The rain kept falling, and the potholed paths became a bunch of water because of the accumulation of rainwater, like the mirror in the hands of the fairy smashed in the mountains and fields, and the soldiers of the Han army splashed up a body of muddy water as soon as they stepped on it, and the muddy water directly hit the faces of the soldiers behind, and the soldiers behind did not have time to wipe it and continued to hurry.

If it weren't for the soldiers of the Han army, most of them were experienced veterans in mountain marching, and they had prepared non-slip bamboo clogs and detachable simple marching clothes in advance, but I was afraid that they would not be able to brave the heavy rain to march continuously in this mountain field for a day and a night.

Wang Peng, who walked in the front, was wearing a hat in a lily robe, the long knife on his waist was full of water droplets, and there were also raindrops rippling between his eyebrows, which almost blocked his vision, he had to wipe it, and then jumped into a deep pool in front without hesitation, and after lurking in the water, he took the wooden plank carried by the army from the hands of a soldier behind him and put it on his shoulder: "Pass quickly!" ”

The soldiers behind did not hesitate because it was the lord who was holding the plank on his shoulder, on the contrary, they used the plank as a springboard to quickly pass through the deep pool one after another without hesitation, and when five or six hundred people passed, someone automatically jumped down to replace Wang Peng, and after another five or six hundred people, someone would come to take over, so that even the water and cliff height could be crossed in an instant.

Just when Wang Peng was shaking his rain-soaked robe, he heard the faint sound of gongs and drums in front of him, so he hurriedly stopped his movements and asked, "Where did the alarm come from?" ”

After Yang Ming occupied Kuizhou, he copied the alarm system of Hanjia Village to the entire Kuizhou, and once there were bandits in villages and towns, there would be a special person responsible for sounding the gong alarm. And every five miles there is a special station responsible for striking gongs, to ensure that the nearest Han army unit knows where the village has been attacked in the fastest possible time. In the eastern Sichuan region, both red and white ceremonies like to beat gongs, so almost every household has a gong and drum thing, and it is not difficult to set it up.

The gongs and drums that are sounding now are the alarms issued by the villagers of Hot Spring Town, and a brocade-clothed messenger who is responsible for tracking Zhang Yingyuan's department of the left army also came out of nowhere at this time, and replied: "Wang Yanshi, it is the hot spring town that has been looted, and the Zhang Yingyuan department of the left army arrived in the hot spring town around midnight this morning, and this group of brutes began to loot as soon as they arrived in the hot spring town, do you think we immediately went to save the villagers here?" ”

Wang Peng was also not easy to make a decision, so he hurriedly turned around and ran to Lan Guanwei, who came with him, told him about it, and said: "According to the plan, we will arrive at the Jianshan Valley before sunset today to ambush it, in order to prepare to annihilate Zhang Yingyuan's army, if we go to Hot Spring Town now, we are only afraid that we will expose our whereabouts in advance, and when the time comes, we are only afraid that we will be startled, and Zhang Yingyuan's troops will immediately retreat, and join forces with Zuo Liangyu's army, and it will be even more difficult for us to completely annihilate this lone army at that time." ”

Lan Guanwei pondered for a while, and resolutely said: "Gongzi said, the people are the most important, the people are in trouble and do not save them, are we still the Han army, pass the order, change the plan to annihilate Zhang Yingyuan's department, and immediately go to Hot Spring Town to rescue the villagers!" ”

At this time, the hot spring town has completely fallen into the mouth of the group of animals of the left army, men, women and children are chopping around under the butcher knife of the left army, chickens, ducks, fish and geese are chased by the left officers and soldiers in front of the house and behind the house, the daughter of the old farmer is also forced by several left troops to surround the center of the house, seeing that these left troops are spraying evil bath fire, she hurriedly took the opportunity to escape to the other side, and these left troops also chased after with a smile: "Little lady, don't run, the military masters are not bad people, what are you afraid of." ”

The girl in the flower skirt was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and she was certainly not the opponent of these left army ruffians, and she was soon caught by these left soldiers and forcibly pressed to the ground, but when one of the left soldiers forcibly pulled down the girl's cloth skirt and was about to fall on the girl, she heard a clang, the door was kicked open, and a spear flew directly over, directly hitting the left army crawling on the girl.

The few left soldiers next to them were stunned for a moment, and because their comrades were poked by a spear and fell on the girl with their heads like a sweet incense case with a dream, they didn't know when the spear swept them directly to the ground, and then, there was a series of metal into the flesh, and these left soldiers were killed in an instant.

The originally frightened girl froze, she recognized these Han soldiers who rushed in, as soon as they rushed in, she knew that she was saved, but what she didn't expect was that the "soldier brothers" who blushed even when they said a few words to themselves were so ruthless and resolute, but the Han soldiers who rushed in didn't say anything, calmly pulled out their spears from the corpse and quickly ran out of the house, and rushed to another house.

"Disperse in the army, first go to each house to rescue the villagers, kill one by one, kill all these robbers, and leave no one alive!"

Wang Peng shouted while killing the Left Army soldiers who were slaughtering villagers or chasing chickens and ducks on the streets, at this time, like other Han Army soldiers, he was already enraged by the scene in front of him, so although Lan Guanwei only asked him to drive out this left army, he brazenly ordered the soldiers to annihilate this left army.

Zhang Yingyuan's department has a total of more than 20,000 people, which can be said to be far more than the two bidders brought by Wang Peng, but now this left army, including the main general, is doing the work of bandits, and there is no defense at all, and many left troops have their heads cut off by the angry Han army before they have time to react.

Some of the left troops just wiped the blood stains on the butcher's knife, and as soon as they were like spears, they splashed blood on the spot like the people in front of them, and some of the left troops were just sloppy and ready to have a good time when they were given a chrysanthemum residue by the Han army, and some of the left troops were also destroyed by the anger of the Han army in front of the house.

The defeat of 2,000 people and 20,000 people did not only appear in ambush warfare, but also appeared in frontal encounters, and the left army was completely unable to organize effective resistance due to the excitement of burning, killing and looting, not to mention that these left armies were all waterway troops of the left army, and they were already inferior in front of the Han army, which was good at fighting in the hills and mountains, and it didn't take long for the 20,000 left army to be defeated, and there was no resistance. At the beginning, they were still slaughterers in front of the local people, but now they are slaughtered in front of the Han army, and in the blink of an eye, their roles have changed.

The main general Zhang Yingyuan did not appear, and these left troops could only run around in the market town, just like when the official army met Jianyu, there was no bloodiness at all, and a soldier of the Han army could also chase and kill dozens or even hundreds of thousands of left officers and soldiers. The Han soldiers either drove the Left Army off the cliff, forced the Left Army into a narrow wall and burned it to death, or drove the Left Army into a well and smashed down boulders.

In fact, Zhang Yingyuan had already escaped from the market town at this time, and when he was about to do something hurtful to the heavens and reason, he heard that a thief army had appeared, and he also saw many subordinates running over in a panic, and he was so frightened that he didn't even have time to tie his pants and hurriedly put on a soldier's costume and climbed into the back mountain.

Like Zhang Yingyuan, the officers and soldiers of the left who survived the butcher's knife of the Han army also hurriedly ran to the mountains behind the market town, but this undoubtedly made it more convenient for the Han army to kill the left army. Unlike the left army stumbling between the deep mountains and jungles, the soldiers of the Han army were simply walking on the ground inside, many of the left army were poked to death by spears that came out of nowhere, and some of the left army did not need to be attacked by the Han army, and they fell into the dark cliffs, and even some of the left army were forced into the primeval forest, and they were not discovered by the local people until several years later.

Wang Peng didn't expect that this battle meant to save the people would be fought like this, he, like many soldiers, was like a child chasing chickens and ducks, and defeated 20,000 left troops in less than a day and annihilated countless enemies, but the Han army did not suffer many casualties, and most of them were accidentally injured during the chase.

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