He Aba squatted at the edge of the forest, staring in the direction of Baihuo Gang.

Today's night sky is cloudy, but it is not dark and dark.

There is an obvious layer of light on the edge of the mountain ridge in the distance, and He Chenba can also faintly see the group of homeless people in Baihogang at this time, on the ridge on the north and south sides, as well as halfway up the ravine where they are square, there is a sentry post, and at this time, there are three or four people holding bamboo guns and wooden grass there to watch the sentry.

Since the sentry posts were all lit with bonfires, they might be able to strike suddenly, cleanly removing one outpost without alarming anything, but it would not be possible to approach three sentry posts at the same time, each of which was a few miles away.

Not to mention, they don't know exactly what happened to the camp on the east side of the mountain.

Speaking of which, after receiving the news, they sent people to spy on it, but they failed to infiltrate its interior.

"How's it going, is there any movement?"

At this time, a thin man, dressed in leather armor, pressed the saber on his waist with his hand, and asked from behind.

"This group of men and horses has been digging ditches at the north and south entrances of Linhu in the east for the past few days, diverting water to Hao, and building many obstacles such as horses and antlers, and three sentry posts have been set up on the west side, and some bamboo nails have been scattered in easy places to pass, and they have not yet freed up their hands to do anything - it can be seen that their resources are also limited. We're lurking over, and the other party shouldn't be aware of it,"

He Aba moved a seat to the side, so that the thin man could squat over and talk, and in addition to introducing what he had seen in the past two days, he asked curiously,

"What is the origin of this group of people, even if they are the nails sent by the imperial court and infiltrated, there is no need for His Highness to directly send the silver halberd guards over, right? The more than fifty people who came from behind should be the silver halberd guards beside His Highness, right? ”

"You shouldn't know, what are you asking about?" The thin man said in a deep voice.

At present, the meaning conveyed by Chuzhou is not intended to call the displaced armed forces directly involved in the attack to know too much inside story, so as not to let the situation get out of control, and he simply stopped He Aba from inquiring indiscriminately.

"It's not easy for me to gather more than 300 strong players in Shiliang for more than half a year, is it easy?" He Aba muttered dissatisfiedly.

Before Huaidong ensured that the forbidden army would take action against the rebels in Chuzhou and Chaozhou, he was ordered to sneak into the area west of Fanliang Lake with seven or eight brothers, but he had been silently lurking in the shadows.

It was not until the forbidden army crossed the river, the rebels withdrew from Chuzhou, and the local chaos was in chaos, that He Aba had the opportunity to secretly win over and absorb the displaced refugees.

Although he said that he could not go against the will of Chuzhou, now asking him to throw into an attack battle that he had not been able to gather with great difficulty and could be called his descendants, did not mean that he did not have any opinions.

At this time, there was a sound of the nail pieces moving from behind, and there was no need for the thin man to remind him, He Aba immediately shut up, turned around and saw more than fifty figures touching from behind.

Although it is cooler after nightfall, the weather is still hot, and He Aba can't wait to be shirtless to be refreshed.

He Aba saw that these people were wearing extra robes, and heard the dull sound of the nails in the robes, and also knew that they were wearing extra robes on hot summer nights, mainly to cover up the armor and scale armor they were wearing.

In these years, it is not just a random soldier and horse that can make up more than 50 pairs of armor and scale armor.

Huaidong was still jealous of the imperial court, and in any case, the news that the silver halberd guards should be prevented from entering the western shore of Fanliang Lake came out.

This made He Aba even more curious about the forces gathered in Baihogang Gang, and he really didn't know what the origin was, so he actually alerted the silver halberd guards around His Highness to come out and clean them up.

"Is there anything out of the ordinary?"

The leader of this team of silver halberd guards is a scar-faced man in his forties, with a scar through the left side of his face through the nose bone, his face is quite hideous, and his left eyebrow is also missing a cut, which should be an arrow wound or knife wound, and the narrow three bucket eyes are both fierce and gloomy, giving great pressure to He Aba, who is an elite scout.

The person who came glanced at He Aba, but opened his mouth to ask the thin man who had just come to meet He Aba, who was also Huaidong's liaison in charge of lurking and scout affairs in Chuzhou.

The thin man relayed what He Aba had squatted on Baihogang in the past two days, and said: "At present, it seems that it is impossible to remove these three sentry posts at the same time, and it is impossible to quietly climb over the mountain ridge and launch a surprise attack on the enemy camp in the east!" ”

"If there is really a chance to sneak attack at close range, it is more likely to be a trap set by the other party," the scar man said with a cold face, quite disdainful of the idea of the thin man wanting to completely rely on sneak attacks, and said in a hoarse voice, "We just need to control that mountain ridge pass earlier than the opponent's main force......

The ridge of the White Hooves appears to be a sleek arc in the night sky, but it forms a gap above the ravine.

If they could control the gap first, they would be able to suppress the troops and horses to the east, and vice versa.

Over the years, the Silver Halberd Guards had been crossing the Huai River River to the north, attacking the Liang army assembled in the direction of Xuzhou, and they had grown up in the process, never expecting to be able to approach the enemy completely quietly before launching a surprise attack.

Seizing the initiative in a local battlefield is often the key to the success of an attack; Even if you miss the opportunity and see that the situation is not right, it is convenient to retreat very decisively and quickly.

Because the advance team sent over to secretly organize the hidden manpower of the homeless, the movement of the enemy camp could not be observed at close range in the past two days, and the scar-faced man could not rule out the possibility that the enemy camp was hiding behind the mountain ridge, and it was safe and reliable to set the first step in the battle for the gap in the mountain ridge.

Of course, even if he didn't directly remove the sentry post at the ridge, the Scarface Man still sent three elite experts who were good at flying eaves and walls, and under the cover of dense trees in summer, they climbed the ridge from the cliffs on both sides to further reconnoiter the camp on the east side of the ridge.

With this hand, he quietly climbed the cliff and dived closer

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The ability to spy is not something that ordinary scouts can do.

It wasn't until the middle of the night that the three elite men returned, and they noticed that the camp on the east side of the ridge was on the east side of the ridge, and although it maintained a considerable degree of daily vigilance, it was certain that most of them were asleep.

The gap in the ridge and the flanks of the ravine below were secretly deployed with some sentry posts, which they could not approach, but they could determine that at most twenty or thirty people were lurking in the shadows as sentry posts.

This also means that when they launch a surprise attack, as long as they defeat the interception of twenty or thirty people, they should be sure to occupy the gap in the mountain ridge before the enemy battalion organizes reinforcements......

"Okay, do it." The scar-faced man had already discussed how the Silver Halberd Guards and the elite of the homeless people organized here could cooperate, and after getting more accurate information, he immediately decided to ignore the light and dark sentinels of twenty or thirty people on the other side, and take advantage of the night to occupy the mountain pass.

At this time, the dark clouds had faded a lot, the moon was bright and the stars were scarce, and there was no need to light torches, and three or four hundred men divided into three groups and climbed up the mountain along a ravine almost forty paces wide.

The ravine is full of fragments, and there are bamboo nails, so many people trample on, and the sand and slipble roll, there will not be a trace of sound.

Sharp police whistles suddenly resounded in the air, breaking the silence of the night sky.

The sentry post on the mountainside is simply inserted into the ground with four thick bamboo poles, and a simple bamboo shed is erected on top of it, which is made for people to guard the sentry above.

After the whistle blew, the three whistles lit the bamboo shed sentry post with torches, then turned over and slid down the ravine, blowing the whistle while fleeing towards the mountain pass.

"Let's go, let's go!"

At this time, there were scattered rocks and rolling logs on the cliffs on both sides of the cliff sliding down the steep slope, and the scar-faced man led the silver halberd guards to walk in the middle and back position, anticipating this situation, but desperately urging the homeless people on both sides to climb quickly and strongly.

The opponent entered the White Hoof Gang half a month ago, of course, there is time to reserve some rockfall and rolling logs on the top of the mountain to prevent sneak attacks, but as long as the other party enters the mountain crest at this time, there are not many people and horses at this time, and only these sparse falling rocks and rolling logs are not a fatal threat to the attacking people and horses.

However, the terrain on the eastern side of the ridge is more gentle, which means that the defenders in the camp will gather more and more to intercept them at the ridge pass in a very short period of time after hearing the alarm.

Although there will be some casualties if they are hit, it is more important not to be delayed by these falling rocks and rolling logs than to pay some casualties.

At this time, there were also some falling rocks and rolling logs in front of him, and the scar-faced man still didn't care, and continued to urge He Aba to rush forward with the elite of the homeless people.

Although falling rocks and rolling logs are not dense, but not to mention that the homeless people are strong, even the elite of the hundred battles are timid when they see it, and they stare cautiously, hoping to take the iron shield when they are close, or avoid it, and unconsciously the people and horses in front of them will slow down, and the people and horses behind will desperately squeeze forward, and they are worried that there will be falling rocks on the wings, and in the stone ditch thirty or forty steps wide, three or four hundred people will soon become extremely crowded.

"Spread out, spread out!"

The scar-faced man shouted angrily, even if there was no ambush, such a dense formation called a rolling log to smash it directly, and if he couldn't dodge, he might be injured several people in a row.

At this time, the more you squeeze in the middle, the more casualties may be, but stick to the cliffs on both sides, and the casualties will be very limited.

At this moment, the scar-faced man heard a loud "bang" above his head, looked up, and saw a large pile of falling rocks on the cliffs on both sides, like a black tide, enveloping them where they were standing, and the gravel was densely rolling down on the cliff, and the sound was like an angry tide crashing on the cliff bank.

"Trap! It's a trap! The scar-faced man screamed in fright, but he only had time to raise the big shield to block the small gravel from falling towards his face, and it was too late to escape down the mountain.

At this time, the dense crowd crowded in the stone ditch wanted to avoid nowhere to avoid, hundreds of falling rocks and rolling logs rolled down together, the dull sound of stones hitting the human body and breaking bones, panicked screams, and painful howls, and made a big deal for a while.

People have a coherent mind.

Normally, even if Akayama would set up an ambush or take defensive measures in the back mountain, he would pile up falling rocks and rolling logs in the ambush position, and wait for the enemy army to rush over, and use manpower to roll the falling rocks and logs, piece by piece, out of the ambush position, to bombard the enemy army, or use this to delay the enemy's advance.

In this case, the intensity of the bombardment of falling rocks and rolling logs is directly related to the number of manpower who entered the buried position in advance.

The sparse rockfall and rolling logs before were in line with the enemy's judgment of the number of light and dark sentinels at night in the back mountain, which prompted them to brave the falling rocks and rolling logs and advance more quickly towards the mountain pass.

In fact, the real death trap waiting for these people to step into is a large pile of gravel supported by more than a dozen reed mats on the steep cliffs on both sides of the stone ditch sentry tower, and the slings are cut with swords, and tens of thousands of pounds of large and small stones are smashed down together, which is far more powerful and destructive than three or four hundred falling rocks or rolling logs thrown down one after another, far more than a little bit bigger.

Two or three hundred people threw away their armor and climbed with a roll, and fled down the mountain in embarrassment, wishing that their father and mother could give birth to two more legs when they gave birth to him, but there were still two hundred people who were directly stoned to death, or had broken limbs and bones, and lay in the pile of rubbles moaning and wailing.

War is always cruel, the situation is unclear at this time, Han Qian will certainly not rush to send people to capture these wounded attackers, he also asked He Liufeng and Lin Sheng to lead a team of men and horses to guard the mountain crest and the steep cliffs on both wings, to prevent the attackers from rushing over to rescue these wounded.

We'll wait until after dawn.

After confirming that there was no movement on the north and south wings, Han Qian went directly to the camp with Feng Yi, Guo Rong, and Feng Yi to rest first, and waited for the sun to rise above the treetops before washing up and walking back to the position at the mountain pass.

"In the early morning, the other party risked death many times to snatch the wounded and corpses, and we shot 19 people to death!" Lin Sheng served as a team leader in the Chishan Army and the Zuoguang German Army in his early years, and he participated in a lot of bloody battles, which were more cruel than in front of him, but he directly led the team to the enemy so badly

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Lie's casualties were the first time, and he was full of excitement to report to Han Qian the specific results of the battle in the early morning.

In addition to the 19 who were shot dead when the attackers snatched the wounded and the dead, 177 attackers were killed or seriously injured in the middle of the night.

Those who fled down the mountain before had quite a lot of minor injuries, but their hands and feet were not broken, and they could still escape by rolling and crawling.

"The attackers haven't withdrawn from the woods yet?" Han Qian looked at the woods in the west, there were still birds and birds hovering, and obviously there were still many hiding in the woods.

"They haven't withdrawn yet, and even after dawn, more than 100 people entered the forest from the north to meet the attackers last night, and it is estimated that there are still nearly 300 attackers who were not injured in the forest," He Liufeng said, "Looking at their appearance, they should not dare to fight again, but they are afraid that they will withdraw during the day and will be pursued by us, so they want to drag it out until the night and then evacuate, right?" ”

"Where can they easily evacuate - you lead the team down to the mouth of the ravine first, adjust the formation there, and go into the forest to kill these people out," Han Qian looked at the remaining stumps and broken arms in the rocks halfway up the mountainside, frowned and said to Du Sheng and He Liufeng, "If you just kill the other party's 200 people with a trick, it is impossible to make Huai Dong sit down and talk about cooperation!" ”

"The other party has the elite guards around Yang Yuanyan mixed in, and there are still a lot of people left, so I will take fifty people down to assist them." Kong Xirong said.

"It doesn't take so much." Han Qian shook his head and asked Kong Xirong to accompany him to stay at the mountain ridge pass to watch the battle.

The Chishan Army and the Zuoguang German Army lacked armor at the early stage, and cut down the long bamboo as a blade, which was born from the wolf used in the Mandarin Duck Array of the Ming Dynasty in later generations.

In large-scale battles between soldiers and horses, the Mandarin Duck Formation cannot play any obvious advantages, and the main function of the wolf with long poles and dense branches is only to help the new pawns reduce their fear of the enemy.

However, on a battlefield with complex terrain such as woods and rugged mountains, the advantages of a mandarin duck formation with a team of twelve people, long and short soldiers, and bows and crossbows are staggered.

It's just that these haven't been tested in mountain warfare and jungle warfare for the time being.

Sizhou civil turmoil, Tan Yuliang's dominance of the rebel army was limited, and he was unable to promote the Mandarin Duck Formation in time in the cottage offensive and defensive battle with the Sizhou soldiers.

The first batch of soldiers and horses of the Red Mountain Society gathered in Baihogang were all veterans of the Red Mountain Army and the Zuoguang German Army, and they had long been familiar with the drills and operations of the Mandarin Duck Formation.

At most, he asked He Liufeng to select a few good players and go down the mountain into the forest to kill the elite of the Silver Halberd Guard, so as to reduce unnecessary casualties here as much as possible, but Han Qian also told them to cooperate with the small team of men and soldiers who formed a mandarin duck formation to fight after entering the jungle, and pay attention to maintaining the steady progress and cohesion of the front.

At the same time, they were also required to confine their killing to the woods, and not to pursue the attacking enemy who fled from the west to the woods.

Han Qian, Xi Ying, Feng Yi, Guo Rong, and Feng Yi stood at the mountain crest to watch the battle, the shade of the trees was rich in summer, Du Sheng and He Liufeng led three hundred men and horses into the forest, they couldn't see the specific fighting situation in the forest, but from the disturbance of the treetops, it could be seen that the attackers were killed and retreated from the beginning of the contact again.

Within two sticks of incense, an attacker was seen fleeing from the other side of the woods.

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"It's so painful!" Du Sheng and He Liufeng collected their troops and returned to the mountain cliff, shouting excitedly.

At this time, the search and inventory of the battlefield in the woods have been basically completed.

It was not much different from what was expected, and the attacking enemy who hid in the woods after dawn and still retained its combat effectiveness was indeed about 300 people, which was comparable to the men and horses led by Du Sheng and He Liufeng who fought into the woods, but the casualties on both sides after the battle were very different.

In addition to more than 100 people who fled to the west of the woods in panic, more than 160 of the attacking enemy were killed or captured in the woods.

Coupled with the light and serious wounded who were snatched by the enemy before, Du Sheng and He Liufeng killed more than 110 enemies in the woods, and captured more than 90 people who were lightly and seriously wounded, but the casualties of the Chishan Society, only a dozen people, were still caused by the direct battle with the most elite silver halberd guards in Huaidong.

And Huaidong's so-called most elite silver halberd guards, together with last night's trap killing, plus the jungle killing just now, left a total of thirty-eight corpses.

This can be seen from the fine armor and scale armor worn by the corpse, as well as the fine blades and bows that it carried with it.

At noon, through the interrogation of the wounded prisoners, to learn more and more accurate information, Du Sheng and He Liufeng escorted more than 90 wounded prisoners, and after returning to the camp, they rushed over to see Han Qian with He Aba, who was bloodstained and his right arm was smashed by a falling rock in the second half of the night yesterday, and said excitedly:

"Huaidong only sent fifty silver halberd guards to the west bank of Fanliang Lake this time, in addition, the Huai army's secret spy secretly gathered this outcast force, the total population is about 1,400 people, three-quarters of the sturdy were involved in the attack on Baihogang last night, at this time to flee back to the people, even if the morale is not completely collapsed, together with the escaped silver halberd guards, the rendezvous camp is only 200 sturdy people - we are completely sure that we will eat this group of vagrants!"

Although the old department of Zuoguang's German army said that there were 14,500 old and weak women and children who needed to be resettled, at this time, they could annex other outcastic forces and further strengthen themselves, Du Sheng and He Liufeng were extremely excited and ran over to ask for battle.

In troubled times, more people mean greater possibilities, greater military potential.

"Xirong, you take a team of people and accompany them." Han Qian said to Kong Xirong.

He still didn't want the limited manpower of the Chishan Society to suffer unbearable heavy casualties, so he asked Kong Xirong to lead a team of guards to assist them in the battle.

The guards led by Kong Xirong can be used as elite cavalry.

If the remnants of this outcast force could not be asked to surrender directly, it would be sharpest to use them to cooperate with the infantry led by Du Sheng and He Liufeng to tear apart the enemy's defenses.

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