In Haozhou City, Duan Er looked at the battle report, and the worried Fang Han said, "It seems that this Liangshan soldiers and horses are really good, it's only been a day, Shimen Mountain has been lost, I think that Liu Yijing and the two brothers are also Huaixi bandits, I didn't expect to lose so quickly." ”

Duan Er's name is cheesy and his background is also humble, he and Duan Wu are both brothers of Wang Qing's wife Duan Sanniang. Speaking of Wang Qing, he is also a person from Kaifeng, who is a person in the forbidden army, and most of the forbidden army can only be stationed in Kaifeng City due to the Song army system, and the father dies and the son succeeds, which leads to the fact that these forbidden troops in the capital must buy a house in Kaifeng, which also leads to the fact that if a forbidden army is dedicated to training and only gets paid to live, then most of them can't afford to buy a house or marry a wife.

Wang Qing has been in the army for generations, and has also accumulated a lot of family business, speaking of which, Wang Qing is still a rich second generation, and he looks like a talent, wandering around every day to find a trick, and when he is wandering around one day, he meets a woman, and suddenly he is haunted by dreams, and when he inquires, he knows that it is the daughter of Tong Guan's brother Tong Zhen, this one is a young girl in Huaichun, and the other is a prodigal son of gold, Wang Qing did not take long to seduce this woman.

But after a long time, the matter leaked out, and Tong Guan sent someone to find a fault and assassinate him to Shaanzhou, so as to break this bad fate.

After Wang Qing arrived in Shaanzhou, because the local officials knew that he had hated Tong Guan and bullied him, he was angry, and he escaped from the opportunity to kill people, and fled all the way to the vicinity of Duanjiabao in Luzhou, and was photographed by Duan Sanniang and became Duanjiabao's son-in-law.

And this family is willing to fall into the grass with him, in fact, he is not a good person, just say that Duan Sanniang, known as Huaixi Heavenly Demon, married at the age of fifteen, and killed her husband in less than a year.

Fang Han is actually also a native of Duan Jiabao, and he is Duan Er's uncle, who has read poetry and literature, so he is worshiped as a military advisor.

Fang Han touched his beard and said, "Liangshan has fought many battles with the official army in the past, and they have won all of them, so they should have real skills, but this Haozhou City and Zhongli City are watching each other, if it wasn't for the weakness of the government in the past, and they directly abandoned the city and fled, we wouldn't be able to take it down, as long as we don't be greedy for merit and guard wholeheartedly, it should be fine." ”

Duan Er nodded and sighed, "I only hope that the Great King can open up the situation in the south." ”

Fang Han said, "Our army is arrayed on three sides of this Haozhou City, and it depends on how the Liangshan Army responds." ”

As he was talking, a probe came to the newspaper.

"Report! reported to the commander and the military division, and the Song army sailor crossed the Huaishui by night and went to the east. ”

"East?" Fang Han touched his beard, his eyes rolled and said, "It must be going to Jingshan Town, it's not good!" It is Tu Mountain, and that Tu Mountain is the key point in the west of Haozhou City, if it is occupied by the Song army, the three sides of our army will be surrounded by the Song army. ”

Duan Er heard the big urgency and said, "Then who is guarding Tu Mountain?" ”

Fang Han said, "It's Wei He who is guarding there with a thousand people, if the Song army comes to attack with a large force, it will definitely not be able to hold it." ”

Duan Er hurriedly said, "Come on, pass on Du Bao!" ”

Not long after, a big man walked in, it was Du Yan.

This Du Bao is tall and long, with a beard, good at horse fighting, and a hard bow, so that he has a snake spear in one hand, which is a head catcher in Huaixi, because he is dissatisfied with the harm of Huashi Gang, he lost his official position, and was rescued by Wang Qing in Duanjiabao, so he wholeheartedly assisted Wang Qing, and when it comes to martial arts, it can be said that he is the first in Wang Qing's army.

Duan Er said to Du Yan, "Brother Du, this time I have to rely on you again, now that the Song army has crossed the Huaishui, I am afraid that I will go to capture Tu Mountain, that Wei He is only a thousand soldiers and horses, I am afraid that it will not be able to cover for long, and I hope you will lead the army to rescue." ”

Du Yan hugged his fists and said, "The handsome man has an order, and the young general should go by himself, but I don't know how many Song Jun came, who is the leader?" ”

Fang Han shook his head and said, "I just saw that there was a warship, but I didn't know how many people and horses there were, I thought that there should be three or five thousand, otherwise I wouldn't dare to come to take the mountain." ”

Du Yan said, "Since there are only three or five thousand, then the last general will command three thousand soldiers and horses from the headquarters to go to Tushan, and if there are more, they will not be able to show it." ”

Fang Han said, "That Liangshan soldiers and horses are capable of fighting, and the general must not be careless." ”

Du Yan ha, "Others are afraid of Liangshan, but I am not afraid, wait for me to kill the enemy army, and take the enemy's head to the king to report the good news!" ”

Saying that, Du Yan retreated and ordered his troops, and Fang Han said to Duan Er, "Since the Song army has begun to surprise its troops, its main army will definitely come soon, Zhongli will bear the brunt of the attack, and he needs to be warned." ”

Duan Er touched his neck, and said with a little weakness, "Strategist, I don't know why, I always have an ominous premonition, can we really win?" ”

Fang Han looked around and saw that there were no outsiders, so he also sighed and said, "Duan Er, we have come this far, even if we are defeated in the end, it will not be in vain to live in this world."

The imperial court has now sent a large army, if I can survive this round, then the four regions will swarm up, and the world will be like the end of the Sui Dynasty, so the battle of Haozhou is our key. ”

Duan Er nodded, but the fear in his eyes couldn't be hidden.

- Tu Shan

Tushan is located on the east bank of the Huai River, facing Jingshan across the river. Legend has it that as early as 4,000 years ago, Dayu was here to split the mountain and guide Huai.

Tu Mountain is not big, the radius is less than 20 miles, the highest altitude is only more than 300 meters, but the geographical location is dangerous, you can control Huaishui in the east, Haozhou in the west, at this time Wei He with a thousand people stationed at the top of the mountain, because there are some temples on the original mountain, Wei He occupied these temples as military camps, as for the original monks, they were captured to do coolies, and they were chopped wood to cook.

Wei He was originally a gangster in Haozhou City, when Wang Qing called, he led a group of fox friends and dog friends to open the city gate, so he was named a general, Duan Er and Fang Han also knew that this person had no real skills, so they put him in Tushan, who thought he was safe.

Wei He was holding the wine jar at this time, sleeping loudly, he was born poor, he has never had a good life in this life, these days since he became a general are his happiest times, eating wine, eating meat, bullying men and women, and robbing a young lady in Haozhou City to be his mother-in-law, it is really happy.

Wei He was still dreaming of Zhou Gong, and suddenly a few loud noises made him fall under the bed with a bang.

"Thunder? This ghost weather, is it going to rain? Wei He stood up in a daze, walked outside the door, and saw that his guards were looking out with their necks stretched, so he shouted, "You guys! ．．． Why don't you stand guard well? Did you think that General Ben would not kill? ”

Those guards turned around and saw Wei He, whose face was still red, and hurriedly said, "General Hui, there was a loud noise under the mountain just now, look, there is still firelight." ”

Wei He hummed, glanced at the bottom of the mountain, and found that there was indeed a fire under the mountain, listened attentively, and could also hear the sound of shouting and killing, a chill rushed directly from the backbone to the head of the head, and as soon as he sweated, the wine immediately sobered up more than half.

"Someone is robbing the mountain! Fast! Then my blade comes, go and wake everyone up, and let me go down and defend it!! ”

Wei He still has the courage, the first thing he thought of was not to escape, but to defend the mountain, under the mountain, the mountain gate has been blown open, Pang Wanchun rode a war horse, looked at the Liang Shan army like a bamboo, nodded with satisfaction, he didn't expect Tu Shan's defenders to be so slack, he touched the mountain gate, no one found out, he was easily blown open the mountain gate with an explosives bag, and attacked it.

The infantry of Liangshan, according to the formation of the team, the periphery is pikemen and axemen, the middle is archers, constantly assaulting, most of the Wang Qingjun guarding the mountain was still a peasant with a hoe a month ago, not at all these well-trained elite opponents, although they are on the defending side, but the battle loss ratio is an astonishing four to one to five to one, and it is also Liangshan is one.

"Division commander, you see, people have come down from the mountain, it seems that they have finally reacted."

Pang Wanchun looked down, and sure enough, he saw a group of torches going down, and said with a smile, "The mountain gate has been broken, but there are hundreds of people, how can they resist me?" Ordered Mu Hong and Mu Chun to attack the mountain with all their might! ”

With the further increase in the strength of the Liangshan army, Wang Qingjun was even more unable to resist, the dark night was easy to make people panic, if Wei He hadn't arrived in time and killed a few deserters, it would have collapsed at this time, and even so, it could collapse at any time.

"Give it to me! Resist me! Archers, let go of the arrows! Shoot them! ”

Wei He stood on a huge rock and kept shouting loudly to command, Pang Wanchun looked at it and calculated the distance, and said with a smile, "This fang should be killed", after speaking, he took out the bow and arrow from the saddle, this bow and arrow is not an ordinary bow and arrow, it is a composite bow made by Jiang De with the materials of later generations exchanged for points, the range is as high as three hundred meters, of course, to this distance, the lethality of the arrow is basically zero.

"Charge with me!" Pang Wanchun shouted, the guard next to him followed with a weapon and rode a horse with Pang Wanchun rushed up, the distance between the two sides of the ancient war was very close, even in the rear formation, it was only a few hundred meters away, Pang Wanchun rode a big horse, and rushed through the mountain gate in a few breaths, and the guards around him helped him cover up, he put a bow and arrows in both hands, and shouted at Wei He, "The thief will see the arrow!" ”

Wei He listened to the sound and looked, only to see an arrow feather rapidly enlarged, he instinctively wanted to tilt his head, but his body couldn't react, the arrow hit his forehead directly, his eyes widened, his body slowly turned around, as if he was still nostalgic for this beautiful world, and fell down with a bang.

"The thief is dead, why don't you surrender quickly?" Pang Wanchun shouted loudly, and as he spoke, another arrow shot down the battle flag behind Wei He.

These Wang Qingjun, who had no will to fight, saw that Wei He was really dead, hurriedly dropped his blade, kowtowed and surrendered, Pang Wanchun commanded the sergeants to clean up the battlefield, but before he could clean up, he flew to report "Report!!" Report to the division commander, a soldier and horse came from the direction of Haozhou City, about three or five thousand men and horses, and the banner is Du. ”

Pang Wanchun hurriedly said, "Don't clean the battlefield anymore, go to the mountains and seize the pass!" ”

Haozhou City is in the west of Tu Mountain, and Pang Wanchun is still in the east of Tu Mountain at this time, many of Wang Qingjun on the mountain have fled from the west, just ran into Du Bai who came to the rescue, Du Bai learned that Tu Shan has been lost, although his heart is chaotic, but on the surface he is calm as usual.

"The official dog thieves actually dared to sneak attack, and they also broke my Brother Weihe, brothers, follow me to kill the mountain, let these official dog thieves who still want to oppress us and others see how powerful we are!"

Most of Wang Qingjun's people were poor people, and when they heard Du Yan say this, they all recalled the scene of being oppressed by the government in the past, and shouted in unison, "I am willing to fight to the death!" ”

Seeing that the morale was aroused, Du Yan brandished his spear and led the sergeant to the foot of Tu Mountain, not shouting or resting, but directly robbing the mountain.

Pang Wanchun took the sergeant to the top of the mountain just climbed to the top of the mountain, and saw that the east was already a torch, and there were thousands of people at a rough look, Pang Wanchun secretly complained, fought in the middle of the night, and climbed the mountain and waded through the water, the sergeant was tired, that Du Yan was praised by the Hou Ye, he must be a capable person, even if this mountain is held, I am afraid that there will be a lot of loss of hands and feet.

As the saying goes, Ci is not in charge of the army, although he knew that the sergeant was tired, Pang Wanchun still ordered the sergeant to go down the mountain to meet the enemy, and the Liangshan army, which had just climbed up the mountain from the west, began to descend again.

Du Yan saw that arrows were constantly being shot down from the mountain, and he knew that he must not retreat at this time, otherwise his morale would no longer be available.

"Shieldman step forward, rush with me!" Saying that, Du Yan himself held a shield and took the lead in rushing up, and the other sergeants saw that Du Yan was still taking the lead in charging as a general, and they all followed suit, Pang Wanchun saw this and shouted, "Order!" Soldier forward! Archers take turns to cover! ”

The strength of the archer is precious, the average archer, in a war to shoot twenty or thirty arrows will not have the strength to fight again, so we must save enough physical strength, Du Yi saw that there were fewer arrows falling on the mountain, and shouted again, "The official army has no arrows, rush!" ”

With the sound of shouting and killing, Du Baojun and Liangshan soldiers and horses collided together.

As soon as he fought, Du Yan secretly said that it was not good, he thought that the soldiers and horses he trained were already strong, but compared with the Liangshan soldiers and horses, whether it was individual soldiers or team cooperation, they were much worse, not to mention the difference in equipment.

Du Bao took the personal guards, took the lead in the charge, the two armies fought inseparably, until dawn, Du Bao's army had taken a hill west of Tushan, which Du Bai personally led the team to rush out, the two armies had their own damage, but in comparison, Du Bao's damage was much greater.

While eating breakfast, Du Yan looked at the sergeant count below, and after a while, the deputy general reported, "General, our army lost more than 1,000 people in the battle last night, and now there are only about 1,500 soldiers who can fight." ”

Du Bao brought a total of 3,000 soldiers and horses, but after a night of fighting, some people couldn't stand such a battlefield environment and found an opportunity to escape, plus those who were injured and could not fight anymore, Du Bai's troops were already insufficient.

Du Yan looked at the highest peak of Tushan Mountain in the east, and said angrily, "Tushan is in the hands of the official army, our army will be like a fish in the throat, even if we can't get it back, we can't let them harass the Haozhou side, here can still hold one or two, send an order to build a camp, and then take my general order to Haozhou to transfer troops, tell the marshal, here the Song army has four or five thousand people, at least three thousand people need to hold on." ”

"Yes!"

Pang Wanchun on the other side held a telescope, looked at Du Bai on the other side, and couldn't help but praise, "It is worthy of Du Bai, who was praised by Hou Ye as the first general under Wang Qing, and he lost nearly half of the battle, but he has not been defeated by our army, which shows that he has won the hearts of the army."

Order, immediately build a ballista position, our army is condescending, should use bows and crossbows to defeat the enemy! ”