At three o'clock in the morning, the soldiers who had slept enough during the day got up one after another, ate hot soup and canned meat, and began to line up with armor and weapons under the shouts of generals at all levels.

In the back house of the mansion, Li Yunze, who had changed into a protective suit under the service of Qin Keqing and Xiangling, drank a bowl of broth, got up and nodded.

"I wish the general a victory~~~" Qin Keqing took Xiangling and others to salute.

Li Yunze, who was on his back, raised his hand and waved, leaving behind a free and confident figure.

Leaving hundreds of soldiers with night blindness and strong archers to defend the city, 2,000 soldiers and horses without night blindness were selected to leave the city at night, like a long dragon winding forward under the bright moonlight.

"Three hundred steps ahead on the left, there are a dozen in the woods over there." Putting down the thermal imager in his hand, Li Yunze, who was wearing a mosquito shield, instructed the generals around him to "go over and solve them." ”

The rebels, lacking siege forces, gathered their main forces on the outer line, and the only ones close to the city were monitoring posts.

These monitoring posts have nowhere to hide in front of Li Yunze's night vision devices and thermal imagers.

Wipe out various outposts along the way, take the electronic map, and keep moving along the map route drawn by the drone.

Mosquitoes are abundant in the mountains and are a major source of various diseases.

The 2,000 men and horses wore protective clothing purchased by Li Yunze, thick hiking boots on their feet, mosquito shields on their heads, and sprinkled with mosquito repellent medicine.

Mosquito bites and miasma are the biggest enemies of the official army.

Forty miles of mountain road, starting from time to time until the next day, after a night of marching, it is considered to have reached the destination.

The speed of the march is remarkable for this era.

If you count the mountain conditions, it is almost catching up with the standard of Wei Wushu.

The mountains close to Guiyang Mansion are relatively gentle, and if you go deeper into the 100,000 mountains, the majestic and continuous mountains are steep and towering, making people desperate.

Halfway up the mountain, the sixth man crouching in the grass raised the thermal imager in his hand.

A few miles away, in the col, there were many embers of fires in the long camp.

"There are no trenches, no earthen ramparts, no antlers, not even a lookout." Li Yunze, who had a look of contempt on his face, turned around and waved his hand to beckon the generals to come over.

"The thieves are negligent in their defense, and our army's strategic intention has been achieved." He stretched out his hand to the camp in the col, "The whole army is repaired, and in a quarter of an hour it will attack." ”

Dong Hai, who had already been promoted to the rank of general manager, hurriedly spoke, "General, there are still many soldiers who have fallen behind and have not followed. ”

After many days of intensive nutrition supplementation and vitamin A, there are still many soldiers who have not been cured of night blindness.

Less than 2,000 people were actually brought out.

After forty miles of travel, they were lost along the way, and at this moment there were only 16,700 soldiers and horses assembled on this halfway up the mountain.

As expected, most of the soldiers who fell behind were recruited by Li Yunze.

Compared with the regular soldiers in the reinforcement camp and the locally recruited manpower, they are much worse in terms of hardship and hard work.

On An's side, 100,000 people must be blowing out of ghosts, but it's okay to have 30,000 or 40,000 people gathered in this camp.

Although the difference in quantity is nearly 20 times, Li Yunze has absolute confidence.

He had seen in the world of the late Ming Dynasty how strong the combat effectiveness of the heavily armed armor soldiers was in the era of cold weapons. I have seen even more how the defeated army formation was defeated.

Moreover, the opponent is just a native soldier and mountain man who is similar to the Liukou, and he is not a white-armored soldier of the Tartars.

"Leave it alone."

Li Yunze, who had a cold expression, pointed to the most central position of the camp, "Don't care about anything else, all units will directly attack the enemy camp and the army, and you must kill An's!" ”

After a pause, "It's okay to be captured alive." ”

"Command!" All the generals nodded in unison, their faces full of excitement.

If this battle is won, it will undoubtedly be a great credit.

The general is the general, the master of an army.

The general dares to fight, and the soldiers under his command naturally have more courage.

Li Yunze is full of confidence, and Dong Hai and others naturally dare to fight and win merit under his encouragement.

However, in the case of ordinary sergeants, there must be the most basic incentives.

"After this battle, each person will be rewarded with twenty taels, and those who win the head will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, and those who win the An family will be rewarded with five thousand taels of silver, and those who will be transferred three times."

For ordinary soldiers, the most direct and effective way to motivate them is to give silver credit.

Li Yunze doesn't have much else, just a lot of silver.

He came out of Shenjing City, and he actually earned more than he spent, and he had a headache all day long about how to spend his silver.

Take it out to reward the sergeant and motivate the morale of the army.

After learning of the reward, the soldiers became more and more chewy even when eating canned food.

The gentle moonlight sprinkled down, casting a silvery halo on the earth.

In the dark col, more than a thousand sergeants sat on the ground, swallowing canned meat full of fat and high calories with water from the kettle.

During this period, dozens of stragglers caught up with each other, each of them waiting for orders.

Throwing away the cans casually, Li Yunze, who was burping, took out the insecticide and sprayed it around.

He is not afraid of beasts and poisons, and the army around him is on the side, even if the tiger comes, he has to sell a cute 'meow' to be coquettish before he can go.

But the swarms of mosquitoes are so annoying.

Sitting in the grass and resting for a while, looking down at the time on his phone, Li Yunze took a deep breath and got up to beckon, "Armor, straighten out the ordnance." ”

The soldiers got up one after another, dressed and tidied up.

Their armor is made up of more than a dozen modular parts, linked by loops and ropes.

This armor may seem simple, but in fact modern industrial steel is extremely strong, with an added lining to absorb impact and enhance defense.

On top of that, it weighed at least a third less than the armor of this era, and it was easy to wear.

With the sound of sonorous armor, the sound of insects chirping in the bushes and grasses on the mountain disappeared, and many animals scattered and fled.

Animals in the wild are the most spiritual, and when the pervasive aura of murder disperses, they are the most alert and the first to run away.

"Line up."

As the order was given, the figures in the woods halfway up the mountain shook, and the sound of the iron armor colliding with the water became louder and louder.

The moonlight spread halfway up the mountainside, reflecting a silver band of light.

Xue Pan, who was wearing armor, gasped for breath with excitement, he looked up at the night sky, and the moonlight became brighter and brighter.

Closely following the Wu Commander beside him, he walked through the woods, and the shield weapon in his hand collided with the branches with a crisp sound.

His eyes looked at the forefront of the team, and it was Li Yunze who was surrounded by a large group of armor soldiers in the middle.

Xue Pan naturally still had hatred in his heart, after all, he was beaten so badly.

In addition to hatred, there is a trace of gratitude.

If Li Yunze hadn't brought him here, he wouldn't have known that there was something more interesting and exciting in the world than being a gentleman.

It's really nice to eat a lot of meat and drink wine in the barracks, and to be able to kill with so many people!

The silver ribbon of light that kept descending from the mountain was cut into countless pieces by the dense woods.

Fortunately, when I came to the foot of the mountain, the trees were thinning, and only bushes and wild grass were left in front of me.

"Array."

The Wu chiefs and the elders lowered their voices to straighten up the queue, and then gradually arranged into three long rows.

The first row is for firecrackers and archers, and the last two rows are for shield-wielding men.

The woods, shrubs, and grasses on the edge of the camp have long been cut down by the mountain people for cooking.

The closer the queue got to the camp, the clearer and more spacious the line of sight became, and the flatter the footsteps became.

The An camp that stretched throughout the valley was still silent, and they didn't know that the imperial soldiers and horses that were supposed to be trapped in the city by them had already been killed.

In the moonlight, a long silver dragon swept in.

When there were still more than 100 steps from the camp, the rebels in the outer nests heard the sound of the clanging of armor.

They looked over to this side in confusion, but they couldn't see clearly because of night blindness, and could only vaguely detect a silver light approaching.

I tried to keep my eyes open, only to see the silver wave approaching.

"Three babies." An old man who was sleepy greeted, "You have good eyes, go and see what's going on?" ”

The man named Sanwa immediately got up and tried to keep his eyes open to the silver wave that was getting closer and closer in front of him.

'Boom! ’

There was a trembling sound of the bowstring, and the three babies who were pierced by the sharp arrow immediately fell to the ground.

The old man followed the leader to fight with the soldiers and horses of the court for several years, and when he heard it, he understood that it was the sound of the bowstring vibrating.

Immediately he suddenly rolled over and got up, and looked this way.

At this look, the whole person was completely stunned.

A long dragon composed of countless silver lights was gradually approaching.

"Official, official, official..." The old man trembled, and his words were not good, and finally he held his breath and screamed, "The officers and soldiers are here~~~"

There was a trembling sound of bowstrings, and the old man bowed up like a shrimp and fell to the ground.

The nearby soldiers were all awakened, and when they got up dimly, they saw the ironclad dragon that had approached dozens of paces away.

The glow of swords, guns and armor in the moonlight was so terrifying.

Where had the soldiers seen such a terrible scene, and they stood in place dumbfounded, at a loss.

As the sound of the dense bowstrings continued to sound, more and more people fell to the ground, and they came back to their senses, screamed in unison, turned and ran towards the camp.

Along the way, screaming officers and soldiers came, waking up more and more people.

The herd mentality exploded at this moment, with the ironclad dragon pressing over on one side and the fleeing companions on the other. In their ignorance, the vast majority of people fled with the crowd in the direction of the seemingly safe camp.

"Steady." Seeing that the team was gradually unstable and had the intention of trying to pursue, Li Yunze immediately scolded, "Stabilize it, don't mess up the formation." Leave the soldiers alone, just disperse. Take the head of the enemy general! ”

The number of officers and soldiers was too small, and they could only rely on the advantage of night raids to break the enemy's will and turn into a rout.

Once the queue is dispersed, there is no psychological stress to develop.

The rout and flight of the mountain people and native soldiers greatly boosted the courage and morale of the officers and soldiers. They were panting heavily in masks, their mouths and noses were filled with the smell of toilet water insect repellent, and their eyes were shining with a strong light, and they were approaching the camp step by step.

When the camp was full of people, the ironclad dragon finally came to the outside of the humble camp.

The rough fence was defenseless and could be easily breached.

Entering the camp, Li Yunze finally put away his bow and arrows, and drew his saber with his backhand and pointed at the middle of the camp to "assault!! ”

The officers and soldiers, who had long been unable to settle down, immediately opened fire on the first row of firecrackers.

The dense sound of firecrackers echoed through the valley, like the beating of a mountain god's drum, which completely plunged the entire camp into a complete agitation.

The musketeers parted on either side, and the armorers hurried forward, swords and spears in unison to eliminate any native soldiers that came their way. The screams and wails in the camp were incessant, like a huge pebble thrown into the calm lake, causing monstrous ripples.

The training and organization of the mountain soldiers are extremely poor, and many of them are even in a state of ignorance and not waking up.

What's worse is that the vast majority of people suffer from night blindness, panicking in the face of night raids, scurrying around the camp like headless flies.

"Group Mandarin Duck Formation." Li Yunze, whose whole body was wrapped in iron armor, roared, "Drive them away and make them more chaotic." The Chinese army is on me! ”

The small 2,000 soldiers and horses began to stretch the battle line, driving more mountain people and native soldiers to flee.

Li Yunze personally rushed to the main tent with the phalanx of his own soldiers.

Xue Pan, who was holding a shield, saw a group of native soldiers rushing towards his queue in a panic, and raised his knife with the roar of the chief.

The knife fell, and blood splattered on the armor.

Looking at the figure convulsing at his feet, Xue Pan's adrenaline was secreted rapidly, and the inexplicable stimulation made his blood surge and he wanted to rush out immediately.

"Exciting, it's so exciting!!"