The 5,000 cavalry archers led by Ran Wu had been monitoring the movements of the Qing army outside, and when they found out that the Qing army had withdrawn, they knew that the Qing army must have suffered a great defeat in Erlong Valley, so they immediately decided to lead their troops to chase and kill.

Seeing that the Qing army in front of the army was heavily guarded, Ran Wu ordered to let go of the Qing army's front army and the middle army, and blocked the Qing army's Yue Tuo Department who was in charge of the broken rear.

There were only 3,000 men and horses in Yue Tuo's department, although they were the elite of Manchuria, but under the elusive harassment and attack of the Ran Wu archers, people were constantly hit by arrows and fell off their horses.

Yue Tuo had the intention to launch a counterattack, but these enemy archers did not make any direct contact with you at all, but only divided into countless ranger squads to harass the Qing army with arrows, which made Yue Tuo overwhelmed and anxious.

Not long after, the mountain armor that came to pursue with 3,000 iron horsemen also brought people to catch up, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves and the huge smoke and dust rolling up behind them made the hearts of the 3,000 Manchurian soldiers sink in their hearts.

After the previous defeat, these Manchurian soldiers no longer had the arrogant appearance they had before, and one by one they showed a look of horror.

There is no army in the world that is absolutely not afraid of death, and if there is, it can only be Jiangchuan's Jiang family's army.

A person's self-confidence comes from his continuous career success, and the courage and self-confidence of an army certainly come from continuous victories. Once this winning trend is broken by force, the morale and courage accumulated before will of course drop sharply.

The current Qing army is like this, the soft persimmon is used to pinching, and today it turned out that the thistle terrestris was pinched, and the hands were pierced, and then they began to know what it means to be scared again.

The two cavalry of the Jiang army converged, and the 10,000 elite cavalry made the morale of the Qing army plummet.

It's just that years of victory, as well as the wild bravery in the bones of the Jurchens, made them not restrained, but carried out a defeated and dying resistance.

Ran Wu and Shanjia saw that the Qing army was going to trap the beasts and fight, and they did not confront them head-on at all, but constantly attacked and besieged from both wings, and the Qing army continued to reduce its personnel.

In the end, when the Qing army was left with more than 1,000 people, Shanjia launched a charge with 3,000 iron cavalry, and after a short fierce battle, finally completely defeated the remnants of the more than 1,000 troops, and Yue Tuo was also cut off by a knife in the melee.

The rest of the things went smoothly, the Jiang family army archers and cavalry who had been prepared for a long time intercepted and killed in all directions, and almost none of the 3,000 Qing troops escaped, except for more than 300 people who were captured, the remaining 2,000 people were all killed.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Ran Wu and Shanjia led their men and horses back to the valley with more than 300 dejected captives.

When he received the news from Ran Wu's fast horse, Jiang Chuan laughed again, and after telling Liu Ji the news, Liu Ji was also very excited.

"My lord, this is an excellent opportunity to boost the hearts of the people and win public opinion." Liu Ji suddenly looked at Jiang Chuan, his eyes blazing.

Jiang Chuan thought for a moment, and his eyes lit up: "The military advisor said that the people should come to watch the grand scene of Ran Wu's class?" ”

Liu Ji nodded and said, "Yes, we can let the people go out of the valley to watch the situation of the army and escort the prisoners." It is even possible to hold a ceremony to sacrifice prisoners, so that the people know that the Tartar soldiers who are invincible in their hearts have become prisoners of our army, which is of great benefit to stabilizing the people's hearts and enhancing the prestige of the lord among the people. ”

Jiang Chuan groaned slightly, knowing that this was definitely a good idea, and immediately said: "The military advisor has a clever plan, but if we want to do it, we will make it bigger, not only to carry out the prisoner sacrifice ceremony, but also to directly have a prisoner beheading ceremony, anyway, I don't want to raise these captives to eat for nothing, just borrow their heads to win people's hearts." ”

Liu Ji also agreed, and the two of them did what they said, and immediately began to arrange.

Liu Ji was responsible for informing the people of the organization to go out of the valley, and Jiang Chuan ordered them to go down, on the one hand, he sent someone to inform Ran Wu that they were ready in advance. On the other hand, Jiang Chuan ordered the engineering battalion to build two simple high platforms on the wasteland outside the valley, and set up the viewing platform and the execution platform.

Everything is in order.

The people in the valley had already known the news of General Jiang's defeat of the Tartars and the forced withdrawal of the Tartars to flee, and they were all overjoyed, with smiles on everyone's faces when they met, and there were many discussions everywhere, and the whole valley was as jubilant as the Chinese New Year, filled with an atmosphere of universal celebration.

Even the group of horse thieves who were digging coal in the depths of the valley under Hai Dongqing were talking about it, with smiles on their lips, as if they were about to be pardoned.

These people are all relatively light in their evil deeds and have not directly killed people, so Jiang Chuan let them do hard labor here. Those who have killed people have already had their heads cut off.

When the people were happy, people from the Civil Affairs Department came again and told everyone that the Jiang army had completely annihilated the 3,000 army after the Tartar was broken, and captured more than 300 people, and the army was about to return to the valley, so everyone went out of the valley to watch the ceremony.

This news made the crowd burst into cheers, and the smiles on the faces of the people became even bigger, congratulating each other as if they were celebrating the New Year, and many people ran to congratulate the officials of the Civil Affairs Department who came to spread the news, making these little officials a little confused.

Many people began to rummage through boxes and cabinets, and found out the clothes worn by their New Year's visit friends and put them on their bodies. The big girls and little daughters-in-law also help each other one by one, and this eyebrow painting is like going on a blind date.

The men also pulled their crumpled clothes straight, raised their heads and chests to make themselves look a little more gentlemanly.

The happiest were the children, one by one happily drilling around in the crowd, and some children also set off artillery battles, and for a time the valley was full of lively and boiling atmosphere.

Guan Hu's injuries are almost healed, he also changed into his latest set of short shirts, his belt was blown tight, his hair was combed neatly by his daughter-in-law, and a wooden hairpin was worn in his hair, the whole person looked energetic, coupled with his height and long body, strong muscles, anyone who saw it would say that he was a good man.

Guan Hu's daughter Xiao Layue was also wearing a brand-new red jacket, with two pigtails, holding a wooden windmill made for her by Guan Hu in her hand, circling around her father, smiling and scraping on her father's neck and saying, "Daddy is the same as the groom today, is he going to marry a daughter-in-law?" ”

Where do children understand what it means to marry a daughter-in-law, just hearing from others that they can only wear new clothes when marrying a daughter-in-law, so they say it casually.

Angry, Guan Hu's daughter-in-law glanced at her daughter-in-law, and said angrily: "Little girl, don't talk nonsense, if your father dares to marry his daughter-in-law again, I can't spare him." ”

Guan Hu laughed, hugged his daughter-in-law and kissed Meimei and said, "I am satisfied with a good daughter-in-law like you." ”

One sentence made his daughter-in-law blush, and she smacked Guan Hu and said, "It's not serious, my daughter is still here." ”

Guan Hu laughed, picked up Xiao Layue and said loudly: "Let's go, let's go see the army class teacher, and see the embarrassed appearance of those dog tartars who should be cut by a thousand knives." ”

The family talked and laughed and followed the crowd towards the outside of the valley.

The vast majority of the people went out of the valley for the first time since entering the valley, and almost everyone couldn't help but marvel when they saw the majestic fortress in front of the pass.

"Edi Niang, this city wall is high, I have never seen such a high city wall in my life, I am afraid that this is as high as the city wall of Datong City."

"! I have also been to Datong City, although the city wall is high, but compared with our city wall, it is simply far behind, you look at this big stone, this big green brick, this city tower, this city gate, this suspension bridge, I dare to say that this is definitely the highest and most majestic city wall in the world. Some knowledgeable people sighed in admiration as they watched.

"Lord Jiang is really powerful, he can build such a high city wall in this short time, it is not the reincarnation of a god."

"I see that Master Jiang is the reincarnation of the martial arts star in the sky, so that the tartars can fall into the water."

"What kind of martial arts Xing, I think it's the marshal of Tianpeng in the sky who has descended to earth, Lord Jiang's soldiers are all heavenly soldiers and generals, and they can fight the ...... of dog tartars."

The people talked a lot, and while walking out of the valley, they were discussing, and soon the topic was distorted, from the castle tower to Jiangchuan's previous life.

If Jiang Chuan heard these discussions, I am afraid that he would also be amazed at the imagination of the people. It's almost close to the truth.

However, Jiang Chuan definitely didn't want to be regarded as Marshal Tianpeng, and the general didn't want to be either, so it was a bit interesting to be a Tota Heavenly King.

The efficiency of the engineering battalion is very high, and two high platforms that gather about 50 paces have been built. The arrangement of the viewing platform is very simple according to Jiang Chuan's arrangement, with a long case placed on it, and two chairs placed side by side behind it. On top of the long case is a cylinder filled with arrows and tokens.

On the opposite execution table, there were twenty guillotine piles lined up, and a bucket of water was placed next to each guillotine pile.

Twenty topless, protruding chests and bellies, with big red turbans on their heads, stood proudly behind the guillotine with ghost-headed broadswords, not squinting.

Of course, these executioners were all from the fortress base, and Jiang Chuan temporarily recruited from the base.

On both sides of the valley, quicklime was used to mark two wide areas, one on the left and one on the right, which was the area where the people stood for the worship ceremony. Every few steps in front of the lime line stood a mighty spear armorer with a straight waist.

Since ancient times, the people's favorite excitement is the head-killing show. The people thought that they were just looking at the captives, but after seeing the execution table and the executioner, they knew that there was still a big killing scene to watch today, and it was the hated Tartar who was killed, so they were suddenly even more excited, and there were many discussions, and the voices of people were boiling, and the voices of the people were pointing and pointing everywhere.

Suddenly, the terrible sound of the bull's horn rose continuously, and the voices of the people gradually became quieter, and they looked towards the city gate.

I saw a group of mighty silver-armored swordsmen supporting a tall, armored, red-tasseled general with a red cloak and cloak behind him, heading towards the viewing platform.

"Lord Jiang, General Jiang!" I don't know which one of the people in the crowd suddenly shouted, and then the crowd erupted in a tsunami-like cry.

Jiang Chuan didn't expect the people to be so enthusiastic, and he was stunned for a moment before he began to wave to the people.

Seeing Lord Jiang waving to everyone, the people became even more enthusiastic.

"Long live Master Jiang! Long live Jiang Jiajun......"

These people didn't care about any transgression of the rules, anyway, their hearts were agitated, and they felt that Master Jiang had given them a new life, and defeated the Tartars who made them leave their hometown and their families were ruined, that was their great benefactor, so they all shouted out in excitement.

Some people took the lead, and everyone else shouted along.

All of a sudden, there was a scene of mountains calling long live, and people who didn't know probably thought that which guy was calling himself emperor here.

Jiang Chuan didn't think too much about the enthusiasm of the people, but Liu Ji, who was behind him, secretly wiped a handful of sweat.

The two quickly went to the viewing platform, but after Jiang Chuan took his seat, he saw that the chair next to him was empty, and when he saw Liu Ji standing behind him, he smiled and said, "The military advisor came and sat together." ”

"Lord, you are the lord of an army, Liu Ji is just a minister, in front of the people, this gift cannot be abolished!" Liu Ji is colorful.

"Strategist, you and I are one, why do you need to be so particular, come and sit."

Liu Ji still refused, and finally had to compromise and agree to sit on the chair, but he had to take a step back and sit behind Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan saw that he was so stubborn, and he didn't say anything more.

The sound of the horn sounded again, but this time it came from the north, and everyone followed the sound, and saw a black army slowly approaching the place.

As the army got closer and closer, the front banner of the army was suddenly swept up by a gust of passing wind.

The flag is displayed, and a big "Jiang" character on it is impressive.

Soon, on the left and right sides of the Jiangzi flag, there was a slightly smaller "Ran" flag and a "mountain" flag.

"My lord, General Ran Wu, they're back!" It was also the first time for Liu Ji to see such a grand momentum of the Jiang family, and he couldn't help but get up and excitedly said.

Egawa also stood up and looked north.

The people were also attracted by the momentum of the army at this moment, all the hustle and bustle disappeared completely, and every pair of eyes looked nervously and excitedly at the huge black wave slowly coming, and many people even felt a feeling of suffocation.

"Guards, line up to meet my victorious division!" Jiang Chuan ordered loudly.

"No!" Bai Mu, who had been prepared for a long time, suddenly received the order, and the square team composed of five hundred silver-armored iron guards waved their flags and greeted them under the leadership of Bai Mu.

A moment later, the two armies met, and dozens of trumpeters whined and blew with long horns, and the whole sky was suddenly filled with a sense of solemn majesty.

The 10,000 cavalry stopped abruptly, and Ran Wu and Shanjia rode forward. Bai Mu rode his horse to meet him, and when he came to the place where he was three steps in front of Ran Wu, he crossed his hand and said loudly: "Captain Ran Wu, Captain Shanjia, and the last general of the lord's special order will come to greet the victorious army!" ”

"Ran Wu, Shanjia thank the Lord for his grace, please guide Captain Bai Mu in front!" Ran Wu and Shanjia responded with their fists clasped together.

Bai Mu saluted again, turned the horse's head, and ran to the rear of the guards, and with an order, the guards turned sharply, and slowly moved forward as the leader of the army.