Huang Gongling.

After Deng Maoqi made up his mind, he immediately gathered an army of 200,000 thieves and robbers to pour down from the Huanggongling defense line, facing more than 40,000 officers and soldiers, and the vanguard of 20,000 thieves and horses marched in a hurry, galloping towards the south.

And Deng Bosun became the commander of the remaining 100,000 thieves, leaving behind to guard the Huanggongling defense line and defend the back road for the main army of Deng Mao's seven divisions.

At the same time, when Deng Maoqi led an army of 200,000 thieves to set off south, the official army had already discovered the situation without collecting it at night, and Pegasus sent the news back to the official army camp.

Upon hearing the news, General Dai Jingkui immediately convened the generals of each battalion to prepare to meet the army of thieves.

At the military meeting, General Dai Jingkui laughed loudly and said to the generals: "That thief Kou Deng Maoqi has 300,000 troops, but he does not defend Huanggongling to block our army from going north, but instead leads the army south and fights with us in the field, it is really stupid!" ”

The generals were also smiling, originally worried about how to break through the Huanggongling defense line, but now the generals were all relieved, and they were ready to fight a big battle.

And Liu Juntao was a little worried, that Deng Maoqi was not an ordinary thief after all, otherwise he would not have let the imperial court mobilize a large army to come here to conquest, would he really put the easy and difficult defense line undefended, and rushed up unprepared to die?

Thinking of this, Liu Juntao said: "Thinking about it, although Deng Maoqi has taken a faint move, but after all, the army is strong and strong, and we must not underestimate the enemy, we need to be cautious and go north with all our strength to annihilate it in one fell swoop!" ”

The reason why more than 40,000 officers and troops were able to go north to aid Tingzhou was because of Liu Juntao's blessings.

Therefore, Liu Juntao's prestige among the generals has also risen sharply, and Liu Juntao's words are also very useful to the generals at this time.

"Guerrilla Liu is right, more ants bite and kill elephants, we can't fight easily!"

"You have to be careful, we don't have enough troops, but we can't easily get into danger!"

"We must take it step by step and go north directly to crush the past!"

Listening to the discussion of the generals, General Dai Jingkui also nodded frequently, and said: "Since everyone's opinion is the same, then it is decided, with the 25,000 troops of Liu's guerrilla headquarters as the front army, the Beijing camp generals as the central army, and the Mongolian iron cavalry as the flank, the army will slowly march north in a group and seize the southern slope of the Huanggong Mountains!" ”

"The last will be ordered!"

The southern slope of the Huanggong Mountains is a relatively gentle highland in the Huanggongling area, which can overlook the surrounding more than ten miles away, condescending, can completely control the surrounding terrain, and there are several springs on the highland, do not worry about being cut off by the thieves, it is an excellent strategic place!

On the same day, more than 40,000 officers and soldiers marched north and killed on the southern slope of the Huanggong Mountains.

Liu Juntao led 25,000 soldiers to open the road in front, Yanzhou Mansion is the barracks, the odd barracks, the front camp of Yushan Town, and the rear camp each formed a phalanx, the first two and the second rear configuration of the rapid march, Liu Juntao's Chinese army banner was erected in the iron cavalry camp, and went all the way north in the four huge phalanxes.

Staff General Dai Jingkui and the generals of the Beijing camp led the army to follow behind, and when they saw Liu Juntao's army from a distance, they couldn't help but sigh: "Liu Guerrilla is really handsome!" Such soldiers and horses, such a battle formation, is really powerful! Even among the nine sides, there are few comparisons! ”

The surrounding generals also echoed it.

The next day, when the army was still 30 miles away from the southern slope of the Huanggong Mountains, General Dai Jingkui suddenly received an urgent report that he had not received it at night: the Liu guerrilla station in front had encountered thieves and soldiers and horses, and was fighting against them.

Hearing the news, General Dai Jingkui hurriedly ordered all units of the Chinese army and the Mongolian iron cavalry to speed up their march and immediately rush to the aid of Liu Juntao's department.

But in less than half an hour, the general Dai Jingkui once again received the news that he did not receive and sent at night: Liu Guerrilla had led his troops to defeat the thieves and soldiers, beheaded 3,000, and the rest were all defeated!

"Haha! Good! ”

Staff General Dai Jingkui laughed and said to the surrounding Beijing camp generals: "Guerrilla Liu is really a tiger general, he beheaded 3,000 in such a short time, and the thieves and soldiers encountered were at least more than 10,000, which is really extraordinary!" ”

"Liu Guerrilla Tiger Might!"

"Congratulations to the general on his first victory!"

Listening to everyone's words, General Dai Jingkui was also in a good mood, so he ordered the army to continue to hurry up and strive to join Liu Juntao's headquarters as soon as possible.

At this moment, a team of scouts from the Yanzhou Mansion Qi Barracks rushed over and reported to General Dai Jingkuiyu: "General Qiyu, my guerrilla brigade has heard that the thief brigade has occupied the southern slope of the Huanggong Mountains, and now they have led their troops to attack, preparing to capture the southern slopes of the Huanggong Mountains and open the way for the army, please follow up as soon as possible!" ”

"Good!"

Staff General Dai Jingkui was also quite straightforward, and directly shouted loudly: "Pass the order, and the soldiers of each battalion will rush north to help the southern slope of Huanggongling!" ”

The words are divided into two ends, one for each table.

At this time, the southern slope of the Huanggong Mountains was already filled with gunsmoke and fire, and the 20,000 thieves had just occupied this place, and they were surrounded by Liu Juntao and his army.

After Liu Juntao surrounded the southern slope of the Huanggong Mountains, he ordered the main barracks of Yanzhou Prefecture, the front camp of Yushan Town, and the rear camp to attack from the east, west, and south respectively, and must take the southern slope of the Huanggongling Mountains within an hour.

At the same time, Liu Juntao personally led the Yanzhou Mansion Qi Barracks to line up three miles north of the southern slope of the Huanggong Mountains, preparing to block the army of thieves who came later.

The Yushan Town Iron Cavalry Battalion led by Zhou Zongsheng was also deployed on both flanks of the army, responsible for protecting the phalanx of the Yanzhou Mansion Qi Barracks.

At this time, Sun Xu led his troops to attack the east, Zhang Xiaojun led his troops to attack the west, Yan Hu led his troops to attack the south, and the three battalions of nearly 15,000 soldiers attacked at the same time.

Even though the 20,000 thieves on the southern slope kept firing arrows and throwing stones, they still couldn't stop the advance of the army.

"Thunderbolt! Give it to me! ”

Meng Fanchen, the head of the thousand, roared, and dozens of thunder throwers rushed up from the rear of the horizontal formation, all of these dozens of mine throwers were wearing heavy armor and iron masks, and they were not afraid of the arrows shot by the thieves, and they did not stop until they were more than 20 miles away from the thieves.

Then, under the terrifying gaze of hundreds or thousands of thieves, these dozens of thunder throwers threw out the sparkling earth-shattering thunderbolts.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

After a violent explosion, the thieves and horses in the improvised fortifications on the southern slope were killed and wounded, and the hastily built barricade wall became full of holes and dilapidation.

"Fire!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

As soon as the dozens of mine-throwers withdrew, Meng Fanchen ordered the horizontal formation to start shooting, and the bursts of fierce shooting immediately crackled the thief formation, and the thieves' soldiers and horses seemed to be swept away by the wind, and there was no longer a living person!

"Rush! Kill me! ”

Meng Fanchen was also overjoyed when he saw this, and as soon as he gave the order, he led the long knife men to charge, and the bird gunners in the horizontal formation also loaded their bayonets one after another and began to rush forward in formation.

However, when Meng Fanchen led the long knife hand to rush into the thief defense line and rushed towards the thief camp, he found that the thief camp had raised the Ming battle flag.

Liu Youcai and Liu Youfu, the brothers of Qianying Qianqian in Yushan Town, were smoking dry cigarettes outside the gate of the thief camp, looking at Meng Fanchen, who was panting and leading his troops over, as if to say: Brother! You're late!

Meng Fanchen gasped and asked, "Are the thieves done?" ”

Liu Youcai said with a smile: "The fight is over, and my family commander is collecting prisoners inside." ”

Liu Youfu asked: "Mr. Meng Qian, have the thieves in the east been wiped out?" ”

Meng Fanchen pursed his lips and said, "The purging is over!" Your front camp is really fast, it's like beating chicken blood! ”

"Hahaha!"

Liu Youcai and Liu Youfu were unimpressed when they heard this, and they laughed out loud.

A moment later, Liu Juntao saw that the army of thieves had not arrived, so he led the Yanzhou Mansion Qi Barracks and the Yushan Town Iron Cavalry Battalion to withdraw to the southern slope together, and began to expand the official army camp on the basis of the bandit camp.

More than an hour later, General Dai Jingkui led the soldiers and horses of the Beijing battalion and the Mongolian iron cavalry to arrive and stationed in the large camp under construction.

Looking at the battlefield that had not yet been cleaned up, General Dai Jingkui said to Liu Juntao with a sigh: "Liu Guerrilla Huwei, in such a short period of time, 20,000 thieves will be wiped out. After the victory in this battle, Liu's guerrilla attack should be the first achievement! ”

Liu Juntao said a few words modestly, and then said: "General, the main force of the thieves has not yet arrived at this time, so we must hurry up and discuss the matter of facing the battle!" ”

"Well, then inform everyone of the future Chinese army's big tent discussion!"