A valley 100 miles away from Ji County, Youzhou Zhishuo, is called Red Rock Valley. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThere are crimson boulders stacked here and there, hence the name.

A winding mountain path, zigzag in front of the Red Rock Valley, the mountain path is full of sturdy maple trees, it is early winter, the bright red maple leaves on the maple trees have long since disappeared, but turned into a crimson with a little yellow, paved on the ground, and the stones near the Red Rock Valley are intertwined, giving people a mysterious feeling.

At this moment, the bright light spreads down, shining on the entire valley. Two strong men in ragged clothes, unable to feel the warmth of the sun, stood behind a boulder near the mouth of the Red Rock Valley, sheltering from the north wind of early winter.

"Niu Wa, why are you so unlucky, we want to drink the northwest wind at the mouth of this valley. One of them spoke to Ling Yi.

The man known as Niu Wa trembled, pulled the collar that was leaking around tightly, and then said: "What's so strange about this, the leader is afraid that the officials and soldiers will come over, besides, it's not that we stand guard every day, what is there to complain about." ”

The person who spoke before also learned from Niu Wa's appearance, tightened his neckline, and then asked: "Officers and soldiers? Where did the officers and soldiers come from? Now in this world, those who are soldiers can't get military salaries, otherwise who would be hiding in this ghost place to be a mountain bandit." ”

Niu Wa was silent for a while and said: "Also, wasn't our leader an official soldier before, and didn't he lead the big guys to nest in this valley, worrying about food every day? When he turned around, he saw another person looking ahead in shock, and stretched out his hand to push: "What are you looking at?"

It didn't matter if he looked at it, Niu Wa saw that dozens of cavalry officers and soldiers were rapidly approaching in his direction, and what shocked him the most was that these officers and soldiers were all wearing fine willow leaf iron armor and holding bright steel knives! Niu Wa and the others were originally farmers, and in desperation, they followed a group of officers and soldiers who had retreated from the front line to occupy the mountain in this place of Red Rock Valley, where had they seen this battle? Even their leader, the man who claimed to be a general in the past, did not have such a sophisticated armor weapon at the beginning!

Niu Wa came back to her senses, pulled the guard who was still in a daze, and shouted, "Run, go back to the valley and report to the chief!" The guard reacted, and the two ran towards the valley.

The elite who came was the vanguard led by Yuan Qi. The war horse trampled the earth at the mouth of the valley, bringing a tremor. Seeing that there was still a distance of about 100 steps from Taniguchi, Yuan Qi raised his halberd and shouted, "Stop advancing! Set up a crossbow!" The dozens of elite horsemen who followed Yuan Qi held the reins while aligning in unison, lined up in a goose wing formation, and then raised the crossbow in his right hand.

didn't let Yuan Qi wait long, and after a while, a strong man wearing the captain's armor rushed out of the valley. He was followed by more than 100 mountain bandits. These bandits were armed with a variety of weapons, some of which were knives and guns issued by the imperial court, some were homemade spears, and even worse, they were armed with rakes, pickaxes and other agricultural tools used when plowing the land. Looking at their armor again, there are a small number of people wearing the standard armor of the county soldiers, but it is also uneven, and it is not difficult to find that their armor is at least distributed by four or five different counties. Most of them didn't even have any armor and ran out wearing just ordinary clothes, and many of them were even ragged.

The strong man dressed as a lieutenant shouted, "Who are you, what are you doing in this valley?" According to the original plan, Yuan Qi was going to greet them with a crossbow first, but looking at the mountain bandits in front of him, Yuan Qi changed his mind. Lang Sheng said: "A certain is General Huwei under the Duke of Youzhou Mu Yuan, and you are here to gather in the mountains and forests to endanger the people, why don't you descend early?" The strong man in the lead said disdainfully: "Even with your dozens of people, you dare to come to Tai Sui's head to break ground? Brothers, come on!"

With the strong man's order, hundreds of mountain bandits behind him swarmed and killed outside the valley. Yuan Qi sighed when he saw this, waved his hand and made a downward gesture. When the elite horsemen after Yuan got up saw Yuan Qi's gesture, they immediately pulled the trigger and threw the crossbow arrows on their crossbows towards the mountain bandits.

Suddenly, the mouth of the valley became a hell on earth, and those mountain bandits who had no armor and body protection screamed and were shot to the ground, and in a moment, blood spread throughout the mountain path. Seeing that his brothers were shot over, the strong man led by him hurriedly said to a mountain bandit beside him: "Go to the valley, call all the brothers out, and get a prick!" The mountain bandit took the order and left.

After Yuan Qi's elites fired a volley, the more than 100 mountain bandits who had been killed had already gone six or seven out of ten. The face of the sturdy bandit leader twitched for a while, and then a series of fierce looks appeared: "If you don't leave us a way to live, then no one will survive!" After speaking, he raised the big knife in his hand, led the rest of the mountain bandits, and went straight to Yuanqi.

Yuan Qi gave the order unhurriedly: "Collect the crossbow and set up the formation!" It's not that Yuan Qi is not like continuing to clean the mountain bandit gate with a hand crossbow, but he really has enough spare energy. There is nothing wrong with the hand crossbow of this world period in this era of cold weapons that has a strong deterrent power. However, the hand crossbow also has its drawback, that is, after the first hit is fired, it takes a while to reload the bolt before it can be fired. Of course, if it is infantry, and it is an infantry in formation, shooting alternately at each other, the hand crossbow is still very lethal, but now the elites under Yuan Qi are all cavalry, although they can also be used for foot combat after learning the Tiangui sword method taught by Yuan Qi, but what about war horses? You must know that in this era, war horses are also extremely scarce armaments, so Yuan Qi has no reason to give up the speed of war horses to fight with a group of mountain bandits on foot.

Seeing the bandit leader bravely killing him, Yuan Qi raised the halberd in his hand and shouted: "Charge the formation!" After that, he took the lead in urging the jade qilin to rush out and kill him. Dozens of elite horsemen followed closely after Yuan got up, and showed the steel knife in his hand that had not yet drunk blood towards the mountain bandit gate!

Yuan Qi's halberd pierced the shoulder of a bandit, and then flicked the halberd, knocking the injured bandit to the side and moving on to the next target. A group of mountain bandits rose up and worked hard to cause harm to Yuan Qi and others. Yet, none of them could do it. The elite under Yuan Qi's command was already quite elite, and after this period of rigorous training, he practiced the Tiangui Sword Technique, which was even more powerful. In the face of the rabble of mountain bandits, these elites in groups of six, forming a small three-talent formation, some raised their knives to block the weapons of the mountain bandits, some people chopped out the steel knives, slashed on the mountain bandits, and those who stood in the back row, the steel knives could not cut the enemy, so they instigated the war horses and kicked the enemy with the hooves of the horses. Between the rotation of the various small three-talent formations, there was a basis for advancing and retreating, like a grinding plate, crushing the mountain bandits heavily.

The strong man and bandit leader was also shocked at this moment. In any case, this bandit leader was also a strong officer at the beginning, a man who had been on the battlefield and had seen blood, but how had he ever seen such an elite elite soldier? What was even more shocking was that his broadsword had slashed at the body of the opponent's cavalry several times, and it did not have any effect except for splashing a spark and causing the knight on the horse to shake his body twice. There is no doubt that the willow leaf iron armor on these knights is a great achievement, and it is not something that can be cut by the weapons in their hands at all.

The bandit leader looked around the battlefield, and finally fixed his gaze on Yuan Qi. Yuan Qi was the chief general of these officers and troops, and he did not wear iron armor, but just ordinary robes, so the bandit leader mistakenly thought that he could capture Yuan Qi first, and then use Yuan Qi as a hostage to force this elite army to retreat.

With this in mind, the bandit leader shouted and rushed towards Yuan Qi with all his might. Yuan Qi has stabbed more than a dozen mountain bandits one after another, but he didn't kill them, after all, a group of rabble, it's not worth killing yourself. Seeing the bandit leader raise his big knife and slash at him, Yuan Qi used a little force, and the long halberd in his hand moved forward a little bit, colliding with the bandit leader's big knife. Although this bandit leader is brave, where is Yuan Qi's opponent? The big knife in his hand was picked up by Yuan Qi's halberd, and he didn't know where it fell. Yuan Qi then swung the halberd, turned the tip of the halberd, and smashed the halberd on the shoulder of the bandit leader, and the bandit leader screamed miserably, and was directly knocked to the ground by Yuan Qi's huge force, unable to stand up.

At this moment, a shout of killing came from the valley, Zhang Chong led his troops to copy the path from the back of the valley into the valley, and a group of unsuspecting mountain bandits were suddenly killed by Zhang Chong's crying father and mother, and they were defeated.

After the battle at Taniguchi was completely resolved, Zhang Chong also led his troops out of the valley and came to Taniguchi to meet Yuanqi. Subsequently, Xun Luo and Tian Mou, who were watching the battle from a distance, also rushed to clean up the battlefield. didn't have time to say hello to Yuan Qi, so Xun Luo and Tian Mou took a team of soldiers to count the spoils of this battle.

It didn't take long for Xun Luo to come back first, and said to Yuan Qi: "Lord Yu, our army did not suffer any casualties in this battle, killed more than 50 mountain bandits, and the rest were captured, and no one escaped. As for the spoils of war in the valley, Tian Mou is in the process of further counting. ”

Yuan nodded and turned his gaze to the bandit leader. When the strong man saw Yuan Qi looking at him, he struggled to stand up, but he just held up a little, but he threw himself to the ground. Although Yuan Qi's blow didn't use all his strength, what kind of strength was Yuan Qi? Half of the strong man's body was so sore that he couldn't exert any strength, and of course it was impossible for him to stand up.

This strong man and bandit leader is also a straightforward man, seeing that he can't stand up, he simply doesn't struggle anymore, he leans on the ground half-lying and half-lying, looks up at Yuan Qi and says: "If you want to kill, you can scrape whatever you want, but I beg you to let go of the brothers in the valley, most of them are poor people who have been cornered." ”

Yuan Qi pondered for a moment and said: "This is natural, but if anyone has a life in his hands and kills ordinary people, he will inevitably be beheaded." ”

After a while, Tian Mou led people to suppress all the captured mountain bandits and came to the open space in front of the valley. Tian Mou leaned into Yuan Qi's ear and whispered: "There is no grain stored in the valley, at most it is only enough for the rations of five hundred mountain bandits for one day. There were no gold, silver and jewelry, only some old, weak, sick and disabled. After listening to Tian Mou's return, Yuan Qi also believed a little bit in the words of the bandit leader in his heart. This shows that these mountain bandits are not mad, they have neither plundered the nearby people, nor have they abandoned the old, weak, sick and disabled.

Looking at the more than 400 surviving mountain bandits with their hands tied behind their backs and their heads down, Yuan Qi said loudly: "I know that the world is not peaceful today, and many people are forced to follow thieves in desperation, but have you ever thought about your parents and relatives? Have you ever thought about your children and grandchildren? Do you want your parents and your children and grandchildren to bear the name of the thief's family for generations, and they will not be able to raise their heads for the rest of their lives? When a good man fights on the battlefield and makes an immortal reputation, why should he be a thief?"

The group of mountain bandits who originally lowered their heads, listening to Yuan Qi's words, seemed to see a glimmer of hope, but because of the long-term oppression, they didn't want to believe Yuan Qi from the bottom of their hearts, or they didn't want to believe the government, so they looked at each other one by one, and no one refused to speak.

The bandit leader lying on the ground laughed and said: "Fighting on the battlefield? You have made an immortal reputation? You deceived the ghost! I used to be a soldier, and I was still a school captain, but what happened in the end? I don't know how many brothers under my command died in battle, I don't know how many times I was wounded, and in the end, the brothers who died couldn't even get a pension! We fought bravely on the front line to kill the enemy, and how much blood and sweat we shed, but our military salary has not been paid for a whole year! But those generals and ministers are drinking and having fun in the rear, who can hope for such a world?"

Yuan Qi sighed and said: "That's right, what you said is the truth, but not everyone is greedy for life, afraid of death, greedy for pleasure!"

Yuan Qi said loudly: "Do you see the elite behind you? Maybe you are not convinced, thinking that they only defeated you with the help of strong armor blades and the power of war horses. But so-and-so tells you that they have paid with their blood to defend the frontier. They once fought with Xin Man, and killed tens of thousands of Xin Man in one battle! They are the real men! They are the real elite soldiers!"

Zhang Chong and more than 100 elites of the Tiangui camp shouted in unison: "The return of the heavens is out, there is victory and no defeat!" Only more than 100 people shouted out the momentum of thousands of troops. Even Xun Luo, who was standing on the side, was taken aback by the momentum of moving forward bravely.