"Range!" With Xue Liangchen's voice, the panting Zhuang Dings lined up in three rows, and on both sides of the horizontal line were archers. The Zhuang Dings in the first row squatted down, pointing at the sky with long slanted edges, and the Zhuang Dings in the two rows behind were flat. Xue Liangchen only had the forty people with Xuejia Zhuang Ding as the backbone. The reason was very simple. Except for this group of people, he did not believe that the rest of the archers who had only been trained for four or five days could help. If they were asked to go into battle, they would be defeated by the thieves at once, which would hurt their morale and disrupt their formation. So he left these people behind the ridge, preparing to wait until the two armies confronted each other, and let these people suddenly shout and yell, scare the thieves, or detour the enemy's flanks, and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Zhou Ping's team was also under the ridge. While whispering to his subordinates, he kept them quiet. He looked at the flag on the ridge with anticipation and a little nervous eyes from time to time, which marked the command of the commander and the victory or defeat of the battle. Zhou Ping was full of uneasiness about his first formation.

"Zhou Tanyue, what do you think the thief will do?" Zhishan asked in a low voice.

"I don't know either, but it's better to escape!" Zhou Ping replied in a not-so-confirm tone.

"Yes!" Zhishan sighed: "No matter what, donor Xue also has six or seven cavalry in his hand. The thief will definitely not be able to escape. Even if he wants to go up the mountain, it is too late. It is a bit troublesome to rush over!"

Just now, a shout of killing came from the opposite side. Zhou Ping and Zhishan looked at each other and knew that the battle had begun. "What should I do?" The thieves' eyes suddenly gathered on Yang Wu. Regardless of whether they were convinced by him or not, this critical moment was not the time to fight in the nest.

"The enemy has cavalry, so you can't run away!"

"Why are there only a few cavalrymen in the government fleeing in dispersed areas?"

"No, if we escape in a scattered way, it will be the food of Baojia in the village. Any village can tie us up to meet the officials!" Yang Wu gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "Light the tail of the animal, let's follow the animal. As long as we kill the person in the leader, it will not be a problem!" After that, he stabbed the mule's butt with the tip of the gun. The mule in pain screamed and rushed towards the ridge not far away. Yang Wu shouted, waved hissing spear and rushed up. The other thieves followed their leader and drove the animal up.

Facing the dozens of mules, horses, donkeys, and Zhuang Dings on the ridge who were rushing towards him, Xue Liangchen hurriedly shouted: "Let the archers on both sides shoot arrows, shoot people, don't shoot animals, the team turns into square teams, leave a way out, and the animals will pass through the gap!"

As the flags shaking, the archers on both sides also began to shoot arrows to the thieves behind the animals as ordered. Because their terrain was high and on the side, the animals in front could not block their sight, and the arrows continued to fall into the thieves group, and blood and screams splashed out at the same time. At the same time, the Zhuang Dings changed from three horizontal lines to six, forming two rectangular small square formations, and the long 16-foot-long long stretched out, just like two angry hedgehogs. The frightened animal instinctively avoided the square formation and fled to the ridge through the gaps. Some simply turned around and escaped, which chaoticized the formation of the thieves. When the animals were exposed, as the flags danced, the Zhuang Dings resumed the three horizontal lines, blocking the thieves' way out, and the cruel bloody battle began.

"Kill!" Yang Wu roared and was the first to rush to the ground formation. His idea was very simple. According to his past fighting experience, the enemy would scatter birds and beasts; more importantly, the long snares used by the enemy were more than ten feet long, and the thieves used only swords, simple swords and short spears, which were only six or seven feet long. If they could not fight in close combat, they would only be passively beaten, and the thieves could not persist. The only way was to open a gap by themselves, and the thieves rushed into the gap, break the enemy formation in one go, kill the enemy leader, or seize the banner, which was the only way to survive.

"Beat the drum!" Xue Liangchen shouted in a deep voice. The drummer behind him quickly beat the drum hard. The rumbling drums suppressed the thieves' shouts of killing. Zhuang Dings took a step forward with the rhythm of the drums, and at the same time stood up and stabbed forward, making rhythmic "high" sounds. Faced with the rigorous formation of Zhuang Dings, the thieves' impact was like waves shattering on the reefs, leaving behind several incomplete corpses.

"Go up! No one can survive if you don't kill me!" Yang Wu's throat was hoarse, the bun on his head had been broken, his hair was spread out, his shoulders were covered with blood, and he didn't know whether it was his own or someone else's, his eyes were red, like a trapped beast. He pulled out his waist knife, held a knife in one hand and a spear in the other, and rushed towards the enemy formation. The remaining thieves saw the leader so bravely, and rushed up, but the momentum was far worse than the first time.

However, the drum sound behind the formation became more rapid. Zhuang Ding's long snails came to the thieves in front of him like a dense forest. Almost every thief had to deal with two or even more long snails. They instinctively wanted to avoid the long snails' attack, but the result was that they were increasingly concentrated on both sides of the horizontal lineup, trying to circumvent the long snails' swaths to avoid the long snails' stomp.

"Shake the flag and yell the gold! Let the cavalry team come up, and the back team clamors, don't leave the thief's leader!"

"Here!" As the flag bearer waved the flag hard again, the rest of the archers hiding behind the ridge line started to clamor, and Xue Liangyu and other cavalry teams rushed over from the side. The thieves were already frightened birds, but when they saw many enemies rushing out, they turned around and fled. Many people were stabbed to the ground by the pursuers behind them, and then they cut off their heads to prepare for rewards.

Seeing this, Yang Wu knew that it was impossible, so he quickly turned around and fled. Fortunately, the Zhuang Dings were afraid of being confused and could not catch up with him. He had just run more than ten steps when he suddenly heard a wind sound from behind him. He instinctively rushed to the right and felt a chill on his back. Then he felt a sharp pain and reached out to touch him, which was covered with bright red blood.

"This guy's hands and feet are very flexible!" Xue Liangyu put down the bent bow in his hand, kicked the horse's belly hard, raised his knife to rush over, and shouted, "Save your head!"

Yang Wu wanted to fight, but when he touched his waist, he found that there was only an empty scabbard. The sword had no idea where it had been thrown, so he had to throw the scabbard into the opponent's face, jumped into the bushes beside the road, and fled to the steep and uneven hillside. Xue Liangyu pushed the scabbard away, clamped the horse's belly with both legs, drove the mount and chased after it. On the steep and uneven slope, he was like walking on flat ground.

At this moment, a weasel was probably alarmed and rushed out of the thatched grass beside him. Xue Liangyu's green-maned horse was still a four-year-old horse. He jumped up wildly by frightened by it. Xue Liangyu was caught off guard and fell from the war horse. He fell to a dizzy head, and even the sword fell several meters away. Yang Wu, not far away, was overjoyed when he saw this and quickly turned around and picked up the sword, and was about to kill Xue Liangyu.

Suddenly, a scream was heard, and the sword in Yang Wu fell to the ground. He was shot in his right hand in the morning. It turned out that Zhou Pingzheng saw Xue Liangyu fall from his mount last day. The thief came to kill him, and he quickly shot the thief's head with an arrow.

Yang Wu covered his bloody palm and gritted his teeth to break the feather arrow. Seeing that Xue Liangyu had already sat up, there were several archers rushing towards him not far away. He was already injured. If he didn't escape, he would be afraid that he would fall here. He had to turn around and grab the reins of the green-maned horse, jump onto the horse, roared, and ran away.

At this time, the battle was over. Except for the 17 people killed on the spot, the remaining twenty-one were captured and only Yang Wuyi escaped. However, only five people were injured by the government, and none of them died. If the biggest loss was the green-maned horse that was taken away by Yang Wu. The archers happily tied the captured thieves with ropes and stringed them into a string, while the heads were provoked with bamboo guns as a proof for asking for merit. Thinking of the generous rewards promised by the county magistrate, everyone's face was full of joy.

But these people did not include Xue Liangyu. Although he had won a lot of achievements before, he not only lost his green-maned horse in the last battle, but also let the thief head go. More importantly, he was saved by the Tian Ke Zhou Ping, who had always been looked down upon. You must know that this guy taught him even the archery. When he thought of this, he felt very depressed.

"Fourth brother, are you okay?" Xue Liangchen saw that the battlefield was almost cleaned, so he came to visit his younger brother.

"It's okay, I just lost the green maned horse and let the thief leave!" Xue Liangyu shook her head in frustration.

"What's this!" Xue Liangchen smiled and said, "There is only one thief leader, and he was injured. The government only needs to issue a reward document, ranging from ten days to three to five days, and you will be arrested and brought to justice. Can your green-maned horse fly to the sky? If you win this time, I will report it to the county magistrate and will definitely have a generous reward!"

"Take it seriously?" Xue Liangyu was still young after all, so she was overjoyed when she heard this.

Zhou Ping looked at the archers searching for property on the captured thieves and corpses with some emotion on the battlefield. He did not do this. On the one hand, he still retained a little modern obsession with cleanliness on him. On the other hand, he knew that he was a team leader now. Even if he didn't do it himself, his own share would be indispensable in the thieves' convoy later. Although he spent a lot of time on archery and guns since time traveling through time, he was still the first time fighting with dozens of people face to face. At this time, he even had a question in his heart. Is everything in front of him just a dream? At this time, a voice of integrity came from behind him.

"Zhou Tanyue, how do you feel?"

Zhou Ping hesitated for a moment and replied, "It's all fine, but it's just a little dazed!"
Chapter completed!