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In the north of Hutou Pass, on a mountain ridge, Zhao Dagu stood behind a mountain rock with a knife, looking at the bandits under the mountain condescendingly. Under the scorching sun, hundreds of bandits had just finished a round of assault, and were now sitting in the shade of the trees to rest.

Among these people were about a dozen on horseback, relatively well-equipped, and wearing rope armor and leather armor. They all held cold and shining waist knives, and they were also equipped with bows and arrows. But the rest are a bit of a mess, there are young men with big swords and spears, there are old men with bamboo guns and wooden shields, and some teenage teenagers carry javelins on their backs, and they wear all kinds of clothes, most of them are just cloth clothes, and there are very few armor.

Zhao Dagu had previously discovered a few bandits on horseback, and then carelessly pursued them, but fell into the encirclement of thieves. Although he led his archers to break through desperately, he was finally surrounded on this mountain.

With a tenacious and desperate force, they repelled several attacks of the thieves in succession, and although they also shot a dozen bandits, five of their own archers were also killed, and most of the rest were wounded. Even he himself was hit by an arrow in one of his legs, and half of his clothes were stained with blood.

"Can Xiao Wu move in to rescue the soldiers?" The priest Lin Yu asked Zhao Dagu.

"I hope." Zhao Dagu didn't have any hope for reinforcements, the county seat was nearly a hundred miles away from here, and he couldn't come in a day when he came and went, and although the thieves were not in a hurry at the moment, he estimated that the thieves were waiting. Now the sun is blazing, they are exposed to the sun on this mountain, and after a day, the people are almost gone, and when it gets dark, the thieves will attack while it is dark, and they will not be able to stop it at all.

Before dark, the only one who could come was Liu Jun, the captain of the nine-headed bird who was in Taiping Township at this time. Regarding the news of this Liu Jun, he has just heard that in the past two days, with a team of township warriors who have been established and trained for more than a month, they have defeated bandits one after another, which is really quite remarkable. However, although Liu Jun is now in Zhang's house not far away, he seems to only have a dozen soldiers with him, even if Liu Jun is really willing to come to the rescue, it will be useless to rely on his dozen people.

Today, maybe he will die here, Zhao Dagu sighed secretly.

At this moment, the thieves began to shout again and came out from behind the shade of the trees, and the thieves on horseback kept waving their knives, directing the old and young thieves to attack the mountain.

"Brothers, cheer up, Captain Liu of the Nine-Headed Bird is now bringing someone to save us, hold on for a while, and Captain Liu will be here soon." Zhao Dagu also shouted loudly, encouraging everyone's morale.

The remaining dozen or so wounded soldiers cheered up again and drew their bows.

There are not many arrows left, and maybe they can still support an attack or two.

The thieves attacked again, and Zhao Dagu set up an arrow, half behind the stone, and shot a thief who rushed to the front with an arrow. The archers under him also released arrows one after another, although the archers are just a group of people who get seven taels of silver a year, and they can't get all the money, but these archers led by Zhao Dagu are trained by him, and everyone's archery skills are not bad.

Condescendingly, facing those unarmored old and weak bandits, their arrows can often hit the thieves.

Half an hour passed, and the thief had only crawled halfway, but he had already left several corpses behind. The thieves ignored the supervision of the mounted bandits behind them, shouted and turned and fled back.

Seeing this, the horse thieves could only withdraw their troops for the time being.

Zhao Dagu let out a sigh of relief, and finally repelled another wave of attacks.

"How many arrows are left?"

"I still have five."

"And three more."

"There's only one."

The archers reported the number of arrows they had left, and this arrow could only support one wave. Zhao Dagu looked up at the sky, and he couldn't open his eyes due to the blazing sun. It's still so early, how can you keep going?

"Look!" Suddenly, an archer jumped up and shouted excitedly as he pointed to the distance down the mountain.

"That's the flag, it's definitely our reinforcements arriving." Another archer shouted too.

Zhao Dagu struggled to stand up with his injured leg, put his hand on the pergola and looked carefully, there were indeed red flags fluttering among the mountains in the distance, and a team was coming, looking at the number, at least more than 100.

He wondered, where did this team come from, could it be a thief? It is impossible for reinforcements to come so quickly, the nearest is only Liu Jun of the nine-headed bird, but he doesn't have so many people.

He was wondering, and the bandits below the mountain also clearly discovered this uninvited guest.

The thieves on horseback began to shout loudly, and the bandits, young and old, began to assemble in a group.

The thieves didn't seem to expect a team of officers and soldiers to kill at this time, and the thieves were obviously a little flustered. However, they did not retreat, but intended to fight. After all, although reinforcements came, it seemed that there were only more than 100 people, and they had more than 300 people, and the number was superior.

Liu Jun led the team to hurry up, and finally rushed to the foot of the mountain where Zhao was inspecting and being surrounded. From afar, they saw thieves lined up in the mountains, waiting for them.

Liu Jun raised the clairing mirror to look at the thief army, and looked at it carefully, there were only a dozen horsemen, and the rest were just old and weak, with few armor and miscellaneous weapons, obviously a rabble. After looking at both sides for a while, he didn't find any ambush, and Liu Jun was relieved.

Although there were indeed more than 300 thieves, they were much weaker than he imagined. Although he is also fifteen people with one hundred and twelve ordinary people, there are still beating.

"Sir, Zhao inspected that they are still alive." The postman who led the way shouted as he pointed to the figure on the mountain. Liu Jun raised his mirror and looked, and sure enough, there were still some people on the mountain, and through the clairvoyant mirror, he clearly saw that one of them was wearing the official uniform of the Ming Dynasty, and it was his own person, so it must be Zhao Xunjian.

"Array!"

Liu Jun shouted, he didn't rush forward, all he was bringing with him now were rookie recruits, and he really rushed in, and he didn't know who would win and who would lose.

Since Inspector Zhao and the others are still there, they are not in a hurry. Steady and steady fighting is all king, Liu Jun ordered Zhang Shan to divide the one hundred and twenty recruits into four phalanxes, thirty people in a formation. A row of six people, divided into five rows.

The three phalanxes were arranged in a zigzag shape, and one phalanx was used as a reserve in the back, and each phalanx Liu Jun sent two veteran members to lead on horseback, and there were seven people left, who were led by Liu Jun to live in the middle, as a mobile force.

The team moved slowly.

Although it was a group of recruits, these recruits were very obedient, quickly set up the array, and then stepped forward one by one with bamboo guns. Every ten steps forward, Zhang Shan and the others had to order the team to stop and rearrange the formation.

For tactics, Liu Jun's plan was to directly maintain the array and use a long bamboo spear to stab all the way through, while his own seven cavalry were responsible for dealing with the enemy's cavalry. Although the tactics are simple, they should be just right for a group of recruits, and they will not be able to grasp the tactics that are too difficult.

Fortunately, it was only a group of rabble bandits.

"Capture a thief and reward twenty taels of silver!" Before the battle, Liu Jun once again emphasized the heavy reward, a group of newcomers, and the rich rewards can make them forget about fighting and adrenaline surge. In the so-called extraordinary times, extraordinary methods must be used. Capture a thief and behead twenty taels of silver, such a rich reward may not be obtained even by the nine-sided soldiers.

But right now, Liu Jun is very generous with such a reward, under normal circumstances, killing a thief must not have so many rewards, but now the situation is different. With a group of people who are new to the battle, a generous reward is the best incentive and can greatly improve their morale.

Liu Jun carried a bird gun on his shoulder, and two short fire guns stuck in his waist, but he now held a bow in his hand, and for an excellent archer like Liu Jun, it was more efficient to use a bow and arrow than to use a gun.

However, the six officers behind Liu Jun picked up the bird guns according to Liu Jun's requirements, and the guns were all loaded and ready to be launched at any time.

The thieves on the other side were also slowly moving in this direction, the formation of the thieves was not orderly, hundreds of people formed a large formation, the first man carried a shield, then the spearmen, then the archers, and a dozen bandits on horseback were at the edge of the line.

The bandits slowly pressed forward.

Liu Jun shouted, "Stand!" ”

The four square recruits stopped their advance and stood still under the orders of their respective leading officers.

Liu Jun stretched out his hand to test the wind, then stretched out his bow and raised his arrow, and he aimed at the red banner in front of the thief team. There are no words or patterns on the flag, it is just a red flag.

Aim, fire the arrows.

An arrow hit the thief's flag, the flagpole broke, and the flag drifted away with the wind.

There was a commotion in the ranks of the thieves, and it was obvious that their banners were broken by the other side before they could fight, which was obviously a bad omen. The thieves on horseback shouted and cursed one after another, and the thieves' ranks were stabilized.

Liu Jun looked at it with a smile, and when the enemy came over again, he turned his head to the winter dog behind him and the others, "Shoot!" ”

The six of them raised the six firearms, originally they also had bows and arrows, but Liu Jun asked them to use the bird, not because the bird's gun was more powerful, but because the bird's gun was more powerful. It is often more effective to use a bird gun against the rabble of bandits.

The bandits had approached sixty paces.

After the thieves were formed, some people had already begun to shoot arrows sporadically in this direction, but the thieves' bows and arrows were not accurate, and they fell far in front of the queue.

"Ready!" Liu Jun raised his hand.

The fire door cover had been opened, the fire rope had been blown up, and the gunners were aiming.

"Put!" Liu Jun waved his hand heavily and shouted.

In order to maintain accuracy, Liu Jun deliberately put the thief closer to sixty paces before giving the order to shoot, which is twenty steps closer than the eighty steps that everyone usually trains.

"Bang bang!"

There were six rings in a row, and suddenly the gunsmoke was filled with gunsmoke, and the nose was extremely pungent.

The six guns rang out in unison, spewing out not only gunsmoke but also lead bullets.

In the roar of the birds, several of the thieves in the front row were directly knocked to the ground, fell to the ground and screamed loudly, even if they held shields, they still couldn't stop the spray of lead.

Such a dense formation, such a close distance, and the fire of six officers, these six guns hit one hundred percent, and each one hit the target.

Liu Jun picked up the arrow and shot it again, shouting, "Release the arrow!" ”

The eight officers who led the team, as well as the hunters in the team, all raised their hunting bows and shot arrows at this time.

Dozens of arrows fell from the sky, and another scream came from among the thieves.

After Liu Jun led the archers to shoot the third round, the Winter Dog and the others had already completed the reloading of the fire guns, and another row of bird guns emitted a large amount of white smoke, and then those bandits fell down several more.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Shoot!"

Bows and arrows were fired at staggered fires, and the bandits kept falling. In a short time, they have fallen dozens.

The thieves on horseback pulled the screaming horses and whipped them at the panicked bandits, making them accelerate towards the enemy formation. But those thieves were just cannon fodder, and they were all a little frightened under the blows of the precise bird guns and bows and arrows. shouted one by one, but after shouting for a long time, they didn't move forward a few steps, but crowded together, making the bird's guns and bows and arrows shoot more happily and accurately.

The field was filled with gunsmoke, and the thieves were terrified.

The thieves on horseback were anxious when they saw this, and finally one of the guys directly carried the guard knife and shouted and rushed into battle.

Seeing this, the rest of the bandits also rode their horses and rushed into battle, and under the leadership of these mounted bandits, the rest of the bandits finally followed and galloped forward.

"Raise your gun!"

Zhang Shan, who was in front of the recruit team, roared, put away his bow and arrows, and raised his flag gun. The small red flag on the flag gun was fluttering, unusually conspicuous, he roared, and the flag gun was raised.

The team members followed the tree to set up bamboo spears that were eight feet long.

The thief was already getting closer and closer with the knife, Zhang Shan stared at him, and when he rushed in front of him, Zhang Shan yelled, "Flatten the gun!" ”

Spears are laid flat.

"Thorn!" Zhang Shan yelled again.

Thirty bamboo spears behind him suddenly stabbed out together, and on horseback, Mao Dadao, who had already raised his Guan knife, found in despair that there seemed to be a thousand flowers blooming in front of him.

His knife was still held high, but there was no chance to cut it again.

The enemy was in sight, but he couldn't cut them.

Thirty bamboo spears with more than one zhang long and two flag spears suddenly stabbed out in unison, forming a gun formation in front of him.

Mao Dadao and his war horse collided headlong like that, and the sharp tip of the spear easily pierced him and the war horse together, and the rope armor on his body did not help him at all.

The sound of popping kept sounding, and Mao Dadao felt like a leaky bag. The strength is constantly draining, and the eyes are getting darker and darker.

The bandits from behind also rushed forward, but they were greeted by endless guns.

The flesh and blood collided with the forest of spears, and it was those mortals who fell.

On the mountain range not far away, Zhao Dagu and the group of patrol archers were dumbfounded, and Zhao Dagu even muttered, "Is this Liu Jun, Liu Jiye and his nine-headed bird team?" ”

"Look at the flag, it says Nine-headed Bird, it's the Nine-headed Bird, Liu Jun and Liu Jiye's Nine-headed Bird." One of the archers shouted excitedly.

"It's really amazing, I heard that the Nine-headed Bird Team was suppressing bandits in the Zhongyi Pavilion before, how amazing, I thought it was just an exaggeration, and I didn't believe that they could be so powerful as a newly built village warrior team that had not been built for more than a month. Now I really believe it, they are really powerful, too powerful! ”

"The nine-headed bird is amazing!"

"Liu Jiye is even more powerful!"