In the early morning of the third day of the fifth month, two battalions of soldiers and horses were assembled outside the city of Hanling, namely Yang Kaishan's Shanzi Battalion and Han Feng's Fengya Battalion, totaling more than 1,300 people, as well as some offensive equipment. Vertex Says X 23 U OM

There were more than 3,000 people in this mountain bandit, and it was the most powerful group of bandits in the vicinity, but Liu Ce decided to attack them first. The reason for this decision is that Liu Ce has these considerations: first, this mountain bandit has been rampant around the Han Tomb for more than 20 years, and the officers and soldiers of Yuanzhou have encircled and suppressed it many times to no avail, and they have lost a lot of people and horses. secondly, it is to train the recruits, and at the same time tell the people under his rule whether the Jingwei Battalion has the ability to protect them and enhance their sense of identity with themselves; Third, since this mountain bandit has been rampant for so many years, the materials in the village must be abundant, and the materials that have been accumulated for so long can be used for their own use; Fourth, there are a lot of Hu people in this mountain bandits, with more than 2,000 good horses, and some are even war horses outside the Saiwai, and they just need such good horses to form heavy cavalry, why don't they take it?

Although it is a mountainous formation, but in the past month, Liu Ce's department has changed the battle formation, the front row of gun and shield men have all been replaced by sword and shield men holding Qi knives, after a month of training, the initial formation of combat effectiveness, there is a lack of actual combat effect, and the back row of spears have all been replaced with super spears up to five meters long. After improving their food and training in oil, water, and meat, it turned out that these spearmen were already able to wield such spears.

Han Feng's department added 200 new crossbowmen, of which 150 were armed with newly made crossbows, the training of crossbowmen was far faster than that of archers, and in just a few days, these 150 people were already proficient in operating this crossbow, although the shooting efficiency was not high, even if there were gears, it was only four or five shots a minute, but the hit rate, strength and rate of fire were far from being comparable to the archers.

"Okay, I won't say anything more, it's not the first time you've led a battle, remember to be cautious in everything." Liu Ce looked at Yang Kaishan and Han Feng in front of the formation and said.

Yang Kaishan and Han Feng were also newly married, and before they heard that they were going to pay the bandits, they immediately came to ask for war, Liu Ce thought about it and agreed to their request to fight, and he was depressed for a long time.

"Don't worry, General! It's just a few mountain bandits, and it's not the first time that I, Yang Kaishan, have been thieves, and we have been able to fight tens of thousands of thieves in Meihe Town with eight hundred people, so how can these three thousand mountain bandits be afraid, not to mention the addition of such a magic weapon. Yang Kaishan said with a big grin, and Sun Biao, who had already been promoted to the head of the flag, pulled out the Qi knife very appropriately.

I saw that the blade was seventy-eight centimeters long, all fine iron was made, the handle was more than 30 centimeters, and the whole knife was about one meter long.

Liu Ce looked at Sun Biao's appearance and shook his head with a smile, walked up to him and whispered: "Sun Biao, now that you have a family, those flowery intestines should be more restrained, think more about the family, do you know?"

Sun Biao smiled, but a rare tenderness suddenly appeared in his eyes and said to Liu Ce: "I won't tell you, since I got married, I feel that I have more indescribable feelings, as soon as I see the face of my family, those fancy intestines are thrown away, I just want to be nice to her." ”

Liu Ce nodded and said to Sun Biao and to the soldiers who were married: "It's good that you can think like this, you will no longer be alone in the future, someone in the family will worry about you, and you must always remember that everything you do is for the sake of your family and live a happier life." ”

"Obey the general's teachings!" Han Feng, Yang Kaishan, Sun Biao and other battalion soldiers said in unison.

"Good!" Liu Ce walked onto the temporary high platform and waved his big hand: "Let's go, I'm waiting for you to triumph here!" ”

Yang Kaishan roared, and the seven hundred people of the Shanzi Battalion turned around in unison, and took steps towards the "Flying Harrier" cottage, and Han Feng's subordinates followed. I only heard the sound of the swaying of the armor leaves, and the first battle of the Jingwei Battalion to the Far East was about to start.

Many people in the city looked at the army that was gradually moving away, and their hearts that had been numb for a long time couldn't help but be slightly shaken, maybe this Jingwei battalion was really different from other officers and soldiers......

Ten miles away on Yanque Mountain, in the camp of the "Flying Harrier", dozens of Hu people were drinking and chatting with hundreds of mountain bandits who had fallen into the grass in the Great Zhou Dynasty, not realizing that the danger was approaching.

The first bearded man has an iron ring inlaid on the side of his nose, and his hair is tied up in strips and hung on his face, and the whole looks extremely ugly.

Due to the strong rise of the Monro Empire in the steppe, the cruel and bloody massacre of those disobedient tribes was adopted, and the Hu people who were lucky enough to escape the bad luck fled into the Far East. Especially on the border between Jizhou and Yuanzhou, there are Hu people and local bandits in the Far East, and some Hu people and local bandits even hit it off as brothers, partnered to build a walled city on the top of the mountain, and pulled up a big banner, clearly fighting against the officers and soldiers of the Far East. Jiang Xun and the governors of the other provinces also sent troops to recruit, but the effect was not obvious, and over time they turned a blind eye, and these mountain bandits were also smart, and they never easily found trouble in the jurisdiction of the scholars, and specialized in plundering some manor towns, but also changed direction and reached some tacit understanding with the officers and soldiers.

"Chen, you say, Han Ling, here, officers and soldiers? What is it, man?" The leader-like Hu asked in a stiff Central Plains dialect.

The mountain bandit surnamed Chen said: "Mother, who knows, the brothers went down the mountain to inquire, and thousands of people came?" Hard stubble, Aju, you'd better not fight that Hanling idea. ”

Aju said disdainfully: "Thousands of people, what, my Leyan Department, all of them are, warriors, can fight with one against ten, how can they be compared with those of the officers and soldiers, sheep?"

Aju's words resonated with the seven or eight Hu people around, if it weren't for the killing and driving of their own tribe by the Mengluo Hulan tribe, their own Leyan people would not have fled into the Far East of the Great Zhou Dynasty like lost dogs, and at the same time, they also witnessed the incompetence of the officers and soldiers in the Far East.

Chen Bandit raised his head and drank the wine in the bowl, and said to Ah Ju: "That's what I said, but Ah Ju, you should pay more attention, the brothers found out that this group of officers and soldiers is different from the past, and I hope to be careful." ”

Ah Ju smiled after hearing this: "Chen, you are too much, be careful, I am not afraid, I am restrictive, warrior, all, equestrian, superb ......"

At this moment, before Ah Ju finished his sentence, he saw a mountain bandit running over at a high speed and said loudly to Chen Thief and Ah Ju: "Qiqi two leaders, the mountain found that more than 1,000 officers and soldiers were approaching the mountain. ”

"Huh?" Chen Bandit and Ah Ju glanced at each other at the same time, their eyes were full of questions, and after a long time, Chen Thief asked, "Where did the officers and soldiers come from?" Can you see the flag? ”

The mountain bandit said: "It seems that it is not very clear what kind of mountain camp, but it can be determined that it is from the direction of Hanling City." ”

"Han Ling?" A Ju showed a look of excitement in his eyes, smashed the wine bowl in his hand on the ground and got up and said, "I, don't go, look for him, but instead, he came?" Very well, just let them, know, I, awesome. ”

After speaking, he bent his middle finger into his mouth and let him scream, and suddenly more than 200 Hu people held various blades and gathered around Aju. I saw that most of them were wearing leather armor, and a few were chainmail and armor.

Then Ah Ju said loudly in Hu language: "Warriors, there is an official army under the mountain that is killing us, let them see the power of our Leyan warriors, teach this group of sheep, the territory of the Han Tomb, we have the final say, now step on your war horses, and kill down the mountain with me!" ”

"Whoa......"

These ignorant and murderous people were constantly howling at this time, and their eyes were full of bloodthirsty light.

When Chen Bandit heard this, he immediately stopped Ah Ju: "Ah Ju, calm down, you haven't figured out the situation yet, don't act rashly, since the Han Ling officials and soldiers dare to come to my Yanque Mountain with more than 1,000 people, they must have something to rely on, or guard the cottage and wait for the opportunity to move." ”

When Ah Ju heard this, he said disdainfully: "Chen, you are too bold, just a few thousand, more than a thousand, officers and soldiers, I, once, can, all, eliminate." ”

Without waiting for the Chen thief to reply, he stepped on a war horse led by a Hu man and jumped up, and rushed out of the gate with his legs between the horse's belly, and the other two hundred Hu people also rode their horses to follow.

Chen Bandit said secretly: "It's really a puppet." Then he ordered 500 mountain bandits to follow Ah Ju down the mountain, just in case.

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"Report, Qiqi two battalion flag envoys, hundreds of people and horses were found on Yanque Mountain rushing down the mountain."

"Got it, all arms war." Hearing the report of the spies, Yang Kaishan immediately ordered to prepare for battle, and formed a formation at a distance of sixty steps from the mountain pass to prepare for battle.

"Are you afraid?" A veteran of the Jingwei Battalion couldn't help but tremble slightly when he saw the two recruits beside him, so he asked out loud.

"It's a little ......," the two recruits replied with a difficult nod.

"Don't be afraid, it's useless to be afraid, I think I was just like you at the beginning." The veteran comforted, "When the thieves rush up, they are scared to death, and they just want to turn around and run." ”

When the two recruits heard this, it turned out that the veteran would also be afraid, and they couldn't help but wonder: "Then why aren't you afraid later?" ”

The veteran said: "If you run away, the whole army will be guilty, and my wife and children will also be driven out of his territory by the general, so I gritted my teeth and said that I will die anyway, and if I die, I will die, just to not affect my family, as a result, as soon as those thieves come up, I will stab with a spear, and my heart will be steady, but they are all embroidered pillows, and I can't rush to the front of the battle, and I have received a lot of rewards after the battle, a lot of white rice......"

The veteran seemed to be reminiscing about something when he said this, and when he saw that the mood of the two recruits had stabilized, he then said: "Later, I learned that there is nothing to be afraid of, there are rewards for going on the expedition, and someone is buried when they die, and the old and young in the family can also get a lot of pensions, and they don't have to worry about it, and my Jingwei battalion is fighting in formation, and the army has been invincible so far, what can these mountain bandits do?" You'll know when you see blood, and you might like it. ”

When the two recruits heard the veteran say this, they pondered for a moment and suddenly realized that it made sense. yes, what's there to be afraid of dying? The general said that he would give a bereavement pension, and he practiced every meal so well on weekdays, so what was there to worry about? Maybe after this time, I will be able to get a lot of rewards, and become as rich as these veterans, so that I can marry and have a daughter-in-law. Thinking of this, the nervous mood of the two recruits suddenly stabilized, and they quietly waited for the battle to come.

The same is true for the rest of the troops, some veterans tell these recruits about their experience, soothe their emotions, and soon the fear of the recruits gradually disappears, except for a little nervousness, it no longer affects the formation of the battle.

The sound of Ah Ju's horse's hooves gradually sounded on the mountain road, and after a while, he saw 200 ugly-looking Hu people riding on horses, leisurely approaching the two camps of the Jingwei camp at the foot of the mountain.

"Hu Ren?" Yang Kaishan saw the cavalry on the opposite mountain road behind the formation, and glanced at Han Feng at each other, "It's just right, before starting a war with the Hulan people, let's practice with this group of ugly monsters, so as to eliminate the fear of the Hu people in the army." ”

"Archer, aim." As soon as Han Feng raised his hand, four hundred and fifty archers instantly took off the bows hanging behind them, took out feather arrows from the quiver inserted in the ground, put them on the bowstring, and waited for an order to shoot out. The first three rows of one hundred and fifty crossbowmen pulled the crossbow strings, but after hearing the "creaking" friction and rotation of the gears, they heard a soft sound of "oops", and the crossbow strings were already fixed on the crossbow machine, and then the crossbowmen took out an adult thumb on his waist and pressed it into the arrow slot, and the flush end used the crossbow crosshair at the front end of the crossbow machine to aim at those Hu people......

At the headquarters of the Shanzi battalion, the two hundred sword and shield men in the front row took a few steps forward and threw the thick iron thistle terrestris in their hands to the ground, until they covered a distance of about twenty or thirty steps, and then retreated sideways from the gap in the spear formation to the rear to stand by, once the cavalry charged, these sword and shield hands could be negligible, but these terrible horse nails could well prevent the cavalry from rushing forward. The last 500 spearmen crouched down in unison, with their spears on one side, providing a good view to the crossbowmen behind them for optimal damage.

"Hmph, I want to see what means these Huren mountain bandits have to compete with my Jingwei Battalion!" As the commander of this crackdown on bandits, Yang Kaishan sneered, I don't believe that you Hu people can do anything to me with such an ironclad defense, aren't Hu people powerful at riding and shooting? Okay, just look at your horse bow with only fifty steps of bow power to shoot accurately, or my armor-piercing crossbow within one hundred and twenty steps, not to mention that there are hundreds of bows and spears staring at each other, want to shoot each other, that is really unwanted, just to test how effective these crossbows are in actual combat, if there are shortcomings, it is better to go back and study carefully.

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