Under the leadership of the main general Qiu Yue, the Southern Route Army went north from Huaiyang, and gathered some soldiers of Xuzhou to Xuzhou City, forming a team of 25,000 people, including cavalry and infantry. Mangdangsan became the first obstacle to attacking the Jeju army, Qiu Yue's intelligence was not so smart, he didn't expect Mangdangsan to be a battalion of the Jeju army, but out of the instinct of the soldiers. The South Route Army went north, more than 25,000 people were not a small number, and the grain and grass needed needed to be transported from Xuzhou, since Mangdang Mountain was a bandit, it had a great impact on the supply line, so Qiu Yue deliberately deviated from the route and came to camp dozens of miles south of Mangdang Mountain, what he didn't expect was that Mangdang Mountain would take the initiative to attack.

Like a night, the cold wind was biting, Li Kui, Fan Rui and other generals led 3,000 soldiers without torches, quietly moving forward, the huge team only had the slightest footsteps, and the sound of the artillery mules and horses.

Dozens of black-clothed people flashed out in front, and it turned out that Li Gon, who had gone to the sentry to investigate, came back, and said to Li Kui Fan Rui: "The front is still eight miles away from the enemy camp, and the enemy's vigilance is not high, and the sentry scouts are only patrolling three miles outside the camp. ”

Fan Rui asked, "Is there a large forest or mountain pass?" ”

"There is a poplar forest four miles from the camp." Li Gon replied.

Fan Rui was overjoyed and said to Li Kui: "Let's hide in the poplar forest and wait until midnight before attacking, when people are most sleepy." ”

"Okay, listen to the military advisor." Li Kui said.

Immediately, 3,000 men and horses sneaked into the poplar forest in batches, which was only four places away from the enemy camp, and the campfire could already be clearly seen.

The weather is dry and dry, and there are a lot of fallen leaves in the woods, which is also very dangerous, not to mention that in order to conceal the fire and not light a fire for warmth, the soldiers just stayed up, seven or eight people gathered together to keep warm, and waited until after midnight, about two o'clock, Li Kui gave the order to attack, the officers woke up the soldiers, and the soldiers sorted out their weapons and armor.

Bao Xu went up first, took twenty heavy sword soldiers to kill the outer patrol, and then beckoned to the back. The artillery team came up. Li Kui's battalion had 100 artillerymen, equipped with 50 100-pound tiger squat guns, which was originally four people and one cannon, but Xuzhou was a place with many plains, and mules and horses could carry artillery and ammunition, which greatly saved manpower.

A hundred artillery men lurked about three hundred meters from the camp, set up tiger squat guns, aimed at the camp gates and tents, and the arquebuses ignited the artillery, boom, boom, boom, boom.

In the middle of the night, when it was quiet, the earth-shattering cannon sounded and frightened everyone to urinate on the kang, and the flowering bombs fell into the camp, and the small steel balls that exploded flew wildly, breaking the camp gate, and also set fire to more than a dozen tents, and the entire military camp was in chaos.

The trumpet sounded, and Li Kui took the lead, waved a pair of big axes, and shouted: "Kill." ”

Next to Fan Rui with a sword, Bao Xu held a big sword, Li Gon carried a flower spear, three thousand military horses rushed like tigers coming down the mountain, and dozens of soldiers gathered at the camp gate to release arrows, where would Li Kui let them succeed, hundreds of flying axes passed, scattered the gate army, cut open the camp gate, and rushed in.

Fan Rui also made a brief division of labor, Li Kui and Fan Rui's soldiers had fire and thunder bullets, that is, primitive grenades, which were lit and thrown on the tent, responsible for creating chaos, and Fan Rui and Li Gon led the rear army to rush and kill the rebels.

This guy started to fight in a mess, although the original fire and thunder bomb is still in the experimental stage, it still needs to be ignited by the fire rope, but the lethality is strong, basically a tent only needs one fire thunder bomb to explode the fire, the panicked soldiers ran out of the fire of the tent in a panic, and were attacked the most fiercely, a group of soldiers with huge plate axes and big swords cut down when they saw people, and the soldiers were scattered.

Li Kui and Bao Xu were fascinated, they hadn't fought like this for a long time, and they were fighting, when they were fighting, suddenly a team of people flashed in front of them, there were about a thousand people, looking at the military uniform, it turned out to be a forbidden army, and I thought that this was the direct line of people brought by Qiu Yue. The more than 1,000 people did not panic, forming a formation to block the footsteps of the charging team.

Sneak attack on the enemy camp is about fast in and out, and it can't be delayed, and once it's trapped, it's troublesome. Li Kui scolded: "Straight lady thief, dare to assemble, and give him 200 fire and thunder bombs is often powerful." ”

Immediately, 200 soldiers each lit a fire and thunder bomb, ran up, and threw it dozens of meters away from the assembled men and horses.

"Rush." Li Kui swung his big axe and pounced, Bao Xu took a big sword as a striker, killed the enemy, rushed over, and saw that there was a fence ahead, and this sneak attack was completed.

At this time, Fan Rui said: "Li Gon took people to burn forage for fire and came back slowly, and he was surrounded by people. ”

Li Kui raised his eyes and saw that not far in front of him, thousands of imperial army horses surrounded Li Gon and others, and Li Kui's team of soldiers and horses continued to decrease, and only one hundred and ten people remained.

Li Kui roared: "Brothers, our people are surrounded, do you dare to kill Lao Tzu to save people." ”

"Dare."

Immediately, the team turned back, rushed and struck, tearing open the mouth of the enemy soldiers and rescued Li Gon and the others, Li Gon was also wounded, and his whole body was like a bloody man.

Fan Rui said: "Don't fall in love with the war, go." ”

Immediately, the team cut through the fence and rushed out, leaving only the barracks in flames and smoke.

The team went out five or six miles, regrouped, counted the number of people, 3,000 troops sent troops to sneak attack, and when they returned, there were still 2,800 people, and of course there were hundreds of lightly wounded, and this battle was a great victory.

Li Kui said: "Rest in place and eat." ”

Fan Rui said: "This is too close to the enemy camp, I am afraid that they will kill me." ”

Li Kui smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, if we don't kill the past, we will already give them face, and the more we are big, the less they will dare." ”

really let Li Kui say right, Qiu Yue chased after 3,000 men and horses, but the chasing soldiers saw that this team of men and horses was eating and drinking there in a big way, but they were worried that there would be an ambush, so they didn't dare to come, and they watched this team of people and horses eat and drink enough, patted their butts and left.

The next day, the rare bright sunshine of winter came out, shining on the large camp of the shattered Southern Route Army, which was still in good order yesterday, and has been shattered today, and the remnants of the tents were still smoking white smoke, and thousands of wounded soldiers were lying there in the open and wailing, and the military doctors were too busy at all.

Qiu Yue's brows tightened, looking at the statistical report in his hand, he didn't want to believe it, last night the battalion was attacked by a sneak attack, killing 2,500 people and wounding 3,000 people, almost one-fifth of the entire force. If it was the Xuzhou Army and the Huaiyang Army that killed him, Qiu Yue would not be distressed, but the two thousand forbidden troops he brought from Tokyo were killed and wounded by sniping the enemy when they were attacked.

"Bury the corpses, escort the wounded back to Xuzhou, strengthen vigilance, build a ladder, and storm Mangdang Mountain tomorrow." Qiu Yue gave the order with an expressionless face.

Qiu Yue is an old soldier, knowing that if this matter is not handled well, it is easy to affect morale, so he immediately buried the corpse on the spot, escorted the wounded back to Xuzhou, the army drove fifteen miles, and pressed the camp fifteen miles away from Mangdang Mountain, this time the camp was built very carefully, the periphery was dug trenches, antlers were buried, and the door was full of horses, all kinds of facilities were complete, and the soldiers patrolling were also a lot denser.

In the distance, on a small dirt slope, Li Kui and Fan Rui were watching Qiu Yue set up camp.

Li Kui said: "Fan Lao Dao, this Qiu Yue is scared, it is impossible to make the camp so strong and want to sneak attack his camp, we can't watch them attack the mountain tomorrow, what good way do you have." ”

Fan Rui asked: "How far can your fifty cannons hit?" Are there enough shells? ”

"This is a trot for infantry, and it can hit 500 meters with the flower bullet, but it can't go any further. There are definitely enough shells, the military department said, how many shells are hit, how much to replenish, don't think about shells. ”

"That's good, we can do it." Fan Rui said with his ear attached to Li Kui, and Li Kui smiled when he heard it.

It didn't take long for the artillery team to come, and this time the artillery team turned out to be all cavalry, soldiers on horseback, artillery and ammunition all on the backs of mules.

The artillery team ran to a place about 500 meters away from the barracks, set up the tiger squat cannon, and did not need to aim, according to the barracks is a round of artillery, and the barracks that Qiu Yue had just built were set on fire everywhere, and the soldiers panicked, but fortunately, it was afternoon, and there were not many casualties. Qiu Yue was furious, and personally led two thousand cavalry to rush out, and when he came over, only some artillery marks were left on the ground, and Qiu Yue raised his eyes to see that the artillery team had run out hundreds of meters away.

"Chase." Qiu Yue waved his spear and pointed at the artillery team.

It was already a few hundred meters apart, and it was difficult to catch up with this distance, and after chasing Erli Diqiu Yue, he was worried that Zhongji ordered the cavalry to return. At this time, I listened to the roar of the horn behind me and the sound of the horses' shoes, and when I looked back, I saw three hundred horsemen, led by a black bearded man riding a big horse and carrying a big axe.

The big black man shouted: "It's General Qiu Yueqiu from the other side?" ”

Qiu Yue was quite famous when he heard that I was emotional, and said, "It's me, who are you." ”

Li Kui said: "I am Li Kui, the commander of the Jeju military battalion, and I dare to come up to fight." ”

Qiu Yue was noncommittal, a person of his level was also a famous general, and an unknown person like Li Kui was not worth making a move. A partial general with a big knife rushed out and fought with Li Kui in one place, but in three rounds, Li Kui was chopped under the horse, and Li Kui was so beautiful, he said: "Don't come up to anyone, I'm going to fight Qiu Yue, Qiu Yue, if you don't dare to come up, you will be raised by your mother." ”

Qiu Yue rolled his eyes angrily, as a general of the imperial court, Qiu Yue He had seen such a scoundrel, and immediately urged him to come immediately, and the big gun went straight to Li Kui.

Li Kui shouted: "It's good to come." "The big axe chopped the head, cut the chest, cut the thigh, and the three axes went over to let Qiu Yue dissolve them one by one.

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