Mt. Aowei.

Liu Juntao led the Central Military Department, Zhang Xiaojun's Division, and Yan Hu's Division's all the way south, and successfully joined forces with Hu Dexing's Division, Zhou Zongsheng's Division, and the two sides combined more than 10,000 people, and then rushed directly to Beiwei Mountain to station, preparing to block the follow-up army of Ye Zongliu's Division.

At this time, the southern foot of the mountain has changed greatly, and the entire mountain is full of figures, all of which are young and strong in the Yushan Town guards who are racing against time to build fortifications.

Mt. Pewei is a large mountain that stretches for dozens of miles, the mountain is not too high, but the mountain road is very rugged, and it is famous within a radius of several hundred miles.

If Ye Zongliu's follow-up men want to go north to Yushan Town, they must conquer here, so Liu Juntao led a large army to garrison here, preparing to block Ye Zongliu's thief army and come to a defensive counterattack.

According to Liu Juntao's plan, the Central Military Department led by himself was responsible for the frontal blockade, and began to build fortifications on the mountainside, which consisted of three trenches: upper, middle, and lower, each of which was guarded by at least one general birdman, and a sentry mine-thrower and a long-sword hand were ready to support everywhere at any time.

In this way, the young and strong of the Central Military Department completely blocked most of the mountain roads up the mountain, and the thief army of Ye Zongliu's department could only storm the mountain.

At the same time, in order to form a tight firepower network, Liu Juntao specially ordered Hu Dexing to lead the headquarters to garrison the left wing, and Zhang Xiaojun to lead the headquarters to garrison the right wing.

Yan Hu's headquarters were all stationed on the mountain, located at the rear of the entire defense line. Liu Juntao used Yan Hu's young men as mobile troops, ready to counterattack at any time.

Zhou Zongsheng led the cavalry department of 2,000 iron cavalry to break away from the large army, and drove to a place more than ten miles away from Beiwei Mountain.

Just when the various departments of the Yushan Town Guard were hurrying to repair the fortifications, Liu Zi'an's men and horses hurriedly sent the news: Ye Zongliu had led an army of 60,000 to the north, and he would arrive in four days; At the same time, Ye Zongliu left at least tens of thousands of horses in the old nest Yejiabao!

After receiving the news, Liu Juntao temporarily gave up his plan to send the cavalry led by Zhou Zongsheng to attack Yejiabao.

If Yejiabao didn't have many defensive forces, Liu Juntao might also send a large group of cavalry to attack Yejiabao, which could be regarded as a good strategy for surprise.

But once there are tens of thousands of people and horses left behind in Yejiabao, then use 2,000 cavalry to attack the dock fort garrisoned by tens of thousands of horses, such a stupid thing Liu Juntao will not do.

After all, cavalry has the use of cavalry, and the cavalry of the brigade can only maximize its combat power in the field, instead of changing the cavalry into infantry for siege cities!

Liu Juntao thinks that he is not so ridiculous.

However, if most of Ye Zongliu was defeated in this battle, Liu Juntao would not mind letting Zhou Zongsheng lead his troops to follow and kill, or even directly cover all the way to Yejiabao, so that he might be able to reap unexpected results!

Therefore, Liu Juntao ordered all departments to hurry up and repair the fortifications, and strive to complete the construction within three days, and then they could wait for the 60,000 thieves of Ye Zongliu's department to come and send them to death!

At the same time, Ye Zongliu had already led the army to the north, and along the way he was still plundering the villages and towns along the way, and the number of young people in the army increased again, and when he was more than ten miles away from Beiwei Mountain, he had already coerced more than 10,000 people, and the strength of the army had increased to more than 70,000 again!

The prefectures and counties along the way were all shaken, and they sent people to Ren Chengwei and Yanzhou Mansion to report the emergency.

Four days later, with Tail Mountain.

On this day, Ye Zongliu led more than 70,000 people and horses to finally rush to the foot of Beiwei Mountain, looking at the mountains on the mountain that had been transformed beyond recognition, looking at the dense guards of Yushan Town halfway up the mountain, and looking at the very strange and never-before-seen defense line, Ye Zongliu had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Then Liu Juntao actually sat on a strong army and retreated up the mountain? In this case, how can these tens of thousands of horses in my hands fight? ”

Ye Zongliu knew very well in his heart that with the tens of thousands of rabble in his hands, if he fought with Liu Juntao's Yushan Town Guards in an open place, he might be able to win with the advantage of numbers, after all, two fists are hard to beat with four hands, and ants bite elephants to death.

However, now that Liu Juntao led a strong army to hold on to the steep mountains, and also built a defense line that he had never seen before, Ye Zongliu knew that the tens of thousands of horses in his hands were probably only defeated!

At this moment, many plans emerged in Ye Zongliu's mind: cutting off the water source, setting fire to the mountain, besieging and cutting off food, etc., but they were all vetoed by Ye Zongliu one by one!

Now Ye Zongliu doesn't have time to slowly fight with Liu Juntao's escort team, and the surrounding officers and soldiers don't know when they will surround him, and he must take Yushan Town as soon as possible, so that he can have a way to live!

Moreover, at this time, tens of thousands of troops have gathered here, and Ye Zongliu has no way to retreat, once he retreats without a fight, not only the more than 40,000 young and strong villagers who have been captured will blow up their nests, but even the 30,000 henchmen under his command will have to be separated from him!

So, Ye Zongliu was ruthless and began to mobilize men and horses to prepare to attack the mountain.

Ye Zongliu gathered the more than 40,000 villagers who had been taken captive, drove them all to the foot of Beiwei Mountain, and ordered everyone to attack the mountain first, preparing to use these more than 40,000 villagers as cannon fodder to kill and injure the troops of the Yushan Town Guards as much as possible and attract firepower!

On the mountain, Liu Juntao looked at the thief army at the bottom of the mountain, and saw that the thief army had divided most of its forces to prepare to attack the mountain, with more than 40,000 troops, but there was no formation and queue, and it was obviously a rabble temporarily assembled by Ye Zongliu.

Liu Juntao pointed to the more than 40,000 troops who were preparing to attack at the foot of the mountain, and said to Hu Dexing, Yan Hu, and Zhang Xiaojun beside him: "It seems that those are all young and strong villagers who were captured and plundered by the thief leader Ye Zongliu!" ”

Yan Hu and Zhang Xiaojun glanced at each other, both of them were a little unbearable, and said one after another: "Big brother, those villagers are innocent people!" Are we trying to save them? ”

"How to save it?"

Hu Dexing said: "Although those people are all young and strong villagers, maybe they are forced to be helpless, but at this time they are already thieves, and they will attack the mountain in a big way, if we don't kill them, more than 10,000 brothers in our escort team will suffer!" ”

The three of them obviously couldn't convince each other, and they all looked at Liu Juntao at this time.

I saw that Liu Juntao also pondered for a while, and finally said: "Mr. Hu Qian is right! Are there innocent people on the battlefield? Our kindness to those villagers is cruelty to our own brothers. The order goes down, as long as those villagers rush up, the young men of the escort team will shoot them immediately! ”

Zhang Xiaojun and Yan Hu were both stunned when they heard this, while Hu Dexing nodded secretly.

About a meal later, more than 40,000 people gathered at the foot of the mountain had been assembled, and the black and vast scenery was endless, and it looked very spectacular.

Ye Zongliu saw that the 40,000 "cannon fodder" were ready, so he immediately mobilized 5,000 people to immediately step forward to suppress the formation, and anyone who dared to retreat from the battle, no matter who it was, they would be killed on the spot!

"Pass the order! Attack the mountain! ”

Ye Zongliu roared, and the more than 40,000 villagers roared in despair, brandishing short knives, machetes, and even wooden sticks and iron pickaxes, and rushed towards Beiwei Mountain.

Liu Juntao was also indignant when he saw this, although he had ordered all the units of the escort team to be killed, but he also hated Ye Zongliu's madness.

In Liu Juntao's cognition, such a move as driving the common people into battle is inferior to beasts and exterminating humanity, only the Manchurian Tartars and the Japanese army invading China can do it, and I never expected Ye Zongliu to dare to do this!

At this time, Liu Juntao's heart was already murderous, and he said to the herald beside him: "Herald!" The thief leader Ye Zongliu is extremely evil, and all the young and strong people take the killing of Ye Zongliu as the first credit! ”

It didn't take long for those villagers to rush up along several mountain roads, and more than 40,000 people were suddenly divided into more than a dozen winding dragons by the rugged mountain roads, and crashed headlong into the Yushan Town Guards, who were already in battle.