After discovering that the official army had increased its troops, the traitor spies quickly reported back, and Pu Shiwen and others were greatly surprised.

"Two thousand reinforcements? Where did it come from? ……”

"Come to think of it, it should have been transferred back from Gutian, but they didn't go to strengthen the garrison of Fuzhou City, and they actually had to rescue Quanzhou?"

"Isn't this a matter of caring about the head and tail, aren't you afraid that we will really attack Fuzhou?"

While everyone was talking, Pu Shisi closed his eyes and pondered with a gloomy face, and came over for a while before he spoke, "The current situation probably reveals two messages, one good and one bad. ”

"What's the message?"

Pu Shiwen and the others all looked at Pu Shisi in bewilderment.

Pu Shisi pinched his eyebrows and said slowly, "First, basically all the troops that can be used by the official army are concentrated here, which shows that King Yan himself is indeed here, which is good news." ”

"Second, King Yan has probably seen through our intentions a long time ago, this is not an accident, and it doesn't matter much, after all, we are implementing further actions according to his reaction, and he should also understand this, so he will plan and use himself as bait, so that we will lock our strength and eyes on him, so as to buy time for Quanzhou, now he only needs to delay for another three or four days, and when the second batch of troops arrives, he will be able to take the initiative to reverse the situation."

Listening to his analysis, others also understood.

"No wonder the spies said that the officers and soldiers are not like they are building ordinary camps, I am afraid they are preparing to defend to the death."

"This King Yan is really fucking bold, he actually wants to fight us?"

"Not to mention, he now has nearly 6,000 people on his hands, and it is really difficult for us to fight when he sets up camp."

"Otherwise, let's leave a small number of people to confront him, and the rest of the people will go to Fuzhou to get ......"

Pu Shisi shook his head, "No matter how empty Fuzhou is, it is also a strong city, and it can't be defeated in a day or two, in case King Yan transfers back the troops of Nanjian Prefecture from the beginning, it will be there in about two or three days according to the time, and it is likely that we will just waste our efforts by running around like this." ”

"The most important thing is that our core target is King Yan himself, and since he is in front of him, it is the best choice to capture him."

"I guess King Yan may regard us as grass thieves, and our combat power is not strong, so I have the confidence to dare to fight us." 33

Hearing this, Liu Qingzhu deeply agreed, "Brother Xian's words are very reasonable, the purpose of King Yan is to delay time, we must not be fooled again, as long as we can fight quickly, we will attack hard, I want to see how long he can last!" ”

Pu Shiwen silently compared the strength of the two sides, and also thought that it was safe to win, "Since King Yan is prepared, it is impossible to rob the camp, so there is no need for us to wait until the night to make a move, it is better to attack it directly now." ”

The others also agreed, and immediately summoned the men who were ambushed in various mountains and forests, assembled on the official road, and then rushed to the Mianting Ridge, which was more than ten miles away.

By the time they reached the Mianting Ridge, the sun was already in the west, and it was about to set in the mountains, and the fortifications of the officers and troops were largely completed.

It was indeed not a campsite, and there were not even a few tents erected, it was completely the appearance of a field defensive position.

Chen Wei's site selection was very old-fashioned, and the circular position was set at the highest part of the mountain, and the northwest two directions were steep and difficult to walk, and if you wanted to attack, you could only attack from the east and south.

And in both directions there is a slope nearly a hundred zhang long, and halfway up the slope is a trench.

Two zhang behind the ditch, it is also a shallow ditch, and a half-man-high earthen wall is built on the inside, and one zhang behind the earthen wall is a half-zhang high wooden fence.

On the slope behind the wooden fence, there are also many platforms made of earth and rock, as well as a sheltering wall made of various frames, which can effectively resist arrow attacks.

In front of the trench, there are deer and horses, and there are many messy and low earthen stacks and tree stumps, bamboo and wood stakes, and many deep and shallow small pits.

It may not seem like an obstacle, but when it comes to fighting, it will become a stumbling block for the attacking side.

Pu Shiwen's eyes were sharp, and he found that the weeds on the slope reflected a little bit of light, and guessed that it was mostly sprinkled with thistle.

"These officers and soldiers are very sharp, and it seems that it is not much easier than attacking a county town to make such a perfect position in just one and a half hours."

Liu Qingzhu's expression became solemn, "The official road is completely within the range of the ridge, and if you want to go around to the northwest of the mountain, you will definitely suffer huge losses, and from the perspective of the mountain, the northwest direction is probably not suitable for attacking, and the obstacles on the southern slope are much less than those in the east, obviously they deliberately want us to attack from the south." ”

"It's okay to say anything else, but this thistle terrestris is very troublesome, but the officers and soldiers must leave a safe passage for themselves, I took a closer look, it is probably this three-zhang wide area due south, since this is the case, then let's attack from here!"

As Pushis finished speaking, the traitor began to act.

A moment later, about a thousand armored rebels cleared the way with large shields and approached the foot of the mountain in a horizontal formation.

Behind this crooked horizontal formation, there were more than 3,000 pirates dressed in various costumes, holding small shields and axes, walking together in groups of three or five, looking disorganized.

The pirates were followed by more than 4,000 crossbowmen, who walked haphazardly along the official road, deliberately keeping their distance from each other.

But on the official road between them, there were more than 1,000 people pushing seven ballista carts and about 30 small and medium-sized artillery carts.

Then, there were more than 3,000 soldiers who looked like Fan, their armor and weapons were all strange, but they were very sophisticated, it was the so-called Fanshang militia.

Behind it, there was a left-wing army of more than 1,000 people, except for the water battalion led by Chen Lei, the others were the 500 people who were first sent by Uncle Xie Fang to reinforce Tingzhou.

Pu Shisi and others, as the command body, were heavily defended by these left-wing armies.

On the mountains, Chen Wei watched all this with a telescope, and his heart sank slightly.

The mouth was relatively calm, "Fifteen thousand people, it's a bit difficult to deal with, I don't know who the other party's commander is, putting on such a formation, it can very weaken the effect of our long-range strike." ”

Lu Changqing carefully examined the rebels under the mountain, "Their posture is planning to launch a general attack at the beginning, and the biggest threat to us is those ballista and artillery trucks." ”

Chen Wei nodded slightly, "Yes, we must give priority to attacking these ballista artillery trucks, and we can't let them get too close." ”

Knowing that salvo fire was not very effective for loose formations, Chen Wei simply put the first wave of strikes on ballista artillery trucks with relatively dense personnel and relatively large threats.

When the traitor shield soldiers had reached the foot of the mountain, the ballista and artillery cart entered the firing range, and then Chen Wei gave the order to attack.

With the sound of three crisp cymbals, the bed crossbows and counterweight-type stone throwers arranged on the various platforms were fired in unison, opening the prelude to the battle.

Twenty crossbow spears flew out first, and then dozens of ten-pound stones rose diagonally into the sky.

Immediately afterward, more than 2,000 crossbowmen emerged from behind earthen walls and wooden fences, firing a dense volley of crossbow arrows.

After discovering that the official army was attacking, the traitor shield soldier immediately half-crouched on the slanted shield and shrunk his body as much as possible in the shield cover.

However, the target of this round of attacks was not them, but ballistas and artillery carts traveling on the official road.

The ballista guns and stones fell one after another, and suddenly the flesh and blood flew and the sawdust was scattered, and nearly half of the ballista artillery carts were hit, suffering varying degrees of damage, and there were even one or two hundred traitors in the carts who were killed or wounded.

The crossbow bolts that followed burst out countless blood flowers, adding four or five hundred casualties in an instant.

Such a tragic situation frightened the surviving cart traitors and all stopped.

But Pu Shisi laughed when he saw this, "The official army has been fooled!" Beat the drums, the whole army assault! ”

It turned out that he understood the problems of his own team, and it was impossible to fight in a step-by-step manner, and he could not implement any complicated tactics.

The only effective tactic is to charge forward and kill the master with random punches.

But if they are hit hard at the beginning, the morale of these miscellaneous soldiers will quickly disappear.

Therefore, he deliberately used artillery carts and ballistas to attract the first wave of attacks that the officers and soldiers were ready to attack, and then took advantage of the interval between rewinding and reloading to launch a charge, which caught the officers and soldiers off guard.

The rapid sound of drums sounded, and the shield soldiers in the front row realized that they had not been attacked, and their morale was greatly shaken, and under the leadership of the big and small leaders, they came close together and rushed frantically up the slope along the passage without thistles.

The axemen immediately ran and gathered together, following behind the shieldmen.

After hearing the sound of the drum and seeing the traitor's actions, Chen Wei's face sank, and he instantly realized the intention.

"Order, change tactics, prioritize attacking traitor strikers, and slow them down!"

Fortunately, although there were only more than 2,000 qualified crossbowmen among the more than 5,000 people, the rest could be responsible for winding, and the crossbowmen still had a loaded crossbow at hand after shooting a round.

So they immediately obeyed the order and fired at the shieldmen who had already gone uphill and the axemen behind them.

Although these people have shields, they cannot completely shield the crossbow arrows fired by the officers and soldiers from high places, and the armor on their bodies cannot withstand the power of the armor-piercing arrows.

In an instant, six or seven hundred shield men and axemen fell into the rain of crossbows.

After the crossbowmen finished firing, they immediately put down the empty crossbow, took the reloaded crossbow, and fired another volley, and a large number of traitors fell, and the momentum of the advance was greatly frustrated.

At this time, the traitor's crossbowmen also reached the firing range, stopped and fired upwards up the hillside.

They stood very scattered, and the shooting time was not uniform, and more than 4,000 bows and arrows and crossbows fell in such a chaotic manner into the positions of the officers and soldiers.

Although the effect was not very good, the officers and soldiers began to suffer casualties.

Despite this, the crossbowmen still fired a third salvo at the bottom of the slope with a succession of arrows.

Then the bed crossbow was reloaded, and twenty crossbow spears roared down on the traitors, shattering their shields to pieces, and then continuing to plunge into the flesh.

Hit so hard that many of the traitors became panicked and ran in a panic to the sides, trying to leave this bloody place.

As a result, most people stepped on thistles, suddenly collapsed and rolled and wailed with their injured legs, but were stabbed into their bodies by other thistles, causing even more miserable screams.

Pu Shisi's face darkened, and he shouted angrily, "Urge the drum!" The whole army presses on! ”

He knew that the blood and courage of these people could not be allowed to subside, and he had to rush to the official and military positions with all his might.

To put it bluntly, it is to use superior forces and use one's life to pile up a road to victory.

Under his command, more than 3,000 merchant groups brandished various weapons and began to accelerate their charge, rushing past the crossbowmen and catching up with the sword and axe men.

If they dare to retreat or hesitate, they act as overseers to hack them to death, scaring the others into moving on.

For a moment, the black-pressed traitors filled the entire wilderness in front of the foot of the mountain, shouting hoarsely, and rushing towards Mianting Ridge like a tidal wave.

In the face of this overwhelming situation, many officers and crossbowmen couldn't help but be shocked in their hearts, but they continued to shoot under the command of the generals' shouts.

More and more traitors fell on the hillside, many of whom were only wounded and did not die.

But more traitors, under the pressure of the war drums and the warlords, could only continue to trample on the 'corpses' of their accomplices, pushing or bypassing those deer and horses, and surging upwards.

Soon, a traitor came to the first trench, only two feet away from the earthen wall.

As long as you cross this trench, you can instantly rush into the officers and soldiers who are still holding crossbows and slaughter them wantonly!

Some people died, but not completely......