Yang Quanwei arrived before Xu Chu, and he took the county guards and some young men to guard the Donghe Ridge - this place is a commanding height, which can overlook the distance; The size is an important road, and it is the only place to enter the prefecture at the east ferry.

He didn't know much about the art of war, and he also understood that he had to keep this place before Xu Chu arrived. He has never done anything to oppress the good and occupy good land, but he is not a good official, and he has always turned a blind eye to the lawbreakers in the county, and he will never take risks with himself. But every time he faced Jiu**, this man suddenly changed his appearance.

It's not a national hatred, it's just a family feud. Including his wife and brother, he has many relatives and friends who died in the thief's rebellion, and he usually endured everything he could in order to 'protect his life', but for the thieves with the blood of relatives and friends on his hands, he still retained the bottom line of being a man.

While instructing his subordinates to be on guard, Yang Quanwei stepped on a boulder, and suddenly saw several thieves' spies trotting over.

Similarly, the county guards soon saw that the county guards who were good at bows and arrows immediately took out their bows and arrows and were about to shoot arrows, but they were stopped by Yang Quanwei.

"It's too far, keep the arrows for later."

Seeing the county guards put down their bows according to their words, Yang Quanwei stared at the traces of several thieves, and saw that they seemed to see their own defense here, so he immediately turned around and ran back.

After a while, the nine** crowd came.

The county guards saw that there were quite a few people on the other side, and many of them had quietly retreated. Yang Quanwei has always understood his subordinates, and in order to strengthen his courage, he calmed himself and said: "Although there are many thieves, they are those who seek advantage and avoid harm. We have the Ming Mansion guards as backup, as long as we hold on for a while, the thieves will definitely retreat. ”

As he wished, the faces of the subordinates behind him retreated with fear.

In fact, he was also afraid, but he was brave enough to be a soldier, even if he was afraid, he couldn't show even a little bit.

The thieves came quickly, and in a short time they had reached the ridge. Captain Yang Quan looked ahead and shouted, "The archers listen to my orders!" ”

Two hundred steps, one hundred steps, fifty steps!

Yang Quanwei could clearly see that the leader of this wave of thieves was the famous Jiang Qin, and he unconsciously swallowed a ball of saliva in his throat, and hissed: "Release the arrow!" ”

There were more than 20 people who could shoot in the county, and the sound of breaking the air suddenly came to mind, and a large cluster of arrow shadows flew away.

Shoot arrows here, and shoot arrows over there.

Jiang Qin's strength that he had just begged from Zhou Xin came in handy at this moment. The horse given by Zhou Xin needs to be launched with the help of the strength of the waist and legs, and its power is much larger than the arrows shot by the county soldiers with mediocre force, and the range also has an advantage. The arrows flew out most of the distance here, and the crossbow arrows on the other side had already arrived.

Puff puff!

More than ten people fell down in an instant, Yang Quanwei gritted his teeth and continued to shout: "Release the arrow!" ”

At the time of battle, there were no more than three or five arrows. The county guards did not have good marksmanship, and the enemy had already rushed in front of them after two arrows.

Captain Yang Quan drew his saber and stepped forward.

"Kill!"

Encouraged by him, the county guards and young men rushed out one after another to fight with the nine **.

The battle was fierce, and Jiang Qin held a knife in one hand and an iron rope in the other. Wherever the blade of the sword goes, where the iron rope is wielded, someone will fall to the ground. Seeing this, Captain Yang Quan mustered up the courage to step forward to invite battle, and shouted at Jiang Qin, who was ten steps away: "Jiang thief! Do you know who I am?! ”

Jiang Qin looked at it when he heard it, and laughed contemptuously in the chaotic army, "I don't know, but if you ask for death, you will get what you want!" After saying that, Chaoyang Quanwei ran over, and someone tried to stop him on the way, but they were all knocked down by his iron cable.

Seeing Jiang Qin's might, Yang Quanwei couldn't help but say in his heart: My time of death has come?

At this time, suddenly a person shouted: "The prince is here!" Then several people shouted, and in the midst of the fight, no one was shocked.

Jiang Qin immediately put aside Yang Quanwei, jumped to a high point to take a look, and saw that there was a person on the mountain road, followed by nearly a hundred iron armorers, or heard the shouting and killing sound here, and came very quickly.

Jiang Qin couldn't help but retreat. The people he brought were all recruited rural light heroes, who were brave and ruthless, not cowardly in small injuries, and fought with the county guards who ate the imperial grain, no matter from which point of view, they all had a big advantage. But the ironclad soldiers brought by Xu Chu, I'm afraid that these people are not enough to see. At the moment, the people gathered together and retreated, and gradually retreated to the bottom of the ridge.

Captain Yang Quan didn't dare to pursue, so he glanced hastily at the battlefield, only to see that among the people who fell to the ground, only one or two out of ten were thieves, and they sat on the mud ground like a deflated ball in an instant.

This wave of thieves who took the lead was generally only about 100 people, but there were nearly 200 people on his side, and they were all like this, and Yang Quanwei's face was like a withered tree.

When Xu Chu arrived, he also glanced at the battlefield, and his heart sank. After calling Captain Yangquan to him and asking about the situation, he couldn't help but secretly say: Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin are not only good at fighting, but also good at training, they are really talents.

Xu Chu stood on the boulder, only to see the thieves who had attacked before slowly retreating to the position, and there were still hundreds of people in the rear waiting for him, thinking: The county guard should not be of great use, although the tiger guard is good at fighting, with one enemy and five, the opponents are Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, even if they can win, it must be a miserable victory, but unfortunately there is no good strategy available for a while.

The total number of men on both sides was less than 1,000, and the scale of this battle was very small, and because of the small scale, the ability of the generals was particularly important. It was because Xu Chu was particularly afraid of the force of Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai.

Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai under the ridge had a disagreement at the moment. Jiang Qin heard the county officials shouting 'The prince is here', and saw a tall young official riding a horse with an ironclad soldier, and after confirming that Xu Chu was in Yangquan County, he said to Zhou Tai: "Youping, then Xu Chu is really in Yangquan, why don't we accept it when we see it?" ”

Zhou Tai shook his head, "Entrusted by people, loyal to people." "Danyang Taishou gave them people and gave them a donkey, if they returned in vain, it seems that it is not easy to say. Zhou Tai is brave, Jiang Qin knows. This is very brave, and many times it seems particularly brainless.

In the ninth **, Zhou Tai is the main general, he is the deputy, if he really wants to argue, he can't beat Zhou Tai.

"Xu Chu and the ironclad soldiers are here, so the 'evil' must be early." Zhou Taiweng said in a loud voice, saying a lot of words for the first time.

Jiang Qin knew that Zhou Tai was eyeing Dian Wei and wanted to fight well, so he had to say: "It's up to you, but you can't fight, once the situation is unfavorable, when I say retreat, you will retreat immediately!" ”

The drums were loud, and five hundred people slowly approached, and this time Jiu** put away his contempt, and deliberately slowed down the speed of the march in order to retain his strength. Five hundred people stepped on the muddy ground, making a lot of noise, the county guards, the young men had just been frustrated, and the injuries were heavy, and now they saw several times the enemy coming, all of them were frightened, and some of the timid ones were wet on their crotches.

"Dian Wei, line up!" Xu Chu shouted.

Dian Wei reorganized the queue and divided the hundred tiger guards into ten rows, which were scattered.

Xu Chu silently recited the distance between the two sides, until he was a hundred steps, and ordered: "Raise your knife, hurry, charge!" ”