Before autumn, the millet planted on the hillsides on both sides of the road to Yanzhou began to turn yellow.

Due to the lack of irrigation, the yellow on the slopes is sparse and the yield is very low.

Since there is not enough food to eat in the fields, it is normal for people in Suiyan to come out and rob.

However, no one generally dared to rob a caravan escorted by an army.

It is not very difficult for a team of hundreds of soldiers to destroy a cottage with thousands of minions, unless they have tens of thousands of horses under their command, or they also have armor.

In the hottest part of the year, it was very hard to travel on this rugged mountain road in the northeast of Yanzhou.

"After passing the Qingjian Gorge, we arrived at the river, and the road felt a little cooler."

The convoy entered the valley, and the guide who led the way said to Yang Kai, the leader of the team.

Yang Kai nodded, the cliffs on both sides of this Qingjian Canyon were rocky, and on the west side of this avenue was a rocky river beach. The river should not be small in the spring, but in the summer it is mostly dry, and the river is full of pebbles of various sizes, some of which are more than half a person high. There are still small springs in some parts of the river, and the weeds on both sides are slightly more luxuriant, and occasionally there are a few willow trees with crooked necks.

The canyon was very quiet, and there was no sign of the roe deer or wild goats that were originally occasionally visible, not even a rabbit, which made Yang Kai's heart become inexplicably nervous.

Suizhou under the rule of Dang Xiang Qiang has never been stable, and robberies and vendettas occur almost every day in this place, and sometimes for a small matter, it will lead to a large-scale weapon fight of more than 1,000 people. This is a place that is not bound by the government and criminal laws, and under the rule of the party, it is becoming more and more barbaric.

Yang Kai's worst fear still happened, when he was halfway through the canyon, several cavalrymen who were exploring the path in front stopped, and then signaled to the back that there was an unexpected situation.

Yang Kai ordered the convoy to stop, let the carriages in front and behind adjust, and the troops guarding it were ready for battle.

The cavalry who explored the road rode back and reported to Yang Kai: "Dutou, the road ahead is blocked by stones, I'm afraid there will be an ambush." ”

Yang Kai thought for a while: "Who didn't you see?" ”

The sentry shook his head: "It should have been done by the mountain bandits." ”

Yang Kai looked forward, and then said, "Maybe they wanted to intercept other caravans, and when they saw that we were an army, they instigated and retreated." Keep walking and clear the barricades. ”

The convoy continued to the place where the robbers had set up barricades and began to clear the rubble piled up in the middle of the road on both sides. As soon as I started, I saw a lot of heads popping up on the hills on both sides. It seems that this group of mountain bandits is still not giving up, and really wants to rob their transport convoy protected by the army.

"Formation, prepare to meet the enemy!" Yang Kai was not flustered, and calmly gave the order.

He squinted at the mountain bandits on both sides of the hill who were shouting and rushing towards them, about 2,000 people, and he didn't know who gave them the guts to rob the convoy protected by the army.

Maybe I'm really hungry!

There seemed to be a bit of a lot of archers behind them, though.

A messy rain of arrows fell from the hillside and spilled down on the mountain road as they adjusted their formations.

"Ready, release the arrows!" The guards took their crossbows from their cars and fought back against the crowd of charging bandits. After only three rounds of arrow rain, more than 100 of the screaming mountain bandits fell to the ground with arrows, the rest continued to charge, some fled back timidly, and most of them were in place, like headless flies, looking for a place to hide from the arrows. The momentum of the charge was suddenly stopped, and the remaining cottage minions who continued to charge were scattered in formation, obviously not posing a big threat.

Without a shield, charging in front of a crossbowman is not much different from sending him to death.

Yang Kai breathed a sigh of relief slightly, these bandits were not much of a threat, and they would soon be beaten to the ground.

……

Li Yizan stood under a crooked beech tree, looked at the battlefield below, and couldn't help pouting: "This is your subordinate?" I thought I could rush in at least part of it and mess up the formation. Now it seems that it is really useless. ”

Behind him, a big man in black in a strong suit hurriedly nodded and said: "These subordinates, as many homeless people, it's okay to rob the ordinary dart team, this is the army, you still have to count on the young general." ”

Li Yizan frowned, but still said: "Let's start, the other party has more than 100 crossbows, and the loss this time will definitely be not small, and the benefits will not be less when the time comes." ”

"No!" Standing behind him, a short, stout general in armor raised his hand and gestured.

The party soldiers who were lying in ambush behind the mountain poured out of the mountain.

Yang Kaigang commanded his subordinates to repel the attack of the bandits, but saw that dense armor soldiers suddenly poured out from the surrounding hills.

This is the elite step of the party people!

Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but gasp, where did he not know what was going on!

"Li Renyu, if you dare to rob the Jinyang Army, the Son of Heaven will definitely not spare you!"

Yang Kai exhaled and shouted loudly towards the top of the mountain.

"Hehe, scare the little emperor with that little emperor, are we scared? I heard that Jinyang City is so rich that one day the master will lead the army to loot it! Li Yizan sneered after hearing Yang Kai's roar.

The sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the valley, and two cavalry teams also appeared in sight.

The shouts of killing sounded, and the two teams of cavalry let out a strange cry in their mouths, brandished long knives in their hands and attacked back and forth, and rushed over on horseback.

Yang Kai calmed down from the initial panic and commanded the team to cut the carriage through the rope noose, forming an obstacle to stop the cavalry's charge. Unfortunately, the convoy was more than a mile long, and the hurried obstacles were flawed everywhere. The party soldiers who rushed down the hillside also rushed over, and the two sides immediately fell into a scuffle.

When the armored cavalry of the party members rushed into the battle circle, the outcome of this war was already doomed......

The Jinyang army guarding was divided into more than a dozen parts, but they still fought separately and stubbornly resisted.

The number of Jinyang troops in the battle circle is getting smaller and smaller, and there are constantly cavalrymen who are shot off their horses by crossbow arrows flying from behind the car. These cavalrymen were all his own troops, they were fed with money and food, and every death was a loss. The tenacity of the Jinyang army was unexpected, and after the follow-up infantry troops rushed into the battlefield, the battle inside was still going on.

Especially the young officer, there were more than 20 soldiers gathered around him, and the carriage was in a circle, desperately resisting.

"What a fierce general, it's a pity!" Li Yizan sighed in his mouth.

This attack must not leave a living mouth!

In the end, his young general, stumbling on his body, was slashed in the neck by a rushing soldier waving his war horse, blood splattered, and his angry head rolled out of the ground.

There were already corpses strewn across the road and on the dry riverbed......