Yang Hao pondered for a long time and finally made up his mind, let him go, Haotian Trading Company has a deep official background, and has always been a good grasp of the wind and grass in the officialdom, the ebb and flow of the tide, they must have smelled some favorable information, so they did not hesitate to give it a go.

"How many troops to use."

In order to prevent the invasion of bandits and stragglers, the guards will not be less supported, and it may not be possible to move people if there are fewer people.

"It is enough to take one battalion of the iron factory, but there is a group of bandits in Jiulian Mountain who have a close relationship with the iron factory, and the number is ominous, but Jiulian Mountain is geographically remote and the products are scarce, at most there are three or five thousand people, a group of rabble, and it is enough to transfer two battalions to help the war."

Yang Hao was speechless, he really wanted to scold people now, just get a black iron factory under his nose, there were thousands of bandits next to the iron factory, he had been suppressing bandits since the ninth year of Yamato, thinking that the Fengzhou bandit gang had already been wiped out, who knew that there were still thousands of people nesting under his nose,

"Don't worry, within three days, I will definitely take the ironworks for you."

Yang Hao can only call the Yongfeng battalion and the second police battalion in Yongfeng, and the other battalions are either undergoing supplementary training due to excessive attrition, or only an empty skin is left after the elite is exhausted, and he has no choice but to transfer the broken battalion and the tiger battalion that has just been rebuilt.

After the reconstruction of the tiger battalion, it has been just a skeleton, the officers are in the military academy for further study, when the civil strife of the Tiande army was quelled, Yang Hao had used eighty carts of gold beads from the hands of the barbarian black department to exchange for nine hundred and thirty Hedong soldiers, those who want to go home will be sent back to their hometowns, and those who are willing to go to Fengzhou to farm and work will be assigned to farms, coal mines, and factories to work, and the remaining five hundred people are willing to join the army, so they will be incorporated into the tiger camp, and the generals of the tiger camp are all outstanding talents drawn from each battalion, and the soldiers are also the elite of the Hedong soldiers, However, there is still a little time to run in to form combat effectiveness, and the transfer of them to attack the iron factory is to give them this opportunity.

The four battalions were opened one after another, Yang Hao specially took Guan Suo and several heads of the intelligence room with him, so as to shame them, Neisifang also sent representatives to accompany them, Yongfeng County Ling Feng Yi and the county lieutenant in charge of public security were also called to visit with the team, Feng Yi was the secretary of the late Fengzhou assassin Zhang Huchen, last Chinese New Year's Eve when Zhang Yannian's old department launched a mutiny in Tai, he was also involved, after witnessing the death of Zhang Huchen and his wife Feng Shiheng, Feng Yi turned back and exposed Yu Tai and others,

At the beginning of the year, the Yongfeng County Commander was dismissed for accepting bribes, and Feng Yi was appointed as the Yongfeng County Commander.

The southwest of Yongfeng is a large area of uninhabited wasteland, Jiulian Mountain is not high, the terrain is not dangerous, and the Yongfeng camp is stationed in Hengsai Town nearly two hundred miles apart, there is a swamp in between, Yang Hao does Hengsai Town patrol command time defense area in the west of Yongfeng, Yongfeng east is Zhang Yannian's Huzhen defense area, the north is Wufeng Town Defense Area, the southwest is Changqing Town Defense Area, this swamp is the closest to Hengsai Town,

Yang Hao held back half of his anger, he took out the map to find the location of Jiulian Mountain and the swamp, called Zhang Hui and Min Yuanyin, and ordered the two to cross the swamp under the guidance of the guide, and arrived at the northern foot of Jiulian Mountain to garrison, and led the tiger battalion to the west to the bank of the Yellow River, and then went south along the river to copy the west side of Jiulian Mountain.

Among the four battalions, the broken battalion marched the fastest, the tiger battalion detoured the farthest, but the first to arrive at the destination was the Yongfeng battalion and the second police battalion, both battalions are local garrisons, mainly infantry, after passing through the swamp, and then passing through a deserted meadow, a hill appeared in front of him, and the guide confirmed that it was Jiulian Mountain,

Zhang Hui looked at the knee-deep grass around him, and said to Min Yuanyin: "It's a pity, after spending most of my life in Yongfeng, I didn't know that there was such a place, if I had known that raising a few sheep in this circle of land, I could also make a little money." ”

Min Yuanyin said disapprovingly: "You want to be beautiful, raise sheep here, and the thieves will destroy you, in this troubled world, it is most reassuring to hide in the barracks." ”

Zhang Hui laughed and said: "What kind of frustrating words are you talking about, who dares to go against our brothers in Yongfeng, Lao Tzu split the son of a bitch." As he was talking, he suddenly heard an exclamation from the soldiers, and saw a team of people suddenly pouring out of the grove at the northern foot of Jiulian Mountain:

Everyone is wearing a colorful animal skin skirt, wearing a black iron skull mask, holding a big knife, a hammer, a double-edged axe, a string of black iron skull beads hanging around their necks, and a strange cry of "yo he, yo he" in their mouths, some people hang a small iron drum on their chests, holding drumsticks while walking and knocking on the spot, and some people carry colorful dazzling soul flags, dancing while walking like a convulsion......

Everyone was stunned by this strange scene, and they looked stupidly and forgot to release the arrow.

The war horse was frightened by the sound of drums and the conjuring flag, and let out bursts of neighing, Zhang Hui's face changed, he held the handle of the knife nervously, and his palms were sweaty, Min Yuanyin was older than him, and he had more knowledge than him, and sneered: "The more you play tricks, the more you don't have real materials, don't be afraid of my brother, no one in Yongfeng is our brother's opponent." ”

With a wave of the flag, the two battalions immediately entered the battle formation, the rated number of the garrison battalion was 500 people, and when the expedition was routinely left to guard the camp, each battalion actually had only more than 400 people, but compared to the savages killed on the opposite side, the number still had an advantage, Zhang Hui and Min Yuanyin discussed, and decided that Zhang Hui would lead the Yongfeng battalion to face the battle head-on, and Min Yuanyin would lead the second police battalion to outflank the two wings.

Zhang Hui drew a knife in his hand and shouted: "The old rule, behead five taels, capture ten taels alive, and catch a female general to take home as a daughter-in-law." "This group of young master soldiers in the Yongfeng camp is usually arrogant, and when they saw that there were few enemies, their morale was high for a while, and they shouted and killed the past.

A hand, everyone is frightened: these savages don't feel tall from a distance, a dozen of them know that they are tall and big, broad shoulders and round waists, generally one size bigger than the soldiers of the Yongfeng battalion, not only physically dominant, fighting skills are also very superb, and the tactical combination is skillful, a group of three or five people play a small cooperation, a team of more than a dozen people play a big cooperation, the formation is strict and seamless,

"Arrows, arrows." Zhang Hui shouted loudly,

Bodyless armor and no shield, this is the enemy's Achilles heel, Zhang will hate himself for being too careless just now, if he used a bow and arrow to suppress the enemy at the beginning, he would have won a big victory at this time, but now it is too late, after all, he has not passed the test of blood and fire, the psychological endurance of the soldiers of the Yongfeng battalion on the battlefield is generally very poor, in the face of setbacks, their hearts are confused, their legs are also weak, what fighting skills, tactical cooperation are all fucking forgotten, they only have one word in their hearts: "escape." ”

"Ready, let go of the arrows." Min Yuanyin also saw this Achilles heel of the enemy,

A rain of arrows shot over, and the strong men in colorful suits let out a dull roar,

Another rain of arrows went by, and the dead lay still, and the undead began to flee back,

"Kill me back." Zhang Hui couldn't hold the retreating soldiers, he could only bring a few personal guards to catch up, he was too eager to win, if this field could not be found, there was really no way to mix in Yongfeng in the future, Zhang Hui jumped on the horse and crossed the knife, slashed down the enemy who was in the way, and chased all the way to the grove, and the guards behind him were also slashing with great slashes,

"Zhang Hui, come back quickly." Behind him, Min Yuanyin's frightened cry came,

Zhang Hui looked up and looked forward, not feeling frightened: the iron armor was shining in the woods, and a team of heavily armored iron cavalry was rumbling and killing.

Zhang Hui had participated in the Battle of Fengzhou in the middle of the forest with Meng Bochang, and the "Iron Mask Jile" in the middle of the forest was also an ironclad cavalry, but they were only equipped with a layer of light scale armor in the vital parts of people and horses, and the cavalry that rushed out of the woods, people and horses were wrapped in thick plate-like iron armor, only the horse's calves were exposed, and even the horse's eyes were covered with eye patches that could defend against bows and arrows, and the knights held a large spear with a length of one zhang in their hands, and a bow and sword hung from their waists, and a large oval iron shield with a blood-red ghost-faced skeleton hung on the left side of the horse's back, tall people, big horses, heavy armor, spears, rolling iron streams coming head-on, earth-shattering,

Zhang Hui returned to the horse and fled, there were a few guards behind him because they were too anxious to stop the horse, and rushed directly into the enemy formation, most of them were pierced by the spear in the hands of the heavy armored knight, the corpse hung on the barrel of the gun and shook directly, and the dexterous and skilled equestrian avoided the spear that was as dense as the mountain forest, and leaned on the heavy armored knight, they swung their knives and slashed, the sharp horizontal knife cut on the iron armor, Mars jumped, and then broke into two, and then, they were knocked over and swallowed by the rolling iron stream, and turned into meat under the horse's hooves,

The arrows of the second police battalion were as dense as raindrops, and they couldn't penetrate the knight's armor, and the "crackling" slipped down one after another.

"Retreat into the swamp." The second police battalion sounded the golden gong of withdrawal, and the lightly armed cavalry easily outperformed the heavy cavalry, but the two-legged infantry was not so lucky, and the miserable cries came one after another, and the horse sergeants saw that their comrades were tortured and killed, and they couldn't bear to go, they went back to the horse to rescue, but their knives were cut in the heavy armor and scratched, and more people were swept into the iron stream and swallowed,

Min Yuanyin strictly ordered the cavalry not to go to the rescue again, so he barely escaped one or two hundred people, the Yongfeng battalion that had already collapsed saw the defeat of the friendly army, and his heart was even more frightened, a considerable number of people fell into the quagmire, shouting for help endlessly, and they were lucky to be trapped on the isolated island, watching their comrades struggle helplessly in the mire, one by one swallowed by the sludge,

Some of the soldiers knew that they could not move, they raised their heads and opened their arms in a lying position, quietly waiting for their companions to come to their rescue, but a giant water rat running and foraging in the mud became their nightmare, the water rats first came to harass you in groups of three or five, if you resist and struggle, they will fall into the mud, if you do not resist, they will openly come forward to eat your flesh,

All night, the screams in the mire never stopped,

Zhang Hui and Min Yuanyin, who had suffered defeat, retreated to the north of the swamp, and were afraid that the ironclad cavalry would take the opportunity to kill the swamp, so they divided their troops and stationed them at several major intersections and defended them closely.

When Yang Hao received the report of the defeat of the two, he had already led the tiger battalion around the southern foot of Jiulian Mountain, only more than 30 miles away from the iron factory, and the broken camp of Suo's amount had also arrived at the predetermined location, and was urging the soldiers to tie up the wooden rafts used to cross the river.

Zhang Hui and Min Yuanyin's description of the enemy's cavalry in the military newspaper, Yang Hao will be suspicious, this kind of heavy cavalry has indeed appeared in history, but it should be a little later in Europe, and China when it appeared in the Tang Dynasty is inevitably a little weird.