Kan Yan's face was extremely ugly.

As a former bandit leader with extremely rich combat experience, he knew that he had encountered a hard stubble this time. An elaborate raid that ended up in this mess.

From the very beginning, he knew that there was some trouble, and the scouts, even when they were most relaxed, were on high alert. There are always three people riding war horses in full armor, scattered around, and if you can't get rid of your opponent at once, it's easy for your opponent to run away.

If it weren't for the fact that the leader of the other party had most likely discovered him, he would not have prepared to launch this attack.

It's a pity that it backfired.

After a battle, although the other party's ten people were completely annihilated, the price they paid was a little shocking. The hundreds of people who followed him here were the most capable fighters under his command, but the five-to-one battle loss rate made him frightened.

What made him even more annoyed was that the other party still released the signal. Although he couldn't understand the meaning of the bright red fireworks that rose into the sky, there was no doubt that his path would be much more difficult to walk next.

Canton was annoyed.

He was originally living a very happy life in Yingzhou. He is the leader of the largest group of bandits in Yingzhou, and there are as many as 10,000 people under his command who can gather together.

There were 2,000 people who followed him as a descendant, and the rest were the kind of bandits who picked up a hoe and were peasants, and followed him to rob when they lifted their knives.

But the good days ended with Zhang Zhongwu's Lu Longjun entering Yingzhou in a big way.

For these people, Zhang Zhongwu is extremely ruthless. And the notorious Zhang Zhongwu made them unable to resist the determination, Zhang Zhongwu was famous for killing them all.

When Zhang Zhongwu gave him two paths for him to choose, he could only give in, take his subordinates, give up the old nest of Yingzhou, and work hard to the junction of Pingzhou and Mozhou, build a fortress, reclaim wasteland, and of course, when he has the opportunity, he will rush to the opposite Mozhou to grab a handful.

After more than half a year of such days, he is addicted to robbing, without him, it is really because of the Mozhou people opposite, life seems to be getting better and better, and the benefits of each robbery are getting more and more.

Until this time, he received an order from Deng Jingshan, the assassin of Pingzhou.

Li Rui, the right guard general of the Tang army stationed in Mozhou, with a Tang army of 5,000 men, is sweeping along the border line with dock forts like Kanyan, and several small dock forts have been broken by Li Rui.

In order to resist the Tang army to the greatest extent, he called friends and gathered the same kind of people from several other dock forts on the border, preparing to fight with the Tang army.

Deng Jingshan assured him that the Tang army would only have this army of 5,000 people, and he would contain the other Tang troops. As long as this Tang army is eliminated, then the right guards of the Tang army will no longer be able to provoke them, and in the future, on the border, they can do whatever they want.

In order to encourage Kan Yan to have the courage to fight the other party, Deng Jingshan even sent thousands of knives and guns and more than 1,000 loads of food.

You must know that in the past, only Kan Yan paid tribute to Deng Jingshan.

Kan Yan also wanted to use this battle to establish his prestige in Pingzhou and become the one who could talk to Deng Jingshan on an equal footing. Just like that Liu Siyuan in Pingzhou.

Liu Siyuan, like Deng Jingshan, was originally from Mozhou, but now Liu Siyuan is the largest landlord in Pingzhou, with tens of thousands of armed people, all of whom are directly commanded by Liu's children.

Liu's dock fort is no different from a city. Kan Yan, who had been there once, drooled with envy.

People have a thick foundation, and they are friends with Deng Jingshan, they can't compare now, but it doesn't mean that they won't be comparable in the future.

This time, Kan Yan recruited nearly 20,000 bandits who were in a similar situation to him, as well as slave troops, savage leaders, and Zahu tribes.

Originally, he wanted to collect a wave of scouts from the Tang Army and take them back to show off their strength to other small leaders, so as to consolidate his position in the coalition army, and at the same time arouse everyone's desire to fight, but the first time he engaged the opponent, such a result really made him unhappy.

Deng Jingshan offered a reward, and the life of a Tang Army soldier could be exchanged for a complete set of combat equipment or a load of food. This means that for every Tang army he kills, he can get two sets of weapons and equipment. Such a reward is not a small temptation for those of them who lack food and clothing.

Now, the bodies of ten Tang soldiers were placed in front of his eyes. Some of his subordinates are stripping their armor, although it is tattered, but it cannot be wasted, the clothes can still be worn after washing and washing, and those chopped armor will be melted back, and they will have to rebuild knives and make arrowheads.

What can still be used is in front of him.

Ten crossbows, ten first-aid kits, and, of course, half a bag of liquor from the horse, and broken knives, short knives, and so on.

The equipment of every soldier of the Tang Army was exchanged for money, and with him, dozens of soldiers could be equipped.

If Lu Longjun is rich in front of them, then Tang Jun is simply a tyrant in front of them.

"Chief, these people can exchange a lot of reward money if they send it to Deng Tingshi!" A small leader said.

Kan Yan shook his head: "A drop in the bucket, stand these ten corpses with sticks and put them on top of the snow to give Tang Jun a warning." Let them know that if they want to mess with us, they will pay a price. ”

"Is this necessary?" The little leader whispered, in his opinion, these ten corpses were all weapons and equipment, all food, standing on the snow, it was really a waste.

Kan Yan glanced at him, the little leader shuddered, and hurriedly went to prepare. The one in front of him is the master who will kill if he doesn't agree with him.

Kanyan naturally has his own calculations.

After looking at the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army, he understood that he was definitely not the opponent of the Tang Army, even if he now had a strength of nearly 20,000 people. But which, to put it bluntly, is almost a rabble. A few hundred people fight dozens of people, and it is possible to overlord the few, but tens of thousands of people fight thousands of people, but it may be possible. With the equipment of the Tang Army and the combat effectiveness shown by these ten guys, I am afraid of a head-to-head confrontation, and under a few faces, my side will collapse.

Bandits fighting and armies fighting are two different concepts entirely. He had already learned this fact when he first confronted Zhang Zhongwu's subordinates.

What's more, the enemy he is facing now is still the Tang Army that beat Zhang Zhongwu from Lulong in a mess.

Only by angering the Tang people and making the opponent lose his square inch and lose his rules, can he find an opportunity to win and win in a chaos.

It is not uncommon to beat the master to death with random punches.

The corpses of ten naked Tang soldiers were tied to wooden stakes and stood in the snow, and in a moment they were frozen to a hard erection, and the entire body was covered with white ice edges, and Kan Yan and his subordinates also fled away.

About an hour later, a cavalry force of several hundred men swept in from afar.

About thirty miles away from the place where these Tang soldiers died in battle, a Tang army of thousands of people was advancing forward.

This force was led by Li Rui and the Tang Army that swept through these border docks.

The contingent of 5,000 men was divided into three parts, each with 1,000 men as two wings at a distance of a certain distance from the Chinese army, and the three advancing teams marched in unison.

The Chinese army mostly had cavalry, carrying a large amount of grain and grass, and the two wings were all foot soldiers.

Unlike ordinary foot soldiers, these infantrymen have skis under their feet and snow poles in their hands, and each time the snow poles hold the ground, they will glide on the ground for a very long distance. Looking at their skillful posture, it seems that they have practiced for a long time.

In the Chinese army, it was not horse-drawn carriages that transported grain, grass and ordnance, but horse-drawn sleighs, and many Chinese army foot soldiers sat on the edges of these sleigh cars.

Gu Han This was the first time he had truly seen the Tang Army's sophisticated equipment.

He was sent to Liu Chenglin as a judge, in fact, he was preparing for the next negotiation with Zhang Zhongwu, and after arriving in Mozhou with Li De, he had not yet seen Liu Chenglin, so he was ordered by Liu Chenglin to follow Li De to sweep the border clearly before anything else.

Gu Han laughed at this.

He could understand Liu Chenglin's thoughts.

This right Xiaowei general has been fighting hard for the past two years, and all he thinks about all day long is how to meet Zhang Zhongwu's sword soldiers, and then beat the other party to the point of losing his armor, and now he is suddenly preparing to negotiate peace with the other party, so that his preparations for several years have fallen into the void, how can he not be annoyed?

For himself, the initiator, he does not wait to see himself, which is also his due meaning. I did this probably to let myself taste the bitterness, but this kind of military action is really not a hardship for me, compared to my previous travels, the life I live now is really happy.

For example, now, he and Li Rui are sitting on a horse-drawn sleigh and talking leisurely.

In Mozhou, he had already met Li Anmin, the assassin of Mozhou, and the two had an in-depth exchange of views, and Li Anmin also supported the current policy of the imperial court to talk about the northeast and fight in the northwest. When he arrived in Mozhou, the more he understood the northeast, the more cautious Li Anmin became.

Gu Han is not worried that Liu Chenglin will become the ultimate obstacle, in fact, Liu Chenglin, as the general of the Right Xiaowei, is still Li Ze's brother-in-law, even if he is unhappy with Li Ze's decision, he will not obstruct it.

Of course, the talks must first be built on the basis of winning the war, and only in this battle, with the momentum of the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves, can the illusions of Zhang Zhongwu and Deng Jingshan be completely extinguished, and the peace talks can proceed more smoothly.

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