"On weekdays, we are all brothers, but now on the battlefield, we are soldiers, and we must obey orders to the letter. After Zhuge Ying finished speaking, Ye Ying stood up and said categorically.

"Resolutely obey the orders of the big boss and the chief army division!" Looking at Ye Ying's solemn expression, everyone present knew that what Ye Ying said was true, so they replied in unison.

Looking at the brothers standing on the side, Ye Ying looked relieved, he just hoped to have such a group of partners, and they could drink and play together on weekdays. But at the critical moment, it is the comrades-in-arms who dare to fight hard and dare to shed blood for their brothers, and only such an army is invincible.

The Tieshan Battalion of the Songzhou Army was the only cavalry battalion, so in this operation against the Flying Eagle Club bandits, the cavalry battalion became the vanguard. Liu Chuan, the commander of the cavalry battalion, was very excited because he won this mission, and he even had the idea of giving the Flying Eagle Society a heavy blow before the arrival of the large army, and even breaking through their cottage, so that he could show his face in the Songzhou army in the Tieshan battalion at that time.

It is precisely because of this mentality that Liu Chuan asked his soldiers to march quickly all the way to pull the main force in the rear far away, and he had to buy a lot of time for the Tieshan battalion, so that he could have the opportunity to wait until the main force arrived to achieve his goal.

There are some things in this world that you can't rush to, and Liu Chuan and his Tieshan Battalion are currently in this situation.

Marching in the plains and hilly areas, the Iron Mountain Battalion had a smooth journey and could travel a long distance every day. However, as soon as you enter the mountains, the trouble comes, not only are the trails narrow but also very steep, and the speed of the horses in these places decreases a lot.

All the soldiers in the Iron Mountain Battalion are skilled veterans, and this kind of mountain road can't cause them much trouble, but what makes them feel distressed is that they are still almost a hundred miles away from the Flying Eagle Society Cottage, and they actually encountered the bandits.

Liu Chuan never dreamed that these bandits would be so rampant that they would dare to leave their cottage and attack the officers and soldiers from such a distance.

However, for these bandits sent to the door, Liu Chuan and his Tieshan battalion will not be polite, seeing that the bandits are not far from their team, Liu Chuan immediately asked his brothers to get on the horse, but rushed in the direction of the bandits.

After getting closer, Liu Chuan found that these bandits were actually cavalry, they numbered less than a hundred, and the weapons on their bodies were also very backward. Liu Chuan was very confident, but his team caught up with this bandit, and it might not take half an hour to end the battle.

But the next moment, Liu Chuan's actions disappointed Liu Chuan, these bandits who rushed over with great momentum. When he was still about two hundred paces away from the soldiers of the Iron Mountain Battalion, he suddenly turned his horse's head and fled quickly into the depths of the mountain.

"Don't let them go, shoot me with a bow and arrow!" When he saw the duck in his hand, he was about to fly away, but of course Liu Chuan was unwilling, and he shouted loudly to his soldiers.

However, the bandits were still a little far away from the soldiers of the Iron Mountain Battalion, and most of the arrows fell weakly to the ground when they were still some distance from the target. Some of the soldiers with strong arms shot long arrows, although they had already chased behind the bandits, but they lost their accuracy, and did not even shoot a single bandit.

"The first and second teams will hold the supplies in place, and the rest of the teams will chase after me!" Liu Chuan has also been in battle for a long time, and he made arrangements between lightning and flint.

Liu Chuan's soldiers are skilled in riding, and the horses they ride are also good horses imported from Simon, so it stands to reason that they can quickly catch up with this bandit, but the truth is beyond everyone's expectations.

What Liu Chuan and his cavalry didn't expect was that the riding skills of this bandit were not bad, and more importantly, they were familiar with the terrain and were good at shuttling through the mountains and forests.

There is a big taboo in marching and fighting, that is, "chasing in the forest", this kind of unfamiliar mountains and forests are often the places where the enemy sets up ambushes, and when encountering such terrain, it is generally not possible to go deep into the jungle to pursue the enemy.

Of course, Liu Chuan also understood this truth, and when he saw the bandits entering the mountains and forests, he had to command his subordinates to hold the reins of the horses and retreat helplessly.

Although the bandits were not caught, they did not lose anything, and the soldiers of the Iron Mountain Battalion were not particularly disappointed. After a little trimming, Liu Chuan decided to continue the march and wait until he reached the bandits' base camp to settle accounts with these hateful fellows.

However, Liu Chuan's plan fell through once again. The team had just gone far when the bandit appeared again, shouting loudly from afar, and rushing towards the soldiers of the Iron Mountain Battalion with great vigour.

Seeing the enemy, Liu Chuan had to ask everyone to stop moving forward, adjust the team, and prepare for a war with the bandits. But this time it was strikingly similar to the last one. The bandits stopped their advance not far from the soldiers of the Iron Mountain Battalion, shouted and cursed at the range of the archers, and did not take the initiative to attack.

When Liu Chuan sent people to pursue, these guys fled like frightened rabbits in the mountains and forests. But as the soldiers of the Iron Mountain Battalion continued to move forward, these hateful fellows reappeared.

After many times, Liu Chuan also understood the intentions of these bandits, they just wanted to use this harassing method to make their team unable to move forward and not be able to reach Fuhu Mountain where the Flying Eagle Club was located on time.

Thinking of this, Liu Chuan changed his strategy, and asked the soldiers on the periphery to be on guard against the bandits who tried to attack them, while the rest of the soldiers continued to march forward according to the original plan.

This strategy of Liu Chuan proved to be very effective, and these bandits attacked and harassed them many times, although they reduced the marching speed of the cavalry of the Tieshan battalion to a certain extent, but they failed to prevent the team from continuing to march towards Fuhu Mountain.

There was even a time when a few bandits rushed too hard and accidentally got into the range of Tieshanyun's soldiers' bows and arrows, and were shot and wounded several people.

After doing this several times, the bandits saw that this trick no longer worked, so they had to stop this attack and let the soldiers of the Iron Mountain Battalion rush forward.

Seeing that his strategy worked, Liu Chuan was very happy, and he was even more confident that he would be able to defeat the Flying Eagle Society bandits in the upcoming head-on battle. But what Liu Chuan didn't expect was that in the later trip, he and his soldiers would encounter greater trouble.

Walking and stopping along the way, there were still more than 20 miles away from the original camping site, and it was already completely dark, and the terrain in the mountains was complicated. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Liu Chuan found an open place and set up camp here.

The soldiers who had been on the road for a day were tired, and they quickly buried their pots and cooked food, after which everyone except for the patrolling soldiers returned to their tents early to rest.

"Enemy attack!" Not long after everyone fell asleep, the patrolling soldiers shouted a warning.

Hearing the sound, Liu Chuan immediately put on his clothes, ran out of the tent, and looked not far away, only to see that there were countless torches there, and many people were beating drums and shouting there.

Liu Chuan immediately led people to the place where the voice was made, but found that it was the bandits who made a disturbance here during the day, and they did not attack much in the afternoon, thinking that these people had already left when they saw that they could not get benefits, but they did not expect them to come out again at night.

There was no way, Liu Chuan had to let people chase after him, but these guys were very slippery and quickly disappeared into the vast night. During the day, he didn't dare to let people chase him, and at night Liu Chuan was even more reluctant to take risks, so he had to watch these guys leave.

As soon as they returned to the camp and closed their eyes, these hateful bandits came again, and they did not approach the tent of the Iron Mountain Camp, but shouted loudly from afar, and took some gongs and drums, which were pounding and dingding.

Men were sent to chase them, and they disappeared immediately, and just as they were about to rest, they came out again.

At this time, the soldiers of the entire Iron Mountain Battalion could not sleep, although they pulled some cloth to cover their ears to avoid being harassed by these bandits, but the sound was so loud that even if everyone was already very sleepy, they could not sleep smoothly.

This situation made Liu Chuan a little headache, and he wanted to ignore these guys, but they were too capable of making trouble, and he couldn't be sure if they were making trouble, would they take the opportunity to rush over?

In the end, he had to think of a helpless way, and sent two teams of soldiers to set up a mile away from the outskirts of the camp, while the others continued to rest in the camp.

In this way, no matter how loud the bandits made noise, it would have much less impact on the soldiers resting in the tents, and at the same time, they did not dare to launch a sneak attack because of the two groups of soldiers guarding the perimeter.

Liu Chuan's method did succeed in stopping the harassment of the bandits, but thirty percent of the soldiers in the entire Tieshan battalion could not rest, and could only take turns to stay there all night.

Although the soldiers of each team rotated and took turns to guard the perimeter, after this night, the soldiers of the entire Iron Mountain Battalion did not sleep for too long, and when the camp was pulled out at dawn, many people still yawned.

This time, the people responsible for harassing the officers and soldiers were Qi Jiao, Shan Fu and a few soldiers with good riding skills in the White Tiger Battalion under them, and in order to complete this mission, they brought almost all the good horses of Fuhu Mountain.

Seeing the officers and soldiers get up in the morning, with such a listless look, Qi Jiao and Shan Fu, who are often in the mountains, glanced at each other, and they both saw a smug look in each other's eyes, because they successfully completed the task assigned by Ye Ying this time.

The next day's march was relatively smooth, and Liu Chuan and his soldiers of the Tieshan Battalion finally succeeded in reaching the outskirts of Fuhu Mountain after three or four hours of rapid marching. This day, he was not attacked by bandits, which made Liu Chuan breathe a sigh of relief.

When he arrived at Fuhu Mountain, it was not yet dark, and although he wanted to make a contribution immediately, Liu Chuan knew that this was not a good time to attack. He had to send scouts to Fuhu Mountain to find out the bandits' situation and make a plan before launching an attack.

Of course, I couldn't rest well last night, and the soldiers of the Tieshan Battalion, who were sleepy and tired at this time, only had about six or seven percent of their combat strength on weekdays, which was also one of the reasons why Liu Chuan was not in a hurry to attack.

Liu Chuan found a small hill on the periphery of Fuhu Mountain to bandage and camp, the location here is high and the view is wide, which can effectively prevent his soldiers from encountering the kind of harassment last night, in addition. In the event of an enemy attack, it can be detected in advance and respond early.

Not to mention, Liu Chuan's choice did work, and the bandits last night may have seen that the position of the Tieshan battalion was too high, and even shouting and beating gongs and drums could not affect their rest, so they did not attack again, so the officers and soldiers of the Tieshan battalion slept very comfortably.

This night is destined to be an unquiet night, and the bandits of the Flying Eagle Society are unwilling to give up this opportunity to take advantage of the enemy's long journey to give them a blow in the head.

On the second watch, next to the mountain road where the Iron Mountain Battalion was stationed, a group of black figures suddenly appeared, these people were all wearing dark clothes, even their swords were wrapped in black cloth, they did not light torches, and the movements under their feet were very light.