After a half-day journey, seeing the sunset, Xin Congzhong led his troops and hid behind a hill, just waiting for it to get dark before going to rob the camp.

"Tell the brethren to be careful and concealed, and not to make a fire for cooking, but to deal with dry food." After these thieves are removed and returned to the state city, Ben Jiang and Deng Du will invite everyone to dinner! Xin Congzhong encouraged left and right.

A confidant commander stepped forward and said, "Deng Dujian has been gone for so long, and there is no news coming back, so he won't ...... What's the surprise? ”

The words of the henchman hit Xin Congzhong's heart, but he shook his head slowly and muttered: "It stands to reason that there shouldn't be any problems!" ”

Xin Congzhong slowly said his analysis: "You think, Enzhou is a big state where the forbidden army is stationed, and the cavalry brought out by the Tao Tuan Lian this time has more than 4,000 or nearly 5,000 people, and Deng Dujian has brought more than 2,000 cavalry this time, adding up to 7,000 cavalry!" How many Liangshan thieves are there? They fought with the officials and troops of the Daimyo's mansion, and it was impossible to replenish them, and the cavalry under them was no more than 4,000 at most. Besides, among these 4,000 people, except for court officers like Lin Chong and Yang Zhi, the vast majority of them are afraid that they have not even ridden a horse a year and a half ago, what kind of combat power do you say this group of people can have? can also bully and bully sycophants like Wenda and Li Cheng! ”

Although Xin Congzhong was analyzing the situation of both the enemy and us, he did not forget to damage the two lost city prisoners of the Daimyo's Mansion, he and Deng Zongbi should have gone to the Daimyo's Mansion to take office, but I don't know how Liang Zhongshu was blind, and personally ordered Wenda and Li Cheng The two silver-like wax gun heads, and asked Xin Congzhong to take this matter as a matter of hatred in life.

"If you knew today, why bother in the first place?" Xin Congzhong scolded secretly. At this time, there was a surge of happiness in his heart, if he hadn't seen his henchmen looking at him attentively, he would have been distracted. At this time, Xin Congzhong coughed and continued to analyze: "Killing four thousand thieves with seven thousand elites, how can it be invincible? What's more, we are a two-way attack, which is a devastating blow to the morale of the bandits, and any cavalry of 4,000 people in Hebei, including Zhang Yinglei and a few other people who know the army, will never be chaotic! I don't believe that the Liangshan thieves are not afraid of death. I don't know what it means to be afraid! ”

The commander said. nodded and said, "Xianggong is right!" Not only are the allied forces of our two states much larger than the thieves in terms of numbers, but also the men and horses of us and Enzhou are all personally trained by the two of them and the commanders of the old soldiers like Tao Zhenting, how can they be compared with the soldiers of the Daimyo Mansion? Let's join forces. Don't say proud of Hebei. Even the Western Army has to give up three miles! Didn't they fight more battles than we did? In exchange, we can still make meritorious contributions to that group of Western Xia people! ”

Although Xin Congzhong is proud, he is not arrogant. Hearing this, he waved his hand and said: "Don't underestimate the Western Army, they fight with the Western Xia people from time to time, and their morale, fighting spirit, experience, skills, and will are much stronger than those of us soldiers who can only train, train and retrain!" In the past few years in Danzhou, Ben Jiang has been so idle that he has been so idle that he doesn't want to finally have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions this time. I really hope that this gang of thieves won't be too can't help fighting! Xin Congzhong did not mention his Hebei comrades at all in his words, and at this time, his eyebrows were slightly raised, and he unabashedly showed the arrogance in his heart in front of his henchmen.

"I'm afraid that Xianggong will be disappointed, how capable can a small prison with a thousand rabbles be?" The conductor laughed.

"I didn't say that!" Xin Congzhong smiled and said: "Among this group of people, there are two fierce generals, one is the original old man Lu Da, the commander of the subordinate officer, this person is brave and strong, he can charge the battle on the horse, and he can defend the city when he gets off the horse, he is a rare fierce general, he has been in the Western Army for a long time, and it is estimated that the battalion under him is not easy to deal with!" ”

"The young general also smells this monk, when the small species and the old breed will help back, the first choice is this person, it is really a difficult bone to gnaw!" The commander nodded and said, "Which other fierce general?" ”

"It's Wu Song who fights the tiger. This person is strong in martial arts, so you must not go head-to-head with him when you encounter him! After Xin Congzhong finished speaking, he said to himself: "But if you fight the tiger to death, you won't necessarily lead the troops!" ”

"Will meet him, don't you know the way? Xianggong doesn't have to hurt his mind! The commander smiled and said: "Our 3,000 men and horses are just teaching Liangshan how to fight!" ”

Xin Congzhong smiled and didn't say anything, he was happy to see his subordinates have this kind of proud but not arrogant temperament, which can suppress bad emotions such as cowardice and timidity, so that they can retreat on the battlefield and will not encounter an unfavorable situation.

"Tell everyone to hide well, eat dry food, and get some sleep! When the time comes, let's act again! Xin Congzhong has finished talking about sex, he doesn't want to talk anymore, he still needs time to think about his actions at night.

Seeing this, the henchman didn't dare to stay and bother, he knew that this boss's temperament was like this, when he was willing to talk, it would not be long to chat, and when he didn't want to speak, it was difficult to say half a sentence, because his personality was too strong, and he didn't please the official. So although he has a skill, there is no other person who can make sycophants and mix well and rise quickly.

Xin Congzhong saw that his henchmen left, took dry food to satisfy his stomach, and after eating, he took a small sip of wine in a very restrained manner, and then sat down to sleep.

Time passed slowly, and when he noticed that there was movement around him, when he opened his eyes, the six commanders under him all gathered in front of him, but no one dared to call him, Xin Congzhong got up from the ground, smiled, and said, "It's time to come?" Looks like I'm oversleeping! ”

"It's too hard for the country to work hard!" Everyone spoke.

Xin Congzhong smiled bitterly, he can pull these out even if he oversleeps, it's really a good tongue, if he was so eloquent, it would not be today's situation. It seems that in this world, you can't just rely on your ability, you can bend down and keep your head down.

Xin Congzhong turned over and said, "Set off quickly, call the two battalions of 'Zhenwu' and 'Allegiance' to take the lead with me!" ”

In a short time, the 3,000-strong infantry marched through the vast darkness by the moonlight, and everyone was clinging to the armor of the brothers in front of them.

Everyone walked for nearly an hour, Xin Congzhong and the front army came to the mountainside, vaguely felt that there were a few thatched huts on the roadside not far ahead, Xin Congzhong thought: "One day I took off this armor, just on such a hill, build a few thatched huts, hunt and drink, but not happy!" ”

He came to this hut with longing, and was about to sigh, when suddenly his eyes lit up, and hundreds of torches were lit in the woods on both sides of the road, and before the officers and soldiers could react, these torches were thrown on the huts on the side of the road, and suddenly a raging fire broke out, and it seemed that these huts had been poured oil in advance. At this time, this strange blazing fire not only illuminated the Danzhou army on the road, but also burned Xin Congzhong's extravagant hopes.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The commanders of the two battalions shouted loudly, but the sound did not last long before it stopped abruptly, as the powerful arrows fired by the two divine arm bows had pierced their armor.

The fall of these two men seemed to be the prelude to the frenzy of the arrows, and at this time, in the woods on the high ground on both sides of the road, nearly five hundred people each hid in the darkness, holding the bow of the god arm with good arrows in their hands, and began to shoot at the area they had been assigned to in the dark. Seeing that they had all the arrows out of the way, they hurriedly threw them aside, took another bow and crossbow that had already been wound and put away, and continued to shoot at their own target.

After Li Kui finished shooting the five divine arm bows that were already full of strings ready to be shot, he began to pull Zhang Xian unsatisfied, and said in his mouth: "Big official, you are so stingy, it is difficult for me to have fun, why don't you bring more divine arm bows over?" ”

Xiao Jiasui, who was not far from Li Kui, replied while aiming at the officers and soldiers: "Five thousand is still too little? I brought all the Divine Arm Bows from the cart, and the rest were taken away by Master Lu and Shi Dalang! ”

"Bad luck!" Li Kui scolded and then fell silent. Bao Xu shouted beside him: "Brother Hei, you are still a big official!" It's really a novelty to come up with such a way to play! ”

Such an extravagant shooting method is a novelty for the ambushed Liangshan army, but if it is changed to the attacking Danzhou army, it will be hell on earth.

The two forward battalions led by Xin Congzhong were all trapped in a fire belt dozens of zhang long, and they were in a disadvantageous state of being in the enemy's darkness. At this time, everyone didn't say that Zhang crossbow fought back, even if they wanted to find a place to avoid arrows, they couldn't get it. Because for the enemy ambushes on both sides, there are no dead spots on this road. If you can't shoot here, you can do it for you. In the same way, I couldn't shoot it over there, so I gladly did it here.

Unlike ordinary soldiers who died in panic and confusion, Xin Congzhong immediately retreated backwards after discovering that the other party had a divine arm bow, and at the cost of killing more than 50 of his own soldiers, Xin retreated from Zhongquan to the Chinese army and was picked up by his subordinates.

As soon as Xin Congzhong got out of danger, he immediately ordered blind shooting at the woods on both sides, but unfortunately the trees in the forest were dense, and the return fire effect was not good, but the Liangshan army in the forest shot towards the dark road, which caused many casualties to Xin Congzhong's Chinese army.

"All into the woods!" Xin Congzhong shouted. Although both sides couldn't see each other clearly, they still suffered a lot on the road, and immediately took the lead in flashing into the woods and shooting at the thieves.

I don't know how long it took, when the wailing of the two battalions of the Danzhou forward gradually calmed down, Xin Congzhong finally ordered a retreat. In just a few tens of zhang distance, covered by tens of thousands of arrows, it is estimated that even if there is a living mouth, it will never exceed one percent, and there is no point in staying any longer, and there are still four battalions and two thousand men and horses in hand, the situation is not irreparable, it is better to return the right to make plans tomorrow.

When you come, you feel the darkness in order to rob the camp, and when you escape, you naturally need to light a torch to light the way, otherwise the black light will go downhill blindly, and you will have a blue nose and swollen face, and you will be trampled to death by your own people.

Seeing hundreds of torches moving towards the bottom of the hill, Xiao Jiasui said: "Tie Niu, if this guy is told to run, we will not be peaceful all the way!" Brothers still want to work hard and join me in the hunt! ”

Li Kui threw away the bow of the divine arm in his hand, took off the two plate axes from his waist, and shouted: "I have been waiting all night, just waiting for this time!" I still like to fight face-to-face! (To be continued......)