Over the years, although Qu Li and many other tribes have purchased many ordnance and weapons from Jiang Fangshun, the Chu court has expressly forbade the private sale of weapons, and their income is only a few.

In the early days of the rebellion, the rebels took Suilin City by surprise and stormed Qingyuan County, but these two cities were not government cities after all, and the armor and weapons in the arsenal only added up to six or seven thousand sets.

As a result, only about thirty percent of the rebel soldiers wore armor and were equipped with relatively sophisticated weapons, and most of these people were the personal guards of the rebel leaders.

The remaining sixty percent of the rebels were all wearing leather armor that could only cover the vital points on their chests, and the weapons in their hands were only crude bamboo guns and bamboo knives, and their defensive and lethal power was more than half that of their heavily armed comrades.

The team of nearly 20,000 people drove into the Tuochuan Valley like a long dragon.

The more you go to the depths of the Tuochuan Valley, the narrower the road, the mountains and rivers on both sides are pressing, the surrounding trees are overgrown, just enter the valley or the road is five or six zhang wide, and the road is only two zhang wide when you go less than three miles.

In addition, it was getting late at this time, and the speed of the army's march gradually slowed down.

Qu Li rode on a war horse, relying on his outstanding martial arts, leading several henchmen and a group of guards to take the lead, and drove the front army to catch up with Mao's headquarters.

The middle and rear armies, led by a few other rebel generals, managed to maintain their formation, following closely behind.

Qu Li listened to the faint shouting and killing sound in the valley ahead, and his eyes showed a look of pride.

Just a yellow-haired child, how do you know how to use soldiers?

This time, he wanted to use the rout to break down the camp of the imperial court soldiers and horses in one fell swoop, and then wave his troops to cover the killing, not only to annihilate all the 50,000 counterinsurgency troops of the imperial court here, but also to capture the little emperor Zhao Yu alive.

As long as he holds that incompetent child and threatens him with this, he is not afraid that Ning Tong will defend Fang Zhe and surrender without opening the city!

At that time, Suilin, Ningtong, and Qingyuan will all be in my hands, and it will only be a matter of time before Jiaxing Mansion is taken.

When Jiaxing Mansion is taken, the connection between the Zhennan general Qu Zhen and the Chu State will be completely severed, and it will become a source of water, a tree without roots, and it will be difficult to resist the attack of the Burmese army under the cut off of materials......

Qu Li, who had calmed down again, was extremely self-aware of himself, knowing that Miaojiang, which was between Burma and Chu, did not have the slightest chance of independent self-government.

But even if he can't claim hegemony in Miaojiang in the end, he will not lose the position of a prince when he defects to Burma.

When the time comes, will you be titled King Miao or King Zhennan?

Riding on the horse, Qu Li couldn't help but start imagining his future scenery.

The movement of the rebels into the valley naturally could not hide Yin Shou and the six thousand crossbowmen he led in the dense forests on both sides of the valley.

"General, the rebels have entered the valley."

One of the guards came to his side and whispered.

"Ben is not blind, I don't need you to remind me!"

Yin Shou frowned and looked at the rebels who followed behind the Jingying soldiers who pretended to be routs and chased into the valley, and said angrily:

"This wave is a small head, and the big head is still behind. Tell the brothers, don't act rashly, and shoot after hearing the general's order, if anyone dares to disobey the military order, it will ruin His Majesty's strategy. At that time, even if Your Majesty spares you, Ben will not be able to spare you! ”

The guards were reprimanded, and the disgraced herald went.

Yin Shou turned his head and stared at the movement in the valley, not even noticing the sweat dripping into his eyes.

If Your Majesty's plan can really succeed, then the main force of the rebels will be wiped out, and even Qingyuan County will be captured, blocking the road for the rebels to advance eastward, and even reopening the road to contact General Zhennan......

Thinking of this, Yin Shou bit his lip and subconsciously clenched the three-stone hard bow in his hand.

"Pass on the general's order, let the thieves and the former army pass, and wait for the other party's Chinese army to enter the valley!"

Yin Shou gave the order again.

…………

"Commander, the soldiers in front are crowded, and the soldiers and horses can't move."

A scout came up to Qu Li and gasped.

"Can't walk? What's going on? ”

Qu Li snorted coldly and asked.

"Big, big marshal, those routs were afraid of running slowly, and they were caught up by General Maofu's troops, and lost their lives, and on the way to escape, they took off all the armor on their bodies, and their weapons were also thrown to the side of the road, as well as the gold and silver and other things they carried with them." Speaking of this, Tanma couldn't help but swallow his saliva, "I have to say that the court of Chu is rich." All these things on their bodies are ......"

"Shut up!"

Qu Li shouted, raised his horsewhip and slapped it the horse's face.

Tanma snorted, and an inch-wide streak of blood instantly appeared on his right cheek.

"Say, who made my army distract?"

Listening to the heavy breathing of the henchmen and guards behind him, Qu Li's heart couldn't help but sink.

Wealth is moving!

Tanma covered his right cheek and said with a look of grievance: "Dashuai, what the villain said, everything is true!" ”

"Lead the way ahead, Ben Shuai wants to see that idiot in Mao's house!"

He wants to ask this idiot, is this time to grab these things, and when he captures the opponent's camp, isn't he what he wants?

This person is so old, why is this vision still so small!

For the first time, Qu Li felt that he seemed to be using the wrong person, and he shouldn't have let this idiot go out to meet the enemy!

He should have sent someone with brains, not this stupid pig full of greed!

"Marshal, the front is blocked and difficult to walk, is it slowing down the middle army and the rear army?"

An adjutant asked in a low voice.

"You're right, let them know, slow down!"

Qu Li said and walked forward.

He wants to ask Mao Fu face to face, does he know what he should do now?

"Dashuai, the last general doesn't want to......"

Faced with Qu Li's questioning, Mao Fu wanted to cry without tears.

"The last general also wanted to continue to chase the group of routs, but when the little cubs under his command saw these armor weapons, gold and silver treasures, their eyes were red, and they were busy picking up these things, and the last general couldn't catch up."

As he spoke, Mao Fu stretched out a finger and secretly pointed in one direction.

Qu Li turned his head to look, and what he saw made his teeth itch with hatred.

His guards joined the scramble!

"Dashuai, there's a wooden sign on the side of the road!"

At this time, a guard saw that in the grass beside the road, there was a wooden sign with the length of an arm, on which a few large characters were written crookedly with charcoal, but the sky was getting darker and darker, and it was far away, and it was impossible to see what was written on it.

Looking at the wooden plaque, Qu Li was suddenly startled for some reason, walked to Mao's side quietly, and instructed the guards:

"Take the wooden sign."

The guards ran over, picked up the wooden sign, and returned to Qu Lima.

"General Mao, help Ben Shuai light a torch!"

The feeling of shock in Qu Li's heart became more and more intense, and he endured the uneasiness in his heart and said to Mao Fu.

"Okay."

Unaware, Mao Fu took the torch from one of the guards and took a picture of the wooden sign.

"The head of the thief died here!"

Looking at these six big characters, Qu Li's pupils suddenly dilated.

Hit the trick!

In the next moment, Qu Li heard the sound of bowstring vibrating from the surrounding trees and grass, and heard the sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air, he subconsciously turned over, jumped off his horse, grabbed Mao Fu's belt with both hands, and lifted it high above the top.

"Dashuai, you ......"

Before Mao Fu could react, a burst of bone spur pain came into his mind, and his consciousness instantly became blurred.

I saw that in the dense forests on both sides of the valley, an officer with a bow and a crossbow appeared in shape, and shot his crossbow arrows at the rebels crowded in the middle of the valley like a torrential rain, and in the middle, there was also the roar of a general.

"Shoot the one with the wooden sign first, the one with the torch, shoot hard at Ben General!!"

The rebels, who were fighting for the land's property, were suddenly ambushed by the officers and soldiers, and they were in a state of confusion.

Those rebels with torches were taken care of by the crossbowmen, and enjoyed the treatment of a thousand arrows piercing their hearts, and those who died could not die again, and the torches used for lighting in their hands fell to the ground, and the flames were extinguished.

The surrounding environment was completely plunged into darkness, and the morale of the rebels, who were already distraught by the ambush, plummeted again and again, and fled in all directions like dizzy flies, no matter how much Qu Li's generals tried to suppress them.

Qu Li lifted aside the body of Mao Fu, who was shot into a hedgehog, got up from the ground, and looked at his subordinates who fled in a hurry, and couldn't help but feel sad.

However, the officers and soldiers who came to quell the rebellion did not give Qu Li much time to sigh.

"The enemy chief is dead, kill!"

As Yin Shou raised the long sword in his hand and shouted "kill the enemy", leading the crossbowmen who had finished shooting the crossbow arrows, rushing down from the slopes on both sides like a tiger descending the mountain, and Wang Xiongdan led those "remnants of the defeated generals" to turn around and take advantage of the situation to cover up the killing, the morale of the rebels who were attacked from three sides completely collapsed, and one by one they only hated their parents and had two feet, and fled frantically towards the only exit of the valley mouth of the Tuochuan Valley.

"The matter has come to this point, withdraw to Qingyuan County, and then make a ...... calculation"

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Qu Li sighed, led the nearly 1,000 soldiers who had just been gathered, escaped from Tuochuan Valley in the rout, and withdrew in the direction of Qingyuan County.

Wang Xiongdan and Yin Shou joined forces, chased the rebels out of the Tuochuan Valley, and chased nearly ten miles, and saw that there were reinforcements coming from the direction of Qingyuan County, so they stopped the pursuit, formed a formation, and slowly retreated into the valley.

On the way back to the camp, the two looked at each other and laughed.

"Yin General Huwei, this general will bow down!"

Wang Xiongdan took the lead in arching his hand.

Just now he saw Yin Shou dancing wildly with martial arts true flames, and the whole person was like a fierce tiger, killing those rebels to the point of crying father and mother, if he hadn't shouted "Those who abandon weapons and surrender will not be killed", I am afraid that there will be nearly a hundred more souls under the general's sword.

Yin Shou only nodded slightly at Wang Xiongdan's words of praise and said solemnly:

"This big victory, the general will not dare to take credit, it is all thanks to His Majesty's strategy, it can be decided in a battle."

Speaking of Zhao Yu's strategy this time, Yin Shou was also amazed in his heart.

first blew himself up, made the rebels despise him, sent troops to attack, and then let Wang Xiong feint and lead the rebels into the valley, and then lost his armor, so that the rebels were greedy, ignored the surrounding environment, and delayed the main force of the rebels, and then ambushed the rebels and caught the rebels off guard.

In his opinion, that wooden sign can be called the finishing touch.

The few words on that wooden plaque were scribbled by His Majesty on purpose.

Most of the rebel soldiers are illiterate, and when they see the handwriting on the wooden card, they will only subconsciously hand it over to the enemy chief for identification, as long as the ambushed archers can shoot them, then the rebels will collapse without a fight.

It's just that......

"The only regret is that the general did not shoot the enemy chief in the valley, and ran away with a big fish in vain."

Wang Xiong said with regret.

Only then did they learn from the captives that it was not the rebel leader Qu Li who died in the first wave of arrows, but one of his fierce generals named Mao Fu.

"How can things be perfect, do your best, just know the destiny of heaven."

Yin Shou was more open-minded, shook his head and said:

"If you can run a monk, you can't run to the temple, Your Majesty has already prepared a surprise for that guy in Qingyuan County. Let's go, enter the account and see Your Majesty! ”

The two entered the handsome tent, and when they saw Zhao Yu sitting in the handsome position, they bowed their hands and said:

"Your Majesty, the last general is here to give orders!"

"The two generals have worked so hard, sit!" Zhao Yu looked at the two generals and motioned to the guards to show them a seat.

The two sat down, and Zhao Yu asked with a smile:

"Two generals, what is the result of this battle?"

"Back to Your Majesty, this time our army sent 4,500 troops, 210 were lightly wounded, 100 were seriously wounded, 10 were killed, more than 6,000 were killed, and more than 8,000 were captured." In the end, Yin Shou's voice was a little low, "The last general failed to capture the thief Qu Li, and I ask Your Majesty to punish him." ”

For Zhao Yu, he is already convinced. If you were the head coach, it would be impossible to come up with such a strategy, let alone achieve such a result.

With 4,500 men against 20,000 people, only more than 10 people were killed on their own side, but most of them were killed and captured, such a record is rare in the world.

"What is General Yin's crime?"

Zhao Yu looked at Yin Shou who bent down to ask for sin, helped him up with a smile, and said with relief:

"This is not the general's fault, but it is just that the death of the thief Shou Qu Li has not yet arrived. However, if a general is as loyal to the state as he is and brave enough to be brave, why worry about the instability of the rebels, and why not be afraid of Qu Li's death? ”

When Yin Shou heard this, he was more and more moved in his heart, and hugged his fists:

"Your Majesty, when the army attacks Qingyuan County, please let the last general be the vanguard!"

"General Yin, you're not kind!" When Wang Xiongtan heard that Yin Shou invited himself to be the vanguard, he hurriedly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, this time it is the soldiers of the Beijing camp who have made meritorious contributions, and the last general will return to the forbidden army, but they complained about it, and they hope that the last general will make a statement to His Majesty and give the forbidden army a chance to make meritorious contributions." ”

Hearing Wang Xiong's words, Zhao Yu was quite satisfied.

The forbidden army and the soldiers of the Beijing camp competed for merit, and he wanted this effect.

Moreover, with him sitting here, there will be no chaos in this army.

However, General Yin Shou is right, then Qingyuan County also needs to be taken as soon as possible.

Otherwise, with these more than 8,000 mouths to eat, the grain and grass in the army will not last for a few days.

"Tomorrow, let a few deputy generals and 4,000 soldiers stay in the camp to guard the prisoners. The rest of the people will send Qingyuan County with our soldiers tomorrow! ”

Zhao Yu said in high spirits.

(End of chapter)