Yang Hong is worried about his wife at home, and naturally hopes to go back as much as possible. But as a general of the Ming Dynasty, he naturally can't have any laziness.

Picking three groups of rebels along the way has allowed him to establish absolute prestige in the army. Two days ago, the imperial court also sent someone to commend him for his military exploits, and of course, at the same time, he was also ordered to go north as much as possible to exterminate all the thieves!

Yang Hong is also bitter, his 5,000 people have to face a thief army with a total number of more than 500,000, isn't this a cheat?

However, the imperial court seemed to have forgotten this fact, and just kept urging him to go north quickly, and no one helped him to add some more. In a bad way, there was no loss of military rations and salaries.

Well, to correct it further, the military salary is only 30% higher than before, and it has been changed to 70%; As for the grain, it is full of food, but it is all old grain, and the taste is not very good. As for what was originally used as military rations, I'm afraid it was already sold in a grain store with an official background, right?

According to the normal situation, only two stones of old grain, or even three stones of old grain, can be exchanged for one stone of new grain. Now I'm afraid that it's just one stone of old grain for one stone of new grain, where the price difference goes, Yang Hong knows it, so he can't find the prefect's theory. Otherwise, when someone else exchanges a stone of new grain for a bucket of old grain, it will be called a nightmare.

"General, there is Hutou Mountain ahead!" The scout hurried to report.

"Raise our banner, tell them that those who surrender will not die, and behead the head of the Tiger Head King and his family members who come to vote, not to mention that they will be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver!" Yang Hong was very formulaic and ordered to go on according to the basic procedure.

The army soon showed the banner of the new army, and at the same time, surrounded the tiger head village as quickly as possible. As Yang Hong expected, Hutou Mountain didn't plan to fight with him at all, at least he knew that Hutou King didn't have that guts. If there were, he would have attacked the county seat a long time ago.

Since the turtle has shrunk, the battle mode naturally has to be changed to a siege war style, even if Yang Hong actually wants to fight in the field.

The soldiers who gave the order had already gone to shout in front of the battle, and the thieves in Hutou Village also heard it very well. The only thing I couldn't hear clearly was Zhang Hongbin and the others who were using a telescope to observe the qiē in front of them on a mountain five miles away.

"Young Master, what are they doing here?" Wang Er naturally didn't know the situation.

"They have surrounded the stockade, and if the stockade wants to break through, it must fight with them, and if they don't plan to break through, then they can only defend the village. In order to avoid the loss of the official army, they often promised benefits, let the people of the stockade kill each other, and if they were lucky, maybe it would not be long before the head of the tiger head king would be brought down. Zhang Hongbin knew something and immediately sued them.

"They are all brothers who rebelled together, who would do such an unrighteous thing?" Wang Er's eyes immediately widened.

He is inherently righteous, and what he hates the most is naturally the fact that others don't pay attention to righteousness.

"People's hearts are made of meat, and in the case of life and death, there is often the idea of 'dead friends do not die poor'. Besides, the news that Yang Hong killed the three rebels all the way has also come to me, and now he is playing the banner, I am afraid that he is also creating psychological pressure on the thieves in the cottage and forcing them to make a decision quickly. Zhang Hongbin pointed to the front and commented.

"The young master is right, there are only 500 soldiers under the command of the Tiger Head King, and in the face of a siege of 5,000 people, I will feel pressure. Not to mention, this is still an officer army that has wiped out three rebel armies. If the officers and soldiers promise benefits again and let me kill the leader, even if I am not tempted, I am afraid that the soldiers next to me may not be tempted. It's better to die than to live, there should be a handsome, and I don't plan to be buried with the Tiger Head King. Li Dingguo also reacted quickly.

"This ...... All TMD a bunch of bad breeds! Wang Er stomped his foot, but he couldn't refute anything.

In the battlefield five miles away, the gate of Hutou Village has been opened at this moment, but unfortunately, it is not someone who came out to surrender, but 500 troops came out.

The Tiger Head King was also worried that someone would be tempted, so he simply came to the scene ruthlessly, so he could rub the sharpness of the officials and soldiers first. In front of the stockade is a mountain road that limits the number of people walking on it, allowing only five people to go up and down side by side. This means that even if there are 500 people, they may not be able to fight.

"These stupid X's!" Zhang Hongbin smiled.

He also knew that he was afraid that at this time, Yang Hong was also laughing.

"Young Master, why are you laughing at this?" Wang Er asked.

"Isn't this nonsense? A bandit is a bandit after all, and it is not an army at all without training. In the face of a waste army like the guard, there may still be a fight, but in the face of an elite division that continues to win battles, isn't this a clear search for death? Look at it, there are all kinds of weapons, do you really think that this is Shuibo Liangshan, and one or two are Liangshan heroes? The battle was also a mess, and there was no order at all. If you look at the officers and soldiers, they have already been dispatched, still in groups of five, but they are moving forward neatly, and there is no mess at all. Li Dingguo helped analyze.

Wang Er didn't seem to understand, but he continued to look at the battlefield.

At this time, the two sides had already begun to make initial contact, and these thieves with a variety of weapons were stabbed five holes by the spear array of the official army as soon as they made contact. It's just that the people behind are more not afraid, nor are they trying to figure out the formation, but continue to charge with red eyes.

Interestingly, the officers and soldiers fought and retreated, and had no intention of continuing to advance at all.

The retreat of the officers and soldiers stimulated the thieves to continue the attack, and after a short time, they were led to the bottom of the mountain, and the thieves thought that they were powerful, and beat the officers and soldiers back step by step.

But they forgot about it, and at least thirty brothers had been stabbed to death by spears behind them, but none of the officers and soldiers died.

At the bottom of the mountain, the field became wider, and the thieves began to throw more people into attack. They still forget about it, they can invest more people, and the officials and soldiers can also invest more people? They don't want to think that they are only 500 people, but there are 5,000 officers and soldiers!

No, the first 100 people were surrounded by the officers and soldiers in a blink of an eye, but most of them were stabbed to death in just three times and two blows. It's just that the bandits are not afraid at all, they just continue to attack, as if they don't care about their brother's death at all.

At this time, the military band began to play, which was not used to boost morale, but to command the army in the case of large-scale operations. After all, in the case of large-scale operations, there is no way to effectively transmit the orders from above, so it is generally the commander-in-chief who issues military orders, the military band plays music, and then the officers and even non-commissioned officers below quickly change the formation and combat mode according to the meaning expressed by the movement.

The Salvation Army also has a military band, and those who can become regular soldiers are all those who can understand military music, otherwise they cannot go into battle.

Because of this, when the military band of the official army began to play, Wang Er and Li Dingguo would not feel strange. In my heart, I sighed that the young master formed a military band, and it was actually formed after the methods of the regular army. Originally, I thought that this was the young master's originality.

Below, the army quickly followed the instructions of the military band and quickly closed the siege, but in a moment, the remnants of the army were already surrounded.

"Surrender or kill!" I don't know who shouted, and then 5,000 people actually shouted out at the same time.

After being shocked by the momentum of the five thousand, the remaining hundred or so people immediately became cowardly, or they had already noticed the number of the enemy, and their number. In the end, I don't know which leader led the hundreds of people to surrender directly.

Upon inquiry, these 500 people were the thieves who had just joined the army for less than three months, and the 500 people who were the real backbone had not yet been dispatched. The damned Tiger Head King, sure enough, still kept an eye on his heart and concealed the existence of five hundred recruits.

Seeing that he didn't succeed in a sortie, Yang Hong was also a little unhappy, but now that the cottage is closed, the other party will not make any more moves, so he can only grind it slowly!

"Let people take turns to surround here, and the rest of the people will set up camp, and that's it for today!" Yang Hong could only announce to everyone.

"General, why don't you let me lead people into the opponent's village, and take advantage of the high morale of our side and the low morale of the other party to seize the cottage?" Zhang Fu is difficult to come out of the angry brush.

"Vice General Zhang, the Tiger Head King has been running Hutou Mountain for so long, how can he be defenseless at all? Besides, only 500 recruits came down this time, and 500 veterans have not yet been dispatched. The old pawn is different from the new recruits, even if the combat effectiveness may still be inferior to ours, but at least it will not be because of the death and injury of these 500 recruits, the latter will be captured, and there will be no morale. Yang Hong patiently explained to Zhang's house.

He knew that Zhang Fu was just a showman, and he was a guy who read a little military book and was completely on paper. But there is no way, who made him the nephew of the prefect, and the military salary and grain and grass all depend on him to be so complete......

"Seeing that the enemy army is newly defeated, if we do not take advantage of the victory to pursue, will we not miss a good opportunity? After this time, the other party will be prepared, and it will not be easy to attack the cottage again! Zhang Fu argued according to the content of the military book.

"Okay, how many men does Vice General Zhang need to attack the cottage?" Yang Hong had to compromise.

"Five hundred is enough!" Zhang Fubiao's strong self-confidence may come from the victories in the first three battles, or it may be his familiarity with the book of war.

"Okay, how about letting Mr. Zhang Qian's team go up with Vice General Zhang?" Yang Hong asked jokingly.

Mr. Zhang Qian is not a name, he is the general manager of the army, with five hundred subordinates and five generals, each of whom leads a hundred people. Mr. Zhang Qian's name is Zhang Hao, and he is a relative of Zhang Fu, and to put it bluntly, Mr. Zhang Qian's team is Zhang Fu's descendants.

"It's good!" Zhang Fu knew that Yang Hong was targeting him, and he was dissatisfied, but out of trust in Zhang Hao, he still agreed.

So he didn't waste time, and immediately Zhang Hao led five hundred people to the cottage with Zhang Fu.

"General, is this good?" Yang Hong's side asked in a low voice.

"If he wants to die, let him go, and I didn't force him to go. Besides, Zhang Qianzong's army is gone, and Zhang Fu has no right to speak here, which will be better for me. Yang Hong said disapprerovingly.

"Shogun Takami!" That Qian always immediately flattered the sycophants.

In the distance, seeing the division of the officers and troops, the three of them also felt strange, but Li Dingguo immediately raised questions and asked what was going on.

"Come to think of it, the person in charge of a certain faction in the official army, he has to make great contributions first, but he ignores the orders of the main general and plans to attack the cottage?" Zhang Hongbin only thought of this possibility.

"The one in Hutou Mountain is also cunning, and he actually recruited another 500 people during this time, if it weren't for the telescope, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to see the situation inside the village. And that army, I don't know if it didn't know the news, actually ran to die? Wang Er almost burst out laughing.

Just because he had already seen that the troops had already begun to be dispatched in the stockade, and the utensils for defending the city had been prepared, and he was waiting for this army to die.