Xu Miao's journey is on the plateau. Starting from Lelang County, it faces Changbai Mountain, low mountain areas and low hills.

Fortunately, the soldiers of Lelang County have been fighting with the natives of Sanhan in the mountains and woods for several years, and they are very accustomed to this kind of terrain. I saw them climbing high and walking low, walking like flying, as if they were walking on flat ground.

Xu Miao was carrying only the infantry, only the officers were on horseback, and he expected that he would be the latest to arrive in Marudu.

In the days when the plains were not fully developed, the mountainous areas were naturally sparsely populated. Therefore, Xu Miao did not encounter many villages, and after the massacre one by one, it did not affect the hurry. Because there were not many captives, they were taken on the road and not specially transported back, but they were not fed so as not to escape.

On this day, encounter a small town in a hilly area. The town had long heard of the invasion of the Liaodong army, and had closed the city gate tightly, and the groups of Goguryeo soldiers on the city wall showed their upper bodies and clenched their bows and arrows.

Xu Miao smiled bitterly, the mountainous area is the mountainous area, there is no village yet; Forget it if there is no village, and I met a small town.

In fact, this is also the wisdom of the survival of the Goguryeo people. There are many wild animals in the mountains, and it is difficult for small villages to survive, so everyone gathers together to build a small town and huddle together to keep warm. In fact, there is also a report on the detailed work, but I didn't expect it to be so difficult to fight, and even the city walls are made of big stones!

In other words, stones are easy to find in the mountains, but dirt is hard to find. It is difficult to find a flat plot of land to farm.

Xu Miao camped five miles from the city. He rode on horseback with his lieutenants and walked around the town to observe the terrain and loopholes.

According to Hosaku's information, there are several deep wells in the town, and it is impossible to cut off the water supply.

Can it only be a hard attack? Let the soldiers climb the walls like ants? Xu Miao pondered.

The mountain city had little food, and if it was besieged for several months, the Goguryeo people who had fainted from hunger would definitely surrender. But I don't have that much time to play with them.

It would be nice if the lord was there, Xu Miao secretly thought: Champion Hou entered the small city alone, waved his hand and summoned thousands of elite soldiers, and he could blossom in the center and take the small city.

Xu Miao thought about it all night, and the next day he divided his troops into two parts, one of which had 5,000 people, and turned around and ambushed at the mountain intersection. A part of fifteen thousand people moved on.

He used two strategies:

One is to return to the carbine. If the town sends someone to hunt them down, kill them with a rifle.

The second is the strategy of luring the enemy. The logistics team of the Liaodong army transporting grain passed a few miles away from the small city, and if the small city came out to grab grain, then the 5,000 soldiers who had been ambushed in advance would be enough to take the small city.

It is up to the people to make things happen, and it depends on how the residents of the small town respond.

The result: the inhabitants of the town are cautious, or timid. He did not dare to send people to chase and kill, nor did he dare to send people to intercept grain.

Xu Miao had no choice but to give up and continue to march.

He brought fire oil with him, and he could also make a stone throwing machine on the spot, and throw the fire oil into the town to burn. But the cost performance is not suitable, and for a few thousand people in a small town, half of the fire oil will be wasted, which is not worth it.

It's better to let it go, and wait until all Goguryeo is taken down, and then recruit them.

This is Xu Miao, who is a military advisor himself, so he made this decision. If it is an ordinary general, it must be to make a ladder and climb the city wall. It is possible to take the small city, but the casualties must be more than a thousand.

Xu Miao's luck was okay, and it wasn't long before he came across several small towns without city walls.

Now the soldiers are in good spirits, and they can burn and loot without recklessness.

Looking at his subordinates who were so excited that their faces were red, Xu Miao ordered: "Crossbowmen, sword and shield men, and pikemen will attack the town in groups." ”

This formation combination is often used by the soldiers of Lelang County against the three Korean natives. The sword and shield bearers mainly protect the crossbowmen, the crossbowmen shoot from a distance, and the pikemen fight in close combat. Cooperate tacitly and very efficiently.

The townspeople are very strong, but they can't resist the waves of Liaodong soldiers pouring into the town. Most of the arrows they shot were blocked by the iron-clad wooden shields of the Liaodong army, and then the crossbow arrows fired by the Liaodong soldiers kept strafing.

Close to the fight, the spearmen of the Liaodong Army blocked their attack in time, and then still crossbow arrows. Constant crossbow arrows, crossbow arrows at close range, constantly killing and injuring the townspeople who resisted. Until the end, the townspeople gave up resistance and surrendered on their knees, and the crossbow arrows of the Liaodong soldiers were still not replaced.

After the war, the soldiers of Liaodong all picked up these iron crossbow arrows, washed off the blood, wiped them clean, and put them into the crossbow arrow box, which can continue to be used many times.

Xu Miao ordered the battlefield to be cleaned, belongings confiscated, and prisoners to be tied up. In the same way, wounded Goguryeo and old people were killed, young men and women were given preferential treatment with their arms tied. This is the consistent combat rule of Liaodong soldiers.

When women turn around, they will give it to the soldiers who participated in the war, that is, their own people; The children will be centrally managed and raised, and in a few years they will all be Han Chinese. The first few batches of Goguryeo children have now graduated from junior military academies and joined the Liaodong army. Xu Miao's subordinates had several thousand of these soldiers. Their way of speaking, doing things, and thinking is exactly the same as that of the soldiers of the Han family, and even their names are from the Han family, and they have been completely assimilated and have been integrated into the big Han family.

Xu Miao marched all the way with the captives, and these captives would be handed over to Tai Shici's navy on the Yalu River, and they would transport them to Liaodong County. The women will also be transported back to Lelang County with their help. After all, the mountain road is difficult to walk, and there is no need to go back.