The battle started at dawn. When the Jin Bing's scout cavalry arrived at the foot of the mountain ridge, they actually discovered something strange. In the dawn light, they saw the stone wall above the mountain ridge, which was obviously an artificial stone wall.

The wall immediately became suspicious and wanted to turn around and report to the large army of soldiers in the rear. But they had no chance.

On the edge of the snowy slope and cliff beside the road, Fang Zian, Zhang Ruomei and several skilled soldiers who were lying in ambush rushed out and killed five scout cavalry with lightning speed. Fang Zian killed one of them with a flying knife.

Zhang Ruomei stabbed two people to death with two swords, and the remaining three were killed by fire brigade soldiers. With quick hands and slow hands, some people didn't even touch the corners of each other's clothes, and they were killed alone.

Fang Zian was very familiar with this method of ambush and capturing people. When the special forces were conducting reconnaissance, they would ambush the opponent under the eyes of the enemy and quickly capture or kill the opponent. This made Fang Zian feel like he was back in the past.

The bodies of the five scouts were thrown down the snowy slope on the west side, and the five horses were pulled up the mountain ridge. The scene was briefly covered with blood, and Fang Zian and others quickly evacuated. Soon after, the Jin soldiers took the lead and were responsible for paving the way ahead.

A thousand engineers building the bridge came into view.

The engineers and soldiers have been the most tired since they entered the mountains. Not only do they have to march, but they also have to undertake the work of building bridges and building roads. It is all physical work. If you move quickly, it is your duty. If you move slowly and affect the marching speed, you will be scolded. In the dark night

They were more cautious, but became a little lax after dawn. So when they saw the stone wall on the mountain ridge, they didn't even realize that it was an artificial obstacle.

In fact, it is not their fault. There is a scout team exploring the road ahead. If there is danger, they will naturally warn. Therefore, even if they know that this is an artificial stone wall, they will not have much reaction. The first reaction is to come

Alive.

The leading captain scolded his men to cheer up and go up the mountain ridge to move the stone wall. The soldiers cursed and sighed and said to go up the mountain ridge. When the dozens of soldiers at the front reached the middle of the slope, a golden soldier suddenly said: "

Am I dazzled? Why did I seem to see a head shaking behind the stone wall just now?"

Others squinted and took a closer look and found that there was no trace at all.

"Where is there? Is there a ghost? It seems that you are too tired and your eyesight is really blurry. Brother, let's work. After we finish the work, I hope the higher ups will be merciful and allow us to rest for half a day and take a breath."

The Jin Bing was doubtful and stared at the place where he had just seen the person's head. Suddenly, he saw a fat face exposed on the stone wall, with all the flesh on it, and it was grinning at him.

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"Ah!" The golden soldier exclaimed loudly.

"What are you doing..." The person next to him was startled and cursed.

"There's someone... there..." The Jin Bing stretched out his hand and pointed.

Everyone looked upward, and the next moment, they saw someone. It was not just one person. A row of black heads stood up behind the stone wall. They bent their bows, set arrows, and raised their crossbows at them.

"It's over! I'm going to die." The leading engineers thought in their hearts.

What they thought was absolutely correct, there was a buzz of bow strings and the click of the crossbow. Hundreds of bows and crossbows rained down, and the twenty people in the front row

Several engineers fell down in response, and each of them was hit by at least two crossbow arrows. The condescending arrows and crossbows that gathered more than 70 steps almost penetrated their bodies. They were engineers, and they only wore simple leather armor.

Conducive to work, which actually means being naked on the battlefield.

The engineer team immediately seemed to explode. The people in the front ran back crazily. The people in the rear didn't know what was happening. For a while, the whole team moved in place like a group of headless flies.

But he couldn't move half a step. The time was enough for the ambushers on the mountain ridge to fire more than a dozen rounds of arrows. The more than two hundred engineers crowded in the thirty-step area from more than one hundred steps to seventy steps were completely alive.

Target, except for a few people who panicked and rolled down the valley from the snow slope on the west side regardless of the danger, all other people in this area were cleared.

The remaining engineers finally understood what was going on. After turning around and retreating out of the range of the bows and arrows, they found a large number of corpses lying strewn on the slope up the mountain. The whole process took a short time, but it was like a thunderstorm, and it was easy to say.

, which suddenly made the sleepy Jin Bing wake up in the face of blood and death.

Xiao Zhengde, the former military commander of Wanhu, received the report immediately, and he was also shocked. He did not expect that the first battle would come so quickly. According to the predictions of the previous military meeting, the battle may take place before the Zhongyi Army marches

It would only start when the old nest was reached. However, suddenly, it happened.

Xiao Zhengde quickly ordered the soldiers of the front army to approach and attack. At the same time, he ordered the soldiers and horses in the rear to stop advancing and sent his deputy general to report to the commander Xiao Huaizhong.

After Xiao Zhengde led thousands of soldiers and horses to arrive at the foot of the mountain ridge, he directly ordered the soldiers and horses to rush up the mountain ridge as quickly as possible. He wanted to get the first meritorious service. To make meritorious service in the first battle, his status in Xiao Huaizhong's mind

Naturally, it would be even more different. So he didn't even know much about the opponent's numbers and firepower, and he didn't even realize how ferocious firepower his troops would be cleansed next.

The golden soldiers screamed and rushed up the slope. When they reached the place of death in the middle of the slope, the corpses on the ground failed to give them a warning. Then, the blow on the mountain ridge came. The golden soldiers started to fight.

Those who fell down and those who survived were not able to rush within thirty steps below the ridge. Because when they got closer, the muskets on the ridge began to roar. The splashing shot shrouded the entire area, and they would rush to close range.

The enemies were beaten into a sieve.

In a short period of time, Xiao Zhengde killed hundreds of his troops. Xiao Zhengde woke up from his dream of meritorious service and quickly ordered the withdrawal of troops. At this time, Xiao Huaizhong arrived.

Xiao Huaizhong said that it was the Song Dynasty envoy, with only more than 200 people. Xiao Zhengde did not believe it. But he did not dare to argue, so he ordered to continue the attack. This time, Xiao Zhengde finally did not dare to entrust the troops, and all the Jin soldiers dismounted.

, raised their shields and rushed forward across the mountain road. Although the Jin soldiers' shields were just light wooden shields, which were easy to hold with one hand on horseback, they were lined up in a row, and they had some momentum, covering their heads and chests.

Most of the vital parts. In this way, the effectiveness of the opponent's bow and arrow strikes will be greatly reduced. After all, everyone knows that aiming at a person's body and only shooting at the legs and feet are two different things.

After approaching the strike range of the bow and arrow, the attack on the mountain ridge came as expected. The shield was like popping beans, and the feather arrows and crossbow arrows nailed the shield like a porcupine.

Generally speaking, many people were shot and fell down. After all, there were too many exposed places, but as long as someone fell down, someone would immediately fill in the gap so that the shield array remained intact. Anyway, there were more golden soldiers, and the former army

This is cannon fodder.

Under the cover of the shield, the soldiers and horses advanced smoothly. Before, when they rushed within fifty steps, they were shot dead by the opponent. Now, when they fell within fifty steps, they were shot dead by only a dozen.

Individuals were injured more than thirty times, but they were all in the legs and feet, and they were not fatal. The densely packed golden soldiers slowly surged up the mountain ridge like a tide, and were about to reach the bottom of the mountain ridge fortifications. Xiao Zhengde watched this scene

, breathed a sigh of relief. I regretted that I had been too hasty before. If I had been more cautious before and charged with a shield formation, I am afraid I would have won it now, and I would not have been scolded by Xiao Huaizhong.

Xiao Huaizhong didn't take the missionary soldiers and horses on the mountain ridge seriously at all. He originally thought that they could run faster than rabbits and that they would have to go to the lair of the Zhongyi Army to catch them. But it turned out that they themselves were not very discerning and actually dared to attack them.

The enemy who blocked his army here was really trying to overestimate his own capabilities. Since they were looking for death, he accepted it. After solving them, he could just send people back to report the victory. He led his army into the mountains in a few days and solved a serious problem.

Wouldn't it make him more capable and stop the mouths of those who were talking about him behind his back?

However, the drastic change occurred in an instant. When the rows of shield formations of the Jin soldiers reached a distance of thirty steps and were already within easy reach, dozens of smokey thunderballs were thrown from behind the mountain ridge fortifications. The thunderballs followed suit.

It rolled on the ground and rolled into the space between Jin Bing's legs and feet.

"Boom, boom, boom!" A violent explosion sounded. The shield could block the front of the body, but how could it block the feet. Although the power of the thunderbolt bomb was average, it exploded at the feet of the crowd. The skin was torn apart and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

situation.

The shield formation was instantly in chaos. The injured golden soldiers screamed and scurried. Of course, the shield formation no longer existed. Before it was over, there was a whining sound in the sky. Someone looked up and saw countless stars.

Black dots fell from the sky, densely packed and countless. Before they could figure out what they were, they raised their heads and were hit by fist-sized rocks on their faces, causing their heads to bleed, their noses to be bruised, and their eyes to be swollen. Although the rocks were only the size of fists,

However, the damage caused by hitting the body, head and face is not small. Some people were hit by leather hats and helmets, but they were not injured, but they were stunned and disoriented. The hits on the arms and body caused unbearable pain from broken muscles and fractures.

The rain of stones fired by the sunflower cannon in the sky, the thunderballs under the feet, plus the intensive firing of crossbows and muskets in the middle, were really a three-dimensional strike from above, middle and below, and the originally aggressive Jin soldiers were quickly cleared. The front was cleared.

The ones behind them covered their heads and ran back, and those behind them also fled back when they saw that the situation was not good. The entire attack collapsed in an instant, leaving more than two hundred corpses on the slope, as well as countless soldiers with broken heads and bloodshed who fled back down the slope.

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Xiao Huaizhong witnessed this scene all the way. He was dumbfounded. The opponent's attack power exceeded his imagination, and the formation was defeated in an instant. It was simply unbelievable. Was it still a mission of two hundred people? More than that, definitely more than that. Xiao Huaizhong somewhat believed it

Xiao Zhengde said, if there were only two hundred people on the mountain ridge, they had the momentum and firepower of thousands of people.
Chapter completed!