After the arrangements of the various armies, Gao Huaiyuan also ordered Zhong Jianjun to urge the rear army and the heavy people to set up camp and prepare for a long-term attack, and at the same time set up some of the bed crossbows in front of the army to deter the rebels. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After this arrangement, the armies immediately ate, and then pulled out the camp again and marched towards the mountain pass, Zhao Futang led a battalion of soldiers and horses, lightly armed, under the guidance of the guide, bypassed the mountain pass, and soon disappeared into the dense forest.

The rest of the soldiers and horses arrived at the mountain pass in the afternoon and began to set up camp outside the mountain pass, and Gao Huaiyuan came to the front of the army with the generals to look up at the rebels in the mountain pass.

Looking from afar, I saw that the flags of Li Quan's army were everywhere near the mountain pass, and a large number of camps were set up in each pass, and a lot of deer and barricades were set up on the road, ready to resist their attack.

With the gap between the Zhong Jian army and the camp in the back, Gao Huaiyuan ordered the troops to set up a position at the mountain pass, and he commanded in the center, the battle flags were arranged like a forest, and the war drums also rumbled among the Chinese army.

The soldiers of the battalions who were immediately responsible for the tentative attack marched forward together under the waving of the command flag, and one by one the phalanx broke away from the army and began to advance, pressing the rebels in the direction of the mountain pass.

Liu Bao stopped and stood on the high boulder of the mountain pass, looked down at the Song army under the mountain, and after seeing the formation of the Song army, his brows immediately wrinkled, at noon today, the people he sent to Ruijia Village ran back some, and learned that the Song army had taken Ruijia Village, and almost ate all the outposts he sent, so he put away some disdain for this Song army, and immediately ordered his leaders to strengthen their own defenses, and strictly ordered them not to fight without orders.

And now after looking at the formation of this Song army, he deeply felt that the southern army encountered this time was not too weak like the southern army they had encountered before, at least this Song army appeared to be in the middle of the range when arranging and advancing, not impatient or impatient, morale seemed to be very high, and from a distance, the equipment of this southern army was very sophisticated, the whole army was all in iron armor, and the armor and weapons were very sophisticated, compared with their equipment, their equipment of the northern army was a little shabby, Like them, which are still elite soldiers and horses in Li's whole army, iron armor can only be equipped with the main force or officers, and most of the rest of the soldiers and long lines can only be equipped with leather armor, which is good, and some people don't even have armor, compared with others, it seems too shabby.

But Liu Bao was not too worried, when he came this time, Li Quan told him that if he can, he will do it, and if he can't, he will retreat immediately, not to mention that there are not many troops that the southern army can fight, and these soldiers and horses sent by the Lin'an court are said to be old soldiers, and they are okay to put on a show, and they have never fought, and these people under him have fought with people in Jingdong over the years, and they are all people who have rolled in a pool of blood, in his opinion, it is enough to deal with these southern troops with one as ten.

What's more, they now have a geographical advantage, and the enemy's desire to break through the mountain pass is basically impossible in his opinion.

Therefore, when he saw that the enemy army began to advance towards the mountain pass, he did not panic at all, and immediately gave the order to go down, and all the rebels stood up, raised their shields and guns, and the archers lined up, and stepped into the shield array and behind the bunker to prepare for the guard.

"Come on! Let's see, what are these Southern Army capable of! One of the soldiers spat on the ground, clenched his bow, and rested his arrow on the bowstring.

As the army pressed in, the rebels kept reporting the distance between the two sides, and when they approached an arrow, the rebels heard the roar of an officer: "Bow up!" Open! ”

No sooner had the attacking army stepped into the field of arrows than a roar of arrows rang out from the mountain pass, and then a rain of arrows sprinkled out amid the sound of buzzing bowstrings, and fell into the ranks of the attackers with the sound of breaking through the air.

The first victims were immediately created in the attacker's array, and the screams rang out in one after another, and the soldiers who were hit by arrows fell in the queue.

"Rush!" At this time, the ranks of the attackers also resounded with the roar of officers, and although a large number of soldiers were shocked, they immediately mustered up their courage and rushed towards the mountain pass.

Bows and arrows kept shuttling in the air, constantly creating casualties on the way of these soldiers, and the soldiers who kept being hit by the arrows fell to the ground, lying on the ground and screaming helplessly, and the formation began to disperse at this time, but this group of soldiers finally rushed into the mountain pass under the leadership of the officer, and strangled with the rebels blocking the mountain pass.

Immediately there was a shout of killing on the mountain, and the sound of the exchange of weapons also filled the entire mountain pass at the same time, and the attackers crashed into the rebel line like a tide, and then stirred up a blood-colored wave, spears, broadswords, and axes were staggered in the air, and every minute someone wailed and fell to the ground, and the front end of the two armies was immediately intertwined, forming a short-handed battle situation.

When the engagement, although the morale of the Song army is not weak, the level of equipment is better than the enemy, but because of the geographical advantage, but can not take advantage of the slightest advantage, and the rebels hold the dangerous place, its soldiers are also brave, after the battle, condescending, relying on the advantage occupied, causing great casualties to the attacking side, but the attacking side can not effectively break through.

Gao Huaiyuan has been carefully paying attention to the battle situation in front of the commander with his personal binoculars, seeing that a quarter of an hour has passed since the battle, both sides have paid a considerable price, but they have failed to break through the rebels' defense line, knowing that if this continues, it will cause greater casualties and not achieve much results, so he nodded to Hua Yue beside him.

Hua Yue immediately gave the order to Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and a rapid sound of Mingjin immediately sounded among the Chinese army, which reached the front of the formation.

When the officers who led the attack heard the sound of gold, they immediately ordered a retreat, and the attacking soldiers and horses immediately began to break away from the battle line and retreat to the rear, and immediately archers stepped forward and began to block the rebels with bows and crossbows, so as to prevent the rebels from taking advantage of this opportunity to wave their troops to cover the killing, and two battalions of soldiers and horses on both flanks also came forward and made a response posture, ready to support the retreating brothers at any time.

"Brother Liu, let's rush down and cover it up! These southern troops can't do it, and the brothers lead the troops to take this opportunity to give them a hard beat! One of Liu Bao's men ran up behind Liu Bao and asked for his life.

"Not allowed! This southern army is not like the ordinary southern army, they are much more powerful than we imagined, now you go down, I am afraid there will be no return! You don't look at it, although the other side retreated, but the formation was not in chaos, there was no sign of a rout, which is difficult for many armies to do, and if you look at it again, when they retreated, even their casualties were robbed, how can such a situation have been seen in other places? The opponent is just a test today, and he will attack with all his might tomorrow! If you take people down now, you're just looking for death! Stay honest, I'll give you a chance to sneak up on the enemy camp at night! Liu Bao immediately vetoed the advice of his subordinates, pointing to the retreating Song army and saying to them.

Liu Bao can also be regarded as a battle-hardened old ginger, he can see the strength of the other party from the actions of the Song army, for fear that something will happen at this time, this is not the Jingdong area where they used to be, once they fall into the trap of others, it will not be easy to run away!

Liu Bao is right, Gao Huaiyuan does have the intention to attract the rebels today, kill them a group of sharp ideas to kill them, and have been arranged in advance, once the rebels take the opportunity to chase down, they will be lured to the enemy to go deeper, and eat them, but when they saw that the soldiers and horses on their side were withdrawn, but the other party did not pursue, he knew that the other party had seen his thoughts, so he ordered the troops to return to the camp, bury the fallen soldiers, treat the wounded soldiers, and attack the mountain pass again the next day.

"It seems that the enemy general is also a person with some ability, and he didn't take the opportunity to wave his army to cover up the killing, otherwise, he wouldn't have to attack with effort tomorrow, and he could hit them the spot today!" After Gao Huaiyuan returned to the camp, he took the generals into the big tent and sat down and said to them.

"Today, after the lowly post went up to fight with them, I felt that the enemy army was a relatively brave person, I led people to rush three times in a row, but failed to break away from their line, these people fought more slippery, so that the lowly position is a little more powerful, we rushed, they retreated, and the two lowly posts almost fell into their crowd, it is really depressing!" An officer with blood on his face said loudly to Gao Huaiyuan.

Gao Huaiyuan smiled and said: "Their gang is different from us, many of you are fighting such a battle for the first time today, these people have fought countless battles like this in Jingdong before, so they are so slippery, that is, to let you go deep alone, and then even converge and divide and surround you, and then swarm up to eat you, you can see the opportunity to stabilize the front, and do not continue to rush in, even if you have not practiced in vain during this time, otherwise, you may not be able to come back today!" ”

The subordinate immediately scratched his head and laughed, and said: "Fortunately, this year, Lord Dutong has let us fight against the drill, I saw that the situation was wrong, so I didn't dare to kill it again, otherwise, I might not really die here today!" ”

The rest of the generals of the Holy Protector Army also laughed, now they finally understand why Gao Huaiyuan has trained the Holy Protector Army strictly this year, and now when it is time to use it, they know that these ordinary hard work really came in handy, looking back, the sweat and blood shed before were finally not in vain, everything was worth it!