According to Shen Xiaoshan's instructions, Guo Tai led more than 40 horsemen and five carriages to hurry up, and finally arrived at the foot of Scorpion Mountain.

From Dengzhou to here, this official road naturally forks, and along the official road all the way east, you will directly reach Yantai, the easternmost point of Shandong; Turn right along the official road and walk south, you will pass through Longkou and enter Zhaoyuan, the meeting point agreed between Shen Xiaoshan and Liu Rongsheng.

Guo Taiyi slowly reined in the speed of the horse, and said loudly to the cattle and the soldiers of the Enemy Hunting Division beside him: "Brothers, stop for the time being, waiting for Shen Tou'er and the brothers from the Zhenshan Battalion to come to help. ”

Most of the soldiers of the Enemy Hunting Division were tenacious and silent people, knowing that they might face the pursuit of the officers and soldiers from the Dengzhou Battalion, so they took this opportunity to jump off the war horses one after another, untie the grain bags from the horses, grab a large handful of soybeans to feed the war horses, pat the foreheads of the war horses from time to time, and the war horses rubbed the arms of the soldiers affectionately to feed the soldiers, and then lowered their heads and continued to nibble on the soybeans in the hands of the soldiers of the Enemy Hunting Division.

Guo Tai and Niu Er jumped off their war horses and fed their respective war horses, their expressions were a little anxious, and their eyes glanced at the road from time to time, waiting for the arrival of Shen Xiaoshan and the soldiers of the Zhenshan battalion.

Starting from the foot of Scorpion Mountain on the south side of the road at the intersection of this official road, there are black pine, larch and other trees, the entire Scorpion Mountain is covered by pine forest, hundreds or thousands of people hide in this forest area, it is difficult to find it from the outside!

The Zhenshan Battalion Bird Soldiers were more than a mile away from the place where Guo Tai and the others rested, and Shen Xiaoshan rode his horse and quickly returned to the enemy hunting team, and Guo Tai and Niu Er immediately surrounded him.

Shen Xiaoshan jumped off the war horse and handed the reins to the enemy hunter soldiers beside him, who helped feed the war horse.

Shen Xiaoshan said to Guo Tai and Niu'er who came over with a calm face: "What we are most worried about is that the Dengzhou battalion will send troops to pursue, and now it seems that this situation is still inevitable." Although the commander sent the Earthquake Mountain Battalion Bird Soldiers to support. But how many soldiers will the Dengzhou battalion send and what kind of troops will be sent to chase and intercept. We don't know, but we can't wait for the other side to come to the door before we fight back. We have to fight back from this point on. ”

Guo Tai and Niu Er are all foggy that they have heard, and the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion have not yet appeared, how can they fight back!

Shen Xiaoshan explained: "Fighting back is better than having to wait until the enemy is coming before returning fire, knowing that the other party is coming to pursue, we can set up obstacles on the other party's path in advance, for example, we can scatter the thistle terrestris prepared in advance by our hunting division on the official road, and you can take some small pits, etc., so that no matter whether the officers and soldiers who are pursuing are cavalry or infantry, they can cause some damage to them." Delaying the pursuit is what our enemy hunting division is good at. ”

Guo Tai clapped his hands and said: "That's how it should be, the officers and soldiers who care about the damn place, dare to argue with our Huluyan, Lao Tzu will not let him have a good time!" Boss, leave this matter to my old Guo to do, and promise to teach the Dengzhou battalion people who are chasing us an unforgettable lesson. ”

Shen Xiaoshan said: "This matter will be handed over to Niu'er, Niu'er, you will take a few brothers and go to the back of the official road to meet Jiang Yu and Lao Wu to handle this matter." Remember to come back immediately and report as soon as you find the traces of the opponent's pursuers, and go quickly! ”

Sending away the cow, he turned to Guo Tai and said, "Old Guo, you reminded me of the words you just said to the foreign craftsmen. These foreign craftsmen are all brainless, and in order to bring them back to Huluyan smoothly, they have to wronged them! ”

Guo Tai's brain spun fast. The interface said: "The meaning of the leader is to give up the carriage in order to speed up the progress, and let these foreign craftsmen follow us on horseback!" ”

Feng Jian nodded and said, "To be exact, these foreigners are on horseback." Wait until we're out of danger and then get them back in the carriage. ”

Guo Tai is not a kind-hearted master, and he doesn't feel anything wrong with Shen Xiaoshan's decision. I didn't care about how much resentment these foreign craftsmen would have against them in the future, and of course I wouldn't pity how much hardship these foreign craftsmen had to suffer when they were tied to horses and hurryed!

Guo Tai rolled his eyes and said: "Now there is a fork in the official road, one goes straight to Yantai, and the other turns right to the south towards Longkou and Zhaoyuan. ”

Shen Xiaoshan said: "Yes, I just use these vacant carriages to lead the pursuers astray and force them to separate their forces here. ”

Shen Xiaoshan looked at the soldiers of the Enemy Hunting Division who were feeding the war horses, and continued: "I plan to divide the troops into two routes, one is to have twenty brothers lead these five carriages straight and continue to march in the direction of Yantai, and the other is to have twenty brothers riding horses and carrying fifteen foreign craftsmen to turn right and move towards Longkou and Zhaoyuan. When the pursuers arrive here, they will inevitably not be able to guess the true whereabouts of the foreign craftsmen we are carrying, so it is an inevitable choice to divide the troops to chase and intercept. ”

Guo Tai rolled his eyes and asked: "The carriage is moving slowly, and the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion who are pursuing will soon find out that they have been fooled, and they will inevitably turn around and chase back, what should they do when the time comes?" ”

Shen Xiaoshan said: "Have you forgotten that there are also Zhenshan Camp Bird Soldiers!" I was going to ask the Zhenshan Battalion Bird Soldiers to ambush in this pine forest, and the officers and men of Dengzhou who were pursuing in the direction of Yantai found that they had been fooled and would inevitably return along the same route. Taking advantage of the panic of the Dengzhou soldiers, the twenty brothers who led the carriage along the Yantai Road immediately covered up from behind them, striving to disrupt the deployment of the officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion, and asked them to send people to recall the pursuers in the direction of Longkou and Zhaoyuan, and when the officers and soldiers on this road came back to help, our enemy hunting division could give full play to the advantages of the cavalry on our side, counterattack the officers and soldiers who returned to help, and cover the evacuation of the enemy hunting division brothers in the direction of Zhaoyuan in Longkou on the south road and the soldiers of the Zhenshan battalion in the pine forest. ”

Guo Taidao: "What should we do if the Dengzhou military camp sends too many people? ”

"If the Dengzhou military camp sends a large number of men and horses to pursue, then we can only turn around and flee, and the birds and soldiers of the Zhenshan camp can only hide in the pine forest and cannot act rashly. However, I think that the Dengzhou battalion is now mainly guarding against Kong Youde's rebellious soldiers, and it is unlikely that a large number of men and horses will be sent to pursue them. ”

Guo Tai waited for Shen Xiaoshan to finish speaking, and said to Shen Xiaoshan with a rare serious demeanor: "Boss, this time the task of leading the carriage to lure the enemy will be handed over to me Guo Tai, I won't say much, I just want Shen Tou'er to know that Guo Tai is no longer the person who cowered when he was grinding cone mountain." ”

Shen Xiaoshan said: "I know that after your Lao Guo joined my Enemy Hunting Division, he is no longer the hesitant and greedy person who is afraid of death in the past, but the task of you and Niu Er is to supervise the fifteen foreign craftsmen and properly escort them to Huihuluyan, and leave the task of luring the enemy to me to complete." ”

Seeing that Guo Tai was about to argue with his neck strained, Shen Xiaoshan said heavily: "Old Guo, the first discipline of our enemy hunting division is to obey orders, now is a critical time, don't argue!" ”

Guo Tai immediately straightened up and said: "How dare Guo Tai not obey the discipline of the Enemy Hunting Division, let alone disobey Shen Tou'er's orders. ”

"Okay, start preparing now!"

The two had just discussed properly, and just as Yang Eighty led the Zhenshan Battalion Bird Soldiers to the intersection, Shen Xiaoshan briefly explained the plan agreed by the two to Yang Eighty.

Yang Ba asked in detail about the measures to be taken by the Bird Gun soldiers of the Zhenshan Battalion in the face of the incoming enemy, as well as the methods of echoing Shen Xiaoshan's enemy hunting division.

Yang Eighty was not busy immediately leading the hundred bird-gun soldiers under his command into the pine forest to hide, but stood on the official road and walked back and forth, visually measuring the distance from the pine forest on the opposite side to the official road.

Yang Eighty walked back and forth on the official road, with words in his mouth, and soon said to Shen Xiaoshan: "Director Shen, there is a distance of ninety to one hundred steps between the official road here and the pine forest opposite, and the offending officers and soldiers are about five hundred paces away from entering the range of our bird guns, if the cavalry passes by, my bird guns soldiers can probably raise three rounds, if the soldiers pass through here, my bird guns soldiers can raise at least five rounds, because there is no cover of sword and shield soldiers and pikemen, and there is time to evacuate after the fire. Therefore, in the follow-up battle, my bird soldiers will be powerless! ”

Shen Xiaoshan looked at Yang Eighty, he was the same as himself, more than a year ago, he was a farmer who only knew how to dig in the field, but after just over a year, he became the best among them in their different fields, everything was like a dream!

Yang Eighty "coughed" and woke up Shen Xiaoshan, who was a little distracted. "What else does Director Shen have to explain, eighty is ready to lead his subordinate birds and soldiers to find a place to hide."

Shen Xiaoshan pondered what Yang Eighty had just said, and felt that Yang Eighty had already considered the advance and retreat of the Bird Gun Soldiers very thoughtfully, and there was no need for him to give any more instructions.

Shen Xiaoshan looked at Yang Eighty and said, "How to arrange the internal tactics of the Eighty Brothers Bird Soldiers, everything is up to you to decide, I only ask for one thing, that is, to kill and injure as many enemies as possible!" ”

Seeing Yang Eighty nodding, he then instructed: "Don't leave traces between the pine forest and the official road of the Zhenshan Battalion, you take a detour into the pine forest to ambush, so as not to arouse the suspicion of the pursuing soldiers in Dengzhou!" ”

Shen Xiaoshan nodded and said, "Director Shen doesn't have to worry about this, I have already made up my mind." ”

He pointed with his hand to the official road in the direction of Longkou Zhaoyuan, and said to Shen Xiaoshan: "I, the Bird Soldier of the Zhenshan Battalion, plan to go along this official road and detour into the pine forest, so as not to attract the attention of the pursuers in the direction of Yantai, and then turn to the direction of this fork in the pine forest." ”

Shen Xiaoshan, Guo Tai, and Yang Eighty-three made a plan, and Yang Eighty took the lead in leading the Zhenshan Battalion to disappear from everyone's sight.

Immediately afterward, in a burst of shouting, intimidation and cursing, fifteen foreign craftsmen were taken out of the carriage and put on the horses of fifteen enemy hunters and tied with ropes, and galloped quickly towards the official road in the direction of Longkou and Zhaoyuan in the midst of Guo Tai's shouting.

Leaving a soldier of the Enemy Hunting Division to inform Niu Er, Jiang Yu and others, the remaining more than 20 officers and soldiers of the Enemy Hunting Division led by Shen Xiaoshan drove five carriages straight towards Yantai. (To be continued......)