Xu Renjie led 5,000 vanguard troops in the mountains and forests near Guangyuan, 2,000 of his 5,000 men were ordinary light infantry, and the other 3,000 were black pole soldiers trained by him. He surrounded the Black Pole Men to protect himself, while the other 2,000 light infantry led the way.

This place is very close to the county seat, but there are still mountains everywhere, and it is rare to see a decent piece of land. You must know that almost all the cities in Sichuan are built directly in the mountains, except for Chengdu, almost all the cities are strangely shaped and distorted. Take Chongqing, the second largest city after Chengdu, for example, which has the nickname "Mountain City Chongqing", and is a city built directly in a messy mountain......

Even the second-largest city in Sichuan is a mountain city, and a city like Guangyuan, which doesn't know how many people it ranks, is certainly not much better.

Xu Renjie led the army to walk for a long time, only to see that there were still mountains and forests everywhere, and he couldn't help but feel angry, and said angrily: "This place should be less than ten miles away from Guangyuan, why are there mountains everywhere?" ”

A henchman soldier who was familiar with Sichuan said: "Don't be angry, big brother marshal, even if we enter Guangyuan City, we will still be in the mountains......"

Xu Renjie's face was ugly, he looked at the front of his army, he couldn't see the head, he looked back, and he couldn't see the tail, it turned out that when the army marched in this complex mountain, it couldn't spread the formation, so it had to line up in a long way, and the mountain roads often only allowed two people side by side, and even narrow enough to only be walked by one person...... In such a difficult situation, the five thousand soldiers dragged on for a long time, and the end was at least two miles apart.

He said to the soldier with a good face: "Have you detected the movements of the officers and soldiers?" ”

Left and right reported: "Our scouts have already been sent out. It's just that there has been no response. ”

Just as he was saying this, he suddenly saw some chaos on the mountain road in front of him, and a group of people ran against the marching team, because the mountain road was narrow, the marching team had to avoid lying on the rocks on the side of the road, and it looked very strange. This group of retrograde people arrived in front of them, half-knelt and saluted, and reported: "Brother Generalissimo, the situation is not good, let's send out scouts to spy on the officers and soldiers." Someone killed him. ”

Xu Renjie's face darkened. He said in a deep voice: "As a scout, you must be vigilant and protect yourself in order to spy on the enemy's situation, and you must not be brave and ruthless." This scout was killed? It must have been that he had walked too close to the enemy. There is an invitation to fight. ”

The person who returned shook his head and said, "Big brother." That's not true. As usual, these scouts were cautious and would flee if they saw the enemy from a distance. But this time it was different, they were walking in the mountains and forests, and suddenly a Sichuan soldier jumped out from behind a certain shore rock, and shot down a brother with one arrow. He pointed to a carriage behind him, and saw the corpse of a scout lying on it, with a feathered arrow stuck in his throat.

Then he pointed to the corpse of another scout and said, "This brother fell into a trap, the trap is full of sharpened bamboo branches, he is gone and finished, it was the other scouts who desperately tried to get his body back." ”

Then he pointed to another corpse and said: "This brother should have been stabbed in the back when he was a sentry, and he died without even seeing the enemy. ”

Xu Renjie gasped: "Sichuan soldiers are so powerful? ”

Several scouts carrying the consequence frame shook their heads and said: "It's not necessarily powerful, it's just that we can't figure out where they are at all, and they suddenly rushed out to give us a look, it's really unguardable, and now the scouts on the periphery have been forced to tighten, and the scouts have shrunk into a team of ten people to spy on to prevent being assassinated by the Sichuan soldiers, and our scout circle has spread out less than a mile away." ”

Xu Renjie thought to himself: This is ...... Blockade scout tactics? Zhu Bugs once taught me this tactic, and I, Zhu Jun, have successfully used this tactic to trick officers and soldiers several times. Now the officers and soldiers are compressing my scout circle, which is planning to ambush me?

Thinking of this, Xu Renjie's heart jumped up, and he hurriedly ordered: "Order the front army to suspend its advance, be on guard in place, and not advance easily......"

Not long after his order was issued, he suddenly heard the army in front of him shouting "coaxing", and then there was the sound of weapons fighting, it seemed that the ambush of the officers and soldiers had been launched, Xu Renjie looked forward on horseback, wanting to see the situation of the battle, but the marching team in front turned behind a small cliff, and the vision was not as good as Ben. He hurriedly rode forward, and the soldiers on the mountain road dodged to both sides, Xu Renjie finally turned the cliff, only to see that the team in front of him was indeed engaged with a Sichuan army.

The number of this Sichuan soldier was not very large, about 500 people, they came out of a small forest on the side of the road, and fired arrows at the Zhu soldiers on the road, the Zhu soldiers were not the kind of rogues who were defeated with one blow, so they fought back as fast as possible, and the arrows on both sides exchanged arrows, shooting at each other through the cover of trees and shore rocks, without causing too many casualties.

Some brave Zhu soldiers wanted to rush over for hand-to-hand combat, but there were many rocks beside the road, and they couldn't get through it for a while, and even if they passed, they were easy to be killed alone, so they had to move slowly in the rocks.

Xu Renjie was surprised: "These guys have touched our army's side from the woods, and the scouts haven't found it?" ”

The captain of the scout team behind him looked embarrassed: "This ...... The woods were too dense for my scouts to figure it out. ”

As soon as the words fell, on the other side of the road, behind a small hillside, suddenly shouted loudly, and a squad of about 500 officers and soldiers rushed out from this side, which is also interesting, the Zhu soldiers were very slow when they moved forward on the mountain road, but these Sichuan soldiers moved like flying, as if the mountain was flat, and the rocks and tree roots seemed to have no effect on them, and they threw off their big feet and ran fast. While running, he also shoots arrows and whistles, looking like a wild man.

The soldiers of the Zhu army on the road in front were attacked on both sides, and immediately retreated, Xu Renjie saw that the defeated soldiers retreated, and he himself could not stand, so he had to let his horse retreat. Fortunately, there are no cliffs on both sides of the road in this place, otherwise Xu Renjie would have to eat a few falling rocks.

The one who commanded these officers and soldiers to ambush Xu Renjie was the chief soldier Zuo Guangxian, who was hiding on a small cliff in the distance, condescending, watching the movement from afar. Because the cliff was covered with dense trees, Zhu Jun couldn't see him, but he could see Zhu Jun below through the branches and leaves.

The 3,000 soldiers under his command have been divided into six teams of five hundred people, and they are ambushing in three nearby locations, in fact, he doesn't know which road the thief army will attack Guangyuan from, so he has to set up an ambush on the three roads that the thief army is most likely to take at the same time, and he was lucky enough to win the jackpot, and he just beat Xu Renjie with a big bag.

Fighting together on this road, the officers and soldiers who were ambushed on the other two roads naturally began to move towards this side, Zuo Guang waved his hand first and gave the order, allowing the other four troops to bypass from the four strange mountain roads and attack several directions of Xu Renjie's department.

Xu Renjie really made a fuss, only to see that the ambush army of the two ambushed officers and soldiers in front of him easily defeated the front formation of the Zhu army, and the Zhu army, which was winding into a snake, hurriedly tried to form a formation, but the mountain road was rugged, and strange rocks were everywhere, and the formation could not be formed at all. In the midst of the chaos, a force of 500 officers and soldiers suddenly came out of the ravine of the oblique city, and these officers and soldiers were running on the mountain road like flying, and they did not form a formation, but stepped on the mountain rocks or vine grass to attack, and the spear in their hands would even pass through the branches and grass, which was really unguardable.

Xu Renjie's troops were in chaos again, and more than 1,000 people of the front army were beaten so that they could not find the north, and began to scatter in all directions, hiding in the rocks on both sides of the road, or in the woods, not daring to fight with the officers and soldiers again.

Zuo Guangxian laughed, his face full of triumph: "The world-famous Baishui Zhu Eighth Army is nothing more than that, under my Zuo Guangxian's men, it is simply vulnerable." "There are still three squads of 500 people under his command who have not participated in the battle, but when they are killed from the other ravines, Xu Renjie's troops will definitely be killed by him.

When he was proud, he suddenly saw that the Chinese army of Xu Renjie's department had already caught up, the mountain road was rugged and narrow, and the soldiers were crowded with each other. He couldn't help but be a little surprised, and after a closer look, he couldn't help but let out a "huh".

It turned out that this unit was dressed very peculiarly, and they were wearing purple military uniforms, which were the same as other Zhu soldiers, but their weapons were completely different from ordinary Zhu soldiers. Each of them carried a spear with a black rod with a barb on the tip and an iron ring at the end. In addition to this black-armed spear, everyone also had a simple knife hanging from their faces, and a few people carried bows and arrows on their backs.

This group of people did not come up the mountain road, but stepped on the rocks and vines on the hillside, and their speed was not inferior to that of the Sichuan soldiers.

Zuo Guangxian's eyes jumped, and he thought: What kind of army is this? I vaguely seem to have seen it somewhere, but I can't remember it.

I saw this group of soldiers with black poles running like flying, and in an instant, they took over the defeated and retreating front army, and met the Sichuan soldiers under Zuo Guangxian. The two armies raised their spears and fought fiercely between the rugged rocks and woods.

These soldiers with black-pole guns have obviously received very strict mountain training, although the ground under their feet is rugged, and there are even many rocks and grass, but their pace is not chaotic at all, and it does not affect the work in hand at all, a black-pole spear makes it decent, the most rare thing is that they do not rely on formations or military formations, it seems that each of them understands that fighting between such mountains and forests does not expect to form a formation, they just follow a general direction, forming a battle line, Companions can ensure that their allies will not be attacked from the back. (To be continued.) )