Not to mention how Zhu Wei designed the battlefield here, only that Ling Cao got the message sent by Zhu Wei, and quickly rushed to the direction of the mountain where the Zulang army came with two thousand vanguard soldiers. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This side has gone out of the territory of Lingyang County, and the local people have also known the news that the Shanyue Sect Shuai Zulang of Jing County is coming with tens of thousands of troops, so there are no idlers left in many villages, even if it is the mansion of the local rich and powerful, no one dares to stay, and most of them have fled to the county seat.

Only some of the big clans' dock forts have gathered clan soldiers, and they are still ready to defend it to the death.

However, Ling Cao had the direction pointed out by Zhu Wei, but he didn't need to take a detour, he went straight to the mountain from the official road, and found a place with open terrain and waited.

At this time, it was already half a day later, around mid-afternoon (between 1 pm and 3 pm).

The place that Ling Cao chose to set up camp temporarily was in the wild forest on a small slope on the edge of the mountain, and Ling Cao ambushed all his soldiers in the wild forest, and not far in front of this small slope was a passage out of the mountain range, which was also the place where the two mountains were separated.

From within the woods, you can already see the chaotic Shanyue bandits in the distant mountains, quickly passing through the woods on the mountains.

These Shanyue thieves are basically unkempt hair, full of mustaches, some are wearing cloth clothes, some seem to be wearing rattan armor, some are wrapped in cloth, some are wearing hats, most of them are wearing straw sandals on their feet, and they are also carrying packages, which should be food and the like.

The weapons they hold in their hands are also messy, some hold knives, some hold axes, some hold sticks, and some hold bamboo poles.

However, they all looked like sturdy men in their twenties and thirties, and although the weapons in their hands and the clothes and armor on their bodies were mixed, they could still see a bit of fierceness.

There was no formation at all in the mountains, just a group of small groups, moving quickly in the direction of Lingyang.

Seeing their footsteps walking among the mountains, they were very brisk, and a large number of figures were scurrying among the trees and barren grass in the mountains, like gray rats moving fast.

Looking at the number of this scale, it is probably three or four thousand, and it should also be the vanguard team of the Zulang Mountain Yue Thief Army.

As the chaotic Shanyue thieves moved rapidly, more than 1,000 people soon ran out of the mountain range and stopped at the concave slope at the junction of the two mountain ranges.

Obviously, these Shanyue thieves were also a little tired from running, and many people sat down here, waiting for their follow-up companions to follow.

These Shanyue thieves were also familiar with each other, chatting casually with each other, and many of them took out food from the packages they were carrying and ate here.

It didn't take long for the thieves here to gather more and more, and the number soon reached as many as three thousand, and then a leader-like bandit also appeared on this hollow slope under the escort of more than a dozen people.

The leader of the Shanyue bandits looked to be about forty years old, with a burly figure, which seemed to have strips of cloth tied around his feet, and rattan armor on his body, holding a hand axe in his right hand, and a large rattan shield in his left hand.

After arriving at this concave slope, the leader of the Shanyue thieves led people to walk among the Shanyue thieves who were sitting in a mess, and inevitably made these thieves who all looked a little fierce to make way for him.

The leader of the Shanyue thieves was also defenseless, and shouted a few times around, then he also found a clearing and sat down with a big shield on his buttocks.

Then the guards around him brought him wine and meat or something, and he also ate a mouthful of meat and wine over there, and ate very wildly.

In a short time, the thieves from the mountains filled this hollow slope, and everyone should have driven a lot of mountain roads, and while eating and drinking, they were also slapping their calves or something to relax their muscles.

These Shanyue thieves were completely defenseless, and they didn't send anyone out to guard at all, and they didn't seem to think that someone could ambush them here.

As the vanguard of the Zulang Shanyue thief army, this Shanyue thief army also opened a distance from the Zulang army in the rear.

Continuing to look at the mountains behind them, about ten miles away from the mountain road, you can still see a lot of mountain birds flying in fright and wild beasts running wildly among the continuous mountains, indicating that there are more mountain thieves coming here in the mountains behind.

Just when the forward of this group of Shanyue thieves was resting in chaos, the sound of bamboo sticks sounded in the wild woods on the hillside in front of them, and then Ling Cao rushed out with the two thousand vanguard soldiers who were in ambush.

Ling Cao rushed forward alone, but he held a hard bow in his hand, and aimed an arrow at the forward commander of the Shanyue thief soldiers over there, and there were more than a dozen archers beside Ling Cao who followed and aimed their arrows at the leader of the thief soldiers.

Behind were more than 500 archers, under the escort of other sword and shield bearers, who also set up a hard bow and bent their heads, and threw a rain of arrows to the concave slope where the mountain thieves were resting.

Things are moving so fast that the Shanyue bandits over there haven't had a chance to react.

Many people were shot by the feather arrows thrown from the air, and immediately cried out in pain, and some people were unlucky enough to be shot to the vital point, biting food in their mouths, and then threw themselves on the ground.

Seeing this, the forward commander of the Shanyue thief soldiers immediately stood up, and didn't seem to be panicked and shouted in his mouth that the Shanyue thief soldiers around him were ready to fight.

At the same time, he picked up a long-handled hand axe in one hand, and bent down to carry his rattan shield, preparing to organize his Shanyue thieves to counterattack.

But Ling Cao and more than a dozen archers had already set their eyes on him, and not long after he ran out of the wild woods, as soon as the bowstrings in the hands of more than a dozen people were loosened, more than ten feather arrows flew towards the vanguard leader of the Shanyue thief soldiers.

Although there seemed to be a few guards around the leader of the Shanyue thieves who wanted to protect him, a feather arrow was nailed to the thick man's forehead, and seven or eight of the other dozen feather arrows were nailed to his body and arms, and a round of arrows took his life.

This seemingly powerful Shanyue thief forward commander, with these feather arrows on his body, fell to the ground, without the command of this forward commander, these seemingly strong Shanyue thief vanguard legions are naturally completely chaotic.

While Ling Cao led the people to rush towards the concave slope where they were located, a round of feather arrows covered them, and after just a few steps, more than a thousand mountain and Yue thieves were shot to the ground, and more than 1,000 people were injured.

Few of these Shanyue thieves wore leather armor, only a few wore homemade rattan armor, and the vast majority of them still wore cloth and rags, and many of them were cut through their trousers and coats by thorns and thorns when they were speeding through the mountains, making them look more like beggars.

Many Shanyue thieves also have rabbit skins, rat skins and the like tied to their arms and calves, which can be regarded as their personal arm guards and leg guards.

But no matter what kind of personal equipment they have, these Shanyue bandits, who look like beggars, really lack the ability to defend against bows and arrows......