On the side of the encirclement and suppression army, Fang Tianhao, the deputy commander of the guard, was also intensively formulating a battle plan according to the information sent back by the scouts.

Fang Tianhao received the order this time and learned that it was possible to fight against Chen Ruoping, and his heart was very entangled and absurd, because he was a general who was good at defense, and Chen Ruoping was a general who was good at attacking, but the current situation was just the exchange of offense and defense, he was responsible for attacking the city Chen Ruoping was responsible for defending the city, and Fang Tianhao couldn't cry or laugh at this undreaming situation. He really wanted to communicate with Chen Ruoping face-to-face, and suggested that everyone switch roles, he insisted on Montenegro and let Chen Ruoping attack, but this kind of thing is impossible to think about, so this idea just flashed in his mind and gave up.

However, as a defensive expert, Fang Tianhao also knew that in just one month of preparation, the defense of Montenegro Province could not be strong to any terrifying degree, so although he felt absurd about this operation, he was still confident, and the only thing he was worried about was that he was afraid that Chen Ruoping would be too sharp, and would reverse the overall offensive and defensive situation into a local horse thief attack and suppress the bandit army, and then tear apart the forward position of the bandit army and destroy some siege equipment, so that the army could only fight hard without any support.

In order to prevent this situation from happening, Fang Tianhao simply set up some siege weapons such as giant stone throwing machines and chain crossbow bed crossbows on the front line to arrange a situation that can be attacked and defended, so as to restrain possible cavalry charges and achieve the effect of rapid siege. As this plan took shape, one after another stone throwing machines and giant crossbows were transferred from the rear army to the front army, ready to set up this offensive and defensive lineup at dawn.

In addition, in view of the experience of the bandits in Shuanglong Mountain and the capture of the forward generals, Fang Tianhao repeatedly stressed that all departments must strengthen patrols and strengthen vigilance, preventing horse thieves from waiting for opportunities to arrest generals or poison and cause sabotage.

After the arrival of the encirclement and suppression army, they did not stop at all, and directly launched the encirclement and suppression offensive at all, and some marginal counties from the east to the south of the province of Montenegro fell into a state of war in which huge rocks were flying and crossbows and arrows were intertwined.

The siege on the first day progressed very quickly, which also confirmed Fang Tianhao's previous prediction. The Black Mountain horse thieves only urgently built some passes, but there were not many weapons such as flying stone giant crossbows to strengthen the city defense, so they could only use some bows and arrows and crossbow arrows with low strength to resist the offensive of the encirclement and suppression army. The weapons on the side of the encirclement and suppression army were extremely sharp, and the flying stone giant crossbows were overwhelming, and those temporary passes could not block such a high-intensity blow at all, and they directly collapsed after half a day's effort.

From morning to evening, in just one day, the encirclement and suppression army successively broke through more than 30 temporary passes from east to south and occupied some small peripheral county towns, in the face of such a result, Fang Tianhao was not carried away by the victory, but ordered the 60,000 former troops who had entered the territory of Montenegro to advance in depth and north and west in three directions, and at the same time ordered other battalions of the Chinese army to quickly follow the footsteps of the front army and move forward into battalions, firmly occupying the places that had been conquered. and quickly divide the troops and advance in a wide front with the forward army heading towards the depths, and all the troops should be cautious to check the food and water sources on the way forward, and always be vigilant in case the horse thieves catch people and poison them.

After giving these orders to the front army and the Chinese army, Fang Tianhao quickly contacted the rear army again, this time the army of suppressing bandits has a total of 36 battalions and more than 400,000 people, and now only the six battalions of the front army and ten battalions of the middle army have arrived near Montenegro, and the rear army of the other 20 battalions is still in a state of urgent march on infantry on horseback, and they will be able to come one after another in the next few days. These rear armies were all some not very elite local troops, and Fang Tianhao did not think of letting them attack the city and occupy Montenegro. They were only required to quickly reach the designated position, and then follow the footsteps of the former army and the middle army to rush in and firmly occupy the territory that had been defeated, so that the front army and the Chinese army could free up their hands to continue to advance forward, so that someone would be responsible for advancing by leaps and bounds to fight the territory. Someone is responsible for the battalion to occupy the territory step by step, the elite troops and the general troops cooperate in the division of labor, and Montenegro can be recovered soon. As for whether the horse thieves would flee to other provinces, Fang Tianhao had already written to the imperial court suggesting that the surrounding provinces strengthen their city defenses and strengthen the encirclement in the direction of some deep mountains and old forests. Only by fighting and blocking can the bandits be completely eliminated. Of course, the imperial court was relieved to receive such a suggestion, and Hang Xiao repeatedly praised Fang Tianhao for becoming a country, directly hinting at Fang Tianhao. As long as you take down Montenegro and completely eliminate the bandits, you will be the president of the Central Army.

On the horse thief's side, after a day's defeat, all the generals were tightened in their hearts, and their mood was relatively heavy, they had already expected that they would not be able to resist the encirclement and suppression army of the imperial court by relying on this fragile pass with a city and defense, but they didn't expect to be conquered one after another without resisting even a day.

Just when everyone didn't know how to fight next, they unexpectedly received summons from Ding Xiaofeng one after another, and the content of the rumors was to ask them to urgently go out of the city to collect all kinds of supplies. The generals suspected that they had read it wrong, but the message was very urgent, saying that the time was urgent, so that they could quickly collect the materials and use the collected materials to quickly strengthen the city defense, and the passes that were conquered during the day should also be urgently repaired, the emergency reinforcement frame should be urgently erected, and the stone thrower city defense crossbow should be urgently erected.

Everyone opened the city gate one after another as if in a dream and sent out people, and sure enough, they found that the occupied county town had been quiet and silent, even the sentry posts were sleeping, and all kinds of weapons and equipment, siege equipment, grain, grass, baggage, horses, and other things were all left unattended.

"So it's true!" A group of horse thieves excitedly began to get busy, carrying materials to repair the pass and strengthen the city defense, they are all senior horse thieves, they are extremely skilled in this kind of work to grab people and goods, and others are directly delivered to the door, there is no need for them to carry long-distance transportation, so everyone happily repaired the pass while directing the personnel to carry all kinds of giant crossbows and stone throwers to strengthen the pass, saving time, effort and distance.

The situation in the eastern and southern parts of the province of Montenegro is mostly the same, the encirclement army is sleeping, the horse thieves are busy carrying all kinds of things around them, and the other encirclement and suppression armies that are advancing to the western part of the province of Montenegro and in the direction of depth are when they arrive at the established position to arrange siege operations, or when they are resting in the middle of the march, they slowly fall asleep, and then the horse thieves along the way pour out of their nests, quickly carrying their grain and grass baggage, seizing their weapons and equipment and horses, and then carrying all kinds of things back with the joy of a good harvest to quickly strengthen the city defenses of various passes and passes。

Throughout the night, except for Fang Tianhao's guard battalion and a reserve battalion, which were spared because they were located fifty miles southwest of Montenegro, the six battalions of the other six battalions of the former army that entered the territory of Montenegro were all overturned, and all the grain, grass, horses, weapons, and baggage were seized.

The next morning, as soon as Fang Tianhao asked the various departments that there was no news back, he suddenly felt bad in his heart, and hurriedly asked the bird heralds to send a letter to the various departments to inquire about the situation, and ordered the scouts arranged in front to quickly rush forward to check the situation. Fang Tianhao was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly rode on his horse and galloped to check the situation in person, in front of him, the huge Black Mountain Province changed from a state of emptiness in defense to a state of strong barriers, and a huge crossbow with stone machines were arranged in a dangerous position, and the heavy stone bullets and cold crossbow arrows were aimed at their original owners.

"What's going on?" Fang Tianhao looked at those thick spear-like crossbows and muttered to himself in disbelief, feeling like he was daydreaming. Just when he was extremely confused, the pass where he was staring suddenly opened the city gate, and people with bare hands and no armor walked slowly towards him, and when he got closer, he found that it was the army of bandits who had entered along this place only last night.

"What about your weapons, what about your armor, you ......" Fang Tianhao looked at these people in disbelief.

"They were all captured, and the horse thieves said they didn't want to waste food, and they didn't want us captives, so they let us out. "A Fang Tianhao's subordinates said weakly.

The two men talked, and the army of captives stared at them in a daze, as if they were sleepwalking. Fang Tianhao anxiously asked about the situation last night, but everyone couldn't say clearly, they just said that they fell asleep suddenly, and when they woke up, someone told them, you go back, we don't want to waste food, and then they came back.

For a whole morning, seventy or eighty passes in the province of Montenegro were opening the doors for the prisoners, and they didn't even leave them for lunch, and these prisoners marched slowly towards Fang Tianhao's location when they left the passes, and when they were really hungry on the way, they went to some neighboring provinces to ask for food, and that miserable appearance was not at all like an army of bandits, but like hundreds of thousands of people fleeing from the famine. Fang Tianhao also sent a letter to the surrounding provinces early to explain the situation, asking them to give them all kinds of conveniences, and at the same time urgently sent a letter to the imperial court to report the battle situation.

That night, Montenegro was still urgently reinforcing the city defenses, and the imperial court was urgently discussing the changes in the situation and how to deal with it. In the face of this sudden situation, not only Hang Xiao was dumbfounded, but also the civil and military ministers were dumbfounded, the thunderous encirclement and suppression army turned into a transportation army that sent supplies to the other party, and the other party was completely enriched and emptied of himself just one day after the war, and such a beautiful result was something that everyone did not expect. What is more surprising than the results of the battle is the means by which the other party achieves the results, the imperial court has repeatedly ordered the army of bandits to prevent poison and poison, but the army of bandits is still on the road, this kind of unbelievable means really can't figure out and can't prevent it, so that people can't even brew the heart of dispatching follow-up troops. (To be continued......)