The deputy general of the East Tiger Battalion took Lan Ziyi and them to the northwest.

It's almost sunny here,

The towering mountains to the west descend to the east, where there are only slopes and hills dotted on the plains.

Lan Ziyi led the army to drive his horse forward, and from a distance, he saw billowing smoke coming from behind the hill in front of him.

The soldiers of the East Tiger Battalion climbed all the way up the mountain, and the situation was really bad to a certain extent.

Lan Ziyi and they climbed up a hill that stretched from southwest to northeast, and between the hill and the parallel hillside on the opposite side was a small spindle-shaped valley, the two ends of the spindle were the narrow exits connecting the plains outside the hills on the southwest and northeast sides, and the waist of the spindle was a forest extending down from the hillside.

Standing on the top of the hill, you can see a large number of horse corpses and human corpses on the northeast side, and it seems that the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion who were ambushed were driven in from that mouth.

Looking to the bottom of the valley, at this time, there were only about 1,000 remaining sergeants in Wei Qionglou, who were hiding in the woods to form a circle to defend, and the soldiers on the periphery of the circle stretched out the long lance, and in the long lance were knights with sabers to protect the soldiers with guns from being close to the enemy.

Seeing their own people appear on the hills, the soldiers who were surrounded shouted excitedly, and the soldiers on horses here also called loudly, eager to rush down the mountain now and rescue the brothers inside.

But to save their own people to talk about peace? The 20,000 thieves were divided into five formations to surround Wei Qionglou and them.

Wei Qionglou on the hillside directly north of them seems to be the thief Kou main formation, you can see the handsome flag erected high in the formation, and there are constantly riders who give orders in and out, passing orders to other towns,

There is a phalanx of thieves on the southwest and northeast sides of Wei Qionglou blocking the exit to flee to both sides, and another phalanx on the northwest side is blocking the slope of Wei Qionglou's retreat to the west mountain range.

On Lan Ziyi's left, that is, in the southeast direction of Wei Qionglou, there was also a thief formation moving down the hillside of the hill, and when they saw Lan Ziyi, they suddenly appeared on the hill and seemed to be a little flustered, but they quickly regained their composure, stopped advancing and stationed on the hillside.

Lan Ziyi frowned and looked at the thief in front of him, and said:

"These people are a lot stronger than the rabble in Gangneung."

On the side, Tao Zhuhu said:

"Exactly. Although the thieves in front of him have not been able to give strict orders and advance and retreat in unison, they have already cooperated, marching and defending. There are too few of us, and this battle is not easy to fight. “

桃扵鹿 says:

"Although most of the thieves are still unarmoured, they are fully armed, with bows and crossbows and spears in each phalanx, and there are sword players in melee combat. It seems that this is the gang of thieves who besieged Yiling. ”

Lan Ziyi sighed, and was thinking about how to rescue Wei Qionglou, when the deputy general of the East Tiger Battalion on the side had already said anxiously:

"What are you waiting for? Let's go and get the general and the brothers out!" ”

Lan Ziyi asked:

"How can I save it?"

The adjutant general said angrily:

"We're condescending now, and as long as we rush down, these thieves won't be able to stop us. Now there is a gap between the two phalanxes in the northeast and southeast of the thieves, and we can rush into the encirclement without much effort! ”

Lan Ziyi asked:

"And after that? Surrounded with the people inside?

The thieves are more than five times as large as us, and the equipment is much better than that of the gang of thieves in Lingling, so it's easy to get in, and you want to come out? That's got to be on the head. “

The adjutant general was speechless for a moment, and then said:

"Then we will concentrate our forces to attack the enemy for a while and open a gap."

At this time, Tao Zhuhu said:

"This is the valley, and there are only two exits, northeast and southwest. There are two bandit phalanx in the southwest direction, and even if they can tear the hole, they may not be able to defeat the bandits, and once they fall into a scuffle, the bandits from other directions will come to support it, and it will be over. You calm down first, I am also anxious that the brothers are trapped. “

Adjutant General Says:

"Then let's go and rush the thief phalanx in the northeast, there is only one thief formation here, and the closest is the thief formation, so it shouldn't be easy to come to support. It's better to support the melee, so take advantage of the chaos to kill the thief boss! “

兰子义 says:

"Rather than this, it is better to go around from the north to the opposite hillside, condescendingly, and directly attack the enemy's main position. We are cavalry, we have the advantage of speed, if we can take advantage of the chaos to kill or capture the opposing commander, maybe we can make the thieves flee, so there is still a chance to survive.

What I wonder the most is that General Wei brought 4,000 horses, why are there no ones now? Thieves should be prepared! ”

The adjutant general said anxiously:

"It's too slow! By the time they got to the opposite mountain, the generals had already been besieged and killed by thieves!

The thieves did cut long logs into spears to restrain the onslaught of our cavalry. But the main thing is that we were ambushed that night, but now that our reinforcements have suddenly appeared, the thieves have not thought at all, how can they be able to defend against our onslaught, with this rabble? “

兰子义 says:

"General Wei has been holding out for two days, and he doesn't care about holding out for another two hours,

The exits on both sides of the valley are very narrow, and even if we rush down from the current high ground and have a condescending momentum, we may not be able to clear the thieves in our way in a short time. When we attacked, as long as the thieves bit the trapped soldiers of the Jihu Battalion and didn't let them go, we had nothing to do.

Anyway, why did he Wei Qionglou stay in that kind of place? Why don't you come and guard this mountain?! “

While he was talking, the thief formation had changed,

Wei Qionglou and the thieves on the mountain northwest of them began to retreat along the mountain to the southwest.

And Lan Ziyi, the thief in front of them on the left began to prepare something like black oil paste, and also lit a torch.

Seeing the situation, Tao Zhuhu hurriedly tore off a strand of red tassels on his helmet and threw it into the air, and then scolded:

"Damn, it's the southeast wind, and the thieves want to attack!"

Then the adjutant general said to Lan Ziyi:

"Wei Hou! Can't wait! The thieves are nothing more than a rabble, and they will naturally hold their heads and run away when we wait for the iron horse! Hurry up! “

兰子义 says:

"Gangneung's poorly equipped bandits didn't run away under our onslaught, why do you think the bandits here would escape?"

The adjutant general glared at Lan Ziyi and said:

"Good! Good! Good!

I can see that Wei Hou is just sparing his life and wants to see his brothers die there! Not your brother anyway! We don't need you to die, we'll do it ourselves! “

As soon as Lan Ziyi wanted to speak, the adjutant general raised his arms and shouted:

"Brothers, let's go and get the general out!"

Naturally, more than 2,000 soldiers rushed down the hill with a shout in an instant.

Lan Ziyi shouted:

"Stop! Stop it! “

The Tao brothers also stopped the Jihu battalion soldiers beside them from charging,

How could the soldiers save people's hearts, Lan Ziyi was temporarily leading the troops, how could this group of Beijing troops listen to him.

It took a lot of effort for Lan Ziyi and the Tao brothers to stop the last 500 or so.

The lieutenant led more than 2,000 knights of the Tiger Battalion to rush down the hill from the hill and charge according to the gap between the two enemy formations.

The knights screamed to the sky, the horses' hooves shook, and the bright spearheads and shining armor pierced the night sky like lightning tearing through the haze.

Seeing the situation, the thieves who were already sparse quickly retreated to both sides, giving way to the charging soldiers of the Jihu Battalion.

The adjutant general was secretly happy in his heart, thinking:

"Sure enough, it's a rabble, and they don't have the courage to stop the iron cavalry of the Jihu Battalion. But why is the front turf so light in color? ”

At this time, the war horses under the crotches of the soldiers had accelerated, and the soldiers who were surrounded were almost in front of them, but what came from the ears was the shouts of the besieged soldiers:

"Stop! Withdraw it! There is an ambush! ”

Unfortunately, it was too late, and the wave of soldiers who rushed to the front only felt that the ground had collapsed, and the people and horses had fallen over, and then there were dense sharp wooden stakes in front of them.

The horsemen's originally powerful impact power turned into a life-threatening ghost talisman at this moment, and the horses bore the brunt of the stakes, and the knights on horseback were also poked by the sharp wood, and blood was splashed everywhere. Even those warriors who were protected by armor and were not directly stabbed in the spine were violently impacted, and their bodies could not move. It's just that they didn't have time to scream and were squeezed into meatloaf by the knights in the back row who rushed into the pit, or suffocated to death by the men and horses on them.

Although the cavalry at the back stopped in time and did not fall into the pit, the knights who could not stop their horses still fell into the pit in rows and rows, and a large number of soldiers were trampled to death by their own people, and the lucky undead screamed and stepped on the bodies of their companions to climb out.

But the thieves didn't give the soldiers a chance to rebuild, and the phalanx of thieves on both sides began to move closer to the knights who were hit, and the gap that was originally used as a gap in the attack became an encirclement network in an instant.

Then the thieves on both sides opened the gaps, only to see some thieves in pairs, picking up a long pointed log and rushing towards the trap pit, those knights who did not fall into the pit were all confused, because the thieves' spears were too long, and the horse lances could not poke people, let alone sabers,

The warriors were squeezed together by the spears on both sides, and they could not advance or retreat, and there were already knights who were picked by spears and turned on their backs.

As for the soldiers in the trap pit, they were poked back by the spear as soon as they climbed up, and they were dragged down by the armor on their bodies, and the soldiers below who wanted to climb up were pulled, and they couldn't escape at all, and the shouts and cries for help were endless.

Immediately after the thieves rushed out of the formation, they threw one small jar after another into the pit, and some recognized what had been thrown in, and shouted:

"It's the oil that burns the city gates!"

Before the words fell, the fire and torches fell from the sky into the pit, and the oil ignited at the touch of the fire, and all that was left in the pit was the screams of heart-rending men and horses, and the billowing smoke was filled with the smell of burnt meat.

The burned people are crazy and generally cry out to climb out, but they are all pushed back by the thieves' spears, but they are burned by the fire, how much it hurts, and who can be willing to accept their fate and be burned to death. The soldiers still desperately wanted to climb out, and although the soldiers on the horses on the side had intentions, they were about to be picked off their horses and killed, and there was still the ability to help, so they could only watch their robed brothers being burned alive.

In the end, even the besieging thieves couldn't stand it, and relaxed the spears in their hands to let the people in the pit climb out, but it was too late, and even those who jumped out of the pit fell down and died at the first time.

The remaining warriors who were still on horses had less and less living space, and when they saw that they were about to be annihilated here, Lan Ziyi's high-pitched voice came from the hillside:

"Break through to the northeast, rush desperately, I'll reinforce you!"