Zhao Dahai and Geng Kui fought two battles with the border army at the west entrance, and finally repelled the main attack of the border army by defending the fortress, so that the enemy abandoned the corpse village until no less than 1,000, which can be described as a great victory, but after the battle, he also suffered more than 300 casualties, and the Black Tiger Army, which was originally insufficient in numbers, was even more stretched.

Zhao Dahai held the battlement with his hand, looked at the black pressure and coaxed the border army camp in the distance, and Zou Mei couldn't stop there.

Geng Kui's left arm was wounded, wrapped in a white cloth, walked to Zhao Dahai's side, and whispered: "Deputy commander, this battle shows that the strength of the border army is really not a false rumor, and the next moment the battle will be even more dangerous, is it not to use the cavalry bow and arrow?" ”

Zhao Dahai's cavalry is equipped with three hundred bows and arrows, but Zhao Dahai kept an eye, seeing that the border army attacked with swords and shields as the main force, behind the firearms camp, his bow and arrow and the real standard bow and arrow range of the border army could not be the same day, once the shooting, it could only be beaten in vain, and he moved his mind, this time the defense was hidden, and the officers and soldiers were paralyzed and then gave him a surprise, and things developed according to his expectations, the border army really bullied him without bows and arrows, etc., in the later siege, The sword and shield soldiers simply abandoned the cumbersome shields of the journey and began to go into battle shirtless. As long as the next battle begins, when the border army's bow and arrow commander approaches the fortress unscrupulously, give him a surprise and let the bow and arrow maximize the benefit.

"It's time to take it out, but it's going to wait." Zhao Dahai thought for a while, then looked at the official army camp in the distance, and said without looking back: "Brother Geng Kui, what kind of way do you think the upcoming combat officers and soldiers will attack?" ”

Geng Kui pondered for a while, and said cautiously: "I think this time the officers and troops want to take the fortress in one go, and they have committed the taboo of underestimating the enemy. ”

Zhao Dahai nodded and agreed with Geng Kui's point of view: "I just said that the official army can't be so stupid, if you really give us a car ** battle, it will really be enough for us to drink a pot." Fortunately, I detained 500 heavy soldiers to make our reserve, or it would be difficult to hold on for three days. ”

Geng Kui smiled bitterly, this is Zhao Dahai, he has a special identity in the cottage, if others would never dare to do this, and deduct five hundred reins to be a reserve, it would be a violation of military discipline, and the cottage would never tolerate such a rule-breaker.

seemed to feel Geng Kui's belly, Zhao Dahai smiled without looking back: "Deducting the baggage can only be that Chen Ce's guy is not happy, but, with his brother Geng Kui you are here, in fact, I can't say that I am still happy in my heart, as for my brother, I will take care of everything, it is a big deal not to lose his face, go back to get a whip, and then be removed from what position, the position of deputy commander is glamorous, and no one takes me as a deputy commander, but the position of captain of the cavalry team has been removed from me, and I really can't see which one can replace it." When he said this, his tone was somewhat sour.

This is a sensitive topic, Geng Kui didn't want to get involved, so he didn't pick up the stubble, and was embarrassed, when he suddenly saw a shouting and fighting in the official army camp, and the smoke and dust were flying, which immediately attracted everyone's attention, and all the brothers stood in front of the fortress and pointed, not knowing what was going on in the official army camp.

Zhao Dahai and Geng Kui glanced at each other, and couldn't make a sound together with their mouths open for a long time, Zhao Dahai watched for a long time before swallowing saliva with difficulty and muttering: "Shouldn't it be that the official army is using a stratagem to seduce us into being fooled into robbing the camp, I've heard about it in the commentary." ”

Geng Kui was also confused, but the enemy camp was not far away, and he could see it clearly, he really shouted to kill Liantian with swords and swords, and it was really fighting and killing, especially when it was not the officials and soldiers themselves who slashed and killed each other, but a group of ragged masters.

Where are those masters who are the opponents of the border army, the chaos did not last long, and the battle ended in a blink of an eye, and the next moment the border army actually set off and retreated for nearly three miles, leaving hundreds of bloody and blurred bodies of the masters in one place, and then began to dig trenches three miles away, drive piles and build a large village.

Dazhai is being resettled, and a team of 100 people rushed out in Dazhai, divided in all directions, and disappeared in the mountains near and far in a moment.

"What are those teams of border soldiers doing?" Zhao Dahai asked Geng Kui inexplicably.

Geng Kui suddenly slapped his hand, jumped to his feet excitedly, and shouted again and again: "God help me, God help me, King Chuang has heaven's help." This is the first time that Geng Kui has lost his calm image, and it is the first time that he has called Lu Shi the king of Chuang.

Everyone didn't know why Geng Kui was so out of shape, they were all waiting for him to explain, Zhao Dahai jumped even more anxiously, and finally waited for Geng Kui to laugh enough before pulling Geng Kui and asked impatiently: "Don't laugh, tell me what's going on." ”

So Geng Kui talked about the grain and grass supply system of the Ming army, and then talked about the masters who were killed, and finally said: "Those officers and soldiers who went out are all food teams." They're starting to worry about their dinner. ”

"What is a food squad?" A soldier asked excitedly with a gun in his arms.

Geng Kui's expression darkened, and he sighed and said, "Looting." ”

As if to verify Geng Kui's claim, there was already billowing smoke in the col not far away, hovering in the dry and cold north wind.

Everyone on the fortress couldn't help but fall silent.

Zhao Dahai suddenly laughed loudly: "I don't care if he doesn't have food, it seems that the officers and soldiers don't have the strength to attack us, so we can have a good rest in the afternoon, which just delayed us for another half a day." ”

Then he looked at the brothers with gloomy expressions, and greeted loudly: "What else is it to see, while those border troops are starving, we will eat and drink enough to sleep and recuperate, and cooperate with the baggage soldiers to cut down trees and strengthen the fortress, let us and those starving ghosts spend it." ”

was ridiculed by Zhao Dahai like this, and everyone was once again in high morale, and they agreed to the promise and began to be busy with their duties.

The officers and soldiers did not attack at night, and the food teams that came back one after another in the dusk carried shriveled pockets and dragged the ragged women back to the camp.

Food? Do you want to feed nearly 10,000 people in just a short period of time? Dream on, now these people have long been scraped by the cool officials, where is your share?

The night was uneventful. The next day, the energetic Black Tiger Army who ate horse meat on steamed buns stood in vain for another day, and the officers and soldiers still did not move, but only sent more grain teams to go to distant places to find food, but it can be seen that there are many people who go out and few who come back, and there is no gain.

In this way, the Black Tiger Army, which was originally determined to fight to the death, completed the blocking task assigned by the military division safely and easily, and began to evacuate as a team.

When Zhao Dahai took his brothers to catch up with the team, he told everyone the good news, and the whole team of the southward migration continued to cheer, and the voices of King Chuang came and went, and everyone attributed such good things to the blessing of King Chuang, which made Lu Shi happy and constantly smiled bitterly.

The border army seems to be trapped in the west exit by their own people for the supply problem, and there is no threat to the team moving south from Woniu Mountain for the time being, which makes everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and the atmosphere of the march is much more relaxed, but because of this, the speed of the march has slowed down unconsciously, there is no way, Lu Shi had to gather the children's regiment and student soldiers, carry out propaganda speeches along the way, and constantly agitate, and the leaders and officers at all levels also persuaded everyone not to slack off and seize the time to march, so as to ensure that the marching speed did not slow down completely.

But there are also some strange phenomena along the way, where the army passes, there is just the beginning of the reappearance, the landlord fortress is closed, there is the one who stands in the way, simply send people out to contact, offer a part of the grain, cattle and sheep to buy a cottage safe, Lu Shi is also happy that everyone is safe, Lu Shi will go around the village as much as possible, no battle.

When passing through Qingjian County, things were even more strange, the officials of Qingjian not only did not organize the guards to block, but seemed to know that Woniu Mountain would not slaughter the whole city, and the officials and gentry fled to the mountains together, leaving only the poor people, and then even opened the city gate, allowing the Black Tiger Army to pass through the city, in this way, and then released the patrol post, strictly inspected the Qinghe River for fifty miles before and after, and saw that there was no danger at all, the southward migration team of Woniu Mountain got a good rest for the first time. Then he set off south again.

After a few days, the sergeant brothers of the patrol supervisor in the back kept hearing the movement of the border army. Since the Black Tiger Army withdrew from the fortress, the border army did not chase after it, stayed in place for two days, and then pulled out the camp and set up the village, and then did not rush in, nor retreated, and followed according to the speed of the march of Woniu Mountain, they also camped, Woniu Mountain camped for fifty miles a day, they also camped for fifty miles a day, and they followed as if they were leaving, this was not an encirclement and suppression, but more like a gift to the army to leave the country.

Lu Shi walked in the Qingjian street where the city was empty, and saw all the old and weak women and children, and there were no young young people at all, so he called an old man who was squatting on the side of the road under the wall and asked, the old man said, the young people in the city were all signed away by the county lord the day before yesterday, saying that the thieves were coming, and they wanted to transfer the materials in the county and protect the net worth of the rich merchants into the mountain, and they were all recruited, just waiting for the kings to go, and then disbanded and went home.

Lu Shi thanked the old man for half a bag of grain, and slowly followed the army in the old man's thousands of thanks, but there was an ominous feeling in his heart that became heavier and heavier.

It's too smooth, and if things go too smoothly, it's a demon.

Whether it is the border army, or the signing of Ding Xiangyong in various places, it is impossible to really be terrified in the first battle of Suide, it is not the last year of Chongzhen, and the Ming Dynasty is not weak to that extent, so why is this situation happening?

Standing at the back of the line, looking at the direction of Weinan behind the reckless mountains, this uneasiness was even stronger, and I always felt that there seemed to be a huge trap in front of me.

"Zhang Xiao, hurry up and inform the army to stop advancing, and at the same time notify the commander and all the leaders to hold a meeting."