After passing through the dangerous area of Guò, the army hurried again to save the delay. When the camp arrived, everyone was a little nervous. Brother Guan kept looking at Siye, for fear that there would be a stream of rogues. Fortunately, there were no more bands of thieves on the road, and the army avoided the stockades, even the ruined villages were far away.

Most of the roads they walk on are country roads, and occasionally they will enter the fields, these turned over the land is not easy to walk, and it is even more difficult for the spearmen, in order to stabilize the spear, Brother Guan has already ground a blister on his hand, he is very envious of those musketeers at this time, they use carrying the fire gun on their backs, it seems very relaxed.

Chen Xin believed in the discipline of Dengzhou Town, so it was not mandatory in the drill code to march at night, but it was decided by the supervisor according to the situation, and it was easier to walk on a relatively safe road.

After resting again, the Dengzhou army turned to the north, entered the mountain at the southern foot of Taihang Mountain from a mountain pass, first walked north for a while, turned into a ravine, and then generally maintained this direction, the road became difficult, and people kept tripping over stones and mounds, Brother Guan cheered up, stared intently at the position of the person in front of him, and then stepped on that position, so that he did not have to spend energy to choose a place to step on.

The army stopped and walked through the mountains, with special forces and sentinels guiding the way, and in the ravine there was a narrow southeast-facing path, lined with bushes and grasses, in which various insects chirped in concert, and occasionally some unsightly animals ran.

It has been eighty miles now, and the mood is a little nervous, and the consumption of the body is even greater, and everyone feels very tired. The queue was full of heavy breathing.

On the narrow mountain road, the queue in Dengzhou Town can no longer maintain six columns in parallel, and gradually becomes three columns, the formation appears a little chaotic, Brother Guan grew up in the mountains, he is not afraid of mountain roads, but it is not much to walk at night, before turning into the mountains just now, Brother Guan has vaguely seen the lights of the Liukou in the distance. The mood is excited with a little anxiety.

Brother Guan walked and found that the light seemed to be stronger, and he looked up to see that a lower quarter moon was already hanging high in the night sky.

"It won't be long before dawn." Brother Guan muttered in his heart, "When will it come?" ”……

Brother Guan didn't know how long he had been gone. He just followed closely behind the man in front of him until the front herald stopped. The order was passed back one by one, Brother Guan was not literate, and there was no problem with the verbal transfer of orders, he wore it word for word to the people behind, and after the baton was passed generally, the brigade finally gradually stopped. The clutter of footsteps was gone.

The flag captain made a downward gesture beside him, and the soldiers sat down one after another, putting their spears on the ground again. Brother Guan's throat is dry, but there is no permission at the time. He can't drink his own water yet. At this clock, the fourth brother came from the front, and happened to meet Zhou Shao'er next to Brother Guan, who heard Zhou Shao'er asking why he stopped.

Zhong Laosi squatted down and said in a low voice: "The special service team went through the forest to check the location, and they want to determine the location of the Zijin Liang camp." The staff officers have to position the various departments, and then we will enter the lurking place according to the table flag. The Secret Service hasn't returned yet. ”

Zhou Shao'er looked at the location of the moon and said: "There is still about an hour before dawn, how did the special service team do it, I don't know how to send someone over first." ”

"Someone came first, but there was no one at the scheduled place. With such a large mountain blinded by black lights, maybe you got lost, or maybe you missed it on the way. ”

Zhong Laosi's tone was also a little anxious, and after he finished speaking, he returned to the position of Qianzong Qi. Zhou Shao'er gave the order to rest, and Brother Guan opened the coconut scoop and started drinking water, he didn't care about anything, anyway, he had a life, he was not a leading cadre and didn't have to be responsible for others, just listen to the order to kill people.

Everyone squatted in the ravine and waited in the mountain wind and insects, and waited for half an hour before another order came, this time the flag captain came in person, and said as he walked: "All titles, the speaker is immediately beheaded." When marching into the woods, carry your spear diagonally back, without touching the branches above your head. ”

Brother Guan took out his title and bit it lightly in his mouth, this is a three-inch long bamboo piece, the surrounding has been polished and smooth, the same as the Qi family's army, his battalion and name are written on it, anyone who is lost after the war will be punished, and if he is not in his mouth when he is on standby at night, he will be punished if he is found by the suppression soldiers, the purpose is not to allow them to speak casually.

The spears of the front team were erected one after another, and the eldest brother Guan also inserted the spear into the carrying gear, bearing the weight with his shoulders, and then clenched his hands to prevent it from shaking, and the brigade continued to move forward, and after stopping again, the flag captain ordered to turn left on the spot.

Brother Guan estimated that he had reached his position, in front of him was the northern slope of a hill, there was a large area of woods on it, when Brother Guan was a little worried about how to get through guò, he had already come to the edge of the woods, the trees in the forest were not dense, the soldiers entered the woods from between the trees, their spears began to get in the way, and they kept hanging on the branches that were horizontal above, making a crackling sound.

Brother Guan took the spear off his carrying gear and carried it diagonally back on his shoulders to reduce its height, dodging the tree trunks all the way to the top of the mountain......

At the southern foot of Taihang Mountain in the north of Xiuwu, under the quiet moonlit night, there are only the cries of various insects in the forest, such as the moonlight of water falling to the ground through the layers of branches and leaves, shining the dead branches and leaves all over the ground, making this forest become like a fantasy.

The woods were filled with rows of Dengzhou soldiers, and without the rogues noticing, they had quietly entered the attack range. The hundred-mile march was finally completed before dawn, Dengzhou Town was hidden in the mountain forest, and it had already spread out along the southern slope of the long foothills, and the two phalanxes and thousands of headquarters discharged a long queue of six rows, facing the north of the camp of the outflow of the mountain, they only needed to get out of the woods, it was a battle formation.

The soldiers are taking their last short rest. Most of these hard-working soldiers were born in peasant families or mountain people, and adequate nutrition and training before and after enlistment made their bodies very strong.

Brother Guan sat on the ground, biting his own title in his mouth, and through the jagged branches and trunks in front of him, he could see the remaining firelight of the Liukou camp in the distance, and strangely he didn't have too much nervousness in his heart. On the contrary, I hope that the battle will come soon, and of course there is no sleepiness at this time.

After lurking in place, the flag captain ordered all to rest and stand by, although he had just gone through a hundred miles of running, but after a few rests, he felt that he still had the body to fight. This is due to his strong physique and daily training, but the mosquitoes in the forest make him very painful, and he is bitten with strings of bags on his hands and face, and even the homeless people do not want to stay overnight at the edge of the mountain forest. The nearest is a mile away. There are only a lot of mosquitoes, but they are not allowed to fight, and whoever makes a sound while lurking may be beheaded.

Ten paces ahead of him were four platoons of detachment soldiers, who were to advance and attack. As long as they did not encounter a strong counterattack, they could not retreat into the main formation. The tactics of the entire phalanx thousand headquarters were that the company advanced head-on, and the detachments interspersed with assaults, so as to defeat the formation of the rogues as quickly as possible, causing their collapse.

The flag captain hunched over from the front of the queue and whispered something to the team leader. He looked up at the sky again. Brother Guan also looked up at the position of the moon, it was not long before dawn, and it was estimated that the time for the attack was about to come.

Sure enough, only a moment later, two heralds began to give orders along the line. The flag captain stood up and whispered, "Collect the title, move lightly." ”

The queue heard the sound of Suosuo, and Brother Guan finally removed the hateful title from his mouth, and then carefully put it away. This thing made him drool a lot.

"Tidy up!"

Brother Guan hurriedly took out the coconut scoop and poured a big mouthful of water. There was a burst of comfort in the mouth. Then he dismantled the cotton cloth wrapped around the blade of the gun, and removed the bright helmet between his legs and wrapped it around his head, so as to facilitate the identification of friend and foe in the dark night.

When everyone put on their bright helmets, the squad leader made an upward gesture and whispered, "Stand up!" ”

Brother Guan's team all stood up, and then the other teams around them also stood up, the figures in the forest flickered, and Yishui's chain mail made a slight collision sound. After a few moments, the woods became silent, and all the soldiers stood silently, waiting for the order to attack.

A peculiar birdsong.

"Let's go!" The leader of the detachment raised his flag gun, and the detachment in front of the four companies began to advance through the woods on the edge, and there was a rustle of footsteps in the woods. Brother Guan suppressed his excitement and watched their figures walk through the trees.

Another birdsong, "Go!" The flag captain pressed his throat and ordered, and then led the way forward, Brother Guan took a step, followed the pace of the flag captain, the long spear in his hand was obliquely back, constantly hung by the branches that were horizontal above, making a crisp sound, some dead branches fell and smashed on the soldiers' helmets, causing a little chaos, Brother Guan couldn't help but envy those detachments at this time, their bayonets and flintlock pistols looked so powerful.

The marching phalanx was disrupted by the trees of the forest into countless broken squads, which were constantly gathering and dividing like a stream of water, but fortunately they were not far from the edge, and the trees quickly thinned out, and in front of them were shrubs and grasses about a hundred paces.

The Dengzhou soldiers of more than 2,000 formations formed in six rows slowly appeared outside the woods, and the moonlight shone on their bright helmets, inlaying a long silver-white chain on the edge of the woods. The two phalanx thousand headquarters spread out all their eight companies on the front line, with four hundred detachments in front and two divisions of the thousand headquarters on the outside of the two wings, more than a thousand people, all of them organized into flexible combat groups of twenty-four.

After the front row phalanx, followed by more than 200 bayonet flintlock pikemen, these soldiers were the detachment of the fifth battalion and the two detachments of the third general guard, Chen Xin left a division of the guards battalion to guard the camp, but the most flexible detachment was transferred, these people were controlled by Zhu Daichun, as a reserve, and finally Chen Xin and his guards.

The branches in the edge area were cut down by the rogues and turned into a bonfire under the slope, without the bothering of branches and leaves, Brother Guan's spear became easier, and the light outside was better, and the moonlight reflected the dense helmets of the detachment in front, emitting a silvery-white brilliance. The points of light began to shake, and with the sound of chain mail shaking, the detachment began to accelerate.

Brother Guan followed behind the flag captain, stepping on the shadow of his comrade on the right, advancing in the knee-high grass, stealing his eyes to look at the company flag of his company commander Zhou Shao'er, the company flag in the moonlight was a little blurry, but it could be seen that the pace of the flag was also accelerating, the deputy company commander crossed to the front row at this time, tilted his flag gun forward while walking, and turned his head to look at both sides, stretched out his left arm to Brother Guan and pressed it twice.

Brother Guan knew that he was adjusting the formation, signaling this side to slow down a little, and his feet to slow down a little, until the deputy company commander withdrew his left hand, and then maintained his pace, under the guidance of the company flag, they became faster and faster, and gradually turned into a fast walk, the soldiers gasped lowly, and there was still no speech in the queue, only the sound of increasingly dense footsteps and the sound of iron colliding.

A strange feeling between movement and stillness filled the ground, and Brother Guan's heart raced, and he grabbed the barrel of the gun with both hands so that it would not shake too much. The detachment in front of him had already jogged fifty paces away. At this time, the feet were loosened, the grass became sparse, and Brother Guan finally returned to the plain area, he looked to the outside of the two wings as he ran, and could vaguely see some bright spots breaking through to the front of the two wings, and their advance was very fast.

There were some bonfires left more than a mile away, and they spread to six or seven miles away, and tens of thousands of rogues were sleeping peacefully, and at this time it was also the most tired time for the people on duty at night, and even many of the Fulu troops were asleep, and the whole camp was still quiet, and they didn't know that the officers and soldiers they were going to plot had arrived.

The silver Ming army array shining in the moonlight formed a huge arc, like a winding tide head, overflowing the shrubs and grass at the end of the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, silently rushing to the unaware Liukou camp outside the mountain forest.

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