Shui Xima is still very powerful. When Wang Yuan first came to Guizhou City, he walked for three and a half days from Chuanqingzhai.
Now it only takes eight hours to ride a horse all the way, including the rest time.
In the steep mountainous areas, Wang Yuan led the horses on foot. No matter whether they were going uphill or downhill, the horses were very fast. Except for the Baicha horse, other Mongolian horse breeds came to the mountainous areas and had no chance of chasing the dust behind the horses' buttocks.
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When I got home, my parents were actually preparing the bride price. The eldest brother made the girl from the Fang family pregnant...
Without saying anything, Wang Yuan asked his mother to feed the horses refined food, and then ran to the owner of Fang Village.
Fang Ayuan was surprised when he saw Wang Yuan: "Brother Yuan, the mountains are in chaos, why are you returning to the village at this time?"
Wang Yuan told the situation in detail and asked: "Uncle Fang, do you dare to take a gamble?"
"What are you afraid of?" Fang Ayuan didn't think much at all and made a decision directly, "I will take the two hundred young men in the village to fight if I can. If I can't fight, I will go back to the mountain. But the fight must be at night and the Miao cannot be allowed to fight.
The soldiers recognize us, otherwise Ajia will go crazy and send troops to attack Chuanqing Village."
Wang Yuan said: "I have made an agreement with the officers and soldiers to divide the looted items in half. Although there are only four officers and soldiers, they are all mounted spies. Only they can detect the movements of the rebels along the way, and they will not be easily discovered by the rebels.
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"There are no war horses in the village, so we should give them half." Fang Ayuan said clearly.
Fang Ayuan immediately summoned the young people in the village. Because he wanted to eliminate patients with night blindness, only 189 people were gathered. Even Wang Yuan's father and eldest brother came down the mountain fully armed this time. Each person brought six torches, and only 189 people were gathered.
We carried three days' worth of dry food and drinking water and quickly descended the mountain in an hour.
Wang Yuan rode ahead and met Li Ying on the official road half a day later.
Li Ying reported the exact situation of the enemy and said: "There are about a thousand rebels and four to five hundred civilians (Song serfs who defected to the rebels). They don't have horses, and all their animals are used to transport goods, mules and donkeys.
Altogether, there are about two to three hundred of them, and the peasants are also carrying valuables. There are about two hundred women who were robbed. They were tied up and walked very slowly. It will take at least three days to reach Zhazuosi."
Wang Yuan asked: "Are the rebels prepared?"
Li Ying said: "Uncle Wu Wu and the others were very careful and have not been discovered by the bandits. A thousand bandits were divided into two groups, one to open the way and the other to hold back. The bandits were very vigilant during the night. They camped out on a hill last night and stood there.
You can observe the situation everywhere from the hill. But they don't know how to fight, they didn't send spies to open the way, and they didn't set up camp at night. They only cut some bamboo to make a fence to guard against wild beasts."
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Another day and night passed.
Nearly two hundred Chuanqing people stopped to rest at noon, first to recharge their batteries, and secondly to wait for the rebels - if they continued on their way, they might run into the rebels before dark.
"Da da da da!"
This time, Song Ling'er rode on horseback to contact the news: "Wang Er, Uncle Wu speculated that the bandits might spend the night at Beheading Ridge. Because there are many bandits and they don't sleep in low-lying areas, only Beheading Ridge is nearby for easy camping."
Wang Yuan turned around and asked Yuan Gang: "How long does it take to walk from here to Behead Ridge?"
Yuan Gang estimated: "No more than an hour. We can go to Huilonggou to hide first. The forest there is very dense and it is close to Beheading Ridge. We can hide five thousand soldiers and horses without being discovered."
Wang Yuan immediately said to Fang Ayuan: "Then go back to Longgou first, and then go to Beheading Ridge after dark for an hour. Be sure to wait until they are asleep before launching a surprise attack. Everyone must speak Chinese, and those who cannot speak Chinese can
Shut up, light the torches and shout together, 'The troops are coming'!"
"I'll go back and report the news!" Song Ling'er was eager to give it a try.
This girl had nothing to worry about and began to dream of fighting again. The knife in her hip was already hungry and thirsty.
Another half hour passed and everyone came to Huilonggou to hide.
It was only the afternoon, and it was still very early before dark. Fang Ayuan asked everyone to get some sleep first, and personally led a dozen people to cut branches and make them into the shape of a cross. There were six torches in a group, all fixed on the crossbar.
, charging with a cross during a night attack is equivalent to one person holding six torches.
It was approaching evening, and Uncle Zhou Wu rushed over in person. This time he did not ride a horse, because it was all a steep downhill road. He hugged everyone in Chuanqingzhai and greeted them with a smile, saying with a smile: "The bandits stopped before dark, and they were lighting a fire when I came here."
Cooking, I guess the rice has just been cooked now. Haha, these bandits are not prepared at all. They were drinking and singing around the campfire last night, and even the sentries were drunk. "
It's normal to be unprepared. If you are prepared, the leader of the thief responsible for escorting the property must be a general.
Because the soldiers of the Song family have been blocked in Beiya Second Village, and the officers and soldiers are hiding in Guizhou City and dare not come out, and there is no possibility of encountering the enemy within hundreds of miles, how could those rebels think of Chuanqingren coming to attack at night?
The sky is completely dark and the full moon is high.
The moonlight will not affect the night attack, because there are many trees in the mountains, making it difficult for the Chuanqing people to see the road clearly, and it is even more difficult for the rebels at Beheading Ridge to detect them.
"Ouch!"
Climbing halfway up the hillside under the moonlight, someone suddenly slipped and rolled down.
"Dead yet?"
"It hurts me so much, I think my leg is broken!"
Yuan Gang scolded him in a low voice: "Don't talk. Go and help two people up. Everyone else should walk slower."
On Beheading Ridge.
Several rebel sentries were taking a nap. One of them opened his eyes in a daze, subconsciously looked down the mountain, then closed his eyes again and continued to sleep.
As he fell asleep, this man always felt that something was wrong. This was due to his alertness gained from hunting in the mountains. He stood up and looked carefully, but the shadows in the mountains were blurry and could not be seen clearly at all. It was not until he caught a glimpse of a few lights that he shouted in terror.
: "There is someone under the ridge!"
Those flames were caused by Uncle Wu and others using fire sticks to light the dead grass.
Chuanqingzhai didn't even have any information about fire. If they didn't cooperate with the government spies, they would have to make temporary fire by knocking flints.
"Quickly, light the torch!"
Four bonfires were quickly made out of dead grass and branches. The torches dipped in clear oil were quickly lit, passed from one to another, and hundreds of them were lit in a matter of seconds.
Wang Yuan drew his sword and shouted: "The army is coming!"
"Kill!" Song Ling'er rushed up the ridge holding a torch.
Li Ying was also fighting for the first time, and his blood surged all over his body. He imitated his father's tone and shouted: "My sons, follow me to defeat the enemy!"
At this moment, regardless of whether the torches in their hands were lit or not, nearly two hundred people all shouted wildly in unison, and then rushed towards the ridge without any order.
One group of rabble attacks another group of rabble at night.
The first to panic were the Song serfs who had defected to the rebels. They didn't even have weapons, and were only responsible for pulling livestock and carrying belongings. At this moment, they suddenly woke up from their dreams. Most of them were running like headless flies, and there was another
Xiaoban suffered from night blindness and couldn't see the road, so he simply lay on the ground and trembled, pretending to be dead.
The thieves also reacted differently. Some rushed towards the enemy with their swords in hand, while others ran away in another direction.
The two leaders who commanded a thousand thieves were sleeping with the captured woman in their arms at the moment. They had all drunk before, and were frightened by the shouts so much that they sobered up and hurriedly ran to check on the enemy.
"The officers and soldiers are coming, run!"
"Kill the officers and soldiers!"
The two leaders made different choices respectively, and only a few subordinates around them heard their orders.
Song Ling'er, like most Chuanqing people, had never really fought in a war. She didn't know how to conserve her energy and ran all the way on the hillside. By the time she reached the top of the mountain, she was out of breath and was almost hacked to death by a bandit soldier.
At the critical moment, Wang Yuan blocked the thieves' weapons, slashed them to death with a knife, and yelled: "You don't want your life?"
"Haha... Huh... Huh, thanks." Song Ling'er gasped and continued to charge.
Li Ying and Shutong were slashing all the way, shouting: "Eat my Li family's sword skills!"
The bookboy named Li Zhong is actually a member of the Lian family. He grew up with Li Ying. If Li Ying becomes a general one day, this boy will definitely be the commander of the servants.
There were a thousand thieves, but only about 20 people actually resisted. Most of them fled for their lives at the beginning of the night attack. Others wanted to fight hard, but when they saw that the situation was not good, they turned around and ran away halfway, and some panicked and chose no route.
Jump directly from the ridge.
"I killed the enemy, I killed the enemy!"
Song Ling'er shouted excitedly, she had just chopped down a escaping bandit.
Only uncle Wu Wu's army spies, as well as Fang Ayuan, Wang Quan and Yuan Gang, were the ones who really knew how to fight. They maintained their physical strength from the beginning to the end, charging leisurely and violently when they encountered bandits.
Draw the knife.
The crowd chased the thieves for a mile before returning to Beheading Ridge.
Uncle Wu didn't care about property at all, so he led three of his men and carried torches around to cut off heads. In ten years' time, there will be no reward for the heads for suppressing internal rebellions. This was proposed by Wang Yangming's leader, Wang Qiong.
It is said that the rebels within the territory are also common people of the Ming Dynasty. It is meaningless to talk about their heads, and it can easily lead to killing good people and taking credit for their merits.
"Count the wounded and property."
"Rest where you are for a quarter of an hour. Don't take the official road when you get down the mountain. Go into the mountain and return to the village!"