The efficiency of the troops led by Ying Ming has been greatly improved after Fang Tianding arrived at the battlefield.

Less than three-quarters of the time had passed, and all the young and hungry had been evacuated and placed under strict guard.

Under the western city wall, the orphan army and the Ying Ming army, which had less than 3,000 people left, were about to collect their troops and return to the camp, when they saw their own scouts and defenders rushing out of the mountains and forests in the north.

In the mountains and forests to the north, the Fang La army and the Great Zhou army were already staggered, and the fighting between the scout teams never stopped. It's not strange that someone ran out to report the news, but the strange thing is that the dozens of brothers who ran out were a little too miserable.

The dozens of defenders who rushed out of the mountains and forests, originally part of the defenders stationed at the two key locations of Meihuawu and Shangyao, lost their armor at the moment, panicked, and looked very miserable.

The scouts, who were disheveled and even more disgraced, did not stop, and after dropping down the wounded brothers, they headed straight to the southeast.

"Directly over the mountain, front and back to the plum blossom Wu and the kiln?"

Fang Tianding heard the words of several scouts and a junior colonel, and immediately ordered the troops under the western city wall to suspend the collection of troops and line up facing the north.

"How many people are on the other side? What weapons are used? What's so special about it? ”

Fang Tianding faintly felt that something was wrong, and rushed to the northwest with hundreds of elites, not forgetting to ask a few scouts.

"The weapon isn't too special, but it's very delicate and sharp."

"Most of them are dressed in gray and black shorts, and they all wear pointed hats on their heads, and almost all of them wear paper armor!"

"I can't determine the number of people on the other side, but I feel that the momentum is very strong, and I ask the general to punish him!"

A few of the scouts were on fire, but you still said what you had seen.

Fang Tianding's head was as big as a fight, and he couldn't even raise the strength to get angry: how many people on the other side didn't figure it out, two camps, more than five hundred people, just defeated?!

Seeing the miserable appearance of the sergeant rushing out of the mountains and forests, Fang Tianding didn't dare to have any contempt for the Great Zhou army that suddenly appeared.

The sun was slanting in the west, and the suddenly appeared Great Zhou Army was obviously good at mountain warfare, so of course Fang Tianding would not directly lead the army into the old forest.

First of all, a battalion in the middle and upper combat strength of the Ying Ming Division, a total of more than 500 people, stepped into the mountains and forests.

Just after three o'clock, more than 200 soldiers of the Lajun army ran out of the mountains and forests crying, and the fate of the remaining more than 200 people can be imagined.

Still didn't get much useful news, Fang Tianding gritted his teeth and sent eight hundred orphan troops.

At the end of the unitary hour, the remaining orphan army of less than 650 people fought and retreated, and withdrew from the mountains and forests in the fierce fighting. Because of Fang Tianding's prior instructions, coupled with the fact that they were very united, they did not lose too many people.

Fang Tianding narrowed his eyes......

This morning, less than a quarter of an hour before noon, Li Xiang finally led the convoy through Miaoxi Town.

Because of the handwritten letters of Mr. Han Yanzhang and Mr. Zi'an, and the fact that Li Xiang was originally the "commander of the township soldiers" in Han Shizhong's Chinese army, the two commanders of the forbidden military camp guarding the exit of the mountain road did not make it difficult.

Li Xiang left a cart of rice grain, twenty catties of coarse salt, and five large jars of rice wine to the two commanders of the forbidden military camp. Then he said goodbye and left in the warm voice of calling him brother and brother, and then the convoy that passed by here also left something behind.

After passing through the town of Myoshi, there was a two-hour rapid march.

The convoy hurried along the south-west mountain road, and finally arrived at the north bank of Laohutan at two o'clock in the hour.

In order to save time as much as possible, Li Xiang did not take the ready-made mountain road, but asked Zhuang Ding and Wufu to take a wooden raft and a small boat directly to Xiasha Village on the south bank.

By the time Fang Weiliang arrived at Xiasha Village with the convoy out of breath, the owner of the village had already put on his heavy armor again, and was whispering encouragement to the wolves who had been staying in the mountains, as well as the few members left behind by the leopard team.

Not far behind Li Xiang, three hundred Zhuang Ding were putting on armor.

The bamboo paper composite armor has been improved four times, and each of the three hundred Zhuang Ding has one copy.

There are nearly 100 Zhuang Ding, and before departure, the whole family cut down on food and clothing, and bought more reliable armor by themselves. Those who are not wealthy at home can only hide a linen iron plate armor under their robes, and most of the people in the family choose to buy chain mail, or even more advanced iron armor.

As for the leather armor, which is more expensive than the iron armor in Mingyuezhuang, but the protection is much inferior, there are less than ten Zhuang Ding who hold it.

More than two hundred warriors were shocked to find that they could also wear armor!

Although it looks strange and seems to be the so-called "bamboo paper composite armor" strung together with a lot of thickened pai gow, it also surprises these martial artists.

No matter how bad it is, it's armor! In the dynasty, there were many local van troops, soldiers, and sailors, and they still used a lot of paper armor.

Li Xiang patted the captain of the wolf team, that is, the wolf leader, on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "With such limited manpower, we have built more than a dozen wooden rows and collected seven small boats, which is good!" ”

"Your hands are bandaged, and you're bleeding, right? Is there any application? ”

The wolf leader, who was fierce and vicious to his subordinate players, replied in a slightly choked voice: "Report to the owner, it's just a few small openings, don't worry." I applied the medicine and changed the bandage once. ”

"Don't underestimate the inconspicuous little mouth, in the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, how many famous generals will suffer from this. Is the epidemic prevention booklet a good look? ”

"Report to the owner, the subordinates strictly implement the requirements of the owner, and dare not shout lightly. The tents and wooden houses are cleaned twice a day, and they never drink raw water or eat raw food, but there is too little lime, so their subordinates have to smoke it every day......"

Li Xiang nodded with satisfaction, and looked at the remaining members of the Leopard team, "Your leopard leader found the distress signal and almost ran to death on the road." The deputy team leader, Ding Jialao, visited the camp of Fang Lajun at night and risked his life to confirm the information. ”

"It's all good!"

"A few of you will mix with the Wolves team and divide into five groups, and the players in each group should be familiar with all the mountains north of Deqing County. Rest well, and there will be a time for you to make meritorious contributions again. ”

Fang Weiliang glanced at the wolf head and the others who were leaving in a low-key manner, "The owner of the village is going to join the war?" It's better to rest for half a day and wait for tomorrow morning......"

Li Xiang interrupted Fang Weiliang, "One blow, then decline, three and exhaustion." At present, Zhuang Ding is full of fighting spirit, and more than 200 warriors who have received armor are excited, and it is a good time to send troops. ”

"Before sunset, we must engage the Fang La army to relieve the pressure on the county seat of Deqing."

"After marching for so long, once you rest for a few hours, your physical strength and fighting spirit will be greatly affected."

Fang Weiliang nodded hurriedly and said no more. In the battle array, the owner of the village has never stopped learning, especially paying attention to the statistics of large and small war cases within a thousand years, of course, much better than him, a half-baked scholar from a business background.

The drums of war were beaten.

Zhuang Ding lined up on the gentle hillside. Takeo divided into two groups and gathered on the hill diagonally behind.

"Those who compete for the first will be rewarded, and those who escape will die!"

Li Xiang wore an exaggerated steel helmet, a slightly bloated heavy armor, and two anti-epidemic masks, and shouted loudly.

Zhuang Ding and Wu Fu let out a low snort, bit the boiled small wooden stick in their mouths, put on ordinary masks, and went straight to the south!

Because of the guidance of someone, Li Xiang's dozens of personal guards and more than a dozen highly skilled martial artists successfully eliminated the three sentry posts of Fang Lajun.

It wasn't until less than four miles away from Meihuawu that a team of Fang Lajun scouts discovered more than 500 people led by Li Xiang.

The scout leader of Fang Lajun, a junior colonel with extremely outstanding personal combat skills, escaped from the fight to the death, and ran away from the remaining brothers.

Li Xiang no longer concealed it, ordered everyone to spit out small wooden sticks, and rushed towards Meihua Wu and Shangyao with a roar.

Yang Yingdong hit under the Fangla army camp in Meihuawu, and the Fangla army inside had not all gathered. When Ding Shihang hit the kiln, he learned that the soldiers who reported the emergency later were even more panicked, and many of them couldn't even hold their knives steadily.

Li Xiang achieved the purpose of the sneak attack.

Yang Yingdong did not stop at all, and immediately ordered a hundred armored warriors to storm the wall.

On the way, he filled two earthen ditches with wooden planks and pulled away the horses and barbs with rope loops. As soon as the warriors arrived at the bottom of the wall, a simple wooden ladder with a barb at the front end followed, and three passages to the wall were formed in an instant.

More than twenty warriors who did not have armor also followed, and they did not have armor not because they were too weak, but because they had a more important task: archery suppression!

The battle on Ding Shihang's side almost copied Yang Yingdong's style of play, but he brought fewer people.

Before a cup of tea, the wall of the Fangla army village of Meihua Wu has been broken through, and the colonel of the Fangla army guarding the village was frightened: although there is no dung water and rolling wood to greet, but Lao Tzu's men have thrown a lot of stones, this Great Zhou army is not afraid of death?

There was no other way, Plum Blossom Wu and Colonel Fang Lajun in Shangyao transferred more manpower, wanting to drive down the martial artists who were killing madly.

At this time, two hundred and fifty Zhuang Ding followed the ridgeline of Shenjia Mountain and came directly to the southeast of Meihuawu and the southwest of Shangyao.

Zhuang Ding struck hard at the Fangla army camp from behind, completely breaking the defense of the Fangla army.

The bloody battle between the mountains and forests has just begun......