As night fell, the battlefield was covered with wounds, countless corpses were strewn all over the place, blood stained the earth red, and the air was filled with a fishy smell.

Liu Juntao led his troops to join the Beijing camp army led by the general Dai Jingkui, and set up camp in an open area on the battlefield.

In this battle, more than 23,000 soldiers led by Liu Juntao invited the 260,000 desperate thieves to fight, and the battle losses of each battalion were very serious, especially the front battalion of the Yushan Town Guard led by Zhang Xiaojun.

A total of more than 2,000 soldiers were killed in each battalion, and nearly half of the casualties were from the front battalion of the Yushan Town Guard.

Liu Juntao looked at the report in his hand and sighed heavily, this time he went south to fight the bandits, and the 25,000 army led by himself had already lost about 5,000, since the establishment of the Yushan Town Guard, such a heavy casualty was the first time!

This also sounded the alarm in Liu Juntao's heart: even if the army is equipped with firearms, but in the face of numerical superiority, iron cavalry charge and other situations, the army will still suffer huge casualties.

The big tent of the official army and the army.

Liu Juntao and General Dai Jingkui discussed the next battle plan.

"In this battle, our army was unable to hold back the army of 260,000 thieves due to its limited strength, but the soldiers of each battalion fought desperately and also inflicted heavy losses on the army of thieves."

Liu Juntao said in a deep voice: "In this battle, the thief leader Deng Bosun ambushed and killed at least 60,000 thieves and soldiers, which can be described as a great victory!" ”

General Dai Jingkui also nodded silently, what Liu Juntao said is reasonable, with 20,000 thousands of soldiers and horses to invite an army of 260,000 thieves, it is already a miracle to have such a result, what else can I ask for?

So, General Dai Jingkui said: "I have already written a good report, and together with the head of the thief leader Deng Bosun, I will send it to the military headquarters early tomorrow morning." It's just that the thief leader Ye Zongliu is still on the run, and there are nearly 200,000 thieves and robbers by his side, how should we deal with it next? ”

Liu Juntao pointed to the map on the table and said: "General, although Ye Zongliu still has an army of nearly 200,000 thieves, his troops are already all soldiers, as long as our army continues to pursue, Ye Zongliu's thieves will definitely be destroyed!" ”

"According to the return of the night, the thief leader Ye Zongliu has led the remnants into the area of the main peak of Gongchuan Mountain, as long as the thief crosses Gongchuan Mountain, he can go north and enter the territory of Shaxian County, and the thief may plunder the place again and expand his strength! Therefore, our army must surround the main peak of Gongchuan Mountain as soon as possible and close the mountain! Completely seal the thieves of Ye Zong's Liusu Department in Gongchuan Mountain! ”

After listening, General Dai Jingkui's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he said, "Good plan! It's just that our army doesn't have many troops, how can we seal the main peak of Gongchuan Mountain? ”

Liu Juntao pointed to the map and said: "General, although this Gongchuan Mountain covers a wide area, there are only two mountain roads that can accommodate the passage of the army, and the rest are small roads, as long as some stragglers are deployed to monitor it!" ”

"There is a big road on the east and north sides of the main peak, which can be used by the army up and down.

Staff General Dai Jingkui immediately said: "Okay! Then Liu Guerrilla will lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to guard the mountain road on the east side of the main peak, and the general will lead the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp to guard the mountain road on the north side of the main peak! ”

"Order!"

Early the next morning, after a night of cleaning, the battlefield of the previous day had been basically cleaned up.

So, Liu Juntao said goodbye to General Dai Jingkui and led the soldiers of the fifth battalion to rush to the east side of the main peak of Gongchuan Mountain.

Subsequently, the general Dai Jingkui also led his troops to set off and went to the mountain road on the north side of the main peak of Gongchuan Mountain to block the army of thieves.

At this time, Ye Zongliu was leading his troops to rest on the main peak of Gongchuan Mountain, and the remaining more than 190,000 thieves and soldiers were already frightened birds, if Ye Zongliu didn't let his soldiers and horses take a breath and rushed directly to Shaxian, it was estimated that the hundreds of thousands of troops under Shaxian would fall apart!

The terrain of the main peak of Gongchuan Mountain here is dangerous, as long as you hold a few dangerous mountain passes, you can curb the officials and soldiers from killing up the mountain, so Ye Zongliu will rest here with peace of mind.

But what Ye Zongliu didn't expect was that Liu Juntao and General Dai Jingkui didn't take any rest, and directly led their troops to kill them, blocking the two main roads down the mountain in the east and north.

At this moment, the army of 190,000 thieves under Ye Zongliu suddenly stirred, and many thieves were panicked and confused, and Ye Zongliu took a lot of effort to stabilize the army's heart.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Zongliu deployed heavy troops in the direction of the two main roads east and north of Gongchuan Mountain, and mobilized 40,000 elite thieves to garrison two places, and deployed 20,000 soldiers and horses in each place.

These two places are rugged, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and as long as there are one or twenty thousand soldiers and horses, they can firmly hold the mountain road.

The remaining 150,000 thieves seized the time to build camps, fortifications and other facilities on Gongchuan Mountain, preparing to hold Gongchuan Mountain.

In fact, Ye Zongliu also wanted to lead the army to rush down the mountain directly, but looking at the demoralization of his subordinates around him, Ye Zongliu couldn't stop feeling weak, feeling that as long as he rushed down the mountain, he would definitely be killed by the official army and defeated!

Two days later, Liu Juntao commanded the five battalions of soldiers and horses to take turns to attack from the eastern mountain road of Gongchuan Mountain, and the general Dai Jingkui also gathered the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp to attack the mountain road north of Gongchuan Mountain in turn, and the two armies attacked at the same time and launched a mountain attack battle on Gongchuan Mountain.

After a fierce battle, it was the turn of the soldiers of the rear battalion of Yushan Town to attack the mountain, only to see Fan Jing holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, and rushed up the mountain road with a roar of long knives under his command, and at the same time, Yan Hu also mobilized a total of hundreds of bird gunners to attack, and all the bird gunners were all bayonet on, and they continued to shoot the thieves who suddenly rushed out.

For a time, the entire mountain road was filled with roars and screams, and under the opening of Fan Jing's long swordman, hundreds of birds rushed to the mountain road more than two hundred steps away, which was already the farthest distance of the official army's impact since the start of the war!

However, Ye Zongliu rushed to hear the news and commanded thousands of thieves to launch a counterattack, and at any cost he used his life to knock Fan Jing's troops down.

At this time, the long knife in Fan Jing's hand had already been curled, and the whole person was out of breath, it seemed that the long knife in his hand was already as heavy as a thousand catties, and the long knife hand behind him also suffered a lot of casualties, at least dozens of brothers fell on the attacking mountain road!

"No retreat!"

Fan Jing roared, and was about to lead the remaining long knife men to charge again, but saw Yan Hu personally lead a team of bird gunners to kill them in formation, and everyone formed a formation to stab, killing the thieves and horses that rushed up for a while, leaving dozens of corpses.

At this time, Yan Hu pulled Fan Jing and shouted, "Withdraw!" If we continue to fight like this, we will suffer too much, so withdraw for me! ”

Fan Jing stared at Yan Hu with red eyes, and shouted angrily: "Withdraw for me!" ”

After a while, Yan Hu commanded the soldiers who attacked the mountain to withdraw, and this time the rear camp of the Yushan Town Guard lost more than 200 soldiers, although they also killed thousands of thieves, but it also made Liu Juntao and Yan Hu feel distressed, such a transaction is too much of a loss!

At the same time, the soldiers of the Beijing camp who were attacking the mountain on the mountain road north of Gongchuan Mountain were also blocked, and the soldiers of all the departments took turns to attack the mountain and were driven down by the thieves and horses, and the soldiers of the various departments of the Beijing camp lost a lot of soldiers and horses in a few days, but they still could not move forward.

At this moment, it suddenly rained heavily, and Liu Juntao and General Dai Jingkui had no choice but to suspend the attack on the mountain, and each set up a large camp near the mountain road to garrison, while closing the mountain and confronting the thieves of Ye Zongliu's department, while waiting for the battle situation to turn around.