Hearing that Shi Weiyi's officers and troops at the foot of Hutou Mountain cut off everyone's way in front, the mountain bandits suddenly panicked. Since ancient times, the www.biquge.info of the pen and the interest of the pavilion have been the bandits who are afraid of the officials, and once they are surrounded, the momentum will be weakened by three points, unless there are more bandits and fewer officers and soldiers, the mountain bandits will be more arrogant and more fierce than the officers and soldiers.

Today's Hutou Mountain is no more than the previous when the refugees first went up the mountain, the number of people is more than 1,000, and the refugees are desperate and will fight desperately with the officials and soldiers. Since the mountain bandits of Hutou Mountain were ambushed by Wang Fu once and killed many young and strong refugee bandits, their strength was not as good as before, and the number of them was reduced to four or five hundred, and the waste mountain bandits mentioned by Wang Chang and others accounted for a part, so there were only more than two hundred mountain bandits who could fight in Hutou Mountain.

No wonder they were a little panicked when they heard that the officers and soldiers of Hutou Mountain in front of them had cut off the way to the road, and that the officers and soldiers who were protecting the river were chasing after them and blocking the way of retreat.

Liu Gouwa looked at the officers and soldiers blocking in front and back, holding the torches high, and saw that they were getting closer and closer, and then looked at the sky, the morning star in the east gradually fell, and in more than an hour, the sky would be bright.

Liu Gouwa knew that once the sky was bright, Shi Weiyi's cavalry would be dispatched, and when he waited for the mountain bandits to go down the mountain, he would be in danger.

Liu Gouwa saw that the mountain bandits were carrying food, and under the light of the torches, they all looked at themselves, looking forward to their own ideas, and couldn't help but say immediately: "Let half of the people give up the food, take the torches of the other half of the people, two torches per person, and follow me to pretend to flee in the direction of Xiaosong City, cover the other half of the people carrying the food, and return to Hutou Mountain in the dark, and be sure to return to Hutou Mountain before dawn." ”

After Liu Gouwa finished speaking, he asked Zhou Botong to lead the half of the mountain bandits who handed over the torches, carrying the grain, and hiding in a small ridge pass, but he held two torches high and led the other half of the mountain bandits to run in the direction of Xiaosong City.

In the night, the officers and soldiers who surrounded them in front and back saw Liu Gouwa and others, holding torches, changing the direction of their advance, so they also changed the direction of the encirclement, and shrunk the encirclement smaller and smaller, but they were not in a hurry to attack, obviously waiting for dawn before coming up to besiege.

Liu Gouwa saw that there was no hope of escaping, so she had to take the mountain bandits and occupy a more dangerous hill, let everyone rest on the hill for a while, and said: "Brothers, people die for money, birds die for food, we risk going down the mountain to rob the government of the tax grain, now we are surrounded by the official corps, and when the dawn comes, the cavalry of the official army will come, and then we will be unable to escape, ten deaths, we can only fight to the death, and break through before dawn." ”

Although the mountain bandits were afraid in their hearts, they were at the end of the road and had no way out, so they couldn't help but be emboldened, and they all said that they were going to fight hard with these officers and soldiers.

"A thousand days of training, used for a while, although we have few people, but we have been training on the mountain for many days of night fighting, we have many advantages over the officers and soldiers, as long as we follow the usual training method in the mountains, do not panic, cooperate with each other, and cover each other to break through, I believe that these officers and soldiers will not be able to stop us in such a dark night." Liu Gouwa said.

After listening to Liu Gouwa's words, they couldn't help but feel relieved, and gradually plucked up their courage, and Liu Gouwa said again: "Also, when you all put out all the torches, when you rush down, don't shoot their torches." ”

"Why?" The fool was standing beside Liu Gouwa, and when he heard the words, he asked first, asking the questions of everyone on the hill.

"Illuminate for us, or how do we know where they are, your bow and arrow are still hairy, this is called open guns are easy to dodge and dark arrows are difficult to defend, they can't see us, but we can see them clearly, those arrows you put are all hidden arrows, how can they defend themselves, break through their defense line, then it will be easy." Liu Gouwa knew that the battle of life and death was in front of him, the two armies were fighting, and the brave one won, Liu Gouwa couldn't help but say that it was easy to break through, stimulating their fighting spirit and self-confidence.

The mountain bandits heard Liu Gouwa say that there was great hope for a breakthrough, and they couldn't help but be brave and high, muttering that they would immediately kill the officers and soldiers who were surrounded, and break through and return to the mountain as soon as possible.

Liu Gouwa saw that the time had come, so he ordered all the mountain bandits to line up and form a three-wing array, with Tang Bohu holding a big wooden hammer and Huang Yaoshi holding a gun, leading some of the mountain bandits as the first formation, Lu Zhishen holding a knife, Li Xunhuan holding a gun and Li Si and Li Shizhen each holding a big wooden gun, and also led some of the mountain bandits to form two other formations.

When the officers and soldiers under the hill saw the bandits on the mountain, they instantly extinguished all the torches, and knew that something was wrong with the situation, so they also took strict guard.