This group of thieves is quite methodical, and the thieves who come up from the front are crossbowmen and three-eyed gunners in the front row, archers later, sword and card players in the back, and finally no pikemen.

Looking at the thief army that was approaching, Lei Genghu remained indifferent and waited quietly.

Just when people thought that Lei Genghu would wait all the time, just when the enemy army entered the 100-meter range and the opponent's crossbowmen were already preparing to shoot, Lei Genghu suddenly roared angrily and rushed towards the enemy with the mercenaries.

Almost as soon as they were charging with the Thunder Tigers, the crossbowmen and archers on the opposite side began to fire their arrows, and the Three-Eyed Gunners, who were too close, continued to wait.

The rain of arrows fell on the small phalanx of the mercenaries, and the mercenaries raised their arms one after another and protected the door with their armours.

Almost all of the feathered arrows thrown by the archers were bounced off the armor of the mercenaries, and even if a few arrows hit the gaps in the armor of the mercenaries in the back row, they were not fatal. Most of the people who were hit by the arrow, in a state of adrenaline surge, did not even feel pain, and continued to charge with the arrow.

Compared with bows and arrows, crossbow arrows are much more threatening, but most of the crossbow arrows on the opposite side shoot straight and shoot at the heavy armored mercenaries in the front row.

A round of arrows rained down, and only four or five mercenaries fell, and more than a dozen mercenaries continued to charge with arrows.

After discovering that the arrows on the opposite side were not very effective, the morale of the mercenaries suddenly boosted and they accelerated and rushed forward.

Fifty meters was fleeting, and when the mercenaries rushed to a distance of fifty meters from the thief formation, the Three-Eyed Gunner also began to shoot with a bang.

Compared to the arquebus, the power of the three-eyed gun is too weak, and it is okay to deal with the unarmored miscellaneous soldiers, and it can't penetrate the heavy armor of the mercenaries in the front row at all.

When the last platoon of the mercenary phalanx entered a distance of fifty meters from the enemy formation, it suddenly stopped at the order of the captain, while the front row continued to charge.

After a few more steps, the penultimate row also stopped......

In the end, the eight-row phalanx was stretched into a relatively loose formation of more than 20 meters, and stopped on the battlefield where arrows were flying.

When the mercenary phalanx stopped, their front row was less than thirty meters away from the thieves!

At this time, the crossbowmen, archers, and gunners in the front row of the opposite thieves are retreating, and they are going to retreat behind the sword and pikeman, and continue to release their arrows under the protection of the sword player.

It was at this moment that the mercenary phalanx actually stopped, they inserted the long weapon in their hands into the dirt in front of them, took off the horned bow from their waists, drew heavy arrows, and shot at the thieves on the opposite side without hesitation.

After the mercenary phalanx changed formation just now, the first three rows of heavy armored soldiers were close to each other, they staggered each other, and the last two rows could shoot directly at the opposite thief soldiers from the gap in the front row.

The back five rows of lightly armored soldiers were slightly seven or eight meters behind the first three rows, and the distance between the lightly armored soldiers was also relatively sparse.

In a short distance of twenty or thirty meters, for these mercenaries who were born from families and archery since childhood, shooting people's faces is as easy as drinking water, so the thieves on the opposite side began to shoot heavy arrows in large areas and fell.

The small-angle projectile of the light armored soldiers in the back row was also full of force, and it fell into the crowd of unarmored crossbowmen who had just retreated, causing a large number of casualties.

Although there are only sixty or seventy people left in the mercenary phalanx, these sixty or seventy people, all of them are archers, not much less than the archers among the hundreds of thieves on the opposite side, plus the mercenary shooters all use bows and arrows, and the shooting density is greater than that of the opposite bow and crossbow mixture, and these mercenaries have hard bows of more than 100 pounds in their hands, the distance is close, and the shooting is accurate, after three or four rounds of bows and arrows, the thieves on the opposite side fall by a third, and the team suddenly can't maintain it and begins to break up.

At this time, the mercenaries put away their bows, drew their spears and eyebrow knives stuck in the ground, and rushed forward again with a roar.

The thief array, which had already begun to disperse, suddenly collapsed.

It's a pity that because he was worried about another group of thieves coveted behind the car formation, Lei Genghu didn't dare to chase more, so he only completely killed them and returned to the car formation.

Seeing Lei Genghu returning to the division, the thieves who were pressed behind the car formation hurriedly turned around, and they crossed the mountain pass village and ran into the mountains and forests to the north.

After killing the thieves, Lei Genghu commanded his men to pack up and take care of the wounded, and at the same time sent people to check on the mountain pass village.

Soon after, the detective returned and told Lei Genghu that the mountain pass village had been slaughtered, and that the thieves had taken possession of the magpie's nest and hid in the village to attack them.

In the final count, six of the mercenaries under Lei Genghu's command were killed, eight were seriously injured, and twenty or thirty people were lightly injured, which was a heavy casualty for a team of 100 people, but the mercenaries seemed to have very high morale.

It's no wonder that whoever defeats four or five hundred thieves with a team of 100 people will also be greatly motivated.

Within a few days, the rumor that Lei Genghu was more powerful than the thief quadruple spread all over Laiwu and the surrounding areas, allowing Lei Genghu to establish his status as the No. 1 mercenary group in Laiwu at once, and no one could shake it for many years.

The report of Lei Genghu's robbery also quickly appeared on Chen Xian's desk, which immediately attracted his attention.

This time, Lei Genghu was lucky and defeated several times the number of thieves, so what about next time, can other mercenary groups do it?

Chen Xian has won a good trading environment with great difficulty, and he will not tolerate anyone destroying it.

Chen Xian immediately ordered the Intelligence Department to investigate the case.

Half a month later, the results of the investigation were put on Chen Xian's desk.

Sure enough, this robbery was initiated by several Haoqiang who escaped from Laiwu, colluding with the local Haoqiang in Tai'an City and a group of bandits on Mount Tai.

After reading the investigation report, Chen Xian immediately sent three infantry battalions, an artillery company, and two cavalry companies into Fengfu County, breaking the three Zhuangzi involved in this matter all the way, and hanging all the three Fengfu Haoqiang involved in this matter on the road at the gate of Zhuangzi.

After breaking Zhuangzi, Chen Xian's army did not collect troops, they entrenched in one of the Zhuangzi, used Zhuangzi as a base, entered Mount Tai to suppress bandits, and spent a month, not only breaking the cottages directly involved in this matter, but even the two cottages that took in the three villages that escaped from the bandits.

Chen Xian's domineering approach silenced the nearby areas that were radiated by his power.

In the end, Chen Xian sent someone to send a letter to Tai'an City and handed it over to Tai'an Assassin.

The day after receiving Chen Xian's letter, several Laiwu Haoqiang living in Tai'an City were all arrested by officers and soldiers, and quickly escorted to the Zhuangzi entrenched by Chen Xian's men, and all of them were handed over to Chen Xian's men.

They came to the abandoned Shankou Village, beheaded all these Haoqiang families, and beheaded their heads with the Taishan thieves who had been killed before, together with the heads of Fu Haoqiang, in front of the Shankou Village, piled up a small Jingguan, and set up a tall sign next to it, which was called to avenge the innocent people of Shankouzhai.

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