The transportation of this kind of material is not only for the 500 soldiers of Buffalo Village, but also for the smooth march to the front in the future, which is equivalent to the soldiers and horses on the battlefield before moving the grain and grass, and there is no room for the slightest difference.

Huang Shan, the commander of Phoenix Ridge, has always sent supplies on time, but today it is already evening, and he still hasn't seen the soldiers of Phoenix Ridge arrive, Luo Guan Center is a little puzzled, so he wants to go to Phoenix Ridge early tomorrow morning to have a look.

According to the latest discipline of the Ming army.

It is necessary to find out the reason for this delay in time, and then report it to the commander of the Guizhou Left Guard at the higher level.

Although the distance between Buffalo Village and Phoenix Ridge is not too far, the mountain road is very dangerous and slow, and you can only go again during the day.

After entering the night, Luo Guanzhong arranged all the guard posts, and then returned to his barracks in the stockade to rest.

Luo Guanzhong took out a thick stack of papers, then opened a book of popular romance commentaries on the Three Kingdoms, and began to write by himself.

The popular romance of the Three Kingdoms in his hand has a bit of confusion in the story, and there are many deficiencies in the use of words and sentences.

Luo Guanzhong loves the history of the Three Kingdoms very much, and not long ago he made up his mind to use his spare time to write a more exciting and moving book of the Three Kingdoms that is close to historical facts.

"The Sword Comes"

Unconsciously, Luo Guanzhong put pen to paper, and he had already written a thick stack of papers, and he didn't feel tired at all.

Just when his thoughts were springing and he was ready to continue fighting for a long time.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, followed by Luo Guanzhong's guards announcing outside the door.

"Senho-sama! Someone from Phoenix Ridge is coming. There was a hint of anxiety and panic in the guard's voice.

"What are you sending people from Phoenix Ridge in the middle of the night?"

Luo Guanzhong was suddenly shocked, and he already had an ominous premonition.

He threw down the pen and paper in his hand, and walked out the door in three steps and two steps.

"Where's the person from Phoenix Ridge?" Luo Guanzhong asked.

"Tell your lord that it's at the sentry post ahead." The guard said.

Luo Guanzhong immediately came to the port outpost in front, and under the flickering torches, a Ming army and soldier covered in mud and blood were sitting on a chair.

"Luo Qianhu is not good, the mountain people have rebelled, Phoenix Ridge has fallen, and Huang Qianhu has been martyred." The soldier from Phoenix Ridge said it, just crying loudly.

"What the hell is going on? Come on. Luo Guanzhong's face sank, and he immediately grabbed the soldier's shoulder and asked sharply.

It turned out that after the Ming army defeated these Tusi, they used the land to win the hearts of the people, and many mountain people, that is, the young serfs under the rule of the original Tusi, swore allegiance to the Ming army.

However, Toast still had a lot of influence in the hearts of these serfs.

Some of these mountain people accepted Tusi's secret instructions and arranged internal responses inside and outside the Phoenix Ridge, and the Tusi's soldiers and horses took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to bypass the sentry from the mountain road and suddenly attack the Ming army in the Phoenix Ridge.

Huang Shan, a thousand households in Phoenix Ridge, was in a hurry, and with only three or four hundred people under his command, there was no way to resist the attack of thousands of people.

In the melee between the two sides, Huang Shan was tragically killed.

Only a few Ming soldiers escaped in the confusion.

"Luo Qianhu, the spies have captured Phoenix Ridge and cut off the road to our rear, and their next target will definitely be ours." After the defeat of this Ming soldier in Phoenix Ridge, the first thing he thought of was to report to Luo Guanzhonghui in Buffalo Village.

"Help this brother down to rest, and everyone will gather urgently at once."

Now that the situation is critical, Luo Guanzhong doesn't care whether it's night or day, and immediately orders the whole army to be on alert.

The two camps at the rear of the buffalo village are Phoenix Ridge and Wanjun Mountain.

Phoenix Ridge is in the middle of Wanjun Mountain and Buffalo Village, Phoenix Ridge has now been conquered by the Tusi rebels, so Buffalo Village is already in a situation of fighting alone.

Luo Guanzhong knew that the situation was urgent, so he immediately ordered all the scouts to patrol outside the village, and he sat in the buffalo village and ordered the soldiers to patrol the camp, while preparing ammunition and arranging artillery positions.

If the Ming army wanted to give full play to its defensive advantages, it had to make good use of the muskets and artillery in its hands.

More than 500 soldiers of the Ming army were busy in the dark night, and when the sky was bright, the Ming army scouting horses on guard outside brought news that made everyone nervous.

"Senhe-sama, the rebels of Tusi have been found on several mountain roads outside."

"There are thousands of people on the least one road, and all of them add up to nearly 10,000 people."

The Ming army was in Buffalo Village, and there were only five hundred.

However, there were more than 10,000 Tusi rebels approaching them, and the difference in strength was twenty times that everyone had to be nervous.

But fortunately, in the preparation and storage base, the Ming army of Buffalo Village has rich material reserves, and now all kinds of materials in Buffalo Village can be said to be everything, whether it is weapons, ammunition or food and grass, it can support 500 people for several months.

After Luo Guanzhong calmed down, he immediately had full confidence.

The buffalo village is located at the intersection of three roads, and its position is equivalent to the center of a zigzag.

In normal times, it is a great place to set up a tax card and collect taxes, but in times of war, it is a place that is not conducive to defense.

Buffalo Village has no tall mountains to lean on.

Moreover, the Tusi rebels have also been informed that there are a large number of supplies and weapons in the buffalo village.

Therefore, they first found a way to conquer Phoenix Ridge, and then concentrated their forces on besieging Buffalo Village.

The Tusi rebels outside the buffalo village soon surrounded the buffalo village.

"All of our horses have been withdrawn, what should we do if there are too many thieves?" Several Ming soldiers and hundreds of households gathered next to Luo Guanzhong and asked.

As the supreme commander of the Ming army in Buffalo Village.

Luo Guanzhong also knew that any decision he made would affect the lives of these four or five hundred brothers.

Luo Guanzhong calmly analyzed the situation, now the buffalo village has enough ammunition, and the grain and grass reserves are also enough, as long as they hold the camp and wait for the follow-up reinforcements of the Ming army, they can repel these Tusi rebels.

"Strictly guard, no one is allowed to go out of the camp for half a step!"

Luo Guangzhong had already made up his mind, as long as he defended the buffalo village, he believed that with the muskets and artillery of the Ming army, the Tusi rebels would not be able to break through the buffalo village.

The persistence of the Ming army did not make the Tusi rebels outside the buffalo village also a big headache.

"My lord, we have been scolding for a long time in front of the village, and the Ming army is still a turtle with a shrunken head, what should we do?" A small leader in buffalo skin armor said to a toast leader in iron armor.

This leader is the leader of this group of Tusi rebels, named Yang Wanzhong, is the clansman of the Yang clan of Banzhou Tusi, in several battles with the Ming army, Banzhou Tusi suffered heavy losses, Yang Wanzhong relied on his own skills, rescued many clansmen from the siege of the Ming army, and saved the last counterattack power for the Banzhou Yang clan.

This time, the Banzhou Yang clan secretly contacted the mountain people who were loyal to them, secretly attacked the Phoenix Ridge of the Ming army, and then came to surround the buffalo village in order to seize the grain, grass, baggage and weapons of the buffalo village, which was used to restore the vitality of the Banzhou Yang clan.

"The Ming army in this buffalo village is only four or five hundred people, and we don't care about anything if we have more than 10,000 people, just rush forward and kill not a single one."

Yang Wanzhong waved his hand and gave the order to attack without hesitation.

The buffalo village was originally built by the Tusi of Banzhou, the camp itself is not very tall, and there are many damaged gaps in many places, after the Ming army has been simply repaired, the defense is not very high.

Now the rebels of Banshu Tusi have surrounded the buffalo village and began to build siege equipment.

It took less than a day to erect long ladders outside the buffalo village.

"Senho-sama, look at what it is?"

A Ming army hundred households stretched out his hand and pointed ahead, and Luo Guanzhong immediately looked in the direction he pointed.

I saw a toast rebel of about 1,000 people appear in that direction, these toast rebels were wearing a strange armor, and they were all protected from body to bottom, leaving only two black holes.

"What kind of strange armor is this?" Luo Guanzhong was suddenly puzzled.

With the sound of the rebels' trumpets and drums, this rebel in strange armor launched a charge towards the buffalo village of the Ming army.

Judging by the speed at which they ran, the armor on them was extremely light, and even when they climbed over trenches and low walls, they did not move in the slightest.

"Fire! Fire! ”

When the rebels were within fifty paces, Luo Guanzhong immediately gave an order.

Hundreds of muskets and more than a dozen artillery pieces of the Ming army were immediately sprayed at the rebels.

In less than a quarter of an hour, hundreds of rebels were killed and wounded in the open space ahead.

Yang Wanzhong, the leader of the Banzhou rebels, saw the scene in front of him and was immediately furious.

"It's these firearms again, Lao Tzu rattan armor!" Yang Wanzhong said bitterly.

These more than 1,000 rattan armor soldiers were elite soldiers he borrowed from Shuixi Tusi.

Generally speaking, these warriors equipped with rattan armor can basically be invulnerable, even if there are very heavy armor-piercing weapons, hitting the light and tough rattan armor, it will not cause much damage to the warriors.

Yang Wanzhong originally wanted to use these rattan armor soldiers to launch a surprise attack on the Ming army, defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop, and then capture the buffalo village, but he never expected that the Ming army would be so unmartial and spewing flames of muskets and artillery, killing all the rebels who dared to charge forward in front of the battlefield.

"Go on the offensive."

Yang Wanzhong ordered the other rebels to attack.

Because the buffalo village was too short, when the rebels launched a full-scale attack, the Ming army was gradually overwhelmed.

Quite a few rebel soldiers had already crossed the Ming army's defenses and climbed the walls of the buffalo village.

"Someone! Give me my command, and pour out all the oil on fire. ”

Luo Guanzhong looked at the rebels densely packed under the buffalo walled city, and knew that if he continued to be so passive, the Ming soldiers would have to exhaust their strength, and they would no longer have the strength to fight back.

So Luo Guanzhong made a quick decision!

Immediately ordered the soldiers to carry out all the fire oil and spirits hoarded in the camp, and then dumped them under the buffalo village.

A large number of rebels climbed up the ladder, only to feel a slippery liquid fall above their heads.

Before the rebels could react, they saw the Ming soldiers on the wall throwing torches one by one.

I only heard a large cloud of orange flames burst out under the buffalo village of the Ming army.

"Oops!"

A scream rang out below the buffalo village.

These oil and alcohol were all hoarded and transported by Zhu Han when the Ming army attacked Guizhou, and could be specially used to attack the wooden walls of Guizhou Tusi.

Alcohol is a very good disinfection and sterilization drug, which can restrain the local miasma in Guizhou.

Fire oil and alcohol are very valuable, even more valuable than gunpowder.

Luo Guanzhong also knew that the situation was critical now, and if the buffalo village was lost, he would not even be able to save his life, let alone these materials.

The raging flames immediately burned the rebels and cried for their mother.

Yang Wanzhong saw that his subordinate Tusi rebels were about to attack the buffalo village, and he was already in a good mood, but the situation suddenly reversed.

The Ming army's fire attack tactics can be said to be indiscriminate killing, whether it is a miscellaneous soldier composed of serfs or an elite rattan armor soldier, they all died tragically on the spot in the raging flames.

"Damn! Damn it! ”

Yang Wanzhong looked at the scene in front of him, and his heart was already dripping with pain.

Is the last hope of the Banzhou Yang family going to be lost in this buffalo village?

Yang Wanzhong looked at the raging flames in front of him, and he was unwilling in his heart, so he had to order to retreat.

As a result, in less than half a day's fighting, the Tusi rebels lost more than 1,500 people.

For the average feudal army, the loss of 10 percent of the strength is already a big loss of vitality.

Especially in this battle, more than half of the vine armor soldiers of the Tusi rebels were also burned to death, which had a fatal blow to morale.

Luo Guanzhong keenly captured the change in the morale of the rebels, and after nightfall, he led a death squad of dozens of people to sneak out of the buffalo village and launch a sneak attack on the Tusi rebels.

Taking advantage of the cover of night, the Ming army caused chaos in the Tusi rebel camp almost unscathed.

After tossing in the middle of the night, the Tusi rebels bombed the camp, killed each other and killed hundreds of people, and when it was dawn, the Tusi rebels were listless one by one.

Yang Wanzhong also knew that the momentum of the rebels had already plummeted, and if they were allowed to charge and attack again, it would only cause more losses.

Therefore, Yang Wanzhong also changed his original strategy, changing the original quick battle to a long-term siege.

The Tusi rebels used the means of digging trenches and setting up horses to block horses, and surrounded the buffalo village.

Luo Guanzhong also knew that the firearms in the hands of the Ming army could be conducive to defense, but he was not good at taking the initiative to attack, and after seeing that the rebels planned to besiege for a long time, he could only order a strict defense to prevent the rebels from launching a sneak attack on him.

The positions of the two sides have basically entered a state of confrontation.