Chapter 168 The appearance in the middle

After listening to this man's advice, Ma Liancheng also figured out the idea of this group of thieves, so he immediately nodded and agreed. The next morning, he ordered him to pull out the camp and go straight to Qinhe.

When Zhao Er Lv was proud that the officers and soldiers had been messing around for the past three days, he was shocked when he heard the news that the officers and soldiers were trying to cross the river. Xiao Tianjian said that he wanted him to drag the officers and soldiers on the east bank of the Qin River and not allow the officers and soldiers to cross the river in large numbers. Otherwise, he would never be easy on him. But now the officers suddenly gave up his team of soldiers and horses and wanted to forcibly cross the Qin River, so once they were allowed to cross the Qin River, Xiao Tianjian would definitely not forgive him.

So he got up in a hurry and chased him in the direction of the Qin River with his subordinates. Far away, near Liu Jiabao, he saw that the officers and soldiers had arrived at the Qin River and were about to cross the river.

So Zhao Er Lv no longer dared to neglect it. He immediately ordered the formation and shouted at the officers and soldiers by the river to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers, and also interfered with their river crossing.

After Ma Liancheng led his troops to the Qin River, he saw that the Qin River was not a big river, and the river was not wide. It turned out that there was a bridge here, but it had been demolished by the Xing Tianjun. If you cross the river, people and horses could choose a shallow place to flow through the water, but the grain carts carried by the company could not be crossed. The river had to build a bridge, so he ordered his men to start preparing to build a bridge.

But in essence, Ma Liancheng has been paying attention to the direction behind him, paying attention to whether the thief army that played with him for three days would appear. Sure enough, this matter was expected by his men. Shortly after he arrived next to the Qinhe River, a thief army appeared in the direction of the slope behind his left and immediately lined up. It seems to be forced towards them.

With a continuous smile, he finally forced the group of thieves out, so he immediately ordered to give up the bridge, turned around and rushed to the Xingtian army of Zhao Erlu.

"Zhao Sentinel, there seems to be something wrong! The officers seem to be waiting for us here!" Yang Chengzong, Zhao Erlu's deputy, said to Zhao Erlu.

Zhao Er donkey raised his hand to stop his marching subordinates and looked at the officers and soldiers. Sure enough, the officers and soldiers gave up building bridges at a very fast speed, but began to turn around and greet them. In addition, more than 200 cavalry rushed out of the officers and soldiers and rushed straight to them, and did not build at all. What's the matter of crossing the river and the bridge, so Zhao Er donkey patted his head and said, "What the hell! We are fooled! This army is going to force us to appear, so that we can be here! Withdraw! Hurry up and defend Liujiabao!"

Although the Xingtian army is very powerful, on the east bank of the Qin River in Pingchuan here, with four hundred to three thousand, Zhao Er donkey does not think he is a fierce general. He can lead his troops to defeat these three thousand officers and soldiers in one fell swoop. What's more, the terrain here is very unfavorable to them. Once surrounded, they will even have a chance to escape. No, so a safe way is to find a support first, and then rely on it to resist. If they are surrounded by officers and soldiers here, even if their soldiers are very brave, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get out of trouble.

So the marching team turned around and hurried towards Liu Jiabao, and began to open the distance between them and the officers and soldiers.

As mentioned above, because the peasant army ravaged in this area in the early years, many villages along the Qinhe River have built village castles for self-defense. Now the village castles on both sides of the Qin River in the east side of Yangcheng have basically fallen into the hands of the Xing Tianjun, and the big landlords in the village have almost been killed by the Xing Tianjun. Only the remaining part of the large family surrendered to the Xingtian Army before it could be preserved.

And this Liujiabao was originally a village castle conquered by the Xing Tianjun, but it was a pity that Liu Baoqing, the big landlord in the village, could not escape the disaster. On the spot, half of his head was cut off by his own Zhuang Ding and died on the wall.

At present, Liu Jiabao is also a Zhuangbao controlled by the chief security guard sent by Xing Tianjun. The officers and soldiers came here to cross the river today. The township soldiers of Liu Jiabao immediately found the actions of the officers and soldiers and sent someone to inform Zhao Er donkey. At this time, Zhao Er donkey saw that the situation was not good, so he immediately withdrew in the direction of Liu Jiabao, hoping to enter Liu. Inside the castle, the castle is guarded, where the siege of the officers and soldiers is blocked.

As soon as Ma Liancheng saw that the thieves were about to escape, he immediately sent the 200 cavalry brought by his command and chased Zhao Er's donkey and a sentry horse. He finally caught the big fish. Ma Liancheng could no longer let this damn thief army run away in any case. Now he hates this group of thieves. You have to tear up this group of thieves.

So the two hundred cavalry immediately rushed out of the line and rushed towards Zhao Er donkey. No matter how fast their legs were, they could not run the cavalry in a short distance. Even the soldiers of the Xingtian Army were good at long-distance attack. Soon the officers' cavalry stopped Zhao Er donkey's sentry two miles away from Liujiabao. Road.

Seeing that Zhao Erlu, who had no time to retreat into Liujiabao, was also anxious at this time, immediately ordered to fight on the spot and slowly march towards Liujiabao.

And the team of officers and cavalry, after intercepting the sentry horse of Zhao Er Lv, immediately turned the horse's head and met Zhao Er Lv's Xing Tian army.

Zhao Er donkey couldn't get out of it, so he gritted his teeth and shouted, "Brothers! Today, we are here to fight with this group of officers and soldiers! Nothing can be said to det the prestige of our Xing Tianjun! Quickly form a hollow phalanx!"

So more than 370 criminal generals immediately put Zhao Er donkey in the middle and formed a hollow phalanx unique to the criminal army, and met this group of officers and cavalry who blocked the way.

This kind of phalanx force can be large or small. The fire pistols are concentrated on the four corners, and among the sentry horses under the command of Zhao Er Donkey, the number of fire pistols is about 120, which are evenly assigned to the four corners of the phalanx. Each corner has 30 fire pistols, and the four sides are composed of long gunners and knife hands, each There is a team that will be in charge of command.

After the formation of the phalanx, Zhao Er donkey raised his hand and shouted, "Get ready!"

In the face of the firearms on the two corners of the officer's cavalry immediately began to load gunpowder. The promotion of paper shell bombs in the Xingtian Army is of great help to the loading speed of the Xingtian arms, which makes them improve the loading speed of the officers' firearms when they complete a load. About twice, they soon completed the loading work, lit the fire rope of the bird, and got stuck on the open faucet.

The firemen bulged their cheeks one by one, constantly blowing on the fire rope, keeping the fire rope not extinguishing, and preparing to take the battle, while the long gunmen clenched the long guns one by one and stared at the officers and army cavalry blocking the road opposite.

And this situation is undoubtedly very dangerous for them, the generals of the sentry. They have never tried to be blocked by so many enemy troops on an open land that is not allowed to advance or retreat.

But at least Zhao Er Lv also provoked blood at this time and loudly cheered up his subordinates in the team. Although these soldiers and generals were nervous, they did not panic on time, but quietly waited for the arrival of the officers and soldiers. As for whether they can survive this time, it is not their concern now. At this point, even if they die, they will fight for the Xing Tianjun.

"Brothers, stabilize me and tell you that I was the first person in Xing Tianjun to follow the general. What battle have you never seen? How can you be afraid of these officers and soldiers? The general said that as long as the flag of our Xingtian Army does not fall, we will never give up! I will hold the flag in person today to see what these officers and soldiers can do with us! They are all cheering up. Today, these damn officers and soldiers will know how powerful we are, and they can't say anything to decimate our Xing Tianjun! Kill it!" Zhao Er donkey personally took the Xingtian army flag from the hand of the flag bearer, raised it high in the air, and roared harshly.

With the roar of Zhao Erlu, the more than 300 criminal soldiers also roared in unison: "Kill..."

"Sing Tianwu Gan Qi..." Zhao Er donkey then roared.

"The strong will is always there!" More than 300 people shouted as they followed.

"Sing Tianjun!"

"Mighty..."

The roar of more than 300 people, like thunder on the earth, exploded on the east bank of the Qinhe River, so that the faces of the officers and cavalry who blocked them changed one by one. They didn't expect that the thief army was so strong-willed that they were about to be blocked by them. There was no way to enter the earth, but there was no way to go, but there was no way. The signs of chaos were more like inspiring their fierceness, which made the officers and soldiers conspired to each other.

The team led by Mr. Liu surnamed Qian. After looking at the performance of this group of Xing Tianjun, his heart jumped a few times, and his face showed a dry smile and his subordinates said, "Bah! But it's just a group of outlaws! I'm afraid of where they come from! Now that our troops are more than ten times theirs, are we afraid that they will fly with their wings? No matter how powerful they are, can they escape? I don't believe it!

It's full of energy for me. I finally caught these thieves in this battle. In any case, we can't let them run away. Let's do this! Isn't it just more than 300 thieves? I washed them down for a while! Kill them all! Kill the thief!"

More than 200 men who followed him, after hearing their officers roar like this, they also pulled out their swordsmen one after another and shouted, "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief! Kill the thief!"

However, their roar is obviously not as neat and majestic as the Xing Tianjun, but at least they have cheered up their morale. After all, they occupy a great advantage over the cavalry and the infantry. According to their ideas, in general, under the basic equal number of troops, their cavalry can have an absolute advantage, just A charge, after dispersing the opponent's formation, you can disperse the enemy, and then you can start a one-sided slaughter.

For this point, the cavalry of these officers had nothing to doubt, so after they roared, the cavalry of the 200 officers immediately screamed and began to urge the ** war horses and rushed towards the array of the Xingtian Army.

At this time, the villagers and soldiers in Liujiabao also heard the movement outside the village. Early in the morning, under the leadership of the chief, they climbed up the village wall and looked at the north of the village with a pergola.