Heavy snow began to fall in the second half of the night, and there was no sign of stopping until dawn.

The rolling hills at the eastern foot of Halla Mountain have long been a world of crystal clear ice and snow; Pine forests, valleys, meadows, and even bare rocks are all gone, replaced by a long white jade-colored carpet that cannot be seen at a glance; There is no sound in the sky and the earth except for the sound of snow falling, and the whole world is extraordinarily quiet and beautiful.

Immediately at the foot of the main peak of Mt. Laoro, Halla Mountain, a short battle has just ended.

In the mountain glade at the edge of the pine forest, two long snake-like barbed wire fences lie quietly on the ground; The first barbed wire fence was full of human and horse corpses, and Yin Hong's blood stains were particularly shocking against the white snow.

One of the horse bandits hanging from the barbed wire was still dying, and blood was constantly flowing from his convulsive body, dripping down the barbed wire fence and forming a small blood-colored puddle on the snow; A little farther away, there was no blood-colored puddle, and the blood flowing from the many corpses had pooled into a pool of blood in the depression, still steaming; A horse that had been shot was not dead for a while, and from time to time struggled in a pool of blood, causing ripples.

"Three rows to close! …… Count"

A loud command came from the flying snowflakes, and soon a short but powerful number call echoed it.

"One! Two! Three! …… Thirty-six! Thirty-seven! ”

"Report to the platoon commander, Gu Dan'er is injured!" After counting the numbers, someone in the queue reported loudly.

The third platoon leader scolded while pushing through the crowd and walking in, "If you beat a few horse bandits, your dog will be injured every day, and you will be remembered in the dog's stomach on weekdays?" …… Lift your legs and take a look! Got an arrow in the thigh? …… All right! Count your dog's luck on the day, ion Sun Gen is still far away! …… It's good now, I'm going to let Sun Ergou see the joke again, grandma always says how good they are in the second row. Hit Jinyue Feng and didn't even break the skin...... Can't you give me some gas? Can't we get zero casualties? ”

He complained to himself, but he didn't notice that not far behind him, Xu Zhiyuan and a few people were watching dumbfounded.

Although he has seen a lot of such scenes, every time he looks at them again, he can't help but be stunned - when the Shanxi bandits started a war with themselves, they were obviously fierce, even if they wanted to kill three or five, it would take the old nose to exert their strength, how did they get into the hands of the Fuliao army. It's like mud?

In the more than ten days since he set off from Anza River, Xu Zhiyuan has asked himself this question more than once, but he has never found the real answer.

At first, he attributed the reason to the brothers he brought, after all, they are the head snakes of the land, and it is clear which horse bandits are entrenched in which mountain, and they will lead the Fuliao army to clear it at a certain point.

But then I thought about it, it was not right, they had also fought with the bandits in the west of the mountain a few times, and the other party was still as fierce and cunning as ever; But as soon as he met the Fuliao army, it was as soft as mud!

And what Xu Zhiyuan couldn't figure out the most was that. The Fuliao army did not rely mainly on cavalry to deal with the bandits in Shanxi, but mainly on infantry!

The main task of the cavalry battalion of the Fuliao Army and even these brothers under him is to block the escape route of the bandits in the west of the mountain in other directions, and force them in front of the infantry phalanx!

So after a few battles, Xu Zhiyuan began to seriously ponder the combat mode of the infantry of the Liao Army; I don't know if I don't think about it, I am shocked when I think about it, the opponent's formation seems to be simple - pull two barbed wire fences in front of the formation, hide behind the formation and keep hitting with fire guns in three stages - but this formation is precisely the nemesis of the cavalry. Not to mention the bandits in the west of the mountain, if the cavalry under his command encounters it. It's the same!

In addition, the tactics adopted by Liu Zhongwen and Song Xiance were equally simple and crude, but extremely effective--let the big scarface not move first, and eliminate the small groups of horse bandits attached to the big scarface one by one; Deal with small groups of horse bandits without entangling with them too much, and go straight to their lair, so that they can force the other party to have to return to help, and then annihilate them on the way back; It's even better if the enemy is cowering in the cottage, so suppress it with a fire gun first. Then put on explosive bags and grenades, as long as the wall is broken, how can anyone dare to resist?

It was with this method that in just ten days, not only the eight or nine horse bandits attached to the big scarface were uprooted. Moreover, Scarface himself has suffered heavy losses due to several hasty rescues, and now, he can only retreat into his last lair, the towering old road.

The Fuliao Army now has two infantry battalions and a cavalry battalion, plus more than 400 people from Xu Zhiyuan, and all the intersections at the foot of the old road and Yue Mountain are blocked.

Occasionally, the horse bandits who have lost their minds rush down the mountain desperately, and most of them end up like these unlucky eggs in front of the third row now - corpses are everywhere!

Big Scarface!

Xu Zhiyuan knew very well that after several conflicts, it is estimated that even half of the more than 200 bandits under Big Scarface will not be left now, even if the camp on Lao Luyue is extremely dangerous, I am afraid that it will not last long.

Thinking of this, Xu Zhiyuan couldn't help but shake his head, kicked the horse's belly, and continued to move forward - he was going to the headquarters of the Fuliao Army to discuss the final general attack.

The headquarters of the Fuliao Army was built in a small valley not far from the three rows of positions, and several huge cowhide tents were steaming, and even the snow on the roofs had melted away, and the snow water flowed wantonly along the four walls of the tents.

As soon as he entered the tent, a wave of heat came to his face, and Xu Zhiyuan saw at a glance that several braziers around the central case were burning red.

Liu Zhongwen, Song Xiance and Zhao Hai were staring at a map on the case around the big case, muttering and discussing something, and when they saw Xu Zhiyuan coming in, Liu Zhongwen immediately beckoned to him and said, "Old Xu, you came just in time, come and see if our plan can work." ”

Xu Zhiyuan came to the front of the case and took a look, what was drawn on the picture was vaguely Lao Luyue, a blue line and a red line pointed directly at the camp with a big scar face on the top of the mountain from the front of the mountain and the back of the mountain, although the signs were all Chinese characters, but Xu Zhiyuan could also guess that this represented an attack from two directions, but he didn't know what one blue and one red meant.

Sure enough, Song Xiance then explained that because there were two roads leading to the top of the mountain in Lao Luyue, they planned to attack the east and the west - the blue line represented the main road in front of the mountain, and this road was a feint; And what really solved the battle was the surprise attack detachment represented by the red line behind the mountain!

"I don't know whether to say more or not, but in fact, there is no need for your army to attack the west...... The main road in front of the mountain is also Shizhangtai, which is more steep, with the ability of your army, it should not be a big problem to attack, why take the risk of sneak attack? After understanding clearly, Xu Zhiyuan couldn't help but ask this question.

After Liu Zhongwen and Song Xiance glanced at each other, the latter said meaningfully.

"In our Fuliao Army, the life of every soldier is incomparably precious...... We not only want to win, but we also want to win beautifully! (To be continued.) )