When Liu Wutang heard the news, he immediately ordered the officers and troops to stop advancing and temporarily camp on the spot, and recruited the general garrison of Zhongqian to discuss what to do next.

Liu Wutang looked at the map and scolded secretly, this group of thieves blocking their way, they don't need to think about it to know who it is, and now they can go deep into Tong'an County to block their way, except for the sea wolf tribes, I am afraid that there will be no second one.

The sea wolf is indeed arrogant enough, this time he dared to go deep into such a deep place on land, which did not take their officers and soldiers into account at all.

And the place they chose today is really good, this place is sandwiched between two mountains and a ditch, which is the only road leading directly to Tong'an County, and they set up camp here, clearly to prevent them from going to Tong'an County to rescue.

If he can't repel this group of sea wolf troops today, then let alone rescue Tong'an County, it is estimated that even he may not be able to protect himself, and the terrain in this area is also very unfavorable to them, because there are two mountains and a ditch here, and there is no wide enough open terrain for their officers and troops to deploy.

Now, if he wants to break through the other party's interception and enter Tong'an County, then he can only break out of the mountain pass and enter Tong'an County if he leads the army to assault and disperse this group of pirates in one fell swoop.

But if he wanted to make a detour, he would have to retreat dozens of miles away, and make a detour to Quanzhou Mansion before he could go around to Tong'an County, which would add another one or two hundred miles to the distance.

You must know that they came from Yanping Mansion, the road was not easy, almost all the way was mountainous, just the infantry march is better to say, but these 4,000 officers and soldiers eat horses and chew, they have to consume a lot of food every day, even if the government along the way to give them some supplies, but most of the time, they still have to bring a lot of food.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty went out to fight, but they did not pay attention to it, and when they were stationed in peacetime, the officials were just powerful and oppressed them, but once they went out to fight, the officials should also be better to their soldiers, otherwise no one dared to guarantee that when they went into battle, these officers and soldiers would not stab them in the back, even if they did not turn the tip of their guns to them, once they were expected to go into battle to fight, they would be able to disperse on the spot.

Therefore, on the way out to march and fight, the officers will often try to make the soldiers eat enough or even eat better, because they are afraid that the soldiers will not go on the road, and the delay in the march will be small, and once the mutiny will be in trouble.

However, it was not an easy task to ensure that the officers and men were well fed, and in addition to asking the government of the places they passed through to provide them with some grain and grass along the way, they also habitually coerced the villages along the way and forced them to provide them with food.

Some of the soldiers simply went all the way and robbed all the way, so that as soon as the common people heard that they were going to pass by the officers and soldiers there, some people immediately packed up their things and fled to the mountains to hide, and some villages simply closed the gates of the villages, saying that they would not let the officers and soldiers in.

Therefore, the reputation of this official army can be said to be extremely stinky in the hearts of the common people, including the local officials, they also know this, it is not that there is really no way, they will not lightly transfer the officers and soldiers from other places to fight, what I am afraid of is that when these officers and soldiers go to fight in other places, the transit place will cause great resentment among the people.

However, now the Fujian officials have no way, so they have to transfer troops from Yanping Mansion and Tingzhou Prefecture, otherwise, they will not be able to draw any available troops and horses from the coastal provinces.

This time, General Liu led his troops from Yanping Mansion, and the journey was also hard, and the military discipline of his officers and soldiers was corrupt, and he did not dare to let these officers and soldiers do too much, otherwise the local officials would inevitably impeach him afterwards, so he could only walk slowly, for fear that something would happen on the road.

In the past few days, Cai Shanji, the political envoy of Zuo Bu and the patrol of the sea road, who temporarily replaced Zhu Yifeng in Fujian, sent people to his army every day, ordering him to speed up his march and be sure to arrive at the city of Tong'an County within five days.

Now it is not yet the time when it has completely reached the end of the Ming Dynasty, although the generals are usually very arrogant, but they have not yet reached the point where they can be like the generals of the last Ming Dynasty, the status of the generals is still very low, and the civil officials are still pressing them, so this Liu Shen General does not dare to take Cai Shanji's words as a deaf ear.

Today, after learning that there was such a group of sea wolves blocking their way in the vicinity of Luotian Village, this Liu Shen General thought for a while, and gathered his thousands of general garrisons to discuss, thinking that with their superior forces, as long as they worked hard, there would be no problem in defeating this group of pirates.

Otherwise, they will be frightened back by such a little thief army, and they will have to take a detour, not to mention the delay, and if it spreads out afterwards, it is estimated that they will be sprayed to death by those civil officials, so at the moment they can only break this group of roadblockers, and it is good to do so, that is, before arriving in Tong'an County, they can greatly boost their morale.

In addition, there are not many thieves who should go ashore when the sea wolf attacks the shore this time, as long as they are defeated, then it is the first credit to get them wrong.

Therefore, after General Liu made up his mind, he immediately began to line up the whole army, point out the troops and platoon, and began to prepare for the battle, but he forgot one point, that is, the infantry army of the sea wolf is not an ordinary infantry army, and in the battle of Nanri Island a few days ago, the infantry army of the sea wolf won more with less, defeating more than 6,000 elite officers and soldiers in Fujian.

Meng Fei had a piece of grass in his mouth, his hands and waist were straight, pacing back and forth in front of the formation, and behind him were more than a thousand purged sea wolf infantry, standing silently in formation, the queue was like a knife-cut tofu block, invisibly, exuding a solemn atmosphere.

Everyone did not have a trace of expression on their faces, but they stood there with their chests straight, each waist straight, like javelins, and in the queue, the spears were like a forest, and the musketeers had their musket butts at their feet, holding the body of the musket, as if it had been cast in steel, which made people feel immobile after looking at it.

In the middle of the queue, there is a big flag of the sea wolf fluttering on the flagpole more than one zhang high, and in the white part of the edge of the flag, a few small characters of the second battalion of the sea wolf land division are embroidered with red thread, this flag is the battalion flag of the second integrated battalion of the sea wolf army, in the team, there are a few smaller company flags, and some smaller military flags, fluttering with the wind, because of their existence in the valley, it is even more a solemn atmosphere.

On the mountain road in the distance, at this time, there was already the sound of people shouting and neighing, and some officers and soldiers continued to appear in their field of vision, watching them from afar, according to the distance, now if the sniper uses a precision seawolf rifle, he can already shoot those officers and scouts.

But Meng Fei forbade the snipers in the battalion to shoot at this time, because once they shot at this time, although they could knock out the enemy's probe horses, but it exposed the advantage of the long range of the Sea Wolf rifle.

After a while, a large number of officers and soldiers began to appear at the end of the road, and the flags of the officers and soldiers and the flags of various generals fluttered, and the black crowd lined up in an untidy procession, and drove to the front of the Sea Wolf formation for a distance of about a mile or so, and then slowly stopped moving.

Because the terrain in this area is relatively cramped, thousands of officers and soldiers can not be fully deployed, the official army on the front only put about 2,000 foot troops, lined up into four formations, the entire valley is filled, and the rest of the officers and soldiers are lined up behind, because General Liu did not plan to camp here, so the baggage they carried with the army also followed at the end of the line, just waiting for the soldiers and horses in front to repel the sea wolf, they immediately continued to advance.

After the officers and troops finished arraying, General Liu sat on a Mongolian war horse in the army, stepped on the stirrups, stood up, put his hands on the pergola from afar, and looked towards the formation of sea wolves.

At this time, it was noon, the winter sun was in front of them, looking over from the position of the official army, it happened to be in a backlit state, Liu Wutang couldn't help frowning a little, such a position was a bit unfavorable for them, it was not easy for the archers to see the target clearly in the backlit situation, and it would affect the archers' archery accuracy for a certain extent.

In addition, the terrain here is not good, he can't put all his troops into the battlefield at once, so he can only attack in batches, so his superior forces are somewhat unable to play.

And after taking a closer look at the infantry of the sea wolf on the opposite side, Liu Wutang suddenly gasped, because after all, he was also a general with troops, although the level was not high, but at least common sense was still there.

Just by looking at it, he felt that today was probably not as simple as he thought, the group of sea wolves on the opposite side did not look like thieves at all, although the entire sea wolf array was not too large, and the number of people was not too much, but it gave people a feeling of immobility like a mountain.

Even when he went to Fuzhou before, he watched the Fubiao drill military formation in Fuzhou, and the officers and soldiers of Fujian Fubiao did not be able to discharge such a neat formation of sea wolves and thieves in front of him.

As the person leading the troops, how could he not know that from the queue of an army, he could see the training level of the other party, and the team of the sea wolves, after being arranged in a formation, really gave people a strong sense of threat.

Liu Wutang couldn't help but feel a little nervous in his heart, he asked himself that these officers and soldiers he brought, even if it was the more than 100 personal soldiers he had on hand, I am afraid that they would not be able to reach the level of the other party, which couldn't help but remind him of some news he had heard recently, Chen Wencan led 7,000 officers and soldiers, known as 20,000 male soldiers to the outside world, and after landing on Nanri Island, he was actually annihilated by the sea wolf wrapped dumplings.

So today, it seems that the sea wolf can completely annihilate Chen Wencan's department, it seems that it is not a fluke, he can't get it today, he will kick the iron plate.

But now, he has no time to adjust, so he can only fight hard, because once he retreats in the face of difficulties and orders to retreat, the sea wolf only needs to pounce and cover up, and then his thousands of soldiers and horses will be finished.

No matter how stupid the generals are, they understand the consequences of retreating on the battlefield, and retreating without a fight is a great blow to morale.

(Without further ado, keep asking for a monthly pass!) This month, we still maintain two shifts a day! Never break your word! ）