The second pass was finally taken after the officers and troops paid a heavy price of nearly 200 casualties.

The three hundred men and horses of the First Commando Force basically lost their combat effectiveness at this moment.

Nearly 100 people were killed and more than 100 were injured at once, and the remaining dozens of people were the only remaining combat power.

Qian Dayou organized the second team of Xiang Yong to pick up a shield and a long knife and continue to rush upward.

Mo Qian, who was standing halfway up the mountain, watched the battle with Wang Bingzhong, Meng Daohong, and Lu Zitian.

Seeing that the second pass set up by Mo Qian was broken by the official army, Wang Bingzhong couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he persuaded Mo Qian: "Master Mo, the official army is brave in battle, and it will attack the mountain in a few hours, you better surrender quickly, I can protect you with a whole corpse!" ”

Mo Qian smiled coldly, "The show has just begun, Lord Wang, why are you in a hurry!" ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Qian Dayou led the officers and troops to launch an attack on the third pass set up by Mo Qian.

Before the official army attacked, Mo Qian said to Lu Zhao: "You go and arrest the young general of the official mansion for me, try to capture it alive!" ”

Lu Zhao knew that Mo Qian was in love with talent and wanted to take him under his command.

Lu Zhao received the military order, and together with his cousin Peng Jinhong, he ordered more than a dozen men who had learned martial arts and went down the mountain.

Qian Dayou led his troops to the third pass and found that the passes set up by the thieves were more elaborate than one another.

The anti-thieves not only set up roadblocks on the way up the mountain, but also placed all kinds of sharp branches and thorns in the woods on both sides of the road, so that the officers and men could not get down at all, so they could only attack from the mountain road.

Originally, the anti-thieves were condescending and had the advantage of terrain, and just now they pulled out two passes in a row, and the officers and men suffered heavy losses, but the peasant army suffered nearly more than 10 casualties.

With such a high proportion of battle losses, Qian Dayou couldn't help but beat a drum in his heart, if he rushed up one pass at a time, I am afraid that by the time he rushed to the top of the mountain, all the officers and soldiers would be dead.

No, you can't fight like that!

Qian Dayou immediately beckoned the officers and soldiers to stop the attack, and he personally went down the mountain to the flat land to see the prefect Tian Younian.

"Lord Fuzun, we can't fight like this anymore, the brothers I brought have already killed and injured more than 200 people, and if we continue to fight, I'm afraid that even if all the people die, we won't be able to kill the thieves."

Tian Younian was not happy when he heard this, he frowned, and said: "How can there be immortals in a war, this official asked you to attack the mountain, and did not let you come down to shake the morale of the army, and did not go back to organize the attack?" ”

Qian Dayou wanted to say a few more words, but after seeing Tian Younian's stiff face, he didn't dare to say anything, and turned around and organized people to attack the mountain.

The third level is even more difficult than the second level, and Qian Dayou pulled all the remaining 700 people up this time, preparing to attack the mountain by means of wheel warfare.

But he can use wheel warfare, and Mo Qian's side can also use wheel warfare.

The two sides fought for less than half an hour, and the officers and soldiers suffered more than 300 casualties, but the pass where Mo Qian stood did not move.

On the contrary, Qian Dayou himself was injured, he was besieged by more than a dozen anti-thieves, and he was stabbed in the arm, revealing his bones.

The men and horses led by him only fought for an hour, and nearly half of them were killed directly, and the rest were generally basically wounded, and there was not much combat power to speak of.

Qian Dayou retreated from the mountain with the rout, came to Cao Guoqi, the magistrate, and said: "My lord, you can't fight like this anymore, more than half of the brothers we brought have already been killed and wounded, if we continue to fight, all the soldiers we brought from Fenyi will be finished, how can we explain to the villagers when we go back?" ”

Cao Guoqi also discovered that Mingyue Mountain was not easy to attack.

He came to the prefect Tian Younian, and arched his hand and said: "Fuzun, you can't attack the mountain like this anymore, if you continue to fight like this, I'm afraid that you won't be able to attack even if the team runs out." ”

At this time, Tian Younian had already found that the attack on the mountain ahead seemed to be not smooth enough, and the corpses of the officials, soldiers and villagers were carried down one after another.

After fighting for an hour, the officers and soldiers have not even attacked halfway up the mountain, if they want to attack the top of the mountain, when will it be the end.

Tian Younian called the three magistrates and fellow magistrates Shi Yansheng to discuss the strategy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, at the moment, our army's attack is not going well, do you have any good strategies to break the enemy, and some of them can be said."

Everyone couldn't help but start thinking about it.

After a while, Cheng Zhidun, the magistrate of Pingxiang, stood up and said, "Fuzun, I have a plan, maybe I can do it!" ”

"Come on!"

"Mingyue Mountain is a martial arts mountain range, connected to my county's Wugong Mountain, as far as the humble knows, Mingyue Mountain has two main roads up the mountain, one is the one in front of us, and the other is in the east of the mountain, the location of Hongjiang Township."

When Tian Younian heard this, he immediately asked the people around him: "How far is Hongjiang from here?" ”

Squire Yuan Yesi stepped forward and replied; "Back to the house, Hongjiang is about forty miles away from here, but to go to Hongjiang, you need to detour to Pengjia'an, and then enter the South Temple from Peng'an, and then there is a South Temple to enter the Hongjiang River."

"How long will that take?"

Yuan Yesi thought for a moment and replied, "If you slow down, you can arrive in three hours!" ”

Tian Younian waved his hand, called Deng Zhiping, a thousand households in Pingxiang, and ordered him: "Give you two hours, immediately rush to Hongjiang, go up the mountain from the east, and when the time comes, we will attack on both sides, and the thieves will be destroyed!" ”

Deng Zhiping has been waiting for meritorious service for a long time, and he was very unhappy that he didn't get the pioneer who attacked the mountain just now, but now that the prefect has given him an order, he can finally let go of his hands and feet.

"Don't worry, my lord, before the unitary hour tonight, I will definitely lead my troops to Hongjiang and complete the siege before the hour!"

"Okay, everything depends on Deng Qianhu!"

Deng Zhiping was ordered to lead Pingxiang to bring 600 officers and soldiers to the township, plus 400 warriors transferred by Wanzai County, to organize a team of 1,000 people and go to the east.

When he saw a team of 1,000 people leaving the large army, Mo Qian immediately thought that the officers and soldiers wanted to go up the mountain from other positions to encircle them.

However, Mo Qian was not worried at all, the only two roads up the mountain on this side of Mingyue Mountain were controlled by him, and there was no way up the mountain in other places, unless the officers and soldiers were willing to risk their lives to climb the boulder.

However, given the steep terrain in the mountains, I am afraid that the officers and soldiers will not make such a decision.

However, although 1,000 officers and soldiers were taken away, there were still more than 1,000 armed forces at the foot of the mountain, plus 3,000 people.

Four or five thousand people were blocked at the foot of the mountain, and it seemed that Mo Qian was going to follow Mo Qian on the mountain.

After the thousand people completely disappeared from view, Mo Qian smiled, he turned to Wang Menglu and the three of them and said, "Three adults, in less than an hour, I will be able to defeat the officials and troops under the mountain in one fell swoop!" ”

The three of them couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.

Meng Daohong said to Mo Qian in a sarcastic tone: "King Mo, I'm afraid you haven't figured out the current situation, now there are thousands of officers and troops under the mountain, you are only more than a thousand people, you are still short of manpower to defend the mountain, and you still have the strength to break through the officers and troops, are you not dreaming?"

"Hahahaha~~~" The other two couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.

"Hahahaha~~~" They laughed, and Mo Qian laughed too.

"Look at the three of you, within an hour, the officers and troops will be defeated!"

Mo Qian left this sentence and left.

He called Lu Zhao, Peng Jin, Hong Yi, Jiu, and Cheng Gui and gave them a combat mission to prepare for an attack.

He glanced at the sun in the sky and said to the four, "It is now four o'clock in the afternoon, and in half an hour it will be the hottest."

Today's temperature is quite high, and the officers and soldiers below are unsheltered at the bottom of the mountain, and they have been exposed to the sun for half an hour under the mountain.

In another half an hour, they will be too hot to stand, and now while the official army has not attacked the mountain, they will tell everyone to eat and drink immediately, and after resting, they will go down the mountain to crush the official army. ”

"Yes!" The four of them took the order and left.

After a while, smoke began to rise from the mountain, and the smell of rice spread to the lower mountain.

As soon as the officers and soldiers who had been hungry all morning smelled the rice, their stomachs immediately began to growl.

The officials were already hungry at this time.

Seeing the smoke rising from the mountain, Tian Younian also ordered his subordinates to bury the pot and cook immediately, preparing to let the soldiers eat enough to attack the mountain at night.

For a while, there were bursts of green smoke floating up and down the mountain, and the officers and soldiers and the thieves actually tacitly did not attack, but ate together.

Because the sun was too strong, Tian Younian and other officials couldn't stand the heat, so they could only ask the entourage to whip up the big umbrella prepared in advance.

The officials have a place to enjoy the shade, but the officers and soldiers and the people who transport grain are not so good.

They can only squat in the scorching sun and fan themselves with straw hats, even if they fan the wind on one side, the sweat on their bodies is like rain.

Don't underestimate the autumn in the south, although the morning and evening in the south in mid-September are cool, it is still very hot at noon, and the temperature can reach more than 30 degrees.

Mo Qian stood on the mountain and watched the officers and soldiers at the foot of the mountain staggering one by one, and he knew that the time had come to attack.

The strategy used by Mo Qian was actually very simple, it was the strategy of Huang Zhong in the Three Kingdoms to kill Xiahou Yuan.

Huang Zhong was recuperating on the mountain, but Xiahou Yuan was about to suffer from heat stroke when the heat was almost hot at the bottom of the mountain, and when the Wei army was almost hot, the Shu army went directly down the mountain to attack and won in one fell swoop.

Mo Qian glanced at the sun above his head and said to Lu Zhao: "Almost, let's start!" ”

Lu Zhao immediately waved the command flag, and soon the 1,000 peasant army hiding in the mountains began to move.

Each of them cautiously walked down the mountain, for fear of making a movement and startling the officers and soldiers under the mountain.

When the large army was basically handed over to the woods at the foot of the mountain, Lu Zhao and Peng Jinhong took the lead, raising the long knife in their hands and shouting: "Brothers, kill!" ”

"Kill!"

The shouts of killing that resounded through the mountains and forests instantly frightened a group of officers and soldiers who were taking a nap.

Before they could figure out what was going on, they suddenly saw a group of peasants with knives and guns rushing down the hill, and then their heads began to spin until they hit the ground.

The thieves suddenly killed the mountain, which made the officers and soldiers under the mountain stunned.

The prefect and the three county commanders sitting under the umbrella didn't even have time to run, and they found that the thieves had already been killed.

"My lord, get on the horse!"

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