At this time, a miserable scream came from not far away, and when it was in the middle of this silent mountain, it caused a commotion, and Zhang Shenjun's face turned white with fright, he had never experienced a real war, and he was already sweating profusely in the panic.

Fortunately, although the incident happened suddenly, Fang Guoan was still calm, and when he heard the reputation, it turned out that there was a thief and a spy hiding on a tree more than ten zhang away, and he may have fallen from the tree carelessly while asleep.

But this voice was fatal, Fang Guoan hurriedly turned back and crouched in the grass to watch the movement of the enemy army by the stream, sure enough, the people over there all looked here, and many of them also held their swords and guns in their hands, but they were far away, and they couldn't see their expressions clearly, but it was certain that more than a dozen Western soldiers were naked, and they were wading through the waist-high stream and were coming towards this side, and the sentries were the most able to attract everyone's attention to any team, and it was impossible to let out such a tragic cry without an emergency.

The reason why these people didn't panic immediately was probably because they didn't expect the Ming army to be here at all.

As the enemy army got closer and closer, Fang Guoan had no choice but to lower his body and return from the grass in the same way, hiding in the dense forest on the left.

According to Fang Guoan's observation and judgment, before entering Huizhou, the prime minister had sent a detailed work to investigate here, and did not find that there were enemy troops stationed here, and today this group of thieves seems to have only recently rushed over, looking at the mountains of wood and oilcloth in that place, it should not even have time to build a camp, nor did it be armed, this is both good news and bad news for Fang Guoan.

The good direction is naturally that the enemy is defenseless, whether it is to fight or secretly go over, the initiative is in his own hands, and he is also stable, the bad news is why there will be a Western Army in Xiaoyao Valley, which has not been garrisoned for half a year, is it that the plan to attack Huizhou has been revealed? It shouldn't be, the army set out from Nanjing City, trying to take remote trails and mountain roads, and the attack on Huizhou was known to the two battalion generals who participated in the war except for the prime minister, and even Song Dali did not know about it, so it was unlikely that the military information would be leaked.

To fight or not to fight, Fang Guoan, who is hiding in the dense forest, has been making a choice, in this deep mountain and old forest, it is impossible to completely annihilate the other party, and getting rid of a thief will bring a lot of trouble to the war in Huizhou.

Zhang Shenjun was lying on the ground with an anxious face, his eyes were like a cow, he didn't move at all, and stared intently at the more than ten Western Army soldiers dozens of feet away from the cracks in the grass, his buttocks were cocked high.

This posture amused Fang Guoan, he reached out and patted Zhang Shenjun's buttocks, startling him, and turned back to the frightened and said, "You, what are you doing"

Fang Guoan turned around, lay on the ground, and whispered, "You were quite able to speak well just now, how can you be scared like this, you haven't fought yet?"

Zhang Senjun swallowed his saliva and said, "Don't hide it, I have never experienced a battle formation in Xia, I am ashamed, general, what do you say now?"

Fang Guoan said, "Look at their outfits are just a group of rangers, or a group of rangers raised by their stepmothers, in terms of combat effectiveness, they are not even third-rate in the Western Army, look at you scared, it's not that you new martial artists are all skilled in archers and horses, and you can memorize the war strategies of the previous dynasties backwards, you see how it is now."

Zhang Senjun looked embarrassed, looked at the black pressure of the Ming army soldiers behind him, his heart was a little calm, and he pondered for a moment and said, "General, you are the main general, and you are obedient."

Fang Guoan is not only good at power, but also loves face, mother's legs, Lao Tzu didn't find out that there was an ambush, but he gave your kid back the limelight, and he had to get back this face, but he could also see that this person was good at observing the surrounding environment, but he lacked battlefield experience, and he could make a difference when time came.

Fang Guoan refused to admit defeat, and smiled in a low voice, "Let's see that the master teaches you to fight, a few thieves, Lao Tzu can defeat them in half an hour."

Looking at the surrounding terrain, Fang Guoan quickly made a judgment, it is impossible not to fight and sneak over, it is better to be a foot soldier, there is no way to do heavy ordnance, you don't have to expose yourself, just from the ruts and horseshoe prints of the cannons on the road, those soldiers can know, fight.

Zhang Shenjun said, "In the lower view of this mountain radius is not less than ten miles, at a glance to see the deep valley and dense forest, the enemy does not know our army to, if the general suddenly comes out, the enemy does not know the number of people coming, will not dare to flee to the mountain, at the end of the stream, there seems to be a pastoral, think that is the way out of the valley, the general should not send a soldier and horse to cut off this road, and then order the soldiers to go out, one blow, in one fell swoop, so that no one escapes"

Zhang Shenjun's words made Fang Guoan impressed, okay, you can still think about it so much when your soul is scattered, you really haven't read a lot of military books.

Fang Guoan also planned to do so, cut off the mouth of the valley, and the army came out in all directions, killing fiercely, even if there were a few fish that slipped through the net, as long as he marched quickly, he would come to Huizhou City before the defeated army entered the city.

Zhang Senjun said this, Fang Guoan will definitely change his strategy, and Lao Tzu will not use your tricks.

In the distance, the more than a dozen Western troops had found the place where the sentry fell, the man's leg was broken, and he was wailing in pain, but soon, the scream disappeared, and he saw that there seemed to be an officer among the people, and he casually asked a few words and raised his hand to cut his neck, and scolded, "Fuck, you dare to sleep when you are sentry, you can't kill you if you fall, Lao Tzu will fulfill you"

At this time, a voice came from the stream below, "What's wrong over there, my mother is dead"

The petty officer wiped the blood stain from the sentry's knife on the corpse of the sentry, and shouted downward, "The turtle son dozed off in the tree, fell and died."

No one will sympathize with the life or death of this sentry, and a sentry's failure to fulfill his responsibilities is directly related to everyone's lives, even if he is overdue, no one will object.

After speaking, he pointed to the mouth of the mountain valley and said to a few people on the side, "Go, find a few brothers to take a look"

Someone laughed and said, "Barren mountains and mountains, there is not even a ghost, I don't know what we are doing here."

The little officer raised his foot and kicked it, and said angrily, "What so much nonsense"

The three soldiers of the Western Army muttered uncleanly, wrapping their wet clothes around their bodies as they walked, and this ghost weather would dry out in a while.

The three Western soldiers, who didn't realize that death was in front of them, waved the knives in their hands absentmindedly, and the weeds around them broke off one after another, and they had come to the mountain road in a blink of an eye.

Huizhou is a very developed commercial ancient city, here Xiaoyao Valley is also the only way for Huizhou City to Hangzhou City, of course, you can also go to Hangzhou by bypassing this Xiaoyao Valley, and it is also a flat official road, go here because the road is close, and you can save a day's time if you drive a carriage.

With the recent Zhang Xianzhong disaster in Huizhou, the trade route also came to an abrupt end, most of the soldiers of the Western Army came from the poor people who had never eaten meat in their lives, and the people they hated the most were the rich people, that is, merchants and officials, so they often pretended to be bandits to kill the merchants who crossed the border, did not take the robbery, and did not even let people go.

The once full of cars and horses in the valley has been quiet for a long time.

On the opposite side of the three Western Armymen, countless sharp arrows were aimed at them, moving slowly as they moved.

When the three of them got out of the grass and stood on the mountain road, their expressions changed in an instant, no one has walked on this mountain road for a long time, and there are already weeds breeding in some places, not to mention being soldiers, even ordinary people know that it is impossible to trample the grass so sparsely that it is not a few people, it is more likely that it is not a person, a carriage, a carriage with heavy camels.

The three of them looked at each other, and then looked together along the mountain road to the valley mouth, and almost at the same time all three of them found a lump of horse manure a few feet away from them, and they were all too familiar with this kind of filth, and if there was a small mistake in the army, the lightest thing was to clean the stables.

Just as they were about to run over to take a closer look, they saw Fang Guoan wave his hand in the grass opposite.

Suddenly, a hundred and ten arrows broke through the air, and the three of them were hid as hedgehogs in an instant, and they didn't even have time to snort.

As soon as the three of them fell, two or three hundred soldiers had already touched out of the forest, bowed down, and slowly touched the more than ten western soldiers just now.

Zhang Senjun saw that this was about to start, but he didn't see General Fang send someone to block the mountain pass, so he said, "This? So you're going to fight? ”

Fang Guoan snorted, "What are you doing, Lao Tzu has to say hello to them first" After that, he walked towards the forest, and beckoned several generals to gather towards him.

Fang Guoan whispered to everyone, and everyone nodded again and again, and immediately acted first.

Soon, more than a dozen Western soldiers who were not prepared at all were knocked down by the Ming army that suddenly burst out of the grass, and their hands rose and fell, and they were immediately cut to pieces one by one.

Although the Ming army's actions were rapid, but this was in the mountains, and everyone suddenly made a commotion, which frightened the birds in the grass and scattered, and also attracted the attention of thousands of Western troops by the stream not far away.

They are all people who have survived the battlefield, and a single wind and grass can make them extra vigilant.

The five hundred longbowmen of the Huaiyuan battalion rushed to the waist-high grass peaks, and the sound of the noise made the birds in the surrounding trees flutter their wings and scurry.

Soon, five hundred longbowmen gathered in the grass, aimed at the stream in front of them, drew their bows and arrows, and there was a thunderclap of arrows.

Although the western army by the stream did not see anyone, they also knew that there were people by their senses.

Just before the rain of arrows arrived, the first lieutenant general of the Western Army turned around and shouted at everyone, "The enemy is coming"

At the same time, an arrow came at him, striking him in the back of the head.

Then the rain of arrows came overwhelmingly, and many people were firmly nailed to the ground by the arrows before they could get up from the ground.

Suddenly, thousands of Western troops blew up their nests, hugged their heads and ran around, and people kept falling, many of them had just climbed up from the stream, and they didn't even have time to put on their clothes, they were naked, and they couldn't take care of it, and it was important to flee for their lives.

The longbowmen retreated after three volleys, and were replaced by five hundred infantrymen, shoulder to shoulder, who came out of the grass and approached the western army in an array of phalanxes.

The soldiers of the Western Army finally saw the enemy clearly, and the enemy was wearing the uniform of the Ming Army, and they couldn't believe it.

"It's the Ming army, the Ming army is coming"

Since Zhang Xianzhong defeated the Ming army Zuo Liangyu in Huizhou, there has never been a sign of the Ming army within a radius of 300 miles from Huizhou, the Western Army is anti-Ming started, in their eyes the Ming Army is the official army, both hate and fear, suddenly appear here, how can you not panic.

When the five hundred short-sword infantry was approaching the other side, the battle squad with the chief was scattered, rushing and slashing fiercely, the team was the smallest combat unit under Wang Lanping, including the chief of a total of 11 people, and the other was three shield soldiers, two soldiers, three three-eyed guns, one pikemen, and two broadsword soldiers, cooperating with each other, advancing and retreating together, advancing and retreating, and defending, such a combination could often give full play to the combat effectiveness of the previous 20 or even hundreds of people on the battlefield.

The western army, which had no time to organize a rebellion, died on the spot in an instant, the stream was full of floating dead corpses, and the rest were scattered, because the mountain was occupied by the cavalry of the Huaiyuan battalion, they could only rush out of the mountain, not to mention clothes, even weapons were thrown all over the mountain, and the Huaiyuan battalion followed closely, covering up all the way, as long as it fell, it could never stand up again.

This tragic scene also happened at this moment, Fang Guoan looked at the rout in front of him, knowing the overall situation, he patted the stunned Zhang Senjun on the side, "Join the army, let's go"

Maybe Zhang Shenjun has seen the tragedy of the battlefield from the book, when all this is so real in front of his eyes, he is still lonely and unheard, maybe only at this time, he really understands the artistic conception in the poem, drunk and lying on the battlefield, Jun Mo smiled, a few people in ancient times, human life is really worthless on the battlefield, but what he doesn't know is that this is just a small encounter, cruelty is not worth mentioning in the war, the most terrible thing is that all the soldiers talk about the siege war, which is also the last thing that the soldiers of the past generations want to seeThe opposing sides tried their best to decide the outcome in the form of defeat in the field, but the idea was good, and the war never developed according to people's wishes, and all kinds of more and more brutal city offensive and defensive battles were staged repeatedly.

Fortunately, Zhang joined the army and was also screened out by the martial arts department, although he was stunned for a while, his mind was still there, and he was afraid to get used to it after a few more experiences.

Zhang Shenjun looked at Fang Guoan's deployment of troops, as if it was completely opposite to his own thoughts, which was tantamount to forcing the Western Army to return to the city to report the news.

Fang Guoan also guessed his doubts, and didn't say much, waved his hand to let the entourage lead the war horse, turned over the horse, and pointed in the direction of Huizhou with his whole clothes and armor, "Order the first town to bite it tightly, the second town, and the soldiers of the third town will divide into two roads, go hand in hand along the avenue, follow up quickly, and target Huizhou City."

The herald was given the order to go.

Seeing this, Zhang Senjun seemed to understand a little, and while the two of them were riding side by side, Officer Zhang Senjun, who still had a trace of pale face, asked Fang Guoan, "Could it be that General Fang wants to take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters?" ”

Fang Guoan laughed, "Do you think this is feasible?" ”

Zhang Senjun was also stunned when he heard this, and then he gave his hand and smiled approvingly, "Very good, very good, the general has to count at the snap of his fingers, and he is embarrassed."

Fang Guoan also smiled, "If I don't have the insight to join the army, how can I do this, haha, the prime minister is really good."

Zhang joined the army and suddenly realized, "In the future, you and I will work together to serve the prime minister, oh, work for the prime minister"

The two tacitly looked at each other and laughed. (To be continued.) )