At this moment, inside the gate of Tiger Village.

Nie Zheng led hundreds of Dragon Tiger Mountain bandits who had just regained their strength and rushed here to defend it.

These mountain bandits are all the elite of the various mountain forces in Longhu Mountain, and the strength of each of them is above the fourth-rank samurai.

On both sides of the gate of the Tiger Village, there are six arrow towers and watchtowers.

Under Nie Zheng's order, these elite bandits of the Dragon and Tiger Mountain Range all pulled out their weapons and deployed them inside and outside the walled gate.

Now, in the entire Longhu Mountain Range, all the owners of the mountain forces were killed by the Wei Jindao who took refuge in the imperial court, and all of a sudden, all the mountain forces were leaderless and lost their backbone.

Facing the army that was about to attack the mountain, these green forest heroes of Longhu Mountain were extremely panicked in their hearts, and they didn't know what to do at all.

However, to everyone's rejoicing, the Nie Da master of Black Wind Village is still there.

If it wasn't for Nie Da's boss to help and detoxify everyone just now, it is estimated that these people will have to die in the hands of Ao Zhan sooner or later, even if Ao Zhan doesn't kill them, then they will definitely be escorted to Xiguan to work as coolies, that kind of life, life is better than death.

Since all the heads of the cottage have died, for the sake of today's plan, they can only obey the dispatch of Nie Da's master.

Because, at present, in the entire Tiger Village, dozens of people and horses from all over the hill have gathered up and down, plus the original thousands of people in the Tiger Village, the total number of people is more than 12,000.

Now, these people are all centered on the Nie Da master of Black Wind Village, and they are looking forward.

Judging from the current situation, in addition to relying on the mysterious firearms of Nie Da's master, in the face of the Fu Armor Army of Ao Zhan, these bandits of Dragon and Tiger Mountain, they have no confidence at all.

At this moment, Nie Zheng stood on top of the gatehouse with a serious expression, shouting loudly and giving orders. "Master Shi of Tiger Village, you hurry up and bring people to prepare all the bows, crossbows and arrows."

"Yes, Master Nie! Shi will take someone to do it. ”

"There is also the master of Wuyang Peak, you lead sixty people, ambush on both sides of the mountain pass, as long as the army of Ao Zhan begins to attack the mountain, you will put down the rolling stones and wood, and you will definitely disturb the enemy's position."

"Obey, Nie Da is in charge!"

"That's right, that ...... That Hall Master Xu of Qingyang Village, you choose some of the strongest brothers to guard next to the people and horses of our Black Wind Village, and protect their safety, so that they don't get distracted when controlling firearms......

"Whoa! ……”

Under Nie Zheng's arrangement, all the personnel were nervously preparing for the battle.

With the playground at the top of the cottage, more and more dragon and tiger heroes have recovered their strength, and suddenly, hundreds of people and horses have rushed to the vicinity of the gate of the tiger village, ready to obey Nie Zheng's dispatch, everyone worked together to guard the tiger village, repel the Ao war army, and survive the crisis of the Dragon and Tiger Mountain.

Nie Zheng saw that all the people and horses of the mountain forces were busy in an orderly manner according to his orders, and suddenly, his solemn expression eased a little.

The gatehouse of the Tiger Village is as high as two zhang, and the six arrow tower watchtowers built on both sides of the gate are as high as four zhang.

The gatehouse, built on top of the gate of the cottage, is a passage that leads to the arrow towers and watchtowers on both sides.

In order to observe the terrain and environment of the Tiger Village as soon as possible, Nie Zheng left the gatehouse and came to the top of an arrow tower on the left side of the gate.

In addition to arranging crossbowmen to shoot from a distance, another main function of this arrow tower is to look into the distance and observe the enemy situation under the mountain.

Standing at the top of the arrow tower, Nie Zheng looked down the mountain, and suddenly, the terrain around the Tiger Village was in full view.

The terrain of Tiger Ridge is flat on the mountain and steep at the bottom.

In addition to the main gate of the cottage, there is a mountain road leading directly to the bottom of the mountain, and the other directions of Menghuling are all mountains and rocks, with steep slopes, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

As a defensive party, Nie Zheng and the others can completely rely on the terrain of the Tiger Village today, give full play to their advantages, and fight a good battle with the upcoming Ao Zhan army.

As long as Nie Zheng will stick to the area of the main gate of Menghu Village today.

Although there are also several paths to go up the mountain on the back mountain and the left side of the Tiger Village, there is nothing to worry about. As long as some powerful mountain bandits are arranged to defend in several key areas in the back mountain, those runic armies will not be able to attack easily.

As for whether those rune armies will drive the formation to attack from other directions in the back mountain, Nie Zheng doesn't have to worry about this at all.

A few days ago, on the way to Tiger Ridge, Nie Zheng had asked Yi Zixuan about the imperial court rune army and formation.

At that time, Yi Zixuan told him that there were many kinds of formations in the world, not only the imperial court, but even some famous martial arts sects that shook the rivers and lakes would practice formations to protect the mountains.

Although these formations are powerful, they have many restrictions every time they are used.

In particular, the "Xuangang Nine Formations" of the Great Song Dynasty Fujia Army had very high requirements for the soldiers in the formation, for example, only soldiers whose strength reached the rank of third-rank samurai or above could successfully assemble the formation. The higher the level of the formation, the more powerful it is, the stricter the requirements for the strength of the soldiers in the formation. And every big array needs a strong person to control the overall situation as the eye of the array, as long as the eye of the array is broken, then the big array will collapse by itself.

Anyway, according to what Yi Zixuan said, the formations formed by these rune armies have a certain time limit, and they generally only have an effective time of about half an hour, and once the time comes, the soldiers participating in the formation will be weak and vulnerable.

Therefore, unless it is absolutely necessary, these runic armies will not easily join forces.

Unless you want to fight a quick battle, or forcibly break through and break through the formation, the cost and price of arranging the formation is too huge, and once defeated, the casualties will be very heavy.

In addition, there are many other restrictions on the Hegang formation, for example, the position and distance of each soldier have a clear prescribed range, once the specified range is exceeded, the true qi stimulated by everyone will not be able to form the effect of condensing the qi, and the formation will fail.

Therefore, why the decisive battle between the two armies should be carried out in a flat and wide area, it is because the two sides are in order to facilitate the formation of the two sides.

As far as the terrain around the Tiger Ridge is concerned, except for a valley under the front mountain, the terrain is relatively flat, and several other directions, such as the back mountain of the Tiger Village, are simply rugged and steep, where is there a condition for the enemy to join forces. Even if the enemy succeeded in setting up a formation at the foot of the mountain, it is estimated that if he rushed to the mountain, the formation would have already dispersed.

As long as the enemy has no formation to rely on, relying only on the rune armor on their body, it is estimated that the defense is higher at most, but under the strong attack of the master, the defensive air shield of the rune armor will also slowly weaken and be exhausted.

Therefore, after Nie Zheng had a certain understanding of the formations and runes of the Great Song army, the worries and fears in his heart weakened a lot.

Besides, the arms and weapons he possessed were born to be the nemesis of the rune formation.

No matter how fast and powerful your formation is, you still don't have to lie down under the bombardment of thousands or hundreds of rockets.

Thinking of this, Nie Zheng immediately instructed several other cottage hall masters, ordering them to select another group of elites with a strength above the third-rank samurai to go to the rear of the Tiger Village to defend, what to do, and let Yi Zixuan come to the back mountain to command when the time comes.

At this moment, several figures suddenly appeared at the foot of the mountain, like lightning, towards the walled gate.

Nie Zheng took a closer look and found that it was several elites of the Shen family who had been sent down the mountain to patrol the mountain before.

These elites of the Shen family, panting down, came to the gate of the village, and said to Nie Zheng, who was standing at the top of the arrow tower: "Uncle, the soldiers and horses of the Ao Zhan are less than five miles away from the Tiger Village. ”

Nie Zheng's face sank, and he said, "Have you checked clearly, how many soldiers and horses does the other party have?" ”

"About four thousand!"

"Four thousand?"

Nie Zheng was stunned for a moment, and secretly wondered: "Didn't I hear that Ao Zhan brought eight thousand rune armor troops to Dragon and Tiger to suppress bandits?" Why did you only come to 4,000 today? Could it be that the remaining 4,000 people have another task? ”

Thinking of this, Nie Zheng said to them: "Since the army of Ao Zhan has arrived, you don't need to go down the mountain to investigate, stay here to help defend." ”

"Yes, uncle!" ……