Yulin to Shenmu Fort has two hundred miles, there are a large number of Wu Ma Ming troops in the team, Li Yu felt that it would take about three or four days to arrive, Yang Jiang, who ran from Shenmu Fort to deliver the letter, took the initiative to ask to lead the way, and patted his chest and said that he had to run this road several times a year, and it would save at least one day by following him, Yang Jiang was always a native of Shenmu Fort, and he looked honest, Li Yu had a good impression of this person, and immediately sent him to fight with Qiu Xian and Borshu's cavalry left battalion.

Yang Jiang is really familiar with this road, in the undulating hills and ravines can always find a road suitable for cavalry and vehicle marching, the team followed Yang General all the way to take a shortcut, the day also helped no snow, the march was quite smooth, to the morning of the third day, Yang Jiang pointed to the front and said, after the front five miles long vegetable garden ditch, and then walk thirty miles to Shenmu Fort, Li Yu breathed a sigh of relief, ordered the team to pass through the vegetable garden ditch, before dark must rush to Shenmu Fort.

The entrance of the vegetable garden ditch is relatively narrow, only a stone's throw away, but it is very spacious when it enters the ditch, there are still some fields and grass huts in the ditch, but there are no people to see, there is a frozen stream in the middle of the ditch, the road is relatively flat, the horse walks very easily, the Fengzhou army passes through the ditch smoothly, and soon arrives at the front ditch, at this time the road suddenly becomes narrow and uneven, the mountains on both sides are also suddenly steep, and the left battalion of the cavalry walking in front has to dismount and walk.

When approaching the mouth of the ditch, Qiu Xian and Borshu, who were born as horse thieves, suddenly felt a little uneasy, Qiu Xian took a few breaths, and waved his hand to call Mr. Yang over.

"Lao Yang, are you leading the way? I don't think it's right, this road is a bit dangerous, but don't let the thieves calculate. ”

"I've walked this road, I've never had an accident, let's go, after this section, I'll go out of the ditch, and the rest of the road is easy to walk, or I'll go to the front and take a look." Yang replied a little unhappily.

"Borshu, my nose is itchy again, every time something happens, I feel this way, we don't know each other here, it's better to be careful." Qiu Xian ignored Yang and turned his head to Borshu in Mongolian.

"I also feel that my heart is beating in a panic, so I will stop the team first, and I will lead some people to climb to the top of the mountain on both sides to guard, so that it is safer." Borshu beckoned a sentry and climbed up the ridge.

"Hey, Lao Yang, don't be in a hurry to leave," Qiu Xian turned around and found that Yang Jiang and his five or six followers had gone far away, Qiu Xian shouted a few times to stop, but Yang Jiang and they were getting more and more anxious, and then they simply ran up, Qiu Xian's face changed greatly, and he opened his bow and shouted, "Stop, if you run again, I will shoot you!" ”

"Brother Rebel, the thieves are coming, do it quickly!" Yang Jiang shouted to the mountain while running, Qiu Xian was furious, and shot a burst of arrows with his men, and the three people who fell behind fell in response, and Yang General and a few others ran away, and then flags and dense figures appeared on both sides of the mountain and the mouth of the ditch.

"Pull the wind, brethren, run!" Qiu Xian shouted, and ran backwards with his subordinates, and the Borshu gang who were climbing up the mountain reacted quickly, holding their heads and rolling down the mountain, the horns, gongs and drums on the mountain sounded in unison, and the stones immediately rolled down, smashing the cavalry left battalion people on their backs, and then countless thieves shouted and rushed into the ditch, blocking the front ditch to death.

Qiu Xian, Borshu's cavalry left battalion has done more than half of the horse thieves, known for their cunning and fierceness, never suffer losses in battle, but this time they fell into bad luck, although they ran faster than rabbits, more than forty people were gone in the blink of an eye, horses also lost a lot, behind the buttocks there were a large group of people with knives, spears, sticks to chase and kill, until Li Yu's main force arrived, they stopped the defeat, reorganized the formation to face the battle.

Li Yu was also anxious at this time, the exit of the front ditch was blocked, and a large number of thieves appeared in the retreat behind him, and the black pressure rushed up, and the left and right battalions of the infantry army and the new battalion were difficult to resist when they left behind, and quickly followed up to meet the main force, and a large number of thieves also appeared on both wings, and tried to separate the Fengzhou army, fortunately, the Fengzhou army iron cavalry was strong, and the two wings of the thieves were defeated with dense salvos and the impact of the iron cavalry, but the number of thieves in the front and rear was too much, and the attack was more ferocious.

Li Yu encountered this kind of crisis situation for the first time, he forced himself to calm down, carefully observed the situation on all sides, the number of thieves on both wings was not much, and they had been defeated, but the mountains on both sides were steep, cavalry and vehicles could not pass, the thieves in front and behind were numerous, there were very few with weapons such as knives and spears, most of them were armed with hoes, sticks, and armor could not be seen - this should not be the elite of the other party, Li Yu felt that he could defeat the other party, he didn't want to go back, the ditch of the retreat road must have been blocked, And there must be an elite guard of thieves, so they simply rushed out all the way forward to kill a bloody road.

"The left and right battalions of the cavalry block the thieves in front, and the rear battalion of the cavalry is on guard, and the Flying Tiger battalion is coming with me!" Once he made up his mind, Li Yu immediately began to organize a counterattack, and the Flying Tiger Battalion would synchronize the left and right battalions of the army and the newly formed battalion to launch an all-out attack on the thieves who were killing behind—since they were determined to rush forward and out of the ditch, then they would first defeat the thieves behind.

Zhang Chuanjie discharged the dense infantry formation in order, Man Zhu, Hou Shijie commanded the left battalion on the left, Liu Qian, Wang Dongqiang commanded the right battalion in the center, Sun Shoufa, and Du Hongfang commanded the new battalion on the right, the three battalions opened the three phalanxes and pressed forward together, the two battalions of spearmen in iron armor walked in the front, under the protection of the sword players in light armor, they continued to push forward, the sharp spear tips stabbed out intensively, and the thieves who pounced on them were stabbed down in rows. It also continues to extend to the two wings of the thieves, the flying tiger riders are all good archers with strong bows, in the face of the dense crowd of thieves, almost arrows bite the flesh, and the thieves with inferior weapons without armor and weapons will soon be unable to withstand it, even if there are more of them, it is impossible to resist the killing machine with the help of the infantry and cavalry, and they are forced to retreat constantly.

The new battalion began to be a little chaotic, but with the steady advance of the Fengzhou army, it quickly calmed down, Sun Shoufa moved the battalion dozens of guns forward, and repeatedly bombarded the crowd of thieves, most of the thieves were still ordinary people with hoes not long ago, and they couldn't withstand such destruction, the crowd became more and more chaotic, Du Hongfang took the opportunity to take Ma Danian and Qin Hu two sentry posts to suddenly rush into the crowd and slash and kill, the new battalion was full of Yulin veterans, once they were mad and ruthless, the thieves had never seen such a fierce officer and soldier, and they were so frightened that they avoided it. Li Yu found that the situation was favorable, and ordered Chen Erzhu to blow the trumpet of the charge, and the Fengzhou infantry cavalry, which had long been unable to bear it, immediately dispersed the formation, and the sentry commander and captain each led their headquarters to launch a comprehensive attack on the enemy.

The thieves couldn't hold on any longer, the whole army collapsed immediately, and all the people spread their legs and desperately fled - this completely asymmetrical massacre, this kind of corpses all over the field, the scene of rivers of blood is not something that a group of ordinary people can withstand, they can only choose to flee for their lives, the Fengzhou army and cavalry covered each other and chased each other for two miles before collecting troops and retreating, and the thieves continued to flee without looking back, I am afraid that they will never have the courage to come back.

Defeated the thieves behind, Li Yu quickly led the team to support the front ditch, the left and right battalions of the cavalry had all dismounted at this time, blocking the attack of the thieves with foot shooting, and the rear battalion of the cavalry who served as the guard on both wings also dispatched two outposts to the rear of the side to shoot at the enemy, the thieves had no armor and did not have enough bows and arrows to fight back, and rushed forward together against the door panel, this way of playing was too bad, under the suppression of the dense arrow rain of the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry, every step forward had to fall a piece of people, and the snow in the front ditch was covered with corpses- The advantage of the thieves' strength could not be brought into play on the narrow and uneven road of the front ditch, although Qiu Xian and Terrig fought hard, they blocked the other party to the front ditch, and the thieves died too many people and were a little timid, and the offensive was gradually weakening. Li Yu's main force arrived, launched a counterattack against the thieves, the thieves saw that the situation was not good and immediately retreated to the ditch, Li Yu shouted, "Follow their butts and rush out of the ditch", the cavalry was useless at this time, and immediately dodged the road, and the fastest Qin Hu and Tie Biao roared and rushed into the ditch with two or three hundred foot soldiers.

However, Qin Hu and Tie Biao quickly fled back in a hurry - the mouth of the ditch had been blocked by huge stones, the thieves hid behind the stones and did not retreat, and the thieves on the mountains on both sides did not care about the life or death of their own people, arrows and stones split their heads and covered their faces, Qin Hu and Tie Biao could not afford to provoke the rain of arrows and stones that fell like raindrops, and they were beaten and fled.

Zhang Chuanjie arrived, immediately reorganized the offensive, the situation at the mouth of the ditch is obvious, without controlling the hills on both sides, it is impossible to rush out, he ordered the left and right battalions to attack on the mountain, and strive to seize the mountain, the new battalion slowly advanced along the road at the mouth of the ditch, annihilated the thieves hiding behind the rocks, and cleared the road. However, Zhang Chuanjie's offensive failed, the mountains on both sides of the ditch are thirty or forty zhang high, and the slope is steep, there is snow on it, almost can't stand on it, let alone climb up, there are many thieves on the mountain, the mountain and the ridge are full of people, most of them have weapons, some are also wearing iron armor, this is obviously the elite of the thieves, stones, rolling wood and arrows hit down, the Fengzhou infantry army was driven back before climbing halfway, although the iron cavalry tried its best to cover, but the bow and arrow could not shoot so high, and the thieves could not be killed, Dozens of cannons and bird guns can hit each other, but the number is too small, and the reloading is too slow.

Zhang Chuanjie was organizing the elite to prepare to continue to storm the mountain, Li Yu walked towards him quickly, Li Yu had changed into a light leather armor at this time, and he was followed by the deputy battalion officer of the right battalion of the cavalry, Asari, and the captain Dehun An.

"Hermes-Epitek, what are you doing here, go back quickly, this is the work of the infantry army, I will definitely be able to take the ditch mouth before dark, and I don't need the help of the iron horse." Zhang Chuanjie was a little unhappy, Dehun An's team of Zhushen soldiers, Li Yu obviously planned to personally lead this group of people to attack.

"Brother Chuanjie, you just have to fight according to your method, when Dehun An was in the Jin Kingdom, they had a lot of experience in mountaineering and fighting in the snow, I will take them to see if they can help."

"No need, the two battalions of my left battalion have already selected the elite soldiers to form a selection team, and they are desperately trying to take down the two hills, so you just stay here and watch."

The offensive soon began, but what annoyed Zhang Chuanjie was that the selection team of the left and right battalions had not moved, and Sun Shoufa took the lead, and the deputy battalion officer Du Hongfang took more than 300 Yulin soldiers with shields, knives and axes, and climbed up the mountain to the left with a roar, and scolded Sun Shoufa for grabbing merit, and quickly ordered his deputy battalion officer Hou Shijie to take the selection of the two battalions to the right hill to attack, Zhang Chuanjie was helpless, scolded and scolded to the front, while directing the firearms to cover, while taking the rest of the people to advance to the ditch.

Sun Shoufa was very dissatisfied with his new battalion, these people fought too badly today, they were all veterans of the war, but when they ran away, they ran faster than others, and when they fought smoothly, they were chaotic and coaxed each to fight their own, compared with the Fengzhou infantry army, it was simply a rabble.

Sun Shoufa summoned the new battalion, pointed at the soldiers and scolded: "I know your origins, some have been deserters, some have been generals, and some have been among thieves for a few days, but I don't want to care about your previous, I still remember what your master and parents said when they left, you are the seeds of Yulin people, and you will take root wherever you go, don't let people look down on us Yulin people, look at people, look at you, and then look at you, people are now letting us move stones, it's not a shame!" How can you still have the face to mess with Master Li in the future! ”

"The Shanxi people of the Fengzhou infantry army fought a good battle, you are all Yulin veterans who have seen blood, and now you have become cowards? The world's heroes are out of Yulin, we Yulin people can't afford to lose this face, and if you don't want to do it, go back as soon as possible! Du Hongfang also shouted.

The soldiers made them angry and angry, shouting and shouting to play for their lives, a group of thieves couldn't beat them, do they still have the face to go home? Du Hongfang shouted with red eyes, take down the mountain and let people see, whether the Yulin soldiers were cowardly or not, everyone immediately responded in groups, and did not report to the above, and the guy followed Du Hongfang to attack the higher mountain on the left.

The Yulin soldiers fought desperately, and their strong combat power was immediately displayed, they scattered into small groups, while carefully avoiding the rolling logs, stones, and arrows falling from the mountain, while smashing the ground with knives and axes as a foothold, climbing up step by step, people rolling down the mountain, and people constantly going up. When climbing to the halfway up the mountain, the soldiers with bows and arrows began to shoot arrows at each other to shoot back, Du Hongfang took the opportunity to lead people to climb up again, the thieves also had red eyes, and rushed down from the mountain to intercept and kill the Ming army, Du Hongfang used the hook and sickle in his hand to catch a bush in front of him, jumped up and stood firm on a rock, and swept the spear to beat a few thieves who pounced on him and rolled down the mountain, Qin Hu and Ma Danian behind him led people to climb up, shouting and cutting down the thieves who rushed down, and the Yulin soldiers took advantage of the situation to push up again, They were getting closer and closer to the mountain, the leader of the thieves couldn't hold his breath, and drove his subordinates to rush down to intercept it, Sun Shoufa saw that the situation was favorable, and immediately brought people up to reinforce them, and the two sides fought together under the mountain.

Almost at the same time, Hou Shijie also led people to climb to the bottom of the hill on the right, and the thieves who rushed down to start hand-to-hand combat, Tie Biao, Wang Dongqiang two sentry commanders seemed to be competing, each with his subordinates rushed forward, the thieves were forced to hurry, put more and more people into the fight, full of murderous spirit with reinforcements arrived, the right hill immediately fell into a scuffle, and people kept howling and rolling down the mountain.

Li Yu has been observing at the bottom of the mountain, and found that the thieves on the ridge are reinforcing the mountain at the mouth of the ditch, and the garrison force is greatly weakened, he realized that the opportunity has come, and he turned around and ran down the ridge.

Li Yu began to climb up the mountain, Asari and Dehun An guarded him tightly with shields, followed by fifty Zhushen soldiers, they were the same as Li Yu, they had the experience of hunting and gathering in the mountains of Liaodong all the year round, and they were not afraid of the mountains here, but felt that this place was much lower and gentler than the mountains of Liaodong, they walked like flying, and after a while they climbed halfway up the mountain, Meng Ke brought a hundred people to catch up, but only caught up with Mo Rige and Chen Erzhu and Liu Shishi, who were still panting behind them.

Li Yu's people are too few, and they are also very scattered, crawling in the mountains like antelopes, the stones thrown down by the thieves, the arrows shot out can hardly reach them, the thieves are reluctant to waste arrows and stones for these guys, and simply wait for these dozens of people to come up from exhaustion and die, the official army finally approached the ridge, a gong sounded among the thieves, five or six hundred people rushed down, and the horn of Dehun An also sounded immediately, and the Zhushen soldiers came closer, stretched their bows and arrows to prepare for battle.

Li Yu shouted and formed a formation, took off the bow and arrow from his back, glanced forward, and then shot three arrows in a row, and the two armored thieves who rushed in front covered the door and fell, and the last arrow shot the thief's flag officer and the flag and rolled down the mountain, Asari, Dehun An and Zhu Shen, who had formed a formation, then fired sharp arrows in unison, and after a rain of arrows, the thieves fell down, and the thieves were terrified and suddenly chaotic.

Li Yu pulled out the double-edged plate axe from behind, let out a terrifying long roar, and rushed into the enemy group, Asari, Dehun An and Zhu Shen soldiers echoed in unison, and the thieves were frightened stupid by the howls that only ferocious beasts can make, these braided Zhu Shen slashed wantonly in the crowd, and the thieves were immediately cut down, and someone let out a frightened cry, "It's the pigtail soldiers, the pigtail soldiers of Liaodong Jiannu", the thieves were even more frightened, and began to scatter and flee.

"Kill the thieves, kill these damned slaves." The leader of the thieves shouted and rushed over, Li Yu looked up and saw that it was actually Mr. Yang, he couldn't help but be furious, wielding a plate axe to continuously cut down the thieves in front of him, killing a bloody road and going straight to Mr. Yang.

"Thief, take your life!" Yang slashed at Li Yu with a red eye.

"Rebel, go die!" Li Yu's plate axe also slashed at Mr. Yang.

The knife was broken, the body was broken, Yang put the total bloody body backwards, Asari stepped forward and stabbed the head, at this time Meng Ke, Mo Rige and others arrived, the Fengzhou army immediately rushed along the ridge to the left of the mountain, the thieves on the mountain and the Yulin soldiers were fighting hard, suddenly the side was slammed, panicked, immediately collapsed, Liu Shi rushed to the top of the mountain and kicked down the thief banner, waving the flying tiger flag in the wind.

The left hill was captured, the thieves on the right hill were frightened, Tie Biao rushed up the mountain and smashed the thief flag with an iron whip, the black eagle flag was immediately inserted on the top of the mountain, the thieves at the mouth of the ditch saw this and scattered, Zhang Chuanjie and Sun Shoufa immediately occupied the ditch, and the way out of the Fengzhou army was opened.

When the mouth of the ditch arrived, the infantry army quickly moved away from the stones to clear a road, and a team of iron cavalry galloped over, rushed to the outside of the ditch and re-lined - the leader of the thieves seemed to be unwilling, and gathered the defeated soldiers, regathered tens of thousands of people, and counterattacked in a chaotic manner, and then suddenly killed a Ming cavalry from behind them, and the thieves suddenly encountered a front and rear attack, and no longer had the intention of fighting, and fled east after a little resistance.