"Gifts?" Han Wei looked at Li Yuntian with an unfathomable expression, his eyes showed a puzzled look, and he was very curious about what Li Yuntian would give him.

Li Yuntian did not explain to Han Wei, and then led him to a small courtyard in the courtyard guarded by the sergeant of the Xiaowu Army, where the wooden boxes unloaded from the previous two carriages were placed in a dry, empty room.

At Li Yuntian's signal, a sergeant of the Xiaowu Army opened the lid of one of the wooden boxes, only to see six black iron guys lying quietly on the hay in the box, fixed by wooden molds.

"This is a mine, a newly developed weapon of the Martial Arts, bury it in the ground when dealing with the rebels, as long as the rebels step on it, it will explode, and the fragments it produces will kill and injure a large number of surrounding rebels." Li Yuntian picked up a mine from the box and said to Han Wei with a smile.

Han Wei looked at the iron guy in Li Yuntian's hand who looked a little bulky with interest, he still heard of this kind of thing called a mine once, although it seemed very unfamiliar, but since this was a gift specially prepared by Li Yuntian for him, it must be as powerful as Li Yuntian said.

By the time Li Yuntian left the capital, more than 1,000 of them had been produced by Li Yuntian, and 1,000 of them had been brought to Jiaozhi by Li Yuntian.

There were a total of 200 mines in these wooden boxes in the room, and the remaining 800 were in the baggage of the Xiaowu army led by Wang Jian and Zhang Ben.

The two hundred mines arrived in Qinzhou with Li Yuntian on the Mingding sea vessel, and because Li Yuntian was in a hurry to Jiaozhi, it was naturally impossible to carry these mines with him.

Therefore, Li Yuntian left more than 20 sergeants of the Xiaowu Army to guard the mines, and asked the troops of the local guard station to escort them along the way.

After more than 20 days of trekking, these mines came to Jiaozhi without alarm, and were quickly transferred by Li Yuntian to Sanjiang City to deal with the rebels.

There is no doubt that this ambush battle fought by Han Wei will set a precedent in human history for the mass use of landmines.

Two days later, the spies sent by Li Yuntian to Lilian City sent back the news that Li Li personally led 120,000 rebels to Lilian City, plus the 20,000 defenders of Lilian City and more than 10,000 rebels who fled from Anliang County, the total strength of the rebels in Lilian City exceeded 150,000.

Because Lilian City could not accommodate so many troops, many rebels camped outside the city, and the barracks were endless, dense and powerful at a glance.

Li Li stayed in Lilian City for one night, and the next day he led 140,000 rebels to rush to Anliang County, leaving only more than 10,000 people in Lilian City to defend the city, putting on a posture that Anliang County was bound to win.

When the news reached Sanjiang City, Li Yuntian immediately convened important officials in the city to discuss matters and arranged for them to defend the city, and the sky over Sanjiang City immediately shrouded the clouds of war, and the atmosphere became tense and depressing.

In the face of the 140,000 rebels who were pressing the border, Li Yuntian did not feel panicked, but secretly waited for the rebels' actions after arriving in Anliang County, wondering if Li Li would send people to attack Sanjiang City as he thought, cutting off the connection between the Ming army and Taiyuan Mansion and Xuanhua Mansion.

As for the Ming army in Anliang County, Li Yuntian was not worried, there were nearly 30,000 people in Anliang County, and most of them were strong people, plus the rebels left a lot of baggage in Anliang County, and it was difficult for the rebels to capture it for a while.

Moreover, Li Yuntian believed that the rebels would attack Sanjiang City first, so as to cut off the retreat of the Ming army in Anliang County and form a deterrent to the Ming army in Anliang County.

Therefore, before Sanjiang City was conquered by the rebels, Li Li would not send troops to attack Anliang County.

The reason why Li Yuntian wanted Han Wei to ambush the rebels who came to attack Sanjiang City was because almost all of the 50,000 soldiers in Sanjiang City were transferred to Anliang County, and now the Ming army in Sanjiang City was completely a group of old and weak soldiers, and it was easy to collapse in the face of the fierce offensive of the rebels, and the consequences were unimaginable.

Therefore, Li Yuntian wants to fight the rebels outside the city, and he wants to take the rebels who come to Sanjiang City by surprise, only in this way can the current disadvantage be reversed.

10,000 elite Ming army against 50,000 rebels, Li Yuntian is confident that he will win this battle, and the superiority of the elite troops of the Ming army will be fully reflected in a head-to-head confrontation.

The rebels must be arrogant and underestimate the enemy at this time, and they would never have imagined that the Ming army would be ambushed, plus they would encounter an unprecedented mine array, which would inevitably cause panic, and as long as the Ming army was strong, they would definitely be able to defeat it.

After Li Li arrived in Anliang County, he immediately divided his troops into two routes, one was led by him personally, surrounded Anliang County with 90,000 rebels, and seized the time to build siege equipment, and the other was led by Fan You, with 50,000 rebels and rushed straight to Sanjiang City.

Prior to this, Han Wei had already led more than 10,000 reorganized Ming troops under Li Yuntian's order to set up an ambush on the Fallen Leaf Slope.

Li Yuntian saw them off on the tower of the city gate, and according to the speed of the rebels' march, he roughly guessed the time when Li Li and his party would arrive in Anliang County, and asked Han Wei to rush to the fallen leaf slope to prepare one step in advance.

In Li Yuntian's view, whether the situation in Jiaozhi can be stabilized, the key is in the battle of the fallen leaf slope, if Han Wei can defeat the rebels, then it will inevitably make Li Li shocked, so he does not dare to underestimate the Ming army in Sanjiang City and Anliang County, and then lay a solid opportunity for the two to negotiate.

"Big brother, General Han will definitely be able to win this battle." Lei Ting, who was standing on the side, saw a worried look in Li Yuntian's eyes, and knew that he attached great importance to this ambush on the Fallen Leaf Slope, so he opened his mouth to comfort him.

"If this battle is won, An Yuanhou and the others will be able to rest in peace in the heavenly spirits." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, looked at Lei Ting and said.

The main force of the Ming army that attacked Anliang County at night was the surviving Jingwei of Wang Tong's rebel army, and the first battle of Luoyepo was composed of the defeated troops of Liu Sheng's rebel army.

Whether it is the night attack on Anliang County, or the ambush battle of the fallen leaf slope, the Ming army is outnumbered, if the ambush of the fallen leaf slope is also victorious, then the shame of the rebel army being beaten by the rebels and fleeing will re-establish the image of brave and good at fighting to the outside world.

Thirty miles from Sanjiang City and fifty miles from Anliang County, Deciduous Slope is located in front of the exit of a valley formed by two towering and steep mountains, and is an undulating hill overgrown with weeds.

After arriving at the Fallen Leaf Slope, Han Wei immediately arranged an ambush for the Ming army, and mobilized a group of people to dig holes on the road to the ambush section and in the open areas on the left and right sides of the valley mouth, and then the sergeants of the Xiaowu Army planted the mines.

The reason for the mines to be planted in the open areas on the left and right sides of the valley mouth is that the mines on the road kill only a limited number of enemies, and once the rebels are attacked, they will not continue to advance.

At this time, the Ming army will attack the rebels, force them to retreat, and drive them back into the valley.

Since the passage between the two mountains is only more than 20 meters wide, and there are rebels gathered in the valley, those rebels who have already left the valley will definitely not be able to withdraw to the valley, and will inevitably crowd in front of the valley mouth, and then the buried mines will be ready to exert their power.

When the mines were laid, several sergeants of the Xiaowu Army took notebooks and recorded the places where the mines were buried, so that they could be recovered after the war so as not to hurt the innocent.

Fan You didn't know anything about what was happening on the Fallen Leaf Slope, he was at the front of the rebel army marching on the road, riding a horse and chatting and laughing with several rebel generals on the side.

The rebels also sent spies in Sanjiang Mansion, so Fan You already knew that there was a new reinforcement of more than 10,000 people in Sanjiang City, and he also knew the identity of the Ming army that attacked Anliang County, as Ruan Yan expected, it was the Ming army in Sanjiang City, which meant that there were not many troops in Sanjiang City, otherwise Li Yuntian would not have sent reinforcements to support.

The spies don't know where those reinforcements came from, but the reinforcements were wearing the uniforms of the Daming Guard's troops, which were different from the black uniforms of those Xiaowu Army sergeants, and they must have been local troops transferred by Li Yuntian to increase the strength of Sanjiang City.

Although before Fan You left Anliang County, Ruan Yan had warned him not to despise the Ming army in Sanjiang City, and told him to act carefully after arriving in Sanjiang City, so as not to make a desperate attempt to launch a surprise attack on Fan You.

Although Fan You happily said that he would be careful, he didn't listen to Ruan Yan's warning at all, but hoped that the Ming army would go out of the city, so that he could take advantage of the situation to command the rebel army under his command to destroy the Ming army, and attack Sanjiang City, saving the trouble of besieging the city.

In Fan You's opinion, the once extremely brave Ming army is now in decline, coupled with low morale, how can it be the opponent of these high-morale rebels under his command, if they dare to come, they are looking for death.

Among the rebel generals beside Fan You, Cai Fu is undoubtedly the most embarrassing one, he has been accompanying the smiling face on the side, and when asked, he will answer two sentences.

Since he has been in Jiaozhi for several years, Cai Fu can already speak the local language of Jiaozhi, and even his clothes have been changed to the style of Jiaozhi.

To tell the truth, Cai Fu began to surrender to the rebels was just a helpless expediency, he didn't want to be killed by the rebels, he wanted to find a chance to run, but later he helped the rebels do a lot of things to deal with the Ming army in Jiaozhi, so he fell deeper and deeper, especially after going to Qinghua City to persuade Luo Tong to surrender, there was no way out, only to honestly join the rebels.

However, because he was a rebel general of the Ming army, even if Cai Fu dressed himself as a local of Jiaozhi, he was still excluded by those rebel generals, and he was depressed in his career.

For example, Fan You and several other rebel generals made fun of Cai Fu from time to time on the road.

Cai Fu didn't dare to be angry, so he smiled resignedly, showing an honest and weak image, but gritted his teeth with hatred in his heart.

The so-called tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, thinking that his dignified Ming commander Tongzhi actually ended up rebelling against the natives and "wagging his tail and begging for mercy", it is really too hateful, if it was in the Ming Dynasty, he would have killed Fan You and these people to eliminate the hatred in his heart.!^!

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