Chapter 16: Combat

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The thieves finally arrived, and when they heard the dull roar of the horses carrying grain on the mountain, they hurriedly lit more torches and surrounded the small hill where Chen Daju and they were stationed.

For a while, the flames were soaring, and all around were murderous thieves, constantly shouting, ready to fight at any time.

The blazing torches under the hill lit up the murderous faces, and the number was several times more than that of Chen Daju's family members who escorted the grain and the soldiers who came to meet them this time.

In terms of momentum, the grain transport troops were completely suppressed, which made everyone tremble and extremely uneasy.

Chen Daju's scalp was even more numb, constantly hinting that he must be calm so that he can control the overall situation.

"Di~~" After a few quick short whistles, the thieves rode their horses to the top of the hill in two ways, leaving and right, adding up to more than 200 people.

Chen Daju knew that these horse thieves had only come to test the truth first, and instructed the entourage and soldiers to stick to their respective posts, and not to act rashly, so as not to expose their own truth.

The two teams of horse thieves let out a whistling sound of "minions~~" from the mouths and rushed up from the slopes on the left and right sides.

After reaching the halfway point of the slope, there were several more whistles, and the thieves who had been in groups began to disperse, and each of them quickly sprinted upward.

Suddenly there was the terrible neighing of horses and the wails of thieves.

I saw that the thieves who rode their horses to the hillside to kill turned over on their backs, either fell into a trap full of spikes in the sky, and died on the spot, or tripped their mounts on the tripping horses, and fell off their horses and rolled down the slopes.

This kind of domino-like chain reaction caused more than half of the thief's combat power of more than 200 people to lose more than half in an instant, and they were unable to form an army.

The morale of the family members and the sergeants was greatly boosted, and they cheered and shouted together.

Chen Daju was secretly glad in his heart, knowing that this was just a fluke, and this wave of thieves just lost carelessly.

Caught off guard, he went down his own way.

In the time between the rogues to make adjustments, he hurriedly ordered everyone to move down the slope, hide in the deep pit without stabbing the stake into the sky, and mount the bow with arrows, ready to meet the second wave of the enemy's onslaught at any time.

The thieves at the foot of the mountain reorganized their ranks, and dozens of torches were lit again, illuminating the entire halfway up the hill and below it was a blood-red color.

Among the thieves, a strong man with five big and three thick horses, rode his horse to the front of the team, sat proudly on the back of the horse, and shouted at the thieves who had greatly lost their spirit: "Brothers, whoever is the first to cut off the head of Chen Boda, an old and immortal dog, will be rewarded." ”

Then he pulled the horse's head, faced the mountain, and shouted: "Chen Boda, you are an old immortal, you actually set up an ambush for me, if I, Qin San, let one of you leave the whole corpse, Lao Tzu will follow your surname in the future." Wait for Lao Tzu to cut off your dog's head, and then destroy your Chen family's entire mansion. ”

Chen Daju secretly scolded the other party for not being a thing, he secretly communicated with the government, and the first envoy conspired to kill people and rob food, but the wicked people sued first, blaming others for setting up an ambush.

Funny.

What's even more stupid is that he is afraid that others will not know that he is the third brother of the prefect's housekeeper, and if he doesn't mask his face, he actually reported that he was up, it seems that he really didn't want to stay alive.

It's okay to do this, just to force these family members and sergeants to fight against the water, and tonight they will fight to the death against such bandits.

Chen Daju thinks that when he was in the army, his arm strength was outstanding, and he hadn't tried his skills for a long time.

So he pulled his bow with all his strength and shot an arrow at Qin San, wanting to give the other party a cold dismount.

The powerful arrow shot out and went straight to Qin San, but as the distance with Qin San became smaller and smaller, the strength of the arrow became weaker and weaker, and when there was still a distance of three or five meters from the target, the strength had been consumed, and it fell straight to the ground, startling Qin San's war horse, kicking and neighing in the sky, almost throwing Qin San to the ground.

The thieves changed color, and secretly sighed who was so powerful.

The family members and sergeants on the mountain also applauded in their hearts, but none of them dared to shout for fear that the enemy would find out their location.

There was another hurried whistle, and a loud shout came from among the thieves: "Dismount." ”

The thieves dismounted one after another, the front row was a thief with a shield and a short knife, and the back row was a thief with a spear, under the light of the blazing torches, cautiously touching the top of the mountain, along the way to the destruction of Chen Daju's trap.

The archers who followed closely behind were all archers, who were constantly firing arrows into the mountain, covering the shields, swordsmen and spearmen in front, and approaching the top of the mountain step by step.

They didn't know that Chen Daju and a group of grain carriers and soldiers had already hidden in the arrow pit.

At this time, all the family members and soldiers had already been greatly impressed by Chen Daju's anticipation of the enemy's opportunity, and their confidence was greatly increased.

When the two armies fight, morale is particularly important.

The vanguard of the thieves in front had already crossed the halfway up the mountain, and was still slowly pressing towards the top of the mountain while the saboteurs were trapping.

Close to hand, a touch of imminent.

That Qin San and the remaining dozens of subordinates had already set up a sprint formation at the foot of the mountain, gearing up, ready to kill the generals at any time after receiving the signal from the vanguard troops.

This kind of ancient cold weapon team battle, Chen Daju encountered it for the first time, and subconsciously clenched the long sword in his hand, and his heart "puff puff~~" beat wildly.

Holding back his strength, he let out a long roar: "Let go of the rolling stones and logs." ”

More than a dozen of the housekeepers who were hiding in the bushes removed the barricades, and dozens of hundreds of boulders and logs rolled down the mountain in waves, smashing the thieves' shields and turning people over, and they all wailed.

"Shoot the arrows!" A shout.

Before the thieves who were hit by the mountain could react, the soldiers hiding in the arrow pit appeared one after another, and shot at the thieves with arrows and bows.

The sharp arrows rushed towards the enemy like a storm, and the thieves were in a mess, and they had no ability to resist, and they fell to the ground one after another.

Less than one-fifth of those who lost their armor returned.

All the families and soldiers on the mountain were greatly lifted and shouted and cheered.

Qin San was at the foot of the mountain, looking at the embarrassed thieves who had been defeated, he was furious like thunder, and he threw away the wounded soldiers who had lost their armor and had lost their combat ability, and organized the remaining thieves to rush and kill again.

In this wave of rushing killing, Qin San seemed more cautious, and did not rush to kill, but scattered the thief troops, opened up the distance, alternately covered, and constantly forced towards the mountain.

Although this is conducive to maximizing the strength of Chen Daji's attack, it is more costly than before.

Let Chen Daju and them have more time, retreat to the top of the mountain, and escape as originally planned.

Chen Daju and everyone retreated to the top of the mountain, ordered everyone to ride their mounts, and then told them their escape plans one by one.

The morale of the family members and soldiers was greatly boosted when they heard that they could finally not sit still here and have a chance to escape.

The whole is even more concentric, and there is no objection at all, but Chen Daju's order is obeyed.

Until this moment, more than a dozen famous soldiers and more than 30 soldiers have not been injured or injured, and Chen Daju must be a god and admired.

The horse thieves who attacked from all directions were getting closer and closer, and they could be vaguely heard talking to each other and the sound of weapons clashing.