On the second day, they only walked ten or so miles, and this group of ragged military households had some messy weapons in their hands, and walked hard in the cold of early spring, and just after the foot of the golden thread top mountain, they froze to death two elderly military households, so they had to stop camping again, they basically had no training, at most they had repaired turtle shells in Jizhen or Liaozhen. The food sent by Wei Li was only enough to eat for two or three days, and most of them also brought some dry food by themselves, and they had to bring their own grain and grass when they came out to work in the first month, so it is no wonder that they complained a lot.

On the third day, there was finally good news, the thousand households of the Baishi Cliff Guard Palace brought more than 50 people to meet with the brigade, in the afternoon, Zhang Tongzhi of Chengshanwei also brought more than 10 families and 200 military households to arrive, only Jinghaiwei, who was the farthest away, did not arrive, Jinghaiwei did not take this road, only one of the goods transported to Weihai was robbed by Tongtianliang, so it is understandable that he is not active. This time, the main force is Weihaiwei and Chengshanwei, if they are robbed by Tongtianliang like this, the trade routes between the two places will be cut off, and the officials of the two guards must fight this battle regardless of whether they are public or private, which is why Yang Yunnong is so cold and has to send troops.

After the two rendezvous, there were a total of seven hundred and dozens of people, although it was the guard army, but it was an official army, and each person still had a weapon, and there were fifty or sixty of the adults in total, and everyone didn't think that Tongtianliang could beat the official army.

Yang Yunnong's official position here is the highest, and early on the morning of the fourth day, it was not far from Qishan, so he assigned the thousands of households from the Hundred Stone Cliff Institute to take his subordinates first, and he finally remembered to have an outpost.

After the front slowly opened, Chen Xin's team still walked last, this road is the official road to Wendeng County, the road condition is not bad, the soldiers are still marching in two columns, the front is Dai Zhenggang's two killer teams, the last is Lu Chuanzong's two killer teams, and the middle is a firearms team and logistics.

Chen Xin himself also walked in the middle with his own soldiers, following behind the firearms team, Zhu Guobin happened to be beside Chen Xin, he has been fiddling with the three new bows for the past few days, it turns out that the bow used in the Fu boat is less powerful, Zhu Guobin doesn't like it too much, these bows from Zuo Qianhu are left, because they are left by the Ministry of Communications, the quality is slightly worse, but they can still be used, and the power is not bad, he chose two good ones, only he and Zhou Shifa can shoot arrows in Chen Xin's team, both of them brought a pair of bows and arrows, and the arrows were inserted with thirty heavy arrows. Nie Hong took the last one, although he has a lot of strength, but he can't use a bow yet, he has been practicing shooting tree trunks for the past few days, but his results are very poor.

The chess mountain in front of the team, the mountain is continuous, a total of five large peaks, the average altitude is only more than 200 meters, the highest peak of the Jade Emperor is the old nest of Tongtianliang, about more than 400 meters, the mountain is steep in many places, the trees on the mountain are bare in winter, the snow has not melted a few days ago, and the mountain forms a black and white mottled color.

In fact, Qishan is very close to Weihaiwei, probably in the middle of Weihai and Wendeng, fifty miles away from Wendeng County, forty miles away from Weihai, and the mountain range is nearly twenty miles longitudinal and horizontal. If Tongtianliang can't defend it, if the time drags on a little longer in this weather, it is estimated that this army called Hanako may collapse by itself.

After walking for half an hour, the front stopped again, Zhou Shifa ran all the way to the front to look, and reported that the wooden bridge on the Wugermanium River had been demolished, and the people of Baishiya were building the bridge.

Chen Xin listened to Zhou Shifa's return, frowned and said: "I'm afraid that this bandit leader already knew that we were coming, and he didn't know where to wait, but he could only fight with a hundred people, and he really dared to attack the official army?" ”

Zhou Shifa said: "Tongtianliang has been a soldier in Dengzhou, I'm afraid I know a little. ”

Zhu Guobin also felt that it was inappropriate, and asked Zhou Shifa: "Did the outpost send scouts to cross the river first?" ”

"It doesn't seem to be, they're all building bridges."

Zhu Guobin said angrily: "It's just a matter of walking slowly, how can you not send scouts when you march." ”

Chen Xindao: "Those people in Baishi Cliff are all scouts, Guobin and I will go to the river to have a look." ”

The two came to the river with their own soldiers, there was not much water in the river, and there was still some ice floes on the river, but they could not pass people, and the wooden bridge on the original official road was demolished, and the bridge piles and planks fell crookedly in the middle of the river. Several families from Baishiya and Qianhu were escorting more than 30 military households to build a bridge, and they directly installed a bridge under the riverbed, and did not erect it as before.

Chen Xin looked across the river, the river was very flat, there were traces of cultivation in the fields on both banks, it seemed that the vicinity was still very calm last year, there were several hillsides about a mile away from the riverbank, and the mountains were bare and dense trees after falling leaves, and it seemed to be silent.

Chen Xin said to Zhu Guobin: "It's easy to hide a few hundred people behind the mountain, and you can hide a lot in the woods if you camouflage, could it be that Tongtian Liang really wants to ambush the officers and soldiers here?" ”

"Chances are, he's going to hit halfway. I'll immediately reload the firearms team. ”

At this time, Zeng Qianhu also arrived, Chen Xin told him his worries, Zeng Qianhu didn't believe that Tongtianliang dared to come out, but he still asked Commander Yang and Jiang Tongzhi to talk, Yang Yunnong was not worried at all, he disdained the bandits, and still did not send scouts, but he felt that the speed was too slow, and asked Zeng Qianhu to find another place downstream to build another bridge.

Chen Xin and others had no choice but to follow more than 100 people from Zuo Qianhu to find a shallow water fifty steps downstream, where the water was only knee-deep, but the shoes and pants were not easy to dry after wading in winter.

The bridge of the left thousand households has not been built, the bridge on the side of the brigade has been completed, more than 50 people from the hundred stone cliffs and thousands of households have crossed the river first, and after the thousand households have crossed the river, they will send two horseback riders to the south hill, Chen Xin breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head to look at the bridge, and his heart hung again.

The Weihaiwei Brigade did not wait for the two families to come back, and couldn't wait to start crossing the river, when the family arrived at the foot of the mountain, dozens of people had passed, a family member dismounted and walked to the mountain, and the figure disappeared in the forest, and after a while, more than 100 people in front of the house passed, lined up slightly on the shore, and walked forward with the people of the Baishi Cliff, and the defenders led by Yang Yunnong also began to cross the river, and Chen Xin saw that Wang Yuanzheng was also in the queue with seven families.

Zeng Qianhu's pontoon bridge was only half built, he was ready to give up, and crossed the river directly from the brigade, the family next to him suddenly pointed to the opposite bank, Zeng Qianhu and Chen Xin and others looked up, the family at the foot of the mountain was running to this side without his life, dozens of figures came out of the woods behind him, one of them rode the remaining horse, and chased after the family Ding.

The man behind him rode better, chased more than 100 steps, and when he got behind Jiading, the rider shouted, and a javelin in his hand flew out, piercing Jiading, and the Jiading vomited blood, and his hand shook the head of the gun that emerged from his chest a few times, as if he wanted to tear it off, and after running a few steps, he finally weakened, fell off his horse, and the bandit rider continued to chase for a while, and stood in place with the empty horse that grabbed Jiading, and looked at the guards fifty or sixty steps away from the opposite side, and a large group of bandits were still pouring out of the woods, and stood behind him one after another.

"You're a bitch." Zeng Qianhu looked at those figures dumbfounded, needless to say, he knew that the previous family was also finished.

The military households in the front of the river were in chaos, and the two thousand households in the front and Baishi Cliff took a few families to shout and scold again and again, and let them line up in formation, and Yang Yunnong on this side of the river also urged the soldiers defending the city to cross the river, and the military households who did not cross the river also panicked, and calmed down with two soldiers to draw out their waist knives and bullet pressure to prevent these people from escaping.

Chen Xin said to Zeng Qianhu: "Lord Zeng, you should immediately let the sergeant wade across the river." ”

Zeng Qianhu looked at the riverside where there was still ice floe, and hesitated: "The water is so cold......

Chen Xin didn't wait for him anymore, turned around and loudly ordered his squad to take off their shoes and roll up their trousers, and the captains shouted the order, the soldiers rolled up their trousers one after another, stepped into the biting river, and quickly entered the south bank, the four killer teams lined up in two columns, two squads in the front and rear, and the firearms team was behind the killer team.

Zeng Qianhu saw it, and also urged his subordinates to cross the river, those military households dragged their feet, and it took a while for more than 30 people to come, Zeng Qianhu knew how to lead the troops, and he didn't dare to delay for too long, so he rushed to the left flank of the forward with more than 30 people first.

When they crossed the river, all the bandits had already come to the opposite side of the guard's army, numbering four or five hundred, although there were more than 700 guards, but there were still a small half who had not crossed the river, and only three hundred of those who crossed the river were in a state of fighting more with less.

There were only fifty paces left between the two sides, the same thin and ragged, the bandits in front of them were armed with weapons, and the people behind looked like pure peasants, with hoes and flat burdens, and a few people simply took a large branch. When the more than a dozen bandits who arrived first saw the corpse of the housekeeper on the ground, they rushed up, stripped off their clothes, took off their shoes, and stripped the housekeeper in a moment, and even a pair of socks were shared by the two bandits.

Then the bandits in the front row separated, revealing a large black and red flag behind them, on which a beam character was written crookedly. Qi is also a bandit leader on horseback, with a stout body, and he can't see his appearance clearly from a distance, so he should be Tongtianliang himself.

"My lord, where are we arrayed?" Zhu Guobin saw that the two sides were about to start a group fight, but Yang Yunnong's side had no order, and hurriedly asked Chen Xin.

"Move to the left flank, flank from the left, and don't go behind the guards." Chen Xin didn't wait for a clear order, seeing that the forward of the Weisuo army had shrunk into a group, and the defenders behind were arrayed, and they had not yet been transferred to the front line, he was worried that this group of people would cause chaos, so he simply moved to the left flank on his own.

The battle team lined up in two columns of mandarin ducks and quickly ran to the left flank, and the eleven soldiers of the logistics team also put down their baggage, each with a knife and stick, and followed behind.

As soon as they started, they started to fight in the middle, and the Tongtianliang shouted to the bandits: "The officers and soldiers come to rob us of grain and grass, let them get their hands, we all have to starve to death, those who retreat will be killed, and those who kill an officer and soldier will be rewarded with a silver tael, and you can sleep with a little lady at night." "The bandits howled, and most of them were desperate farmers, and once they exceeded the limit of their patience, the most honest peasants would become bloodthirsty fanatics and take revenge on society.

Tongtian Liang immediately waved his hand, a large group of bandits had blood-red eyes, and rushed towards the guard army with an excited shout, the bandits did not have any formation, the bandits were in front, the coercion was behind, and the five or six bandits in the front were the strongest, they were holding a bow, and they stopped shooting an arrow a few steps before running, which seemed to have been practiced, and each person shot three or four branches in a moment.

The guards were piled together, some people in the front row had shields, and they hurriedly picked up the block, and those who did not have a shield were immediately shot seven or eight people, and there were bursts of screams, and there was a panic in the queue.

"Raise your gun! Tree shields, guns raised! The guards were supposed to be in the front row of swords and shields, and the back row of spears, but their equipment was poor, and they were attacked in a hurry, and the queues were chaotic, and there were few guns in the front row, so they could not deter the bandits at all.

The distance of fifty paces was completed in the blink of an eye, and the surging crowd of bandits was coming, and many of the guards shouted to give them courage, and some screamed in fear, and the crowded guards were full of screams of exhaustion.

With a "boom", the bandits who rushed at high speed grabbed their weapons and slammed into the front row of the guards army.

Chen Xin led the team around the left flank, and from his point of view, he only saw weapons and arms fluttering wildly, and bursts of blood mist were constantly spewing out from the crowd. The cruelty and bloodiness of hand-to-hand combat far exceeded the wars of later generations, the military households in Weihai even had very little training, where had they seen this kind of scene, after the casualties, the front row had begun to retreat, Chen Xin turned his eyes to see Yang Yunnong's recognition of the flag, only to see Yang Commander shouting on the horse, commanding the defenders to move forward.

In the chaotic battle between the two sides, the bandits were actually no better, they just fought bravely with blood, and at this time, after standing slightly on the upper hand, the momentum was even stronger, and the defenders behind the guard army filled in and stabilized their position a little.

Suddenly, there was a scream in the middle of the front row, only to see that the red flag of Tongtianliang had arrived there, the bandit leader personally led more than ten bandits to the middle of the front row, they all held spears, big knives and axes and other heavy soldiers, these people were the most brave of the bandits, the guards in front of them were killed seven or eight people one after another, the surrounding military households could not control the fear in their hearts, shouted and desperately fled to both sides, and were punched a gap by Tongtianliang.

The bandits went to kill on both sides along the gap, and Tongtian Liang rushed out of the gap with more than 30 bandits, and went straight to Yang Yunnong's flag to kill.

"Run for your life!" After the first Wei Haihu shouted this sentence, the chaos expanded rapidly, the front row of the guard army formation collapsed with a bang, all the military households shouted for their lives, dropped the weapons in their hands and fled desperately to the river, Zhenfu used a waist knife to kill a few people to no avail, the Zuo Qianhu military households who had just crossed the river had just finished the formation, and at first sight, they also rushed back to the other side. At this time, Chen Xin's men and horses had just appeared more than thirty steps away from the bandits' right flank.