Behind me are the 12 leaders of the militia group, they are lined up in front of the entire phalanx, standing in a row, the 12 commanders are wearing a unified standard of fish scale armor, their feet are in a straddle posture, looking at the coalition camp, they all put their left hands into fists on their waists, and their right hands are clenched on the hilt of the knife at their waists

Although they are not wearing armor, but the weapons used can be said to be readily available, a battalion of the militia has more than 500 people in five rows, and each row of 100 people, the first two rows of Xiangyong used weapons are about 3 feet long steel knife and a pair of less than 3 feet of round shield, the last two rows of Xiangyong used a cross spear about seven feet long, the last row of Xiangyong is a long-range archers, and these archers are divided into three kinds, namely longbowmen-short archers and crossbowmen, where is this still what kind of Xiangyong, this is clearly a small army

The weapons and equipment used by the 12 battalions of the militia regiment are diversified, and the uniformity of conventional troops is obviously different; as long as the generals who lead the troops all the year round can see that these are 12 battalion-level combat units as long as they are not stupid; when the two armies engage in large-scale battles, it is often decided that a rout will turn into a rout of the whole army in an instant, while a number of battalion-level battle groups can divide large-scale engagements into small battlefields, which can effectively prevent the army from falling into chaos in the engagement, and is more conducive to the deployment of troops and generals to formulate tactics

When Meng Ang saw it, he not only sighed: The Taidou army is like a mountain--The tiger rides and the sword shakes the four directions--The flying sand is all over the ground and walks with the wind--Millions of male soldiers dare to take it, and if the Taizhou militia is in charge by a good general, it will have a lot to do in time

After hearing this, Niu Yongnian, the Shaoxing guard, sneered on the side: General Meng said that although the militia has the momentum of Jin Ge Iron Horse, it is just a group of rabble after all, and it can't get on the big stage

The Alan County militia led by Li Yang was subordinate to Taizhou, and Yuan Bin, as a Taizhou guard, heard Niu Yongnian say this, and the militia not only sneered: General Niu's rabble twice defeated tens of thousands of Dongwei Haikou under Taizhou City, and also killed more than a dozen Haikou commanders

Niu Yongnian raised his head and laughed: I can't imagine that this Dongwu Haikou also has a time when the boat capsized in the gutter

After meeting with the coalition army, Meng Ang asked the militia to camp in the area of Niujian Mountain and Phoenix Mountain five miles away, and the Xianren Cave - Menqian Mountain - Miaofeng Mountain garrisoned by the Taizhou Army happened to form a one-to-one line of defense, when the militia battalions passed through the coalition camp always maintained a neat formation and a straight military posture, and what Meng Angrang did not expect was that the militia not only had its own baggage troops but also a crossbow battalion, you must know that now even the official army is not equipped with a large number of crossbows

Although the power of the crossbow is great, but the production process is much more complex than the bow and arrow, and the crossbow in the process of use, its loading speed is slower than the bow and arrow, and it consumes more physical strength, the greater the pull force of the crossbow, the greater its power, so the strength is so small that people can not use it at all, the heaviest point is that the crossbow is expensive, there is no strong production guarantee, it is impossible to achieve large-scale equipment, and it is more affordable to spend the same money to equip a hoplite

Before seeing the militia group, Meng Ang always felt that the Ningbo army led by him was an elite army, but after seeing the militia group, he sat crookedly in the camp in the army he brought, looking more like a peasant who had just joined the army, and the militia formed by the peasants was more like a regular army

After the coalition meeting, Mon Ang invited the commanders of the armies to the big tent to issue specific combat missions, and the commanders of the armies came to the big tent and stood in a circle around a square table, I looked down and saw that there was a map on the square table, and the vertical paragraph on the right side was written a map of the whole territory of Chang Weiguo, this map was relatively simple, mainly some peaks, roads, rivers, etc., and there were several settlements

When Meng Ang saw that everyone had arrived, he put his hands on the map and began to issue a combat mission: there are 23 large and small mountains and rivers in the territory of Changweiguo, and the Barbarian Jiang army led by Ah Chalan is hiding in the dense forests among these mountains and rivers, and the first task of the coalition army is to find the traces of the Manjiang rebels in these mountains and rivers, and General Yuan ordered you to lead the Taizhou soldiers to completely clear the area of Dadingshan in the northwest before sunset tomorrow

General Niu ordered you to lead the Shaoxing Army to completely clear the area of Wild Boar Mountain in the northeast before sunset tomorrow, General Ben led the Ningbo Army to completely clear the area of Panlong Mountain before sunset tomorrow, and the head of the Li family ordered you to lead the Alan County militia to clear the area of Daping Mountain before sunset tomorrow, so that we can prevent Acha Lan from leading the Barbarian Jiang Army south to Taizhou Capital

Seeing that Yuanbin and Niu Yongnian hugged their fists and bowed to Meng Ang, and shouted softly, "The last general will lead the order", I also hurriedly hugged the fist and saluted, "The grass people lead the order", I was thinking that this trip was to follow the strong momentum, I will come to an actual combat exercise by the way, this is different from what I said before I came, how to send the militia to the front line, Meng Ang, you old boy is not interesting enough, don't you drive ducks to the shelves

The July sun is like a ball of fire hanging over the head, the woods under the sun are hot and stuffy, you can't go far, you have to stop and rest for a while, the brothers' foreheads are full of sweat, even the clothes are soaked, everyone can only hide in the shade of the trees and breathe air to relieve the heat, at the beginning, everyone is not tired of the sedan chair, but after turning over four or five mountains, this fatigue will come up, and they can't go fast, go fast, and the brothers in the baggage camp behind can't keep up, Fortunately, on the first day, it was quite peaceful, and without encountering any enemies, the mountains and rivers around Daping Mountain were cleared

There is a river more than a zhang wide at the foot of the mountain, the sand and gravel in the river are clearly visible, and the water is particularly cool, the villagers who have been hot for a day will rush into the river in groups to play as soon as they see the water, and the commanders of each battalion will simply camp along the peak of Daping Mountain, and then set up some guard posts on the periphery for the brothers to rest for a night

As soon as it was dark and the brothers had eaten supper, they went back to their respective tents to rest, and the trail was really tiring after nearly a day's walking, and I was just about to lie down and rest, so Li Zuo and Li You brought several other commanders to my tents: Ah, my cousin lay down so early

With so many people coming in at once, I felt a little unrealizable: I'm a little tired today, I'll think about lying down for a while, is there something wrong with you all coming together

Li Zuo: My cousin is going out on an expedition, and according to the usual practice in the army, a general needs to inspect the defense

To be honest, I really don't want to move when I lie down, but there is this practice in the army, then I can't be lazy, for the generals, they should set an example for their subordinates, Li Zuo took me and several other commanders to inspect the 12 checkpoints set up on the periphery, and the checkpoints are divided into clear posts and secret posts - the clear posts are mainly set up on the road, and the dark posts are set up in some secret places, and they are supplemented by the bright posts, and the defense work of grain and grass is the most rigorous, and three guards are set up, except for the shift personnel of the battalion, others are not allowed to approach here

The whole camp from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain is covered with countless torches, people see it and feel very guarded, after a camp tent, Li Yang wants to know about the rest of the brothers, so he opened the curtain and poked his head in, the sleeping Xiang Yong heard the movement, grabbed the pillow under his head and sat up, at the moment he sat up, Xiang Yong's eyes leaked a fierce light, and the villagers saw that I was here to put down their hands to be on guard

After leaving, I asked a few of them: I see that the brothers sleep on the pillows are all weapons, can the gang be able to work hard with hard pillows?

Gan Hui: The commander sleeps with his weapon on his pillow, and once the enemy attacks, he can immediately enter the battle, and he sleeps with his ear on the quiver so that people can hear the strangeness around him, which helps the brothers to take emergency measures to deal with the sneak enemy attack when resting

Li Zuo: That's what the Commander is referring to

Li Yang: Yes, it's good - did all the battalions do this kind of measures, or did they just implement one or two battalions?

Li Zuo: This is true for all 12 battalions of the militia

The next morning, the fog in the mountain stream was very strong, and Meng Ang ordered people to send a new order for the militia to continue to march to the northeast to clear the area of Qingtian Qingshan, and the Ningbo Army was responsible for clearing the Changling Mountain north of Tianqing Mountain-Yuan Bin led the Taizhou Army to continue to advance eastward to clear the area of Dakeng Mountain-Niu Yongnian led the Shaoxing Army to continue to advance eastward to clear the area of Longtan Mountain

Tian Qingshan has a total of 5 mountain groups with the experience of marching in the jungle the day before, and today the vanguard troops with a total of 10 battalions marched towards the area of Tian Qingshan, while the baggage battalion continued to stay in the Dapingshan camp and waited for the vanguard to clear Tian Qingshan in Huihe, and the vanguard did not find any trace of the rebels in the dense forest of Lion Rock and Shiping Mountain, and when they arrived in the Dafan Mountain area, the vanguard found a tribe built by Bangshan in the mountain stream

The size of the tribe is not too big to have four or five hundred households, the architectural style of the Manjiang people is completely different from ours, their architectural style is a bit like the architecture of the primitive period, the round adobe thatched huts are built on the steep mountainside, the tribe is surrounded by a simple wooden wall that is not much higher than a person, looking at the silent tribe, no one knows what is going on inside, and the whole vanguard has quietly surrounded this tribe

Among the leaders of the militia group, Li Zuo-Li You-Gan Hui-Ge Qing are all from the official army, and have experience in leading troops, and the siege of the city and the village has always been a tough battle, so the task of the main attack is undertaken by the four of them, and the four people under the command of Tieshan-Sun An-etc., led the troops under their command, bypassing the tribe, continuing to advance eastward, forming a cordon and defense line on the periphery, and I myself took the remaining two battalions to meet Li Zuo and them at any time

The archers knelt on one knee and drew their bows to the tribe ready to fire at any time, the sword and shield soldiers and pikemen approached the tribe step by step in a fighting posture, and the brothers in the front row had already touched the root of the wall and there was no reaction in the tribe, so Li Zuo took a few brothers to use brute force to knock the wooden door open, and then the steel knife in his hand waved forward, "Brothers, kill"

The loud shouts of killing echoed in the valley, the four battalions in the vanguard did not encounter any resistance and attacked the tribe, I saw that Li Zuo and a few of them had succeeded, and quickly rushed in with the reserve force with them, and after entering the tribe, the tools that people usually use to work - clay pots - clay pots are the only ones who are missing, and the whole tribe has been carefully searched and no one has been found, everyone speculates that the people who live here may have run to the mountains to avoid the disaster of war

After turning over the big fan mountain, the first group of mountains you see is Tian Qingshan, the height of the big fan mountain and Tian Qingshan is about 300 meters, there is a ditch between the two mountains, standing on the big fan mountain, you can see the opposite Tian Qingshan clearly, this way did not meet the rebel brothers of Chang Weiguo, and they let down their vigilance, as long as they climbed the opposite Tian Qingshan, today's battle goal is completed, the townsmen all accelerated their pace, and a wave of rapid marching towards the peak of Tian Qingshan

When the villagers went down to the ditch, a rain of arrows suddenly shot down from Tian Qingshan, there was no place in the narrow ditch that could be used as a shelter, and the villagers were wearing cloth clothes that could not protect the bow and arrows, and before the villagers in the front row could react to what was going on, they were shot down more than 30 brothers, and the blood and howls made the villagers chaotic for a while, holding their heads in the ditch

Li Zuo raised his knife and shouted, "Shield forward", after speaking, he rushed down with 200 shield soldiers, and laid a shield wall in the narrow ditch to resist the arrows shot down from the opposite mountain, Li You then also rushed down with 200 shield soldiers, next to Li Zuo, they increased the length of the shield wall, and the archers of each battalion also quickly carried out covering shooting at Tian Qingshan, and when the two armies launched a confrontation, there was no time to aim, so they could only continue to shoot arrows in a general direction to suppress each other

Li Yang hid behind a big tree and shouted down the mountain: Don't patronize and fight back to save people first, and the others should not be stunned Quickly rely on the terrain to form a shield wall to protect the pikemen, Gan Hui-Ge Qing-Guan Meng-Qi San, the four of you come here

A dozen swords and shields rushed into the ditch under the rain of arrows from the place, and several of them used shields as cover to drag the wounded brothers behind the shield wall against the rain of arrows fired by the enemy, and the brothers of several other battalions on the halfway of Dafan Mountain also quickly formed several shield walls, which provided enough cover for the spearmen who were defenseless for a long time

Gan Hui - Ge Qing - Guan Meng - Qi San ran to my side under the cover of several sword and shield soldiers: After a while, I will lead people to feint head-on, Gan Hui - Ge Qing, you two people outflank from the left and right, if you encounter obstacles, don't retreat quickly, Guan Meng-Qi San, you two people lead people to set up defenses on the top of Dafan Mountain, don't let the enemy surround us here

After issuing the combat mission, Li Yang pulled out his steel knife and pointed at Tian Qingshan: the sword and shield soldiers opened the way in front, and all the archers continued to fire and suppress the enemy on the opposite mountain

Under the cover of the archers, the sword and shield soldiers began to launch a frontal assault on Tian Qingshan, and the arrows shot by the enemy continued to fly down from the top of the mountain, and the Xiangyong in the front row fell down with the arrows in the back, and the Xiangyong would immediately fill it up, and when the attack reached the halfway point of the mountain, more than ten Xiangyong who rushed to the front row suddenly squatted down and hugged their feet and screamed loudly

I rushed over to see that the feet of more than a dozen villagers stepped on the trap, the trap set by the enemy was not big, and it was a deep one, and a bamboo stick like a needle was inserted in the middle, and the position where the bamboo stick leaked out was as long as two knuckles, although this was a flesh wound, but the pain emitted was unbearable, and if you continue to attack so strongly, you may not know how many brothers will be injured

Seeing the shield used by Xiang Yong, Li Yang had an idea, and asked 1,600 sword and shield soldiers to quickly stand in 16 rows, and the sword and shield soldiers in the first four rows always maintained a defensive posture to attack the top of the mountain, and the sword and shield soldiers who followed behind were responsible for keeping the shield in front, so that the brothers in front stepped on the shield and continued to move forward, thus forming an alternate attack mode

Gan Hui's plan to outflank Tian Qingshan from the left side was also hindered, and after firing with the enemy archers for a while, he finally found an opportunity to attack, but when he reached the halfway point of the mountain, they also encountered a trap set by the rebels, once the trigger mechanism would fall from the tree, a bamboo basket filled with all kinds of snakes would fall from the tree, and as soon as the bamboo basket landed, it would be broken and a group of snakes ran out, and some rebels simply hid in the tree and waited for Xiang Yong to reach his feet, and then put the snake in the bag directly from the tree to Xiang Yong's body, A swarm of snakes suddenly fell on themselves and scared people to death, plus thousands of snakes meandering around in the forest, making people feel numb and have no intention of fighting, Gan Hui saw that the situation was not good, and quickly took his brothers to retreat the same way

Ge Qing led people to outflank Tian Qingshan from the right side, and did encounter the rolling wood and stones thrown by the rebels from the mountain, fortunately, the brothers were relatively dexterous, only a few slow legs and feet were scraped on their legs, there may not be many rolling stones on this mountain, if the brothers suffered too many casualties, I would not be able to explain to the commander, so Ge Qing also took his brothers to withdraw from the original way

When the two came back to meet Li Yang and told them about the situation, Li Yang did not blame them, but comforted them: You two came back just when this mountain is full of traps set by the enemy, and you and the two of you put your shields and spears on the ground and lay two roads for the brothers to step on and attack

Gan Hui and Ge Qing took their brothers to pave two roads with shields and spears according to Li Yang's words, and at this time, the enemy shot down the mountain with fewer arrows than before, and when they saw that Li Zuo-Li You led the brothers to attack the top of the mountain, Gan Gui and Ge Qing paved the road up the mountain almost completely

Li Yang waved the steel knife: Brothers, rush up with me

After speaking, he led the archers and spearmen to launch a general attack on Tian Qingshan, "Kill", the shouts of killing echoed throughout the entire valley, Li Zuo and Li You saw that I led people to launch a general attack, and the morale of the whole army rose up: "Brothers, follow me to kill Ueda Qingshan"

I thought that there would be a fierce battle at the moment when I rushed to Tian Qingshan, but after rushing to Tian Qingshan, I didn't even see a single figure, only some quivers and a few pairs of broken straw sandals were left on the ground

After the war, it was counted that Tian Qingshan's militia had injured more than 140 brothers in the first battle, and the Manjiang rebels did not even see a single figure, which made the leaders of the militia group feel angry