The little red wolf suffered a big loss, but he couldn't swallow this breath, and returned to the village to collect the remnants, there were still thousands. After a short rest, he made a comeback and attacked the Zhao camp again with 4,000 men.

Zhao Dangshi led the crowd to line up, and arched his hand in front of the horse and said: "The palm plate is angry, last night was a misunderstanding between the two sides, and I regretted it after the next day." In two days, I will lead my troops to leave, and I will not worry about the plate in Hannam. ”

The little red wolf was full of anger, and pointed with a whip: "The surname Zhao, you used conspiracy and trickery last night to take advantage of it, and in today's battle, Lao Tzu must get the field back." Those who know each other leave heavy weapons, and they can still live, otherwise they will fight together and regret it! ”

Zhao Dangshi kindly gave a step, but the other party still kicked his nose in the face, and smiled slightly at the moment, and said: "That is the case, then there is nothing to say." As the saying goes, the Buddha fights for a stick of incense, and if the palm of the plate has to ruin the friendship between the two families for this breath, then he can only accompany him to the end. With that, he rode into the formation.

Seeing his unfazed expression, the little red wolf became even more angry, and immediately ordered his subordinates to charge. Zhao Dangshi saw that his soldiers only swarmed up, no different from fighting, and secretly shook his head, that is, he ordered Hao Shaoqi in the middle to lead people to meet the attack, and at the same time instructed Hou Dagui and Xu Hui to outflank them with the left and right flanks.

The little red wolf thought that his strength was better than Zhao Dangshi, and he was already invincible, but he only formed a rather narrow contact surface in the middle of the road under the resistance of the soldiers of the Zhao battalion. And Xu Hui on the right side of the Zhao camp has led people around the flank, he has become the general of the rear, devoted himself to military affairs, using what he has learned in his life, strictly requiring his subordinates to practice firearms, at this time, although it can not be called elite, but it is also quite familiar with the operation of guns.

Nearly 100 guns held bird guns, three-eyed guns and other objects, and after an order, they gathered fire and shot towards the bustling little red wolf. There are few firearms and many firearms in the official army, and the cannon has almost become synonymous with the official army, and these rogues are naturally afraid of these loud and powerful weapons, and they are now panicking.

Hou Dagui was not far behind, the 500 people under him were all strong and strong from Li Zicheng's subordinates, and their combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of ordinary rogues. Zhao Dangshi regarded these 500 people as the backbone, and he gave priority to the rationing of weapons and armor, and Hou Dagui's training on weekdays was known for being strict, so it was difficult for the mixed subordinates of the little red wolf to organize an effective defense when facing them.

Zhao Dangshi stationed in Ma locked his eyebrows, the battle situation was clear at a glance, and from the perspective of the situation, the rout of the Little Red Wolf Department was already in the dark of the day. At the same time, he also made a general evaluation of the soldiers and horses of the three divisions under his hand: Needless to say, Hou Dagui's former division is the backbone of the battalion, and he is a leader in terms of soldier quality and weapons and equipment, and has the most combat effectiveness; Xu Hui's soldiers under the left division did not have Hou Dagui's elite, but he used his strengths and avoided weaknesses, most of them used firearms to carry out long-range strikes, and only a few melee soldiers and horses arrived in front, which could also occupy an advantage, and if time passed, the combat power would be stronger; Only Hao Shaoqi's department, which was slightly insufficient, fought back and forth in the confrontation with the Little Red Wolf Department, and failed to fully gain the upper hand. However, it also has to do with the quality of his subordinates and the right enemy front. Fortunately, Hao Shaoqi was brave after knowing his shame, and he was extremely brave in today's battle, if it wasn't for Zhao Dangshi to send people to dissuade him, he would have almost rushed to the front line several times, like this, the middle road is stable.

The victorious scales are gradually tilting towards Zhao Ying, and the little red wolf is not blind, he also sees the unfavorable situation of his own army. wants to pull the team out, but he has always been fighting with vigor and hug, lacking a command, and now that the war is stalemate, it will not work at all if he shouts alone. He could only wait anxiously.

The Zhao battalion troops were at ease, Hou Dagui closely watched the battle ahead, and took turns to replace the soldiers in batches to fight, so that the rotation and rest greatly ensured that the combat effectiveness of his army did not decline, and at the same time, the casualty rate was not controlled because the soldiers lost their strength and increased sharply.

The flanking attacks on the left and right flanks made the soldiers of the Little Red Wolf Department who were caught in the middle move even more inward, and the scene was chaotic, while Hou Dagui and Xu Hui took the opportunity to gradually detour backwards, faintly encircling the Little Red Wolf Department. The little red wolf was very anxious, the movements of the enemy army made him have to constantly move with his own troops, in fact, he had lost his grasp of the main battle force, he was just waiting for a result.

He was stunned, suddenly a gallop, immediately saw the little red wolf, rolled the saddle and dismounted, discouraged, with a crying voice: "Palm plate, there are thieves sneak attack Dazhai, we can't resist, Dazhai has been lit by thieves!" ”

The little red wolf had a tingling pain in his chest, shook his horse and almost got off the horse, and finally calmed down, raised his eyes to look at Dazhai, and saw black smoke rising into the air. He led his soldiers and horses to fight a decisive battle with Zhao Dangshi, and there were only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the village, and the people who came to report were his cronies, so he did not lie. In a sullen mood, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and shouted, but he no longer had the intention to watch the battle, and pulled his horse away.

The person who burned the village was the first army of Yang Chengfu, under the guidance of the prisoners of war of the little red wolf, he lay down outside the village earlier, and when the little red wolf was far away, he began to raid the village, and the soldiers and horses in the village scattered and fled, and the huge place was occupied in an instant. After leading people to loot, he set fire to the stockade, and even the dozen or so women who were imprisoned by the little red wolf found behind the village were also burned.

As soon as the guards fled, the soldiers and horses who were trapped were quickly broken, and they scattered and collapsed like mercury. The overall situation has been decided, and Zhao Dangshi is unwilling to chase and kill those remnants, so he pressed the captives who surrendered, collected the troops and returned to the camp. In this battle, the enemy was killed, but the losses of his own side were not large, and he also grabbed nearly 100 mules and horses, which was a big gain. Soon, Yang Chengfu returned, also bringing dozens of horses and some gold and silver.

The little red wolf is greatly injured, and he will not provoke anything again in the near future. Zhao Dangshi calmly stayed in Hannan for a while, rested completely, and went south into Sichuan.

The first pass into Sichuan is the Qipan Pass, there are three Fulong machine guns on the pass, and there are hundreds of people in a battalion guarding the pass. At present, the elite soldiers and horses of all walks of life in the official army are in the hands of the general soldiers, governors and other standards, and most of the soldiers guarding the pass are recruited and transferred from various places, and their combat effectiveness is extremely poor, and they have no training, just guarding the checkpoints, collecting some tax money from passing merchants, and making a show.

The Zhao camp arrived at dawn, and the Qipan guerrilla Luo Wenyuan led the troops outside, and only the thousands of households guarding the pass were still asleep, so they were tied up by the five flowers and taken outside, and the guards at the bottom had already dispersed.

Zhao Dangshi cut off the heads of the thousand households in public, raised his arms and shouted. This was their first battle with the official army since they entered Sichuan, and their opponents were a little second, but they were also people in the official government, and their victory helped to eliminate the soldiers' fear of the officers and soldiers and boost the morale of the army.

The soldiers and horses of Zhao Ying did not stop at Qipanguan for a long time, and after a little rest, they continued to hurry and climbed Chaotianling. Chaotian Ridge is the highest peak along the Jinniu Road, the mountain is steep, the strange rock stands, there are many passes on the ridge, among which the main road is related to the "Chaotian Pass", is at the point of rushing.

The officers guarding the pass had heard that the Qipan Pass had been lost, and they were concerned with each other, but they did not dare to leave the place of faith without permission and defended it with danger. When Zhao Shibing arrived at the pass, he first surrendered with warm words, but was angrily scolded by the guards. Seeing that the other party was resisting, Xu Hui took the initiative to ask Ying, led people to the pass, transferred out the four tiger squatting cannons under the division, and began to bombard the wall of Chaotianguan.

The general didn't want Zhao Ying to have firearms, and was bombarded twice by the tiger squat, and the earth and stones splashed and the city shook, and the outermost layer of the stone wall almost collapsed. He is still a brave one, leading people out of the customs to fight against the war, intending to snatch the tiger squat cannon, but Xu Hui ordered his subordinates to push two chariots, and the Fran machine gun on the car was facing the pass, and as soon as the guard general appeared, the two cannons bombarded together, and exploded at the entrance of the Chaotian Pass. In the deafening sound of cannonballs, the guard and several people in the front row were bombarded into powder. In this way, Chaotian Guan Yike.

Lianke two passes, not only Zhao Dangshi, but also Zhao Ying's confidence has greatly increased. Some people who were not optimistic about independence into Sichuan also kept their mouths shut.

Turning over the south of Chaotian Ling, it is Guangyuan. On the near side of Guangyuan, there is a command post of the state guard. The officers and troops of Qipanguan and Chaotianguan rushed back to report, and Guangyuan Zhixian was very nervous, and immediately sent people to ask the commander of Lizhou Wei to discuss the strategy of resisting the enemy.

The commander of the Lizhou Guard made the number of soldiers under him four or five thousand, but by this time, the dead and the dead were running, and the entire guard was less than five hundred. All of them had become tenants of the commanders and others, real peasants, and had only retained the nominal title of Banner Soldier of the Guard.

At that time, the imperial court placed this Lizhou guard, which was to take a fancy to the important position of Guangyuan's dangerous terrain and easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But the commander can't say if he suffers, he knows the situation in the guard better than anyone else, he eats most of the empty salary, not to mention, the only people left in the guard are all starving and frivolous, not to mention training and fighting, if he wants to take this group of rabble to the battlefield to play for his life, he will not do it.

But he can't stand the bitter pleading of Guangyuan Zhixian, and the thief is coming, if he doesn't act, he may be guilty of dereliction of duty, and second, he will have to hand over the money that he has worked hard for many years. In desperation, he had no choice but to agree to the request to go to battle, and barely pulled out four hundred people from the guardhouse. Guangyuan Zhixian was not idle, he gathered more than 300 teams composed of Yu Ding, Kuaishou, and Gangxian from the city, and handed them over to the commander for unified command, and on the other hand, he sent people to report to Jianzhou and ask for reinforcements.

The commander gathered more than 700 "officers and soldiers" to give a unified lecture. But looking at these weak and godless people, the bold words he prepared to defend the family and the country were not able to say half a point, and the two sides stared at each other for a long time, and finally he waved his hand with mixed feelings, and let the two commanders under him go north.

Those two commanders are not blind people, they have followed the commander for many years, and they have not learned anything else, and they still have some skills in observing words and feelings. If the thieves from the north can break through two levels in a row, they must be fierce bandits. How can this team of hundreds of rickety, flesh and bones mixed with scoundrels be opponents, and a large area will be blown down when the wind blows. They walked all the way, in no order, acquaintances and acquaintances walked side by side, enemies and enemies beat and scolded each other, laughed and cursed, and many people did not even know where to go or what they were going to do.

As the team marched to the foot of the Great Heavenly Ridge, the two commanders were no longer willing to take a step forward. Immediately ordered everyone to sit down and rest. The two of them got the news from the commander's mouth that they had sent people to Jianzhou to beg for help, so they were bent on just delaying time and waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

Before the reinforcements arrived, Zhao Dangshi's men and horses had already arrived, and at that moment, Hou Dagui and Hao Shaoqi marched side by side, plundering both sides of the official army, Xu Hui led people to put a row of guns, and the officers and soldiers had already exploded. With little effort, the Zhao battalion surrounded and annihilated this official army, and captured the two commanders alive.

The two commanders were greedy for life and afraid of death, and bowed to Zhao Dangshi. Zhao Dangshi repeated his old tricks and coerced them to lead the way to Lizhouwei. The commander of the Lizhou Wei did not know that his army had been defeated, and was urging his family to hurry up and pack their luggage in the mansion in the guard station, just in case of emergency. The soldiers and horses of the Zhao battalion suddenly came, and only one shot collapsed the mud wall that had not been repaired for a long time by Lizhou Wei, and the soldiers rushed in, and the commander of the guard waved his sword to kill himself, and the gold, silver and jewelry of the family were all wiped out.

Since the defeat of the little red wolf in Hannan, the number of prisoners in the Zhao camp has increased day by day, and by the time the Lizhou Wei command post is occupied, the number of prisoners has exceeded the carrying capacity of the Zhao camp. At this point, He Kewei is in charge of grain expenditure, and he has reminded Zhao Dangshi more than once through Wang Laixing's mouth.

But it is unrealistic to absorb all these people, Zhao Dangshi pursues elite soldiers, and absorbing a large number of these people with uneven quality and complicated backgrounds into the camp will inevitably affect the quality of the entire battalion. Therefore, after consulting with Hou Dagui and others, he decided to select strong and skilled people among the captives, add them to the various divisions, and select another 500 people to choose the remainder, and add another division on the basis of the front, left and right divisions, which is the rear division, the main task of the rear division is not to siege the city and field battles, but to carry materials and manage baggage when traveling, and to garrison the camp when camping and to take care of the capture and construction of fortifications by the prisoners, which is equivalent to a logistics division. This configuration is similar to Li Zicheng's front and rear left and right camps, but the scale is smaller.

The chief officer of the rear division, Zhao Dangshi, thought about it again and again, but handed it over to Wang Laixing. He once wanted to hand it over to the more experienced He Kewei, but firstly, He Kewei was born in Confucianism, and he may not be able to suppress those Qiu Ba under him, and secondly, after the boss of the money and food, Zhao Dangshi saw with his own eyes the collusion between Mrs. Xing and Gao Jie in the eighth team, and did not want to hand it over to a person who was not trusted. But Wang Laixing is still young, so he still makes He fearful and supplemented, serving as the main book. Several officials who defected to Shun with He Kewei in Chengcheng County also served under him.

He Kewei was powerless and powerless in the Zhao camp, frightened, and saw that no one dared to raise his head, but now he became the deputy of the first division, nominally leading five hundred people, and his waist immediately straightened up, and the tone of his voice was unconsciously three points higher. Since Zhao Dangshi has entrusted him with a real position, it means that he has gained a firm foothold in the camp, and he no longer has to worry about Zhao Dangshi dragging himself down and cutting him down as soon as he gets angry.

Zhao Dangshi asked him and Wang Laixing to pick people among the captives, He Kewei was an old woman who went to the vegetable market, picking and choosing, thinking about this and that, and selecting for half a day, and only 100 people. Zhao Dangshi became angry, and under the scolding of him, he farted and urinated, and hurriedly made up the remaining number with his tail between his legs.