Ren Ke first looked at the stupid rogue who moved under the gate, and felt a kind of despair. After more than ten years in the army, he felt the pain of being abandoned for the first time.

"I will raise your wife."

This is written on the note sent by Shen Yinglong before leaving, Ren Ke has read the Three Kingdoms first, so he naturally knows the meaning of this sentence, and after this sentence there is a sentence "To break the Yellow Dam thief, and Luo Guerrilla to solve the king's urgency, reluctantly", in his reading, it is more like an insult.

Ren Kexian thought that Shen Yinglong had insulted his IQ.

After weighing it all night, Shen Yinglong still chose to lead a large army to withdraw from the three passes of Hannan without hesitation, and he took away the main force of 1,500 people, and at the same time gave up Persimmon Ya. However, perhaps because of his reluctance or other considerations, he finally left Ren Kexian's 500 people to continue to hold on to Baishiya.

This is a difficult choice made by Shen Yinglong, but for Ren Kexian, regardless of whether Shen Yinglong's sudden withdrawal of troops was to extinguish the rogues in Huangba, it is a big joke to say "solve the jun's urgency with Luo Guerrilla". Ren Kexian decided that it was better to wait for Luo Wenyuan to save himself than to expect the Jade Emperor to send heavenly soldiers to earth.

He didn't understand why Shen Yinglong didn't evacuate with him, did he really want to not have no place to stay when he made a comeback? He only knew that in the face of the reality of the current swarming rogues, he had indeed become an outcast.

The rain stopped in the middle of the night, and the sky was bright today, but Ren Kexian, who was on the city between the mountains, kept feeling the howling of the mountain wind.

As one of the Hannan mountain passes, Baishiya is not big, it controls a key road, the width of the gate is not more than 100 steps, the height is less than 8 feet, the maximum number of soldiers in the middle is 1,000 people, with 500 people to guard it, more than enough. Weak as a stick thief in northern Sichuan, he can still hold on to the pass for a few days, Ren Kexian is very confident in his subordinates, he once promised Shen Yinglong that as long as his surname Ren is still one day, it is impossible for the rogues to pass through Baishiya.

However, at the moment, he has lost his previous confidence. This is not to say that he was afraid when he saw thousands of Spectrum Liukou, but that Shen Yinglong's behavior of abandoning Bai Shiya and himself made him feel cold. An army that can fight no longer will be able to go all out in the face of a fruitless future.

Shen Yinglong's withdrawal overnight, only Ren Kexian and a few other officers knew about it, so when the rogue soldiers gathered more and more at the pass hundreds of paces, there were already generals who came up to ask for battle as in the past - they were very familiar with the combat effectiveness of these rogue thieves, and they often relied on the strength of the crowd to bluff people, as long as they rushed a wave, they could immediately expose their original form, so that they could occupy the high ground of momentum at the beginning.

To be honest, Ren Kexian is very confident in dealing with the rogue, and he really doesn't think that without Shen Yinglong's support, this Baishiya will not be able to hold on. But whenever he thought that the grain stored in the city was only enough for three days, the originally gradually rising battle spirit would involuntarily fall into the ice cave in an instant.

"Dusi, the wolf soldiers are ready, just waiting for the order." An officer with a helmet and armor came up and bowed down to ask for instructions. He was a little puzzled, he didn't know why Ren Kexian was unusual, and he didn't give the order to fight for a long time, you know, in the face of the rogue, no matter how outnumbered, Ma Weike has never been absent.

"Go ahead." Ren Kexian's chest tightened, and he couldn't spit out a mouthful of turbid breath swirling in his abdomen. One yard to one yard, Shen Yinglong is gone, he Ren Kexian is still here, and the top priority is to save Baishiya, his brothers and his own lives.

The officer promised, and before leaving, he glanced at Ren Kexian suspiciously, but Ren Kexian avoided his gaze and turned around. Soon, the sound of "Tick Tick" sounded, and halfway through the door, hundreds of troops rushed out.

As a tyrant in northern Sichuan, Hou Liangzhu had more abundant resources and financial resources than ordinary military leaders, and on this basis, he paid great attention to strengthening the combat effectiveness of the army in order to maintain his position in northern Sichuan and southern Hannan. On the one hand, he recruited and hired a large number of well-known soldiers from all over the country to enrich and enrich the structure and strength of his army.

There are three main sources of so-called "recruitment and employment from all over the world". The first is the Tusi soldiers distributed in southeastern Sichuan and even southwestern Chu. The soldiers in these places have their own characteristics, and their fighting skills and fighting will are much stronger than those of the Han family in Sichuan. Zhao Ying has been in contact with eastern Sichuan and Huguang many times earlier, so I will not repeat it here.

The second is the gourd soldier. Mao gourd soldiers began to appear as early as the end of the Yuan Dynasty, at first it was the Yuan Dynasty Shaanxi Xingtai Imperial Shi Dafu Duoer Zhiban and the province Pingzhang Duoduo and other recruits in Henan Jin, Shang area of the Orion "out of the treasury to hide silver for big money, shoot and hit the reward", the formation of an army to quell the chaos. Later, Nanyang, Dengzhou and other places in Henan also followed suit and recruited Orion who lived in the deep mountains as soldiers, "with animal skins as the arrow house, the shape is like a gourd, and the number is the gourd army." These soldiers from the mountains were skilled in archery and hard-working, which soon showed their prominence in the mixed armies of various places. Later, the composition of the gourd soldiers was mixed into the miners, etc., more fierce, and the people were good at using spears and arrows, "ruthless and abnormal, and replaced the armor with bamboo pieces and legs", especially good at mountain warfare, so in the Jiajing period, the number has reached nearly 10,000 people, and it has become an important component of the extermination of thieves and robbers in various places. Generally speaking, to form a gourd soldier, you have to make a separate troop book, record and report, Hou Liangzhu relies on his own strength, and probably maintains thousands of gourd soldiers under his hands.

The third is a wolf soldier from the Yungui area. Wolf soldiers have existed since ancient times, and they were first called cave barbarians in the Tang and Song dynasties, and most of them were "barbarians" such as Zhuang and Miao. Since the Song Dynasty, the wolf soldiers, as the main force of the rebels, have made a qualitative leap in their combat level under the guidance of his training policy, and have begun to be valued by the world. In the Jiajing period of this dynasty, Mrs. Washi led the wolf soldiers to the front line of the southeast to kill the Japanese invaders, and shined, and its array of troops was exquisite, and it became famous all over the world. Hou Liangzhu has been in Yungui for many years, and he has many channels, so there are not a few wolf soldiers in his army.

And this hundred-strong force that took the lead in breaking out of the gate was the wolf soldier team that could be called the sharp blade in Ren Kexian's hands.

As soon as the war began, Ren Kexian's attention was shifted to the battlefield, and his original depression was slightly alleviated. In a few breaths, as far as the eye could see, the wolf soldiers had begun to change formations dozens of steps away. The wolf soldiers are "a team of seven people, and each team is self-defeating." Four people are dedicated to stabbing, three are dedicated to cutting off their heads, and the heads obtained are a total of seven people", and more than 100 people almost transformed into a small battle formation of seven people in the blink of an eye. In contrast, the rogues who had begun to set up their formations early are still crowded and disorderly.

The tactics of the wolf soldiers have been inherited from generation to generation, and there are many relatives or fellow villagers between the ranks, and the skillful combat skills and deep tacit understanding make these soldiers from the poor mountains and rivers rarely find opponents. When they did not join the army, they trained their skills in the arms fighting in the neighboring village fortress since they were young, and after joining the army, they continued to accumulate experience in the reality of flesh and blood. In the face of the extremely low average quality of the stick thieves, they have never lost, as long as there is support behind them, only these more than 100 wolf soldiers even dare to take the initiative to fight ten or even dozens of times more opponents than their own army.

On the other side, at the forefront of the formation, is the Liang Shizheng troops, behind him, there is Yang Sanbu as a reserve. Both of them received news from Qin Jinxiao not long ago and came to help. said that it was to help, but in fact, these two people had to fish in troubled waters and take revenge for shame.

Liang Shizheng's 1,000 people rushed to Baishiya first, and these veterans were the backbone of his main force, and they rarely gathered in one place in the past. But under the defeat, Liang Shizheng finally understood that the gap between Shen Yinglong's retreat was the best opportunity for him to turn over, since the momentum of his "tens of thousands of troops" could not completely intimidate the Sichuan army that had been fighting for a long time, so there was no need to bring those useless burdens, and simply drew out his trump card and fought him once. Yang San had roughly the same idea as him, and this time he also brought hundreds of veterans to fight with him. The combined strength of these two people is about 1,500 people, which is more than three times the number of Ren Kexian's horses and more than ten times that of the wolf soldiers.

Although he commands the so-called "main veterans", compared with the elite wolf soldiers, the quality gap between the two sides is still very different. For most of the hour, Liang Shizheng's thousands of people were still in a mess, but the wolf soldiers who had left the city for less than a quarter of an hour had already organized a battle sequence and began to take the initiative to attack.

The wolf soldiers were in small groups of seven, three with large guns in the front, one or two with crossbows in the back, and the rest were at the end with short knives. Among them, the man with the big gun "goes to the front" to protect the crossbowman who is behind the flank. The crossbowman has five crossbow arrows per person, shooting while walking, holding a knife in his mouth, only waiting for the arrow to change the knife and cooperate with the gun-wielding robe Ze hand-to-hand combat. The squad is scattered in various rows, very loose with each other, and there is no dense cooperation, which is also to adapt to the rugged mountain combat, the so-called "galloping through the mountains, infesting impermanence, stationing uncertainly, flickering movements, and elusiveness".

Liang Shizheng saw that the wolf soldiers were approaching, so in a hurry, he could only send dozens of his henchmen to temporarily dispatch dozens of people to block the attack, so as to ensure that the main formation was not disrupted.

As soon as the front line dispersed, the spread was widespread, and the progress of the already entangled stick thieves in the formation was greatly delayed, especially the leading officers in several places were shot dead on the spot, and they almost collapsed directly. Fortunately, the troops drawn by Liang Shizheng arrived in time and pressed along the road, so as to stabilize their position again.

The current situation is not much different from the past, and seeing that the wolf soldiers maintain the advantage of suppression and continue to advance, Ren Kexian secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Although there are many stick thieves under the city, they are still within their own tolerance range, according to the experience of the past, Ren Ke first estimates that when the wolf soldiers rush this wave, he will lead a few hundred people to cover the past, and he can teach these stick thieves who don't know the height of the sky and want to pick up cheap ones.

The wolf soldier let go of the last wave of crossbow arrows as he entered the fifteenth step. This wave of crossbow arrows was prepared early in the morning, and it took a long time to meet the next wave, so it was deliberately left until now. Because the distance is very close, the lethality of this wave of crossbow arrows is put to the maximum in the face of the stick thieves with extremely incomplete armor, and the stick thieves are almost unable to raise their heads in the face of the strong arrows that burst out, and at the moment when the crossbow arrows are finished, the wolf soldiers rushed straight into Liang Shizheng's formation with the strongest explosive power.

The stick thieves who had not yet recovered from the blow were brought down by the wolf soldiers who rushed in, chopping melons and vegetables. At the forefront, the stick thieves who were originally responsible for maintaining the front had little power to fight back, and Liang Shizheng was busy for most of the hour, and the little defense he had worked so hard to build disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Liang Shizheng clearly knew that this was his last chance, and he was also unusual, he did not give the order to withdraw the troops as decisively as in most cases before, but constantly urged the pro-army team to supervise the battle and suppress the formation, intending to save the decline by one or two. At the same time, he quickly sent someone to Yang San and asked him to immediately fill it with reserves - although it was disgraceful for a thousand people to be pressed and beaten out by a hundred people, Liang Shizheng couldn't care much about it when he was dying. What's more, he believed that Yang San, who had been suffering together for many years, understood his situation.

Yang San was still righteous enough, and immediately rushed up with his men and horses to help after receiving the request for help. Compared with Liang Shizheng, who was on the front line and still tried his best to set up a formation, he was even more slack in the rear, and hundreds of people under his command were completely scattered, running freely and rushing to the front line. He also knew that the consequence of this would be to immediately lose control of the army, but the matter was urgent, and he had no time to think about it, and after sending people and horses to the front line to refuel and "fight", he could only choose to take a few cronies and climb to a high rock to "sit and watch the success or failure".

The situation on the battlefield, Ren Kexian, who has been fighting for many years, knew at a glance that the stick thieves who were in a hurry to parry and had no array were actually dying, and he led people to the side and struck again, which could instantly crush the stick thieves.

Suddenly, he thought of Shen Yinglong's retreat again, and his head began to hurt. But soon, he got rid of this shadow, anyway, now take one step at a time, no matter what happens in the future, this inadequate stick thief in front of him will have to be defeated no matter what, even if it is a cushion before death.

With this kind of thought, Ren Kexian took a light breath, took a long breath, shook his spirits, and began to order troops to fight. He left 100 men to guard Baishiya, and hurried out of the customs with 300 soldiers. No matter how elite the wolf soldiers are, there are few people after all, and when they are tired and difficult to extricate, it will not be as simple as it is now.

The stick thief seemed to sense Ren Kexian's intentions and began to fold his wings in horror. For this kind of stress reaction, Ren Ke saw too much, shook his head and said softly: "The trapped beast is still fighting, it's useless." ”

He used his speed to advance to the vicinity of the stick thief, but just as he was about to launch the final fatal blow, he suddenly saw another soldier and horse from behind the two wings of the stick thief.

"This is ......" Ren Kexian couldn't close his mouth in surprise, "There is actually a backhand?" ”

He couldn't figure out the situation, and he didn't know where this hidden army came from, he only saw in a panic that a big flag was slowly raised from the ranks of the incoming army, and the sun reflected on it was the word "Qin".