That time, Lei Genghu took a team of 100 people, escorting more than 20 carts of goods, to Lijiazhuang outside Tai'an City.

In the final stage, the main road to Taean Castle has to pass through a place called Shankou Village.

It is a small village, about one or two hundred households, seven or eight hundred people, because the village is not big, the strength is not strong, so very careful, like Lei Genghu this hundreds of heavily armed teams passing by, they are all closed through the village door, such as facing the enemy, not to mention entering the village to rest, begging for saliva are not allowed to approach.

The more times they came, Lei Genghu and they gradually ignored this village.

This time they passed by Shankou Village, and the other party was still closed at the gate.

Lei Genghu didn't care, and pressed the convoy to walk in front of the stockade.

The south side of the mountain pass village is the plain, the north side is backed by the mountains in the east of Mount Tai, and the road leading to the city of Tai'an is more than a mile away in front of Zhuangzi.

Although he was used to this road, Lei Genghu still sent a scout horse to check the surroundings of Zhuangzi and found nothing unusual.

In the battle where the four ladies lured and annihilated the cavalry led by Chen Tang, Lei Genghu personally participated, and he saw Chen Tang lose his life because of negligence, which made him extremely impressed, so since he led the troops alone, Lei Genghu has been very cautious.

The mountain pass village is a rectangular earthen enclosure, and its east-west width is twice as large as the north-south width, so the south earthen wall of the mountain pass village is about more than a mile long.

When Lei Genghu's convoy reached the gate of the village in the middle of the south wall, in the corners of the two ends of the south wall of the stockade, the two walls suddenly collapsed, and the two teams of men and horses suddenly rushed out and outflanked the front and rear of the convoy.

It turned out that the two sections of the city wall had been dug up, but the outside was covered with a layer of wooden planks, and then plastered with mud to disguise them as city walls.

The carriages they escorted were all mule carts, and the speed was not fast, although the group of people and horses who rushed out were still more than a mile away from them, but Lei Genghu and they had to protect the mule carts, and they would definitely not be able to outrun each other, as for throwing down the mule carts and escaping, then Lei Genghu and their mercenary group would not want to have business in the future.

Over the years, Lei Genghu has followed the four ladies, and he has also experienced a lot of storms, and although it is the first time he has encountered such a big scene as a commander, he is still calm.

Under the shouts of Lei Genghu, the driver and men of the convoy quickly pulled the cart, formed a circular defensive circle in place, unloaded the livestock, and pulled down the circle.

In these years, as soon as I got out of the county, there was basically no royal law, and when I came out to do business, I had already pinned my head to the waistband of my trousers, so whether it was the driver who drove the car, the guy who followed the car, or the shopkeeper, it was not a good stubble.

For the sake of safety on the road, Lei Genghu, at the suggestion of the deputy commander, conducted some training for these caravan drivers and men who often cooperated.

This kind of when it is dangerous, how to quickly surround the cart into a defensive circle is the main content of the training, and the coachmen and men are all skilled, so the action is quite sharp.

While the coachmen were busy, the mercenaries were not idle.

The armor is too heavy to wear all the time on the march, which will quickly deplete the mercenaries' physical strength, so their armor is stored in one vehicle.

The car was pulled down by the guys at the first time, and the mercenaries took off their own armor boxes from the car at great speed, quickly opened them, and put them on at a very fast speed.

Mercenaries are equipped with two types of armor, one is tightly protected but heavier, and the other is lighter and more flexible, but less protective.

Putting on his armor, Lei Genghu climbed into one or two carts, put his hands on the pergola, and observed the two groups of enemies who were pressing up for a moment.

He found that there were slightly more thieves intercepting from their front, and it seemed that the proportion of thieves wearing armor was relatively high, and there were fewer thieves coming from behind, and there were fewer of them wearing armor.

Seeing it clearly, Lei Genghu got out of the car and quickly issued a few orders.

With Lei Genghu's order, most of the mercenaries actually came out of the big cart formation and lined up in front of the cart array.

Lei Genghu led about eighty mercenaries, and arranged a small phalanx in front of Dache Town, this small phalanx only had ten columns, eight rows in front and back, and the first three rows were the strongest mercenaries wearing heavy armor, and Lei Genghu was in the first row.

The mercenaries in the back five rows all wore lighter armor.

In the car formation, Lei Genghu left more than 20 mercenaries to guard with the coachman's men.

Although the coachmen had no armor, each of them carried a three-eyed musket with a spear tip, which was sold openly in the Chen family shop in Laiwu County, and the price was not expensive.

took out the three-eyed gun, and the guys took out the tinder pot from under the carriage, this thing is also produced in the Chen family shop, composed of two layers inside and outside, through the rotation of the inner and outer layers to control whether the charcoal fire inside is smoldering or burning, light a furnace of charcoal, if it has been smoldering, it can be burned all day.

The guys took out the smoldering stove, and after turning it ninety degrees, the stove was ventilated up and down, and the smoldering charcoal fire inside soon turned red, and they put the arquebus head wrapped around their arms into the stove and lit it, and put the three-eyed gun on the wheel, on the handlebar, and aimed at the enemy who pounced on him from behind.

The more than 20 mercenaries left by Lei Genghu were divided into two teams, one team dispersed, walked to the back of the car formation, behind the gap between the carts, inserted the long weapon in his hand into the soil in front of him, took out a hard bow, but did not use the arrow and the bow, stood quietly, and maintained his physical strength.

The other part was gathered in the middle of the back of the line, and they were the reserves of the rear line.

The two bands of thieves who were flanking in front and back seemed to be a little surprised that Lei Genghu actually left the car formation, and the thieves who were outflanked from the front stopped at a distance of about two hundred meters from the phalanx in front of the car formation, and after sorting out the formation, they slowly pressed towards Lei Genghu's phalanx.

The thief army that came up from the back of the car formation also stopped at a distance of more than two hundred meters from the car formation, and after they sorted out the formation, they did not step forward, but stayed in place and watched the car formation, they obviously planned to wait for the thief army in front of them to solve the battle, and then attack the front and rear to break the car formation.

In the eyes of the thief army, Lei Genghu put the car and did not defend it, but jumped out to fight with his own side with a large number of people, which was definitely a problem with his brain.

In fact, Lei Genghu's failure to defend the car formation was also well thought out, and once they were blocked in the car formation by the enemy with superior numbers, it would be difficult for them to get out again.

If you want to rush out of the gap in the car formation, the team must be scattered, and if the enemy is not blind at this time, they will definitely take advantage of the time when your team is scattered and the footsteps are unsteady, and they will fight you back, and at this time the enemy who has been prepared for it will be almost inexplicable, and it will definitely be defeated.

If you push the formation and plan to go out in whole formation, the enemy can also take advantage of this opportunity to rush in.

Staying in the car formation and not going out seems to be a good idea, but this is actually the most stupid idea, first of all, Lei Genghu They have no reinforcements, they are completely surrounded by the enemy this time, even the horses are surrounded together because they came back to report the news, the location of Shankou Village is remote, and there may not be a caravan passing by for a few days on weekdays.

Lei Genghu only carried three days' worth of dry food on them, and they were blocked here, if they were unlucky, it would be a bad day.

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