The afterglow of the sun has not yet dissipated, and Fan Hu can not help but be overjoyed when he sees it in the grass on the hill. More than 1,000 bandits were cooking, fighting with each other, unaware, and nearly 200 tents had been set up on the side, and it seemed that they would spend the night here.

Coming down from the hill, Fan Hu said to a junior colonel who was close to him: "You go to the city to report the news, let Tang Shuai send people over, and tonight you can exterminate these more than 1,000 rogues, and we will continue to monitor here." ”

After hearing this, the school took two people and hurriedly went down the mountain. If it goes well, the army can arrive at the right time, and there is no need to wait for dawn to kill the thieves at night.

"My lord, he has already sent someone back to the city to report the news, and it is estimated that the officials and soldiers will be here tonight." Hundreds of household officials under his command entered Du Fuwei's tent and reported.

"Good! You quickly sent people to the nearby two men and horses, and after nightfall, quietly sneaked to the ridges on both sides of my valley to lay an ambush, and waited for the officers and soldiers in the city to attack overnight, and use the sound of arrows as a signal to shoot the officers and soldiers in the valley. Just go! Du Fuwei ordered, these hundred household officials have been following Du Fuwei for a long time, and they are a confidant. After listening to Shangguan's arrangement, he suddenly realized, and couldn't help but secretly admire, and hurriedly went to arrange.

"Everyone is full of wine and food, extinguish the bonfire for me, take advantage of the darkness to sneak out of the camp and ambush on the hill behind, don't make a sound, and expose the target to behead!" Du Fuwei whispered to the number of flag officers in the account. Everyone understood it, so they went out to call their soldiers to act according to the plan, quietly left an empty account, and sneaked into the rear post to ambush.

The dark night in the mountains is terrifying, from time to time you can hear the howl of wolves from the distant hills, Fan Hu, who is ambushed in the grass to monitor the wanderers in the valley, can't help but shiver, and the temperature in the mountains plummets with the depth of the night.

"General, the marshal personally led 3,000 troops, when can the general attack?" Suddenly, a small colonel crawled from behind and asked Fan Hu for instructions.

"The Liukou in the valley are now asleep in their accounts, and there is no sentry on duty at night, so they think that this place is extremely safe. Inform Tang Shuai's whole army to quietly approach the enemy's tent, and when they reach 50 meters, they can rush and kill the rogue in their dreams with all their might, so that no one escapes. Fan Hu ordered in a low voice. The little colonel hurriedly reported to Tang Jin in the back.

"Good! General Fan made meritorious contributions in this battle. Order the whole army not to make a sound, quietly surround it, and wait for the commander to give an order to rush and kill with all his might. Tang Jin ignored his exhaustion, and ordered with excitement in his heart, he was finally able to exterminate a group of bandits in the past few days.

Just as the officers and soldiers quietly surrounded Du Fuwei's camp, they saw that they had all entered the ambush circle. I only heard a brilliant fire light above the back hill, accompanied by a sharp whistle, and suddenly hundreds of torches were lit on the hills around the valley, illuminating the entire valley as if it were day. Before the thousands of officers and soldiers in the valley could react, they heard the sound of bowstrings, and then people around them were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground.

This sudden change scared Tang Jin and Fan Hu, who were already in the valley, half to death, Fan Hu had already been hit by an arrow in his right shoulder at this time, and he also carried an arrow on the hat and helmet on his head. Tang Jin was even more miserable, at this time, he was hit by two arrows in his ass at the same time, although it was not fatal, but he was already so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, so he shouted at Fan Hu: "Fan Hu, I'm waiting for the plan, hurry, retreat!" ”

Fan Hu didn't care about anything else at this time, and turned his head and ran on the way he was going. After all, he was born as a head catcher, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he ran fast, and he didn't care about the life or death of coach Tang Jin at all, and it was much more important to save his life. As Fan Hu pulled his steps and ran back, the other officers and soldiers no longer opened their bows and arrows to shoot at the bandits on the hill, and they didn't care about anything else, they just ran away. For a time, thousands of officers and soldiers were in a mess, without the power to resist, and more and more were shot dead and wounded, and the whole valley was full of mourning and miserable.

The sky was white, and a ray of sunlight shone through the clouds of the early morning, and also illuminated the entire valley, and the embers were burning everywhere and emitting puffs of green smoke. The valley gradually became quiet, and the wounded officers and soldiers either died of blood or fainted. Du Fuwei was leading 3,000 men to clean up the battlefield, and this battle wiped out more than 2,000 officers and soldiers. It's a pity that the leading commanders Tang Jin and Fan Hu ran away, and the remnants of the officers and soldiers who fled back to Fei County were less than 800 people, and almost all of them were wounded by arrows like Fan Hu and Tang Jin.

This surprised Qin Qiong, who returned to Fei County from exploring the mountains overnight. Last night, Qin Qiong returned with his 200 soldiers in vain and returned to the city to rest and replenish food and water, but he heard that the handsome Tang Jin went out of the city with 3,000 men and horses to suppress bandits. After inquiring carefully, I learned that it was my brother Fan Hu who discovered the traces of the bandits, and he was secretly happy in his heart, but he didn't want to think that the defeated army had returned before dawn, and the defeat was so miserable that all the troops defending the city were terrified.

When he returned to the camp and called the army Zhonglangzhong, Tang Jin at this time was not only stuck with two arrows in his buttocks, but also had an arrow in his left arm. Fan Hu was not easy, in addition to the arrow in his right arm, he was hit by another arrow in his back when he escaped, but he didn't cut his head deeply, fortunately he didn't hurt the vital point, but he was embarrassed all the way back to the city and only had half a life left, and he fell unconscious on the bed.

Lang Zhong took three arrows from Tang Jin's body, although Tang Jin had more arrows, but they were all injured in inconsequential places, applied some hemostatic plasters, and after bandaging, he was still conscious. When he saw Qin Qiong, he just sighed and didn't speak. After Qin Qiong let him have a good life, he got out of the coach's account. Hurriedly ran to Fan Hu's tent, Fan Hu was seriously injured by an arrow in his back, and he was already unconscious due to excessive bleeding. This is his friend, bring him out by yourself, and there must be no accident. Qin Qiong looked at Fan Hu, who was bandaged like a dumpling, and couldn't help but burst into tears. At this time, Lian Ming was still patrolling the mountains and did not return.

In the afternoon, Qin Qiong led 5,000 men and horses to rush to the valley where the officers and soldiers had suffered heavy losses, and calm had been restored here, but the corpses of the officers and soldiers were lying on the grass everywhere. The armor of these dead officers and soldiers was stripped of their armor, and the swords, guns, swords, halberds and other weapons they carried were also looted, and only arrow holes were left on their naked bodies, and all the arrows were pulled out and taken back by the rogues, and the scene was terrible.

Qin Qiong couldn't bear the brutality of these soldiers, and ordered: "Dig a pit on the spot and bury it." Then he galloped up the hill and looked around.

After looking at the surrounding terrain, Qin Qiong sighed secretly in his heart: "Liukou Du Fuwei is really a person who can lead troops, and the terrain chosen for this ambush is really good." If the officers and soldiers could still feel that the terrain was unfavorable to me during the day, and they did not dare to trespass into the valley without authorization, it was precisely the rogues who chose to set up an ambush at night, and they thought they had a plan to sneak attack the officers and soldiers, but they did not know that they had become a turtle in the urn! ”

"General, General Lian Ming is here." Just when Qin Qiong was feeling emotional, the junior colonel behind him hurriedly reported to Qin Qiong after seeing Lian Ming riding up the hill from the valley.

"Brother Qin, as soon as the younger brother returned to the camp, he heard that Fan Hu was injured. The younger brother was anxious, so he rushed here to find his brother. Lian Ming came to Qin Qiong's side and said with a gloomy face.

"Brother Xian, it's all to blame for being a brother, otherwise Fan Hu wouldn't have fallen for the tricks of the rogue. Alas! Qin Qiong saw Lian Ming mention Fan Hu's injury in person, and suddenly felt extremely guilty in her heart.

"Brother Qin doesn't have to be like this, think about avenging Fan Hu." Lian Ming comforted that he and Lian Ming had been on an errand in a yamen for the longest time, and the relationship with Fan Hu was also the best, seeing that Fan Hu was seriously injured, now he only wanted to avenge Fan Hu in his heart.

"This revenge will be avenged, and the virtuous brother is in a hurry. Come and see ---" With that, Qin Qiong raised his horsewhip and pointed to the bottom of the valley below. Then he said: "Brother Xian is the place where the Liukou is stationed, because my brother has seen that there are Liukou footprints all over this hill, after he wins, he will go to the camp to meet, there will be traces of escape, the traces of thousands of people are not easy to eliminate, I will go there to find clues of the escape of the Liukou, this is the strength of you and my brother, come with so-and-so!" With that, he raised his whip and rushed down the hill and went straight to the place where Du Fuwei led the ambush soldiers to camp and lure the enemy in the valley.

As Qin Qiong said, after the ambush soldiers on the two hills were successful, they were laid off to join Du Fuwei, and after cleaning the battlefield, they also left the valley together, and the departure of more than 3,000 people could not leave a trace. Qin Qiong and Lian Ming were originally full-time arresters in Jeju Prefecture before they joined the army, and they were the chief and deputy captains of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Police Department in later generations, and they had extremely rich patrol experience.

"Humph! The grass is the grass robber, and if you win by chance, you get carried away. Brother Xian is a brother, so he rashly went to find these 5,000 men and horses, and he must kill all the bandits, so you can quickly return to the camp and lead 3,000 soldiers as a response for his brother. On a whim, Qin Qiong wanted to trace and kill the enemy now to avenge Fan Hu, so he said to Lian Ming. At the same time, let him also hurry to bring the troops over to make his own response, after all, searching for the enemy in this reckless mountain, the situation of the bandits is not clear, and if he has fewer soldiers and fights with the rogues, he will inevitably suffer losses again.

"It's okay, the younger brother will go back to move the troops, the eldest brother can leave a mark for the younger brother along the way, this time he will definitely kill all the bandits, and the younger brother will go." After speaking, Lian Ming shook his horse's head and ran out of the valley with his own soldiers.

Seeing Lian Ming leaving, Qin Qiong gathered 5,000 officers and soldiers, and personally led the team to explore the traces left by the bandits along the way, and followed all the way.

"Lord Du's battle is too refreshing, I've been wandering around the mountains for a few days, and I've finally had a full meal today, hehe!" One of the leading soldiers laughed and said to Du Fuwei while marching, and the relatives around him laughed happily. In this battle, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers were killed unscathed, and countless weapons, armor and other weapons were captured, which was a great victory.

"Huh! San'er is right. Today's big victory, in general, is still the lord's original "guerrilla warfare" method! Make effective use of the terrain and concentrate your forces to eat a small group of enemies, and the brothers all learn a little. If we fight a few more small battles like this, I don't think this officer or army will be able to hold out for a few days. Du Fuwei also said with a hearty laugh.

"Lord Qianhu, the official army suffered a big loss this time, and also injured the coach Tang Jin, I'm afraid I won't give up. The pioneer general Qin Qiong is quite famous in the rivers and lakes, and he was originally a famous catcher in Jeju, focusing on suppressing bandits, and he will never give up if he does not exterminate us! Adults should be careful. Another hundred household officials reminded Du Fuwei with some concern, just because this Qin Qiong's fame is too great, he has suffered a big loss this time, and I am afraid he will not be able to be good.

"San'er learns a little, the sixth is better than you, calm enough. Alas! That's what the sixth said! This Qin Qiong is the most friends on the road, this ability to find traces is unique in the world, we have to guard against it! Sixth, after you lead a few brothers to break up, don't be fucking followed by dogs. After being reminded by his confidant Baihu Lao Liu, Du Fuwei's mind immediately cleared up a lot, and he hurriedly sent the Baihu Guan Lao Liu, who was still vigilant, to check on the back.

In fact, at this time, Du Fuwei and his group of 3,000 people were moving slowly, and they had already been traced by Qin Qiong and more than ten people in advance, and they had already seen it from afar.

"Go and inform the army behind to camp on the spot and not to light a fire, I will follow behind, see where this group of rogues is camped, tonight we must annihilate this gang of bandits in one fell swoop." Qin Qiong said fiercely to his subordinates. Judging from the speed of the bandits' march, he was not discovered, and he could not get any closer, so he could only hang from a distance. His 5,000 men and horses may not be able to kill all of them, and they must wait for Lian Ming's men and horses to arrive and start together, so they can only wait until after dark to launch a surprise attack.

Du Fuwei and the others continued to move forward slowly, but at this time, Du Fuwei did not have the excitement at the beginning, but thought about the next step in his mind. At present, it seems that the strength of the official army is superior, and he cannot fight hard with his own small soldiers, and he must attract the attention of the official army to his side, so as to cover for Fugongshi's surprise attack on Donghai County. This enemy general Qin Qiong who leads the troops is indeed a headache, if it is other officers and generals, the pressure on himself is not great, this Qin Qiong is a master who goes up the mountain to catch the mountain bandits. I'm afraid that I will inevitably leave traces under this big victory. Thinking of this, Du Fuwei couldn't help but shudder in his heart, took a slight breath of cold air, and felt that his back had been targeted, and a spontaneous intuition made Du Fuwei stop.

"My lord, what's wrong? Why stop? The hundred-household official named San'er hurriedly posted it and asked.

"San'er, send someone to call the sixth child back, the official has a bad feeling." Seeing his henchmen coming to ask, Du Fuwei hurriedly ordered.

"Yes, sir." San'er saw that his Shangguan's face was solemn, and something was obviously wrong, so he hurriedly sent his subordinates to call the sixth child back.

"My lord, do you think there's a tail in the back? Or ----" San'er asked puzzled.

"I'm thousands of people here, and I'm sure there will be traces along the way. If others are okay, how can they hide from Qin Qiong's eyes? The official expected that someone would follow him after he was settled. Du Fuwei said with certainty.

"My lord, I have always been like a god, and the subordinate also feels this way, why don't you divide the troops immediately and disperse to see how he follows?" San'er also felt reasonable, so he offered his skills.

At this time, the sixth who had received the order had already ridden up on horseback, came to Du Fuwei's side and shouted: "Lord Qianhu, there is no follower behind him, and the official has tried his best to eliminate the traces along the way. ”

"Sixth, third, you two have been following this official for a long time. I haven't seen any kind of treacherous people who have started an incident in Jianghuai, if they don't have the ability, Xu Yuanlang alone will eat my brothers and have no bones left. It was expected that Qin Qiong would be not far behind us, and his ability could be hidden from others, but not from his own official. The road ahead is forked, and you and I divide our troops. ”