The firelight illuminated the "Funiu Ridge", and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Yuan Mai stood on the wooden building, calmly looked at the thieves swarming under the hillside, waved the Chongxiao sword in his hand, and ordered: "Hao Bodao, lead the brothers out of the suspension bridge, line up in two teams, ten people in each team, all bend bows and arrows, and wait for me to give an order, and all the arrows will be released!"

Hao Zhao also understood Yuan Mai's intentions, guessing that he probably wanted to suppress the bandits halfway up the hill with bows and arrows first, and then charge with a horse team, and with a promise, he led twenty cavalry out of the horse farm, lined up in front of the drawbridge, and lined up in two teams.

Hao Zhao's sword pointed at Tang Huan: "Your people also go out, follow behind the horse archers, a team of ten people, and wait for me to give an order, and then attack the hillside with all their might." ”

Tang Huan hesitated a little, according to his meaning, he wanted to close the door and guard it, and then send someone to the county seat to inform the second master, so that the county commander could send troops to rescue.

However, firstly, Hao Zhao's people had already lined up in front of the formation, and secondly, they were shocked by Yuan Mai's momentum, Tang Huan did not dare to question it, and with a wave of his hand, he led forty field soldiers across the suspension bridge, and behind the officers and soldiers, according to a team of ten people, they were lined up in four rows.

Seeing the cavalry below in formation, Yuan Mai turned his head to look at the archers on the wooden building beside him and opposite, and said sharply: "Without my order, whoever dares to shoot arrows without permission will be killed!" ”

"No......"

The archers on the wooden tower agreed in unison, bending their bows and arrows one by one, waiting for orders. But standing on the wooden building, I could see it clearly, the disparity between the crowds, and looking at the swarming bandits, one by one, I was stunned......

And Yuan Mai is not like this, this is his first battle, the enemy is outnumbered, if he loses, he will give his life here if he can't do it......

"Damn, they all say that the general's demeanor is 'Mount Tai collapses in front and does not change color, and the elk is in the left and does not look instantly', why is it that there are only a few hundred rogues, which makes Lao Tzu so nervous? How can you fight against Cao Apu's tiger and wolf army in the future? ”

Taking a deep breath, Yuan Mai forced himself to calm down, as the chief general of the three armies, how could he be chaotic before the battle!

Moving his body very covertly, hiding behind the wooden ladder silently, Yuan Mai breathed a sigh of relief.

There is a price to pay for being a hero, there is a sharpshooter in the first-class Kou, bending the bow and arrows, and he fell to the ground with a "croak", and what the hell is talking about dominating the world, and what is talking about drunk and lying on the knees of beautiful women! Being a superficial hero and secretly cautious is the king!

With his archery experience in his previous life, Yuan Mai was 100% sure that the position he was standing in now, if it wasn't for a sneak attack from the rear, the enemy in front would not be able to shoot him from any angle!

"Kill, don't leave one, kill them all......"

The bandits shouted and swept in.

Step by step, step by step, and then again, closer and closer......

Hao Zhao couldn't help but be a little anxious, turned his head to look at Yuan Mai on the wooden building, and said in his heart, why hasn't he given an order yet, will he be able to command, or will he be frightened by the swarming robbers? In the end, it is a son and brother who has been clothed and fed since childhood......

And Yuan Mai's eyes looked firmly at the swarming thieves, still waiting calmly.

He believed that Hao Zhao's observation angle on the horse was different from that of himself on the wooden tower, and with the experience of his previous life, he could definitely find the best shooting distance and deal a heavy blow to the thief......

"Haha, the enemy is scared silly, kill me ......"

The distance was so close that the voice of the enemy master was already clearly audible, and the stables in the horse farm were already showing some signs of confusion......

At this time, Yuan Mai finally gave the order.

"Shoot me, shoot hard!"

With Yuan Mai's order, between the lightning and flint, Hao Zhao fired three arrows in a row, because the distance was so close, none of the three arrows missed, accompanied by a scream, and the three bandits who rushed to the front were shot to the ground.

With Hao Zhao's bow and arrows, the twenty archers on the horse, and the ten archers on the wooden tower, shot out the strong crossbows that had already been wound, and in an instant, the arrows flew one after another......

Thirty people, in the blink of an eye, shot out a hundred and ten arrows, although their archery skills are very average, far from being comparable to Hao Zhao, but due to the close distance, almost all the archers have been killed, more shot down two, less shot down one......

Arrows flew in a row, and the bandits who rushed to the front fell to the ground one after another, as if they had been pushed to dominoes, and in an instant, thirty or forty people were shot......

"It's not good, there are officers and soldiers to help, the bow and arrow are too strong......"

The stunned bandits were in a state of confusion and turned back and retreated, but because they were in a panic and anxious to flee for their lives, they trampled on each other, and more than a dozen bandits died at the feet of their companions.

In the blink of an eye, he eliminated one-tenth of the four or five hundred bandits, Yuan Mai's heart was suddenly greatly encouraged, his self-confidence increased unprecedentedly, and he waved the sky in his hand: "Hao Bodao's team is separated on both sides, and Tang Huan leads his troops to attack!" ”

Hao Zhao was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood that Yuan Mai issued such an order out of selfishness. Launching a surprise attack on the bandits, hand-to-hand combat, there will inevitably be casualties, let Tang Huan lead the field to assault, then the casualties will be minimized.

"This Yuan Gongzi usually looks gentle and amiable, but he has so many scheming, he really has the demeanor of a hero."

Hao Zhao muttered in his heart and ordered the soldiers to separate on both sides, each ready to charge.

Although they watched the officers and soldiers shoot the bandits, they were a little hesitant to let the field charge down and attack more with less.

A medium-sized fielder turned his head to Yuan Mai on the wooden building, and asked loudly: "There are so many bandits, there are only a few dozen of us, how can we break ......?"

The words are not finished......

With a "whoosh", a strong crossbow flew through the air, hitting him in the head impartially, an arrow penetrated, and he turned over and fell off the horse without saying a word, and his life was whimpering......

Yuan Mai stood on the wooden building, holding a strong bow in his hand, and roared loudly: "Whoever dares to disobey orders is like this!" ”

"Kill!"

To retreat is to die, and Chong is still possible to live. Tang Huan knew that if he didn't charge again, he would be the next to die, so with a wave of the horse chopping knife in his hand, he was the first to rush out......

"Kill, kill the thief!"

With Tang Huan's figure, the nearly forty field soldiers behind him shouted together, waved the weapons in their hands, and violently attacked the bandits......

Where the horse's hooves go, flesh and blood fly. The cavalry that rushed down from the heights was unstoppable, and the horses trampled and slashed, and in an instant fifty or sixty more robbers were slain, and there were five or six of them, and the spears of the bandits fell off their horses......

"Don't panic, the daggers retreat, the spearmen surround and trap the people on the horse in the middle!"

A man with a big beard and a yellow scarf wrapped around his head, holding a big axe in his hand, a red horse under his crotch, and loudly commanding the thieves to fight back.

Sure enough, with his command, the thieves stabilized their position, the short soldiers with knives in their hands retreated to the back, and the soldiers with spears rushed to the front, surrounding more than 30 horsemen in the middle, and the spears stabbed one after another......

For a time, there was a great chaos in the field, and in an instant, four or five people were stabbed under the horses with spears, and then their bodies were dismembered by random knives......

Seeing this situation, Yuan Mai smashed his fist on the wooden ladder and sighed in the sky!

I thought to myself, this gang of fieldmen is not a battle-hardened cavalry, in this case, they can't fight, rush down in one go, they will definitely be able to break through a bloody road, and then go around the hillside from the other side, and charge again, not only can the enemy's position be chaotic, but also their own casualties are small. If you rush into the heart of the enemy, you will not leave, but you will fight with the enemy on the horse, and it is strange that you will attack more with less, and not be surrounded!

It's just that Yuan Mai didn't know that this team was not an ordinary bandit rogue, but the elite of the former Yellow Turban Army. It is under the command of Zhang Liang, the "general of the people", who has been in battle for a long time, and has fought a hundred and ten zhang. Although after the fall of the Yellow Turbans, they turned to guerrilla warfare, they still had considerable combat effectiveness!

The bearded man at the head was a "Qu Shuai" under Zhang Liang, whose name was Zou Yan, who had commanded nearly 10,000 troops at the most.

After Zhang Liang's death, he led four or five thousand people into the mountains of Bingzhou to fight guerrillas, and later Yuan Shao sent Gao Gan and Guo Yuan to suppress bandits, Zou Yan was outnumbered, and led the remnants of more than 3,000 people to retreat to the area of Sili.

Zou Yan originally wanted to settle in the barren forests on the hillside east of Chang'an, but he was killed by Xiahou Yuan, the general of Zhenxi appointed by Cao Ying, and suffered heavy casualties, and finally only four or five hundred people remained, and then fled to the territory of Bingzhou again. Seeing that the general trend had gone, Zou Yan decided to go north to Yanmen and take refuge in Chu Feiyan, the former general of the Yellow Turban Army, that is, "Zhang Yan of Montenegro".

When passing through the territory of Lu County, he heard that there was a large horse farm in Lu County, so Zou Yan led his troops to plunder, and with horses, he went to Montenegro to take refuge in Zhang Yan, which was twice the result with half the effort.

It's just that Zou Yan didn't expect to encounter officers and soldiers here, fortunately, the number of officers and soldiers is too small, and the few are almost negligible.

Zou Yan understood that if the fielders who charged down from the hillside were replaced by a well-trained cavalry, even if there were only forty people, they could scatter ten times as many enemies on such a condescending terrain......

"Kill me, kill all the people on the horse, and then rush in and grab the horse!"

Seeing the opportunity to turn defeat into victory, Zou Yan held a big axe in his hand and commanded his subordinates to encircle and suppress the field soldiers trapped in the center.

With horses, going to Montenegro to join Chu Feiyan can get twice the result with half the effort.

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