When the officers and soldiers attacked Tiantianhu and his party, the officers and soldiers adopted a stealthy and rapid assault method.

In a short time, they were killed by Ta Tianhu and his party, so that Ta Tianhu and the others did not have enough preparation time, so they were attacked during the march.

After being raided by the officers and soldiers, the Sky-Taking Tiger once wanted to withstand the first wave of attacks by the officers and soldiers in order to stabilize its position before counterattacking or retreating.

However, he underestimated the combat power of the officers and soldiers led by Huang Guangmao. After Huang Guangmao personally led 300 soldiers to rush forward, Ta Tianhu and his party were completely helpless and were forced to flee.

Because the incident happened suddenly, although Ta Tianhu forced the young cannon fodder to come forward to resist and buy time for the hundreds of old thieves to retreat, in fact, those young men stopped resisting when they saw the officers and soldiers coming to attack them. Ta Tianhu and the others started again

After escaping, all of them ran away without giving the Sky Tramping Tiger and the others a break.

In desperation, Tianhu and the others could only flee in panic. They didn't even have time to bring food, mules and horses, and other baggage with them. They couldn't wait to get into the mountains and forests to escape.

After all, the officers and soldiers were right in front of them at that time. They ran away in order to escape for their lives, without caring so much. Some even thought that the weapons and armor were too heavy and hindered them, so they threw away their weapons and armor in order to escape.

When they climbed over a mountain and the Sky-trapping Tiger gathered his soldiers to count, he found that there were only a hundred or so old thieves left under his command.

What's more important is that they fled too quickly and failed to bring the food and baggage behind.

Without food, they could only slaughter the few mules and horses they brought out, thinking that they could survive by slaughtering mules and horses.

But they didn't expect that the mountains were high and densely forested, and the deeper they went, the harder it would be to walk. Moreover, they were not familiar with this place, and they couldn't find any mountain hunters to guide them.

So, after wandering around in the mountains for a few days, they successfully got lost in the mountains...

I wandered around in the mountains but couldn't find the way out of the mountains.

Looking at the endless mountains ahead, these more than a hundred old thieves are all desperate!

Even Ta Tianhu, who has been constantly boosting morale, has a face full of despair.

He finally managed to gather more than 2,000 people and get a batch of food. However, a sudden encounter made his efforts in vain.

Not only that, but the backbone of the old thieves under his command killed and injured another twenty or thirty people, leaving only about a hundred and fifty people left.

Their efforts were in vain, their strength was damaged, and what was even worse was that they got lost in the mountains.

After they had eaten all the mules and horses, they could only continue to cross the mountains with an hungry stomach. They did not look for the mountain trails that went back and forth, and walked directly through the dense forest and headed east.

After all, the east side must be Ruzhou, and you can definitely get out if you keep walking toward the east.

After these hungry old thieves wandered over the mountains for seven or eight days with their chests pressed against their backs and unable to even walk, they finally saw hope of survival!

After they emerged from a dense forest, they saw an open space ahead, and a large number of houses could be seen not far from the open space.

This is a village, and it is still a populated village.

Many of the old thieves were so hungry that they were dizzy. Seeing this scene, the old thieves showed ecstasy on their faces: The sky is the limit. As long as they rob this village, they can survive, and maybe they can make a comeback.
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But their newly raised hopes were dashed before they could last.

Because they soon saw more than a hundred archers armed with swords, spears and arrows coming out of the village in front of them. Among them, there were seven or eight cavalry who rushed up and bent their bows to shoot arrows...

Seeing this scene, Ti Tianhu, who was already dizzy with hunger, murmured: It's over...

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Luo Zhixue from Sanshui Village felt very strange when he saw this group of bandits emerging from the mountains and forests to the west.

To be honest, Luo Zhixue never expected that these bandits could come out of the mountain forest and walk to the edge of Sanshui Village.

Because no normal person would do this kind of thing.

This place is not a densely populated place, but deep in the mountains with no people. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. If you don't take the trail that was opened before and just go straight through the mountains and forests, you need to open a road all the way, which is very difficult.

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However, just half a day ago, Luo Zhixue arranged for an emergency report from the lookout post on the top of the west mountain, saying that a group of bandits had appeared in the forest to the west.

At first, Luo Zhixue thought that these bandits were marching from the mountain road to the east first, hiding it or simply killing their own sentries deployed on the mountain road. Then they reached the edge of Sanshui Village and in order to bypass Wuli Pass.

And I made a big circle and ran to the mountains and forests in the west.

Well, the lookout posts set up by Sanshui Village on the three sides of the mountains in the southwest and north are to guard against this kind of situation.

However, Luo Zhixue still didn't expect that these people didn't come from the east, but came all the way from the west to cut through the mountains and open a road.

Although Luo Zhixue didn't understand this idiotic behavior, he was still very alert and immediately ordered his troops to assemble and prepare for war.

After he had assembled his troops, he did not rush directly into the forest to intercept. Instead, he waited for the opponent to emerge from the forest on his own before intercepting.

What happened next was not too unexpected. After a group of thieves in tattered clothes finally got out of the forest, they met dozens of people from the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp supply camp led by Luo Zhixue.

On one side is the exhausted and hungry bandit, whose chest is pressed against his back and he can't even walk steadily.

On the other side is the supply camp that was prepared several hours in advance, armed with spears, swords and shields.

Among them were seven elite cavalry. These seven elite cavalry were actually the four soldiers under Luo Zhixue, as well as the gunners transferred by Sun Chengli before. Luo Zhixue temporarily summoned them to form a cavalry team.

Cooperate with the sixty infantry of the baggage camp.

Ta Tianhu and his party had no power to resist at all. Although Ta Tianhu tried his best to resist with a few close soldiers, but after Ta Tianhu was shot to death by Zhao Hongshu with an arrow, this group of hundreds of people

The thief surrendered simply...

The reason why these people surrendered so simply.

On the one hand, it’s because the leader, Ta Tianhu, died.

On the other hand, they also discovered that these people on the opposite side were not officers and soldiers, and judging from their formations and cavalry, they were unlikely to be ordinary bandits and rogues, so they believed that these people had a high probability of being with

Just like myself, we are a rebel army.

In this case, they felt that their lives should be saved, and at worst, they could just defect to the rebel army in front of them.

Furthermore, there was another important reason for their surrender.

It can also be said to be the most important reason.

That means they are starving to death...

If they turned around and fled back to the mountains, they didn't think they could survive.

There are many smart people who can think of this, so after Tianthu died, many people under him simply chose to throw down their swords, and then they lay down on the ground and shouted:

"Spare my life!"

"I surrender"

At this time, in fact, the sixty infantrymen from the baggage camp had not had time to rush forward.

This small-scale battle was fought solely by the seven cavalrymen in the cavalry squad.

In fact, the cavalry team didn't do much. They didn't even charge forward to fight. They just rode past and fired a few waves of bows and arrows, causing seven or eight casualties to the opponent.

But just like that, the other party surrendered one after another.

Seeing that the other party had surrendered, Luo Zhixue did not dare to relax.

"Ask everyone on the other side to abandon their weapons and armor and come over in batches with their hands raised high."

"Send someone up to tie them up."

"Stay alert and kill the opponent immediately if he resists."

Luo Zhixue didn't want to see people pretending to surrender and then launching a counter-attack, so he asked the opponent to abandon their weapons and armor as soon as possible.

And sent people to tie these prisoners into strings one by one.

After the surrendered bandits were tied up one by one, Luo Zhixue roughly cleaned the battlefield, mainly collecting the weapons and armor abandoned by the opponent.

After everything was done, An Yongduo came up with an excited face: "Sir, we have made a big gain this time. We seized fifty-three intact knives, eighteen pairs of strong bows, and five pairs of armor.

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Luo Zhixue didn't look at ordinary swords, bows and arrows, but turned his attention to the five pairs of armor.

Four of the sets are ordinary cloth-covered armors. This kind of armor looks like it has many dense copper nails on the outside. At first glance, it seems to be just a military coat with diamonds inlaid with copper nails on the clothes.

But if you open it up and look at it, you can see that the inner layer of the fabric has pieces of iron.

This kind of cloth-covered iron armor is a very common armor in the contemporary Ming Dynasty. It is also a common armor used by major rebels and even Japanese pirates. It is considered a very common armor in contemporary East Asia.

Luo Zhixue's soldiers originally had two sets of iron armor, and later used cotton armor to transform several sets of cotton armor. In fact, it was this kind of cloth-covered armor.

There are good and bad things like cloth-covered armor. Some good-quality ones often have an outer layer of cloth, a middle layer of thicker iron sheets, and an inner layer of multiple layers of strong cotton, which can act as a double-layer defense and take into account cold resistance.

It can protect weapons and firearms, and can also be used as a warm coat in winter...

However, there are not many good-quality cloth-covered armors. Most of the cloth-covered armors are just thin iron sheets nailed to the cloth. In many cases, in order to save costs, the inner armor is just a little casually placed on the chest.

, its defensive capabilities can be seen.

Whether something like cloth-covered armor is good for defense or not depends purely on whether you are willing to spend money on it.

If you are willing to spend money, if the quality is improved, the defense will be pretty good.

If you are not willing to spend money, then it is basically no different from a military coat...

In addition to these four sets of cloth-covered iron armor, there is also a set of fish-scale armor.

This set of fish scale armor is relatively well-made and has complete helmets and other components. Generally speaking, this kind of fine fish scale armor is worn by officers. Ordinary soldiers and even junior officers cannot afford this kind of thing.

After getting these five sets of armor, Luo Zhixue was in a good mood.

It is not easy to get a good set of armor these days, whether you want to capture it or make it yourself. Now that a wave of thieves have attacked and you have obtained five sets of armor, Luo Zhixue is naturally in a good mood.

Luo Zhixue, who was in a good mood, did not treat these thieves who suddenly appeared too harshly. Seeing that they were all dizzy from hunger, he even ordered someone to cook a pot of porridge to prevent these people from starving to death.<

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It’s not free labor after all!

At the same time, they also asked people to question them, at least to find out the origins of these thieves.
Chapter completed!