"Catch a few fish in the river and bring them to you guys to taste." Zhou Qin said this, Li Dan noticed that he was barefoot and holding his trouser legs, and there were mud spots on his legs, so he hurriedly thanked him.

Zhou Qin said again: "Don't thank me first, let me ask you: Then the battalion won the battle and was so proud that he wanted to go to heaven, I heard that a military commander wore a helmet, and each commander also had a set of armor, but is it true?"

When will it be my turn to be in the right camp, you can't always ask me to guard the prisoners, right? ”

Zhou Qin performed well in the two battles of the Sipu Institute and Lingyan Temple, and the losses of the right camp were not small.

Twenty or thirty people were added from the prisoners, and a dozen or so civilians were absorbed, and the attrition caused by casualties was finally made up.

It's only been a few days since I wanted to fight again, and it seems that I can't stop after tasting enough sweetness.

Li Dan nodded: "I was still thinking just now that the enemy's reinforcements are coming, and it is estimated that there will be a battle tomorrow and the next two days." It would be best if the right battalion could be drawn out to participate in the battle, but the prisoners had to be watched. ”

He stopped: "Your deputy Zhu Erye, right, his big name is Zhu He?" I think he's good.

When I went back, I wrote a warrant to set up an engineering transportation brigade, and asked him to be the head of the brigade, and made up 300 people for him, divided into three squadrons and two craftsman squadrons.

A few backbones will be drawn from your camp, and the men will be recruited from among the people. Responsible for three pieces:

Fortification planning and construction supervision, captive guarding, baggage guarding.

In this way, you will all be freed, and the right camp will replenish slightly, go down the mountain and reoccupy the outer fence of Fengqi Pass, and then build an earthen wall there.

In this way, the North Mountain and the South Mountain are connected, the defense line is more stable, and the guard force of the West Mountain can be mobilized to be used elsewhere. ”

"Okay, wrap it up on me!" Zhou Qin jumped up happily, saying that these fish were not given away in vain, which made everyone laugh.

"Hey, you wait. Is that Snitch in your camp? Li Dan remembered and asked him.

"yes, I've been there for the past few days." Zhou Qin nodded: "This kid has flexible hands, and he can learn the work of a craftsman."

These days, I'm helping to make dustpans and earthen baskets. This kind of stuff is used in large quantities, so seven or eight people are specially sent to make it. ”

"He's a night walker, and he's alive with a heart. You better tell him to go back to the Chinese army, and ask him to come to Xianfu, they already know each other, and it is more convenient to do things together. ”

"Okay, okay!" Zhou Qin agreed to go down the mountain in three steps and two steps.

Wu Mao said softly: "Do you want that judge to go to the enemy camp at night?" ”

"Originally, it was best for Feng San to go to this matter, but he hasn't come back to Guangxin yet, so he asked Shen Wu to go." Li Dan said as he walked.

It is not very clear how the thief army is encamped, the morale, the grain and grass equipment, the geometry of the reinforcements, and who the leader is, so Li Dan plans to find someone to explore, and Shen Wu is a very suitable candidate.

The order to withdraw was made by Lou Shifan after receiving a letter from his father.

Previously, he sent someone to Shangrao to inform his father who was besieging the city of the defeat on his side, and asked for reinforcements aggrievedly.

Lou Zishi was very angry, his son took away 4,000 people, and he didn't even take down the 300-person guarded pass, but was reinforced by others, and he was defeated.

After listening carefully to the report, he criticized his son for being too underestimating the enemy, and at the same time understood the fact that he could not count on the road to Sanjiang.

But the idea of breaking through Fengqi Pass, making Shangrao completely lose foreign aid, and even letting his son attack Xing'an and Geyang, was very persistent in Lou Zishi's heart.

In addition, it is true that there are not many soldiers in these two cities, so after thinking about it, he still ordered someone to notify the team under Guangxin City and draw out a thousand people to support the third child who attacked Fengqi Pass.

However, in his reply, he scolded Lou Shifan, telling him not to despise his opponent and to be cautious about this team that can swallow You Sanjiang in one bite.

Officers and soldiers plus regimental training, how powerful can this be? He believed that as long as he commanded properly, it was still possible to eat this opponent!

After Lou Shifan was scolded by his father, he had to obediently lead his troops to retreat, re-establish camp on the hillside closer to Fengling Town, and wait for reinforcements.

His new camp was about two miles from the town, across the Mayan River against the back of the Kaolin Mountains.

The low-lying area on the right hand is a series of water surfaces that have been silted out by the floods over the years, with the southwest being the largest, and the latter being denser and smaller.

The locals described it as like an old toad with a group of small toads behind him, so it is collectively called the toad pond.

This place is beautiful, with mountains and waters. Lou Shifan picked a hill with high terrain as the position of the Chinese army, sat outside the big tent and looked at the Nanshan Mountain opposite.

This retreat, he had to withdraw and go to Sanlidi, the trouble is secondary, and the key is to lose face!

I didn't expect that more shameful things were still to come.

The reinforcements finally arrived in the evening, and the leader turned out to be Xu Qiniang!

This Xu Qiniang was originally a rope and sword dancer, and her background is unknown, but she only knows that she was taken in by the class master and followed his surname, ranking seventh.

When she was sixteen years old, she was juggling in a city god temple, and was asked to marry her as a concubine by Lou Zishi, who was passing by.

Xu Qiniang casually borrowed the weighing pan from the pharmacy next to her and said to him: If you fill this weighing pan with gold beads to my father as a dowry, then it will be okay to marry you.

Who knew that Lou Zishi really did it, and since then Xu Qiniang has entered the door of Lou's house, and the name of "one gold" has also resounded in all the mines.

This Jin is only in his early twenties this year, a few years younger than Lou Shifan, but nominally he is still his elder, and he is a woman, and he has just lost the battle.

Therefore, after meeting, they were very unhappy and asked, "Is my father confused?" How did you come? ”

"What, look at me? At least, I haven't suffered such a defeat as you under Guangxin City! ”

A golden "Gege" laugh, which made Lou Shifan extremely annoyed, and he couldn't refute it, so he had to say stupidly:

"The officers and soldiers are on it, there are firearms, bows and crossbows, and hundreds of militia groups to help. I tell you not to underestimate them, they are not so easy to fight! ”

"Forget it, you're a junior and you're still here to teach me?

With him, it sounds like the officers and soldiers together are only a thousand people, but we have 5,000 people on our side, and it is enough to fight Guangxin! I don't believe that this small dirt mountain can compare to the county seat? ”

She walked up to Lou Shifan with a sneer and picked his chin with her fingers: "Don't talk any nonsense tonight, just serve a good old lady." I'm happy, I'll go out tomorrow and line up to kill him!

What kind of officials, soldiers, and militia groups are just used to scare you! After speaking, he stretched out a jade onion-like finger and poked his forehead hard.

A good night accompanied by frogs, ten thousand drums and autumn ponds are chaotic.

The next day, the East was revealed, and the two unexpectedly got up early, but they were dressed neatly and did not display their flags, and after a few words, they each brought five and seven followers and cronies and rode away on horseback.

The morning dew is shining, the morning sun is lazy, the two run down a section along the river, see a hill on the right hand is verdant and dripping, opposite to the foot of the South Mountain, less than 100 steps between, the Mayan River turns a sharp bend here and goes west.

A Jin Xu Qi Niang looked at the horse, pointed with a horse whip and asked, "Is this Beishan?" ”

"Where! The north mountain is still ahead, and the narrowest part of the mountain is the pass. Lou Shifan told her.

"It's strange, I see that the road here is narrow and the river is fast, wouldn't it be a good checkpoint to put some garrison sergeants? Why go further downstream? ”

"This is just a 'big road' in the local population, and if you go further, you will know when you see it."

With that, the two urged the horses to trot forward, and their entourage followed. Yicheng Jin tilted his head vigilantly and looked at the towering cliff on this side of Nanshan, and he couldn't help but think in his heart.

Suddenly, her eyes narrowed, and she shouted, "Third brother." ”

"Well, how?"

"Look, there's a big mound up there, and when you came to attack the day before yesterday, there were guards on it?"

Lou Shifan smiled bitterly: "Why not?" The first wave of birds was shot down from above. ”

"Oh!" There was some disappointment in Jin's eyes. Turning the small north hill, an earthen fort appeared on the slope in front of it, and the walls of the two wings were connected to the cliff on one side, and the other side extended west along the bottom of the hill.

But there was no more to be seen, as an unfinished earthen fort stood in sight.

The wall on the side of the earthen fort extends down the slope, and there is a section that is obscured by trees, but it can be judged that there are people busy there, and it must be unfinished.

"Facing west, they opened a door, which was originally a bamboo fence, but we knocked it down and are now building an earthen wall." Lou Shifan explained: "This is the outer wall, and there is an inner wall inside. ”

"Or two?" Yicheng Jin was taken aback and said dissatisfied: "You just watched them build a wall, and you didn't reach out to stop it?" ”

"After the defeat, people's hearts were very scattered, and it was too late for me to clean up the situation. Besides, they moved stealthily and quickly, and when I found out, the gates of the outer walls were erected, and the walls on both sides were half a man's height. ”

When he finished saying this, he was standing on the site of his original camp and pointed with his whip: "Oh, this is Beishan." ”

As soon as Jin looked up and down, he couldn't help blurting out: "It's not high, but it's really difficult to attack." Only then did she understand why Lou Shifan said that she only knew after reading it.

The mountain is indeed not high, but it is a steep cliff, and the slope behind it is thin, steep, and long, even if you come by yourself, you are not sure to capture the north mountain. In contrast, it is still a large grassy slope in Nanshan, which is convenient for the team to spread.

At this time, the officers and soldiers who were on the lookout saw them, gathered for a while, and some people ran away, and after a while, a flag officer of the officers and soldiers took two small flags and waved flags on the opposite hill.

"It's been discovered." One called Jin muttered.

"That's not the worst. Anyway, they can't get down and they can't shoot. Bad on the other side. ”

Lou Shifan motioned to her with his chin to look west: "Look, we retreat, and they will come back to reoccupy the fence of the pass!" ”

It turned out that Zhou Qin was actively seeking to fight, so after getting the order yesterday, he went to the migrant labor team to pick people, and recruited people from the local villagers to assist in the project to make up for the demand, and gathered enough 200 people for Zhu Erge, he couldn't wait, so he took the right battalion and rushed to the fence of Fengqi Pass to help build the wall.

Lin Baihu and Ai Jiang, who was guarding the pass, were still a little hesitant when they saw the enemy retreating, and later Nanshan sent an order to inform them of the situation that they had really retreated, so they sent a team of people down to tidy up the fence and reject the horses.

After the arrival of the right battalion, the craftsmen brought with them immediately began to plan the matter of building the wall.

This section of the wall is not long, only one hundred and forty steps from the mountain wall to the riverside, the design gate width two four-wheeled vehicles can pass in parallel, the two sides rammed the wooden reinforcement soil platform, the base is one zhang three feet wide (420cm), the thickness is about one zhang two feet (370cm), the top width is one zhang (320cm), the height is six feet (192cm), and the two feet (64cm) thick parapet wall and battlements are ready to be rammed on it with the bamboo tendon method.

Because it can be used to transport and unload earth, wood, bamboo and other materials with board trucks, and it is temporary and does not need to be permanently solid, hundreds of people work together to directly ram the floating soil very quickly, and the walls of both wings are basically built in one night.

A fist-thick wooden board is built on top, and it already has basic functions.

Here Lou Shifan rolled his eyes, and when he heard that this thing appeared overnight, he frowned and said:

"It's really tricky, to have such a skill, to do things without leakage. That Li Sanlang, you say he's still a little brother? ”

Before the words fell, there was a commotion in front of him. The officers and soldiers guarding the pass moved away from the horses, and rushed out of it more than 30 men, each armed with spears and guns, etc., with different colors of clothing and full of spirit.

The goose wings lined up and threw their weapons to the ground, "Ho! "Silence. Then I saw a swarthy figure, wearing a red cowhide armor on the upper body.

Covered with a jade-colored single-sided robe on the right shoulder, with a shawl hanging on the right arm, a thin linen around the shoulder, tied to the chest with a red silk, and the same red silk waist flag and a pair of blue waists around the waist, with a leather belt hugging the belly, but the head is buckled with a hat-shaped half-helmet of the top official military system, and a three-strand fork in the hand.

The good man stood still from a distance and pointed with his hand: "Bah! Listen to the opposite, I built this pass, I opened this door, if you want to pass in front of the door, leave your net worth! ”

One said that Jin and Hua's arms looked at each other: "What's the matter?" Have we two thieves been robbed? ”

Then I heard the man shout again: "Isn't that riding a flower horse Lou Shifan with a flower arm?"

The day before yesterday, your grandfather was busy and didn't have the time to take care of you, so it's good to come to the door today, don't go, good son, and get off the horse and follow me Zhou Qin to Nanshan to invite merit! ”

The two were furious when they heard this!

"This guy is so rude!" Lou Shifan stretched out his hand to draw a knife (he didn't bring a big gun out today).

Xu Qiniang stretched out her hand to stop her, she looked at the strangely dressed robber, and her originally discolored face suddenly had a coquettish smile:

"Yo, this Zhou hero is so diligent, he came out early in the morning to eat? The two of us just came out for a walk and passed by early, can you spare the slave family? ”

"Huh? Who are you? Which little lady was captured by thieves? Alas, I knew that the flower arm would not do serious things.

You get off the horse and hide behind me, don't be afraid of this guy, he is a fancy fist and embroidered legs, and my family's defense is not uncommon to compare with him, you know? ”

Yicheng Jin knew that he was intent on dealing with Lou Shifan, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand: "Bear it, can't you hear that he is provoking you?" ”

"Oh, Lou San, this is your fault, how can you take the little lady around early in the morning? It's good that she's in charge, otherwise you'll get into trouble again! ”

Zhou Qin's words made the officials, soldiers, people, and regiments behind him all can't help laughing, and they even whistle if there are good things.

These words sneered at the tips of the hearts of the two ghosts, and they sank their faces with a golden "swish", gritted their teeth and said: "Don't be ashamed of your face, be careful not to plant it in the hands of the old lady!" ”

"My good girl, you can get off the horse and hold hands with your brother, and see if our two characters are in harmony with each other...... Zhou Qin squeezed her eyebrows and sang, and there was a strange scream around her.

Jin Zhen was annoyed, where did she suffer such anger in Lou Zishi's army. Throwing the reins in her hand to Lou Shifan, she jumped off the horse and pulled out her double swords:

"Today, my aunt and grandmother asked you to know Xu Qiniang, you'd better stretch your head yourself, don't ask me to catch it and peel off the wonton noodles and eat it!"

Lou Shifan complained bitterly, so he had to order his entourage: "Protect the seventh grandmother!" And they came around, every man with his weapon.

"Don't move anyone!" A Jin was full of anger: "I am not allowed to interfere in my affairs with him!" As he spoke, he turned around and smiled coquettishly:

"Wu Na man, you wait a while, just a moment, I will gelding your stallion and bring it back to be a good husband."

Before the words fell, the sword light moved, and the person was already rolling in like a ball of powdery snow.

"You're dreaming!" Zhou Qin was furious, raised a fork to greet each other, and the two fought in one place.

The double swords here are fast and sharp, Zhou Qin's weapons are long, chopping, slashing, collapsing, teasing, latticing, washing, and intercepting are endless, plus his height and strength are heavy, and the slowly weak Yijin is a little busy parrying.

The boys in the back saw that their own camp was beginning to gain the upper hand, and they were immediately excited. Someone shouted: "Brother Zhou, work hard, brothers will make trouble for you tonight!" ”

When Jin heard this, he was furious, and suddenly he was puzzled and secretly shouted that it was not good, the other party was so powerful that it was not difficult to keep his own few people.

Thinking that it is not better to keep Qingshan without fear of running out of firewood, and go back to transfer thousands of troops, and then strangle this black guy, why fight at this time?

Thinking of this, Zhou Qin was forced to retreat and turned her head to leave, shouting: "!" ”

"Don't go, the talker!" Zhou Qin was about to chase after her, when suddenly the cat body of the woman in front of her shouted: "Not good!" ”

He has participated in fighting enemies for many years, what has he not seen in the rivers and lakes?

Immediately took a big stride to the right, bent down, raised the fork with his right hand and threw it vigorously, but his left hand touched back, and took out a short-handled axe from his back and threw it out.

Then I heard a "bang", and there was a silver pike dart on my left shoulder.

This thing is a guy who learned to play tricks in the name of Jin Xiao, and later practiced it into her own secret weapon.

At the same time, he was taken aback when he saw the fork flying over, and hurriedly turned around and kicked back with his right leg, raised his left hand and right hand to push his wrist, and blocked it with the move of the boy Bai Sanqing.

Zhou Qin made not a straw fork, a tuotian fork, or a five-strand fork, but a three-strand harpoon. The fork head is small and barbed, the fork body rod is long and heavy, thin in the front and thick in the back, and does not float when entering the water.

She felt the heaviness of the fork during the fight just now, so she held it down and kicked it away. A name Jin suddenly rejoiced: This man has no weapons in his hand!

When I looked up, suddenly something black flew in. Yicheng Jin never thought that Zhou Qin could still find an axe behind his back, and he was still a left-hander!

There was a muffled "bang", and the gold was smashed and fell a foot away. The corners of his mouth were bleeding and he was motionless.

"Help!" Lou Shifan yelled, drew his knife and urged the horse to step forward, and his cronies rushed forward and dragged (well, there were those who took the opportunity to rub oil) and snatched the "Seventh Grandmother" and put it on horseback.

At this time, all the groups also hula to form a semicircle, and the tip of the spear protected Zhou Qin externally.

Protecting him like a hedgehog at this moment, Lou Shifan puffed out his eyes and stared for a long time at a loss, thinking that something would happen as soon as King Kong arrived, and now it was important to quickly save people and return to the camp.

If you lose her, or kill her, you will be completely finished!

He glanced at the knife in his hand again, shook his head secretly, and ordered: "Go back to the camp!" After he broke off on his own, he and his cronies slowly retreated towards the main intersection.