"Why hasn't Li Farong from Longying Cave arrived yet?" Looking around, Hu Mao suddenly discovered that the closest force to here had not yet appeared.

A group of people look at me and I look at you, and they all look confused.

This plan was made in advance, and specific agreements were made before departure. Then everyone set off at night, arrived at dawn, surrounded them on all sides and launched an attack. Only then did everyone discover that Longying Cave

The soldiers and horses did not arrive.

Although Longying Cave and Minatoba could only produce five to six hundred decent warriors.

Hu Mao himself didn't care, but when he found that the camp opposite didn't seem so easy to fight, the soldiers in Longying Cave, Leihuo Cave, and Xia Lei Cave suddenly became important.

They must be allowed to have a good look at their opponents first!

It wasn't until he was about to let these doomed short-lived ghosts die that Hu Mao discovered that there were still some short-lived ghosts who hadn't arrived in time!

If it's far away, that's fine. If it's so close and it hasn't come yet, there must be something wrong.

"Commander, I'll go see what's going on with Li Farong!" Ruan Li, the leader of Leihuodong Village, said loudly.

Hu Mao glanced at him and said: "No need, Chief Ruan, you and Chief Qiu will attack first to see how good Cen Zhong's men are? As for Longying Cave, I will send someone there.

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After waving, an officer came over. Hu Mao whispered a few words. The officer nodded repeatedly, turned around, and headed towards Longying Cave with ten soldiers.

The drums suddenly sounded, and the two cave soldiers shouted and rushed towards the quiet camp on the opposite side, which seemed to have no reaction at all.

Two hundred steps away from the camp, the charging soldiers suddenly stumbled and fell into some traps dug in advance. The traps were not deep, only two or three feet, but the terrible thing was that there were people stuck upside down in them.

Those who were lucky enough to step on the sharply-sharpened bamboo sticks were stabbed in the opposite direction, while those who were less lucky had their stomachs bumped into them and were immediately penetrated through their chests.

Except for the leaders and some of the most elite warriors, the rest of these tribal barbarian soldiers have no armor.

Armor has always been a luxury item. Even leather armor is a rare thing, let alone iron armor.

There are traps in the east and west, and they look irregular. However, the faces of Hu Mao and Ruan Qingzheng standing in the distance are getting more and more ugly. Standing here, they can clearly see that the traps were originally in a scattered line.

The barbarian soldiers who rushed forward slowly gathered together, forming several groups of attacking surfaces.

Those traps didn't hurt many people, but their real purpose was to make the charging enemies crowd together unknowingly.

Next, of course, is coverage shooting.

Sure enough, when several groups of men and horses rushed within a hundred steps, drums suddenly sounded loudly in the village. Along with the drums, there was a buzzing sound, and black arrows were shot out from inside.

"God's Arm Bow!" Ruan Qingzheng looked at Hu Mao in surprise. "Why are there so many God's Arm Bows?"

These feather arrows shot by Wuyang Wuyang were all fired from the divine arm bow. Its power was completely different from ordinary bows and arrows. Ruan Qingzheng, who had dealt with the Song army for many years, naturally knew this.

The Divine Arm Bow was a sharp weapon in the Song Dynasty, and it was only available to the elite. Even the serious Forbidden Army under Hu Mao, with a team of several thousand people, only had about a hundred Divine Arm Bows.

But right now, the opponent only has hundreds of divine arm bows.

Hu Mao was also dumbfounded. There was no intelligence earlier that showed that Cen Zhong had so many divine arm bows under his command? Did they fall from the sky?

The divine arm bow is a weapon of the military state, and the distribution of troops is recorded in detail. However, the military supply system of the entire Guangnan West Road does not include these troops of Cen Zhong. Moreover, there are not many gods on the entire Guangnan West Road.

Arm bow! This thing is always deployed close to the troops in the north and northwest.

Of course they don't know that today's divine arm bows can only be made by the craftsmen's camp in Bianliang.

Xiao Ding in the northwest can imitate the divine arm bow with almost the same power, and Xiao Cheng's weapons workshop controlled by Han Yu can also make it.

The most critical aspect of the Divine Arm Bow actually lies in the production of raw materials, and in these aspects, the power under Xiao Cheng's control is now even greater than that of Bianliang's craftsmanship camp.

The Liao people took back a lot of divine arm bows from the Song people. It was not because they did not know how to make them, but because the materials did not meet the requirements of the divine arm bows in terms of strength and other technical indicators, and the input and output were completely inadequate.

Proportions make it impossible to mass-produce.

Cen Zhong has always had a large number of divine arm bows in his hands, but he has not taken them out. Because in Cen Zhong's opinion, to deal with these local armed forces, you need to use a sledgehammer to kill a chicken!

Until this time of breaking up, Cen Zhong no longer had any scruples, and of course there was no need to hide the killer weapon.

After receiving such a heavy blow from Thunder Fire Cave and Xia Lei Cave, they immediately turned around and ran back like a frightened bird after leaving behind hundreds of corpses.

There were no beaten dogs in the village. After a round of volleys, silence returned.

Hu Mao did not urge these barbarian soldiers to go forward again, because it was obvious that if these people went up, they would not bring much harm to the enemies in the camp except to die. At this time, it was not time for the rabbit to die and the dog to be cooked.

He looked at Ruan Qingzheng.

"I'm on my left and you're on your right." Ruan Qingzheng said neatly: "The opponent only has more than a thousand people. We can't use the tactics of adding fuel to the fire. If we want to fight, we must do our best to attack them. The victory will be determined in one battle."

"That's what I meant!" Hu Mao nodded and said, "Let the Thunder Fire Cave and the Lower Thunder Cave attract us from the side. As long as we tear through the defense line and enter hand-to-hand combat, it will almost be over."

The two of them had a good discussion and were about to march in separately when they heard a hoarse shout from behind. They turned around in shock and saw the officer Hu Mao had sent out earlier, whipping his horse hard and running towards here.

There were more than ten people when I came out, but when I came back, I was alone.

The two looked at each other, and they could see the uneasiness in each other's eyes.

When I ran closer, I saw clearly that there were several arrows stuck in the officer's back. If it weren't for the good armor on his body, this officer would have met King Yama long ago.

"Enemy, Li Farong has rebelled, and there are a large number of enemy troops in the direction of Longying Cave!" The officer trembled and lost his voice, "They are coming here."

"How many people?" Ruan Qingzheng took a deep breath and asked sharply.

"At least two thousand people!" The officer's hands and feet were trembling. Obviously, he was still frightened by the close call between life and death.

"Where did these two thousand people come from? Did they fall from the sky?" Hu Mao's eyes widened and he didn't believe it at all. Cen Zhong's main force was under the leadership of Iron Foot Wei Wu to wipe out the rebels in the direction of Taipingzhai.

Well, why did it appear here?

"It really does exist, it really does exist, and it's not an ordinary army." The officer said loudly.

Ruan Qingzheng led the horses and said: "Hu Tongzhi, I leave this place to you. I'll go see what's going on!"

"Thank you, General Ruan. It's probably a bluff over there, so I'll let you handle it. Here, I'll handle it!" Hu Mao nodded.

Watching Ruan Qingzheng leave with his men, Hu Mao shouted sternly: "The whole army is coming. First, I will give you a reward of hundreds of coins. I will be promoted to one rank. If you behead one person, you will get a reward of one hundred coins."

Ruan Qingzheng led more than a thousand elite men under his command. Less than ten miles forward, he saw the army waiting in formation on the opposite side.

People seemed to be waiting for his arrival.

He finally understood why the Qingyuan Army officer said this army was different.

A large flag with Korean characters fluttering in the wind.

They were all wearing iron armor and holding sabers in their hands. In the middle of the team, there were several rows of archers, all holding divine arm bows. At this moment, the arrows had been strung up and were pointing diagonally forward and upward. And in the middle of the team, there were several rows of archers.

On both sides of the team, dozens of cavalry were patrolling on horseback.

Behind them were the miscellaneous troops from Longying Cave.

Right in front of the team, a young general sat on a tall horse, holding a hammer in his hand and tapping the palm of his hand.

Ruan Qingzheng's heart skipped a beat.

Then, he saw the hammer in the young general's hand raised and pointed at his location.

The drums were set up, the horns were melodious, and a thunderous roar came from the team of more than a thousand people, and then they rushed forward in unison.

Ruan Qingzheng regretted it very much at this moment. He looked back at the direction where Hu Mao was. It might be better to stay and attack Cen Zhong's camp than this choice in front of him.

"Go to Hu Mao and ask him to come over and support me first!" Ruan Qingzheng whispered to the soldiers beside him.

The soldier was astonished. He had never seen his own general being unable to take over the army before he had a chance to fight. The number of people on both sides was actually about the same. He did not notice the miscellaneous soldiers in Longying Cave.

"Yes!" The soldier looked at Ruan Qingzheng's extremely cautious look and did not dare to ask any more questions. He galloped away on horseback.

"Array, archers!" Ruan Qingzheng shouted.

The shield bearer stepped forward and slammed the big shield to the ground. The spearman stepped forward and thrust the spear through the gap in the shield. The archers gathered in the middle, placed the quiver in front of them, and drew out their arrows.

On the string.

From the beginning, Nguyen Thanh Ching adopted a defensive stance.

He is indeed a general with a clear mind and a mustache. Even Xiao Cheng, who was opposite him, nodded in praise when he saw the other party's reaction.

No matter how big or small a country is, no matter how strong or weak it is, there will always be many talented people.

Never underestimate the world’s heroes!

Xiao Cheng reminded himself in his heart.

Ahead, the cavalrymen under his command were already roaring out.

Although there were only about a hundred riders, they ran with great momentum. The leader was none other than Han Quan.

He usually doesn't have the opportunity to charge into the battle like this. As a general, most of them need to command his troops, but today, with Xiao Cheng sitting under the banner of the Chinese Army, Han Zuo finally found the opportunity to charge into the battle and smash it with a hammer himself.

How could he let go of the opportunity to steal the enemy's head?

The Jiaozhi cavalry quickly came forward from both wings, and the archers on both sides finally fired their arrows with a buzzing sound. The target was of course not the cavalry in the middle, but the infantry formation behind the cavalry.

The difference in weapons was immediately apparent at this moment.

The feather arrows fell into the opponent's lineup unexpectedly.

But one was shot with an ordinary walking bow, and the other was shot with a divine arm bow.

There were screams in the Jiaozhi army formation, and dozens of people fell to the ground after being hit by arrows. Some were killed immediately, while others were still screaming and struggling in pain. This round of arrow rain caused heavy losses to Jiaozhi's archers.
To be continued...