On the official road in the middle of Shaozhou, Jiangzhou, ten thousand troops were resting. Liu Mingzhi stood on a high hill and looked around with a map.
Song Qing, Cheng Kai, Zhou Baoyu and others stood aside with ugly expressions on their waist knives, waiting for Liu Mingzhi's instructions.
Liu Mingzhi put away the map and his expression was not very good: "Five scouts and the information given by the Jiangzhou governor revealed that the gangsters of the White Lotus Sect are wandering in this area. They have been traveling around the states for a month and have only arrested thousands.
One of the important people among the minions has not been seen, what is going on?"
Cheng Kai inserted the horizontal knife on the ground and took the map from Liu Mingzhi's hand and pointed at a few points to explain: "Commander, look carefully at the seized White Lotus Sect strongholds from Jinling to Jiangzhou Shaozhou. Together they form a circle. These chaotic
The bandits did not confront us head-on at all, and fled at the first sign of attack, leaving behind some irrelevant minions to tease us!"
Zhou Baoyu shook his head slightly: "No, if you really want to escape, just disappear. But these traitors are throwing sticks and hammers here and there from time to time. They seem to be deliberately trying to contain us in circles. There is probably some conspiracy!"
Song Qing looked back and pointed at the 10,000-strong army: "Commander, the morale of the soldiers is very low now. If we don't think of ways to improve morale, it will be very detrimental to us if we really run into the White Lotus Sect's troops!"
Liu Mingzhi frowned and glanced at the tens of thousands of troops before sighing silently: "I have thought about what you said. It seems that these White Lotus sect members do not want to fight with us but to restrain us from leaving Jiangnan. However,
What good does this do to them? They lost thousands of troops just to contain us."
"Report!"
Liu Mingzhi hurriedly walked down the high hill and looked at the scouts who were riding fast horses: "Say quickly! What did you find?"
"Commander, traces of the White Lotus Sect were found in the dense forest in the valley to the southeast and left ten miles ahead. It seems that there are thousands of people at the traces!"
Liu Mingzhi hurriedly took out the map and looked at it: "Yanxia Mountain? This location is Yanxia Mountain on the border of Shaozhou. All officers and men obey orders!"
"exist!"
"General Cheng!"
"exist!"
"You lead 3,000 people to attack the key points of Yanxia Mountain. Remember not to be careless and spread out your formation to attack!"
"Got the order!"
"Jiang Lei, Du Yu, Sun Mingfeng, Tao Li!"
"The end is here!"
"Yanxia Mountain extends in all directions, and there are many trails for woodcutter to go up the mountain to chop firewood. You each lead five hundred men and horses to cross and surround the surrounding trails of Yanxia Mountain. Once you find a large group of people and horses that can be captured, capture them. If you cannot capture them, entangle them and wait for the army.
arrival!"
"Got the order!"
"General Zhou!"
"exist!"
"You lead 5,000 troops in separate formations to guard the key point from Shaozhou to Yangzhou. If these White Lotus Sect rebels still flee at the first touch, the best route should be this official road and these two auxiliary roads. Send out thirty scouts for a moment
Keep asking for information, if there are leaders of the White Lotus Sect, be sure not to kill them, I will interrogate them to see what these guys are up to!"
"Got the order!"
Liu Mingzhi put the map into the cloth pocket on his horse and got on his horse: "Send the order, march to Yanxia Mountain."
As the deputy general, Song Qing took charge of the command flag and began to wave the command flag to divide the troops: "The whole army obeys the order."
Liu Mingzhi led three thousand soldiers and horses all the way towards Yanxia Mountain, leaving behind billowing smoke and dust!
When they arrived at the outskirts of Yanxia Mountain, a scout ran out from the bushes on the side carrying a flag: "Commander, there are traces of fireworks in the valley. I guess the rebels haven't retreated yet!"
Liu Mingzhi took out his telescope and looked around the terrain of Yanxia Mountain. He saw the high valleys on both sides of the Yanxia Mountain valley and thought for a moment: "Han Peng, please lead some experts in the army to find a way to climb up to the valleys on both sides. Is there any mansion?"
Soldiers, use the flag as the signal, hold the telescope and wait for the commander's signal. If there is an ambush, we don't have enough manpower to find a way to deal with them."
"The general will get the order!"
Han Peng led 300 people quietly towards the cliff of the valley.
"Vice General Song, General Cheng, let's use Qinggong to see if we can find out anything!"
"Okay, this valley is easy to defend but difficult to attack, so it's better to be careful!"
"Damn, what is the White Lotus Sect? They choose this kind of deep mountain forest as a stronghold, and they are not afraid of being eaten by tigers!"
"Stop complaining. It will be clear once we catch the leader."
The three of them walked along the mountain road to an open area and squatted down.
Liu Mingzhi handed the telescope to Cheng Kai and the other two: "Shaozhou, the looted goods in Jiangzhou should be stored here! Look at those things covered with raincoats."
"Is it a scam to only have thousands of people guarding items worth hundreds of thousands taels of silver?"
"I'm not sure. I don't know if it's the cargo! Besides, we only saw a few hundred people at most, but according to the footprints, it's not just these people. Where did the rest of the people go?"
Song Qing held up the telescope and looked around: "We are still unfamiliar with the place. It would be great if we could find some woodcutters to lead the way!"
"Go back first and wait for news from Han Peng!"
Looking at the mountain, he ran to death because the cliff was so close at hand. It took Han Peng a full stick of incense to reach the top of the mountain.
"Commander, look, General Han is signaling!"
"Report the content of the semaphore!"
"There was an ambush, more than thirty people, and they have been eliminated!"
"Reply, observe the situation in the valley and see if you can find the remaining troops!"
Scout Zhancha Gongfu began to report: "There are only traces of hundreds of people. As for the dense forest on the mountain forest trail, it is too deep to see clearly. We can attack!"
Liu Mingzhi pondered for a moment: "The generals will obey the order, the cavalry will move around on both sides, the sword and shield soldiers will be in front, the pikemen will assist on both sides, and the archers will support from the rear!"
Song Qing nodded gently, waved the chess piece in his hand, and the three thousand army slowly approached the valley in an orderly and orderly manner!
When they reached a similar distance, they started shouting to kill: "The commander-in-chief has an order, don't let a rebel go, kill him!"
The White Lotus sect members who were eating were somewhat panicked when they saw Long Wuwei suddenly charging towards them. Suddenly they threw their soup bowls and took out their weapons and tried to resist.
Liu Mingzhi's face turned cold: "Fire the arrow!"
The hand crossbows in the hands of the cavalry and the archers behind started shooting a wave of arrows.
Suddenly there were screams and screams. Due to the terrain, the army did not dare to shoot arrows in a large area for fear of accidental damage. Even so, more than half of the hundreds of White Lotus sect members were lost.
"The cavalry listened to the order and surrounded them. No one was allowed to leave the valley!"
A thousand cavalrymen, led by the commander, instantly surrounded the remaining members of the White Lotus Sect.
"Disarm without killing!"
"Disarm without killing!"
"Put down your weapons!"
"Put down your weapons!"
The remaining dozens of people dressed as farmers dropped their weapons and squatted on the ground, looking in horror at the sudden arrival of Liu Mingzhi's army!
Liu Mingzhi suddenly felt something bad when he saw this. Scenes like this have become commonplace since leaving Jinling.
"Search!"
The entire valley was searched in a matter of minutes.
"The commander-in-chief found no trace of the other bandits!"
"Go back to the commander, the box contains rocks!"
"Back to the Marshal, footprints were found on many trails, hundreds of people in total!"
Liu Mingzhi, with a pale face, turned over and dismounted and looked at the crowd of believers who were surrounded: "Tell me, who is the leader here!"
There was no response for a while.
Liu Mingzhi's face was gloomy: "Don't say yes, all generals will obey the order and all execute the law on the spot!"
"Tell me about it. Now I have the biggest position here, the banner leader of the Yanxia Mountain branch!"
No one can face death, and most people's character will collapse when the butcher's knife is put to their necks.
"Are you only a hundred or so people here?"
"There are more than a thousand people, and the altar leader has led people to evacuate from the mountain road!"
"When did you withdraw?"
"The agreement was that they would retreat immediately when they heard the army shouting to kill."
Liu Mingzhi gritted his teeth and kicked over the iron pot where the porridge was being cooked. He looked at the dense forest around the valley with a frantic look and grabbed the collar of the White Lotus Sect's flag leader.
"What on earth do you want to do? Are you trying to be cool?"