The spies were afraid that the conspiracy set up by the bandits lured them to be caught, so they did not dare to be gullible and lightly, and they waited for a long time, but still did not see any signs of the existence of anyone inside, so they had the courage to touch the fence door and peek inside, but this time they only saw that the houses in the village were closed, and it seemed that people were resting inside, but the piles of garbage that had been discarded at the door for a long time explained the problem. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The bandits abandoned the village and ran away.

The spies were all bright-eyed and bold, and they pulled open the heavy gate of the cottage and searched it carefully, and sure enough, half of them were not left, and the important things were cleaned up, even the pots and bowls were taken away. This lair was really abandoned by the bandits.

When they found out such important news and saw the hope of receiving the reward, they immediately rushed back and reported it to the governor.

When Han Cui heard this, he really fulfilled what he felt, but he didn't report the news to Sun Fu, otherwise, with Sun Fu's urgent fame and resentment eager to take revenge, he would definitely ask him to take advantage of the opportunity of the thief leaving the mountain and having no roots.

He left some men and horses to lead the officials and the people to guard the city, to prevent the thieves from cheating and turning back to raid the empty state city, and he took the army of 5,000 to quickly leave the city for more than ten miles, and began to chase slowly, rewarded the spies with a small amount of money, and ordered them to track and reconnoiter the whereabouts and details of the rebels, and if they could make meritorious service again, they would be rewarded heavily.

It's a pity that his stinginess made these spies see his personality clearly, and they didn't believe in his hypocritical promises, and they liked to agree on their faces, but they didn't have any enthusiasm in their hearts. Moreover, this time it is to track down the movements of the anti-thieves, and if you want to find out the specific situation of the rebels, you have to observe it closely, and it is best to catch a prisoner and interrogate it.

Song Jiang insisted on the speed of the soldiers, and while secretly sending sentinels to reconnoiter the movements of the officers and soldiers, he kept the formation and hurried as fast as possible.

When he learned that the officers and soldiers were coming, there were 5,000 soldiers and horses, and there were many generals, but the march was slow, and the generals were not in a hurry, the soldiers were listless, and the distance was always forty or fifty miles away, and the officers and soldiers did not seem to have come to chase and kill, but as if they had kept a distance to see off and supervise the departure, Song Jiang did not dare to underestimate the enemy. Qin Hui, Kong Hou, Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, Liu Fu, five people who understand military affairs and have brains also suspect that the other party is arrogant, and they need to guard against their rapid march to carry out a surprise attack. The bandit army no longer divided their troops to rob, but united to hurry, and camped at night to be more tightly defended.

It's just that in this way, Song Jiang's robbery plan has been greatly discounted.

Although the people and horses of Snake Horn Ridge nominally belong to him Song Jiang, but Snake Horn Ridge is Snake Horn Ridge, this part of the people already has soldiers and wealth and a meeting gift to take refuge in Erlong Mountain, and the heroes he Song Jiang brought from Chai Jinzhuang are still lacking in money and pockets are not enough to drum, and his subordinates are also short of soldiers, there is no meeting gift, and it is too shabby and embarrassing to go to Erlong Mountain.

Song Jiang used the people he brought with him to lead the main body to rob, just to meet the psychological requirements of this part of the people, so that the brothers' pockets would bulge, and they would taste the sweetness of following him, and they would also commit serious crimes again, and they would completely cut off the way back, and they couldn't leave if they wanted to, so they could only go all the way to the dark. This is more conducive to unity and unity.

He was also bold, guessing the intentions of the officers and soldiers, weighing the comparison of the strength of the two sides, and feeling that his side did not have an advantage in troops, but the strength of the leader should be much stronger than that of the officers and soldiers. In the battle with the unbearable officers and soldiers in the interior, the generals are the main factor, and if the army wins, the whole army will win, and if the officers and soldiers are defeated, they will be defeated.

He thought it through, discussed with Kong Hou, Qin Hui and other military backbones, and made up his mind, this time he ordered Zhang Xuanzan and Liu Fu to be the main generals of the two roads, respectively with Yang Shi, Liu Wuji, the pig iron Buddha Cui Daocheng, the flying Yasha Qiu Xiaoyi, the rabbit Li Ji, the dwarf Qiu Yilang and Chai Jinzhuang, as well as the newly recruited local heroes Ma Zhankui, Sang Zhonghe, Han Luzi, Liu Jun, Wang Yanlin, and Sui Daqiu, each with 500 soldiers, including all the newly collected minions, and attacked Gaoyuan County and Qingcheng County separately.

The main force of the brigade remained on high alert, protecting their families and belongings and continuing to rush quickly.

This is also a test of the true intentions of the officers and men.

When the county seat of the Great Song Dynasty came to the troubled times, it was simply a fat meat set up to facilitate the robbery of powerful robbers. If there is no support from the local people, how can the county seat be able to withstand the surprise attack and strengthen the attack of the strong bandits, even if the county seat is quick and the armed forces are served, and the county seat at the important point plus a few hundred vulnerable county soldiers.

Song Jiang's righteous deeds of only robbing large households and not harming ordinary people, on the contrary, they also wanted to share the sweetness of food or something to give to the people, which has spread to other places in Zizhou like the wind. The people of Gaoyuan and Qingcheng counties hated the new corrupt officials who followed the bandit army to make a fortune and then bullied and exploited them as the predecessors as always, and usually just did not dare to speak out and resist.

As a result, although the men and horses who attacked the county town on the two roads were small, under the onslaught, it actually did not take much effort to break the city, and with the deliberate help of the people and poor county soldiers, they pursued and killed all the corrupt officials, corrupt officials, powerful bullies and profiteers, ransacked the county seat, distributed some food for the people, attracted more refuge, and returned smoothly and quickly.

The news soon spread to the Zizhou Mansion.

Sun Fu was furious, and scolded Han Cui, the commander of the soldiers and horses, for being courageless and loyal, bringing disaster to the country and the people, wasting the country's money and food, and the people's blood and sweat...... (n more adjectives omitted here) of waste scum.

Compared with the corrupt bureaucrats of this era, Sun Fu could not grasp the economy to improve the people's livelihood, but he was a good official who was honest and honest, and some Confucian and Mencian sages taught the gentlemanly demeanor required by the righteous teaching, and they were more sympathetic to the people, so what he hated most at this time was not the robbers but the incompetent officials.

His shoulder wound has not healed so far, and he can't ride a fast horse and bump it, otherwise he will have to personally go out to teach Han Cui a lesson and oversee the robbers.

Han Cui didn't expect this gang of thieves to be so bold, and they dared to divide their troops to loot under the pursuit of the army of officers and soldiers.

He was severely reprimanded and urged by the envoy of Zhizhou, so he had to muster up his spirits to speed up the pursuit, and prepare for a decisive battle with the anti-thief.

His eyes widened. Most of the officers from the capital below were unwilling to fight the poor, and the soldiers were even more reluctant to play with their lives in vain.

Han Cui mixed up his experience in the capital and knew that if he wanted to give the soldiers the motivation to summon up the courage to fight, the only way to do it was to bait heavy profits.

"Brothers, the thieves of Snake Horn Ridge are the sinful ones who robbed the cities of various states and made a fortune, so they had to fall into the grass to escape the punishment of the king's law, and the most important thing they lack is money, and now they have broken four county towns in a row, robbed countless money and materials, and are even richer. If the chase is successful, everyone will send it. Ben promised that the spoils of this battle would be given to everyone according to the merits. Thirty percent is left to the families of the brothers who died in battle. Ben will only be one percent. This is an oath, and if it is violated, the sky will thunder. ”

Han Cui didn't say that he didn't want to be a noble booty eldest son, that would be too unbelievable, but it would lose the effect of demagogy.

In the past, in the distribution of spoils, the soldiers of the mainland army often got one or two achievements in turn, and if the money was not thick enough, the soldiers could eat one or two meals with more meat after the bloody battle. Brothers who died in battle generally had no money. The imperial court has a pension, 10 yuan for the mainland soldiers, 20 yuan for the border army, and the officials do not deduct it, and the full amount is already a feat of conscience of a good official. Most of the remaining loot, Shangguan took away all kinds of excuses for handing over to the national treasury, honored some Shangguan, and swallowed the rest alone, made a lot of money in a muffled voice, and asked the soldiers to understand his difficulties in handling various relationships as an Shangguan and too many unspeakable hardships.

Han Cui governs the army, he has no other skills, and he can feel the thief clearly.

As expected, the Zizhou army was guaranteed, and when they thought of the mountain of money, they suddenly had the will to hunt and kill.......

Just when the thieves in Snake Horn Ridge were about to walk out of the Zizhou border, Han Cui thought that the robbers were in a hurry to get out and leave, and they would have no intention of fighting, feeling that this was the best opportunity for a decisive battle, and drove the army to go all out to catch up.

The two sides set up a formation, and the poisonous horn Jiao Qin would stand tall and scold Han Cui, and then angrily beat the tiger's head and killed Han Cui.

Han Cui bravely engaged.

He was born in the Beijing Army, his rank is much higher than that of Qin Hui, and he feels that his ability is good, how much skill can a local middle-level junior officer like Qin Hui have? He didn't take the officers in a small place like Qin Hui into his eyes at all, and he was shocked to realize that he was arrogant after fighting for more than a dozen battles, there are also capable people in small places, and a low military rank does not mean that his skills must be low, Qin Hui is nicknamed Poison Horn Jiao, he is really brave and vicious, but he can only fight hard.

Song Jiang saw the officers and soldiers staring greedily at the chariot battle on his side with red eyes, and immediately understood the fundamental reason for the high morale of the officers and soldiers.

The former Snake Horn Ridge rebels in their early 4,000s, plus more than 2,000 newly recruited locals, a total of 7,000 troops, may not have an advantage over the 5,000 regular officers and soldiers who are fully equipped in battle, and they also have to allocate 1,000 elites to protect the families, money, and materials of the Chinese army.

If you want to win this battle, you can only rely on the leaders of your own subordinates. Fighting generals and officers, destroying the command system and spiritual pillars of officers and men, this battle will be won.

Song Jiang figured it out, and had discussed countermeasures with several main backbones earlier, and the battle officially started at this time, and the situation was clear at a glance, and he immediately ordered Zhang Daneng, Wang Bin, and Li Yan to take the Chinese army to protect their families and important money, food, and materials first.

He also wore armor, brought a knife, and a masked horse, and the same masked Kong Hou stayed behind to guard the banner of the Chinese army, and let Yang Shi and Liu Wuji, the young generals who accompanied Saibodang Wang Si and the two halberd blades, fight near him to protect him, and convey his command orders at any time, and all the other leaders and men and horses were killed together with a wave of the command.

Immediately, Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, Liu Fu, and Hong Jiaotou will be the main force, with Fangfang Lang Gou Fugui, Zhenshangang Wang Badao, Dong Xiaolang Liu Shangren, Jade Face Langjun Gao Shiying, three-headed Gui Jiangxun, as well as the newly joined Zizhou heroes and some Chai Jinzhuang heroes who are good at riding battles, such as Ma Zhankui, Sang Zhonghe, Han Luzi, Wu Jun, Wang Yanlin, and Sui Daqiu, divided into four ways to lead troops to fiercely attack the officers and soldiers.

Pig Iron Buddha Cui Daocheng and Flying Yaksha Qiu Xiaoyi took two steps to kill the murderer, and they were excited when they saw the killing, and they rushed forward with a Pu knife.

After kicking and killing the sheep Zhang Bao followed closely behind his boss Hong Jiaotouma, Yinbu Jun also glared, and took out all his skills to dance the knife and fight fiercely.

The cunning rabbit Li Ji and his stupid brother Dwargaoka Otoro, who depended on each other, mixed in the dozens of infantry heroes who came from Chai Jinzhuang and were divided into several units, and they also rushed to kill bravely.

He is a very good hunter, perennial climbing mountains and mountains to fight and avoid wild beasts, his skills are much more flexible than ordinary martial arts people, his eyes are also flexible enough, and he also has an advantage in the chaotic battlefield of fighting human beings, he sees the weakness of the officers and soldiers in a timely and clear manner, and timely withdraws to avoid the strong enemy to run and kill the weak place, a double-strand hunting fork stabs the horse general, and the fork infantry army, and a pair of plate axes of the stupid brothers who are fierce and not afraid of death are closely cooperated, and they fight side by side, which also seems to be quite impactful, and the officers and soldiers are defeated and retreated.

The situation was as Song Jiang expected. The number of officers and soldiers and generals is far less than that of Snake Horn Ridge.

Han Cui was killed in a cold sweat by the ferocity of the poisonous horn Jiao Qin Hui, the more he fought, the more frightened he became, and hurriedly glanced at the battlefield between the fights, and was horrified to find that the opponent would immediately have Xue Heng, Zhang Xuanzan, Liu Fu, and Hong Jiaotou who rode down the mountain. The opponent will have a monk like the black tower of King Kong and a light, agile and fierce Taoist, a fierce knife fighting, rampage, a flexible as a flying ghost, the knife is tricky and ruthless, the two show their strengths to take care of each other, cooperate with tacit understanding, the lethality of the formation of 1 plus 1 is far greater than two, non-ferocious and fierce will not be able to resist, just these two monks killed in the officers and soldiers to stir up the horns of the chaos and heavy casualties.

In other situations, Han Cui didn't have time to look at it, but at a glance, he intuitively realized that the situation was not good.

This time chasing the enemy, the deputy general, who is also a veteran who survived the last battle in Zizhou, Mo Dacheng looks down on Han Cui's arrogance and arrogance, and the two are at odds. Mo Dacheng did not follow the battle, learned that the state trusted, and stayed in the state city. Han Cui is missing an important helper and someone who understands the enemy's situation.

After only fighting for less than half an hour, the generals and commanders from the capital were not capable enough, and they were not willing to risk their lives in terms of subjective will.

It will be the courage of a soldier. The soldiers follow the generals, and the grass follows the wind. As soon as they retreated, the officers and men had no motivation to hold on to it, and immediately followed suit.

Then, naturally, the typical habit of the officers and soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty reappeared, and everyone took the lead in fighting a good battle, and as soon as there was a setback, it would immediately turn into a race to be the first to collapse and flee.

Fighting a war depends on a morale, and if one side shows cowardice and weakness, the courage and strength of the other side will immediately rise.

The officers and soldiers first fled with the general, and then they threw off the general, who was staring at and being chased by the attention, and scattered to find a way out. The rebels in Snake Horn Ridge were in great spirits, shouting like a tsunami of brave battles, all of them bravely marched forward, and more than 2,000 new rebels who had been following the rebels to fight soy sauce also came to their spirits, screaming and following the onslaught. (To be continued.) )