Before the rebels could wake up from the anger of the trap, dozens of dark shadows rushed towards this side from the bushes not far away, apparently these people were the ones who set the trap. These rebellious soldiers are the essence of Yansui Town, and almost all of them are veterans who have seen battles and killed people with Xilu. Although they were outnumbered, those with sabers drew their swords, and those who did not carry weapons broke off a piece of their wooden spear and met them. In the eyes of these veterans, in such encounters in the dark of night, individual martial arts and courage are far more important than the number of people.

But the course of the battle was not as the veterans imagined, and the enemy who emerged from the darkness began to attack them with a strange weapon - a thick branch about four meters long with a large number of branches and leaves, and it should be said that this strange weapon did very little damage to people - as long as you were not so unlucky as to be swept into the eye by the branch. But the deadly threat lurks behind these dense foliage - behind each bunch of branches hides a few men with spears, and the dense foliage becomes the best cover for the pikemen, several of whom have been stabbed by the spears that suddenly come from behind the foliage. The mystery of the night only added to the threat of these sudden enemies, and soon the rebels fled into the house with their wounded compatriots and corpses behind.

"Quickly put on your armor, bring the three-eyed gun, and take good medicine!" Inside the courtyard, Du Ruhu and Du Guoying's uncle and nephew were shouting loudly, the two skillfully used their fists and feet, knife handles, and knife backs to restore the order of the rebels as quickly as possible, it was impossible to close the door and defend it, obviously those irritating smoke were released by those people outside, if they stayed in the courtyard, they would choke everyone to death, and the only way out was to rush out.

Outside the house, there was a different atmosphere, and the forty or so young and strong young men selected did not expect to win the battle so easily, and in a hurry, the rebels only had short weapons such as swords, and the dense foliage ensured that they could not get close to the villagers, and the villagers could assassinate the enemy from a safe distance with special spears. Not a single one died, the only one who was injured was the one who clumsily tripped and broke his head, and the unlucky fellow was being loudly ridiculed by his companions, each of whom was loudly boasting of his exploits, claiming that he had stabbed six, seven, or even ten enemies, which of course was impossible, for the total number of corpses on the ground was less than thirty, including a dozen who had begun to die in the trap at the door.

"Brother Liu is really good, do we want to call it frightened and kill it?" Huineng tried his best to hide the excitement in his heart

, Compared with these villagers who have little knowledge, he understands the value of Liu Cheng's plan not long ago - with these crude weapons, dozens of untrained villagers can defeat dozens of veterans without damage, this ability is extremely rare even in the army, he can meet him here, could it be that the ancestors of the past generations have spirits in the sky?

"What's the hurry!" Liu Cheng waved his hand triumphantly, and the victory in reality was really much cooler than playing "Horse Riding and Slashing": "According to the results we counted on the hillside, there are about ninety-four people in this group of rebels, and we have killed less than thirty here, and one-third is weak." They're definitely going to come out and rush again, and we'll go in again after beating this wave. ”

"It's night, why don't those rebels stay in the house all night and come out at dawn?"

"They weren't fully prepared just now, and we were caught off guard before they suffered a big loss, and these guys we used were very crude, and they had firearms, so they would definitely come out to get a handful. Besides-" Liu Cheng pointed to the house with a smile and said, "Now that house is full of smoke, you don't want to stay inside until dawn, right?" ”

"Exactly!" Huineng nodded, he looked at the open door of the black hole not far away, and asked inquiringly, "Let the brothers put up the door panel?" “

"Hmm!" Liu Cheng nodded: "Cover those water-soaked quilts outside, but don't put the door panel all upright, just obliquely, so that you can't see it clearly, and let half of the people replace the spears with short ones." ”

"Hmm!" Huineng was already very convinced of Liu Cheng at this time, he ran to the side of the crowd and loudly issued Liu Cheng's order.

It took about a cup of tea to reorganize the rest of the rebellious soldiers of the Du family, but fortunately, the people who were able to follow the two to the present were either relatives or fellow villagers, and they were trapped in the house and had no way to escape, otherwise in the case of a third of the dead and wounded, I am afraid that the team would have collapsed without a fight. After rushing out of the house, the rebels put on a formation: more than a dozen firearms with three-eyed guns were in the front, and there were originally seven or eight bird guns in the hands of the rebels, but Du Guoying felt that it was better to use three-eyed guns to see clearly at night anyway. The firearms players formed a loose horizontal formation, and the remaining spearmen and knife players six or seven meters behind the horizontal formation formed a triangular formation and pressed towards Liu Cheng's side. When the distance between the two sides was about 20 meters, with Du Guoying's shouting, the firearms men fired the three-eyed guns in their hands at the fastest speed, and then retreated to the sides, and the spearmen rushed forward with loud shouts.

Liu Cheng and Huineng stood side by side behind a door panel, although they knew that the door panel had already been covered with two layers of water-soaked quilts, Liu Cheng's hands and feet still couldn't help but tremble slightly. It's not that Liu Cheng suddenly burst out with courage, but he knows very well that if he loses, even if he hides behind and survives in this black winter ravine, he won't be able to run anywhere, so it's better to simply be single, and stay and bet to win.

Despite this, when Liu Cheng heard the muffled sound of fluttering on the wooden board, his knees were instinctively weak, but fortunately, a strong hand stretched out next to him and supported him under his armpit, so that he did not sit on the ground. Liu Cheng looked back, but it was Huineng who helped him so that he didn't have this appearance. I saw that the other party's eyelids were lowered, his body was standing straight with a smile, his lips were slightly open and closed, as if he was reciting some scriptures, and nearly a hundred young villagers behind him put their weapons aside, sat cross-legged on the ground with their hands folded, and chanted words in their mouths, which should be chanting with Huineng.

"It seems that the foundation of this Huineng is not as simple as he said!" Liu Chengzheng secretly thought in his heart that the rebel firearms on the opposite side had already released the medicine in the three-eyed gun, and the spearmen and sword players behind him had already rushed up with loud shouts, and a fierce hand-to-hand combat began.

According to the prior arrangement, the young villagers who participated in the battle were divided into seven groups according to their blood relationship, arranged horizontally, the two strongest in each group held thick branches, the two less powerful people held the door or bed board, while the four people who were agile used spears, the other four people used short weapons such as pitchforks, threshing flails, and short sticks, and the remaining old and weak carried a bag of fist-sized stones. During the battle, stand in the order of door panels, thick branches, spears, short soldiers, and stone throwings from front to back, while each group maintains a distance of four to five meters from each other horizontally, and marches forward in unison according to the sound of the trumpet. As soon as the rebels came into contact, they found that they could not break through from the front, because under the protection of the door panels and thick branches, the gunmen of the villagers could safely and boldly assassinate, while the spearmen of the rebels could not even see the figure of the other party clearly; Some of the most daring knife players who tried to get close enough to fight were knocked to the ground by the advancing door panels, and were immediately killed by pitchforks and flails. Under this attack, the rebels instinctively avoided the front of the enemy and squeezed into the gap between the enemy groups, intending to attack the flanks that were not protected by longboards. But they found it to be nothing more than an elaborate trap - spears and pitchforks were stabbing from the left and right sides at the same time, and stones were flying at the same time, and the gunners of the teams on either side could attack the enemy without breaking their ranks, and only a few survived the flanking blows.

Du Guoying, who was standing behind the formation, couldn't believe his eyes, as soon as his subordinates came into contact with the enemy, people were constantly knocked to the ground, although the rest of the people tried their best to resist, but they were only defeated and retreated, and in the process, he didn't even see an enemy being knocked down, considering that the enemy shouted obviously when he was doing farm work, this was not like a fight, but like a group of peasants cutting wheat, but it was not a full ear of wheat that fell to the ground, but a corpse. He looked back at his uncle, only to see Du Ruhu's eyes glazed, without saying a word, without the shrewd and strong appearance of the past, he gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Follow me!" He pulled out his saber and rushed forward, and more than a dozen firearms on both sides who had just retreated also drew their sabers or brandished the three-eyed guns as iron rods to follow, and the firearms who had been fired were used as reserves for hand-to-hand combat was a very common tactic in the Ming army. Du Guoying knew very well in his heart that the enemy's main general should be in the middle group, because the flag could not be seen at night, and only the sound could play a role, and the command with the sound as the carrier had very strict requirements for distance, and only in the center of the front could the columns at the left and right ends be commanded at the same time. The only way to regain defeat at this point is to charge straight into the enemy's line, kill the enemy general or force him to flee, and destroy his command center.

"I should win!" Liu Cheng cautiously looked out from the gap between the two rocks, although the firearms of the rebels should have been discharged, but who knows if a stray arrow would fly from somewhere? There are many famous generals in history who won battles but were killed by stray arrows!

"It's not just a win, it's a big win!" Huineng on the side was already flushed with excitement, and his green muscles were exposed. Because it was night, although he could not determine how many people were killed or wounded on his side, but his side was constantly advancing, and the rebels were constantly retreating, with his past experience, in this case, most of the people who were injured and fell to the ground on their own side could be saved, and there were not many killed on the spot on the battlefield, the vast majority of the war dead were injured and fell to the ground after being mended by the enemy or trampled to death, this unilateral suppression of the ratio of the two sides of the war dead will not be less than 1 to 3.

"Huh!" Liu Chenggan laughed twice, and just wanted to be modest when he heard a loud noise, and when he looked back, he saw that the door panel of the team had overturned, and the two men holding the door panel fell to the ground, not knowing whether they were alive or dead. It turned out that Du Guoying rushed up and hit the door panel with his shoulders without saying a word, and knocked the two men who were caught off guard behind the door panel and retreated again and again. Suddenly there was no barrier, and the group of villagers instinctively retreated, but fortunately the members of this group belonged to the same family, so although they retreated, they did not flee.

"Oops!" Liu Cheng slapped his thigh violently, and before he could complain, Hui Neng next to him picked up the flail next to him and greeted him, shouting loudly: "Under the throne of the Immortal Ancestor, Hui Neng is here, and the gods and demons of the heavens are as anxious as the law!" Seeing this, the villagers of the village that was about to disperse regrouped in response, and although the rebels had the advantage in numbers and martial arts, they all had short weapons in their hands

, for a time it was impossible to break through the line of defense of thick branches and spears.

"What a demon monk, it turns out that you are making trouble behind your back, where is that companion of yours, and it will save the military master a lot of effort to come up together!" Du Guoying sneered, and cut down with a knife on the head, but he didn't want the other party's hand to be scary, so he wiped the rod in his hand and blocked Du Guoying's knife at the outer door, and poked the opponent's throat with the momentum, Du Guoying hurriedly jumped back, but he could avoid it, and a layer of cold sweat couldn't help but appear on his forehead.

7. Under the fierce battle

"This monk is so fast!" Du Guoying felt a faint pain in his throat, and when he reached out and touched his fingers, there was already a rainbow on his fingers, obviously if he was half a minute slower just now, he would not die or be seriously injured.

Hui Neng on the opposite side saw that Du Guoying's mind was slightly divided, and he shouted and hit the head with a stick, Du Guoying's instinctive horizontal knife blocked, but he didn't want Hui Neng to hold an ordinary stick in his hand, but a pair of flails, this flail was originally a kind of agricultural tool, composed of a long handle and a group of bamboo strips side by side, connected by ropes in the middle, after harvesting the grain, the farmer used the flail to beat the grain to make the grain fall off. Later, it evolved into a kind of weapon, and the bamboo row at the front end was replaced by a wolf's tooth iron rod or iron ball wrapped with iron sheet, which was connected by iron chains instead of ropes. Du Guoying just blocked the long handle of the flail, and the mace at the front end hit down by inertia, Du Guoying instinctively turned his head and smashed it on his right shoulder, only to hear a muffled sound, and Du Guoying immediately fell to the ground.

"Mr. Qian!"

"Master Qian!" The rebellious soldiers on both sides were taken aback when they saw this, Du Guoying was outstanding in martial arts and riding among the young officers in Yansui Town, and everyone thought that a monk was definitely handy, but they didn't expect that the two of them would be seriously injured when they took a look. The two hands hurriedly stepped forward and dragged it back, and the morale of the villagers was suddenly boosted, and they shouted loudly to kill them.

Without Du Guoying's supervision, the rebels no longer had the intention of fighting, leaving their wounded companions and fleeing into the house, these losers were so flustered that they even forgot to reclose the courtyard door, for them, the house full of irritating gases seemed so safe and lovely at this time.