Yuwen Xiyue wanted to say something, but Liu Hanyan glanced at her again and again, and just silently followed Xie Chen backwards.

The moment she passed by Li Guanqi, Liu Hanyan glanced back at Li Guanqi, he was still so gentle, quiet and tender, her heart was hot, busy and retracted, and secretly thought: "He is the emperor, I am a woman in the Qinglou, how can I be with him?" Now that he misunderstands himself and Zhao Zheng, it is a good opportunity for him to forget about himself, so why should he make any more trouble? ”

Sure enough, as Li Guanqi expected, Xia Liu was just a thief, and he didn't have the courage of a strong man to break his wrist. After discovering that the cottage had been robbed, he couldn't care about the officers and soldiers trapped in the Eagle Sorrow Valley anymore, and personally led all the bandits to rescue them overnight.

When the white belly of the fish was revealed at the end of the day, and the soldiers and horses rescued by the scouts reported to Xia Liu had reached the foot of the mountain, Li Guanqi breathed a sigh of relief.

The battle is not about who has more soldiers and whose soldiers are strong, but more often than not, it is about morale.

"A thousand-mile march will be a general" is not a casual saying, although Xia Liu's soldiers are not thousands of miles away, but these soldiers have fought all day, they are very tired, and then they were called by Xia Liu to climb the mountain road overnight to rush back, and when they arrived at the foot of the mountain, they were already tired and carrotous, and they had no fighting spirit.

Although the number of people in Li Guanqi's hands is not large, they are all new forces, and they have been holding back for several days, and they are all full of energy, in this case, it is self-evident which way the balance of victory and defeat will tilt.

The bandits led by Xia Liu had just arrived at Dawang Village, and before they could catch their breath, Xie Chen, who was lying in ambush behind the hillside, had already led the crowd to kill, although there were only fifty people. But all of them were cavalry, more than a meter long, and where the three-pound chopping knife swept through, not a single bandit could resist, and dozens of people died in the blink of an eye, and none of them were all corpses. Either the head was cut off, or the back of the shoulder strap was split into two pieces.

As a result, the mountain bandits were even more frightened, and no one even dared to come forward to resist. Xie Chen took fifty horsemen to easily enter and exit in Xia Liu's forward team. Then, before the bandits could calm down and organize an effective resistance, they fled away on horseback.

When Xia Liu's Chinese army arrived, he finally calmed down the striker, and just began to plan to attack the mountain. Another hundred repeating crossbows that were ambushed in the dense forests on both sides shot fiercely, and they were defeated again.

At the same time, the fifty cavalry guards led by Xie Chen did not return to the mountain directly, but relied on the super mobility of the cavalry to return to the back of the mountain bandits. Walked away again.

Xia Liu claims to have 20,000 people, but in fact there are only more than 4,000. There were 500 people in Weixian County, and there were only more than 3,000 people in their hands, but after the ambush soldiers arranged by Li Guanqi to encroach step by step, when they arrived at the Zhaimen, there were only more than 2,800 people left.

Seeing that the mountain bandits attacked the mountain gate, Li Guanqi did not panic. His men came over this time, and each of them took a repeater of Yu Linwei. Although the gate is not very dangerous, the road in front of the gate is not suitable for the development of a large army, and the mountain bandits are not as well equipped as the officers and soldiers, and they have almost no shields. With the great lethality of the repeater. It is not easy for the bandits to break down the door quickly.

The two sides were in a stalemate in front of the gate for half an hour, and the bandits did not make any progress. Straight Xia Liu hurriedly stomped his feet in the formation.

Li Guanqi is not in a hurry, his favorite thing to do now is to wait, because he knows that the Xiangyang Army in the Eagle Sorrow Valley will appear behind Xia Liu at any time. At that time, Xia Liu will not be able to escape even if he has wings.

Xia Liu finally came to his senses, it was not a problem to be trapped in front of the gate of the wall, he gritted his teeth and ordered the bandits to rush forward with the corpses of their companions as a shield, and squeezed the battle line to the gate of the village with the tactics of crowds. Turn one-sided shooting training into hand-to-hand combat.

Li Guanqi stood on a high platform behind the second gate, and couldn't help frowning when he saw this: There are few horsemen and guards, and they can't withstand such consumption. He looked up at the terrain, called the herald, and quickly gave new orders.

Although the cavalry guards guarding the main gate of the village were a lot higher than the mountain bandits in terms of equipment and personal combat strength, they were invincible with two fists and four hands, and the good tiger could not withstand the wolves, and within a short time after the hand-to-hand combat began, more than a dozen brothers were killed.

But fortunately, the herald brought the order to retreat in time, and the officers and soldiers guarding the gate of the village also knew that with less than 100 people, they would not be able to hold it, so they listened to the order and immediately withdrew from the battle line and quickly retreated to the second gate.

When the mountain bandits saw the officers and soldiers retreating, they immediately shouted and worked together to push the wooden gate to the ground with a "bang", and rushed in.

However, just as the mountain bandits rushed through the gate and did not reach the second gate, a dense number of arrows suddenly came from the heights on the left and right. It turned out that at a distance of several hundred meters between the main gate and the second gate, the terrain on both sides was much higher than the middle, forming a terrain similar to a valley. Li Guanqi made effective use of this terrain and once again maximized the power of the repeater.

The mountain bandits who rushed in front once again became a live target for the Xiao Cavalry Guards to practice archery, and in the blink of an eye, there were nearly a hundred more corpses on the ground. Moreover, it is impossible to use the corpses of his companions as a cover like he did in Chongzhaimen just now.

Xia Liu saw that it was not a way to go down like this, so he had to ask his subordinates to suspend the offensive and send people to climb up from both sides to take the commanding heights.

This time, Li Guanqi did not immediately order a retreat, but instead sent most of his men and horses to the flanks to support, leaving only fifty people around him. He also understands that in the case of a large loss in numbers, the importance of the commanding heights for his side is self-evident, and this advantageous point can be used as much as possible for a while, that is, for a while. Because, after the second gate, there is almost no danger to defend.

At this time, both sides were already red-eyed, and the mountain bandits tried desperately to rush to the high ground, but they were shot down one by one by the crossbows of the Xiao Cavalry Guard.

But the cavalry guards are not easy, although the crossbow is powerful, but they also need to find time to reload the arrows, the number of mountain bandits is too much, every time the arrows are replaced, someone will rush up. And there is a very fatal problem, that is, the crossbow arrows used in the repeater are limited, although this time, I specially brought some more, but there is always a time to run out...... (To be continued......)