Song Xiang also got up very early today, as long as he has silver, he has always gotten up early. After occupying this mining area, Song Xiang discovered the market point of Dahuai Village. So, Song Xiang drove away the county officials and helpers who had been collecting bad rules at this market point, and collected the silver from the stall himself.

Although the amount of silver in these stalls is quite small compared to the silver sold by the iron ore, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, there is some meat! At least you can go to the county town to wrap a few girls with fine skin and tender meat to play for a few days. It's much better than those dirt prostitutes that look much rougher.

So the thunder couldn't move, every time Dahuai Village rushed to the market, Song Xiang would always appear in Dahuai Village, and those horse bandits who lacked entertainment would also come to Dahuai Village on this day to have some fun.

But just as Song Xiang was breathing in the fresh air of the mountain in the early morning, he suddenly saw a horse running from the mountain road in the distance, and the horse was riding one of his horse bandits.

The bandit's men went to the village in front of him last night to find one of his old men to spend the night, but when he came back so early, could it be that something had happened in that village?

The horse bandit saw Song Xiang from a distance, so he immediately ran over, turned over and dismounted twenty or thirty steps away from Song Xiang, and rushed towards Song Xiang with a rolling belt.

At this time, there were a few inflexible horse bandits beside Song Xiang who jokingly said, "Huzi, why are you so embarrassed?" Are you chasing after a man? ”

But the horse bandit didn't pay attention to the others at all, and he shouted hoarsely at Song Xiang: "Lord of the mountain, there are officials and soldiers, and there are officials and soldiers who are coming to attack here." ”

The words of this horse bandit immediately made the faces of all the horse bandits change. Song Xiang hurriedly asked, "How many people are there?" ”

"It's dark and can't be seen clearly, but the number of people who can hear the movement will definitely not be small."

At this time, a horse bandit suggested: "Lord of the mountain, this official army seems to be not good!" Shall we go back to the village and take refuge? ”

"Avoid! What to avoid? Song Xiang immediately made a decision, "Defeat this official army here." ”

Although He Fei's surprise attack caught Song Xiang off guard, and Song Xiang didn't know how many people He Fei's vanguard army had, Song Xiang understood that today's Dahuai Village was a place to catch a market, and many miners and miners' families would come to this Dahuai Village. As long as they leave, those miners will have no resistance at all under the leaderless group, and they will definitely be wiped out by the officials and soldiers.

And Song Xiang's strength is based on having so many miners who have received military training. Without these miners, what kind of green onion is Song Xiang, who only has some horse bandits? Sooner or later, it will be the life of being driven out by the official army. Returning to the mountain temple as a cottage is just a lingering breath.

And Song Xiang is not completely without a hard work. After Song Xiang occupied this mining area, in addition to earning silver with iron ore and training miners for military jishu, he also gave miners a more comfortable life.

In addition to increasing the miners' incomes so that they can basically feed their families, he also gave the miners another benefit, which was that they could take a day off during the market day in Dahuai Village. And this modern concept makes people doubt that it is not Wu Shigong, but Song Xiang who has crossed from modern times.

Don't say it, after Song Xiang became a soldier under Wu Shigong, he really learned a lot of things, making money, training soldiers, buying people's hearts and grabbing territory, all of which were done one by one. In time, maybe Song Xiang will indeed grow into a character in this chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

But because of this rest day, Dahuai Village, which is the market place today, is full of miners who come to catch the market. If there was no Song Xiang's welfare, then today's gathering would be at most the families of some miners, all of whom were old and weak women and children with little combat effectiveness, then Song Xiang would definitely not have the confidence to resist He Fei's vanguard army.

So under Song Xiang's order, those miners who came to catch the market lined up one after another under the leadership of their mountain owners and according to their previous training.

It's because it's a market today, so the weapons in their hands are still uneven. However, because those miners also have to drive mountain roads, in order to deal with wild beasts, they still have some self-defense weapons, so those miners will at least not be bare-handed.

In this way, more than 1,200 miners were gathered at once. The more than 200 horse bandits led by Song Xiang and the selected sturdy miners lined up behind those miners as a reserve. Behind them, the families of two or three thousand miners are making a big noise.

At this moment, Song Xiang's heart also had some bottom, he felt: as long as the time is delayed, the more miners will rush to Dahuai Village to gather, and when they arrive in Zuihou, the greater the certainty of defeating that official army.

And those miners now also have some superstitions about Song Xiang, who led them to defeat the mine boss and the official army, and led them to live a good life. Therefore, those miners are also full of confidence and are ready to fight with the official army.

But these miners are not well-trained troops like Wu Shigong. They marched and distributed their weapons, and spent most of the hour in a chaotic manner. By the time Song Xiang and the others were ready, they had already seen a black line on the mountain road quickly pressing over.

He Fei was in a hurry along the way. After passing through that village, the sky had already begun to lighten. And on the mountain road, there are also some people who rush to the market.

In the beginning, Hefei's soldiers drove those who had gathered to the side of the mountain road, as long as they did not hinder the advance of the army.

But later, in order not to have to quarrel, the soldiers began to let go of their hands and feet to use knives. But in this way, those who rushed to the market, after seeing He Fei's vanguard army from a distance, threw down the goods in their hands and fled to Dahuai Village or on both sides of the mountain road. However, these dropped goods always blocked the progress of the convoy, which made the army's advance even slower.

When He Fei finally saw Dahuai Village from a distance, he also saw that in front of Dahuai Village, there were already thousands of people lined up to fight him. So He Fei immediately shouted: "Speed up again, rush in!" ”

The mountain road entrance to Dahuai Village is a bell mouth, and this bell mouth is still some distance away from the miners of Song Xiang who are in front of Dahuai Village. Therefore, He Fei judged: as long as his army rushed out of the mountain pass and lined up in the open space between the horn mouth and those miners, then with his well-trained soldiers and the long-range strike of the firearms, the miners in front of him would definitely be defeated by himself.

But something bad happened again. At the mouth of the bell was an overturned cart full of goods, which must have been left behind by some escaped merchant.

However, the position where the cart stayed was quite bad, and the horses and men could bypass both sides of the cart, but the path of the cart was blocked. He Fei rode up to the cart and ordered loudly: "Hurry up and get people to move this cart." All the people got out of the cart and ran to the front to line up. ”

However, Song Xiang also found out about this situation, and he immediately ordered loudly: "Hurry up and go to the mountain pass and block those officers and soldiers!" ”

Under Song Xiang's order, those miners also immediately ran towards the mountain pass.

He Fei looked at the miners who ran over, and then at his soldiers carrying the cart, estimating that it must be too late.

He Fei could also retreat to the mountain road at this time, and wait until his soldiers were gathered before slowly attacking the mountain pass. But in this case, if you want to capture the blocked mountain pass, there will definitely be a lot of casualties. In addition, if those miners had the time to build an earthen wall at the mountain crossing, they might not be able to attack it with their own 500 soldiers.

He Fei's eyes turned red all of a sudden. He thought of his mission, and he thought of the fact that he was going to atone for his sins this time. If his own action fails, then what good will he end up in front of his master? He Fei, who has tasted the taste of a master, is absolutely unwilling to go back to live the kind of life before.

So He Fei jumped off his horse, grabbed the spear hanging from the saddle, and shouted behind him, "All the guards come with me." ”

Seeing He Fei rushing alone towards the black-pressed miner in front of him, the guards beside him also jumped off their horses, picked up their spears, and rushed forward. The ten horsemen also jumped off their horses and charged. Seeing that he was the only one riding on the horse, Shumo also sighed, and finally jumped off the horse and rushed out with a riding spear.