"These dogs really ate the bear's heart and leopard gall."

Yu Shiqian and all the masters gathered together, they rode out of the mountain valley road and then there was a small piece of Pingchuan place, a radius of more than ten miles is a horse Pingchuan, after walking in the narrow valley for many days, suddenly there was a refreshing and happy feeling.

It's just that the situation on Duyuling's side really makes them unhappy.

The terrain here is a large valley behind it, and the Pingxing Pass is built on the key pass, and hundreds of years later there is a famous battle here, and the defenders also make full use of the terrain to ambush foreign invaders and win a great victory.

Before Yu Shiqian and others, there are also Pingchuan and looming mountains in the east direction, and the west side is the towering Duyu Ridge, which can be seen from the place name, this mountain range is one end higher than the rest of the mountains, the altitude is high, and the terrain is very dangerous, blocking the large iron field behind him.

If you want to go straight to the iron field from the road, you have to take this mountain.

According to the usual experience, in addition to the important places and the state capital city there are a large number of officers and soldiers garrisoned, even if it is the Acropolis or the city there are no soldiers, the guards of this year are very empty, the Acropolis is the palm print command will raise some family members, Shanxi here is not the task of the squad drill, the guard will not train and assemble once a year, all the way over, every village slaughters the village, the town is destroyed, there is almost no slightest hindrance, who expected that just arrived in Lingqiu, in this Duyuling place, the head is a stick.

"Old Zhou," Yu Shiqian looked at Lao Zhou, his face full of anger, "This is what you said is a good place for us to settle down?" ”

Lao Zhou's face was also ugly, and he said: "There has never been such a thing before, and I don't know what's going on." ”

"Forget it!" Yu Shiqian observed for a while, and found that in addition to the terrain was somewhat unfavorable, the garrison on the opposite side seemed to have prepared some stones on the high part of the mountain, they went up from the sunny side, the slope was quite gentle, not too steep, and the people guarding were also miscellaneous, although there were a lot of people, it seemed that it was also a group of rabble, the key was that Yu Shiqian did not find that there were too many standard weapons, indicating that the top were all villagers and villagers who had been put together temporarily, and his subordinates had hundreds of border army backgrounds.

"You, you, you, each of you will bring three hundred people, gather a thousand people, and then choose fifty to choose the front to rush ahead, and conquer this mountain, and everyone will be rewarded!"

Zhou Daniu and Cheng Fang were not selected, and more than 900 people were selected by the officers designated by Yu Shiqian, and they stood in line at the foot of the mountain in a chaotic manner, and the troupe set up and began to sing gongs and drums.

Most of the people who were selected had gloomy faces, and only those who were not afraid of death signed up for the election will be at the forefront for a while.

Yu Shiqian is very generous, he feels that entering the Lingqiu Iron Field Area is the hammer business in front of him, entering the Iron Field Area, grabbing a large amount of fine iron, he can calmly create more weapons, and can also make some iron armor, when the strength of his army will rise to a higher level, and then choose a good place to flow, more places means more coercion of the people into the army, maybe half a year later, his strength will reach tens of thousands of people.

Yu Shiqian's trip to the north this time was that apart from the fact that the border areas of the three provinces might make it difficult for the officers and soldiers to exterminate him, he wanted to get more horses in the north.

Thieves can not become a general trend without horses, with a large number of horses, train a group of real old battalion cavalry, use the advantage to fight, unfavorable to leave, as long as the elite soldiers are there, just put up a big banner can make up tens of thousands of people.

It's really a big fuss, who knows what will happen in the future? Yu Shiqian is also ambitious in his heart.

"The thieves are coming!" Li Da shouted in a sharp voice, and the faces of Ma Huaxian and a group of proprietors were also very ugly.

They had the courage to stay here, and the fact that they were able to gather more than a thousand strong men to defend this dangerous place in the past two days encouraged the confidence of these people, otherwise they would have run away long ago.

Standing on the high ridge and looking down, the thieves of more than 2,000 people set up a large team, and the number of people from the top down felt that it had become a lot, which made people even more afraid, especially the thieves had many fierce and cruel legends, which added to the terror on the mountain.

"Lao Li, everyone is watching, don't scream."

Chang Wei's eyes were a little dark, originally he wanted to sleep in the barracks for a night and rush over with the army, but then he thought about it wrong, if he wasn't there, the group of businessmen in front of him would probably be scattered on the spot, and none of them could be left, as soon as these proprietors left, the miners didn't run? Duyuling here is actually not related to the overall situation, but it involves Zhang Han's layout in Lingqiu in the future, and it can also protect the iron yard from harassment, so he rushed back overnight, and he saw Li Da shouting with his jumping feet, looking like he had seen a ghost, Chang Wei's sluggish spirit perked up, and he couldn't help but open his mouth to mock.

Li Dayong was stunned, and his face was a little red, but he still couldn't help but be afraid.

Yesterday, Chang Wei was not there, everyone was flustered, Li Dayong almost left with his henchmen, no matter how important the iron field was, it was far less than his own life, but fortunately, Chang Wei rushed back at dawn, which was considered to stabilize people's hearts.

Chang Wei looked at the situation and ordered: "Cai Jiu, and all the proprietors, don't be in a hurry when the thieves climb up for a while, listen to my orders." ”

At this time, there is no way for everyone to compete with Chang Wei for this right.

Chang Wei circled around the small team of bird-bearers, telling everyone to check the fire and medicine.

After a check, there were many problems, some people extinguished the tinder cans, some people did not clamp the fire rope properly, and some people stuffed many projectiles in the gun tube.

There are more than 100 bird guns, most of them are old goods from Li Zhuang, and the maintenance is not very good, Chang Wei sighed after looking around.

He took out all the brave miners who had been trained in the Heyusheng Iron Yard and told them to stand in front of the stone pile.

"After a while, you should throw stones before the bird gun is fired, and don't be afraid of getting hurt, for people come up on their backs, and their bows and arrows can't shoot accurately."

Chang Wei walked back and forth, constantly encouraging people, he was also glad that there were miners in front of him, much more organized, he did what he told these people, if it was an untrained peasant, the performance would definitely be much worse, and most of them turned around and ran away when the bandits rushed.

A strange cry sounded at the bottom of the ridge, and more than 900 bandits began to attack upwards, and the gongs and drums of the troupe beat even louder, which could be regarded as encouraging morale.

Chang Wei noticed that there were more than 200 horses in front of the thieves, and there were dozens of horseback riders in front of them, all of whom were holding knives and guns in their hands, and some of them who climbed up a little slower were threatened by these people with knives, so they had to speed up their pace.

"!" Chang Wei scolded secretly, and said in his heart: "If you can't hold this wave, it's not easy to run." I don't know where Brother Han and the others have been, and the time should be almost up. ”

The bandits began to rush to the halfway up the hill, there were several peasant houses and fields along the way, and a group of chickens, when they rushed over, a yellow dog barked, was hacked to death by a bandit, the chickens flew all over the sky, falling feathers on the ground, nearly a thousand bandits surged upward, divided into dozens of large and small shares, Chang Wei saw the battle between the Ming army and the Later Jin in Liaodong, and could only pout when he saw the scene in front of him.

At this time, he saw that hundreds of people were divided into the bandit array, and almost all the cavalry went to the right flank, that is, the east of Duyuling, where the bandits began to line up, and dozens of horses galloped out, running away far to the east, and there were small groups of bandits climbing up from the foot of the high mountains and mountains over there...... Chang Wei nodded secretly when he saw this, no wonder these thieves have strong combat effectiveness, everything they are doing now is a bit like an army, not the kind of bandits composed of pure peasants or mountain people.

The thieves had climbed for about a quarter of an hour, and the people on the top of the hill could finally see their faces.

Most of them were thin and yellowish and then bearded faces, with fierce light and anger in their eyes, and the dozens of people who rushed to the front were slightly stronger and more vicious.

"Bang!"

I don't know who sent the bird guns first, and then Chang Wei was desperate to see that almost all of the more than 100 bird guns on the entire front were fired.

There were more than a dozen people who didn't start, I don't know if it was the wrong charge or something else, they jumped to their feet in a hurry, but the bird just couldn't hit.

At a distance of about a hundred paces, the round of bird's guns was almost in vain, except for a few unlucky thieves who were shot, and fell down screaming, or fell down the hill.

All the rest were enlisted, and nearly a thousand people froze in the middle of the hill, like a flock of frightened birds that did not react at all.

"Throw stones!"

Chang Wei shouted sweating profusely, and he dropped the first boulder first.

It was easy to do, first dozens of people, then hundreds of people threw stones together.

The stones kept being thrown, first hitting a few people, and then dozens of people were smashed covered in blood, and those vicious candidates suffered the heaviest losses.

There was a sound of gold singing from the bottom of the hill, and the thieves halfway up the hill were relieved, and turned around and rushed downhill like a swarm.

"Their bird guns are useless, but this stone is annoying, and I don't want the brothers to lose too much." Yu Shiqian looked annoyed at the bottom of the hillside, and he instructed the people: "Pick out the brothers who know how to bow and arrow, climb up from the slopes on both sides, shoot them condescendingly, and then grab the peak." ”

Zhou Daniu praised: "This method is the best, I'll take the archers." ”

Yu Shiqian knew that Zhou Daniu was the most suitable candidate, nodded and said, "Be careful." ”

Zhou Da Niu selected dozens of qualified archers from among the subordinates of various leaders, each of whom carried two pots of arrows, carried the bow on his back, and began to climb up.

Cheng Fang and Zhou Da Niu together, the two climbed up together, Cheng Fang looked at the ant swarm miners on the ridge, shook his head and said: "I don't know what they are doing with such vigorous resistance, according to the temper of the big cabinet, they have to kill for a few days." ”

"Actually, even if there is no resistance, isn't the big cabinet the same to kill?" Zhou Daniu said: "The difference is that there are all sturdy and courageous miners here, if you don't resist, maybe a lot of them will come in, now, maybe the big cabinet doesn't have this mind." ”

"No wonder people say that the miners are bold, we have been walking thousands of miles, and it is the first time we have encountered such a scene."

The two chatted as the archers climbed up beside them, and there were no roads, and certainly no villages, but purely rugged and steep terrain, with only trees and shrubs, and they kept climbing up with these plants, and gradually the people below became smaller.

Sorry, there was some serious absence today.