The sun slowly climbed over the hillside from the east, and the sunlight coated the edges of the mountain with a layer of gold. It seemed that the scenery was the most beautiful day at this moment. A group of water birds flew away, and the sound of wings vibrating disturbed the tranquility.

However, the next sound of the horn also disturbed the tranquility of the water birds.

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The sound of trumpets continued to blow, and the elite soldiers on the ship began to disembark in an orderly manner, boarded a centipede clutch and began to row towards the shore, looking at it from a distance, like huge fierce crocodiles floating on the backs.

The leader of each ship leader shouted horns, and the soldiers rowed the squats in their hands at the same time, and the centipede clutch seemed to fly up against the water.

The bandits in Dakaishan should have completely given up starting a war on the shore. They knew that they could not stop the fierce attacks of the Daning soldiers on the open ground, so they placed their hopes of defense on the mountain city and the rugged paths under the mountain city.

Several ten-person teams landed first and quickly set up alerts on the shore to expand the safe area for the subsequent teams.

Xie Jiuzhang jumped from the centipede fastener and looked up. The mountain in front of him looked like a camel's peak. There was no sign of the mountain city on the opposite mountain. According to the county chronicles, Stone City is halfway up the mountain behind a mountain. If you want to climb it, you must first bypass the half of the mountain in front and then follow the not-so-wide stone steps, because it has not been repaired for at least hundreds of years, and the stone steps may have been incomplete.

The one who built this mountain city was the Thirteenth Alliance of Mountains and Waters. When it was its strongest, it had more than 100,000 troops. They built huge defensive fortifications here, which can attack and retreat or defend. During the glorious period, it occupied all prefectures and counties in the entire Chong'an County area.

However, the leaders of the Thirteenth League felt that even if the big city on land was solid and not reliable, it would be better to always put the base camp in Dakaishan. As a result, because of this short-sightedness, the areas they controlled were constantly compressed, and the people assigned were not supported in time when they were besieged and were eaten up by other rebels bit by bit.

So in the end, he had more than 100,000 troops, but he could only hide in the mountains and live.

“Alternately be on guard forward.”

Xie Jiuzhuan shouted loudly as he walked: "Scouts, go up first!"

The scouts of the two ten-man teams rushed up quickly and quickly disappeared into the shade of trees.

In front, Liu Jinlou, the scout team, lowered his body and walked forward, and led his team carefully through a jungle. At the edge of the forest, he made a gesture to the team to stop, took out his eyes and looked forward carefully.

An incomplete stone steps appeared at the foot of the mountain about dozens of feet away. This should be the road recorded in the county annals that leads to Shitou City. Both sides of the path are covered with dense branches and weeds that are nearly one person tall, so it is easy for the enemy to hide.

"Go to see two people."

Liu Jinlou lowered his voice and ordered.

The two scouts hugged from behind him and tried to lower their bodies in the gully. They poked their heads out of the weeds and looked over the stone steps. There should be no danger. One of them stood up and waved to them.

puff!

An iron feather arrow flew over from a distance and shot directly through the scout's neck.

The man stood there and waved his hand. When the arrow shot through his neck, he still kept waving. The next breath, the body pounced forward.

The companions beside him were shocked and pulled the body back into the ditch, carrying the body up and running back.

puff!

The iron-feathered arrow flew over again. This time, it did not aim at the vital point, but shot through the evacuated scout's calf. The scout carrying the corpse of his companion groaned in pain and fell to the ground involuntarily.

"Save him back."

Liu Jinlou shouted, then took off the crossbow and shot it in the direction of the feather arrows flying, but the crossbow's range was not that far. The opponent's iron feather arrow was at least shot by a hard bow of more than two and a half stones, which was at least twice as far away than their crossbow's range.

The three scouts rushed over with cover, two of them squatted back, one left and one right, and the other went over and pulled their injured companions back.

puff!

The third iron feather arrow flew over and penetrated the support scout's neck.

A moment after the third arrow flew over, dozens of feather arrows shot from different directions, and the other two alert scouts were shot one after another and fell to the ground and could no longer get up.

About twenty feet away from the ambushed person, Guo Ting, the leader of the mountain bandits, snorted coldly, as if quite disdainful.

He was the one who was left here by Yuwen Xiaoce, and he was also the one who was called a brother by Chang Yueyu. He was in his forties, with a square face and beard, and his eyes were like an eagle.

"What do you mean by the navy's combat soldiers are very strong, but that's it."

Guo Ting ordered: "Come here to save people, one will come and shoot the other to death."

The bandits in the grass nearby and on the trees responded, holding their bows and continuing to aim in that direction, but after a while, no one came up again.

After almost half a moment, a team of soldiers slowly emerged from the woods, each of them hugged. They had a large infantry shield in their hands, which came out like a straight line. Then the team separated from each other, one by one, and the one in front went to the left and the one behind went to the right, thus forming two teams one after another.

Then the team reunited in front of the attackers and formed a defense with infantry shields. The people behind the infantry shields came up and dragged the injured and dead soldiers back into the woods.

"They are just that."

Guo Ting muttered, and the iron feather arrow in his hand shot out, piercing through the infantry shield in the hand of a soldier with a bang. The Yu family was stuck on the shield, and the tail of the arrow was buzzing and trembling rapidly.

Guo Ting waved his hand: "Retreat to Erdaoliang, let us wait for them to come up there, and let the soldiers of the imperial court see our strength. It is not that easy to defeat this."

Dozens of people followed him out from all directions and quickly retreated to the mountain. The shield-holding soldiers saw the figure and began to chase them. The three of them chased after holding shields. When they arrived at the stone steps, the three of them were just in line. The road could not accommodate four people standing shoulder to shoulder.

“Go up!”

A warrior captain ordered.

The soldiers quickly moved up the stone steps. After walking about a mile, the terrain changed again. One side was a cliff, like a knife and axe, it was at least dozens of feet high. The other side was a steep slope with wild grass. If you accidentally slide down, you will fall into a deep ravine.

"careful!"

The captain who was already at the front of the team shouted, then quickly retreated. On the high slope in front, several logs as thick as one person hugged, rolled down. The stone steps were so wide, and all the logs were blocked.

The people in front could still see it, but they jumped up to avoid it if they couldn't retreat, but many people behind were knocked down by logs. Some of their legs were pressed down by logs, and their faces were covered with sweat in the moment when the pain was hurt.

"Save people out."

A leader in the team threw the shield in his hand aside and ran over to work with the others to move the log up. But at this moment, the bandits were waiting on the stone wall. When they saw the crowd gathering to save people, they immediately pushed the stone down from the cliff.

The stones fell down one by one, and many people were directly killed.

The terrain was too narrow, and the soldiers had no place to dodge. The stones kept falling down, and some people were instantly smashed to their heads and bleeding.

The front lieutenant's face changed. He raised the infantry shield over his head and rushed back: "Go to the edge of the cliff! Close to the cliff!"

A stone fell down and hit his infantry shield with a sound. The shield was smashed down and then knelt heavily on his head. It was impossible for him to be stable under the huge force, and he fell to the ground with a tilted head.

This made his head buzzing, as if there was a thunder blew up. He struggled to slap and reached out to grab the shield, but found that the shield had broken a hole. While reaching out, two blood flowed out of his nose.

"near......"

The captain gasped, then stood up on the cliff: "Let's walk against the cliff, retreat..."

General Xie Jiuzhuan came up with his personal soldiers and quickly pulled the injured and the dead down. The captain leaned on the cliff and turned his eyes upwards. The man sat softly on the ground. Xie Jiuzhuan rushed over and carried the man on his shoulder and strode back. The bandits and archers on the high slope in front stood up in two rows, and the feather arrows came over.

Xie Jiuzhuo was shot in an arrow on his back, and his body shook for a while but he couldn't fall down.

"General, let me down."

"Stay honestly."

Xie Jiuzhuo let out a breath and took the man back.

"Didn't it mean that you are invincible!"

A group of water bandits stood there clamoring on the high slope, and Guo Ting, who was in charge, burst into laughter and showed his madness.

"Don't say I won't give you a chance. I won't chase you. You'll be ready to come again after you go down. I'll wait for you here. I've wanted to fight with the soldiers for a long time. I've been waiting for it for a long time, but you haven't given me much surprise."

"Do you dare to come again?"

"You guys ran quite fast."

"Didn't it mean that the war soldiers never had any opponents? It seems that the opponents you met before were all soft-boys. Now when you meet the uncles, you will become soft-boys."

These water bandits shouted wildly, one by one, all of them were complacent.

Xie Jiuzhuan took his men back and counted them, dozens of casualties were injured and killed.

The newly injured captain Zhang Yong looked apologized: "I didn't lead the team well. I should pay attention to that terrain in advance. I thought the water bandits were not worth worrying at all. General, let me go up again!"

Xie Jiuzhuan looked at the wound on Zhang Yong's head, and blood was still flowing down under his helmet.

"General, I will definitely take it down with my brothers this time."

Zhang Yongdao said anxiously: "My little injury is nothing."

Xie Jiuzhuan said, "Go and bandage the wound first."

While saying that, he pointed to his back. A medical officer came up to cut the arrow shaft first, then tear the clothes open, and carefully dug out the clusters of arrows from the flesh. Fortunately, the armor was thick enough, and the clusters of arrows were not very deep.

Zhang Yong opened his mouth and lowered his head: "Yes."

He went over to another medical officer and squatted down, took off his iron helmet. After checking, the medical officer confirmed that the wound was not big, and applied some medicinal gauze to wrap his head a few times.

"Have you finished your bag?"

Xie Jiuzhuan glanced at Zhang Yong.

"It's over!"

Zhang Yong stood up suddenly, shocking the medical officer beside him.

"Bring the rest of you, and my personal soldiers."

Xie Jiuzhuan handed him the knife that Zhang Yong had just put aside: "Go up and let the water bandits who humiliated the Daning warriors see if the Daning warriors can fight? If you still have bloody nature, take everyone to chop up all those who humiliated you, don't leave any one."

"yes!"

Zhang Yong took the knife over and put on the iron helmet again: "Brothers, bring the shield and go up!"

"call!"

The soldiers under his command responded and reorganized the team.

"What should I do if I have thought about it?"

Xie Jiuzhuan sorted out his clothes and armor and followed Zhang Yong: "Now I am also your soldier, so I will follow your command."

Zhang Yong felt warm and strode forward: "I've thought about it!"

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Chapter completed!