There are 60 miles of rolling low hills between the Lishui River Valley and Qingjiangyi, and the highest hill is only about 200 zhang high. Before Qingjiang Mansion became a deserted city, there were few tunzhai and polder villages in this mountainous area, and now only the dangerous cottages were occupied by the liukou, and most of the polders and polders were deserted.

In the col, a stream of clear water flows around the collapsed polder wall, and in the long-abandoned polder, the earthen houses have weathered for decades, leaving only the foundation, and the few blue brick and stone houses are only half of the low walls. The elm jujube and locust willows planted in front of and behind the house are stout and sturdy, and the leaves are falling in the evening breeze.

More than a dozen outposts cautiously entered the polder, carefully checking the traces of the army on the ground. An ancient locust branch hung a corner inlaid with yellow silk cloth, and a leader-like person jumped on the locust branch to take it down, and it was originally a corner of the military flag, apparently torn off by the ancient locust branch when the army was marching.

The horse manure on the side of the road was half-dry, and there was no trace of cooking on the way, which showed that the army that passed by here half a day ago was like an arrow.

Sure enough, as the alliance commander expected, Xu Ruyu was trapped in the Secret Village, and the Qingyan Army frantically returned to the Secret Village. With a wave of his hand, let his subordinates send out the usual whistle behind them.

A group of Kou soldiers entered the polder, followed by another team, and in a few moments, the number of rogues who entered the polder village had reached 2,000 people, and it could be judged from the clothing that it was several forces of the Twelve Kou League in the east of the secret village. On the slope outside the polder, there are still 3,000 Liukou parked, waiting for the 2,000 Liukou in the polder to cross the mountain beam in front of them and then enter the polder.

Dozens of more outposts climbed over the ridge and disappeared from view, when suddenly two sharp whistles sounded from the side of the ridge almost simultaneously. In less than a moment, countless human heads poured out of the mountain beams, holding swords and halberds, holding bows and arrows, and rushed towards the mountain col with a shout.

The 2,000 Liukou in the polder village rushed towards the mountain beam like crazy, and if they were trapped in the narrow mountain col, they would surely suffer heavy casualties in the face of Qingyan's longbow and arrows. The rogues on the slope behind the polder also bypassed the polder, rushing from the mountains on both sides to the mountain beams in front. In the blink of an eye, the rogues who rushed up from the polder were already engaged with the soldiers at the forefront of the Blue Flame Army. The Qingyan army was condescending, suppressed the rogues at the bottom of the mountain with a dense rain of arrows, and from the mountain beam, divided two columns of 1,000 people to intercept the rogues who came to reinforce from the left and right.

In less than a moment, the rogue who rushed up the mountain beam was pressed back into the polder, and the collapsed polder wall could not provide effective shelter for the rogues, and arrows were shot one after another, and people continued to fall. The rogues on both sides could not rush past the volley of the Blue Flame Army, and were frozen on the slopes of the two.

Ming Xi pulled out his saber and poked the scabbard into the dirt ground, two feet into the ground. Liang Bao hurriedly stretched out his hand to block him and said, "You are the main general, how can you go to the battle." ”

Ming Xi waved his hand away and said, "You stare at the sides, and the two thousand rogues in the polder will be handed over to me." With that, he rushed to the front, raised his sword, and shouted, "Warriors of the camp of the guards, rush with me." ”

Feng Lin thought to himself: When Wei Yan left, he specially ordered that if he charged slower than the Suwei Camp and the Xuancheng Infantry Battalion, he would skin me. Seeing that Ming Xi gave the order to charge, he abandoned the longbow in his hand, pulled out his saber, held the knife flower, and rushed towards the Liukou with a shout, with more than 200 people behind him, he immediately followed, half a body faster than the camp of the guards, and followed closely behind Ming Xi and Fenglin.

At noon on November 4, Ming Xi and Liang Bao led 6,000 soldiers from the Suwei Camp and the Xuancheng Infantry Battalion to begin to approach the Dark Village. The twelve Kou Alliance forces east of the Secret Village poured out, and organized 5,000 Kou soldiers to accompany them. The combat intentions of the Twelve Kou Alliances have been completely exposed, so they will use the Secret Village as the main battlefield and use superior forces to fight a decisive battle with the reinforcements of the Qingyan Army who arrived in a hurry.

The 6,000 Qingyan Army did not enter the designated battlefield as expected, but fought a fierce battle with the 5,000 Liukou who were walking in a polder village fifty miles north of the Dark Castle before noon on the fifth day. It was melee between the 2,000 Liukou in the polder and the 3,500 elites of the Blue Flame Army. The 3,000 Liukou were blocked by the elite of the 2,000 Qingyan Army on the slopes on both sides of the polder, and in the hopeless situation of rescue, they abandoned the 2,000 accomplices trapped in the polder and evacuated north.

Within two hours, 2,000 rogues were wiped out, and only a few broke through. At noon on the 6th, the 6,000 main force of the Qingyan Army caught up with the 3,000 Liukou who retreated north in the territory of Qingjiangyi, the northern edge of the hilly belt, and defeated them in a battle, killing more than 1,000 Liukou, and waving the army back to help the Secret Village.

Starting from the night of the third day, the main generals of the Qingyan Army, Meng Yi, Shao Haitang, Xu Boying, uncle Fangwu Wei Yu, Mi Yusheng and others all came to Beiling Fort, and 1,500 Qingyan Army, 1,000 Baiyi elites, and ten sentinel water battalion fleets gathered near Beiling Fort at noon on the fourth day.

The distance between Beiling Fort and the Dark Village is forty miles, and the mountain road is narrow and rugged, which is not conducive to the passage of the army. There are many flare ports on the way, and when you pass through the flare passes, the terrain is suddenly open, and if only half of the army passes through and is suddenly attacked by the enemy, the effect is almost the same as that of a half-crossing attack. The Blue Flame Army was unable to take the lead, and was suppressed by the enemy at the pass, needless to say, suffering heavy casualties.

Haozishan has been lying there for three days with four thousand Liukou, Xu Ruyu is trapped in the secret village, he believes that as long as the Qingyan Army of Beiling Fort is assembled, it will be the first to start, even if he knows that he will engage the Twelve Kou Alliance in such unfavorable terrain, he will not hesitate. Hao Ziming looked at the news that Beiling Fort had gathered 2,500 foot soldiers of the Qingyan Army, smiled slightly, and thought: The Qingyan Army just gave up the defense of Beiling Fort and poured out, in such a terrain, it was impossible to defeat the four thousand elites behind him, even if the world-famous Qingfeng General led the army.

Tiankui Village is less than ten miles north of Beiling Fort, high on Tiankui Mountain less than 100 zhang high, the west side is close to the Qingjiang River with clear water and turbulent waves, and the estuary of Hongjiang River flowing into Qingjiang is on the west bank of Tiankui Mountain six miles north of it. The three water villages of the Qingjiang River are now gathered together in the flood waterway on the west bank.

On the fifth day, the Qingjiang water battalion almost moved in the nest, the fourth battalion and the twelve sentry warships dispatched ten posts, and the warships of the three water villages were forced to leave the waters near Tiankui Village. A total of 3,000 elite soldiers from the three water villages were drawn to support the Twelve Kou Alliances to achieve the plan of the first decisive battle. Although the battleships of the water battalion are comparable to those of the Qingjiang water battalion, the number of naval troops is already lower than that of the Qingjiang water battalion, for fear that the Qingjiang water battalion will take the opportunity to fight a decisive battle at this time.

At dusk on the sixth day, under the pressure of the Qingjiang water camp, 100 warships of the Qingjiang water bandits withdrew from the Qingjiang waterway and avoided to the Hongjiang River.

Late at night, with the eyebrow moon and tall wind lanterns, you can vaguely identify the scenery within a hundred steps. The southeast corner of Tiankui Village, standing on the high sentry tower, the sentry who was napping suddenly woke up, looked at it from a distance, only to see twelve ghostly figures swept towards this place, seemed to see ghosts, rubbed his eyes and looked again, the twelve figures have been close to the wall, covered his mouth and realized the enemy attack, reached out to pull the alarm bell rope around him, there was already a figure running up the five-zhang high sentry tower, a snow-like knife flashed, the sentry fell to the ground, and the other two sentry were cut throats in their sleep.

The patrols on the wall of the wall were surprised, but they saw more than ten sword lights spreading, and in a moment, they annihilated a group of patrols in the southeast corner of Tiankui Village.

Tiankui Village was alarmed up and down, more than 100 Kou soldiers poured here, and countless sergeants wearing Qingyan Army uniforms outside the wall climbed up the ladder that had already leaned on the wall.

The alarm bell rang in all directions, and two hundred more soldiers rushed here, trying to defeat the Qingyan army that had climbed the wall. However, the Qingyan vanguard with twelve teachings occupied a corner of the wall, and the Qingyan army continued to surge behind them, and in less than a moment, the number of Kou soldiers had already surpassed that of the Kou soldiers, and gradually advanced to both sides.

At that time, when the southwest corner sounded the charge of the Qingyan Army, the five hundred soldiers stationed in Tiankui Village knew that they gave up and resisted.

Wei Yu led a mixed army composed of 2,000 soldiers of the water battalion and 1,500 soldiers of the Suwei battalion, and with the help of the 12 sects, it only took two hours to fully occupy the Tiankui village where 500 Liukou were stationed. Cut off the forces of the Twelve Kou Alliance west of the Secret Village and the forces of the Qingjiang Water Village.

In the early morning of the seventh day, Wei Yu led 3,000 soldiers from Tiankui Village to Dark Village.

At this time, Ming Xi and Liang Bao led 6,000 soldiers from the north to the dark village.

At noon on the 7th of November, the 12 Kou Leagues continued to besiege the village for nearly four days, and the decisive battle did not take place in the valley in front of the village as Hao Ziming expected. The traces of the 5,000 Kou soldiers in the east disappeared, and the 6,000 main forces of the Qingyan Army that entered Qingjiangyi did not enter the decisive battle valley that Hao Ziming had set for him in advance. The 3,000 soldiers who ambushed Xuancheng on the west side have not found the Qingyan Army gathered in Beiling Fort moving in the direction of the Dark Village.

All of this gave Hao Ziming a sense that the situation was not good, and in desperation, he had to give up the original battle plan, send a sentry to the north to collect the 5,000 soldiers who suddenly disappeared, and ordered Hao Zishan to lead 3,000 troops to move closer here.

Eight miles away in the northwest and ten miles away due north, most of the Qingyan Army is moving rapidly towards the Dark Village, and the specific number of people is to be investigated.

Hao Ziming's face suddenly turned pale, and he couldn't take care of the hundreds of soldiers who were fighting with the defenders on the wall of the dark wall, so he immediately ordered the remaining 3,500 people to evacuate to the southwest, preparing to join the Haozi Mountains.

The hundreds of soldiers attached to the wall of the wall turned their heads and saw that the follow-up troops did not keep up, and the main camp in the distance began to collect the flag, how could they be in the mood to attack again, they all withdrew from the wall and ran to the rear camp.

Secretly said that the gate of the village suddenly opened, and Wei Yan took the lead, followed by the three hundred elite soldiers who had just gathered, and in the blink of an eye, fled to the hundreds of soldiers who had evacuated from the wall. These unintentional rogues were crushed with a single blow and scattered in all directions.

Hao Ziming immediately sent a thousand soldiers to block it, and intercepted the 300 people led by Wei Yan in the open space 400 steps away from the main camp.

Xu Ruyu and Feng Yuanyuan led the remaining three hundred elites to also rush out of the gate and join up with Wei Yan. Knowing that the reinforcements are entangled with the soldiers in front of him, as long as he waits for the reinforcements to arrive, he can severely damage the dozens of soldiers who are constantly attacking the village.

The only remaining 600 soldiers in the dark village suddenly gave birth to a new force, forgetting the tiredness of the four days, like a tiger cutting into the enemy.

"Knock knock", hundreds of war horses appeared in the north of the mountain beam, Hao Ziming dispelled the division of troops again to intercept, abandoned all baggage, and raised the army to evacuate to the southeast.

Wei Yan let out a loud cry and turned over on a war horse galloping past him. The samurai on the horse was about to fight back, but was slapped down by Wei Yan, "Damn, you're following behind." Then he shouted: "Fenglin, ignore this side, follow me to pursue the enemy team." With that, his feet clamped the horse's belly, like an arrow shot out, through the chaos of a thousand enemies, chasing after the Liukou team that was evacuating in the distance, more than two hundred war horses galloped behind him, and the high-raised standard saber flashed with the light.

Ming Xi saw that the whereabouts of the army were discovered by the sentinels of the Twelve Kou League, and immediately ordered Fenglin to lead 250 soldiers of the Qingjiang Cavalry Battalion to drive the Qingyan Army to the Dark Village with only war horses.

Hao Zi knew that in the undulating hills, the speed of the war horse was still much faster than that of the foot soldiers, so he had to send another 500 people to intercept it. Wei Yan rode his horse around the intercepted 500-man formation, led the crowd to rush up a gentle slope, turned the horse's head and continued to charge towards the enemy's own team.

Hao Ziming gritted his teeth and took out the halberd, standing sideways there, watching more than 250 war horses roll towards him like a torrent.

More than 250 war horses stopped at a hundred paces away from Hao Ziming, put their knives into their sheaths, drew their longbows, and drew arrows to shoot at Hao Ziming and the team behind him.

Hao Ziming and the shield-holding team and the 500-strong formation on the east side slowly pressed towards the Qingjiang cavalry camp led by Wei Yan, and Wei Yan led the team to ride around the left flank of the enemy's team, and the arrows shot dozens of steps away continued to thin the thickness of the enemy's team. 2,500 rogues were on the slope by the soldiers of the Qingjiang cavalry battalion, and 400 steps away, Xu Ruyu led 600 soldiers to fight with the intercepted 1,000-man Liukou formation. The defenders had spent too much physical strength in the past four days, and everyone was somewhat wounded, and they had not been able to penetrate the thousand-man formation. Xu Ruyu carried a spear and killed a few back and forth in the dying and struggling Liukou Thousand Formation, but he still couldn't defeat his fighting spirit, and couldn't help but sigh that the combat power of the Twelve Kou Alliance was really different from the ordinary Liukou, and saw that Wei Yan successfully hung the Liukou team in the distance, and did not risk huge casualties to forcibly pierce the enemy formation, so that the six hundred soldiers gradually separated from the enemy and formed a circle formation, only contacting the surface of the enemy formation.

The great rout of the enemy began when Wei Yu led 3,000 soldiers to appear on the mountain beam in the northwest. Watching the Blue Flame Army like a cyan torrent overflowing the mountain beam, attacking and rolling over, the enemy Kou Fu was immediately defeated.

When Ming Xi and Liang Bao led 6,000 soldiers to arrive, they only participated in a massacre, and the rogue bandits all over the mountains spread their feet to escape the Qingyan army, which was several times their size, and the soldiers of the Qingjiang cavalry battalion with the strength of their horses and feet chose to rush into the fleeing rogues, completely ignoring whether those rogues abandoned their weapons and slashed straight at their heads.

Xu Ruyu ordered Feng Yuanyuan to lead 600 soldiers to guard the battlefield and not participate in the pursuit, and chased after the Qingjiang cavalry camp.

Although Xu Ruyu strictly ordered not to kill and surrender, the people of Xuancheng hated these rogues who had been suffering for decades, and the Qingyan Army composed of the people of Xuancheng was full of hatred. Unlike the rogues who lost their fighting spirit, the soldiers of the Qingyan Army in the chaos were full of murderous intent and strong fighting spirit.

Wei Yan stood behind Xu Ruyu with an indignant face, and shouted in his mouth: "These turtle sons usually say that they have done a lot of evil, and they are to blame. ”

Xu Ruyu said in a deep voice: "You should be killed first." You go and restrain your subordinates with Ming Xi and Liang Bao. Wei Yan remembered that he was also a bandit, so he immediately kept silent and reluctantly conveyed Xu Ruyu's military order.

At the time of the rout, there were nearly 2,7800 people, 1,200 people were captured, and the other 1,5600 were in the mountains and wilderness, except for a small number of them, most of the corpses were hidden in the mountains and fields around the village.

Haozishan heard that nearly 10,000 people of the main force of the Qingyan Army had unexpectedly appeared around the village in the twenty miles, and he did not have the courage to go to reinforcements, so he turned around and returned to the stronghold of the Twelve Kou League.

In the fourth day, under the siege of nearly 10,000 troops of the Qingyan Army who suddenly appeared in the dark village, the whole army was annihilated, and only a few people in Hao Ziming relied on high and profound cultivation to break through the siege.

On November 8, Wei Yu led 3,000 soldiers back to Beiling Fort, Feng Yuanyuan and Tu Wenyong led 500 people to garrison the Dark Village, and Xu Ruyu led most of the Suwei Camp, most of the Xuancheng Infantry Battalion, and nearly 6,000 soldiers of the Qingjiang Cavalry Battalion to begin to clear the cottage forces between the Secret Village and Taishan one by one.

After two crushing defeats on November 5 and 6, the forces in this region suffered a great loss in strength, and they no longer had the strength to confront the Blue Flame Army. By the end of the fifty-third year, the rogue forces in this area, as well as in the southwestern part of Cheonggang-eup, had been uprooted.

On December 28, except for the soldiers of the first battalion of the Suwei camp who led by Ming Xi to continue to stay in the southern area of the Qingjiang River, Xu Ruyu led the army to return to the dark village, repaired in the dark village for a day, and let Liang Bao lead the soldiers of the first battalion of the Xuancheng infantry battalion to stay in the dark village, and the rest of the people returned to Xuancheng with Xu Ruyu on the first day of the first month of the 54th year of the new dynasty.

From the night attack on the village on October 23, to the siege of the village by 5,000 soldiers, and until the end of the 53rd year of the new dynasty, a series of battles took place in the northern hilly zone of the Lishui River Valley, collectively known as the "battle of the secret bandits." In the battle of more than two months, all the rogue forces between the Dark Village and Taishan were wiped out, and the remnants of the Twelve Kou Alliances (about 4,000 troops) were trapped in the narrow area between the Dark Village, Tiankui Village, and Beiling Fort. Because of the fact that Qingjiang Shuizhai sent troops to participate in the battle of the Twelve Kou League, its strength was greatly damaged, and its power was blocked in the Hongjiang River, a tributary of the Qingjiang River on the west bank.

In the early stage of the siege of Dark Zhai, it was the fiercest battle since the formation of the Qingyan Army, and more than 1,270 soldiers participated in the defense (600 soldiers from the second battalion of Xuancheng, 200 from the Black Warrior Battalion, 100 from the Qingjiang Cavalry Battalion, 350 prisoners of war from the Secret Zhai, and 20 from Xu Ruyu's guards), but more than half of the casualties reached 700.

At this time, it was a full year before it was stationed in the Lishui River Valley, and the Qingyan Army basically controlled the Lishui River Valley, and only after eliminating the remnants of the Qingjiang Shuizhai and the Twelve Kou Alliance, the Qingyan Army would begin to expand to the Qingjiangyi in the north and Chongyiyi in the northeast.

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