In the dim light, a small group of soldiers roared loudly in front of the gate.

"Open the door! The front striker of Master Fan, the head of the Junzhou soldiers and horses, is here! ”

The sergeant guarding the gate of the village has long been replaced by the henchmen of the second and third masters, and when they hear this, they will go down to the city tower to open the door to greet them.

"Don't move yet." Gu Jiang looked at the crowd shouting and scolding in front of the gate: "Tell them to hand over the credentials." ”

The sergeant at the gate put down a basket, and one of the officers at the head placed a sign in the basket. Carrying the basket, Gu Jiang took out the sign and looked at it, and sure enough, it was the brand of the head of the soldiers and horses of Junzhou, Mongolia. He was overjoyed and said, "Hurry up and open the door to greet Chief Fan's subordinates!" ”

The gate of the village opened, and Gu Jiang walked out with his subordinates and said happily: "The little ones are looking forward to the arrival of Chief Fan's soldiers and horses, just like children looking forward to their parents" Before he could finish speaking, the iron cone gun hidden in the sleeve of the other officer's robe had already reached his throat.

Bai Yijie, who was standing behind Shi Wenhu, raised the Fan Yang hat on his head, looking at Gu Jiang's overwhelmed expression, he never thought that it would be so easy to earn the city gate, his idea was to make the city gate in front of him, so he lit a torch in the bushes and falsely claimed that the army was attacking, and secretly led fifty people around the cliff behind the stockade, climbed up from the cliff, and suddenly launched an attack from an unexpected place of the enemy.

I didn't expect this Gu Jiang to be so simple, saving a lot of means. \

He asked, "Which granary did you let the Lord of Wei Zhai attack?" How many ambushes were arranged? ”

Shi Wenhu pressed the iron awl half an inch towards Gu Jiang's throat, and shouted, "Say it quickly!" Otherwise, one more inch will kill you! ”

Gu Jiang didn't dare to be tough, and said tremblingly: "It's Shangluocang in the south of Shangluo Mountain, because of the dangerous terrain, it is especially suitable for ambushes. There are not many soldiers and horses used by General Fan to ambush, there are always thousands of people. If the owner of the village doesn't go, it will be difficult to survive. ”

Bai Yijie snorted and said loudly: "You and the people who followed the rebellion of the second and third masters of the village listened, we are actually the vanguard of Zheng Yunming of the Southern Dynasty, you must have heard of it, tomorrow at dawn, the general will personally lead the army to come to the immortal village, and when the time comes, the rats who are ready to surrender the Tartars will be difficult to survive, and those who know the power of the Dao will put down their weapons early, and they can avoid waiting for death!" ”

Now I heard that Zheng Yunming, the general of the Southern Dynasty, is going to come in person, and I don't know whether the road is true or false, and I want to drum up the courage to destroy this small group of Southern Dynasty soldiers, but the leader has fallen into their hands. So the soldiers in the village threw away their weapons one after another, and some began to flee when the night was getting darker.

Bai Yijie led people directly to the back hall, only to see that the four minions guarding Wei Ruolan had all been knocked down, and they knew that they must have been distracted by what happened in the walled gate, relaxed their vigilance, and were taken advantage of by Wei Ruolan to sneak attack.

"You stay in the stockade to guard, and the fifty people of the Jing and E army will help you defend." Bai Yijie said to Wei Ruolan: "Reinforcements from the Jing'e army will arrive tomorrow morning. ”

Wei Ruolan stared at Bai Yijie and asked rhetorically, "Then where are you going?" ”

"I'm going to report to Lord Wei Zhai." Bai Yijie said, "Lend me your horse." ”

Wei Ruolan frowned, and shouted: "If you go, both of you will go together, don't want to leave me alone!" ”

Obviously, this girl only left herself in Hanyang not long ago, and the woman is really unreasonable. Bai Yijie shook his head and sighed: "That's it, I was shot to death by a Tartar together, and I finally can't live as a husband and wife, and I die in one place, you go and lead the horse." ”

He turned his head to Shi Wenhu again and said, "Shi Zhuangshi is good at guarding the stockade, and the rescue will arrive soon." ”

Wei Ruolan soon brought two horses over, and the two got on the horses and rode straight to Shangluo Mountain Road.

Wei Ruolan was worried that her father had fallen into the trap of the Mongolian army at this time, so she whipped the horse on the back of her horse, and wanted to rush to her father's side to call the police as soon as possible. But she also looked down on her father a little smaller.

As one of the brave generals under Wanyan Heda, the right superintendent of the ancient Jin State, Wei Zugui had experienced countless battles in Henan, and had long honed an extremely keen sense of smell.

"Stay together!" He suddenly shouted, "Send spies to find out what's going on ahead!" ”

"The owner of the village!" Li Yong patted his horse over, and urged impatiently: "Now speed up the march, just rush to the grain camp before dawn, that is the time when the Mongolian army is most tired, if it is delayed for a while, when the sky is bright, we will not have time to leave." ”

"It's okay," Wei Zugui was completely unmoved: "Hu Qi is not fast on the mountain road, even if the sky is bright, we can retreat safely, if the enemy really does something at the grain station, we rush suddenly, then it is really caught off guard." ”

Li Yong saw that he was suspicious, and he didn't dare to say much, so he had to let Wei Zugui send his own soldiers as sentinels to investigate. The army rested in the mountains and forests by the roadside, and after waiting for half an hour, only one of the spies sent out fled back with a crossbow arrow in his left arm.

"The front is all ambushed by the Mongol army, there are several miles long before and after, and I don't know how many people and horses there are! If the villain escapes a moment late, he won't even be able to save his head! The spy cried, and Wei Zugui believed that he had really been fooled.

"Brute!" He slapped his thigh: "Where is that brute Li Yong!" Only then did everyone think of looking for the second village master, Li Yong had already taken advantage of the darkness of the night and a few relatives to sneak away, and even his subordinates who were usually close to him had escaped.

"The Mongols are coming towards us," said the probe who was exploring the way, "please make a decision as soon as possible!" ”

Wei Zugui gritted his teeth and shouted in a deep voice: "What else to say, enter the Poplar Valley and defend it!" ”

Baiyang Valley is a dangerous place in Shangluo Mountain, it is a valley sandwiched between two mountains, a mountain stream flows through in the middle of the valley, and the mountain road is on the side of the mountain stream. There are two poplar trees at the mouth of the valley, hence the name of the valley.

The terrain of the right mountain of the Poplar Valley is steep and cannot accommodate many horses. The left mountain is a little gentle, and there are trees on it, Wei Zugui urged his subordinates to seize the left mountain, and set up a lookout post on the top of the mountain. Soon it was discovered that two fast horses were coming galloping from the south.

Looking at the figure coming from afar, Wei Zugui couldn't stop complaining, even if he didn't have to look carefully, he could recognize that it was his baby daughter, the warrior next to him was also very familiar, and Bai Shusheng, who made his daughter fascinated, also came.

Wei Sheng, who was sentry at the foot of the mountain, took his sister and Bai Yijie and brought the two up the mountain.

"Please take all the guards under the mountain to the mountain to defend!" Bai Yijie couldn't even bother with polite words when he saw Wei Zugui, and talked about his suggestions.

Wei Zugui was stunned, with his usual understanding of Bai Yijie, this scholar's knowledge is by no means more than that.

"There is no water source in the mountain, only relying on the mountain stream to get water, and the army is all caged on the mountain, how can these hundreds of people drink water?"

"As soon as the enemy surrounds it, it will cut off the mountain stream," Bai Yijie said: "If you still divide your troops to protect the mountain stream at this time, you can only disperse your forces to give the enemy a chance to take advantage of, and everyone will be on the mountain for a day and a half, and Zheng Yunming's army will soon arrive." ”

Wei Zugui squinted at Bai Yijie, trying to see how much of this scholar's words were true, the officials and people of the Southern Dynasty were extremely cowardly, how could they easily send a large army to confront the Mongols for the sake of a bandit? This really does not fit the image of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty in his eyes. Although it has been rumored in recent days that there was a young and capable general in the Song army, I know if this Zheng official is a meritorious person who has collected merits in the local area in the name of the prime minister's father.

But then I thought that no one would send them to the door to go to the trouble together, just to deceive themselves.

He ordered the evacuation of the guards of the mountain stream, and the troops built earth and stone walls halfway up the mountainside, preparing to meet the Mongol army.

This time, there was no real Mongol army to attack, and at this time it was the key point for the Mongolian expeditionary force to retreat north to share the spoils, who would delay the results of the battle for the small matter of a few hundred bandits in the south? It is very rare that there is no figure of half of the true Mongolian soldiers in the encirclement and suppression army, and the three thousand military horses are all the new annexed troops that Fan Yongji himself took away from Junzhou.

Although it is only a new annex army, these people followed Fan Yongji from Jin to Song, and then from Song to Mongolia, which can be regarded as a team trained in the tossing and turning, and the quality of the army can be compared with that of ordinary soldiers. As the army approached the valley, it formed formation, and the archers slowly and carefully approached the foot of the mountain in several rows, and began to shoot at the minions of the immortal village halfway up the mountain.

Their arrows shot fast and intensively, but halfway up the mountain were dense forests, and the soldiers of the immortal village hid them very well, and the random arrows that could not see the target could hardly have any effect.

Wei Ruolan hid behind a tree and whispered to Wei Sheng behind another tree: "Be careful to hide, open the bow quickly, understand?" ”

Wei Sheng rolled his eyes at his sister, and suddenly dodged out from behind the tree, shooting an arrow at the bottom of the mountain with swift and incoherent speed. This arrow knocked down an officer who was shouting loudly, and Fan Yongji's archers were taken aback, and hurriedly aimed the arrow at the young general who jumped out to fight back. Wei Sheng looked at the rain of arrows coming from the opposite side, and suddenly leaned over and hid behind a section of the tree trunk that was lying down, and dodged this wave of arrows lightly.

Taking advantage of the fact that this desperate guy had attracted the attention of the enemy, Wei Ruolan and the archers of the Immortal Village began to fire back with their bows.

She raised her bow and fell, and in an instant, she had already sent three arrows, and all the arrows were hit. The other archers also desperately pulled their bowstrings and fired their arrows at the opposite side.

Although the archers of Fan Yongji's army suffered the casualties caused by the counterattack from the opposite side, they did not have the slightest intention of retreating, and the frequency of their fire increased even more. Knife infantry and pikemen rushed forward from the rear row, crossed the archers and began to attack the mountain.