After Xiao Tianjian got the news that Li Jiazhuang gathered officials and soldiers to come to attack, he waited for another five days in Tianlong Village before he finally received the news from Shi Ran.

As soon as Shi Ran entered the cottage, he immediately reported to Xiao Tianjian: "Qiyu is in charge of the plate!" Twenty miles away from our Zhuangzi, the little ones found a large number of officers and soldiers and village warriors, who were marching towards us! But they are walking very slowly, and at this rate, I am afraid that they will not be able to reach the outside of our mountain pass until tomorrow! Please make arrangements in advance! ”

Xiao Tianjian didn't know why, but he breathed a long sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It's finally here!" Originally, it took two days to arrive, but it turned out that we had to wait for four more days! It seems that this officer and soldier is really unreliable! Hehe! ”

Seeing Xiao Tianjian's relaxed face, everyone also breathed a sigh of relief, in the past few days, the Xingtianjun has been very nervous, and they have been practicing hard every day, and at the same time, they have to make various preparations for engagement.

Moreover, Xiao Tianjian also took time to make a confrontation exercise between the soldiers and the recruits, and 200 soldiers lined up against 300 recruits.

Both sides switched to wooden sticks instead of knives and guns, and the two teams attacked and defended each other, and carried out two combat exercises, the result was that although the soldiers were few, because of the long training time, and they all belonged to the guys who had seen blood, they cooperated with each other to a certain extent, although the opponents were many, but in the face of their attacks, the result was that the recruit battalion lost two battles and two defeats, and was beaten by the war team.

However, at the same time, it was also tested that the recruits in the process of stepping up the training during this period of time, the battle is still quite a bit of combat effectiveness, although the two battles and two defeats, but at the beginning, they all insisted on a period of time, and caused a lot of "casualties" to the team, the queue march is also quite a bit of a look, the team often has to pay a lot of "price" to defeat them, so the recruits can have this kind of performance, it can be regarded as a defeat of Yourong.

For this reason, the squad and platoon leaders who were responsible for the training of the recruits were all rewarded, and each of them was rewarded with three taels of silver, and the recruits also got a meal of a large piece of meat, which made the recruits happy and had a lot of confidence in the future battle.

Xiao Tianjian also became more and more confident.

"Tell me about the equipment of the officers and soldiers and the villagers this time!" After Xiao Tianjian learned the news of the enemy's imminent arrival, he immediately asked Shi Ran.

Shi Ran immediately replied: "There are about 500 officers and soldiers, and the news that Xiao inquired about before is basically the same, it is indeed from Feng Xiangwei's guard, there are less than fifty soldiers in armor, and the rest are wearing tattered mandarin duck battle jackets and equipment!" How to say it! It can only be said that it is disorganized! The trouble is that they brought four artillery pieces this time, which were pulled by cars, which were not easy to deal with, and there seemed to be some rockets, which were difficult to entangle! There are still some people among the officers and soldiers who hold three-eyed guns, but there are not many people who hold firearms, because they are far away, and the small ones don't see so really, and no matter how many they are, they can't tell clearly!

It's the chaos on the side of the townspeople, and there are all kinds of guys, and the little ones actually saw that some of them were walking from a distance, and some people were fighting, if it weren't for the bullet pressure of the officers and soldiers, they estimated that the dog's brain was out! Hehe! ”

When Xiao Tianjian and his subordinates heard this, they all laughed, although there were many people in this group, they really expected that the entire group of rabble, no one would listen to anyone, and it would be difficult not to mess up!

So Xiao Tianjian immediately waved his hand and ordered: "In that case, let the brothers have a good rest this afternoon!" The training of the troops must also be relaxed, and the big battle is coming tomorrow, so let them all rest! Recharge your batteries and don't embarrass us tomorrow!

Shi Ran, carry the horse for me! Yan Chongxi also followed, let's go and see what kind of mess those guys are! ”

Everyone rushed to the school yard and gave a loud order to rest, and a group of soldiers and recruits cheered and were taken away from the school by their respective squad leaders, and then disbanded on the spot, letting them go down to rest.

And Xiao Tianjian turned over and jumped on a war horse specially selected for him, took Shi Ran, Yan Chongxi, and Tietou and a few other guards, opened the mountain gate and rushed out.

Now after a period of practice, Xiao Tianjian can now control the horse, and the riding skills are not good, but at least he is not as nervous as he was on horseback at the beginning, and the big bull is familiar with horse nature, and specially picked out a war horse with a docile and easy to control among their war horses, as Xiao Tianjian's exclusive war horse, so that after Xiao Tianjian rides it, he doesn't have to worry about being taken off the horse.

Although Shi Ran has accumulated some experience as a scout, but after all, he is from farming, and his vision is not wide enough, nodding his head is no problem, but there are many details that cannot be explained clearly, especially this time there are a large number of officers and soldiers, and Shi Ran has never seen many things in terms of equipment, so Xiao Tianjian is not at ease, so he took Yan Chongxi to see for himself what is missing, which is also Xiao Tianjian's caution.

After the group left the cottage on horseback, they left on the dirt road, and the twenty-mile road for their group was only an hour to complete, so in the afternoon at Lingzipo, Shi Ran, who was exploring the road in front, ran back to tell Xiao Tianjian that the officers and soldiers and the townsmen were less than two miles away from them.

"What a bunch of idiots! Such a big operation, even if it was not collected overnight, let us get close to the range of less than two miles of them, this person who led the troops really did not seem to be ordinary stupid! After listening to Shi Ran's words, Yan Chongxi immediately sneered and said.

Xiao Tianjian also laughed, this group of guys is too big! It was really as Yan Chongxi said, until here, he didn't send scouts, and he came to Tianlong Village to investigate first, which shows that the other party is indeed a rabble, so this heart is even more relaxed.

"Dismount! The big bull is optimistic about these horses, and hides in the ravine on the side first, waiting for us to come back! Xiao Tianjian turned over and jumped off the war horse, twisted his waist and commanded the big bull, although he has been learning riding for a while, but he is still not used to riding, these two thighs are grinding by the saddle, and both legs are a little looped after getting off the horse.

Several people who followed him dismounted one after another, handed over the war horses to Da Niu, and Da Niu led these horses into a ditch next to them, and tied them to the war horses, and Xiao Tianjian immediately took Yan Chongxi and Tietou and others to climb the collar slope quickly, hid in a bush, and looked down the slope from a distance.

I saw that the road less than 300 meters away from them was bustling with people of different costumes, led by a team of officers and soldiers wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets, but the mandarin duck battle jackets of these officers and soldiers were worn out and faded very seriously, without the slightest sense of majesty, the team walked quite messy, among them there were some vehicles, loaded with tents and food bags and other materials, and the equipment also seemed very messy, because the distance was relatively far, but it was not very real, but unfortunately they did not have binoculars at the moment, If that were the thing, it would be of great help for such a reconnaissance operation!

But even so, after a preliminary look, Xiao Tianjian and the others can also conclude that the equipment level of this team of officers and soldiers is actually not much better, it is definitely not as simple as the equipment of the Xingtian Army, in short, they have everything, and the biggest threat is a group of archers among the officers and soldiers in this team, the number is roughly about seventy or eighty people, if they are allowed to shoot in a volley, it will cause great damage to their own side, so Xiao Tianjian specially paid attention to these archers of the Ming army.

The number of people in this team of officers and soldiers with spears is not very large, the overall proportion is less than thirty percent, and there are some people with boring palladium and big swords, and the proportion of rattan players is roughly more than one percent, but I haven't seen too many officers and soldiers carrying bird guns, and if you count them carefully, there are only about 20 people carrying this thing, and more than 20 people are holding three-eyed guns.

In addition, there are more than 30 officers and men on horseback, who are estimated to be the main force of this group of officers and men, and are probably the family members of the officers at the head of the group.

After taking a closer look, Xiao Tianjian could be sure that the four cars were the cannons that Shi Ran was talking about, so he whispered to Yan Chongxi who was lying next to him, "See, what are those big cars loaded with?" ”

Yan Chongxi also noticed these big cars loaded with artillery at this time, and after carefully distinguishing them, he frowned and replied: "It's a bit troublesome, these first two cars are equipped with Furlong machine fast guns, the last two cars are equipped with tiger squat guns, and the last few cars seem to be equipped with a swarm of bees and hundreds of tigers running arrows together!"

Troublesome! Troublesome! These things are really troublesome! Especially these cannons still have a swarm of bees, if they fight with us in formation, I'm afraid we will suffer a big loss! ”

Xiao Tianjian also felt a little numb on his scalp when he heard it, this swarm of bees and hundreds of tigers rushed to the arrows together, but he knew what it was, it was a cluster rocket, one of the big killers in the Ming army, and the Franco fast artillery, all of which were the main firearms of the Ming army, and the lethality of this thing to cluster targets at close range was very terrifying, why did these officers and soldiers even pull this thing, and they really regarded their Xingtian Army as a vegetable!

Xiao Tianjian closed his mouth and didn't ask anything more, his eyes crossed these officers and soldiers, and looked behind, the people who followed the officers and soldiers were much more disorganized, and from the banners, they were very mixed, some of the flags had a Zhou character written on them, some of the banners had the word Wang written on them, and some of them were written with the character Li, in short, there were at least four or five groups of people, and they were noisily following behind the officers and soldiers, and there were no rules in the ranks, and as for the weapons, there were all kinds of weapons, and the quality of the equipment was obviously inferior to the officers and soldiers in front.

And what makes him ridiculous is that these townsmen are really unruly to the extreme, and while they are walking, some people will run to the side of the road to lie down and rest, and what is even more ridiculous is that some people even get together on the side of the road and shout to gamble for money......

"Is this here to fight? Or are you here for a spring outing? This is too much to take us in! Xiao Tianjian was a little angry after watching it, and said casually.

"There are many of them, so they naturally feel that they have won, and the people who follow them may not be planning to follow and pick up the cheapest! Damn, I have to kill a few more of them when I'm waiting for Ming'er! Let them know that they know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye has! Shi Ran also lay in the bushes, scolding in a low voice while watching.

After watching for a while, Xiao Tianjian and Yan Chongxi had already seen the situation of the enemy army clearly, and it was useless to lie here again, so Xiao Tianjian beckoned, and everyone pouted and slowly retreated down the dirt slope, walked down the dirt slope quickly, and found the big cow in the ditch.