"Report! Su Qianhu, Deng Deputy Qianhu, a group of strongmen appeared ten miles to the east, with about 8 people, and they were pressing towards us. A soldier in charge of reconnaissance rushed to Su Hao and Deng Kui, knelt on one knee, and reported the enemy situation.

"Why is there such a big movement?" Su Hao stood on a small dirt slope, holding a telescope to look at the direction where the bandits were coming, and muttered softly. Since it was on the plain, people from ten miles away could see it, not to mention that these people had stirred up dust all over the sky. But Su Hao couldn't understand why only 8 people could make such a big move.

Xu Guangzu also stood there and watched with a telescope, his current toy was so useful when he was fighting, he could see the enemy's face clearly from afar. After watching it for a while, he smiled and said to Su Hao: "These bandits are emboldening themselves, and each of them has made a broken gong and knocked it on their hands, just to create some momentum." ”

Tian Younian had already gotten down from the sedan chair, stood there like a sifting of chaff, and said vigorously: "Master Su, the thieves are powerful, let's avoid their edge, and if we don't leave now, I'm afraid it will be too late." ”

Su Hao pointed at Xu Guangzu and said to Tian Younian: "Tian Tongju, don't worry, didn't you see that Uncle Xu was not in a hurry here?" Uncle Xu has experienced a hundred battles and has not died so far, which shows that he can save his life. As long as he is not in a hurry, we will definitely be safe and sound. ”

"Little one, what nonsense!" Xu Guangzu was amused by Su Hao's words, he waved his hand and made a gesture of wanting to fight, but finally didn't dare to fight. After all, Su Hao is an official, and Xu Guangzu is only a soldier no matter how old he is, at least in this kind of public occasion, he can't commit any crimes.

"Old soldier Xu, in your opinion, can we withstand the attack of the thieves?" Tian Younian put his hope on Xu Guangzu again.

Xu Guangzu said: "Although there are many thieves, in my opinion, they are a group of rabble. This survey camp has been trained by me for a few months, and I dare not say that it is invincible, and it is no problem to deal with hundreds of bandits. You see, isn't Deputy Deng Qianhu already arranging troops there, this kid is a talent that can be created, the old man has only dialed him a few times, and he has already arranged his troops a little bit of a method. ”

"However, there are thousands of thieves, and we are only more than 2 people, and these two fists are hard to beat with four hands." Tian Younian said.

Su Hao pulled Tian Younian back a few steps and whispered to him: "Tian Tong is not in a hurry, in fact, what we are doing is a plan to lure the enemy. Ten miles behind us, there are 2 elite soldiers sent by Hedao and Huai'anwei, who can reinforce us at any time. As soon as we start fighting here, they will penetrate from behind the enemy and take advantage of the bandits. ”

"Really?" Tian Younian looked at Su Hao with round eyes, wanting to judge whether Su Hao was talking nonsense.

Su Hao said: "Why don't you believe Tian Tongju, isn't the little brother also guarding here, if there is no ten chances of winning, how can the little brother dare to do this?" ”

"So, you already knew about the bandits?" Tian Younian asked.

Su Hao said: "Don't hide from Tian Tong's judgment, we did hear some rumors, saying that Zeng Fengxian gathered some heroes and prepared to resist the law by force." As for what they plan to do, we don't know. Our plan is to lure them out and gather them to annihilate them, so that we can completely defeat the arrogance of these powerful people, so that they no longer have the courage to be enemies of the government. ”

"This ...... The ancients said that the gentleman did not stand under the dangerous wall, and the chief Su dared to use himself as bait to take risks to attract the enemy, and Tian admired it. Tian Younian made a gesture to Su Hao and praised duplicitously. In fact, in his heart, he had already scolded Su Hao's ancestors for eight generations, Nima, you kid is just playing with your life, why don't you pull me to play with you.

As he spoke, the army of bandits was getting closer and closer, and when they were about to get to the front, they began to divide their troops and surrounded the camp from all directions. As Xu Guangzu said, in order to scare people, these bandits really made a gong or other instrument that can make a sound, and beat it in ping-pong, making the momentum of 8 people look like 8 people.

At this time, under the command of Deng Kui and Xu Guangzu, the survey camp had formed a circle on the spot, forming a defensive formation, protecting Su Hao, Tian Younian, Zhou Ruyuan, Chen Guanyu and other literati in the middle. The soldiers of the survey battalion were in groups of about six or seven, and the hedgehogs formed into a group, using a combination of spears and broadswords to cover each other. Each group has a core of one or two veterans who are responsible for directing the combat operations of the entire group.

"This kind of formation is modeled after the Mandarin Duck Formation created by General Qi back then, and the old man has made some simplifications, which is more than enough to deal with these bandits." Xu Guangzu proudly introduced the results of his military training to Su Hao and Tian Younian.

"After a while, it will be up to Uncle Xu's simplified mandarin duck array to show its might." Su Hao smiled lightly. To be honest, he was still a little apprehensive about the outcome of this battle, but now he could only pretend to smile. What he could hope for was that the soldiers of the Survey Battalion were not so vulnerable, and that the river soldiers and guards who were following behind him would be able to arrive in time. If the two soldiers in the back surrounded him from the outside, the bandits would have completely collapsed.

"Brethren! Look, these are the officers and soldiers we are going to rob. Don't look at them as officers and soldiers, the commander has already sent someone to investigate, these soldiers are all born with mud legs, and they have not been soldiers for more than three months, and they can't compare with our men who lick blood on the knife edge. After a while, the commander gave the order, and everyone went up together and killed them all. cut off the head of a soldier and reward 1 tael of silver; cut down an official, and the reward was 5 taels of silver. ”

After the bandits completed the encirclement of the Kanyu camp, a burly man came out with a ghost-headed knife and expressed the pre-battle mobilization order in front of the bandits. Su Hao and the others stood on the small dirt slope and could see it clearly. Zhou Ruyuan whispered to Su Hao that this person should be the bandit leader Pang Dengkui, although he had not seen it, but he had heard some rumors about Pang Dengkui and knew that he looked like this.

"Capture the thief and capture the king, Su is in charge, let people capture this bandit first." Tian Younian hastened to give theoretical guidance.

In fact, the people present had more combat experience than him, and before Tian Younian's words fell, Deng Kui had already bowed his bow in his hand, and with a whoosh, he released an arrow and flew towards the back of Pang Dengkui's head. The bandits exclaimed, Pang Dengkui did have some ability, heard the sound of the bowstring behind him, and before he could turn back, a hungry dog pounced on the food and pounced on the ground. Deng Kui's arrow flew a foot above Pang Dengkui's head and shot into the crowd of bandits, and one of the hapless bandits fell to the ground.

"If you are a hero, don't hurt people with secret arrows, dare you come out and practice with grandpa!" Pang Dengkui got up from the ground in embarrassment, turned around, and shouted angrily at the position of the Kanyu camp.

"I'm afraid you won't make it!" Deng Kui flashed with a single sword, and he rushed out with one arrow step, and Su Hao couldn't stop it if he wanted to.

"This kid, why don't you have any organizational discipline at all!" Su Hao scolded secretly.

"Deng Kui, this kid, is aggressive, let him play tricks, he can at least protect himself." Xu Guangzu knew Su Hao's worries, and said with a smile.

Seeing that a person really rushed out among the officers and soldiers, Pang Dengkui was stunned for a moment, and immediately laughed: "Good, good!" Pang has never met such an officer and soldier with a blood surname, and it is just in time! ”

As he spoke, he waved the ghost head knife in his hand and greeted Deng Kui, and the bandits behind him shouted in unison, cheering for the master. The soldiers of the survey camp here also shouted, also cheering for Deng Kui.

The main generals of the two sides looked at each other, and without saying a word, they all waved their knives and slashed. Deng Kui's martial arts are quite exquisite, and Pang Dengkui, as the head of a big bandit gang, is not a vegetarian. The competition between the two sides entered the ** at the beginning. Deng Kui slashed with a knife, Pang Dengkui met with the back of the knife, and then returned a knife with a backknife, and Deng Kui also opened it. The clanging sound of blades colliding with each other was endless, and in an instant, the two of them had exchanged more than a dozen rounds.

"What kind of knife are you, how can it be so sharp!"

Pang Dengkui was fighting, and something was wrong. His own knife slashed at the back of the opponent's knife, and the other person's knife was fine, and his own knife collapsed first. On the other hand, when the opponent's knife does reach the back of his own knife, a deep mark will be made when he slashes it, and after a while, the back of his own knife will become similar to a serration.

Deng Kui laughed, his knife was a high-manganese steel knife produced by the authentic Hao family's workshop, and its hardness was several percent higher than that of ordinary broadswords. With this slash, Pang Dengkui's knife was basically scrapped, and his knife was only slightly damaged.

"This sword has been forged, and I haven't seen blood yet. Today, I just took the head of your thief to give a sacrificial knife to a certain family, and took my life! ”

Deng Kui became more and more courageous the more he fought, picking up the big knife and slashing straight at the head. Pang Dengkui didn't dare to slack off, raised his knife to block, only to hear a click, and the scarred ghost head knife in his hand was finally overwhelmed and broken into two.

"The treasure knife is fierce, not a hero!" Pang Dengkui shouted, and threw the half knife in his hand towards Deng Kui's face. While Deng Kui was dodging, Pang Dengkui pulled his legs and ran into the bandit pile. Deng Kui is not a reckless person, knowing that there are many people on the other side, it is useless to catch up with him, just standing where he is and laughing.

"Officers and soldiers are good at relying on their blades, let's go together, kill officers and soldiers, and take their blades!" Pontenquois returned to his camp and shouted loudly to the minions. In the battle against the general just now, he was considered to have lost, and now he can only encourage everyone to charge to cover his shame.

"Kill!"

"Kill officers and soldiers, receive a reward!"

"Kill one 1 tael, the money you picked for nothing!"

In the group of bandits, the small leaders shouted one after another, and at the same time rushed forward with their knives in the lead. When the little bandits saw the leader rushing forward, they also rushed forward, and they had all kinds of blades in their hands, some with knives, some with clubs, and even some with four-toothed nails and palladium. After all, bandits are bandits, and it is impossible to have standard equipment, and this alone is inferior to regular officers and soldiers.

"All the enemy!"

Seeing that the bandits began to charge, Deng Kui put away his knife and returned to his formation, shouting orders.

A scuffle began.

(To be continued) q