At the time of Chenpai, the official army team had rushed to the foot of the Xishan Gang, completely surrounded this small hill, the flags were unfurled, and the soldiers and horses were wandering away.

Seeing this, Suo Chao, who only felt that the team was moving slowly along the way, looked a little better, and then turned his head to look at Shi Wenbin, the county lieutenant who was traveling with him: "County Lieutenant Shi, how are you going to attack the mountain?" ”

......Although Shi Wenbin was the county lieutenant who commanded the troops, he was only a civilian official, and his knowledge of how to use troops to fight was really limited. Seeing this, Liu Yuan took the opportunity to speak: "County lieutenant, I think that since we are the dignified teachers who came to suppress the bandits, we should be the first to salute and then the soldiers, and first send people to persuade those thieves to go down the mountain and surrender, if they are stubborn, it is not too late to attack the mountain with all their might." ”

This was really right for Shi Wenbin's temper, and he immediately nodded and said: "That's right, this official will let people go up the mountain to persuade them to surrender to see what kind of attitude those thieves have." ”

Hearing this, Suo Chao's face suddenly showed a look of ridicule, but before he could speak against it, Liu Yuan had already rushed to give the order, only to see him point to the two young men not far away: "You two go to the mountain with this letter to persuade those thieves to come down the mountain and surrender, and hand over the looted property!" ”

The one he pointed at was Sun Tu. After coming to this place and setting up camp, he was sent to walk around, and now he has just finished a little thing at hand, and before he can take a breath, he was named by Liu Yuan in public, and asked him to send a letter of persuasion, which made his face suddenly sink - he naturally knew what the other party was thinking.

But his current identity is absolutely impossible to refuse the order, you must know that it is wartime now, once he refuses to obey his orders, what awaits him must be military law, which gives Liu Yuan an excuse to kill him. When his heart turned, Sun Tu had already stepped forward, stretched out his hand and took the letter from Liu Zhisi, and said, "The grass people obey the order!" He deliberately pointed out his identity as an ordinary person in front of everyone.

Sure enough, as soon as he heard this, Shi Wenbin also hesitated slightly, he also knew that it was a bit risky to send this letter of persuasion, the thieves in Hutou Village would not talk about any rules that would not be killed, once they were annoyed in the past, these two messengers could only lose their lives in vain. If the officers and soldiers can be said to have sacrificed their lives for the country, it is really a bit unreasonable to let two ordinary people go to die.

Suo Chao also thought of this, and at the same time recognized Sun Tu as the person who spoke to him in front of the yamen yesterday, and was slightly surprised: "You are a citizen of the city?" ”

"Back to the general's words, exactly." Sun Tu admitted it calmly, and then had no intention of asking him for help, turned around and walked in the direction of Xishangang, carefully observing the situation on the hill as he walked.

There are almost no high mountains in Yuncheng County, the highest of which is this West Hill, but this hill is only about 20 zhang, and when converted into later generations, it is only 50 or 60 meters high. But although the hill is not very high, it seems quite steep, and there is only one sheep intestine path that can be climbed, and all other directions are cliffs, which ordinary people cannot climb at all.

Du Hu and his gang of thieves have been able to entrench themselves in Yuncheng County for many years, and they have repeatedly repelled the officers and troops who have advanced and suppressed, and it is a big reason why they chose to set up a village here. Even if there are thousands of officers and troops now, if you really want to storm the mountain, you can only send people and horses to attack upwards in a team, and the difficulty is not below attacking a fortified city.

Moreover, the official army under the mountain has spread out the formation, and the momentum is so natural that it has already alarmed the Hutouzhai bandits above, and they are also busy at this time, constantly carrying all kinds of weapons in place, just looking at the big stones, the sharpened bamboo and wood, Sun Tu can know that the strong attack will inevitably make the officers and soldiers pay a heavy price.

And now, he will be the first person to step forward to face the bandits' weapons, which makes Sun Tu's spirit tense and dare not be careless. As for the other young man who was called, he was still stunned at this time and didn't dare to come forward.

Just as Sun Tu was about to leave the brigade and walk up the mountain road, a voice suddenly came from behind him: "Slow! Lieutenant Shi, we are suppressing bandits, why bother doing this? Just shout to the mountain! It was Suo Chao who spoke.

Then, without waiting for Liu Yuan to react, he waved his hand at one of his soldiers: "You go and shout, see what the attitude of the thieves on the mountain is." ”

After the sergeant obeyed the order, he urged his horse to hurry forward, and before and after coming to the mountain, he shouted loudly: "The thieves above have heard it, and now that the army has surrounded this place, if you know each other, you can quickly tie yourself down the mountain, then you will have a chance to live, if not......"

His shout was clearly transmitted up the mountain, but it did not frighten those bandits at all, standing in front of the gate of the cottage, commanding his subordinates to act, the burly man with a full beard snorted even more disdainfully: "How can you attack my tiger head village?" Seventh, teach them a lesson! ”

A white-skinned man beside him hurriedly answered, and quickly grabbed a little way down, and then suddenly raised the longbow in his hand, aiming at the soldier who was still speaking, and shot an arrow.

The speed of this arrow was extremely fast, and the accuracy was quite high, and it was already shot in front of the target with a single swish. This was indeed a big surprise to the other party, seeing the cold arrow coming, he could only hurriedly flash to the side, but in the end he was still half a beat slower, was shot in the left shoulder by an arrow, screamed and lowered his body, hit the horse and ran back.

With just one arrow, the attitude of the bandits on the mountain was clearly expressed, and Shi Wenbin's face changed, and he turned his head to look at Zhu Tong and Lei Heng on the side: "Both of you are headed, you will lead the troops to attack the mountain!" ”

"Whoa!" After Lei Heng and Zhu Tong glanced at each other, they surrendered their orders together, and then ran forward and dispatched those township soldiers to launch an offensive towards Xishangang.

In the sound of whining horns, hundreds of officers and soldiers raised their swords and guns, shouting and rushing forward quickly, on the surface, it seemed that they were full of momentum, as if they could quickly level this cottage.

But Sun Tu, who saw this scene, suddenly frowned, such a charge that only relied on one blow and almost no strategy was almost impossible to successfully attack the mountain, and even caused unnecessary damage!

At the same time as he changed his mind, the battle situation had already begun, looking at the officers and soldiers who were rushing to kill scattered, the bandits on the mountain immediately fought back, and under the sound of orders, they had already pried the stones that had been arranged, and rolled those large stones the size of grinding plates towards the officers and soldiers below the mountain.

When he saw the big stone with a rumbling sound that weighed down the ground and trembled a little towards him, the momentum of the officers and soldiers rushing forward suddenly stopped, and many people flashed to the side. But at this time, they had already come to the front of the mountain road, and the terrain here had become a little cramped, so that the hundred or so people in front of them could not completely disperse, and the rest could only turn around and flee back.

In this way, they collided head-on with their comrades who were still in front of them, making the team, which did not have much discipline, even more chaotic. Zhu Tong, who was in the middle of it, turned red with anger when he saw this, and immediately shouted: "Don't mess up, hurry up and take the shield to block it, isn't it just a few stones?" ”

As if to prove his words wrong, there was another whooshing sound from the mountain, and dozens of arrows had broken through the air. This made it even more difficult for the villagers, who were already crowding each other to react correctly, and many of them were hit by arrows and fell down screaming.

At the same time, those stones finally hit, and the officers and soldiers who were still in front of them or had been hit by arrows were directly smashed to the ground, and the screams were even more incessant for a while.

In this way, these villagers were more and more frightened, and they couldn't care about anything else, so they fled backwards with their feet outstretched, for fear that they would lose their lives here if they walked slowly, even if Zhu Tong and Lei Heng tried their best to stop them, they still couldn't stop their escape, and in the end they could only retreat back in embarrassment.

This was the first time to launch a charge on Hutou Village, and the result was that the officers and soldiers lost twenty or thirty lives at the foot of the Xishan Gang, but they failed to even rush into the mountain pass. This was naturally quite a heavy blow to the officers and soldiers, but it was a great encouragement to the bandits guarding the village, and a burst of rampant laughter and drum noise came down from above, like a slap in the face of everyone at the bottom of the mountain.

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