Liu Mingzhi gave an order, and there was a tearing and cracking sound from the frame behind him.
One after another, one after another.
The soldiers of Longwu Guard and Xiaoguo Guard used their swords to cut through the canvas covering their bodies and jumped out of the carriage one after another.
In just thirty breaths, the thousands of troops on the carriage were all arrayed.
The two thousand dragon guards posing as guards uniformly took off their disguises and pulled out their weapons from under the carriage. Dozens of flags hanging with white flags whistled in the wind. All the flags except for one imperial flag were flying.
Putting on white clothes, eight thousand soldiers tied white silk around their waists and quickly gathered towards the valley of Turtle Back Mountain.
Cheng Kai waved the command flag in his hand and ordered the Longwu Guard under his command: "Attack in charge formation, with sword and shield men covering, and archers acting according to the opportunity, ready to release arrows at any time!"
"Got the order!"
The loud shouts spread directly into the valley, and then four thousand Longwu Guards officers began to rush towards the valley at high speed.
Zhou Baoyu also commanded the Xiaoguo Guards under his command and quickly separated from the Longwu Guards and moved toward the important roads on both sides of the valley to capture them.
Liu Mingzhi observed the terrain of the valley with a telescope and looked a little serious: "Guibei Mountain really lives up to its name. It is as easy to defend and difficult to attack as a turtle shell. It seems that it will be a tough battle!"
Song Qing drew out the sword from his back: "Commander, do you want to lead someone to entangle the masters of the White Lotus Sect?"
Liu Mingzhi once again raised his telescope and observed: "After the three waves of arrow rain are covered, you immediately lead people to entangle the masters of the White Lotus Sect, and try not to let anyone go!"
"Got the order!"
Song Qing waved to Qinglong and the Twelve Flying Immortals: "Come with me, General, and find suitable opponents each!"
"yes!"
Liu Mingzhi glanced at the trembling Qiao Chengyun and waved to the guards: "Look at them, you dare to escape, life or death!"
"Got the order!"
Liu Mingzhi held the Heavenly Sword in one hand and leaped towards the valley behind the army.
Although he had done ideological work with the army to let them know that arrogant soldiers will inevitably lose, Liu Mingzhi, the new recruit, was still worried about the crisis due to his lack of experience in battle and had to step forward to supervise the battle in person.
Looking at the uneven and rocky road in the valley, Liu Mingzhi was glad that he did not let the cavalry charge forward. Otherwise, not only would the cavalry's assault capability be unable to be used, but the cavalry would also become a target for the rebels.
Once they swarm together, even the infantry will be implicated.
Liu Mingzhi used Qinggong to leap to the rocks higher up in the valley. He stopped and took out his telescope to observe the situation in the valley. Qinglian naturally followed her husband like a shadow.
Zhou Baoyu's Xiaoguo Guards have almost formed an effective encirclement to prevent the traitors from escaping from the mountain road.
"Damn it, it's officers and soldiers!"
There was a sudden commotion in the valley, and the leader of the White Lotus had a clear feeling in his eyes. His intuition was indeed correct.
The elders who were obsessed with profit also showed horrified looks. They never imagined that Liu Mingzhi's army would silently reach half a mile away from Turtle Back Mountain.
Chen Zheng panted and fell in front of a group of people: "Leader, the altar in front has been secretly removed by Liu Mingzhi's army. The brothers who were lucky enough to escape to the Dizi altar reported the situation!"
The eyes of the White Lotus leader suddenly shrank: "Evacuate quickly! Disperse and evacuate!"
"Master, the officers and soldiers have surrounded the surrounding mountain roads. There is only one exit at the back of the mountain col, but the mountain pass is so narrow that there are not enough people to rush out together!"
"Escape quickly, escape as much as you can!"
Cheng Kai waved his command flag and saw hundreds of White Lotus sect members holding crude crossbows guarding the entrance of the valley: "There are archers in formation!"
The sword and shield soldiers immediately formed a cross-cover and blocked the entire wide valley airtightly.
The sound of arrows piercing the air could be heard, and the tinkling of arrows hitting the shield was endless.
Upon seeing this, Cheng Kai immediately issued an order: "Archers fight back!"
With 50,000 arrows funded by the Golden Queen and the help of 3,000 iron-tied bows, the archers shot out a wave of arrows without hesitation, and a full 3,000 bows and arrows intertwined in the rain of arrows were densely packed towards the mouth of the valley.
The members of the White Lotus Sect shot away.
The hundreds of followers of the White Lotus Sect did not have shields as good as Long Wuwei's. Although they were wearing armor, they faced the rain of thousands of phoenix feather arrows and their screams resounded throughout the valley entrance.
"Sword, shield, and pike soldiers make a surprise attack! Archers support, and shoot arrows where there are more rebels!"
The sword and shield soldiers immediately struck the shield with their swords and attacked towards the entrance of the valley. The pike soldiers guarding on both sides also rushed forward without any inferiority.
Liu Mingzhi looked with relief at the cross-covering attack formation of the Longwu Guards.
The soldiers of Longwuwei no longer fought independently for the sake of military success. They worked closely together to build the battle formation into an iron barrel.
"Xiao Qing, give Zhou Baoyu an order to shrink the formation and leave only a valley mouth for the rebels!"
Qinglian nodded cautiously and waved the flag in her hand without hesitation.
"General, the commander-in-chief has given an order to give the rebels a chance to survive and cooperate with General Cheng who is attacking Taniguchi to launch an encirclement!"
When Zhou Baoyu heard the words of the guard in charge of the command flag, he immediately waved the command flag in his hand: "Three waves of arrow rain covered us, and we immediately started attacking from all mountain passes!"
"Covered by arrows!"
The members of the White Lotus Sect, who were fleeing toward a valley entrance specially reserved by Liu Mingzhi, turned their heads and looked hurriedly when they heard the sound of dense traffic breaking through the air behind them.
Looking at the overwhelming rain of arrows in the sky above their heads, they suddenly felt helpless, and they found that they seemed to be unable to escape.
Zhou Baoyu's side had just been covered by three waves of arrow rain. Song Qing led Qinglong and the others without hesitation and began to chase towards Leader Bai Lin and the elders.
At the same time, Cheng Kai also broke through the rebels at the entrance of the valley and quickly cooperated with Zhou Baoyu to encircle and suppress them.
The leader of the White Lotus looked anxiously at the congregation gathered at the entrance of the valley and the army gradually approaching from behind.
Seeing the second elder Bailian jumping up and down like a monkey, he wanted to chop off the second elder's head with a sword. It was this guy who encouraged the other elders and the altar master himself to end up in this situation!
However, the situation is already chaotic enough now. The leader of White Lotus does not want his followers to become slow and chaotic anymore.
However, the leader of the White Lotus Church had always overestimated the quality of these followers. Listening to the killing cries of the imperial army behind him, the remaining one thousand followers became more and more panicked.
Ling Yang held the sword and looked extremely anxious: "Leader, let's use Qinggong to leave first. Once the imperial army is completely surrounded, we won't be able to run away even if we want to!"
"No, we have managed to save so much wealth. If we abandon them and ignore us, we will become rats on the street! Great Elder!"
Qi Ya struggled for a moment but nodded gently: "My subordinate is here!"
"You are the best in Qinggong. Find a way to break out and send orders to the surrounding brothers to come and support the chief teacher. Otherwise, with only a thousand people facing the imperial court's tens of thousands of troops, it will be like a mantis trying to trick a chariot!"
"Leader, subordinate"
"Great Elder, do you still want your things?"
"Yes, I am resigning, leader, take care!"
Qi Ya made a few leaps and landed on a high hill. He stopped for a moment and glanced at the imperial army that was swarming in. Looking at Liu Mingzhi wearing a scarlet cloak dancing in the wind, Qi Yafeng's eyes were a little sad.
Unexpectedly, the words "Goodbye is the enemy" came so quickly!
Out of the habit of a warrior, Qi Ya subconsciously made a leap, and a specially made phoenix feather soul-killing arrow penetrated Qi Ya's plain skirt and shot into the canopy of trees behind her.
Qi Ya looked in one direction bitterly, and several of them disappeared into the dense forest!
Song Qing put down the big yellow bow in his hand angrily and looked at the direction where Qi Ya disappeared, his face a little ugly.
"Qinglong, lead your people to surround and suppress the masters of the White Lotus Sect with all your strength!"