Shuixi Horse is still very powerful, when Wang Yuan first came to Guizhou City, he walked for three and a half days from Chuanqingzhai.

Now it takes only five hours to ride a horse, including a break.

The mountain is steep, Wang Yuan leads the horse on foot, no matter up or down, the horse is very fast. Except for the Baicha horse, other Mongolian horse breeds came to the mountains, and they didn't even want to pick up the dust behind the buttocks of the water horses.

When I returned home, my parents were actually preparing the bride price, and the eldest brother made the Fang girl's belly bigger......

Wang Yuan didn't say a word, asked his mother to feed the horses fine grain, and then ran to the house of the owner of Fangzhai by himself.

Fang Ayuan was quite surprised when he saw Wang Yuan: "Brother Yuan, the soldiers under the mountain are in chaos, why did you go back to the village at this time?" ”

Wang Yuan told the situation in detail and asked, "Uncle Fang, do you dare to gamble?" ”

"What's not to dare?" Fang Ayuan didn't think much about it at all, and made a decision directly, "I will take the two hundred young people in the village to the past, and I can fight if I can, and I can't go back to the mountain directly." But we must fight at night, and we can't let the Miao soldiers recognize us, otherwise Aja will definitely transfer troops to attack Qingzhai if he is mad. ”

Wang Yuan said: "I have already told the officers and soldiers that the things I have stolen will be divided in half. Although there were only four officers and soldiers, they were all spies on horseback, and only they could spy on the rebels' movements all the way, and they would not be easily detected by the rebels. ”

"There are no war horses in the village, so it is appropriate to divide them in half." Fang Ayuan carried it very clearly.

Fang Ayuan immediately summoned the young people in the village, because to eliminate the night blindness patients, only one hundred and eighty-nine people were gathered. Even Wang Yuan's father and eldest brother went down the mountain fully armed this time. Each person brought six torches, only three days' worth of dry food and water, and after an hour they quickly descended the mountain.

Wang Yuan rode first, and half a day later, he met Li Ying on the official road.

Li Ying reported the exact enemy situation and said: "There are about 1,000 thieves, and there are four or five hundred people (Song serfs who have defected to the rebels). They did not ride horses, but all their cattle were used to transport their goods, and the mules and donkeys together amounted to about two or three hundred, and the men carried their goods. There were about two hundred of the plundered women, and they were tied up and walked slowly, and it would take at least three days to reach Zazos. ”

Wang Yuan asked, "Are the rebels prepared?" ”

Li Ying said: "Uncle Friday, they are very careful, and they have not been discovered by the thieves yet. The 1,000 thieves were divided into two parts, one to open the way and the other to postpone. The thieves were very vigilant overnight, and last night they were sleeping in a hill, and they could observe the situation everywhere when they stood on the hill. But they did not fight, they did not send spies to open the way, they did not camp at night, but they cut down some bamboo to make a hedge to guard against wild beasts. ”

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Another day and one night passed.

Nearly 200 men dressed in green stopped at noon to rest, first, to recuperate, and second, to wait for the rebels, who might collide with them before it was dark.

"Dada-da-da!"

This time, it was changed to Song Ling'er riding a horse to contact the news: "Wang Er, that Friday uncle speculated that the thief might spend the night in Chopping Head Ridge." Because there are many thieves and they do not sleep in low-lying places, there is only a head-cutting ridge nearby that is convenient for stationing. ”

Wang Yuan turned around and asked Yuan Gang, "How long does it take to walk from here to Chopping Headling?" ”

Yuan Gang estimated: "No more than an hour." We can go back to Longgou to hide first, where the forest is very dense, and it is close to the head-cutting ridge, and the five thousand soldiers and horses hidden will not be discovered. ”

Wang Yuan immediately said to Fang Ayuan: "Then go back to Longgou first, and then go to Chopping Head Ridge after dark, and be sure to launch a surprise attack after they are asleep." Everyone must speak Chinese, and those who can't speak Chinese should shut up, light the torches and shout together, 'The officers and soldiers are coming'! ”

"I'll go back and report the news!" Song Linger was eager to try.

This girl has nothing to worry about, and she is looking forward to war again, and her crotch waist knife is already hungry and thirsty.

Another half an hour passed, and everyone came to Huilonggou to hide.

It was only afternoon, and it was still very early in the morning. Fang Ayuan asked everyone to sleep first, and personally led more than a dozen people to cut down branches and make them into the shape of a cross. Six torches are in a group, all fixed on the cross beam, and the night attack is charged with a cross, which is equivalent to one person carrying six torches.

It was almost evening, and Uncle Friday came in person. This time he didn't ride a horse, because it was all a steep downhill road, he greeted everyone in Qingzhai with a fist, and said with a smile: "The thieves stopped before it got dark, I was cooking on a fire when I came, and I guess I just cooked the rice now." Haha, these thieves were defenseless at all, and they drank and sang around the campfire last night, and even those sentry guards were drunk. ”

It's normal to be defenseless, and if you are prepared, the thief who is responsible for escorting the goods must be a general.

Because the soldiers of the Song family have been blocked in Beiya Erzhai, and the officials and soldiers are hiding in Guizhou City and dare not come out, it is impossible to encounter the enemy within a radius of hundreds of miles, how could those rebels think of wearing green people to attack at night?

It was dark and the full moon was high.

The moonlight did not affect the night raids, because the mountains were so wooded that it was difficult for the people in the green to see the road, and it was even more difficult for the rebels at Chopping Ridge to spot them.

"Ugh!"

Climbing halfway up the hill by moonlight, someone suddenly slipped and tumbled and fell.

"Are you dead?"

"It hurts me to death, I guess my leg is broken!"

Yuan Gang scolded in a low voice: "You are not allowed to speak." Go to two people, help him up, and everyone else go slower. ”

Chop off the head on the ridge.

Several rebel sentries were napping, and one opened his eyes in a daze, subconsciously looked down the mountain, and then closed his eyes again and continued to sleep.

Falling asleep, this person always felt that something was wrong, it was the alertness that he had cultivated from hunting in the mountains. He stood up and looked carefully, but the shadows and shadows between the ridges could not be seen at all, until he caught a glimpse of a few fires, and then shouted in horror: "There are people under the ridge!" ”

Those fires are Uncle Friday and others using fire folds to ignite the dead grass.

If they didn't cooperate with the official and military spies, they would have to temporarily beat the flint to make a fire.

"Quick, light the torch!"

Four fire breaks, and soon four bonfires were made out of dead grass and branches. Torches soaked in clear oil were quickly lit, one by one, and hundreds of them were lit in a matter of moments.

Wang Yuan drew his knife and shouted: "The official army is here!" ”

"Kill!" Song Ling'er rushed up the ridge with a torch.

Li Ying was also fighting for the first time, and his blood was surging, and he shouted in his father's tone: "Sons, follow me to break the enemy!" ”

At this moment, regardless of whether the torches in their hands were lit or not, nearly 200 people all shouted in unison, and then rushed to the ridge in no order.

A rabble, a rabble attacking another at night.

The first to panic were the serfs of the Song family who defected to the rebels. They didn't even have weapons, but they were responsible for towing livestock and carrying goods. At this moment, I suddenly woke up from my dream, most of them were running like headless flies, and a small half suffered from night blindness and couldn't see the road clearly, so they simply lay on the ground and shivered and pretended to be dead.

The thieves also reacted differently, some rushing at the enemy with their swords, others fleeing in the other direction.

And the two leaders of the 1,000-strong thieves were now sleeping with the plundered woman in their arms. They had all drunk before, and most of them were so frightened by the shouting that they hurriedly ran to check on the enemy.

"The officers and soldiers are coming, run!"

"Kill the officers and soldiers!"

The two leaders make different choices, and only a few of their subordinates hear their orders.

Song Ling'er, like most people who wear green, has never really fought. She didn't know how to conserve her strength, so she ran all the way up the hillside, and when she rushed up the mountain, she was already out of breath, and she was almost hacked to death by a thief.

At the critical moment, Wang Yuange opened the weapons of the thieves, slashed them to death with a knife, and scolded: "You don't want to die? ”

"Haha...... Call...... Whew, thanks. Song Ling'er gasped and continued to charge.

Li Ying and the scholar slashed all the way, shouting while chopping: "Eat my Li family's knife technique!" ”

The scholar named Li Zhong is actually a practitioner. He grew up with Li Ying since he was a child, and if Li Ying became a general one day, this kid would definitely be the commander of the family.

There were 1,000 thieves, but only about 20 people really resisted, and most of them fled for their lives at the beginning of the night attack. There were also some who wanted to fight, but when they saw that the situation was not good, they rushed halfway and then turned around and fled, and some jumped directly from the ridge in a panic.

"Kill the enemy, I kill the enemy!"

Song Ling'er shouted excitedly, she had just cut down an escaped thief.

Only Uncle Friday's official and military spies, as well as Fang Ayuan, Wang Quan and Yuan Gang, are the ones who can really fight. They maintained their strength from beginning to end, charging unhurriedly, and slashing out when they encountered thieves.

The crowd chased the thieves for a mile, and then returned to the beheading ridge.

Uncle Friday didn't care about the goods at all, and took three of his subordinates to cut off the heads everywhere with torches - in another ten years, the internal counterinsurgency could not be regarded as a reward for the first rank. This was proposed by Wang Yangming's leading brother Wang Qiong, saying that the rebels in the territory are also the people of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not interesting to talk about the head, and it is easy to lead to killing good and risking merit.

"Count the wounded and goods."

"Rest in place for a quarter of an hour, go down the mountain, don't take the official road, go into the mountains and go back to the village!"