherous, although it seems to be smooth, but it is narrow and winding, which invisibly lengthens our battle line, so that our army can not take care of the end of the road, moreover, there are many forks in the mountain road, once you go wrong, you will encounter cliffs, cliffs and other dead roads, you can only return the original way; In addition, the thieves always stand on a high place, attacking our soldiers with bows and crossbows and throwing stones, and most of the general's subordinates are spearmen, and there are few crossbowmen, so they can hardly make counterattacks, and can only be beaten in vain......"

Ji Rong was originally unhappy, but after hearing Hou Wu's explanation, that unhappiness suddenly disappeared, and Hou Wu was no longer held accountable for withdrawing troops without authorization.

I saw him looking at the mountains in the distance, frowning and saying, "According to what you said, this mountain road is probably deliberately ...... by thieves."

Hou Wu nodded and said, "It must be a thief who did it on purpose." …… It's really a despicable and shameless trick! ”

“……”

Ji Rong frowned and thought for a moment, and then asked, "If I send a crossbowman to help you and ask you to attack the mountain again, do you have a chance of winning?" ”

"Difficult."

Hou Wu shook his head and said: "There are many narrow roads in the mountains, dense like snake and rat nest roads, our army first arrived here, I don't know anything about it, I don't know where it is the way of life, where is the way of death, and no matter whether it is right or wrong, it will be occupied by thieves and attacked in vain......"

After a pause, he added: "One of the last generals, an uncle named Xu Zang, suggested that if our army can build a number of long ladders for siege, we can ignore those mountain roads, no matter how winding they are, we only need to climb up with the help of long ladders." ”

"Long ladder?"

Ji Rong touched the short beard of his chin and thought.

Maybe he was too reckless in dealing with the Brotherhood, but if it was involved in the war, then Ji Rong was also a general with actual combat experience, so he wouldn't run headlong into it knowing that there was a trap in the mountain.

The reason why he seemed to attack the mountain in a hurry today was actually to test the strength of this group of black tiger thieves - if the black tiger thieves were just a group of bandits who were about to collapse at the touch of a button, then there was no need for him to camp step by step.

However, the temptation of the first battle made him extremely dissatisfied.

At this time, the soldiers sent by Ji Rong to count the battle losses came to the side of the two, hugged their fists and said to Ji Rong: "General, according to preliminary statistics, 93 people were killed in Hou Wu's song this time, and more than 200 people were wounded......

Hearing this battle loss figure, Hou Wu couldn't help but shrink his head and secretly glanced at Ji Rong's expression.

You must know that there are a total of 500 soldiers under his command, but he did not expect more than half of them to be killed or wounded.

He swallowed his saliva and said in fear: "General, I ......"

Compared with Hou Wu's panic, Ji Rong's expression was calm, he raised his hand to interrupt Hou Wu's explanation, frowned and said, "No need to explain." …… Pass my orders and withdraw the troops! ”

At the sound of an order, the sound of gold suddenly sounded in the army.

Immediately, the brigade slowly retreated.

At this time, Zhao Yu, Niu Heng, Jingnu and others were still standing on the top of the mountain watching the battle.

Seeing the Nanyang army under the mountain slowly withdrawing, Niu Heng grinned and said, "This group of timid little cubs, this is withdrawn?" ”

From the side, Zhao Yu looked at the bottom of the mountain, and a little surprise flashed in his eyes.

You must know that this time Ji Rong only dispatched two teams of 500 people, and even, the other song was just sweeping the formation under the mountain, and there was only one song that really fought with his Black Tiger Village, that is, 500 people.

According to Zhao Yu's estimate, even if it was those five hundred, the number of casualties was not serious, all in all, Na Ji Rong was fully capable of continuing to launch an onslaught on his cottage.

But Ji Rong didn't do that, the only explanation is that today the other party is purely weighing the strength of his black tiger thief, plus realizing the power of the 'spider web narrow channel', he doesn't want his soldiers to sacrifice in vain, so he decisively withdraws his troops.

Thinking of this, Zhao Yu shook his head slightly, and said with a little regret: "It is really ...... to expose the biggest reliance of my main village, but only caught a handful of small fry."

As he spoke, he glanced at the mountain again, and said with emotion: "This Ji Rong, looking at his actions in Kunyang, I thought he was a reckless guy, but I didn't expect to bring up troops, but I also knew the ...... advance and retreat."

As the saying goes, if you can know how to advance and retreat, you will be a qualified general.

At this time, Chen Mo took the lead to lead people along the mountain road to this side, and saw Zhao Yu and a few people standing in the open space in front of the village looking down the mountain, he walked over and said to Zhao Yu: "I failed to lure those soldiers in......

Zhao Yu nodded slightly.

Some people may wonder why only Wang Qing led dozens of bandits to meet the attack at the beginning, but Chen Mo and Chu Yan were not seen, until the five hundred Nanyang troops led by Hou Wu retreated, Chen Mo and Chu Yan chased and killed for a while.

The reason is very simple, because Zhao Yu wants to do a big deal and eat the five hundred Nanyang soldiers in one go.

Mo felt that it was unrealistic, under the condition that those Nanyang soldiers did not know the power of the cobwebs, it was actually not impossible to swallow those five hundred Nanyang soldiers in one go.

Therefore, he deliberately waited for Hou Wu's five hundred Nanyang soldiers to go deep into the mountains, like flying insects falling into a spider's web, and when the time was right, Chen Mo, Wang Qing, and Chu Yan would besiege these five hundred Nanyang soldiers from all directions.

Because of the narrowness of the mountain road, it is difficult for the 500 Nanyang soldiers to exert their due strength, and they are difficult to take care of, and they are exposed to the enemy on their backs, even if their normal combat ability and weapons and equipment are better than those of his black tiger thieves, it may not be impossible for the whole army to be wiped out.

However, it is a pity that although Zhao Yu thought very well, those Nanyang soldiers did not cooperate.

Quhou Hou Wu and his subordinate chief Xu Zang and others quickly realized the strangeness of the cobweb's narrow passage, and retreated before entering the ambush point of the black tiger thief, which caused Chen Mo and Chu Yan to leave the ambush point and flank the 500 Nanyang soldiers in advance, missing the opportunity to completely annihilate the opponent's 500 vanguard troops.

But this kind of thing, regret is regret, but it is normal, after all, there is no winning art of war in the world, and the effect of a strategy depends to a large extent on whether the enemy 'cooperates'.

If the other party does not cooperate, then the conspirator can only think of another way.

For example, Zhao Yu at this moment.

He said to Chen Mo: "In today's first battle, the losses of the Nanyang Army are not big, not enough to thwart its spirit, and we have to add results...... I guess that after Ji Rong withdraws his troops, he will consider setting up camp, and while his foothold is unstable, he might as well lead his brothers to attack at night tonight, if he can inflict heavy losses on this army, the morale of the Nanyang army will inevitably plummet, and it may not be able to pose a threat to us before the winter of this year......"

Hearing this, Chen Mo frowned and said, "Then Ji Rong is a partial general, if he can sit in this position, how can he not guard against night attacks?" ”

Zhao Yu smiled and said: "Yes, after this temptation, Ji Rong probably also realized that my Black Tiger people are not ordinary bandits who can be bullied at will, and if he is vigilant, he will inevitably guard against our army's night attack at night, but if he guards against it once, he may not be able to guard against the second ......."

Chen Mo suddenly realized, nodded and praised: "Good idea." ”

From the side, hearing that Zhao Yu decided to attack the Nanyang army garrison at night, Niu Heng shouted: "Ah Hu, let me go, this time has made my idle land all over the place itch......"

"Shhhh …… Brother Niu Heng, your voice is too loud. Zhao Yu made a silent gesture, and Niu Heng quickly closed his mouth.

Smiling slightly, Zhao Yu looked at the Nanyang army that was slowly retreating under the mountain again.

Although what he said to Chen Mo and others was to take the opportunity to train soldiers, if it was possible, he still hoped to be able to defend the cottage, after all, it was not easy for him to make money from the Black Tigers, how could he have spare money to rebuild the main village again and again?

However, if you want to hold the main village, you have to hit the 2,000 Nanyang army hard, and if you hit the 2,000 Nanyang army, it will inevitably anger Wang Shangde and increase the possibility that Wang Shangde will send reinforcements desperately to destroy them......

And this is exactly what Zhao Yu feels the most headache.

"I hope that I will order someone to pretend to be in the name of the Jingchu rebels to distract Wang Shangde's attention."

Zhao Yu thought secretly.

At the same time, in the county seat of Kunyang, there were several outsiders wearing hats who entered the city in a very low-key manner......