In an instant, the Jiangshan army was crushed by this tide, just like the official army of Huangxi Town they faced at the beginning.

Most of them panicked and instinctively fled to the other side of the road, where there were woods, perhaps to escape the pursue, then get a respite to regroup and return to counterattack.

Unexpectedly, the forest was very shallow, and there were only a hundred or so steps into it, and there was a swamp in front of them, and as they walked along the water's edge, they desperately found that in front of them was a lake more than a hundred paces wide blocking the way.

Before the bitterness was finished, three catapults suddenly appeared on the opposite shore and threw earth-shattering thunder and stone bullets across the opposite bank. The crowd could not stand on their feet, so they had to continue south along the lake.

There were still a few people who panicked but were not too chaotic, they were relatively close to Yan Yan and other officers, and immediately gathered over and began to organize resistance. But from the direction of Mei Harbor rushed hundreds more and attacked them from the flank.

At this time, an iron rushed to Yan Yan's side in horror and shouted, "It's the official army! Generals go quickly, we've been tricked!"

Yan Yan was stunned for a moment, and then he noticed that someone from the direction of Meigang shouted, "Catch the commander of the rebellious army and avenge the brothers of Huangxi!"

He didn't know that when Jiao Conghu came to Meigang, he had brought all the rescued logging prisoners with him, and these people were not only the leaders of the Meigang militia, but also many of them held the positions of officers at all levels.

Hearing the shout, Yan Yan really thought that these people were actually disguised as officials and soldiers, and he was shocked and shouted, "An iron cover, everyone retreats south!" As soon as he finished speaking, a short spear passed by, and he was so frightened that he turned his horse and fled.

In fact, if Yan Yan was calmer, relying on the hundreds of people around him to gain a firm foothold, and then find back the fleeing troops, this battle may not have no chance of winning. But he himself was so frightened that he fled the battlefield first, so that the whole game could not be contained.

Afterwards, some people said that Yan Yan had been fighting under the command of Yang Xing, so his ability to independently command the army and coordinate operations was lacking.

Of course, this is also hindsight, at that time, Yan Yan's decision was purely instinctive, and he had no room to think at all.

At this time, the whole valley was full of routs who were hurrying south, and Liang Mingshan saw it on the wall, and immediately ran down and pulled out the horse he had just ridden from the stable.

Seeing this, Inspector Zhang hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Where are you going to join the army?"

"I see that the enemy is going south, so I am ready to pursue." Liang Mingshan replied.

"What can you do if you join the army? It's too dangerous to be caught up in the chaos army! Wait a minute, I'll take two men with you!"

After saying that, Zhang Patrol called two Xiang Yong from Orion to lead out the horse, Liang Mingshan took this time to find a pair of double plugs to carry it, and the four people rushed down the mountain when they opened the door.

When he met Jiao Conghu with a few personal soldiers, he stopped him and asked where to go. Liang Mingshan told the enemy general to chase after him, and Jiao Conghu ordered his four personal soldiers to accompany him to protect him.

Liang Mingshan saw a tied man immediately behind him, and asked, "Who is this?"

"Ha, it's said to be a deputy vanguard, but it's a man, and he was won by me in a few rounds."

Liang Mingshan pointed inside: "I just cut a pioneer, and you caught a secondary, just to make a pair." After saying that, the two laughed, Liang Mingshan took a spear and chased down with a group of eight horses with several knights.

At this time, Yu Meiguang, Hu Congxi, and Zhu Decheng were also chasing south with their headquarters, and the valley was full of people, shouting and begging for mercy, and it was impossible to distinguish where was the battlefield and where was the pure land.

It's even hard to tell who's running and who's chasing. There was a man who couldn't run and sat down to rest, and after taking a breath, he found that the other party's soldiers were also sitting not far away, smiling at him.

Yan Yan saw that he was only a mile away from the exit of the valley, and at this time there were hundreds of people in front of him, and when he looked back, there seemed to be not many chasing soldiers behind him.

He slowed down the reins to let the horse trot to maintain his strength, and a thought suddenly rose in his heart: "It seems that there are not many officers and soldiers, huh?"

"Why did the general say that?" A pro-soldier asked.

"Otherwise, they will send a soldier to block this big mountain, afraid that it will be difficult for us to escape from the Ascension to Heaven!"

"That...... Maybe the two armies met too suddenly, and they didn't have time to do it?"

"Well, that's possible!" Yan Yan nodded.

Just as he was commenting on the order, he saw a large number of soldiers resting on the side of the road, so Yan Yan ordered: "Tell everyone to hurry up, we can reorganize the team when we get out of the mountain pass." I don't think the loss of men and horses is very serious, and we should be able to recover 80% of it."

"The general is right, the brothers were frightened by the earth-shaking thunder. Have a good rest, we can kill again, and then we will have their good looks!" Someone said Fengying.

Yan Yan stroked his beard and thought deeply.

At this moment, suddenly there was a shout in front of him, Yan Yan was surprised, and hurriedly asked why. A soldier ran forward to check, and soon returned on horseback, shouting, "General, go quickly, the officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers!" At this time, Yan Yan also saw the red-edged official and military battle flags, with a big "Zhu" character on it.

"It's a bad day, how can this be good?" Advance and retreat must not make Yan Yan lose his proportions.

It was the 800 people from Zhu Qizhen who came in front. It turned out that the fine work in the military intelligence department ran back to deliver the letter, and he was caught as a spy in the middle of the road and brought to Tan Zhongxuan, which made him know the enemy's movements.

"If the militia in Meigang can't stop it, that's bad!" Tan Zhongxuan thought that his duty was to fight Dongxiang, but the team couldn't stop at all, and he didn't have time to save Meigang, so he couldn't help but rub his hands.

At this time, Zhu Qizhen heard the news and came and said that the sooner you go to Dongxiang, the better, leave it to me here, and I will chase the main force after it is resolved.

Tan Zhongxuan thought about it, and Zhu Bu's speed of action was slow, and the two battalions of the regimental training needed to stop and wait for them from time to time, so it was better to let Zhu Qizhen go to Meigang, so that the speed of the other two battalions could be greatly improved.

immediately agreed to the plan proposed by Zhu Qizhen. Therefore, Zhu Qizhen rushed to the battlefield in advance, and the Mei patrol who delivered the letter had just crossed the mountain at this time, and had not yet caught up with the main column that was marching in the distance!

In any case, the arrival of the officers and soldiers was bad news. The routed troops who had reached the mountain pass were powerless to resist and surrendered in large numbers, and Zhu Qizhen was progressing smoothly.

Yan Yan was frightened when he saw it, and hurriedly led people back, planning to go up the mountain into the woods to avoid the limelight.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves in front of me was remembered, and seven or eight horses came in the dust. Seeing that things were not good, the soldiers hurriedly tried to pull him off his horse and escape.

Yan Yan calmed down, broke free and shouted, "People are already in front of you, how can you escape?"

After speaking, he drew an arrow to shoot in the direction of the horse team, and when he reached out and drew a second arrow, the horse in front of him had already approached, and Yan Yan fell in response to the sound of the bowstring.

The soldiers were about to step forward to rob people, but they were scattered by the first few horses behind, and they all fell in a pool of blood in a blink of an eye.

Liang Mingshan walked back more than twenty steps along the official road with a gloomy face, looking down at the ground. Zhang Xunjian fell on his back in the grass by the roadside, an arrow pierced his throat, blood flowing out of his mouth, and the hair on the back of his head was dyed red.

"Alas!" Liang Mingshan sighed heavily, and watched the two villagers from the police station who followed him step forward to clean up the body, and turned over the horse's head and walked in the direction where Yan Yan fell.

At this time, Yan Yan was still convulsing and struggling, and even wanted to try to crawl away from his body. Liang Mingshan stepped forward and stabbed the spear out with all his might. The spearhead sank into the opponent's leather armor and pierced deep into the ribs and lobes of the lungs.

When he drew back his spear, Yan Yan trembled violently, and finally stopped moving.

Liang Mingshan rubbed the blood from the spearhead on his trouser leg and ordered, "Cut off the head and put it in front of the tomb of the martyrs." Then he stopped looking at Yan Yan and approached the officer with whom the army led.

Zhu Qizhen is in high spirits, and he can be regarded as having another real battle. And this time the harvest is not small, which makes him very proud. When he heard that the leader of the militia was looking for him, he turned his head at his horse and asked in a loud voice, "Who is looking for me?"

"In the next, the Meigang militia brigade joined the army, and the martial arts tribute was born Liang Mingshan, and I saw the Lord of a thousand households."

Although it was a test from the five grades, he was still taken aback when he heard that the other party was from Wuju, and Zhu Qizhen hurriedly rolled the saddle and dismounted to meet Liang Mingshan.

After asking about the before and after this battle, Zhu Qizhen admired the courage of this Liang to join the army. So he asked the Meigang militia to send a squadron to Dongxiang with him, and the rest stayed to deal with the aftermath, and decided to stop according to the orders of the Tan Brigade.

Zhu Qizhen led the troops to take a short rest and hurriedly chased after the Tan brigade, accompanied by Yu Meiguang's squadron.

At this time, it was already dark, and a herald sent by Zhao Chongbi came back in front of him, asking him how the war was going, and telling him that the Chinese military camp was located in Liyuan, and the forward of the Tan Brigade had approached Longgang.

"Longgang?" Zhu Qizhen looked at the map of Dongxiang that Tan Lu was giving him in surprise: "Does he want to attack overnight?"

The march of the officers and troops for 30 miles in one day is already a relatively fast speed, and the regimental training of all the men and horses actually ran 60 miles, which is twice as fast as the officers and soldiers! ap.

At that time, it seemed that the infantry marched at such a speed that it could be described as "lightning speed", which was about to catch up with the cavalry, and he could not help but be surprised.

However, there was one thing he guessed, Tan Zhongxuan did plan to attack overnight.

Longgang is only six or seven miles away from the north gate of Dongxiang, which is said to be a gang, but it is actually a series of hills. Behind it was Yuling, where the first recruits after the occupation of Dongxiang came from the copper and lime mines on the ridge.

Longgang Village itself is small, with only 40 households, but it was once prosperous as a necessary route to the city as a mine. There are three inns in the village, and there are now many guards standing in this "Li family shop" on the official road, which is tightly surrounded by the light and dark sentinels in the pool.

The first and second battalions were in the mines behind, and the mine owners and the remaining miners had been controlled.

The owner of this copper mine lives in Guantang Village, and was imprisoned by the Jiangshan Army for 20 days, and later took 3,000 taels to redeem it, so he hates these guys in yellow skins.

I heard that in the future, the Tsing Yi team could invest in the shares, help him resume mining in the mine, and also purchase ore and copper ingots, and sighed all the time, feeling that only the mine owner who sold the mine suddenly brightened his eyes.

He learned about the situation of Yu Gan and the Anren Investment Committee from the town magistrate, turned around and helped persuade the owner of the lime mine, and also took the initiative to find a guide for the Tsing Yi team who was familiar with the situation in Dongxiang.

Of course, Tan Zhongxuan will not only rely on his guide, this "Li Family Shop" itself is an intelligence point that Shen Jie placed next to Dongxiang, and the boss, shopkeeper, account office and guys are all dressed up by the Tsing Yi team.

They're going to help take the city tonight! The guys in the store went out and found the members of the intelligence department and reconnaissance department who were hidden around one after another, and these people will play an important role in tonight's operation!

Tan Zhongxuan was very happy after receiving the news of Dong Jialong's victory, and slapped the table with his hand and said loudly: "Hey, we are more sure to fight Dongxiang now!"

"What, Lu Zheng is determined to score twice tonight?" Wan Si smiled and squeezed his eyes at everyone, and everyone laughed.

"Stinky boy, don't learn!" Tan Zhongxuan likes to joke with everyone, so he doesn't care, and points to Liang Zheng: "You stay away from this guy, he's a black pig!"

"It's a little darker, but it's not appropriate for you to say that people are pigs, right?"

Liang Zheng saw that Wan Si didn't understand, so he kicked him and said, "Stupid, he said 'The one who is close to ink is black!'"

"Originally, I was worried that the enemy was twice as large as me, but now everyone is better with each other, each other." Tan Zhongxuan snorted and walked to the front of the map, looked at it for a while and nodded: "Then the plan of the staff is very good, let's implement it like this!"

The meaning of the general staff, the first and second battalions entered through the north wall, and the third battalion entered from the northeast corner and opened the east gate, and surrounded the county government from three directions.

Originally, there were ambushes on all sides of the city, but now Zhu Qizhen and Jiao Conghu will definitely not be able to catch up, so they have to take advantage of the fact that there is Hao in the south of the city, and Shuibo and Tangze in the west of the city, so as to give up these two directions and concentrate their forces on the east and north of the weakest part of the city wall.

The time for the general attack is set at the ugly hour!

It is said that it is ugly, but in fact, the troops who served as "sharp knives (Li Danqi's name)" have already set off, and since then, there have been groups of troops quietly and silently every other tea kung fu.

Under the guidance of the roadside guide, keep an eye on the white cloth belt on your left arm and set off to your designated location.

Because of their good diet and adequate nutrition, the vast majority of people do not suffer from night blindness, and those who have night blindness are left behind in frustration, join the reserves, and set off again when the sky is bright.

"Sharp

The "Knives" were led by three reconnaissance platoons, and the northeast corner of the road also included a detachment of the Military Intelligence Section. The task of the Sharp Knives was to occupy the head of the section of the city where the breach was located, and to guide the assault companies of the battalions to enter.

The unfinished north wall is not a big problem, and the trouble is mainly in the northeast corner. Because there was originally a collapse gap caused by rainwater erosion, the height was only more than four feet.

However, somehow a few days ago, the Jiangshan army suddenly blocked it with a large boulder, and now the height has reached seven feet! This is not a difficult task, but it must be handled carefully so that the enemy does not prematurely detect the movements of the city.

The garrison on the city wall was really not very good, but there were a few tents and sheds on the rounded city platform in the southeast corner, guarded by a dozen or twenty soldiers, and from time to time they sent people to the north and east walls to make inspections.

But most of the people get sleepy after the boring jokes and go to sleep, leaving only two unlucky people who are guarding the campfire.

When you get into the ugly, it all begins. The members of the Military Intelligence Section led the way, followed by the scouts towards the city walls. They use vegetation and shadows to protect the roots of the city.

A scout stepped forward to observe the gap. The stones are discarded, not masonry.

With the help of his teammates, he climbed to the top of the city, and found that the stones were only less than three feet thick, and judged that this was temporarily filled for the convenience of patrols, so he whispered these things to his teammates below, and asked them to immediately report back to the brigade headquarters. Then from here, one sharp knife team member after another went up to the city, and quickly organized a guard in both the south and north directions,